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Hi Richard,
I had a dream last week about my boyfriend of almost 8 years. I’ve had you to interpret a freak once before about us. In this dream, we were standing at the alter exchanging vows. This wasn’t an extremely detailed dream as I’ve had before, but I do remember that sometime right after the wedding I commented about the ring he gave me – I told him how I thought it pretty and very unique. He responded with the story of how he got it and why he got it “cheap.” The design of the ring was interesting; it was 4 diamonds in a square shape but the 3rd one was missing. Not the 1st or 2nd or last one but the 3rd. We flashed forward into the next scene and we were home, just talking about each other’s day when I notice that the bedroom floor was on fire. No one panicked or even said a word just tried calmly to put it out – it didn’t seem threatening but nonetheless it was a fire. Anyhow it would not go out and then I woke up.
That was to say– a “dream” and not “freak” haha love autocorrect
Dear Ashley,
What you have with your boyfriend is like a marriage especially if you have been together for 8 years. The problem is that, despite the togetherness you have, you are missing the final diamond, which is a total commitment to each other. The problem that you have is in the bedroom. There is a fire. You are trying to calmly put it out. The fire represents a disagreement that you have with your boyfriend. It is probably about the 4th diamond, but I am not sure.
i had a dream that i was at the gates of heaven with my boyfriend and my dad,nanny,poppy,and grandma irene were there and it was a reunion and there were 100 butterflies flying around us and then i wake up with tears streaming down my checks
Dear Megan,
What an absolutely awesome dream! You can thank God for giving you that dream. Then you can work really hard on making the dream come true while you are on earth. The goal of our life here is always to make it like it is in heaven. That is the important thing. Butterflies represent a lot of things, mostly transformation. 100 of them means that you can keep making lots of transformations at least one each day. The more you change for the positive the more heavenly your life becomes. Believe me it works to live like this. You cannot only just wish for heaven or say that you believe. You have to make efforts to change everyday. Then life is full of everything you could ever wish for. Don’t think in terms of money. Material things take care of themselves. You have to change yourself, make yourself a little better each day. That is the key to happiness and joy.
I had a dream my ex was in a limo with another woman.
Dear Dorothy,
If you are having a dream about your ex in a limo with another woman, it says that you are totally free of him. You may be thinking that you don’t want to make the same mistake in a new relationship. It is easy to solve that kind of problem. Spend much more time looking at the character of the other person rather than just thinking about your attraction. Attraction is relatively easy. What makes a relationship work for the long term is a combination of love and really great character qualities like responsibility and helpfulness.
Hi everyone I had such a lovely dream . I dreamed that a baby owl had fallen from the edge of my window and into my arms . He was so fluffy and those wonderful big eyes that you could just staire at all day . Im my dream I was holding him like a human baby and I even put him in a baby seat . Which was an old item of one of my kids . But the I woke up felling happy . I feel as if he is here with me . I haven’t had this kind of felling In such a long time. Thank you for letting me share 🙂
Hi Vickie,
Owls represent inner wisdom and guidance. The fact that owl is a baby means that the wisdom and guidance part in you is just beginning. You need to treat it like you would a baby with a lot of nurturing and protection. There will be a lot of people who will try to make you give the owl up for a more conservative and traditional approach to guidance, but if you stay with your inner owl, you will be amazed at what happens.
Hello Richard
I had a weird dream…. I was on the bus with people who worked in a office. I was sitting down looking through my purse, and I notice alot of things inside… Makeup, wallet with different pockets full with lots of things composition book that was full of writing.. It was full where I had to search inside to find things.. A lady came to me and told me everyone was noticing how much things was in my purse… It was bothering them, I told her what does the contents of my purse have to do with them… I started to organise my purse and realize my stop was coming up, I needed to get off.. the bus turned into a car I was driving…. I stopped the car at a intersection and forgot I was in the car… I was still organizing things in my purse… I realize I needed to get something to eat… And was checking to see how much money I have… I looked back and saw a car behind me, I realize I was in the car and drove. The driver didn’t seem upset about waiting. The dream skipped from me being on the bus, than me driving, to me being on a road high on a hill attempting to go down without a vehicle… I was on the bus looking at my wallet with different sections..when I woke up.
Hi Lovelyaslace,
Actually the dream is pretty simple. You cannot be moving while you do the organizing. First you need to organize, then you need to move. I guessing you don’t give yourself a lot of time to organize your life. You need about an hour each day because you have a lot in your metaphoric “purse”.
Hi Richard,
I’ve been going through a lot with the guy I’m seeing in the waking life & last night I had a dream that we were discussing something & all of a sudden he wanted to shower. I started setting up the bathroom for him & I noticed that the bath tub was filthy. I had to get down on my hands & knees & scrub the tub & he sat down beside me watching, not helping per say but very close to me. When I got done I turned the shower on to rinse the tub & watched all the red clay/ dirt go down the drain. Just curious to see your interpret of this dream?
Dear Ashanti,
The guy has a lot of dirt to wash away in his life, a lot of impurity, but being around you helps him out a lot in the process. Most men are like this because the masculine world is pretty rough and dirty. There is a lot of dirty business in the world that is hard for men to clean off. You help him.
I have had this dream multiple times that I am friend with a vampire but the other vampire tries to kill me but I then I appeare in my house and it is still chasing me but then my house looks completely different in some areas that it does in real life
Dear Jordan,
Vampires are symbols of people or things in your life that suck the life out of you. Probably you have some relationships or activities that really do that to you. When it happens, it changes who you are for the worse. The dream shows that by the house being different than real life. A house is a symbol of your self so when the house is different it means that you are not who you are. We all have relationships or have had then that are vampire-like. The best place to start is to find relationships that are life-giving rather than life-sucking. Then as you are around them more you learn to be that way yourself, life giving or life-enhancing.
Hello Richard,
Hope you’re doing well. I had a dream last night and this is the second time I had this dream. The last time I had the dream I couldn’t stop thinking about it and it’s the same this time.. It starts out with me – my 4 yr old daughter and her father eating dinner in this 1950s themed diner. We’re having a wonderful time until we notice we’ve been robbed. I look back and see my fathers. Ew girlfriend trying to hide and in my dream I know she’s the one who did it for some reason. My husband and daughter disappear and her and I are now brawling and she give me my husbands wallet and my purse back. We leave. I then end up at this completely unrelated part of my dream I’m in this motel and my husband is no longer a man, it’s this beautiful women whom I’m in a relationship with. We are very much in love and are sitting on this couch with two other men someone comes in and then everyone’s telling each other that we’re dead. They bring me and my now girlfriend, to our bodies that look like they’re sleeping on the couch. Hysteria breaks and it becomes a frantic jumble to get back to our bodies. We finally find out we can’t and we all get naked and walk calmly into a white light. I wake up shortly after going into the light. Thank you for taking your time to read my dream!
Hi Lauren,
I really love this dream a lot especially about the part where your husband disappears and you fall in love with the woman. I am going to tell you what happened to you, what got robbed. It will help a lot. Believe me!! When your father was in relationship with his ex-girlfriend, she robbed you of your feminine, loving and compassionate self. Instead of being more feminine you had to fight her and be aggressive, thus developing your masculine side. Now that your daughter is 4, which is probably the age you got robbed, the issue has come up again. The girl in the motel that you are in love with is your feminine self that you never fully developed. Now is your chance. It has nothing to do with being a lesbian. Most people have dreams like this to develop the masculine or feminine. The key is to work hard on developing two things, compassion and love. They are most important. You probably have enough masculine qualities like assertiveness. Let me know if you have any questions.
I was in some strange house; it wasn’t my house, but it was a really nice looking house on the inside. It was quite stormy out, and I’m guessing it was nighttime; the sky was pitch black, but I could see just fine. It was rainy, and my pet escaped? I don’t remember if it was a cat or a dog, but it ran away. Anywho, I went back inside the house, and all of a sudden, lightning strikes the house I was inside. My legs would not let me run any faster than a pretty slow walk, and then I had fallen, and saw fire behind me; and I woke up. Any help with this? Does it mean anything?
Dear Tem,
Ok, this is a really important dream for you. When you understand it, it will help you a lot to get to the goal. First of all a house symbolizes the self. The new nice looking house is the new you that you want to become. You know what it is and are comfortable in there, but when you try to try to stay in the house, it gets struck by lightening, it starts on fire, and then you are left out in the cold and rain. The lightning is the storm you get, probably from your family or community, when you try to be the person you really want to be. It is like they have a strong interest in you not changing probably because they are fearful that you will go off and leave them, which wouldn’t be a bad idea.
The way to solve the dream is to look out into the future, see the person you want to be, and then let nothing stop you whatsoever. You are only answerable to your own best self, not them. You have big potential and a lot to give. Go for your new self. Let me know if you have questions.
Hi Richard,
I dreamt about my ex again. He was on a boat in southern illinois. It had sort of a tent over the boat. He was unable to get to shore because there was a severe storm. He called me on the phone and when we started talking the storm instantly cleared up. He got to shore safely then came and found me. I told him I would leave my boyfriend and come live with him if he had a place for me and my son to stay. Thats all I can remember.
Dear Desiree,
This dream means that your ex has been through a stormy period in his life full of difficulties. When he talks to you the storm inside of himself calms and then he can get to solid ground. Before you go asking him to return in real life, the big test is how long he can stay on solid ground. When you are a mother with a child, your partner needs to be solid. It seems like maybe he could be more solid now, but you have to really test it.
I dreamt my sister in law was relaxing on my bed chatting to my 2 older sisters. She then excused herself and as she got off the bed
She fell with her head in the toilet pot.
Dear Irms,
The metaphor of your sister having her head in the toilet pot means that her thoughts are in the toilet. This means that are thoughts are really wrong, that you don’t need to listen to them, and that she needs to let them go. You have the dream so that you can be aware that you don’t have to listen to her thoughts or do what she does. Instead you can do what is in your own mind to do that is positive and enlightening.
In my dream, I guess I bit into something like a hard candy apple in a bathroom, and when I looked up into the mirror, my right cuspid tooth, was chipped majorly. It looked like broken glass edge, the way it chipped off. I’m still young, so a broken tooth similar to loosing teeth freaked me out. I didn’t know what to do or how to fix it with the chipped pieces in my hand.
Also in another dream, ( I get anxiety for bees. They terrify me, because I fear of getting stung someday since they frequently come near me) I was walking outside on a path. It was a nice summer like day, and a bee landed on my hair. I tried to not freak out, because me friends say if I stay still and not panic it should go away. So I continued walking slower, and someone that walked by would notify me, it wouldn’t leave.
I then went to walk to a storage, thinking it would go away if I tried going inside. Instead when I got near, I seen a swarm of bees on the steps blocking the entry, so I quickly went in the other direction.
Then later on, when the bee was gone and I was inside, I realized there was a big bee in the house. So I quickly closed the door, locking the bee in the room, and ran to the kitchen to continue casually eating lunch with a relative to avoid the bee.
Dear Patricia,
The purpose of the dream about bees is to show you that you are fearful of being stung in your life. Fearful of being stung means you are fearful that anyone could do something to do you that would be taking advantage of your relative innocence. Because of the fear, you do everything you can to avoid being stung. The tooth dream is similar in that you are fearful to bite into life for fear that it is going to cause damage to you.
To get over the fear you can begin thinking in just the opposite way which is when you bite strongly into life or when you really go for things fully out in the world, then really good things happen. Of course, some bad things always happen, but they are more like opportunities for learning. When you really go for life fully, that is when great things happen; one door opens after another. Get out there and you will find a lot of joy.
I had a dream about my ex we were laying in the grass taking a nap he was holding me and said he loves me before falling asleep the next day in the evening I was snuggled up to him watching a movie at the end he kissed my forehead and said that he loves me and talked about the future and that he hopes I’d be with him through it all and that he hopes that the kids he has are with me a few days pass I get a text message saying he loves me but after that I never see or hear from him again he isn’t dead just gone I start unraveling in my mind crying and saying he was lying the whole time and know one love’s u they are all lying
Dear Kathryn,
The key is that he said he loves you and then falls asleep. This means that he is in the relationship for a short time to get some affection or something, and then he falls asleep to the relationship. He cannot stay present and think about you. He only thinks of himself. He tries again, but the same thing happens and then he leaves. It means he had some loving feelings, but he was too into himself and his own needs to be in a relationship with you. You need someone who can be in a shared relationship and think not only about himself, but about others especially you. It is good you are not with him. Stay away. The dream lets you know that you cannot pay attention to a few loving gestures, but you have to see the person’s character so that you don’t end up with someone who is selfish, but instead have someone who thinks about others.
I don’t understand why he would be in my dreams though he’s been gone for months now
Dear Kathryn,
The dream is not so much about him, but what happened to you when you were in the relationship that you need to learn so that you will be more successful in the next relationship. He will come back until you learn the lesson. If you don’t get the lesson, the same thing will happen again.
I pretty much gave up on dating after the first 2 bfs so I don’t have to worry about it happening again
Dating is not a very effective way to being together with someone. It is just about two people trying to put on a show to impress each other. It is better to work together with another in some kind of service. Then you really know a lot about them.
I’m 16. My dream is about my mother. Who’s passed. She’s passed for about a month. There’s two Dreams, very short.
1.) I’m holding my moms hand, I’m guiding her down a jail . Everything’s on fire. We’re not going anywhere, just walking.
2.) This goes back go my childhood, when I s lived with my mom. All of my littlest pet shop toys, we’re scattered on the kitchen table. And she was playing with me. & I gave her forms, for a camp or something.
Mind you, these dreams only happen when I breakdown over her.
Dear Michelle,
I cannot imagine how difficult it must be to have lost your mother at such a young age. I am so sorry for your loss. In the first dream one of the things you have to realize now is that you cannot guide your mother as you are doing in the dream, but she can help to guide you. No doubt her life is a transition right now, but, you can still reach out to her and ask her for guidance and help, not the other way around. When you try to guide her, it goes nowhere but into negative space. In the second dream you are reminded of the positive times that you had with your mother. These will be a strength to you in the days and months to ahead. You will have a natural tendency to forget the positive about her and just languish in your own sadness. It is too be expected. Remembering what she did with you that was positive helps you to keep going forward. Allowing yourself to breakdown is natural. It is ok to have the sadness. It will leave when it is ready and when you are ready so don’t try to force it away too soon. In the meantime remember her positives and ask for her help.
Hello Richard
In My dream I was in an elevator in my building going to my apartment on the 4th floor. Then this guy walks in wearing the same clothes I wear to my dance classes (leotard, my school sweatshirt and stockings and by the way I just started dance classes I’m thinking of being a professional dancer and I’m 17). I ask him what floor he wants to go to and he tells me the 8th floor. There isn’t an 8th floor in my building there are only 4 floors. But in this dream there is and in this dream, I am scared to go above the 4th floor. I press the 8th floor and the elevator skips the floor I was supposed to get off from and goes to the 8th floor first. The elevator doors open and there is a rollercoaster. We both get in it and the rollercoaster starts going down. While we are going down the guy raises my hands up high and suddenly I feel alive and stress free . After that I’m in a room full of detectives, there talking about the guy who was in the rollercoaster with me. Apparently he sacrifices people by removing their lungs and Putting them in their mouths. The detectives arrested him after that.
Dear Lily,
This is a really interesting dream. It makes a lot of sense about what you might be going through in the context of being a dancer. The big key is that you “skip” the floor where all of the work is, but instead go to a place where your stress is temporarily relieved by the roller coaster ride. It is as if you give into the promise of an easier way. In the end you find out that the promise that the guy is giving you is just a ploy to get his own selfish desires met.
When you are going for a difficult goal like you are doing, a professional dancer, there are absolutely no short cuts. You cannot just go to the 8th floor and be stress free. Getting to your goals requires a lot of daily effort. The problem that makes it difficult beyond the actual work is that it is not like getting an engineering degree or becoming a doctor. The culture does not value dancing in the same way it values someone like a computer programmer. The monetary aspect is just not as lucrative. However, the inner process of becoming a dancer is so much more lucrative to who you are and to your own true self. If the dancing does not prove a final bonanza, do not become too preoccupied. It will keep producing so many wonderful rewards all of your life if you stay focused on doing it the correct way. There is an infinite amount that you need to learn. Each day that you approach your learning with the joy and enthusiasm you will be moving forward and things will work out for you. The man in the dream represents the ego in you and in the world. It is like a student who only goes for money rather than where their gifts really lie.
Wow thanks this just reviled everything about me.
I had a dream where I signed my name and it was a different last name.
Well when I looked at it, it was spelled one way but when I said it, I pronounced it as (my first name) Scots. My daughter was with me and we were getting some type of degree together and I said to her we should sign this together and when I wrote my name I looked at it and then read it out loud.
Dear Sunday,
Having a different name in a dream means that when you are doing the new thing you are doing like getting a degree, you are a new self, like a new person. The person who gets the degree is a transformed person from who you are right now. That is why you have a new name. It is like the self you can become is so different from the limited self you are right now, that it requires a new name.
Hello, Richard
I dreamed of getting off a bus but I left my luggage on the bus. I remember going to another bus but it turned into a limo. I passed a long limo with famous people. People around me told me the men in the limo was looking at me, I turned and all of the windows of the limo was rolled down and a lot of faces was looking at me. I knew I was dressed nice..i felt OK. I told them I don’t care who is in the limo.. I went to a certain window in the other bus turned limo.. And my daughter father was there, I told him I left my luggage on it, he said it happened to him and he knew what I was going through. He said he will help me. The next thing I knew I was backing up a moving truck inside of a huge house. I was guiding the truck turning it to go through a door. The house looked like a wearhouse with a lot of trash among furniture.. I maneuver the truck/large car. My ex got out and sat on a mattress on the floor and told me I did a good job guiding the truck/car. All of my luggage was in the place placed in different places. I put them beside the mattress and sat next to him.. My ex in the dream looked like him but not him, it was his personality in someone else. I was aware I was dreaming and wanted to know where the dream will take me so I didn’t change it.
Richard I remember getting off the bus, I got off too soon and in my rush left my luggage. I saw different buses and I didn’t know which bus will take me to the place to pick up my luggage.. That’s why I chose any bus to ask but it turned into a limo instead.
Hi Lovelyaslace,
What this dream says is that in your former marriage you were carrying around luggage (bad habits and patterns) that you thought you needed, but you didn’t really need. When you let go of the luggage, things start to go well for you, but you still have some messes that you have to clean up for your new self to work. It seems like, but I am not certain, that you would have been ok with your ex had you cleaned up the messes and let go of the luggage before. Now it is like you are onto a new life and a new self, but first you have to let go of old patterns that no longer serve you, if they ever did.
Hey:) I had a werid dream last night. My dream was about me and my dad walking on a thin metal beam really high up. On one side there was a shock fence and on the other there was nothing. I remember my dad walking just fine and me crawling and slipping a lot. In the dream we saw this man and and I also slipped into the shock fence but he saved me. Than I woke up..what can this mean
Hey:) I had a werid dream last night. My dream was about me and my dad walking on a thin metal beam really high up. On one side there was a shock fence and on the other there was nothing. I remember my dad walking just fine and me crawling and slipping a lot. In the dream we saw this man and and I also slipped into the shock fence but he saved me. Than I woke up what does this mean?
Dear Paige,
The dream is mostly about the fear of falling or the fear of heights. Your dad does not have the fear, but you do. That is why you are crawling but your dad walking confidently. The goal of the dream is to be like your dad. The dream says that when you have a fall, you will be saved so you needn’t fear heights. This is not physical heights like walking a beam way up, but emotional heights. If the dream were actual life, you would take appropriate safety precautions, but the dream is meant to be a metaphor. It means that you can get up emotionally like being enthusiastic or uplifted. In this way you can achieve a lot of things. Your dad is your role model. The dream also says that you have fallen before as in being emotionally let down. When you focus on being like your dad, you can do big things.
Hi Richard,
I had a dream that me and a group of people I don’t know tracked down a jaguar, the animal. They then proceeded to attach jumper cables to it and then to me. I was electrocuted and I gained magical powers from the jaguar. I could feel the pain from being electrocuted and I felt very powerful.
Dear Desiree,
This is a really great dream. It means that the qualities of a jaguar are calling you now in your life. If you develop the qualities of your life, it will electrify everything meaning it will give everything energy. What are the qualities of a jaguar? That is the question you can ask yourself. You can do your own research which will be really helpful. Two things that are key is that they have a lot of courage and they are very independently minded. When you have those qualities, your life will be electric. Look up some of the other qualities as well and find what really resonates with you.