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Richard Hastings
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I dreamnt that the man I am dating and I were holding hands walking down the highway that ran through a forest at night. There isn’t much more than that. It is calm and clear outside. It’s neither cold nor hot. We both appear to be at peace and have no worries of getting any at any particular time so we aren’t in a hurry.
Dear Mary Hill,
What you are doing in your relationship is working so keep doing the same things, but don’t try to rush the relationships. Enjoy fully and be present with it. Remember the dream when you are in relationship with him and then all of the positive feelings will come so true.
I have such horrible luck with men! I am going to remain positive though and try to stay in the moment for a change. Thank you!
I had a dream I got married to my girlfriend, we went to a hotel out of state. We then had great s** and fell asleep. We woke up the next morning, packed things up and were a few minutes past check out time.. the owner of the hotel said “you two are late for check out” and left. A few minutes the owner *lady* came back in with a potato gun. The potato gun seemed to be on automatic and she was rapid firing at us. They charged us alot of extra for being 10 minutes late.
**Out of dream — the relationship is awesome**
Dear James,
The problem that you have related to the dream has to do with commitment in general. You obviously have a good relationship and want to be permanently committed, but your negative association with commitment has something to do with something totally unrelated. The negative association with commitment is related more to being late mostly like late turning in assignments or something like that. Now when you think of making a relational commitment for the long term, you have a negative association in your mind with commitment that holds you back. The way to solve the situation in your mind is to first, separate the two things. The relationship with your girl friend is a matter of the heart which has nothing to do commitment you have to the world and whether or not you are on time. Go for it with your girl friend and then work also on your worldly commitments.
Thanks I had another dream me in my x I was in love with was sitting outside playing video game in big television what does that mean
I was in a car with my step dad driving, and we drove past a beautiful expanded cemetery. If wasn’t dark and gloomy. It was bright with the sun out, with stones and flowers scattered, green lively grass and trees, and the most beautiful river stream going through it at a calm steady pace. I seen a golden, brown dog or puppy at one edge, jump in and play. Then when we came to the end, there was a kid(baby goat) at the end, standing on a rock at the edge of the river. He was very kind and loving, and I guess he jumped in our car, as I tried to take a picture with his cuteness. He was black with few white spots, and had no horns yet, just flat stubs. Halfway through our lost, continuous drive though, he turned into a little, rebellious boy without a shirt. He was very disobedient, and resembled my younger stepbrother, so I had to punish him for disbehaving.
Then farther on, in a different setting, I somehow changed into a male. I was under cover, but few others kept on accidentally calling my female name. It was difficult to be a guy though, because the family expected me to go out and participate in the manly sports with the other guys, and I’m not even athletic.
In my dream, many events happened leading up to the major part:
I was at a store, some suspicious bikers were up to no good, they hacked my phone when I walked off so that I couldn’t dial for anyone. I quickly walked off, and told my Asian? brother of the weird incident. I then went to look for my mom whom I came with, but seen a friend and so we talked and laughed for a while. While we did so, my idiot brother seeked revenge upon the bikers, and while they were distracted, he snuck behind them and stole whatever they were protecting. I then said goodbye to my friend, while his older brother made flirty face exchanges between us two, then went on my way out. I wanted to go out unnoticed, but my brother got the bikers attention and held up a valuable jewel necklace of theirs. They got angry and chased us on the highway, us in a blue minivan. A female on a pink dirt bike was going too fast, hit a white truck, and flew off her bike as we laughed hysterically. So then the biker leader pulled up beside us in a junk car, and a gun fight broke out between him and the driver. They kept missing so I took the gun, he aimed at me so I took the shot at his head to end it. It hit near his cheekbone, but no damage except bleeding.
That’s when he suddenly jumped out his window through our window like an animal, driving down the highway still, and lunged at me! Then like Freddy Kruger or Edward Scissorhands, he grabbed my left arm and started slicing and cutting it from my wrist, down, super fast. I immediately started crying, not in pain, but in shock. I kept thinking of how the scars would make my arms look ugly and monstrous, or that people would think I did it to myself and needed help. He then snatched my right arm, and did the same, smiling with pleasure.
Later in the dream, I went to visit my sister at work, but went to the bathroom while waiting. I was about to look in the mirror, but caught a glimpse of my arms, and burst out in sobs again. Then when I looked at them closer, they weren’t bleeding anymore, so I noticed he only cut through one layer of skin and they weren’t even deep, so they wouldn’t scar, and would heal over time. So I tried to stop crying and not be so upset in the meantime.
Hello, I had a dream I was inside my bedroom. I had just woken up and there was a old brown truck with junk parked onto my driveway. A tall skinny black man with no shirt on walked to my window and started to reach inside my window. I asked him what he was doing and to stop. He did not respond so I shot him with a gun. He ran across the street looking back at me. Then I woke up.
Dear Henry,
What this dream means is that you cannot relax, rest (bedroom symbol) because you are fearful of being robbed. As soon as you get robbed, you do whatever you can to end the relationship (shooting). This means that you have been robbed emotionally by someone close to you. Now you are fearful of being robbed by strangers. As long as you hold onto the fear and act aggressively toward others the chance of getting into a really close relationship may be difficult for you. As soon as you let go of it, you will find yourself really rich with great relationships. It is not easy to overcome the fear because it is a matter of the heart, but when you do, it is going to be a fantastic life for you.
Wow. That is very accurate of how my life is now. Thank you for your time.
Around 5:20 AM on 13 th December 2016, I saw a big black monkey or gibbon trying to attack me and I climbed onto one big tree. I thought it would never come so high but he suddenly jumped. He was coming towards me but suddenly its eyes fell on little monkey and his mother. Taking the advantage of the situation I got down from the tree but found myself in a maze and not able to get get out of the maze. What’s the meaning of the dream ?
Hi Kamal,
The interesting thing about the dream is that you were up in a tree as if you were a monkey but you were attacked by a mean monkey that was bigger. Monkeys normally are animals that symbolize playfulness and free movement because they use their arms and tail to move really well. This is how all children start out life as if they are monkeys swinging free. Then when they are introduced to competition in schools or in leagues, they come up with people who are attacking them in order to win. The happy playful monkey inside gets lost. So what you need is to find your monkey inside, your playfulness and joy, and then not take competition seriously.
I had an odd dream last night. I was with a close friend who is pregnant and there was a guy which I never met but in the dream my friend knew him. All three of us were walking in the woods when I saw a mountain lion. The lion kept getting closer to us. The guy disappeared on us. I jumped in front of my friend as the lion was coming towards us to attack us. My friend goes what are you doing….I said I am not letting anything happen to your baby. I picked up a log near us and wedged it in the lion’s mouth as it kept scratching me. The guy reappeared with a gun and shot the lion. He rushed over and held me as I was crying saying I thought you left us. He said I will never leave you. I woke up at that time.
Dear Heather,
This is a really awesome dream for you. It shows you that if you want to help others in the world the main virtue that you need is courage, so much courage that you are willing to die for your friends. You can think of the guy as your male energy inside of you that is also courageous and willing to kill the negative that threatens to hurt others. You can think of yourself as a positive mountain lion inside. Then you can help just about anyone in any situation.
I had a dream,that I screamed really loud like non human ,and I tried to close the door whit my scram, cause it felt like someone opened it and didn’t allowed me to close doors and where all of the time someone knocked but where was nothing ,I felt weak like screaming would safe my life I was afraid of feeling that I know what’s behind that door, to there’s something demonic and evil, and then I got up cauldnt fall asleep because I was afraid, very much, even though the dream wasent realy scary but the fear was inhuman and it felt so real.
Dear Daria,
What you are trying to do in your life is to open up new doors for yourself. That is what the door symbolizes. The new door is probably opening up to a more adventurous life. You are fearful of something dark and evil on the other side of the door and you believe that if you scream loudly, make enough noise, that the evil thing will get scared and go away. What you have to realize about living an adventurous life is that there are some really bad people in the world. That does not mean you have to be scared and close the door on adventure, but that you need to take appropriate safety precautions. Don’t just open up the wild side and expect that the evil is going to go away. Be real. Once you are safe, then you can be super adventurous. The world is open and waiting for you.
I had a dream I died in car accident walk to my new house met a lady in two kids feed them at my house finally wrote down my number for her pursue to have sex with her she went to the bathroom never to return my brother called my phone talking about two robbers in the bus than I woke what does this mean it’s deep
Dear Haneef,
This is pretty simple to give you the meaning, but hugely difficult to apply in real life. So when you die in a car accident, it means that the way you have been going forward in life has come to an end. You are ready to let go of how you used to do things and then go for a new way. So you start doing the new way. It is very successful like finding a new self and then a beautiful woman with lots of possibilities. But as soon as you have the beautiful new self and life, you turn back to the old ways, it is like the woman leaves, and you get robbed of what you just started. It is so tempting to go back to the old material ways once you have given them up and gone for a new more enlightened path. Believe it doesn’t work. I have tried it. The key is to go down the new path and stay on it. It will be more fruitful than you could ever imagine. Hope this is understandable. Ask me questions if it is now.
It’s not necessarily a reoccurring dream but rather a reoccurring place. No matter where I am in my dreams lately I’ve been longing to get to a certain room. This room is in a hidden hallway in my recently deceased grandmothers house and its a hallway full of different bedrooms but I only focus on the one. My grandmothers house doesn’t have any secret hallways its two floor with 4 bedrooms. I’ve never seen this room before either.
Hi Jamey, I answered you in a separate email.
I went to my ex wife friends house looking for her and they said she is at work. They were hesitant thenThey called her for me i talk to her and she was reluctant at first because she said someone may be listening in. She said she had new job. I ask can i have her number and she said yes. We spoke briefly then she had to go. As i was leaving her friends house i seen some people around me and 2 men were try to jumb on my bike. I road away still talking to my ex wife then i woke up
Hi Mike,
In the dream you are going through her friend to reach your ex-wife. This is a metaphor for the problem you had in your relationship. Instead of going through the virtue of friendship, you just tried to jump all over her (that sounds crude) but it represents that you skipped being a friend. She needed you to be a friend, but you were not. If you learn this lesson, then your future relationships will be great. Friendship is what makes a relationship last.
I had a dream that I was laying on my stomach on a couch with my arm dangling down. A man dressed in all black in a dark room was standing to my right as I woke and poked me with a rod in between my neck and right shoulder causing my body to go into convulsions. Then I woke up in a seizure like state.
Dear Kayla, This dream is about the dark energy from dark men in your life. They cause metaphoric convulsions for you. What you need is to be around really healthy light-filled men. You will know them when you see them. Surround yourself with them and you will be really healthy and feel fantastic about life.
Hi Richard,
This is the dream I had a few nights ago- I was at some sort of Baha’i youth gathering in an old, 3 story farmhouse/historic building. I remember walking down the stairs in to an very open foyer and remarking on the architecture with a female friend but I don’t remember who. As I walk and mingle around I know a lot of the people and am smiling and laughing a lot in their presence. My ex is also there (he’s appeared in previous dreams almost always negatively for months, but recently I had a turning point of a dream where he started to appear positively again, and in real life I reached out to him as a friend). He is kind of in the background of the different rooms I’m in and I’m aware he’s there but don’t make an effort to talk to him or even make eye contact. The gathering is a few days long. On the second or third day I was getting food from a table of food and he came by and I saw him out of the corner of my eye. I looked up and said “hello” kindly and as I would to any of my friends but I got a pang of anxiety in my stomach and it was hard to get a friendly greeting out. He kinda laughed (as if he could tell I was weird about talking to him), then inked his arm in mine and send something like “let’s be friends again” or “let’s be close again” and I removed my arm and said “I’m good for now, thanks” and left.
This was the main thing but there were other things like…Before this I had walked from the big white farmhouse-like building we were in, to the backyard by myself. I remember seeing my ex and two of his friends (who I don’t know particularly well) out of the corner of my eye watching me but I don’t look at them or try to talk to them….the friendly conversations about the architecture…etc.
Hi Mona,
What this dream tells you is that you have grown in a remarkable way. Not only have you detached yourself from what happened in the relationship, you have also reached out to remain friends, which is a really positive act. When you do that, he will want to hook you back in, but it is obviously the wrong kind of relationship for you. It was good learning, but he is the wrong guy for you. What you need is to be in relationship where you can go really deep. You won’t find it in that kind of gathering however positive the intent is. Find young Baha’is who are on the fringe of activity and begin relating to them about their feelings of exclusion and then you will get to a really deep spiritual place about the revelation.
This makes so much sense, thank you so much! Only thing I’m a bit confused on is what you mean by “a relationship that can go very deep” and how connecting with excluded Baha’is connects to the rest of your interpretation & advice?
Dear Mona,
No doubt that the relationship with your former boyfriend was too shallow for you. He probably had problems going to spiritual places where you wanted to go. When you made friends with again, you realized that you could have a friendly relationship, but not be in a more intimate one. Now you need one where you can be more intimate with someone. As you learn how to be more spiritually intimate with others, you will be able to include others who are excluded right now.
Hi again. I don’t know how graphic the dreams on here can be, I don’t intend to violate anything and have censored as much as I can.
Last night I had a dream about the crush/old friend I’ve struggled with obsession with, but it was so graphic and so real that its triggered more flashbacks about the guy than I already dealt with, I really need some peace about it.
The dream started with a sort of narration that my friend had decided he was gay after having an emotional affair with a pe****ile (in awake life, a year ago he used to have an affectionate friendship with an elderly youth pastor that I felt was inappropriate but didn’t know enough about). His mother told my mother who told me that she overheard a classmate of his ask my friend to join him in an all guy thr****me (in real life, 2 guys have asked him out, he says he turned them down because he’s straight), which led to his cousin asking him if he was gay, and the mother said that the way he said he was straight struck her intuition (in awake life she’s extremely intuitive) that he was lying (in awake life he’s a habitual liar, I’m always scared I never knew him) and having secret gay affairs while wearing “heterosexuality” as a shell I thought was his physical appearance (in awake life he is scared of his friendships or lack of relationships being assumed to be gay), especially since his YouTube history is all g**l-on-g**l. I couldn’t believe it, so I hacked into his YouTube, and absorbed into the film to participate in it directly as he watched in an effort to get his attention, but he ignored me as if I were invisible, and I guess I was since I wasn’t really there. Basically,The whole dream I was so distressed by his being gay meaning we could never be together that I had a gradual mental breakdown. After the youtube thing, I committed s****e. That’s when I woke up.
Dear Foreverintrovert,
Love the name. So in the dream you commit suicide because you cannot have a normal relationship with a guy who says he is straight, but really probably has had inappropriate relations with a man so it has affected his sexuality. The problem is not so much that his behavior, but your obsession with him. When you think and obsess about him persistently then you lose your self. Committing suicide in a dream means that you lose relationship with your true self. You can think of this as when you obsess over something like him, you lose your true self.
So then what you need to do is to figure out how you are going to have a positive relationship with your true self rather than losing it. The key to the is the part where you hack into the youtube and see all of the girl on girl stuff. This is going to sound really strange, but what you discovered in the dream is that really, in his mind, he wants to be a lesbian. He doesn’t want to be a gay man. Weird isn’t it? Why? This is because the youth pastor really distorted his character. Being a lesbian having sex with a woman is about as far as he can get from having to deal with the masculine world. He is protected from the masculine world when he is a lesbian.
So the question with you is why are you so obsessed and then lose your self? The obsession is about the fact that he lied to you about what was going on. This makes it difficult to trust yourself in a relationship because you don’t know when a person is lying or not. The key to trusting yourself is to rely fully on your own intuition rather than their words. People’s words are not nearly as reliable as what their outward non-verbal signs are. Your intuition can pick all of that up. When you trust it, you will know what to do in a relationship.
Let me know if this clear enough for you or what kind of questions you have.
Yes, that makes a lot of sense! And thank you so much for your advice, it’s already started helping!
Actually, I do have one question. When you said I discovered what was going on in his mind, did you mean that my awake intuition manifested in the dream as an insight about what he is actually going through in real life, or were my discoveries in the dream really just a part of a symbolism that had everything to do with what was in my life and had nothing to do with and revealed nothing about his?
Hi Forever,
Your intuitive powers, which are really your powers of perception, are potentially really strong. You have a lot of natural intuition that is inherited from your mom. You haven’t been using them as much as you should. They are a threat to conservative religion so be careful around them. They want to be able to control what people see and think, but when they do that, they shut down the flow of spiritual guidance that is constantly flowing to people like you. You already knew about the boy. The dream wants you to increase your power of perception.
That’s brilliant insight .. that would be the piece of paper. Thank you.
I suppose that that is what the fire in the bedroom is about.
my second dream was me and my kids visiting the man I am currently 6 1/2 months pregnant by in an insane asylum. I am pregnant with a little girl. In the dream my kids went to a safe area to play while i visited my ex. the asylum was set up to make them relive whatever situation that sent them there, so for him it was a real life situation where I threw away his car keys, so we fought in the dream while trying to catch these floating keys in the air to try and fix our relationship. As the fighting got worse i decided to escape. I had to find my kids and then the guards helped us the rest of the way. BUT, on the way out 2 doctors held up what they said was my baby girl i am pregnant with, dead wrapped in blankets. I saw her face clear as day. I ran out of the building screaming and crying, I fell to the ground on my stomach crying, then I felt my baby kick inside me. I got up and said i have to escape before they drive me crazy and keep me here, like showing me the dead baby was trying to keep me there. but my mother came and saved me and my children from the asylum and we left.
Hi Celia,
In this second dream you see the dark thing that you need protection from which is the insanity of the person you are pregnant from. The baby in the dream is not the real baby inside of you, but the “metaphoric baby” that was supposed to be from the relationship you had together. It is like when you have a positive relationship, it produces a third entity which is a really positive energy. His insanity makes everything dangerous. The mother in the dream is you as a mother rather than you as a lover. This is who you need to be and you need to be fierce and protective like the lion and leopard. Now you know why you had to have those energies. Don’t try to have a reasonable relationship with him. Be a lion and a leopard.
I am in a mainly white interior building, like a hotel/bio dome, Im searching for my children and finally find them separately. We are searching for a way out and come across 2 frozen wild cats, a ion and a leopard. Both gorgeous. When we find them the ice starts melting off of them and they come back to life.I have instant fear of the leopard and try to calmly hurry my kids away from her before she attacks, but she just sits and observes us. The lion I am instantly drawn to for safety, he is large and very friendly and comforting (I am a leo). He purrs and cuddles us while the leopard watches, then she slowly approaches. I dont think she had any intentions of attacking, more like protect us from a distance. In the end it felt like there was something evil coming but I woke before seeing what it was.
Hi Celia,
The purpose of this first dream is to show you that you need the qualities of the lion and leopard in your life right now. The lion is about courage and the leopard is about positive protection. When you have both of them, you can deal with whatever is negative and evil in your life right now. The darkness you face is no doubt very really, but having the two energies will be positive for you. Imagine yourself as those animals to feel what it feels like to have those qualities.
Richard, thanks for your feedback. One question: What do you mean by “it’s probably about the 4th diamond? I’m unsure of the meaning of the 4 diamonds at all..
Hi Ashley,
A ring symbolizes the commitment that you have to each other. The fact that one of the diamonds is missing means that the commitment is not complete. What is missing in your commitment to each other?
Hey! So I just woke with a real intense dream. I dreamt that I was laying down and my boyfriend was taking a necklace off of me, a silver chain with a green emerald looking stone. I was holding his face and felt so happy and so in love and then there was this little girl right next to us and she kept saying don’t let him take the necklace, you will never get it back. But she was super sad about it, devastated. Just repeating you will never be able to get it back, don’t let him. So I can’t get it out of my mind… What does this mean?
Dear Mallory,
The necklace with the emerald stone represents the gem that you are inside. When he takes off the necklace, it is as if he is taking away your inner gem-like power. You can look up emeralds on the internet to see what they represent. Something in the explanation should resonate with you. If he allows you to keep your inner gemstone, then the relationship is worth having. If you feel like you have to give up who you are to be in a relationship with him, then the positive feeling you have is only about the sex, not the real relationship. The positive feelings from the sex like the endorphin release is really positive, but the long term consequences of having to give up your self in a relationship is deadly to your spirit. The girl is right.