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I had a dream that my next door neighbor robbed my house and I couldn’t do nothing about it. But watch it on my security camera.
Dear Jean,
Being robbed in this case means that you are robbed easily of being your own true self when you are around others. It is as if they take over and take yourself away. You can only watch. In order to not be robbed you need to have a really strong self that you don’t let others take away so easily. Usually this comes about when you feel like you have to be pleasing to others.
Hi I was hoping you could help me, last night I had a dream where my friend was driving us, we went into this pasture where the trees were small and dead I guess. There weren’t a lot of them. A fog was in the pasture that kept me from seeing the fences but in the middle it was clear. I ended up seeing this tall lanky man that was hunched over while walking, he was wearing a loose trench coat, a top hat and had long claws. I was really freaked out by it and when I blinked in my dream he was closer to the car, like half the distance of where he just was. I saw his face and it was like a skeleton face but like, in the screaming shape, no sound though. My friend booked it out of there and as I looked back he was the same distance from the car constantly. The fog went away when we got out of the pasture, and I woke up because I got scared, when I went back to sleep I made the dream resolve itself by making the scary man a person just wearingg a mask and playing a prank. It didn’t help though. I haven’t had a dream this vivid or scary in a long time. I’m a college student but things are going pretty well.
Dear Hannah,
Usually in a dream when you are not driving the car, bad things begin to happen. It is not 100%, but in this case it is. The other person driving means that you have at least a part of you where your life is being driven by friends and not you. When this happens, it puts your life into a fog and then you get fearful of being attacked by creepy men.
To solve the dream you have to drive your own life really strongly especially being true to what you believe and to yourself. In that way the people you attract will be positive figures rather than negative ones. When others are driving, you almost inevitably get into fearful situations.
My daughter has been having about one nightmare every 2 weeks for the past couple months. Nothing has changed in her life and I’m hoping having her dream interpreted will help me help her. We do have an appointment set-up with her pediatrician in two weeks. She woke-up last night with this nightmare, This is her wording (she’s 5): Idreamed the Beast (he was all black and had no teeth) and Brett (her biological dad) strapped me up with chains on my legs here and here (went across calves and ankles) and brought me up a big steeping hill so i could never see you and dada (my husband/her step-dad) again. I was with Brett (he was wearing red and looked how he normally did)!at his house when it happened, not with you guys. I was on the floor at Brett’s house and Brett thought it was a good idea to let the beast trap me up. Then after he trapped me up Brett said “that wasn’t a good idea, was it?” And I said “yes”
Dear Arianna,
The problem that she is having is that she is taking on your fear of her biological father. Her biological father seems to have had a very controlling relationship with you because of his own Beast inside that he couldn’t control. Your daughter no doubt, has a lot of empathy, so she is taking on your fear. She has no filters at this age. The best way for her to stop her nightmares is for you to work on your own fear. When you deal with it, your daughter will no longer have to. The pediatrician is not going to give you any help on this unless he/she is a psychologist. Your daughter, because of her empathy, will have a great energy to help others, but she is going to have to be gradually trained as to what feelings belong to her and what feelings belong to others. It is very confusing especially in school when everyone is full of blame all the time. I wish schools were better set up to help children understand emotional realities, but they are not. It is best to find a situation where the teacher is very loving.
I had a dream about another country. I was asked to go to China via walking on the bridge. Then someone bowed to me at the bridge then I bowed back. After that I walked on a stone formation beside the sea. There are people I don’t understand. Then there’s also a strange creature they keep on killing.
I had a dream about a guy who recently passed away due to drug use.. I use to be friends with him but weren’t that close we hung out a few times because he was more my ex boyfriend friend so we use to hang out years ago a few times and would say hi when we saw each other. Since he passed I will think about him alot n since it’s Ben a bit since his passing it’s once in a while I’ll think of him about why it happen to him and I always did have a crush on him…my dream was about him coming over with another friend and hanging out talking not much talking tho more like hi and a few other stuff but can’t remember he also redied in my dream by nothing didn’t see him dead or how he died since he actually did die alone no one was around when he really died..and I just kept crying in my dream at work everywheres then he came back n was in my old bedroom where I use to live that he never saw and told me it was ok and had sciccors that said I love you on them n that’s all I can remember
Dear Monica,
In real life the use of drugs in an inappropriate way is caused mainly by loneliness. So you can say that it was the feeling of being all alone in the world that killed him. This is what affects you so much that someone could be all alone and take his life. He dies again because you need to see how his loneliness affects you. He comes back and says it is ok, which means that he is ok in the next world. The scissors means that you can sever the feeling of sadness that you have about loneliness so that you can fully connect to others and bring life to them. You are a person who is meant to bring life to others by connecting with them. The sadness that you feel when you see that people are alone should be motivation for you to connect to others with life and energy because this is what they need. You have a lot of connecting to do because there are a lot of lonely people on the planet. It is your life’s work.
Why is he coming to me when we never really were that close in friends he was my xboyfriend friend? Is it true when people that has passed come to you there really around you or is it just a dream due to thinking of them off n on?
Monica,
While you were not close to him, you were troubled by his loneliness and death by drug usage. He comes to you only to say he is ok. The real work for you is how to bring life to people so that they don’t get overcome by drug usage and loneliness.
I had a dream of getting a tattoo with a guy friend. I didnt want this tattoo but the lady tattoo artist started anyways in tattooing a suit on me and a flower design on my hand… I panicked in the dream when I saw the flower on my hand for fear of not beable to work as a nurse with it… the tattoo artist proceeds in removing it somehow and I start removing half the suit tattoo by picking at it but then im ashamed and hiding the other half left of the tattoo from my family then I wake up…
Dear Moonlighting,
A tattoo in a dream means that someone has left a mark on you which in this case would be the guy. You don’t want that mark to be seen by your work or family so you try to hide or get rid of it. The mark is an emotional mark. It doesn’t seem like the tattoos are negative content for you. What this points to is some kind of fear you might have of others leaving any kind of emotional mark on you, positive or negative. Usually this happens when you have been scarred before because of a relationship and it has affected you.
What you want to be able to do is to get to a position where you can let men have a positive effect on your being with their positive qualities.
I dreamed that I just a bought a shoes, it was in a shoebox and as I was crossing the street, a car bumped me and the shoes suddenly fallen and all I had was an empty box., and the shoes that I just bought was trying to buy by a new person. Well, nothing happened to me when I crossed the street, by the way..
Dear Ylim Ram,
Shoes represent the current role you are in when you are moving forward in life. Like we have shoes for sport, for play, for going out at night, etc.. So new shoes represent having a new role in your life, but when you try to get to the new role you are bumped by others trying to get somewhere and then someone steals your role(shoes).
In your world you are fearful of people who are going to take away the new role that you have or are going to start because it has happened to you or others you know in the past.
I had a dream that I was late for church and when I got there instead of sitting in the chancel area where I usually sit with the choir I sat in the nave with the congregation. The choir was singing some song and dressed in white and green robes with Mardi Gras beads. After the choir finished singing Pastor Gloria introduced a special guest and it was Tim Meadows. I don’t remember what he was talking about but he said he was going to visit a couple of deserving people’s homes. He decided to pick me. So I took him to my house and it was the house I used to live in back in Austin. We were talking about me trying to become an actor and he was giving me tips and then I just woke up.
Dear Lauren,
It is interesting that Tim Meadows see you in church and picks you out. It means that being in acting is a kind of spiritual or sacred thing for you. It doesn’t mean that you have to act in religious film, but that inside yourself you are an actress that can express herself in positive ways to others through drama. This is the self you should work on a lot.
This dream was new for me it was winter and I was out side some building thare was a sleigh and 8 reindeer with the name’s printed on name tags on thare harness and they had bridles with silver bells and I was sitting in the sleigh and many children of many ages came out side from kid’s the age from 6 to like 17 I think the building was a orphanage and I spent most that day giving all the children a ride in the sleigh a few days passed and I was in a hospital I had 2 dog with me they had a vest on it had a embalum on it we opened a door and thare was a bunch of children they got to pet and play with the dogs and got to see them do some neat tricks a few days passed again I’m in PJs they are flanal they are pink and have poler bear’s on them I have placed a bunch of pillows on the floor and thare is a big blank wall thare is a lot of cups of cocoa and movie treat’s all the children from the orphanage came through the doors along with a few other adults and all the children had received PJs they could change into which they did they all laid on the pillows all looking up at a wall I picked up this small box like thing and pressed a button it projects the movie the poler Express on the screen and then I woke up
Dear Kathryn,
This dream is about being like Santa Claus (LOL) to children. It is about being generous with giving especially giving of your time to make the orpans feel like you are their friend and care for them. This is exactly the kind of thing orphans need lots of and you seem to be gifted in this area. I hope that this dream can come true literally, if not, to have lots of time making the lives of orphans much happier.
I had a dream that I was waiting to hear back from a guy about when to come in for a tattoo. I was hanging out in robert’s room and out of no one a grey lab puppy is yay there playing with me like he’d been there all along. I look up and the bean bag section of Walmart is in my brother’s room so I take one for the dog’s bed. I go to my room and set him all up and take a nap. I wake up and I text the tattoo guy if I could bring my lap dog. He never texts back but I’ve got no one to watch this puppy so I go ahead and take him with me. I go to subway on the way there and stop to get a sandwich. I see an old friend from school and we start talking. He asks if he could borrow my car for five minutes to go run an errand really quickly. I say yes. All of a sudden I’m in a chase scene with another women from a movie and after the director yells cut he comes over to me and his women and talks to me and asks how his women could have done a better job like I’ve there the whole time and I somehow work there. I realized I have to go get my tattoo so I excuse myself and go to my car where I open the door and my dog isn’t there. I go up to my friend and start yelling at him that how could he be so stupid to just open the door and let my dog run out and not go after him. I get in the car and just instinctively go home. I go to the backyard where my sister and mom are and my sister is holding my dog. Then I woke up.
Dear Lauren,
A puppy in a dream is a symbol of having the quality of friendliness inside at the beginning level. It is like you need to learn how to be friendly to yourself and you are just at the beginning stages of it. Your family is good support for developing the friendliness inside, but your old friends are not. You can’t trust them. According to the dream you are not ready for a tatoo because your identity is still too fragile and changing. You should wait until you really know yourself much better. If you don’t wait, you will end up marking yourself with something that really doesn’t fit you.
heyy again i just had. a bad dream i just wanted to know what it means so last night i can’t remember the whole dream but the part i remember is that this girl was puttin a huge black hairy spider in my arm just for fun n i was crying throwin it away n them at spider was clinging to my arm n i think i even felt the pain in dream i was like he is gonna bite me n she kept putting it back on my arm n i was throwing it away it was really scary then i woke up n i was breathing heavily can u help me with what it might mean thanxx
Dear Mona,
Spiders, when they are positive, are supposed to be symbols of connecting one person with another like a web. In your case, the girl is trying to use your fear for her own joy, like to get a laugh. This practice, when it is a small joke, is ok, but it was totally inappropriate and shows a complete lack of empathy on her part. What it teaches you is that you have to respect people’s fears as very real the way yours was in the dream. When you have a lost of respect for the fear people have, then you can start weaving positive webs with people that connect them.
I had a dream that I was in a hotel with family every body was trying to find out where they were going to sleep. my son was useing the bath room then he came out and I got in the shower then some one knocks at the door three guys come in and they take my son hostage my son starts to fight back he finally stop they lay him on the floor hands tied behind his back and the they put a mask on him and one of the men came in the bathroom and I was trying to cover up then he left out I also seen they had other men with there hands tied standing around the strange thing about this dream is my son has a twin the one that was in the bathroom is not the one they were taking it was his twin and the son I seen in the beginning was no longer there it was his twin. what does it mean
Dear Latarsha,
This dream is about the fear you have of your child being kidnapped and held hostage. This dream happens because it happened to you when you were about your son’s age. It was if the life you wanted to live as a child was kidnapped from you and held hostage. The twin means that it was exactly the same thing that happened to you like a twin situation. You are fearful for your son because of what happened to you. What you are going to have to do, is do some therapy to go back and get rid of the fear. You need to recapture the life you were meant to live as a child that was kidnapped from you. Then when you have that life back, you will be able to help both of your children develop great abilities.
I had a dream of a woman that I didn’t know they gave me a gift of a giraffe and a white dress and pink polka dots and a pregnancy test but the pregnancy test disappears what does it mean.
Dear Kendra,
The giraffe is a symbol of being able to stick your neck out, which is being able to take risks for the sake of others’ well being. The white dress with pink polka dots seems like your ability to be light-hearted and fun which is something you also need in your life. The pregnancy test is to see if you have these things growing inside you as if you were pregnant with these new abilities. The fact that it disappears means that you don’t need the test to see that they are developing because you already know that they are. They are powerful abilities that will make a big difference in your life.
I had a recent dream, a little mixed up but in it i was i distinctly remember briefly sitting in a strange house on my deceased boyfriends lap and then he just seemed to vanish? He died almost 3 months ago by suicide 😦 I am still struggling to come to terms with his death. I have good days and bad. Since his death i have been having alot of obscure mixed up random dreams when previous to his death i rarely had a dream at all. Or very few that i can remember. This is the first dream i have had of my boyfriend since his passing. Sorry not much detail but i’m wondering if this particular dream means anything or holds any significance?
Dear Dee,
I am sorry to hear of your boyfriend’s death. I am sure it cannot be easy. The dream you had of him is about what you are experiencing right now emotionally. The strange house represents your own difficult situation that you are in right now. It was like he was there and now he is gone. At one moment you are being cuddled, the next minute he is gone.
The problem that you are going to have in the future is going to be related to what is happening now. When some time passes and the intensity of the memories fade, you will probably consider some new relationship. Only the difficulty will be that you have this experience where one day it was comfortable and then next day it was gone. It doesn’t make sense to your mind so it will have a tendency to protect itself from future relationships.
He must have been struggling a lot internally to commit suicide, but it doesn’t seem like you were aware of the degree of his internal suffering. Probably your other dreams are about you being more aware of the internal turmoil in others, but I am not certain. This experience, as bad as it is for you, is going to assist you in seeing people’s suffering and then being able to respond to it so that they won’t vanish like your boyfriend. It is a difficult situation for you to be in. You will no doubt need a lot of processing to help you through this challenging time so that you can return to really positive feelings and being hopeful about the future and what you can do for others.
Arinze
I dreamt of where there is chaos so I wanted to run and look for safety, I stepped on a syringe I pulled it out anf d continued I stepped on another, I pulled and kept going and I failed on a broken bottle with my palm I checked my palm there was just a mark on it but no blood…I have had dreams of broken ceramics before me was trying to avoid it couldn’t make a move….
Dear Arinze,
This dreams tell you that when there is chaos around you, that you try to run away from it. When you run away from the chaotic situation in your life, then one negative thing happens after another. The key to dealing with chaos is to get into a completely calm and peaceful state in the beginning. The goal is not to run from it because of the fear of it engulfing you. The goal is to change the chaos into order. When you are calm, then you start looking around to see how you can change the chaos into order. The key is to understand that changing chaos into order does not have to be done all at once. You can take your time. Chaos is usually the result of multiple dysfunctional situations happening simultaneously. What works is to deal with one of them at a time. Then gradually things become ordered and operating smoothly. So don’t run away from chaos, be comfortable in it so you can change it.
i dream often in multiple layers. making decisions, conscious ones. and on one layer usually the second. i feel i embody someone else in a different space and time. I was listening to a song in real life but hearing in my dream state and as i dreamt i entered someone else’s body. they were listening to the same song on the radio. As i saw a bridge approaching (knowing the speed of the car and the song i thought the beat will drop right as we cross under the bridge. boom the song abruptly changed on the radio in real life and i snapped back to my first dream layer processing what had happened in a state of paralysis and deep in dream world. in this layer i often have visions and epiphanies. this realization as it played out is as follows. is it perhaps our deja vu experiences are someone from a dream world entering you being and as soon as you realize what is going to be said next is a disruption or the person awakes so you often dont fulfill the end of such an experience? i also think that i in some dream states am a ghost that people dont see as i ask for help or roll through the dream.
all in all im just curious if this is normal or i have a higher affinity if you will for this world. i always make concise decisions in my dreams, and often see distant dream friends, especially orcas and usually the same family of them, with my orca family it can be 3 times a week!
please help, i would like to know if i should dive deeper to investigate my power in this world
Dear Avery,
The main spiritual power that you have in the real world is the ability to enter into someone else’s spiritual space, feel what they are feeling, and then be able to help them. People that are mentally unstable have a tendency to lose themselves when they use this kind of empathic ability. You don’t seem to have that issue. When you get the right kind of training, you will be able to help all kinds of people work through any issue because you will easily know what their experience is. The orcas mean that you can work well in a group and that you can easily dive deep to get spiritual answers. The power of the orcas is in their ability to work as a team. I would recommend getting some really world training in how to work therapeutically with people and then combine it with what you already know how to do on a profound level.
Hallo. I saw a dream und it was very bad. I saw that two boys are trying to kill their lady teacher and they become successful in it and kill the teacher. Then they tried to discard the body but were confused where they will discard it. And then the spirit of the lady teacher was roaming here and there and I saw that the spirit came and lay near me. I woke up sweating and my whole body was paralysed for some time and I was frozen. What does it mean?
And one more thing,the spirit also told me “I am laying near you” and I was feeling so scared,so afraid..
Dear Katja,
In this dream you can see that the way boys act in school or learning situations can be so bad that it “kills the spirit” of their teacher. It is not a literal death but a death to their positive spirit. You get fearful when the dead spirit is near you probably because you probably think that something bad is going to happen to you when her spirit is around you. The response that you can begin to learn to have when people’s spirits have been dampened is to be encouraging and supportive. In this way they will gradually learn how to change a difficult one into a positive one.
Last night I dreamt that I was in a lot of water thare was nothing below me when I look down I just see the water get darker I can’t tell which way is up or down I can’t tell whare I’m sapossed to go and thare is a dark figure that keeps tormenting me swimming in and out of the dark circling over and over again
Dear Kathryn,
Dark waters like that mean that you have fear of getting into trouble within your relationships. Your fearful that you are going to be overcome and then you don’t know which direction to go. To let go of this fear, which is really understandable based upon all the times that you have moved, you need to go slowly and modestly with relating to other people until you build up a lot of confidence. If you go too fast, the dark waters emotionally inside of you will overcome you. Take it slow.
One more thing. Try visualizing yourself in warm, sunny waters and relating to others in a positive way.
Last night I was dreaming of when I was little but it wasn’t my life it looks like me and my family looked like mine but they weren’t my mother was playing games with me and so would dad my aunt was taking her pills and we lived in a house in like a superb we didn’t move and I saw my life up till 17 i was going to a riding school you know like show riding and I had friends I had a life which none of it matched my actual life
Hi Kathryn,
What you are dreaming about is the life that you probably would like to have had. While it is not possible to go back and change your past in terms of what happened to you, you can change the effect it has on you. Then you can start living a stable life full of possibilities. You can do this by remembering everything that is positive about yourself. You can write it down and repeat it everyday. Then you add new positive things on to your character all the time. As you do this you will find that you start living the life you really want to live.
I dreamed I had some long looking lottery tickets that neede to be scratched I scratched all 5 and got all bars but I woke up before I could see the amount under the gold bars What does that mean?
Dear Kim,
The metaphor says that you are very fortunate to have what you have. It is better in English to use the word fortunate rather then luck, but they are close to the same meaning. The problem is that you don’t count your blessings, that is you don’t feel fortunate with what you have in life even though you have a lot. What will help in this regard, is first to not compare yourself to others whatsoever. This is the worst of enemy of feeling fortunate. Next you can take an inventory of things you feel fortunate for having like maybe you play sports well or read and understand well. People who feel fortunate are always the happiest.