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Hi Richard
I had another dream , in the dream it was my Ex but than it wasn’t…He reminded me of him but it was a mixed between him and someone else…. He drove a u haul truck to my house and moved in.. He removed all of my things and put his furniture in its place.. Brand new furniture.. I watched as he put pictures on the wall and placed the furniture in different places. He had a beautiful smile on his face as he was working… I wasn’t irritated or upset in the dream… I was outside myself watching things happen. I had a relieved feeling a finally hes here feeling.
Hi again,
This dream shows you that had you been the person that you are in the first dream you would have a man like in this dream who would bring his own self to the relationship. The relationship would have worked. The quality that you have in the first dream makes it possible to have a relationship with this kind of man. It also says that the part of you that is growing in you is more masculine-like. This is why you are comfortable with the new guy. What you are going to need to do is assess the actually fear about the workplace. While your relationship life is in tact, your work life may be tricky. If that is the case, you are going to have combine your new self with using a lot of wisdom at work. Let me know if this is the case. I have a lot of experience in this area.
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In my dream me and my 2 girls were being chased by a man I saw him from a distance he had blond bushy hair and had a sky blue shirt on then he caught only me I told the girls to run run then the youngest came back for me I insisted she run with her older sister I also told the man I would if he let them go he said he was going to cut me cause he had to get flesh and blood from me for the guy that sent him he was going to cut my wrist but I told him I had to pee first then I woke up he didn’t get to cut me though I didn’t see no blood
Dear Teresa,
A person that has to get flesh and blood for someone else means that you are just a means that you have been a means to an end for someone, not a real person. Your children are in danger of having the same thing happen to them. What you are trying to do is to be a person that helps others, like your children to grow and thrive, but when you get into situations to do this, your mind remembers people who treated you badly as if they were going to get your blood. As you let go of the fear you can begin to realize how you can help your children to thrive and becoming really strong and independent people.
Hello Richard:
I had a dream that I was at a unknown house. It was mine I assume. I had some visitors..I don’t know who they are. I was showing them the area. In my past dreams, I would always dream of two homes Up a hill away from the highway in the middle of nowhere. I never lived there in real life, but it was familiar like I did. This time I was pointing out the homes to the visitors.. Explaining to them all the things I done when I lived there. The homes were old with holes in the roof.. But I was proud to let them know I lived there. I led them back in the house and told one of the men, I told my job I will arrive late, would he give me a ride.. Tight then, cars drive up in the yard and some people came in.. Stating they were from Florida the main head quarters..people with suits writing down everything that was being said. One woman resemble my older sister I hadn’t talked to in a while.. The man I asked for a ride put his hands on his lips to tell me not to say anything. He tipped toed out the house and got in his small car. Through the window I saw him back up the car with his head out the window looking back at me. With a worried look on his face.
Dear Lovelyaslace,
In the dream you are in an unknown house that you assume is yours. This means that you are in an unknown self that you assume is you. People come to visit that self. In that self you pointing to two selves that you never really lived in but it was as if you lived there and you were proud of what you did. This means that you have a self inside of you of the person you would like to be and are proud of but you have never fully lived inside that self. When you contemplate being in that self, there is some kind of threat to your work place like you have to be quiet and not speak up. This is probably because that self sees the truth and is not afraid to say it. There is a further explanation in the other dream that you sent.
I was in Out in the country with fields of tall grass across the street. There were lamas or some kind of animals every where. I was trying to start some sort of revolution to free them or something, as I shouted words of encouragement. Then randomly, a crowd of people appeared before me on the dirt land. They started cheering for me and patting me on the back as I walked by, like I was someone of great significance. One at a time they would come and hug me, then at one point a female came up to me and forced a kiss upon my lips. I stepped back, but hesitated in fear of insulting her as if it was frowned upon if I did so.
Dear Christine,
The revolution you are supposed to begin which you are a greater leader of is helping people to grow to become more and more of who they are. Freeing the animals means that you are trying to free up the positive qualities inside each person. That is your work. The tall grass is a symbol of growth. As you do this more and more people will join.
Hi,
I had a dream of my old house. I am seeing a fair tall man walking around the house all smiling and enjoying. Then there is a knock on the door of my room. I saw a lady huffing and not able to breathe, relating her as to my mom but cannot see her face clearly as it was not matching with that of my mother but still I am relating to her as my mother. So I opened the door, supported her hand in hand and got her inside. The same tall man was shouting at me that y did u support her, this is so annoying as u cannot let anyone in like this. On the other hand the lady as soon as I helped and supported her getting in, she was completely okay.
Very confused what does this imply as my mother is not keeping well.
Dear Ruchi,
This dream is actually straightforward. It says that if you treat other people as if you were treating your own mother, then they will benefit a lot from the way you are with them. You must have a strong healing presence. It doesn’t have a lot to do with your own mother, but has a lot to do with your natural gifts of being with people.
i had a drram that my girlfriend and i wete walking in a forest and i shouted at her not to go somewhere where she was going but at first she did not here me until i insisted and shouuted so loud that she finally withdrew and came back. what could that imply
Dear Seth,
The forest, when it is negative like in this dream, is a symbol for not being able to see the larger view. When you wander without the bigger picture of where you are going you are easily lost. You obviously have the big picture and she does not so she can easily go down a path that will get her nowhere. In your relationship you can gently and encouraging show her the bigger picture at times as if you were an eagle or sitting on top of mountain rather than being in the dense forest. When a forest is positive, it takes your mind away from the mundane world. It has a way of re-balancing your mind.
I had a dream about a close family friend who passed away recently, he was laying on a slab in the morgue, and I was standing over him. He woke up grabbed my arm and said something I cannot remember. I think I felt at ease in my dream after he said what he did. But I just can’t remember.
Dear Kaitlin,
Normally when people go to the morgue to see the dead person, they are filled with a certain amount of grief and sadness because the person is no longer with us. This dream shows you that, despite the death of their body, their spirit is still quite alive and functioning. What you can do is just go inside and ask the person to tell you again what he told you in the dream. He will tell you again and might have some other guidance for you. It might just be words of comfort.
Hi Richard…
I had a dream that I was working at a place that was placed in the future. I had the ability to go in the past to shop and bring things in the future. I volunteered to get pizza for everyone so I was walking down a ile like a Home Depot ile with things to fix the house. I went ile by ile and came to the grocery store ile and started to look at the different pizza. They were not in boxes… A girl was suddenly next to me…she worked in the same place with me.. she chose a pizza a pepperoni pizza.. and asked what kind I was getting everyone I thought about something different than pepperoni I mentioned thin and crispy but there’s wasn’t one in front of us she suggested I make one from scratch… So I saw a handtoss dough, but it was torned.. So I looked around for topping… I went back and made the pizzas chose some others…one pizza, the toppings was on top of each other. I looked up to asked how to get back to work…a man appeared and told me to be careful . ..i am not supposed to let anyone know where we work that we are from the future… I followed him and we were back in a space like place.. We walked through a door and everyone was waiting and I woke up
Hi Lovelyaslace,
This is a really cool dream. You go back to the past and take things to the future. I love it that it is pizza. We are having pizza for my wife’s birthday which my grandchildren are wildly crazy about. What does it mean to be able to go back to the past to bring something to the future? The metaphor is that you can shop in the past and then take something to the future. Shopping in the past means that you go back into your memory and find a capacity that you have already developed in yourself and then bring it forward to your planning, your future state, and then you use the capacity to achieve the objective. To do this it is like you have to go shopping in your memory to remind yourself of all of your capacities and then use them to get to the future goals. This is the advantage of being older. You can do more shopping in the past than young people. They need to do lots of experiences and adventures so that they can learn a lot. When you act like this, then almost everything you do works well. Lots of people get stuck not being able to shop in the past because of traumas or big hurts that block their memories of their capacities. You are totally free of those blocks.
Thank you for the reply… I hope the birthday celebration with your wife and grandkids was enjoyable.
Last night I dreamt i was being strangled by my partner, we were playing around but I couldn’t move my arms to telk him as i was passing out, i feel i was about to or did die but woke up struggling to breathe at that point
Dear Michelle,
This means that there is something in the way that your partner is relating to you that is strangling you in your life. Strangling is the metaphor. It isn’t literal. It is a symbol for what happens. This means that you will have times when you don’t feel like you can breathe in your life because of his way of relating. Relationships that work have a great deal of closeness but also have breathing space. He is not giving you enough breathing space.
Dream of comeing home late walking into my bedroom which was dark then I see my beds messed up when I look closer I rearlise theres this strange young man / intruder Iv never seen befor laying asleep in my bed ad the telly on but nothing’s on it just greay light on the screen so I scream to my dad there’s some 1 laying in my bed and my dad just calmly walks him in to the front room while his walking by his putting his tshirt on smirking
Dear Mary,
This is actually a pretty troubling dream because of your dad’s attitude. It has a lot to do with the way men expect women to serve them sexually. Your father is not showing the proper attitude toward the young man because he has the bad attitude as well. This means that you cannot rely on men in your family or culture to treat you with a lot of respect in intimate relationships. You are going to have to be assertive, have strong boundaries, and then be in a relationship where there is a lot of mutual respect. Don’t just expect it to happen if young men get interested in you. You have to be assertive.
I also dremptI was standing on a concrete path beside the see the water was rushing up over the path the current was fierce we tryed to get away came to this house up the side was a price of rope and a drop at to slide down the rope to get down there was no other way I was a bit worried there was a woman and a baby we let slide Down 1st and there was a boy Iv never seen befor with me the whole time
Dear Mary,
This is also another dream about the difficulties you have of staying on your path because of the troubled waters. When the troubled waters come in your life, you have to get to safety which is not easy to do. This is the first step in dealing with people who use power as a way of forcing their will. You have to get to a place of safety inside before you can deal with your life and staying away from them. They have no boundaries as I said in the last dream that you sent and are very dangerous without protection.
Thank you
Hi could someone explain this dream to me the last three nights I’ve had very freaky dreams so 3 nights ago I had a dream I was drowning in a pool and then I woke up choking, last night I had a dream I looked down and had self harm marks all over my wrist, and tonight I had a dream that I was running from a flood I got away from the flood and went back home with my family to a stranger pointing a gun at me and he didn’t hurt my family he went straight to me and held it against my head and as he went to shoot I woke up… with all these dreams I feel the same feeling i feel scared and vonrable and that there’s nothing i can do about it but just accept what’s happening in the dream and that I have no control over the situation, they all feel so real aswell hence with my first dream waking up choking so if someone could explain why I’m having these dreams would help because it’s not pleasant for me 3 nights in a row
Dear Renae,
The problem that the dreams present is that you are drowning in your relationships and are fearful of being shot down. It causes you to be flooded with negative emotions. Relationships are supposed to be mutual and supportive with nurturing aspects to them. You probably need to re-evaluate your relationships and being finding ones that actually work for you. Let go of the bad ones.
i had a dream that I was with my family at a park type thing(i have been there and it’s a real place i just don’t remember the name) when it got stormy so we had to leave. i remember as we drove home a tornado off in the distance behind trees but we were calm and nothing bad was happening. i also saw two of my friends walking down the sidewalk. once we were home when we went inside i remember that there was a black and white dog (it looked kind of like a bull dog) laying down at our doorstep with two flames on its back. i then told my mom that there was a dog on the doorstep and she asked “does it have two flames on its back?” and i said yes. i think she explained to me what it meant but i’m not sure. then an old woman walked through our door. that is all i remember
Dear Sarah,
The first part of the dream shows you that your family (which includes you) has the ability to weather stormy situations in the world (like turbulent emotions and conditions) with a great deal of calm. This means that while you can take appropriate precautions, you do not become unglued by them. You remain calm. Because of that you can have a lot of friendliness (dog with flames) and be like a bulldog (stubborn in a good way) with doing positive things and having good relations with others. The old woman represent wisdom which is plentiful in your home. You have an absolutely amazing self inherited from your family. You can do a lot of great things in the world as a result.
I had a dream last night that I was looking out into a pond and the head of a dead person was sticking straight up out of the water staring at me. I heard music but can’t remember what kind. The face was very pale and was giving a blank stare. It was really scary and I’ve never had a dream like it.
Dear Cassondra,
When you have water in a dream like a pond, it is a symbol that you get to indicate that you need to develop your positive relational abilities. These are things like love, compassion, being non-judgmental, etc.. In your dream the association your mind has with relational work is a dead person. You also have music which is more positive because it is like you know have to have harmony, but you must have had experiences where you were in a relationship with someone who was like a dead spirit, who didn’t have a lot of real life. When you can let go of the fear of that kind of person coming into your life, then you will start having great relationships with people who are full of life. The process is one of letting go of the lifeless people in your life.
I was in my room slumped down my bedroom door I was trying not to cry it was my 16th birthday everyone in the other room was screaming and yelling at each other I had ear buds in singing under my breath to little toy guns . Then everything got dark I couldn’t see anything I couldn’t here anything the ground under me was weird it was like water solid to stand on but it would send ripls on the surface I could here a noise from all directions it sounds like dripping water then I can see a bunch of figures walking towards me from all directions they start laughing it’s different members of my family they start yelling at me saying horrible things then everything starts spinning round and round as I’m covering my ears saying stop it I scream for them to shut up then everything is quite again and dark I saw a light under a door I opened the door it shines a bright light when I look around it’s a hospital room I see my grandma laying in a bed I walked over to her she says one of her normal greatings it made me cry she had been dead for 2 years my grandma then grabs my wrist and said I was cruel because I kept a cat in my bedroom when we moved to a temporary place. And she said it was my fault she’s dead saying you could have come home sooner you could have helped take care of me but no you thought everything was fine and when finally came I was on my death bed you won’t even thare the night I died I kept saying I’m sorry I’m sorry I didn’t know how sick you were she started screaming at me saying she didn’t want to here it saying get out and throwing things at me I was walking backwards when I feel I just kept falling for what felt like forever before I hit water it was fast moving water like Rapids I was struggling trying to keep my head above water as I was being tossed around and hitting rocks I went under and hit my head on a rock when I came 2 I was on a river bank thare was a man standing over me it was Quinn a guy I made up when I was younger he puts a blanket on me and hands me a cup and sits on the ground by me he says are you OK you took a nasty spill thare I said I feel like shit but I’m OK he looks me over and says you got a pretty good cut on your head and to hold still he takes a wet cloth and cleans it he placed something similar to a band aid on it he brushes my hair behind my ear and runs his hand down the side of my face and says thare good as new. After that I woke up
Dear Kathryn,
Basically in your dream everyone has turned against you in your family even your grandmother. On top of the that you isolated from your peers because of the way they treat each other. The only one that helps you in your turbulence is someone you made up in your own mind. That person actually represents an aspect of yourself, a capacity, that will really make your life work in so many ways. Who is he? He is a person inside yourself that takes care of you and looks after you, even when everyone has turned on you. If you can make that person a part of who you really are, you will be able to go anywhere and do anything. Trust me!! It is an awesome part to have, to be able to care for yourself because the dream teaches you that you are not going to be able to count on others. The process of developing requires detaching from the desire to have others care for you and then becoming more self-reliant. As soon as you increase your self-reliance you will suddenly find that you have more and better friends. That is the way it works. As long as you seek it outside of yourself, then the bad parts of the dream manifest themselves in reality. You can start by having conversations with yourself as the person you created in and ask him what you need. Eventually it will no longer be him, but be you.
Um he’s somone I made up a long time ago because I don’t have friends so he was something I could talk to kinda like how little kids talk to there toys
exactly!
I dreamt that I was getting into a lift and there were two dogs. One of the dogs refused to get in the lift with me and the other dog got in. The dog inside the elevator stuck his head out and the doors closed and crushed his head. The elevator kept going up and I was very distressed.
Dear C,
Being in a lift means that you are trying to have really up/positive feelings and having the two dogs in the elevator means that you are trying to be up about the friends because dogs are about friendships. One of your friends is having a hard time being uplifted in his/her life. With that friend you have to take your time, slow down, and be compassionate and understanding. With others you can be really energetic and up beat.
oops!… i forgot to add…in the dream i was certain i was on a planet other than earth.
i recently dreamed i was a miner deep beneath the ground using my hands to pull rock away from the walls inside a large tunnel or cavern. although i did not see other miners, i was aware that there were many working in this place. i was dressed in dark grey, very plain clothes…yet still like a miner. the area i was in (alone) was dimly lit. as i would reach to the wall, and pull away rock and dirt with my hands, i would then pull out a softly glowing blue orb that i pulled out of the wall of rock. the orbs were about 12-20″ across…they varied in size.
i am puzzled by this dream..my mood upon waking was calm, accepting, and curious.
if you have time to help me understand this dream, i would appreciate it. thank you.
ps…just listening to your radio talk…and i really enjoyed both your insights, and that it was a local program.
Hi Jono,
Nice to hear from you again and that you enjoyed the radio show. I just did 3 Tuesday evenings about dreams in our home here in Vancouver. I will put you on the invitation list for the next events. It is pretty casual and free. Being on another planet is a great metaphor because it shows that the mining work you are doing, which is like mining the souls of human beings for their glowing orbs, feels as if you are on a different planet than others. This, no doubt, has a lot to do with the fact that most of the mining done is for people to develop their capacities to be successful in the material world rather than becoming their true selves and relating to spiritual energy. Mining is the correct metaphor for the work as well with people because it needs a certain amount of patience. In the Baha’i writing it talks about this process as mining for the gems in people, but I really love the glowing blue orbs. If I had the dream, I would go back into it and sense the energy of the orbs so that you can understand what the energy is and what is capable of. You have important mining work ahead. I hope we can connect in the near future. My daughter’s site is erikahastings.com. She does a lot of healing work with rocks.
thank you, and i will go back into the dream and see if i can learn more about the energy of the orbs. i knew in the dream, as i held one of the orbs in my arms (almost like holding a new baby) that the orb was a living energy and very important. i will let you know when i learn more. i do love the Baha’i information you mentioned, and i will look into that as well.
i would appreciate your putting me on the invitation list for future events as i have some flexibility regarding dates/times i go to vancouver. i look forward to connecting soon.
i enjoyed visiting your daughter’s website, and will view again as the images speak to both heart and nature. i hope folks reading this take the time to visit her site. we use rocks in our own home as well.
again, thank you. much appreciated!
I was walking through a barren desert with one of my friends and I was just laughing and talking to him the whole dream.
Dear Hannah,
This is a really interesting dream because most people would do the opposite when walking through the desert. They would complain and be exhausted. You are laughing and talking which means that you have the great capacity to not let the outer conditions affect who you are or the relationships in your life. You maintain a light and positive attitude in whatever condition you find yourself in.
In my dream, a crow kept landing on my boyfriends head & looking directly at me, cawing. He didn’t seem to notice the bird. Every time I tried removing the crow by its feet, I had to use more strength. I felt fear.
Dear Shara,
Crows when they are positive in a dream have to do with using your intelligence to figure things out, but in this case the crow doesn’t want to leave him and has a kind of threatening presence. It is like the negative aspect of his mind is telling him to be careful with you. This will no doubt cause trouble in the relationship over time because his mind will keep him from getting close to you. What you need to do instead of trying to get rid of the crow is to give him a lot of reassurance. Something no doubt happened to him in the past with other relationships that makes the crow difficult to deal with. Think reassurance.