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In my dream, when I seen a reflection of myself in the mirror. I had bad acne, and ance scars on my face. I think I was confused at first, but after thinking for awhile, I just smiled and decided that I didn’t care. I still loved myself and wasn’t upset, I would just accept them.
It confuses me, because in my waking life I have clear skin, and I think if it really happened, I would’ve been upset.
Dear Patricia,
This dream teaches you that when you have small blemishes in your character that other people see as if it were acne, you are not overly concerned about it. If you would be concerned about it, it would mean that you were trying to get all of your positive self esteem from what others say to you. You seem to have a pretty high regard for yourself which is a great thing. Because of that quality you can really set your goals really high and go after them. Don’t hold yourself back.
I dreamt last night and it was horrifying. I saw that I am in a mall and I am looking to buy some fancy stuff and then I looked at my watch and it was past 9.30 pm and I thought that I should go home because it’s not safe to stay out beyond 9.30 pm. So I went out of the mall and was walking through the road when suddenly some armed men in black uniform pointed a gun at me and I saw that some of my friends who were also going to their home were also put at gunpoint by these same armed men wearing the same black outfit. Then they took us to a very scary place and that place was bounded by high walls and barbed wires so that none could go out and there was security guards at every point of exit. So they took us to a training centre where they were training girls to be sex slaves for rich men. And I was terrified at the thought of being used as a sex slave,it was like my biggest nightmare was coming into fruition and was dead scared. I saw that there were female guards as well. So they took us to a room where we were gonna be given training to how to use sex toys and it was so scary. Then I saw that there was a temple in that compound and a girl was standing there and I asked everyone why she was not given the training and those people said that she is safe because she is inside the temple and they can’t go near the temple but soon the girl is gonna be dead because she is without any food for days. So then I was planning for my escape. So I thought to go to that temple by any means. So anyhow I managed to run to that temple and the armed forces were after me but couldn’t catch me and then I asked the girl that is there any way out of this place and she told me the path to get out. I asked her to come along with me but she said that she is too weak to go with me and I should go as soon as possible before I become weak without food. So in the morning I crossed some checkpoints being careful to not be seen by the guards and then suddenly the guards saw me but a female guard showed me the way out and let me go and I came out and I was so happy and ecstatic. It all felt so real. What does this dream mean?
Dear Sarah,
One of the really positive things about the dream is that you were able to escape in the end. This means, that no matter how bad of a situation you are in your life, you already know how to get out of the worst situation. If you know this about yourself, then you can be confident about getting out of bad situations. The only problem is that you got into the bad situation in the first place in the dream. In the dream you are living your worst nightmare. How did you get there? You got there because your worst nightmare takes up more space in your mind than its opposite counterpart. The opposite counterpart is the best possible outcome or an end that is much better than you could possibly imagine. To get over the nightmare you can start practicing imagining the best possible out come and then going for it. When you first do it, you start with a time frame that is short like the next hour or next three hours. What is the best possible outcome in the next hour? This will get your mind used to going for better than you can possibly imagine and get out of the nightmare thinking. You can just let go of the nightmare.
I dreamed last night, i felt that there’s someone holding my both hands, i”m forcing myself to let go but the impact was so strong, as i remember i’m screaming these words, “i don’t want to!” then i started to feel so scared thinking there’s no one can help me ’cause i felt there’s some evil spirits around me, I prayed then I saw a light and a cross sign. Suddenly I woke up feeling so scared. What is the meaning of this? is it really a dream? cause it felt so real.
Dear Claudine,
The problem that you have, which is pretty common in many people, is your reaction to the “evil spirits”. Evil spirits represent people with bad energy in the world. When they come into a dream, it is you feeling the bad energy that people are giving off and then freaking out about it. One the bad energies that some people have is trying to force you to do things you do not want to do. I am going to give you something you can do that really works. Here it is. Instead of being freaked out by the negative energy, you can start to get curious about it. When you are curious and start to understand it, then it doesn’t have so much control over you. It controls you when you are fearful of it. In the old days the church used to control people by using fear. They said that you if you don’t act in a certain way, then you were going to go to hell. This was before people starting becoming more enlightened about the way they motivate others because motivation through the fear of hell is not that effective in long term. What is effective is seeing the light in others, the positive spirits or qualities such a love and compassion and courage. They all give off positive energy like a positive vibration. When you are around those spirits, you feel amazing. It is really easy, however to feel really fearful of dark energy, but the proper response is to just get curious about them and then they can be transformed from dark to light. That is your work.
I have two sort of odd dreams I’d like interpreted and I’d be very grateful. The two dreams go hand in hand. The first dream is one I’m not so worried about, it was a vision of my chest ..my chest took up the whole view . Well there was a cluster of about 8 fuzzy eyeball-sized balls on my chest. They weren’t eyeballs , they were just fuzzy. I’d say there were made of flesh. As they were like fuzzy skin balls. I quickly brushed them off in a hurry as I was pretty creeped out and then I saw a vision of people standing like in a group with a bicycle. It sort of looked like a group of people standing together in a backyard patio. I saw this from about a 13 foot high view looking down on them. and then I saw my chest again like before with a cluster of about 6 of the balls on my chest this time. I then woke up. The second dream is similar to the first as it was the same view of my chest taking up the whole view. And this time there was something that looked like a little slug which was red with yellow or white polka dots except it didn’t have eyes and I’m not sure if it was a slug. I wasn’t necessarily creeped out, I was just curious. Well I tried to pick it off with two fingers and it didn’t budge, then I tried again..nothing.. then it just fell off by itself and then I felt something like an intense orgasm coming from my chest which lasted about 5 to 10 seconds. This dream I really need to know the meaning of , I’ve been stressing over it for months.
Dear Marryenth,
I can see why this dream is so mysterious. The meaning isn’t at all obvious. When you have a dream like this, the best thing to do is to get curious and just start asking metaphoric questions. First question is what is the meaning of a chest and then why is taking up so much of the view. The chest is what houses two of the most important organs in the body, the heart and lungs. Lungs are what allow you to breathe in your life, to have space in your life to be you and the heart represents the things are most important to you. In your dream 8 relatively harmless fuzzy balls creep you out. This means that you it is relatively easy for you to be taken out of yourself and the things that are important or are true to you. When you get curious like in the second dream, then you have an intense orgasm. The curiosity is about the slug. A slug is important because it teaches you to really slow down and then see the beauty. When you do this, you can get to your own joy inside. In summary what you are needing to do is to slow down seeing your own beauty and the things that are important to you and let go of being so creeped out so easily by things. Curiosity is the key for you.
hey so last night i had this dream tht i was holding a dark blueish baby turtle i knew turtles live in water but there was someone else with me who agreed with me that yeah you need to put in water but i still googled to make sure it’s an turtle not a tortoise and then i put it back in water and a man held the hands of baby turtle when i put it in water and he would pick him up with baby turtles hand and he was basically playing with that baby turtle and the turtle was smiling it’s weird but idk it’s just a baby turtle smiling that was weird i wonder what it means and thanx
Dear Mona,
Turtles usually are indication for you that you need to practice the ability to slow down and be patient. When you are good at it, you can stop having time play such a big factor in things in your life. The turtle in water means that the patience you are developing is in relationships with other people. It is an amazing quality to have in relationships. The turtles being babies mean that the quality is new to you. Most people think of patience in a negative light because they believe that you can get to things by rushing with speed all the time. Patience allows you to be with another for a long time without expectations.
I use to like this old friend she use to like me too.we stopped talking for some time and I haven’t talk to her in a long time and she was giving me a blow job and I loved it.
I want to know if this girl is my soulmate
Dear Turiano,
You want to know if this girl is a soul mate because she is giving you a blow job and it feels really good. So when something does something positive for you like in the dream, you are going to feel connected to that person. The problem for you is probably the opposite one which is how unselfishly can you act toward another person. Soulmates are people that can endure really difficult situations together by letting go of selfish behavior. It is easy to love someone when they are doing sexual things to you, but the real test of love is when the other person is suffering. How do you act then? If you can walk with her in her darkest hour and support her, then you are soulmates.
In my dream I saw a statue of goddess Durga but I couldn’t see goddess Durga in the statue & when I asked my mother about it she said the goddess is being made & it will be put in place. Incidentally I saw the statue in a place where there used to be a Durga temple created by my forefathers a long time back but now it is our garage. I am a Hindu.
Dear Deep,
The goddess Durga is a protector goddess with warrior-like qualities. You are seeing the figure in your dreams because you need to have that kind of energy in your life in your being. There is something you need to be a protector against, some negative force. It does not come from outside of you, but from inside of you. You have to marshal the energies and be like her.
I had a dream my dad dropped me off to my ex therapist appointment. When he dropped me off at the car park, I notice there was snow every where.
I was a bit lost at directions as I didn’t know where to go. But a man told me directions where to go.
I found the place and I was standing on a snowy wooden balcony, outside.
On my left was row of rooms too. In front of me was a black man standing by a small wire fence.
I went inside in one of the rooms that were on my left. The room was small and cozy.
I sat down on a dark blue coach with a wooden round table in front of me. My ex therapist had a coffe machine on the wooden table and he was sitting on my right side on a wooden chair.
He was making me a hot chocolate drink and he keep making them but I didn’t drank them.
I recalled about 3 or 4 hot chocolate cups on the table in front of me.
I was thinking at the time “you don’t need to please me over hot chocolate drinks “
I then recalled him making a hot lemon tea.
Suddenly I was lying down on the blue coach and he was sitting beside and lay his hand on my stomach and pray for me.
That was the dream.
What does it mean?
Dear Jane,
When you are outside of the therapist’s office, you are a bit lost and in the cold. This means that when you are not doing your therapeutic work (your inner work), you are lost in your life and feel as if the world is really cold. When you do go into the office and are offered warmth (hot chocolate and tea), you cannot drink it nor seem to respond to what the therapist is doing. What this means is that the therapist is trying to warm you up too fast and pray that you get well because he/she is uncomfortable with accompanying you through your difficult emotional state. What you need in therapy is someone who will walk with you in the difficult states and be totally comfortable with you as you are processing them. If you worked with someone who uses my approach, you could be much more comfortable while exploring the really negative states before transforming them into positive ones. The message is learn how to be comfortable in the dark states.
In the dream I was half asleep in my bed, I woke up fully because I heard my daughter walking thru water in my house. When I got up there my house was flooded with about 2 inches of water. I picked up my daughter and tried to find the source. When I walked in my kitchen there was a big white stray cat crouched in the corner growling at us ready to attack. I tried to turn on the light but I couldn’t, then I heard my air conditioning turn on. I thought if it was on it would electrocute us, so I tried to get past the cat, that was now slowly walking towards us, to turn the ac off. I grabbed a broom to try to push off the cat, but he just kept growling, the he jumped in my pantry to hide. All of a sudden a cat that looked exactly like the white one but was orange stripped came thru my back door. I was still holding my baby and turned the broom to the stick side to swat the cats, and the White one fell on the floor and half of his body turned blue with writing on it like an advertisement. I couldn’t read the word, but both cats then stood side by side and synchronized in movement. I ran down my hallway and turned off the ac, when I did the water immediately dried up and the cats disappeared .
Dear Celia,
A flood in a dream means a flood of emotions like when you have relationships that are not going right. The difficulty dealing with a flood is represented in the cats. Cats when they are positive means independence of thinking. In this case when you are dealing with the flood you need your wits about you. You need to have good common sense and be able to think on your feet like what you do with the a/c.. The aggressive cat is someone else in your life who is using their thinking to be aggressive, but if you just keep your own mind, then they become insignificant. Right now in your life it is as if you need two cats worth of independent thinking in your mind so that you can deal with the flood and not be drowned. Think of yourself as a positive independently, strong-minded person.
I stayed at my friends house for the first time last night, I went to sleep at about 3 o’clock in the morning. Once I had fallen asleep I knew I was dreaming I could see myself asleep in the bed but through my eyes, I felt as though someone was behind me staring at me wanting me to turn around, I turned around and this white statue looking figure (that wasn’t their in real life) turned into a spirit that came towards me, whilst all the was happening I was trying to wake myself up I could feel myself moving. Once I woke up I turned around to make sure nothing was their, I tried staying awake because as soon as I closed my eyes I could feel the presence of someone behind me again. The second time I feel asleep the same thing happened but this time I didn’t turn around and I saw the spirit come from behind me and into my body I actually felt as though their was a spirit in my body, I woke myself up and the feeling of a ghost or whatever leaving my body happend after this I stayed awake for another hour and I didn’t dream of it again.
Dear Jasmine,
This dream is about some kind of negative energy in your life that is invisible to you. You can only see it in the dream world. What you can do with it, when you are awake, is imagine that it is there and then begin to ask it who it is and what it is doing there. Since it was in friend’s house, it may be energy that is from that house, and not yours. Probably you have not dreamt that kind of dream in your own house. It shows that you are sensitive to spiritual energy, both positive and negative, which is actually a good thing, but you probably don’t know very much about it yet. You can begin trusting your inner communication and feeling energy and then asking about it. It is not all that unusual even though it is unusual to you. Let me know if you have more questions.
Thankyou for taking time out to reply to me xx
I had a dream I was living with monks or something in the church I knew the demons were coming so I hid inside of it and watched Korean drama . everyone was looking for me they went to this river that had cherry blossom and the demons slaughter them all . I was hiding in the closet trying not to make a sound cause I didn’t want to die. I knew one was one was in the church …either she opened th3 door and found me or I found her..shhe looked like a monster and bit may arm I touch her and said your punishment is you will live the rest of your life as a human. But I realized they must be dead …and it was my own fault ..I didn’t warn them
Dear Anek,
Well in this dream the problem is with demons, but before you understand the demon energy, you have to understand where you are. You are living with monks in a church. This means that you are living in seclusion away from the world in a kind of hiding in there. This lets you know that religion is not something you can hide away in. Religion is where you learn how to become a positive spirit by being fully out there in the world doing positive things for the world. Religion is what teaches you how to become a positive force in the world and deal with “demonic energy”. Your reaction to demonic energy is to hide and run from it and then try to tell it that it is going to be punished. You are at the most danger with demonic energy when you try to seclude yourself because, in truth, demonic energy is not as ominous as it may seem to you. There is only one great benevolent source in all of creation and that is God who is all positive. Demonic energy is only there to serve our growth. It is present inside ourselves especially in our minds when we have fear. Your fear is to be able to get out in the world and do really positive things. You want to hide and then the demons grow inside your mind. They are actually pure imagination. They do not exist except in your mind, but they will not go away until you start developing in the image of God which in this case is the virtue of courage to do some positives for others. Once you get to the positive action your life will be like a miracle. Start be believing that the demons are just negative imagination. They are not real. Then see the way you are going to effect positive change in the world. When you do that, positive spirits will come rushing to your aid.
I dreamt me and my children were in my bedroom when i looked out the window at a tornado that formed maybe 15 feet away from us. As soon as I saw it, it started slamming into my window. It rammed us about 3 times before I unfroze and grabbed my kids and ran into the bathroom. We got in the tub and I looked out the window only to see that the tornado ripped us off the ground and was spinning us around. It was like I could feel the house being thrown around in real life. After it spun us a little while longer, it slammed us into the ground, but we were all safe. Woke up as I was about to look around at the damage.
Dear Celia,
When you are in the role of being a mother and begin to look out at the future (looking out the window), you see yourself and then being spun by a tornado. When you stay in the negative vision of the future of being spun by something, then it actually happens. Fortunately you end up ok, but not without damage. Now the really cool thing about this kind of process is this. Just as envisioning the negative future attracts and makes it happen, so does the opposite, which is envisioning the positive future. You simply see the positive future with a lot of peaceful tranquility and stay envisioning it, and then it happens all the time and life just gets better and better. You can actually have this come true, the positive part, but you have to let go of how you envision negatively. That is the harder work, but I am sure with effort that you can do it. First thing is to believe that you can be in control of your own visions.
In my dream was two baby skeletons one was perfect and one had a big eye i was having triplets and that two had died and there was just a circle with a yellow circle round it
Dear Adele,
A skeleton represents a person without any really substance. A baby skeleton is like a part that has come out of you that doesn’t have any substance, that is, it is not really worth keeping. It is as if you are developing something that is not worth keeping. When that part of you tries to produce something positive it either dies or is of insignificance. What this tells you is that you need to focus more on substance in your life, not on insubstantial things. (something with more muscle)
Hello Well I Was Wondering If Can Help Me With My Dream , i Was In The Car With The Father Of My Kids & He Was Driving It Was Dark I Remember Him Stoping At A Stop Sign & Me Getting On Top Of Him & When He Pulled His Pants Down His Penis Wasn’t Going Up I Remember Tell Himing Why Isnt It Going Up & I Grabbed It & Was Like Look Look You Don’t Love Me Anymore & I Ran Out .
I Ran To A Friends House & Started Telling Her What happen & Mins Later He Gets To Her House & When He’s About To Knock A Pig Comes Out Of The Know Where & Starts To Chase Him Around .
Me & My Friend Were Looking through The Window While He Was Screaming My Name .
& Thats Pretty Much What I Remember .
If You Can help Me I Really Will appreciate It Thank You .
Hi Kimberly,
I can’t tell if by the way you are writing about him, that you are still with him. It probably doesn’t make that much difference. When a person is the driver, it means that he is driving the action or leading the action. It seems as though, by the fact that you climb on top of him and want to have sex, that you want him to be in control, but his penis not getting erected means that he doesn’t have enough empowerment to be driving the leadership of the family. When you tell your friend about his lack of empowerment, you see that he is being chased by a pig. A pig is a symbol of someone who grovels around in the dirt and mud. He is being chased by someone with bad motives and that makes it difficult for him to be empowered in his life. What is happening? Is he gone out of your life?
Well He’s incarceration Right Now , But Before He When In We Weren’t That Good .
I Found Out He Slept With Another Female So I Left .
But As Of Now We’re Okay , He Calls To Check On The Kids & Myself .
It makes so much sense, doesn’t it. You wanted him to be erected and take the driver’s seat, but he became a pig and bailed on leadership and went for someone else. It just means that you need to be in the driver’s seat of your life and really go enthusiastically for things.
Hey again.
I saw a dream yesterday night as well but don’t remember it quite well. I saw that I have moved to some other city to take up a job. And I was working here but I was not happy in this new city and especially I was not happy with the job. And I remember that I wanted to go back to the old city to continue my studies further. And here in this new city,I saw that the employers gave me a house to live and the house was super weird,most of the rooms were dark except one. And then everyday I would return from work exhausted and unhappy. Then I decided to change this and leave this job and I was preparing to leave this job and then I told my employers that i won’t do the job but they said that they need me. And I can’t remember after that. Can you interpret the dream?
Hey,
I saw a very different dream and I felt really peaceful and full of joy from the inside in this dream. I saw that I am amidst this universe and in space amidst all the planets and suddenly I observed Saturn and its rings and then I suddenly saw that the rings of Saturn changed into the shape of Human DNA,so now the human DNA was in the place of rings surrounding Saturn. I was in total awe of what was happening and was feeling so in peace and so happy seeing the DNA surrounding Saturn. Can you please interpret this dream because I am very confused what this means?
Hi Stefanie,
This dream is calling you to the energy or virtue of awe. Awe lets you know that you part of something much larger than yourself whose purpose is completely beneficent. When you feel awe, it lets you be at peace about the part that you play in the universe and get completely engrossed in it.
hi, im kind of desperate. i think I predicted the future. it was in a dream, ill start with the dream. I was in a light blue rocking chair, and my dad was too. but in between us was a white table with a flower pot on top. in the flower put is what looked to be a dead clover and a catapiler and a butter fly inside. the sceanary was beautiful but the only bad thing about it, there was a forest of dead trees. and inbetween the trees whas a hill of just dead grass. me and my dad looked and studied the hill. a wolf, a grey one, went on the top howeled, then layed down. I told my best friend the next morning. she said that the rocking chairs her great grandma and grandpa had where painted blue, (they painted them blue the day before) and that her family, they all called eachother by their insect or animal. and I never knew this untill she said it. turns out she is a catipiler, her moms a butterfly and her uncle is a wolf. well time past by since my dream. about two months later,her uncle killed himself because he was so depressed. me and her found out woods mean passed away or something like that in dreams. there was other various insects and animals i told her that was in the dreams. im just very confused and I need help. its been about a year since the dream.
Dear Riss,
You are your father have the ability to be in the energy of someone else’s space and then know what is going to happen in the future. You do this by feeling the energy and then working out how it will play itself out over time. The disadvantage of having this ability is that you can see negative things that will happen. You can more or less predict them. The positive thing is that you can do something to change the negative outcome if you know how to intervene. Where there is dead forest and grass it means that there is no growth and no enthusiasm for growth and change. If you could have intervened to help the growth process, the uncle may not have killed himself because he could have changed depression into enthusiasm for growth. Just really understand that you have capacity to help people change a lot and that you should work really hard and study hard to learn how to do it better because you can have a tremendous impact on the world.
Hi! It’s me again. I hope you aren’t annoyed thay I am writing again but my dreams are intense so sometimes I get confused.
I had a dream of this guy I am in love with and have been romantically involved for a while now. In the dream, I was waiting for him by his house and I see him walk down the steps from another house, and some people (which in the dream felt like his family) are waving bye to him and he is walking to come to me. He comes and we hold hands but he is walking with his head down. He is a drug dealer (in real life). So I am asking him why he is walking like that and I remember him saying in the dream it’s cause he doesn’t want the cops to see him. So then, walking holding hands we enter a new house, and he introduces me to his cousins and they all say hi to me. Also his cousins are all drug dealers. So then, we go in a couch I believe it was red and I think we fall asleep by either kissing or just cuddling. I don’t remember the end very well. What does this mean? Thanks so much
Also just want to mention I do not do drugs and have never done any.. The guy doesn’t either, he just sells them which also isn’t the best thing to do but we don’t choose who we fall in love with… It just happens.
Thanks 🙂
Hi Roses-and-glam,
The positive thing about the relationship that you have the guy is that you are not doing drugs. The negative thing is that he is selling drugs and is always going to lead a life where he watches out for being caught, not to mention the fact that what he sells does long term harm to people’s lives. The fact that you are in love with him and with him means that you have to live the same kind of life as well. Drug dealers are people who know how to network so the goal for him would be to get into money making where he is using his networking skills and helping people in a beneficial way. It is problematic to be in a long term relationship until he changes focus on what he does. The fact that he doesn’t use the drugs is so so positive. Same for you.
Hi, I have a dream. I was walking on the streets then a stray puppy was barking and following me. when i got home, the puppy is already at our door but it its barking anymore. we decided to adopt the puppy because it does not leaving our door. so i decided to give the puppy a bath and found it it has some allergies or wounds so i used gloves. the puppy was so cheerful but i ordered him to sit which it follow. when i am giving it a bath, halfway, its not a puppy anymore. it becomes a toddler. i am giving a bath to a girl toddler. that confused me. in my dreams, i found out that that child is being adopted but has been rejected by the foster parent that’s why it becomes like a stray puppy and that’s where i found her. but its a puppy i found not a toddler. i’m so confused. please help me understand.
Dear Cassiopeia,
Adopting a toddler is a lot of like adopting a puppy. It takes a lot of care and nurturing. Usually when you have a dream like this, it has to do with your inner self rather than an actual toddler or puppy. It means that there is a part of you that is a lot like an orphan or a stray puppy. That part needs a lot of special care and attention so that it can function in the world. A dog is a symbol of friendship and loyalty so probably the part that needs developing is the part of you that is friendly with others, the part that is a loyal friend. Your life is needing this kind of growth.
It was just me and a bunch of everything I can see tables and chairs and people and I had this feeling of panic because I knew I didn’t have enough tables, chairs, or people but I can see the amount I had and I still felt like I didn’t have enough.
Dear Jose,
This dream is about worry. It shows that no matter how prepared you are or how much equipment you have, you still feel like it isn’t enough. What you need to have to solve this dream is confidence based on memory of successful experiences. The worry in this kind of case usually has to do with having to have things perfect, but it is not a proper goal. Go for the goal of excellence instead of worry.