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I have not seen my daughter and grandkids in 5 years. I dreamt I was at her house very unusual house and my granddaughter was not there but a black baby of about 2years old. My 2 grandsons were just about adults and I was also picking avos from the ground and 1had a blue heal shoe on one side and the other was bones under like meat bones.
Carol,
This dream seems to be about the fear you have that you are going to miss the growing up years of grandchildren. I am not sure why you have not seen them. Whatever it is, you need to take steps to heal the relationship so you can be a part of their lives. You have a responsibility to them, but probably you need healing.
Hi.. im in a hotel for an open buffet breakfast and i see many stranger drinking alcohol. I tell myself they are mad. But a friend if mine tells me to drink wine. I say ok and look for a glass to fill it but i cant. While awaiting a glass, i start to be raised by a power or pulled high. My hearing sensitivity changes and i see some grey curtains. I order my ming to go down and get rid of this force and i see i could do this with some difficulty, but there is still a suction up. I decide to let it pull me to see what happens. The higher i pulled, the less the pulling force weakens. While being pulled up i tell myself God intension s my intension. My mouth is his mouth. And then as the force is getting pretty weak, i get bored because i sense nothing. So i decide to go down with this little force resistance.
Dear Onur,
This dream tells you that you are vulnerable to the influences of others despite knowing better. This is what you do with the wine. You first see that the people are mad, but then you take the wine and it controls you, rather than you being in control. In the end you come down by calling on the Higher Power and aligning yourself with His will. This is what I call like a 50-50 dream. 50% negative and 50% positive. The goal is to become more aligned with His will by letting go of being influenced by others. The first condition of alignment to God’s will is complete detachment from the world and others especially tradition.
My boss daughter dreamt last night that I was having a big function at my home and I got a baby which is half rat and half human dresses in black and I hand the baby to her say that my baby is getting beautiful every day but she give the baby back to someone else
Dear Roxanne, Sorry the delay. Have been out of town and busy with a memorial. A baby that is half rat and half human means that when you are doing big functions in your home or involved in big events, there is a part of you that is positive and has really good motives and a part of you that is rat-like. Rats are opportunistic eaters but they are associated with filth. We all have a little rat in us from time to time because we want to take advantage of the opportunities around us. This dream tells you that you have check yourself for motives. If you want good long term success, your motives have to be pure and clean. Impure motives tend to have temporary success, but long term disastrous effects. If you have good motives, then being a rat is a great thing because you can take advantage of all of the opportunities that are available in a positive way.
ad a dream last night that I was in a big room with white ceiling and walls. When I looked up I saw a baby black snake in the corner of the ceiling. As I looked around the room I noticed more baby black snakes, maybe 6 of them all laying along the edge of the ceiling/ wall . I called a friend of mine who is a snake handler to come and get the snakes. I was a little scared but the snakes didn’t move a lot and they didn’t try to harm me. After my friend removed the snakes we noticed a massive see through snake sitting in the centre of the room, it wasn’t scary, just big and see through. I not sure what happened next as I woke up.
Dear Jody,
Sorry for this massive delay. I was off traveling to California for a memorial. When you have a snake dream, Jody, and they are not all than menacing, it means that your life is calling you to make some changes that you have never made before. It is like a whole new aspect of yourself wants to develop. Snakes are usually the first sign of this because snakes have so much flexibility and they shed their skin. Shedding skin means letting go of all of the past hurts and negative things which they do so easily. The snake in the middle of the room that is transparent show you that the first thing you need to be in the change process is transparent, which is akin to being really truthful about yourself and where you are at. Truthfulness is like the foundation of all change. The more honest and open and transparent you are with yourself, the faster the change is going to happen. Happy changing.
ok… so I tend to lucid dream a lot and about a month ago is when this all took place. I had just started to fall into the dream world when all of a sudden I hear “get him” in this eerie sounding voice and as soon as I landed in this barren wasteland like place with thunderstorms over head I spot the source of the voice. Its this tall dark figure that looked like a human but was too far away for me to tell but in between us was this great dane sized monster that did seem similar to a dog but was clearly a monster running at me and in that moment I went to guard myself by instinct but the monster bit my hand and at that moment my hand in real life had gone numb. so i forced myself out of the dream for a moment to smack my had to see if i could get the feeling back but that didn’t work. it was at that moment I realized i was under attack and what i had heard apon entering the dream was a command given to the monster dog by the dark figure. so i go back into the dream furious and immediately kick the dog monster off of me and then i yelled “how dare you!” but right then my OC (OC stands for original character. Its name is Behezilla and it looks like a cross mix of the behemoth monster from the final fantasy game series and Godzilla but its also ethereal in color.) burst out of the ground and devours the monster dog and the dark figure and then then just vanishes.
what i want to understand is why was i attacked and why my OC showed up?
Dear Triton,
The reason that you were attacked and the OC showed up is because the threat or reality of being attacked in some way, either mentally, emotionally, or physically is real for you. If it were just imagined, then you wouldn’t need the OC. It is difficult under these circumstances to get on with your true purpose which is to create environments filled with positive energy. Your OC is like your invisible protector, which you need in some circumstances. It will only be a temporary condition. In time the real fear will go away, your environment will change, and you will be able to do all kinds of meaningful and positive things. You can start visualizing them now to accelerate the process. Unfortunately you seem to have to take threats seriously.
hey! i had a dream after which i was really scared and i thought that it might have some really interesting symbols. my dad was having an affair with a woman that my mom didn’t knew about and we were about to go to a vacation without my mom. before going we had a weird family get-together at some kind of a beach. we were all swimming but there was a man that was laying beneath me in water. i was topless and half-naked the whole time. my dad and a man were talking and a man told my dad that if he still wanted to live a life that he could help him, but my dad told him that he still has a daughter(me). after that there was a big wave where i felt like i was drowning but i was fine. then me and my dad slowly walked to the bus stop where his lover was waiting. on the way there, i saw a cat with the wierdest, most eerie face. i told my that “what a wierd cat!”, niw looking at it i’m pretty sure it was a demon cat. she was sucking on another cat’s neck and had her claws deep inside her body. i was teriffied and called the vet ambulance but they didn’t work on sunday. the demon cat let go of the little kitten and went inside. it seemed that she lived in a weird gallery of some sort. my dad didn’t care about the cat that was dying and wanted me to hurry up, but i looked beside the door of the gallery only to find out the demon cat had another little kitten there that was almost dead. the demon cat transformed into a bigger and a skinnier version and brang the kitten to me smiling eerily. i started crying because i could save them and the demon cat started tearing apart the little kitten and i had to take them apart to i tried to hit the dekon cat with my leg. for a moment, i thought that i had succeeded but she had my wrist in her mouth which was very painful. i told this to my dad who didn’t really have a reaction. then the demon cat started scratching my body through ma clothes and sterted moving slowly upwards and her teeth were on my upper body when i finally woke up. when i woke up i was sweating and felt a pain in my left arm and abdomen.
Dear Miley,
This dream has a series of really negative occurrences that end up in you being attacked. Your father could be a symbol or a real thing, but most likely a symbol. An affair means his attention is elsewhere that his most important relationships, you and your mom. He consistently ignored you when you were telling him about the cats. His behavior leaves you vulnerable (half naked) because you don’t feel like you have a lot of support.
Cats are normally symbols of independent thinking or the ability to think for yourself. A demonic cat like in your dream represents a person who feeds off the vulnerability of others. So when you are left vulnerable by your dad’s behavior, you are susceptible to attacks by demon-like people who feed off of others.
What you are being called on to develop is your own strong independence of independent thinking, but it is going to a challenge for you because of your father’s bad attitude and lack of intimacy. When you see others being attacked who are vulnerable, it will be so important for you realize that you need to develop this quality. You can do it each by being strong in what you think.
I had a three hour part dream. The first dream was it seemed as though my family had feel asleep in the living room. My boyfriend woke me up to go get in bed but his son followed. Seem in the dream we couldn’t go back to sleep after moving from one spot to the next, so boyfriend started passing out shoes that he bought for the kids. He had Jordan’s, Nike’s, adidas, and etc. he began passing them out to the kids and when it got to my son he handed him a pair of pink Nike’s with pearls. Second part to my dream was it seemed as though my boyfriend and I pulled in to a church parking lot but it was a funeral home too. I proceeded to get out the car to figure where we were but my boyfriend stayed in. Third part to the dream was my boyfriend was in bed sleep with a woman and I began to beat him the women in the bed seemed to be a friend of mine and then I woke up. Please help!
Dear Quita,
One of the problems is that you are asleep to what is going on with your boyfriend. He is trying to buy his way into your life, in the dream, but the sacred space of your relationship is actually a funeral. It is not alive because he is busy having an affair. I don’t know if this is a real affair or an affair in his mind, but it takes him away from being fully with you.
I don’t know what to tell you, Quita, other than you should wake up and see if you want to be him forever. It doesn’t look good.
I have a dream of a young, humanoid figure with undistinguishable facial features very closely watching me. Every time I move to turn on a light, the figure backs into a corner and disappears. The transition from the dream is unnoticeable.
Dear Thomas,
Can you let me know how you feel during the experience with the humanoid figure? Were you feeling fear, curiosity? It is interesting that when you move to turn on a light, the figure disappears. This would indicate that the figure does not want to be fully seen as if there is something in your life that doesn’t want to be brought to light. It is like there is some truth that doesn’t want to be brought to light for fear of what the consequences of bringing it to light might be.
I feel quite frightened. Also the figure tends to change every time I have the dream and each reacts differently. One of the entities appeared as a small child with long hair. I also accidentally made contact with one when I reached over to get something of my table when I placed my hand on its face, this one looked like a young woman with wet hair. When this happened I immediately woke. I know this sounds like some paranormal crap but it’s starting to creep me out.
Dear Thomas,
So the fear has something to do with being comfortable with people when they share negative things with you. You have to be ok to be with them in their dark moments without freaking out, as if it were normal, because most people have negative things that they hide for fear of other people’s reactions. When it is shared, learned from, and let go, then they can be more in the light or more in their positive selves. For some reason you have this positive ability to be with them, but you are a bit freaked out right now. The next time it happens gather your courage and then calmly speak with them. You will see what I am talking about.
Dreamed of a lot of doors in a peaceful place but no people around but watched as spirits left; yet I couldn’t go and the loneliness was extreme
Dear Diane,
The purpose of peacefulness or being really calm is so that you can think/reflect independently and be guided. It is, by its nature, a process you need to do alone. In your dream you have a lot of doors which signify that you have a lot of opportunity. Opportunity is a different energy than peacefulness because if usually involves a lot of more interaction and movement. This is what is required of you now. When you have it and do it, the lonely feelings will go away.
I had a dream early this morning, I was in a restaurant, I had rice, after having the rice, i asked for yam but it wasn’t prepared yet, so I went ahead and prepared it myself, after eating I paid, the sales person wanted to cheat me but I said “hey I cooked the yam myself, so I should get a discount” she gave me the discount and I collected my change.
Dear Enny,
This dream is about having the courage to stand up for yourself and get the just result. You were able to do this in dream which should begin the process of doing it in real life. You can do it in real life just as you did it in the dream.
I dreamt that I was standing on a bridge over the river watching elephants rhinoceros and wild buffaloes all running in the river towards east. I was calm and happy enjoying their activities
Hi Ana,
Normally a dream with animals has a lot to do with the animals themselves, but in this dream you are watching the animals and feeling a lot of awe or wonder. This means that you need the virtue of awe in your life which is being able to enjoy the wondrous things in the world. When you can do that, then it leads to all kinds of possibilities opening up in a big way.
I had a strange dream that I kissed my cousin on the head and she got all bent out of shape about it and I acted like nothing happened.
Dear Stephen,
What this dream is letting you know is that when you kiss your cousin’s head without her permission, you are crossing a boundary that you shouldn’t be crossing. Kissing someone else requires permission from the other person. The act of asking for permission shows that you have respect for the person and then allows you to get closer, which is the intention of the kiss.
So I am gay in real life and I haven’t come out to my mom and dad yet. And I saw a very terrifying dream today. In the dream I saw that a small book fair has been arranged in a small shop and they have limited number of books. So I searched for lesbian literature in the app for this bookstore and I found that they have four books related to lesbian literature. I got very excited and was on my way to buy the books but then my mom also wanted to come along with me. I said yes. So we were in the book shop and I asked the man to show me the books and I mentioned the author name and he showed the books to me. I was so excited but then he suddenly said that nowadays the world is so beautiful that people can love whomever they want,doesn’t matter if it was a boy or a girl and these books are really good. Then suddenly my mom said-“I know now what you have been hiding from me”. I was furious and I left the shop without buying the books and then a fight started between me and my mom. I screamed and said to her that yes I love women and I am gay. She was shocked and then she said that you know your father won’t approve of this. And then I woke up. In real life I have hinted my mom that there is something I wanna tell her but I couldn’t muster the guts to tell her because I fear that she might not accept me but she told me that I could sag anything to her and she will love me no matter what. So what does this dream mean?
Dear Stephanie,
The problem in the dream is that you get into a fight with your mom. Your mom is not where the real difficulty is in your life. It is with your father. There is something about your relationship with your father that is blocking your development as a human being. It is hidden to you. I am pretty sure it has something to do with his relationship to power and how he uses it almost like a drug. When you work on this issue, your love for humanity will grow tremendously which will open up your ability to change the world into a beautiful place. The reason I think this is because your mom seems to accept you, but she is really concerned about your father’s reaction. When you do your own therapeutic work, you should start with how you are fearful of your father. That will lead you to the doors you need to open to become more of who you were meant to become.
It was a nice, bright summer day, and I was on a school, camp field trip. We were walking alongside a road in the countryside, me and some other people, students and boosters. We turned and walked up the dirt path entrance of the campus as a labeled bus, that we would later take around, passed by. The rest of the land, passed the dirt road, was a giant field of beautiful green grass with a building in the far left, and an area on the far right that the bus went to. There were fat brown chihuahuas running around and a raccoon. There were also some other type of animal running around as the escorts pointed at them and said “Don’t touch the honey badgers” or “watch out for them” or some animal like that. As we were walking up to the building, it was like a big blue “homey” cabin. There was a porch with steps, and a cross path, with one going straight from the steps towards the far left area of the field, and one horizontal that we were walking on. There were nice green trees and bushes along side the porch, and across the path, there were two trees in the corner where the path intersected, and huddled there were ducks, the green head, white strip, brown ones. They were clearly not to be messed with. My friend Devon immediately started running around in the grass with rocks and throwing them at the poor raccoon, trying to scare it off as it dodged for the porch trees. As the raccoon ran passed by, I quickly swiped it up and told him to leave it alone. As I cradled the big, but babylike raccoon. I carried him as I walked passed the steps. On that side, there was a small square, built in deep pool. It was clean and looked refreshing. There were also more steps, leading to the back door. I put the raccoon down and a nice guy pushed it into the pool and said maybe it wanted to go for a swim, as I briefly scolded him. We chilled there for a bit, to wait for lunch, while a lady brought out sandwiches for the students on the porch to eat.
Dear Patricia,
What this dream teaches you, is that everything in nature has its own positive qualities. When you look with the eye of wonder and care, you see the spiritual world reflected in all of the animals and in the rest of nature. It is so important to honor it and live in this kind of wonder. Devon doesn’t have that kind of wonder or care.
I had a dream today where all the diamonds of my wedding ring fell off, mind you I’m divorced. I then gathered all the diamonds on a pillow but then my new love interest slept on that pillow and I couldn’t find the diamonds which left me somewhat bothered but he apologized and helped me look for them. At the end of the dream I found only one diamond which was the one that is the center of the ring and also the largest, I looked at it with both hope and a little sadness as if I realized I would never find the rest but it was somehow okay because I found its center. The dream ended with a sense of peace between me and my new lover. So I would like to know the meaning. Thank you in advance.
Dear Yasmine,
To solve a dream like this, you need to think of the diamonds in a new way. You have to first think of yourself as a being full of diamonds. This means that you have a great value and you are full of virtues and capacities. When you think this way, you understand that what you bring to a relationship is diamond-like. Do not sell yourself as being worthless. You are full of worth. You do not get your worth from the person you marry. Next after you know your value, you can see the diamonds in the other person and be positive in helping each other bring out more of your diamonds. In this way you can always have a happy and beautiful relationship. The diamonds fall out when you devalue yourself. Then it is impossible to have a positive relationship.
This is a little snip it of my dream. I went to this girl who I went to highschool with boyfriends house, I remember he was those guys that all girls liked the most but I never liked him then. Maybe found him attractive, but anyways I went to his house and we started making out in his bedroom. Then we went to a park that was close by to my house and suddenly the boy changed to this one guy I’m seeing right now, which I’m debating if I like him or not and he gave me a ring. He then took out his hand and I grabbed it with great joy and we were running to the sunset and I felt so alive. I’m not really planning to go out with this guy who gave me the ring but I do think about him a lot.
Dear Lily,
What you seem to be excited about in the dream is that you were chosen by someone else which is a pretty awesome thing. The first guy is the one that everyone is attracted to, more or less. Going into his room is going to the place in yourself where people are attracted to you. This is done in real life, not so much by looks, but by positive qualities in your character. The beautiful people in high school have it relatively easy when attracting people, but they don’t always attract the right ones. They attract people who look only at the outward form instead of the inner beauty. The long term success of a relationship always depends on inner qualities, not the outer ones. When you are attractive internally, you always have a lot of choice about who to be with.
I wasn’t able to be appear in an upcoming test which is yet to be conduct.
My mother was abusive and had me arrested before I stopped living with her. I had a dream that I was being forced to move back in with her and she called the police to make me come back. I had to drive 4 hours to go back to her and leave my boyfriend. In my dream I was also crying a ton while in a group of people
Hi Kelsey,
The dream tells you that you still feel imprisoned in your mind and self from what your mother did to you. The greatest fear you have is being brought up in the dream. The fear keeps you from becoming all that you are which is a beautiful and wonderful person. When you have a traumatic and abusive past that you are trying to move away from, the fear responses will come up every time you try to grow in a new way and be your true self. It is like the memories will pull you back into your guarded self that is fearful. Most people need help letting go of the abusive past so I always recommending getting some from people like me who know how to help people do the disconnection work. On your own when you get the fear responses, you can say to yourself that they are just past memories and then send them to another planet or something like that.
While I was meditating last night, I saw a bright light illuminating from the darkness. A man standing next to a table knocked a glass jar filled with a black substance onto the floor. When the glass broke, my head jerked back while sitting upright. A few moments later, the same light appeared as well as a middle aged woman. She smiled at me then disappeared. As soon as she did, my head jerked back once more. After the meditation, I felt an extreme exhaustion as if all my energy had been drained.
Dear Esteban,
The bright light illuminating the darkness represents your own soul and your destiny. You were created to bring light into the darkness. The man represents the male energy in your life and the woman represents the feminine. The masculine energy has some problems with it, but the feminine is ok. The exhaustion comes from opening up the illumination in you which is not what you are used to. When you meditate again, first ask for illumination about the masculine energy and the meaning of the black substance spilled on the floor. It has something to do with the way men operate in the world that spills their darkness everywhere. You need to have masculine energy that is constructive and unifying rather than selfish.
I dreamt of my recently departed father standing at the door of our home which was wide open whilst I still had to go up the stairs to open the door. He looked even much younger than I remember him and I felt surprised happy and shy
Dear Elizabeth,
Your father’s appearance in the dream as being younger is a reflection of how he is in the next world. He is not older and weakened, but younger and more vibrant. It should give you some peace of mind that he is in a really good space and doing well.