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Richard Hastings
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Greetings, Richard. Thank you for taking my question. I had a dream last night that I was taking the ferry to a new job. However, instead of being in the ferry with everyone else, I was laying on top of the roof of the ferry. So, I was above everyone else. It was a beautiful ride. The water was calm and even though I was exposed to the elements up there, I only felt a warm breeze and the wind blowing gently against my face. It felt nice.
Dear Cynthia,
A ferry ride in a dream means crossing from part of your life to another. In this case you are up above in the ferry which shows you what it is like to move when you are in your higher self as opposed to your ego. Your higher self is the self that has all of your positive qualities like love, compassion, honesty, determination, etc..
I dreamed that I had ordered live donkeys and got them in the mail. Someone I couldn’t see (except their hands) carried a long brown box, put it on a table and opened it. I was excited and happy that it had arrived. The hands lifted the donkeys out of the box. They were very small; about the size of a cat. I heard the unseen person say that not all the donkeys were alive, but some were. I was still excited because I would at least have some of them.
I had a dream I was at a big gathering at my boyfriends parents house. His children’s mother somehow who don’t get along with at all was there is was getting arrested. My boyfriend came in from outside and startled me and grab me from the back around my neck in a affectionate way kissing and whispering in my ear ask “you ready to celebrate this wedding” my perception in the dream I thought he was talking about his children’s mother and marrying her cause I in return asked him “you really marrying her twice”? I beat him up and left crying, I went in to tell his mom everybody was shocked his daughter in the dream was looking at me confused and shocked as well at what I said, and looking like why are you crying as if all this was a big joke but in the dream it seemed how it all played out and perceived felt unreal. I came back to the house. I don’t know if this is my nervous mind because my boyfriend did get accepted to another job about hour away and will be moving so I do know if it’s my anxiety or what. Please advise….’thanks
Dear Monica,
The difficult part of the relationship you have with your boyfriend comes from the fact that he already has children from a former marriage. Being divorced when you already have children does not mean that you stop having a relationship with your first wife, because the raising of the children is always a shared responsibility if it is going to be done correctly. When you get into a relationship with someone like this, you have to have your eyes wide open because you don’t know if the affection is for his own gratification or is real. Being nervous means that you are not confident in your own self, but the dreams show that if he acts inappropriately you can stand up for yourself and not take it. My advice is to take it really patiently and slowly to see if he can handle the responsibility of being a father and be in a loving relationship with you where he is not just selfishly driven.
My boyfriend has had this recurring dream for the last 2 months about me his little sister and his best friend killing him specifically suffocating him with a pillow. We all kill him in different dreams on different nights. I’m just kind of worried? What do you think this could mean?
Dear Heather,
Your boyfriend has a fear that he is going to lose his relationships with others because he feels suffocated by them. It shows that he has difficulties when it comes to giving his own true self plenty of breathing space to be himself and do the things he sees fit for himself. When he gets into a relationship, he has the tendency to let the others take over all of his space and then he feels suffocated. He needs his own breathing space if he is going to have his own life and have healthy relationships with others.
I had a dream where I had this best friend named April who used to live in my generation but she was moved into the past, but that’s wasn’t a shock to me because that had happened before the dream started. So, to communicate, we had this book (sort of like Tom riddles diary in Harry Potter) where if I wrote in it, April could see it in her book and vice versa. We would write about what’s going on in our lives and just be best friends. And I had friends in my time too who all were friends with April, but not as well as me and her. Two of my friends in my time and I had to go into the forrest and there were these twins, I’ll call them a and b. There was one of b, but hundreds of a, which we didn’t know at the time. We thought that there was one of each and we had to figure out which one was b and fight off a. But really we had to figure out which one was b and fight off hundreds to thousands of a’s. We didn’t succeed but, I guess it didn’t matter. That’s how (real me, not me in the dream) figured out how I was communicating with April because I wrote about that experience to her in the book. We were getting to the end of the book so I was worried I wouldn’t be able to write to her ever again if we finished it, but that wasn’t my main concern because I thought I could get a new book or something. Side note, I knew someone in my time that would be perfect for someone in her time and I was able to convert him into my world (but not April because she was stuck there forever). He kind of replaced my brother in a way which was odd but I was the only one who knew.
When I was eating dinner with my family (my family in the dream were all different people by the way), my mom tried to take my book or something and I got so passionate about it because she didn’t know that April was in a different time so I explained it to her so aggressively (but not in a mean way, in a passionate way). Then, I continued writing to April and stuff like I normally did.
When I woke up I felt like I had a deep rooted, strong connection with April and as if not having April in real life is a loss. I don’t understand why I feel so connected to April but I do.
Anyway, that was my dream.
Dear April,
Really cool dream. Very interesting! So you can think of April as your reflective self or meditative self. It is the self that reflects on your life and then solves difficult issues. In the dream you do it through writing as if you are having a conversation with her. April is like your inner self who you are having a conversation with to solve difficulties. She starts in your time and moves to the past generation, because the difficulties that you are trying to solve in your life didn’t start with you but started in the past generation or before. You have to solve it, but it started before your time. It is as if you have inherited the unfinished work of the past. It is always the case with the current generation. They have to solve the issues that started before their time. It seems like your dream family wants to take away your reflection process because they just want to forget the past rather than deal with it. You have a deep connection which is exactly what you need to solve really difficult issues like the ones your generation have inherited. When you start it feels like you only have to do battle with one person, but then it turns out to be thousands, unending. The change you are promoting, which is what the former generations did not do, is the process of reflection like what you do with April. The former generations stuffed their feelings down and tried to forget all of the bad things, but it is a failed strategy. You have to right one so keep doing it. The communication internally is the key.
I had the weirdest dream. I was digging dirt from the floor in a hay barn and then the building collapsed on me, but only had sharp pointy arrow looking things from the roof instead of building materials and they vanished once they came down, once the train went through and knocked the supports that were holding the building up and once I found a bunch of people that I knew but can’t remember after it settled, I started puking this green foamy vomit with a stringy plant in my mouth like wide bladed grass and so was my mom…
haha what do you make of that.
Went to sleep with a migraine and woke up and it was gone after about an hour.
Dear Bonnie,
A building is a manifestation of the self in a dream. In this case the hay barn is represents your work self. When you start working in the dirt, then things collapse or things get knocked down and then you puke vomit. The building does not collapse because you are working, but it collapses because of someone or something outside of you or your mom like someone else’s bad energy or the conditions of the world. How the building collapses is not obvious, but what is obvious is that an outside force causes the structure to collapse and you have consequences. To have a solution to the kind of problem you face in life, where outside forces causes a collapse, you have to constantly be in a state of letting go of the negative that is caused externally and keep focusing on the positive work you do. It is the nature of the external negative forces to be persistent for awhile, but in the face of your positive persistence over time, they (the external things) collapse and then you will be extremely successful. They win to the degree that you stop or quit because the collapse is too much.
Hello!
I saw a dream. In that dream I saw that me and few of my friends entered a room which was super dark and after we entered the room the door got closed and we couldn’t open the door and suddenly a storm came in the house and I got separated from my friends. I went inside and went through a lot of rooms and it was so dark and stormy and then I heard a voice near my ear which was saying that if I had to get out of this room then I have to solve a number puzzle and he gave me some numbers and I tried for a very long time but I succeeded and I solved the puzzle and I got out of there but my friends couldn’t. I was so happy and I went to my girlfriend(I dreamed about my current girlfriend in real life) and said what happened with me but I didn’t taught her how to solve the puzzle. That day she told me she is cooking dinner for me and it is a date and she was so romantic with me and I loved it. As I was going to her place I got to know telepathically that a girl is going to come and utter a number on my girlfriend’s ear and I went running to my girlfriend. I saw then that she got out of the car to meet her friend in the street and I screamed at her not to go near her friend but it was late and that friend whispered the number on her ear and my girlfriend disappeared. I went running to that place where I played that puzzle and I thought I would solve the puzzle and get my girlfriend out of there. But as I went there I saw that there is a new puzzle to play and I can no more play the previous puzzle which I already played. I then woke up. What does it mean?
Dear Stefanie,
The dream basically says that when you get into a dark place, you can figure your way out. This is the metaphor of solving the puzzle. The issues that you cannot get yourself out of, that is, where you cannot figure your way out is in your relational life. Your relationships seem to start out with a lot of hope and joy, but then after awhile something happens and then the old solutions do not work. Relationship are not quite like other things in life. They cannot be solved like a puzzle because heart energy has a different type of logic than rational thought.
Hi.. I had a dream that a women appeared in my dream.. she wasn’t that old I would say around her 40-50’s she told my mom who is called Alliya) that she was ready to take me back, I was confused at first then the women said that she was my real mother and that she would bring the papers to confirm it… when she brought the papers she rushed to hug me but my voice was childish and I ran away like a child would do and I refused to go to her despite her being my apparent real mother.. her face was hurt and I sensed that her aura was a very nice one… when I told my mother this dream she quickly started pointing out all the similarities that we had almosto trying to convince herself… my parents are divorced but I remeber that once my father had told me that he would tell me something important and that the paper was in his draw and my oldest sister would show me that letter.. when I told my mom this she tensed and I joked saying that maybe she isn’t my real mother and she became angry and told me not to talk nonsense and avoided the topic entirely despite knowing that I was joking.. could this dream be a significance.. or just a dream? What is the meaning of this dream I am really curious.. could it be a sign??
Dear Leah,
The way you can think of this dream is to think of your mother as two people. There is your ego mother and your true mother. The ego mother is the one that is more self-centered and negative. The one in your dream is like your true mom which is her at her very best. This is who you may have needed at times and may need now. The dream lets you know that she is internal, the higher one, and you can call on her for support and encouragement. When you are a child, you need your mother to be nurturing, supportive, and encouraging. When you get older, you need to be able to do for yourself what your mother did or was supposed to do for you as a child. It is like learning how to be mothering to yourself. This is what you need to do.
Had a dream about a guy who sent me a message about what happened to him and his ex and how he got hurt and how the relationship ended and said that he in time wants to be with me. In the dream we got together and dates how ever in real life we have hung out once, communication between us has ended and he kept telling me he’s not the guy for me and kept rejecting me.
Dear Lea,
What this dream teaches you is a bit subtle, but it is sooo important. What it says, and it is not about this guy in particular, but about guys in general, is that first you have to structure the conversation so that the guys are letting go of their old hurts. First he lets go of his hurt, then he is open to you. First you listen with empathy and being non-judgmental so that he can pour out the negative hurt in his heart. Then when his heart is open, you can relate with him. It is hard to be in a relationship with a guy who is carrying hurt from old relationships. You have to be good at listening and showing empathy. Then you will have lots of positive possibilities with guys. Try it.
So here’s mine. I dreamt something amazaing when I was a child, around 10 I guess and after 5 years, it happened again but there were some little changes of what I dreamed in the past and in the present. I t was really weird since it happened again yesterday. Is this a reoccurring dream or what?
Dear Vennisse,
The dream is repeating because it is trying to communicate with you about who you are, how you are gifted or something. I cannot tell from what you said what the gifts are.
Hi i hope you can aswer me this dream 1 year ago i keep dreaming about an unknown girl i don’t know her face because it’s blurred but I feel like I’ve known her before, i keep dreaming about her for a week and it stop.And then a year later which is the present day i dream about the same girl again in my dream we were cuddling and talked about things and on that moment i see how at ease, at home and happy she is with me i feel the same too i feel at ease with her even though we know there’s trouble coming in our way we stayed like that we stayed at each others arm. but the part where I’m confused is in my dream i can clearly see her face and i feel like I’ve met and seen her face before in the real world i just don’t know when,how or where I’ve met her, and after that realization about her inside my dream i woke up confused and i don’t remember her face i hope you help me figure this out cause it’s been bothering me
ps.i’ve been seeing repeated numbers before the dream
Dear Louie,
The reason that you think you have seen her before is because your spirit has seen her and related to her in the world of dreams. Then you have a memory of it as though it were in the waking world. The question you may want to know is who is she and why does she keeping up in your dream? Is she a real person or is she just a metaphor? The best answer I can give you is that she is like the girl in real life who you are supposed to be together with. Being like someone means that the person in real life is not actually her, but has the same inner kind of qualities that she has. Those qualities are attracted to you. Whether or not you end up in a long term relationship with someone like her is not something I can answer, but I can say that if meet someone like her in real life, she will help awaken who you truly are and what you are capable of. You can look for her in a metaphoric sense, but not in an exact replica of your dream sense.
Ok so from time to time I have a few reoccurring dreams.
1. In this dream I’m driving in my car. I’m okder than I am now but when I look in the mirror my face is blurry. Sitting next to me is brunette her hair is dark brown and in a ponytail her face is blurry as well and I have sense that we’re really good friends. We’re talking but I can’t hear what we’re saying. It’s night and I remember looking at my headlights. I notice something strange and squint to see but then I’m in a slow motion car wreck head on.
2. In this dream I’m on a hiking trip again I’m older and I can’t see my own face because it’s blurry and I can’t hear or see the people around me clearly. We walk up to this cliff that’s opened into a u shape there are Christmas looking trees all around us and we can’t see below the cliff because it’s foggy and this my dream skips and I’m falling but I always wake up before I hit the ground.
– in both dreams I can only see detail clearly. Also I see my surroundings like I’m not always looking through my eyes it’s like I’m from a camera angle or something I’m not in a persons point of view. I always see nature and hair color and style clearly and that’s about it.
Dear Megan,
The problem in the dreams is that you don’t see yourself or others clearly. This leads you to crashes and falls. Seeing yourself or others clearly means being able to read the positive and negative energy clearly when you are trying to get somewhere in your life. The dream shows it as being blurry. It seems to be telling that you that you need to learn how to read character better in others. When you are blurry, it means that you are not aware of your current state as much as you need. When you start to become better aware of these things, then you will get to where you want to go easily.
So i had a dream last night that i walked into my bedroom and a HUGE spider ( black and yellow) was hanging from the ceiling! It first appeared as if it were coming towards me. Then i stepped to the side and it was Carrying a black and yellow snake! I quickly sprayed the spider with raid and the snake fell and I tried to hit it with a shoe but it got away. Meanwhile the spider was headed towards the ceiling to get away as well.
Dear Cedric,
To understand an animal dream it is often good to know the positive side of the animals that you are facing in a dream. A lot of people are fearful of spiders and snakes in real life because of their poisonous bites. The positive side of a spider is that it weaves a web. So when a spider comes into your dream, you can begin to reflect on how you need to make and strengthen the webs of positive relationships you have in your life. A snake takes the shape of whatever object it moves over and also sheds it old skin. This is analogous to being really flexible in new situations and letting go of the past, especially old hurts. Snakes usually come into a dream when you are in a new process. The problem you have with your relational life is that you have memories of a big old metaphoric spider, someone who was out to get you with poison. This causes you to use the Raid. The dream tells you about how the memory drives your process. Question #1. Who was the spider in your life that got you? When you can let go of the memory and are protected, then you can start building a web of friendships.
So I had a dream that I was on this school trip. I was with my boyfriend and then all of a sudden I lost him and went and tried looking for him. As I was walking around, I noticed a few guys would try flirting with me especially one particular guy I knew. He would try talking to me and smile at me, but I would ignore it. Well it was time to get back on the bus and go home. I ended up finding some friends so we got on a bus but I still couldn’t find my boyfriend. So, I ended up calling him and I was getting so frustrated because he wasn’t listening and I had no idea what he was saying. All of a sudden I see that same guy who was flirting with me, sitting right behind me. He was trying to comfort me and asking me why I was so upset. Please, what does this even mean??
Dear Tori,
Basically this dream is about you over relying on the attention of your boyfriend to feel comfortable in where you are headed in your life and school. The dream wants you to feel comfortable relating to lots of others and experiencing your life fully rather than just relying on one person. This is probably because you need a lot more experience in relationships with a wide variety of people before you actually choose one. The culture of young people is to go after one person, but really at this stage you need to be with all kinds of people. Just let go of the dependency and enjoy all kinds of relationships.
There’s this dream I’ve been having once every 3 years. Well the dream starts off in a town, and I go into this pet shop with wooden shelves, there’s nothing on the shelves except for a single goldfish in a single gold fish bowl. In the pet shop I meet this girl. This girl then leads me through a door in the back of the pet store and on the other side is a train tunnel. Walking down the train tunnel with the girl leading me there’s a light at the end of it and when I get out of the tunnel it’s just an empty field of flowers. The girl disappears.
Dear Austin,
This dream seems to coincide with some kind of 3 year cycle in your life. Going to a town means going to a new place in your life. The process is first to connect with a single golden person represented by the goldfish. Then that relationship will take you to a place where there is a lot of growth and beauty, the field of flowers. The goal is always first to connect with someone and then the other things will open.
I’ve been dreaming about a really handsome and nice guy a lot recently but I have never seen him in my life before… In my dreams, I seem to be in a boyfriend-girlfriend relationship with him and we seem very happy together.
Dear Leomonadeannie,
This dream means that you are ready to be in relationship with someone. It is not specific, in that it is someone you don’t recognize in real life. When you are in this space, it means that the relationship world has opened up to you and you can dive in. It will give you a lot of joy and a lot of learning. There is a huge amount to learn in order to be successful in relating so be open.
I am having a dream of a guy telling me his feelings for me how ever in real life this guy rejects me.
Dear LeeAnne,
To understand this dream you have to understand that every human being has two selves, a negative self which is ego, and a positive self which is full of positive qualities. They also go by the names of higher and lower selves. When the guy rejects you in real life, he is acting out of his ego which is a form of protection usually based on fear. In the dream he is acting out of his higher self, which is more in a potential state. The more positive you become the more likely the experience in the dream of guys sharing their feelings for you will happen. Your focus should be on becoming a really positive person.
I dreamt that I was doing house chores. I was planning to sweep the leaves in the front yard of my house when my dad suddenly came out and shouted at me that he will sweep up those leaves. I got angry and shouted back at him that I’ll sweep the leaves myself and he should rest. He shouted back at me that he will do it and said:”What do you think I took the time off for?!” I insisted that I should be the one to sweep the leaves as I was already doing the house chores. He went back into the house while I proceed to vacuum the second floor. I felt bad when I saw him sleeping in his bedroom. I had never been that angry towards my dad before. What does this means?
Dear Steven,
Chores are done best in a house when everyone has something to do so that they can feel as if they are a useful part of the family. You want your father to rest and do the chores for him, but feel bad when he is sleeping. Think about chores or life as a group project where everyone shares in the work. This is the best condition.
So I had a dream about my boyfriend, and this random girl, and of course my self. So in real life I’m a very jealous person but in my dream i was not. The random girl and I were friends and she told me that she and my boyfriend use to have a “thing” (weird for me and that girl to be friends) together before and she asked me what was the chance of her getting with MY boyfriend, Dumb me said “maybe 30 or 40% chance” she smiled and I told her “yea he use to tell me that you guys use to talk and he still likes you” again she smiled. I went back to my boyfriend and we talked until I walked away and saw her went up to him and sat on his lap took off her shirt and I saw him un strapping her bra so I went up to him and said “hey remember what we had, if you do this I’m not coming back to you” so he stopped and said “then why am I taking her top off and not yours”? And that’s when I woke up. I want to know what that dream was about. Was it a silly dream or did it mean something because I’m just very confused. Should I be worried? Now mind you I’m a very jealous person why didn’t I go crazy mad when the random girl was telling me about my boyfriend and sitting on his lap?
Dear Jocey,
In the dream your boyfriend lost his loyalty to you as soon as the other girl took off her shirt. It is not hard to see why you would be jealous in these circumstances. Jealousy is the emotion that happens when you are fearful of losing what you already have. If he is the type of person that loses loyalty quickly, you are always going to be jealous with him and attract boyfriends who are not very loyal. In this case he shows that he is mostly in a relationship for his own gratification. The problem is trying to protect the relationship when you should be letting it go and finding someone more mature.
Hello,
I’m not one to bother people to interpret my dreams but this one I had last night was rough. My father had passed away 4 yrs ago of a massive heart attack. I haven’t had dream about him since. Last nights dream my fiance had to wake me up because I was crying so hard in my dream I had tell my family that they found my father’s dead body and he died of a drowning and I was hysterical in my dream and when I woke up I wanted to call my dad so bad but then I realized that I wasn’t able to do that because my dad is already gone this is been bugging me all day I don’t know what it means I don’t know if it means anything but it by far was the most messed up dream I feel like there was somebody else involved like another death and I can’t remember for the life of me what it was but I do remember that point of the dream very vividly I was standing at the kitchen table and my family was all around and I knew they found my dad and I didn’t know how to tell them and I was crying so hard and then it just came out that’s all that they remember if anybody knows the meaning behind this or what it might mean I would truly appreciate something God bless all
Dear Codi,
The reason that you are having the dream now is because you are about to get married. The part of you that is like your father’s positive energy has drowned. Usually father energy is what gives you support and confidence. This may be what you are missing. You are missing your father’s positive energy inside of you so that you can go forward and create your own family. Without this energy it will difficult for you to have long term success in your relationship.
Good morning Dick! Linda Kleven here. I’ve had an interesting little dream, not disturbing, but thought I would relate it to you just in case there was more to it than I realized. I was going on a mini pilgrimage and I was so so so excited, telling everybody that it was really soon. And I had none of the anxiety that usually accompanies me when I’m getting ready to leave home and in the last hours before I needed to leave for the airport I was just checking through the clothes hanging in the laundry room in case there was something else I needed to take and someone came and tapped me on the shoulder and then pointed off to the left and held something else back and there was a couple of items that I really wanted to consider bringing and it was so sweet that they were taking care of me. Shortly after that though, I begin to wonder how I ever had the money for these flights and then I realized I had no idea where my ticket was or what time I needed to be at the airport. I started to panic and then I woke up.
Hi Linda,
The dream is about allowing yourself to go for the things that are in your heart, hence the pilgrimage. What keeps you from getting to the dreams of your heart is worry about how you are going to get the resources and other details. This has a tendency to shut down your process. What will help you a lot in this process is to extend your time frame. When you want to go somewhere in your life, first start developing the inner resources and then the outer resources will gradually, if not suddenly show up. The panic happens from the suddenness. When you extend the time, then you get to where you want to go.