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I had a dream about a coworker of mine (who I’m cool with at work) wanting me to go to a bar with him in the afternoon. But I end up buying a whole bunch of stuff from 7/11 for my own plans. I bought all of the good stuff.
I don’t get if this means something or not.
Thanks
Dear P.C.,
The coworker wanting to go with you to a bar is him wanting to be distracted from having to deal with life. He wants to take you along so that you can both be distracted. You however, stay focused on your own plans by getting the things you need. This means that you have a lot of focus despite the fact that others around you may not. They usually need people to listen to them so that they can express the negative that is happening, but your work is to stay focused on your goals.
I had a dream that i was fishing and it was a big one and line broke and went in water to take the fish. And i take it from water and it was black and big fish . I tried to remove the hook and fish was screaming of pain.
Dear Vlad,
Fishing means like you are fishing for understanding or learning. The big fish means you are getting some big understandings that carry a certain amount of pain with them. It is like making a big realization about some negative things that have happened or about the way things are. This should help you in moving forward in your life. When I work with people in counseling, a lot of my work is about fishing. At some point I hook a big fish for them and then the change begins to happen.
I had a dream last night about sitting as a passenger of our family car, it’s a blue toyota, with people I don’t recall knowing but it felt that they are important. At one point in the dream, we had to make a stop at a shopping mall so that they can go off and instantly I said I will be driving the car to parking, so I get off the car, and the car is still moving like the engine is still on and nobody used the hand break. So I managed to get inside the car and was trying to pull the hand break but it’s not working as it should, so bits and parts of the dream, the car was maneuvering and then I got out of the lobby and was looking for a parking space – but that’s the thing, I don’t actually know how to drive and even in my dream I know that I can’t but I still somehow managed to drive it. I tried parking it but I can’t seem to find a free parking space and asked the guard where I can park and the guard said unfortunately I can’t park to any of the parking slots because it’s already been taken by an event. By the way the parking is an open area. I even saw in the parking space an event by a famous person here in my country. So at one point in my dream I began peddaling the car like a bike and then it suddenly felt why am I peddaling a car, then the car transitioned to a real car with breaks, clutch, and gas. Then the dream transitioned out of the mall, and I’m already driving in a major road with cars around. Given I don’t know how to drive I was trying tk remember what my dad told me about driving, so in my dream I thought I was stepping on clutch and gas while chaging gears – to drive the car faster but in reality I was stepping on break and gas. So i managed to drive the car and changed the gears to make the car go faster, and then I woke up. What could this mean? Hope you can help me.
Dear Lily,
The metaphor of driving a car is about taking control of your own life and getting it to go in the direction that you want it to go in. You are just in the beginning stage of being able to control and drive your own life. It is a very good sign that, despite not knowing how to do it, you managed to figure out so many things. You have good resourcefulness and a keen desire to learn. What you are going to have to believe now is that you can actually control and get your life to go in the direction that you want it to go. It usually helps doing this with small goals and then gradually making them bigger so that you end up with a lot of confidence.
Im driving along with hubby, when , up comes a speeding white car on our left. ( illegal to pass on the outer side )
Backwards. This man was driving backwards.
I shouted out, This man is going to have an accident and kill someone!!!!!! .
This car, slammed into an ambulance, throwing the person on a stretcher bed, out of ambulance . I have seen the patient, still strapped on the stretcher bed, on the road lying on its side, stretcher and patient. I see the 2 amberlance men in green uniforms onbeither end of stretcher, on the road.
Dear Alison,
This dream is about the fear of not being able to do anything when someone else is out of control or reckless. It has you imagining bad consequences and end up probably horrified. The dream wants you to be able to do the opposite. The opposite is to being in complete control of yourself, visualize doing positive things for others, and then using your abilities to cause positive things to happen around you. In the dream you are helpless, but in real life you need to empowered to do positive things.
I had a dream that I was homeless, I was really dirty and I was wearing striped Pina as. I went over to my best friend’s house, but her house was like a really big beautiful mansion. I didn’t get invited, I had to sneak in, and she had a pool behind the mansion, and then her mom came home. Her mom was like an evil creature, and she asked my friend if there was someone in the house. She was like, “No, there’s no one here,”. And her mom was like, “Yes, there is, don’t lie to me.” So I went hiding, but her mom found me, she was like teleporting or going through the walls, I can’t really explain it, but she found me. When she found me, she grabbed me by my neck and took me to her. She got scared, and then hit her. She then told her that if she ever brought any one else to the house, we would both die. Then her mom grabbed me by my hair, and threw me out. After that, we were never able to see each other ever again…
I was wearing striped pijamas****
Dear Italy,
Being homeless in a dream means that you are acting as if you do not have a true self. It is as if you don’t really exist and when you try to relate to others, you have to sneak around and then find yourself being thrown out. What this means is that you need to do a fair amount of work on your own self. Your identity, which is recognizing your positive qualities, and living out of them, needs to be strengthened so that you can be fully present in everything you do and in your relationships. Then you won’t have to be sneaking around.
I had a dream that a doctor came up to me and suggested I tell my dad to continue taking he’s pills if not he will have 6 months to live, what does that mean?
Dear Wilmarie,
Is your father reluctant to do what is good for his health?
Yes he is
Then you can take the dream literally. Usually it requires being both assertive and encouraging. He probably needs exercise as well.
I dreamed of two maul goats on my porch and an very old sheep dog lay under an oak tree.
Dear Brian,
Goats are opportunistic eaters. Being male means that you need to aggressively go for whatever is your opportunities. Don’t lay around like an old sheep dog. You have to really work at and make your opportunities. Nothing is going to be handed to you.
I had a dream that my same sex best friend and me were kissing at school. Then my other same sex best friend that I have a big crush on walks in and then the girl that was kissing me stopped and completely ignored me. As if she didnt want her to see her with me. I’ve recently realized that the girl I had a huge crush on hurts me a lot and I now like the one I kissed. I woke up and felt extremely out of place and shocked. I couldn’t quit staring at her in school the same morning.
Dear Sarah,
It is important when you are dealing in the dream world, to not think of kissing like you did in the dream as really life kissing. Kissing is trying to have what the other person has. What you are attracted to is something about their inner spirit that is calling you do develop. It wouldn’t matter if it were a boy or a girl. Ask yourself what is that they have that you don’t have developed yet, then really work on it. It will pay big dividends.
I had a dream that my husband left me.. it started out that we’re were forcefully seperated. When we got back together he was being really nice to me, then all of a sudden he started being really mean to me. Telling me everything was my fault. What could this mean? When I woke up it bothered me so much I couldn’t go back to sleep. It’s still bothering me.
Dear Amanda,
In this dream you are picking up the negative emotional energy from your husband. When he has anger or fear or worry or some other negative emotion triggering him from his past, then he emotionally leaves you. When it calms he comes back to you. He needs some work with dealing with his negative emotions when they come up. We all have them, but most men do not deal with them very well. If you know how to do active or reflective listening where you aren’t trying to give solutions, but just let him express himself, it could help. It has to be done non-judgmentally because he probably has fear of sharing what is happening with him.
Hello, I recently had a dream that a plane crashed at our home and it fell behind one of my uncle’s house. No one who boarded the plane survived including the pilot. What does this dream really mans? I was so frightened that night.
Dear Ivan,
A plane crashing at your home is a symbol long term plans crashing and not surviving in your family. This means that something is wrong in the way your family does long term visioning and planning. They crash. Usually this is a result of being unrealistic or not enough effort toward the plans. The idea is to get the plane flying by having workable long term plans.
The dream started with me standing on top of a huge cruise ship. I was travelling everywhere, been to different types of islands. I was somehow earning some illegal money and decided to take it back to my family. Yet, once I saw the greed for money on the face of my family, I felt very guilty and thought it shouldn’t be used as it is earned illegally. The dream ended with my family kept pestering me to give them the money.
Dear Steven,
This is kind of a warning and educational dream for you. It warns you to weary of how you earn money because a lot of people do illegal things to make a lot of money and families just think about the money, not the bad energy that goes along with earning it in a bad way. Your motives seem to be clean which is positive, but you are getting a warning about illegal practices that may not appear to be so at first.
I have had this dream a few times, not always the same though. I am in a haunted house, and sometimes I live there, sometimes I don’t, but everytime I’m exploring the house. So I know the house is haunted but I’m not scared at all. I don’t know if I’m just exploring or looking for something, but I seem to have a pretty direct path. The house has been different a couple times but I always seem to know where I’m going. The first time I can remember the dream it went like this: I was in a little bedroom which was mine and beside the bed is a little hatch (kind of like a garbage chute) that leads somewhere. I assume the attic. So I went to open the chute and in the corner of my room appears the chucky doll out of nowhere, but I wasn’t scared in the least bit. I just looked at him, opened the chute and climbed in. It’s very small so I have to crawl. At the end of the chute is a glowing bright light but I wake up before reaching it. I always wake up before reaching where I was going. Now before anyone starts interpreting this, please know I’ve done research on haunted house dreams but everyone who talks about them says they were nightmares not dreams. I cannot stress this enough, I am never scared during these dreams, I am wandering around without a single care.
Dear Mike,
Being in a haunted house means that you are in place where there is negative energy. It is haunted by the left-over negative energy. That you are not fearful of the haunting energy means that you can be curious about it and then start to do something with it. Usually when negative energy is present or left-over it has to be cleared. People do this in different ways. My process is that I feel what the energy is like and then I have to start to inform me what it is. If you don’t have experience with it, it will seem weird, but really it is just energy and it has a reason for staying there that you need to find out. The reason that you wake up before the end is probably because you have no training. You have the ability to be good at it, but you don’t have the training yet. If you take energy courses, you will start to get it.
I was hanging out with some friends and alcohol was flowing. A guy I used to have a crush on was dancing and flirting with me. All of us left on foot towards my apartment but when we got there we were inside of an SUV. We got to a dead end street with a fence at the end. Tied to the fence was the carcass of a goat. I asked the guys if one of them could stay with me but none did. I got into the apartment and I was expecting the guy I liked to call me to stay with me, while I did, I went to the bath room and was looking at the shower curtain. I was thinking that shower curtain wasn’t new. I had gotten it from an old apartment. Although I have never seen that place, I have dreamed about that apartment before. Anyways while I was looking at the curtain and waiting for the call, I woke up.
Dear Katia,
The dream says that the way you were drinking and partying is a dead end street for you in terms of your relationships. It is bad way to get to where you want to go because it puts you into an environment were people do not have positive motives. That is the old shower curtain. Showers are places you clean your motives in dreams, but you are living out of an old way of doing things. A better way to be in relationships with men is to actually doing something active or of service. Then you see who the person really is.
What about the carcass?
Hi,
Dreamed that i was in my house with several guests (dont remember who they were). Then we all went to my balcony to see the surrounding. It was really sunny, but there was shade above us from a parasol. (Actually i dont have a parasol in my real balcony). So i remember feeling a bit relaxed because i had shade from the intense sun. But when i looked at the sky it was very dark (deep grey with streaks of orange). I was surprised how a dark sky could provide so much sun.
What does this mean?
Thank you.
Hi, The question the dream presents is how can there be a lot of heat on the one hand, and darkness on the other. The answer is that you have both elements existing in you, intense light and also darkness. Your light inside yourself is so intense that you cannot take it full strength. The darkness represents the negative energy in you that keeps the light from showing. Generally you seem to be positive, but when you need to learn more about your light energy, the darkness will be in your way so that you can learn how to overcome it. Light energy is the positive energy in you that you give out to the world to make it a better place.
I had a dream that me and my three girls were in a house that began filling up with water as it was filling up it began to also tip over until finally it was on its side me and my girls were real scared and were in the water, i had my two oldest girls but my youngest was not found until suddenly she emerged from the water, then I woke up.
Dear Walter,
Water in a dream like that represents too much negative relational emotions in your family. This cause the family to get out of balance. You can get the house (the family) back in balance by putting a lot of positive energy into the house by recognizing the positive when you see it and having less criticism. Many cultures and families feel like they have to attend to the negatives all the time and correct them, but that only makes things worse. What really needs to be done is to attend to the positives and then expand them.
hello i had a bizarre dream so it started off something like i was in this house and it had weird locked made out of iron doors and somebody was telling me how these doors are the future and can prevent robberies next thing i know is the guy takes me and locks me in the room apparently i was actually kidnapped by him and i was asking him to let me go and he kept saying no when i saw that the door was open i was about to run for the outside door however that one was also and iron door and i remember thinking even if i push him and run i don’t think i can open the outside door of the house next thing i know he takes me to the living room and i’m laying on the couch and was going into kitchen to bring me something to eat maybe and that’s when i get up and hit him from the back with a fire extinguisher several time until he was bleeding on the ground and i thought he was dead next thing i remember is police and my crush comes in the house and they were asking me if i’m okay and when my crush was taking me out of the flat i remember kicking the guy again who was already bleeding and found out he was not dead next thing i remember is i was traumatized and walking back to my home and my crush makes and insensitive joke and i tell him i could have been raped and i start crying and walking toward my home and he goes i was only kidding but i ignore him next thing i remember is i’m sitting on top of a house slope and the later i remember is me and my mum going back to the same house i was kidnapped in that’s where apparently my crush lived and the other guy was perhaps his friend when me and my mum get there she starts talking to my crush and i realize the kidnapper has brought me a tooth brush when i go to toilet and i start brushing my teeth and notice they are decaying i get so worried and ask my mom and she goes it will go away anyway i wash my face and notice there are some girls makeup in toilet and get extremely angry because i realize my crush is probably with some girl because of the presence of makeup and i was thinking why does he flirt with me then and the some girl comes in and get angry at me for looking at her makeup and goes i only share my room with him i know this dream is long but it made me feel so uneasy i hope u can help me thank you
Dear Mona,
Basically this dream is how your mind gets locked in and kidnapped by the way you think about your crushes. The problem seems to be that your state of being is determined by how you are treated by a crush, rather than by your own self. When you are letting them control your state by how you are treated by them, then you are locked in or kidnapped by their behavior. What you can do instead is be in control of your own positive way and then invite them into your life rather than the other way around. You can start with your own positive state outside of the relationships and then you will be able to have really positive relationships. When you are locked in, they always end up acting badly. It is just the way it is. You have to be positive in yourself, not by how they act.
My family and I were at an airport. It started out with a third person view of someone staying in the airport hotel looking outside the window. A tornado suddenly a appeared in front of the person(outside the window). It was thin at first and it grew bigger and bigger. The tornado moved towards the building. It destroyed that part of the building and kept on moving. My family and I managed to escaped from the airport with a car and were somehow on the roof of a building that was far away from the airport. We drove from one building to another(still on the roof with collapse rubble conveniently created a path for us). Since we were on the roof, we were able to see the damage done by that tornado disaster. It was terrible, the tornado destroyed the buildings row by row as if it was doing it systematically. Each building it destroyed, it became faster and faster. We tried to drive away from the tornado and went into our relative’s apartment for shelter. Before we went inside, I caught a glimpse of smaller tornado forming in front of other humans and it proceed to kill the humans. The tornado was capable of sensing the presence of humans.
My brother and I stepped into the building and saw another being that looked similar to ourselves, they also acted similar to our behaviours. One of them suddenly acted strangely and was releasing a dark spinning ball from its abdomen. My brother and I realized what it is and immediately subdue that being, to prevent it from releasing that dark spinning ball. Later that day, my family and I, including our relatives, had a meeting. I told them what I had found out earlier where that being is the one who created the tornado. It can appear biologically similar to the person in front of it and act accordingly to the person’s behaviour. Then, it will create that dark spinning ball which will later become a tornado. It looks as if that being were trying to eliminate all of the humans. The dream ended when we were devising a plan to deal with this situation.
This is the second time I had this type of dream where the tornado forms in front of a person and follows them. Although both of the dreams ended with me safely escaped from the scene, the thought of a homing tornado is terrifying as those people that were clueless about it were unable to escape from death.
Dear Kelly,
The context of the dream is very important here. You were at the airport with your family. This means that you were trying to take off with long term plans about you and your family. This is the goal of the dream, to get to your long term plans. The directed tornado is the thing that people do to throw you off your plans. When someone creates a tornado, it means that they stir up a lot of trouble and mess so that you cannot get to your goals. The long term plans are a threat to the people creating the tornado. They don’t want you to get there because it takes them out of a position of advantage. The first thing to do is to focus strongly on the long terms plans. Then you have to make sure that you are aware of who could disrupt them and how they do their work so that you stay far away from them.
Is it possible that I myself is one of the people who disrupt my own goals? As in the dream, one of the being that created the tornado looked like myself.
Yes, but it is probably both. You have had it done to you and you do it. You can check in your own memory
Just want some insight. My dream was- i was going back to school ( im 44) my professor invited the class to his house. While there the class left to go somewhere not sure. A lake or river started to flood while i was outside showering. My ex fiances car started to flood as well. I went to find her. Found her in my teacher bed.
Dear Tim,
The metaphor of going back to school means that there was something in the school that you didn’t learn and need to learn now. The lessons that were not taught, in your case and the case of most people, were about human relationships. Showering means that you are were trying to purify yourself, which means, getting clean motives. While you were working on good motives, there was a flood of emotion around you. A flood means emotion that has gone out of control that makes it difficult to relate. Your ex-fiance’s car being flooded means that she couldn’t go forward in things because she was overcome by her emotions. It seems that she was overcome with emotion and then ended up in someone else’s bed. The solution of the dream, which is the education you need, is get into the right emotional waters, not the flooded ones. This means learning how to deal with someone else’s emotions so that they don’t flood the situation. Usually the first skill is to listen reflectively to another person when they are expressing negative emotion and to acknowledge people when they are expressing positive qualities. With these two skills you can be successful in almost any relationship.
Someone gently knocked on the front door. I opened one door and he opened both. A tall white male with a large walking stick from nature started walking towards me. He reached for my hand and held it with both of his and continued walking closer to me until he was right in front of me, body touching body. There was no fear from either of us, his presence didn’t feel threatening or negative. He seemed very familiar as though we knew each other. He was dressed as a traveller or hiker, he was wearing trekking boots. It was vividly in my home. There was peace, calamity and we continued holding hands. As he started to open his mouth I woke up.
Dear Jay,
The person in the dream represents your invitation to get more into nature, to get out and hike or other traveling in nature. The fact that you were calm and peaceful in the dream are the virtues that you will pick up by spending a lot more time in nature. It will probably also give you a lot of balance.
I dreamed I was in a prison like aptmosphear but come and go as I please. There was a place that was different to enter but a met a woman that hugged me and only said Monday as she held me close.
Dear Austin,
A prison like atmosphere is a space where the possibilities are limited. That you were able to go as you please means that while the opportunities may not be great as in being able to achieve things, the work is to form positive relationships as in a relationship with a woman. Monday is probably a symbol of a work day, hence, the work is relational work. When you finish the relational work, then other opportunities will open up.