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My dad passed in 2009…but a few years ago I had a dream where he and myself boarded a public bus…I held onto someone baby…then I have the baby back to her when my dad and I got off the bus….then he and I began walking behind some very tall factory buildings…..I began to skip ahead of him and I went along…I came close to seeing someone was being murdered by someone else with a machete
….so the murderer realised that my dad and I had seen him …so he began to run after us…And I ran past my dad and left him behind…telling him that I was sorry….That’s where my dream ended
Dear Dianne,
This dream is about getting to somewhere in your life that your dad was supposed to get to, but never could. He is traveling with you because he is with you in your journey from the next world. Holding onto someone else’s baby means that you can help other people whenever you want because you are very caring. Going ahead of him means that you are going to surpass where he went to in his life, but first you have to get through a fear. The fear is about seeing the way people kill each other with their words and behavior. It is not a physical murder, but an emotional/spiritual one where they are killing each other’s spirits. When you witness it, they come after your spirit. When you learn how to let this fear go, then you will be able to lift people up with your words and actions so that they can act out of their higher selves. This is your spiritual mission in life and part of your makeover.
My boyfriend dreamed that the house I live in with my family had been through a make over …a good make over
Dear Dianne,
The dream says that you are about to have a makeover. Your house in a dream represents your true self. It needs a makeover and you are going to get it. It means a spiritual makeover, not a physical one, which means that you are going to make a lot of positive changes in your life. It is always conditional on how much will you have. Nothing happens with a lot of volition.
I had a dream that I was behind myself in a mist of fog and then I was in my living room I could feel my mother was gone and then as I looked throughout the living room I saw our stuff was gonna I thought what family is here now so I went to see if there was pictures on the fridge and I saw a picture of my dads father
Dear Nicholaus,
When you are behind yourself and in a fog, it means that you are not fully present in yourself and foggy headed or unclear in your direction or thinking. It basically comes from losing the memory of unconditional love from your mother because she is gone in the house. This means that she is gone in yourself. To get to where you want to go you first have to feel your mother’s unconditional love by remembering it. Then you can be present and clear-headed and get to where you want to go.
I had a dream my dog and I was breaking into a house they woke up. we ran and started chasing a puppy.
Hi Dustin, Houses are about selves and dogs are about friendliness. So what you are trying to do is to break into people’s selves, like their lives, with friendliness. This can be ok, but the rule is that you need permission. Think of the people as being like puppies with their friendliness.
I’m a little lost
I dreamed that I was driving in the snow and I was I a forsty hilly place with my dog and my boyfriend’s puppy I got him for Xmas he’s only a couple months old. But all of a sudden we have a car crash and my window is busted out but then like a black bear started attacking me but the dogs chased it off then it was foggy and I was trying to keep the dogs besid me but it was foggy I couldn’t see then I see a red fog glowing faintly saying get up almost a a whisper then I snap awake to find my boyfriend standing there with to cups of coco with whip cream and a candy cane snuggling up. God I love you
Dear Kathryn,
The dream says that there is nothing wrong with your relationship, but when you are trying to get somewhere in your life, the place you want to get to, and the emotional climate is cold and snowy, then you are going to crash and get attacked by people with power issues and not be able to see clearly how to get to where you want to go. What you need to do is start out with your own bear inside of you, a positive empowered you that can do whatever she sets her mind to. Then when you have that, you will have super strong boundaries, and will be able to warm the climate up and see clearly where you are going. Don’t try to get somewhere in your life if the climate where you are is cold and snowy. First be empowered and warm things up. Then it will clear and you will make it.
Please explain my dream. It felt too real. In my dream I saw a black/grey and white owl that was gracefully diving out from a small drained of crystal clear water. The owl then exit the water and then flew and the wall and spread it’s wings like a butterfly. And I woke up. That’s it! Please tell me what this means. Thank you!
Dear Tina,
What this dream means is that in order for you to have really great relationships, you are going to need the qualities of an owl. Owls are symbols of wisdom. This has a lot to do with the fact that they are creatures of the night and have no fear of darkness. Without wisdom you are really vulnerable to people with bad motives. You can start thinking about having an owl inside of yourself, and if you feel unsure in a relationship, consult someone you trust.
I had a dream myself, brother, and father were living at my friends house while they were absent. Everything was normal at first and I wanted to take a nap. I woke up and there was a vertical streak of fresh bright blue paint on the wall. Couldnt figure it out so went back to sleep, I woke up and the entire room was fresh blue paint with clipping of articles of sorts and words and pictures. Still couldn’t make sense of it, I walked into the living and caught my alcoholic father drunk and got into and argument then stepped to the window and my brother and two friends were on the roof that was covered in cooled magma.. We discussed possibilities and I stated it was only on our roof. I went back to sleep and now the entire room was covered in pictures and words and I had the most intense feeling of fear and terror that I’ve ever had and everyone was gone and I woke up in real life. I’ve been shaking still same feeling for hours and can’t find answers.
Dear Andre,
What this dream says is that when you are asleep in your friend’s self, that is when you lose your own self and act out of his self, then it is like you stop being you and get filled with fear. What you need to do, basically is to stay fully in your own self, to have strong boundaries with your father and others, and then you will begin to be a peace with yourself which is represented by the blue color. The newspapers are symbols of a bunch of things not making sense when you are living in someone else’s self. The goal is to be in your own self fully.
I was pregnant, and went into labor in the shower. The baby started delivering, and as I was pulling it (not sure the gender) out, basically delivering the baby myself, my hand slipped off of the baby and it fell on to the tub very hard and became decapitated (no blood or anything). The baby hit the tub and the head fell off very cleanly and precise. I then picked up the baby and tried to fix the head, very flustered and scared. The baby was small like a premie. I jolted awake and have not been able to stop thinking about this dream.
Dear Shauntaye,
You are pregnant with a new part of yourself growing inside. The dream shows that you have a fear that the new part of you is going to have problems maintaining itself once it is born into the outer world. Right now it is in the process of growing inside of you in potential. The quality has something to do with purity because you are taking a shower when the part is born. Purity is the virtue that allows you to have your heart pointed in the right direction so that you can be guided and do things that are beneficial for others. It is very easy for the heart to become lustful or impure.
I had a dream that I was going to pick up my daughter at a friend’s house it was high up and I saw some spirals on the side of houses that were higher up when I went to get closer I slid and instead of going off the side of the cliff I landed in the top of a tree that had to get help from the fire dept
Dear Vicky,
The problem internally that the dream is showing you is that when you try to get to your daughter’s higher self, which she is finding at her friend’s house, you slide down and end in a tree. This means that to support your daughter so that she becomes who she is meant to be, you need a fair amount of growth which is represented by being in the tree. She needs you to grow so that you can be a supportive influence rather than a not-so-supportive one.
I am dreaming of eggs. In the 1st dream about a week ago, i was making breakfast and when i cracked the egg open, there an either sleeping or dead baby chick in the egg.
In the 2nd dream, last night, i went open a brand new carton of eggs and 2 eggs were missing. I remember thinking in the dream, this is weird.
Dear Mel,
Eggs are symbols or the space inside of us that is incubating new growth. Your dream desires that you have new growth and incubate it, but there is something inside that is as if it were dead or sleeping or missing. You need to find what you are missing in your life and then begin to incubate new growth. You have parts of you that really want to grow and develop.
I had a reading with a psychic a few days ago and she said she predicts ill have contact with an ex soon with today (29th oct) being of importance. Well last night I had a very vivid dream of this prediction unfolding, were I got contact through a text and the text saying he was trying to stay strong. Does this dream mean anything?
Dear Leone,
I personally would do the experience like the way I am going to explain even if you do make contact with an ex. The ex is a male part of you that you were learning how to become when you were in relationship with him, but have not finished yet. It was as if he has a really positive energy inside of him that you were supposed to learn for yourself when you were in relationship together. You probably started the work with him, but didn’t finish. That part is staying strong, which means that it is ready to start being developed again. Ask yourself what was the most outstanding positive thing about him. Then start working on that. I am a little skeptical on psychics understanding of what they receive. They often take messages literally which should be taken metaphorically. Most messages from the other side are not literal, but having said all that, you still could be contacted by him for real. But if you do the inner work and develop your positive quality that he had, your life will be amazing.
Can someone please help me figure out the meaning of my dream? My dream
The dream starts out with me sinking deeper into water well looking up at the moon light and fearing that I’m about to drowned then I see a little ball of light shining in the water and I swim toward it and it being to move and I follow it and after following it for a little while I no longer feel like I’m afraid of drowning and I even start breathing while underwater after a little while longer of following the little ball of light I see my old school building rundown and abandoned then the ball of light enters the school building and I follow after following the ball of light around the school for a little bit it goes into a room and when I follow the ball of light into the room I see the ball of light floating above a table with what looks to be a freshly cooked dinner on it then I swim up to the table and sit down in a chair near the table and the little ball of light goes toward a candle on the center of the table and lights the candle then the little ball of light disappears and I start eating some bread that was on the table when I finish the bread the little ball of light reappears and the candle goes out then the little ball of light starts moving toward the direction it first came into the school and I follow it once again then the little ball of light leaves the School the exact same way it came in and I continue following it after a while of following the little ball of light I realize that I’m right back where I started looking at the moon I came back the exact same way I left then I start floating upward toward the surface of the water then I surface and wash up on the bank of the water all well continuing to stare at the moon then I see my friends face and he asks me if mine alright then I will lose consciousness and then I wake up from the dream
Dear Soul,
The part of your dream when you are in the water is the ability to feel comfortable going deep into the inner world to get your guidance. In this case you have the light of the moon which represents feminine qualities which are the receptive ones like compassion and understanding and loving non-judgmentally. When you are comfortable in the depth, that is you have no fear of going deep into the inner world, then you can guided as if you are in school and be nourished in the way your soul needs nourishment. When you have gone into the depths and found your guidance, then you can return to the outer world to do what you are guided to do.
Can you please help me figure out this dream? It’s actually more of a nightmare. I can’t stop thinking about it and I know it couldn’t be caused by anything I know of because I haven’t watched any gore or blood.
It starts in darkness. I’m slowly walking and all I feel is a cold room of some sorts. I squint as all I see is a bright light. Whispers and grumbles are all I hear in the area. as I stand up I notice ribbon on my arms and legs. I began to move against my will as a man speaks. “I have her for 50? Do I have a 50? 50! What about 60? Can I get her for 60?” I try too look out but all I see are death stares and masks of sorts. Their eyes showed hatred and then their faces showed amusement as I struggled to break free from the ribbon. I let out a scream and once I did I noticed myself breaking like shattered glass. Blood began to fill the walls. Dead bodies of people I knew surrounded me. All with their hearts ripped out. I covered my mouth and one of the bodies pinned me against the wall. It was yelling “See what you’ve done? Are you happy yet? Is this what you need?” I was trying to fight and scream but it grabbed a knife and whispered “They were right to leave a little brat like you. You destroy and hurt everyone you know” The knife came down into my chest. I then woke up.
I will say sometimes the dream will change or give me more details as in who’s in the dream and the surroundings. Like instead of being tied by ribbons I was being beat inside a cage by my loved ones. They wore masks so I couldn’t truly tell who they are but I just knew. Instead of being stabbed I was drowning while bleeding out with knife wounds.
Thank you for taking the time to read and help.
Dear Ray,
The dream has a lot to do of the fear that other people put on you if you break from their will and become your own self. It is as if people want you to do their will and if you don’t it is like ripping their hearts out and you being shattered. What you can start doing, before you actually start acting on your own will, is visualize the opposite of the dream. What I mean by that is that you visualize the positive outcomes of your exercising your own will rather than the negative. The fact that the dream is so intense means that there is some real world fear if you exercise too much of your own free will. It is like people are counting on selling you off for their purposes and are not going to be happy if you do otherwise. Begin by visualizing positive and then start doing small acts in conformity with your will while maintaining safety in your environment. Eventually you will be to break from the kind of ribbons or cage you are in.
I don’t usually think to much about my dreams, most of the time I don’t remember them at all. But last night I had a dream and I haven’t been able to stop thinking about it.
I was alone in my room, sitting on the edge of my bed. I was picking out broken glass from cuts on my arms. I was distraught, full of regret. While unhappy, there was a sense of relief beneath it all. I thought to myself “it was the right thing to do.” And “It has to be done.” as I continued to dig for glass shards. I don’t know what I did though. Removing the glass hurt, I could feel the pain, but I knew removing the glass was for the better. There was no context into how the glass got into my arms but I knew it couldn’t stay there.
Dear Kyler,
The dream seems to be telling you that despite the pain, doing the right thing is always better. It sometimes leave you alone and hurt, but in the end you feel a lot better about yourself. This is especially true when people around you tend to do the wrong thing.
Dreamt that I was talking to a childhood friend about a new installment in a game franchise, he liked it but I kept saying that everything was just ok, later an old lady and man were angry at me about not giving more details about where her brother was (my friend) and what he was up to, she mentioned him slashing a tire, they spoke like he was mentally unwell, I was very confused I was certain I gave them the correct details according to the game.
This dream is a lot about being able to see things with your own eyes clearly and not being confused by other people’s perception of the same person that may be different. You need to trust your own perception.
Am experiencing the consequences of not trusting my own perception as we speak, so, yea, thanks
I dreamt I was giving a guy a handjob and porridge came out.
Hi Chloe, That is a really funny image. It is mostly about not getting what you want in a relationship when you are trying to give a guy pleasure or being pleasing to him. What you need to be in a relationship is your strong self and then see if the guy is up to being with you when you are a strong person. Sounds like you are vulnerable to being pleasing.
I have been dreaming about the same girl since 5th grade.Iam 26 and just dreamt of her last night my mind and focuses are not thinking about her I’m trying to get my life moving I’m struggling with job findings so last place I need to think is to a girl I barley knew in school. Now here is my relationship through school was like with dream girl in 2cnd grade I had a crush on her and I was just finding out I’m gay ok so go on to 5 the grade she was popular with the boys very nice and we talked at times then to high School had a hell of a time but dream girls locker was next to me and she was just flirtatious like she’s straight by the way and well she would sing stupid shit to make me blush I think. But I wasn’t thinking of her like that at that time I had other girls in my head chasing after but after school I talked to her a little and we both lost our dads in the same year and just 3 months apart I think. My life know has nothing no friends no love life nothing it’s sad and I’m focused on not being a complete bum but this dreaming of her for so long I just can’t figure out why and the dreams are always the same it seems it’s me chasing after her knowing that I love her but she’s always back and forth she loves me then she is confused I guess I see it as what might have been but Its weird I’m waking up missing her needing her in a sense like I don’t know please somebody help me why just answer why thanks for reading this long post..
Dear Rachel,
In grade 2 people do not have sexual orientation to relationships. They only have friendship orientations. What the girl had in terms of positives qualities inside herself was what you were attracted to, not sexual attraction. You need to ask yourself, what is the positive thing inside of her that you were attracted to. The issue you have relates back to losing your father. You couldn’t develop the quality she had, which is a strong quality in you also, because the loss of your father probably killed the energy. It is extremely important to deal with yourself on an inner spiritual level, like what you need to develop yourself internally, before you are ready for outer relationships. You have a lot of internal work to do.
By reading your comments I think I’ve figured out the meaning of the 1st dream I had last night so I’ll tell you the second dream I had last night, all I remember was that my arm was cut off, I had the same dream image the night before as well of an arm being cut off. Do you know what this means?
In this dream when you get your arm cut off, it means that you are fearful that the power to use your capacities or skills is going to be cut off. I don’t know the rest of the context. It maybe in context of a bad workplace or something. Not sure.
Hello, I would like my dream interpreted please.
It’s started off with me waking up at the gates of hell, I walk in through the gates and into hell, it’s is completely empty and silent, I walk around for a lil while just observing everything. After a few minutes everything goes black, then in the distance I see a red face approaching faster and faster in the darkness, eventually it’s right in my face and it screams, just screams. Then I wake up with heavy breathing, I’ve had this dream ever since I was a kid, it doesn’t scare me. I’m just really curious as to what it means
Dear Diego,
Not being fearful when you are in the gates of hell actually can be a good thing. This means that you can see the negative things that people are going through and not react to them in a fearful way even when someone is screaming. Hell is a symbol, not an actual place. It is the space that people are in when their egos have taken over them and they have very little access to their higher or true self. People are good at accompanying people through their hell, which you are one of, can see what is happening to the person without passing any kind of judgment and at all, and then gradually help the person find their best or true selves and begin to live fully out of them. It is kind of like taking from the understanding of their hellish condition and then opening up the more heavenly one.
Im a 42 year old gal that in my dream my son river and i are at a park swinging and playing then we run through a field of flowers to our house and he has to go potty b4 he does i sit on the tree swing out front the house and look over and see what looks like a rattle snake and a small performing monkey sitting on top of the snake and my son runs by me i tell him to not move and he is 5 years old and the snake keeps biting him and the monkey keeps jumping all around him scratching at his face my son holding still but cant any longer and falls and i eun to get him then i wake up . please what does this mean?? Iv had dreams of my kids in car accidents and hours later i get a call telling me to go to the hospital . ive had dreams about friends kids over dosing and it happens .
The rattlesnake means that your son is being poisoned by the words that people say to him. They are like venom in that they poison his mind and being in such a way that cannot move freely. The way you have to treat the poison is to tell him positive things about himself almost constantly so that he can be playful and free and see the beauty in life. The monkey is a symbol of other kids playing around in a mean way at his expense. It looks like you need to be more careful with his environment and who he is around.