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I had a dream that my brother had impregnated me. I got angry at him and went and took a pregnancy test. The test was negative but I was obviously pregnant. I had a big belly, but the test was negative. What does this whole dream mean??
Dear Madison,
In real life this means that your brother is trying to get you to act the way he wants you to act, to act and be like him, but you resist. Who you are pregnant with is your own true self, not his. You can let go of your anger toward him and find out how you are unique from him. Even though you share some qualities, there will be aspects of yourself that make you totally unique. These are the ones that are developing in you right now. When you respond to them, it will make every difference about yourself.
Yes I had a dream I was kidnapped and other and my self were forced to get a dimond and square tattoo and it was between our index and thumb finger why
Dear Cara,
Being kidnapped means being taken away against your will. Have a tatoo means that you are permanently marked. Having the tatoo where it is is the place in your body where you have the most dexterity which is associated with where you have the most skill. In this case what it all means is that when you are developing your best skills, there is a fear that someone is going to force you to do stuff that you don’t necessarily want to do for their own sake and not your sake. This happens because you probably have already had it happen in life. If you develop a really strong will, then you can take your own abilities and use them how you see fit rather than having someone else kidnap them.
dreamnt of walking like a cat,seeing a cat,going up to that cat,my shoulder is touching the cats side or sholder,and i say thank you to the cat and leave.
Later on in that dream i walking to a room that people end up hating me in and i also end up losing my sister and becasue i cant find her,i started to cry while searching for her.
Dear Isabell,
When you are a cat, it means that you are very independently minded. You can have your own thoughts and go your own way. Cats naturally can leave relationships when they are not serving the right purpose. The problem that you have with being a cat is that you don’t think of others and then they get upset and don’t want to be around you. You can balance the cat-like qualities with friendship building ones which is more like being a dog.
Hey… I have a bit of a doozy here.
So my dream a couple nights ago. I was exploring Town #1 in what I can assume is a land of eternal darkness. I never saw the sun in my dream. (Think a video game like Fallout.) I was given a three-inch piece of twine with a noose-looking knot on each end at the very beginning. I was told that it would protect me. I come to a very old, rusty shack in the middle of nowhere and choose to take shelter there. I meet a scarecrow/ Boogeyman from Nightmare Before Christmas mix who wants to eat my soul and do…provocative things… to my dead corpse. Obviously, I’d like to avoid that if I can and I end up defeating him. I grab a dagger that I apparently have and cut off body parts one by one, but I get bored eventually and slice him in half. I then grab a pistol that, again, I didn’t know I had on me, and shoot him in the head. I leave the shack and forget all about Mr. Scarecrow until he shows up AGAIN. This time, he chases me while dragging himself along by his arms down the dock I was exploring. I outrun him and make it to Town #2. There, I’m told that the piece of twine is actually a voodoo doll of sorts for Mr. Scarecrow, and that if I want to get rid of him completely, I have to burn it. I chuck it into the nearest fire in the middle of the village. I’m aware of common dream symbols, but I have no idea what in the world this could mean. Any help would be appreciated! Thank you!
Sorry, I was also told in Town #2 that the twine was like a beacon for the Scarecrow and it attracted him, hence why I needed to burn it.
Dear Abbey,
What this dream shows is that you are really good at dealing with the eternal darkness figures in that you can destroy them, but they have a way of coming back. This is because the real goal is not annihilation of the dark figures, but transformation from the dark to the light. We all have dark parts, some darker than others, that need to be transformed into positive resources or capabilities. Since you don’t seem to have a huge difficulty in destroying darkness, it means that you would naturally be good at helping others through their darkness and get into the light. Most of the time when I do change work with people, that is exactly what happens. I have to find the dark parts and accompany them because they are protecting or covering up the light inside that people have. There are some people, very few, who resist the light altogether, but generally people are protecting the really bright places in themselves by acting in dark ways. You have some kind of gift that can help them.
I’m 99% of the time in tune with understanding my own dreams, and I think I have an idea on what this dream could signify, but I am torn between two interpretations. This has struck me as very odd, so I’m curious at what someone else – and particularly someone like you – would think it means.
I’m at the first day of university (I’m 18 now and on a gap year, planning to go to uni next year). I meet a girl who is confident, brave, feisty and cunning and has taken a liking to me, calling me hers and subtly flirting. I’m completely infatuated with her, and I try and stick close to her as much as possible. I instinctively know that I will do her bidding to appease her, even if risks getting me in trouble, since she is rebellious and I could sense would probably want to break some uni rules. I notice that she has also taken a liking to other people, and that I am not that special, and I feel monetarily sad, but then I immediately think about how best I can be useful to her so I can gain her attention again, even if she is going to just use me and discard me later. I don’t resent this – I feel happy at being able to fill this role and excited by it. This section of the dream I think I understand, since it is a mixture of my feelings towards my first crush when I was 10 and my most recent crush at 18. (I say ‘crush’ – they were a bit more than that – but it’s too little to be called ‘love’, The best way to describe it is that I ‘had feelings towards them’.) One of them was enigmatic and confident and I did whatever she told me, only for her to discard me when she was no longer interested. One day she hated me, the next I was her best friend again. She bullied me online without me knowing it was her, also creating a hate page dedicated to me. The other explicitly flirted with me and took a strong liking to me, making me feel special and lathering me with affection for months, only for me to figure out that he did the exact same with lots of other people, and he even said that he loves the ambiguity between friendship and relationship, openly admitting that he was just after friends with benefits all this time, and offered sex several times after casually slipping in that he wasn’t looking for a relationship. He also told me that he enjoys purposely making people fall for him despite having no interest in love. (The only reason i am telling you this is because context may help you decipher the next part. Also, I’m bisexual, if you’re thrown off by the change of pronouns.)
This is the more abstract part. The girl seems to sense that I am willing to get her attention, so she kneels down to my level (I am sitting in a chair) and takes out a glass shard. She then cuts my wrist with it, and at first I am surprised, but then I realise that I like the pain, and she continues doing it up my arm, and then on my face, some cuts small and some long, and I bathe in the pleasant sensation of the sting of all the cutting. The cuts seem to quickly heal and turn into scars as she goes along. She is smiling as she does it but has a look of fascination on her face. I remember feeling, as she does this, a sense of intimacy with her and pride that she has chosen me to make bleed, though the strongest feeling by far was the intimacy. It was rather sensual, to be honest, but not sexual. It was an emotional thing. She finished and seemed pretty pleased with herself, showing off my scarred face to her friends. She was asking me how I liked it. Then, it hit me how absurd it all was. I wasn’t angry at her, but just so so confused. I said to her “You just cut open a person’s face” in bewilderment and near hysterics. “How could you cut open a person’s face and expect it to be fine?” I then said to myself “I know I am fine with it, but how could she be so bold to assume I was? Most wouldn’t be.” And then I faced her and said “You’re crazy! You’re a crazy person” but I was saying it with a sense of awe as well as accusation. Then that dream moved onto another one.
My first interpretation is that the cutting is symbolic of how masochistic I can be in relationships in terms of being willing to be hurt and manipulated – having no self worth of my own. I have depression and self-harm though, so the feelings I got from being cut were therapeutic from my perspective, and thus I don’t know whether my brain is telling me that the cutting was meant to be seen as a bad thing or not. (Don’t worry; I am not a danger to myself.)
My second interpretation is that the cutting was simply being finally emotionally intimate with her, symbolised by her physically opening me up. Maybe it was a representation of what I yearn for – to finally be special enough for someone that they put care into me? Or perhaps it is a mixture of those two interpretations, or something else?
For extra context, those two crushes are not the most important people I have ever had feelings for – nor the ones that have caused the most pain – but have been the most dysfunctional. The only two people I can say that I have loved are people who I have repressed feelings for – my first love who I cannot be with due to ~taboo forbidden love stuff~ and my best friend whom is my favourite person and the love of my life and just simply doesn’t return my feelings. (My whole life isn’t centered around my unrequited loves – I’m just telling you relevant context for this dream.)
Wow – I really didn’t intend this to be so long. Thank-you so much if you did read all of this and I am looking forward to the possibility of you replying (^_^)
Dear Jay,
The basic problem is that you are trying to get attention from the most confident girls, who have a tendency to be on the wild side, and will take all of the pain from them, because you cannot attend to the confident and wild side in yourself. You are looking for it outside of yourself setting you up for the pain. The pain is a bit of a high like the cutting because you are so frozen or closed off to your true self which is both confident and daring. In sense you will do anything to get attention from an attractive girl because it will make you feel alive inside. If you can take the time to focus on developing your own self and be super confident in what you have inside especially taking a lot of risks, then you will find that you attract a lot of positive relationships where the people will want to be with you. You are going to have to do the inner work and resist trying to get it from someone else. The trying to get attention from others will only lead to a lot more depression and self-harm.
My mother was travelling …so my dad plus my 3 siblings were accompanying her there
…now the airport was next to a beach but we boarded a public bus and when we got closer to the airport….my family was discussing whether to get off the public bus and walk into the airport area or whether to continue on the bus towards a taxi area and then take a taxi from there to the airport…they decided to stop the public bus but when they did that….they realised how long the walk from was from the main road into the airport itself…so then we began walking towards the taxi place…on our way there we witnessed a mass shooter..there were actually 2 of them and they began shooting everyone….people tried to run but they were shot…there was also a taxi my family and i had walked by…we tried running to his transport but then we realised he was already shot….so we began running and one of the mass shooter aimed his gun at me but then i got so scared that I just lay down flat on the road….and instructed my family to do the same….we were all so scared because bodies were falling all over the place….what does this dream mean?
Dear Awkward,
In this dream the goal is trying to get your mother traveling. It is trying to support your mother traveling. It makes a lot of sense to me if you think of your mother as a metaphor rather than your real mother, but you can do it both ways, real or metaphoric. Your mother as a metaphor means the part of your family that nurtures and cares for others. It is hard to get that part of the family working or to take off and fly because of the fear of that part being stopped by a mass shooter. A mass shooter is a person who puts everyone down for being loving and nurturing. It is as if they don’t want people to be nurturing and caring like a mother is. They don’t want the world to be a nurturing place. Usually this happens when people regard nurturing and loving as a sign of weakness. They think everyone should just be tough all the time, but really they covering up their own trauma and shooting everyone down in the process. The important thing is to completely ignore them and then to be super nurturing.
Had a dream about Venus colliding with Earth
Dear Audra,
When a planet collides with Earth as in your dream, it throws the orbit of the planet off. The purpose of a steady orbit is predictability. Without life would be pure chaos for us. It shows that something has happened to throw you out of your orbit to make things more chaotic for you. You need to find your orbit.
I had this dream like 6 months ago that i was being chased by someone all over my property and over my lawn and they were holding a needle with poison they were trying to inject me with. I think it might have been a woman chasing me. And I was trying really hard to run but i was moving in slow motion, and i the woman had already injected and killed the rest of my family with the poison i dont remember if i witnessed it but i knew they were all dead and the woman was right behind me and then i woke up sobbing and terrified its the scariest dream ive ever had
Dear Molly,
Generally speaking poison in a dream refers to deadly words like harsh criticism or gossip. Everyone in your family is vulnerable to it. Since the woman is unknown, it means that the poisonous words can come from anywhere to harm you. The antidote for this kind of poison is positive encouragement especially finding the positives in others and saying them. Just like a poisonous injection of harsh words can kill a person’s spirit so too can positive words of acknowledgement bring life to others.
My 5 year old nephew had a dream a guy in a ski mask came out of the bathroom and murdered my boyfriend and myself. The next night I had a dream I was driving and another motorist looked over at me and gave me a weird feeling. When I got to my house he was there. I kept trying to call 911 and my phone kept messing up. I specifically remember his face and I never remember my dreams, especially that vividly. What is going on here?!
Dear Katelyn,
Your nephew has the fear that something bad is going to happen to you which will cause him to lose his relationship with you. It must mean that your relationship with him is very important to him. Both the assailant in the your nephew’s dream and in your dream are unknown even though you can remember the assailant. This kind of fear tends to keep you from adventuring out to places that are new or unknown to you. When you let go of the fear, you will find yourself being super adventurous.
I dreamt that I was stood in our conservatory which has a glass roof, it was raining and then I realised that the roof had windcreeen wipers on it (like a car) I don’t recall anything else about this dream but I mentioned it to my husband and he said he had the exact same dream…
Dear Lena,
The purpose of windshield wipers is to clean off water so that you can keep seeing while it is raining. It means that when things are stormy in your life, you need to maintain your vision and keep going forward despite the difficulties. Where I live rains a lot in the winter months, but I make it a point to get out almost everyday as a way of strengthening my will to keep going forward despite the conditions. Both of you have a vision you have to keep.
So last night I dreamt about my mom who past away almost 4yrs ago and about this guy I know.. In the dream my mom is telling this guy that I’m dating the wrong the guy I should be dating him.. Me and this guy having spoken in months… Dream goes on to where me and this guy get together to talk and my current boyfriend sees and I end up waking up not sure what wouldve happen next..
My mom past away before I got into dating again soo she has never met anyone I have just met in my life.. Also my current boyfriend doesn’t live in the same city .. There a bit of a distance.. I’m really confused by this dream..
Hello I need your help. Over the Thanksgiving holiday, I had three dreams on the same week. Please email me when you get a chance.
You can send them to me.
I need your help. I am at a point in my life where i feel stuck. I have pushed everyone close to me away. I am so lost as to where i am supposed to be in my life. Im slipping into t deep depression and have the absolute worst anxiety at the same time. I keep having dreams of terrible things happening to my children. I wake up crying almost every night. these have to be the worst nightmares i have ever had. I would never in my life harm my kids which is why im so confused as to why the dreams are about them! I mean they are all death dreams. I need to do something to stop having them immediately!
Dear CW, There is a lot to process here. Anxiety seems to be your presenting negative thing with a big worry about something happening to your children. Anxiety is always about the lack of confidence which means that you have a lot of capacity already, but you are unable to engage it. What have you done in terms of seeing a counselor to work with your anxiety? It seems like you need to work on getting back to a lot of confidence and that you are not going to be able to do it on your own. I have a counseling service which you can see on website. dreamsforpeace.org. If you don’t have funds for counseling, send your dreams to the email site on a daily basis and I will give some advice. dreamsforpeace@gmail.com. You are obviously going to need a lot of help to make it through this.
So I had a dream we’re I got married to my current boyfriend and I got pregnant . And it was a boy. Everyone but my boyfriend was happy about it after the pregnancy he changed he became distant and started going out with other girls and drinking ( he never ever drinks) and at that time I put all my attention into making sure that baby came out perfect so I went for a scan at the hospital and I found out that I was actually carrying twins. One boy and one girl. And my boyfriends dad suggested that I named the boy after him and I didn’t want that cause I wanted both kids to have unique names like I’ve always wanted and my boyfriend also started suggesting the same thing and he said that’s how it’s supposed to be and I should stop trying to break the order and I told him it’s not how it’s supposed to be it’s how everyone wants it we argued for a while before I woke up
Dear Mirna,
This dream indicates that there is something really positive about your current boyfriend and that you have learned everything you need from him. You have benefited from the relationship and that is why you have new growth inside represented by the twin babies. You are more whole and full of potential. He, on other hand, has not learned what he needed to learn from you which is to let go of the masculine traditions of your culture. You probably recognize that the relationship probably will not last. You need someone more forward looking and not so tradition bound.
Hi, so I had this dream the day before yesterday where I dreamt that I was in a relationship and me and my guy roommate were talking and joking around and somewhere in the middle we gave each other a hug then looked at each other and he went in for a kiss and we started making out, after that I was really confused because I was in a relationship but then I woke up. Then yesterday I had another dream that he was in a relationship but he didn’t seem to convinced with her, he was going out with her and before he left I gave him a hug goodbye and as we reached out we looked at each other then kissed. So my question is why do I keep having these dreams of kissing my roommate and why is it like the same situation except one moment I’m in a relationship and then the next dream he is in one, yet we both go and kiss each other, in the dream it’s like we both aren’t convinced with our relationship because we actually like each other. Anyways thanks in advance!
Dear Jasmine,
What this means is that you have a good relationship with your roommate that is fairly intimate in the way that you relate to each other. The kissing is not real kissing, but spiritual intimacy which is being close to each other. You can be really close to your roommate and share a lot without being intimate physically . If you do this, it will help both of you. Don’t be fearful of taking a risk with emotionally, but don’t confuse it physically. There is a reason he is your roommate and it is good.
I overheard my mom and Moogie talking about murdering my poppie and my dad. They noticed me near by so I pretended to be on their side and play along. I saw them with a syringe and lemon juice and my mom said injecting it in him would kill him (idk how). In my dream I thought I must have been dreaming but I warned poppie and told him to tell my dad and I ran away. I eventually found myself at some creepy barn and heard my mom walk in we got in a fight to the death as she was trying to get rid of witnesses and found out I had told poppie and dad. I won and snapped her neck but when I looked at her she didn’t look anything like my irl mom (I only noticed that once I woke up) she had long blonde hair smooth pale skin blue eyes and a demented smile. She was skinny and not much taller than me.
Dear Lua,
In this dream the feminine side is trying to get rid of the masculine side. It is generational in that two generations want to do it. This is probably because they feel like they can not be their full true selves as women while there is a lot of masculine energy. The problem is that the two energies are not in balance in your inheritance so one wants to get rid of the others. The energies need to be balanced like two wings of the same bird so that everyone can fly.
I walked in on my husband having sex with a close friend of mine and then I joined in. My husband had on women’s lingerie. Then afterwards I felt some type of way because he was a way with the other woman that he wasn’t with me.
I am 18 years old, approaching my 19th birthday next week. Last night I had a dream where I was either driving, riding a bike, or walking down a long street very late at night in an unfamiliar area. I see a speeding car coming up behind me, it stops and two people, a male and a female, walk up to me. I am frozen, and the male puts his hand on my shoulder, either injecting something into my neck or somehow getting a pressure point with his fingers. I feel paralyzed and weak, but somehow manage to run away and the last thing I remember is getting to a house I don’t recognize and standing outside.
Dear Arianna,
This dream is basically about some of the fear you have when you think about going out and being adventurous in the world. You are fearful that you are going to be caught and paralyzed by a more powerful person. When you are adventuring, the main feeling you need is freedom. You have to be so free inside of yourself that even if bad things happen to you, you are still willing to go forward and do more adventures. Right now your life needs adventure.
I had a dream where I had a brother who really cared for me which in real life I didn’t had so it was confusing…after that one of my sister came to my room and handed me a page which contain symbols of pentagram and bophomet …and told me that her friend gave her to give me…but I declined it as I don’t like those stuff…after that she became quiet…I don’t know what was going on but I was suddenly in my room..and I peek through my window and saw some
Occult group sacrificing my neighbor and I felt disgusted and angry…so I decided to call on the authority but before that I went to the other room to inform my parents but it was too late…they invaded our house and started attacking us…and I was somewhat scared and ran and hide in the toilet and saw outside that there were people gather who didn’t look normal and somewhat possessed…and they reach near my toilet door and started banging …I was too scared but also realized it was a dream so I tried my best to woke up but instead I was in another event I guess the so called occult meeting and they were all seem to possessed and where talking about some girl child to grace the events…and they didn’t disturb me as they were busy waiting for the girl and the weird thing was that the event was held outside the church compound…and finally the girl child came…and she didn’t seem normal…I felt like she was demonic…and all of them started to behave weirdly…and my dream ended there…it was really weird and disturbing
i dream that someone told me to see my mom before she die, but my mom is already deceased in real life and im crying because i want to see her, then i see her then i bring to dogs for her then i woke up its her death anniversary