Reccuring dreams

[karen]

Do you have reccuring dreams? Now personally, I don't believe that dreams 'mean' anything per se, it is interesting though. I tend to be hiding from some really scary dude (or a wolf) and the doors never really shut or cover the doorway. That, and a weird floating/flying (think crouching tiger, hidden dragon).

want to share?

[dandylion]

I do have some recurring dreams, but they're eluding me now. They haven't replayed in a long time.

I do, however, have some motifs:

1. Every time I dream about my own home, it's never the house I presently live in but my first home, the one I grew up in my first 10-11 years of life. It's really weird. I've moved a couple times since then but none of my dreams ever involve my "new" homes. I can dream about houses that aren't really mine, though, but they'll just be some random houses.

2. When I fly, I use my legs/feet to propel me. It's like jumping but more fish-like. Sometimes when I do this I get so high that I'm afraid I'll be too far from the earth and might eventually dissipate into the darkness of space, so I float down and walk.

3. This doesn't happen anymore, but I thought I'd just throw this in because vampires used to plague my dreams almost every night when I was younger. It was weird because I didn't read or watch about vampires much. I would either be hiding from them in a closet (in my first home, of course) or running away from them in random settings. They were scary like hell.

[Antares]

I often dream about seriously screwing up in school. My first few dreams were about how it would be 5 AM, and my vital semester project would be due the following day, but I've barely started it at all. Some others were about homework too. There's another one. I was taking AP Music Theory (I don't take this course. I'm in Band) exam and it was about 5 pages long, with multiple essay questions. For some reason (my dreams do that), the I had two hours, but suddenly there was ten minutes left and I barely wrote anything. I freaked out and woke up. I think it's anxiety.

[Jgib5328]

I sometimes have dreams where I'm trying to race my friends. I know I'm a relatively fast guy so that I am most likely to win, although every time we begin to race I always run really slow or in slow motion.

I do think dreams mean something.

[vaguely dissatisfied]

Do you have reccuring dreams? Now personally, I don't believe that dreams 'mean' anything per se, it is interesting though. I tend to be hiding from some really scary dude (or a wolf) and the doors never really shut or cover the doorway. That, and a weird floating/flying (think crouching tiger, hidden dragon).

want to share?
Hope you don't mind, but I love dream analysis and, unlike you, I do think they mean something. Specifically, your subconscious mind is trying to communicate with you in order to sort out what your conscious mind is not addressing in your day to day life.

Hiding, in a dream, means that you are hiding from feelings and avoiding an awareness of something that you don't want to see. Hiding from something dangerous means that you feel threatened. A wolf can represent the feeling that things are out to get you or it can represent fear. You may be finding yourself a prisoner to your fear. So hiding, in this dream, may represent you hiding from an awareness about something or someone that you are afraid to look at or see.

Floating often represents your awareness expanding beyond your usual boundaries of belief. So it could represent a burgeoning awareness of something or someone that you were not aware of before.

A door is a boundary. It represents the difference between one feeling state and another. Shutting a door often means a desire for privacy or space for yourself or it can mean decisively ending something. If the door won't close, then this may mean that you are unable to get the space you need for yourself or that you cannot decide whether or not to end something. In this dream, it may represent your attempt to stop the burgeoning awareness of something or someone that you find so threatening and fearful.





vaguely dissatisfied added to this post, 23 minutes and 50 seconds later...

I do have some recurring dreams, but they're eluding me now. They haven't replayed in a long time.

I do, however, have some motifs:

1. Every time I dream about my own home, it's never the house I presently live in but my first home, the one I grew up in my first 10-11 years of life. It's really weird. I've moved a couple times since then but none of my dreams ever involve my "new" homes. I can dream about houses that aren't really mine, though, but they'll just be some random houses.

2. When I fly, I use my legs/feet to propel me. It's like jumping but more fish-like. Sometimes when I do this I get so high that I'm afraid I'll be too far from the earth and might eventually dissipate into the darkness of space, so I float down and walk.

3. This doesn't happen anymore, but I thought I'd just throw this in because vampires used to plague my dreams almost every night when I was younger. It was weird because I didn't read or watch about vampires much. I would either be hiding from them in a closet (in my first home, of course) or running away from them in random settings. They were scary like hell.
If I may.................

A house almost always represents yourself. Each room represents a different aspect of your mind and body. If the house has a personal connection, such as the first house you lived in, then there are feelings connected with that house that are represented in the dream.

Hiding is described in the previous post. Vampires represent a fear of emotional or sexual relationships. They can represent a feeling that someone is too demanding and that you feel that you cannot be independent of them. They are sucking away your personal independence. This may also represent the energy-sapping experience of sex.

Flying represents the gaining of independence and an expression of your potential, which is as high as outer-space. They also represent the overcoming of obstacles (which is why you must propel yourself), the gravity of life, and the things that pull your enthusiasm down like the fear of dissapearing into space. Flying dreams usually appear when you are positively directing your life and when you are dealing with things like anxiety, self-doubt, and depression.

Cosmic space represents beyond thinking, limited concepts, ego boundaries, established rules, or reality. When you are aware of space in a dream this means you are of experience beyond your present view of the world, in other words, you are aware that your personal experience is not all there is. If you are in space in your dream this can mean that you feel out of touch with others or with yourself. This may be what your trying to avoid when you force yourself back to earth.





vaguely dissatisfied added to this post, 9 minutes and 56 seconds later...

I often dream about seriously screwing up in school. My first few dreams were about how it would be 5 AM, and my vital semester project would be due the following day, but I've barely started it at all. Some others were about homework too. There's another one. I was taking AP Music Theory (I don't take this course. I'm in Band) exam and it was about 5 pages long, with multiple essay questions. For some reason (my dreams do that), the I had two hours, but suddenly there was ten minutes left and I barely wrote anything. I freaked out and woke up. I think it's anxiety.
Anxiety, self-criticism, stress, feelings of being criticized, etc.





vaguely dissatisfied added to this post, 7 minutes and 5 seconds later...

I sometimes have dreams where I'm trying to race my friends. I know I'm a relatively fast guy so that I am most likely to win, although every time we begin to race I always run really slow or in slow motion.

I do think dreams mean something.
A race represents feelings of competition. Being in a race shows your inner assessment of how you are doing in your passage through life. When you are running, you are expressing yourself, struggling, and participating in the contest of life. You may feel that your potential is greater, but something is holding you back from attaining it.

[Jgib5328]

A race represents feelings of competition. Being in a race shows your inner assessment of how you are doing in your passage through life. When you are running, you are expressing yourself, struggling, and participating in the contest of life. You may feel that your potential is greater, but something is holding you back from attaining it.

Exactly! That's exactly how I feel, and that's how I interpreted it. I always feel that I haven't even come close to my potential and that when I reach it I will be in a much superior form than I am in now. I guess I also want people to acknowledge my prowess and potential as well.

[vaguely dissatisfied]

Exactly! That's exactly how I feel, and that's how I interpreted it. I always feel that I haven't even come close to my potential and that when I reach it I will be in a much superior form than I am in now. I guess I also want people to acknowledge my prowess and potential as well.
So when you have these dreams you must examine every detail for the clues that your subconscious is sending that will show you how to deal with this problem .

[Santana28]

i've had a series of them, but they're very complicated so i'll just post the shortest one.

ever since i was very little, i've had this recurring dream where i am running through the branches of trees in a forest, either as if in pursuit of something just out of reach and view, or because i am being chased. i'm not very far off the ground at all. but i know that if i slip and fall, i will die. if i stop, i will fall and i will die. not because of the fall - by the mere fact of touching the ground. the ground is lethal to me. if i touch it, even only for a second - i will die. i have no idea how i know these things - i just know them. but the urgency is there and i MUST keep going.

i had this dream constantly growing up. not so much now that i'm older, but i think i was probably 4 or 5 when i had it the first time. probably too much nintendo ;)





Santana28 added to this post, 6 minutes and 45 seconds later...


A house almost always represents yourself. Each room represents a different aspect of your mind and body. If the house has a personal connection, such as the first house you lived in, then there are feelings connected with that house that are represented in the dream.
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thats funny, because occasionally i would have a dream where i was walking through my house and everything was upside down - i was walking on the old ceiling which was now the floor (fixtures and all) and the furniture and everything were still on the floor which was now the ceiling. i think this was an offshoot from my daydreaming about such a thing while laying on the floor looking up... but thats funny.

[Antares]

I remember another recurring dream. It's weird and embarassing actually. I'm naked in public, and no one notices. Just me pathetically trying to hide somewhere. I've had this many times.

[vaguely dissatisfied]

i've had a series of them, but they're very complicated so i'll just post the shortest one.

ever since i was very little, i've had this recurring dream where i am running through the branches of trees in a forest, either as if in pursuit of something just out of reach and view, or because i am being chased. i'm not very far off the ground at all. but i know that if i slip and fall, i will die. if i stop, i will fall and i will die. not because of the fall - by the mere fact of touching the ground. the ground is lethal to me. if i touch it, even only for a second - i will die. i have no idea how i know these things - i just know them. but the urgency is there and i MUST keep going.

i had this dream constantly growing up. not so much now that i'm older, but i think i was probably 4 or 5 when i had it the first time. probably too much nintendo ;)





Santana28 added to this post, 6 minutes and 45 seconds later...



thats funny, because occasionally i would have a dream where i was walking through my house and everything was upside down - i was walking on the old ceiling which was now the floor (fixtures and all) and the furniture and everything were still on the floor which was now the ceiling. i think this was an offshoot from my daydreaming about such a thing while laying on the floor looking up... but thats funny.
In this case running has two meanings. In the dreams where you are running away from something, this represents avoidance, trying to get away from something like your emotions or sexuality, problems, guilt etc. In the dreams where you are running toward something, this can represent trying to reach a goal, or anxiety, or responsibility, and can even mean running toward danger.

Tree branches represent your abilities, aspirations, vulnerabilities, and the directions of your life. Your internal reality. Your connection with your subconscious.

The ground represents your external reality. Things like parental love, your reality as a person, social order, things and people in your every day life etc. When you are off the ground this represents a loss of connection with these everyday attitudes and relationships. The knowledge that you will die if you touch the ground is your fear of death and this fear is associated, somehow, with your day-to-day reality, with something or someone who is woven into the fabric of your life.

So you are running away from or toward something in order to maintain a dissconnect with someone or something in your life because you know that if you allow that connection to occur, you will die. Meanwhile, you are hurdling past rather than connecting with your subconscious.

You might want to try forcing yourself to touch the ground. There is probably a message in this dream that can help you to deal with the fear and it's associate.

The ceiling of a house can represent the attitudes or beliefs you use to protect your identity, the height or range of your imagination, or your mental limit or boundary.

[Jgib5328]

Vague, where did you attain this knowledge? I want it too. I plan on taking out Freud's book on dreams later today from my library.

[vaguely dissatisfied]

I remember another recurring dream. It's weird and embarassing actually. I'm naked in public, and no one notices. Just me pathetically trying to hide somewhere. I've had this many times.
This represents a fear that others will know what you really feel and desire, or revealing desires and acts that are considered socially unacceptable and, therefore, you feel guilty about it, or feeling vulnerable and having your weakness exposed, or guilt about having sexual characteristics and desires. The fact that no one else notices you in your dream points to this being more likely about the latter two explanations.





vaguely dissatisfied added to this post, 4 minutes and 49 seconds later...

Vague, where did you attain this knowledge? I want it too. I plan on taking out Freud's book on dreams later today from my library.
I've been reading about this stuff for years. There are so many sources out there you just have to look around. It started with the question of why we sleep. I mean why does any animal need to sleep? And from there I started thinking that there's got to be something that our minds are doing for us when we dream. I mean, if it isn't beneficial, then why do it. I realize that it could be like our appendix.......but such rich dreams......it seems there's something going on there.

[Santana28]

In this case running has two meanings. In the dreams where you are running away from something, this represents avoidance, trying to get away from something like your emotions or sexuality, problems, guilt etc. In the dreams where you are running toward something, this can represent trying to reach a goal, or anxiety, or responsibility, and can even mean running toward danger.

Tree branches represent your abilities, aspirations, vulnerabilities, and the directions of your life. Your internal reality. Your connection with your subconscious.

The ground represents your external reality. Things like parental love, your reality as a person, social order, things and people in your every day life etc. When you are off the ground this represents a loss of connection with these everyday attitudes and relationships. The knowledge that you will die if you touch the ground is your fear of death and this fear is associated, somehow, with your day-to-day reality, with something or someone who is woven into the fabric of your life.

So you are running away from or toward something in order to maintain a dissconnect with someone or something in your life because you know that if you allow that connection to occur, you will die. Meanwhile, you are hurdling past rather than connecting with your subconscious.

You might want to try forcing yourself to touch the ground. There is probably a message in this dream that can help you to deal with the fear and it's associate.

The ceiling of a house can represent the attitudes or beliefs you use to protect your identity, the height or range of your imagination, or your mental limit or boundary.

thats pretty darned accurate. i wont go into details, but your description pretty much summed up my childhood. obviously i don't have to endure those things anymore, so i dont have this dream any more. i'm going to post one other recurring dream for you since you're pretty good at this.





Santana28 added to this post, 4 minutes and 18 seconds later...

this is another dream i had multiple times.

When i was young... probably 8 or 9, i lived along a river in southern Ohio. I used to have this strange recurring dream... the river was wild and had huge whitecap waves, but for some reason they never broke the plane of the shore and washed over - it was like they hit an invisible wall. they made no sound. there was an old truss bridge between the two shores, and just like in real life - the bridge was closed because the road had fallen into the river at some sections. the other side of the river was a wall of copper-colored stone that went straight up into the sky... so high that you couldn't see the top. just a wall of cliff. on my side of the river there were a few abandoned motels and strip-mall type places that were empty, destroyed, and unlivable(windows smashed out and gutted). it was just me and my mother (we were living together at the time in the area of the dream) and we would walk to the river and i would want to cross, and she would tell me it cant be done because the bridge would fall. and across the river on the other shore there would be this man digging in the sand. i would ask my mother what he was doing and she would tell me that he was digging for crabs. he had a little steel bucket with him and i never saw him look up... he just kept digging. he would be there sometimes but he would disappear just as quickly behind the waves and the mist. he was the only other sign of life besides myself, my mother, and later on, my dog. actually, i'm not even sure if the man was alive or not - maybe he was a ghost.

eventually i convinced my mother to drive across the bridge... of course the car fell in, with her and my dog in it... i made it out because i had known all along that it would fall. i continued across the bridge and walked to the beach and started digging in the sand on my own where i had saw the man digging... and to my horror i dug up my dog's collar in the sand (i loved my dog more than anyone or anything at the time). then the man appeared.. didn't say anything... gave me his bucket, and pointed at the mountain. from this side of the river you could see a path through the cliffs that couldn't be seen from the other side. and i started up the mountain... and that was it. its been a long time, but i vaguely remember that you could hear the raging river either while on the bridge, or on the opposite side - you just couldnt hear it from the original shore.

[rwyatt365]

OK, vague, try this one on...

As a child I often had a dream where I was asleep in bed and I would hear a noise from under the bed. I would look between the bed and the wall (always betweend the bed and the wall, never over the exposed edge of the bed facing into the room) and there would be a witch - your protypical Halloween Witch. As soon as I saw her she would reach up and grab me and we would start falling. Invariably, at the moment of falling I would realize that I was in outer space and, somehow, I was "expanding". It wasn't like blowing up a balloon, it was more like I was becoming more and more diffuse - like gas. That feeling would persist until I woke up (which, typically quickly followed).

I always felt that if I could just stay in the dream for a little while longer I would get some grand revelation about the universe. Pretty weird for a 10 y/o kid?!

[vaguely dissatisfied]

thats pretty darned accurate. i wont go into details, but your description pretty much summed up my childhood. obviously i don't have to endure those things anymore, so i dont have this dream any more. i'm going to post one other recurring dream for you since you're pretty good at this.





Santana28 added to this post, 4 minutes and 18 seconds later...

this is another dream i had multiple times.

When i was young... probably 8 or 9, i lived along a river in southern Ohio. I used to have this strange recurring dream... the river was wild and had huge whitecap waves, but for some reason they never broke the plane of the shore and washed over - it was like they hit an invisible wall. they made no sound. there was an old truss bridge between the two shores, and just like in real life - the bridge was closed because the road had fallen into the river at some sections. the other side of the river was a wall of copper-colored stone that went straight up into the sky... so high that you couldn't see the top. just a wall of cliff. on my side of the river there were a few abandoned motels and strip-mall type places that were empty, destroyed, and unlivable(windows smashed out and gutted). it was just me and my mother (we were living together at the time in the area of the dream) and we would walk to the river and i would want to cross, and she would tell me it cant be done because the bridge would fall. and across the river on the other shore there would be this man digging in the sand. i would ask my mother what he was doing and she would tell me that he was digging for crabs. he had a little steel bucket with him and i never saw him look up... he just kept digging. he would be there sometimes but he would disappear just as quickly behind the waves and the mist. he was the only other sign of life besides myself, my mother, and later on, my dog. actually, i'm not even sure if the man was alive or not - maybe he was a ghost.

eventually i convinced my mother to drive across the bridge... of course the car fell in, with her and my dog in it... i made it out because i had known all along that it would fall. i continued across the bridge and walked to the beach and started digging in the sand on my own where i had saw the man digging... and to my horror i dug up my dog's collar in the sand (i loved my dog more than anyone or anything at the time). then the man appeared.. didn't say anything... gave me his bucket, and pointed at the mountain. from this side of the river you could see a path through the cliffs that couldn't be seen from the other side. and i started up the mountain... and that was it. its been a long time, but i vaguely remember that you could hear the raging river either while on the bridge, or on the opposite side - you just couldnt hear it from the original shore.
Water always represents emotions. The nature of the water depicts how you are relating to your feelings. A wild river represents the state of your emotions at the time of the dream (wild). The waves represent your impulses, feelings, and emotions surrounding sexuality, or anxiety, or anger.

The shore represents a barrier or boundary, as does a wall. So....your very strong emotions are hitting an invisible wall.....this could be a wall that you have constructed in order to keep these strong emotions from revealing themselves. The copper colored wall represents a valuable, significant, and attractive barrier or boundary that you very much want to overcome. The mist represents your confusion, or indescision, or inability to see the real issues in yourself and your environment at that time. Your mother, in this case, is a barrier also. The ruined buildings represent an old and now useless way of life that you led in the past.

Crossing a river represents great change or death. A bridge represents crossing from one phase of life to another. A fallen bridge represents lost opportunity, broken bonds and connections, parting in a relationship (as with your mother and dog when they fall away while you are crossing the bridge), a way of dealing with obstacles (like your mother). A person falling (like your mother from the bridge) represents either a wish to get rid of them or anxiety about what they represent. A car represents your desire to get somewhere in life, for independance, for freedom.

Ghosts represent memories, feelings, guilt that haunt us. These are the husks or influences from past traumas or events that have been emptied of hurt or real influence, but still effect us as habit patterns, fantasies, hopes, longings we have from time to time. Digging represents delving into hidden or buried areas of ourselves which can uncover feelings from childhood (such as the loss of a dog).

A dog represents the parts of ourselves that we usually keep put of site like aggression and sexuality. As well, a dog often represents the only source of expressive love someone obtained in childhood and so may depict devotion, fidelity, faithfulness, affection etc. A dog can also symbolize a gardian of the gates of death, a messenger between the hidden and visible world, and a guide to the hidden side of life.

When the ghost appears after you cross the river, he seems to be pointing you toward the path to your hopes and aspirations, a path that you didn't know existed until you found a way to cross the myriad barriers in your life, leave the old, useless way of doing things behind, address the painful issues of your childhood, and shed the people from your life that have held you back.

[Santana28]

Water always represents emotions.

well, that about sums up my first 17 years :) thats awesome. very very accurate. i'm a believer!

[deicruxified]

well umm... for those who could interpret... well it'snot my dream but my mom's and it has been bothering her even before i was born...

pre-natal (can't give a good description)

1. when she was 2 months pregnant, she dreamt she was about to give birth. she was then admitted to the er and she dozed off. she then woke up in her apartment with an empty womb.... she never found me

2. she dreamt of a little girl she was walking with in the pedestrian lane. she hold her hand then to her surprise, the girl was gone, never to be found. (she later figured out that the girl was me. when she dreamt of this she thought it was another girl)

post-natal

she dreamt of #2 over and over.. just change the kid into a teenage girl then me now...

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as for me, whenever there's danger approaching, i always dream of a woman in white giving me the moon... sometimes she would bring me to an ocean and let me swim... when i was researching about tarot cards, i found an almost similar image of "her" and she was depicted in the tarot deck as a high priestess

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[vaguely dissatisfied]

OK, vague, try this one on...

As a child I often had a dream where I was asleep in bed and I would hear a noise from under the bed. I would look between the bed and the wall (always betweend the bed and the wall, never over the exposed edge of the bed facing into the room) and there would be a witch - your protypical Halloween Witch. As soon as I saw her she would reach up and grab me and we would start falling. Invariably, at the moment of falling I would realize that I was in outer space and, somehow, I was "expanding". It wasn't like blowing up a balloon, it was more like I was becoming more and more diffuse - like gas. That feeling would persist until I woke up (which, typically quickly followed).

I always felt that if I could just stay in the dream for a little while longer I would get some grand revelation about the universe. Pretty weird for a 10 y/o kid?!
O.K. A bed can mean alot of different things and this depends on the individual person. The wall of a house represents codes of behavior, beliefs, and attitudes that you live with and that you are fearful of extending beyond or feel trapped by. A witch represents fears or difficult feelings and relationship habits that you have developed with your mother. Falling represents a loss of confidence, or a threat to a relationship (like the one with your mother), or loss of social image, or loss of belief, or moral failure, or sexual surrunder. Cosmic space represents a place beyond thinking or limited concepts, beyond established norms. In this case your 'expansion' appears to be you experiencing an expanded awareness beyond the boundaries of the physical senses.

So......when you were a child you either did rebel or wanted to rebel against the stuff your mother taught you or what she represented. You were definately afraid to go against her in this way. Perhaps you were afraid of causing a rift between the two of you or something else you believed something else bad would happen if you did this. However, your intuition told you that once you did escape this boundary .......something grand would be revealed.





vaguely dissatisfied added to this post, 3 minutes and 0 seconds later...

well, that about sums up my first 17 years :) thats awesome. very very accurate. i'm a believer!
You've done amazingly well. I must say that this dream was a bit emotional for me.





vaguely dissatisfied added to this post, 22 minutes and 55 seconds later...

1. when she was 2 months pregnant, she dreamt she was about to give birth. she was then admitted to the er and she dozed off. she then woke up in her apartment with an empty womb.... she never found me

2. she dreamt of a little girl she was walking with in the pedestrian lane. she hold her hand then to her surprise, the girl was gone, never to be found. (she later figured out that the girl was me. when she dreamt of this she thought it was another girl)
1. Your mother was having anxiety dreams with regard to pregnancy and birth. Pretty normal because there is alot of stuff that an individual has to deal with during this time and later.

2. Recurring dreams about losing something (including your child) often indicates a that an individual is deeply uncertain about themself. Your mom may very well have lost her identity when she had you. she could be wondering where she's going, who she is, and what value she has.

Your dream;
The woman in your dream depicts what you deeply need and hope for. The moon represents love, romance, fantasy, your inner life, the pull of mysterious dark desires, escape, etc. White clothes represent a sense of wholeness, purity or marriage. The ocean represents a life drive toward independence, or mating, or parenthood and swimming represents confidence in dealing with anxieties and emotions you are dealing with at the time; being able to meet the influences, urges and thoughts you have; trust in yourself, life, and your sexuality.

So......what you deeply need or hope for is love, romance, or some other desire and when you get it this will give you a sense of wholeness. You are ready and capable to deal with whatever this fullfilled desire will bring.

[Santana28]

You've done amazingly well. I must say that this dream was a bit emotional for me.


well, i have one more even more personal dream... its much too long to post here. i'll send it to you and maybe it will fill in the blanks a bit.

that dream was always a rough one for me too.

[vkut79]

Dang I always forget my dreams. I can only remember vague images now, not whole dreams. Perhaps its because I always shrug them off when I wake up, rather than thinking about them, which would probably help me write them into my memory. Maybe I should try writing them down...

[vaguely dissatisfied]

well, i have one more even more personal dream... its much too long to post here. i'll send it to you and maybe it will fill in the blanks a bit.

that dream was always a rough one for me too.
Well I can imagine the dream was rough for you.........the reality I don't even want to think about.

I'd be happy to hear about your other dream. I'll look for your message.





vaguely dissatisfied added to this post, 6 minutes and 26 seconds later...

Dang I always forget my dreams. I can only remember vague images now, not whole dreams. Perhaps its because I always shrug them off when I wake up, rather than thinking about them, which would probably help me write them into my memory. Maybe I should try writing them down...
Yep......write them down or go over them in your mind several times as soon as you wake up.

[AgentofGaming]

*raises hand* I want an analysis too!

Last night I had a dream, I received a mark of 75% for my Electromagnetism midterm. Even though last week I couldn't answer any of the questions fully and am expecting a terrible mark.

Which was then follwed by a dream where I was in a warehouse where there were 5 LCD monitors 30" which were on sale for $39 each. There was also one last 32" LCD remaining for $44.95. So I quickly grabbed the 32" and gave my mom a 30" then I realized these prices are impossible and woke up.

I'm supposing these are a reflection of my real life desires.
I seem to keep having these dreams and most of them have no transitional logic at all.

[vaguely dissatisfied]

*raises hand* I want an analysis too!

Last night I had a dream, I received a mark of 75% for my Electromagnetism midterm. Even though last week I couldn't answer any of the questions fully and am expecting a terrible mark.

Which was then follwed by a dream where I was in a warehouse where there were 5 LCD monitors 30" which were on sale for $39 each. There was also one last 32" LCD remaining for $44.95. So I quickly grabbed the 32" and gave my mom a 30" then I realized these prices are impossible and woke up.

I'm supposing these are a reflection of my real life desires.
I seem to keep having these dreams and most of them have no transitional logic at all.
I'm going to get back to you tomorrow 'cause it takes a bit of time to do this.......I'm not much of a night owl.

[rwyatt365]

O.K. A bed can mean alot of different things and this depends on the individual person. The wall of a house represents codes of behavior, beliefs, and attitudes that you live with and that you are fearful of extending beyond or feel trapped by. A witch represents fears or difficult feelings and relationship habits that you have developed with your mother. Falling represents a loss of confidence, or a threat to a relationship (like the one with your mother), or loss of social image, or loss of belief, or moral failure, or sexual surrunder. Cosmic space represents a place beyond thinking or limited concepts, beyond established norms. In this case your 'expansion' appears to be you experiencing an expanded awareness beyond the boundaries of the physical senses.

So......when you were a child you either did rebel or wanted to rebel against the stuff your mother taught you or what she represented. You were definately afraid to go against her in this way. Perhaps you were afraid of causing a rift between the two of you or something else you believed something else bad would happen if you did this. However, your intuition told you that once you did escape this boundary .......something grand would be revealed.
Very interesting. My relationship with my parents was never very close, but I was closer to my mother than my father - he was always absent, being in the medical field. In some way I felt, as a child, that it was my responsibility to be "the man" of the family since my father was often not there. But I knew that was not my place. How could I be the father and the son at the same time?

Perhaps, I knew that I would grow up and become "the man" of my own family some day.

[HarleyQuinn]

This is the only one that I can remember true recurrence and details. I'm a guy and I think the hiding in the cabinet bit is my fascination at hiding in my bathroom in the "sink" area when playing hide and seek as a kid.

I'm at a mall (My mind always says the Mall of America but it's not) and I'm on the 2nd floor landing to the right of two escalators (my right). Both only go up, not down. I'm staring down at the front doors when they open, with two werewolves walking in on all fours. Of course, everybody panics and starts fleeing every which way.

I look around for a way to get out and run towards the bathrooms. I slip into the women's bathroom (always) and it's empty. Underneath a row of three sinks are two "cabinet" doors and I open the left door and enter, hiding in this enclosed space with my knees huddled against my chest. Sometimes a girl will be sitting opposite me, also hiding but she'll have been there first. While I'm hiding (or we), one of the werewolves will come in and stand in front of the doors sniffing.

That's when I usually wake up.

[caveman]

first of all i like having dreams and many times i'm aware that it's a dream.. but also many other times

in my childhood i often had the
--"naked in public dream"
--i also dreamed i'm getting involved without my will in a phisical fight and during the fight i lose my sight decreasing my chances of defending my self
--and another reccuring dream from that time: i was like floating in the space without seeing my self (like wearing some virtual reality glasses though i didnt had this feeling) and from like a black hole some voice kept on repeating "Come to me... COOooMmme To MMMEE" with like an overly encreasing volume and effect and i was in some way attracted to that hole without my will (like gravitation force not hands or ropes) usualy after the voice reached some very high volume and i was getting realy close i would finally wake up..


also since my adolescence
--i dreamed many times that i'm flying and usualy its like big steps(like on the moon) not wings or other stuf though i once dreamed i could fully float and it was because of a dispositive i found (some 2cm thinghie)..
--i also very often dream i'm like spiderman, escalating and jumping from building to building.
--another common situation in my dreams is me being chased by someone/something case in which i'm running using my hands too in a way similar to dogs or other animals like that
--a reccuring situation is also me being chased by a military like organisation with many people in uniorms wearing guns having headquarters and leaders and everything.. always in different situations but always they seem to control every thing like military dictatorship (i'm not their main target most of the time, just one that doesnt lets himself controled by them and tries to fight them usualy on my own ofcourse)


and lately:
--i dream i'm traped in a dream (be it a night mare or most of the times a normal one).. when i realise that, i go "AAAAAAAghghhh"(in reality the sound is at most an 'ahgh') trying to get someone to help me awake.. some times i dream that someone comes and awakes me or i awake myself and i keep on dreaming thinking the other part was just a dream. somethimes this happens for 2-3 times in the same dream until i truly awake (it only happened when i was sleeping at my home.. most of the year is spent in a hostel with other 3 roomm8 but seems i never wanted to get them to awake me)..


hope it was not too long making you not read it..
and i'd also like some interpretations if you guys find the time :D

[vaguely dissatisfied]

Very interesting. My relationship with my parents was never very close, but I was closer to my mother than my father - he was always absent, being in the medical field. In some way I felt, as a child, that it was my responsibility to be "the man" of the family since my father was often not there. But I knew that was not my place. How could I be the father and the son at the same time?

Perhaps, I knew that I would grow up and become "the man" of my own family some day.
Perhaps..........but the dream indicates sime kind of struggle with your mother at that time.





vaguely dissatisfied added to this post, 44 minutes and 24 seconds later...

*raises hand* I want an analysis too!

Last night I had a dream, I received a mark of 75% for my Electromagnetism midterm. Even though last week I couldn't answer any of the questions fully and am expecting a terrible mark.

Which was then follwed by a dream where I was in a warehouse where there were 5 LCD monitors 30" which were on sale for $39 each. There was also one last 32" LCD remaining for $44.95. So I quickly grabbed the 32" and gave my mom a 30" then I realized these prices are impossible and woke up.

I'm supposing these are a reflection of my real life desires.
I seem to keep having these dreams and most of them have no transitional logic at all.
O.K.

A test represents a measurement of yourself against others, self-assessement or criticism, stress, or the need for qualification. A 75 mark is pretty good so this may represent your positive assessment of yourself regardless of outside assessments. 7 represents your life cycle and wholeness. 5 represents your body, consciousness, and your senses. This has something to do with you feeling whole or adult or something.

Shopping represents your desires, something you are looking for. Purchasing indicates some level of choices being made, decisions faced, or it can be an indication of how you are feeling about your money situation.

Numbers have specific meanings and you seem to have remembered very specific numbers from your dream. Of the 5 monitors (represents your body, consciousness, and your senses) that were 30'' (3 represents a triangle; mother, father, and child springing from two opposites. It may represent a solution to opposition. 0 represents the female and the hidden or void from which existance comes) which were $39 each (9 represents the end of a cycle and the start of something new), you gave 1 (represents you, being alone, independence, a beginning) to your mother.
So there is something going on with you and your mother as far as dependence/independence, perhaps opposition from your mother to some change you are making or want to make? Perhaps your high self assessment (75%) is not how your mother assesses your abilities with regard to this decision?

The 1 (represents you, being alone, independence, a beginning) last 32" (3 represents a triangle; mother, father, and child springing from two opposites. It may represent a solution to opposition. 2 is duality, making a decision, two sides of an arguement, parents, opposites) monitor that cost $44.95 (4 is physicality, stability, strength, home, reality. 9 represents the end of a cycle and the start of something new. 5 represents your body, consciousness, and your senses) you kept for yourself.
Again, a conflict of dependence and independence, but with you leaning toward home, stability, reality etc.





vaguely dissatisfied added to this post, 43 minutes and 38 seconds later...

This is the only one that I can remember true recurrence and details. I'm a guy and I think the hiding in the cabinet bit is my fascination at hiding in my bathroom in the "sink" area when playing hide and seek as a kid.

I'm at a mall (My mind always says the Mall of America but it's not) and I'm on the 2nd floor landing to the right of two escalators (my right). Both only go up, not down. I'm staring down at the front doors when they open, with two werewolves walking in on all fours. Of course, everybody panics and starts fleeing every which way.

I look around for a way to get out and run towards the bathrooms. I slip into the women's bathroom (always) and it's empty. Underneath a row of three sinks are two "cabinet" doors and I open the left door and enter, hiding in this enclosed space with my knees huddled against my chest. Sometimes a girl will be sitting opposite me, also hiding but she'll have been there first. While I'm hiding (or we), one of the werewolves will come in and stand in front of the doors sniffing.

That's when I usually wake up.
Cool.

The mall represents your desires, something you are looking for or want like love, fame, sex etc. Since you call it the mall of America........you could be expecting to recieve a certain amount of stuff because you are in America (the American dream and all that). The two (the number 2 represents duality, opposites, male/female) upgoing escalators indicate that you have the option of addressing and confronting certain issues, but the fact that you do not get on them means that you are avoiding these issues. The fact that they are to your right means that the confrontation of this particular issue is the right thing to do. The second floor represents your internal needs, rest, sleep, hungers, etc. and the number 2 again represents duality, opposites, male/female. The front doors (probably two of them?) opening represent the difference between one feeling state and another and may represent the female sex (vagina).

The werewolves represent fear. The fact that there are two is significant and seems to be an ongoing theme in this dream.........duality, relationship, decision, male/female, opposition? Fear of this is evident and a central message in this dream. The women's bathroom represents your need for privacy where you don't have to concern yourself with other peoples needs, however, it's a gender-inappropriate bathroom which indicates that you should not be seeking refuge from this particular issue, but rather meeting it head on. The fact that you and the woman are hiding together in fear indicates, again, that there is either a specific woman or women in general that are engendering fear in you.





vaguely dissatisfied added to this post, 44 minutes and 58 seconds later...

first of all i like having dreams and many times i'm aware that it's a dream.. but also many other times

in my childhood i often had the
--"naked in public dream"
--i also dreamed i'm getting involved without my will in a phisical fight and during the fight i lose my sight decreasing my chances of defending my self
--and another reccuring dream from that time: i was like floating in the space without seeing my self (like wearing some virtual reality glasses though i didnt had this feeling) and from like a black hole some voice kept on repeating "Come to me... COOooMmme To MMMEE" with like an overly encreasing volume and effect and i was in some way attracted to that hole without my will (like gravitation force not hands or ropes) usualy after the voice reached some very high volume and i was getting realy close i would finally wake up..


also since my adolescence
--i dreamed many times that i'm flying and usualy its like big steps(like on the moon) not wings or other stuf though i once dreamed i could fully float and it was because of a dispositive i found (some 2cm thinghie)..
--i also very often dream i'm like spiderman, escalating and jumping from building to building.
--another common situation in my dreams is me being chased by someone/something case in which i'm running using my hands too in a way similar to dogs or other animals like that
--a reccuring situation is also me being chased by a military like organisation with many people in uniorms wearing guns having headquarters and leaders and everything.. always in different situations but always they seem to control every thing like military dictatorship (i'm not their main target most of the time, just one that doesnt lets himself controled by them and tries to fight them usualy on my own ofcourse)


and lately:
--i dream i'm traped in a dream (be it a night mare or most of the times a normal one).. when i realise that, i go "AAAAAAAghghhh"(in reality the sound is at most an 'ahgh') trying to get someone to help me awake.. some times i dream that someone comes and awakes me or i awake myself and i keep on dreaming thinking the other part was just a dream. somethimes this happens for 2-3 times in the same dream until i truly awake (it only happened when i was sleeping at my home.. most of the year is spent in a hostel with other 3 roomm8 but seems i never wanted to get them to awake me)..


hope it was not too long making you not read it..
and i'd also like some interpretations if you guys find the time :D
Childhood Dream:
Fighting represents anger or frustration, it may indicate difficulty with self-confidence. Blindness represents feeling lost or vulnerable. The fact that you are drawn in against your will indicates feelings of helplessness where you are being forced to do something you don't want to do in order to survive. This could be simply the helplessness and vulnerability of childhood or something specific you had to deal with at that time.

Cosmic space represents beyond limited concepts or boundaries. Out of touch with reality. The black hole represents a void, emptiness which, if faced (which is probably why you were drawn to it) can have a positive transforming influence. It can help you break through previous boundaries that have held you. The voice was your own, urging you toward what it knew would be good for you.

Adolescent Dream:
Flying and leaping like spiderman represent gaining independence and expressing your potential. The effort you take to fly and leap represents the effort you make in gaining your independence.
Being chased represents your avoidance of things like sexual feelings, responsibility, expressing yourself in public, fear of death, sense of failure, guilt, emotional pain, or grief. When you are chased by an unknown thing this represents a past experience or trauma in childhood. When you are being chased by the military this represents things that you are conflicted about at that time (internal conflict).

Recent Dream:
Being trapped represents an inability to break free of old habits, or relationships, being held by beliefs or religious views not conducive to personal growth. The desire to wake up from the dream indicates a realization that you need to 'wake up' to your situation and come out of a period of withdrawal.

[AgentofGaming]

Wow... amazing assessment, quite interesting too since it's open to self-interpretation.

A test represents a measurement of yourself against others, self-assessement or criticism, stress, or the need for qualification. A 75 mark is pretty good so this may represent your positive assessment of yourself regardless of outside assessments. 7 represents your life cycle and wholeness. 5 represents your body, consciousness, and your senses. This has something to do with you feeling whole or adult or something.
For self-assessment it does feel quite different now in post-secondary for me to be below the average.
As for the adult thing, I'm legally an adult, I'm expected to behave like an adult, but I don't feel like an adult. Quite interesting I didn't expect a test would touch on my adulthood.

Shopping represents your desires, something you are looking for. Purchasing indicates some level of choices being made, decisions faced, or it can be an indication of how you are feeling about your money situation.
I'm a thrifty person, I save money and there have been a lot of things I wanted.
As for decisions faced right now: choosing whether to go into an internship program could vastly influence my ability to be financial stable. Also student debt is an issue with me.

Numbers have specific meanings and you seem to have remembered very specific numbers from your dream. Of the 5 monitors (represents your body, consciousness, and your senses) that were 30'' (3 represents a triangle; mother, father, and child springing from two opposites. It may represent a solution to opposition. 0 represents the female and the hidden or void from which existance comes) which were $39 each (9 represents the end of a cycle and the start of something new), you gave 1 (represents you, being alone, independence, a beginning) to your mother.
So there is something going on with you and your mother as far as dependence/independence, perhaps opposition from your mother to some change you are making or want to make? Perhaps your high self assessment (75%) is not how your mother assesses your abilities with regard to this decision?
The only thing I can think of now is my mom will force me to work in commercial services if I don't find myself a job by summer. I will certainly not enjoy working fast food or as a store clerk.

The 1 (represents you, being alone, independence, a beginning) last 32" (3 represents a triangle; mother, father, and child springing from two opposites. It may represent a solution to opposition. 2 is duality, making a decision, two sides of an arguement, parents, opposites) monitor that cost $44.95 (4 is physicality, stability, strength, home, reality. 9 represents the end of a cycle and the start of something new. 5 represents your body, consciousness, and your senses) you kept for yourself.
Again, a conflict of dependence and independence, but with you leaning toward home, stability, reality etc.
Hmm I told my mom about the internship program, I hope that will satisfy her that I'm not being idle.
My dependence and independence always conflict. I want to rely, but I want self-achievement. I go about alone but I wish I had company.

Thanks, oddly that kind of sounded like a fortune telling.

What do you describe of dreams where you get killed? or have pain inflicted?

[vaguely dissatisfied]

What do you describe of dreams where you get killed? or have pain inflicted?
Well the difference, to me, between fortune telling and dream interpretation is that the dream is coming from your mind....not mine.

So....your subconscious is forcing your conscious mind to look at issues that you would not normally look at in your waking life. The best person to interpret your dream is you. However, many people cannot or will not do this. That's where people like me come in because I really enjoy it and have been doing it for quite awhile so I have a little more experience and can act as a bit of a guide. But, of course, you would know best how your mind works and which comments click with you.

Dreams about being killed often depict an interior or exterior influence that is undermining, strangling, choking etc. your self-confidence or sense of identity.
Being hurt is about a past pain inflicted by someone that hurt you emotionally, physically etc. and still does.

[deicruxified]

So......what you deeply need or hope for is love, romance, or some other desire and when you get it this will give you a sense of wholeness. You are ready and capable to deal with whatever this fullfilled desire will bring.

thanks thanks thanks :)

last one, i my sister's... she often dreams of a ballerina dancing on broken glasses and as the ballerina dances, she wounds herself... this is her recurring drea,... she doesn't even know if it's a nightmare.

thanks a lot :)

as for my mom... yep i'm seeing that in her. she's way too absorbed with "being a perfect parent" that she totally forgets herself. on the other hand, someone interpreted her dream almost the same as yours. because of the fact that she is trying hard to be a perfect parent (short gist: my dad has always been away so she raised us not only as a mother but as a father) that (in the dream interpreter's own words) that she "becomes too dependent" on us for her to get that image. as a matter of fact, she tells me and my sister that when we get married, she wants us all to live in one house so we could still be together. her interpreter advises that if she learns to "let us go" especially me (since i am the always one that is lost in her dreams) the "nightmare" will end.

then one time i told my mom i want to be independent so i moved to my very own place. i was gone for half a year. since then she never went to the office and just stayed in her room until she got terribly ill. when i heard the news from my sister, i went home for the sake she would get 'normal' (the reason why i'm still living with her). a month after i came back, she told me that she had the same dream again but then i came back with a basket of grapes and i filled her room with flowers...

so... with my mother's dream interpreter's interpretation and yours, would it be safe to conclude that she really has to let go of us? i was thinking of two reasons why (1) she will free herself from her self-slavery of being a "perfect parent" (2) we will "grow" if she lets us go.

[vaguely dissatisfied]

thanks thanks thanks :)

last one, i my sister's... she often dreams of a ballerina dancing on broken glasses and as the ballerina dances, she wounds herself... this is her recurring drea,... she doesn't even know if it's a nightmare.

thanks a lot :)

as for my mom... yep i'm seeing that in her. she's way too absorbed with "being a perfect parent" that she totally forgets herself. on the other hand, someone interpreted her dream almost the same as yours. because of the fact that she is trying hard to be a perfect parent (short gist: my dad has always been away so she raised us not only as a mother but as a father) that (in the dream interpreter's own words) that she "becomes too dependent" on us for her to get that image. as a matter of fact, she tells me and my sister that when we get married, she wants us all to live in one house so we could still be together. her interpreter advises that if she learns to "let us go" especially me (since i am the always one that is lost in her dreams) the "nightmare" will end.

then one time i told my mom i want to be independent so i moved to my very own place. i was gone for half a year. since then she never went to the office and just stayed in her room until she got terribly ill. when i heard the news from my sister, i went home for the sake she would get 'normal' (the reason why i'm still living with her). a month after i came back, she told me that she had the same dream again but then i came back with a basket of grapes and i filled her room with flowers...

so... with my mother's dream interpreter's interpretation and yours, would it be safe to conclude that she really has to let go of us? i was thinking of two reasons why (1) she will free herself from her self-slavery of being a "perfect parent" (2) we will "grow" if she lets us go.
Well........I'm no psychologist, but I am the mother of two girls and I have always taught my girls that it is very important for them to know how to be alone. I think every person, including your mom, needs to be comfortable being by themselves and with themselves. You come into this world alone and you go out alone. It will take a great deal of help and effort for your mom to be able to do this......maybe even professional help.

Your sister's dream:
Dancing represents a spontaneous expression of inner feelings, harmony, feeling at one with yourself, and may mean contact with the devine. Stepping on broken glass represents hidden dangers, being careless about a present situation, and self inflicted pain. If the glass the ballerina is dancing on is actually reading glasses.......this can also mean that your sister is hiding from herself and lacks understanding.

Sounds like your sister is reaching for happiness or harmony in her life in some way, but is doing something carless or harmful to herself in this attempt. Your sister may not be very introspective.

[lancelot]

I was in a large two story house, it was night time, a lion walked down the stairs past me, I stopped breathing and moving as he passed me. I tried to save my sister, I looked out the window and a lion had killed her, her insides had been ripped out. I woke up.

[Antares]

I remember having nightmares for a couple of days, but I can only remember two.

The first one, I was in a hotel room with two single beds. On the other bed, *someone* is on it, but I have no idea who. Then strangely, a bellboy walks into the room and pulls up my covers for me. Afterwards, the bellboy appeared uneasy and suddenly he was being dragged away by an invisible force and thrown against the wall. Just before he landed, he told me to "run!". I tried to heed his advice by found myself rooted to the spot. 'The force' then came to me and tried to strangle me, and that was when I woke up.

Another dream was when I was half-awake. I actually woke up one time, but I must have fallen asleep again. In my dream, I was in my bed, and it was the same time as when I woke up earlier. Everyone left the house, I know that for a fact (in real life), but with my eyes half-open, I saw shadows walking around the room and muffled female voice talking (it was not my mother). I asked: "Who's there?" And the voice didn't reply. I knew something was up, so I got up and tried to run, but before I got very far, I fell over and was pinned face-down, then suffocation and drowsiness came over me and I woke up.

[vaguely dissatisfied]

I was in a large two story house, it was night time, a lion walked down the stairs past me, I stopped breathing and moving as he passed me. I tried to save my sister, I looked out the window and a lion had killed her, her insides had been ripped out. I woke up.
A house usually represents yourself, your body, your personality.

Stairs represent a challenge, a need for balance, confidence, control of fear, strength of purpose. Therefore, stairs represent many feelings in connection with achievement, failure, climbing and falling.

A lion represents the power of your physical strength, temper, emotions, or sexuality; love that has become anger through jealousy or pain. Being frightened of an attack or possible attack from a lion suggests an 'attack' of anxiety or fear about something. Since your sister is attacked by a lion this would suggest that the anxiety is about her.

A wild animal represents our unrepressed instinctive reactions such as sex and anger. In attack mode this is unleashed aggression. The attack on your sister depicts what you feel in relationship to her. The attack, the criticism and malign emotions, and internalized anger or fear.

Seeing your sister dead represents a feeling of hoplessness or loss of feelings in connection with her, or repressed anger toward her.

This dream is about you and your sister and the negative feelings you have toward her.





vaguely dissatisfied added to this post, 51 minutes and 32 seconds later...

I remember having nightmares for a couple of days, but I can only remember two.

The first one, I was in a hotel room with two single beds. On the other bed, *someone* is on it, but I have no idea who. Then strangely, a bellboy walks into the room and pulls up my covers for me. Afterwards, the bellboy appeared uneasy and suddenly he was being dragged away by an invisible force and thrown against the wall. Just before he landed, he told me to "run!". I tried to heed his advice by found myself rooted to the spot. 'The force' then came to me and tried to strangle me, and that was when I woke up.

Another dream was when I was half-awake. I actually woke up one time, but I must have fallen asleep again. In my dream, I was in my bed, and it was the same time as when I woke up earlier. Everyone left the house, I know that for a fact (in real life), but with my eyes half-open, I saw shadows walking around the room and muffled female voice talking (it was not my mother). I asked: "Who's there?" And the voice didn't reply. I knew something was up, so I got up and tried to run, but before I got very far, I fell over and was pinned face-down, then suffocation and drowsiness came over me and I woke up.
First dream:
A hotel represents new areas of yourself. Attitudes in yourself that may not be permanent.

A bed can represent rest, unconsciousness, sexual pleasure, relationships, dreams, and escape from the world into sleep. Since there are two beds, the number two represents duality; relationship, indecision or making a decision; balance; male and female; two sides to an argument - or a way of comparing; opposition; the opposites such as light and darkness, harmony or conflict; parents and reproductive possibility.

A blanket or covers represents comfort and warmth, both physical and emotional; an attitude we can hide under/behind; an attitude or experience we are wrapped in. Since the covers are removed, this may mean that you are being forced out of your comfort zone. The bellboy could represent the words bell and boy. A bell is a warning ... so the forcible removal of the covers could be a warning as well as the boy warning you to run.

The invisible force represents something emerging from the unconscious, something forgotten, or some hidden influence.

The bellboy being hurt by the invisible force may represent a pain from your past. The invisible force strangling you may mean that your life or energy is being cut off by an attitude, fear, or repression. You may be holding back emotions with regard to this pain from the past, so it might be feelings about someone living or dead that you are holding back and/or repressed emotions or memories.

You are entering a shift of attitude with regard to someone or something and you're attempting to hide from or not recognize this change or emerging thought pattern. Your subconscious is warning you about this and that it will be difficult, but you are feeling helpless to control or turn away from this emotion, memory, person or whatever.

Dream 2:
A voice is an expression of yourself.....your subtle feelings or realizations.....and the connection with these unidentified parts of yourself. Contact with these aspects of ourselves often shows up in dreams as a separate voice. This part of yourself is attempting to make contact with you, but is being thwarted and, therefore, is muffled.

Knowing you are alone could mean a sense of isolation or a feeling of independence depending on your dream feeling.

Being smothered is similar to being choked in that it involves repression of an emotion or an emerging emotion or memory.

[Jgib5328]

I keep trying to remember my dreams and I keep forgetting them every time, it's so frustrating.

[AgentofGaming]

I keep trying to remember my dreams and I keep forgetting them every time, it's so frustrating.
I don't think dreams can be remembered very well. After waking up it's all a haze, and the longer after waking up the more hazey it gets. Also dreams are seldom remembered, since they aren't actual. So don't get too frustrated, it's just like that. I've had really powerful dreams that can have an influence, but without the memory of what happened in it.

[Santana28]

the only dreams i really remember are the recurring ones - and sometimes i'll forget that i had the dream for years, and then dream it all over again and remember it.

i don't dream much at all currently. i think it has to do with my sleep disorder, and difficulty reaching REM. i had more dreams and remembered them when i was on medication for a short while that addressed the sleep problem. i'm patiently waiting for another meaningful one...

[vaguely dissatisfied]

I keep trying to remember my dreams and I keep forgetting them every time, it's so frustrating.
Like anything, it takes practice. If you lay in bed for awhile right after you wake up and try to think about your dreams without allowing any thoughts about your waking life to enter, then you will eventually start to remember your dreams....especially the really powerful ones. It takes time and energy.

[Jgib5328]

Like anything, it takes practice. If you lay in bed for awhile right after you wake up and try to think about your dreams without allowing any thoughts about your waking life to enter, then you will eventually start to remember your dreams....especially the really powerful ones. It takes time and energy.


Right after I've been waking up, I try to think about what I just dreamed, and it was blank. I'll try it again tonight/tomorrow morning.

[lancelot]

Interesting, but no, not exactly. The dream had to do with my sister having an operation.

[deicruxified]

Well........I'm no psychologist, but I am the mother of two girls and I have always taught my girls that it is very important for them to know how to be alone. I think every person, including your mom, needs to be comfortable being by themselves and with themselves. You come into this world alone and you go out alone. It will take a great deal of help and effort for your mom to be able to do this......maybe even professional help.

Your sister's dream:
Dancing represents a spontaneous expression of inner feelings, harmony, feeling at one with yourself, and may mean contact with the devine. Stepping on broken glass represents hidden dangers, being careless about a present situation, and self inflicted pain. If the glass the ballerina is dancing on is actually reading glasses.......this can also mean that your sister is hiding from herself and lacks understanding.

Sounds like your sister is reaching for happiness or harmony in her life in some way, but is doing something carless or harmful to herself in this attempt. Your sister may not be very introspective.

thanks so much...

as for my mom... i think you are right... a lot of people had told her the same. but i do hope the time comes when she would listen. i really can't stand her emotional blackmail any longer

as for my sister, she's entp and does not know what she's going to do with her life. one factor is, again, my mom who tends to be pushy in her "dreams" for me and my sister. she's not as emotionally stable as i am and would tend to binge drink or cut herself (on the literal sense of the statement "hurting herself" yes you are right). if there's one thing she depends on for strength in the family that'd be me but then again, like my mom, i want her to be independent.

[Jgib5328]

Vague, I just remembered a dream. Two actually and I wrote them down. Do you mind analyzing one of them? It's long.

I don’t really remember how I got there, but I was in the middle shower of my dorm’s bathroom (the only good shower in my hall's bathroom). It looked like it was just being rebuilt or something. It was pretty decrepit looking. I remember the wall that separated the showers on the left wasn’t finished and when I looked over the unfinished wall it was pretty dark and kinda gloomy looking. The next thing I remember is that I was in some random building that I don’t really remember. We had some sort of meeting or something. Then some guy from Northwestern Mutual ( was offered a first interview here, but not a second) was interviewing some kid, and for some reason I was watching. Everyone knew I was there, but still it was ok for me to be there. I wanted to leave but I was there for awhile. When I eventually did leave towards the end of the interview I entered my room at my real home. I remember something about playing Super Mario Galaxy. Then I also remember going to my bathroom, and my barber and this random kid were talking about something just outside of my open bathroom door, while I was naked in my bathroom with the door slightly open. It was natural, I wasn’t embarrassed or anything and I don’t really think they noticed. Then my barber said something to me. I went into my room again and suddenly I had to get ready for an important event of some sort. I had my suit on, but I couldn’t find my shoes. I had a huge bag filled with shoes, but I couldn’t find the right ones. Then I think a kid from my College, friend 1 (a kid who I feel intellectually inadequate to) sort of mocked me about it. I then saw one of the shoes I needed up against the wall of my room, but I couldn’t find the matching pair. I then was suddenly at my college’s gym. I was behind one of the squat racks doing something. I don’t really think I was lifting, I might have been talking to someone. I think friend 2 (one of my really good friends whom I talk to every day, often about weight lifting) was there. So I look around and I think I see friend 1 who just finished benching whatever he was benching, and it was kinda a lot, but it didn’t make sense the way he put the weight on the bench. It was all out of order. After that I was leaning against a squat rack and I saw acquaintance 1 walk past me. I kinda didn’t feel like talking to him, but kinda did. When he walked past and I didn’t say anything, I imagined that I asked him something about a mutual friend, but I called that friend, acquaintance 1's first name then I caught that mistake in my head and said, “acquaintance 2”, but everyone calls this friend another name. I then told my friend who I think was Friend 2 that I hit drew while I was lifting. Then all of a sudden I see acquaintance 3 (A person who I respect because he is hard working and a great golfer, although he joined a frat in college, which I didn't respect) and I hit him with the barbell, or he just runs into it. He looked really angry at me and I said, “That wasn’t intentional acquaintance 3, I’m sorry”. Then I kinda follow them to another part of the gym and they are with some big black guy and another kid named acquaintance 4 (a friend of 3's and a kid I've known for about 13 years). 4 and I kinda acknowledge each other. Then I definitely know friend 2 was there. This huge black guy was trying to bench 365 and we were all amazed about it, but then when I went to get some water, he failed and the weights fell off or they looked like they were about to. Then acquaintance 5 and 6 appeared (both kids from my football team in high school). 5 was trying to bench 315. I remember thinking that this was pretty good, but not as good as he used to bench. Then I went over to spot him on the right side, and friend 2 and I argued about it. Then 5 started to bench it. He stuggled with the first one, but managed to get another one. Then I remember walking really close to him while he was still laying on the bench and said, “It’s the return of 5” or “5 is back”. I didn’t entirely mean that though, since he wasn’t as strong as he was, but he was better than he was previously. (I said this, because he used to be really strong, but got lazy and fat and ended up getting really weak. I also forgot to mention that I was maxing out for bench press yesterday)

I know what a lot of it means, like the shoe thing seems to be my frustration over the fact that friend 1 can do things that trouble me, easily. Some of the other stuff I don't get though.

[vaguely dissatisfied]

Vague, I just remembered a dream. Two actually and I wrote them down. Do you mind analyzing one of them? It's long.

I don’t really remember how I got there, but I was in the middle shower of my dorm’s bathroom (the only good shower in my hall's bathroom). It looked like it was just being rebuilt or something. It was pretty decrepit looking. I remember the wall that separated the showers on the left wasn’t finished and when I looked over the unfinished wall it was pretty dark and kinda gloomy looking. The next thing I remember is that I was in some random building that I don’t really remember. We had some sort of meeting or something. Then some guy from Northwestern Mutual ( was offered a first interview here, but not a second) was interviewing some kid, and for some reason I was watching. Everyone knew I was there, but still it was ok for me to be there. I wanted to leave but I was there for awhile. When I eventually did leave towards the end of the interview I entered my room at my real home. I remember something about playing Super Mario Galaxy. Then I also remember going to my bathroom, and my barber and this random kid were talking about something just outside of my open bathroom door, while I was naked in my bathroom with the door slightly open. It was natural, I wasn’t embarrassed or anything and I don’t really think they noticed. Then my barber said something to me. I went into my room again and suddenly I had to get ready for an important event of some sort. I had my suit on, but I couldn’t find my shoes. I had a huge bag filled with shoes, but I couldn’t find the right ones. Then I think a kid from my College, friend 1 (a kid who I feel intellectually inadequate to) sort of mocked me about it. I then saw one of the shoes I needed up against the wall of my room, but I couldn’t find the matching pair. I then was suddenly at my college’s gym. I was behind one of the squat racks doing something. I don’t really think I was lifting, I might have been talking to someone. I think friend 2 (one of my really good friends whom I talk to every day, often about weight lifting) was there. So I look around and I think I see friend 1 who just finished benching whatever he was benching, and it was kinda a lot, but it didn’t make sense the way he put the weight on the bench. It was all out of order. After that I was leaning against a squat rack and I saw acquaintance 1 walk past me. I kinda didn’t feel like talking to him, but kinda did. When he walked past and I didn’t say anything, I imagined that I asked him something about a mutual friend, but I called that friend, acquaintance 1's first name then I caught that mistake in my head and said, “acquaintance 2”, but everyone calls this friend another name. I then told my friend who I think was Friend 2 that I hit drew while I was lifting. Then all of a sudden I see acquaintance 3 (A person who I respect because he is hard working and a great golfer, although he joined a frat in college, which I didn't respect) and I hit him with the barbell, or he just runs into it. He looked really angry at me and I said, “That wasn’t intentional acquaintance 3, I’m sorry”. Then I kinda follow them to another part of the gym and they are with some big black guy and another kid named acquaintance 4 (a friend of 3's and a kid I've known for about 13 years). 4 and I kinda acknowledge each other. Then I definitely know friend 2 was there. This huge black guy was trying to bench 365 and we were all amazed about it, but then when I went to get some water, he failed and the weights fell off or they looked like they were about to. Then acquaintance 5 and 6 appeared (both kids from my football team in high school). 5 was trying to bench 315. I remember thinking that this was pretty good, but not as good as he used to bench. Then I went over to spot him on the right side, and friend 2 and I argued about it. Then 5 started to bench it. He stuggled with the first one, but managed to get another one. Then I remember walking really close to him while he was still laying on the bench and said, “It’s the return of 5” or “5 is back”. I didn’t entirely mean that though, since he wasn’t as strong as he was, but he was better than he was previously. (I said this, because he used to be really strong, but got lazy and fat and ended up getting really weak. I also forgot to mention that I was maxing out for bench press yesterday)

I know what a lot of it means, like the shoe thing seems to be my frustration over the fact that friend 1 can do things that trouble me, easily. Some of the other stuff I don't get though.
Well..............

A shower represents a way of changing or shifting your feelings; cleansing irritations or emotions that cloud your inner life. Your attempts to come clean with yourself, or the removal of grime and dirt acquired from your mental emotional contacts with life and people. The fact that the bathroom is in a state of disrepair, but is being rebuilt may indicate something about the state of your feelings about yourself or others being in a state of rebuilding.

A wall represents a problem; a difficulty; or situations that confine. A wall also shows the boundaries you place between yourself and others, or that are put there by society or other people. The unfinished wall may mean that you are in the process of dealing with a situation or putting up a barrier.

Darkness represents a lack of understanding; difficult grasping something, obscurity. Dark can also mean ancient, worn dark with age, and it can relate to sombre, or depressing feelings. The barrier or difficulty which you are facing involves some lack of understanding on your part or depressed feelings you are dealing with.

The building represents yourself, and your different activities or departments in life. First work related, then working out and recreation related.

In the first building you are in a meeting which represents confrontation, or encountering challenge, or about some sort of communication. There might also, in the communication, be questions asked, questions your subconscious is trying to answer. A group meeting indicates activities, decisions, directions that are not simply your own. Your involvement with other people. But also, at a more symbolic level, the bringing together of more aspects of yourself. Therefore a large group suggests a lot of energy involving many different aspects of yourself. The desire to leave may indicate a resitance on your part to expend your energy in this way.

Being naked represents revealing what we usually try to conceal, in the way of feelings, thoughts and reactions. The fact that it seems natural to you and not uncomfortable suggests that you are ready and willing to deal with these things that may be irritating you.

A barber represents a question on your mind of how to alter the way people see you. Whatever the barber said is your subconscious mind giving you a clue as to how to do this. Perhaps you would like to alter the way this kid (kid #1) sees you.

Being in your room represents whatever that room means to you as far as a state of feeling or atmosphere. A condition or possibility.

Shoes often represent your standing in life, your role, or situation. They might particularly point to the life skills you use to deal with the rough places of life. The fact that you can't find a matched pair of shoes that are suitable may indicate feelings about a lost opportunity, something that you have forgotten that you need to remember, or the loss of an important personal quality like confidence. Since this kid (kid # 1) is mocking you and you feel inadaquate to him this further indicates a loss of confidence.

Dreams about weight(s) can be about influence and power. Your friends represent themselves and your relationship with each of them. You have to examine what each of these people mean to you and how they impact your life to get a better idea of why they figure in your dream.

Numbers seem to be a theme here. The number 3 symbolizes the triangle, and represents a unity of the positive and negative to create a new condition; creativity out of opposites or opposition. Five represents the human body; human consciousness in the body. Six represents symmetry, unity of spirit and body, the visible and invisible. Perhaps both body building and mind building.

There seems to be a message of working or building on both your body and your mind. The work place and gym are prominant themes and may represent a dichotomy in your life that needs to be addressed. The bathroom represent a need for a change, a cleansing, a shift that has to do with these two aspects of your life (work/mind vs. recreation/body). Perhaps you are paying to much attention to one aspect of your life or mind/body and not enough to another?

[Jgib5328]

As always, spot on vague. These have been the feelings/thoughts that have been running through my mind recently.

Also, I've started reading about dreams finally, mainly the Freudian stuff. Is that where you started learning about dream interpretation? And are you a psychologist? Since you are so good at this stuff.

[vaguely dissatisfied]

As always, spot on vague. These have been the feelings/thoughts that have been running through my mind recently.

Also, I've started reading about dreams finally, mainly the Freudian stuff. Is that where you started learning about dream interpretation? And are you a psychologist? Since you are so good at this stuff.
I'm not a psychologist, but I like to pretend I'm one. No... really I took alot of psychology courses in school...probably could have minored in it. I am very intrigued with all aspects of psychology including dream interpretation. Freud is a good place to start, but I'd suggest reading whatever you can get your hands on. Freud makes everything sexual.

Whoever discusses subconscious is a good thing to read.

[Learning]

Do you have reccuring dreams? Now personally, I don't believe that dreams 'mean' anything per se, it is interesting though. I tend to be hiding from some really scary dude (or a wolf) and the doors never really shut or cover the doorway. That, and a weird floating/flying (think crouching tiger, hidden dragon).
want to share?
I do have them occassionally. Just my 2cts., I do think that our brains are still active while we're sleeping, though, & are probably playing something back for us in some garbled way :).
There are books that claim to know what dreams mean... but I tend to think it's more of a personal experience. For example, when I've had a recurring dream about a place I used to live as a kid (and actually remember the dream when I wake up), I'll try to remember what was going on at that point in my life to see if it relates in any way to recent experiences I might be having... something I saw or felt that day perhaps?

[MichaelH]

My recurring dreams tend to be at most for a few nights in a row while I'm dealing with a particular issue.

I want to help support the idea that dreams can be communication from our subconscious. I've had some dreams that are just random "stuff", but the few I remember tend to be blatantly symbolic. (I think my subconscious knows it can't be subtle with me. :) ) I treasure the dreams I remember because it's a means of access to another level of myself.

[lancelot]

"Perhaps..........but the dream indicates sime kind of struggle with your mother at that time."

Your interpretation of symbology is interesting, are you getting it from a book?

[vaguely dissatisfied]

"Perhaps..........but the dream indicates sime kind of struggle with your mother at that time."

Your interpretation of symbology is interesting, are you getting it from a book?
Yes by Tony Crisp. He has a website too............DreamHawk.

[Haphazard]

I've never had a recurring dream.

But, whenever I fall in dreams, I always fall, never fly. I've heard that this has something to do with pessimistic versus optimistic view, so I guess that says something about me.

I've had some seriously bizarre dreams recently. I had a dream last week within a dream and I knew all throughout that they were dreams. It was really obnoxious because I wanted to get up but I couldn't wake up. Before an extremely stressful presentation I kept having dreams that I'd forget the media that I needed or have supreme makeup failure for that project (I needed binders and was doing stage makeup), but curiously I didn't have any dreams about forgetting the material or not saying what I needed to say.

[PRBori]

Cool...

Well I would like an analysis too.. please pretty please..

OK, so I don't dream, but I'm just curious....

My friend actually has dreamt about me and him in a cruise the first date he met me, and he continously keep having dreams about myself and him being intimate in a cruise....

It seems that everytime I appear on his dreams we are on a cruise... any reason why a cruise in particular?

Just though I let you know, we only see each other like every 3+ months, and talk on the phone on the weekends. Which to me makes it more interesting...

Thank U...

[mabts]

Vaguely, master seer of souls, I've got a dream I was wondering if you could interpret. It's not a recurring dream though.

I'm riding in a car with my brother and he's going really fast. We come around a bend and we're going so fast we can't make the turn so the car crashes through a wall and into some type of parking-ramp type building. Both of us are perfectly fine - no scratches or injuries. Now we're in a room and there's a shallow pool of water. I look in the room next to us and there's a swimming pool style pool. Then comes a creepy blue gorilla type thing but it's pretty small. It comes toward me and bites my finger. I remain completely calm, grab his head, and hold the blue-gorilla type creature's head underwater in the shallow type pool and kill it. After this, I woke up.

[vaguely dissatisfied]

I've never had a recurring dream.

But, whenever I fall in dreams, I always fall, never fly. I've heard that this has something to do with pessimistic versus optimistic view, so I guess that says something about me.

I've had some seriously bizarre dreams recently. I had a dream last week within a dream and I knew all throughout that they were dreams. It was really obnoxious because I wanted to get up but I couldn't wake up. Before an extremely stressful presentation I kept having dreams that I'd forget the media that I needed or have supreme makeup failure for that project (I needed binders and was doing stage makeup), but curiously I didn't have any dreams about forgetting the material or not saying what I needed to say.
Falling usually represents a threat that has arisen in your life from something like uncertainty, loss of a relationship, money, work or death of someone. It often illustrates a drop in confidence, or your feelings of falling from power, grace, love. It may even suggest falling in love, or the fear of not being in control.

The recent dreams are about stress and anxiety, probably over the fear of failure.





vaguely dissatisfied added to this post, 3 minutes and 26 seconds later...

Cool...

Well I would like an analysis too.. please pretty please..

OK, so I don't dream, but I'm just curious....

My friend actually has dreamt about me and him in a cruise the first date he met me, and he continously keep having dreams about myself and him being intimate in a cruise....

It seems that everytime I appear on his dreams we are on a cruise... any reason why a cruise in particular?

Just though I let you know, we only see each other like every 3+ months, and talk on the phone on the weekends. Which to me makes it more interesting...

Thank U...
Being on a ship may represent your friend's feelings about what is happening in your relation-ship. In some dreams it may show hopes of change, new things. Like maybe taking the relationship to the next level.





vaguely dissatisfied added to this post, 25 minutes and 15 seconds later...

Vaguely, master seer of souls, I've got a dream I was wondering if you could interpret. It's not a recurring dream though.

I'm riding in a car with my brother and he's going really fast. We come around a bend and we're going so fast we can't make the turn so the car crashes through a wall and into some type of parking-ramp type building. Both of us are perfectly fine - no scratches or injuries. Now we're in a room and there's a shallow pool of water. I look in the room next to us and there's a swimming pool style pool. Then comes a creepy blue gorilla type thing but it's pretty small. It comes toward me and bites my finger. I remain completely calm, grab his head, and hold the blue-gorilla type creature's head underwater in the shallow type pool and kill it. After this, I woke up.
When you are the passenger of a car in a dream this usually represents a passive or learning relationship with the person driving. Or it maybe that you are being influenced by their opinions or emotions. The car crash represents the fears and feelings that interrupt your journey, the attitudes and care, or lack of it that drive you in life. Some car dreams may warn you of attitudes you have that are dangerous, in this case perhaps with your brother.
A wall represents a problem; a difficulty; or situations that confine, protect or shelter. It may indicate the inability to solve a problem. A wall also shows the boundaries you place between yourself and others, or that are put there by society or other people.

A pool represents looking into yourself and becoming aware of what you are feeling.
A gorilla represents powerful instinctual forces that we either struggle with or learn from. It confronts us with the feelings and drives that lie underneath our conscious personality and may sometimes erupt or confront us in a variety of ways. The wild animal represents our unrepressed instinctive reactions such as sex and anger. In the attacking mode it is unleashed aggression. In some dreams being attacked depicts what we feel in relationship with other people (perhaps your brother?). The attack, the criticism and malign emotions directed at us by others are frequently shown as an animal attacking or biting us, as is our own internalised anger or fear. The color blue relates to the mind, religious feelings, and intuition. It deals with the experience of expansion, as when we feel new ideas and views opening to us.

Drowning shows you feeling very anxious about something. It usually links with strong and difficult emotions, that you feel you do not know how to find a way through.
Killing an animal can represent what you are doing to your inner nature.

[idrinkwater]

Dang I always forget my dreams. I can only remember vague images now, not whole dreams. Perhaps its because I always shrug them off when I wake up, rather than thinking about them, which would probably help me write them into my memory. Maybe I should try writing them down...

As has been already stated, thinking about your dreams as you wake up helps you retain them better. Writing them down also allows you to remember them well. I was on a site once that suggested thinking about dreaming and anticipating it right before you go to bed to be more lucid in your dream.