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Every dream is a direct, personal, and meaningful message to the dreamer. This communication uses symbols common to all mankind, but always in an individual way. By identifying what a symbol means to us, we can start to identify the message a dream brings.
Dream Interpretation is a place to post your dreams with the aim of having others discuss and interpret possible meanings of your dream or its constituent parts. . . .
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"…when someone tells me a dream … [I have made a rule] to say first of all to myself ‘I have no idea what this dream means’ then I can begin." - C.G. Jung
Every dream is a direct and personal message to the dreamer. This communication uses symbols common to all mankind, but always in an individual way. By allowing the dreamer to identify what a symbol means, we gain insight to what message the dream carries.
r/DreamInterpretation's focus is to offer dream analysis that attempts to guide the dreamer along, using a Jungian approach, allowing them to derive meaning from their dream's symbols. Sometimes the dreamer just needs someone to help "sort" the contents of their dream... to find the patterns and connections that emerge from the associations they make to the contents of their dream. This is different from other dream communities in that we are not using dream dictionaries to derive a symbol's meaning.
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my father had a dream last night and i’d like to know if anyone might have some kind of explanation for it? i am a muslim so ideally maybe a islamic perspective but anything will do.
just for some context i am his 19 year old daughter. my dads baby sister passed away from a terrorist attack and he saw her dead body on the floor and it ruined him for life. this was about 40 years ago. he hasn’t thought about her recently but she appeared in his dream and this is what happened.
me and him went to her and her fathers grave. i said i wanna go see them and apparently his little sister looked up at me. when she did, so did her father (my grandad). my dad said come outside and let them rest let’s go. i left and his little sister followed me.
what does this mean?
I had a dream in which I awoke in a cold sweat, elevated heart rate and heavy breathing. I was asleep for approximately 2.5hrs.
Second dream:
It was night time, in a theme park very dark we only had moonlight. The park was not open I was a maintenance man working along side people who I never seen before. There was a possessed girl I don't know where she came from I remember us running as a group and being picked off one by one. Her powers were mild, just elevated speed, strength and gross completions. We would hide separately, and together but eventually she would end up eating someone or dragging them away. We called for help but no response, it did not make sense why we could not contact anyone else. Several physical struggles ensued in which I witnessed and was a part of, I was not gravely harmed others were not so lucky. There's was 5-6 others in total. I find myself hiding behind a old red building in a street looking at large rusty water tank that has collapsed on its side with a hatch open, at the bottom. I am guessing that's the item we were working on. As a team we were able to get the demon inside the tank, but at the expense of someone sacrificing themselves. The demon followed them inside the tank , I ran up and closed the hatch door, hearing the screams dropped me to my knees crying. We all agreed to get rid of the demon and swear to secretary, there are 3 people including me who survived. We lifted the tank and threw it in a lake. I then change to a later time in which I fell guilty about not telling anyone what happened but I know the demon would hurt more people. I also never saw the others after that night.
The first dream was approximately 3 months ago, same setting different characters, demon had a bit more supernatural+possession power. Ended the same way.
Yesterday I fell asleep determined to find answers to my chronic back pain in the astral realm. I tried to astral project but never got to the vibratory state, so I finally fell asleep.
In my dream, I was in a house with my current parner. A friend and her family also inhabited the house. It was a big country house in a rural mexican town. Streets were not pavimented, everything seemed kind of dusty. We went for a walk in town and passed several small markets, until I saw an indigenous woman.
She was middle aged, not very tall, semi dark skin, dark hair with little gray, kind of chubby but not fat, wearing braided hair and a white indigenous dress. She was returning from the market with a little grain salt package in her right hand, she seemed to be returning to someone in a hurry. I asked her if she was a healer, to which she said yes. I asked her if she could tell what was wrong with me (I don't remember if I ever specified about my back), and she said that "there was a son" and that he was mad. (I had an abortion some 10 years ago). At the very same moment, another lady appear, also indigenous, but she seemed older, and she didn't speak a proper Spanish. She had the same kind of dress, but her hair was all gray and short, her skin was lighter, she seemed a little chubbier, and about the same height as the first one. (Maybe 5'2"). She kind of interrupted the other one's "diagnosis" and with a loud firm voice she said: "No, she's stepping on it, she's stepping on the evil and the evil is coming in through her feet" - in a mispronounced Spanish.
So I got two diagnoses, but I didn't understand the sencond one. I did what I could do right now, say a prayer for my unborn child. But the second diagnosis, I don't know what to make of, any clues?
So I’ve had this dream only twice from what I can recall, and it always happens when I’m in an apartment, it felt like I was inside of the apt apartment sleeping and all of a sudden we’re on water, like the apartment is being transported onto water and then later into a plane— I can feel the house shake and the room spinning and spinning but it feels like it’s actually happening in real time but I have no idea what this means! It’s the weirdest dream and feeling to have because I believe that it’s actually happening but it sounds crazy.
Me and ex had been on and off since January & we stop talking in august and rekindled in October and still didnt work out. Its now november ive been dating and doing me but he seem to pop up in my dreams and im not sure why.
This is so far my 3rd year crushing over this guy , and it's a crush from afar , meaning I have never talked to him or anything. One day I knew he has a gf, but I've noticed that they might be keeping their relationship a secret as much as they can to the point I am thinking they broke up this year.However last night I had a dream that his gf have been pregnant with his baby since last year (all I was thinking about at that moment is they had sex, more specifically he fucked her) and that she had an argument with him and broke up with him the moment she found out that he impregnated her (wich is by the end of last year). And thus, in the dream, I found out how and when they broke up, all pieces have fallen into place.
I was walking into some kind of garden somewhere in South America. I remember some people (who presumably owned the garden) stating how the garden was a great place to find peace and quiet, but to watch out for snakes. I get to the entrance of the garden where there was a large tree with dense foliage and there were these black rope looking things with cloudy white spots all over them hanging from the branches. I realized it was a massive snake…But to make matters worse, the snake had the head of a black panther. I was terrified, so I ran to hide in a dirty dilapidated public restroom.
When I woke up, I felt like it may have been symbolic in some way. I know deities in many religions are described as being comprised of different parts of different animals. I really have no clue what it means😅 I figured I’d see if anyone here might have any guesses.
Would anyone know what seeing an owl with a 3rd eye in a dream means? The owl closed its 3rd eye as soon as it noticed that I saw it. It only lasted a few seconds, right before I woke up. The 3rd eye was located above its 2 other eyes.
Thanks!
I (20 M) need someone to help interpret this because it's the first dream I remembered in a while. The sene is outside of my old junior high which is next to a graveyard. There's a Deep metal sink connected to the brick wall and I'm grabbing plates from my car too washing them in the sink. After washing the glass plate with blue flowers, and the metal plate, I grab the plastic plate and the clear glass plate. As I'm heading to the sink I stop mid way and look all over. A guy ask me if I need any help and I say no "I don't think you do, there is a spider on the handle". After finding a stick I watched the orange and black spider run up its web to a tree in which it gets attacked by a bird. I finally wash the last two dishes and when turnning around the spider come scurrying towards me. That scares me and I wake up.
At first I dreamt I was walking through a shopping centre, and I met a girl I knew from college. We weren’t close but she always was friendly with me. She went to Harvard eventually, and moved back to our town. When we bump into each other, I panic and lie to her about buying a restaurant (actually a family member’s new restaurant). I just want to be able to talk to her about something, but I feel uneasy deep down about how easily I can lie.
Next, I dream I see my two ex best friends in the food court. We fell out because I had mental health issues, and I felt they were being unsupportive. We never had a last meeting. I glide up to them, and tap them on the shoulder. I say “can we talk”. We do, and they are receptive and kind. But I’m driving most of the convo. I reiterate that I want the best for them, and things just weren’t working out for me with the way they were being. One friend invites me to her new apartment. It is very snazzy, and I feel a little envious, but I also think it’s right for her. She’s growing into the person she is supposed to be. After she shows me the upstairs, it’s a thin bronze ladder in front of ceramic tile thin stairs, we climb up it with difficulty into the attic area. There is some kind of party happening, I mingle and everyone thinks I’m charming. I tell a few stories I have on hand, but again I’m lying a little when I tell them, and deep down it bothers me again that I am not being entirely honest. After that there seems to be a raid, and everybody comes running out of the space, except everyone has now swapped faces. They are wearing masks of each other, and they are literal flesh masks of each other’s faces. I slide through the same entrance I struggled to get into at first, and I come out onto the road now. I’m dressed for some kind of black tie masquerade party. My friend from work is walking alongside me and we make small talk about finding a bus or taxi to get home. We see our other friend hop into a golden Mercedes with her rich father and we wave her goodbye, secretly a little envious again.
Gosh, I just woke up and I’m exhausted !
I used to have nightmares of ghost regularly. I’m 26m. This dream felt really vivid and I remember thinking about how real the dream felt: Living in my house with my wife, son and a couple other people. Whenever I found myself alone in the house I’d see a strange occurrence like a toy moving on its own or something similar. Otherwise there was some kind of complex story happening where all of us were being recruited to a “mission” of some kind that I don’t remember. Eventually, I started to get worried about maybe being haunted. I lock all the doors in the house to hide and the ghost walked up next to me in the kitchen. It was about my height and had no face. Its face was a texture that was always morphing. There were no noises, and it didn’t even feel like a jump scare. But it scared the shit out of me. It was a split second and I started screaming and my wife says I woke up making loud noises. I also recall it MAYBE being a girl. I don’t know if that’s important to know. Edit: Fixed wording in first sentence
My brother has moved away but I dreamt that the whole family got together and even he was able to come. This started as a very good dream, my brother and I were hanging out a lot as he was going to every place I did. A while into this dream, my brother, me, and Patty (sweet family friend, preacher’s wife) are all three sitting in hammocks. Mine is swinging very high (about 15 feet) and my brother is playing at trying to grab me when I swing by him. Patty tells him he looks rough and he asks her what she thinks he looks like. She says, “Not too bad, definitely handsome with the beard. Those black eyes are what do it. I’ve heard things about those people with black eyes.” At this time, I had swung back in my direction and I suddenly had this sick feeling like I couldn’t let him try to grab me again.
I stopped myself on the tree and pulled myself up a bit. I saw Patty subtly nod her head and my brother’s expression was neutral when I looked over at him. He asked me why I didn’t swing back over and I told him I just wanted to see if I could get high up. He said, “do you feel like you’re high up?” And I couldn’t tell exactly but I responded, “It looks like I’m pretty high up.” Then he asked me again with a big smile, “but do you feel like you’re pretty high up?”
At this time, I got scared and I suddenly wasn’t with them anymore. I was seeing these gory visions, body parts and people being attacked with acid. I kept saying I didn’t want to see and I was trying to look away. Finally, I was back in the house where everyone was staying. So, I went to look for Patty and ask her about what happened. When I peeked into her room, she was asleep.
This was when I realized I hadn’t seen my sister since the middle of the dream when things were still going well. I decided to let Patty sleep and go find my sister. I peeked into her room (I don’t know how I knew the rooms) but she wasn’t in there. I decided to look for her outside since she recently got a boyfriend and they’ve been sitting by the fire a lot. When I stepped outside, it was so cold I could see my breath and my bare feet were sticking to the porch. It was dark but there was a fire lit pretty close, so I called out for my sister.
My dad came walking up and I told him hi. He said, “You looked so rough, I almost didn’t recognize you.” This really bothered me but I was trying to find my sister. So, I just said, “Yeah, what are you doing? Do you know where sissy is?” And he told me in his very usual manner, “I’m just picking up out here.”
Then, there was a man coming from behind him that was walking oddly. It was sort of like a zombie but not so slow, just uncoordinated and jerky. I was confused, then I yelled, “Look out! You stay away from him!” And my dad turned and dodged the man just as the man started running for him. The man ran in an odd loop, came by me but ended up just passing me and going back for my dad.
This was the point where I woke up with my heart pounding. I’m just shook up because my nightmares don’t usually last so long or have such preamble. I do have nightmares from stress where I wake up screaming. They’re usually very quick, as in, just a few seconds long. This is probably an extension of those, but I wanted to write it out.
Last night, I had a dream that I was at high school and I'd just walked out of my class into the hallway. In the hallway there were two sets of fire doors pretty close together (so you turn right out of the classroom and there is the first fire door, then a few steps down the hallway and there is a second fire door). There was a girl on the other side of the first fire door and she asked me to let her out (the door was locked). I let her out and, as I had to go that way down the hallway, I swapped places with her. Then I realised that the second fire door was locked too and the first set had closed behind me and locked again. So I was stuck where the girl had been stuck before me.
Any idea what this one means?
I'm a female who just turned 28 less than a week ago and I'm currently looking for work whilst struggling with mental illness.
I had a dream last night that felt like a nightmare where I was working at a publisher's (I think Penguin) and then was called into a room by the CEO who was actually a TV actor from a children's show (Archie the Inventor from Balamory, a UK kids show).
The CEO offered me a crazy important job, like a director role, which I have no qualifications or experience for. The whole situation was also strangely sexually inappropriate like I was going to be expected to trade sex for the role, but this didn't happen.
I then started the job, which involved working crazy hours. Early to really late. It was all very stressful as I was trying to do a job I didn't know how to do and dealing with a toxic workplace/boss whilst working long hours, which made me miss other responsibilities/life events.
I was also, for some reason, living in the same block of flats I do in real life, but instead, I was living on the top floor.
I'm guessing I'm having some anxiety about looking for work and stuff, but I'd love to know some interpretations of the weirder details.
I had one of the most beautiful, comforting, disturbing and fricked up dreams I’ve ever had the other night. So for context I used to work in fast food in the beginning of the year in a small town so most people I knew. This girl walked in one day and she was totally my type I instantly liked her. I think about her every now and then and I guess I formed a crush on her. anyway back to the dream. In my dream I was at the zoo with a bunch of random people when I bump into her. we decided to walk around together and eventually we started cuddling in a bed room . I’ve never felt that feeling before and I’ve never cuddled with someone before. So after a while we kiss and decided to go back to the zoo and we see a guy get mauled to death by a lion. We weren’t really bothered by it. It’s a really strange and weird dream but is there any explanation to this or is this just my brain being weird.
I dreamt I was talking to my classmate he get mad about something and then I laughed at his opinion on something,and then he get mad and he knows I had a knife in my bag,he get it and try to stab me,I run and throw the chairs at him,I throw the chair at him until it's fully stacked,and then I wake up.
I don't know if this is a lucid dream of just a dream,because I simply know what to do in the situation,simply it's just like a play,when I wake up in that dream I felt relieve that I know he can't kill me 😂😂
This dream happened a few months ago, but I keep thinking about it.
I was aware in the dream that I was dreaming. In my dream, I got out of bed and walked into the kitchen, I looked out of the kitchen window and as I look out I can see planets, stars, and shooting stars in perfect clarity, so many vibrant colours and beauty.
Despite the beauty of it all I felt a little scared by how big the planets looked, so I went through the door that leads into the backyard to see just how big this universe was. I enter the backyard, and I see lots and lots of people from all walks of life, all dressed differently, some injured. And before I could approach them to my right a woman appears. She's very tall, I'm assuming that she was African based on her dark skin and the way that she was dressed. Her look was very intense, but welcoming. As in, I felt intimidated by her but I didn't think that she would harm me unless I was a "bad person".
I remember what I asked her, but I don't remember her answers. I do remember in the dream feeling very fulfilled spiritually by her answers and I tried to remember them in my dream- obviously upon waking I forgot.
I asked her where I was and I do feel like I was in a spiritual place.
I asked her who she was
and I asked her what happens when we die
Her eyes were wide and very striking, either red or gold in color, I can't remember but they were very intense.
My gut feeling is that this figure is something else, and not something that my mind has conjured. I've never experienced a dream like that one before.
For context as I'm reading the group sidebar: I'm 30, Female, Bisexual, and by the myers-briggs personality scale I'm INFP(Mediator)
I keep dreaming the guy I like ever since I met him It's weird because I've never dreamt a person this much I either dream that he's with me, he's cheating on me, abandoning me, in one of my dream he turned into the devil and some of it is us having an argument and him leaving me alone in the woods.
I hear him in my dreams, I smell him, I touch him, I even feel his warm hands during my dreams. I do think about him but not alot to dream him like this.
Last night, I dreamt that we were going on a double date with his friends and I was talking to his friend and I saw him swimming with a girl that's presumably his type and even in my dream I felt so hurt.
I even dream that he tried to kill me
Why am I only dreaming him?
Anyone have any idea on what my dream is trying to tell me?
I had a very bad experience with a relative several months ago. We haven’t spoken since.
I keep having dreams. In this one we were both children & she was doing that thing where you imitate the other person. I got so angry I told her to shutup & then woke up clobbering my pillow.
I guess my brain just has all this unresolved tensions & doesn’t know how to fix it. 😔
Okay, so there's this dream that I kinda had for like two days in a row. I remember that in the first night I dreamed about going to a shop and buying a cage for my dog. And in my dream I thought that I should also get a companion for him, so I got a big white guinea pig. I put both of them in the cage, and after a few days I found with my mom that the guinea pig didn't eat or drink, nor did it move and didn't react to anything. So, we both said that it died. We looked at it's face, but it had human like eyes with red circles around them. We thought that it looks weird and scary, so we put it down on its face again, but we left it in the cage. This was were the first dream ended. The second day I dreamed the continuation of this dream. So, again, I came to look at the cage and see what my dog was doing in the cage. The dead guinea pig was still there, so I tried moving him. Still had those unsettling human like eyes and red circles around them. I told my mom, that I was feeling like maybe the guinea pig wasn't dead, so I tried it moving it again to prove my point. Then the guinea pig attacked my hand. I did this a few times, and every time it attacked my hand, but if I did anything else, it was still dead.
So this is a dream of a girl who lead me on & then discarded me & then I saw her recently after 6 months, on the same block as me delivering, and then I ended up at her house delivering on her block weirdly and she happen to pull up at the same time as me delivering... a few weeks ago. Now yesterday I had this dream?
Dream:
Dreams she was distant from me at first and we avoided eachother then she started to talk to me, she agreed she would not talk to me, then she decided to talk to me anyway and I tried to confront her about all the things she did to me & why did she lead me on ? Knowing I was sick, with a chronic illness and depressed. I didn't get much of an answer from her... about it but then the dream changed but she was still there and following me around asking me questions, from dream to dream doing the same thing.
The dream are changing but she remains in each of them asking me questions and following me around the whole time. This happen through my whole dream. From my first dreams and ending to when I wake up the whole time. I have never had a dream before like this... what could this mean ?
I dreamt today and had 4 dreams which is super rare since I never remember my dreams typically. The last dream, I was driving behind a bakery delivery truck. Out of nowhere the truck started to wobble and finally tipped over. When it tips over, giant loaves of bread fall in abundance as the back door opens. They were super sized loaves of bread. I remember feeling happy in my dream.
Is this tied to abundance? Or prosperity? Does anyone have any insight?
So this is scary but I’ve had two dreams about dying within the last two weeks. Both were similar where it was almost like I was choking on some kind of fluid and then realized that was happening and then I woke up. Any ideas as to what this could mean?
I am looking for symbolism in the specific motifs that appeared in a dream I had last night. I had a dream where I was inspecting a (dead, cadaver/specimen, like you would in a museum or lab) rabbit sort of animal. I remember someone was with me, telling me it was an extinct animal. The some of the teeth looked vaguely human-like molars, or maybe deer teeth. I was just counting the teeth, and inspecting the dead animal. I also had a dream that I was on my tribe’s reservation (I am reconnecting Native American, to an Interior Salish tribe) earlier in the night, but I’m not sure those were related. Thanks for any input.
I dream a lot but this is a unique enough context that I can't find anything on Google for interpretation.
I have only ever worked at grocery stores. Practically lived there. I don't anymore due to disability and injuries.
I still ALWAYS dream that I'm at a grocery store, either as a customer or an employee. They're never stressful dreams, they're usually some of my better dreams, as I usually am prone to nightmares.
My friend dreamt about me shopping for treats for myself in a grocery store. Very similar to the ones I've been dreaming for a month, mostly I've been traveling all around Asia in the dreams and shopping for delicious treats or luxurious items there.
Just wondering if there is significance, especially because I usually brush these dreams off as almost boring for me, but I feel like the concept is branching off to those I have spiritual connections with in order to get my attention.
I lived in the country with my step mom, and we had a couple people over. My hairdresser (one of my spiritual friends), my grandma, and two kids. The house was small but 2 story, there was a shed to the left, and some buildings with some light to the right.
My hairdresser and I were in a shed talking business stuff and as it got dark, she saw a deer, pointed it out because she was terrified and it had something hanging from its mouth. There was a path to the house, so I grabbed her, screamed at the deer out of intuition to get it away, and we ran inside and locked up like fort knox lol. We got upstairs, I was talking to my mom and the other 3 people, and looked out because the top half of the back wall was a window. We saw a bunch of deer, which was super odd, but we carried on for the night.
The next night, I was out in the shed alone and as soon as it started to get dark, I locked up and headed inside. I'm part native and I know when to not fuck around and find out with nature lmao. I got inside, we were sitting upstairs again, and I noticed the deer gather outside after dark again, and they just stared at us. I could see the reflections of light in almost all their eyes. I noticed one of them towards the back look like it was having a seizure or something, and then grew twice as tall and only stood on 2 legs, and they grew another set of eyes. Instead of doing what I'm supposed to and ignoring it, I pointed it out to my mom and asked her "Did you just see rhat?" And she responded "I most certainly did. " Then a lot of the deer started doing it, and we started closing up the upstairs, and some of them got wayyyyy too close to the window. My mom and grandma grabbed the 2 kids with us and after making sure there was a safe path, we bolted to the truck and got the fuck outta there.
I sold the property, and we moved into a different one the next day. There wasn't a huge backyard at this place, so I thought it was fine. That first night as soon as it got dark, I was heading in from the car and turned around to see another deer like the first one, I screamed at it, and it disappeared. I then gained consciousness and realized it was a dream and I could wake up so I did before I went into another loop 😅
Thank you in advance for any help!
Hi, I had a dream that I was sitting on an examine table & a lady came behind me and injected me with a syringe. Her injecting me was unexpected but the cooling sensation of whatever was in the syringe felt nice. I felt a little mad that she injected me without my knowledge, but I couldn’t determine if the lady was “good” or “bad”. What could this mean? I have a doctor’s appointment tomorrow & I’m a little nervous! Please help.
I just remembered a dream I had sometime this week. Not super solid on all the details. I do remember that I had a deer. Ig it was like a pet or smth. I was walking with the deer and my little sister through the forest. We kept finding dead animals, like something had torn into them. It was freaky like their stomachs were open with their guts all chewed up. The animals started small but then they became exclusively dead, torn into deer. Somehow my sister and I in this dream concluded that there was a monster or a plague ?? And that we needed to get our deer to safety. On our way back home we saw a group of deer, two of them already dead and the other one running. There was some kind of shadow that caught that deer (kind of like those Harry Potter dementors or whatever), and while it was eating it we ran. We kept the deer with us and got guns and then I woke up. Literally what does this mean ??? Where do I even start to try to interpret this ????
Dreamt about numbers : 77,78,79,88,99,100 There's other context to it. I was wondering if any of you guys know details about the numbers and what their symbolism is.
I had a dream last night and usually I don’t think too much about dream interpretations but this one just felt off. It was dark out, I was sitting in the grass in some graveyard maybe(?) with two guys I know from a theatre class. There was something in between us, it might’ve been an ouija board, but I’m not sure. We were just sitting there silently when suddenly something that looked exactly like one of the guys walked up and sat down next to me. I couldn’t see his face. The air felt like it instantly changed, like being a prey animal and sensing the presence of a predator nearby. None of us said anything to it or eachother, but we were all scared.
The visibility in the dream was very bad, my eyes were fixed on the other two guys leaving the ground, background, and basically everything else impossible to see.
Does this mean anything?