Dreams... Tell Us... What Do They Mean....
 

I love dreaming and I enjoy trying to interpret them.... or at least getting some understanding behind them. I have a dream encyclopedia (I don't use it much anymore) and I was once being taught by a Reiki Master Practitioner how to interpret dreams... mostly my own. So I thought it might be cool to share our dreams with each other. I know when I have them, and able to actually recall them... writing them out is a good way to take the time to interpret them. I figured that writing them out here, will not only help to get them recalled better but give an opportunity to interpret with others... if that's your thing.

Although I have had many dreams, one of my faves is when I was flying. I had this one particular dream three times (reoccuring) and then never again. I was standing by a tree in the middle of my yard when I was about 13yo. There were two trees actually and I took a three-step run in the direction of the second tree , threw my arms out like Superman-style and went airborne right over the top of the second tree. The wind blowing my hair back (yeh it was longer then) and feeling a sense of freedom. I remember being able to look down over the city and I wasn't super high but high enough to clear the trees. I can't recall coming out of flight before I woke. I can't even say it was out-of-body, I was looking through my own eyes... I was inside myself. It was in color. Sometimes I wish I could go back into that dream and feel the freedom again and continue through to see where I go or when I land, where I land... So many unanswered questions and feelings.

Interpretation??
I was young and free at age 13 even though in my dream I was an adult and in realtime I was adult when I had the dream. It was just in a time and place from my youth. My inner-self wants to be back in that time. Not so much as a child but just carefree, without responsibilities, worry-free. Flying without destination I would take to mean not needing a set path but being open to anything and everything. Not completing the journey... seems self-explanitory.

Any thoughts? Any dreams of your own?

Another reoccuring....
 

A good decade ago I managed to have a reoccuring dream three times and has never returned... I really enjoyed this dream too.

I was outside of a house (unknown) and I squated down to look into a basement window. The house was in a more present setting (from the outside anyway), but when I peeked inside, it was not a basement but rather a living room from the Victorian era. I remember crawling through the window and smelling a slight musty smell in the air. Tables and knick-knacks had a light coating of dust but not like the place had sat unattended for long at all. It felt like there was life to the place. No lights were on, so it was rather dark inside but there was a sliding glass door that led out to a garden area and I could see the bright sunlight beyond the doors. Looking outside from inside this time capsule, so to speak, had a feel that it was also the present time. I can remember walking around slowly throughout the room and looking at everything intensely. I also can recall that I felt the presence of someone behind me even though when I entered no one was around. I never turned to see if anyone was there. If anyone was with me. I left the same way I entered... and woke just as I cleared the window and stood back up outside.

Interpretation: ??
Entering the basementliving room of the past felt almost like a pastlife experience. It was super familiar to me in one aspect and intriguing in another. As if it wasn't familiar. The light dust on everything leads me to believe it's like a veil that at some point can easily be removed and all things that are of the curious nature will be revealed. All answers will be known. Being able to see the present time through the glass doors, I believe to be that at anytime I am free to leave the darkness of my past and return to a time that is clear and bright. The presence of someome behind me I am still trying to figure out, but the exiting of the space let's me know I am not quiet ready to give up my exploration of things from my past and live in the present. I still feel a sense of sneaking around with it. And why I have never had it again for well over 10 years... I really can't say, other than I am just not in need of the journey at this time.

Any thoughts? Any dreams of your own?

i had a dream that i was constipated. Google says it means
i am holding back emotionally.

:|

That sounds about right. The strain/struggle of releasing the negative (the waste). Yeh I can see that being possible...

Aw that's too bad. I always feel sorry for those who have nightmares. I only get them once in a great while. I had one actually about two weeks ago and will post on here at a later time but yes, I can see where your securty of your partner and your dogs has kept them distant from your sleep. Have you ever had them interpretted? Sometimes getting to the heart of them, sends them on their way... but your protection seems to be helping, so that's great.

That is totally understandable to feel that way... and I honor that need to not dabble with them. Like I said, the security of your partner and your pack is what is working for you for the most part, then problem solved. :)

stone4play; I believe your interpretation of your dream was correct. I have found that anyone or anything in my dreams which is elusive, or just out of reach, was'nt meant to be in waking life, and to let it go. Repetitive dreams definitely need to be studied and discussed especially if they concern another person/s or place, or seem to be about future plans. I think the defragmentating dreams, which are a hodge-podge of different things your subconscious needs to throw out, are important also. Thanks for the thread. It's always good to tell about the bad ones you have in public if you don't want them to bother you as much. It sort of dilutes them, and they lose some of their power to upset you. Sometimes I get repetitive/predictive dreams about a person, place, or what I'm planning to do. I always study those carefully and decide what do about them in a positive yet, unintrusive manner, especially when the dreams are about another person.

Great Thread
 

You're absolutely right Glenn... always talking through dreams help to clarify them a bit. I believe them to be messages and have meaning, even if not important. The dreams about others you may know can have significant meaning but try to recall the minor details... sometimes those are the hidden messages, not the person per se.

Glad you like the thread. I'm hoping to have some fun with it and interesting dialogue. I love dreams and the interpretation of them :)

Is there more you care to share on this? You certainly don't have to but it is rather interesting: the time, the repetitiveness of the dream itself, the actually loss of breath...

Something that also caught my attention is that you "saw" yourself, so therefore you are not actually experiencing the actual crushing. And do you wake before the unthinkable?

Last night I dreamed I lost my wallet. Then I found it, and I was hopping around waving it, I was so happy, then someone said, Before you get too happy, you better look inside it and see if there's anything in there, and I did, and it was completely empty, and a part of me was saying, You knew it was empty all along! and another part of me was saying, Look in your back pocket, and there was my credit card, which had been there when the wallet was lost or stolen, which meant, no one had used (misused) it in my name, and I felt such relief.

This is clearly a dream in which I am processing the loss of my relationship, which I'm leaving, and testing my inner resources, which I had all along.

I think it could be a rare form of sleep paralysis. Somehow your mind became detached from your body in your case, and hurled you pretty quickly back, making your breathing labored which is natural. The main feelings of being crushed, trapped, drowning, and asphyxia are forms of what science calls sleep paralysis. There are many stories and pictures from the past, where folks thought demons or evil spirits were trying to harm them or hijack their bodies by sitting on them. Spirit Dancer, do you also feel the presence of an evil entity or intruder? Try sleeping with a healing blue nightlight or some spiritual tapes.

i Love this thread!! thank you stone4play for starting it! :)

i seem to always have reoccuring dreams of food (emotionally deprived), water (emotions) and time of day and weather inclusive.

lately, i've been having dreams of someone who is interested in me, i don't know who this person is, but they provide me with basic needs of emotional & physical attention, compassion, and stability.
when i wake up, i start thinking... who is this person? or what is my alter ID telling me??

at times i will have family dreams... i figure this is about my past coming up and how i am coping with reality of the daily nitty gritty??

or am i way off??

any thoughts are greatly appreciated!! :)

***wow thanks Spirit Dancer... then how come i don't see it? or feel it?
i'm alone, emotionally lonely, and feel like i'm geographically displaced..

sorry.. i got on my soap box.

again, i appreciate your input, honest. i do. :rrose:

What I'm getting from this is that the weight of the unidentified crushing is something that is burdening you. That it's taking your breath away is leading me to the chakra system and that would be around the lungs, which is the solar plexus. It's where the etheric energy is and that gives energy to the physical body. Emotions are controled in this area, like when you have a gut feeling, so to speak. I take it as an intuitive alarm sounding or "crushing." Something that will startle you. That you have your own theory pretty much is your intuition... some sort of decision you are working on perhaps?

You don't have to share that with us. Just something for you to think over...

Glad you like the thread Tazz. Like I said in a previous post, not always are the people in your dreams the focal point. Think of what it is that is happening or what you are feeling, the overall feel of the dream... People/family are often catalysts, a familiar face that makes the meaning/message easier to accept or understand.

The interested person, I kind of have to agree that it could very well be you personified. You don't see the face because should it be you, and you see your face, that is astral travel/out of body experience. Glad to see it's a comforting pleasant experience.

I'm almost certain that there is a similar thread already somewhere on the forum regarding this topic as I can recall contributing to it. Notwithstanding, it's an interesting subject for me, not so much in terms of actual interpretation of dreams but, rather, what they say about our psyche and also linked to my own sleep paralysis.


For me, right from when I was a young child, my "dreams" have tended to be nightmares (usually unsettling and sometimes terrifying), rather than dreams in any sort of comforting or positive sense.


Recurring dreams I have include where I see a plane or sometimes multiple planes in the sky and, for some reason I'm usually standing on a bridge. The plane is gliding through the sky and then it, or one-by-one in the case of multiple planes, it / they fall from the sky and crash.


I also regularly have dreams about water - usually where I'm on a beach (a specific beach that I visited regularly as a child) and running away from a massive tidal wave / tsunami. There are other recurring dreams but won't go into them all.


Recently, however, I had a rather strange experience that blurred dreams and reality. I had a very vivid dream of walking through the backstreets of a foreign city late at night and being called over by an old woman who asked to tell my fortune. Being sceptical (I would / am very sceptical of this sort of stuff in real life), I declined but then she called me by my name and her face changed from that of an old woman to that of a beautiful, younger woman.


It was a strange dream - one of those that I pondered for a day or so. Then, ironically, a few days later in real life I was walking through the streets of London when a man approached me at random, saying that I had strong eyes and he could read my fortune by looking at them longer. Bizarre and no doubt a scam of some sort but the first time anything like that had even happened to me. Furthermore, no doubt a coincidence that I'd had a dream about a similar subject matter a few days beforehand but, either way, all slightly strange.

Your dreams sound interesting but I can respect your thoughts of not actually getting into dreams for the interpretation factor. Many are skeptical about the fortune tellers and whatnot, I am too when they emphasize telling fortunes. I just tinker with interpretations and readings as a pastime, not for money, not for scam. That you had the dream and later had a very similar experience in realtime always draws in my attention... Thanks for the share.

Oy this morning before the alarm sounded I had a crappy bad dream. I had met some people in some random place (none of which is actually the focal point to this dream) and invited them to my apartment (not a familiar apartment to me). The landlady had left letters on all the tenants doors asking that noise level stay low because of repeated requests. The people I had brought home to party further with, were not quiet. In fact when I mentioned they keep things down they got louder. I am a stickler for rules and it bothered me that they had not paid attention and respected my request to quiet down. I asked them to leave and they had issue with that. They left but one guy came back to try to argue his case. He made attempts to take advantage of me and I ended up having to fight for my safety/life. I smashed is face into the wall and then continued to beat the crap out of him. As always taught, I called to ask for police and ambulance services. The guy wound up dying from excessive force. The apartment was trashed from the violent exhange... and I wound up getting evicted. So, technically I was made to move out either way. Ugh.

I haven't had time to work on interpreting this one yet... I just wanted to put it out there so I wouldn't forget the details (of which I haven't totally shared because of the graphic content). I'll get back to it later....

I dreamt of my ex wife last night who has schizophrenia. I have'nt seen for 1.5 years, and in my dream she was secretly living in a high rise apartment building with a shopping mall underneath it supporting herself by pan handling and eating from garbage cans. She finially was discovered and in the process of being thrown out when I woke up. I guess this dream means that I have been worried about her, and wondering whether or nor she is still lost and homeless.

Maybe the person in the dream who is interested in you is the part of yourself that is your resevoir of self-love.

That resevoir is agitated now, perhaps in conflict with the part of yourself that is self-hating.

Or perhaps it has been triggered by something positive that is affirming, something external in your life.

Good I think, whatever it is!

As far back as I can remeber which is about 7 I have had horrible terrifying dreams,

The main one is a very recurant dream where I am at the beach, usually with a family member or members, most times either my grandparents (who both passed years ago) or my mom, one minute we are sitting at the beach, the next huge massive waves come running after us and we cant escape,like a tsunami,but ive never ever experienced a tsunami nor have I ever had a bad experience at the beach, all the sand gets wipped away and we are wiped out into the waves,I always see their dead bodies floating and that of others(strangers) but I am alive under water swimming, its like I cant die, and the same song plays every time I have the dream Sara Mclaughlin Arms of an Angel, I usually wake up scared that I actually lost the person(s) in the dream.

I have nightmares most nights, so i find it easier to just not sleep for many hours which definatly wears on the body but I am used to it by now, I had counceling when I was younger from age 7-18 and they never did figure out why or stop or help the nightmares,they vary but a lot of them end up with me being killed, or chased,or more recently the woman I was in love with kept dying , either in a plane crash or she was being shot and raped and tortured, she however left me, but when she was around the nightmares werent as bad, I guess I felt safe, or I usually feel safe when I have a partner I trust in the bed with me, they dont occur as often as usual,

Anyway sorry for going on so much

I had a dream last night that my coworker told me I had a "spastic uterus". Googled it this morning, and apparently it actually exists.

I'm scratching my head today on this one. :|

Hmmm ... the uterus is like the center of the house. Sanctuary. The kind of sanctuary we carry around within us, can always retreat to. But your sanctuary is spastic, meaning, not within your control, and not being there for you.

I wonder if you are feeling like some part of yourself that you thought you could always count on, has become unreliable. Not trustworthy. Like a skill you've always had, that is failing you.

Or maybe it's not failing you, it's changing. Spasms are like labor pains, or an orgasm. An eruption, a rumbling deep in the earth. Who knows what will emerge?

And then there's the co-worker. She's the part of you that can be outside your self, evaluating things. She's the part of you that is telling the rest of you, Pay attention. Something is going to be different.

And maybe in a good way.

This is a cool thread because I often wonder what my dreams mean. I have heard things over time and it seems as if there are alot of ideas that vary. When I do have dreams they usually involve different people in my past that I had struggles with or alot of emotional intensity with. I wake up feeling tense usually. The other dreams I have are usually of physical altercations with me usually using excess force or violence to get them to leave me alone. I really have no idea what that means, seeing that I am not a violent person.... is a little disturbing. What I do notice is that I only dream when I have alot of stress in my life.

So this entry took me some time to come back to... on several attempts. The one about the beach drew in much of my interest. It reminded me of a quote I once heard from Bruce Lee - "Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water my friend." The idea that the waves in your dream are huge and massive gives me a feel that there is something in your life that is deep seeded and overwhelming... it floods you. I get that because you seem to be the only one alive and underwater swimming. Almost like you're trapped. Not able to surface? The song you hear, again to me, is a way of an attempted comfort, to let you feel that you are being watched over and safe. I'm getting that it's not so much a death of the others but something you need to bring to life from within yourself.

It is often said that when one dreams of death, it usually represents life/birth. This can also mean life and birth of self... newness from within.

I have a question for Stone4play or anyone else who may be able to share some insight..
 

What do you think it means when you dream about viewing something as an outsider...but simultaneously experiencing it as if it's happening to you personally and physically?

~Thank you.

Thank you stone, all my life I've struggled with my family, at times its extremely overwhelming, they are awful, would that have anything to do with it do you think?

A lucid dream is a dream in which you are aware you are dreaming while the dream is in progress. This is a very cool experience. Is this what you experience? You sometimes will be able to change the direction the dream is going before you wake up...

Hello Glenn,
Yes, this happened last night in a dream...and the strange thing is, is that it started out *very* frightening...and then began to change into..something enjoyable...?
Weird. This is the first time I've experienced this. Do you think that it was possible that I could have changed the outcome of the dream, while I was actually dreaming it?

Thank you for your input.

Absolutely. Sounds like you need to come to the surface and breathe in the fresh air. Let the waves carry your worries away... them.

When you have a lucid dream, you have the power to see and create anything you want. You are the goddess of your dream universe. Some dreams come from beyond our own minds and these are called superconscious dreams. But most dreams are our own creations.

I've had this feeling before. I'm not sure what exactly it is but it's almsot like an out of body experience, like you're looking through your eyes but also looking at yourself... crazy stuff for sure :)

Personally I have never had this experience... Just like I have never been able to go back to a dream and continue where it left off but I have known people to be able to do that too.

Remember when you had that flying dream? You were flying through your own astral universe. Or maybe it was a real out of body experience?