I am an adult female.  Would you please give me your opinion of the meaning of the following dream?

I am 7 weeks pregnant and but since a year ago everyone kept dreaming a baby girl around the same age. Now that i am really pregnant my grandmother dreamt a baby girl twice before i even knew i was pregnant does that mean i am having a baby girl. I also dreamt a baby girl a month ago.

Dreams are rarely premonitions.  This is not because you or others do not have the capability to sense the unseen realms, that may well be, but because that is not the purpose of dreams.  Most premonitions come while awake, in flashes or as unexplainable, vague feelings about something.  What happens when you are dreaming is that your brain is using the conscious parts of your brain that are not in use during sleep as a sort of desktop to sort through the clutter of images and information you have collected during the day, organizing it and filing it away where it belongs: in slots like file drawers in your long term memory or tossing it away as of little use to you.  As such, dreams are less a look at the future as they are your impressions and feelings of the immediate past, specifically things that directly affect you.  As such, the people in your dreams rarely appear as they actually are, but reflect your impressions of them, and the roles they play say more about you than they do about the actual, flash-and-blood person.  They are aspects of you, not aspects of them.

Such dreams as you describe may reflect what your family wishes for you, or as is more likely, their reflections on you as a child, as they remember you, perhaps poignantly juxtaposed with how fast you grew up, now pregnant with your own child.  Your own dream has more impact here.  It may well mean that you are having a girl, or that you wish to, or it may simply reflect the dreams that others have had, mimicking them in a way.  You are clearly quite focused on this, and your dreams will most accurately reflect what is occupying your waking mind most than they will any premonition of what sex your own child may be.

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I am an adult female.  Would you please give me your opinion of the meaning of the following dream?

I've only had this dream once but I remember every detail.Two wolves,one black & one silver had chewed a gaping hole in my fence.All of the animals inside were escaping and the wolves were chasing & killing them.I screamed for my husband to get our two children who were also outside to safety but he never came.I ran to my children and put them into my car,which was the only thing I found that could protect them. I told them not to open the doors.I turned and the black wolf was coming straight towards me so I jumped into the adjacent car.My husband finally showed up and he then shot the black wolf who was at the car with my children inside.My husband then removed my children from the car.The black wolf was underneath the car although it was severely wounded it was not dead and when my husband pulled the children out of the car ,the wolf was snapping at their heels.My husband and the children then went into our home. My husband kept telling me to get out of the car but I would not.It began to rain and on our front porch was the silver wolf.I sat in the car and a profound sense of sadness washed over me, so much that I began to cry.That was when I woke up. I would appreciate any information you had to offer concerning my dream.  Thanks so much!!!!!

Wow!  Very powerful, clear images.  The wolfs are predators, of course, but may not reflect your fear of physical danger.  They may represent those who would take your children away from you, either physically or intellectually, the outside world, for example, seducing their minds with images of lives you do not want them to pursue as they grow up, etc.  That the black wolf is more a danger to your children while the silver wolf is more a danger to you is significant.  Even after your husband comes the black wolf leaves him alone while still trying to reach the children.  Can you think of no one in your waking life of whom the black wolf reminds you?  The sliver wolf?  Also significant is that your husband does not respond to your cries for help right away, and that when he does come he rescues the children but does not come to carry you away as he did them.  It is not uncommon that married couples suffer an estrangement after children come into the picture, almost as if the children have come between them.  It is not unusual for one spouse to come to feel that their significant other loves the children more than them.  Your dream could reflect this, or a fear that your children love your husband more than they do you.  Most people trapped in a car by a wolf would feel fear, but you feel sadness.  This is because the dream is not about your fear that this estrangement might happen, but a conviction that it has, and a deep sadness as a result.

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I am an adult female.  Would you please give me your opinion of the meaning of the following dream?

I saw three black policemen with a black rifle in each right hand standing back to back in a circle.  Each policemen was tall and slim.

It would be useful to know what racial heritage you enjoy as well, and what you felt while viewing this image.  Most black people, even today, carry a sort of mystique for Caucasians, part fear and part fascination.  That these were officers of the law is significant, but it is difficult to say how without more information.  The rifles carry a definite connotation of threat, and the men's configuration, standing in a circle facing outward, is most significant.  Such a pose suggests that they are protecting that which it within from an outside threat.  Is there an aspect of yourself that you have cordoned off in such a way, perhaps protecting it from harm by others?

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I am an adult female.  Would you please give me your opinion of the meaning of the following dream?

I had a dream i was working in a daycare center and there were some people there to show the children sharks. only the sharks were in a small fish tank and they were the size of normal fish.  He told the kids to bang on the table the tank was on to make the sharks more aggresive and they stared jumping out and one landed on my head.

A small shark may still be a danger, though not necessarily to one's life.  This would seem to indicate your impression of someone or something that would wish to be of great consequence to you, but who is, in reality, little more than a small annoyance.  Children often represent aspects of ourselves that we attempt to keep under control, either aspects of our past we wish to keep hidden or protected, or childish habits we don't wish others to witness, etc.  That the children are encouraged to agitate the sharks and the sharks begin to escape indicates that you fear that the aspects of yourself that you wish to keep undiscovered are under risk of discovery from this annoying person in your life.  The fact that one of the sharks lands on your head emphasizes your fear that this annoying person (or persons) may get some kind of mental or emotional leverage on you if they were to encounter these aspects of yourself.

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I am an adult female.  Would you please give me your opinion of the meaning of the following dream?

I had a dream about my boyfriend in a wheelchair.

Don't fear that your dream is a premonition - dreams don't work that way.  This is more likely your insecurity about your relationship with this man.  Is he crippled in some less obvious way, unable to carry on a mature relationship?  In some way, you are having doubts about his ability to offer you what you want from a relationship.  There is an aspect of him that, in your mind, falls short of your ideal.  He is not a complete realization of what you want in a romantic partner.

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I am a teen female.  Would you please give me your opinion of the meaning of the following dream?

i always have dreams that i got beaten and raped then i get found almost dead lying in the middle of a field.then when i get to the hospital i go into a coma and my boyfriend comes and he wont leave my side

These are very disturbing dreams for women, until you understand what your mind is trying to tell you.  Such dreams of intimate violence, like rape, portray your mind's feeling of emotional betrayal.  Someone close to you is endangering your emotional well being or is threatening to betray your trust or affection, or they have already done so.  Seeing ourselves in a coma is our need to escape and put some distance between us and the dangers around us.  Not by literally going into a coma, but by finding a way to insulate ourselves from that which is causing us hurt.  That your boyfriend is devoted to you while in the coma might express your fears of what you might leave behind by seeking escape.

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I am a teen female.  Would you please give me your opinion of the meaning of the following dream?

i keep on having the same dream every other night that im going to move out with my boyfriend

Do not expect your dreams to be prophetic - they rarely ever are.  This is most likely only your mind expressing your sense of security and contentment in the relationship, nothing more.

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I am a teen female.  Would you please give me your opinion of the meaning of the following dream?

I dreamt that my boyfriend tried to kill me and that he was a devil worshiper

Our romantic partner, as noted before, in our dreams of represents to us our own sense of emotional security, our sense of our own lovability, our worthiness to be loved.  The your boyfriend is seeking to do you harm in anyway expresses your doubts about yourself in this area, your fears that you do not deserve the love you have, or that you are not living up to your obligations in this area.  Now please note, these are your perceptions only and do not necessarily reflect reality.  In truth, your boyfriend might be quite content with what he gets out of the relationship.  Only communication and a willingness to accept what you learn through communication will alleviate your fears.  The devil worship part of the dream might suggest more religious or metaphysical undertones to your doubts.  Are you religious?  Are you doing things with your boyfriend that might be considered a sin or otherwise cause you guilt?  This is something else to explore.

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I am an adult male.  Would you please give me your opinion of the meaning of the following dream?

I dream about 2 tiger shark and 1 bull shark. They were all close to the beach and attack 2 children that was swimming close by, one of the children a younger boy about 6 y/o, has been eaten by one of the tiger shark, while the other child a young girl about 10 y/o was bitten by the other tiger shark. The bull shark never did anything; he was just following the other 2 sharks. Then it happen again while trying to explain it to the child's mother in my dream, but this time the boy was not eaten by the shark he was only being bitten by the tiger shark. This dream happens 4 different ways in the same night. The third time, it was me that the tiger shark was trying to bite, but with my foot I was able to block his mouth from biting me. The fourth dreams was that the shark were into a pond next to the beach about 2 or 3 feet deep and I was trying to cross the pond to save the 2 kids from being bitten, and after struggling nothing happen to the children, but I was trying to find different ways to cross the small pond without being bitten by the shark.   Today I when to the beach after I woke up and couldn't get my self to go in the water. Kind of scary isn't it. But what I don't understand is that I never saw tiger sharks before, but saw a single bull shark 3 weeks ago close to 3 guys with snorkel equipment coming back to shore and the bull shark was probably 5 to 8 feet away from them and they never saw it but other people including me at the beach saw the shark getting close enough but when he was to close to the shallow water he was having problem swimming so he turn around and left. I was wondering if it was related or its just 2 separated events, one in dream last night and one in reality 3 weeks ago. Thanks

They are most likely related.  In an attempt to deal with and organize the jumble of rubbish or brain accumulates in the course of a day, or mind uses dreams to sort and categorize everything and put things where they belong in our mind's database.  This is why good, deep, REM sleep is so crucial to our mental well being, for too many reasons to go into here.  But in doing it's job, sometimes our mind will use recent images or experiences, especially profound ones, as tools for doing this housekeeping chore.  For you it was the experience with the bull shark approaching the swimmer weeks ago.

Now to your dream.  The children represent aspects of yourself that you feel are under threat.  Children represent our vulnerabilities, sometimes our more precious thoughts and feelings, thing we wish to protect.  Only you can guess what the children represented, and the genders of the children might be significant, but not literally: girls are often our softer, more feminine feelings and personality traits while boys are often our more robust and independent traits.  But your attempts to find a way to rescue them is your mind expressing its fear and helplessness under the onslaught of this perceived threat.  The sharks themselves might very well be significant too, but you clearly know more about sharks than I do, so only you can decide why only one bull shark and yet two tiger sharks, why the tiger sharks attacked while the bull shark hung back, etc.  They clearly represent different kinds of threats to you.  Examine recent events in your life - are you feeling pressure to change, to give up aspects of your life that make you happy?  Is a lover or family member demanding behavior from you that you are not comfortable complying with?  These are the clues that will unlock the meaning of your dream.

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I am an adult female.  Would you please give me your opinion of the meaning of the following dream?

Hello!I dreamt about my boyfriend kissing me on the lips and on the cheeks for no apparent reason. I was surprised because he usually doesn't do that. We were in a social gathering(beach,i think). I hope you could provide me with an interpretation.

Sigmund Freud was well known for one theory, among others, that the strongest compulsion behind the things we do is due to how we were sexually socialized as children.  Once a reporter asked him, "Then what does it mean that you smoke cigars?"  Frued's answer: "Sometimes a cigar's just a cigar."

Sometimes our dreams are quite literal, in this case your desire that your boyfriend was more affectionate.  The fact that you were in a social gathering indicates you desire that others see this display of affection, and perhaps a latent fear that he is not affectionate with you because he is embarrassed by his feelings for you.  If he is, that isn't love and you need to find someone less inhibited.  If it isn't true, if, for example, this is only your insecurities manifesting themselves, then you still need to discuss with him your needs that he is not fulfilling, those of getting and giving physical affection.

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I am an adult female.  Would you please give me your opinion of the meaning of the following dream?

i had this dream three times.it was like i walked in to my bedroom and saw my husband haveing sex with a  naughter woman.this is really starting to get to me .      please help!

I suspect you mean 'another woman' and not 'a naughtier woman', though who knows?

To most of us our spouses are a symbol of our own self esteem in a dream: our feelings of how likable or lovable we are, our security or lack thereof, our sense of our place in the world.  This dream seems to be expressing some feelings you have of slipping self esteem, of something that is causing your faith in yourself to backslide.  Something in your life is threatening your confidence in a social arena.  You need to find out what this threat is and overcome it.  In the end our self esteem is our own responsibility: no one can build it for us and no one can take it away unless we let them.  Don't let what others do or say affect your view of yourself, only what you, yourself, do or say.  It may sound trite but its true that if you like yourself, no one else's opinion matters.

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I am an adult female.  Would you please give me your opinion of the meaning of the following dream?

I have dreamed about fish.  Would like to know what it interprets?

Without more detail I can only tell you that in general terms fish represent one of the following: travel, exploration, discovery or even sex.  There can be other interpretations, but lacking more detail about your feeling about these fish, their apparent mood or demeanor, etc. I couldn't say.

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I am a teen female.  Would you please give me your opinion of the meaning of the following dream?

I keep having a dream about this boy I like. Every time something goes wrong he is always there for me. But in reality he is never around, especially when I need him most.

I get many dream-submissions from people who clearly want me to say that their dream means that they are in love with someone or someone is in love with them or there is a relationship developing, etc.  But dreams don't work that way.  This one is simply no more than your mind coming to terms with your attraction to this boy.  I really doesn't mean anything else.  My advice, if welcome, would be to make your move.  Open a conversation with this boy at an appropriate time when you both can talk without pending interruption.  Find out what you can about him, his interests, his family, his pastimes, while hinting to him your availability.  If after that palaver you are still interested in him, find excuses to be noticed by him.  Go places he goes, become friends with his friends, indulge in his interests.  Don't stalk him, just 'happen to be there' when he's around.  Believe me, he'll notice.

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I am a teen female.  Would you please give me your opinion of the meaning of the following dream?

I had a dream that i was in a classroom with a guy who i have been talking to for about 6 months but i have never met in my whole life!    And in the dream, even though i had never seen him before, i knew who he was and kept looking at him. But he did not look at me once and then we all left the classroom and he went home.

Strangers in our dreams can represent so many things: mystery, confusion, social issues, even fear.  It depends on how you feel as you speak to this young man.  That you know who he is in your dream suggests less confusion or fear and more along the social.  Is there an aspect of yourself you haven't explored yet, perhaps an artistic side, or an athletic side that is yearning to be expressed?  Your feelings as you spoke to this boy as well as anything you can remember of the subject matter of your conversation, even what he was wearing would go a long way toward helping you interpret the specifics of this one.

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I am an adult female.  Would you please give me your opinion of the meaning of the following dream?

I realize I am pregnant.I know it is time to give birth because the head of the baby is crowing.  I very calmly help the baby slide out. No pain, and the baby is a boy and very mature looking. Also it has a gold coin on its stomach or bellybutton. I take the baby obver to my husband and he helps cut the ambilicle cord which is also attached to his genitals. We are very happy and the baby is healthy.

Birth is a beginning or a renewal.  The lack of pain is most likely of no importance here except that the change the dream is dealing with is not an unpleasant one.  The fact that the child is male brings a masculine undertone to the transition - perhaps it is your husband experiencing the change and you are affected by it.  The gold coin in the child's stomach indicates prosperity of some sort, though not necessarily monetary.  That the umbilical is attached to the child's genitals again intensifies a gender-specific flavor to what ever new beginning or change you are currently experiencing or expecting.  And of course the happiness and the health of the baby, like the lack of pain, suggest that not only is the coming change not unpleasant, but might even be highly desirable.

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I am an adult female.  Would you please give me your opinion of the meaning of the following dream?

I keep having a dream with my ex boyfriend in it.  We are still in high school but in the dream i am married and in real life i am married.  I am trying to get back together with him and no matter what i do in the dream to break him and his girlfriend up he won't come back to me

The ex-boyfriend represents a loss that you are trying to regain.  You say, sarcastically, "Well, DUH!!"  But what I mean is not literally the loss of his companionship, but perhaps what it meant to you - innocence, simpler times, or perhaps even some other feelings you had when you were with him that he came to represent to you.  You are trying to recover those feelings, though getting him back may not necessarily do the trick.  You are trying to cling to a past that has moved on.  It is time for you to do so, too.  There are other joys to be had in life.  Seek them, and let the past stay unspoiled by useless remorse and yearning.

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I am an adult female.  Would you please give me your opinion of the meaning of the following dream?

I was driving with a girlfriend in the car. In the back seat was my other girl friends deceased mother. She was acting as if something was wrong with her. She kept fidgeting around in the back seat. She even fell out the window of the car. I pulled over picked her up an put her back in the car. She begin to ask for her daughter so we head to where she was. When we find her daughter she is in a big auditorium organizing something and I say to her. I know your mom is dead but she is in the car asking for you. I know u don't believe me but Sylvell and I both spoke to her. So she goes with us to her mother. When we get there the car is gone and its like we are in a waiting room. I see the green house coat she had on lying on a chair. We continue walking and we are in a hospital walking around looking for her mother and we are going through a maternity ward looking at the babies and asking people if they saw a women in green pajamas come this way. Then we begin to look for a doctor that we never find. Nor did we find her mother.

These sorts of dreams can indeed be baffling.  They almost seem like something out of a David Lynch movie, but when we understand the symbolism the mystery fades.  Your friend's mother represents your own feelings of protectiveness and concern for your friend, which can sometimes take on maternal tones.  That there is something wrong with her is illustration of an ongoing concern for your friend, and falling out of the car is your occasional desire to release this concern and leave it behind.  Your friend's activities in the auditorium - trying to organize something - is a clue to what it is you are concerned about.  Is she in the middle of a mess that she is struggling to come to terms with?  The missing car and mother prevents you from bringing your concerns for her to her attention, and seeking the mother in the hospital is a metaphor for your search to find a way to do so  The maternity ward and the babies are symbols of innocence and life, as if you wish you could bring your friend back to a simpler, more happy time for the both of you.  But you know this is impossible, as represented by the glass that usually separates visitors from the babies in a hospital neonatal unit.

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I am an adult female.  Would you please give me your opinion of the meaning of the following dream?

I was in the plane, a 747 size but there were only three seats across all the way back.  I was in the very front seat right behind the pilots.  At one point the plane does a loop and then we were right above the ocean and it was storming - similar to the storm in the movie The Perfect Storm.  Anyways we were hovering over the waves and the cockpit door came open and right at that moment a Great White shark was trying to jump up and eat the plane.  Well then the next scene it shows an Air Force Helicopter with the Plane clamped to it and the Shark is wrapped in wires hanging below the plane.  The Helicopter takes us to land and we are on some island and I am feeling very alone and want to make a phone call but have no idea what time it is back home.  I have sat next to some locals and they tell me it is Sunday 11am thier time and the funnies page was open on their table.    That is all I really remember from the last part of my dream - there was a bunch that led up to me getting on the plane but it is not as clear as the end. 

When we are passengers in a vehicle we are dealing with feelings of a lack of control over our immediate fate, and this in further enforced when that vehicle is under some form of duress.  Waves are a very literal manifestation of a feeling of being overwhelmed or drowned by some vague stress or other, while the shark is some very distinct, specific danger that you fear.  That the plane is rescued shows hope on your part, though still a feeling of helplessness, more a faith that those who do hold sway over your fate may yet show that they have your best interests at heart.  The loneliness on the island is clearly the sense that you are alone in your predicament, abandoned by others to whom you might have turned for help.  The rest is very specific and only something you yourself can interpret.

If I may offer some advice, we are only ever at the mercy of others if we permit it.  Do not allow yourself to be controlled by others, do not put yourself in a position of seeking their approval or awaiting some decision on their part.  Take initiative and do what is best for yourself and if they are unwilling or unprepared to help your or join you then leave them behind.  You will find more fulfillment living for your own goals and achievements than living for those of someone else, much less waiting for them to live for yours.

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I am an adult female.  Would you please give me your opinion of the meaning of the following dream?

I am approximately 12 weeks pregnant. My fiance and I are hoping and wishing with all our hearts that we are having a boy. But I keep on having the same dream over and over that I give birth to a beautiful little girl. Does this dream mean I am having a girl??

If your sensitivity to psychic energies is that acutely tuned it may well mean that.  But for most average people this is nothing more than a manifestation of your primary focus these days.  You are pregnant and for most women their entire attention is absorbed by this impending important life event.  It is only natural you should dream about it.  That you dream of the healthy birth of a beautiful child is a good sign of your positive frame of mind.  That it is a girl may mean nothing more than a manifestation of your very understandable feminine feelings during this time and not so much an indication of the sex of the child.

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I keep having a dream where i flirt with girls from my school what is this about i would like to know. and p.s. the girls are hot

In spite of a tendency to interpret this dream literally you instinctively know there is more to this dream than simple libido or you would not have asked about it.  These girls represent aspects of yourself that you find attractive or pleasent, things about which you are proud.  The flirting is merely self admiration, nothing more.

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I keep having the same dream over and over and its been going on for 2 months. My Husband keeps cheating on me with the same woman and then he is going to leave me. The woman he is cheating on me with I cannot stand, whats this mean?

It may not necessarily mean that you suspect him or that there is any reason to suspect him of being unfaithful.  The fact that you strongly dislike the woman he is cheating with in your dream says more about your feelings for him than it does anything else.  Is there an aspect of his sexuality that you find unappealing, a habit or technique that annoys you?  Is there something about you that he finds appealing but that you despise?  Is there some aspect of himself that he thinks your are ignorant of because you would disapprove?  Discuss these things if there are and bring them out into the open.  Do not let them continue to fester.  This is your mind's alarm telling you to do some housekeeping on your relationship now before the little things build to be insurmountable hurdles.

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I am an adult female.  Would you please give me your opinion of the meaning of the following dream?

I dreamt that a gang of terrorists planted a hand granade in this huge complex.  It completely destroyed the building, killing the residents.  Very few survived. I end up with a baby whose mom was killed. Everyone is rounded up and taken to a different part of town.  While driving there one of these terrorists flung a hand granade into our car through an open window.  It somehow sticks to my hand for a brief moment but i manage to fling it back into their car.  Once we get to this unknown place i find myself wondering around with the baby.  I have a covering on my head, like a scarf or something. (bright color) Further down the street i met up with a group of old friends. (about 18 years ago) While standing around the terrorists came to get one of my friends to "entertain them".  She reluctantly accompanies them and i woke up at that point. Could you please interpret my dream.  Thank you.

It is a common thing in dreams to find ourselves represented in the dream by more than one persona.  You were a participant in the dream, but the infant you carried is also a manifestation of your own feelings of helplessness and exposure.  Terrorists represent non-specific danger.  The presence of your old friends is highly subjective - clearly they represent aspects of yourself only you can truly decipher.  This dream is your mind's way of coming to terms with threats, whether perceived or real, to your well-being.  Deciphering what each friend represents to you will go a long way toward determining exactly where in your life you feel insecure or in danger.  Keep in mind this is less likely to be any kind of physical danger, but most likely a fear of being exposed or of having some secret discovered.  This should get you started toward doing the necessary work to interpret your own dream more specifically.

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I am a teen male.  Would you please give me your opinion of the meaning of the following dream?

Im a senior and there is a freshman girl that I have become really good friends with. Everyone says I like her but wont admit it. Well, in my dream she and I were in the Home Economics room flirting and foolin around like we usually do, and the teacher came in. I woke up sweating and freaking out.

It is interesting that you did not mention whether you deny, either publicly or even to yourself, that you are attracted to this girl.  However your dream does suggest some trepidation regarding any perceptions among your peers or teachers that this is so.  Let me suggest that you relax a little regarding the perceptions of others - whether or not you have a romantic interest in this girl is your business, not theirs and frankly there is nothing to be ashamed of if you are.  Now this is easier said than done of course, because peer pressure is a very real thing.  But try to remind yourself that most of these people are going to drop out of your life after you graduate, and ask yourself how much their opinion of you will matter then.  But let me further encourage you NOT to try to put any artificial definition on your relationship with this girl.  Whether it is just friendship or is destined to be more, don't try to force it into anybody's mold.  Just let it be whatever it is, and let it become whatever it becomes.  Don't force anything one way or the other.  You'll find all of your personal relationships - romantic, familial or social - would be enhanced by this relaxed attitude.

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I am a teen female.  Would you please give me your opinion of the meaning of the following dream?

I have had this dream three times. once in one night and twice in the same night. I dream that I cheat on my boyfrien (who I have ben going w/ for 9 months.) I always end up making outwith some boy. But my boyfriend never finds out. while i kiss the boy ithnk of the consequences but then i really dont care ad keep on kssing.

There is rebellion in cheating in spite of the consequences, consequences of which you are well aware and ignore.  I would hesitate to interpret this as a wish or fear that you will not remain faithful to your boyfriend, but there is an element of independence to this dream, an unwillingness to be tied down to convention or the expectations of others, a willingness or even desire to buck convention sometime with no more motivation than to simply assert your own autonomy.  You should reflect on the fact that others cannot force you to do anything you don't wish to do, and rebellion is a knee jerk reaction that could get you into trouble.  Quietly, calmly walk your own path and ignore those who try to waylay you, but do not walk a path simply because it is opposite of what they want or expect because that path may not lead to where you really wish to go.  Allow others to walk beside you as long as neither of you lead, and be only accepting when those paths diverge, not rebellious.

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I am a teen female.  Would you please give me your opinion of the meaning of the following dream?

I started having this dream from the 21st december 2001. I have only had it for two nights, but the scence keeps on changing like where we are and stuff.   Anyway, I'm single and I am in love with  one of my male friends. I would do anything for him to ask me out and it just so happened he did in my dream.   All I remember is that we were fairly close to each other, the strange thing was I had long hair then and I cut it short a week ago. the night before I dreamt that we were alone and I tried to take this shirt off and for some reason it had hair on it and it became attached to my head (as I mentioned above I have short hair) and my hair grew long again. I tried to pull it out but only small clumps came out. Then my friend appeared and we started talking. He kept on trying to reveal how he felt for me for about five minutes... then he asked me out. Again, the next night he asked me out but it felt like we were in a cool place as the other dream was warm. I'm not sure if this is a premonition or wishful thinking. Plez help. Sorry if this is confusing :o)

True premonitions rarely come to us as dreams, in spite of what movies would have you believe.  Dreams are the mechanism by which our mind attempts to file away and catalog recent past events, not future ones.  The portion of your dream that deals with your friend asking you out is clearly nothing more than a manifestation of your waking wish that he do so.  The confusion regarding your hair - long, short, growing, etc. - is clearly connected to him as it is also all over his shirt.  This is nothing more or less complicated than your concern over whether he is attracted to you.  To women, hair is a large part of their grooming, what they feel contributes to their overall attractiveness.  Will having cut it make it less likely that he will ask you out?  Is he aware that it will grow long again?  Would he be able to look past it?  How long will it take to grow out?  You are not necessarily only, or even primarily, concerned about your hair, but whether or not he finds you attractive in general.  My question is, hair issues aside, have you given him enough clues to know that the door is open should he wish to ask you out?  Some guys will pick up on any hint, sometimes even when there is actually no hint implied at all.  Others nearly require a baseball bat to get the point.  Leave the asking out to him, but be as obvious as you need to be without taking the initiative away from him that you are interested in going out with him.  If he still doesn't get it, he's either a schmuck or not interested.  Either way, move on.

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I am an adult female.  Would you please give me your opinion of the meaning of the following dream?

I dreamed of a camel sitting on me. The camel would sit on me lightly, and then it would sit on me harder were i had problems breathing. When i was able to yell for help then "Ally McBeal" came over and she threw a rope around the camels head and pulled the camel off of me.It was a very strange dream. :)

These kinds of dreams are so very highly symbolic that they are next to impossible to interpret in any detail.  In general, the feeling of being trapped, constricted and unable to breath denotes a feeling of powerlessness in life, a feeling of a lack of volition or choice in your waking life.  Why a camel?  And why is it a character from a television show that comes to your aid?  These aspects of the dream are too highly subjective for me to speculate about.  What do camels represent to you?  What does Ms. McBeal represent to you?  Is it her strength and independence or is it her own powerlessness in regards to her personal relationships, a kindred spirit so to speak.  Only you can probe the mysteries of these specific elements.

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I am an adult male. Would you please give me your opinion of the meaning of the following dream?

i have had this dream about a dozen times, very simialar but changes abit each time. This helicopter is flying around my house looking for me, the first few times it would fly real close to the house, and was searching for me, getting close but could never see me, and I am so scared!. Each dream this helicopter seems to get closer and closer to finding me, the pilot knows I am in my house, but just can find me, the last dream I was trying to get out of site of the pilot but he spotted me, he just hovered there and watched me, kinda like he was telling me hes got me now, I think he fired shots at me, but I woke up then. Thanks

This is a dream in which you are afraid of being found out for something you are hiding. We all sometimes have the feeling that we are imposters, that sooner or later 'they' are going to find out we aren't what 'they' think we are. You dream could be expressing something as mild as that. Or there may be some bigger secret you are afraid of having exposed. It will rarely be something temporal such as theft or embezzlement, as we rarely feel the need to be punished for such behaviors. More likely it is something moral, such as cheating or lying or something of this nature. Something for which you feel the need to be punished. Only you can know for sure.

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I am an adult male.  Would you please give me your opinion of the meaning of the following dream?

I have had the dream for several months now. In the dream there is a child. He is myself at the age of seven. He always says "Have you learned you mistake yet?" I cannot answer but he punishes me anyways. The punishment is different almost every time. I have been shot, stabbed, mauled by wolves, hung, burned alive to name a few.

We rarely speak directly to ourselves in dreams, even when we are observing ourselves.  As theatrical as this dream seems, it is a highly unlikely one.  Few dreams take on this type of melodramatic timbre.  I would hesitate to read too much literal into it.  But taking it at face value, I would strongly urge you to close your eyes and listen to the words spoken again, and this time try to hear someone else's voice saying them.  Try at first not to pick any voice in particular, but if that doesn't work, try assigning specific voices from close friends, family members or mentors.  Clearly this is your subconscious speaking for someone else in your life.  Someone whom you feel you may be letting down.  Since you are a child in your dream, it may be someone in authority over you.

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I am an adult female.  Would you please give me your opinion of the meaning of the following dream?

My ex-husband just left again about a month ago after the 100th time of trying to work it out.  Since he left I keep having dreams that wake me in the middle of he night, and upset me so much that I can not go back to sleep.  In the dreams he is usually doing something mean to me (not violent, just hurtful)giving me way too much information about the new ladies in his life and the abundance of them.  I've bought new sheets, scoured the room looking for something he may have left, and don't seem to be able to shake these dreams..........Please help

Sometimes exceptionally stressful events in our lives can dominate our dreams.  It is the event of the breakup, quite literally, that you are replaying in your mind, though from your perspective, emphasizing those things that are hurting you the most.  Unfortunately there is no magic to make these dreams go away.  Your peace of mind and self esteem are undergoing an assault, and this is what you need to mitigate.  The best way to do this is to spend as much time as you can possibly manage with family and friends.  Lose yourself in the events of the lives of others, help an elderly relative, baby-sit nieces and nephews.  Most of all, do all of the things that you do well, all of the things you love doing and that make you feel good about yourself.  Spend as little time as possible focusing on this ex and the breakup.  Leave him as far behind in your dust as is possible.  Only then will the dreams diminish and eventually fade away.  Good luck!

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I am an adult female.  Would you please give me your opinion of the meaning of the following dream?

I keep having the same dream of the same man every night for the past 4 nights.  He's very good looking but I do not recognize him.  I don't know him in real life.  But in the dreams I can see him perfectly.  Every night it is the same dream.

The temptation of the dreamer is to want to believe this is some sort of premonitory dream, predicting a future bliss.  Unfortunately nothing could be further from the truth.  Meeting strangers in our dreams or a manifestation of our yearnings.  There is something missing in your life, some needs that aren't being met.  These need not even be romantic needs either.  To determine what the man might represent, focus on those portions of his appearance that are most detailed.  Aspects of his manifestation which or vague, out of focus or even that change frequently are of little consequence.  Those details that you remember most vividly represent the needs in your life that are not being fulfilled.  Is it his eyes?  Then perhaps you feel unnoticed or unappreciated, as if you are fading into the anonymous masses.  Is it his mouth?  Maybe you lack companionship and communication with others.  Maybe his hair?  Perhaps more tactile, physical needs are being neglected.  Only you can tell for sure.

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I am an adult female.  Would you please give me your opinion of the meaning of the following dream?

Not going to work and not being able to contact my employer.

NOTE: The fewer details we are given about your dream, the harder it will be to interpret it.

Offhand, not given any other details, I would say you are laboring under a latent fear that you are letting your employer down in some way.  Are you doing all you can do to fulfill the expectations and responsibilities placed on you?  Chances are you know what the problem is, but if not, do not hesitate to sit down with your boss and ask if you are performing up to par, if you are doing all that is expected of you, and if there are any other things you could be doing.  Bosses actually love that kind of initiative and will gladly give you an impromptu performance review.  Even if your performance has been less than stellar, your demonstrated willingness to learn and do better will impress your boss.

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I am an adult female.  Would you please give me your opinion of the meaning of the following dream?

Hi Again-I submitted my dream for interpretation yesterday-Thank you so much for your quick response!After I submitted my dream yesterday I remembered the second part of my dream-me and my boyfriend in a room and there was this dog-a spaniel(he used to have one as a child)the dog came to me-I love dogs,and I wanted to touch it,but it took my hand in his mouth and did't let go.Then my boyfrien had some doggy treats in his hands and wanted to give them to the dog so I said "Don't give him the food,cos if he starts chewing my hand will be gone" but he did it anyway!And the dog started chewing my hand.End

Since the dog belongs to your boyfriend in the dream, it represents some aspect of his personality in your dream.  Since it is the same breed that he used to own, it probably has some connection to his past, childhood or to your relationship with him in the past.  The fact that the dog threatens you by taking your hand in his mouth is a clear indication that you are threatened by whatever aspect of you boyfriend the dog represents, but that the dog does not actually bite means that you feel that, if left alone, this aspect of your boyfriend or your relationship with him will remain a threat but will never actually blossom into a real problem.  In spite of your warning, your boyfriend feeds the dog anyway, and the dog, indeed, chews your hand.  Is their something about your boyfriend, or your relationship with him that is better left alone, but that you are afraid he may be willing to disrupt?  Is he perhaps a recovering addict?  Is there a relationship in his past that threatens you?

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I am an adult female.  Would you please give me your opinion of the meaning of the following dream?

I dreamed of my boyfriend kissing a friend of his-they didn't know I was watching them,but they knew I was in the same house.When I saw them I took her away from my boyfriend kicking her,she went away.Then my boyfriend told me that she was pregnant(witth her boyfriend's baby) and her boyfriend just didn't want to know about the baby,so he was conforting her and the thing turned into a kiss.Then I asked him if it was anything more than just comforting a friend and he said Yes.

This is what it seems to be - a fear and insecurity in the faithfulness of your partner.  It does not necessarily mean that your jealousy is well founded, but you should explore why you may be insecure.  Often if one is suspicious of such a thing they have good reason to be, however if you are often prone to such insecurities without grounds for it, you may want to ask yourself why.  Also the friend he was kissing in this dream may not necessarily be the person you fear he is cheating on you with.  But there are qualities of that person that you attribute to the situation, to your fear or suspicion that your boyfriend's affections may be wandering.  Talk it out with him, with friends, with yourself.  If your suspicions turn out to be well founded, then a good thing you found out now.  But if not, you need to explore your own self image more closely for reasons why you find yourself insecure in romance.

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I am an adult female.  Would you please give me your opinion of the meaning of the following dream?

I've had this same dream over the course of a couple years. Once I think I have forgotten about it, it comes back.  In the first dream I had, I was with a group of individuals and we all toted canteens, ammunition, and guns.  We seemed to be running from someone, although it was not clear whether the group that was chasing us wanted us dead, but i felt that they wanted something.  We ran for long periods through delapidated buildings that contained giant holes as if a great battle had just taken place.  I remember looking around the group as we huddled to drink water and I realized that everyone was caucasion including myself (i am african american), but i wasn't bothered by this, and we continued on our trek.  We shot at some individuals that began to get too close to us, as we dipped and weaved through tunnels and secret hallways.  In the dream, it finally occured to me that this was a very large building torn to shreds.  We saw a ramp and ran upward toward the light.  At the end of the ramp, several miles away, there was a tornado, but it seemed to be suspended in mid-air, writhing and wriggling like a worm on a hook. The wind was suprisingly calm as we stepped out to survey the land around us.  The colors were sandy and orange---like a vast desert with very little plantlife.  There was debris everywhere---metallic in nature, unlike the wooden and brick building we weaved our way through.  This is where the dream ended as I woke up abruptly.  But, a few weeks later I have the same dream but I am walking the streets of a neighboring town.  Nothing is familiar to me and the buildings are made of stone.  I wander for awhile before I come upon a construction site that looked like it hadnt been used in decades.  the work was incomplete, but behold, it was the same building (which now appeared to be some sort of empire)that my renegade companions and I escaped from.  As I looked I realized I was outside the area and for some reason I needed to get back in.  I entered the area through a fence and wandered the area of orange-like sand and  kicked at scraps of metal.  Thats when I saw it, the same ramp I had escaped from.  I decided to enter the ramp and see if I could find out what was going on.  But entering back into that place was like walking into a madhouse.  Nothing was as it seemed.  Everything began to change and take shape.  once again, i awoke abruptly from the dream.  On another occassion, I found myself in a gothic type auditorium with burgundy and black drapes hanging from high rafters.  I walked up the stairs and through the doors. It was then I realized I was in the same place, just a different area.  I walked around for a bit, looking for a way to get out.  I came upon a room with an electric wheelchair lift that led to an upstairs area.  The chair was moving but no one was sitting in it, so I decided to go upstairs to check out the area.  when I got there, I was standing on some sort of balcony that overlooked the entire area.  It was a vast land of ruins.  Fires burned and smoke formed thick clouds.  Up  to this point, I saw no form of human life.  I went back down stairs and there were two people leaning on the pillars outside the auditorium.  I ran over to them and asked what this place was, they said nothing. I wandered some more and found delapidated rooms, hallways with wooden floors that were rotted and mildewed.  Several times, I found my way outside, but I couldnt find my way completely out of the "compound".  I ran and ran---occassionally I would run past a person, but they seemed oblivious to the fact that I was there or laughed at the fact that I couldnt escape. In my dream I became so frustated that, once again, I awoke abruptly from it.  well, to make a long story short, ( i only included a few dreams here, there are many that occurred far and in between what I have told you) each dream I have puts me in a different area of the same place.  I can never seem to find my purpose there, and I am always searching and running from or for something.  Any insight you can give me about this ongoing dream would be greatly appreciated.

Pursuit of any sort in a dream translates to an inner need to overcome some limitation or past, maybe a secret or a mistake that we hope will never truly catch up to us.  That you are running through urban landscapes that are unfamiliar to you and are in varying degrees of decay is your subconscious mind warning you that your life is disorganized, disordered.  Deeper down you suspect that the only way in which you can stop running and finally feel safe, the only way in which you can find a place not so destroyed and a shambles is to finally stop and confront whatever it is that you are trying to leave behind or keep ahead of.  You can use the details in your dream - the hanging people, the laughing people, etc. - as clues to tell you what it is you may be running from, if you don't already know.  I suspect, however, that deep down, if you are honest with yourself, you already know what it is.

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I am an adult female.  Would you please give me your opinion of the meaning of the following dream?

I had a dream a week or so ago I was in bed, but I was looking out into a pool like at Seaworld and as I looked out a great white came up to bite me.  I jumped back and was safe on my bed.  I woke up in fear.  What is odd is that last night, about a week later, I had a dream I was out with my younger brother in a boat and a shark came by and had my cousin in its bite.  We had to go home and tell our family what happened to him.  This cousin actually died 8 years ago at the age of 16 in a car crash.  The thing that linked them together for me is that in less than a week and a half I have had two shark dreams and I feel strongly my subconscious is trying to tell me something.  What do you think?

There are two other dreams interpreted herein that involve sharks and I encourage you to read these as well.  Sharks represent danger, threat.  You are understandably afraid and concerned for the welfare of your friends and family, especially in view of your tragic loss so many years ago.  I would caution against taking this dream as any kind of premonition - dreams rarely are that.  But you are to be commended for your compassion and love of your friends and family.

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I am an adult female.  Would you please give me your opinion of the meaning of the following dream?

I am an adult female.    I have a running theme in many of my dreams, rather than the same exact dream.  They involve a plane crash.  It is always a typically large passenger type plane and I see it moving unusually slowly when it ultimately crashes into a mountain side.  I've seen this on land and above water.  I'm never really frightened, it's more factual.  I always see the plane crash, so I don't think I'm a passenger although some "scenes" take place with me inside the plane.  I don't wake up immediately when the plane crashes, but nothing much happens after that.  I'm never "saving" people, again it's a very factual style dream.  I've never been in a plane crash, but was on a plane that had to return back to the airport after takeoff due to smoke in the cockpit.  I can't remember if these dreams started after that.  I also always watch those TV shows that discuss airline crashes, I just find them interesting and fascinating.  I'm not particularly afraid of plane crashes, I have no phobias.  I'm looking forward to hearing your response, Thanks!

I often have this dream myself, in various forms, believe it or not.  Planes carry a connotation of travel, which in dreams can be translated into some kind of life-journey, such as coming of age, or going through menopause, or going through a pregnancy, a wedding, etc.    Airplanes are also big, lumbrous craft, and they are piloted by someone else, such that we have no direct control over them, where they going or whether or not they crash.  Such a crash in a dream may not necessarily mean disaster, and this is reinforced by your lack of fear or concern in the dream.  Such a crash more often means a period of transition or change in one's life.  I suspect this dream is little more than your mind dealing with and categorizing some changes in your life, changes that are ongoing, and also changes that are quite common, expected and not particularly alarming or worthy of worry.

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I am an adult female.  Would you please give me your opinion of the meaning of the following dream?

I dreamed I was rearranging the furniture in the living room of my childhood home (decorating, etc). This was an activity I often did while growing up(and although it's not my profession, my family still asks me to help them decorate their homes, etc.) Also, I couldn't actually see myself doing this activity, but I knew it was me.  After moving a wing chair that was located in front of a window (the window did not exist in my childhood home - there were a few other very minor differences but I recognized the general floor plan as being that of my childhood home), I noticed that there were a lot of pieces of small, torn, white paper on the hardwood floor behind the chair along with some dust. (That also didn't surprise me, because growing up I took an active role in keeping our house clean.)  So, I got a broom and began to sweep the floor and was thinking about ways I could rearrange the furniture so as to maximize the space,etc. In the process of sweeping the floor, though, I noticed a small black jumping spider sitting on the window sill. I looked at the spider and pondered what course of action to take.  My initial reaction was to leave it alone and just let it continue to exist because,after all, it was another living creature. (My husband would either have captured the spider and released it outdoors, or would have just left it alone.) After some hesitation, I decided that perhaps I should go ahead and kill the spider.  At first,I wasn't afraid of it. I planned to smash it from a safe distance using my broom. My attempts at smashing it, however, were unsuccessful. On my final attempt, the spider jumped towards me and landed on my chin. I immediately awoke from my dream and my heart was pounding. On a personal note, my husband and I are considering relocating to a new city and I have been busy working with a recruiter to get a job in that city.

Your childhood home represents the shelter and security of your childhood.  The fact that certain details are different is not alarming, these are just features of your adult life that you have added to the overall image of shelter and security.  Rearranging and decorating has a direct correlation to the upcoming changes in your life - you are contemplating the rearranging of your life and the new, exciting features that may furnish it in its new form.  The spider is simply the gremlin we are all somewhat afraid of - that upcoming changes or events may not quite turn out to be as positive as we hope they will.  This fear is healthy, especially in view of the seeming interest and excitement you feel about building your new life, as long as you do not let this fear overwhelm you or retard your progress.  Since you mention the upcoming changes in your life I strongly suspect you already had a similar interpretation for your dream, which supports my axiom that no one can do a better job of interpreting our dreams than we can ourselves.

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I am an adult male.  Would you please give me your opinion of the meaning of the following dream?

I WAS DREAMING THAT THE DIAMONDS IN MY WEDDING BAND KEPT FALLING OUT AND I WOULD TRY TO GRAB THEM BUT I WOULD KEEP DROPPING SOMETHING, BUT I DON'T KNOW WHAT IT WAS, IT WAS KEEPING ME FROM GETTING THE DIAMONDS. MY WIFE CAME OVER TO HELP BUT THE SAME THING HAPPENED TO HER.

You may be feeling as if you are letting your wife down in some way, that in spite of your best efforts you are failing her in a way fundamental to your marriage to her.  Examine your feelings, look at your lifestyle, explore some of your wife's expectations that you may find difficult to live up to.  Discuss with her any feelings of unfulfillment that she might be having.  Find out if you truly are letting her down.  If not, explore your guilty feelings - are you doing things that she may not be aware of, but are nonetheless betraying the marriage bond?  If you can figure out what it is that is bothering you, I encourage you to make every effort to clean up your act, not only for the sake of your marriage but for your own piece of mind.

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I am an adult female.  Would you please give me your opinion of the meaning of the following dream?

Idreamed that i was  in the Army and i had to say no sir and yes sir.

Depending on how you feel about being bossed around, I suspect this dream is either expressing your frustration with some structure or other that is being forced on your waking life that you resent, or a recognition by your subconscious mind that your life needs more structure and organization.

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I am an adult female.  Would you please give me your opinion of the meaning of the following dream?

I have recurring dreams that always include a shark.  I am never hurt, but I do get scared.  The shark often goes out of water.  For example in one of the several dreams, I was in a small library, and I was climbing the book ladders to get away from the shark below.  I would like to know what to think of all these shark dreams.

Danger is represented by the sharks, threats of some sort.  But not a physical one, of course.  That the shark is either emerging from it's element or completely out of it suggests threats that should be hidden but are emerging.  The fact that you feel fear but are never really hurt suggests that these threats have not emerged yet, but that you fear they will.  Are you keeping things hidden from someone, things that could be discovered, things that you fear, if discovered, could harm you?  Have you lied to an employer?  A loved one?  Or are you trying to leave a destructive lifestyle or relationship behind and are afraid you may not have run far or fast enough?  Since the library is the venue of many of the dreams you might explore what a library may mean to your subconscious mind (knowledge?  research?  learning and mental development? perhaps a belief that if you climb high enough in knowledge and learning you can escape the danger presented by these things?).  Until you feel secure that these harmful things can never return to haunt you, the sharks may never completely go away, I'm afraid.

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I am a teen female.  Would you please give me your opinion of the meaning of the following dream?

I have been having this dream for about a year now and I have it every night. I usually wake up pretty shaken for some reason. Please help me out, I really need some sleep.  I'm walking along the edge of a cliff and looking out at the ocean. Suddenly, the weather gets really rough (high winds, fog, etc.). There's this little girl walking on the water. She's wearing an old fashioned blue dress (say 1940's), she has blonde curly hair which is in pigtails done with blue ribbon, she's wearing those lace like socks (or tights I can't tell which) and black shoes (the ones with the buckles). She reaches out her hand and is about to say something when a dark man comes up behind her and puts his hand over her mouth, but not quick enough for me to hear her scream. They vanish in the fog.

This one has all the classic earmarks of your mind's attempt to deal with a feeling of helplessness and loss. Walking along the edge of a cliff denotes a feeling of trying to balance, to walk a dangerous line on which one mistake might send you over the edge, showing an uncertainty and trepidation about the path you are taking in your life.  The sudden oncoming storm further threatens your balance with it's chaos and unpredictability, representing all of the formless opposing forces around you in your life that seem to be working against you, almost wanting you to fail.   The little girl is you, of course, and given the detail of your description of her clothing she is a very focused manifestation of yourself, one you identify with intensely, one that you feel defines you more than any other.  There is as little detail of the abductor as there is an excess of detail about the girl.  The girl represents your image of yourself, and her attempt to reach out to you appears to be almost a plea for help, just before she is abducted and taken away forever.  You most likely have great fear in losing yourself, the most important parts of yourself and who you feel you are, while struggling to stay balanced on the cliff or keep your life on track and resist all of the outside forces that are trying to waylay you.

In short this is a fairly common dream for teenagers - teenaged girls especially - in which your mind is expressing your fears and insecurities about growing up.  But don't worry, if you are dreaming about it then it is clearly on your mind, and if it stays on your mind then you are always going to be alert and ready to take on all challenges.  You're fine!

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I am an adult female.  Would you please give me your opinion of the meaning of the following dream?

dream of giving birth to a baby

Well, nothing like terse and to the point!  I usually prefer more detail to go on, but in general dreaming of giving birth for women is usually the subconscious mind's need to express some life changing event.  It may not be giving birth, but could be a change in career, getting married, graduating, or the completion of a major project.  Only you can decide what major event it is your mind is trying to get a handle on.

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I am a teen female.  Would you please give me your opinion of the meaning of the following dream?

i have been having this recurring since i moved into my house 9 years ago, and the dream is of a hidden room, but each time i have the dream the room it's kind of different, it always feels the same, but the rooms appearence is always different,in one dream the room has been big, and really tidy and expensive looking, and in another dream it has been dirty and small, the room is different in almost every dream, but i know it's still the same room, even though it looks different, it always has the same feel to it, safe, and in a few dreams the room has been like a safe havin for me, this room doesn't exist in real life, it never resembles anything i recognise, but it always feels the same, i never do anything in this room, and very rarly are there people there with me, it's been recurring for 9 years and i still don't know the meaning, help.

I actually have this dream often myself, and I quite enjoy it - it's fun!  This dream cries out in favor of your creativity, originality and desire to stand out from the crowd.  You are most comfortable when you are creating or exploring on your own, ranging out alone discovering new things and experiencing what few others try.  You feel safe and secure doing your own thing, when others don't encroach on you until you want them to.  You may even be a little awkward or uncomfortable in social situations, and this room that few others know about feels safe not only because it represents your need and desire to discover new things, but because here, in your room, you can be yourself and don't have to constantly worry about how others are reacting and feeling about you.

Just as a note of encouragement: these are also the characteristics shared by some of the world's greatest leaders.

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I am an adult female.  Would you please give me your opinion of the meaning of the following dream?

I have always had intense and complex dreams and nightmares.  A recently recurring dream follows:  I see something, sometimes a spider, once it was a black bird coming in the window and sometimes it's just a whispy object in the air.  I wake up and touch it and as my hand goes through it, I am fully awake and it disappears.  Last night the object was a green, whispy, spidery object and I wasn't scared like I have been of the spiders in my bed in other dreams.  I always see ghosts or things after I awake, but they disappear as I awake more fully.  Please help.

When a previously frightening dream recurs with a minor change that isn't as frightening, this is a very clear message that an anticipated thing - an event such as surgery, or a test, a wedding, etc. - has come and passed and has turned out not to be as terrifying as we were anticipating.  That the thing in the air was formless tells us that you weren't entirely sure what form the event was going to take, and the one time that it appeared as a bird shows us the fear that the event was immanent or approaching fast.  That it was black further adds to it's intimidating nature and the lack of color continues the theme of uncertainty.  The final appearance was still formless, but the green color is more definite that black, not to mention more soothing.  This tells us that though you still don't know what form the event will take in the future, you're okay with it.  Off hand I would guess the event is something like High School graduation, or a wedding, or just turning 30 years old...some milestone event such as this.

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I am an adult female.  Would you please give me your opinion of the meaning of the following dream?

I am in a room, my grandma and some other woman are talking.  I don't see the other women only my grandma.She has a table infront of her on the table is my plant from home a small plant.  I seem to be facing them but quite far away from the table.  The woman seem to be very pleased with themselves.  I say something about my plant needing to be more healthier. My Gran has always had a way with plants. My Grandma is smug and some of the other woman are mocking me a bit saying yeah,we know you don't have it in you kind of thing, but I drown their voices out and concentrate on my Gran. I say that I don't have the experience and they grundingly listen to my explaination, like I am trying to convince them. I am scared to look and I fear there opinions.  I am amazed when my gran rubs up the plant from the root.  Ther plant transforms into a more beautiful plant. Now on the table there are lots of plants the same as mine but different colours and really beautiful, but it was like I had some part in doing it as well as my Gran?  Then I am outside and then I look up at the trees I am so amazed.  Then I notice something like a net across the trees - it is a beautifully weaved spiders web. I want to keep looking up at the beauty of the sun and trees and the web.  It is like she wants me to be jealous or impressed with the web.  I don't know which but I just amazed by it and only feel a quick flash of jealousy. My Gran tells me to look down near her it is a little darker and there is another web, not as beautiful.  I don't want to look down I want to look up but I follow her wishes but I really don't want to  She points to the web and I am amazed again.  But she says but what is in the spiders web? Then she makes me look again and now there are big spiders on the web there is even just parts of spiders on the web.  I look away and don't really see a clear image of the spiders. Then she tells me not to move but I do because I don't want to listen to her.  When I
move I almost willing the spider to touch me.  It then goes into my hair and tangles itself.  When it first goes into my hair I expect it to hurt.  I don't move and think to myself that I will wait until it goes. Then I wake up

When they appear in our dreams, relatives tend to represent our own sense of security, strength, stability or rightness with the world.  Older relatives are our link with ancestors and heritage.  The fact that your grandmother appears smug while her friends openly ridicule you suggests that you are very insecure in your current position as regards your heritage, your ancestry (your own race, perhaps?).  But grandmother does not appear too upset, which does not suggest a serious rift with your ancestry, but more like the straying of an errant child.  The plant and your guilt over its condition seems to represent your nurturing side, perhaps with children of your own or maybe a responsibility you feel to one or more others whom you feel you are failing.  Your grandmother is able to heal the plant, as if by magic, which seems to hint that she, as representative of your ancestry or heritage, has answers that, for whatever reason, were never shared with you, answers you feel that if you had, you could accomplish the duties and responsibilities you're failing at.  The sudden appearance of multiple plants, plants that you sense you had some part in bringing about, confirms the conviction that, given some magical answer that is eluding you, you could accomplish much more.

The web in the trees further reflects the feeling that great accomplishments could be yours if only you had some gifts that somehow should have been yours by virtue of inheritance or genetics, but that seem to be eluding you.  That grandmother wants you to be jealous suggests a vague resentment in you, a feeling that perhaps these skills or gifts were withheld from you beyond your choice or control, almost deliberately, with malice.  The spiders and parts of spiders in the web on the ground, vague and unclear as they are, seem to represent the very skills or gifts you feel you lack.  That one gets into your hair and doesn't hurt you though you expected it to, suggests that these skills you lack are mental ones, ones you crave, ones you feel that, but for the lack of, you could be successful in your duties and responsibilities to those who rely upon you for their own nurturing and growth.  Spiders are disquieting to most people, which might suggest that you have some measure of fear or trepidation about this knowledge you seek as well.

I feel compelled to point out that there may not actually be any such knowledge that you lack and others have.  This dream only seems to speak of your perception that there are such things.  There is a difference.

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I am an adult female.  Would you please give me your opinion of the meaning of the following dream?

I have had this reoccuring dream for years even though i graduated with my Masters degree from college 5 years ago.  The dream is that I find out that I haven't completed all the required courses in college, or that I am at college and can't find any of my classes, or that I realize I have missed taking certain classes once the semester is over.  I have this dream at least once a month and the dream always causes a state of panic about not being able to find the classroom, wondering around the school campus asking people if they know where a certain classroom is.  Please help me interpret this dream!!!

This is actually quite a common flavor of dream - the feeling that one has failed to accomplish a goal once thought achieved, or that one is lost and can't find one's way.  In this case your subconscious is reflecting an anxiety that you try to keep under control - with varying degrees of success - in your waking life.  There is a haunting feeling that you are not doing something you should be doing.  Maybe you know what this is right away without having to think about it, perhaps not.  Are you pursuing goals in life that you know you should be pursuing?  Are you subjugating your own wants, desires and/or needs to serve someone else's - a spouse or child?  Are you putting your own life on hold, so to speak, while you wait for something else to happen?  Are you living the life someone else designed for you, and not one you, yourself would have necessarily chosen?  These are some of the things you might want to examine.  It doesn't have to be anything life changing, but it might be, and since the dream has been recurring for years it most likely is.  It could be something as simple as finally cleaning out that storage space you've let go too long, or something as momentous as quitting your job and joining the Peace Corps.  Only you know what is truly in your own heart.

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I am a teen female.  Would you please give me your opinion of the meaning of the following dream?

OK so first some background( this is not the actual dream first!) I`ve been dating this boy on and off for around 7 months, but around my birthday (4th December 2000) we split up and I kissed his mate at my birthday party. I fell for him, but he rejected me because he said he knew he`d end up hurting me. Then on Christmas Day, me and my long term boyfriend got back together and have been perfectly happy eva since-well except on New Year`s Eve when me and his friend nearly got together, but didn`t. But I just put that all down to alcohol. Then last night that would be 25th January 2001 ( me and my boyfriend`s 1 month anniversary, I had this dream that I don`t understand. I dreampt that while me and all my friend`s including my boyfriend`s mate, were on the way to a party ( my boyfriend was NOT there-he would be at the party) I hurt myself and my boyfriend`s mate came over to help me. We were in my Nana`s road for some reason as she lives quite far away,but anyway.Then we both sat down on the pavement with his arm around me. He was hugging me and then I kissed him. He kissed me back too and I remember thinking about my boyfriend, but I didn`t care. I now feel really guilty, like I`ve betrayed my boyfriend.

Sometimes your subconscious feels the need to be quite literal with you in order to get its point across.  Your guilt is well founded - you are in love with another man.  While that condition exists, your heart does not wholly belong to your current boyfriend and therefore you are not being true to him, in your heart.  The fact that you stopped before you could cheat on him is commendable, but the dream is telling you what's what, and you are not doing the current boyfriend any favors by keeping him on the fishing line while you cast out for other fish.  It is a common occurrence with women who find it difficult being alone - either they lead one gentleman on while exploring possibilities with others, or they form a close friendship with one gentleman, leading him to believe there might be more forthcoming, using him as a backstop on the off chance that their current boyfriend might dump them.  In all cases you are not truly being faithful to one while you still have feelings for the other.  Be fair to all concerned, especially yourself, and break up with the current beau until you've sorted all of your feelings out for everyone.

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I was at school in the cafateria.  My two friends from a different school were their.  Also, the school (girl) bully that used to go their.  For some reason me and my two friends went outside and played frisbee.  Then (I don't know why, I think we were looking for someone) we went through the cafiteria and into the hall.  My mom was their and for some reason I left my friends and went in to the car with her.  My sister was their, she was going home sick (but she looked fine).  This was the first time I saw a clock in a dream.   It was clearer than anything else.  The time was 10:20. Then I woke up.   What does it mean?

The cafeteria is usually a hub of social activity in any school, so it is not necessarily significant.  That two friends from a different school were there as well as the school bully can simply mean nothing more than that you feel more secure and supported with other friends there, friends who may not yet be under the pall of the bully's influence.  Going outside to play is a sign of a lack of fear, most likely of the bully, Frisbee being a particularly lighthearted and carefree activity.  Going back to the cafeteria, you found who it was you were looking for: your mother.  The fact that your sister, also present was faking an illness says a lot about how you perceive your relationship with your mother and your sister: clearly your mother is often fooled by your sister's fraudulent behavior, as you see it.  The significance of clocks and time in dreams is usually related to a sense of urgency or of change one cannot control, but the significance of the specific time in your dream, 10:20, is too specific and subjective for me to make a guess on - it can only have meaning to you.

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I am a teen female.  I am constantly dreaming about sharks. I dream that my family and friends are swimming in the ocean, and one shark appears in the water, it is always about to attack them, but they escape. In the dream, i am never in the water. Sometimes we are at the beach or on a wharf, and i warn everyone about the sharks, fearing that they'll come immediatley. What does this mean?

Family and friends often represent our emotional safety and security.   Sharks are, of course, predators, danger, threats to that security.  Since this dream is recurring, it expresses a certain insecurity you have about your emotional exposure.  You feel vulnerable, open to danger and threats on this level from others whom do not necessarily have your best interests at heart.  To cause these dreams to stop, you need to seek ways of building confidence in your own inner strength and emotional reserves.  Know that you do not need to close yourself off to protect yourself, but rather decide to stand firm in the face of any assault.  You have a right to be who you wish to be, and those who attack this are seeking to subvert your strength.  Don't let them.

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I am an adult female. I was trying to get over a barbed wire fence and this small person, the size of my hand said he had to die or i couldn't get over myself. I decided that i couldn't let the little guy die so i didn't get over the fence to where i was going.

The little man would seem to represent some part of yourself that is both insignificant, given his stature, and at the same time of enough value to you that you do not wish to sacrifice it just to achieve certain goals, the achievement of those goals represented by the fence. This could mean anything from an unwillingness to cash in an investment to make a major purchase, to being unwilling to sacrifice part of your integrity in order to become well liked. The range of things this could mean is vast and highly personal. Only you can tell for sure what it means to you and your life.

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I am an adult female.I am white and I dreamt I was dating a handsome black guy.

Such dreams are often hard to interpret because of the possible subjectivities of the dreamer. For example, did this attraction disturb you in any way, or was it exciting? Does the black man represent, literally, a black man, or something figurative from your subjective unconscious?

In general dreams of others, especially when those others are unknown to us in our waking life, are more often dreams about aspects of ourselves represented by those others. There is something about yourself of which you are quite fond or proud that is represented by this handsome black man. Men, of course, are masculine, and black men often carry a mystique for white people (whether one of fear or curiosity). Unfortunately this is as far as I can go without further revelation from the dreamer, but it should get you started toward your own understanding.

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I am a teen female.I used to have this dream where there were big ball like huge and they were all rolling at me I was in like a big room and they would all miss me by like 2 cm and towards the end a really big ball would roll stright at me and then I would wake up I had this same dream many times when I was about 6 to10

The ages from six to ten are, whether we recall in later years or not, really frightening years for us. We are starting to learn that a lot more is going to be demanded of us and expected from us than just the fun and games of our toddler years. The balls are clearly reminiscent of those toddler years, and dodging them or catching them were our greatest challenges at those ages. As we get older, more and more balls are being rolled at us: school, social interactions, enforced behavioral modifications from our parents, etc. Dodging them becomes more and more of a challenge. The big ball near the end which forces you to wake up is the certainty you have that the demands and challenges are only going to become greater as you grow older, and those unknowns can be very frightening indeed.

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I am an adult female. Reoccuring dream I'm having a baby boy. I had my tubes tied 11 years ago. How can this be possible. Thanks

In this case I would not take the dream literally. Birth is, of course, beginning. For women (and some men) it also carries with it essences of nurturing, sacrifice and commitment. Depending on the atmosphere in the dream, it can also perhaps bring a little trepidation, resistance or feelings of being overwhelmed or trapped with responsibility or challenge you don't feel up to. Are you starting a new job, or completing a long term project that has consumed a great amount of your time and energy? Are you starting a new relationship? Are you recently engaged? Perhaps ending a long-term relationship, maybe a divorce? Have you made a major purchase lately (house, maybe)? Any similar life changes, even menopause, can be the author of such a dream. Look at what is changing in your life, specifically things regarding personal relationships, and see what might fit.

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I am an adult female. My question is about dreams. I have had this recurring dream since I was about 7 years old. I am 28 now. I am still 7 years old in this dream. The dream is distorted in color and I generally start out in a feild... I am laying in this feild in an ivory dress when I slowly get up and start walking. I walk a long way down toward these big rocks and start climbing the rocks and walking on them. I get higher on the rocks and soon can see water down below...beautiful setting. Water and seguls and my hair blowing in the breeze. I keep going until I reach a huge tree at the end of the rocks. There he is, I call him the Wizard. He is an old man with a wooden cane and a long beard, hair so white it hurts my eyes to look at it in direct sunlight. He always welcomes me (as if he were expecting me) and we sit on the rocks under the tree and talk. He sometimes sits me on his lap, its very comforting. I always feel safe there. I never remember what was said and I never remember walking back to the feild. But I always wake up feeling strangely ok and not remembering anything but going there and its like I'm watching a video of myself as a child with no sound.

When we dream ourselves as children the dream is almost always about either our hopes or our fears. Walking of course is just what it seems: a journey. The rocks clearly symbolize obstacles to be overcome and climbing higher represents progression and accomplishment, even achievement of a higher plane of consciousness or enlightenment through the conquering of these obstacles, such as higher knowledge gained through schooling or college. The 'wizard' is a very fatherly figure for you -- witness the sitting on his lap -- as well as both a very powerful (he is a wizard after all) and a very protective symbol.

I would resist embracing any religious symbolism here, in spite of the wizard's resemblance to an angel or god. More likely he is what he seems, a parental figure: your father, a professor or other mentor, even perhaps a husband or lover (although less likely). I would also not rule out the wizard being your mother, in spite of the masculine gender. Be that as it may, this dream is a very common dream about your struggle to achieve great things in your life, or maybe just very good things, and your hope that whatever you become, that your parental figure will be proud of you, continue to love you and always be there to support you. In the final analysis, this dream is one version of a desire we all have: to earn and receive the approval of a parent.

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I am an adult female. I have a dream where I am not part of the dream, I am just an observer. This particular dream is of one of my coworkers husband. He is at work and I see him talking to someone, I know not who. I sense he is in danger. As he reaches out to the person he is talking to, I get a clear look at his arms and I see that both his arms are hurt and swollen, one is more swollen than the other. I don't know how he got hurt but know it is some kind of accident. In the past I have had dreams and the ones that I am not a part of but am just an observer feel much stronger than the others.

Unfortunately this is one of those dreams that is just too subjective for me to interpret without spending more time exploring the details with you: what does your co-worker represent to you? What does her husband represent? Which arm was more swollen, which less?

However what is intriguing and well worth exploring is your last statement. These dreams seem so impersonal, it is almost as if your subconscious is attempting to deal with issues that are so alarming, it tries to remove itself just as far as it can from the issue to fully examine it. These dreams seem so much more vivid than the others because it is in these dreams that your psyche feels the most safe -- everything, good or bad, is happening to others, so you don't have to have any thoughts or feelings about them. This is something it might be worth discussing with a councilor or therapist: what is it about yourself you don't trust? Why do you fear yourself so much? Why do (certain? all?) thoughts/emotions overwhelm you, make you want to hide from them?

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I am an adult male. Kevin, do all dreams have a meaning? Is there only one way a dream can be interpreted?

'No' to both questions.

Not all dreams have meaning. But I think the majority do. And there is no doubt in my mind that as a rule, we know instinctively when a dream is significant and has meaning and when it doesn't! And recurring dreams, even if they only recur once, ALWAYS HAVE MEANING, even if they alter slightly with each recurrence.

As to interpreting dreams, there is not always just one interpretation for all dreams. For some there can be only one. For others there might be more than one. My interpretations here attempt to choose the most mainstream meaning, one that the majority of readers can identify with. Also, interpretations become more and more accurate the better you know the subject, the person having the dream.

Hope this helps!

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I am an adult female. I had a dream that I was back in high school. I was involved with drama and choir as those were the classes I attended in my dream. I had a best friend, funny thing is this person was not in high school with me. I know her now and don't know her too well. Met her many months ago and don't see her all too often she is a wife of one of the guys my husband worked with in the past. During our drama class we talk a little bit, I can't hear what we are saying to eachother but we start crying. Our next class is choir and we have to travel to a performance and end up at opposite ends of the bus and continue to cry. I am talking to someone about it. I tell them that she is upset because I am moving on to another school. I am just upset that this has upset her this much. It isn't like we won't be able to still hang out and all it just means we wont be able to do this together at school any more. She has my phone number, I still live in the same town, and she also has my email address.! But yet she insists we will never see each other again. The teacher is upset because we can't compose ourselves before the performance and miss it.

Isn't it interesting that you attend drama class with this girl, and then her reaction to your separation strikes you and others as over-dramatic? You are undergoing some transition in your life, a transition that is perhaps not really a huge deal, or perhaps is a common one that you have gone through before or that most people go through and now it is just your turn. At any rate, your subconscious is acknowledging the minor nature of the change while still going through a period of mourning for what is being left behind, mourning that even it acknowledges is an overreaction, and yet mourning it feels it must undergo nonetheless. The fact that this encounter takes place in High School suggest that perhaps it is a portion of your childhood or innocence that is being set aside in favor of the change. Sitting apart from your friend on the bus indicates that the process of transition has already begun, and recognizing that you and she can still remain in touch is your maturity speaking, accepting the change in view of the fact that you never really leave your past behind, you just outgrow it, but you can always go back and visit those memories. Missing the performance is a reminder your mind is giving itself that this change is necessary for life to continue, and resisting the change could arrest your further growth.

Why this particular lady, whom you never attended school with and know only briefly from social situations? Simply that there was some aspect of her when you met her that your mind recognizes as similar to the portion of your life that this change is leaving behind, nothing more. Your dream is simply your mind's way of recognizing and coming to grips with some change in your life, and not a big deal at that.

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I am a teen female. I was in our feild with most of my immediate family. (My dad is the football coach for a school near here) My dad was standing in our feild telling the football players (girls & guys) and if they didn't do what he said they would die and tearn into zombies (witch would go out and kill people in town if we didn't get them). As we where driving through the feild getting them, we missed some and ran over others. as my dad was getting 1 another sat up and cared my mom and I. Meanwile my cousin had a granade launcher and a fire hose cousing fires then putting themout. He tearned to the truck and launched 1 towards, put it out then launched 2 more getting closer each time, my dad finaly repromanded himon getting to close to the truck.

Your father is a very commanding figure in your life, which is understandable at your age. You might discuss with him your resentment of his students, perhaps for taking his time away from you on (some? many?) occasions. Being football players it is not entirely unreasonable that you fear them to some extent as well. But all of this is actually ancillary to the meaning of the dream itself.

What the dream is actually acting out is quite simple: your determination to overcome challenges and adversity to achieve what you want. In this dream your family represents your passion, your will and determination. The football players/zombies represent obstacles in your path to achieve your goal. The battle you describe is nothing more than emulating the battle that you encounter on a daily basis to overcome life's challenges and achieve your goals. The fact that you feel well supported by your family is a good thing. In general I would call this a very positive, encouraging dream, even though it may seem frightening at the time.

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...I am brushing my hair, and this tiny spider falls out. I am not disturbed by this. But I notice it. For some reason I "realize" that I have to get rid of these spiders in my hair.I begin brushing my hair expecting a few spiders but they keep falling out. I decide that I need help getting the spiders out, so I call the hospital to ask advice. The man I am talking to knows me. I don't know who he is at first, but then realize that he is single and I've met him, but didn't think he was interested.So start to try to be flirtatious, but then I'm thinking, why would he want to go out with me? I just told him about the spiders in myhair!!!

The spiders don't concern you, though you recognize the need to remove them, and the fact that they are onerous to others. Depending on what spiders represent to your subconscious, I'd say they are aspects of yourself that you have accepted and are are used to if not entirely comfortable with. Aspects that you are aware others may find unacceptable. Is it coincidence that the spiders are hidden in your hair, or perhaps your head? Are these memories? Thoughts of depression? Other psychological gremlins? Calling the hospital indicates you acknowledge that you may need outside, expert help in ridding yourself of them -- but I would caution against taking this literally as meaning any kind of health professional. It might mean that, but give it some thought first. The attractive man that you start to flirt with and then stop, I suspect, represents your reluctance to reveal these things to anyone, even those who might be in a position to help you, because of their possible negative reaction to you, as well.

I think there is another aspect to this dream, though. You aborted your initial flirtation with the attractive man because you realized you had revealed too much about yourself to him. You are not comfortable with revealing these secrets about yourself to those whom you especially want to be attracted to you.

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I have a frequently recurring dream where i very confidentally go toLondon, which i know very well, but can't find my way home again.

Well, could this be a louder plea for a vacation? You want, perhaps even need, to take a break from something -- work, a relationship, etc. -- for a while. Why London? London clearly means something quite personal to you since you know it well in your dream, but does not necessarily mean that this is literally where you want to go, perhaps only that you want to go far enough not to be disturbed, maybe home to mother. The problem is your fear: you can't find your way back because you fear that the thing you want to escape from for a while will not be there when you return. You don't want to leave it entirely, just to get a break from it.

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