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Last night I dreamt that somehow two people who lived nearby down the street had been found dead, and that when the police went into the house they were finding lots of extraterrestrial stuff, including a small spaceship, and everyone claiming the two people who were dead were martians and all that stuff. The thing is that I come into the place which is full of policemen trying to catalog things, and I find running around the floor a cat - a blue cat (dark blue), whose fur is not hair, but wool (wool like that of a sheep). And its a newborn, like a month old. When I ask the policemen what about that incredibly strange cat they say it must also be from another planet, and that they will put it down if no one claims him. When they say that, I just tell them I am going to keep the cat, and pick him up and walk out with it towards my house.
 
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I want you all to know that I spent half an hour posting my response AND I LOST IT ALL!!!!!!!!! Yes, I am a bitter party of 1, with a reservation!
Let me try this again! I thank all ya'll for all of the dreams that you submitted, and I look forward to your feedback. Thank you for all of the well wishes that I feel better. It hasnt happened yet, but I am sure I will be fine by tomorrow.

Beth: I have to tell you....your dream is the hardest one that I have ever tried to analyze because of the man peeling away his skin. To me, peeling away skin would be peeling away certain things of one's personality...but I am not so sure that that is it in the context of this dream...I did put in the question and am waiting for an answer back. Lets see...anytime a house shows up in your dream it represents you. It depicts your attributes and personality as well as your body. This house seems to be in disrepair...that maybe its being rebuilt. Were you feeling run down and tired when you had this dream?? The garden symbolizes extroversion or the relationship with the environment that you had. With the garden in your dream being nothing but mud, it is perceiving that maybe you need to plant your enterprise, secure it. The roof of the house was a major factor, and a roof is the philosophy, beliefs or coping strategies to protect oneself from stress. This points out that you may have been stressed. Windows represent your perception of things, your ability to see through a barrier. With the windows being black, it leads me to believe that you couldnt see clearly what was in the future, where your plans were headed. The man in your dream represented your strength to look with insight into your own life and change it, and the fact that he was injurying his own arms means that there was a feeling of loss connected with the ability to care for yourself or a sense of helplessness in reaching out to others. Does any of this seem familiar? I will get back with you on what the peeling of skin truly signifies. You get back to me on how you feel about this.

Fwan....anytime a dream involves a mother in the context your does, it generally refers to a lack of bonding and a relationship dominated by emotions. The fact that she is in hospital represents needing or being involved in a healing process of the body and/or the mind. See how this refers to your relationship with your mother.....

Me-n-my Guys....my husband is a HUGE fan of the pittsburgh steelers...but to your dream. Physical relations with someone represents a union of qualities or opinions. It also depends on who your lover was. Was it your significant other? Was it someone from your past? Generally, if it is with someone who isnt your significant other, than you need to ask yourself are you ding something that takes away from the relationship that you significant other would see as an "affair"? Pick three words that describe your dream lover. Apply those words to yourself as well as your life. Would your life improve if you took one of those qualities? Are you happy with the physical aspect of your relationship?

Barb..hello! Its nice to get to talk to you! Eating in dreams is satisfying ones hunger--any area of need.Also to continue involvement in fundemental process of life, a celebration of interdependence. I think that you woke up feeling full and happy because you are living your life the way you need to to be happy.

Kellye....I am amazed that you get any sleep at all!! The three dreams that you asked about all tie into one major theme. Your dealing with the death of a friend (I am so sorry you are going through this.) Anytime your dreams refer to the mouth its about verbal expression. Kissing is communicating. When you kissed Rick that was your way of saying, I do love you. Not in that passionate-I-Have-got-to-have-you-now- way, but in that you've-been-a-part-of-my-life way. When hes reappeared in dreams, is an expressive attempt for you to deal with your feelings of loss and anger and sadness. The fact that he wouldnt leave you is your subconscious minds way of telling you that he always there, even if you cant see him. And thats because you are having difficulty accepting his death for whatever reason. The dreams will eventually stop and his face will fade and you will start to heal, or get some kind of closure or resolution to the nagging questions surrounding his death, the dreams wont be as profound.
Now, for your horse dream. Horses are pleasurable energy and exuberance. When you were told to kill the horse...someone wanted you to kill your energy. You refused, so they did it for you. Did you have this dream after Ricks death or before? Let me know and we will go from there.

Thanks guys! Feedback is welcome!!
 

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Okay Diane... I've got one for you.


First, a lot of my dreams involve narrow cobblestone streets, old-fashioned street lamps, and top hats. Could this be a past life speaking to me somehow?


I had this recurring dream for a few years, although not recently. I'm in a mall that's on fire, people are screaming and running away, but I walk into a drug store which is dark and smoky but not on fire. I walk down the outside aisle, looking into each aisle as I pass by, and not seeing anything. When approaching the end, I see a black tall hat peeking out of the top of the last aisle. Then I wake up. Each dream I would go through the exact same steps, and get progressively closer to the black hatted character in the dream. In the final dream, I got to the end and saw a man with the hat standing there, wearing all black, had an evil stare and smirk, and he was gaunt and white and chilled me to the core. Then I woke up. It was almost like death in the form of Abraham Lincoln or something!
But seriously, it creeped me out for years, and I still remember it to this day.
 

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Diane - wow! Thanks for clarifying the dreams about Rick. I have a gift from him that is so beautiful - a handmade arrowhead from the time he went to the Rabbit Stick in Idaho. And yes, I do have difficulty accepting the circumstances surrounding his death, they are so suspicious and his friends here feel that no one is doing enough, that the police should be asking us questions. Anyway, yes I had the horse dream after the first two but before the third dream about Rick. Hope this helps
 

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Fwan, I thought I did analyze a similar dream for you on the other thread about ever dream weird things? If you did not see it, check there, but I will also analyze this one.
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Do you remember which thread it was?
 

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Originally Posted by vespacat

Okay Diane... I've got one for you.


First, a lot of my dreams involve narrow cobblestone streets, old-fashioned street lamps, and top hats. Could this be a past life speaking to me somehow?


I had this recurring dream for a few years, although not recently. I'm in a mall that's on fire, people are screaming and running away, but I walk into a drug store which is dark and smoky but not on fire. I walk down the outside aisle, looking into each aisle as I pass by, and not seeing anything. When approaching the end, I see a black tall hat peeking out of the top of the last aisle. Then I wake up. Each dream I would go through the exact same steps, and get progressively closer to the black hatted character in the dream. In the final dream, I got to the end and saw a man with the hat standing there, wearing all black, had an evil stare and smirk, and he was gaunt and white and chilled me to the core. Then I woke up. It was almost like death in the form of Abraham Lincoln or something!
But seriously, it creeped me out for years, and I still remember it to this day.
I am going to leave the second parragraph to Diane, just a thought that comes with reading your first parragraph... In the historic district of San Juan in Puerto Rico, known as Old San Juan, the streets are all narrow, paved with blue cobblestones that are slippery when it rains and the lamps are there, though electric. In the XIX century people would use a lot of top hats around here and the city was lit by grease lamps, which gave it a ghostly feeling... to this day in most of those streets, you can get that feeling.

Just that I couldn't resist that you were describing old San Juan like you lived there.


PS: Diane, any idea what the blue wooly cat might be about?
 

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Originally Posted by yoviher

I am going to leave the second parragraph to Diane, just a thought that comes with reading your first parragraph... In the historic district of San Juan in Puerto Rico, known as Old San Juan, the streets are all narrow, paved with blue cobblestones that are slippery when it rains and the lamps are there, though electric. In the XIX century people would use a lot of top hats around here and the city was lit by grease lamps, which gave it a ghostly feeling... to this day in most of those streets, you can get that feeling.

Just that I couldn't resist that you were describing old San Juan like you lived there.
Funny thing is, I had never seen any streets with historical significance until recently, when I visited old Quebec City. Even still, it was not quite the same as in my dreams... And there were still horses and carriages, no cars, and a lot of rain. These dreams are always very vivid. Interesting.
 
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Originally Posted by Kiwideus

Diane - wow! Thanks for clarifying the dreams about Rick. I have a gift from him that is so beautiful - a handmade arrowhead from the time he went to the Rabbit Stick in Idaho. And yes, I do have difficulty accepting the circumstances surrounding his death, they are so suspicious and his friends here feel that no one is doing enough, that the police should be asking us questions. Anyway, yes I had the horse dream after the first two but before the third dream about Rick. Hope this helps
I am so glad I helped. But I think something else that your dreams are trying to tell you is that at some point, you have to let him go, honey. Thats why in the third dream that you had he only had a limited amount of time to be there to finish up his final affairs. And he will always be with you. No matter what. Just remember that.

As for you Vespacat, Emma and Victor, I am working on your dreams as we speak.
 

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Hi Diane,
I hope you are feeling better..
I see we have all been bombarding you with the dreams..I guess you asked for it!!

No rush to answer me....I have one dream state I will ask you about here and then maybe later ask about another...

I say dream state as I have been told that I have hypnogogic dreams (hallucinations upon falling asleep)..Its just as if I am awake. Everything in my room is the exact same as it would be normally, but I feel out of it and the room generally darkens.
...And I always get sleep paralysis whereupon I cannot move any part of my body but my head.
I have had the same dream for years though I haven't had it for months now
(my luck, I will have it tonight)

Anyway, a dark man (he is always silhouetted) stands in the doorway of my bedroom.
He is always wearing a suit it appears and a fedora..which is strange as I don't know anyone who dresses like this.
He comes and lays down beside me with suit on, on his back..
I cannot move my head at this point, but its so quiet in the room, and I can hear his breathing. I am always absolutely terrified.

I always then slowlyyyyyyyyy turn my head to the side and all I see is that he is also turning his head to the side to look at me. I never get a good look at his face as I always startle myself awake...

Its always very scary and I am always willing myself to "snap out of it!"...But oddly enough i have gotten used to it over the years...

Have you ever heard of anything like this???
Someone told me it was like a succubus/incubus (that old wives tales of evil women or men who come to suck the life out of / have intimate relations with women/men at night)

Tx for any thoughts!!!
 
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Originally Posted by fwan

Do you remember which thread it was?
Yes, ma'am, its the one titled Ever Dream Weird Things? I believe KittenKrazy might have posted it!
 

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Originally Posted by diane8704

Beth: I have to tell you....your dream is the hardest one that I have ever tried to analyze because of the man peeling away his skin. To me, peeling away skin would be peeling away certain things of one's personality...but I am not so sure that that is it in the context of this dream...I did put in the question and am waiting for an answer back. Lets see...anytime a house shows up in your dream it represents you. It depicts your attributes and personality as well as your body. This house seems to be in disrepair...that maybe its being rebuilt. Were you feeling run down and tired when you had this dream?? The garden symbolizes extroversion or the relationship with the environment that you had. With the garden in your dream being nothing but mud, it is perceiving that maybe you need to plant your enterprise, secure it. The roof of the house was a major factor, and a roof is the philosophy, beliefs or coping strategies to protect oneself from stress. This points out that you may have been stressed. Windows represent your perception of things, your ability to see through a barrier. With the windows being black, it leads me to believe that you couldnt see clearly what was in the future, where your plans were headed. The man in your dream represented your strength to look with insight into your own life and change it, and the fact that he was injurying his own arms means that there was a feeling of loss connected with the ability to care for yourself or a sense of helplessness in reaching out to others. Does any of this seem familiar? I will get back with you on what the peeling of skin truly signifies. You get back to me on how you feel about this.
Thanks so much for trying to unpick this one Diane - it will be interesting to see what the response to your question is. Fortunately, after we made our decision about the house move I was able to put this dream right behind me, I only had it that once. Although it was 18 years ago and is still very vivid in my mind if I recall it when awake as you can see.

The house in the dream was the exact replica of the one we were meant to be moving to which was in the course of being built. We were unsure about moving there though, and subsequently decided not to - this dream was partly responsible, it was the final straw you could say.

Although it was probably the most challenging time for us as a family, not long married, not much money and two young children I think we were very secure with who and where we were.

I would say we were stressed about the move. That much is true. The dark windows - what you say is very interesting. We were unsure about the future as we couldn't decide whether this move should go ahead. However, what followed afterwards we could never have known and wasn't in the "shall we, shan't we" equation. Because we didn't move, I was able to go to University and that changed the whole path of our lives - but it didn't form part of out decision at the time I had the dream.

Hmmm - I don't know whether any of that helped you at all in your analysis.
 
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Victor, I havent forgotten about you! How did you fair with the dream I analyzed with you being in the governors palace talking to the calico cat? I never remember seeing your reply. Let me know about it.

Loveysmummy...bombard away! I have enough cold medicine in me that I am on a little buzz...until I fall asleep again!
I actually enjoy this. And I dont mind. Please feel free to submit as many dreams as you like. I am working on all of the new ones, your included. Its very nice to meet you.


You guys will hear from soon!!!
 
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Originally Posted by flisssweetpea

Thanks so much for trying to unpick this one Diane - it will be interesting to see what the response to your question is. Fortunately, after we made our decision about the house move I was able to put this dream right behind me, I only had it that once. Although it was 18 years ago and is still very vivid in my mind if I recall it when awake as you can see.

The house in the dream was the exact replica of the one we were meant to be moving to which was in the course of being built. We were unsure about moving there though, and subsequently decided not to - this dream was partly responsible, it was the final straw you could say.

Although it was probably the most challenging time for us as a family, not long married, not much money and two young children I think we were very secure with who and where we were.

I would say we were stressed about the move. That much is true. The dark windows - what you say is very interesting. We were unsure about the future as we couldn't decide whether this move should go ahead. However, what followed afterwards we could never have known and wasn't in the "shall we, shan't we" equation. Because we didn't move, I was able to go to University and that changed the whole path of our lives - but it didn't form part of out decision at the time I had the dream.

Hmmm - I don't know whether any of that helped you at all in your analysis.
It absolutely did! I am interested in seeing about the skin thing too. I will let you know what I find out. As for the dream...it really did wreak of confusion and uncertainty didnt it? The window being black is just the fact that you didnt know where you headed, which house would you get. And obviously you listened to your own intuition, and you are where you are now. Good job! Most people ignore it. As soon as I know something about the skin, I will let you know.
 

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Originally Posted by diane8704

Victor, I havent forgotten about you! How did you fair with the dream I analyzed with you being in the governors palace talking to the calico cat? I never remember seeing your reply. Let me know about it.
Well, I found interesting when you say about how I divulge information, for actually, I often am the other way around, of trying to extract information, befriending people to find out about what is who and who doing and so on. But at the same time that could work out in the sense that I am actually getting information from the calico cat.

What had me a tad putting a question mark was when you ask about what is the governor best known for. Governor AnÃ:censor:bal Acevedo Vilá, well, he is known the most for having defeated Pedro Rosselló in the elections of November 2004, as Rosselló was being seen as a demolishing machine which was winning all polls and could easily assemble rallies of a hundred thousand people, to have Acevedo Vilá win at the last minute by the most narrow margin in Puerto Rican history, so that would make him known as an underdog who wins by a hair and when he does surprises everyone. That could be of a certain pattern in a handful of things in my life, particularly in Tae Kwon Do when I was the worst of my class to now black belt, and in the process of taking referee seminars.
 

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Hope you're feeling better, Diane! Feel free to wait until you're well to analyze mine



Ok, I've had a recurring dream for several years. I don't have it that often but it's always the same. I'm at my grandparents farm which is by itself on hundreds of acres of land, I'm all alone and I'm inside their wellhouse. I'm huddling over a big lamp without a shade. It's dark everywhere except a little eerie light from the moon. I see the house my grandparents lived in by the faint light of the moon but it's empty and the windows are broken out of it. It's very silent, dark and eerie. I keep turning my lamp off because I don't want it to burn out because in my dream, it's the last light on earth. Yet I keep turning it on because I'm afraid. I don't know where anyone is, I don't know how I got there. I don't know what, but I know something is wrong with the world and my light is the last one left on earth. I feel like when my light burns out, harm will come to me but from what, I'm not sure.
Thanks! Any insight will be appreciated!!
 

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"Barb..hello! Its nice to get to talk to you! Eating in dreams is satisfying ones hunger--any area of need.Also to continue involvement in fundemental process of life, a celebration of interdependence. I think that you woke up feeling full and happy because you are living your life the way you need to to be happy."
Thank you! I appreciate your answer and really think you hit the nail on the head. Honestly as much as I hate my job (with a passion) I love my life as it is now and wouldn't trade it for anything. I love Brad with all my heart and my cats mean the world to me and I love them with all my heart also! I'm happiest when I'm home with them all here with me. That to me makes life purrfect!
 

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I hope you're feeling better today!

"Barb..hello! Its nice to get to talk to you! Eating in dreams is satisfying ones hunger--any area of need.Also to continue involvement in fundemental process of life, a celebration of interdependence. I think that you woke up feeling full and happy because you are living your life the way you need to to be happy."
Thank you! I appreciate your answer and really think you hit the nail on the head. Honestly as much as I hate my job (with a passion) I love my life as it is now and wouldn't trade it for anything. I love Brad with all my heart and my cats mean the world to me and I love them with all my heart also! I'm happiest when I'm home with them all here with me. That to me makes life purrfect!
 

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Last night I had a dream that I was in one of those places wehre there are lot of semis, like this dog came out from behind a big green trash can and then a man in a big blue semi backed up and hit this rottweiler that was Vicious and coming after me, but I felt sorry for it and took it in, and he soon became my friend. He did these weird things like it howled oddly and just had these weird quircks. Well then I got on a cruise ship with him and I knew he was old and was going to die. So all the sudden he starts doing the tricks and things that he hasnt doen for a while because he was so old. One lady comes out and tells me the story about how she had him as a puppy and something happened and she thought he was dead, then he does another trick and another person comes out and tells his story about hwo he had and lost this dog, and it keeps happening until a total of nine people are there and they all told me the story of how they used to own this extrordinary dog, and then They all gave him a hug and petted him, and he died.

The next dream I had last night I was living with this strict rich old lady who was like my step mother or something, and in the kitchen she had this plus sign on the floor where she lifted up the ends and unlatched a trap door to reveal a family that worked for her that lived below, the walls were all dirt and stuff. So for some reason she had them make me lunch down there, and I asked to use the bathroom and they were looking at me funny because they didnt like the old lady and in turn didnt like me. So they made the food and I was in the bathroom and im like, well let them eat it, so they ate the food instead because they made all this fancy stuff that the old lady told them to make. So then the lady came home and I climbed back through the hole. Only she was mad because they ate the food and im like whats the big deal? Theyre a large family and they dont hardly have anything to eat, they can have it, but she said no and closed the hole, but right before that my cat elliot went down it and im like OMG ELLIOT! So then IM looking fo rthe plus mark on the floor againb ut it is gone, so I look where It used to be and start digging up the floor and then there is dirt and I have to dig and dig and dig and finally the hole opens up but its all dark down there and full of leaves and I yell "elliot!" and I wonder where the family went because I wasnt aware of a way out.

THen teh dream i had after that, I lived in a world of robots and if you were a human they were all like "guards guards" so for some reason I had this hat and a megaphone, and all the suddenthis robot shows up in the hallway (because we are in some top secret kind of robot place) and starts yelling guards guards! I try to run away from him but of course he is a robot and moves faster, so I pull out the megaphone and all the sudden it attatches itself to my back and yells something at the robot and the robot stops and backs away, and every tiem a robot confronts us the megaphone says something, and one time a cleaining lady robot was there and the megaphone yelled something and turned into like a disco keyboard with flashing lights and I danced to it which made the robot lady go away. And then somehow Im like "OMG I HAVE A SOS AND A G-bomb!!! (I play at neopets.com and those rae weapons fo rthe Battledome) and I was in a room with lots of items in i tand im like Omg I want to fight this feepit treat! so I went to fight it but it was sooo much stronger than me so I tried to excape, but because I hit it once I got three attack forks (which on neopets are worth alot
) and there is just about when I woke up. All these dreams were connected somehow but I dont remember really how.. oh and the Rottweiler's name was Tek like that poor persons kitten who is missing O_O Is that strange or what?
 

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You are going to think that I either still have a really active imagination or I must have been watching too much slasher flicks!


Because last night I dreamed I was at a party and someone was killing the guests off one by one like they do in slasher movies and we could not see who was doing it so we decided to stay in the living room and stay together - mind you, I had no idea who those people where, except for Jake.

Then Jake and I decided that it would be safer if we went to Walmart and so we stole a truck - those nice 40s trucks, and a yellow one too.

So off we went and another car started following us - turns out there was another group too scared to stay at the party and wanted to follow us to walmart.

And as we got closer to walmart, we saw that we could not get there as a road was flooded, and it was not even raining. So Jake and I decided that we should go to my parents house since it was not too far (in nz!?!?!) and by then we were on bicycles- I have no idea what happened to the truck. And while we were biking, we came across a road construction crew and had to wait and the other group that followed us were on bikes too were behind us and one of the people in that group was black and the road crew called him that ugly n word and I got mad and we left and kept on biking to my parents house and saw my dad outside working on repaving the driveway and he had been cleaning up soda cans (he loves his coca cola!) and there were lots of bags full of those soda cans ready for recycling and he saw us and told us to come on inside and thats when I woke up.

Boy, maybe I should take Stephen King's cue and write novels out of my dreams but don't you think they are a bit surrealistic????
 

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I think nothing of my dreams because they seem to usually relate to something I did that day or something I'm concerned about. This thread made me a bit curious so I thought I'd ask. Last night I had a dream that I was standing on a pier. I was on some inlet/harbor and as I was looking out at the water in the distance I could see a tornado coming towards us. I rushed back to warn everyone I could and prepare a safe place to take cover. I woke up. I am deathly afraid of tornados so this is not surprise. Mostly this dream always involves me running to warn others but no one ever acts concerned. I usually have a lake, river or ocean in many of my dreams - does that mean anything?
 
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