Dream Prophesy

I have never tried really understanding my dreams before but I was hoping that
you might be able to help me. I do dream a lot - most I remember and some will
turn out to be prophectic months down the road.

And that’s the end of it. I am just puzzled because it is one of the rare times
when I do see colours in my dreams and with such details like a name and a face
that I can see. Does it really mean anything?

First of all, welcome to the world of Dream Analysis! If you’re like most people, you’ll soon find the whole dream arena so fascinating and helpful that you’ll wish you’d discovered it a long time ago.

Second of all, to answer the question, “Does it really mean anything?” - most definitely…they always do!

A few very interesting things stand out to me about this dream.

• You say that you were searching for “Hao Ren” in a strange shadowed marketplace. Because his name means something favorable (”good person”), this is beautifully and clearly symbolic. At the time you had this dream - in your day to day life - you were, literally, searching for something good amongst something bad. Maybe something unsettling had happened and you were trying to “get something out of it,” or maybe you were trying to find the good in someone who everyone says is bad.
• Something else that stands out is the fact that you called this dream a JOURNEY. One of the things I look at the most when analyzing a dream is the wording that’s used by the dreamer. Without realizing it, the dreamer provides a great deal of insight into their dreams AND their minds, simply by the words they choose. The choice of the word JOURNEY indicates that your dream was, in fact, all about movement. You’re ready for a change! It could be a huge change such as switching jobs or it could be on a smaller scale - like changing hairstyles. It could also be something really deep, such as the fact that you’re ready for a personal journey - one in which you make more of your own decisions….that sort of thing.
• Dreamologists disagree greatly over the meanings of animals in dreams. Personally, I believe they mean different things to different people. However, when it’s an animal such as a rabbit, a cat, or a puppy - they’re symbolic of peacefulness, contentment, and happiness. The beauty and softness of the cat set the stage for finding “Hao Ren.”
• I’m always fascinated by colors in dreams, and this is no exception. At the end of your dream, when everything is wrapping up the way you want it to - your subconscious chose three extreme colors. Black, white, and orange. At once, the mind symbolized - intensity (black), seriousness (black), determination (black/white), purity (white), good motives (white) and excitement (orange). These would be just some of the words that could be used to describe your journey.

Just as you did in the dream, I’m certain you’ll find what you’re looking for. And…again, like the dream….it’ll probably come when you least expect it.

Sweet Dreams!
Joi

I dremt that I was with satan and he spit on me telling me that I was going to
die. He got up and I got up with him ( I was holding his hand) and talking with
him.

This type of dream is a clear example of temptation. There is (or was) something in your life that you were either tempted to do….or did. You know it’s either wrong, or would be wrong, but you’re having trouble shaking the temptation.

It may sound very cloak and dagger - but it could be as simple as cheating on your final exam or sliding off of your diet!

Thanks for your dream - and good luck resisting!

Daydreams. We all have them - some more than others - so, we might as well find a way to channel them in a helpful direction, right?!

In the last post, we saw how certain damaging daydreams can bring about negative things in our lives. We don’t want to give daydreams a bad name….we like them! So let’s look at ways they can actually benefit us.

1. As we’ve said before, they can serve as an escape. If life is particularly stressful, letting your mind wander to happier thoughts or events can often seem like the difference between going crazy and staying sane. It honestly can help you keep your wits about you when they’re wanting to flee.

2. If you have an upcoming interview or presentation (or something along those lines), going over it in your mind can help you “practice.” Just be careful to keep from playing out worst case scenarios - they’ll do nothing more than build your anxieties and keep you from giving it your best.

3. You can use daydreams to channel good vibes. Admitedly, that sentence sounds like it’s stuck in the 70’s, but it know what it’s talking about….even if it is wearing a tie-dyed top and bell-bottomed pants. If you use your daydreams to build up your confidence or self image, or to give you courage and self assurance, you’ll reap the benefits.

A final word, if you set the bar for happiness too high in your daydreams, trying to live up to them will be nothing more than total frustration. If most of your daydreams cast you as a millionaire living on an island off of the gulf coast - surrounded by luxurious, beautiful things that never need fixing, reality’s going to be a sonofabitch! Make an effort to scale back a little. Literally downsize your daydream a little. Also, change up the scenario in your daydreams. This lets your mind know that happiness doesn’t JUST exist in the midst of money and its address isn’t always on the beach. Happiness can be found with nothing in its pockets and walking alongside a stream in Tennessee just as easily.

Every now and then, take a look at your daydreams and see what meanings lie behind them. Then ask yourself what, if any, good they’re doing you. If you have cause to believe that your daydreams are taking you in the wrong direction, replace them with new and improved daydreams and see where they carry you!

Even though there are glaring differences between daydreams and night dreams, one thing is for certain - both can give the dreamer a beautiful analysis of themselves. On this blog, we often look at dreams and their hidden meanings. We talk a lot about dream symbols as well as the events they appear in. It might interest you to know that daydreams can also give you a fascinating analysis. They’re also much easier to interpret. The reason is simple - the language and “meanings” behind a daydream are precisely what you’d think they would be.

Let’s look at a few examples!

1. Do you often daydream about receiving praise and adoration? Are you always on the receiving end of praise and attention in your daydreams? If this is the case, you feel underappreciated and taken for granted. You SO long for attention and appreciation and the feelings they bring that you create scenarios where you get to “experience” them. This sort of daydream could be a wake up call for you to start being your own cheerleader. When you do a great job on something in particular, compliment yourself - even if no one else does! Also, realize this: Most people are appreciative and thankful for what others do, and secretly are even in awe of them. Most people just don’t give voice to these feelings.

Also, if you aren’t receiving compliments on something in particular - maybe those around you are used to your excellence….they’ve grown so accustomed to you doing what you do perfectly that it doesn’t feel noteworthy to them anymore. I once heard a woman tell her husband, “You haven’t said anything about how I look tonight.” His reply? “Uh, you always look beautiful. If I said that everytime I thought it, I’d never say anything else.”

2. Do you daydream about being someone else? This is a very common daydream for people who are smack in the middle of stressful situations. When the trials of life blow into our lives, we just want to find the escape hatch - wherever it may be! Unfortunately, a literal escape hatch doesn’t exist, so we have to make one up. In our mind.

We’ll “become” a great athlete, a gorgeous/handsome movie star (I’ve never known anyone who’d daydream of being a mediocre athlete or homely star!) or simply an exceptional person - other than the exceptional person they are.

When these daydreams start coming hot and heavy, the dreamer should step back and give credit to all of the stress in their life. They should, then, realize that - although they are great temporary escapes - daydreams really accomplish little. If you could, instead, find an escape that led you to a better place….it wouldn’t just be an escape, it’d be a step up. For example, exercise is an amazing escape from stress - and you’re rewarded with improved fitness and health!

3. Do you express anger and rage in your daydreams? If you daydream about going ape in your daydreams, you’re most certainly repressing anger in your life and are looking for an outlet. While it’s MUCH better to let it out in your daydreams, you might want to consider a different outlet for these feelings. Whether it’s sports, running, or….I don’t know - watching boxing!….it would be great to find another way of handling your feelings.

The problem is, if you daydream about something long enough - it often will manifest itself in your life. If, in your daydreams, you’re often telling people off - it won’t be long before you’re shooting your lip off in your day to day life. The problem is, in a daydream you handle the results. In real life, you most definitely do not.

4. Do you often daydream of worst case scenarios? This daydream, much like the one above, is very destructive. It actually kind of poisons your mind! When you put destructive, harmful daydreams on a repeat cycle, they take their toll on your mind. It, honestly, won’t be long before part of your mind starts believing there’s truth where there probably isn’t.

For example, take the person who is home alone on a stormy night. Their mind begins to cook up a little drama (as though any more is needed)….”What if there was someone in the attic, hiding? What if he…..no…they, there’s more than one… What if THEY were waiting for the lights to go out, then…” Of course, right about then the lights WOULD go out and OF COURSE there would be a noise that sounds like it comes from the attic - then, the daydreamer would probably scream or wet themselves, or both.

Very often the mind can’t tell for certain what is realityor what’s reality to the individual. We actually feel the emotions and fears in our daydreams - so in a very real sense, we’re actually going through what we go through what we experience. That’s why the good ones feel so good and the bad ones make us jump at every little sound.

It’s something to keep in mind the next time you find yourself in the middle or the start of a daydream. Ask yourself, “Where is this taking me?” Then, either follow or bail, accordingly!

I’m often asked, from the stand point of analysis, if our daydreams carry as much weight as our night dreams. People often wonder what, if anything, their daydreams mean.

First, it’s important to realize how different daydreams are from nightdreams. For one thing, when we daydream, the symbolisms that are so important in night dreams go right out the proverbial window. Night dreams convey their meaning to us, in a large part, with symbols. We often say this is the “language” they use. Daydrems don’t speak the same language! In daydreams, we give voice to our emotions, needs, feelings, and fears - either by words we say in the daydream, words said to us, or events that happen in the daydream.

Secondly, we aren’t as deeply in a hypnotic type of state when we daydream. Granted, we do check out and escape from reality for a spell - but we’re able to check back in a lot easier, because we aren’t as deeply removed from consciousness.

Thirdly, daydreams can be remembered much easier! The minute your daydream is interrupted or “finishes,” you know precisely what happened.

Even though daydreams and night dreams have huge differences, they also share huge similarities. We’ll cover those in the next post.

Sweet daydreams!
Joi

I am a 25yo female from adelaide, australia. I continually have dreams about
either the end of the world, natural disasters or war. My dreams are quite
graphic. One particualar dream that reoccurs involves seeing enemy planes in the
sky, usually army/fighter type plans, that shoot out missles/dart type objects
down at people, that in the dream either burn or pierce the skin (after one
dream i even woke with a hot hand)These objects arent very large. Usually in the
dream, there are many planes that are white with red stripes on the tail. The
objects they shoot out are also white. In each dream that i have had of this
kind, im in a different place and with different ppl. the most recent took place
at my primary school (i’m now 25yo) and i was with my current coach and team
mates from soccer. Toward the end of the dream, the planes landed on the tennis
courts and all these men got out surrounding the building we were in. Sure we
were all goin to die, i wondered wat i was going to write in my goodbye msg to
my bf. As usual wen i’m having a bad dream, i wake myself up b4 anything bad
happens to me.

This is a perfectly beautiful example of a lucid dream. The colors, the impact, and even the part about waking up before anything bad happens to you. A lucid dream looks and feels so real that it shakes the dreamer to their core!

Dreamologists disagree over this point, but I believe that the more lucid a dream is, the more important it is to pick it apart and analyze it. I think that the brain realizes how important the message is and, therefore, makes certain to get the point across.

Having said that, I do know that certain factors (such as a fever, eating right before going to sleep, and specific medications) can influence the lucidity of a dream.

Your dream indicates two things - and strongly so!:

1. A sense of urgency.

2. A call to action.

In the advertising world, copywriters want to move the reader or viewer to the place known as “A call to action.” It’s the place where they feel as though they have to act NOW or suffer the consequences. “If I don’t buy Slim-Fast, I”ll never lose weight…”, “I HAVE to have that Sonic shake right now!”, etc.

There is, apparently, something in your life that you feel a call to action about. Whether it’s work, social, physical, romantic, or a different area altogether - you’re feeling the need to act upon something. However, something (or someone) is kind of holding you back. It could be fear or nervousness - but it certainly doesn’t have to be.

There is just one part of your mind that’s slowing down the other part that wants to act!

The sense of urgency in the dream indicates that this part is tired of waiting. All of us have times when different parts of our mind or lives are at odds. One part wants to move full force ahead, while the other wants to drag its feet and think it over (and over and over and over…). The most common cause of this sort of dream is the following scenario:

Michelle wants to lose weight - she knows she’s 25 pounds overweight and that it’s interfering with her life. She gets short of breath easily, she can’t perform her job as well as she was once able to, and keeping up with her 2 year old is terribly exhausting! However, she has a long list of reasons she can’t lose weight: 1. Due to her job, she has to eat lunch out everyday. 2. She has no time to exercise. 3. Her parents are overweight. 4. She loves cookies….

The turmoil inside of Michelle keeps her from making any serious commitment to her health and the situation continues to get worse. The conflict inside of her leads to some very unsettling dreams. When a dreamologist points out to her that she’s at odds with herself, she realizes that she HAS to make some changes right away.

A common phrase for this type of situation is, “At war with yourself..” I believe that’s probably why your dreams seem to center around war-type drama. You want to resolve the inner conflict and find peace again!

Once you determine the cause of the feelings, you’ll know exactly what has to be done.

Best of luck and thanks so much for sharing your dream.

Sweet dreams,
Joi