Dream Prophesy

Below is a recently submitted dream:

This has been recurring dream for many years, I’m not sure when it started. My dream always begins with me in the process of hiding or burying a dead body. Never have i killed someone, or do I know how they were killed. Everytime I am very frantic and panicked about not getting caught and doing it fast. I hide the body in different ways everytime I have the dream. I am also in a different setting, yet unfamiliar and a little eerie. This time the house was mine in the dream, but in real life I have never seen it. I have seen a similar house in a different dream though. Also everytime either the police, or the neighbors are right on my tail. This time the neighbors were really suspicious and poking around, and went as far as taking the trash before I could get to it. I was just about to run out and dispose of it. I don’t know for certain what was in the trash, whether it was a weapon or something else. Last time I hid the body under a walkway under bricks and watched as the police walked right over it. Everytime it is a very close call. I don’t recognize anyone in the dream and don’t remember colors specifically. This time however, I think my boyfriend was in it and maybe I was helping him, but that’s foggy. A swamp or a polluted body of water appears somewhere in the dream.

When I wake up I am scared, panicked, then relieved that it was a dream. My heart always races and takes me a few moments to recoop.

Oh, yeah, I am a female.

Generally, when we dream of “narrow escapes” like the ones you described, we’re having undealt with anxiety of some sort in our daily life.

Some people jump to the conclusion that a dream like this means that the dreamer is actually afraid of being caught or found out in some regard. While that can certainly be true - more often than not, the dreamer’s anxieties stem from one area, however: Unconfronted, hidden anger.

Most of the time, the anger the dreamer feels in his/her waking world is justified - someone may have done something to them and they never really let all of their steam out!  

Very often, the anger CAN’T be let out because it’s a result of something that happened.  For example, the loss of a loved one can cause someone to have dreams such as this for months and months, even years, because of undealt with anger.  Not at the person who died, necessarily, but at the fact that they did, in fact, die. 

One final example of unfaced anger is the kind we have toward ourselves.  That’s one of the worst kinds!  Sometimes we get angry at ourselves because we overspend, overeat, under-exercise, procrastinate, say something we shouldn’t have, etc. 

When we realize where the undealt with anger is stemming from, we have the opportunity to just let it go.  Then we can get on with our lives and the dreams will have no choice but to get on with their’s!

I hope your crazy dreams end very, very soon.  Thanks for sharing your dream, you probably helped others by doing so!

Last night I had a dream that left me shaking. I have NEVER experienced this in
my life. It wasn’t a nightmare because I seemed to be victorious, however…
The dream starts out I am walking to me ‘rent-a-car” (I don’t know why I have
one) click the un-lock button, put my 2 yr. old son in his car seat, and begin
to walk around the car. I notice that another group of people enter the
driver’s side, so I lift my son out through the window. Chills run up and
down my spine, as though I know these are unsafe people. I put my son in the
car that was actually mine, and drive to the hotel we are staying in. I tell
the front desk to watch for this man and his companions. No sooner do I walk of
the front office, do I see this man… I try and fend him off, but I am not
scared of him. It becomes a battle of wits and inner strength. He begins to
follow me. More happens I do not recall. Eventually we end up in a room; he
thinks he has me cornered. I’ve dialed 911, and (I know he is a child molester)
and hope this time they arrest him. He smirks and lets me out of the room. I
realize that cornering me was a diversion, and there is a half naked baby
walking into the other room with a man. I grab that child and bring him to my
baby- who is safe. I spent the rest of the night re-living this dream. In no
instance was a child or I hurt, i in fact I was always one-step ahead, but there
was such a residual feeling of fear and revolution. Nothing I did would make me
stop this dream. I woke up for an hour, fell back asleep and the dream
continued. I know my mind was working something out, but what? And why did I
have to see my son almost molested? This is the first dream I have not been
able to deduce the symbolism. PLEASE HELP ME! There was more to it then this,
obviously, but hopefully this is enough to get some sort of help.

Any dream that involves our children is one we’ll remember for a very long time! If I had not read that your son was 2, I would have thought that he’d recently entered pre-school, Kindergarten, or Elementary School. This type of dream is very common for mothers when their child hits one of these “growing” landmarks.

However, since he’s still a baby (not that 4, 5, 6, and 7 year olds aren’t for that matter!), this type of dream may actually not even have anything to do with him.

Unless he has recently started staying with a new sitter or you’ve recently had to spend more time away from him than usual, the dream could be more about “mommy” than “son.”

Many times we’ll dream about situations that sort of “mirror” our daily life. If we have recently overcome something and won a personal victory, our dreams may take us anywhere from an awards ceremony to an olympic’s platform! If we feel overwhelmed and overworked, we’ll often dream of being hounded by “bad people” or of trying to run away from something that’s after us.

In your dream, saving the babies from harm, may very well signal that you “feel” or “felt” a fight coming on in your daily life. These types of dreams often occur when we know that trouble’s brewing, so to speak.

An example: A dreamer once had a dream where he had to pull his co-workers to safety when the office caught fire. The fire was being caused by a nut job who was shooting fire balls out of his gun. The dreamer saved everyone, then returned to the building to fight the flame thrower. He won when he turned the tables on him and burned the burner. As it turned out, the dreamer, in his daily life was sitting on knowledge of something his sister was doing that was wrong. She was only 17 at the time and was doing something that their parents wouldn’t have been very happy with. What’s worse, it was potentially harmful to her, so he knew he had to either confront her with it and/or tell the parents. The overwhelming dread of having to “fight” against something unpleasant caused his dream.

The fire even had a significant symbolism. A fire starts out small, then grows and grows until it’s out of control. This symbolized his knowledge that what his sister was doing could grow into something far more dangerous, destructive, and deadly - just like a fire.

In your case, the threat of molestation would seem to symbolize that you’re aware of someone “taking advantage” of another person or “abusing someone” who they have an upper hand against (either by size, rank, or position). It’s troubling you probably more than you realize - which is why it manifested itself in such a troubling, unsettling dream.

The thing to remember when you have dreams of this nature is that dreams aren’t prophetic - and that, more times than not, the people we dream about aren’t even directly connected to the analysis. Sometimes they’re merely “stand ins” for emotional connections.

Hopefully that’ll be the last dream you ever have of that nature!

I hope you can help me - I’m beginning to even lose sleep. I started having nightmares about a week ago. My mom is not a very good driver. She doesn’t pay attention to anything around her, she lets the gas run way too low, and she has road rage. I rode to the store with her recently and couldn’t believe how much worse of a driver she has gotten.

Could you please help us?

Wow, I can really “hear” the worry and fear behind your words. I’m so sorry that you’re feeling so scared and worried. First of all, let me assure you that there is nothing mystical about your dreams. Dreams are generally a result of situations that are going on in our day to day lives. You recently rode with your mom (Who sounds like a very colorful individual! If she were in a movie, she’d be one of the more interesting characters, wouldn’t she???), and as a result of her driving , you’re worried about her safety. That makes you a great daughter!

That worry has been, obviously, weighing on your mind. When all of the other worries and thoughts of the day drift off after you’ve fallen asleep - this one remains. Your mind takes the opportunity to focus all of its attention on it, blowing it way out of proportion.

Now having said that, I do believe that your subconcious mind is trying to pursuade you to talk to your mom. From what you’ve said, I assume that’s easier said than done though. I have a little advice for you, though. As a mother and wife, myself, I can tell you that when a son/daughter/husband is genuinely worried about you, it’s a very warm and positive feeling. However, if a spouse or child comes across as angry or disappointed, or if they seem to be ridiculing the mother - then, yes, that would hurt. THEN I’m certain you would get the cold shoulder for a few days, and that wouldn’t be good since your mom seems to have perfected the maneuver!

I would go to your mother and tell her about your worries. Tell her that you’re worried about her and be specific. Don’t just say, “You’re a lousy driver, mom!” Tell her the things she does that are dangerous and ask her to please be more careful from now on. I honestly have no idea how to address the road rage problem. You might need to do a little research on that one.

I hope you’ll talk to her asap. But remember, your dreams don’t mean something WILL happen, they mean the situations are right for something to POSSIBLY happen. In an instance of role reversal, when I first started driving, my mom frequently dreamed of me being in car wrecks. (I never was though!) Her mind just dwelled on what could happen now that her only child was motorized!

Good luck - and please let me know how it goes!

Sweet dreams,
Joi

ok i had this dream last night, it was about a blonde girl who actaully was a snake…she didnt look like a snake but she was a snake nonetheless…the only way to capture the snake was to give her some sort of drug which was prescribed by a snake expert, who was also in the dream…

what does this mean?!

God knows I would have woke up screaming as well! What a wild dream.

The first dream symbol to look at is, of course, the snake. Snakes are believed, by most, to be a bad sign in dreams. Ancient dream guides would have you to believe that all manner of evil will come down upon the person who dreams of snakes. Thankfully, this isn’t the case - since everyone dreams of snakes at one time or another.

The first thing to ask yourself, after a dream about snakes is this, “Have I seen a snake in person, on tv, in a book, or in the movies in the past 5 days? Or Have I read about snakes in the past week?”

If the answer to either is “Yes,” the dream is probably just a result of that.

However, if you have had as little to do with snakes as possible (like me!) - then the snake is symbolic for something else. Dream snakes, unlike those in the “real world,” represent pretty positive things. For one, they often symbolize healing. After a break-up, an illness, or a bout with the blues - a dreamer will often dream of snakes to symbolize that they’re healing and that the healing is nearly complete.

Why snakes in dreams take on this meaning is beyond me. I honestly can’t draw any line from one to the other - except that maybe snakes are one of everyone’s greatest fears, and facing them is the way to heal from this fear. It’s the only way I can even begin to explain it - but, nonetheless, they do symbolize healing.

Another thing that’s interesting about dream snakes is that they represent energy. This can be different kinds of energies: They can be sexual energy, extreme ambition, geared toward school, work, a relationship, working out, weight loss, quitting a bad habit, etc. This goes hand in hand with the “healing” aspect because anyone who has been sick knows the way you feel when you’re well - you have so much energy you want to take on the world….it feels so good to feel good again! The same’s true when a broken heart heals, you have an energy to get out there and try to get it right this time.

The specifics of the dream, the fact that she gave chase - and the fact that you couldn’t destroy her - leads me to believe that, IF your dream is about healing, your healing is nearly complete, but not quite. If it were totally complete, I feel that you would have had the upper hand. However, the fact that you made contact with the rock shows that you are in control. Something that is very, very interesting is the fact that your mind made the snake a female (complete with a wig!). This would indicate that there is a female involved in the picture somewhere. She’s not necessarily blonde, either. The mind could have simply chosen that as a strong contrast to the snake - to be sure you got the picture that it was a femme fatal you were dealing with.

Also, by the nature of the dream, I think that there is a great deal of energy around you right now. Things you want to do, places you want to go…that sort of thing.

Thanks for sharing your dream - and if you are in the process of healing from an illness, loss, or disappointment - I hope the healing’s complete by the time you read this. Now go make all of that energy work for you!

Thanks for sharing your dream - it was a fascinating one!

Joi

I often say that you should pay particularly close attention to how you feel in your dreams. The reason is that a very, very large percentage of your interpretation lies in this very area. Sometimes, our dreams will give us insight in to how we’re actually feeling about things/people/events in our lives. The funny thing is, it’s often news to us!

A perfect example lies in a dream submitted over 2 years ago.

In a dream submitted to a little over 2 years ago, the dreamer, “Kate” was having very troubling dreams. In them, something bizarre and unpleasant would happen….every night. One dream involved her being wrongfully blamed for something at school (where she’d been a teacher for 12 years). Her best friend knew she was innocent but was afraid to speak up. She was fired and the friend got her old room, her desk, and her students.

The other dreams she described were similar. There would be SO MANY different emotions involved with these types of dreams that I had to give her an exercise to do, to get at the root emotion.
I knew the initial responses would be frustration and sadness - but they’re like the skin on an apple: Important, but not nearly as important as the fruit inside! I wanted her to get past the “skins” known as frustration and sadness and get to the fruit of the main emotion.

I told her to draw a staircase on a piece of paper. The staircase was to have only five steps, but each step should be long enough to write on. Then I told her to think about how she felt in the dreams. Then to start at the bottom and write down the emotions as they came to her mind. I assured her that when she got to the MAIN emotion, she’d feel the strongest about it. So I wanted her to pay particularly close attention to her body language and feelings during the exercise.

She said that on the first step she wrote sad. Because in each of the dreams she felt sad that she was being treated unfairly, or sad that something was going on that she didn’t want to go on! The next emotions she wrote down were frustration and shock. She detailed WHY the dreams made her feel this way, but she still didn’t seem CONNECTED to the emotion(s).

Then it happened. She said that right before she wrote the next emotions, she could feel her jaw clench and her hand muscles tighten. Then she finished the steps with anger and resentment. Kate went on to let me in on what was going on in her real life. Her husband had recently been given a promotion - one that was very important to him and highly rewarding. The only drawback was that it involved a move, nearly across the country! They had lived in northern Minnesota all of their life, but they were on their way south - as his promotion would carry them all the way to Birmingham, Alabama!

She was excited to see different places and very, very excited to see the new house and get started with a fresh new life, BUT she said she’d always been insulted that he never really asked her how she felt beforehand. She said that, if he had, her answer would have been the same - go for it! However, she really resented that he never treated her opinions or her career as being on equal ground as his.

She said that when she wrote down those emotions, it was like a huge light came on. The first words to come to her mind were, “No wonder I’m having these headaches! No wonder I’m on edge!”

I encouraged her to talk things out with her husband - because from the way she’d described him (and the white horse he rode on!), I was certain he never even realized what he’d done. Turns out, he thought he was doing the best thing for her. In a situation that seemed like he was thinking only of himself, he was actually putting her first.

The year before, she had lost both of her parents in a car accident. Two years before that, she’d gone through a series of surgeries, herself, that had literally saved her life. He wanted, more than anything, to take her away from an area that had been so cruel to her and give her a fresh start in a beautiful, warmer place! (Since the surgeries, the cold weather was particularly painful for her.)

After they talked, she said every feeling of anger had been replaced. It was reassuring for her that he wasn’t being selfish, at all. He had been thinking of her the whole time. (Which, Kate said should have been obvious since he’s the one with parents still living in Minnesota.)

She took him out to eat that night and, two weeks later e-mailed me to say the bad dreams had ended entirely!

Give this exercise a try with your next strong dream. A Strong dream is one that stands out as being emotionally charged or memorable. Weak dreams often aren’t even remembered - that’s because they aren’t important. The strong ones are where the good stuff lies!

When you do the Emotional Step exercise, pay close attention to your body language and emotions. When you get to the emotion that makes you FEEL the most, you’ll know you’ve arrived at the heart of the matter.

Sweet dreams!
Joi

P.S. If you’re reading this, Kate, I’d love to hear how you’re doing in Alabama!

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I had a horrible nightmare that there were sick kittens all around me, hungry and sick. One of them, a small black kitten, jumped up on my lap and to my horror, split in half and the top half jumped off my lap, leaving the bottom half. I screamed and woke up. Yikes, what is that about.

Wow! That’s one for the books! You must’ve been freaked right out. I’m freaked out just reading about it - and I read countless dreams each week.

Kittens and puppies are a favorite dream symbol of our mind’s. For one thing, they have tons of emotion attached to them - and they’re easily remembered….especially when they split in half!

Judging by the details of your particular dream, I believe the interpretation is two-fold. First of all, I believe that you’ve been feeling pretty helpless about a certain situation. The feelings of helplessness are overwhelming you - in the way that the kittens were “all around” you, I belive these feelings are “all around” you.

The black kitten, I feel, represents yet another emotion. Often in our dreams, color will set the tone, kind of letting us know the nature or tone of the dream. However, many times, color is used to “set apart” one symbol from another. I think that’s the case in your dream - your mind used the color to separate two distinct interpretations.

In one area of your life, you are feeling overwhelmed by needs - either your own or someone elses. In a second area of your life, you are feeling torn over something. It’s a situation where you really aren’t sure which way to turn. Many people have this sort of dream when they’re going through a break-up or other emotional turmoil. They often feel torn between their emotions. People who are moving away from home, changing jobs, going away to college, etc.. also have similar dreams.

I think the fact that your mind threw two different things at you at once indicates that you need a break in the worst possible way. Even if it’s just a night at the movies - get away and clear your mind. Forget about all the demands on your time, all your conflicting emotions and so on. After you’ve cleared your mind and given yourself a little breathing room, everything will be clearer to you.

Thanks for sharing your dream and best of luck,
Joi

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Of course, there are lots of dreamers who agree to share their dreams with others here on the blog - and I’ve heard from lots of readers who have been helped by reading about other dreamer’s answers.

Whether the dreams are to be shared or not- I’ve noticed a lot more dreamers are having nightmares lately. Several times a day I hear from people who are suffering from hideous, frightening nightmares. I really don’t know whether it has to do with Halloween approaching or increased violence on tv and in movies, or what - but not many people are having sweet dreams lately!

Everyone’s dreams mean different things, of course, but there are a few things that are true for everyone:

1. Dreams are not prophetic - they don’t tell the future…..they tell the past and they tell the present, but they DO NOT tell the future. They can’t, because we can’t. Even if you KEEP dreaming that someone you love has been in a car wreck, for example, it doesn’t mean they will be. On the rare times this has happened have been very unfortunate coincedences.

2. When we focus on really bad dreams, we only invite them to recur again and again. No matter how troubling they are, you HAVE to put the dream out of your mind. I always tell people who are suffering from recurring nightmares to watch a sitcom right before bedtime (Married With Children, Friends, Mad About You, Sanford & Son….. They’re all perfect.). This puts postitive vibes into your mind and sets a light, playful mood - nightmares want no part of that!

Just remember the easiest thing to do (replaying the dream over and over in your mind) is also the worst thing to do.

Put them out of your mind and kick them out of your bed!

Joi

I dreamed that my husband daughter and i was standing in clear water, there were
a few black snakes on one side but there was a brown looking snake with 2 heads
i point it out to my husband….the snake heads were the form of humans and it
had a smile…when we got out of the water my husband took out a pair of his
underwears and left on a bicycle…we argued and then i threw the underwear in
his face, he left me and my daughter behind and i walked along the road back
home…. can you please interpret that dream for me?

A lot of dreamologists place tons of emphasis on the snakes, themselves, in dreams. They’ll associate them with deep, dark, hidden emotions or desires. Personally, I think it’s a lot simpler than that. I believe that snake dreams have two main purposes and symbolisms:

1. I think our mind uses snakes very often as a means of ensuring that we’ll remember the dream! For people who are like me, they are their #1 fear - and, therefore, extremely memorable.

2. The fear factor, itself, is important. If snakes are, in fact, one of the things you fear the most - whatever is happening in the dream is an inner fear that you may not even be aware of.

In your case, the presence of the snakes along with the situation you described: …”he left me and my daughter behind…” seems to indicate that you may have a fear of being abandoned or left. There may be a relative in your life who has been sick, or a friend with whom you’ve argued, or a situation in your marriage that has you concerned. But keep in mind that it doesn’t necessarily have anything to do with your husband - just because he was in the dream with you doesn’t mean he’s the one you’re afraid of “losing”.

Many people have this sort of dream when their children either start school or begin college. They aren’t afraid of losing them for good - but they are afraid of losing a piece of them.

Thanks for sharing your dream - and I hope that your fear turns out to be completely unfounded. Best wishes and happiness-
Joi

Please help. Last night I dreamed that I helped a cat (not mine) deliver a
beautiful black kitten with blue eyes. He was so cute, I thought I might keep
him; however, he apparently belonged to my next door neighbor, because when the
neighbor walked over to me, I congratulated him on the birth of this new kitten.
He snatched up the kitten, and at first I thought he wanted to cuddle it, but
then he proceeded to turn its fur inside out and kill it. I did not see him
actually kill it in the dream, but I saw enough to know what he did, and I ran
away screaming. I am very disturbed by this dream. Any insight you could give
would be greatly appreciated.

This sort of dream is pretty common, but incredibly disturbing. Any time we dream of a death, the trauma stays with us for days.

Your dream points to a few feelings you may be struggling with in your day to day life.

• Eagerness to help. I’d be willing to bet that you know of at least one situation right now where someone needs your help and doesn’t seem to realize it. From your viewpoint, you can see exactly what this person needs, even if they can’t. You KNOW you could help them if you could just find a way to make them listen.
• Frustrated. It could be the situation above that’s causing you to feel frustrated, or it could be a totally unrelated situation. But the dream seems to indicate a pretty high level of frustration in your life.
• Helplessness. You are feeling relative helpless lately. You strike me as a person who is usually very much in control, but has lately had to give up some of that control - and you strike me as someone who doesn’t like that one little bit!

When an individual irons out the wrinkles in their daily life, their dreams will be alot smoother.

Thanks so much for sharing your dream - and best of luck. I’m 100 percent certain that there is a situation in your life where someone needs your help and/or advice. Giving it to them will make both of you feel better.

Joi

I dreamed that i was surrounded by 80 vampires and i knew they were vampires,
but they didn’t know i knew. I gave them this poison to kill them and 79 died.
The survivor, whick was also the “leader” lived because he knew i poisoned him
and he drank milk, which was the antidote. Then I grabbed a voodoo-doll of him
and stabbed it in the eye and started running, because he was chasing me. I got
away. A week later I was reading a newspaper and the headline said “Wanted-
Blind Vampire” and after i read the article, i looked up and there he was. and
then i woke up. it really freaked me out.

Awesome! I can see how that freaked you out - I’d be freaked out for two forevers after that dream. The two things I’m most terrified of are snakes and vampires. I know, I know - there’s no such thing as vampires, but the mere THOUGHT of them scares me half to death.

Dreams of this nature are kind of complicated. For one thing, if they’re brought on by eating too much right before bedtime, by a fever, or by medication(s), their interpretation really isn’t very accurate.

However, if none of those things were present - the answer lies in THE CHASE. All “monster” dreams usually involve a chase, and this one’s no exception. The fact that you’re trying to run away from or escape something is symbolic of your day to day life. It’s quite possible that you have something in your life that you’re needing to confront….something or someone you need to face.

The dream could also be speaking of repressed (hidden) emotions, anger, fear, or bitterness. A nightmare like this one tells the dreamer, “Just let go of this or that - you’ll be much better off.” Carrying things around inside, ultimately, only hurt the carrier.

Another interesting thing: The fact that you blinded the vampire symbolizes a desire to “not see something” or to want to “look the other way” - this could be something you, yourself, don’t want to face - but it could also be symbolic of something someone you care about is refusing to face.

Thanks for sharing your fascinating dream!
Joi