Meaning of Dreams: Dreaming of Bad Things Happening to Someone You Love
This is a common type of dream, but it’s one that few people really want to own up to.
Have you ever dreamed that something bad happened, or was about to happen to someone you love, as you watched? A recent reader recently sent me a dream to analyze that involved her watching as her husband was robbed by someone dressed as Richard Nixon.
How amazing is that?!
Anyway, she said that she watched as her husband handed over all of his money to “President Nixon.” She wanted to help her husband, especially since at one point it looked as though he was about to be hit on the head with a bat, but she was frozen in place.
When analyzing dreams, I often go with my initial gut reaction and this time I felt 110 percent confident with it. After complimenting her brain on its creativity (!!!), I e-mailed her back something along these lines:
While we often dream about something happening to our loved ones as a reaction to being worried about them (even more than usual) – we often dream these types of dreams when we’re upset with them – even incredibly angry at them! This dream would be that type of dream. The fact that the husband was the only one in any sort of danger indicates that he alone is on the recieving end of negative feelings. The good news is that since he wasn’t actually harmed, the feelings weren’t terribly bad!
Something else that’s interesting is the symbolism of money. The fact that the husband had to give all of his money away, while the wife retained her own purse and possessions indicates that the negative feelings spring from a financial disagreement, difference of opinion, or even resentment.
The only thing that mystified me was the Richard Nixon mask. I kept wondering why him? I went over a few things in my mind, such as what he represented:
- Trickiness (“Tricky Dicky”)?
- Dishonesty?
- History?
- Maligned?
I simply e-mailed her my thoughts, ignoring our ex-Presidentfor the time-being. I got an e-mail back within a few hours. It was filled with exclamation marks, because she thought I’d nailed it.
Apparently, her husband had recently spent a great deal of money on purchase that she felt was frivolous. She explained how they’d argued, how she had wanted a kitchen hutch, how he had stormed off to sit and sulk in McDonald’s for 3 hours (I love this guy! – I pointed out how lucky she was that he drowned his anger in milkshakes as opposed to something else!).
Then, she said the magic words that solved my Nixon mystery – she said that on the day he’d gotten his bonus check, he called and said he’d be home a few hours late, that he had to “pick something up.” She thought the something was the kitchen hutch she’d been eyeing for months. SO, when McDonald’s Mike (not his real name) showed up with a golfer’s dream set in the pick-up rather than a wife’s dream, she was floored. She said she met him outside and lit into him. She told him that it all felt like a “dirty trick” – aha! That’s where the Richard Nixon mask came in! Tricky Dicky strikes again.
It reminds me of the time my oldest two daughters had a HUGE fight when they were younger. The oldest one told me the following day that she’d had a dream that her younger sister was attacked and eaten by a crocodile. I asked, “Awww, are you upset by the dream?” (I was ready to reassure her that it was just a dream, and that nothing like that would ever happen.) My speech wasn’t necessary, though, because when asked if she was upset by the dream, she just said, “No, not really.” Then she smiled and went outside to ride her bike!
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what does these dreams mean?
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what do these dreams mean?!!
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Next I find my self in a room that was like an apartment. There was 2 rooms and a bathroom. The room I was in there were two bed with checkerd blankets and a nightstand inbetween. The other room was the same. No one was there but me. I found my self getting the beds ready for the kids to go to bed. Things that I normally do. The room was very cold. Cold like a winters night with the windows open. It wasn’t freezing but cold enough to where I was trying to find electric heaters, one for every bed and the bathroom so that when they get up at night it wont be cold for them.
I found myself on the top floor lookin for heaters. When I reached the top it was dark. Not a light was shining. I had a flash light and as I walked in the dark I thought of the ghost. As soon as I did I noticed a grocery cart to my left. The light shined off of it beaming right back at me almost blinding me. Just like shinning a flash light in your eyes. As I regained sight I looked at the cart once more. There was something in it. It looked like a large doll. As I got closer it felt as if my heart fell into my stomach. It was baby maybe 1 years old. I thought to myself this can’t be real. Why would a small child be here in the dark in a grocery cart in this creepy hotel. Then it dawned on me, it wasnt a baby, it was another ghost. In anger or fear I grabbed the child and was going to through it out the window, but I stopped myself. I thought what if the ghost are messing with my mind and this is a real child and they want me to kill it. Just then I heard people. There were homeless families living in these rooms and the baby was one of theirs.
After that I found myself alone in my truck driving back to the hotel. It was day time and raining. My vision was blured. It was like looking through the windshield while it is raining and the windshield wipers didnt work. I was racing back because I was alone so that meant my daughter was alone. I was lost. I did not know where I was. I knew what road the hotel was on but where I was I had no clue. At this point I knew I was dreaming. I tryed to control my dream by saying that the next road would be the road I wanted. I squinted my eyes and strained as hard as I could but to no effect. The next road was not the road I wanted. Though I knew it was a dream and tryed to control it….I had no control.
I then woke up.
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MY LIL SIS TOLD ME SHE HAD A DREAM OF ME AND MY TEETH FALLING OUT AND THAT WE WERE IN A ELEVETER N THAT I HAD THE NUMBER 3 IN THE INSIED OF MY EYES WHAT DOES THAT MEAN HELP ME PLEAS THEY TOLD ME THAT MY TEETH FALLING OUT MEAN IM GANNA DIE
No way! Dreams do not EVER mean you are going to die. They can’t tell the future like that in any way, shape or form. Just because someone had a dream that your teeth fell out, it doesn’t actually mean anything about YOU at all – after all, it’s THEIR dream, right?!
Fortunately for them, it doesn’t mean anything bad for them either. Dreaming of teeth falling out is just one of those bizarre dreams that we have sometime. Usually, when someone dreams of teeth falling out, it means they have SO much going on in their life right now that they’re having a difficult time processing it all and making sense out of everything. Whether school is extra busy or things at home are a little wild, these dreams just mean that it’s time to chill out a little bit.
Again – it means zero about you. Absolutely ZERO. This dream in NO way means anything will happen to you. I promise.
I had a dream that my son’s father got caught in a string of robberies that him and 2 of his other friends committed. I was the only one that came to bail him out. Although he showed me his affection, his attention was totally directed elsewhere.
What is the meaning of this?
I am in love with him however he has hurt me in the past. I feel like we have rekindled what we had in the past but I also have doubts about him which I’m not certain about.