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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i had a dream that my younger sister passed away. it seemed so real i really felt the heartache in my dream. i woke up and wanted to cry then i brushed it off and said its just a dream.
i also had another one as soon as i closed my eyes i hit a person with my car. i jumped out of my sleep looked at my son and went back to sleep.
what does these dreams mean?
Last night i dreamt that i was cutting myself, i am feeling depressed and sad because of big problems at school. What does it mean? Please reply someone!
well i had this dream that me and all my other classses were lineing up for PE and then we all of a sudden ran back into the locker room and a killer was trying to kill us and people couldn’t walk or anything because the killer was hurting then and then we all sperated into 2 rooms and one room was a room where kids could go a spell out words and the other was a room that was crowded with parents and their kids hiding from the killer, then the next thing i remeber was the killer shooting things at a window. and then the next thing was a couple “doing it’ then a dog came on their bed and they stopped and they were hugging the dog and then that was the end of my dream!!!! it’s wierd, i had a dream befor this the other night and i was hiding and yelling and crying in the dream but i was hiding from some army people trying to take me away!!
what do these dreams mean?!!
I had a dream that my 7yr old son died in his sleep of suffocation I remember going to my house 2 days later with my cousin and his wife who i dont even see very often and i was just looking at pictures of my son and crying what could this possibly mean?
for a month now i have had the same dream over and over again.. i even moved to a new house and i still had this dream and it really is freaking me out. i will be laying in bed and think that i open my eyes and see this big blob of just like darkness.. when i used to live in this apartment, what would happen is this thing would peek its head from the corner of my door way and then he would see me wake and would walk in my room and start saying things to me but i have no idea what he was saying to me.. but recently, actaully just the past couple nights, i have moved into a new house and the same shape form came into my house.. but now he looked over to where my moms room is and then looked over to mine.. and did the same exact thing.. it really worries me.. i have this other one as well i have dreams that i am up walking around… what would that even mean!?
I had a dream a while back that I went to prom with some friends. At the end of the dance, there were games and stuff that you could go play on top of a hill. At first, I couldn’t find my shoes. This kid helped me find them. I remember turning around and seeing this kid’s mother. Behind her was a bathroom with some really colorful wind chimes. Some how I recognized the bathroom and the wind chimes. I remember saying “I have had some good times in this place!” When I think of it now, I have never seen a place like this. Then my friends and I went walking up the hill to go to the games. I decided that I was going to just get in my car and go home. Which in my dream, I was driving my old convertable, which I really wish I had back!! Anyway, about half way up the hill I saw a bunch of cop cars and stuff. I ran in to this kid that I don’t know and I asked him what was going on and he told me it was my sister, Kayelee. So I started to run up the hill. I was having a really hard time getting up to the top. My heels seemed to be sinking in to the sand. When I finally got to the top, there was this concrete bench. I went around the corner and on the bench was my sister. And this is where it got grafic. She was sitting up and had like a sock or something around her neck like she had been hung. She was dead. And there was some blood on her face. I remember thinking “She didnt do this to herself, it was Chad.” Chad was her abusive ex.
I am so weirded out by this dream. I don’t understand what it means and why I would remember all the details so well. But I do. Can you please tell me what my dream is trying to tell me?
I dreamt i climbed up a chain and was being held in an upside thing of water. there was a rope going down and i was telling someone underneath me not to shake the rope as it would break the surface tension and i would fall out
My dream left me shaking in my room. I’m a 34 year old construction worker and I should be affraid like some 5 year old, right? My dream was….I was forced to live in abandoned hotel with my family (wife and four kids). The only one there was my 4 year old daughter. She is the most precious thing in the world to me. I would die for her and I would kill for her. Okay now that thats out of the way….oh yeah, It was night time and we were walking around, I could not see myself as everything in the dream was first person sight. I was at the top of the stairs about 15 feet from the edge of the stairs looking back. My daughter just got to the top. Some of the lights were on even though it was an old run down abandon hotel. As she reached the top these ghost like creatures came out of nowhere. There was about 3 of them. They came from the walls the ceiling and the floor, all around her. The ghost started to pull on her, as she screamed and cryed in terror. I was frozen……I could not move, I could not say a word. I felt the terror she was feeling.
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.
Last night, I had a dream that some kid in my english class (whom i barely ever talk to) was driving me, my mother, my baby sister, and my two younger brothers in a green truck. We were speeding. He started falling asleep and i yelled SAM! (that is the boys name) he woke up quickly and we drove off the road & into a river. But we flew out into the river, and swerved back in. But my brother, Chris, hurt his ankle. and the doctor was a sneaky, mean man. And he had alot of children. They were ghosts. Someone please tell me what this means, its been eating at me all day !
i have dreams that i see a picture of what is happing more like a seen but i cant here what anybody is saying.then the next day it happens to me i find out what they were saying.ti freaks me out ! like this one time i was at school and i was saying something to a guy i knew why we were trying to find a place to eat our lunch butt we were talking about somthing and the next day it happend it has been going on since last year. my dad has the same thing. we think we can see the future
for about two weeks now every time i go to sleep i have a dream that somebody is being possessed. i recently broke up with my ex. but when we were together i was never actually in the dream and neither was anybody i knew. but after we separated, my family and i started appearing in the dreams. i found out two days ago that she is now with somebody she told me she had no feelings for and that i extremely dislike. and last night, i had a dream that me and my family was in a house and there was some girl whose i could not see. we were just sitting there and then she started acting like she was possessed and was on the ground. i turned away and when i turned back the girl was not there anymore, instead it was a guy being possessed. i do not know what happened to the girl but the man died. can you help me understand what this means if it means anything?
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.
I Had This Dream Not Lonq Aqo. It Was Me, My Sister && This Guy”Very Close Friend:)” Well We Were At Park With My Family, I Dont Remember What We Were Celebratinq. But We All Three Went For A Walk, && A Witch Lookinq Lady(Looked Like The One From Snow White) Appeared Out Of No Where. && Shot Some Powers From Her Hand, && It Hit My Sister, She Flew Bacc When It Hit Her. Me && “My Friend” Ran To See If She Was Okay, && She Said Yea. The Witch Yelled Out To My Sister “Your About To Birth A Demon.” We Were All Like Wtf?! So We Try To Run From The Which, We Were Runninq For Hours! && Every Hour Passes My Sis Belly Would Grow. Then We Lost My Sister For A While Me && My Friend Were Lookinq For Her && We Seen Her Run Into This Convience Store Lookinq Buildinq. Which Was An Abortion Place, Where Random People(Not Doctors) Do It. There Were Three Doors She Opened, Every Door She Opened She Cry’d Harder. Then She Open The Last Door Was The Abortion Room. This Abortion Rooms Had About Ten Beds, Riqht Next To Each Other, All Bloody && The Tools Were Just Layinq On Each Bed. Riqht When I Walked In The Room, I Just Busted Out Cryinq, I Told My Sister Im Sorry I Cant See This. Then My Sis Told The Person To Get Rid Of This Baby. I Walked Out && Just Sat && Cried My Eyes Out, “My Friend” Was Just There Next To Me Holdinq Me. Then All These People Came Wantinq Abortions. && The Room Was Just Full Of People Cryinq. Then My Nephew(My Sisters Real Son) Appeared Out Of No Where, && Sat Next To Me. Then My Sister Walks Out The Room && We Just Left, But We Forgot My Nephew Was There, So We Went Bacc To Get Him, But He Was Gone. Everybody Was In There Cars Ready To Leave. We All Three Seperated, Stop Each Car && Checc If He Was In There. There Was This Family They Were Biracial(Blacc/White) I Asked If They Have My Nephew They Said No. I Looked In There Car && Seen Him Sittinq In A Toddlers Car Seat. I Tried To Get Him But They Keep Reachinq Out To Stop Me. I Yelled Out My Sis && “My Friends” Name && Told Em I Found Fat Fat. They Ran Up && My Sis Was Just Hollerinq Tellinq Em To Give Her Son Bacc, They Just Kept Sayinq NO! This Is Our Baby! && It Ended Up Beinq A Biq Fiqht! (Before I Dreamed This My Sis Told Me Her New Boyfriend Wants A Baby && A Day Before She Told Me My Nephew(Her Son) Was Watchinq Snow White, Lol) Wierd!!
Since Sunday i’ve been having dreams about my boyfriend robert i had a dream that i was holding him and there was blood on my hands and i was crying i’ve had this dream since March.27th until now April.1 and I can’t sleep at night I read the story above here to try to at least figure out why I’m having this dream but I wasent mad at him nor have i been I’m happy with him we’ve been together for 3years and 4months i really don’t know why these dreams are occuring i wish i would know why I’m having them please help me if you can.
I dreamed of a lot of things that came true which is worrying me a lot.
some are bad (like my sister accident it came true after a year the problem it happened the same way as my dream the same car the same clothes) some are good and some are meaningless(like a TV show i will watch for the first time but i saw the same thing not that i never planed to watch it) but they came true anyway once i dreamed of a man’s death that i know from reputation but never met the next day he died. some situations that i dreamed came true.
can you explain it to me.
This morning while I was dreaming, I see a man and woman, in their 20′s, standing side by side on this lake covered by ice, but then my vision concentrates on the woman wearing a ski cap, a red and blue jacket, and jogging pants. Turns out the man and woman are moutain climbers and they’re getting ready to climb a mountain. Suddenly, i see a string moving slowly off a small block until it completly falls off. Next, I see the woman again and I look down at her equipment and she has a big chuck rectangle piece of ice with the name, Hailey carved into it. Then, both climbers are walking and the ground starts to get higher because they’re stepping on the mountain. When suddenly, the woman is falling back, and somehow the block of ice is standing up and it slams down onto the woman’s head smashing her skull. So, anything above mid-nose is gone inclding her eyes but her brain is still intact. Next, I see the woman fall back and and the block of ice slids away, while the woman lands near a hole in the ice of the lake. And, then her brain falls into the water with a splash. Next, I’m in Japan or China and all these children are playing while a english TV crew is there reporting when, suddenly a woman in her 30′s is saying ” A kid found a woman in the water!! Hurry!” It turns out that the woman somehow fell into the hole and her clothes floated away. Can you tell me what this means, I’ve been wondering why I dreamed a woman who i don’t know at all.
I had a dream that i was on the couch where i had fallen asleep, but in my dream i looked up and a man in a black robe, and his face was a pale skeleton’s, his eyes though weren’t black and hollow but shun bright blue silver like the mists of a grave yard. He scraped his long bony finger down my arm and cut me, i blinked and then i was standing on an old fashioned gray brick road in a city that was in a forever Twilight like realm, it never grew to day yet also never grew to night, I walked forward a little and the ground fell in right in front of me but i didn’t fall in, then i saw a bunch of short men in dark brown robes carrying a man that looked like my father, and threw him in the hole and fire flew up a little. Then the grim reaper looking man looked at me and i just started running away from the pit, i ran into a room and closed the big iron doors behind me and looked around at what looked to be a electric control room, and it was glowing blue, then the most weirdest thing thing happened, a man i didn’t even know was in my boyfriend’s dream was in mine, he had silver shining hair and pale skin like a corpse, he had a long ugly scar that went from his left part of his chin slant way to the right side of his forehead, he looked at me with red crimson eyes and i just froze, then i felt something grabbing me and it was the grim reaper looking guy and i woke up after that
I have searched the internet and have found numerous articles and info sites about dreaming of being possessed, but I haven’t found one interpreting dreaming of someone else being possessed. In my dream it started out being my brother, then it changed into a little girl. I don’t remember much except the eyes were unusually green and it had red eyelids. I know this doesn’t seem menacing, but It really frightened me. At first when I was trying to subdue it, I was praying and trying to rebuke it. As I was doing that, I had a hold of it’s arms. Where I was in contact with it, smoke was issuing forth. When I realized that I couldn’t exercise it, I tried to contain it in the room I was in. I think it got out…I’m not sure…I woke myself up; I was so afraid. Something about the eyes made them really stick with me. It was like I could see the evil behind them. I wasn’t afraid while I was trying to exercise it; only after I tried to contain it. The reason I think it got out was because I became afraid for my life. I don’t know what happened to my brother. Could you tell me what any of this means, if anything.
well feeras i have the exact problem but a lot are meaningless like test answers and teachers i will have next year including friends.but ther was only one person i dreamed died and i didnt even kow her .but i think my dreams come true because i once lived in a possed house and almost died from not waking up in my dream but when i did i stopped breathing.my grandma saved me though
one day i was playing hide and go seek with my sister in the haunted house i lived in.we were playing for about two minutes when i found her but it wasnt her it was a ghost i kept saying i found you when it turned around and walked thru the wall outside i tried to run but my legs were stuck i wanted to cry so badly but i couldnt when i finally moved i ran still trying to scream and every time i think about it i want to cry but still cant
true story honest to god scince then i never go in a home alone unless i know it veary well
You have some ESP through your dreams. I have also at times. I dreampt of a horriffic crime that was taking place as I was dreaming, some 400 miles away. From the eyes of one of the victems. I have had many similiar and with those kind there is nothing you can do I guess. But if you dream 2 days ahead of the event or a week ahead of the event, if it is someone you know you can explain it to them and let them know your concerns. I often can change the outcome by changing my scheduale or plans slightly.
hi my girlfriends cuzin past away acouple days ago from being shot because he was in the army and she saw him in the hospital bed before he died and she told me that she has been having a dream of him siting up on the bed then getting shot at then levatating over the bed then having alot of doctors come and strap him up and tube him. then she turns around and sees a grassy hill and im on top of the hill and she runs to me but the more she runs to me the farther i go away from her and then when she reaches me ontop of the hill i jump off and when she tries to help me i just tell her to let me fall because i have to fall to get back up again… idk im realy worried about her because she doesnt even want to sleap because of this dream that shes been having everynight. the same dream every single night. please i need your help! i need to help my girlfriend but i dont know what to do! can you please explain to me what this means?? anything at all would help!! im desperate shes not sleapin very well anymore! thanx!!
okay i had a dream that my Grandma (who died several years ago) came to my house and told me and my sister that we need to save the world. i was resently on a class trip in St. Paul Minnesota and stayed in a hotel with the rooms all around a pool. i drempt that all the people in the world were staying in the hotel and every room had a sliding class door. My grandma told us we need to stop this man from killing everyone. She trained us to use guns and other weppons and then i got a phone call from my two best friends they were worried about me, because i missed the bus to st. Paul. i told them i would be there soon. we finallly were done training and my grandma drove us to the hotel all my fellow class mates were there and i had to convince them to hide in the darkness so this man would not get them all but six of my class mates did. This man would go room to room knocking on the door waiting for someone to answer, when they did they he would pull out a huge bugure knife and slice them in half. if they didnt answer the door he would shatter the glass door and go and slice everyone. my class mates were not found by this man and he left all the rooms but now he came to the one last room and this room was the room of people that i could not convince. me and my two bestfriends were trying to hurry them into the closet when we herd the knock on the door lexie, sarah and I hid fast and the others sat as if nothing happend. nobody went to get the door, the man shatterd it and came in. he was about to slice a boy in my class and stopped he saw these pictures that this boy had drawn (they were of supper heros and such) he said he would stop killing everyone and stop this whole thing if we would give him the pictures. we all agreed and he left with the pictures. Nobody in my grade got hurt but it showed him going into a helpless older couples room and sliceing a women and a man who looked some what like my grandpa (who is still alive) it really got to me and i have been dreaming it every night for a week. What does it mean?
so i was in this place were my parents where moving to the quiet neighbor hood and there was a house who seemd pretty creepy and all of a sudint i star runing becuz the house is casing me and i wake up.
this aother one is pretty creepy. so i was at a place, and i want to a eage who seemd cool and all of a sudint i fall. and when im about to hit the ground i wake up
my little sister and i were held hostage some phycos house and she would wrap her victims in barb wire and wait for them to die. she did that to my sister but i got her free and then she wouldent leave when i tried to help her excape. then i went to a dance at my school and we all did a weird dance and my boyfriend was there and i was ignoreing him. i dont understand this!!!!!! what does it mean?????
i have been dreaming with my ex boyfriend 3 days in the row now. we have been separated for 7 years . yes, i love him when i was with him…i loved him to dead but i got married 6 years, in order to forget my ex. i have been having bad dreams about my (ex) for example: something bad is happen to him and he needs my help urgent but i can not reach him to help …his aways to far. we have no communication with each other almost 6 years . why i am having his dreams ? can someone tell me why i am having this dreams?
this is very frightening dream