First of all, what do we mean by inadequacy dreams?  An inadequacy dream would be one in which you dream that you are either:

• too fat
• too thin
• too old
• too young
• too unattractive
• too sick
• too forgetful
• not smart enough
• not tall enough
• too tall
• overqualified
• under qualified
  
• and on and on and on!

Basically, any dream in which you disappoint yourself, scare yourself, or fail to meet your expectations is an inadequacy dream.

Here’s a recent inadequacy dream submitted for analysis: Dreaming About Forgetting

I am a 52 year old mother of 2 boys (one’s 12 and the other is 21).  I had a dream a week ago that has stayed with me and is just very upsetting.  I dreamed that I was holding a baby girl and that she was my baby.  She was crying and had a fever.  So I took her to what appeared to be a doctor’s office.  The nurse working at the window asked me my name and I told her.  She asked what was wrong with my baby and I told her that she had a fever, didn’t seem to feel well and was crying a lot.  Then the nurse asked me my baby’s name and I couldn’t remember it.

I felt SO frustrated and scared in the dream (and when I woke up and ever since).  I was trying so hard to remember the name and kept thinking, “How can you forget the name of your own baby?”

Most of the time dreams don’t stay with me.  I usually remember them for a day or two but this one won’t leave my mind.  I keep feeling how frustrated and scared I was.

Now I’m scared that this means I’m losing my memory or that I might have problems with Alzheimers or something.  I’m just really in a bad place right now because of this dream.  Please help me sort this out so I can get rid of this feeling.  Thank you.

P.S.  Oh, by the way, this is strange – but somehow I know that the baby’s name was Victoria. It came to me just as I was waking up from the dream.

First of all, relax and throw out any left over fears and anxieties!   Very often dreaming about forgetting things is simply a sign that we need to slow down and start paying more attention to things.   It’s possible that you recently forgot something or almost forgot something and the frustration of that incident carried over into your dream.

Forgetting things is a very common thing – it happens to people of all ages, young and old.  It isn’t a sign of losing your memory or even of getting old – most of the time it’s simply a sign that you’re too busy or that you aren’t paying as much attention to details as possible.  Sometimes, in our work and at home, we get kind of lazy and don’t pay as much attention to details.  This leads to forgotten cellphones, keys, and sunglasses!

Most people just laugh at the situation – but a certain age group (between about 35 and 55) almost panics.  We tend to think, “Dear, God, please don’t let me be losing my mind!!!“  We don’t just hit the panic button, we jump on it.

Yet, if we pause and take a deep breath, we’ll remember that forgetting things happen at all ages.  After all, what about the time we forgot our school lunch, the time we forgot the dates for the history exam (!!!), the time we forgot to take the right notebook to class – etc, etc, etc.  If we would be reasonable, we’d realize that forgetting things isn’t anything new!

I do a lot of research and reading for another one of my websites, Out of Bounds.  It’s all about mental fitness, sharpening your mind, improving your memory, and just staying sharp.  I always recommend challenging the mind to keep it on it’s proverbial toes. Doing a lot of the recommended tips given on Out of Bounds will help you to not only stay sharp – it’ll give you confidence.

Right now, I’d say that a recent event (something small – like forgetting your keys…) has sort of smacked your confidence around – hence the dream.  Unfortunately, the dream only compounded the problem!

Rest assured that I’m certain the frustrating feelings will subside right away.

Other Inadequacy Dreams

If you’ve had inadequacy dreams,  realize that they stem from a particular insecurity.  If you dream that you are overweight, for example, you either…

1. Have been feeling like you need to lose weight.
2. Have a deep-seeded fear of becoming overweight.

Another interpretation for this type of dream – if you’re certain that you have no insecurities whatsoever – is that you “emotionally feel” whatever inadequacy is portrayed in the dream.  For example, if you dream you are incredibly ugly – yet don’t feel at all unattractive, you could have recently acted “ugly” and have guilt over your actions.

If you dream that you are overweight – yet you know you are a perfect size – you may feel like you’re “carrying too much weight” at the office, at school, or at home.

Finally, don’t ever let a mere dream shake your confidence or your swagger.  Dream Prophesy is all about USING your dreams as self help and self improvment vessels.  It’s the whole reason I put the website up in the first place!  We can take our dreams and use them as springboards to improving our lives.  If you dream of a particular inadequacy – put a little extra effort into chasing away the insecurities and watch your confidence soar!

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If you have a legitimate interest in your dreams and truly want to uncover what they’re trying to tell you, the first thing you need to do is buy a dream journal. You could probably even find an old notebook around your house that would work beautifully – without spending a red cent.

Most people think they will simply remember every detail of their dreams without writing down the details right away.  Unfortunately, this just isn’t the case.  Many times, important details are forgotten. In mere hours, large chunks of valuable dream details… just ripe for dream analysis… are lost forever.

It’s like priceless dream symbols flying out of the bedroom window!

Another benefit of keeping a dream journal is that you’ll be able to see trends.  If you dream about lost loved ones, snakes, losing things, death, or clowns on a regular basis – it’s information that will prove valuable to a dreamologist (dream interpreter).

Dreaming about snakes once in a while will hold a different analysis, for example, than if you dream about them 2 or 3 times a week.

Below are top 10 most important things about keeping a dream journal:

1. Keep your dream journal and pen near your bed. You’ll want to get the dream out of your head and onto paper as soon as possible. If you have to search around the house for the journal or the pen, you run the risk of “losing” valuable details.
2. Keep your dream journal away from prying eyes! Even though the dream about Angelina Jolie or Brad Pitt (or both) may actually hold an entirely different interpretation than expected – you might not be able to explain that to a certain someone!
3. Write down every person who appears in your dream. Even if it’s someone you think isn’t at all important, write them down.  If you’re unsure who, exactly, the person was “supposed” to be – go with your gut feeling. Sometimes dreams are confusing, to say the least.
4. Write down the feelings you experienced in the dream. How you felt during the dream is extremely important to its analysis and interpretation.
5. Write down how you feel when you first wake up. Are you anxious, sad, mad, confused, elated?  How you feel, initially, also carries  a lot of weight in dream analysis.
6. If you remember any particular phrases or “key” words in the dream, jot them down, along with who said them. You’ll know which words or phrases are “key” simply because they’ll stand out.
7. Right before you fall asleep, remind yourself to remember important details about your dream(s). Doing so will help, over time, train you to better remember your dreams and help you to retain the information for longer periods of time.
8. If you can’t remember an entire dream or you’re foggy on certain details, don’t sweat it! Write down what you can remember. DO NOT assume or try to fill in blanks with what you “think” happened in the dream.  If you don’t remember, you don’t remember.  Think about it this way, if it were truly that important and if it were extremely “key,” you’d probably remember!  Just write down the things you remember.
9. Write down colors you recall from the dream.  Colors in dreams are very important! I’ll be adding a dream color chart to Dream Prophesy in a day or two.  You’ll be able to see the different interpretations for the different colors.  Write down each color that you remember. If you’re wearing a white top, write that down. If someone in your dream is angry at you and they’re wearing purple, write it down.
10. Remember the importance of Dream Symbols. When  examining your dream and writing down the details in your dream journal, be sure to list any objects and/or animals that you recall – cats, pillows, birds, toasters, turtles, flowers, etc.

Start keeping a dream journal as soon as possible – it’ll change the way you look at dreams. The information in your journal, combined with the tools and information you’ll find on Dream Prophesy will help you analyze your dreams.  Dream analysis can help you in more ways than you can even begin to imagine.

It can open up a whole new world for you – so grab your pen, you won’t want to miss a thing!

The gorgeous Dream Journal Classic Journal pictured at the top of the page can be bought from Amazon.

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The majority of dream interpretation requests I get have to do with 1 of the following types of dreams:

• Dreams of dying
• Dreams of a lost loved one
• Snake dreams
• Dreams of falling
• Dreams of being lost
• Dreams of losing things

I thought we’d take a good look at one of these dreams today:  Dreams of losing things.  Many people want to know what it means to dream about losing things – some wonder if it’s a sign that they’ll be losing something (or someone) in their life.  First of all let me say a resounding NO, these dreams do not tell the future or imply that you’ll lose anything or anyone in your waking life.

Dreams deal with what’s going on in our lives – or with what has gone on in our lives.  Dreams are where we sort it all out.

When we dream of losing things, its almost always because we are (in our waking life) overwhelmed and are currently being pulled in too many different directions or are trying to do too many things.  These dreams often have to do with us, personally, more than things we lose.  They’re just symbols for the bigger picture.

It’s our brain’s way of telling us:  Too many pots on the stove!  Something’s going to happen if you don’t get it together. Dreaming of losing things often means we are “out of touch” or “out of control” in some area of our life.

Many times, life gets so hectic and twisted that we lose touch with who we actually are.  We try to be so many things to so many people that we sort of lose who we truly are.  We forget the things that truly matter (or at least should matter) in life.  At the risk of wading into the deep end of the pool, dreaming of losing things often reflects that we’ve “lost a part of ourselves.”

If you dream that you have lost something, examine your heart and life the very next day, while the dream is still fresh in your mind.  Have you lost touch with yourself lately?  Are you too busy?  Are parts of your life sort of spinning out of control?

As I point out in the article, Dream Prophesy: When Dreams Come True, dreams simply tell us that The stage is set for something to happen.  Whether it does or not is almost entirely up to us.

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I dreamed about 4 nights ago that my husband and I were fighting so bad that I hit him in the head with a plate. We were yelling and yelling and he was so unreasonable and was saying such mean things that I felt like I had to just shut him up. I am not a violent person and actually don’t even fight with people that much. I argue with my husband sometimes but all marriages have that. But I never hit him with plates. Why would I be so violent in my dream? It is really troubling me. I can’t get the image of the plate and his cut head bleeding so much blood out of my mind. It makes me sick and I don’t know what to do. Is it a bad omen for something happening to one of us or to a big fight. As you can see I am really a wreck over this. Please help me.

First of all, rest assured that there is no omen involved. People often think that, but dreams can’t tell the future. They do, however, often indicate something that is currently going on or something that has gone on. A dream such as this one indicates that there is something “below the surface.” More times than not, if we dream about an open wound (or surgery, pulling teeth… that sort of thing) – our mind is trying to “dig” beneath the surface for something.

In this case, I would be willing to bet that you have been trying to get something across to your husband for a while – something that he either isn’t accepting or simply isn’t “catching.” It could be hints you’ve been dropping for a new sofa, something around the house that you want him to take care of, or something on a grander scale. It could even be a case of wanting him to listen to you or pay more attention to you.

The hit in the head with the plate was pretty much your subconscious mind’s way of saying, “Now I’ve got your attention!!!”

As far as dream symbolisms go, I think that the fact that “so much blood” came out of the wound indicates that you fully expect to be able to get through to him – in your heart you believe that you’ll get to the source of the problem. If, in your dream, you had hit him on the head and nothing had come out, I’d worry that you might be fighting a losing battle and that (down inside) you knew it.

Think about how this relates to your situation. I’d be willing to bet that a light bulb has already appeared!

Again, this is absolutely not an omen for anything. If, by coincidence, he cuts himself shaving or you have an argument about what movie to see Friday night – know this: The dream did not predict or cause either one. Dreams rely on what happened yesterday, not tomorrow.

Sweet dreams!

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Have you ever had what I call a “Fairy Tale” dream? One in which everything seems more surreal than usual. Things are bright and sunny, pretty and larger than life. If you had to describe it, you would probably use the words “like a fairy tale.”

In these dreams, you may or may not be a prince or princess and there isn’t always a castle and moat! Yet there’s something distinctively “fairy tale” about the dreams.

So exactly what do these “fairy tale” dreams mean? In a word: ESCAPE.  That’s not to say you want to escape your life altogether but, make no mistake about it, there’s some element of your life or a particular date on your appointment calendar that you do want to escape from.

Oddly enough, the people who have this sort of escapism dream are the ones who are going along, acting as though everything is great, and coming off as though they haven’t a care in the world.  The girl with a school assignment that she’s sweating bullets over acts as though it’s a breezy cake walk.  Because she’s in such denial, the stress builds up.  She’s a perfect candidate for an escapism dream such as fairy tale dreams.

The man who refuses to face his relationship problems, trying to cover them up any way he can is another candidate.

Sometimes just admitting that we aren’t perfect and that we have worries and insecurities can free us up to find solutions.  Whether the solution is studying harder, preparing more, or talking things out with a loved one – the solution is always a HEAD ON approach and never a HIDE FROM approach.

If you’ve had a fairy tale dream recently, ask yourself what you could possibly be trying to escape from. It could be any of the following types of situations:

• an upcoming test
• a dental appointment
• meeting someone in particular
• work evaluation
• a project at work or school
• a confrontation
• vacation
• an interview
• etc!

Meet your fear and reservations head on – admit them, then prepare for them.  Create your own fairy tale ending!

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Creativity means thinking out of the box. In other words, it means, thinking in the unusual way. It involves lot of innovation. Thinking out of the box requires the mind to be free. It is true that creativity is an art, however with proper training, it can be acquired easily.

The website www.store.unexplainable.net is a huge repository of information that gives a list of easily downloadable softwares at reasonable prices. These softwares give various techniques for empowerment of the human brain. The brain is the most important part of the human body, it needs to be always pampered and kept in the best possible condition, so that one can derive maximum benefits out of it.

The software must be used with headphones. It contains many frequency waves that travel across the human body. The sound waves are first transmitted to the ear and it then signals the brain to a sub conscious state. The brain is absolutely in a relaxing condition now and is best suited for any empowerment activities. The sound waves gives a soothing effect to the brain and it gives the much needed relaxation so that the brain can cool down and perform its activities with utmost perfection and accuracy.

Creativity is not rocket science. It just means to catch certain signals and react with extremely quick reflex action. It means to think differently and to act differently. Thinking out of the box requires lot of confidence and guts, because, it is normal only to go the way, the whole world goes. If ones wants to deviate and take a different path, he has to be extremely confident of his step. He should be willing to take the risk and think differently. Even if it is a failure, he should be able to treat it with a smile. A brain which is conditioned thoroughly with the soothing sound waves technology, is bound to be doubly effective than the normal brain.

One classic example of creativity is the one involving the Russian astronaut. It was once discovered that the normal pen does not work in the moon. The Americans and the Europeans spent so much of time and energy in designing a pen that fights gravity and that could have the ability to write even when a person uses it on the moon. They spent a lot of resources designing this special pen and still were not successful. The Russian astronauts, however, solved it in a minute. Did they do anything magical? No, they simply used a pencil!!

This is enough to prove that creativity, in other words, is application of common sense. Most of the times, we don’t use this presence of mind and hence go in the way which everybody goes. We don’t tend to think differently, if there is any other simple solution available. This software eradicates the problem of lack of creativity. The brain is so relaxed, that it is always on high alert. There is not an iota of dullness or mundane minute in the brain. There are studies that have proved that this software is a phenomenal success.

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A frequent dream analysis request on Dream Prophesy goes something like this:  “What does it mean to dream about an ex?  Does it mean I want them back?!“  Most people seem astonished to dream of their ex because, in their conscious state, the last thing they’d want is to have the ex back!

More times than not, when you dream about an ex (girlfriend, boyfriend, husband, wife), it isn’t really THEM that your dream represents.  Usually (though not always, of course) it’s the period of time that your mind is revisiting – your ex just happens to be there.  In the same way that our AWAKE mind revisits the past, through memories, sometimes our ASLEEP mind does the same.

If we’re going through a stressful time in our lives and seem to have more on our proverbial plate than we ever asked for – our mind will take us to a “simpler time” – if an ex happens to be there, it isn’t necessarily a compliment to them.  They just happened to be in the picture at the time.

However, if it becomes a recurring dream, the analysis may be a little different.  Here’s an example:

Trudie was married to a man named Carl, a wonderful man who she was crazy about.  His only vice, her e-mail said, was that he was a workahaulic.  He worked 12 hours a day and, when he came home, all he wanted to talk or think about was work.  Other than that, they were happily married and had a comfortable life.

However, she began to dream about her ex-husband regularly.  In her dreams, they were always having fun – doing things they used to do together (fishing, hiking, going to movies…).  She was beginning to think that her subconcious mind wanted Mr. Wrong back instead of Mr. Right!

She was reliveved to find out that her subconcious mind was simply giving her a message – she missed doing the things she once did and a part of her wished that her second husband had as much fun with life as her first one did.  After all, she said, it was the only thing he ever got right!

Without mentioning the dreams or husband #1′s name (of course), Trudie told Carl that he needed to lighten up and enjoy life more.  The whole business of work-related subjects being the only words out of his mouth had gotten very old, very fast.  She made arrangements for them to go fishing one weekend and Carl fell in love with it so much, she now kind of wishes he’d give her a Saturday OFF the lake!

Examine your dreams and see if there’s a hidden message, such as the one above.  9 times out of 10 there isn’t a specific message – your subconscious simply wanted to take a stroll down memory’s lane… and you-know-who just happened to be there!

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I’ve been having dreams lately about losing things.  In my dreams, I lose my keys, my truck, my belt.  In one dream, I lost my German Shepherd.  I don’t really have a problem with losing things in my real life.  Certainly not my dog and truck.  What do these dreams mean?  There have been about 8 of them and I always wake up feeling frustrated and annoyed.

Dreaming of losing things is often a signal that there are just too many things going on in your life.  When you’re being pulled in a great number of directions and/or you have a number of people counting on you, sometimes you feel like you’re losing control.

For example, I once heard from a man who had similar dreams.  Turns out he was working a full time job and raising two sons by himself.  Teenagers, at that.  He said that he’d recently been given more responsibilities at work as well.  When his dreams caused him to step back and realize that he was losing touch with what mattered most, he cut back on the overtime he was getting and boldly went to his boss to explain the situation.  When he pointed out that he felt his sons needed him more at home, he says his boss was actually very impressed and helped him out a great deal.

Without taking away his recent pay raise!  Cool bosses are so rare.

Take a good look at the way you described the feeling you got from the dreams:  Frustrated and annoyed. We can learn so much about our lives and mindsets from simply looking at the feelings our dreams give us.  You have undealt with frustrations in your life and I’d almost be willing to bet they stem from not having enough time to do everything you want to do.

Take steps to slow your life down and I promise you the dreams will leave as quickly as they came.

Good luck!

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As a huge animal lover, I read a lot of books by Allen & Linda Anderson (we extreme animal lovers have to stick together, right?).  I was zipping along through their latest book, Angel Animals – Book of Inspiration when I came to a story that spoke to BOTH the dreamologist and the animal lover.

An iguana parent (Darry) from North Carolina was telling the story of their pet iguana, Bubbette.   When Bubbette was a baby, Darry had a very troubling dream one night. She dreamed that Bubbette got  into the garbage disposal and was killed.  The dream was so realistic and frightening that she literally woke up crying. Grisly

Several months passed and Darry was working in the kitchen one day, with Bubbette on her shoulder.  Darry cleared dishes, and generally took care of things that we all do after a meal – with Bubbette riding happily on her shoulder.

What happened next really makes the hair on your arms sit up:

I pushed scraps down the garbage disposal and switched it on.  When I turned around to pick up more dishes, I had a flashback of that dream.  Immediately, I spun back to the sink and flicked off the disposal – just in time.  Bubbette, for the first time ever, had taken a flying leap off my shoulder into the sink.  I caught her just as she was going down the disposal drain.

If I had not remembered that dream, Bubbette probably would have fallen into the garbage disposal before I could realize what was happening.  She was very small at the time, and would have slid easily into the hole and met an untimely demise.

Thank goodness the little cutie was spared by her mom’s dream!

I found something else fascinating about the dream.  This Iguana lover spends a great deal of time promoting the safety and care of Iguanas.  She belongs to a rescue group that discourages people from adopting iguanas until they’ve read “Iguanas for Dummies” (great, great advice, by the way – A LOT more goes into bringing an iguana into your family than you’d think).  This concern and compassion for this animal made its way into her dream, and saved her own little girl in the process!

This is just another clear example of why I tell people, “Never, ever ignore your dreams.”

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Did you ever have a dream where you did or said something completely out of character for you?  I’m sure you have, in fact, we probably all have at one time or another.

• A shy, soft-spoken person will dream of telling off an obnoxious co-worker.
• An extrovert will dream of a situation in which she was shy and unsure of herself.
• A daredevil will dream of being terrified.
• A total chicken will dream of soaring to new heights.
• The quietest man in the office will dream of being the life of the next office party.

And so on.  In our dreams, we often “dare to go there.”  The reason is this:  Our inhibitions are totally down and the fears and reservations we experience in our daily lives simply don’t exist.  We are invincible!

While the occasional dream may not carry much in the way of a life lesson, if we regularly dream of stepping outside of our comfort zone, our subconscious may be dying to do just that.  Every now and again, examine your dreams for a pattern – especially if you possess traits in your dream that you seem to lack when you are awake.  It may be time to open up a different side of yourself and take a few chances.

Our subconscious often craves the unexpected from us.  The same-o, same-o can drag on and like a long-winded high school teacher.  If your subconscious seems to be telling you to loosen up and “step livelier,” take its breath away by doing a dance.

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