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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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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A Recently Submitted Dream for Analysis:

I always dream about not being able to find my way somewhere, or not being able to find something that I knew was there before. I either can’t find my way home, or can’t find my way out of a house, or can’t find the proper road, etc. Last night’s dream – I put my bag in a post office box (that was on the outside of the post office for some reason), and then when I went to find it, I couldn’t. I went up and down streets looking for the box I put my bag in, but couldn’t find it. One other time, I was trying to find my way home and kept walking on different roads that kind of looked familiar, but were not the roads I needed to get home. One other was I was in a house with many rooms, and could not find my way out of it. All my dreams are like this, and I wake up before I find my way. What does this type of dream mean?

Fascinatingly enough, your dreams are actually covering several areas.  They’re taking you by the hand and pulling you in several directions.  It’s a wonder you aren’t completely frazzled!

Dreams of Being Lost

The key symbolism for dreams in which we lose our way (or can’t find it in the first place) is frustration.  It’s a pretty common dream theme, simply because all of us are familiar with being frustrated. Whether it’s in school, at home, at work, or in a relationship – we all know the feeling of wanting something to go THIS way as we sit and watch it defiantly go THAT way instead!

Many Christians will experience dreams such as this when they feel that they’re “losing their way,” or that they aren’t reading their Bible often enough, praying enough, etc.  I interpreted a dream for a lady,once,  who had gone to her Catholic church for over 20 years.  An injury at work left her unable to leave her house for a couple of months.  She had dreams just about every night of losing either her teeth, her hair, her clothes, etc.  Her church was such a huge part of her life that she felt like she was actually “losing herself.”    I suggested that she call up members of her church and invite them over for coffee.  When they found out how much she missed them, a few ladies began automatically coming by after each service – bringing her cookies, drinking coffee with her, and telling her what had gone on at the service.  Is that sweet or what?!   The dreams ended because she didn’t feel the loss so  much any longer.

Dreams of Losing Objects

When we dream of losing something, it’s an indication that we feel we have, indeed, lost something.  Parents who have young children suddenly enrolled in school (whether it’s first grade or college) will have frequent dreams like this because they subconsciously feel that they’ve lost something. Soon, however, they realize they haven’t lost the child at all and the dreams fade away.

On an even deeper level, many people who have made compromises in relationships (personal or professional) will have these dreams because they feel that they’ve lost a piece of themself.

I’d say that your dreams are definitely trying to tell you something.  Any time dreams recur like this, there’s an underlying issue or emotion.  I like to think of these hidden emotions as unopened e-mail.   You know when you log in to your e-mail, it’ll tell you when you have unopened mail?  Recurring dreams serve the same basic function – alerting us that we have undealt with emotions.

When we click on the unopened mail, the message goes away.  We’ve dealt with it and there’s no need for it to bring anything to our attention any longer.

Think of your dreams along these lines.  Spend a little time with yourself (no distractions) and ask yourself what losses you feel – whether they are literal, physical losses or emotional.   More likely than not, you’ll get in touch with feelings you didn’t even fully realize you were having.

Good luck and sweet dreams!

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A lot of people have the mistaken idea that dreaming of death foretells of a loved one dying.

First of all, dreams are a many things, but psychic they are not.  Our dreams reflect what is going on inside our minds and hearts.   They deal with (and sort out) things that we are currently experiencing or things that we have currently experienced.

Now having said that, we can take the information and symbolism found in our dreams to help us in the future.  So, in that regard, they can provide warnings and admonitions.  However, please don’t ever think they foretell bad omens or that dreaming of darkness is a prediction for upcoming  darkness.

If you have had a dream which involved death, rest assured that you are far from alone.  We’ve all had death dreams and, while troubling, we all know that they slink out of our lives just as fast as they slunk in.

Death dreams generally mean that you are anxious or worried.  You may not fully realize how much anxiety you’re actually feeling.  Many times, troubling dreams like this wave a flag for the individual and cause them to realize just how much stress they’ve been under.  The dreamer can then realize that they need to pull back a little bit – enjoy life more rather than just anxiously trying to get from point A to point B!

Almost all dreams of dying can be traced back to an overworked, overly anxious individual very much in need of some time off!

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Below is a dream submitted this past week:

I every once in a while have this dream. I am eating something sometimes, but there are other times it just happens. I get a string caught during swallowing and I have to loosen my throat muscles to pull it back out. When i attempt to pull it out, it is a never ending string that just goes on and on and on. I see myself and feel myself pulling for a long time. The thing that is weird is that I can feel this and I dread dreaming this. It is soo uncomfortable. Is this a common dream? What is your interpretation of this dream? Thanks!

I’ve read your dream through four times to try to get a really good handle on it. If you had just had this dream once I would have thought it was connected to something like flossing before bed.  I have a tendency to floss too hard sometimes and if my gums bleed, I can expect to be harmed at some point in my dreams.  Needless to say, I’ve started being more careful when flossing!

The fact that you’ve had this sort of dream more than once leads me to believe that there’s a little more to it than just this sort of “association” type of dream.

When I read your dream I get the feeling that your predominant emotion during the dream is frustration.  Sure, it’s uncomfortable and the situation puts you in a bad position, but I think the most important thing to notice is that you feel frustrated by several things:

1.  You’re frustrated that the choking occurs in the first place – as you said, sometimes even when you aren’t eating in your dream.

2.  You’re frustrated that you have to contort your throat muscles in a manner to try to prevent the choking.

3.   You’re frustrated that you pull and pull but can’t get to the  end of the string.

In dreams that I call “Frustration Dreams,” you can usually expect to hear the dreamer use the following phrases:

• It went on and on and on…
• It seemed like it took forever…
• No matter what I did, I couldn’t…..
• No one would listen to me…..
• Never ending…
• Impossible…..

They also will frequently comment about something lasting a long time.   When I read “…it is a never ending string that just goes on and on and on….” in your dream description, I knew we were dealing with a frustration dream of some type.  It’s an absolutely beautiful example of this type of dream.

Usually frustration dreams are brought on by things in our day to day life that we feel powerless against.  These things are either courtesy of other people (things others do that frustrate us) or they’re courtesy of our ourselves (things we, ourselves, do that frustrate us).

The fact that your frustration dream involves the face is very, very important.  This is a key symbolism that means the frustration is extremely personal.  When we dream about a part of our body, it means  that that dream meaning is a very personal one.

The tricky thing is that this could mean one of two things, and only you will know for sure which one it is. Your dream is an indication that you are either:

1. Frustrated by a habit or thought that you can’t quit doing or thinking.  Many people have this sort of dream when they can’t quit procrastinating, can’t “get over” an ex, can’t stop a particular habit such as biting their nails or smoking, etc.  I once had a string of frustrating dreams when I consistently failed to make time to exercise!
2. If you aren’t frustrated with something that the person in the mirror is or isn’t doing, then the dream would indicate that you are frustrated with something someone else does.  This person would be someone extremely close to you – someone who would be of the utmost importance to you.  The symbolism of your mouth would indicate that it is probably someone you are connected to in a  romantic way.

I want to mention something about choking dreams.  If you had experienced an isolated dream about choking and your emotions were primarily fear and/or embarrassment, I would suggest that you had recently said something you regretted.   However, you have had several of these dreams and you just don’t strike me as a person who puts their foot in their mouth on a daily basis!

Also, as I said before, the primary emotion seems to be frustration.

As for bringing an end to the dreams, my first suggestion would be to try very hard NOT to think about the dreams or their details.  Before bedtime, think about anything and everything BUT these dreams – or about anything that frustrates you at all.  Read a great novel, watch television, or take a blissful bubble bath.

Finally, if you can pinpoint where the frustration is coming from, you’ll double your odds of ending these dreams.

Best of luck!

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