January 14, 2010

PREGNANT AND MISCARRIAGE DREAM
I had a dream that I was 6 weeks pregnant and I felt like I was 8 months along, especially when I looked down at my belly, but when I looked at my profile in the mirror, I wasn’t as far along and that’s when I realized I was only 6 weeks pregnant. When I went to the bathroom, I looked in my underwear and saw bright red blood. I was stunned, because I felt so great prior to that. I looked in the toilet and saw that I had miscarried. The toilet was flushing quickly, so I reached down to pick up the fetus before the water flushed out. When I looked at the fetus, the baby’s head looked very large and I remember thinking that it looked like a Bobble Head doll. P.S., I’m not pregnant and I’m not planning to have kids.

Jenny, 36, Baltimore, MD

The baby doesn’t represent a literal pregnancy, but something else that you are “creating” in your “oven”. There is a relationship or project you’ve got cookin’ and you felt it was farther along than it really is. You are also afraid of losing the whole project (the miscarriage fear). What are you barely into and afraid of losing? Is there something you were about to give life to that now got snuffed out? Whatever it is, it has an appearance you were not expecting (the Bobble Head doll). It could mean that there are a lot of unknowns regarding this issue, almost a “mystery”. It is definitely something you have never done before, and you have mixed feelings about it.

Jenny's Real Life Story
I’m a single homeowner and I bought my first house last year. I had plans to remodel my kitchen and bathroom along with other home projects and thought my plans were right around the corner so I started to get estimates. In October, my employer closed my facility and I found myself unemployed. I was afraid that I’d lose my house like millions of others, but then 3 weeks later I got a job offer. The job isn’t what I wanted or what I expected and now I find myself disappointed at my job, although it pays more than the last one. This leaves me very frustrated and uncertain about my career direction or lack of one. Although my job is considered mid-level, I find myself starting over at a new company where I need to prove myself yet again before I can move forward. Now I’ve got to put my remodeling plans on hold for several more months to make sure this job works out.

March 15, 2010

PURE EVIL IN THE FOREST
I have not had this dream in awhile but I get this recurring nightmare. I am in a building/room, that I don’t know how to explain but the rooms are one next to another with just a bed and night table with all the walls closed in except the one at the foot of the bed. The wall that is open is facing an area of the woods, nothing but woods. During the daytime there are people around and everything is fine but when it turns nighttime I am terrified. I feel something watching me and I curl up in a ball and stare into the darkness… waiting for it to come get me. I don’t know what or who it is but it feels like pure evil. I felt as terrified as humanly possible. This feeling follows me around the whole next day after having this dream. It’s horrifying. Tiffany, 20, Rochester, NY

All the rooms in a row with one wall open to the elements represent “cells” in your personality. You probably get this dream whenever you feel trapped or held back in life – or forced to look in a direction you don’t want to go. Something or someone occasionally makes you look into the face of fear. The walls open to the unknown dark forest means you feel open to danger, vulnerable to “attack”. The forest, normally a place of growth, energy and life, represents hidden fears and things that you would rather not come out. The pure evil you sense represents your greatest fear, the scariest thing that could happen. It is raw fear and anxiety. I think you are facing something unknown and still hidden in your life, something you know is coming no matter what you do. The future? What situation or issue is threatening to come out in your life? Is there something requiring you to take action – as in not curl up in a ball – but you feel paralyzed and unable to fix? Next time you get this dream try to talk to “it”, the pure evil, raw fear thing. Tell it that while it may be purely evil, you happen to have pure good on your side (all humanity has access to the Good) and you therefore know full well it is afraid of you. Ironically, it is probably more afraid of you than you are of it, because pure evil runs, flees, from pure good. Let that fact give you confidence to stand up to this unknowable darkness. You are strong, you have the pure light of your own spirit shining blindingly into the eyes of that evil. It is afraid of you and likes to keep you catatonic on the floor. Fear is the weapon it uses to control you. But no more. You are on to it now! You are not afraid of mere fear. Rise up, woman and go forth! And it will have no choice but to leave you alone. Reading Eckhart Tolle's A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose would be very helpful to you, I believe, because the author explains what this pure evil really is and how to neutralize it, even disable it utterly with just a switch you can easily flip by "knowing", realizing, recognizing.  

The most recent dream I've had is one in which my dog (who died on March 13th this year) was sitting in front of me. I had a bag of treats next to me. It was obvious that she was asking/begging for a treat. I said "you can't eat one, you're dead.", thinking it was impossible for her to consume a treat being that she had passed on. She continued to sit there and give me a look that pleaded with me. So, I finally broke down and tossed a couple of treats on the floor in front of her. I was amazed when I saw she was able to pull the treat closer to her using her front paw and then was able to eat it. I began to wonder if she was going hungry in the afterlife and it made me want to feed her more. Then I woke up.

My name is Tyler (male) and I'm currently engaged and I don't have any children. I am in the process of adopting a golden retriever puppy that was born May 1st and my fiance' worries that this dream may be indicating that I'm not ready for another dog.

Thank you for your time,
Tyler

This dream is actually a healthy part of the grieving process. You are coming to terms with her being gone, yet always "with" you. You are still even able to connect with her, to nurture (feed) her, on the other side -- and like the good dog owner "parent" you were and are, you worry about her nurturance. Very good personality trait of yours coming out in a dream! Your fiance probably knows she is lucky to have a guy who worries about those in his care, in his family. This dream confirms that. It also shows your subconscious mind is finally aware of and accepting the fact that your beloved companion is now gone.  The subconscious mind is the last to accept death of a loved one, be it human, canine or feline. That acceptance means you are finding closure on all levels. The grieving process can take years sometimes in people who are just unable to move beyond the pain, but you are handling it in a nice normal healthy range of months. You might just be ready for that new doggie, after all.

RESPONSE FROM DREAMER:
What Dr. Katia said is very reassuring. The dream I submitted is one of many that I have had since my dog's passing. I think it's because I keep dreaming about my dog that my fiance is concerned that I might not be ready for another one. We knew the time was coming as Lady was 13 years old and her hindend had been giving her problems for at least the past year. When it finally gave out on her, it did come as a bit of a shock. I truly believe that Lady and I will be reunited on the other side some day. Thank you for the analysis and the reassurance.

Tyler age 39 Omaha, Nebraska

June 14, 2010
HEADLESS ZOMBIES
Last night I dreamt I was at a swap meet and they had headless people hanging in the eating area. This one body near my mother and I had partial of his head. There was also a raffle going on. Some lady close to us won the raffle and the hanging body fell and was like in zombie mode and alive. Now I understand that bodies can stay alive due to motor neurons running through our body and since the brain can no longer control it, it is like a chicken without a head that still runs around. But I don't understand. And they were taking kids.   - Nadia

All those dead bodies are parts of YOUR personality that you want to kill off, but want to keep around in case you need them. They have lost their heads...meaning in some area of your life you have gotten too passionate, too emotional, and caused "loss". You want these dead-to-you aspects of yourself to be there in case you need to utilize them, but you also are horrified by the whole self-eating process your mind and emotions are putting you thru. You know the saying, "it's eating you up inside."  Ask yourself what is eating you, eating your head (intelligence, common sense) and what is "taking" the kids, in other words, taking your childhood or childlike happiness. The raffle means you took a gamble on something or some one and now you are not so sure it's gonna work out. It got set up on automatic and you can't stop it. If you can figure out what in your waking life is at the root of this dream, you will suddenly realize the connection and the problem will stop haunting you.

908 DAYS TILL THE APOCALYPSE
Hello, I had a dream on June 29th, 2010. Right before I woke up from the dream, I heard a voice tell me I had 908 days to live. I went on with my date a little weirded out, but I remembered that. When I came home i went on a website and did the calculation from the date of the dream. The date was December 23rd, 2012. I looked up the date and some say this may be the date of the "apocalypse".

You could be picking up on the collective unconscious hype-and-fear about that long-ago predicted doomsday.  The actual date is December 21, 2012, the Winter Solstice, when the world will “end” according to an ancient Mayan calendar. It’s a very cool prophecy I first read about back in the 1980’s and now it is all over the internet and television specials. No doubt you have heard about 2012 somehow, at least on some level of awareness, and it triggered this dream. A bit of superstitious fear has been kindled in you. Or maybe the 908 has some other significance. Be sure to look at your health issues in case the dream is just exaggerating when it implies your death will happen. Dreams exaggerate to get our attention. It may mean you have about 18 months until some health condition, relationship, physical addiction or something, gets too out of hand, past the point of no return. Your body’s clock might be ticking and intuitively knows something is going to happen in 908 days. Your life as you know it might “end” and a new life begin on that date. But it doesn’t mean real death. Incidentally, the modern interpretations of the Mayan calendar “doomsday” also say it is not so much the apocalypse but an ending of an era, with a new era then beginning. On a side note, the USA will be in the lame duck period between a presidential election and presidential Inauguration. The long-awaited Mayan “armageddon” happens to occur during a national political “turning point”. It is going to be a turning point for you, it sounds like, but not a life or death matter, in my opinion, so don’t worry! You had better write to us on December 24th, 2012 to let me know if we were right!

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