NIGHTMARES

Nightmares are reflections of emotional problems or psychological issues.  A indicator of negative thinking patterns, troubling emotions, or bad habits that prevent you from being a more balanced and happier person.  Nightmares often point to problems that are effecting you unconsciously.  A sign that you need to confront a problem, seek guidance, or try to be more objective.

Although nightmares tend to come and go, the only real way to guarantee they stop completely is to deal with the underlying issues they are trying to address.  Fear, desire, guilt, jealousy, or attempts to control others are some of the more common problems people face.  Without addressing the underlying problems directly your nightmares will remain a problem.

To stop nightmares dead in their tracks it's recommended that you begin to process negativity in your life.  Stand up to fear whenever they feel it, resist desire for attractive people or material things that you don't believe you can ever have, and learn to let go of the past or accept change.  An individual must try to respect and understand all people from a logical adult perspective even if you don't like them.  This includes forgiving people, taking responsibility for your actions, and apologizing for mistakes you've made. With enough effort the conscience can be cleared, and your nightmares will disappear.

We encourage you to be open-minded, objective, and self-critical to allow yourself to explore the possibility that you have things about you that can be improved or changed for the better.  Also consider the possibility that you might need to finally stand up for yourself for first time in a way that you never have before.

The symbols you'll find below are some of the most common symbols you'll find nightmares.

Alligators

To dream of an alligator represents a situation in your life that you feel is a dangerous lurking threat. A sense of lurking danger, latent power, and hidden threats. Feelings of fear, trepidation, or threat from a lurking threat to your safety. Your inner fears or suspicions regarding a dangerous situation or person in your life. Feeling that a problem has rocked your sense of balance or safety. Feeling shaken by something or struggling to contain a problem. An alligator may also reflect a powerful fear you have. An alligator may be a sign that you need to put more effort into confronting your fears or start speaking to someone about your problems. Fears about a formidable force that, although currently at rest, can spring into action with little warning.

Negatively, dreaming about an alligator may represent a warning of an impending threat that is hidden or an unresolved issue. It might symbolize feelings of anxiety about being backstabbed or encountering unexpected problems. The alligator could also represent a powerful fear or an emotional struggle that you're trying to repress. There might be a situation or person you don't fully trust or a feeling of inevitable danger. Your own threats to other people with a serious warning or serious loss. Underlying fears, unresolved issues, or threats that one is aware of but chooses to ignore. Looming problems.

An alligator may reflect the potential danger you feel from a job layoff, argument, or interpersonal problem. It may also reflect feelings about the threat of loss or feeling that a crisis may be at hand.

To dream of eating alligator represents overcoming a dangerous situation or lurking threat. Overcoming fears or challenges that you once considered extremely daunting or dangerous. Strong confidence that a lurking threat can never intimidate you, scare you, or bother you again. Gaining strength, courage, and power from facing your fears directly. A victorious conquest over threatening circumstances. The assimilation of a tough experience and learning from adversities.

Example: A man dreamed of alligators following him. In waking life, he was trying to avoid financial bankruptcy. In this case, the alligators may have reflected his sense of danger about his failing finances and inability to cover bills having to potential to cause financial ruin.

Example 2: A man dreamed of being chased by a flying alligator. In waking life, he was severely traumatized by a hurricane disaster. In this case, being chased by a flying alligator may have reflected the dreamer's feelings about the lingering and dangerous possibility of another hurricane occurring.

Example 3: A man dreamed of seeing an alligator chasing his daughter. In waking life, he got very angry with his daughter because he feared for her safety. He felt that he may have overreacted. In this case, the alligator chasing his daughter may have reflected the perceived danger or threat he believed his daughter was facing, causing him to feel shaken and overprotective.

Example 4: A woman dreamed of holding a baby alligator. In waking life, she was threatening her husband with God's wrath because he had cheated on her with another woman. In this case, the alligator may have reflected her feelings about her threats intending to convey a sense of imminent danger and consequences for her husband's infidelity. She felt that God's wrath was a lurking spiritual threat that her husband needed to fear if he was to continue living immorally.

Example 5: A woman dreamed of walking over a tightrope with alligators below her. In waking life, she was carefully trying to maintain perfectly acceptable behavior at work to avoid being fired. In this case, the alligators may have reflected her feelings about the potential or lurking threat of being fired if she made a mistake at work. She felt that lots of people at her workplace were gossiping about her making the problem worse.

Example 6: A man dreamed of seeing an alligator-headed man raping another man anally. In waking life, he was he felt that leaving for vacation wasn't possible because a dangerous lurking legal threat appeared right before he left for vacation. In this case, the alligator man raping the other man may have reflected the dreamer's overwhelming sense of violation and helplessness in the face of a sudden and unexpected potentially dangerous legal threat that disrupted his plans for a vacation.

Example 7: A woman dreamed of seeing a dangerous alligator with its teeth falling out. In waking life, her father-in-law was safely recovering in the hospital after a serious fall. In this case, the alligator with teeth falling out may have reflected her feelings about the lurking threat to her father-in-law's health which was beginning to lose vitality as hospital staff helped him to recover.

Black

To dream of the color black represents imbalance or excess. A negative thinking pattern or negative situation that is noticeably beyond normal limits. Black most often reflects negative feelings such as fear or behaviors where there is a lack of moderation. Black may also represent a situations in your life where there is "nothing positive" happening at all.

Black may show up in dreams for people who are afraid, suicidal, depressed, desperate, doing too many drugs, or having too much sex. An imbalanced mindset, mood, or behavior. It may also reflect your own awareness of yourself being terrible to other people.

Black in dreams is often accompanied by the color red. When both colors are combined this most often reflects powerful fear or strong negative intentions. Fearing the worst thing you've ever had to confront in your life.

To dream of being surrounded by blackness represents feelings about having no clear solutions to a problem. It may also point to feelings of fear, being lost, or feeling totally alone. Fearing the unknown.

Example: A man dreamed of seeing a someone with black eyes. In waking life he was fearing serious punishment and being totally controlled by his abusive father if he got caught trying to escape him.

Example 2: A man dreamed of seeing a porn star sitting on top of a black horse. In waking life he was having difficulty overcoming an addiction to pornography. The black horse may have reflected his feeling about excessive sexual drive and masturbation.

Example 3: A young man dreamed of seeing vicious black dog. In waking life he was extremely angry at a friend and calling her the most terrible names he could think of.

Example 4: A man dreamed of seeing someone dressed in black. In waking life he felt that his stockbroker was losing an excessive amount of his money and wanted to change stock brokers.

Example 5: A woman dreamed of seeing a black horse leaning on her. In waking life she feared losing a lot of business because of angering a friend whom she felt was very competitive and bossy.

Blood

To dream of blood represents feelings about life force, vigor, energy, passion, confidence, or vitality that affects your core being and is dangerous to lose too much of. Feelings about the seriousness of consequences, loss of vitality, emotional pain, or injury to some aspect of your life that cannot easily be ignored. Feelings about how healthy or strong some aspect of your life is about deserving to be alive. Blood outside the body is generally symbolic of a loss of strength in some area of your life, while blood inside the body symbolizes strength and energy.

Positively, blood reflects vitality, strength, confidence, and success. You are vigorously confronting problems, getting ahead, or feeling strong.

Negatively, blood may represent feelings about a part of your life that is losing energy, vigor, vitality, confidence, or strength. Losing passion or a sense of deserving to be alive. Either emotional pain, upsets, or situations caused by excessive drives, anger, or reckless behavior. This usually appears in dreams as bleeding, seeing pools of blood, or being covered in blood. Negative remarks that cause others pain. Illness or the painful loss of a relationship. Serious damage to your confidence. Awareness that something serious, personal, or irreversible is happening in your life.

To dream of bleeding represents some area of your life that is losing strength, vigor, confidence, and vitality. The body part that bleeds represents the area of your life that is losing strength, vitality, or vigor.

To dream of bleeding that won't stop may feelings of may represent a traumatic experience or personal loss that you have difficulty getting over and draining you of all your vitality, confidence, and vigor. Exhaustion.

To dream of being covered in blood may represent feelings about yourself or someone else being completely overwhelmed by emotional pain, losing energy, vigor, vitality, confidence, or strength. Feeling "stained" by failure, disaster, loss, or bad decisions. A loss of vitality or confidence that is impossible to hide from other people. Conflict in a relationship or social setting. Blood on you may represent the results of fighting, viciousness, or attacks on others as you attempt to assert yourself. Sacrificing everything you have for an important cause.

To dream of feet bleeding represents feelings about a loss of vitality or confidence that is affecting your moral foundation or principles.

To dream of having blood on your hands represents feelings of guilt, responsibility, or awareness of having caused pain, loss, or serious consequences through your own actions. Feeling unable to escape responsibility for mistakes, conflict, or damage you believe you have caused. Awareness of yourself being directly involved in something emotionally harmful, aggressive, dishonest, or morally wrong.

To dream of blood being totally drained from the body represents some issue in your life that is totally draining you of power, strength, vigor, or confidence.

To dream of blood on the walls represents lingering feelings about a powerful loss or failure that stopped all progress.

To dream of medically drawing blood represents feelings about testing yourself or others to understand vitality. Confronting uncomfortable truths or temporarily enduring discomfort to gain insight, recovery, or reassurance. Emotional testing, vulnerability, or needing clarity about how healthy or strong some aspect of your life is.

To dream of the blood of enemies represents feelings about vitality, confidence, or power being taken away from people or problems that oppose you. Awareness of your enemies, competitors, or obstacles weakening, suffering consequences, or losing the ability to continue against you. Feelings about victory, revenge, or overcoming opposition through the visible loss of strength or confidence of others. Satisfaction that a threatening person is no longer powerful.

To dream of blood pumping through your veins represents feelings about strong vitality, motivation, passion, or confidence actively empowering your life. Feeling fully alive, emotionally driven, determined, or energized to confront challenges. A powerful sense of personal strength, resilience, ambition, or emotional intensity pushing you forward.

To dream of wounds that don't bleed represents emotional pain, personal damage, or conflict that no longer has the power to weaken you emotionally or drain your confidence. Feeling that a problem, insult, or loss lacks the power to weaken your confidence or vitality. Emotional numbness, resilience, or the ability to endure hardship without visible suffering.

Alternatively, dreams about blood may reflect issues with women's menstrual periods. It's not uncommon for women to dream of messy blood scenarios when they have accidental bleeding. Women may also dream of bloody rivers while having their periods.

Example: A woman dreamed of being annoyed to see blood coming out of a garbage bag with a dead body she had just chopped up. In waking life, she was bothered by having to care about her ex-boyfriend's feelings after having broken up with him. In this case, the blood may have reflected her lingering feelings about the emotional pain, seriousness, and personal consequences involved with hurting her ex-boyfriend's feelings while trying to permanently remove him from her life.

Example 2: A young man dreamed of seeing two sharks fighting, and one of them made the other bleed. In waking life, he manipulated two friends into attacking each other verbally and noticed that one friend got his feelings hurt. In this case, the blood may have reflected his awareness that one friend was emotionally wounded or personally affected more seriously than he originally intended.

Example 3: A woman dreamed of seeing herself bleeding. In waking life, she had just broken up with her boyfriend. In this case, the bleeding may have reflected her feelings of lost confidence and emotional pain of losing her relationship.

Example 4: A woman dreamed of being covered in blood. In waking life, she had cancer and felt that her life was doomed. In this case, being covered in blood may have reflected her feelings about being completely overwhelmed by the seriousness of the news of her condition being impossible to ignore while it was consuming her confidence, hope, and sense of personal strength.

Example 5: A woman dreamed of blood splattered all over a road. In waking life, she was frustrated about losing a friend at work who was originally very nice to her, but then stopped being nice. In this case, the blood splattered on the road may have reflected her feelings about her lingering feelings about the emotional damage, hurt feelings, and loss of confidence caused by the deterioration of the friendship while continuing through the normal routine of her work life.

Example 6: A woman dreamed of seeing a baby with no blood. In waking life, she felt that her plans were dashed because she had no money and no job. In this case, the bloodless baby may have reflected her feelings about her life and plans for the future lacking vitality and not "deserving to be alive" because she lacked money and a job.

*Please See Bleeding.

*Please See Menstruation.

*Please See Bloody Hands.

*Please See Transfusion.

Bugs

Bugs and insects in dreams are almost always hinting at thoughts or situations that really annoy you. It may also reflect situations that you want nothing to do with. The dominant characteristic of the bug in your dream is usually what is being communicated to you about your own thoughts and emotions.

Dreams with bugs or insects infesting the home commonly appear when a person has physical health issues. Waking state aggravation or infection. If the dreams are recurring it may be a sign that you should get a checkup or see a doctor.

Example: A woman dreamed of her home being overrun by bugs. In waking life she had been diagnosed with fibromylagia. The bugs reflected her constant state of annoyance with being unable to do anything she wanted because we always always so tired or depressed.

Example 2: A woman dreamed of being stung by a black bug. In waking life she had some annoying pain in her hand after having recovered from a serious injury.

Example 3: A woman dreamed of having bugs crawling on her. In waking life she was experiencing a lot of annoyances related to living with her pregnancy.

Refer to the themes section for bugs for a more in depth look at bug symbolism.

Bully

To dream of a bully represents people or situations that you feel are intentionally keeping you down or threatening you for doing what you like. It may also reflect a person or situation that you feel is too difficult to confront.

Not standing up to a bully represents you backing down from a threat or challenge.

If you do stand up to a bully it symbolizes confronting problems, and overcoming fear. You may have finally gotten to the courage to do something.

To dream of being a bully represents arrogance or feelings of being invincible. You may have a fear of losing control. It may also reflect a lack of respect for others.

Example: A young man dreamed of bullies threatening him. In waking life his parents had threatened to call the police on an employer if ever tried to get a job with them.

Chased

To dream that you are being chased represents feelings about issues or situations that you are avoiding. Fear of confronting a problem, responsibility, or situation that feels urgent and difficult to escape. Running away from an issue that continues to pursue you or demanding your attention. Obligations that feel like they are "catching up" to you no matter how much you try to ignore them. You may have anxiety, strong fears, insecurities, or guilt. Situations you find emotionally dangerous. You may feel stressed or threatened. Reactions to pressure, fear, or stress. Fear of consequences that you are not ready to face. Unresolved issues or people who demand something from you. Feeling pressured or driven by a sense of fear or failure. Avoiding embarrassment at all costs. Less serious dreams of being chased may reflect waking life situations where you are avoiding problems with friends, family, or colleagues.

To dream of being chased by your father may represent your inability to come to terms with doing what you know is right. It may also be a sign that you are avoiding a bad decision you've made.

To dream of being chased by an elephant represents your wish to avoid a person or situation that has the potential to become very upset with you. Doing everything you can to avoid anger, yelling, being fired, or being broken up with because you didn't do something. It may also reflect your desperation to cover something up that you know will upset someone.

To dream of being chased by a raccoon may represent avoiding a troublemaker who is up to no good. Avoiding someone who you know is breaking the rules or threatening you with something illegal. You may have arrogantly broken rules you knew you weren't supposed to break and now wish to avoid getting caught.

To dream of being chased by a snake may represent your wish to avoid total loss, total failure, or total embarrassment at all costs. It may also represent your wish to avoid someone you can't trust at all.

If you dream of being chased by a person, ask yourself what characteristics stand out the most about them. Hair, height, race, facial features, clothing, holding something? Do they subtly remind you of something?

For a list of other animals see our animals themes section.

To dream that you are chasing someone or something else represents your attempt to get a hold on something that is avoiding you. A goal, person, or problem that is eluding you or making it difficult to get control over.

To dream of something vague chasing you may represent anxiety about issues that are not yet clear to you.

To dream of being chased by something big or enormous may reflect your avoidance of issues you feel are too powerful or overwhelming to confront.

To dream of being chased by something hairy may represent your avoidance of a situation or person that feels wild, unpredictable, or difficult to control. Avoiding something excessive, overboard, or a little bit crazy. Avoiding something that is excessive in some manner or not considerate of your preferences. Discomfort with someone else's instincts or urges.

Example: A young man dreamed of being chased by a man with an alligator head. In waking life, he was losing his hair due to an illness and was avoiding telling anyone at all costs because he feared they would laugh at him.

Example 2: A woman dreamed of being chased by someone. In waking life, she was avoiding her ex. She had promised to meet with him again giving him the impression that they might be able to date again when she had no interest in him anymore. She felt the need to avoid his constant phone calls.

Example 3: A woman dreamed of being chased by monsters. In waking life, she felt unable to escape unemployment after deciding to leave her old company due to hating her boss.

Example 4: A man dreamed of being chased like it was a game of tag. In waking life, he quit his stable job and had to take a freelance job which required regular fees. In this case, being chased may have reflected his attempts to avoid his fees as long as possible before being required to keep up with them.

Clowns

To dream of a clown represents an aspect of your personality makes other people laugh. In a positive context clowns may reflect practical joking or childish fun. Acting silly. In a negative context clowns symbolize issues in your life that embarrass you. Incompetence that is humiliating, inadequacy that is embarrassing, feeling that you or someone else looks foolish.

To dream of an evil clown represents a fear of embarrassment, or that people will laugh at you.

To dream of being raped by a clown symbolizes your sense of powerlessness to stop feeling embarrassed. Feeling that humiliation is being forced on you while you fail to escape it.

Example: A man dreamed of seeing ape-headed clowns. In waking life he had embarrassed himself showing off to other people taking dangerous amounts of drugs.

Example 2: A man dreamed of seeing Hitler dressed as clown. In waking life he was a citizen living in Germany while Hitler was dictator. He felt that the Hitler was an idiot who was embarrassing his nation.

Example 3: A man dreamed of running away from a clown. In waking life he was desperate to avoid allowing his illness to cause humiliating hairloss by wearing a hood.

Example 4: A woman dreamed of a clown. In waking life she had an abortion and noticed that her husband was embarrassed to discuss the abortion with friends or family.

Creatures

To dream of strange creatures may represent fears or insecurities.

To dream of a faceless creature may reflect fears or insecurities that are ambiguous. Fear or insecurity about something you can't define or be totally sure of.

*Please See Monsters.

Death

To dream about death represents feelings about an ending, permanent change, loss, transformation, or the complete cessation of a particular aspect of your life. Your personality or life situation is transforming for better or worse. An area of your life has come to an end, an era is over, or roles are shifting. You may also be preoccupied with someone else's death or illness. Alternatively, death in a dream can reflect failure or loss.

Death may represent the end of relationships, habits, beliefs, goals, identities, lifestyles, or ways of thinking that can no longer continue the way they once did. Your thoughts about transition, letting go, moving on, or confronting situations where something familiar is being forced to come to an end. Death in a dream may also symbolize inevitability, finality, or awareness that a chapter of your life is over and cannot be returned to in its previous form.

Positively, dreaming about death may represent personal growth, emotional healing, liberation, or the successful ending of problems that have burdened you. A willingness to leave the past behind, abandon unhealthy habits, or embrace a new phase of life. Renewal, maturity, or relief that something difficult, outdated, or limiting is finally coming to an end. Acceptance of necessary change, closure, or the realization that letting go of something is beneficial for your future.

Negatively, dreaming about death could represent fear of change, loss, failure, rejection, aging, uncertainty, or losing something important to your identity. Grief or anxiety about endings that you are not ready to accept. Perhaps you feel that an important part of your life is being taken away, that opportunities are disappearing, or that circumstances are forcing a change you don't want. Feelings of hopelessness, finality, regret, or concern that something valuable can never be recovered once it is gone.

Dreams of death that come true are incredibly rare. They are more likely to reflect fears of failure or feelings about undesirable changes than an actual death. In one study, people with heart disease who dreamed of death and taking journeys had a much higher mortality rate.

To dream of dead bad people may represent problems that have been confronted. Negative aspects of the personality are being overcome by positive influences. Good people in your dreams dying may represent positive aspects of your personality being overcome by negative influences.

To dream of experiencing your own death represents feeling of watching yourself fail completely. Positively, it may reflect the experience of watching yourself undergo a powerful change or transformation.

To dream of experiencing your own death after helping others may be a sign that you need to reconsider how much of yourself you are giving away to support other people. Unreasonable risks or endangering yourself in order to support other people.

To dream of dying while people laugh at you represents feelings about situations or people making you feel that your failure, loss, humiliation, rejection, or inability to stop an ending is being mocked or not taken seriously. Feeling embarrassed that other people may enjoy watching you lose, make mistakes, or experience a significant setback. Anxiety about being humiliated while an important area of your life comes to an end. Feeling that nobody cares about your suffering, or that people are insensitive to the seriousness of what you are going through. Feeling that people are insensitive to your failures.

To dream of people you know dying may represent failure, loss, or changes affecting the qualities in yourself that those people symbolize. It may also represent your view of these people succumbing to a problem as well as shifts in their personality or lifestyle.

To dream of a child dying represents a loss or unpleasant change to some area of your life that had potential. Positively, a child's death may reflect a growing problem that has finally been dealt with.

To dream of your parents' death may represent the loss of your conscience and intuition to make safe choices for the future. Your father's death represents your conscience or ability to decide between right and wrong being compromised. Your mother's death represents your intuition or ability to make safe choices for the future being compromised. A dead mother may also reflect feelings of being overwhelmed by bad luck. You can't find the answers you want, or you feel unlucky when trying to escape problems. The death of parents in a dream is a sign that you need to seriously reconsider your current life path or moral standing. Significant or fundamental changes may be in order.

To dream of a boyfriend or girlfriend being dead represents a helpful or protective aspect of your personality that has been overcome by a problem. A habit or situation that had your best interests at heart may no longer be viable or has been compromised.

To dream of a spouse dying represents the loss, failure, or significant transformation of an aspect of your personality that is committed, dependable, supportive, or emotionally invested in maintaining stability in your life. A way of thinking, lifestyle, relationship dynamic, or long-term commitment that you have become accustomed to relying on may be coming to an end. Feelings about losing a sense of partnership, security, consistency, or emotional support. Something you were accustomed to may have been compromised. A habit or situation that you've completely depended on has changed. A loss of something in your life that you never believed would change.

To dream of a faked death may represent feelings about having faked the ending of something. Faking the failure of something in your life. Concerns that other people think you were not genuine in moving on from a problem or a bad relationship. Tricking enemies by pretending to lose.

Example: A woman dreamed of her father dying. In waking life, she had broken up with her boyfriend. In this case, the father's death may have reflected the metaphorical "passing" of her decision (father symbolizes decision making) to give her boyfriend anymore chances in the relationship.

Example 2: A woman dreamed of her child being hit and killed in a car accident. In waking life, she had gotten into a big argument with her husband about future plans they had together, which she felt would never happen now. In this case, her dead child may have reflected her feelings about the loss of potential for the future plans that she and her husband had made together.

Example 3: A man dreamed that his best friend had died. In waking life, his friend had joined a religious cult, and he felt that he had lost his ability to connect with his friend forever due to his inability to accept his friend's new life. In this case, his friend's death may have reflected his feelings that the version of his friend he knew and related to had permanently changed or ceased to exist.

Example 4: A woman dreamed of experiencing a death that was different than real death. Shortly after she contracted the sleeping sickness. In this case, experiencing death may have reflected her awareness of the sleeping sickness causing a dramatic and frightening change that ended her normal ability to function.

*Please See Dead.

*Please See Dead Body.

Demons

To dream of a demon represents an aspect of your personality that's intent on causing suffering, corruption, failure, or loss of control. People, situations, or aspects of yourself that feel relentlessly hostile, manipulative, or opposed to your well-being. Behavior that is intentionally antagonistic to anything happy, moral, successful, positive, or independent. Problematic people, situations, or your own bad habits that are totally motivated by negativity. Your own shadow self that prefers negative choices. Destructive addictions you can't resist. Feelings about people or situations being evil in a manner that interferes with your goals. An area if you life where you are experiencing torment.

Negatively, dreaming about demons could represent feeling consumed by fear, guilt, anger, jealousy, addiction, obsession, or emotional instability. A situation that feels evil, malicious, cruel, or impossible to reason with. Feeling tormented by persistent problems, trapped by destructive habits, or overwhelmed by people whose behavior seems intentionally harmful. A demon may also reflect people or situations that never allow you to break free of a problem. Jealousy or bitterness that seems personal. Ignorance, distress, or meanness. Feeling as though someone feeds off your suffering or jealousy.

Feelings of powerlessness against negativity, fear of losing control of yourself, or anxiety that destructive influences are becoming stronger than your ability to resist them. Believing that someone is completely hostile, corrupt, or beyond redemption.

To dream of being possessed by demons may represent feelings about being overtaken by negativity, destructive thinking, unhealthy impulses, addictions, jealousy, anger, bitterness, or behavior that feels out of your control. Feeling that an aspect of your personality has taken over and is influencing your decisions in ways that are harmful to your happiness, relationships, success, or well-being. Feeling unable to resist bad habits, compulsive behavior, emotional instability, or destructive choices that seem stronger than your willpower. Awareness that you are acting unlike yourself. Feelings about negative influences are controlling your actions and judgment. Feeling that your worst qualities are beginning to define who you are.

To dream of fighting a demon represents confronting negativity, destructive influences, fears, addictions, bad habits, toxic people, or aspects of yourself that are working against your happiness, success, or well-being. A conscious effort to stand up to something that feels relentlessly hostile to your goals, values, or independence. A powerful struggle in your life, frustration that a problem refuses to go away, or exhaustion from constantly battling negativity.

Example real-life situations that may inspire demon dreams may be racism, abuse, children that won't behave, revenge, intense fears, addictions, or bullying.

Dreaming of a demon may reflect real-life feelings about spiritual warfare or that evil is following you. Highly religious people may have issues with their faith being so strong that they perceive anything wrong or losing in their life as demonic conflict. In these cases, strong faith may be a problem because it interferes with new ideas.

Example: A man dreamed of being accused of being a demon. In waking life, he felt at fault for serious problems within his family. In this case, being accused of being a demon may have reflected his feelings of guilt, self-blame, and fear that other people saw him as the source of conflict, suffering, or dysfunction within the family.

Example 2: A woman dreamed of seeing her ex-husband as a demon. In waking life, she was having issues dealing with her ex-husband's abusive behavior. In this case, seeing her ex-husband as a demon may have reflected her feelings about his behavior being intentionally hostile, cruel, manipulative, and destructive to her well-being.

Example 3: A woman dreamed of seeing a demon. In waking life, her husband was being threatened with deportation and she felt that the immigration authorities were "out to get" her husband by interfering with all attempts to keep her husband in the country. In this case, the demon may have reflected her feelings about how intentionally evil or mean the immigration authorities felt to her.

Example 4: A woman dreamed of demonic angels. In waking life, she felt that issues with her past mistakes would never leave her alone. In this case, the demons may have reflected how evil it felt to never be able to escape her past mistake.

Example 5: A woman dreamed of seeing a man with a sacred secret that she felt was a demon. In waking life, she became aware of her Alcoholics Anonymous sponsor secretly drinking alcohol. In this case, the demons may have reflected her feelings about her sponsor being overtaken by temptation, corruption, and hypocrisy while influencing her.

*Please See Satan.

*Please See Hell.

Dinosaur

To see a dinosaur in your dream represents an all powerful fear.  A fear that is too big to confront or so time consuming that you can't think of anything else.

To dream of being chased by a dinorsaur represents an all poweful fear that you are doing everything possible to avoid.  You may feel like life is hanging from a thread.

To dream of killing a dinosaur may reflect waking life situations where you are trying to confront and overcome a big fear you have. Standing up to a person or situation that absolutely terrifies you. Confronting a bully or nightmare scenario.

Example: A young man dreamed of seeing an enormous dinosaur that he felt loved him a lot. In waking life he was considering killing himself. He felt killing himself was a good idea because his life was so terrible, while also feeling that actually carrying out his suicide was terrifying.

Example 2: A young child dreamed of seeing baby dinosaurs. In waking life she was fearing that her family life would be destroyed by her parents upcoming divorce.

*Please See Velociraptor.

*Please See Brachiosaurus.

*Please See Tyrannosaurus Rex.

Dragons

To dream of a dragon represents a paralyzing fear or feelings of being subjected to tyranny. A person or situation that may terrify you. A dragon may also reflect feelings about behavior that is dangerously terrible to others. A terrifying person or problem that may be difficult to evade. A common symbol for tyranny.

Alternatively, a dragon may reflect feelings about someone else's enormous or scary temper.

To see a black dragon in your dream represents one of your most powerful fears. Something that terrifies you or is too difficult for you to stand up to. You may feel paralyzed by fear or nervousness.

To see a light green dragon in a dream represents a powerful fear or terrifying experience that heals you or improves your life. Facing your worst nightmare to improve yourself. A terrifying challenge that must be faced in order to move on with your life.

To dream of a blue dragon represents a very positive person or situation that terrifies into doing what it wants.

To dreaming of being a dragon points to your own attempts to terrify or scare people. You may be using fear as a weapon or control mechanism.

Example: A man dreamed of seeing a small dragon on his paint brush. In waking life he was an artist and was terrified of his paintings not being perfect because he felt people would not like them or totally lose respect for him if they were ugly.

Example 2: A man dreamed of seeing dragons circling in the sky. In waking life was terrified of not passing a serious spiritual test. He felt his soul was in peril if it didn't pass the test.

Example 3: A young woman dreamed of being chased by a black dragon. In waking life she was desperately trying to avoid her mother who was very angry and intimidating. She felt that her mother would never take no for an answer.

Example 4: A woman dreamed of being in a room with a dragon. In waking life she was forced to spend time with her boss and feared losing her job if she did anything to upset her boss who had a very bad temper.

Example 5: A man dreamed of seeing a blue dragon at the end of a water tunnel. In waking life his pregnant girlfriend had a miscarriage. In this case the blue dragon may have reflected feelings about how terrible and relieving the miscarriage was because it encouraged discussing breaking up or never having children.

End Of The World

To dream of the end of the world represents fundamental change to your ways of being and thinking. The foundation of your current life has been altered. It symbolizes your thoughts or feelings about a dramatic change or situation in life where you don't know what to do. You may be experiencing anxiety for the future, and there may be a lot of changes that confuse or frustrate you.

The dream may indicate the end of one kind of lifestyle and the beginning of another. There may be a need for help or extra time to make adjustments. A sign that you need to show more courage as you move into the next chapter of your life.

To dream that it feels like the end of the world is near, but not happening yet may reflect feelings about problems in your life, such as fearing a job loss causing enormous change in your life. Feeling the potential for a life changing event.

End of the world dreams are common to people who have experience the death of parent or loved one.

Example: A young man dreamed that it was the end of the world. In waking life he felt forced to move away with his family to a different state and leave behind all his friends and the comfortable life he had gotten used to. The end of the world symbolism most likely reflected his overwhelming feelings of anxiety about the enormous amount of change he was experiencing. Feeling forced to shift from one life to another very quickly.

Example 2: A teenage girl dreamed of dangerous scene with mountains and lava while hearing a voice say "this is not the end of the world." In waking life she felt scared and forced to move to a trailer park with people she felt she would difficulty becoming friends with. The voice telling her that "this is not the end of the world" may have reflected her attempts to remain confident and rational about moving away from her current home and life.

Example 3: A woman dreamed of being talked to about the end of the time. In waking life she was worried about going to jail and that her mother might be close to death.

Example 4: A man dreamed that the end of the world may be near. In waking life he was having difficulty with his job feeling the potential for losing it.

Example 5: A young woman dreamed that it was the end of the world. In waking life her boyfriend got a good job so they were moving away. She also needed to get a job and start college after she moved. In this case the end of the world symbolism may have reflected the dreamer's feelings of uncertainty and fear about the major changes happening in her life.

*Please See Armageddon.

Evil

To dream that someone or something is evil represents a part of yourself or someone else that you believe is immoral, corrupt, or malevolent. A negative or destructive aspect of your personality. Negative thinking patterns or situations in your life. Behavior that you see as being that is seen as harmful or wicked. Your own ill intentions towards someone else. It may reflect fears, desires, hate, anger, jealousy, or guilt that you need to confront.

Alternatively, evil people may reflect people or situations that you feel are out to get you, are mean, or that scare you. A fear of an external threat or challenge, such as an oppressive authority, mean person, or an ominous force that is beyond one's control. Evil in a dream may represent a warning or a call to take action against something or someone perceived as a threat.

To dream that you are evil represents awareness that your own immorality. Feelings of reflect guilt or regret you have for something you did. The fear of losing control over oneself or one's actions. Feeling of guilt or shame, as well as a fear of being judged or condemned by others for something you did in the past. A belief that you are fundamentally flawed or unworthy of forgiveness.

Evil people in a dream can often times reflect difficulty with powerful addictions.

Example: A person had recurring dreams of being evil. In real life they had powerful feelings of regret for something they did to a friend. They felt that they will never have the chance to explain themself or be forgiven. In this case the dreamer being evil may have reflected a deep-seated feeling of guilt or shame, as well as a fear of being judged or condemned by others for something they did in the past. The dream may be an expression of their inner turmoil and the struggle to come to terms with their actions and find a way to make amends. It may also reflect their belief that they are fundamentally flawed or unworthy of forgiveness, and that they will never be able to redeem themselves in the eyes of others or in their own eyes.

Example 2: A man dreamed of an attractive evil woman whose eyes went black with an evil look of satisfaction. In waking life he was trying to give up masturbation because he believed every time he masturbated he felt God's wrath. In this case the evil woman may have reflected his sexual temptation that he felt was leading him down a sinful path. The black eyes of the woman may represent his fear that giving into temptation would lead him to God's wrath."

Falling

To dream that you are falling represents feelings of losing control. You may feel insecure or unable to "get a grip" on an issue. An area of your life may be getting out of hand. Difficulty letting go of power, control, or status. You may feel insecure or a lack support in your waking life. You may be experiencing a major struggle or overwhelming problem. A fear of losing everything, going under, or of appearing as a total failure. Feeling helpless to stop an unpleasant impending change.

Falling dreams may also be a warning signal about a need to start being more cautious about your actions in waking life. It may also reflect a situation in waking life that you feel to be a life or death crisis. A fear of losing social or financial status. Feeling "knocked off your pedestal" in life.

Alternatively, falling in a dream may be a sign that feel exhausted or that you've reached maximum capacity. You feel that you "can't hold on anymore" to you goals. You may need to slow down to allow yourself to adjust. Problems reaching out to others for support. Feeling that you have no support system.

If you aren't afraid while falling in a dream it may symbolize a lack of seriousness or importance about a situation you can no longer control. Negatively, falling without fear in a dream may reflect reflect a dangerous degree of complacency or lack of responsibility. Enjoying letting go of responsibility you don't want. Problems speaking up about preferring to not be involved in a project

Falling may imply that you have failed to achieve a goal that you have set for yourself.

To dream that you are falling through water indicates that you are feeling a loss of control while being overwhelmed by powerful negative emotions or uncertainty. Feelings of having completely lost all support systems or coping abilities. Feeling completely on your own with no way out.

To dream of falling and never hitting the ground represents feelings of losing of control with a constant sense of impending failure. It may also reflect feelings of having become a complete failure and never being able to do anything else ever again. A fear of having no end in sight to your continuing failure.

To dream of falling and hitting the ground represents the realization of consequences or errors. An unpleasant loss of status or power. Feeling that you have learned from a mistake. You may feel the need to start over or move on to something else. Confronting the embarrassment of a loss or failure you have experienced. Feelings of "hitting rock bottom" or that a situation can't get any worse. Feeling the full impact of your failure or mistake. It may also be a sign that you feel it's time to deal with your losses.

To dream of falling off a high building or skyscraper represents feelings of losing control after having reached the very high level of status, power, or achievement. Fearing total failure after reaching the highest level of confidence. Falling off high buildings may also reflect feelings of falling into depression after being very upbeat. A loss of an elevated state of mind. Feeling suddenly cut off from a high degree of support.

To dream of falling down stairs may represent feelings of having lost a higher level of achievement or a total reversal of something you worked hard for.

Example: The Roman Emperor Caligula dreamed, on the night before his assassination, that he was in heaven, standing before the throne of Jupiter. The god then kicked him back to earth. The dream is intuitive about the Emperor's feelings of losing all he as worked for after achieving the highest level of power after declaring himself as a god. A warning dream about being carelessly certain of himself and his impending loss of status.

Example 2: A young man dreamed of falling into an endless void. In waking life he had gained a reputation for being very good-looking and began to lose his hair to an incurable disease.

Fighting

To dream of fighting represents thoughts about conflict, confrontation, and struggling in your waking life. Feelings about getting what you want not being easy. Unresolved issues, tensions, opposition, or disagreements that you are grappling with. Struggling with personal issues, difficult emotions, other people, or life situations. Feelings of resistance or trying to prove yourself. Experiencing intense bitterness or jealousy. Feeling that all your energy is required to achieve a goal. Heightened emotional state during an argument. Feeling that people don't like you or are testing you with an unwelcoming attitude. Feeling that people have turned on you. Stress, conflicting demands being placed on you, misinformation, unfairness, confronting ignorance, or broken agreements.

Positively, dreaming about fighting may represent feelings about standing up for yourself. Standing up to fear. Resisting addiction. Your attempt to cope with trauma or fight back against your problems. An unwillingness to put up with a problem anymore or accept poor treatment in some way.

Negatively, dreaming about fighting may represent feelings of anger, aggression, hostility, or frustration. It might symbolize destructive conflict, unnecessary aggression, or ongoing disputes that are draining or harmful. Engaging in harmful confrontations with others.

To see other people fighting may represent aspects of yourself that are in conflict with each other. Competing beliefs, objectives, or areas of your life. Conflicting values.

Fighting may also reflect conflict in waking life with friends, family, or other people.

To dream of fighting to stay alive may reflect feelings of desperation to stay relevant. Experiencing an intense jealous conflict in waking life. Feeling threatened by someone or something that is trying to force failure or embarrassment for you. Confronting people who resent you. Fighting a serious illness or trying to desperately keep your job. Struggling to resist failure. Resisting or struggling against someone you feel is a terrible person. Struggling against an illness.

To dream of dogs fighting may represent conflicting emotional protective attitudes or approaches within yourself or between people. Intense or emotional arguments. Ongoing bickering. Rivalry. Feelings about expecting a fight. Intense hatred or anger towards another. Possibly a reflection of people trying to defend themselves emotionally. A conflict of differing loyalties. A clash of priorities, methods, or personal boundaries that you are experiencing internally or observing externally in others. Conflict between people that very angry or hate each other.

To dream of being beat up in a fight represents feelings of being overpowered, overwhelmed, defeated, or unable to stand up for yourself. Experiencing an attack on your confidence or self-esteem. Experiencing a loss, setback, or an emotional beating in some area of your life. Feeling dominated by someone else's power or ability to impose their views and desires over yours. Feeling outmatched or overwhelmed in a confrontation or argument. Feeling weak or incapable of defending yourself in a situation where you are challenged or opposed. Allowing a situation to get out of hand or not standing up for yourself effectively. You may feel vulnerable, victimized, or powerless in the face of adversity or challenges.

Example: A man dreamed of fighting to stay alive. In waking life, he was confronting a very serious illness.

Example 2: A woman dreamed of fighting with her mother. In waking life, she had gotten into a big argument with her mother and got thrown out of the family home.

Example 3: A woman dreamed of fighting with a man at her work. In waking life, she was having problems with this man in the workplace.

Example 4: A woman dreamed of fighting zombies. In waking life, she was struggling to fight feelings of boredom in her relationship.

Example 5: A man dreamed of fighting demons. In waking life, he was struggling to improve himself spiritually by resisting bad habits and addictions that held his life back.

Example 6: A young woman dreamed of fighting with her cousin. In waking life, she was conflicted about being a lesbian.

Frankenstein

To dream about Frankenstein represents some area of your life that you regret starting or giving the power to think for itself. Unbearable selfishness that is so terrible it will never stop scaring you that it doesn't respect you anymore. Feeling that someone is so selfish they don't want to like anything accept what they want once you give them what they want. Feelings about a situation or other person's behavior turning into a monster after you first believed it was incredible. Feelings that something incredible that has gotten out of control in a very unpleasant or scary way.

To dream that you are Frankenstein may reflect feelings about yourself having friends, family, or colleagues being scared of you thinking for yourself. Feelings about your own independence scaring others away from you. You may feel alone and that no one understands you. Frankenstein may be a sign that you have beliefs or habits that make others not want to like you or spend time with you anymore. You may be making other people think you are too weird, unpleasant, or dangerous to know anymore.

Fact: The character Frankenstein originally came from a dream that the author Mary Shelley had around the time that she first became pregnant. The character's appearance and behavior may have actually been a symbolic representation of Mary Shelley's feelings about her boyfriend's selfish sexual desires and his scary or unpleasant demeanor when he wasn't getting sex.

The green skin may have reflected Mary Shelley's feelings about her boyfriend being selfish about sex and no longer wanting to talk like they used to. The bolts in the neck reflecting how terrible it felt that the boyfriend wanted sex all the time now that they were planning to be married or committed. The quote from the book "I've created a monster!" may actually reflect Mary Shelley's feelings about having created a selfish sexual monster in her boyfriend by having had sex with him for the first time making him never want to stop.

Gas Chambers

To dream of a gas chamber represents a mindset that is focused on exterminating problems.  An issue in your life that you want to be totally rid of.

To dream that you are in the gas chamber represents your feelings about something in your life that you feel is trying to get rid of you or totally cut you off.  Something that you feel is taking over or trying to "exterminate" your identity.
 
Ghosts

To dream of a ghost represents issues from your past that are unresolved and still effect you. Painful memories, guilt, unfulfilled romance, people you can't forgive, hate, anger, or embarrassment. A problem that still "haunts" you. Jealousy from the past that you can't escape.

People often dream of the ghost of a deceased loved one after a murder or violent death. This is most likely a reflection of their feelings about the tragedy "haunts them." Dreaming of a ghost of deceased loved one can also reflect lingering feelings of being deserted or abandoned by your partner's death. It may also reflect your feelings that the deceased love one, while in the spirit world, disapproves of your current life or something you did to them.

When dreaming about deceased people it's very important to consider whether the dream was of a ghost or just the character of the deceased person. People often make the mistake of believing that because the person is dead that dreaming of a deceased people means you dreamed of a ghost. Dreaming of dead parents, family members, friends, or others may have more symbolic value if you consider the dream symbol to be an actual image of the person and not a ghost.

To dream of being a ghost represents your feelings of being unable to do what you wanted. Something sacrificed your spirits, hopes, and wishes and left you feeling incomplete or unsatisfied. Feelings of being completely overlooked and ignored in life.

To dream of the ghost of your father may reflect a sense of guilt or regret about a really bad decision you made. Alternatively, it may reflect a your feelings of being "haunted" by a decision you didn't make or didn't make fast enough. Living with the embarrassment of a choice your made.

To dream of the ghost of your grandmother may reflect feelings of being bothered by a situation that is too powerful to ignore. Feeling guilty that you aren't doing the right thing in a conflicting situation that's impossible to ignore.

To dream of the ghost of a dog may reflect feelings of guilt or regret you have for having stood up for yourself. Living with the embarrassment of having defended yourself at all costs or sticking up for someone. Regret or lingering embarrassment for having a really bad argument with someone. Living with the consequences of what you did.

To dream of giving a ghost gifts or sacrifices to appease it may represent feelings of having to do favors or being extra nice to people to compensate for your guilt.

Example: An old woman dreamed of seeing her deceased husband living an entirely new life with dyed hair in a new section of her town. In waking life she felt deserted by her husband after his death while grieving.

Example 2: A woman dreamed of the ghost of her mother being angry at her. In waking life she has deep regret and guilt for not being present at the hospital where he mother had died alone.

Example 3: A young man dreamed of being haunted by the face of his grandmother about his treatment of his father. In waking life his father was hospitalized and he felt guilt about not visiting him to reconcile their difference after they had a huge argument.

Example 4: A man had recurring dreams of the ghost of his father ridiculing him and insulting him. In waking life he was a writer who was troubled by the belief that his dead father didn't think his work was good enough and was laughing at him from the grave.

Example 5: A young boy had recurring dreams of a ghost haunting him and attacking him. In waking life he barely knew his father because his father was in the military. When his father would return home he feared being yelled at all the time. The ghost attacking him may have reflected his feelings about never having gotten the chance to know his father while also being yelled at by him. The ghost represented the lingering unresolved feelings of never bonding.

Example 6: A young women dreamed of herself being a ghost. In waking life she got into big argument with her boyfriend who made her feel pathetic. She couldn't get over the humiliation and constantly felt like a "ghost of her former self" while around her boyfriend. She felt unimportant while around him.

Example 7: A young woman dreamed being in a house with ghosts. In waking life she felt that she needed to deal with issues with her past that bothered her. She was doing a lot of self-reflection.

Example 8: A woman dreamed of seeing a ghost of her Grandmother. In waking life, was allowing a haunting memory of her Grandmother cursing her unborn child to bother her.

Guns

To dream of a gun represents feelings about the ability to assert control, power, or assertiveness in decision-making. A serious decision with the power to cancel something. A sense of dominance, protection, or having the upper hand in a situation with the intention to make a powerful decision. Your sense of control over a particular situation or your desire to gain control over something that feels chaotic or unpredictable. A critical moment of choice. Choices to stop or ruin something with a single action. Choices made by you or against you with powerful consequences. Angry choices or reactions. Confrontational choices. The option to defend yourself with a powerful or final decision. The power to control decisions. Assertive power to compel or force behavior. The power to resist, assertively say no, or choose to never put up with something ever again. A highly important decision that may have serious consequences. The power to decide to attack someone's character or reputation. The power to decide to break up a relationship, business, contract, or friendship. Considering or intending to make a serious or dangerous choice that may have permanent consequences. The ability to make impactful choices.

Positively, dreaming about a gun may represent a sense of empowerment, confidence, or being well-prepared to confront challenges. A feeling of being in control or having the necessary resources and strength to face obstacles. A gun in a dream can also symbolize self-protection, standing up for oneself, or maintaining boundaries.

Negatively, dreaming about guns represents dangerous choices with powerful consequences. Feeling threatened by a dangerous choice that may stop you, embarrass you, or ruin you. Power to decide something permanent that you may regret. A dangerously passionate choice. The power to seriously embarrass someone in a heated argument. Issues with control or power, either an abuse of power or a feeling of powerlessness. The power to threaten someone with ruining something. Too much power is dangerously wielded. Powerful decision-making with control that doesn't need permission. A powerful decision that could easily get back at you or someone else.

Whoever you see in a dream holding a gun reflects a personality trait that is in control of powerful decision-making that may have serious or dangerous consequences. If you hold the gun in a dream it reflects your interest or motivation to make a serious choice to stop something or defend yourself.

To dream of shooting a bad person may represent overcoming a problem or bad influence by making a powerful decision to never care about it ever again. Your ability to take decisive action and eradicate harmful behaviors, thoughts, or influences that are holding you back. A willingness to confront and address these issues head-on in order to reclaim your power and well-being. The act of confronting and dealing with the negativity.

To dream of shooting a good person may represent feelings of guilt, regret, or making a hasty decision that you fear could have negative consequences. A powerful choice to stop something good or innocent in your life. An inner conflict between your moral values and the actions you feel compelled to take. Misjudging a situation, person, or decision, leading to actions that you later regret. Feelings of betrayal or hurting someone who has been supportive or beneficial to you. A struggle with ethical or moral dilemmas where you find yourself taking actions that are contrary to your core beliefs or values. Feelings of being overwhelmed by circumstances that lead you to make decisions that are not in line with your true character. Never believing in a serious or powerful decision until it's too late. Choosing to be bad or immoral.

To dream of being shot with a gun represents a powerful or serious decision that negatively impacts you or changes your perspective. Feeling victimized, overpowered, or unfairly targeted by someone else's decisions or actions. Experiencing the consequences of someone else's assertive choices that drastically alter your situation. Feeling suddenly cut off, stopped, or limited by someone else's power or control. Feeling that someone else's decision has caused you a lot of pain or loss. Feeling that you've hurt yourself with a powerful or serious decision. A bad choice you've made that has made a situation turn on you. People or situations that you feel intend to make you lose. A powerful or serious decision that is impacting your life and subjecting you to its influence. Feelings about a choice you've made being the stupidest choice you ever made in your life. Feeling that a person that doesn't like you is powerfully defending themself against you. It may also reflect someone else that you feel is intentionally making the decision to ruin you, embarrass you, or get back at you. The harsh reality of an unexpected or unanticipated change imposed upon you. Feeling betrayed, attacked, or sabotaged by someone you trusted or depended on.

Bad people with guns represent negative personality traits that control or dominate a situation with the power to make serious or harmful decisions (e.g. fears, anger, guilt, dishonesty, addiction). A bad habit or negative influence that holds destructive power over your mind exerting negative control or threatening your well-being. A bad situation that you fear could get out of control. A perception of danger or harm from external sources, suggesting a need to address these threats in waking life. Feelings about the potential for a bad habit or negative influence to ruin you, your stability, or your happiness.

Good people with guns represent positive aspects of your personality that have the power to make assertive or protective decisions (e.g. courage, confidence, honesty). A feeling of being protected, guided, or having the strength to confront challenges or threats. Good judgment to make serious final decisions to stop something that threatens you. A sense of security, moral integrity, or the ability to stand up for what is right. Positive intentions with the ability to make impactful choices.

To dream of a gun that doesn't work or jams up may represent frustration, hesitation, or fear of acting. A lack of will, courage, or power to carry out a powerful decision. You don't have what it takes to assert control or power in a situation. A lack of confidence in your abilities or resources. Concerns about your plans not working out as expected or encountering unexpected obstacles that prevent you from asserting your power or making a crucial decision. A fear of not being able to defend yourself or protect your interests when it matters most. You may doubt your abilities to confront challenges or assert your boundaries. A sign that you need to address any obstacles or doubts that are hindering your ability to make important decisions or assert your authority.

To dream of loading a gun represents a readiness to assert control or power in a situation. Your preparation to make a powerful decision or take assertive action. You are getting ready to confront challenges or defend your interests. Loading a gun in a dream can symbolize your determination to be in control of a critical moment of choice.

To dream of loading a gun represents a readiness to assert control or power in a situation with serious decision with potential consequences. Your preparation to make a powerful decision or take assertive action. You are getting ready to confront challenges or defend your interests. Loading a gun in a dream can symbolize your determination to be in control of a critical moment of choice. Preparing to cancel a problem or stop something dangerous. Using available resources to stand up for yourself or get back at someone. Your desire to equip yourself with the necessary resources or knowledge to face unpredictable or chaotic circumstances. A proactive approach to gaining control over a particular situation that may have powerful consequences.

To dream of accidentally shooting yourself with a gun represents a self-inflicted mistake or decision that backfired. A hasty or ill-considered decision. A serious mistake that harms you or negatively impacts your situation. A lack of caution or a rushed approach to a crucial choice, leading to regrettable consequences. Embarrassing yourself with a lack of carefulness while preparing to defend yourself or make a serious choice. Not being careful or responsible enough with the power you hold. Unintentionally create problems for yourself due to lack of foresight or careful consideration. Feeling that you've put yourself in a difficult situation due to a reckless or thoughtless action. The dream is a reminder to be more cautious and deliberate in your decisions, especially when they have the potential to have serious consequences.

To dream of intentionally shooting yourself with a gun represents self-destructive behavior, self-punishment, or a deliberate act of self-harm. Choosing to make a decision that you know may have negative or harmful consequences. Choosing to self-cancel, lose, or ruin yourself with a significant or dangerous choice. Knowingly engaging in actions that could lead to personal harm. Feelings of guilt, self-punishment, or a belief that you deserve to suffer.

To dream of the barrel of a gun represents feelings about being directly confronted with pressure, threat, or the possibility of consequences that can no longer be ignored. Feelings about the ability to force an outcome. Being forced into a decision you don?t want to make. Awareness of power being aimed at you, a situation where outcomes feel imminent, serious, or irreversible. Feelings about how dangerously serious a decision that is about to be made might be. You or your enemy is considering making a choice that is considered emotionally dangerous or powerful. Fear, intimidation, coercion, or the sense that you are being placed under extreme control. Feeling powerless, threatened, or emotionally cornered. Fear of punishment, retaliation, or irreversible consequences. Feeling that someone else holds all the power while you have little or no control.

Example: A woman dreamed of seeing someone point a gun at a man. In waking life, she was having a heated debate with someone whom she felt could explode with anger at her if she wasn't careful. In this case, the gun may have reflected the potential decision to explode with anger that held power over her. She may have felt that she might be "emotionally shot" by the man who might permanently hate her.

Example 2: A boy dreamed of seeing men pointing a gun at him. In waking life, he felt his teacher was singling him out for embarrassment. In this case, the gun may have reflected his feelings about his teacher holding the potential power to choose his embarrassment.

Example 3: A woman dreamed of retrieving a pistol to defend herself against her angry husband. In waking life, she was confident about not putting up with her husband's dishonesty anymore. In this case, the gun may have reflected her willingness to protect herself while arguing with her husband with a serious threat to divorce him.

Example 4: A woman dreamed of seeing a man who was lying on the ground shooting a gun off in random directions and then eventually toward her, which required her to lie on the ground. In waking life, she was comfortably over her past relationship with her ex-boyfriend when he called her on the phone and began discussing getting back together with her in an aggressive manner. In this case, the gun being fired off may have reflected her ex-boyfriend's aggressive attempts to assert control or dominance in the conversation about restarting their relationship. She may have been thinking about her ex-boyfriend getting back at her or doing things to powerfully ruin her new life without him.

Example 5: A young man dreamed of seeing a criminal holding a gun at him. In waking life, he was experiencing powerful pressure to decide to cave into a bad habit that would cost him a lot personally. In this case, the gun may have reflected the young man's perception of the imminent and dangerous consequences of deciding to give in to the bad habit. The criminal with the gun symbolized the negative or harmful aspect of himself that was pressuring him to make a decision that could have serious repercussions on his life, representing a critical moment of choice where he felt his personal integrity or well-being was at stake.

Example 6: A woman dreamed of watching a fight where one man pointed a gun at another man's horse. In waking life, she was concerned with someone having the power to attack her character or professional reputation. In this case, the gun may have reflected anxieties about how easily her reputation or personal integrity could be challenged or damaged by someone else's aggressive actions or decisions.

Example 7: A woman dreamed of a man pointing a gun at her while she sat in her car. In waking life, she got into a heated argument with her boyfriend. In this case, the gun may have reflected her feelings about her boyfriend holding the power to make the choice to break up with her while they were arguing if she didn't agree to something he wanted.

Example 8: A young man dreamed of lots of sex, alcohol, and being drunk, which included men with guns who wanted to murder him. In waking life, he was worried that if he didn't slow down on drinking alcohol that he would kill himself. In this case. The guns may have reflected his feelings about the potentially fatal consequences of choosing to continue his current lifestyle.

Example 9: A man dreamed of thinking about needing a gun to shoot a lion which backfired and ended up hitting him. In waking life, he got into an argument with someone and believed he could win, but the person ended up being too angry to talk to. In this case, the gun may have reflected his belief that asserting dominance and control in the argument would allow him to "shoot down" or cancel the other person's confidence, anger, and opposition with a threat that was too powerful to do anything about.

Example 10: A man felt the barrel of a shotgun on his face. In waking life, he feared that if he didn't change for his girlfriend with their newborn child that she might leave him. In this case, the barrel of the shotgun may have reflected his feelings about confronting the consequences of his girlfriend being prepared to make a very emotionally dangerous decision to break up with him.

*Please See Shooting.

*Please See Bullets.

*Please See Hand Gun.

*Please See Machine Gun.

*Please See Revolver.

*Please See Rifle.

*Please See Shotgun.

Haunted House

To dream of a haunted house represents a perspective on life that is stuck with unresolved issues. There are bad memories or negative aspects of your life that are still effecting you to this day based past events. You may feel overwhelmed by feelings about your past. Feeling that you can never get over guilt or bad memories. Feeling that you are being constantly reminded of bad things that happened in your past. Living in a situation where you constantly fear your past coming back to "haunt you" or embarrass you.

Eerie feeling life, lingering feelings of being ineffective or ignored. Feelings about your life being completely negative while you put up with it.

Negatively, a haunted house may reflect your awareness of yourself living with trauma that you aren't dealing with.

A haunted house is a sign that you need to begin process negativity from your past. You may need to confront fears, learn to forgive, or try to develop confidence so that you can let go of the past. It may also be a sign that you need to try new things, move away, or try to start a new life to get your mind focused on the future. Change may be something you need to work very hard on to help yourself move in life.

Example: A woman dreamed of living in a haunted house. In waking life she regularly felt lingering fear that her choice to have a family when she was younger was going to rob her of having a more successful future.

Example 2: A woman dreamed of living in a haunted house. In waking life she felt fear that her choice to move away from her old home was mistake. The haunted house may have reflected her persistent uncertainties about living with an unresolved mistake.

Example 3: A woman dreamed of living in a haunted apartment. In waking life he felt she couldn't stop herself from neglecting her school studies to party with friends. She felt she could never return to her old studying habits anymore and felt a lingering anxiety about becoming a loser for the rest of her life because of poor academic performance from not studying hard enough. The haunted house may have reflected her willingness to put up with her feelings of lingering failure to return to her old studying habits. She was metaphorically "living with her dead former student self."

Killers

To see a killer in your dream represents you or someone else that has the intention to end something.  Beliefs, friendships, or situations that are being intentionally terminated.  

Positively, a killer may refect you or someone else that fully intends to put a stop to something.  If the killer attacks bad people, the dream may represent purification and the healing process. You are standing up to negative thoughts or situations.

Negatively, a killer may reflect your fears or even other people that are purposely killing off good things in your life. Fearing serious losses or being overwhelmed by humiliating failure. Fearing being the biggest loser you know. Fear that a problem you have is impossible to overcome.

Example: A women dreamed of being chased by a killer. In waking life she was terrified of financial ruin and was doing everything to avoid it after being forced to change jobs and take a pay-cut.

*Please See Murder.

*Please See Serial Killer.

Knife

To dream of knives symbolizes emotional conflict, division, and separation. There are issues with loss or change that you are struggling with in your waking life. An emotional hurt or threat.

Alternatively, you may feel threatened by a possible loss or change.

To dream of being in a knife fight represents a struggle or competing views about loss or change. A fight over who has to make a sacrifice or take a loss first.

To dream of being stabbed with a knife represents pain, consequences, or embarrassment you are experiencing for resisting something in your life that you disagree with. It may also represent someone in your life that you feel is trying to get back at you. Experiencing a significant enemy or opposition in your life. Experiencing the consequences of people who are jealous of you or who don't want you doing something.

To dream of a bloody knife may reflect feelings of guilt or regret for hurting someone else. A fear of having to pay for what you did to someone else. Alternatively, it may reflect your feelings about dangerous conflict in your life. Fearlessly overcoming a big problem or dangerous situation.

Women often dream of being chased by a man with a knife. In waking life these dreams may be a sign that they fear being dumped or being single again. A struggle to keep the partner happy. Alternatively, it may reflect the woman's attempt to avoid aggressive sexual advances. Men usually dream of knives to reflect a conflict of opposing ideas or agendas.

To dream of a pocket knife represents confidence that you can get rid of a problem should it arise. Preparedness.

To dream of a pen knife represents hidden intentions to defend a permanent choice you've made. Positively, it may reflect preparation to stand your ground. Negatively, it may reflect a problem discussing your true feelings to others.

Example: A young girl dreamed of seeing herself stabbing herself with a knife. In waking life she was keeping a relationship with a boyfriend that her friends didn't like. Stabbing herself with a knife reflected the emotional conflict she felt with her friends being caused by choosing to keep her boyfriend and refusing to breakup with him. She felt she was hurting herself socially by keeping the boyfriend.

Example 2: A woman dreamed of seeing a knife hovering above a baby's head. The baby said "Don't do it." In waking life she was considering getting an abortion. The hovering knife most likely reflected the potential decision to get an abortion that was on her mind.

Example 3: A woman dreamed of seeing intruders in her home wielding sharp knives. In waking life she was pregnant and fearing the need to get a c-section.

*Please See Stabbed.

*Please See Butter Knife.

*Please See Butcher Knife.

Lions

To dream of lions represents feelings of total control or domination of others. Either your own need to control others, or your projection of other people who you feel want to control you.

Positively, a lion may represent leadership, courage, or using your temper for good purposes. Yelling at misbehaving children or dishonest people. Angry threats towards criminal-minded people. Terrifying enemies or bullies with your anger. Standing up to someone. Forcing other people to respect you with fear. Strong leadership.

Negatively, a lion may reflect a fear of people who you are allowing to control you. Angry intimidating people in your life. A fear of bullies. Fearing upsetting someone powerful. A persistent feeling of trying very hard not to upset someone. Fearing employers, doctors, dentists, police, or other people with professional authority that you don't want to embarrass yourself with. A fear of legal consequences. Fearing not complying with high standards that are expected of you. Alternatively, it may reflect your abuse or exploitation of power to control others. Losing your temper with people you care about. A really bad temper. An overreaction or embarrassing power trip.

To dream of a female lioness may represent controlling females or feelings of being dominated by women. A fear of angering a powerful women.

Example: A woman dreamed of having a pet lion. In waking life she was cheating on her husband with a very aggressive man whom she felt she had to look after.

Example 2: A man dreamed of female lions running around a store he regularly shopped at. In waking life when he shopped at the store he was very insecure about what the store owners thought about him. He felt socially controlled.

Example 3: A man dreamed of trying to avoid lions. In waking life he was successfully treating a serious health problem with a natural vitamin supplement and he feared that when he spoke to his medical doctors that they would force him to stop taking it.

Example 4: A young man dreamed of fearing lions. In waking life he was very insecure about attending a really strict school with high standards.

Example 5: A man dreamed of a lion he was trying to avoid. In waking life he regretted yelling at his son and was having problems apologizing for it.

Machete

To see or use a machete in your dream represents extreme hostility. Powerful feelings of opposition. Hatred or conflict towards a situation or person. You may be very frustrated or angry.

If the machete is used against a person or object then it represents these strong hostile feelings towards whatever stands that person or object symbolizes to you.

Example: A man dreamed of holding a machete. In waking life he was very interested in getting revenge on a friend that turned his back on him.

Monsters

To dream of a monster represents an aspect of your personality that is acts terrible towards others or is totally unfair. You or someone else that cares about others feeling bad. Feelings about others being intentionally mean to you. Authority figures with the power to make decisions for you that ruin your fun.

A monster is often our projection of a person or situation that is totally unsympathetic to our wishes or feelings.

Alternatively, a monster in a dream can reflect our own wish for something terrible to happen to someone else. Children may dream of monsters eating their smaller siblings to reflect their desire for the sibling to go away.

Children may dream of monsters after confronting parents that are strict or that lose their tempers. Abused children may also dream of monsters. The monster can reflect how startling or disturbing it is to experience the scary side of an adult. A friend, family member, or boss that surprises us with their darker side.

Students of very strict parents, or people who are overachievers may dream of monsters to reflect someone or something that forces them to work hard or live with standards that feel unfair or excessive. Feeling forced to study, do homework, or go to the school you don't like.

People with family or friends experiencing a slow painful death my dream of monsters to reflect how terrible and unfair the deteriorating health of the loved one feels.

Consider the features of the monsters for additional meaning. Big sizes may reflect fears of being overpowered, sharp teeth may reflect fears of being consumed by embarrassment, and lots of eyes may reflect fears of something that you believe is impossible to avoid being witnessed by something that sees everything you do.

Example: A woman dreamed of all the machines and mechanical equipment at her work turning into monsters that wanted to eat her. In waking life she was severely inured in her hand by the equipment at her work. She may have thought about how scary, terrible, and unfair it felt to have to keep working at the same place after having such a serious injury and living with the fear of an accident happening again.

Example 2: A woman dreamed of her fiancee turning into a scary monster. In waking life she was having last minute fears about he fiancee choosing to not marry her. The monster most likely reflected her feelings about how terrible and unfair it would feel if her fiancee did in fact decide to call off the wedding at the last minute.

Example 3: A young boy dreamed of being chased by monsters. In waking life he was experiencing his parents being very strict and yelling at him.

Example 4: A woman dreamed of seeing her father turn into a monster. In waking life she had experienced her father die a very slow painful death.

Example 5: A woman dreamed of being threatened by a monster. In waking life her boyfriend was slowly becoming more violent and she felt that he was close to seriously injuring her.

Example 6: A woman dreamed of being chased down a hallway by monsters that looked like her dad. In waking life she felt she didn't like making the choice to have to get a new job because she felt that her old boss was terrible.

*Please See Ghouls.

Rape

To dream of rape represents negative life experiences that you are powerless to stop or control. Someone or something is effecting your self-esteem, well-being, or ability to do as you please.   Feelings of victimization.

Sex in a dream represents the merging of different aspects of yourself to create life experiences. Rape is then a negative experience that you are unable to stop that's filled with fear, stress, desire for things you can't have, or other negative emotions.

Rape dreams may occur when are experiencing situations that are very frustrating, humiliating, scary, or leave you feeling powerless.

Examples of real life situations that may encourage dreams of rape may be a loss of a promotion to a less qualified person, an unsupportive spouse, or a problem that never seems to improve. People may also dream of rape if they experience unwanted attention from the opposite sex.

If you see someone raping another person it represents one aspect of your personality forcing itself on another to control your life experience. For example, if a killer raped your mother in a dream it may represent a powerful fear controlling your intuition so that you will never make choices that will help you to face you fear.

If you were actually raped in real life, it may be suggesting that you have unresolved issues with the event.

Example:  A woman dreamed of being raped.  In waking life she just had a baby and felt like her husband was not doing enough to help her and always had a perfect excuse not to.  The rape reflected how powerless she felt to get her husband to help her raise the baby.

Example 2: A man dreamed of seeing a man rape another man in the anus.  In waking life he was experiencing enormous stress at work with the constant threat of losing his job.  The anal rape reflect how he felt powerless and strewed over by his job.

Example 3: A woman dreamed of being raped by strangers. In waking life she was in the hospital getting a hysterectomy. The dream may have reflected her sensitivity about people she didn't know seeing and touching her private parts.

Red

To dream of the color red represents feelings of passion about something that's happening all the time. Behavior that is passionate about never giving up. Passion or strong motivation about enjoying something all the time. Passion to make something happen. Loving something or someone a lot. Believing in yourself completely. Behavior that never stops working all the time. Dedicating or risking your life for something important to you. A highly emotionally charged situation. Sexual desire or romance.

Negatively, the color red represents feelings about a dangerous situation where "everything is on the line." Feelings about other people's behavior being dangerous. Excessively believing in yourself. Anger, fighting, or believing in nothing except avoiding losing. Feeling that death is possible. Taking risks to live or get something back. Behavior that is dangerously immoral or criminal. Negativity, negative intentions, or negative situations. Living in a persistent state of danger, risk, or evil. Feelings about enemies or evil that never give up. Feeling that listening all the time is important for your own safety or avoiding danger. Taking a risk to care about someone. Feelings about behavior that is dangerous about not fearing a situation when it should be.

To dream of red and white represents passion about being honest, purifying negativity, or passionately being perfect. Red and white dreams may show up when you are aware of your life experiencing some kind of motivated change involving observing negativity being reduced, cleaned, or reversed.

To dream of red and orange may reflect feelings about powerful danger, dangerous power, strong passion, strong risk, or taking a situation dangerously to the limit or edge like never before. The most powerful situation you have ever experienced. The most dangerous situation you have ever experienced. Consider how dark or light the red and orange mix is for additional meaning.

Example: A man dreamed of seeing a red car that was stuck to another car. In waking life, he was having an extra-marital affair and was having problems stopping the relationship. In this case, the color red of the car may have reflected his feelings about how dangerous it was to keep having an immoral romantic affair outside his marriage due to the risk of his wife catching him.

Example 2: A man dreamed of seeing a TV with a news channel on it where the screen is all red. In waking life, he was beginning to fear watching the news because he felt the state of the world was becoming too dangerous. In this case, the red screen on the TV may have reflected his growing anxiety and fear about the danger he perceived in the world, making him feel overwhelmed by the constant negativity.

Example 3: A woman dreamed of a red sky. In waking life, she felt that he whole life was being ruined and becoming risky about believing in herself while living on her own after deciding to leave her controlling cheating husband. In this case, the red sky may have reflected her feelings about leaving her cheating controlling husband making her feel that her new single life was dangerous about being on her own with the possibility of her husband getting back at her.

Example 4: A woman dreamed of seeing a red tiger. In waking life, she was not very confident about a divorce she was having because she felt that her husband would use illegal tactics to win the divorce. In this case, the red tiger may have reflected her fear of the danger and aggression she perceived in her husband's actions during the divorce process, as well as the risky legal battle she anticipated.

Example 5: A woman dreamed of seeing her ex-boyfriend wearing a red and white striped shirt. In waking life, she was hoping or desiring that her ex-boyfriend would want to get back together with her by choosing to slowly reconcile. In this case, the red and white shirt may have reflected her passionate desire for honesty and reconciliation, hoping for a fresh start or a clean slate in their relationship.

Example 6: A man dreamed of seeing his girlfriend wearing a bright red and orange dress. In waking life, he was having concerns that his girlfriend might get bored with him sexually and find a man who would satisfy her sexually. In this case, the red and orange dress may have reflected his fears about the strong sexual passion his girlfriend would feel for another man and the danger of losing her to someone else.

Reptile

To see a reptile or lizard in your dream symbolizes fear. Either a fear you have or a fear you are projecting to someone else.

To dream of a yellow lizard or reptile reptile represents fear you have that is quite noticeable.

Women who are pregnant commonly dream of lizards. This most likely reflects their fears associated with maintaining a healthy pregnancy or the safety of the baby. Fears of having deformed baby or that the baby will die. Fears of a difficult delivery, of their partner leaving them, or being unable to financial support the baby.

Example: A man dreamed of being reborn as a reptile. In waking life he as just recovered from a dangerous experiment with mind altering substances. After the dangerous experiment he realized he was scaring his friends and family all the time when he discussed it. The rebirth as a reptile reflected the dramatic change in how he was perceived by others as his new reputation instilled fear in the people that cared about him.

Example 2: A man dreamed of seeing a giant black lizard. In waking life he was experiencing a serious crisis and feared being murdered.

*Please see Dragons.

*Please See Dinosaur.

*Please See Alligators.

Serial Killer

To see a serial killer in your dream, represents people or situations that you feel are enjoying working against you. You may feel that a person is enjoying harming you or making you fail. You may have an enemy or competitor that is beating you and rubbing it in. A powerful fear of embarrassing loss or failure. A person that you feel is so terrible that want to enjoy you noticing your own failure.

Alternatively, a serial killer may reflect a problem that is influencing a lot of other areas of your life. It may also point to reckless belief system "killing off" plans or hopes you had. Positively, a serial killer may represent a serious attempt to deal with a lot of problems at once.

If you dream of a famous serial killer, then think about what stands out most about that killer to you and how that may apply to a loss or failure you are experiencing.

To dream of being a serial killer represents you enjoyment of making other people fail. You may be defeating an enemy or competitor and are enjoying rubbing it in. It may be a sign that you have issues with power trips.

Example: A young man dreamed of seeing a serial killer smashing down his door. In real life he was losing his looks. An arrogant better looking friend of his enjoyed making him notice that he wasn't better looking anymore and feeling as though no woman would want him again.

*Please See Killer.

Slaughter

To dream of slaughtering people or animals represents feelings about being thorough and unemotional about decisive, often harsh, changes or endings in your waking life. Deliberate and systematic elimination or destruction of obstacles, challenges, or unwanted elements in your waking life. The importance of thoroughly removing obstacles, ending unhealthy relationships, or making tough decisions for the greater good.

Positively, dreaming about slaughtering may represent a strong, assertive move towards self-improvement or clearing out negative influences. The thorough, decisive, and complete elimination of negativity. Courage, strength, or confidence in your abilities to confront and conquer challenges.

Negatively, slaughter in a dream may represent feelings of guilt, aggression, or the consequences of making severe or ruthless decisions about eliminating competition or obstacles. Feelings of aggression, hostility, or ruthlessness towards others. Intentional calculated destruction of your enemies or competition. A lack of empathy or consideration for the feelings or well-being of others in your pursuit of personal gain or victory. A lack of sympathy for your competition that leaves nothing left. Behavior that is perceived by others as tyrannical or savage with other people's feelings. Shock at how mean you or someone else behaved. Feeling totally embarrassed by your enemies who have completely defeated you. Embarrassment for having faced heavy losses.

To dream of a slaughterhouse represents a systematic approach about making decisive actions to eliminate obstacles, challenges, or unwanted elements in your waking life that doesn't have to stop. A situation where the complete and thorough removal of anything deemed unnecessary or undesirable is carried out in a deliberate and methodical manner.

Example: A young man dreamed of seeing dogs being slaughtered. In waking life, he believed he needed to be more ruthless with other people in his interactions with them because he felt in some instances he was too passive. In this case, the dogs being slaughtered may have reflected his plans to take a more assertive and decisive approach to dealing with certain individuals or situations in his life.

Example 2: A man dreamed of experiencing a retreating army being slaughtered. In waking life, he felt embarrassed with total defeat after having given up on a challenge at work. In this case, the army being slaughtered may have reflected his feelings of witnessing the total and ruthless end to his efforts and ambitions in a particular project or career path, experiencing a failure that seemed both overwhelming and final.

Example 3: A man dreamed of ruthlessly slaughtering vampires. In waking life, he was exceptionally mean and ruthless towards people who he caught using him and pretending to be his friend. In this case, the slaughtering of vampires may have reflected his aggressive and unforgiving stance towards those he perceived as exploiting his kindness or trust, decisively cutting them out of his life.

Example 4: A man dreamed of seeing people being slaughtered. In waking life, he was shocked to witness someone he knew being mean to people in ways he had never experienced before. In this case, seeing people being slaughtered may have reflected his shock and discomfort at observing the extent of someone's ruthlessness or lack of empathy towards others, possibly challenging his perception of that person.

Example 5: A young man dreamed of seeing camels and elephants being slaughtered. In waking life, he was experiencing his father trying to rip him off for $200,000 which had been promised to him when the family home was sold. His father seemed to change into a heartless jerk who would do or say anything to not have to pay him as promised. In this case, the slaughtering of animals may have reflected a thorough and cold-hearted manner in which he felt his father was attempting to remove any opportunity for him to receive what was rightfully his.

Snakes

To dream of a poisonous snake represents feelings about corruption or contamination. Snakes in dreams also tend to reflect a person's fear of total failure or serious losses. Feelings about a person or problem totally permanently ruining you. A dangerous or tricky problem you want to avoid.

Areas of your life that spoil everything associated with them. People that can't be trusted or that you feel are dangerous to not avoid. A snake could also reflect your own lack of integrity or deceptive behavior. Noticing yourself being an "evil asshole." A snake may also represent a bad influence or a person that you don't like. A person with no family values.

Often snakes point to situations that are difficult to resist, morally troublesome, or have traps that you wish to avoid. Snakes may also reflect bad habits, people, or situations that sour your mood, spirit, or good intentions. An addiction that is difficult to resist.

To dream of being bitten by a snake represents feelings about having succumb to negative influence or feelings of total failure. Feelings of corruption that have overwhelmed you. Giving in to addictions to bad influences. Suffering a loss of some kind.

To dream of fearing being bitten by a snake represents your fear of losing something important or a fear of total failure. You may fear losing power, control, safety, or your integrity.

To dream of a dead snake represents overcoming a corrupting or negative influence in your life. It may also reflect a threat of total loss that is dissipating.

Black snakes usually represent a fear of total failure. It may also reflect your feelings about the potential for corruption or excessive losses. A fear of enemies getting to control you or ruin you. Alternatively, a black snake may represent your full awareness of yourself being a liar or bad influence. Organized planning to steal or destroy other people's integrity.

A copper colored snake represents a fear of losing an opportunity to get something you are desperate to have. Fearing total loss of something you are hopelessly striving for. Allowing your desire to scare you. A fear based on a delusional belief that if you lose something special that you will lose everything you have. Alternatively, copper colored snake could represent your own hopeless or desperate attempts to scare others with total failure. Risking everything you have to corrupt others that only embarrasses you. It can also point to hurting people, lying, cheating, stealing, or disrespecting others because you can't have what you want. A light brown snake is often mistaken for a copper colored snake so consider both colors for your dream.

A light brown snake represents a fear of loss or total failure due to an improvement in your life. Fearing that fixing something will make your life worse. A positive opportunity to improve yourself that scares scares you. Powerful insecurity or a fear of embarrassment if you achieve your goals. (e.g A boy you like finding out you're a bad kisser or a virgin if you end up dating him, or fearing the government demanding more money from you if you are honest with your taxes). A copper snake is often mistaken for a light brown snake so consider both colors for your dream.

To dream of a dark brown snake may represent a fear of an improvement in your life spoiling other areas of your life. Fearing getting rid of a problem because it will make your life worse. Fearing getting rid of something important to you and becoming a failure because of it. Alternatively, a dark brown snake may reflect your own deceptive intentions to force someone else to get rid of something they don't want to get rid of.

A white snake represents a fear of total loss caused by a requirement to be perfect. Good intentions that cause others total failure. Something genuine or positive in your life that corrupts or contaminates everything else around it. Something with good intentions that has no tolerance for alternative choices. A white snake with blue venom may represent consequences that are in your best interest, but don't feel good. A fear of maturing or having to be honest. A "total evil asshole" in your life that demands perfection that you feel is excessive.

To dream of a light blue snake represents a positive person or situation that scares you with losing all you have if you don't behave positive. A fear of total failure if you are caught doing a single thing wrong. It may reflect something in your life that is being guarded or that demands total adherence to specific rules. Alternatively, a light blue snake may reflect a positive person or situation that is antagonistic to your goals. A good person that undermines you.

A dark green snake represents a corrupting influence that is selfish, arrogant, or greedy. Selfish thoughts or habits that undermine other more positive areas of your life. A strong need to put yourself first or powerful insecurities that derail a genuine endeavor. Selfishness that corrupts all else. A fear of total failure due to someone else's selfishness.

To dream of riding on the back of a snake represents feelings about something dangerous you are using to scare people away from you. Enjoying making people feel you are dangerous. Feeling that it's easy to scare people with severe losses if they get in your way. Alternatively, it may reflect a feeling of safety you get from being able to make other people feel you are too dangerous.

To dream of a being choked by a snake may represent feelings about a negative influence that is preventing you from expressing yourself.

Females often dream of snakes when they fear sex, getting pregnant, or losing their virginity.

Example: A girl once dreamed of a poisonous snake that seduced her and was impossible to resist. In real life she was dealing with an extremely attractive man that was pursuing her that she didn't trust. The snake reflected her view of this man being a "player" and just telling her whatever she wanted to hear in order to sleep with her.

Example 2: A woman dream of a white snake. In waking life she lived in a strict religious community. Due to the religious laws of this community she was unable to express herself or do anything that wasn't approved by the community. The white snake reflected her feelings about the strict morality laws of the religious community corrupting all her happiness.

Example 3: A man once dreamed of running through a forest trying to avoid snakes. In real life he was confronting a number of dangerous problems at once.

Example 4: A woman once dreamed of being choked by a snake. In real life she was resisting revealing her sexual desire for a co-worker out of fear that she'd be fired. The snake reflected her fear of being fired that was preventing her from expressing her feelings.

Example 5: A woman dreamed of being threatened by a number of dark brown snakes. In waking life her husband threatened to leave her and not talk to her again. The dark brown snakes reflected her fear of losing her husband that could spoil her family life forever.

*Please See Boa Constrictor.

*Please See Rattlesnake.

*Please See Pythons.

*Please See Cobras.

Stabbed

To dream of being stabbed represents feelings of being hurt, attacked, betrayed, or that something is getting back at you. Feeling wounded by someone else's actions or remarks. Feeling attacked with separation conflict or jealousy. Feelings about others retaliating against you. Conflict or jealousy over an issue that makes you feel that doing something a second time is a mistake. Feeling attacked for not listening. Feelings of being intentionally hurt or witnessing someone trying to cause you pain or loss. Feelings about people turning on you. You may be experiencing feelings of inadequacy. Feelings about someone taking out their anger, resentment, or frustration on you. Feelings about ignorant people or situations that want you to separate yourself from involvement in something that makes them jealous. Unresolved issues that need attention. Your emotional response to a perceived threat or act of aggression in your life.

Positively, dreaming of being stabbed may represent your awareness of a situation where you need to defend yourself or take action to protect your interests. It can serve as a warning signal to address conflicts or threats in your waking life before they escalate.

Negatively, dreaming of being stabbed could represent feelings of vulnerability, fear, or emotional trauma. Feelings of injustice, being backstabbed by friends, or suffering from deceitful actions of others. Unresolved conflicts, lingering mistrust, or emotional scars from past experiences. It could also highlight your own feelings of guilt or regret over actions you've taken against others. Feelings of fear, powerlessness, or victimization in the face of real or perceived betrayal.

To dream of stabbing someone else represents your defensiveness, anger, resentment, or frustration towards someone. Taking out your anger on someone. You're own betrayal of someone else. A wish to restore your independence in a relationship or situation. Your own separation jealousy or getting back at someone. Wanting to feel others pain or to know that you are hurting them in some way. Attacking someone for why you never want them to repeat a certain behavior ever again. Telling someone you don't like them or don't want them near you again. Your attempt to retaliate against someone who has wronged you or prevent them from continuing a certain behavior.

Alternatively, stabbing may reflect feelings about threats of physical harm or botched surgical procedures.

Consider the area of the body being stabbed for additional meaning.

To dream of being stabbed in the neck represents a conflict with commitments that have been made. You may feel that someone or something is challenging your ability to stay committed or attacking your dedication. Feeling attacked for your commitments. Feeling that someone doesn't want you to like something ever again or wants to you give up in some way. If you are trying to stab someone else in the neck it may be a sign that you are very jealous or angry about someone else's commitment to something.

To dream of being stabbed in the leg may reflect conflict with independent choices. Feeling attacked for wanting to do something on your own. If you stab someone else in the leg it may reflect your wish to stop a person or situation from becoming independent.

To dream of being stabbed in the hand represents feelings about conflict with capability. Feeling attacked for your abilities or skills. Feeling jealousy from someone that you are capable or good at something. Feeling that someone or something is trying to turn you into a loser who can't perform well on your own. To dream that you are trying to stab someone else in their hands may reflect your attempt to attack a person or problem that is performing at a competent level that is uncomfortable for you. Jealousy that someone is doing something better than you.

To dream of being stabbed in the foot represents feelings about your principles, moral foundation, or things you stand for being wounded by someone else's actions or words. Jealousy or conflict is negatively affecting "what you stand for." A situation or person that never wants you to stand your ground ever again.

To dream of being stabbed in the chest represents feelings about personal power (assertive or passive) being wounded by someone else's actions or words. Feeling attacked for your ability to assert yourself without question. Power that assumes it's an authoritative role or listened to easily feels under attack by jealousy or conflict. A situation or person who never wants you to exact personal power ever again.

To dream of being stabbed in the eye represents feelings about observation, judgment, or consciousness being wounded by someone else's words or actions. Feeling that how you see a situation is under attack by jealousy or conflict. A situation or person who never wants you to observe or cast judgment in the same way ever again.

To dream of being stabbed in the head represents feelings about intellect or decision-making being under attack by someone else's words or actions. Jealousy or conflict negatively affecting control. A situation or person that never wants you to control yourself or make conscious decisions.

Example: A woman dreamed of experiencing herself stabbing her sister all over her body. In waking life, she was very angry at God for the death of her sister and went into her bedroom while alone and cursed God for killing her sister. In this case, stabbing her sister may have reflected her feelings of intense anger, frustration, and emotional turmoil directed towards God for the loss of her sister. The sister's image in the dream could symbolize God's responsibility for the tragic event itself, rather than the sister as an individual, reflecting the dreamer's struggle to cope with the loss and make sense of the situation.

Example 2: A young woman dreamed of being stabbed with a butcher knife. In waking life, she regularly had to undergo surgeries. In this case, being stabbed with a butcher knife may have reflected her feelings that the surgeries were invasive," abrupt, and harsh, feeling almost like a violent assault on her body with scars that made her remember each operation. She may have felt that the surgeries were not being conducted with care for appearances and were more focused on medical necessity. She may have also felt that the surgeries get back at her each time she gets one done by creating unattractive scars making her feel less motivated to have more surgeries.

Example 3: A woman dreamed of almost being stabbed, but avoiding it. In waking life, she was avoiding being helpful to people she thought were ungrateful and didn't want to offer them further assistance. In this case, the almost being stabbed may have reflected her feelings of avoiding the negative experience of being cheated with losing money or wasting time on people who didn't appreciate or deserve her help.

Example 4: A woman had recurring dreams of being stabbed by people. In waking life, she was having recurring issues with jealousy of being betrayed by these people. She felt that whenever she allowed people into her life they turned on her.

*Please See Knife.

Teeth

To dream of teeth represents your vitality and self-confidence. A reflection of how good you feel about your physical appearance, talents, or anything that gives you status or power. Feelings about how permanently confident you are capable of being.

To dream of teeth falling out represents a loss of power, confidence, or self-esteem in some area of your life. A corrosive situation or feelings of a loss of vitality. Dreams of teeth falling out are common to people aging or who feel they are losing their looks. It's also common to people who are losing money, a career, or status of some kind. Feelings about a loss of permanent confidence.

To dream of extracting teeth may represent a a deliberate and proactive effort to remove something that is causing a loss of vitality, confidence, or self-esteem in some area of the dreamer's life. It may symbolize a desire or need to take control of a corrosive situation or to regain lost vitality. This dream may also indicate a willingness to sacrifice or let go of something in order to move forward and regain control. The act of extracting teeth may be a metaphor for taking decisive action to address a problem or issue that has been causing a loss of power or confidence. The act of extracting teeth may also represent a painful process of letting go, indicating that the dreamer may be struggling with the decision to move on from something or someone that has been causing them harm or holding them back.

To dream of a gap in your front teeth represents insecurities about your self-confidence. You may feel that others don't perceive you as confident as you feel you should be, or that your confidence is never quite as perfect as you want it to be. Feeling that you are not the best, but you are not hated. This insecurity may stem from a sensitivity to criticism or a focus on perceived flaws that you constantly wish to improve. Confidence that doesn't want other people to bring up your problem. Feelings about not being perfect and being happy about it. Confidence is getting away with not being perfect. Alternatively, a gap in the teeth of another person may represent your view of another person or situation that you don't want to say anything about out loud having anything else wrong with it.

To dream of animals with sharp teeth often represents feelings of anger or aggression. You may feel a sense of fury towards a person or situation, or feel that someone else is angry with you. The sharpness of the teeth can symbolize the intensity of these emotions, and the potential for harm or destruction. In some cases, the dream may represent someone else's "biting anger" directed towards you, making you feel attacked or threatened. It's important to examine the specific type of animal and context of the dream to gain further insight into its meaning.

To dream of being toothless represents a total loss of confidence, power, or vitality. You or someone else may have experienced a setback that has caused a loss power, status, or vitality in some way which has led to feelings of insecurity and vulnerability. Bad news, misfortune, or ill health are getting in the way.

To dream of brushing teeth represents feelings about reinforcing confidence in your strengths and abilities. preparation, practice, or maintenance to keep yourself feeling confident and ready to face the world. ou may be concerned about how others perceive you and may be taking steps to ensure that you do not appear weak or vulnerable in their eyes. Concerns about maintaining your appearance to other people as you strive to present yourself in the best possible light. Trying your best to maintain a good appearance and positive self-image.

Negatively, dreaming about brushing your teeth may reflect a preoccupation with appearances. Anxiety about looking bad to other people. An excessive need to reassure yourself. An excessive need to maintain impressive appearances. Issues with vanity. Fear of looking weak or lazy. The dreamer may be overly concerned with how others perceive them, leading to a constant need to present oneself in the best possible light.

To dream of broken teeth represents feelings a flaw or weakness in one's character or abilities that can no longer be hidden or ignored. This flaw may be something that has always been present but has been overlooked, or it could be a new development that has arisen and needs to be addressed. A flaw is now visible and cannot be concealed or covered up any longer. A need to confront and address one's weaknesses or limitations, to take steps to overcome them, and to work towards self-improvement. The dream may be a call to action, urging the dreamer to face their challenges head-on and to not let their flaws hold them back. Alternatively, the broken tooth may represent a warning that if the issue is not addressed, it may continue to worsen and have greater consequences in the future. Feeling that your confidence has been broken. Feeling that you need to restore confidence or prove yourself regain confidence.

Example: A woman dreamed of her teeth falling out. In real life she was insecure about her looks because she was aging. In this case the teeth falling out may have reflected dreamer's insecurities and anxieties about growing older and losing her youthful charm.

Example 2: A young woman dreamed of seeing herself with gap in her teeth. In real life she felt like she wasn't good looking enough for a guy she liked. In this case the gap in the teeth may have reflected her feelings about looking her best wasn't good enough while the guy she liked didn't hate her.

Example 3: A woman dreamed of brushing her teeth in public when the battery in the electric toothbrush died. In waking life an expensive fee was required to secure an important business opportunity and she couldn't afford the fee because her budget for the year wouldn't allow it. Brushing her teeth in public in this case may have reflected her responsible management of her budget to keep her business looking confident that nothing is wrong while being unable to hide why she wasn't paying the expensive fee.

*Please See Fangs.

Tigers

To see a tiger in your dream, represents an aspect of your personality that has unquestioned power. Issues or people that have total power over you. Tigers often symbolize a problem or powerful fear that you'll do absolutely everything to avoid confronting. A tiger may also reflect a powerful misconception you have. A lie or misunderstanding that heavily influences you.

Alternatively, a tiger may reflect your own unquestioned authority. Feeling other people fear confronting you.

Negatively, a tiger may reflect an unquestioned fear. Running away from problems based on assumptions. Rumors that scare you. Assuming that your enemies have more power than you without question. A lack of critical thinking about something serious you've heard. Feeling that problem is too dangerous to even consider thinking about confronting and choosing to run away from it as a first option. A naive fear you have. Alternatively, it may reflect your own abuse of rumors, other people's inexperience, or others misconceptions about you.

To dream of a friendly tiger may represent a belief or situation that erases all your fears or problems. It may also reflect power you hold over others.

To see a blue tiger in a dream represents a positive belief that overpowers other priorities. A genuine belief that something is so positive that it's more important than anything else. Negatively, a blue tiger may reflect misunderstanding something that you have good intentions about and are placing too much priority on.

Example: A young man dreamed of seeing a tiger that turned out to be fake. In real life he was facing the prospect of going bankrupt before realizing it wasn't as serious as he thought it was. The tiger reflected the fear of financial ruin that took precedence over everything else in his life.

Example 2: A young man dreamed of seeing a white tiger biting his hand. In waking life he did whatever his girlfriend told him because he feared her breaking up with him for something he said.

Example 3: A teenage boy dreamed of a tiger chasing him in his car. In waking life he had just gotten his license and was terrified of having a car accident or getting a speeding ticket because he parents might take the car away.

Tyrannosaurus Rex

To see a tyrannosaurus rex in your dreams symbolizes a powerful fear of never doing something ever again.

Example: A man dreamed of seeing a tyrannosaurus rex.  In waking life he had lost all his money and feared he'd never be successful again.

*Please See Dinosaur.

Vampires

To see a vampire in your dream symbolizes an aspect of your personality that is parasitic or selfishly feeds off others. A person or situation that drains you of time, energy, or resources. Either your own selfish need to use others or your projection of other people that are feeding off of you. It could represent either material or emotional parasitism. Feeling drained emotionally by someone. A bad influence. Feeling that you can't completely trust someone. People that want to use you for sex.

Alternatively, a vampire may reflect feelings about people that you believe want to pull you down to their level or convert you to thinking negatively in way similar to them.

To dream of being a vampire represents a selfish need to use or feed off others. You may be dependent on someone else to achieve goals.

To dream of being bitten by a vampire represents feelings about other people using you or feeding off of you and being unable to stop it. If you dream of being bitten by a vampire and turning into a vampire yourself it may reflect feelings about yourself changing your honest mindset towards using other people because you were used. A bad experience with a jerk that has converted you into wanting to be a jerk.

Vampires in a dream may be a sign of dependence, problems with addiction, social pressure, or ambivalence. You or someone else may be feeding off someone emotionally. Vampires can also reflect an illness that is draining your time and energy.

A vampire in a dream might be telling you that you need to start being more independent, and relying less on others resources or accomplishments. You need to start caring about people, valuing them, or respecting them. Alternatively, a vampire may reflect a need to stand up to people who are using you. You may need to cut someone off.

To dream of killing vampires represents overcoming dependence on others. It may also mean that you are confronting people or situations that are feeding off you materially or emotionally.

Example: One person dreamed of being a vampire. In real life they were using a friend to get ahead in school.

Example 2: A few people have dreams of vampires biting them after they catch a cold.

Example 3: A woman once dreamed of a vampire following her around wherever she went. In real life she was becoming very bored with her husband and felt that he was draining her of any fun or excitement. The vampire reflected her inability to escape her husband's boring habits.

Example 4: A 7 year-old girl dreamed of seeing her mother turn into a vampire. In waking life she felt that her mother was inappropriately using her as a confidante to discuss her complaints about people she didn't like. She felt she was being pulled down by her mother's negative attitude.

Example 5: A woman dreamed seeing people turn into vampires. In waking life she accidentally met up with old friends that she didn't trust because she felt that they were responsible for bad things that were happening to her.

Example 6: A woman dreamed of seeing a vampire having sex with people. In waking life he really liked a guy that was ignoring her and she felt that the only way to interest him in talking to her was to offer him sex.

*Please See Blood.

Witch

To dream of a witch represents behavior that feels wicked, deceptive, or mean about enjoying and intentionally making efforts to keep you unhappy. Feeling that someone is an expert at keeping you unhappy, failing, or turning people against you. Feeling cursed by bad luck or the victim of manipulation. Feelings about someone else's manipulative interference as being evil. A person in your life that you feel is obsessed with making sure you never like yourself. Feelings about a woman in your life being an "evil bitch." Feelings about a dangerous, selfish, or heartless woman who wants to control you. Frustrations with your Mother or Mother-In-Law. A cranky woman in your life. Children may dream of witches to reflect fear of their mother being angry or punishing them in a manner that makes them feel "cursed."

To dream about being a witch may represent feelings of wielding power and influence in a negative or manipulative way that's mean about enjoying intentionally making efforts to keep others unhappy. Trying to turn others against each other. Working hard to make someone you don't like fail. Awareness of yourself being arrogant, deceptive, or manipulative to sabotage someone. Jealousy interfering with someone else's happiness. Awareness of yourself being a terrible "bitch." A desire for control over others, a willingness to use deception or dark tactics to achieve your goals, or a sense of enjoying the manipulative strategies to "curse" or punish someone with their life not working in some manner.

To dream of a male witch or warlock may represent feelings of someone being more assertive than other people about the misuse of expert skills or knowledge for selfish, manipulative, or nefarious purposes with the intention to you make feel unsafe or keep you unhappy. A sense of someone in your life exerting control, power, or influence in ways that feel uncanny, untrustworthy, or morally compromised. An inner fear or suspicion regarding individuals or situations that seem to hold an unknown or unpredictable sway over your life, decisions, or feelings, especially in ways that unsettle you. A male who assertively manipulates or controls you with nothing to hide with nobody doing anything about it. Feeling you are being followed, manipulated, and sabotaged by a male figure that wants to be respected. Feeling that emptiness, injuries, or violent altercations will not stop being imposed on you. Someone in your life that is an expert at being an "asshole."

A female witch may reflect a passive unseen manipulation and a warlock witch may reflect assertive unhidden manipulation.

Example: A man dreamed of fighting a witch and pushing her off a cliff. In waking life, he had to argue with a dentist who kept refusing to remove a painful tooth that had been bothering him for years. In this case, the witch may have reflected his feelings about the dentist behaving in a manner that felt intentionally harmful, deceptive, or neglectful, almost as if she enjoyed keeping him in pain.

Example 2: A woman dreamed of her mother-in-law dressed like a witch. In waking life, she felt that her mother-in-law was always taking her husband's side and she felt ganged up on. In this case, the mother-in-law dressed like a witch may have reflected her feelings about perceiving her mother-in-law's behavior as wicked or manipulative, using influence over her husband to undermine the dreamer's wishes or decision

Example 3: A woman dreamed of seeing witches cooking chocolate fondue. In waking life, she discovered that her mother had been secretly lying to her about the purpose of a vacation she was taking. She felt that her mother was being secretive and selfish. In this case, the witches may have reflected the dreamer's perception of her mother's behavior as deceptive and manipulative.

Example 4: A young boy dreamed of seeing a witch. In waking life, he didn't like the way how unfair his mother felt for prohibiting him from enjoying something. In this case, the witch may have reflected his feelings about his mother being overly controlling or punitive in a way that seemed to him unnecessarily cruel or unfair.

Witchcraft

To dream of witchcraft represents negative or deceptive manipulation. You or someone else that is trying to destroy anothers reputation. You may also be experiencing someone who wants to make everyone hate you or work against you. Rumors and lies. You may feel that someone is purposely out to get you or always trying to ruin you.  Alternatively, you may feel that your sense of intuition is cursed and that bad luck can't be stopped.

To dream of practicing witchcraft may reflect your own attempt to punish someone by telling lies about them or by turning people against them. Making someone else feel like they can never be positive ever again.

Werewolf

To see a werewolf in your dream, represents an aspect of your personality that gives in to problems when forced to confront them.  Werewolves reflect darker aspects of ourselves that appear when problems arise.  A part of you that is unable to think positive in the face of a negative situation.

Werewolves can reflect lost tempers, severe anxiety, overreactions, or a negative approach to solving problems and dealing with confrontation.  It may also represent people you know that revealed a darker or meaner side of themselves to you.

Example: A young man dreamed of a seeing a werewolf in a hospital.  In waking life his girlfriend kept scaring him that she was going to break up.  The werewolf in the hospital reflected his fear of losing his girlfriend overrunning his decisions while trying to do everything he could to fix the relationship.

Zombies

To dream of a zombie represented automatic or blind thinking. Feelings about people or situations that are relentlessly mindless, driven by a single motive, or can't think for themselves. Feelings about people who are blindly following others or are consumed by a singular purpose. Feelings about people being stupid, thoughtless, or making mindless decisions. Fear of a irreversible traumatic event or crisis. Mindless thinking or decisions that reckless or dangerous about ignoring the potential consequences. Your own feelings of helplessness and frustration as you watch someone close to you making poor choices or acting in a way that goes against their own values or best interests.

Zombies in dreams are a sign that you are not thinking independently or objectively. Feeling overly concerned with with what other people think. A zombie is a common symbol for someone experiencing strong peer pressure.

Negatively, dreaming about zombies may reflect powerful feelings of jealousy that you are experiencing from other people who are desperate to pull you down. Blind unthinking jealousy. Exhausting oneself mindlessly in order to stop, control, or possess one thing. Feelings about someone else's need to be socially acceptable or fit in interfering with your happiness. Conformity or blind automatic thinking with the potential to ruin you.

Alternatively, dreaming of a zombie may reflect your feelings about people in your life that are mentally ill or empty.

To dream of running away from zombies represents fear or avoidance of mindless conformity the opinions or actions of others, particularly if you perceive them as thoughtless or narrow-minded. Avoidance of a jealous person that you perceive to be mindless, relentless, driven by a single motive, or can't think for themselves. You may also fear losing something special because someone jealous is desperate to pull you down with them. Avoiding an annoying follower.

To dream of your mother being infected by zombies may represent feelings about your intuitive sense of safety or ability to make safe choices for the future being being compromised by peer pressure or status quo. Feelings about a negative influence that is spreading and consuming the dreamer's intuitive self, leading to a loss of control and a sense of being overwhelmed. Someone or something that is influencing the dreamer's decision-making, leading to automatic or blind thinking and preventing the dreamer from making independent choices. Feeling that you intuitive sense is influenced by outside forces, leading to feelings of fear, insecurity, or frustration. Feelings about being unable to escape peer pressure situations, bad luck, jealousy, or fearing what other people think. Alternatively, it may reflect your fear that your mother is losing her ability to think independently and make wise decisions for herself. The dreamer's struggle to balance between their own thoughts and feelings and the expectations or pressures from others.

To dream of killing or defeating zombies may reflect your resolve to stand up against pressures, influences, or behaviors that you perceive as mindless or damaging. Actively resisting peer pressure or attempting to correct your own thoughtless behavior. Waking life situations where you are confronting mindless or automatic thinking. Confronting people you think are jealous of you in an unthinking or ignorant manner. It might also symbolize overcoming fears or negative influences that you feel have been mindlessly driving your actions or decisions. Dealing with a difficult situation in your waking life, where you felt others were acting without thinking or consideration. This could be in relation to personal relationships, work situations, or social dynamics.

Example: A man dreamed of seeing a zombie. In waking life, he was very insecure about things he said on an Internet message forum to someone and carefully spent a lot of time deleting those comments fearing embarrassment that they would be read by someone. In this case, the zombie may have reflected his fear of his own actions, behaving mindlessly and reactively, as he scrambled to delete the comments he regretted posting.

Example 2: A young girl dreamed of zombies. In waking life, she was grounded by parents and felt that they never cared about listening to her point of view while making sure she endured her full punishment. In this case, the zombies may have reflected her perception of her parents as creepy mindless enforcers of punishment, blindly sticking to their decision to ground her without considering her feelings or perspectives.

Example 3: A young girl dreamed of zombies. In waking life, she was very insecure about her social skills and talking to people. She tended to go along with the crowd as a way to avoid having to reveal her weak social skills. In this case, the zombies may have reflected her feelings about herself and others in her social circle as mindlessly conforming, being driven by a singular motive to fit in and not stand out while attacking each other for doing anything different.

Example 4: A young woman dreamed of a dead zombie being kept alive. In waking life, her she was trying to keep a long-term relationship alive even though she felt it was dead. In this case, the dead zombie she was trying to keep alive may have reflected her feelings about the 'zombified' state of existence of her relationship that she knew she was wasting her time with.

Example 5: A woman dreamed of seeing zombies and having to kill them with an axe which was becoming heavy in her left hand. In waking life, she was taking care of Alzheimer's patients while trying to go to school. In this case, the zombies may have reflected her feelings about the patients she cared for, who may have appeared mindless or 'zombified' due to their illness.

Example 6: A woman dreamed of trying to escape zombies. In waking life, she was jealous of never getting to pay off her debts because of peer pressure at school to party a lot. In this case, the zombies may have reflected her feelings about her peers who seemed mindlessly focused on partying and having fun, disregarding the potential consequences. Their relentless pressure for her to join in, despite her concerns about her financial stability, might have left her feeling as if she was being pursued by a 'horde' of thoughtless, one-track-mind individuals.