Monitoring

To dream of monitoring represents feelings of oversight, observation, or surveillance in your waking life. A sense of being watched or scrutinized. Awareness of external supervision or control. Vigilance in keeping track of details or progress. Paying close attention to an issue.

Positively, dreaming about monitoring may represent a proactive approach to staying informed, organized, or accountable. A proactive approach to managing responsibilities, relationships, or projects. A desire for clarity, transparency, or efficiency in your endeavors. Monitoring in a dream could also represent a sense of security or reassurance, knowing that someone is looking out for your well-being or progress. Diligence, awareness, or the effective oversight of a situation.

Negatively, dreaming about monitoring may represent feelings of suspicion, paranoia, or excessive control. A lack of trust in others or in the natural progression of events. Fear of unexpected changes, making mistakes, or overlooking important details. Feelings of being overwhelmed by the need to constantly oversee or control everything around you, possibly leading to stress or anxiety. A fear of being caught or exposed. A need to break free from restrictive oversight or control. Concerns that you are not doing enough to pay close attention to an issue.

Example: A man dreamed of watching a heart monitoring screen. In waking life, he was aware of himself having to stay motivated to accomplish a difficult task while being aware of himself being capable of losing motivation. In this case, watching the heart monitoring screen may have reflected his awareness of the need to constantly monitor his motivation levels to ensure he stayed on task.

Monks

To dream of a monk represents aspects of our personality that sacrifice desire and pleasure for a greater purpose. A reflection of restrictions placed on yourself for things that you enjoy in order to regain control, structure, and order. You are giving up something for a greater purpose, or for goals you think are more important.

Devotion to a cause. Piety. Devotion to God or excessive devotion to God. Jealousy of losing that drives you to make powerful lifestyle sacrifices to stay powerful.

Example: A woman dreamed of seeing monks at the top of a tower. In waking life she had spent a lot of time giving up junk food and alcohol in order to lose weight because being skinny was more important to her.

Moses

To dream of Moses represents an aspect of your personality that leads or carries others to safety or positivity.

Moses in a dream may reflect your attempts to help someone or represent someone that is trying to help you.

Mosque

To dream of a mosque represents a state of mind where you extra cautious about not doing anything wrong. You may feel the need to go out of your way to make sure some area of your life is completely in order. You may also be seeking reassurance, or feel insecure about your conduct.

A mosque in a dream reflects a strong effort to be moral, faithful, dedicated, or responsible. It may also reflect a need to be seen by others in a positive light.

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Mourning

To dream of mourning represents regret, disappointment, or sadness about a change that has occurred. Disbelief that something in your life has changed for good. Mourning may also reflect your feelings of regret due to a bad decision.

Alternatively, mourning may reflect your difficulty letting go or adjusting.

Movie

To dream that you are watching a movie represents an experience you are having in life. The movie or TV show is then a symbol for what kind of experience you are having. Consider what the movie makes you feel or think and how it parallels situations in your waking life. Think about what the characters or storylines mean to you as symbols for your own thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. Your thoughts about how life scenarios or relationships unfold in a scripted or predestined manner, similar to a movie plot. A sense of fascination, entertainment, or learning from observed experiences.

To dream of filming a Hollywood movie represents feelings about creating experiences that other people need to find incredible or believable. Preparations, plans, or lies in order to make other people believe a story you're telling so something incredible will happen. Interesting someone else is the most incredible experience of their life. A situation that is developing that you know others will take a serious interest in. Feelings about other people going out of their way to experience something you're responsible for making happen.

Example: A young man dreamed of filming a Hollywood movie. In waking life, his computer was failing and he had to do everything he could to fix it before asking his parents for a new one so he'd ensure they believed he needed a new computer. In this case, filming a Hollywood movie may have reflected having to recount a believable story to his parents about how incredibly hard he tried to fix his computer and how pointless it was so that he'd have an incredible experience or "movie ending" of getting a new computer.

Example 2: A man dreamed of being inside a movie theatre about to sit down. In waking life, he had a number of plans to participate in an ayahuasca spiritual retreat in another country. The movie theatre reflected all his preparations to have the incredible and unusual experience at the spiritual retreat.

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Muhammad The Prophet

To dream of Muhammad the prophet represents an aspect of yourself that is all-powerful or unquestionable. It reflects your feelings of infallibility, total control, or absolute authority.

Muhammad in a dream may be a sign that you are experiencing a situation where you wish to appear infallible or are believing in something without question.

To dream of Muhammad not appearing or leaving you may represent doubt, an inability to lead others, or having power questioned.

Alternatively, Muhammad may also represent a person or situation that is so powerful or important that you respect it without question.

Murder

To dream of committing murder represents your motivation to make absolutely sure you never think a certain way ever again. Making sure change occurs no matter the costs, how ugly a situation gets, or how dangerous it feels. Putting an end to a habit, thinking pattern, or situation for good. An intentional ending to a relationship. Showing the courage to stand up to something difficult. Bravely overcoming a powerful fear. Getting revenge on someone, feeling hatred, resisting problems that you feel are unacceptable. Guilty feelings or awareness of yourself having destroyed something or ruined someone's life.

Murder in a dream can also represent resentment you have or that you feel towards you from others. Friends that are jealous or people that like watching you lose.

Negatively, murdering someone in a dream may reflect situations where you are experiencing intense jealousy. Killing off someone else's happiness, success, or power. Feelings about family members you don't like seeming to purposely enjoy making you unhappy.

People who are giving up addictions or bad habits commonly dream of murder.

To dream that you are murdered represents powerful negative feelings about failure or unpleasant change you couldn't stop. Fearing scary consequences. Experiencing failure or feeling that someone likes to see you fail. Feeling that a person has purposely ruined you or tried to stop you from winning. Feeling that someone has intentionally tried to embarrass you or destroy your reputation for good. Being murdered may also reflect a problem that you may be having trouble getting over. Feeling that your addictions or cravings are too hard to resist. Fearing that someone will react badly. Feeling that someone has destroyed some area of your life. Alternatively, being murdered by represent a problem situation that cut you off or overpowered you in some way.

Dreaming about being murdered is common for people experiencing depression.

To dream of attempted murder represents you or someone else that has tried to permanently cancel or fail something. It may also reflect a failed attempt to embarrass someone. Alternatively, it may reflect feelings that someone is out to get you, but doesn't have the power or resources to carry it out. You or someone else that has risked everything to eliminate something and failed at it.

To dream of murdering an entire family represents feelings about an entire area of your life being completely failed. Feeling that someone has intentionally tried to ensure that you never do something ever again. Feeling that someone has intentionally tried to make sure you don't enjoy something ever again. Feeling that you are intentionally left abandoned or alone. Feeling that enemies have cut off all your assistance or alternative options. Feeling that you never get to do something ever again no matter what. Feeling that there is nothing left to protect you or support you.

Woman who fear their abusive their abusive ex-boyfriends or ex-husbands often dream of being murdered or seeing people murdered.

Example: A young man dreamed of confidently murdering a terrible person he knew in elementary school who used to pick on him and call him a "faggot" everyday. In waking life the young man lost his virginity after being very insecure about girls.

Example 2: A woman had recurring nightmares of being murdered. In waking life she feared being severely beaten by her abusive husband.

Example 3: A woman dreamed of murdering someone. In waking life she had broke up with her boyfriend after having carefully planned it. She felt that she had to be coldhearted about the breakup to make it work.

Example 4: A woman dreamed of a murderer killing lots of people. In waking life a number of her friends had coincidentally died at the same time. The murder may have reflected her feelings about god choosing to make all her friends die.

Example 5: A woman dreamed of seeing people being murdered. In waking life she feared her abusive ex-husband showing up at her house to kill her and her new husband. This ex-husband had previously made threats to kill her.

Example 6: A former friend of O.J. Simpson confessed to the jury during his trial that Simpson had confided in him that he had dreamed of killing Nicole Simpson. In this case the dream could have reflected his guilt for the murder or his fear of facing the reality of the consequences of his actions. Alternatively, if he was not guilty the dream could have reflected his preoccupation with believing that divorcing Nicole and not being a better husband made him responsible for her death because her life would have been different allowing her to avoid being murdered.

Example 7: A woman dreamed of people from a small town trying to kill her by making her eat a cracker. In waking life she was very concerned about staying off her diet for too long not being good for her. The threat of being killed in this case may have reflected her worries about staying off her diet in small ways making her permanently stop her diet. The potential for death might have represented the potential to permanently feel like a loser who gave up being someone who wants to diet.

Muslim Extremist

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Muslim People

To dream of Muslim people represents aspects of your personality feel safe being permanently bound to morality or behaving. Morally bound absolutism. Behavior that exibits a combination of qualities of greater discipline, structure, and devotion. Strong discipline and devotion to commitment and maintaining fidelity. A conservative professional environment where modesty and respectability were highly valued. Feeling bound to values and expectations.

Negatively, dreaming about Muslims represents aspects of your personality that are overdoing feeling safe being permanently bound to morality or behaving to the point that you are unhappy. Cheating yourself out of happiness due to moral dogma or rigid discipline. Difficulty letting go of something for which you are too serious about being morally devoted to. Feeling safe being bound to morality that doesn't help your life just as much as not being morally bound. Choosing to live under permanent honest rules set by an adult or authority. Hurting yourself by being excessively bound and devoted to a moral decision. A fear of being constrained by traditional values and expectations. Feeling the weight of greater discipline, structure, devotion and expectations. Scaring or overcontrolling yourself that you are not being moral, nice, or concerning yourself with rules. Excessive honest absolutism.

Alternatively, a Muslim person may reflect how you are too concerned with what God thinks of you. Questioning yourself spiritually. Concerns with not being a perfect Muslim.

Example: A man dreamed of seeing a Muslim man dressed in white. In waking life he was trying his best to stay perfectly devoted to the idea that he must never have children to respect believing in God while arguing with soemone. He was admitted later that he was too serious about his argument and didn't feel good overcontrolling himself in order to believe he wasn't wrong about what was best for the rest of his life. Giving up arguing his point made him feel better. In this case the Muslim man may have reflected the qualities of discipline, structure, and devotion exhibited by the rigid belief system he was imposing upon himself, which ultimately made him unhappy and caused him to question the validity of his beliefs.

Example 2: A man dreamed of regretting rejecting Christ because he was a Muslim. In waking life he was having long-term debates about his faith.

Example 3: A woman dreamed of the end of the world and that only women dressed like Muslims could go to heaven. In waking life she was worried about world events being the "end of the world" while questioning her standing with God. The Muslim symbolism in this case may have reflected her feelings that being a perfect muslim or visiting a mosque with all the global chaos going on was the only one sure way God would accept you in heaven.

Example 4: A woman dreamed of listening to Muslim news on the radio inside her car. In waking life she was having money problems while maintaining her belief that God wanted her to open a children's home in her country of Ecuador. In this case the Muslim news on the radio may have reflected her mindset feeling perfectly safe being permanently bound to the moral cause of helping children even when she couldn't afford it.

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Mute

To dream of mute or muting represents controlling whether or not listening matters.

To dream of the television on mute represents feelings about choosing to notice, but not listen to an experience that you have whenever you want. Awareness of an experience, intentionally avoiding feeling it's not important to listen to.

To dream of a voice becoming muted represents about being acknowledged, but not listened to. Understanding something, but not listening to it. Choosing to intentionally avoid listening to a person, situation, or aspect of yourself. Arrogant, rudely, or ignorantly choosing to avoid listening.

To dream of a stereo on mute represents feelings about intentionally choosing to stop feeling good or listening to others feelings by choice. Intentionally believing that feelings aren't important in the current moment. Intentionally interrupting feeling good.

To dream that you can't speak as though you are "on mute" represents your feelings about attempts to express yourself not being listened to by anyone. Feeling that people are intentionally not listening to you. Your intentions or feelings are noticed being ignored. Feeling unable to express yourself or make yourself heard. Difficulty getting your point of view across. Feeling that you can't speak or express yourself even if you try your hardest;

To dream of a human "mute" who doesn't speak represents feelings of noticing that something comfortably doesn't express itself. Behavior that isn't awful, but it can't or has difficulty expressing itself. Confusion about why a person or situation has difficulty expressing itself when it looks normal. Annoyance about assumptions or suggestions being made without substance. A person or situation that you feel is empty with being present. Feelings about a person or situation being controlled not expressing itself to you.

Example: A woman dreamed of being unable to speak and being on mute. In waking life he was trying to control his temper and didn't like not being unable to express his real feelings. He felt that his true feelings were being ignored. He felt that people acknowledged him, but weren't listening to him.

Example 2: A man dreamed of seeing a muted woman carrying a tiger into a garage. In waking life he was frustrated that people would only praise his work and never buy anything that would allow him to become more successful. The muted woman may have reflected his feelings about a customer feeling empty with their interest in work.

Nakedness

To dream of being naked represents feelings of being vulnerable or exposed. An aspect your life is totally out in the open or revealed. An unexpected change may be making you feel like your private life is suddenly on display to others. Feeling put on the spot in a way you aren't used to. Feeling that you have no protection. Feeling awkward. A lack of privacy.

Negatively, dreaming of being naked may reflect your dishonesty that is impossible to hide anymore. Feeling embarrassed that you got caught lying. Personal information or private matters may be out in the open. Feeling vulnerable or susceptible to influence. Feeling exposed, humiliated, or powerless because a weakness has been revealed. Feeling shame, inept, or inadequate. Feeling vulnerable to others judgement.

Positively, being naked in a dream may represent feelings of being totally confident. Not caring what other people think about you at all. Enjoying having the truth exposed. Feeling that you have nothing to hide. If you enjoy being naked it may reflect a situation in which you feel free to all restraints. Nothing is holding you back. Feeling unencumbered. Openness and sincerity.

To dream of other people being naked may represent "seeing the naked truth of a situation." All weaknesses are out in the open.

To dream of being naked at school represents waking life situations where you may be experiencing anxiety about problems that you can't do anything to hide. Facing something serious that you can't keep private.

To dream of being naked at work represents feelings about having to be honest all the time. Being unable to disguise or cover up your mistakes. Situations where cheating is impossible or spotted immediately. It may also reflect feelings about honesty being important to prove all the time.

To dream of being naked at the beach may represent feelings about being unable to hide your true intentions or to act dishonest while confronting a negative situation. Facing uncertainty in your life while being unable to lie or hide anything. The beach reflects a confrontational moment in your life while the nakedness points to feelings about your true self being on display to others.

To dream of hiding your naked body represents a fear of having the truth revealed or exposed. Embarrassment of being caught lying. There is something about yourself that you don't want scrutinized. Wishing to conceal a weakness.

To see beautiful sexually attractive people naked may represent desirable experiences that you want to have. It may also reflect your sexual desires or fantasies. Experiencing situations that you really like.

Being naked and ready for sex represents your readiness to enjoy yourself doing something you like. Negatively, it may be a sign that you are too eager or allowing the prospect of pleasure to cloud your judgement.

To dream of being naked while people laugh at you represents feelings of embarrassment about some area of your life that is out in the open. Humiliation due to lies or impotence being revealed. If you don't care about the laughter it reflects a high degree of comfort with yourself despite what other people think of you. Feeling no jealousy or not allowing revelations to bother you. Being uninhibited.

Example: A girl had recurring nightmares about walking around a street naked wearing only gloves. In waking life he was in a strict religious convent school requiring a uniform to be worn. She was always losing her gloves. The dream may have reflected her fears about being discovered having lost her gloves and being revealed as inadequate person in a place she found to be too strict.

Example 2: A woman had recurring dreams of being naked. In waking life she was having problems getting pregnant and was concerned that other people were thinking about her as infertile loser.

Example 3: A man dreamed of seeing naked people. In waking life he was embarrassed at having to reveal to friends that he would have to move back to his home country due to economic reasons.

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Names

To dream of your name may reflect feelings about who you are as a person. Negatively, it may reflect feelings of not being good enough as a person. It may also reflect total arrogance that you are better than other people. Too much focus on yourself being important. Consider how a name makes you feel when you hear it for additional meaning.

To dream of someone calling your name represents some aspect of your personality that desires attention or power. Feelings about being special.

To dream of a name that you've never heard before represents an aspect of your personality based on how that name makes you feel. Ask yourself what thoughts or feelings you have you hear the name.

To dream of people you know with the names of other people represents aspects of your personality that influenced or controlled by other aspects of your personality.

To dream of people whose names you never know represents your feeling that something in your life is unattainable or "unknowable" for you. You may think that a goal can't be secured for good. It may also reflect feelings that you are unable to know what your problem is or why something keeps happening to you.

Example: A man dreamed of being called the name "Chad." In waking life Chad wasn't his real name. He felt that people named Chad were easily liked or always viewed as a winner by others. In waking life around the time of the dream he was experiencing an unusual amount of attention and popularity.

Nap

To dream of a nap represents feelings about temporarily taking a break from active responsibilities or challenges. The need for rest, relaxation, or a break from the demands of daily life. Comfort in accepting a situation exactly the way it is until it's absolutely necessary.

Negatively, dreaming about a nap could represent temporary avoidance, procrastination, or a lack of motivation to deal with important issues. Not having to do anything about a situation yet, when that might become a problem. Feelings of guilt or anxiety about not being productive or about taking time off. Comfort or laziness about accepting a problem situation exactly the way it is until it's absolutely necessary. Neglecting your duties and responsibilities. Potential consequences for putting off unaddressed issues or postponed decisions. Risk of making a situation worse or dangerous due to a lack of addressing issues actively. A need to confront issues rather than avoid them. Issues with not telling anyone that you need a break. Feelings about possible repercussions of seeking temporary relief from responsibilities.

Example: A woman dreamed of lying down to take a nap. She struggled to get to sleep but eventually realized that she was dreaming. In waking life, she had a lot happening in her life with work, her husband recovering from surgery, her mother recently moving to a nursing home, and helping her brothers whenever she could. In this case, the napping may have reflected her internal conflict between needing a break and the pressure to stay active helping people and addressing her obligations.

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Necrophilia

To dream of necrophilia represents feelings about yourself or someone else inappropriately enjoying others failures. Secretly enjoying someone else losing. Enjoying some area of your life that has failed because it's so important or enjoyable to you that you don't care if it's a failure. Eagerness to enjoy someone else being a total loser. Enjoying having the power to never be resisted or argued with by someone who has lose power. Enjoying others insignificance or stupidity.

Enjoying not having to fight for your goals. Excessive enjoyment of a situation that is finished. Excessive need for revenge. Awareness of yourself not caring about others feelings or respecting them. No concern for the quality of an experience because you are happy to experience your desires in even a pathetic manner. Enjoying an experience being too easy.