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Introduction

It’s unbelievable to think that as we sleep, we are tapping into a treasure trove of advice, resources, and knowledge—a powerful connection to the psychic as well as the psychological world that is just waiting to be accessed. That is the remarkable potential of a dream: to make life more understandable so that we can gain (or regain) control over our waking world.

1001 Dreams is aimed at explaining and exploring the significance and practical use of dreams for everyone who has ever dreamed—and that is all of us—or tried to guide loved ones, particularly children and teens, with their dreams. When we become open to exploring the complexities of dreams, sleep becomes a pleasurable experience, not one to be feared.

About 1001 Dreams

This book is more than a dream-meaning reference: it offers an insight into 1001 different dreams through the words of those who experienced them. This includes a description of the dream, the background of daily events or deep-seated worries that led to the dream, and popular fortune-telling significances relevant for every dreamer on each included topic. Each topic listed in this book has had a practical purpose for everyone who has dreamed of them. These meanings are based on a mix of traditional significance through the ages and modern everyday applications, so the dream symbols in this book have as much meaning in the twenty-first century as when analysis of dreams began among the Ancient Egyptians and Greeks.

Finally, each dream describes how the dreamer used the dream for changing their life for the better, though some dreamers choose to ignore dream warnings. These sections illuminate how daily decisions that seem unclear can be made with the help of the subconscious. Some examples are dramatic—predicting international disasters or guiding the dreamer to healing remedies—while others are more commonplace, such as enabling the dreamer to offer support to a relative who is suffering fears alone, who may call out for help in the dream but remains silent in the everyday world.

Using This Book

As well as 1001 dreams taken from all lands and people, from the very young to those in their nineties, this book briefly but clearly describes how dreams can be recalled, recorded, and acted upon as a guide if we tap into the unconscious radar we all possess. This often-underused intuitive sense can warn of danger and opportunity for ourselves and loved ones, allowing us to receive messages from spirit guardians, angels, and beloved ancestors.

There are techniques for knowing when you are dreaming during sleep, traveling anywhere in sleep, changing defeat to triumph through your subconscious, and changing fears to power by using the world of dreams to rehearse success in the days ahead. This book also considers past-life or recalled-memory dreams from ancestors, where on the dream plane we can learn the source of current phobias and how to overcome them, develop telepathic communication between lovers and loved ones, and reach out to those who may be estranged. We can even call in people that we have not yet met. Finally, dreams can be powerful tools to overcome nightmares and night terrors.

Remembering Your Dreams

In psychology, a “flashbulb memory” is when something vivid imprints on your memory like a photographic image. This often happens during particularly significant moments in history, such as the death of Princess Diana, or 9/11. Because of the significance of the moment, we are able to recall in detail what we were doing when we heard the news. Vivid dreams can be imprinted on our memory in the same way as these flashbulb memories.

But for many other dreams the details can fade within a few minutes once daily life intrudes. What’s more, our memory can tidy up details as our conscious mind tries to rationalize or, if uncomfortable, explain away the dream experience.

Since dreams are often a source of hidden information, recalling them can make sense of seemingly unresolvable choices or others’ reactions to a daily occurrence about which you dreamed. Once you start recalling and recording dreams, spontaneous dream recall also increases.

Recalling Dreams

Keep a notebook and pen at your bedside or, if you prefer, record your immediate memories of the dream on your phone.

As soon as you wake from a dream or nightmare, whether it’s the middle of the night or the morning, write down or say aloud any details you can recall.

Include dream characters who are part of your daily life. Feelings as to whether or not you are happy about a dream scenario can be crucial to unraveling your true emotions. This takes only a minute and can help you to return to sleep free from the dream, especially if it was a nightmare.

If the dream was good and you want to return to it, picture one of the last or strongest pleasurable images or scenes that you liked, or imagine a path leading back to a place in the dream.

If you do not want to go back into a particular dream or want to calm down after a nightmare, picture yourself floating on fluffy pink clouds through a starlit sky or enclosed in a warm, dark blanket.

The Significance of Bad Dreams

Bad dreams frequently remind us of oversights in daily life that need remedy, or unfinished business. A car crash dream where you have a tire burst on the freeway is not a psychic warning of a bad accident. Rather, it is a way of telling you what your automatic radar has picked up: that one of the tires on your car needs attention, that you haven’t checked your tire pressure for a while, or that you’ve become distracted while driving. Sometimes anxiety dreams where everything goes wrong can signal stress overload and indicate that it’s time to step back from trying to fix the world or working 24/7.

More positively, you can, by visualizing the point in the dream where everything went wrong, consciously change the ending of the dream in your semi-waking state. In doing so, you can take forward to your day happy successful energies of how you overcame the crisis on the dream plane or escaped from the monster. This is especially true of negative past-life dreams.

Creative Dreaming or Dream Incubation

Creating beautiful dreams has been practiced in different cultures for thousands of years. The Ancient Egyptians were the first dream experts and actively directed their dreams not only to bring peaceful sleep but also to find the answers to questions they wanted to know. The creative and inspirational part of the mind is largely unconscious and in sleep we can often find creative solutions to problems or recognize opportunities that our waking, more logical, brain had not thought about. Like the Greeks, the Egyptians had special dream temples—or sleep temples—which only priests were allowed to enter. Ordinary people would sit in a cave or other dark place and look into the light of an oil lamp to relax their mind before sleep.

If you have a special question or dilemma, rather than letting it keep you awake, put a few drops of lavender oil beneath your pillow and complete the following steps.

While in total darkness, light a battery-operated candle, nightlight, or shaded lamp and recite your question, or the area of your life in which you need guidance, seven times softly and continuously.

Half close your eyes and focus on the halo around the light.

Softly recite the question seven times more, quieter each time until your words fade into the silence.

Extinguish the light and go to sleep, visualizing yourself walking into the golden light of the candle or lamp.

The answer should come in the dream, perhaps in symbolic form, but if it does not, repeat the exercise the next night. Within two or three attempts, the dream answer will come.

As you become experienced in creative dreaming, you may not even need to light the candle, only needing to recite the question several times before sleep or to write it down and place it under your pillow.

Lucid Dreaming: Awareness That You Are Dreaming

This is probably the most useful dream technique, as by knowing you are dreaming you can go anywhere, do anything, and overcome any potential hazard, transforming a nightmare into a challenge to overcome on the dream plane and in the waking world. Start with visualizing exotic or unusual scenarios to stimulate the all-important imagination.

Just before sleep, lie in bed and close your eyes. Create your ideal dream scene—a tropical shore, a house by a lake, a castle or palace—with you as the central character, hero, or heroine, starring in your very own production.

Imagine yourself interacting in this world—walk through the golden palace rooms, swim with multicolored fish beneath the ocean, or do whatever you desire in your particular dream scene.

Now create a symbol in this dream setting that will remind you that you are dreaming when you see it in sleep. Choose something exotic and memorable—a rainbow-colored bird, a gigantic multicolored butterfly, or a golden peacock studded with gems, for instance—and rerun the imagined dream scene in your mind, letting the symbol appear five or six times so it fills the screen of your dream. As you picture it, say to yourself: “When I see the multicolored butterfly, I will know I am dreaming and anything is possible.”

When you are ready, drift into sleep, focusing on the image so it fills your mind.

Be patient; the first night you may see only a few details of your visualized symbol, or nothing at all, and you may not recall you are dreaming.

Repeat the technique every night until you see the symbol or simply recall that you are dreaming during sleep and can visit wherever and whoever you want, past, present, or future.

Rehearse the words you need or want to say in real life, change the dream ending by overcoming your demons, and wake refreshed and full of power.

Psychic Dreams

In dreams, the barriers of time and space are not as fixed as they are in our waking lives when logic dominates our awareness of opportunity or danger. In sleep, our unconscious radar replaces conscious thought, offering warnings or advice about events that will soon come into our lives. If heeded, this can help us to avert hazards or to wait at the front of the line of opportunity. Parents and children of all ages link telepathically in sleep and a new parent can be alerted to a child’s distress. These premonition dreams are different from nightmares or anxiety dreams.

True predictive dreams have been described as more real than even a vivid dream and remain with us long after we would have forgotten an ordinary dream. The dream scene in premonitions is usually three-dimensional, very detailed, and, when we wake from it, we are fully awake and not at all sleepy or confused. These premonition dreams can also connect you with a twin soul on the dream plane and draw you to the place where you will meet each other.

Unlike a predictive dream, a regular dream often involves waking with nagging anxiety rather than urgency, which suggests you are feeling jittery about life. The more you trust your dreams, the less anxious you become.

Ghosts in Dreams

The most common contact with deceased family members comes in dreams. There is nothing to fear if a loved grandmother or grandfather comes to you or a child in sleep and talks to you or cuddles you if you are lonely or sad.

It may be the mind’s way of healing grief at the death of a loved one. If your relation died some years ago, such a dream will recall memories of the love and reassurance they offered you in their lifetime, perhaps when you were a child. These dreams often occur at a time in your present world when you are feeling vulnerable.

However, some people do believe that a person’s essential personality lives on after death and can speak to us in dreams. Sometimes, particularly if you did not have the chance to say goodbye, or if the relative died with ill feeling between you, a dream can bring necessary reconciliation. Afterward, most people say that they feel a great sense of peace, especially if the person died suddenly or after a prolonged illness in which they suffered a great deal.

Past Lives

1001 Dreams also records what seem to be past-life or recalled-memory dreams from ancestors, where, on the dream plane, we can learn the source of current phobias and how to overcome them. When a dreamer knows nothing of their past heritage, perhaps because of adoption, a dream can rekindle clues of severed connections that can be explored in daily life if the ancestors, or maybe an unknown living relative, wants to make contact.

Dreams as Tools for Making Life Better

Every dream is a snapshot into real people’s lives, allowing the reader to share the dream and see how the world of sleep can transform the waking world for the better. Key periods of life—pregnancy, childhood, adolescence, the twenties and thirties, bereavement, sorrow, and times of major change—feature strongly, as these periods are when psychic powers are at their height and the world at its most confusing. Use this book as a beacon of light to transform the sleep plane into a rich treasure trove of potential. Finally, of course, this book is relevant to those who are looking for a specific dream meaning or a recurring dream theme.

Dreams are your mind’s way of making sense of the world, unencumbered by mundane worldly limitations that hold us back in our waking lives.

American Edgar Cayce (1877–1945), founder of the Association for Research and Enlightenment, said, “Dreams are today’s answers to tomorrow’s questions.” In this book there is ample evidence he knew what he was talking about.

Dreams A to Z

Abandonment

Maisie, twenty-eight, dreamed she was a young child selling fruit from a heavy basket in the streets of old London. She realized she had wandered farther than usual and was totally lost. Maisie sat on the bridge, crying. A well-dressed woman and two little girls said she could go home with them and they would care for her. She climbed into their beautiful carriage and was wrapped in a blanket. It was a fairy-tale ending.

DREAM BACKGROUND AND MEANING

Maisie had grown up in foster care and had been moved from foster home to foster home. Now she had met a guy with a wonderful family who totally pampered her. So why was she not happy? Abandonment dreams, especially past-life ones, tend to be compensatory and involve putting right past wrongs in the present world.

INTERPRETATIONS AND FORTUNE-TELLING MEANINGS

If you find yourself abandoned in a dream, is there something or someone in your present situation that is making you feel insecure?

If you are abandoning others, you may have an unacknowledged dissatisfaction with the reality of present relationships, or find home and family life overwhelming.

Fears of being abandoned in a dream can reflect doubts about your self-worth, especially if you are in a relationship where a partner constantly threatens to leave.

If you are rescued in the dream and cared for, you may need more nurturing in your current relationships if you are generally the nurturer.

Does the dream have a happy ending? In that case it may be that you are prepared to sacrifice independence for a sense of being protected, perhaps by entering a committed relationship or secure career.

If you don’t mind being abandoned, consider the advantages versus drawbacks.

OUTCOME OF MAISIE’S DREAM

Maisie often felt stifled by her fiancé’s family and by him. Maisie decided to move out for a while. She realized it was the secure life and not the people that she loved.

Abscess, Boil

Joseph, fifty-five, dreamed he had a painful abscess on his tooth. When he went to the dentist, the dentist said he was imagining it and not to waste his time. Joseph, a mild-mannered man, was furious and, picking up a sharp instrument, lanced his own abscess. The abscess burst and the pain was gone.

DREAM BACKGROUND AND MEANING

Joseph was continually undermined at work by his manager. When Joseph complained, the manager said the problem was in Joseph’s mind and if he could not take the pressure he should leave. Joseph began to doubt himself. Abscess dreams should not be ignored, as they are warning of a problem that will not go away if ignored.

INTERPRETATIONS AND FORTUNE-TELLING MEANINGS

If you dream about having a painful abscess, or a boil without a head, you are resentful of an injustice but are trying to keep your feelings from spilling over.

If the abscess is swelling or coming to a head, you are feeling overwhelmed by a problem not acknowledged by others that needs bringing into the open.

If the abscess bursts, toxic emotions will be cleared and you will receive justice.

Depending on where the abscess is, it indicates the area of life where you need to take action. A tooth abscess shows you are not being listened to, and a limb or neck abscess signifies you are holding back from acting at the cost of your own health and harmony. A face abscess warns that someone is being two-faced, and a back abscess says you are being stabbed in the back.

The lancing of an abscess indicates that decisive action will clear the problem that the perpetrator is denying.

If you dream you lance an abscess yourself, the remedy is in your hands.

OUTCOME OF JOSEPH’S DREAM

Joseph went to his manager’s boss and offered proof of the manager’s intimidation. Joseph was moved to another department and the manager severely reprimanded.

Absent Friends and Family

Prudence, twenty-five, dreamed she was thousands of miles from home on the eve of her birthday and was feeling homesick. She dreamed of being with her family and their toasting her in champagne as they did every birthday. Her mother said, “Your special gift will arrive tomorrow. We miss you.” Prudence woke hugging her family. She was so sad that the dream had ended.

DREAM BACKGROUND AND MEANING

Prudence was working as a nurse in Australia and missed her family. In the dream her family was at an unknown noisy bar. Dreams offer space between worlds where love can make it possible to see and even feel loved ones.

INTERPRETATIONS AND FORTUNE-TELLING MEANINGS

Dreaming of a friend who is not in your life right now indicates telepathic communication. They are probably thinking about you.

If an absent friend or family member is telephoning or mailing you in your dream, you will hear from them soon.

If you see the absent friend or family member in a specific setting, this may be a form of clairvoyance where you see what absent friends are doing at a specific time.

Alternatively, you may astrally project or mind-travel in the dream, or they may visit you on the dream plane.

If you connect with a deceased friend or relative in a place you both loved, you may feel they are close when you visit that location.

If you dream of a friend or family member in distress, contact them. They are hiding a worry.

OUTCOME OF PRUDENCE’S DREAM

On her birthday, Prudence received a photo of her family at the airport in Boston, saying they were on their way, bringing her gifts. They were toasting her at the airport bar. The link of love is one of the most powerful forces to make psychic connections and renew fractured communication.

Abyss, Chasm

Claudia, fifty, dreamed she was pushing her mother in her wheelchair with all her mother’s bags strapped to the back. In the dream her mother was moving in with Claudia. Suddenly a huge dark hole appeared in front of them and her mother insisted that Claudia carry the wheelchair across the hole. Claudia knew they would both fall in. Her mother became angry and pushed Claudia into the hole. Claudia woke up shaking.

DREAM BACKGROUND AND MEANING

Although Claudia’s mother was unable to look after herself, she refused to go into a retirement home, insisting she move into Claudia’s home. The old lady said Claudia’s sister, Tina, who did nothing to help, was far too busy. Abyss dreams indicate being swallowed up by unfair demands.

INTERPRETATIONS AND FORTUNE-TELLING MEANINGS

If a large hole opens in front of you, beware of pitfalls ahead and don’t take chances.

An abyss can reveal issues with a dominating mother figure or older female relative.

If you avoid or jump over the hole, a risky venture or a passionate love affair will turn out well.

If you are teetering on the edge, you may be afraid of confronting deep negative, albeit justifiable, emotions.

If someone pushes you in, beware treachery.

A dream abyss can give advance warning that your position in life is insecure, especially concerning property or finance. You ignore this at your peril.

OUTCOME OF CLAUDIA’S DREAM

Claudia told her sister they had to find a retirement home for their mother or Tina would have to take her in, as Tina did not work, whereas Claudia, a single parent, had to work full-time. Tina persuaded her mother to go to a retirement home. On Tina’s persuasion, their mother cut Claudia out of her will.

Accident

Heidi, twenty-one, dreamed she was standing at the top of a snowboarding slope. She launched herself after her boyfriend and went past him, but missed the slope and fell into the air, somersaulting until she reached the bottom. “You really did it this time,” she thought.

DREAM BACKGROUND AND MEANING

Heidi had always been accident-prone, dropping, spilling, falling, and injuring herself. Now her boyfriend wanted her to go snowboarding with him. Heidi did not want to miss out and, despite never having previously snowboarded, she agreed to go. The nature of accident dreams reflects the problems behind the accident: accidents in water, becoming overwhelmed by emotion; plane crashes, overextending your resources; and those involving fire, becoming too passionately involved and careless.

INTERPRETATIONS AND FORTUNE-TELLING MEANINGS

Accident dreams can be advance warnings of what your subconscious has noticed as potential hazards regarding your health, domestic, and personal safety.

If you dream about a traffic accident, you may be anxious about your physical health, because a vehicle is a common symbol for the body, and you should take more care of your own well-being.

If you crash head-on, you may be worried about unavoidable conflict.

If there is a rescuer present in any kind of accident, you may be relying on the protection of others to get you out of trouble.

To dream of slipping or falling suggests you may say something unwise or commit to a risky action unless you are ultracautious.

OUTCOME OF HEIDI’S DREAM

The week she was due to go snowboarding, Heidi had some masonry drop on her foot as she passed a building site, breaking her foot. Some say accidents occur because we subconsciously know that a situation could be dangerous. Accident dreams can be based on an existing likelihood; it was not the building accident but the snowboarding that Heidi’s unconscious was warning her against.

Accomplice

Derek, sixteen, dreamed he was leader of a crime syndicate, and the others at high school were acting as his accomplices. He masterminded crimes, and his accomplices carried them out. In his dreams he was unstoppable.

DREAM BACKGROUND AND MEANING

Derek, though quiet and studious, hung around with the school rebel gang. They said if he acted as lookout and drove the car while they robbed a service station, he could join them. But it went wrong. They ran away and Derek was left behind but escaped before police arrived. Accomplice dreams represent enlisting others to carry out actions that you would not dare perform in real life, the part of your ego you may repress.

INTERPRETATIONS AND FORTUNE-TELLING MEANINGS

If you are acting as an accomplice in a dream crime, you may be going along with a plan in the workplace or community in which you do not believe.

If in a dream you are seeking an accomplice for a crime, you may need support for an idea you know is unpopular.

If you dream you are arrested as an accomplice, you may feel guilty about an undiscovered omission or commission.

If you dream you are an accomplice driving a getaway vehicle after a bank robbery, you may be tempted to go along with other people’s get-rich-quick schemes.

If you enjoy being an accomplice in a crime, you may want to take more chances in life but may be scared to go against the status quo.

If you feel guilty about being an accomplice, you may not actually want to take risks but are being pressured by others.

OUTCOME OF DEREK’S DREAM

Derek realized he was not a tough guy. Some of the gang were expelled and put in youth detention for minor crimes, and Derek put all his energies into study. Accomplice dreams can be wish-fulfillment, acting out a rebellious streak that can be diverted into accomplishing something worthwhile.

Accusations

Molly, thirty-five, dreamed she was a child of about ten, standing before the judge in a courtroom, accused of stealing fruit. She was innocent, but her mother, who had stolen the fruit, could not take the blame, as she was pregnant. Their father had run off, and Molly’s mother had the other children to care for. Molly was terrified, as she knew the punishment would be severe, and she awoke shaking.

DREAM BACKGROUND AND MEANING

Money had been disappearing from the cash register at work, and Molly and her best friend Ginny were the only ones with access. Molly had suspected for some time that her friend had been stealing. Ginny was a single parent with two small children, relying entirely on her wages. To lose her job and possibly be prosecuted was unthinkable. But Molly did not want the accusation of being a thief on her own record. Accusation dreams may take dramatic forms to alert the dreamer to deal with unresolved obligations from different periods of life, and even from different lifetimes.

INTERPRETATIONS AND FORTUNE-TELLING MEANINGS

If you dream of being unfairly accused of a crime, an old injustice may still rankle you and need to be put right or let go.

If you are denying a mistake in real life that is invading your dreams, consider how it can be put right with the least damage.

If you dream someone unknown is accusing you, they may be trying to divert attention from themselves. Identify who.

If in your dream you are being accused in a present- or past-life courtroom, you may be denying a problem that needs confronting—if necessary, with official help.

If you are defending someone against an unfair accusation, you may be trying to compensate for a personal action about which you feel guilty, maybe from the past.

OUTCOME OF MOLLY’S DREAM

Molly realized that she could not blight her own reputation. She offered to pay the stolen money back if Ginny confessed. As a result, Ginny was not prosecuted but lost her job. Accusation dreams are a good basis for deciding what is viable as well as ethical.

Acorns

Sue-Ellen, forty-five, dreamed that a beautiful oak forest was chopped down and nothing remained but fallen branches and acorns. But a new forest of tall green trees instantly grew and was filled with the wildlife that had either fled or been killed. She woke knowing life could still be good.

DREAM BACKGROUND AND MEANING

Sue-Ellen’s home was due to be foreclosed on because of the economic downturn. She was leaving her beloved forest of oak trees where she gathered acorns to make flour and coffee that helped with her allergies. She packed her possessions and desperately searched for a new home she could rent where she could see the trees.

INTERPRETATIONS AND FORTUNE-TELLING MEANINGS

Acorns are one of the luckiest dream symbols for the gradual growth of whatever is desired.

They are a symbol of fertility and prosperity coming into your life.

Dreaming of seeing small oaks springing up indicates that any projects you start now will succeed and grow.

Since the acorn protects its seed within, if many acorns grow on trees, it promises freedom and safety from attack or intrusion.

Since acorns are used for food by wild animals as well as by humans, acorns lying on the ground predict that you will receive a modest but much-needed bonus.

Making foodstuffs from acorns in a dream says you should adapt existing resources in any area of your world, as the smallest acorn can grow into the mightiest tree.

OUTCOME OF SUE-ELLEN’S DREAM

Sue-Ellen found a tiny house with a huge outbuilding on the other side of the forest. She had been asked to make acorn flour and coffee for friends with allergies, and she converted her outbuilding into an acorn workshop from which she could start a small-scale acorn products and recipe book business. Because acorns are slow to grow, rapid growth in a dream indicates you already have the seeds to making your fortune.

Actor

Juliet, twenty, dreamed she was appearing in the starring role in the school play. However, she had not learned her lines and was relying on the prompter. Eventually people started leaving. Juliet shouted that the play was useless. She made a long, impassioned speech that had everyone cheering and returning to their seats.

DREAM BACKGROUND AND MEANING

Even when she was at school, Juliet had realized there was more to learning than repeating other people’s words and opinions. She was having the same problem at college. Juliet was considering quitting college, but without qualifications she knew she would not be taken seriously.

INTERPRETATIONS AND FORTUNE-TELLING MEANINGS

If you are starring in a dream play, you may want more recognition for your hard work and talents from those around you.

If you forget your words, you may be relying on others in life generally to speak for you.

If you are continually checking the script or waiting for a prompt, you may be worried about others finding out your inadequacies.

Acting a part purely for the purpose of impressing, for example at a dream interview, may fail to achieve its purpose in real life.

If you are unwilling to step to center stage or in the spotlight in the dream, you may be being pushed to take a more public or higher profile role for which you are not ready.

If you dream you are taking a number of parts in a play, you may be showing different aspects of yourself to different people at the cost of being your true self.

OUTCOME OF JULIET’S DREAM

Juliet decided to change her major to creative writing. She has written several plays for the drama society. She is applying for an internship for scriptwriters in a theater company, and earning money in the evenings while she establishes herself.

Adoption

Linda, forty, dreamed she was in a labor ward with a blonde, blue-eyed woman who was giving birth to a beautiful boy. Linda woke shaken by the intensity of the dream and noted the date and time of the dream birth.

DREAM BACKGROUND AND MEANING

Linda and her husband, Richard, were waiting to be assigned an adoptive child at the time of the dream. Dreams can link telepathically with the child at birth or soon after, to reassure the adoptive parents that the adoption is meant to be.

INTERPRETATIONS AND FORTUNE-TELLING MEANINGS

If you dream of your adoptive child before the adoption, and if you have been waiting a while, you know that the child is near.

If you were expecting to adopt a baby but dream of two children, perhaps siblings, they will bring happiness.

If you consistently dream of much older generations who you do not know when you first meet your adoptive child, the birth family ancestors may be giving their blessing to the adoption.

If you suspect you are adopted and consistently dream of another family or location, you may be picking up vibes of a birth family that wants to enter your life. Make the necessary inquiries with the relevant authorities.

If you dream you are adopted but 100 percent know you are not, you may resemble an ancestor who also felt different, who may contact you in dreams.

If you dream of your adopted child being in danger or difficulty, this is the maternal or paternal radar kicking in, which exists even without a genetic link.

OUTCOME OF LINDA’S DREAM

When Linda and her husband were given the baby three months later, the birth date and time of baby Ivan’s birth exactly matched the dream time and date. He was the boy Linda had seen in her dream. They felt Ivan was their special child since Linda had shared in the birth.

You may have been with your adopted child in a past world and so instantly feel the psychic link.

Adult Sex Toys

Dinah, sixty-four, dreamed of entering an adult store and selecting a range of adult sex toys, many of which she had seen advertised on late-night cable television. But she saw her thirty-four-year-old daughter, Trinny, peering in through the door. Dinah put the toys on the counter and ran out of the store. Her daughter said she was disgusting at her age to be in such a place.

DREAM BACKGROUND AND MEANING

Dinah had been happily married to George for forty-four years. But recently she had wanted to spice things up in the bedroom. But was she, as a mother and grandmother, too old to be fantasizing about more erotic sex? Dreams about sex toys can indicate a desire for more excitement at any age or stage of a relationship, not only in the bedroom but in life generally.

INTERPRETATIONS AND FORTUNE-TELLING MEANINGS

If you dream of buying adult toys but are seen by a family member or neighbor, you may feel guilty about revealing your sensual, passionate nature, especially if you are of mature age.

If in the dream you are buying adult toys without your partner or are without a partner, you may be uncertain about fulfilling your sexual needs.

If you dream of erotic lovemaking with adult toys, the key is with whom you are sharing the experience—an unexpected partner may reveal an unacknowledged passion or temptation.

If you dream of your partner producing sex toys and the idea is a turnoff, you may need more romance or tenderness in the relationship.

If you dream of finding your partner’s hidden sex toys, you may have doubts about their fidelity.

OUTCOME OF DINAH’S DREAM

After the dream, Dinah initiated more adventurous lovemaking, and to her surprise her husband started bringing home sex toys and booked a romantic cruise. Dreams can stimulate fantasies that then can be expressed, although they may have been denied earlier as not appropriate.

Adventure

In a recurring dream, Vera, sixty-one, was trekking through Peru with a small group of fellow travelers, visiting ancient ruins like Macchu Picchu. She was loving every minute of it. She woke feeling sad it was only a dream, but wondering if perhaps one day it could become a reality.

DREAM BACKGROUND AND MEANING

Vera lived in the same house in which she was born in a village in the United Kingdom. Vera never married and has worked in the same job as a librarian for thirty years. She recently learned that she was being given early retirement. Vera was aware that life was slipping by. But dare she go on the adventure of a lifetime? Adventure dreams are reminders there is a whole world waiting to be explored.

INTERPRETATIONS AND FORTUNE-TELLING MEANINGS

If a recurring dream takes you to the same location time and again, this may have past-life significance for you, especially if it is about an ancient culture that fascinates you.

If the dream adventure is exciting, you are ready for a life change very different from your present lifestyle.

If the dream doesn’t seem possible, explore ways you can make it happen, even in a modified form.

If the dream adventure takes you to an unknown location or one you had never considered, see what clues the dream offers, as the destination or activity may hold hidden benefits.

If the adventure dream is frightening, take time to consider the advantages of change to achieve unfulfilled desires.

Even if you do not want a major adventure, your unconscious is prompting you to try new activities and maybe a new holiday location if life is stagnant.

OUTCOME OF VERA’S DREAM

Vera visited Peru on a specialized tour for older people with a degree of luxury, and on returning she enrolled in a university course on South American ancient history. Adventure dreams can open all kinds of doors of hidden potential.

Advertisement, Commercial

Becky, thirty, dreamed her face was on billboards everywhere, advertising her starring role in a new Broadway musical. On social media too there were commercials for opening night and information about her. People were recognizing her and asking for her autograph as she walked down Broadway. She had arrived.

DREAM BACKGROUND AND MEANING

It was a wish-fulfillment dream. Becky had at last broken into advertising and was the face of a new herbal shampoo, which financially was a great relief and raised her profile. But her ambition was for the stage. So far, success was confined to a few supporting roles with a theater company that traveled around the states. Her agent said advertising was the way to get herself known. But Becky was worried she would be typecast into advertising beauty products, which might prevent her from being considered a serious actor. Advertising in the modern age can transform a relative unknown into a household name, and so dreams about advertising are almost always positive.

INTERPRETATIONS AND FORTUNE-TELLING MEANINGS

If you dream you are creating or producing an advertisement, some aspect of yourself or your life needs bringing out, often shown by the nature of the dream advertisement.

If you are writing a jingle for an advertisement, you need to communicate your abilities and opinions more persuasively.

If in a dream you appear in an advertisement, it will highlight a coming change of image.

If you see a clear advertisement in your dream, it represents an unfulfilled ambition that is moving into the realm of possibility.

A faded or ripped advertisement speaks of ambitions or plans that now must be followed in a new way.

OUTCOME OF BECKY’S DREAM

Becky’s agent was right. As a result of a whole series of advertisements, she was offered auditions, at first for television bit parts and then for her main love, the theater. Advertising dreams do herald an improving image if that recognition is used wisely.

Aging

Charlie, seventy-five, dreamed he was driving along the highway when a man darted out in front of him. Charlie swerved but hit the car traveling alongside, and the driver was badly injured. The police were called. Because Charlie was unlicensed, he was arrested.

DREAM BACKGROUND AND MEANING

Charlie had been driving since he was seventeen without an accident. But because of his age and deteriorating eyesight, he had not been granted a license renewal. He felt old and useless, and was thinking of risking driving unlicensed. Sometimes a dream involving aging can issue warnings that we need to take more care, and that we ignore signs of aging at our peril.

INTERPRETATIONS AND FORTUNE-TELLING MEANINGS

Often experienced by the over sixty-fives, aging dreams reflect fears, not predictions, of losing faculties.

If certain aging conditions appear in a dream, they are inner promptings to get a health check so problems can be fixed early.

As you get older, dreaming of a new interest or location is a direction to explore new activities or places that will offer alternative benefits.

If you see your children making future arrangements in your dreams that would not suit you, it’s time to sort out your finances, preferred home area, and home.

If you see yourself young again, identify ambitions you had at the dream age that are still to be fulfilled, albeit modified.

OUTCOME OF CHARLIE’S DREAM

After the shock of the dream, Charlie realized that there was much he could do. As a young man he’d loved boats, but had let his old interest fade. Now he bought a motorboat and is enjoying new explorations, feeling younger every day. If aging is seen as bringing a new chapter, the extra leisure can open new doors or reopen old ones to provide a different but equally fulfilling way of life.

Air Raids

John, twenty-eight, had a recurring dream that he was piloting a bomber in World War II, fighting off enemy planes over London, which were coming each night to destroy the city. He saw an enemy plane too late and felt searing pain, turning over and over, and then darkness.

DREAM BACKGROUND AND MEANING

John had always experienced a terror of flying and, despite tranquilizers and desensitizing therapy, could not board a plane. Now he was due to go on his honeymoon to the Maldives and did not want to let his new wife down.

A number of people who fear flying have recurring air-raid dreams, either of being shot down in a plane during an air raid or as civilians being buried under their home during a raid.

INTERPRETATIONS AND FORTUNE-TELLING MEANINGS

If you dream of a wartime aircraft bombing tragedy or your home being bombed, these may either be past-life trauma or free-floating memories acquired from a restless spirit by a psychic person.

If you escape from an air raid in any land or war, an attack on your reputation or threat to your job or finances will be avoided.

If you are helping to free others from air-raid wreckage, you may be asked to help a friend or family member who has run into major difficulties.

If you dream you hear air-raid sirens, you should not ignore warning signs that you are taking unnecessary risks.

Seeking refuge in an air-raid shelter advises you to wait for a confrontation or action until matters have calmed down.

If you dream you are leading a bombing raid, there are matters to confront head-on at work or with hostile neighbors.

OUTCOME OF JOHN’S DREAM

John talked over the dream with a therapist who regressed him to relive the dream and so leave the trauma behind. John traveled to the Maldives, not 100 percent happy, but calmly. Past-life dreams are a spontaneous form of past worlds.

Airbrushing

Vicky, sixteen, dreamed she was at a photo shoot and her makeup artist joked, “As always, nothing needs changing.” After the photos were released, social media was jammed with girls asking how Vicky could always look so perfect. She woke smiling—until she saw herself in the mirror.

DREAM BACKGROUND AND MEANING

Vicky always airbrushed her pictures before posting them online. She hated the shape of her nose, her weight, and her hair for not being blonde enough. She had been asked out by a gorgeous guy she met online. However, she was scared he would not like how she really looked. Airbrushing images in dreams can suggest insecurity about how others see you.

INTERPRETATIONS AND FORTUNE-TELLING MEANINGS

If you dream of being contacted by dozens of admirers after posting your latest airbrushed image online, you are worried the real person will not be liked.

If you dream you put the un-airbrushed you online by mistake, and no one contacts or likes you, you are relying on image to win friends.

If someone you meet in person in your dream rejects or does not recognize you from the airbrushed version, you may discover that, in life, they are shallow.

If in your dream you are airbrushed out of a photo, you may be feeling left out because you do not fit with others’ views of the way you should act and appear.

If in the dream the airbrushed and real versions of yourself are identical, be confident you can succeed.

OUTCOME OF VICKY’S DREAM

Vicky almost walked straight past the guy she was meeting, because he had also airbrushed his image. However, his real self was even nicer, and he told Vicky she was more beautiful than her picture. They are still dating. Airbrushing dreams reflect pressures by social media and society to present an ideal image.

Airplane

Tom, thirty-five, dreamed he was in a plane on his way to take up a new post in another state. He was invited into the cockpit and allowed to fly the plane. Then Tom realized the pilot and copilot had left the cockpit. The plane started to plunge, but Tom landed the plane smoothly on the airstrip below, and woke feeling totally confident.

DREAM BACKGROUND AND MEANING

This is a reassurance dream. In his waking life, Tom was considering applying for a new job involving a promotion and relocation, but doubted his ability to succeed, as he lacked experience. The dream confirmed that Tom could rise high in his chosen field if he seized the initiative.

INTERPRETATIONS AND FORTUNE-TELLING MEANINGS

Dreaming of piloting a plane and landing smoothly is always a sign of success, being awarded a promotion, and rising to the top of a chosen career.

Flying solo augurs well for launching a one-person initiative or business.

A jet plane overhead heralds unexpected advantageous visitors or online overseas connections.

Being asked to fly a plane alerts you to a major unexpected opportunity coming your way, most likely involving relocation.

If you are flying a plane for the first time, be prepared to act in a more senior position in an emergency at work.

Missing a plane warns you to be alert for opportunities that may pass you by and tells you not to hesitate about a forthcoming sexual experience that would bring happiness.

Dreaming of a plane crash suggests that there is no secure basis for ambitions. Wait till you have the necessary resources in place.

OUTCOME OF TOM’S DREAM

A few days after the dream, Tom was offered a job in another state with a higher salary, which required learning new skills fast. He accepted and is already in line for promotion.

Alarms

Cynthia, thirty-five, dreamed she was in the front row on the first night of a new production, and her phone alarm kept ringing. She tried to turn off the alarm, even took out the battery, but it kept ringing. The audience and performers were becoming furious, and her boyfriend, also her boss, was embarrassed. She left the theater, but he did not follow. Once outside, the alarm stopped.

DREAM BACKGROUND AND MEANING

Cynthia had loved her boss for months, but he had only recently separated from his wife. Although they had met secretly many times, he promised they could appear together in public, though this had not yet happened. She knew things were not settled and he spent weekends at home with the children, sleeping in the spare room. Alarms of any kind ringing in dreams are inevitably a warning or wake-up call and may be triggered by an external noise source such as a car alarm outside the window.

INTERPRETATIONS AND FORTUNE-TELLING MEANINGS

Dreams of alarms that will not stop ringing are persistent subconscious messages to be wary in the situation where they are ringing.

Alarm clocks not ringing in dreams can indicate free-floating anxiety about being late or are a reminder of an unfulfilled obligation.

Domestic burglar alarms are an alert to check security arrangements, as you may have unconsciously noticed something broken or amiss; also, anxiety about the family that is not acknowledged.

Fire alarms in the workplace reflect underlying tensions or a potentially explosive situation escalating.

Smoke alarms warn to be careful of subterfuge.

Car alarms are linked with impulsive behavior and the potential sexual hazards of giving way to temptation.

OUTCOME OF CYNTHIA’S DREAM

Cynthia noticed that since he was apparently free, her boss had cooled toward her, and she heard his wife was pregnant and they were reunited. Alarms give warning signals in dreams before the dreamer has become aware of potential pitfalls.

Alien, Extraterrestrial

Julia, fifteen, dreamed that a huge saucerlike craft with brilliant white lights landed in the garden. Julia ran outside, not at all afraid. A tall blond man and woman dressed in white came down the ramp. They took her hands and led her into the craft. She watched through the windows as the craft sped across the galaxy toward a brilliantly illuminated star. The couple said this was her home planet and they were her star parents. She woke in her bed with a sense of belonging.

DREAM BACKGROUND AND MEANING

Julia had always felt like she was different from the rest of her family and her peers. She had from a young age been fascinated by the stars. Extraterrestrial dreams often involve astral or out-of-body travel.

INTERPRETATIONS AND FORTUNE-TELLING MEANINGS

Seeing a spaceship landing or overhead foretells someone new coming into your life with whom you will feel kinship.

If you encounter Nordics—wise, tall, blond figures—in a dream, you may be given wise advice.

If the dream is scary, involving abduction by aliens, you may be feeling alienated from others around you, or that you are not fitting into a new situation or environment.

If you willingly enter the craft, you are ready to spread your wings and explore a new location or environment.

If you believe you are a star soul from another galaxy, extraterrestrial experiences that seem more than dreams can be experiences from another dimension.

If there are a number of spacecraft and extraterrestrials who welcome you, seek like-minded people who share your life view and develop your unique talents, especially those connected with astrology or astronomy.

OUTCOME OF JULIA’S DREAM

Julia explored the concept of star souls online and decided to follow her ambition to become an astroscientist. She never had another extraterrestrial dream.

Alligator, Crocodile

Josh, twenty-five, dreamed he was camping alone near the shoreline of a deep, cloudy creek. He had seen a sign warning of alligators but pitched his tent anyway. When he woke in the morning, he realized his tent was surrounded by alligators snapping their jaws. He closed his eyes, and when he opened them again he saw watching eyes submerged in the river mud.

DREAM BACKGROUND AND MEANING

Josh had an offer from a friend living in Hawaii to move there and invest his savings in a turtle conservation and diving business. Josh trusted his friend, but did not know the main investor, an older man. Alligator or crocodile dreams signify a primal fear of being swallowed up by a risky situation or a powerful but not necessarily benign person.

INTERPRETATIONS AND FORTUNE-TELLING MEANINGS

If you dream that the alligator or crocodile is half-submerged in water, be alert to emotional betrayal or acts of spite from someone close.

If the alligator or crocodile is half-submerged in mud, beware that a business deal may not be all it seems.

An alligator or crocodile guarding eggs says you will be protected by a maternal figure. The eggs are a fertility omen for healthy babies.

An alligator or crocodile sunning on the riverbank is a potency sign for men, or for a strong sexual attraction in either sex, trading security for excitement.

Large fighting alligators or crocodiles represent ruthless or risky business deals where gains are potentially great if won.

Being surrounded by alligators or crocodiles backing away signifies overcoming powerful opposition. If they are moving closer, guard against unwise charismatic company.

OUTCOME OF JOSH’S DREAM

Josh persuaded his friend to go to Hawaii with him to investigate the potential business. The older man was a fast talker but had no suitable land or licenses. Josh pulled out, but his friend went ahead and lost money. Alligator or crocodile dreams suggest hidden factors in any venture, which need checking out, as they represent either great gain or great loss.

Alphabet

Phoebe, thirty-two, dreamed she was outdoors, and alphabet letters like snowflakes were falling, forming the initials AE in the sky, which made no sense. Then the alphabet formed the words “You will find me.”

DREAM BACKGROUND AND MEANING

Phoebe’s fiancé’s initials were not AE. However, a new guy, Alan Edwards, had started working in the office and had asked her out. She had turned him down. After the dream, she was fearful that her marriage to her fiancé was not meant to be. Dream incubation, which she practiced before her dream, involves concentrating on a question immediately before sleep, such as Who will I marry? Alphabet letters give the answer.

INTERPRETATIONS AND FORTUNE-TELLING MEANINGS

If particular letters form initials, be alert for a significant person or event with those initials.

If falling alphabet letters surround you, there is never enough time to talk to people or a particular person to whom you have much to say.

If letters are jumbled, there may be miscommunication. Rearrange the letters to discover a significant name or message.

If you are trying to read a foreign alphabet, there may be alternative viewpoints to consider.

If in your dream the alphabet letters fade on an email or document, use intuition to fill in the gaps.

If you are trying to interpret an ancient alphabet such as hieroglyphics or Ancient Greek, look for the answer using traditional wisdom or, if it is a past-life dream, within the dream itself.

OUTCOME OF PHOEBE’S DREAM

Phoebe and her fiancé saw a house for sale that they loved. They applied to buy it. The name of the house was Acacia End, the initials in the dream. Then she recalled that she had been thinking as she went to sleep of finding the ideal house, not of who was right in love. With dream incubation, focus on what you want to know, or you may initially be taken off track.

Altar

Paula, twenty-five, dreamed she was handing her dish of offerings to a Hindu priest, who placed it on the altar. She was in a temple in India, wearing a beautiful garland of flowers around her neck, gold bracelets, and a fabulously embroidered sari. Behind her were many others waiting, and she was pushed outside the golden gates, feeling cheated. Paula walked down to the banks of the Ganges to an open altar and set her garlands and bracelets on it and felt the presence of the river goddess Ganga. She felt connected with divinity.

DREAM BACKGROUND AND MEANING

Paula had spent her savings on a trip to India to connect with its spiritual energies. But after several months of meditation, chanting, and making offerings at many different altars, she felt she lacked any personal connection. Altars can be either a gateway to connecting with divinity or a barrier to personal spiritual communication.

INTERPRETATIONS AND FORTUNE-TELLING MEANINGS

If you dream you are praying at an altar, there will be an unexpected resolution of a seemingly insoluble problem.

If you are creating or setting up an altar, you will discover a new form of healing or divination.

If the intervention of a priest or priestess prevents your reaching the altar, you may feel out of touch with your life purpose.

An unfamiliar altar with ancient robed priests and priestesses may be a past-life dream, and spiritual insights may emerge spontaneously that can later be verified.

If the altar is unprepared for ceremony, you may be moving beyond your former beliefs or current form of spirituality.

OUTCOME OF PAULA’S DREAM

After the dream, Paula spent the rest of her time in India visiting outdoor altars in places of natural beauty. We can make altars anyplace or anytime, but, as in the dream, nature may offer the finest altar to divinity.

Ambulance

Paddy, fifty-five, dreamed regularly that he was driving through town and an ambulance flashing red lights was following him. No matter how often he pulled over or signaled to the ambulance to pass him, the ambulance remained close behind and eventually directed him through the hospital gates. It stopped behind Paddy outside the emergency room and the paramedics told him to lie on the waiting stretcher. Paddy refused and accelerated away.

DREAM BACKGROUND AND MEANING

Paddy had a high-powered job and an unhealthy lifestyle despite the efforts of his wife, Laura. He had repeatedly postponed his annual health checkup as he had been getting tired and breathless and was scared something serious was wrong. Ambulance dreams may be warnings if the dreamer is taking too many risks, whether driving or in hazardous activities.

INTERPRETATIONS AND FORTUNE-TELLING MEANINGS

If you dream you are trailing an emergency ambulance, you may be worrying too much about your health or that of a loved one.

A dream where the ambulance is filled with much older people suggests there are long-standing bad habits, addictions, or a continuing unhealthy lifestyle the dreamer has been living for a long time, which may be creating longer-term health issues.

If you are in an ambulance going to a hospital, you may be in stress overload and need to relax to avoid burnout.

If you are a dream paramedic, you are a source of advice and help for others in your life.

If you see an ambulance racing through town or along the freeway and it passes you, a danger or problem (not necessarily medical) will be averted.

If an ambulance crashes, you should not rely on others coming to your rescue but plan your own coping strategies.

OUTCOME OF PADDY’S DREAM

The dreams scared Paddy and, along with his wife’s constant reminders, motivated him to go for his health checkup. Paddy had a minor heart problem, fixed with a small operation. Ambulance dreams are ways our unconscious mind alerts us to the need for a medical checkup, if only for reassurance that all is well.

Ambush

Tony, forty-two, had what seemed like a past-world dream. He and his teenage son, Trevor, were wearing World War I uniforms in the trenches. They were cold, wet, and muddy. Tony’s regiment had to get over the ridge before dawn. At the order they ran as fast as they could, guns loaded. Suddenly they realized they had been ambushed by a nest of machine guns. His son fell. Tony put his son over his shoulder and staggered in the opposite direction. The dream ended with them flying through the air, away from the battle.

DREAM BACKGROUND AND MEANING

Tony’s son had become involved with a bad crowd. Trevor was due to go to a rave with friends who were taking and selling heavy drugs. There was a danger he would be arrested. Ambush dreams indicate a situation where you will find yourself out of your depth.

INTERPRETATIONS AND FORTUNE-TELLING MEANINGS

If you dream you are setting an ambush, you may be angry at double-dealing or spite and may be building toward effective retaliation.

If you are ambushed, you may fear that you may be caught out over an indiscretion.

If you avoid an ambush, swift action is necessary for personal safety.

If you escape or help someone to escape, you can overcome bad influences and potential danger.

If you see an ambush ahead but keep going toward it, it is a warning that there are people you should not trust who will lead you into trouble.

If you are ordered toward what you suspect is an ambush, you may need to go your own way rather than blindly following others who cannot see the danger.

OUTCOME OF TONY’S DREAM

Tony knew he had to save his son, whatever the cost. Tony drove his son several hundred miles to stay on Tony’s brother’s remote farm. His brother was ex-special forces military. Ambush dreams warn that you or someone close is ignoring danger signs.

Anchor

Jay, seventy-five, dreamed he was sailing around the world in a brand-new yacht. The first time he dropped anchor, he realized it had become detached from the yacht. He knew he should return to the harbor before venturing into the open ocean. But if he did, he would be admitting defeat. So he tied the boat to a buoy and rowed the tender to the town for dinner. When he returned, the boat had drifted away and smashed on the rocks. He went home defeated.

DREAM BACKGROUND AND MEANING

Jay wanted to spend a year traveling through the wilderness, his lifetime dream, and he had no family. But his surgeon wanted him to have a minor heart operation before he went. Jay was impatient to leave right away as he had just sold his business. Anchors represent a stabilizing influence with something that really matters.

INTERPRETATIONS AND FORTUNE-TELLING MEANINGS

If you dream an anchor is steadying a boat, someone close to you or coming into your life will bring you emotional security.

A broken or missing anchor indicates fears of betrayal in someone you trust.

To dream of a boat pulling up anchor and setting sail foretells travel, whether a spontaneous vacation, an adventure, or a relocation overseas.

If a boat breaks from its anchor, events may move faster than you had hoped.

An anchor tangled with seaweed or with its chain caught around it says you need to disengage from a person or situation that is holding you down.

If you have anchored off a beautiful cove in a calm sea, you will enjoy a calm period in your life and don’t need to worry about the future.

OUTCOME OF JAY’S DREAM

After the dream, Jay realized he was getting breathless. He delayed the trip while he had his operation and was 100 percent fit when he finally set off. Anchors can be restricting but are essential for security in any uncertain ventures.

Ancient Egypt

Since she was a child, Leticia, twenty, had had recurring dreams of being a slave girl in Ancient Egypt and dropping her featureless cloth doll in the sand. She became a favorite of the Pharaoh’s daughter, who was about her age. The dream ended when the princess died and Leticia was to be entombed with her mistress. She ran away.

DREAM BACKGROUND AND MEANING

Leticia, who had an irrational fear of enclosed spaces, had been fascinated by Ancient Egypt from a young age, and as she grew older would visit the Ancient Egyptian section in her local museum. Leticia was saving to visit Egypt for her twenty-first birthday. Ancient Egypt is the land most recalled in recurring dreams.

INTERPRETATIONS AND FORTUNE-TELLING MEANINGS

If you dream of an affinity with Ancient Egypt, this may be past-world recall.

If you have a seemingly irrational fear of enclosed spaces, this may relate to experiences in the dream.

If you subsequently visit Ancient Egypt, you may be drawn to and recognize particular locations from your dreams.

If you dream of hieroglyphics or particular deities, try to research them when you wake, as they may hold particular significance for you.

If you dream of Egypt only once but the dream is very vivid, there may be a person or situation that relates to the days after the dream, perhaps a warning.

If you continually dream of a partner in Ancient Egypt, you may be encountering your twin soul.

OUTCOME OF LETICIA’S DREAM

Leticia went to Egypt for her twenty-first birthday and instantly felt at home. She recognized a doll in Cairo Museum like the one in her dream. She found the courage to enter a pyramid and, on leaving, overcame her fear of enclosed spaces. She has yet to encounter her twin soul. We do not understand why some places and times call us, but often they hold insights and the means to overcome irrational fears.

Anesthetic

Kimberley, sixty-five, dreamed she was in a hospital, waiting for an operation. The anesthetist refused to give her anesthetics, saying it was her own fault she was having the operation and she needed to face the consequences. Kimberley leaped off the operating table and ran out of the hospital, pursued by the doctor, nurse, and anesthetist. She ran home, locked the door, and would not answer though they were hammering on it. She woke feeling relief that she had escaped.

DREAM BACKGROUND AND MEANING

Kimberley was marrying Kevin, a widower. He was paying for her to have a gastric band operation so she would lose weight in time for the wedding. He complained that she was weak-willed to have put on weight in the first place. Anesthetic dreams talk about a desire to temporarily escape from daily worries.

INTERPRETATIONS AND FORTUNE-TELLING MEANINGS

If you dream you are refused anesthetic, is help or relief being withheld as a means of control?

Being given or being under anesthetic can indicate a desire to escape from difficult people who cause you pain.

To wake under anesthetic in the middle of an operation, unable to move, suggests you are feeling powerless to escape from hurtful comments or people who won’t listen.

If you are fighting against being given an anesthetic, someone is trying to silence or override your wishes, and you should resist.

If you are given anesthetic but it does not work, you may be trying to postpone decisions that need making.

If you are taking excessive painkillers, you are not facing the causes of your problems.

OUTCOME OF KIMBERLEY’S DREAM

Kimberley realized she did not want the operation, but wanted to lose weight in her own way and time. Kevin had started to diminish her confidence and control her. She postponed the wedding as she realized that her weight problems had occurred since meeting Kevin. She was using food as an anesthetic against his criticisms. Anesthetic dreams can say that sometimes life’s pain has to be faced, not dulled.

Angels

Linda, seventy-one, dreamed she was driving home from bingo, her former regular Tuesday-evening activity. Unusually, Linda left early as she was having no luck. As she neared home, she saw a beautiful golden-haired angel sitting in the back seat. The angel said, “Linda, go back. Play the last game.” Linda looked again in the mirror, but the seat was empty. Puzzled, she turned the car around and reached the bingo hall in time for the last game. She came up with the winning card.

DREAM BACKGROUND AND MEANING

Linda was having serious financial problems, as the roof on her house was badly leaking and the insurance would not pay. She had given up bingo to save money. But the day after the dream, Linda went along in time for the last game. Angel dreams don’t just bring spiritual messages but can help at times when we have earthly problems seemingly impossible to solve.

INTERPRETATIONS AND FORTUNE-TELLING MEANINGS

Angels act as messengers in dreams to advise or warn when most needed.

If you see the same angel in subsequent dreams, that is your guardian angel.

If you see an angel in ordinary clothes except for a light shimmering around it, you will receive practical help from a stranger in the days ahead.

Even if you do not believe in angels, their appearance is a way of alerting you to information that your subconscious has picked up.

If you dream of a host of angels or visit angelic realms, you are protected. Look for signs of angels the day after the dream.

If you are drowning in daily demands, angel dreams are a reminder to get in touch with your spiritual side and listen to your intuition.

OUTCOME OF LINDA’S DREAM

Linda won enough money to fix her roof. She never saw her angel in dreams again. Angel dreams are always a good omen of good fortune coming.

Animal Cruelty

Ian, twenty-eight, dreamed he reported his neighbor to an animal-welfare organization for cruelty to his dogs. The organization refused to come and told his neighbor that Ian had complained. The neighbor threw bricks through his window and threatened to release the dogs on him. Ian woke to the unceasing barking from next door and knew something must be done.

DREAM BACKGROUND AND MEANING

Ian lived next door to a man with six German shepherd dogs who were starved and left chained up outdoors without shelter in all weather. Ian was scared of his neighbor and the dogs, but he knew he ought to report them. However, if he did, Ian feared the neighbor would know it was Ian. Dreams can express anxieties about consequences for taking actions we know are right to protect the vulnerable.

INTERPRETATIONS AND FORTUNE-TELLING MEANINGS

If you dream of actual animal cruelty, the dream prompts you to act regardless of consequences.

If you dream of animal cruelty you have not witnessed, you may be picking up psychic distress signals from an abused creature nearby. Stay alert.

If you dream of poachers killing endangered species or cruelly treating creatures overseas, an unexpected environmental issue may impact your life.

If you dream you are rescuing cruelly treated animals, you may be called upon to protect a vulnerable person or animal in your life.

If in the dream you are running an animal-rescue center and it is your ambition, a chance will come to enter this world.

If you dream you are unhappy running an animal-rescue center, one too many needy people are demanding your time.

OUTCOME OF IAN’S DREAM

Ian made an anonymous complaint; the dogs were removed, and the neighbor was given a summons. The neighbor believes his ex-wife reported him. Animal-cruelty dreams predict we may become involved, albeit unwillingly, in an altruistic concern where we can make a difference.

Animal Forewarnings

Bruce, twenty-five, dreamed that all the stray cats and dogs ran out of town and those with owners began howling and yowling. Hours later he heard a rumble, and the earth shook. Houses and cars were destroyed, and people were hit by falling debris. He was rushing from house to house, warning people to secure their properties, but they just laughed at him.

DREAM BACKGROUND AND MEANING

Bruce had learned from his zoology studies that certain creatures reacted to impending quakes, tsunamis, and even volcanic eruptions before sensitive machines could pick up the energies. But so vivid was his dream that he knew there was danger. Dream warnings tend to be even earlier than the disturbed-animal phenomenon and occur with those who are naturally in tune with the animal kingdom.

INTERPRETATIONS AND FORTUNE-TELLING MEANINGS

If you have a dream about an impending disaster shown by strange animal behavior, you are tapping into your psychic powers. Take precautions.

If in your dream you see fish leaping out of the water, this may be a forewarning of a disaster.

If you frequently have these dreams, consider working with animals or seismic monitoring.

If you sense the dream is symbolic and not an actual warning of a disaster, your dream animals may be alerting you to an insecure situation to be avoided.

If fish are leaping from water or snakes emerging from holes but there is not the immediacy of an actual prediction, beware of a huge emotional outburst by someone close.

If in your dream you sense the animals are escaping to a particular area, that is generally a safe place.

OUTCOME OF BRUCE’S DREAM

Bruce had moved to a safer area by the time the official warnings occurred. Though everyone said it was coincidence, Bruce knew that he had acted wisely in listening to his dream. No one fully understands how animals can be aware of impending disasters, but humans who are psychically sensitive can pick up the advance warnings in dreams.

Animal Sanctuary, Rescue Pets

Serena, fifty-five, dreamed her garden was filled with rescue animals, from goats and donkeys to dogs, cats, and exotic birds. She hated the noise and the mess and went inside, barring the door. At last, to her relief, they went away.

DREAM BACKGROUND AND MEANING

A surprising dream. It had been Serena’s lifetime ambition to open an animal rescue center, and at last she had the resources. All her life she had cared for waifs and strays of the animal and human world. A dream can reveal how our desires and ideals can change over time, and they should be recognized.

INTERPRETATIONS AND FORTUNE-TELLING MEANINGS

If you dream you feel fulfilled being surrounded by animals needing care, it indicates that it may be possible to open or work at an animal sanctuary before too long.

If you are horrified at the prospect, you may be overwhelmed by the demands of others in your life.

Choosing a pet at a rescue center says your nurturing side is emerging, whether for an abandoned animal, fostering, or volunteering with children in need.

If you find a lost pet and take it home, you may be ready to add to your family, whether with a baby or a pet.

If you are pampering a rescued animal, especially if pressured to start a human family, you may certainly for now be happier adopting a furry baby.

If you dream your pet is lost and you find it in a rescue center, you may need help dealing with all the demands on you.

OUTCOME OF SERENA’S DREAM

Serena sponsored her local animal charity and made plans to travel overseas to photograph different sanctuaries for endangered species to create a blog and online resource base. Listening to dreams can alert us to what we truly want, and not what we think we ought to want.

Ant

Andrea, thirty-five, dreamed she was trying to stop flying ants from entering her home. But though she closed the windows and doors, they still found a way inside. She then realized they did not want to settle, and when she opened the doors and windows they flew away.

DREAM BACKGROUND AND MEANING

Andrea had moved back home with her children as her marriage had broken down. The house was very cramped and tempers were flaring. Andrea knew she had to move on. Should she go back to a marriage that was not working? Flying ants in dreams and actuality are queen ants looking for new mates to start colonies. They represent a chance to strike out for independence.

INTERPRETATIONS AND FORTUNE-TELLING MEANINGS

If you dream you see ants in a line carrying leaves and sticks back to their nest, you will need to cooperate with others to achieve a goal.

Ants scurrying to and fro say you have hard work ahead that will build from small beginnings.

Ants crawling everywhere in your home and over food means that you are feeling overwhelmed by small irritations or problems that have built up and need drastic action.

An abandoned anthill can indicate minor health worries you should tackle.

Killing ants that invade your home says you may have frequent unwelcome visitors, especially interfering relatives or neighbors you need to deter.

If you are trying to kill ants but fail, you may need to start conserving resources and accept the restrictions temporary frugality causes.

OUTCOME OF ANDREA’S DREAM

Andrea had been postponing decisions about the marriage, but after the dream realized action was necessary. She decided to not go back to the marriage. The house where her husband was still living was sold amicably. Andrea was able to buy a condo with a garden. Ant dreams indicate the need for action, not waiting for life to resolve itself.

Approval

Vicky, fifteen, was learning French online in her dream. She had achieved top marks and had been saving her results to show her mother, Sara. As she revealed them, someone else added twenty points to their score and Vicky dropped to sixth place. Her mother said, “Oh, you are useless at everything. I don’t know why you bother,” and went to get tea for Vicky’s young brother, David.

DREAM BACKGROUND AND MEANING

Before David was born, everything Vicky did was praised by her mother. But now everything she achieved was ignored or dismissed. Vicky had been offered a place on a special trip to France, but she did not even mention it at home. If previous approval is withdrawn in a dream, this usually reflects the reality and changes in circumstances that have pushed the dreamer off the radar.

INTERPRETATIONS AND FORTUNE-TELLING MEANINGS

If you dream of receiving approval in the form of a tangible reward at work or in a performing or creative art, you are on track to success.

If you dream regularly that your efforts are unappreciated and you give up, it’s a warning sign of becoming depressed, so find a sympathetic ear.

If you buy an item on approval with the option of returning it if not right, you may feel constantly on trial to please others.

If an official document gets a stamp or seal of approval in a dream, an application or examination will be successful.

If you hesitate in approving the actions or words of someone demanding support, you may be picking up a false front that hides ulterior motives.

OUTCOME OF VICKY’S DREAM

Vicky’s French teacher contacted Sara to ask why her star pupil was not going on the trip. Sara asked Vicky why she had not mentioned it. Vicky said her mother was no longer interested in her. Vicky’s mother explained that she found David hard to parent and felt incompetent, so she had tried, maybe too hard, to not favor Vicky. Lack-of-approval dreams reflect the dreamer’s lack of self-esteem, created by others’ withholding deserved appreciation, sometimes because of their own feelings of inadequacy.

Aquarium

Dexter, twenty-five, dreamed he was swimming in a huge tank of fish in the city oceanarium. He noticed the fish were piranha, flesh eaters, and there was a large white shark. He banged on the glass, but people were walking by and the exit door was closed. The fish were encircling him. He knew he was trapped. Dexter woke shaking but unable to call out.

DREAM BACKGROUND AND MEANING

Dexter, who was shy, had been caught by a colleague viewing pornographic sites during work time. His colleague was threatening to tell everyone, including the boss, unless Dexter paid him every week. The amounts were going up, and Dexter knew there was a trace on his computer to prove his lapse. Aquarium dreams often represent a sense of being trapped because of a lack of meaningful relationships.

INTERPRETATIONS AND FORTUNE-TELLING MEANINGS

If you dream you are trapped in a small aquarium, you are not able to freely express your emotions or may be in a restrictive love match.

If you are swimming with small sharks in a large tank in a public aquarium or are in a submerged cage in a tank of large sharks, you may long for freedom but fear the risks.

If dead fish are floating on the surface, you may need to free yourself from guilt and obligation.

If the tank has only a few or dull-colored fish, it is time to widen your social life and activities.

If there is an aquarium in your dream but you are not interested in it, you may feel detached from the lives of those around you.

OUTCOME OF DEXTER’S DREAM

Dexter realized how empty his life had become and left work without giving notice, knowing his computer would be wiped clean for the next employee. Dexter made a fresh start in his hometown’s oceanarium and is paid to swim with the fish. Aquarium dreams talk of locked potential and the need to expand horizons before boredom leads to carelessness (see “Goldfish”).

Argument, Quarrel

Betty, sixty-five, dreamed she was arguing with her best friend, Gloria, over a film Betty wanted to see. Gloria refused and said the film was garbage and had bad reviews. For once, Betty stood up for herself. Gloria became furious, abused Betty for her selfishness, and stormed off, saying the friendship was over. Betty nearly ran after her friend and apologized, as usual, but instead took herself to the cinema.

DREAM BACKGROUND AND MEANING

Betty had known Gloria since school. Gloria was always criticizing Betty, dismissing Betty’s opinions and wishes. Betty went along with the criticisms for a quiet life. Sometimes the dreamer can quarrel with someone in a dream when she would be unwilling or afraid to confront them in life (see “Shouting and Swearing”).

INTERPRETATIONS AND FORTUNE-TELLING MEANINGS

If in a dream you are quarreling with a friend, family member, or partner, you may have strong opinions or resentments that you are suppressing, even from yourself.

If you are a child quarreling with a sibling or a parent in a dream, you may have unresolved family issues, even with someone deceased.

If you do not know the person you are quarreling with in the dream, this may be an aspect of yourself in conflict with the way you are acting outwardly.

If you resolve an ongoing argument in a dream, this may be the way to resolve anger or estrangement in real life.

A dream argument can sometimes clear the air of decades of resentment if the wrong cannot be righted but you must still regularly see the person.

OUTCOME OF BETTY’S DREAM

Betty quietly stood her ground with her friend the next time they met. When Gloria tried to control Betty, first with silence and then with anger, and the silent treatment did not work, Betty left. Gloria has since stopped being so critical. Dream arguments can be a good dress rehearsal to build up the courage to speak.

Arrows

Melinda, thirty-five, dreamed she was on top of a hill in what seemed a Norman battlefield. Suddenly she saw a spear and arrows coming toward her and realized she could jump and fly away from trouble. Instantly she flew to the bottom of the hill. The spear and arrows did not touch her.

DREAM BACKGROUND AND MEANING

Melinda, a successful television presenter, was from an early age aware that she could control her dreams (see “Creative Dreaming or Dream Incubation”). This meant she was able in her dream to jump over the spears and arrows and escape from any hazards thrown her way. In dreams, we can rehearse real-life situations and, by winning in our dreams, carry that confidence into the waking world.

INTERPRETATIONS AND FORTUNE-TELLING MEANINGS

If the arrows directed toward you in a dream do not have a bow, spite or envy toward you will have no effect.

If in an archery dream your arrows are hitting the target every time, you know that you are on the right track for success and recognition.

If Cupid or Eros appears in your dreams, shooting toward someone you love or would like in your life, you are making an impression but may need to take the initiative.

If Cupid’s arrows are coming toward you and they touch you, you have an admirer or a lover who will become ever more ardent.

If you are in a medieval battle fighting with arrows, this may be a past-world dream, indicating that you should speak out against gossip and against anyone attempting to threaten your reputation or trying to tempt away your lover.

OUTCOME OF MELINDA’S DREAM

The awareness of being able to influence the outcome of a dream had proven a valuable strategy in Melinda’s life because, as she was beautiful and talented, she had experienced more than her share of dream and metaphorical arrows of spite and jealousy.

Arthritis

Rick, sixty-two, dreamed he was backing a famous singer on his guitar when his fingers seized up and he could not play a note. The singer covered for him but told Rick he would not be using him again. Rick woke, worried this could be the beginning of the end of his career.

DREAM BACKGROUND AND MEANING

Rick, a highly accomplished guitarist, was in great demand for studio work and had played with some of the biggest names in the business. Lately he had been experiencing intense pain and stiffness in his fingers when playing the guitar. His physician had diagnosed arthritis. Arthritis dreams in a person who values physical prowess above all other things can be leading the dreamer to explore alternative aspects of life.

INTERPRETATIONS AND FORTUNE-TELLING MEANINGS

If your career or business relies mainly on physical dexterity and mobility, your dreams are alerting you to consider longer-term career options.

If you dream of being temporarily or permanently incapacitated and are experiencing even mild arthritic symptoms, the dream is expressing anxiety.

If you dream of being unable to walk with arthritis, even if you have no symptoms, you may have fears of aging and incapacity generally.

If you dream someone you love has arthritis, they may be experiencing emotional difficulties they find hard to express.

If you have pain and stiffness in your fingers, knees, hips, or toes, ask yourself what unresolved resentment or sorrow is holding you back from reaching for opportunities and moving forward.

If in a dream you are being pushed in a wheelchair, you may be pressured to follow the wrong life path.

OUTCOME OF RICK’S DREAM

It was not so much a forewarning as a worst-case scenario that may not happen. However, Rick did open a studio in his extensive outbuildings for musicians to rent. Based on his reputation, he acted as an agent for the more promising and organized small music festivals. Arthritis dreams can represent anxiety or fear of change and almost always suggest expanding one’s field of expertise to develop additional skills.

Artificial Suntan

Madison, eighteen, dreamed she looked in horror in the mirror at her bright orange skin and refused to get into a limo with her friends, which was taking them to the prom. She scrubbed her face, but the hideous color remained and had even stained her dress.

DREAM BACKGROUND AND MEANING

Madison was upset because her friends had made bookings at tanning salons so they would be bronzed for the forthcoming prom. But she had been told by the salon that, because she has red hair and freckles, tanning would not work and could be dangerous. She had bought an expensive instant-tanning lotion but hesitated to apply it. Dreams about beauty treatments going wrong reflect insecurities about not fitting in with the current fashion and can be a subconscious warning.

INTERPRETATIONS AND FORTUNE-TELLING MEANINGS

If you are sitting on an exotic shore getting naturally tanned, you can with patience and perseverance attain a positive image boost in the area of life most desired.

If in a dream you see yourself incredibly glamorous and toned, are you surrounded by admirers and others equally gorgeous, or feeling isolated and acting a part?

If you dream of reacting badly to any short-term beauty treatment, you may be uncomfortable about going along with outside pressures to appear what you are not.

If you get burned from excessive sunbed treatments in the dream, changing an image fast may have negative as well as positive results.

If your new tan instantly fades, quick changes in any part of life will only be short-lived and fool no one.

OUTCOME OF MADISON’S DREAM

Madison’s boyfriend said he disliked women who used artificial enhancements and that she looked beautiful as she was. She danced all night, while her tanned friends looked too sophisticated and unapproachable.

Artificial tanning dreams, substituting an outer for inner change, present an image that may mask true charisma (see “Body Image” and “Cosmetic Surgery”).

Assassination

Lorraine, thirteen, dreamed the phone rang and a voice said, “You know what you have to do.” She took her knife and hid it in her sleeve and went to the park. In total darkness, a female figure was sitting on a park bench. Lorraine slipped the knife out of her sleeve, but the woman slumped over. Lorraine realized another assassin had reached her first.

DREAM BACKGROUND AND MEANING

Lorraine was deeply troubled by Penny, a girl in her year at school who constantly told the other girls Lorraine was trying to steal their boyfriends. Lorraine’s best friend told her to spread rumors about Penny in retaliation so Penny would know what it was like. Lorraine was very tempted.

INTERPRETATIONS AND FORTUNE-TELLING MEANINGS

If in your dream you are threatened with assassination, seek the identity of the enemy in real life and try to uncover their motives.

If you dream you are assassinating someone, you may need to be more assertive in a difficult situation and prepare your response.

If someone is trying to persuade you to join them in assassinating someone you care for, they may be causing trouble in the relationship.

If you witness a famous person being assassinated, a much-loved celebrity may become the subject of accusations by the press.

If you witness the assassination of someone who resembles you, a bad habit may need quitting, as it is damaging your lifestyle and reputation.

Dreaming of surviving an assassination says you will overcome gossip and spite.

OUTCOME OF LORRAINE’S DREAM

Lorraine realized from the dream that character assassination was not her style. Before long Penny, who had made many enemies, was falsely accused of sending anonymous threats to staff members, and Lorraine tried to help her. Assassination is not without consequences to the assassin as well as the victim, and dreams can warn when it is time to let karma take its course.

Assisted Living Facility

Maureen, eighty, dreamed she was in a spotlessly clean, empty assisted living facility. No one was around, no residents, staff, or visitors. Maureen left and walked along a grassy path to a smaller stone house with fading paint, where she was instantly made welcome. A room was ready for her and music played from the cozy lounge room.

DREAM BACKGROUND AND MEANING

Maureen was aware she needed assisted living and had narrowed the choice to two. Her daughter preferred a state-of-the-art purpose-built facility, but Maureen thought it too impersonal. Maureen’s best friend was in an older facility with small independent studios along with the care.

INTERPRETATIONS AND FORTUNE-TELLING MEANINGS

Dreams of assisted living facilities are emotional, fraught with fears and doubts, and should be shared.

If you are older but still independent and dream of being abandoned in a jail-like assisted living facility, explore different possibilities, especially if relatives are trying to influence your decision.

If you are young and having nightmares of being trapped in an assisted living facility for much older people, this reflects anxiety about the future.

If you dream of abuse toward a relative in an assisted living facility, whether they are older or disabled, these dreams may warrant careful investigation, as you may be picking up your relative’s distress.

If you are seeking care for yourself or a relative and you have recurring dreams of the same assisted living facility, try to locate it, as it will have the right energies.

If you dream of your relative being neglected in an assisted living facility, though they are still at home, check to see if they are all right.

OUTCOME OF MAUREEN’S DREAM

After the dream, Maureen had a trial month at the more homelike facility. It was filled with laughter and kindness, and Maureen moved in. Dreams may pick up unconscious signals that make one place resonate with the dreamer.

Astroturf, Artificial Turf

Ted, sixty-five, dreamed that everywhere he looked there was hill upon hill of artificial turf, smoothing over the rocky paths. People were contentedly picnicking or walking, but he hated the conformity and pseudo-perfection. He returned to his car and drove home.

DREAM BACKGROUND AND MEANING

Ted’s wife insisted that now they were older she wanted to Astroturf their huge lawn. Ted was adamant that he was not sacrificing the naturalness for the fake, even though he admitted it was harder to care for now that he had an artificial knee, but to lose his garden as well as openly acknowledge the loss of his former mobility was unthinkable. Astroturf in dreams represents replacing nature with a low-maintenance substitute at the cost of losing direct connection with the earth.

INTERPRETATIONS AND FORTUNE-TELLING MEANINGS

If in your dream a local sports stadium is covered with Astroturf, performance, competition, and results may predominate over a previously more leisurely attitude in your workplace.

If a love partner seeks to replace a living garden with artificial in the dream and you disagree, you may need to compromise over your plans and priorities in your future lifestyle.

If the dream Astroturf gets torn or develops holes, a superficial answer to a problem may prove only temporary.

If in the dream weeds start to grow up through the Astroturf, underlying issues will reemerge unless they are resolved.

If you dream of your garden being replaced with artificial grass and flowers against your will, there may be worries about your health and mobility that need acknowledging rather than resisting their effects.

OUTCOME OF TED’S DREAM

Ted compromised with his wife, as he knew he was not as able to tend the garden as he used to be. Dreams of Astroturf cast up questions of convenience versus spontaneity and are a reminder that artificial and unblemished, whether in people or life, should not be a substitute for what is genuine.

Atlantis

Juliana, forty, often dreamed she was in the lost world of Atlantis, looking up at the huge golden statue of Poseidon and walking through streets with buildings studded with precious metals and blossoming exotic fruit trees and flowers. There was a rumbling. The azure waters surrounding Atlantis flooded the land. The dream ended. Juliana never knew if she survived.

DREAM BACKGROUND AND MEANING

Juliana had possessed psychic powers from childhood and frequently dreamed of growing up in Atlantis. When she read accounts of the ancient Greek Plato and the twentieth-century visionary Edmund Cayce, the details matched her dreams. However, in adulthood she did not have the confidence to practice spiritual arts, although her adult Atlantean dreams showed her working as a healer and prophetess. If you dream regularly of Atlantis, you are connecting with a powerful inner source of wisdom and healing powers.

INTERPRETATIONS AND FORTUNE-TELLING MEANINGS

If you dream of meeting your spirit guide, one of the golden-haired wise demigod rulers, meditate or use channeled writings to recall forgotten knowledge.

If you witness the flooding of Atlantis in your dreams, you may be suppressing emotions of an actual family loss, whether recent, in childhood, or in love.

If you are with a twin soul in Atlantis, you may find them again in this life and instantly know them.

Dreaming of a daily life in Atlantis says you need to make your present life more spiritually focused to be more fulfilled.

If you practice healing, crystals, or prophecy in your dreams, let them reemerge in your present world.

OUTCOME OF JULIANA’S DREAM

Juliana realized she was not using her spiritual powers. She advertised on the Internet for others connected with Atlantis and created a magical group that shared dreams, visions, and insights into the lost world.

Whether factually accurate or not, lost worlds like Atlantis represent a state of enlightenment that the dreamer needs to work toward revealing so its wisdom is restored.

Attorney, Lawyer

Iris, fifty, dreamed she was in a courtroom being quizzed by a prosecutor about every aspect of her life. Her answers were pulled apart by the prosecutor until her head was spinning. At last, she looked directly at the prosecutor and said, “I will answer to no one.” She realized the prosecutor was the man she was about to marry.

DREAM BACKGROUND AND MEANING

Iris had escaped from a controlling marriage and had met a man through a dating site. But as they grew closer, Victor started questioning her spending and the time she devoted to her family. Increasingly, she felt on trial. The identity of a prosecutor or defense lawyer may alert you to who judges and who helps.

INTERPRETATIONS AND FORTUNE-TELLING MEANINGS

If in your dream you consult an attorney or lawyer, read the small print or take advice before signing a contract or finalizing an agreement.

If you dismiss a dream lawyer, consider if you have the right representation in any actual court case or tribunal.

If you see your lawyer taking money from your adversary, it does not mean dishonesty; rather, they may be extending the case to make extra money.

If you dream you are the lawyer arguing a marital, workplace, or official dispute and one does not exist in real life, this alerts you to hidden dissension, resolvable through logic and reason.

If you dream a lawyer in court accuses you and you have no defense counsel, you may be feeling unnecessarily guilty about an official, workplace, family, or marital matter.

A prosecutor questioning your personal life suggests a partner or family member who may be overcritical or playing the guilt card to control you.

OUTCOME OF IRIS’S DREAM

Iris realized her trusting, pliable nature attracted controlling men to her. She ended the relationship with Victor and is now careful whom she dates. Dream attorneys reveal a great deal about our own feelings of responsibility or others’ problems.

Auction

William, fifty-eight, dreamed he was at an auction, bidding for jewelry for his antique jewelry store. When the auction began, he was captivated by an elaborate jet-black Victorian necklace worn by mourners. He bid far more than he knew it was worth and woke happy.

DREAM BACKGROUND AND MEANING

William had recently auctioned family jewelry he had inherited, which had belonged to his great-grandmother, who he hardly knew. But afterward he regretted it. He inquired on the auction circuit and tracked down the buyer, another dealer, who had split the collection. For William, auctions had always been about profit and not sentiment. Now he was wondering about his family, with whom he had lost touch. Auction dreams are often signs of increasing profit through buying and selling or financial speculation and contain an element of chance.

INTERPRETATIONS AND FORTUNE-TELLING MEANINGS

Bidding for goods or a house in an auction says you should sometimes be prepared to take more risks in daily life and business.

If you are auctioning unwanted goods, focus on profit rather than sentiment.

If you dream you are forced to auction your goods, your achievements are undervalued by others. Do not underrate what you have achieved and still can achieve.

If you pay more than an item is worth at an auction, something may be of emotional rather than financial value.

If an item does not reach its reserve price at an auction, the dreamer should be prepared to compromise.

If you withdraw from auctioning your goods in the dream, this is not the right time to quit a venture.

OUTCOME OF WILLIAM’S DREAM

After the dream, William trawled auction sites and found the memorial necklace. He bought it and contacted the family, who he had not seen for years. He gave the necklace to a niece who loved Victoriana for her twenty-first birthday, and she is now learning her uncle’s business. Auction dreams sometimes reflect conflict between money and emotions, and emotions can win.