Did I Just Meet God?This was an unusually short dream for me. I stood in front of a very large human shaped figure with no features, no hair, no face, no fingers. It was completely white (gleaming) and smooth. I knew it was alive, e.g. and knew the entity was neither male nor female but it felt more male towards the end. The entire figure was covered in 1" x 1" squares of "holograms" - each hologram or picture was a moving view into a different place (like movies of life happening somewhere else). Being covered in 1" square movies didn't take away from the solidness of the figure tho and each view was positive in some way (and kind of shiny). It never spoke, and I never spoke (I was in complete awe and couldn't think of a single question). I wasn't frightened but I felt like maybe I should be. It was very powerful but I just wanted to hang out with this person or at least nearby. Then the dream ended and I woke up wondering who I had just met ...

female/IL, United States

Response

Reflect on your experiences during the 24 to 48 hours prior to having this dream.  You should be able to identify an outstanding realization or awareness that relates to seeing a greater connectedness with the whole universe, or to a new perspective on life, or connectedness that stimulated awareness of many qualities or ways of looking at yourself. 

You may have realized that everything your do affects others and everything others do affects you, or you might have noticed that the qualities you appreciate in other people are the same qualities you have built and understand within your Self. 

To continue your study of dreams you can visit a School of Metaphysics branch in Chicago, Palatine, Urbana, or Bolingbrook, Illinois.  Call the Chicago branch of the School of Metaphysics at 773-427-0155 to the center nearest you.

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MOUSE IN THE HOUSE           

I have noticed a mouse in the house, and I don't want to injure or kill it.  I figure if I keep things clean, no garbage, it will go elsewhere for food.  Some time passes by and I walk into a room and there are many medium sized rats scurrying around.  My cat Leo comes into the room and tries to hunt them down but they get away.  Leo is frustrated and meowing loudly.  I feel that this rodent problem might have been given permission to invade my home because I was reluctant to get rid of the mouse.

female/PA, United States

Response

Animals in dreams symbolize habits.  In this dream your mind becomes filled with habits; doubt, worry, habitual agreeability or passivity, whatever it may be it is something you now practice without conscious thought.  The particular animal chosen is a specific picture, so you can look at the type of animal to help you identify what the habits are.  It would aid you to become more assertive in the way you think.  The habitual attitude that started this experience is one you are aware of, so remember; awareness is the first step to making a change. 

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FATHERS FUNERAL

My Father passed away in March, from secondary causes due to renal failure, he was very sick for about two years before he died. My dream is an occuring dream that happens about once a week, starting about about one week after my Father died.

I am at his funeral, seeing him in his coffin. The funeral serive is either underway or in the process of getting started, When my Father's body either starts to move, breathe, cough, jerk, ect.... anything to indicate that he really isnt totally dead.  It freaks me out, and I find myself questioning the fact if he is really dead or if there is some little hope that we can bring him back alive.  There are many things that are different in each dream, like it's always at a different church, and location.  In one dream my father started to cough, sat up, jumped out of the coffin, stood right in front of me, then melted (like  the wicked witch on Wizard of Oz) into a pool of liquid. That dream really upset me.  In another dream, before he died, I was prepareing him, plucking his eyebrows and getting him all ready for his death. Last night, I drempt that again, as always he was in his coffin and the priest and funeral director was taking his coffin to put it in the ground, then my Father started to move just a little, like he was just asleep, I went over there and felt that he had a pulse, I started to suggest that he might be alive, not to bury him yet, but no one heard me or either ignored me. If anyone can help me figure out what all this means, it would be great.  I have been wanting to dream about my Father since he passed, but I hate having these dreams, I wish I would just have one nice dream (where he's not dead or dying) about him.

female/CO, United States

Response

This dream, like all your dreams is about you.  Your father was one of your first major authority figures.  He therefore represents a way you direct your mind that you have practiced for a long time.  Identify your father’s major characteristic and this will give you insight into how you are viewing your inner authority.  Death in a dream is change, so this dream is a very significant message saying that you have not yet finalized a major shift in how you view your own authority.

There is still some way of holding on to the past and it is important to let go so you can move forward in your thinking and in your actions.  If you have regrets in any form, whether this be in your relationship with your father, a past job experience or something of this nature, it is important to allow yourself to release, to forgive and to allow new ways into your life.

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TALK TO ME

My daddy passed away 15 yrs. ago and we were very close. I keep having dreams where he is alive again and i'm waiting at home for him to arrive, but he never does even though he is supposed to. Or I call him on the phone and he doesn't answer or just says i'll be home soon. Sometimes there are lots of family members around and i'm never able to get close to my daddy or talk to him because of all the people. Everytime I walk toward him, he walks away to talk to someone, not in the way that he is rejecting me though. I still live in his house, which is where I lived with my daddy too until he passed, but I remained here, as he left the house to me. I've lived here since I was 3 yrs. old. Could that have anything to do with it? Please help me figure this out.Thank you.

female/TX, United States

Response

Dreams are messages from the subconscious mind in the form of pictures.  These messages provide feedback on the previous day’s experience, reflecting everything from thoughts and attitudes to emotions and actions.  Whenever you dream of parents in a dream, they represent your own inner authority, what you know inside yourself or the part of you that’s connected to your highest potential as an individual. 

Your interactions with your father in your dreams relate your relationship with your own inner authority.  In this case, there’s a desire to connect with this part of you, however, the connection isn’t completely made.  Often times you find him close by, which shows that you’re close to connection with this part of you.  Here are some exercises that might help with connection with your father in dreams.

Take out a sheet of paper, and begin listing your strengths, whether they are spiritual, mental, emotional, or physical.  After you’ve written them down, read them everyday.  Affirming the strengths you have you help you identify with a deeper part of you that strives to fulfill dreams, desires, and ideals of the type of person you want to become.

Then, take out another sheet of paper, and write down the type of person you want to become.  Do you want to be a more loving and compassion person, a diplomatic and friendly person, or a determined and concentrated one?  Identifying and then forming a picture of your ideals will help strengthen the connection with your inner authority.  This will show up in your dreams as finally being able to speak with your father.

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CAR CRASH TURNS HOUSE INTO ACCORDION

We were trying to help my neighbor, *D, move into a condo.  There was furniture loaded in the back of a truck.  I brought out three small beautiful pieces and didn't want to put them in the open back so put them in the truck in the back window.  One was a carved elephant and one was a intricate temple.  A woman's house had a car crashed into it.  The front was in the living room of the house and the back was looked like an accordion. There was a big wrecker starting to pull it out. *D wasn't hurt but my body was black and blue and I was very sore.  We couldn't get past so we stopped to go inside and look. We were looking at lighting fixtures on the floor and they were very unusual and fragile.  One was long,white and crystal like and the other was intricate flowers.  *D got a call from her duaghter to bring her food... she didn't want to but did.  Got some carryout for her an d then gave macaroni to the rest of us..I didn't like it.  She was not happy.  I was planting flowers and putting faces on some of them and *D got very mad.  So I went to clean them off and they turned into geese and ran.  I almost caught them...I could feel my heat palpating (in reality) and the our telephone rang in the middle of the night and woke me up.

female/WI, United States

Response

This dream is a good example of how helpful knowing the people in your dream is to the interpretation of the dream itself.  Dreams give feedback on the dreamer’s thoughts, feelings, and actions form the previous day.  It describes these through the images in the dream, where every person, place, and thing in a dream represents parts of the dreamer.

The primary action of the dream is assisting your neighbor *D to move from her house that’s been damaged to a condo.  In dreams, people represent parts of you also known as aspects.  If you were to describe *D in one word, how would you describe her to someone else?  Is she humorous, considerate, willful, or practical?  How you describe her will give you some indication of what quality or aspect she represents in yourself.  This dream describes the movement of this particular aspect of yourself  from one state of mind (house) to another (condo).  For example, if you see *D as being very loving, this dreamt would describe how you view and/or use love in a different way.  Perhaps through a conversation or unexpected situation in your life (like the car crashing into your neighbor’s house in the dream), stimulated you to think differently of what love is, how it’s used, and how to extend it into different parts of your life. 

For further exploration, once you understand what she represents in you, write down everything you think about that particular quality in yourself.  Is it useful?  If so, how?  If not, why not, and what would you replace it with?  How can you see the quality being used differently?  How has that quality in you changed throughout your life?  These are questions you can ask yourself that will help you understand consciously the action with the mind. 

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SHE’S IN MY DREAMS

My mom passed away this past Christmas morning & I have yet to have any dreams of her since her death, where before it was not unusual for her to be in my dreams.  My sister tells me she dreams about her all the time. In my dream I am in my hometown church, and I go to sit down in the pew, but I have to step over this woman who has been battling cancer.  As I step over her (she is sitting, & I am trying to get past her in the pew) she comments on my tanned legs.  I thank her, and as I stepped past her, she leaned down to look at my leg, and kissed my leg.  I laugh & say "I didnt mean to make you kiss my leg!"  She laughs and says, "wow...silky smooth too!!"  So, as mass begins, we both stand up and I look behind me to see my mom walking in the church.  I rolled my eyes & said "what are you doing here!?"  She relies "Aw..yes, my number 1 fan!"  I turn back to the front and begin singing my favorite hymn "Here I Am Lord", I then turn back to her & say "I have missed you soo much..."  and she said "Yea, I know..." and then I woke up.  Was this my mom contacting me, or is this just my imagination?

female/MO, United States

Response

It is very possible for loved ones, especially those who have passed away recently, to visit you in your dreams.  Universally, dreams are messages from the subconscious mind that give feedback on the previous days experiences.  Visitation dreams are special dreams in which the dreamer experiences contact with an actual person in a dream.

How you communicate with your mom will be the greatest indicator of whether or not your experiencing a visitation dream.  If the communication was more mind-to-mind and telepathic, then you’ve experienced a visitation dream.  One way to see this is to see whether or not your mom’s lips were moving or not.  If they weren’t, then the communication was more mind-to-mind.  If her lips were moving, then she would represent a deeper part of yourself, your own inner authority, and your relationship with that part of you, because dreams universally represent the dreamer’s thoughts, attitudes, feelings, and actions in a picture form.