Dream of steps, apples, money and blood.

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Please, can you translate my dream? 

I was walking in my dream and then from my right side I saw steps and they went uphill, on the last step there was a church, so I went up to light a candle, outside were people who were also lighting candles.

Again from my right side, a man spoke to me (like he was leading me) and then we went a few meters on up a dusty road, then suddenly I stopped and on the ground appeared a 1000 euros banknote and then I saw my brother. Next, I saw an apple and a needle, the man who was walking with me told me to put some blood on the apple and then he planted it in the ground. I asked him why he buried it, I wasn't hurt but I put blood on the apple and he planted it, he didn't tell me why. 

The voice later said that if I do that I will have a lot of money.

The steps up the hill symbolise the steps you need to take in order to rise to a higher status or to be a better person, sometimes it is an uphill struggle. 
The church at the top of the steps explains that by keeping each step that you make a positive one you will reach the place that is really meant for your life.  

I would say because of the church symbol this will relate to your spiritual life.      Perhaps you can develop yourself as a guide for the people around you. Do you somehow work with young people? you can encourage them to be the best that they can be, as well and pass on good knowledge to them to help them on their journey.

The man in your dream who stands by your side is probably your own spiritual guide who is trying to guide you in the right direction and lead you to make the right steps.

Lighting a candle is usually done as a mark of remembering someone who has been before you, someone that you look up to and who you wish was around you right now. It can also be used to symbolise the 'guiding light'.

The money that you received in your dream is a symbol of spiritual currency, it is connected to your own self worth and describes when you have earned the right to teach others. Your skills and attributes should be shared because they are worth something to other people.  

The blood on the money could be telling you to put hard work in before you can see the rewards of your hard work, it comes from a saying where you have to put blood and sweat 'in' before you can get the rewards 'out'. It could also represent blood money, money that was gained by hurting someone else.

Blood can also symbolise the life force within us all. 

The apple simply shows how if you put the hard work in, the result will be fruitful and will grow into something more long-lasting. An apple tree shows strength and longevity and sometimes money does grow on trees. 

This is a really nice dream, sent to help you in your endeavors and projects. 

Good luck to you my friend in whatever it is you are going to do.

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Dreams About Death

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Dreams about death and dying usually happen at a time when the dreamer is at a junction in their life, when they are on the edge of change. Death tends to represent the death of a certain time or phase, it is often used to describe when 'something' is coming to an end, what that something is will be personal to the individual or even to someone close to them. Death is very rarely an omen for a physical death, teenagers often dream about dying when they are going through puberty or leaving adolescence and letting go of their childish carefree life, in other words, it's their childhood that has died. 

Parents might also dream about their child dying and this is also to do with allowing your child to become an adult, perhaps you feel like you are losing them and you feel like they are not your child anymore.

Quite often when parents dream about losing a young child it can be because their fears over their child are taking over their rational thinking, it is common for overly protective parents to experience this type of dream, which makes their fears even worse. The death dream is more aimed at helping you to deal with your fears and learn to negotiate childhood health issues along with your overactive imagination in a more logical sensible way.
If you have a death dream and you know that you are overly anxious about people dying around you, just remember that the dreams are happening so that your fears can be explored and overcome. You have to learn to control your fears so you can control your anxiety levels. 

When you try to translate and understand the meaning of your death dreams think about what is coming to an end rather than who! 

I am a foster carer and I care for newborn babies. I met my partner in 2013 and he is a single dad of two kids, anyway I get about 2hrs sleep at most in one night with the children I have at the moment. I can't make any sense of the dream detailed below and wondered if you can help me work it out. 

Bare in mind that I have never in the past nor now wanted to get married but I had the weirdest dream. 

I was looking down from above, watching me and my boyfriend get married, we both looked perfect, the sun was shining and the love we felt for each other was amazing but then suddenly I faded away to nothing and he was sitting there really sobbing. There was a girl with her arm around him, trying to comfort him but he didn't know she was there. He just kept shouting 'No'. Apparently, I had died just before we were due to get married and he was sitting there imagining what our day would have been like. I was watching him from above but it was also me with my arm around him. I was telling him it will be ok but he couldn't hear me or even know I was there.

I doubt your dream is a premonition dream if that's what you were thinking, its more likely a dream to make you consider your life choices at the present time. You say you rarely get a decent sleep and I would say that you are worn-out, carrying on like this will be detrimental to your health because you have no time left for peace and rest which is of course, vital for good health. Carrying on as you are will take its toll on you and your relationship.  

Your dream seems to be saying that if you do not slow down and give yourself and your partner some decent time together you could regret it later, he would not want to be without you and you would not want to be without him, therefore changes will need to be made. I am not saying that if you keep on going the way you are you could die, please don't think that I am, but sometimes we have these dreams to make us count out loud the things that really matter. 

The dream has happened to help you make changes.

Getting married can symbolise unions made and not always an actual marriage. You are obviously a wonderful person who cares for everyone else but you also need to put yourself first as well. Marriages are about finding balance and unless you find some balance things will become unhinged. 

When we die in a dream it can be because the life we know is ending. The new life will mean you have to give up certain other aspects because you just can't do it all, you have to prioritize now to ensure you don't lose what's important to you later.

Lately, I’ve been dreaming about death. I have had two dreams about death in one way or another. In the first dream there was a friend of mine that was found dead. People said he had committed suicide. He had been for a walk in a forest but he got lost and died of cold and fear apparently. 

There was a funeral for him but I didn't want to go, eventually, I went but then I left, running out crying. I didn't want people to see me there, I felt ashamed.

Later, I went back to his open coffin and I could see his face. I was sad and ashamed at the same time.  

Suddenly I saw him breathing and me and someone else went to help him. We took off a mask that was not letting him breathe and he came back to life.

Dreaming that someone has died happens when something has come to end, it could be a friendship that didn't progress or develop.

He was walking in a forest and got lost, which can describe how he feels lost, he can't see the wood for the trees, or in other words he cant see his way through a situation or his current circumstances. He hasn't found direction in his life and doesn't know how to move forward, perhaps he had his heart set on a certain route but things didn't go to plan. Maybe its time to be the friend he needs now. 

The cold and fear he died from in your dream are typical symbols for loneliness (cold) and the fear is of the unknown!

The guilt you felt in the dream might come from you feeling as though you have let him down in some way.

In the dream, you went to his open coffin and you were sad and ashamed, maybe you feel that you have done something wrong and not supported him. Then you realised that he was breathing and tried to save him again.  

The mask that was not letting him breath is symbolic for what he is hiding, perhaps his true feelings. This is suffocating him so he needs to get it out into the open so that he can breathe easy and start to live again, you and his friends are helping him to move forward.

This is a type of rescue dream where you are trying to save your friend, this just means helping someone and not that he is going to die, you too can learn from this type of dream because learning to move forward when things do not turn out as you want them to is a hard lesson to learn.

In another dream I was outside my childhood house, not letting my dog get in because he was being aggressive with another one of our dogs. Suddenly he took our other little dog from the neck and carried him far away. I was really upset, thinking he had killed him (the little dog was a dog I had when I was a child and I loved him) so after a few hours I went to look them.

I took a lonely path where there were people working with machines, then I got to a house where nobody was home and I went inside the inner yard and between some shrubbery, there was a little grave. I dug it up and found a little coffin and inside was my little dog, dead.I took him with me and suddenly he started to breathe so I took my dog home and thought he smelled bad (Like soil and death) and he needed a bath.

This dream uses the dog scenario to help you understand the meaning, animals help us understand personalities, the bigger dog is dominant and he is using his power over the smaller vulnerable dog, this might be trying to relay the message that a dominant person is trying to take control of a vulnerable person, you will have to decide who this is appropriate for, this may well link with your past, being as the dream was set in the past.

Last night I dreamt of a relative (whose husband recently passed away) I was looking at pictures of her in colour. (It was like a post mortem picture) She had also passed away and that picture was a token reminder of her. I remember the eyes in that picture were quite rounded and big.

This dream explains how a part of your friend died when she lost her partner; the photograph captures a moment in time that cannot be recaptured. Your friend cannot turn back time; you have to remember how she was before she lost her husband. 
The eyes are a portal to the soul and because you noticed how big her eyes were in the photograph you are noticing how big and strong her soul is, much stronger than you realise. 

You are stronger than you realise. 

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Dream Of A Bird In The Hand

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In my dream, I was swinging gently on a rope-type swing, on a porch. Everything was quiet, and I was comfortably moving back and forth (almost like I was at peace). Then a bird flew towards me, under me, then back up to land on the back of my right hand. It was black coloured, with bright yellow wings. It didn't really look at me, made no noise, but just sat there. I was shocked at first, to see the bird but I wasn't afraid. And when it landed on my hand I didn't really feel anything bad I just waited to see what it was trying to tell me. Then I woke up. 

There is no major event happening in my life right now, nothing different than the usual, so I'm not sure if this is a message or just a dream. I think it may be about something I've been going through the last few years, but I don't know for sure. 

My thought is that:

The bird represents something I've been hoping for and because it was flying, the hope is ongoing. The swing is about my uncertainty of what I believe, swinging back and forth, as I can't really decide what is best (to pursue the hope or let it go). The bird was black with yellow wings. I think this means that even though I have doubts (black) about my hopes, they are good and positive ones to have (yellow wings). The goodness carries the hope? And since the bird landed on my right hand, I think that implies that those hopes are the "right" ones to believe in. And because I felt no fear, just comfortable and curious to see what the bird (my desires/hopes) was going to lead to, I don't feel that the dream was in any way a warning away from pursuing my hopes. Instead, I feel that I should stop swinging back and forth with uncertainty and doubt, and follow those hopes wherever they may lead. 

Thank you for your email it really makes a change to receive an enquiry coupled with your own interpretation that in truth is as beautifully translated as any that I could give you.

I have always maintained that we are our own best interpreter because only we know our own circumstance, past and present and I try hard to teach people to trust their own instincts in understanding what a dream is trying to convey. With this said I will, of course, interpret the symbols and you will see that you are amazingly accurate in with your own ideas.

The rope swing comes up a lot in dreams and as you have mentioned represents the way in which we swing back and forth with our thoughts and feelings. These swinging dreams happen when we are not quite ready to move on or forward with something.  

Swings highlight indecision or the inability to let go and choose a new direction. 

Birds are quite often used in dream language to bring us a message of some kind, sometimes from the spirit world if you are open to such a notion, they often bring a message of peace and of new beginnings, like the Noah's ark story where a bird brings a message that the storm is over and there is new safe ground to be had, sometimes the message is exactly that, the storm is over and you must begin again on fresh new ground.  

Colour is useful when finding symbolic translations and black is often used to describe negative aspects from the past that you may have encountered, black although seen as a negative colour does hold within in all the colours combined so can symbolise mixed energies which sometimes creates depression. The bright yellow wings of the bird in your dream are a way to show you that you must overshadow or overcome the negative with the vibrancy and rejuvenation of the sunny yellow. 

This dream is about you healing on the inside so that you can progress in your relationships, spiritually or both. Your desires, dreams and hopes are all reliant upon you being able to move forward from past traumas and pain. 

I must also remind you of the saying "A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush" in other words: what is real is worth so much more than what is imaginary.

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Dreams of the moon, elevators and moving on.

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I dreamt of a full moon and that I was with my daughter in a glass elevator and it did lift us up but then put us down in a different country, Australia.

Another dream I had in the same week is that my ex-husband wanted me back even though in reality there is no indication from him that this is his wish. And it certainly wouldn't be mine either.

The next dream was at my last home where there are very beautiful trees, but in my dream, they were completely cut down. And I remember thinking in the dream, that I will never go back as even those trees are down and the place is ugly now.

Then last night and again on Saturday morning I dreamt several times, again and again, number 16 and It was very clearly said in the dream, is this number significant? I have to find out what it means.

Please, can you help me as it feels like there is a link between all the dreams as all the dreams have been very clear. 

The full moon sheds a distorting glow over your affairs so all is not as it seems. When there is a full moon emotions usually run high, and are muddled/confused. 

You and your partner may be clear about the break-up but perhaps it is the home and all the other things you shared that are missed. The shared friends, family and experiences will often pull people back together even when the relationship has truly ended. Letting go of all those things even when you are both sure you do not want to be together is equally as hard. The trees being cut down in your old home explains this really well. The growth and development  that you made together was cut down before it had time to mature. Trees symbolise the family, as in the family tree. You both miss being part of a family but realise you can't go back now. 

The glass elevator is trying to give you an all-round view of a situation that is going on around you, when it is going up it means that you are being lifted up out of your problems so that you can understand what is going with more clarity. It also highlights going up in the world. 

The elevator landing in another country simply describes how you are heading towards unknown territory, or your life is going in a direction that it hasn't been before, you are starting a new journey and experiencing new things. 

Going down in an elevator shows describes how you have come back down to earth and realise that you must start again, fresh and new and follow the new direction that your life is taking. Your daughter is on this journey with you.

All this might be to do with moving on from your ex-husband, you look back just to check that there is no chance of you getting back together and in your dream you see that the trees are not growing anymore, this means that the growth from your relationship has ended and you cannot go back, there is no more to be gained from keep looking backwards. 

Your dreams are definitely telling you its time to move forward now, there is nothing left but dead wood. You must not let a new relationship be hindered by your old one. The ugliness of the old home is symbolic for the bad times that you had in the past. Australia being new ground means you are moving into a new phase of life and should be excited for the future and what you can make of it. You need to conquer new territories, and it may feel like your world has turned upside down.  

The number 16 must be important for you personally and maybe you just need to wait and see what the future brings regards this. It is an even number which brings balance to you. 8 is a number of balance and this is doubled for you. 

More Elevator translations 

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Baby Dreams, feeding a baby

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(See babies in B dreams)

Animals in A Dreams

Babies being born in a dream will usually represent something that is born from your own hard work and perseverance. This could be anything really from an idea that you have, which starts as a spark and then grows into something of more value, too of course a real live baby. 

Babies represent something that needs to be nurtured and looked after, they require input and energy from you and this represents the effort that you must put into an idea or project in order for it to grow and develop. 

Feeding a baby in a dream simply helps you to acknowledge that you have to feed and nurture something for it to grow, feeding your idea or project etc. 

Giving birth in a dream links your idea or project with the real world and describes the act of delivering your ideas and making them happen.

All this comes from the saying “It’s my baby” in that I will protect, look after and nurture this until such a time that it can survive on its own. There is also love, blood and sweat involved in the process of taking care of what you have created. If this does turn out to be symbolic for an actual baby, the symbolism will still hold up and be equally valid. 

It is rare in dreams that a baby represents an actual baby, although of course this dream can be literal in its meaning, I have met people who have dreamt of having a baby or being pregnant and then found this to be true, but to be honest the translation is the same because the real baby will demand the same amount of input from you and the same amount of love, nurture and care as any idea or project that you wish to develop. Therefore dreaming of giving birth to a baby could also be a premonition dream.

I had a dream that I was bottle feeding my baby and I saw things floating in his bottle, so I decided to have a look at the powder used to make the milk and I saw that there were beetles, giant flies, bear feet and claws in it. I was sifting through it looking at all the things at the bottom.

This type of dream is typical for a new mum, babies come to us so pure and new, they are innocent and so so lovable all of them. Have you ever looked at a baby and thought I wish you could stay this adorable and pure of heart all your life and wish that they never have to experience anything bad or hurtful. Well, I think your dream is helping you to acknowledge that this world is a harsh and nasty one sometimes. We can't protect our children from all the things that life dishes up to them. To be honest it wouldn't be right to protect them from everything anyway, wrap them in cotton wool and lock them away from harm. They have come here to experience, the same as us and experience they will. They will have their heart broken and clawed at, they will experience the negative and the positive of being in love. 

The bear claws describe anything that can cause hurt, the flies eat up the negativity and yet we don't like them do we, no one likes to experience negative things, but it is these things that make us human, these experiences that help us grow and become an all-rounded loving individual. 

The beetles symbolise protection from negativity, you wish to protect your beautiful baby from all the negative things that life will dish up. This dream is helping you understand that protecting a young one from life itself is impossible, any mother or father will tell you this. 

Coincidentally, all the symbols you have mentioned have duo meanings because each one stands to represent the positive and negative bringing balance. Bears are seen as a protective force in the positive translation like the mother and father, they also symbolise strength and protection available from someone stronger, bigger and wiser. Bears are also a force to be reckoned with and can be used to symbolise an overbearing person in its negative form.

Bugs are disliked and seen as a negative symbol but they actually consume negativity and leave positivity. They can represent minor aggravations and we all know life is full of these, flies eat the bad and leave the good. Beetles are also disliked and are viewed as pests but they were worshipped by the ancient Egyptians, they recycle decay and were used to protect ancient tombs and the residents within.  

The nurture you give your child will always come under attack from outside influences but you will have to be stronger, bigger and wiser and it will be your positive care, love and influence that will nourish your child. 

Welcome to parenthood! 

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