Dreams about visiting other countries

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I dreamt that I was with my family and we flew to Italy. It was snowing as we flew and I was scared. The snow was gripping onto the wings of the airplane. Then we landed and walked around Italy. In particular a food market. Then we got back on the plane and flew to Russia. In Russia we hired a car and got overtaken by an Austin Allegro with four black bears in it. One was driving!! and the other three were being aggressive to us.

When we dream of going to other countries it can describe the journey into the unknown, especially if you haven't been to the country before, you are treading a road that you haven't travelled before. Countries are used to represent unknown aspects of yourself or of experiences that are new and perhaps exciting. 
Travel dreams mostly relay the earthly or spiritual journey and dealing with new obstacles or making headway in other areas of your life. Your dream describes how you are starting out on this new journey and luckily your family are on board which is always a good thing. 

Food represents how fulfilled you feel from what you are getting out of life, it is a symbol for the things that are available to help you feel happy and contented. Being presented with a huge mix of food is a way of telling you that you have a lot of different choices available right now and you are on the market for something new. You can choose to buy-in to these offers or pass them by if you want to. 

The market is used as a symbol when you are searching for something to help you feel complete or more satisfied, this can relate to work, perhaps spiritual work or in finding a new direction or role in your life that helps you to be happy and contented. We can feel happy with our family and our relationships but discontented with our work life for example.  

The snow is another symbol of inertia, the cold represents a lack of feeling and this will also link with the discontentment you feel with a section of your life, most likely work as I said.

Italy should represent a warm place to be, but alas it is snowing, so in places where you should be content, you are actually lacking in warmth and sunshine. Then you go to Russia where it's even colder, this shows how if you do nothing to change your current direction it will only get worse. You must make new choices and instigate changes to the things that have lost their ability to keep you happy, perhaps you get no satisfaction from your work and it is time to take a different route. Your family will be on board if you include them. 

The Austin Allegro car does seem to have been added to provide some humour to your dream, in other words, if you don't get a move on and kick start these changes there will people who will take over and you will lose your ability to make your own choices.    

Animals are often used in dreams to represent people's personalities and the four bears might have been chosen specifically to symbolise aggressive people who are overbearing and playing a part in your life at the moment. 

Bears can sometimes symbolise aggression, that's why they were angry bears and they are also used to describe the dominant mother type personality. 

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Dream of being lost, at school or work.

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(See Exams in E/School in S)

(Going back to school)

I often dream that I am lost, or I am at school or work, in a place that I haven't been to before.
I'm also late for work or haven't been to work?

There are spiritual undertones to this dream because being lost is a way to help you understand how much there is to learn regards being 'found' in the spiritual sense. School and work also relay the same message in that we are all here to learn and experience. We grow and develop through experience. 

We dream of places that we haven't been to before when it is time to move forward and welcome pastures new, not always new places but more likely new phases of life, or moving in a new direction. Dreaming about places you haven't been before often describes new horizons for you.

School and work could possibly represent spiritual work, but remember that when you care for other people this is still spiritual work. When you dream that you are late for work or haven't been to work it is because you have neglected an aspect of yourself, perhaps the spiritual side of yourself, maybe you have concentrated all your energies on earthly physical things and have not given attention to other types of work that needs doing. 

I have known people to dream of not attending work when they are not happy with some aspects of the work that they do. Although physically you have to go to work, in your dreams you are choosing to stay away. Not wanting to go to work in a dream is often a direct hint at not enjoying the work you are doing in your life, there is an overlap because you are failing to make changes which will remedy the unhappiness. You have to deal with the fear of the unknown in order to make much needed changes. When things are that bad the unknown is probably better. 

Being lost is often used to symbolise the feeling of not knowing which way to turn, or of not knowing the way forward, quite often this happens when people are spiritually lost. To find yourself and uncover facets that you have never taken notice of is a way for you to move forward and become an all-rounded individual. 

These types of dreams continue to play out throughout our lives because we never stop learning or developing. Being lost in a dream is common for everyone, it hints at the ability to move forward when you can't cope with life, or with a life challenge.  Finding your way back is a symbol of being able to find your way back to normality, to feeling normal again after an emotional upheaval. 

Being late for work is a common dream whereby you aren't able to get to work for one reason or another. This is simple, it means that you are letting things get in the way of your spiritual development or you are putting off the inevitable. There is work to be done but you just keep letting other things get in the way. Life tends to get in the way of our dreams and wishes, the work you are supposed to be doing is getting pushed aside for daily routines. Any of these things could be true, or all of them. Working on yourself is equally as important and necessary as the work you do for other people.  

When we dream that we can't get things done on time it is because we feel overwhelmed by the demands of life and the responsibilities we have, there are to many expectations on us and we feel that we are going to let people down. Trying to get to work or school on time describes the pressure we feel at having to keep up with the demands put upon us, we know that some things have to be done and our inability to arrive on time in a dream happens when we feel like we always have to answer to someone, dance to their drum or keep pace with their expectations.

Another reason for lateness in dream language is because we feel like we are running out of time to achieve our dreams. 

Going to work or school but not doing any actual work

This type of dream can describe inertia, or lack of progress for whatever reason, its common when someone is frustrated or bored with their work, it also happens when you procrastinate a lot. Instead of finding a new interesting type of work, you plod along because its easy. The work you do doesn't provide any challenge for you but you feel obligated to carry on anyway but remember that your only real obligation is to yourself. 

Obstacles to your learning and achievement!

The school of life!

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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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