Natalia Snider is a certified dream practitioner living in Carbondale. She works with people’s dreams and imaginations to facilitate self-healing. Every month, she will analyze someone’s dream in The Sopris Sun or online. Anyone can submit a dream for personal analysis or inclusion in this column by visiting: www.dreamhealings.com

July 2025 -Dream 

I’ve had this dream many times. It’s a reoccurring dream that I’ve had since I was young and its disturbing. I haven’t had it in a while but I recently visited my sister and had the dream that night. In the dream my sister is choking me and I can’t breathe or speak. I’m trying to tell her this and she just keeps telling me “you're fine!” and “it’s fine!”. I never die in the dream, because I wake up before I die, but I think if the dream continued it would end in that way. I get along fine with my sister apart from those words that she does say to me all the time when we are together when I have an issue. My question is, when we get along so well why would I have such a disturbing dream about her? It makes me feel weird every time I have it.  

Interpretation 

This dream is a visual representation of your energy bodies and how they are interacting with each other in the energy field. You have this dream often because this is often happening in the energy field with her. There are many reasons this dream might have started, but to dive deeper into that would be best suited for a one-on-one session where we can re-enter this dream safely and privately. So instead lets dive into whats happening in your energy field.  
We often forget how much our energy affects others. This is the most poignant take away from this dream. We can send energy to others in many ways and most of us do this many times a day unconsciously. We can send energy in the form of thoughts, emotions, actions, inactions, and of course verbally and physically. Thoughts can be the most subtle form yet they are the most used form. Your dream is a visual representation of thoughts that are being sent to you.
When our thoughts are loud enough they generally are sent with or without our conscious agreement to send them. This means that your sister may not be meaning to send you this thought. A “loud” thought means when a thought is in the forefront of your mind and often has an inner dialogue narration to go along with it. Even loud dreams can be sent.
Picking up on energy sent in thoughts is just as unconsciously easy -for better or for worse. Have you ever thought about someone and then they called or texted? This is a perfect example of picking up on the thought message that is being sent loudly from someone else. They are thinking ‘I need to reach out to this person’ loudly and therefore send that message to you energetically just as they pick their phone up to call.
When we are unaware that energy is being sent to us it often ends up coming to us in a dream afterwards. This is because we go through the processing of the days events in our dreams with what happened to our energy body just as much as with what happened to our physical body. You are replaying in your dream what happened between the two of you in the energy field when you were together. Your sisters energy was trying to silence yours. It’s important to note here that all dreams remembered are on purpose.
You’re remembering this dream so that you may work out this unspoken energy between the two of you. You can start with the invitation the dream is giving you to begin in your dream realm where it is safe- but you can go farther if you wish.
Energy field dreams can easily shift into astral projection dreams. This is because you are interacting with a realm (the energy field) that makes up the astral realm (where the soul exists), the physical world, and all other realms and dimensions- because everything is energy. Astral projection in dreams means that you can move through the energy field unbodied or in your “astral body”/“soul” instead of being tied into your personal dream and dream realm.  In your astral projected body you can affect your reality because the energetic field overlays the physical. Thats the true invitation given here.
Because your sister is sending this message out only with her energy and not with her actions, it could be assumed that she is unaware altogether or at the very least unaware of why she’s doing this. In the energy field you can discover the why and work directly with each others astral bodies to heal together. This can be done in a conscious lucid dream work session.
We may think of dreams as not able to affect our waking life, but our physical bodies are products of our energy bodies. We are constantly communicating in the energetic field affecting ourselves and others. This dream is such a testament to how important it is to become conscious of what it is we are saying to each other.

June 2025 -Dream

Hi, I had a strange dream last night. I took cough medicine so maybe that’s why, idk. In the dream, I was in my college town, drunk with a friend. (Preface: I’m sober and have been for years. I did a lot of stupid things back then and have a hard time forgiving myself, so I don’t like the idea of being drunk in real life, let's just say.) Anyways, we saw a raft full of our other friends floating down the street. I guess it was flooded. So, me and my friend tried to catch up with them because we were supposed to be on the raft, I guess. We chased it to a beach and my friend, and I got separated. I tried to take a shortcut but fell off an embankment and landed on a bunch of fisherman's lures and junk on the beach. The fishermen were mad because this drunk guy ruined their lines, and my body was riddled with fishing hooks. I kind of just laid there and gave up. This very nice middle-aged woman came down and gently removed each hook. The pain was visceral. I could really feel it. I thanked her and then continued to search for the raft full of my friends. I searched the beach for a while but never found them. The feeling I had was that they left without me on purpose. I was super sad in the dream and felt betrayed.

Interpretation

Ok first the obvious, then the not-so-obvious. The dream was indeed induced by the feeling of the cough medicine because it’s similar to the feeling of being drunk. Any medicine we take before bed will affect our dream space from the mildest medicines to the most active. There is always a layer of meaning on dreams that is directly correlated to the body. Oh, but this one goes so much deeper than just the body.
Let's discuss the layer of meaning your subconscious has left for you. The unwanted feeling of being inebriated. This has provoked your emotional body to release a truth that it has been holding onto. Something that needs attention. It is revealing to you that this is what you think you deserve for your history with alcohol: not being included/not being worthy of friendship, that you must feel physical pain, and that in the end you are alone in this journey. Yet it’s not such a morbid dream, instead it is only your perspective on the dream. Which happens to be the "big take away message” from this dream; to shift your perspective.
First you begin with a friend in the dream, but instead of sticking with that friend you run after other friends that seems more fun. So, first thing that your subconscious wants you to notice is that you already have friends. Then, you get stuck with hooks and a caring female figure comes over to help without any prompting. This indicates that you have people that care for you unconditionally, even if you don’t realize it or ask for it. That they are there for you even when you give up.
In the final parts you are alone looking for all the friends on the beach and this abandonment and ‘they left you on purpose’ feeling emerges. Yet, the grass isn’t greener. You abandoned your friend for others and purposely left the care of the female. Your subconscious is allowing you to experience the feelings that you are also giving in this dream. Like a mirror of emotion. A perfect way to show you how it feels.
Also, a perfect way of telling you that you already have everything you are searching for. That you are indeed worthy of these things and always have been. They never left you. You have friends and you have unconditional love. You are not alone unless you choose to be. Choose your perspective. Thats what your subconscious is offering to you to observe and contemplate from the safety of your bed.
Often, the dreams that leave us with poor feelings, pointedly do this so we must address them. They are being unconsciously stored inside of us, and this is not their natural way. Emotions are meant to be felt and released. We hold onto them when we don’t allow their natural flow in and out. Suppressed emotions come out in dreams to try to get released. They sneak out of the gates when our conscious mind isn’t in control. The paradox is that we hold onto them so hard that there then becomes this idea that it must also be hard to let them go.

May 2025 -Dream

To mark one year of this column I would like to share my own dream that I had when I was first questioning if I should follow the path of a Dream Guide years back. I had many signs pushing me in this direction, but I was unsure and didn’t want to make a large life change. So, I asked my subconscious before I went to bed to show me how dreams worked, and that if I understood when I woke up, I would dedicate myself to this path.

I dreamt that night of being in a place and state of pure bliss and harmony. I knew all and loved all. I was love. I was everything, and everything was me. I understood everything in this place. The answer to my question was so clear, and so simple, that I almost didn’t give it much mind. The information of it felt light and blissful, like everything around me. Then my perspective shifted from first person in this blissful body, to that of an omnipresent observer. I saw that I was floating above the physical world with a colorful light grid between my blissful body, and another version of myself as a human below. I had a tether to that body below but was freely exploring this place of bliss.

  I then saw the reintegration of the blissful body above into the human body below. I watched like I was using an interactive digital map, able to zoom in and out at will to best understand what was happening. I watched as the blissful body pushed down the light grid feet first, creating a funnel shape with the grid, to re-enter the body through the top of the head. Like a pencil slowly trying to poke through a balloon. As the blissful body began to enter the human body the funnel started to spin in a downward spiral with the information that the blissful body was trying to bring with it. As it spun, the colors of the grid in the funnel illuminated and sparkled. Curiously, I zoomed into this light show. I saw that the illumination happened when the data of information passed through it.

I then discovered that when the information passed through, it converted from clear raw information into a predefined visual language. The dream language! I had to know more, so I zoomed in to what felt like the quantum level. This is where it gets heavy, so stay with me...

I saw that this visual language was created of my own definitions of my personal reality, and life thus far. How I defined my world in visuals. What was good, bad, etc. The information, looking like sparkling stardust was moving through my visual memory database seeking to bond with what matched its frequency best. If the information was too large or complicated, it would split into smaller particles and find its match in a smaller form.

Then I began to feel the frequencies of these information particles. I could feel them like feelings and emotions. They were searching to bond with visual memories or would create newly imagined visuals from my database that held the same feelings and emotions. But the information was always too vast. Too large in scope to be just one image, the final visual products became layered in meaning with what it looked like, felt like, what it would stir in the viewer, and on and on. I watched as a clear message became highly distorted having to convert into this visual language.

I could see how confusing it could be. I could see how the definitions that I had created for my reality were not expansive enough to take the information in its raw form. Even my own personality was gartered with definitions of myself that made this raw information hard to receive clearly.

Then my perspective of the dream shifted once more from the observer to the first person of the blissful body directly in the middle of this re-integration that was happening with the two bodies. I felt heavier and I began to feel confused ofwhat I had just learned. Heavier and heavier until my eyes popped open and I woke up.

A dream of a dream wrapped in the dream. But I did understand.

April 2025 -Dream

I dreamt I was hanging onto a rope in “space” and I KNEW if I let go I would die. So I hung on so tightly but it kept slipping from my hands. Eventually, I let go, at which point everything became crystal clear and I instantly knew everything- like ALL the knowledge was at my fingertips and I felt like I was home.

Interpretation

This is a dream of death—simply that, but so much more. Let me be clear, and let me explain. This is not a dream prophesying your physical death. This is a dream of letting go of one reality to gain access to the next, and the amazing gift of connection that's on the other side. But no one needs to die to access this gift. This dream was given to you specifically to tell you just that. Ok, now let's dive deeper into this incredible dream. 

You say “space” in quotes as if you know it wasn’t really outer space although it appeared that way. Sometimes when we dream of space we are actually dreaming of our bodies on a quantum level. As above, so below. Although locations in dreams aren’t always so metaphorical, follow me here with this one.

In the dream you were hanging on to a rope then died when you let go. This is the tether between the astral body and the physical body here in your dream realm. Your "space" is you leaving your body to go deeply inward to the quantum level. Just as an umbilical cord connects inner to outer worlds, your rope is the cord that connects outer to inner realities. You know you will die when you let go, but just like in the womb it is only a change of state. Remember this feeling of changing states in this dream because this is how you get back.

Many believe that when you die you experience just what your dream suggests. The full clarity of the mind, all the understandings of the universe, and the feeling of being home. The human perspective is said to be a very limiting perspective in comparison to the whole of reality. Limited all the way down to only one perspective of life, inside one human body, filtered even further through the definitions, beliefs, and values that we each hold. You must die in your dream to access this new reality because you must release all the limiting perspectives, beliefs, and core understandings of your physical reality to be able to accept the reality of this place of unfathomable understandings. Like a baby's mind is clean and clear and able to accept its new realities understandings like gravity -without any preconception. 

The gift of this dream is showing you that you can access this "space" without dying because you can, and already did, access it in your dream realm. Your subconscious gave you the key, by way of emotional experience, how to connect back to this place. A place that some might call the Akashic Records. A place where all the collective knowledge in the universe is. 

I would guess that after this dream your intuition is feeling more alive. This is the knowledge seeping in from this gateway that has been established. Here is a dream work exercise to keep that gate open, if you so choose: Get into a sleeping position, as close to how you normally sleep as possible without falling asleep. This helps with clarity of dream recall. Then pull the dream forward and go through a chronological checklist of everything that you experienced. See all the visuals, hear all the sounds (even the absence of sound), feel all the feelings. Use all your senses to bring the memory of the dream to life. When you get to the part where you die and gain clarity- stay there. Expand that feeling so much that you live in that feeling for the moment. Do not try to recall any knowledge. The knowledge will download effortlessly into you as you experience the remembered feeling of becoming one with it. Work this muscle of connection many times and the connection will become stronger. Next, do this sitting up, and after that do it while you are active. 

The information will come as it already has been- through intuition- but will be much clearer and stronger. So keep a keen ear to what your gut is telling you and trust it because now you know where it's coming from.

March 2025 -Dream

Hey Natalia!!! It’s June! I’m reporting a dream I had last night. I went outside of my house on my deck and there was a grey cloud that was getting higher, but it was really small and I jumped on it and flew like a few feet in the air then dropped. Then I grabbed some and it was solid. Almost like cotton candy. Then I put it inside and I went back out and like ALL of the clouds had lowered to where I couldn’t stand up all the way. It was like the whole atmosphere lowered. If I stuck my face above them it would freeze. Anyways that part happened a few times and then I woke up at 5:36.

Interpretation

Hi June! This is a beautiful dream. It’s a dream about tangibility of things you previously thought intangible. So, what that means is that you should aim higher with your imagination of what you want and what you think is the limit to what you can achieve. There is always more, and always another way. This dream is asking you to break the limiting belief you have about something, so that you can see that it is actually possible to go further. Do more, be more, be better, heal. Open your imagination up. The sky is NOT the limit. There is no limit. Go beyond. Peak your head above the limit you believe is there and see what it looks like above the atmosphere. Your subconscious is asking you to not believe in someone else’s limiting belief that something is out of reach for you. Because there wasn’t anyone in the dream besides you and the clouds, this limiting belief is most likely a societal or common cultural belief that is being imposed upon you indirectly. Bring the clouds to you. Bring those limiting beliefs close for inspection like you did with the cloud. Feel what they feel like and see that they are not what you expected, just like the clouds. This dream wants to show you the magic and unbound nature of the universe. You can stick your head above the clouds, you can fly with the clouds, you can see beyond the atmosphere, if you so wish. It wants to show you that you can touch the clouds, keep a piece of it as a souvenir and keep going beyond. The dream is asking you to inspect these grey clouds that have come in around you. See what limiting belief they have stored within, and then peak your head above. The dream beckons you to go farther as it sets the clouds down lower so that you may easily see above them. So that you may easily see that they are not the limit and there is a whole universe beyond that is open for your exploration. The piece of the cloud you saved is a beautiful souvenir for you to always remember that what you previously thought was out of reach is not, and that you can easily grab it if you so wish. Know that you saved this understanding in your heart and mind by stowing away a piece of this cloud. Know that you can revisit this feeling with this stowed away piece anytime a limiting belief comes up. You can hold this piece of cotton candy grey cloud up for inspection and see that if you want to touch the clouds you can. Knowing that if you want to go beyond the sky, the atmosphere, you can. Know and always remember, the sky is NOT the limit. The limit is only what we imagine it to be and let that be limitless.

February 2025 -Dream

I had a dream that I shrunk down to an inch tall. I was in my room and everything was big. Then my mom came in and she couldn’t see me. I started trying to speak to her and she couldn’t hear me and she almost stepped on me. It made me feel really nervous that I couldn’t tell her where I was. Then I had the dream again another night but this time I was in a doctors office and the doctor freaked out because I shrunk and she kicked me away. She was bare foot. Both times when I woke up I felt nervous or like I had just had anxiety all night.

Interpretation

This dream is a dream of the challenges of changing your form. In your dream you shrink to a size where you are not seen or heard. Who you are changes from what was your “normal” to this new and different you. A “new you” is emerging, and you are testing her in the safety of your dream realm and how she will interact with the world when she appears. The anxiety you feel is the uncertainty of how you feel about this new possible you, and how she will be perceived. Your mother is the first to see you in your new form, but she cannot see you or hear you. Your dream is telling you that you do not feel seen or heard by those closest to you, or that you are afraid you will not be seen or heard when you take on this new form. As well, it is showing you how small you feel when this happens. But remember that in the safety of your dream realm, you get the opportunity to experience what you do not want, so that you know without a doubt what you do want.

In the second dream you shrink in a doctor’s office. This is symbolic of you wanting to see how a professional would respond to your new form. The dream is telling you that you are searching for validation of why you are not being seen or heard. You are looking for a reason for this change of form. The doctor is scared by this new you and kicks you away in fear. What’s incredibly important here is that you mention the doctor is bare foot. This symbolizes that she is vulnerable. Her partial nakedness in a place of business is telling of her reaction not being one of hate or judgment but one coming from a more vulnerable childlike place of fear of the unknown. In this way your dream is asking you not to be angry with her naivety.

It's not fun to have dreams that are overbearing and riddled with anxiety, yet dreams such as these are capsules of information coming to us in the safest place for us to learn them. In our dream realms we can learn, re-learn, act, play, or reorganize our lives to see what fits best. We can discover what are fears truly are and how to overcome them. This dream, even though it may not feel like it, is a gift of insight. It is an opportunity to play out these scenarios in this new form, this new you, that your subconscious is bringing to light. It is also a place to take back your voice and to be seen in this new form, or even to change your form again entirely.

In a meditative state I suggest calling the dream forward, remembering all the details as you can in this active imagination exercise. Then -this part is the most important- release the limitations of your imagination. Re-dream each scene with the highest version of yourself re-writing the dream. Imprinting in each new scene new feelings. Try joy, see what it feels like to explore a giant world in a micro body. Try empowerment with a booming voice, glowing body, or morphing shapes. Try different perspectives. See through your mothers’ or the doctors eyes, learning what they may have to teach you. Try kindness and fill your dream realm with love. This is your place of creation and play. Try freedom, release your beliefs and definitions of your world. Test which path feels divinely perfect and set that in motion. Remember, bring back only that which serves you from this meditation leaving everything else in the safe capsule of your dream realm.

January 2025 -Dream

In my real (waking) life, I lived in this haunted house in my 20’s. I had some spooky encounters with these spirits where one night me and my two other female roommates saw a male figure in our bedroom and when we rose from the fright we felt hands on our shoulders, pushing us back down. All of us had this same experience in separate rooms on the same night.

Ever since I left this house, I have had this reoccurring dream about being back in this house but with many more levels in it and trying my hardest to get to the top floor and out. It’s like I needed to get to the top floor for some reason, and there just being more and more levels to this house and I couldn’t get there. I keep opening doors and going through corridors, but nothing ends. Everywhere I go I just find more corridors and doors.  Every time I get so frustrated that I end up waking myself up. When I’m up I feel really annoyed that I had this dream again and that it was so frustrating. I’ve always thought it was about me being stuck in some way.

Interpretation

Stuck is exactly right but let’s expand on that. Something from this house made a lasting impression on your subconscious. Or, more accurately, someone.

The house is a place where these spirits are stuck. They cannot move onward for whatever unknown reason. They instead are watching life pass with no ability to change it.

Upward, in the dream, is signifying the movement of the soul’s progression onward. Upward is where these spirits should have progressed through, but instead, are stuck in this liminal space between two dimensions. Your need to go upward to the top floor in the dream is signifying this need for progression to higher dimensions within yourself. At the same time, and in the same space, these spirits are searching for their own upward progression.

Like attracts like. A tuning fork tuned to 528hz for instance when rung will begin to vibrate any other tuning fork tuned to 528hz in close proximity. Your own feelings of being stuck in your life during that time matched the vibratory charge of these spirits same feelings of being stuck. This may have created a psychic bonding or energy cord to this place and state of mind. The physical sensation that you had from the haunting of being pushed downward, not being able to get up, is possibly the moment this connection was created. Reinforcing the feeling of being stuck in the physical action and connecting deep into your subconscious creating this reoccurring dream.

A common theory of haunting spirits is that they have unfinished business and generally this business cannot be done from the spirit side. It must be done from within a physical body in the waking world. A spirit may have wanted to create this cord to grow through a shared experience of you moving upward and onward. Like watching a tutorial on how to do it. In this way the spirit can understand and experience this feeling of moving onward. Using your momentum like a barnacle on a boat to free themselves.

What does this mean for you? You have a few choices here: you can do the work of moving forward yourself and in that helping this spirit move forward, and then cut the cord. Or you can cut the cord immediately and go on your way solo. If the feeling when you woke was fear, I would suggest the later, but as it is not there is no wrong choice. It’s simply, whatever feels correct for you at this moment.

Whatever you decide I will leave you with an easy cord cutting meditation. Because this energy cord was created in the dream realm, it allows for easy removal from the dream realm. In a state of calm relaxation before bed or before a nap call forward this dream. Run through the beginning in detail to pull as much forward from it as possible, then manipulate the outcome. Become fully in charge of this dream and open the door that lets you out to the rooftop. In this, free yourself from the entrapment of the house. Imagine the house detaching from your body and sinking farther and farther away and fully out of view. Tell the house that you are cutting this energetic cord and imagine just that. Call back your power and visually cut all ties, whatever they may appear as. Go farther and float upward into the sky taking charge of your direction. Fly wherever you wish seeing whatever you most desire. Make it fun, make it pleasurable. Allow your imagination to show you joy. Allowing yourself to experience freedom. This is important to create the lasting feeling of freedom from the cut cords to ensure they are gone. When you wake, re-establish this feeling of freedom in your physical waking body.

Now the question remains; are the other girls who were haunted having a similar recurring dream?

December 2024 -Dream

I was dancing in a green dress and I was very happy. I was pregnant. I was wearing wedges for shoes. It was evening.  I woke up because my dogs were barking. That's all I can remember. I'm not sure my age in my dream. But I'm currently 55. So, there’s no way can I currently get pregnant.  But I find it funny I would dream of being pregnant. And I haven't been able to remember a dream in a very long time.

Interpretation

Hi Enrica, your dream, even in its shortness of length, is very significant as pregnancy itself is. This is why you remembered when you haven’t remembered a dream in a while. Your subconscious wants you to pay attention to this.

First, I would like to address this unspoken truth you have laid out in your writing that perhaps many are unaware of. Many women dream of being pregnant before they are pregnant. It’s one of the most common prophetic dreams dreamt by mothers. Expecting mothers often dream of their children while in the womb, sharing experiences with them inside the dream realm. Some children communicate with their mothers in dreams telling them who they are and even picking out their own names. So, when women have a pregnancy dream the first question is indeed, “are you pregnant?”.

Enrica, although you say you cannot be pregnant, the womb remains your portal into which life is grown and birthed into the physical. Your dream is showing you in a perfect representation that you are growing something just as significant as life itself that you will soon birth into the physical. I would ask you to treat whatever it is that you are working towards right now as important as you would bringing a baby into the world. Your life will be forever changed by this birth, but not to worry, your subconscious has shown you how incredibly happy this will make you. Dancing, twirling, and moving rhythmically, not only symbolizes joy and freedom but the movement of particles. The dance that happens on a subatomic level during creation and evolution. The dance that happens on a macro level as the earth spins on its axis moving around the sun creating day and night, morning and evening. The dance of creation itself. Your movement in the dream is your movement of your creation. The progress you’re making in whatever it is that you’re working towards. The evening being then the end of one cycle and beginning of the next.

The green dress is a beautiful suggestion of spring, new things, wealth, and health. It's also the color of the heart chakra. It is especially suggestive of the heart chakra in that it is paired with your dancing and happiness. A twirling ball of green light emanating joy. The wedges suggest new height, feminine beauty, and ease of strength as you are wearing them while dancing and pregnant.

However, what is important is what a green dress and wedges signify to you specifically. Some dream metaphors like pregnancy are known in the collective consciousness to all just as the power of the womb is known. Other metaphors that are often more detailed are given in our dream language. Our subconscious speaks to us in a language we share with only it. A personalized and unique language that's developed throughout our lives by all the definitions we have attached to our environment and understanding of our inner and outer worlds. I would suggest bringing the happy image into your mind's eye and focusing on the details feeling intuitively into the meaning. The meaning of these details may hold importance for your coming life change. Perhaps how to treat or deal with what you’re making once it is in the physical.

Whatever it may be that you’re working on, your subconscious wants you to keep close and clear the memory of the happiness that this work is bringing you. The dreams we remember vividly are often sent not only from our subconscious but something higher as a message to hold and keep inside us. This one of happiness is a gift to keep close and to bring forward in your mind when the work that you birth feels tough or challenging. A memory to go back to if you lose your focus. A feeling to embody if you lose motivation. Keep this dream like a jewel somewhere accessible in your mind so that you may wear it like jewelry whenever you like.

November 2024 -Dream

So, I had a dream someone was going to fight my dad in a karate fight. Background: My dad is a 2nd degree black belt in karate, and I grew up watching kung fu films and to this day still love watching them. I was so excited for the fight, like I would be if I was waiting for the final fight in a kung fu film.  It's the only dream I can remember in a while even though I know my dreams have been off the hook recently...just couldn't remember them. I haven’t talked to my dad recently because I actually made it a point to stop talking to my dad about 3 months ago for personal reasons. Any insight?

Interpretation

This is a telephone dream. In the dream realm we have the ability to contact anyone anywhere if we so wish. To make a call all you must do is think about connecting to that person. This sends your energy to that person in the subconscious realm. This happens in waking life all the time, when we are thinking of someone and then they call, we are picking up the subconscious call moments before the physical call comes through. Dream calls are not an uncommon phenomenon and have recently gotten the attention of scientists. A startup tech company, REMspace, recently released a study confirming communication between two lucid dreamers where one dreamer had to call out to another with a message for them to bring back.

When a message comes through, it leaves a distinct and different impression on us than a normal dream. This is how you can distinguish between a dream created inside your own dream world and a message from outside. Normal dreams of your creation feel like you. They have your same energy signature. They are often hazy and hard to remember because they are part of you and your subconscious. It’s as different as your voice inside your head to someone else’s voice in the room. This is because the caller has a different energy signature and therefore stands out in your dream world. These dreams often come with fervor, vivid color, and are hyper clear. These dreams are much easier to remember for that reason.

This dream is a call from your father in the dream realm. He is most likely unaware that he sent the call into your dream realm as most of us are when we do these things. However, the message is clear that he is thinking of you and his soul reached out to share a message with you since you're not communicating in waking life at the moment.

The fight is the symbolism of the message he is sharing with you, or the conversation in visual form. Because you have this positive emotional bond through karate fights, I believe this is a feeling that he is sending to you instead of a literal fight. I can interpret from that, that there is something big coming up in his life that he is proud of and gives him the feeling of an exciting fight coming up. Perhaps he feels the strength of the fighter and the anticipation of using that strength to win. By sending this feeling he may be hoping that you would be excited with and for him. Nonetheless, he wants to share this feeling with you.

You, however, are the true interpreter because the message is encrypted in the feelings you had during the dream. That is when the sharing and downloading of this message took place. Recall the feelings you had and think about them now through the frame of a message from your father. See how that may change your understanding of what you felt. Think about what your father would be sharing in this specific feeling of a karate fight. Think about this from his perspective to best understand what he wants to convey. Now, it is up to you what you do with this message. 

When it’s challenging to communicate with someone, sending a dream call can be a soft subtle way of reaching out, because sending energy on the subconscious realm in this way can only be received if the recipient allows. Just in this way, you have remembered the dream, but you don’t have to receive the message if you choose not to. Or, you can send a message back.

October 2024 -Dream

I had a crazy dream that this girl I didn't know flashed a crystal bracelet in front of my face and showed me that she absorbed something from me into the crystals.  It was a threat. She kept the bracelet just in case I ever did anything wrong, she could use my energy stored in the bracelet to do something bad to me. I felt scared and like there was no way to make things right with her, which is what I'm good at with people if there's conflict between us.

Interpretation

This dream is like a pendulum swing; gathering worry on the ends that fuels the movements back and forth. This dream is about your power being taken away by worry itself. The crystal isn’t the weapon itself but instead the threat of the crystal is the weapon. In this way the crystal has no actual power until given power by you. When the crystal does become powerful is when it’s used as a syphon of your energy -not at the beginning of the dream, as it first seems- but at the end after the anxiety of the dream has fed it. This then becomes real upon waking by bringing the anxiety, or worry of that dream, into waking life.

The character of the girl in your dream could be anyone, and may even be someone whom you care for. Take a moment to think about who in your life right now you feel like you are giving energy to just by worrying about your relationship with them. However, the dream is not focused on the girl or character she is representing, but the crystal and the worry this holds over you. This is important to distinguish because it changes the message that your subconscious is trying to relay. This is indicated when we see that the girl does not actually harm you. So, the message your subconscious is giving you here is that you do not need to worry. That the worry itself is the true problem here. If you drop the worry, drop the anxiety, the power in the crystal will be useless. This is the idea your subconscious is offering with the gift of this dream.

Even our uncomfortable dreams are gifts because they are opportunities to release something that we are holding onto, that our body and subconscious deems unnecessary. We dream of these things when we are not taking the steps to let go or move on in waking life. Our subconscious then steps in by giving us the signs, symbols, and metaphors to implant into our minds in hopes we will take that first needed step towards healing.

To honor your dream and open the gift, if you will, try for a moment to imagine dropping all your worries and anxieties. Would life still go on? What would change? What would stay the same? Notice if there is any resistance. Become aware of where in your body this is coming from. Breathe into that space. Ask, why are you here? Thank this energy for what it has shown you and tell it is no longer needed. Imagine releasing this unneeded energy out of your body as you physically tap that space. Feel your body decompress as it leaves you. Allow all of this that is leaving you to dissipate, like steam dissipates into the air with its particles, becoming smaller and smaller until they cease to exist altogether. Repeat words of release and empowerment. Keep doing this all over your body where anything feels stored that doesn’t need to be there. Remembering as you do this, that everything answers to your command. Remember, you choose what energy you want to keep and what energies you want to let go of.

September 2024 -Dream

Dreamt I had to go back to high school to meet with a counselor to graduate. This was quite the stretch back in time being I just had my 20 year class reunion. There was this feeling I had of concern I was missing something I needed in order to graduate. As I passed by student classrooms I could sense the dread of being caught up in the competition and toxicity, it was palpable. I was happy to not give power to the looks I received when entering. The school had classrooms around the parameter of a square building and in the middle was this idyllic nature setting. It could only be accessed by above for animals. There were these landscaped small rolling hills in the middle with trees. After hearing I was in the clear from my counselor I stood on top of one of these rolling hills as I was leaving and threw these pieces of silver coin confetti in the air- in the dream I kept encouraging myself to throw them up and celebrate being done and letting go. Kinda funny dream to have just as school is starting back up. I think it had something to do with me feeling I was ok with letting go of my job if it comes to it and accepting the high school nature.

Interpretation

School dreams come in many forms yet generally from the same emotion: stress. School, for most of us, is the first place we learn what it feels like to be stressed. This creates a core memory attachment in our bodies between stress and school. ‘School’ then gets engraved in our personal dream metaphor dictionary under stressful situations. Our subconscious dream dictionary is created and engraved by emotions not places or people. When we encounter a situation that brings the same emotion forward in us is when the metaphor that is attached to that emotional trigger comes forward into our dream time. Work, Just as you mention, can trigger many of the same emotional call tags for the school dream especially if you work within a group of coworkers. The coworkers become the students who triggered the feelings of “competition and toxicity”.

In your dream you are meeting with a counselor that the gate keeper to graduation and your finishing of this stressful place. It is interesting to note here that a counselor is not involved generally in the stress that the students or teachers may bring to school but an outside neutral figure. Look into the situation that you feel this dream may be about and find that neutral helper because in your dream they are able to “clear” you to graduate. This is someone who you believe holds the necessary keys to help you see something more clearly and help you move onward. Your subconscious is asking you to find this person.

The space is important in this dream because the school is in the shape of a square positioned around “idyllic nature” that only animals can access. What this is saying is that your stress trigger (school/work) is surrounding something pure. Something that no one in that school can touch. Something that cannot be accessed. Yet something that is guarded on all sides. Give time to think deeply about what this may be that is being shown as this garden of Eden type place and also why it is incased for you by a stressful place.

The dream has a beautiful ending with you accessing this place. Perhaps not fully into the garden but you stand atop one of the rolling hills and shower silver coin confetti. Your graduation from this environment has given you access to the beginning of the gardens. Do not take this message lightly, this is a beautiful gift, where you shower this place and yourself with money.

Money often shows up in dreams as tangibly fake like your confetti in this dream and that’s because to our subconscious paper money is indeed fake. No emotion is attached to the paper itself but only in having or not having it. So, often the metaphor for money in dreams comes out as a plaything. The key here is that you used the words “silver coin” to describe the confetti. Our subconscious often speaks through us without our knowledge, sneaking information to anyone willing to decipher. Next time you write down a dream try rereading it, highlighting any words that stand out and see what information your subconscious is leaking to you.

August 2024 -Dream

About a month ago I had a dream that I was working at a restaurant behind the bar and my recent ex boyfriend walks in. We start talking and he asks how long I’ve been here and I told him, I moved here and live here now. He got upset and walked out. I was trying to run after him and there were large scorpions everywhere keeping me from him but I wasn’t nervous. This was right before the full moon and the whole weekend I was extremely emotional.Then I had a dream recently after, that My ex and I were hooking back up and then he said I can’t do this. He left his hat behind and I tried to bring it to him down at his fishing hole and he text me and said, watch out there are snakes everywhere. In these two dreams the scene was like dark lighting, like it was always evening. I also wasn’t afraid of the snakes in this dream but was sad about my ex. Just two nights ago, I was dreaming that I was carrying a printer and then two snakes came out of it but this time my ex wasn’t involved. Again not scared of the snakes and I was at my moms in a brighter setting. In the past week I’ve had reoccurring dreams involving previous ex boyfriends and one ex husband but they felt happier.

Interpretation

The evolution of these dreams together is a fascinating tale of growth and healing. If you were scared of these scorpions or snakes this would have been a very different reading so thank you for including that because it is a more important aspect than you might have thought.

The meaning of them without fear attacked is one of helping and healing and let me tell you why. In the first dream you could not go after your ex because of the scorpions. Scorpions by nature are poisonous and in this situation they are guarding you from him and warning you of the risk of getting a poisonous sting if you do follow him. This sounds to me like your subconscious wanting you to not go after him warning that something about the relationship is poisonous. In this way the scorpion is a protector keeping both of you away from each other. Not being afraid of these scorpions is you understanding the metaphor your subconscious has laid out for you and respecting the message in your dream. You do not tempt the scorpions by trying to follow him.

A full moon is the culmination of what you have been working towards during the growth of the new moon into the full. It’s like the blooming of a flower that has been growing. During the full moon you can enjoy the beauty of the bloom your grew or realize that you were growing a weed and have to deal with it. Becoming emotionally charged after this dream with the full moon is telling me that your situation with your ex has been on your mind and heart for a while and growing. Perhaps you not knowing how to deal with the situation and not knowing what feels like the right path to take. Your subconscious/your higher self has come into your dreams to help show you and guide you. Having this dream of the warning of the scorpion is the culmination of everything growing into what perhaps you may have already known about this relationship. Becoming emotionally charged after this is your body trying to release the emotions and grow and move onward while something inside you holds tightly onto the relationship creating this bursting of emotional charge instead of an easy flow. The full moon is pushing this emotional charge forward and trying to help you release it.

The darkness in both of these dreams is symbolic for the end of the era, the end of a cycle, like the end of the day. As well it is like seeing these things inside a cave. A place that is surrounded with darkness but also a safe place. Or a womb. A safe place to explore and acknowledge the warnings in your dreams of this relationship.

Now lets get to the fun part. The healing part. Snakes, when they are not seen as frightening creatures, are ancient healers from the Greek Asclepios Dream Healing temples. Asclepios was a Greek figure some refer to as a god or demi god that had a staff with a snake wrapped around it. The snakes were a non-venomous breed of snake that was said to have whispered in Asclepios’ ear the secret knowledge of mind, body, soul, healing. The Asclepian snakes come in dreams to heal as they are the symbol for the original “dream healing” of ancient Greece. Today there are still ruins of Asclepian temples in Greece that can be visited where people would come for mind body or soul/heart healing. The “unwell” would go into the temples that lay below the surface like caves where they would ask for dream healing and sleep for days until they received a message of how to heal themselves.

Snakes in modern day are often mis interpreted as demonic or sexual symbols but more often than not they are there for healing or a dual meaning of the kundalini. For your dream they read to me like healers and protectors. Its also interesting that your dreams were all sort of dark. Thinking about the ancient healing temples being in caves, this furthers my feeling that they are healing snakes.

Now lets talk about the next dream. Going to the river- a cleansing place, a place that is providing sustenance in the form of water and food (fish) being surrounded by snakes so you cannot go give him his hat. All this is a perfectly wrapped visual symbology for how you are viewing your old relationship with your ex and what your higher self truly wants you to do in this situation. The dream is saying that you are viewing your ex as someone you gives you sustenance and life but the dream is warning you to not go there, that something is off, there are snakes “everywhere”. There is something there that is commonly seen as a sign to stay away. You do stay away but you are not afraid this these snakes use their common misinterpretation of evil to keep you from what you are thinking is good for you to show you in the next dream that it is not what serves you best. The snakes therefore are like shamans for you, guides, to keep you away. Helpers there using their own misinterpretation to their advantage to help you heal.

The third dream is really what brings all these dreams together and what explains and really exemplifies the helping nature of these creatures. You are happier in this dream and holding a printer that prints two snakes. The printer is a direct symbol for creating. Bringing something into the 3rd dimension from nothing. The snakes come out that you are not afraid of and show you in this manner that you can create healing for yourself. Two snakes, I feel intuitively that one is for you and one for your ex because you both must heal from the ending of your relationship together. In this dream you also go through the memories of many ex’s and in this way you are wrapping up, healing, downloading the information from, and learning from your most recent relationship and filing this very important knowledge and learning information into your akashic records. Seeing the other ex’s is like opening your book of love in this life and seeing the photographs from your path thus far, then filing this new ex into it. Remembering as you go the lessons you have learned and feeling happy about how far you have come in your learning and growth.

This is a beautiful dream and a culmination of where you are today. Be happy with this memory and read the words on the silver lining of the end of your relationship because that is what your higher self/ subconscious is trying to tell you. Stay away, heed the warnings, grow, create a new life for yourself just as you wish it to be. Like printing what you have created on a computer just to your specifications.

I would go on to suggest looking into the snakes of Asclepius and their healing powers in dreams. Perhaps you are a healer yourself who can use them in your dreams from now on. When I begin remembering who I was and my connection to the dream realm I started seeing snakes everywhere. I also decided intuitively on the term “dream healing” for the way I work with clients but at the time I thought I was creating this new term. It wasn’t until two years later that the information presented itself to me of the ancient Grecian dream healing temples and Asclepios and his snakes. So what I am saying is that maybe you are being given an opportunity to learn how to heal yourself in your dream realm and the snakes are your sign to do so.

July 2024 -Dream

I found myself standing on a cliff overlooking a large bay under the full moon. I’m surrounded by large boulders of black tourmaline on the ground beneath my feet. I can smell the moist earth and the salty sea. I can feel the breeze brush against my cheeks and through my tangled hair. I feel moonshine on my skin. I hear the sea breeze through the trees that I cannot see, shifting the brush on the ledge in front of me with every gust across the bay. I’m not cold, I’m not warm. I’m not doing, I’m not thinking. I just am. In this moment I’m safe sitting among the nature shielding me from the chaos as a child. I’m just being, surrounded by these towering stones that have been here for millennia. The brush doesn’t know my name or where I’m from and it doesn’t matter. The moon looking down is not suggesting anything, not giving me bits of profound wisdom, just standing with me in a moment in space. I’m just being.

Interpretation

Thank you for sharing such a beautiful dream and letting us experience this with you. The message is clear in this dream as I know you felt; to just be. So, we don’t need to interpret this dream as much as find the reason why you had this dream and then how to use it. This is a powerful dream and a dream worth honoring with your use of it.

In all of the serenity in this dream there is a quick moment where we find the why, when you speak of chaos. When we have dreams that feel like a vacation from our daily anxieties, they are given to us because we are asking for them. If you aren’t allowing yourself the time to experience peace but crying out for it, it will come when the egoic body has relinquished control. It will come in your dreams. This is because the only one who is stopping us from experiencing exactly what we ask for is the egoic self. The one attached to our life's story. The one who believes in the definitions we use to build our future from our past on.

So, all that to say, that our subconscious or higher self wants so badly to give us exactly what we want when we want it but is often blocked. However, you may have experienced this feeling of “being” many times previously in your dream state, maybe even every day you asked for peace, but did not remember it. This time you remembered it and that was no coincidence. You remembered this dream because this specific dream has given you instructions to create this feeling of “being” in your waking life. Thus, giving you the ability to give yourself peace whenever you desire it.

Dreams are meant for so much more than just fond memories. They are meant to be used like tools to help us understand and guide us, to grow, to evolve, and to connect our waking self to our subconscious self, to our higher self, to the collective consciousness, and to connect to all that is.

In each dream there are always hints on how to use them properly. This specific dream has laid out a map through your senses for you to root into the present moment in order to find this specific state of just “being”. Following the dreams guidance step by step exactly as you experienced it in the dream is the key here. Try this first in a calm environment: Begin with your sight, notice your surroundings. What colors do you see? What does the light look like? Then, what do you smell?  Notice next the feeling on your face and through your hair. Can you feel the light on your skin?  Then open your ears. What do you hear all around you? Now, go inward. The dream suggests here to drop all needs. Drop the need to be comfortable, drop the need to be doing and thinking. Remind yourself you are safe. Remind yourself of your eternal nature and continue to drop every single need. Finally, drop the need to define yourself and just be.

This dream was sent to me so synchronously after receiving a message from my own dream of a conversation I had with my higher self:

“If all we have to do is to just exist, then what do we have to do? Because it's impossible to not exist. So, just be. What are we stressing about? Just be. There isn’t anything to stress about if all we have to do is just exist. We’re free. We are free.”

June 2024 -Dream

I burnt sage before I slept and I felt reckless before I slept. Then I dreamt I saw a black huge cat and a monkey following me around and I was pursuing them to go away. They would run away once I pursued them but then they would come back again.

Interpretation

Your dream is a perfect example of Carl Jungs concept of how we are “subliminally absorbing psychic phenomenon” without being conscious that we are doing so. When our subconscious mind wakes up and switches places with our conscious mind in sleep or deep meditation, our subtly reality becomes accessible. Carl Jung says, “The unconscious aspect of any event is revealed to us in dreams where it appears not as a rational thought but as a symbolic image.” Your dream, in this manner, mirrors back to you the subconscious psychic impression of what took place while you were saging your space.

Burning sage is a well known practice to cleanse and purify a space. Waving the sage around in your space to ward off negative energy, is represented in your dream as you actively pursue these animals to make them go away. Being reckless before you slept is an important note to pull out here. Saging a space should make the space feel calm and clean, yet you felt reckless. In your dream the animals keep coming back. The sage seemed to not have worked.

These two animals are black signifying possibly shadow beings or energy beings that are unclear to you in their purpose. When something is unknown or not clear in a dream as a symbol we often see these things as shadowy or dark in a way that is nondescript. However unclear the beings may be, this dream is showing you that two energy beings are in your space. A big cat and a monkey.

What is interesting here is that these black animals were following you but not attacking. It sounds more as if they were watching or just existing. As well, it is interesting that these animals are not warded off by the sage. This is indicating the importance and permanence of these figures. To dig deeper into this dream memory we need to understand the feelings you had when encountering these beings. Emotional data gives away just as much of the truth to a story as visuals in any dream. We often overlook our emotional charges that happen within dreams just as we do in waking life, but paying attention to the emotion is information. When we rule out our emotions we take away valuable information to any situation conscious or subconscious.

The feeling of recklessness is then what reveals the answer. This feeling that you are not content is coming from the slight separation of you from your shadow self. From not being in harmony with your duality- your yin and yang. In this dream your shadow self is visually represented in two different animals, once again showing the disharmony. The big cat with a reserved demeanor opposite that of the monkeys more expressive one. However, the meaning of the cat and monkey remain personal to you and your relationship with these animals. Yet, the dream is showing you that there is shadow work to be done here.

In a calm resting position, find your neutral steady energy. Call forward the big cat feeling into its energy without it becoming you. Keep the animals energy at an observational distance. Then return to neutral. Do the same for the monkey and return to nuetral. In the neutral state acknowledge the differences. Find the common ground between them and feel into why the separation has happened. Find the feeling of recklessness between them because this feeling is your teacher that will lead you to the disharmony. Remember that everything that reveals itself to you is another bit of information. Everything is valid. Be careful not to dismiss in process.

Lastly, write down your next couple dreams or past couple if you have not. What other aspects of your own psychic world are you picking up on? What is your subconscious trying to show you? Your next couple dreams and even your previous couple dreams may be related to this dream. When we are able to read a week or a months full of dreams, we then can pull out full stories. Visual representations of our subtle realities reveal themselves sometimes as chapters with each dream being a new chapter.

It is worthy to remember that we can dream of anything -there are no boundaries. So then, it is valuable to understand the relevance of what your subconscious has brought forward for you. Every dream is a gift of information and new knowledge, and then it becomes our choice to use this information.

May 2024 -Dream

Last night I dreamt I was at an opening to an art museum exhibit for work. It was in a foreign city and there were different tears of VIP tickets, and I was bidding for the highest tear because of my association, which who knows what that was. I got it. I checked into a hotel which ended up being a two-bedroom two bath apartment in which there was a woman living there. Her stuff was everywhere and was not what I was expecting. I needed to use the bathroom and went into one to use it. I used it even though there was a bunch of cloggage in the toilet. Even though I think the other bathroom in the apartment was clear I still used the clogged one. When I flushed, it overflowed insistently all over the floor. I quickly left in a panic and when I left the entryway to the building, I realized I was in Mexico. When I checked in, I was in the United States, but apparently it was hovering over the border and the entry point was United States. The exit point was Mexico. I was never told that I was in Mexico and didn’t need a passport to get in. I did have two passports in my bag, an Australian one and the US one. I was worried that they wouldn’t let me back into the US without paying fines for the damage. worried that they would fine me, I used my Australian passport. I was so confused about how easy it was to get into Mexico, but how challenging it was to get back home, to the United States. I decided to forgo the art and just try to get back in before I was held for ransom to pay the fines for the bathroom overflow, even though it wasn’t my fault. Then I woke up and I thought, I must need to remember this.

Interpretation

This is a dream about choices. The theme, even, is choice itself. Let’s dive right in. You begin in the dream by winning the highest VIP tickets to an art exhibit showing that luxurious things come easy to this ‘you’ in the dream. However, immediately things change. A shared hotel room takes a notch out of the luxurious experience right away, then another notch with the woman’s mess. You then use an already clogged toilet that overflows causing you to flee into a foreign country where you feel uncertain, worried, and confused. Here is where the meaning of the dream reveals itself. You say that you were aware there was another clean bathroom, yet you chose to use the clogged one. But why? Why did your dream ‘you’ choose to use the clogged toilet?

The toilet metaphor is letting you see a choice that you are making in waking life that could be messy and making you feel vulnerable or uncomfortable. This dream is giving you the opportunity to stop and think through your choices. Take time to see the messy signs and remember that there are other options without the mess. However, in this dream, you play out the scenario that you don’t prefer. This is in order for you to learn from this experience. To explore the feeling of being uncomfortable perhaps and to discover what you do prefer.

Yet there are more choices made in the dream and like any good dream, this one has depth and layers of meaning. Another layer is revealed to you here that from this fall from luxury you can now see what in your life you deem luxurious and therefore what you cherish. You make a choice in this dream at the end where you choose to not go to the art exhibit because you feel uncomfortable with the situation. It becomes clear that you prefer the comfort and safety of home over the uncertainty of this foreign experience. This dream then asks you to redefine what luxury is to you. Are you using someone else’s definition of luxury that is then pushing you into uncomfortable situations?

As well, dreams are often delayed. This may be a dream of a choice that you already made. A choice you can see now is the messy choice and not the one you would prefer if given another chance. This dream then reminds you that you did indeed choose this and that there is something here that needs exploration. So then ask yourself, what am I experiencing now that I need more clarity? Why do I not prefer this?

The theme here of choice is asking you to look closely at what your choices thus far are telling you about yourself. What do you prefer? How are you defining yourself through your choices? How are your choices creating your life? The dream then, is a sign to define who you are and what you prefer. To make choices based firmly on your own definitions of yourself. And what good timing it is to redefine and align with your truest desires near the winter solstice and the beginning of the new year.