Tuesday, April 28, 2009

my own wish fulfillment dream

Recently, I had an odd dream in which I was Tina Fey. It's been bothering me, so I've decided to publicly dissect it here.

Alright, so in the dream, I'm Tina Fey, but realistically, I'm Liz Lemon from 30 Rock. I'm also a contestant on a reality TV show along the lines of the Bachelor. Actually, the show has wrapped, and I'm at the wrap party. I don't really know anyone else who is there, at least not very well, the party is peopled by middle-aged white men who are dressed as if they're going golfing. In fact, the party is at a golf course. This dream essentially follows a plot that is not linear, rather it's like a series of concentric circles, as I realize one thing is going on, I see a larger element going on around that, and then another element and then another.

So I'm hanging out at the wrap party, and there is a TON of food everywhere. Tina Fey loves food, and despite her cute, skinny appearance, she's always joking about her crazy appetite. I love food too. And there's all these sweets everywhere, these beautiful, slender slices of chocolate cake with fudgey icing and piped, delicate flowers, cookies and brownies and confections. Anyways, I'm stuffing my face. Unapologetically stuffing it with every beautiful and delicious thing in front of me. And this food is soooo good. I'm stacking a brownie on a slice of cake and eating it like a sandwich. It's unbelievable.

I think you could see why I assign the label of "wish fulfillment" onto this dream. Tina Fey is about the coolest chick on TV, and cake is about the most perfect thing I could be eating. I think it's interesting that I'm at a golf course, even though I don't golf, I'm at a vacation spot. Dreaming about a vacation often reflects a desire to be on vacation, so that's a pretty simple leap from one thing to another.

I felt that this was a pretty funny way for my brain to remind me that I had not had anything sweet to eat on the day before I had this dream. It's funny the extent to which our waking emotions dictate our dreams!

Please feel free to email me with any strange dreams you may have, as I love decoding dreams!

Send them to Rachel.Beezy88@gmail.com and please, take careful note not only of the symbols, settings and characters in your dreams, but also the feelings you have while dreaming.

Dreams about a Dinosaur Attack!!

"Hey Rachel! I've been having the same nightmare over and over again, for years, it's always about dinosaurs. They're almost always raptors and T-rexes, any other ones are also carnivores! They're chasing me, I try to hide in buildings, but they always seem to find me and chase me. Well, everyone in town! It's the only nightmare that I wake up, screaming. What does it mean?"

Thanks for sending me your dream, I think this one falls pretty easily into the category of chase dreams, and its meaning is fairly clear. To all my readers, please feel free to send me any comments or any dreams that need analyzing at Rachel.Beezy88@gmail.com. As always, all of my dream readings are completely free and totally confidential.

Most dreams will fall into a few types, and as I mentioned above this is a chase dream. Generally speaking, dreams in which you are being chased are often representative about an anxiety or fear that a person has. The precise nature of the fear you're having is often represented by the thing (or things) that are chasing you, so for example, awhile back a woman sent me a dream about being chased by a man with a knife. Knives are phallic symbols, and men pose a danger to women in a multitude of ways; her dream reflected a fear of being raped.

Dreams that recur over a long period of time often have a special significance to the dreamer, in some instances you'll see the same person over and over, or you'll have the same general theme, like being chased by various things. That you dream specifically of carnivorous dinosaurs indicates that they are a powerful symbol in your mind. I suspect that the thing they represent to you is something that you've been vaguely afraid of for years.

I feel I have to mention quickly here the tendency of the human brain to find an image and then attach meaning to that image in a very subjective way. Your subconscious fear of dinosaurs may have resulted from one too many viewings of "Jurassic Park." As a child, I frequently dreamt of the Stay Puft Marshmellow Man attacking my small suburban neighborhood, as well as the Steamroller driven by Judge Doom squashing my little body a la "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?" That is to say, sometimes the images we observe in the mass media can profoundly impact our psyche, inserting themselves into the deep recesses of our minds and laying in wait for us. I can't help but wonder if this is the case for these vicious creatures that stalk your nightmares.

Some of the better dream dictionaries will assert that being chased by a dinosaur reflects a fear of obsolescence. I suspect that this is not the case for you; while we all fear becoming obsolete, the fear of being devoured by an unfeeling, unknowable reptilian monster is much stronger. My instinct is that these dreams are more about a fear of the unknown, or of precarious circumstances than a fear of becoming outdated or unneeded, as the literature might profess.

You are the only one who can decide what exactly your dreams mean. Please feel free to email me any follow-up comments or any other dreams you mean have at Rachel.Beezy88@gmail.com. Thank you for submitting your dream, and I hope that this dream reading helps you!

Thursday, April 23, 2009

Dreaming about Someone for 10 Years

"I've been having these dreams of a classmate from preschool through junior high school, I always dream about him but in my dreams he never talks or touches me, but I'm always doing the talking to him, when I was little I had a crush on him, and so did he but we never did anything about it. So in my dreams he always there. And I don't think of him or wonder about it, there is nothing in my life that reminds me of him, but only in my dreams. I've been dreaming about the same person for over 10 years now and I dream about it every other day sometimes everyday. Very confusing of why would I be dreaming about the same person and who never talks.."

Thank you for submitting this very interesting dream to me, I hope I can present some ideas that will help shed some light on the situation for you. If you have any comments, additional information or questions, or if you'd like to have another, more specific dream analyzed please feel free to email your dream to me at Rachel.Beezy88@gmail.com.

Throughout the years that the two of you knew one another, this person became a sort of fixture in your mind. I suspect that there may be some shared qualities between the two of you, and as he spent a certain amount of time in your life, I suspect you've internalized the image of him and acquired it for yourself. His presence, as you're describing it, is as a passive observer in your dreams, always present, always watching, but never speaking or interacting with you. I suspect that he's become a part of your psyche, and he sort of sits in on your dreams to represent a part of yourself- perhaps what he represents is the self you were as a child? In order to determine he's exact meaning you'd have to throw some adjectives at him, was he a prankster? Was he cool headed in times of trouble? Does he possess qualities that you admire within both of you, or just in yourself?

I think it's possible that he may be a sort of guide for you, a model of a different set of behaviors that you could be exhibiting in the specific circumstances that you're dreaming about, but, considering the wide amount of material your brain has surely cycled through in the last ten years, I can't be sure of that. Most likely, he is a representative of a part of yourself that you have forgotten or left behind.

I hope you found this assessment of you dream helpful. Please feel free to email me at Rachel.Beezy88@gmail.com for a reading of a particular dream, or with any comments you may have.

Monday, April 20, 2009

A Dream about Being a Werewolf

"Last night I had a dream that I was a white werewolf. I didn't turn into a werewolf until I was abandoned in the woods. While running around I found another werewolf but this one was brown. I felt strongly attracted to it. When I went to run off with it, a bunch of other werewolves captured me when the brown werewolf ran away. I escaped and went to look for the brown werewolf. When I found him I woke up.

When I woke up I felt as though I had been running. I also felt like i was missing someone... I don't exactly know what that dream meant and I was hoping you could help me find out."


Thanks for emailing me this great dream for a free dream reading! The symbols that you're dealing with here are rather complex, I can see why having a dream like this may be a little odd. Let's start by talking about werewolves; as a mythical hybridization of a human and a wolf, the werewolf can symbolize a primal call to our base instincts, which we often repress in order to live in our workaday world. Similarly, the werewolf can be considered a representation of repressed emotions like rage; personally, I believe that werewolves are a largely misunderstood animal. In much of pop culture lore about werewolves, the animals are sad loners, chased and loathed by society because of their beastly nocturnal activities. By day, however, the werewolf is merely another a person, with the same hopes, dreams and desires for social acceptance and assimilation as anyone else.

A white wolf can typically be interpreted as a symbol of bravery and idealism; that you are a white werewolf in this dream says to me that you are feeling misunderstood by others in your waking life. You have the gifts of an intrepid spirit, and the hopes of a bright future, but these traits are not being valued as they should. I'm getting the sense from this dream that you know, almost instinctively, how to deal with the issues in front of you, but unfortunately you don't have the army behind you that you can lead to a victory.

The image of the woods lends to these ideas, as a dream of being lost in the woods often symbolizes anxiety, and a desire to return to ones' primitive instincts. You're not a werewolf until you're in the woods, so perhaps it's not until you need the brave, animal side of you that you allow the inner"Beast" to howl at the moon. When you see a brown werewolf, a sort of reflection of yourself, you immediately feel a connection. What you'd like is an ally in battle; instead you're abandoned by that friend and captured by a less friendly group. In response, you run away and are likely pursued; as discussed in other dreams, being chased in a dream is often a reflection of fear. In this instance, it may be that you are running from your own anger, or your feelings about a situation that you can't seem to resolve. Whatever this situation may be, I believe that you feel alone in the fight against it, as symbolized by that brown werewolf who leaves you to your foes. There may be a specific person that you're missing in your "real" life who is symbolized here by that werewolf buddy, or it may be an amalgamation of the type of friend or ally you wish you had in your life.

I hope this dream reading has helped, and please feel free to email me with any comments (or post them here if you prefer) and as always, feel free to email any dreams you'd like read to Rachel.Beezy88@gmail.com.



Dreams about being in Love with a Friend

"Okay before I go on with the dream, I'll give you a little background on the relationship I'm dreaming about. There is a guy that I'm interested in, but he doesn't do on-line relationships, and I live only 9 hours away from him but I can't afford to move and neither can he plus he has a girl ..

Onto the dream. It starts off I find a way to move, like I find money and some of my online friends (whom I've known for years and could trust with my heart) decide to be roommates so we move to Illinois where he lives. He finds out and he breaks up with his girlfriend and then comes to me ask me if I still had feelings for him I said yes and he kisses me then asks me to be his girlfriend.

I've know the guy for like 4 years or so, though I know he doesn't do on-line relationships I call him my angel buddy cause he is the type of guy that you can be so sad that he just out of the blue puts a smile on your face. In the dream I can feel his arms around me even though its just a dream I can feel his arms around on me I can sleep and hear his voice. The dreams are very vivid and odd, I can feel his arms around me when I sleep. Last night I actually set up and cried out the guys name out, what does all this mean?"

Thank you for sending me your dream for a free analysis! This dream is quite straight forward, as I think you'll see fairly soon here.

Generally speaking, dreams about love relationships with friends are a reflection of some kind of wish fulfilment. Typically the person that you're dreaming about is someone who has a quality that you strongly desire in a partner, it might be that this person is a good listener, or that they're caring and thoughtful, or in this case, as you're describing him, the person may be a little of all of those things.

The difference between a friend and a lover is essentially just whither or not you engage in romantic or sexual interludes with this person. In this case, there is a short list of reasons why the two of you are friends and not any more than that, and clearly you are more willing to work those reasons out than he is at this time. That internalized desire for not only a partner like him, but him specifically means that these dreams will feel very real to you and will have a deep emotional significance or impact on you.

I think it's fairly clear that this is a classic case of wish fulfillment. What you want in your waking life is being played out in your dreaming life, an arena of thought where you are in ultimate control. Now, that being said, my personal advice on the situation is to stay in touch with this person but don't expect more than friendship from him. For right now, he's saying that he's not interested in a long-distance relationship (and for some people, myself included, a 9 hour distance is too far) and he is with someone. If you feel he's not happy with that person, the best course of action is to be there for him; at some point he might realize what he's missing out on.

None of us can ever know for certain what our future will bring, but we can be sure that being a good friend comes with its own rewards. Regardless of whither or not your relationship with him ever progresses, he's obviously an important ally to you. Be true to your feelings, but keep in mind that he might not be interested in the kind of relationship that you want from him.

I hope this free dream reading helps. Please feel free to post comments here or email me for another free dream interpretation at Rachel.Beezy88@gmail.com.

the head under the bed

"This is a dream I had this past Saturday night:

I think the dream started with me in my bedroom (a fictional bedroom, not a bedroom I've ever actually been in) and the room STANK. A horrible, awful smell saturated the air. The stench was coming from a pickled, severed head that I'd been hiding under my bed for weeks. I had been an accomplice to my friend Joanie murdering someone. She did the actual killing, but I helped her plan it and get away with it. I don't know who she killed or why she killed them. But I had known she was going to do it and I kept her secret and so I was just as guilty as she was.


I seem to remember thinking, in my dream, that I had thought it was a good idea at the time but now, at the time of the dream, I was full of regret. I knew it was a terrible thing she'd done, a terrible thing I'd been a part of, but there was nothing I could do now. I knew she'd disposed of the body, but she'd given me the head in a jar to hide. And now the head was stinking up my bedroom and I needed to get rid of it IMMEDIATELY.

Because we were both afraid of getting caught, I couldn't just openly say to her, "Hey! We need to get rid of that head I've been hiding for you." I had to hint and talk around the issue and try to make her understand that we needed to figure out a place for the head that wasn't under my bed. I think we were at a job together when I tried to talk to her about it. There were a lot of people buzzing around. I could not get her into a private place. But she caught on to what I was trying to say and agreed to help me move the pickled head.


In addition to the guilt I was feeling, I was terrified that we were going to get caught. I was terrified that I'd be caught by police and sent to jail and all of my family and friends would find out what I'd done. And I was terribly ashamed of myself. I couldn't believe I'd let myself get wrapped up in a murder. I wanted, more than anything in the world, to go back in time and change my actions. But I couldn't. So I just needed to get rid of the head. I hoped that if we got rid of the head, some of my fear and guilt would be relieved. So she and I sneak our way into my bedroom. I get the head in its jar out from under my bed. I am disgusted by the smell, but not by the fact that I am holding a human head in a jar. I don't want to look at it, but I don't mind holding it.


We are trying to sneak it out of my room, so that we can bury it in a hole Joanie has dug, when we are suddenly surrounded by people and I don't know how the fuck we won't get caught now. We're swarmed by people and I'm holding a pickled, severed human head in ajar. And then I wake up. When I woke up, I felt like my heart was in a vice grip. SO MUCH ANXIETY. I had to lay there, breathing, saying over and over "It was just a dream. It was just a dream. Everything is ok. It was just a dream." It took me a little while to calm down enough to be able to fall back asleep.

Joanie, from the second dream, she is someone I've only recently become friends with even though I've known her for two years. I really like her, but she has this way of nagging her boyfriend that drives me crazy. I can tell he hates it and I just want to shake her and tell her to lay off him. Leave him alone. But she nags and nags and points out his "flaws" in front of people and I think it's awful. And ever since I noticed that about her, even thoughI like everything else about her, that one thing leaves a bad taste in my mouth. It makes me feel like she's weak because a strong woman would not do that to a man."


First of all, thank you for sending your dream in for a free analysis! Please feel free to email me your dreams at Rachel.Beezy88@gmail.com if you'd like a free dream reading.

Your mind has formed a very complex and rather gruesome set of images here, but I wouldn't worry too much about the blood and gore of it all- obviously the severed head is a repugnant image, but your lack of concern over anything but the foul odor it emits leads me to believe it's a stand-in for something less serious.

Smells are emotionally invocative. It is commonly thought that instances of deja vu are a result of our noses catching a smell that triggers a subconscious scent memory; for this reason, catching a scent in a dream is only as significant as the emotion envoked by the smell. In the case of this dream, the smell is horrible, worse than the sight of a rotting head- and the feeling it inspires is anxiety of being caught as well as guilt over what you've done.

Let's about beds and bedrooms. In previous entries I have mentioned that houses, particularly fictional houses, are representations of the self as seen by the subconscious; that idea can be layered over some of the accepted ideas about the specifics of your dream. Beds are places of slumber, illness and, ahem, private moments with loved ones... For that reason, beds are seen as embodiments of our secrets, our private selves, or sexual discovery. As an extension of the bed, the bedroom is the place for our most intimate inner behaviors.

In this way, the dream intensifies the idea of the ugly, stinky secret you're hiding. All the sneaking around that you're describing reinforces that as well. Because you're hiding something deeply shameful under your bed, I'm inclined to think that the dream reflects the anxiety of the discovery of an ugly secret of some kind- but let's dig a little deeper before we decide.

A person's head is the embodiment of their self-image, it is the source of their perceptions and the center of their esteem; additionally it can represent their accomplishments. Mutilation of a head is often considered an image who is calling their integrity into question- in this case, it's Joanie who has mutilated the head, and murdered the person. You're only fault is in your allowing her to store the filthy thing in your most private of places.

Digging into the idea of murder, some of the better dictionaries will tell us that a murder is an end to an old way of thinking. Are you sensing a deeper pattern here? From what you're telling me about this person, and what the dictionaries are telling me about your dream, you're feeling quite anxious about this friendship. You don't seem certain enough to say this is someone you no longer want to know, but you've just caught a whiff of something nasty and it's causing you to realize that you will not be able to keep your distaste secret for long. The remaining question is, is this something you should address with your friend? Should you accept her "weakness" and keep her around? Or simply let her fade into the back ground? It seems clear that you won't be able to hide your feelings much longer.

Thanks again for sending in this great dream. I hope my interpretation of it has been helpful, please feel free to post comments here or email me directly at
Rachel.Beezy88@gmail.com for a free and fast reading of another dream!

A Dream About A Husband Stabbing the Dog-Baby

This is what I dreamt last night:

My husband, Matt, had a stack of knives (maybe 12?) and he wanted to show me that he could stick them in our little dog Valerie, without hurting her. He said he could stab her with each knife, leaving them all sticking out of her, and not hit a single organ. I don't know why he wanted to show me, but he was acting really impressed with himself, like he was going to show me this cool trick and I'd be really blown away by it.

I thought it was a terrible idea. I tried to tell him that Valerie is too small, there is no way he could stick all those knives in her and not hurt her. I didn't want him to do it. But he insisted. I watched the first few go in. She didn't even flinch. She seemed frightened, but I could tell that she trusted him so much, that she just pushed her little body against him and let him shove these knives into her. She didn't cry or anything. But her ears were flattened against her head and her tail was between her legs.

I thought it was just awful that she trusted him so much that she'd justsit there while knife after knife stabbed into her. It broke my heartand scared me. After the first couple of knives I couldn't watch anymore, I was too frightened. I left the room and started wandering in this house we were in, I think it was our house but it didn't feel familiar. I was trying to look for a yellow pages so that I could get the number of an all-night emergency vet so that when he hurt her, because I was sure he was going to hurt her, we could rush her to the hospital. But all I could find was a white pages. I was scared and hopeless and I felt powerless. I went to check on them and Matt was done. He was wrapping up his knives and grinning. I could not see any blood. Valerie was standing beside him, wagging her tail. "See? I did it! I told you I could do it!" He said.

"Is she ok?" I asked.

"She's fine! She lost a lot of blood, but she's ok. Do you want to see some of the blood she lost?" He was holding out a ziplock baggie, and I knew that was where he was keeping her blood.

"No." I said. I did not want to see the blood. I was worried that she was not ok, that she was bleeding internally. I asked him if she could be bleeding internally and he said no. Even though Valerie was standing and wagging her tail, I didn't think she was acting normally. She usually gets so excited when I walk into a room and she didn't this time. She curled up on a pillow and went to sleep. The whole time Matt is talking about how cool the trick is and isn't it great that he can stick all those knives in our little dog and not hit a single organ?And then he reached out to pet her and his face turned serious.

"Oh. We lost her."

She was dead. He moved her body and there was a small pool of blood under her. Maybe the diameter of a baseball. And I knew then, he'd been wrong, he'd hit an organ and she'd been bleeding out right in front of us. And we just let it happen. And then I woke up.

Now, here are some little things you might want to know about the people in the dreams. Matt is the love of my life, the person who takes care of me, who I trust with everything no matter what. We have a wonderful marriage - most days I wonder how I snagged such a wonderful man. Of course there are days when I want to crawl up the walls because he makes me so crazy, but they are rare.

Valerie is, if I were to admit to having a favorite pet, my favorite pet. Both of my dogs are my babies, but I suppose because we've had Valerie for nearly four years, I just have this connection with her that I don't have with the other animals. I feel like I can read her thoughts and she can read mine. She can also piss me off like no one else can. I expect a lot from her and I get really disappointed when she misbehaves. I see a lot of myself in her. If she were a person, I think, she'd be me. If I were a dog, I'd be her. I realize she's just a dog and maybe this makes me sound insane. I'm guessing I treat her too much like a person because I don't have children yet." - Patty, 29

Wow, thank you for sending me this rather bizarre dream for analysis. I have to say, of all the different types of dreams I love to shift through for this blog, my favorite ones are the long ones that make no sense whatsoever. So a double thank you for sending me a long, strange dream.

I've mentioned before that decoding the meaning of a dream is often convoluted by the influence of the personal perception of the dreamer. In this case, it is certainly true, as many of the major symbols interacting in this dream are known to have multiple meanings, and the meaning of some of these symbols is likely morphed by the waking perceptions of the dreamer. This last little paragraph that you've written allows a great deal of access into those perceptions.

Let's talk dogs. The conventional meaning of a dog in a dream is typically a reference to a loyal friend, a trusted companion or even a set of faithful instincts. What the dream dictionaries neglect to mention is the increasingly high number of urban women (myself included) who put off having children because of the demands of work, love, school etc, and wind up having a dog baby instead. In many ways, a dog can satisfy many of the maternal instincts that an infant can- both demand time and attention, careful love and consideration. Having a dog or a baby means you're responsible for the supervision, care, socialization, feeding, and even the poop of another helpless little being. For this reason, I've entitled this post "A Dream About a Husband Stabbing the Dog-Baby." We're not dealing with a hunting dog, or a guard dog, or wolf- this is a baby, to some extent. In that way, I believe little Puppy is a representation of your maternal instincts.

The wounding of a canine friend is commonly thought to be a wounding of one's instinct, or the loss of a good friend; that idea is in line with my assignment of Valerie as the embodiment of your maternal desires. Further, dreaming of blood can be seen as an emotional cry for attention.

Now husbands can mean things that are quite literal, or quite figurative in dreams, depending on the specific circumstances of the dream, and of your life. Being a married woman and dreaming about your husband, there is the obvious literal meaning that you are dreaming of your perception of him. However, husbands are often more than husbands- they are representations of our fathers, or of our masculine selves. Husbands are protectors, guides, trusted friends and allies- but in close relationships like the one you're describing, they are also our "other halves." Though you will be the ultimate judge of what role your husband is playing in this dream, I believe that he is standing in for a side of you.

I think it's also interesting to note that your "husband" isn't stabbing the dog baby with the intention of killing her. In a magic trick, the magician diverts the attention of the audience so that he appears to be doing one thing while actually doing something completely different. A dream involving a trick, then, may be drawing attention to some thing you're doing to divert your instincts.

Now, it's not just a slight of hand trick that Matt's doing here- it's a trick with knives. A knife or a blade is often a symbol of a phallus, or a masculine tool of aggression. This lends back to the idea, at least to me, of your masculine side as the coalescing force behind this dream.

Finally, the yellow pages and the strange house. Who the hell uses the yellow pages anymore??? Why would a person look for solutions in the yellow pages?? Do you actually use them, or is this an anomaly? I would think that a quicker solution more likely to lead to a positive outcome, would be to go online to Yelp.com or another site, to find a 24 hour vet. I think the sense of hopelessness that you're feeling is reflected in your choice- that is, you think you will fail at helping your dog, and then you choose an option of reference that ensures that you'll fail.

The house. Strange houses have always plagued my dreams, whither it's a new, weird version of a real place or an entirely invented place, I frequently find myself lost in houses comprised of endless rooms, haunted houses, decaying houses, or houses with no basis in reality. The general meaning of a strange or unreal house in your dream is that the house is a reconstructed version of yourself. In this case, you're not recalling many of the specifics of this house, either because they are not as important as the actions taking place within them, or perhaps because you simply didn't remember the details. At any rate, I believe that the fact that the dream takes place within a reconstructed version of yourself lends me to believe that this is a case of "you are everyone in your dreams."

So if you want to take my analysis to an A+B+C = D level, we could safely say that your masculine (or practical) side is diverting your natural maternal instincts into taking care of a dog baby. Simple enough, right?

Basically, my overall impression of this dream is that you've found a workable way of putting off your biological clock. You love your dog like you will one day love your progeny, but you realize that this trick you're playing on yourself is only going to be effective to a certain point. Consciously, you may not feel all that enrapt in this emotional issue, but I think the dream suggests that it's lurking!

Thanks for sending this great dream for a free dream reading! Please feel free to email me with any future dreams you'd like interpreted at Rachel.Beezy88@gmail.com, as well as with any comments you may have!

Saturday, April 11, 2009

A Dream about a Swarm of Bees

"I was telling my friend about the dream I had last night and she told me about your blog and insisted that I email you for a reading. So last night, I had this dream where I was talking to a friend outside and all of a sudden a swarm of bees came at me. Next thing I know, the upper half of my entire body, excluding my head, was covered with bees. I was scared and about to panic but realized that that would be a bad idea.

My friend told me to just stay still and wait for one of the bees to fly away and that the rest will follow. So I waited, and eventually, one bee flew away and all the rest of them followed. I didn't even get stung but I remember waking up feeling all stiff since I was trying to stay really still in my dream. Any ideas of what all this may mean?"

What a great dream, I'd like to give a big thank you to both you and the friend who recommended the blog!

Bees have many meanings in dream interpretation, and ultimately the best way to determine their symbolism is to examine them in terms of their behavior within your dream and your reaction to their presence. At times, bees have been thought to be a harbinger of good luck or fortune, they can also symbolize the positive outcome associated with hard work and a team spirit. In this case, the bees are swarming you and filling you with an intense fear, I believe this points to the third most common association of bees within a dream- trouble!

A swarm of bees can indicate a group of problems "buzzing" around you, creating a chaotic climate of discord in your life. At times this can simply equate to having a lot going on in your life, but in this case, with the bees gathering along your upper body and covering your head (which is the center of your perception and self-image) I would have to assume that whatever is going on is causing you to question who you are. The fear that you are filled with in the dream is quite understandable considering the physical circumstances in the dream; it likely reflects some anxiety over losing yourself or your efforts to this group of problems.

In this time of trouble, who can you trust for support and help? Your friend! This friend gives you the good, level-headed advice to simply hold still and allow the bees to fly away on their own. The moral of your dream? Keep a level head and trust in your best instincts in the face of present challenges. Let the swarm disperse on its own.

Thank you for sending this fascinating dream for a free dream interpretation! I've loved doing your free dream reading and I hope you found my impressions helpful. Please feel free to email me at Rachel.Beezy88@gmail.com with any comments or for an interpretation of your next strange dream!

Wednesday, April 1, 2009

Dream Readings, Fast and Free!

March was a great month from me and this blog, I received more dreams for free readings than I'd expected! I'm very thankful that all of you have been kind enough, curious enough and brave enough to send your dreams to me for a free dream reading.

I've written some notes here before about how easy it is to send a dream to me for a free dream analysis, but I'll put it up here again in case you've missed it, all you have to do is send me the basics of what you remembered about the dream. Of particular importance are any major symbols that stand out, anything that seems odd or out of place is often important as well as anything that recurs from one dream to the next. Most people will have recurrent dreams at some point in their lives, and generally a dream will repeat itself if the issues it addresses aren't resolved.

The most important thing to note when submitting your dreams to me for a free dream reading is the emotions you're feeling while dreaming. For example, a friend of mine recently dreamt that she was climbing over a series of impossible obstacles with relatively little effort. Despite this, every time she saw an obstacle, she felt exasperated. "Man!! Another giant wall I have to climb, damn!"

Here, the emotional reaction to the dream is as important as the symbols themselves. Dreams are very subjective, and the secret to understanding your dreams is understanding the interplay of emotions and symbols. In the case of my friend's dream, she has experienced some events that she can define as challenges, but she has overcome them. Regardless of how many times she get these particular issues resolved, something always pops up that requires her attention. I think you can see pretty easily how important the emotional reaction is to the symbolism from this example.

Because of the nature of dream decoding, I am always prepared to respect the privacy of those who send a dream in to me. So don't be shy, I won't out you if you have a crazy dream! I can publish you anonymusly and I'll typically change all the proper names when I convert your email to a blog entry.

Once again, thank you for sending your dreams for a free interpretation! If anyone out there has had a weird dream that they're thinking about, please feel free to send them to me at rachel.beezy88@gmail.com for a free dream reading.