A dream about a wedding

"In my dream, I was getting ready to marry my boyfriend of two years. The day of our wedding I kept wondering if my boyfriend was as excited as I was to marry or if he just did it to please me. I specifically remember wondering if he'd even remember the first time we made love as a married couple.

I remember that on the day of my wedding I was in a place that looked like a basement, then got on an elevator in which my boyfriend's roommate was in. We took the elevator up and it took us to a shopping mall. I walked around the mall and I found my mom crying. She was really hurt because we're marrying so young (we're nineteen) and wasn't ready to let me go. I held her and cried with her.

That's all I remember. I didn't dream the actual wedding but the reason why I asked for my dream to be decoded is because my family always says that if you dream of a wedding, it means a death in the family is coming. I don't know how true that is, but still..."

Thank you so much for sending this dream in for a dream reading. Before I get to it, let me remind all my readers that they can feel free to send me their dreams at dream.reader@hotmail.com; I will read the most unique and fascinating dreams on the blog.

I think it's fascinating that you've been told that dreaming of a wedding is an omen of death. People have a lot of ideas about the meanings of their dreams, none of which I will say are absolutely untrue, but I firmly believe that dreams are not prophecy. There are very rare instances in which a person may dream of something in their future, but typically these dreams are quite literal.

The trouble with omens is that one can take nearly anything for an omen! I once knew a very intelligent young woman who would look up the symbolic meaning of every animal that she came across, intent on the idea that every squirrel she saw was an omen of a wild fun weekend, every type of bird that flew in front of her car was telling her to get away from it all... you get the idea.

Rather than seeing anything as an omen, I think it is more logical to see the symbols in your dreams as visions your mind has generated to tell you about your true thoughts and feelings. As strange as it may sound, the way that you describe your dream means as much or more than the individual symbols in it.

So, your dream is very interesting to me.

Weddings, marriage proposals and the promises of such in our dreams are not harbingers of death. Well, in a sense they are- but not in the literal sense. The implications of getting married are a sort of death, as marriage is the death of the single life. This is particularly true in today's society, where there are virtually no rite of passage ceremonies for adolescents as they come of age.

In your case, I firmly believe that your dream is about transition- the years in which you are living (18, 19, and just down the road, age 20) are times in which we learn much about ourselves. The person that you are becoming now is the person you'll be for the rest of your life. The relationships you're having now are your first adult relationships, you're likely embarking on some sort of career, or perhaps simply studying something in hopes of a brighter future.

During this pivotal time in your life, dreaming about becoming engaged to your boyfriend can have quite a lot of implications. As a 19 year old who has been in a relationship for the last two years, getting married may seem like a favorable and rather likely outcome to you, however, you'd have to extremely secure both in yourself and in your relationship to make a choice like that at such an early age. There are some aspects of your dream which express some concerns you seem to have about growing up, but I'll address those a little further down.

I think that it's important to mention once again that you do not actually dream of the wedding part of getting married in this dream, you merely dream about the promise that you will be getting married. There are definite implications there. First of all, it suggests that you are living on the promise of a big change, rather than living in the midst of the actual change. Additionally, you're dreaming about the emotional reaction of your mother to the news.

As I've written here before time and again, one of the points made by Sigmoid Freud about dream interpretation which I almost uniformly agree with is that we are everyone in our dreams. For this reason, I firmly believe that the portion of your dream in which you cry with your mother is one that reflects your mixed emotions about growing up, and about leaving the nest. Sure, being an adult is fantastic, nobody tells you what to have for dinner, or what time to go to bed. But, you're also stuck doing your own laundry, paying your own bills, and tying your own shoes. The conflict between the good parts of leaving the nest, as well as the scary parts, are likely generating the waterworks in your dreaming life.

The fact that a significant portion of the dream takes place in a shopping mall is also significant. For young Americans, the local mall is a lot more than a place to pick up a new pair of jeans. The suburban mall is a cultural mecca, a place where the material meets the societal. It's the place where you're seen, talked about, and appraised by the public, and not only by your peers, but also by people who are outside of your age group or social circles. Dreaming about coming up from a quiet, underground basement (a symbol which to me reads as an isolated frame of mind) into a noisy, crowded shopping mall is an expression of concern over the public perception of your engagement. You were safe in the basement, where the only thoughts were your own, but once you get out into the mall (or the larger world) you realize that things are not as simple as they may have seemed.

I hope this assuages your fears about dreaming of a wedding as a bad omen. Instead, I think it's safe to say that the dream is about the changes which are coming in your life, as you transition from your teen years into your adulthood. Thank you so much for sending your dream into me for a reading, and I sincerely hope that it helps!

A dream about a cheating boyfriend: Prophecy, Psychic Awareness or Something Else?

"Hey idk I kinda jus woke up and went crazy googlin bc I keep having a recurring dream of my boyfriend who's faithful but my 3rd time dreaming of this girl ( who he slept w in his passd before me) first one was his mom and sister we're telling me he's with someone else and I was like noo and they we're like yes she comes by the house.

second one was at my one aunts house but supossd to be a hair salon (I do hair) and he's ther ( sitting like they don't know eachother) and I had one mor left and he didn't tell me she was coming or anything and I noticed who she was and that's it that I can remember . Random .

Now for my third one which was this morning we we're somewhere I think a different aunts house so random w my aunts houses, but the girl was they're again I was nice to her kinda conversational and then they go outside and I noticed they're making out but wasn't sure until my cousin comes up and says I didn't wanna say anything but and she confirms it for me I'm starting to forget his reaction when I came out but basically he was very egh whatever and he says I told you to go downstairs like get out of here but then I startd to beat them up and neither fought back. They just sat there.

I have been having stupid fights with him where now he's actually yelling back and getting sick of me fighting, please help me! I'd appreciate it!!! Thanks :)"

Thank you so much for sending your dream in for a reading. If you'd like your dream interpreted, please email it to dream.reader@hotmail.com!

A lot of people believe that their dreams are prophetic, or that they are psychic visions which lay before them the realities of the situations in their lives which they are not privy to in their waking lives. In the vast majority of the cases in which a person has a dream which they believe to either be prophecy or psychic warning the dream is neither of these things. Instead, the dream is a call to examine more closely the situations that plague them.

There is yet another possibility in this case: that you have, in your waking hours, gathered some information about your boyfriend which makes you increasingly suspicious of him. You mention specifically that he has been faithful to you, but it sounds like something more than these dreams is eating at you.

Is he too good to be true? Is there some possibility that you've been pushing him away a little, out of fear that he may betray you?

You also specifically mention a girl who he slept with before the two of you got together, I think that she's perhaps as significant as the cheating itself. First of all, I'm sure you're aware that to really love someone, you must accept who they've been in their past, simply because it's the one thing that they cannot change about themselves. That being said, people bring a lot of outside feelings, thoughts, and behavioral patterns into their relationships. It's unfortunate that we do this, in many situations, because we frequently cause our partners to live with consequences and emotional fall-out that may have nothing to do with them. I suspect that something about this other woman really irks you- she might have a personality flaw, or even an attribute that you feel you may not possess, either way, as a sexual rival, she fills an important place in this dream.

Freud believed that we were everyone in our dreams, and I find that his theory is frequently correct. If you look at this dream through that lens, something very interesting happens...

If you're everyone in your dream, you aren't just the hurt self, catching your boyfriend in various stages of deceit- you're also the concerned cousin, the cheating boyfriend and the other woman. You inflict injury as well as receive it, and you serve as your own messenger of the cold, hard, truth.

There is a distinct possibility that you have lived every role in this emotional drama that you've dreamt up at some point in your waking life. These conflicting feelings have percolated inside you, and have manifested themselves as a series of dreams which allow you to safely express them.

However, both paragraphs of the above interpretation hinge on a single factor: the ability to empathize with the position of the "cheater" within this dream, something I am not convinced that you are doing. It sounds as though you've dreamt up a situation in which you could not possibly understand the motivations behind the actions of your cheating boyfriend, or the other girl. The fact that suggests this is the reaction, or lack thereof, which he shows you when caught.

In the action of this dream, then, your boyfriend and this girl act more as props than as real people. This tells me that it's very likely that the dream is reflective of your emotional state, your fears, insecurities and perhaps your past, than it is a warning of your boyfriend cheating.

That being said, you have a call to make here. One that no one outside of your relationship can really know anything about!

Regardless of whither or not he's cheating on you, it sounds like you may not be happy in this relationship. I would encourage you to think deeply and carefully about WHY you're in this particular relationship. Does this man love you? Does he understand you, emotionally and intellectually? Is he actively looking out for you?

Get to the heart of why you're together, and have some conversations with him about these dreams, his past, your past and your feelings about the recent fights. If you're able to talk these things out, you'll be fine- and if you actually have a problem, these conversations will likely make you aware of that. Pay attention to how he addresses your feelings- and don't allow him to be dismissive. If it's important to you, it needs to be discussed.

I hope you found this interpretation helpful. You've got a lot of work ahead of you, but I think it was smart of you to take these dreams seriously, though they likely aren't warnings of his bad behavior, they are the result of the turmoil in your relationship, and you'll have to get to the root of all of it to make it go away.

A dream about an attack, strange men, fighting, and a talking fog

"lately I've been dreaming about the same thing for about a week

in every dream someone always gives me a different weapon

it started off with me being at the beach and there was a lot of people there

and I'm always with my best friend but when we leave we leave separate

and I'm always leaving with my uncle (that i hardly ever see) and we get to his house

i shower and get ready to leave but as soon as i leave he gives me a hand gun.

and i put it in my back pocket

as i turn around these 3 guys follow me out the door chasing me as i run away

the first guy is wearing all black

the second guy is wearing all red

and the third is wearing all green but he has eyes as blue as the sky

and the style of clothing is more like a ninja

anyways, as i run through the front door. i kick the door to try to stop them

and for some reason the door gets stuck and they cant move it

so i shoot 2 bullets towards them the first kills the man in the red

and the second kills both men because they were standing behind each other.

every time i wake up its in the middle of the night

between 3:25- 4:00 and I'm confused and a little scared

like i was saying in the beginning all the weapons were different and they were given to me at different times

Monday- they gave me the gun (but this is the only weapon that i actually killed someone with)

Tuesday- a Indian that had came up from the sea gave me a sword (kinda like the ones the grim reapers use)

but it was made out of shark teeth.

Wednesday- my best friend gives me a bow and arrow and she tells me "live every day as if it were your last"

Thursday - no dream

Friday- just as i walked out of the shower and about to put my clothes on a gold pocket knife appears on

top of my clothes i get dressed and everything i open the door and the mirror starts to (de-fog its self very quickly)

the fog disappears quickly and the remaining fog says "keep watch"

i really think my dreams are trying to tell me something

it has happened to me several times but i never really payed attention to them until now

please help me thank you."

Thank you for sending your dream in for a dream reading. I agree, your dreams ARE trying to tell you something! If you'd like your dreams interpreted, please send them to dream.reader@hotmail.com!

Recurring dreams are especially significant, as they are reinterpretations of the same messages over and over again. Sometimes a person can have a recurring dream to alert them of a new problem as it increases in severity over time, while on other occasions, like a nagging doubt, the dream can appear and reappear over a period of many years without any marked changes in severity.

It sounds like, in this case, this dream reflects a new anxiety or fear in your life. Let's see if we can't examine these symbolic elements and get a better understanding of the situation.

Dreaming about being at the beach is a pretty common thing; beaches are places of fun and relaxation, but they are also the place where the known (Land) meets the unknown (Deep Blue Sea). Think of it as a place where your reality meets your subconscious.

Big faceless crowds of people in your dreams represent society as a whole. Your best friend is likely there to stand in for an element of yourself that you both share, this could be a common character trait or element. Depending on how often you are together, the best friend can also stand in for you as a whole, almost like a duplicate you. Because you leave separately, I am guessing that the element that this person stands in for is something that is absent in your fight against this fear or anxiety.

Your uncle, on the other hand, is prepared and able to deal with this anxiety! He represents a strong male energy, a paternal figure, but depending on your relationship with him, I'd guess that there is a different slant to that meaning. An uncle you confide in during your waking hours who equips you in this way is looking out for your best interest, while an uncle you don't like might be involved in the issues to come, or might be setting you up in some way.

That handgun, well, it's your protection. Guns are symbols of anger or hatred, and since this is a small gun, I'd guess that this little hateful weapon is something you've held back in the past for whatever reason.

Now on to the three men. I'd guess based on the colors that they are wearing, and their obviously malicious intentions towards you, that these men represent hatred, carnality, and jealousy. The green Ninja, well, his blue eyes are interesting. I would guess that there is someone who you find attractive in your personal life whom you feel has these negative qualities. You might be playing with fire a little, trying to figure out if this person could be a positive force in your life, or if he's as bad as some might think...

The fact that you slay two of these men with a single shot, and that they are unable to make it through the door, suggests to me that you are able to overcome the anxiety that this dream reflects. The different weapons are likely reflections of a changing situation:

Monday, your protector uncle gives you the gun, the most effective weapon

Tuesday, you are urged to trust your instincts, and use whatever is at hand to keep yourself safe

Wednesday, the insight and influence of your friend can help you, but it won't save you!

Thursday, you likely didn't wake up during your REM cycle!

Friday, you are urging yourself to stay aware of the issue, and the gold knife? well, it's phallic. It's a pure, protective influence, a representation of strong male energy in your life.

Thank you for sending this dream for a dream reading!

a dream about a baby

"I saw your name on the site and I just so curious enough to ask you regarding my dreams for past successive for 2 days its all about baby and a girl.
Before that I have one dream which the daughter of my collegue got an accident and I can see the face of my friends was too sad.
Today I DREAM OF 2 INFANTS WHO is pulling the other arm of my aby since im carrying the infant and I was so panic cause the left shoulder was detached and I was trying to fix it and run to hospital."
Thank you so much for sending me these dreams for interpretation. For all my other readers, if you don't find your questions answered here, please feel free to email me at dream.reader@hotmail.com for a dream reading of your own!
In many instances, we are everyone in our dreams. I know that this concept may seem bizarre, but it is often the case. I believe this is particularly true in dreams about children, infants or protecting something younger than yourself. I think that it is significant that you are dreaming about the dangers to these helpless aspects of yourself- the baby you, the young girl you. It makes me wonder if you're under a psychological assault of some kind? Is someone questioning the validity of you? Of something you believe deeply in, or some aspect of your personal identity?
Dreaming about a child of the same gender as yourself is often a reflection of your inner child. Conversely, if the child is of the opposite gender, it's likely that the dream is about a side of yourself which you do not often think about, but that still exists. Often this is your masculine/feminine side in some form; shoulders are a part of our bodies that we use to carry or support a burden. That your child has a detached shoulder makes me wonder if the aspect of yourself being conveyed in this dream by the symbol of the child is being overworked or overused. Are there demands being made on you that draw up old feelings, or bring up issues from your past?
I would suggest that anyone having dreams involving violence towards children look to their lives for the source of the trauma. These dreams are a call to take better care of ourselves emotionally and psychologically.
I sincerely hope that this reading is helpful to you. Thank you for sending in your dream for a dream interpretation.

a nightmare about family, a creepy old white house, a murder and a devil

"My mother had started seeing a new man, they moved into a house together, although it felt like only my mothers house.
I walked inside, the house was very old fashioned.
The whole house was white, but it was an old cracked white colour.
Every room i walked into, had 20 or so windows. But i remember thinking people could break into these windows very easily.

I walked back outside and walked through an old gate.
I saw my dad urinating against the wall and yelled at him to stop because it was wrong.
He stopped, but when i looked where he was urinating, there was blood. But he couldn't see it.
(As far as i know, my dad is OK)

I then had a flash that someone had been killed in this house.
I saw someone had been rolled up in a red/blue persian rug, and there body was at the bottom of a hill.

I walked back up to the fence, there was a list of names on a peice of paper stuck to the fence.
Each name had a symbol beside it (no bigger than a pinky nail). I cant remember what the symbols were.

I walked back inside the house to find my sister.
I walked into a massive empty hall. It was dark, there were no windows in this room.
There was a door at the back of the empty room, so i walked toward it.

I opened the door, and was horrified.
There was a massive pool of fire, and at the back of this black room, there was the devil's face, it was in flames and he was laughing (evil laugh).
I saw my sister near him, she didnt seem to notice him, but she was walking toward another door beside the devils face.
She needed to get to the room behind this door.

I started screaming for her, and then i woke up.

I have also had numerious dreams about being driven (usually in a bus) down a steep rocky mountain.
The edge of the mountain drops down a cliff, and it is always night time.


Any help of understanding of these dreams would be fantastic.
I know it sounds really creepy... it really scared me and i wont forget this dream, it was horrible but i know it has meaning."

Thank you so much for sending in this great dream, I agree, it certainly has meaning.

First of all, I think that is interesting that the dream opens up on this strange house that feels as though it belongs to your mother, even though your mother is absent from the action of the dream itself. As I have written before, houses are often reflections of our emotional state, so dreaming about your mother's house, and having it be in this seemingly dilapidated condition, points to some things you may be thinking or feeling about the way your mother has influenced your outlook on life.

Mothers are the people who are intended to guide us through life, and through their example we learn how to move about the world. Mothers are the ones who remind us to wash our hands, mind our manners and wear our mittens, and their influence on our perception of the world can integrate itself so completely that we cannot distinguish between their attitudes and our own, at times. So to dream about your mother's house may be an indication of some trouble with the way your mother has taught you to think about the world around you.

The fact that the house is white suggests that the things that your mother has taught you have come from a place of love, or that her intentions are pure and innocent. The fact that the finish on this white-washed house is cracked and old is what tells me that these ideas are perhaps a little outdated or behind the times. And all those windows? Well, it means you feel like you're on display, that people (perhaps even your mother) are watching you. The combination of these images seems to make you anxious from the start of this dream, even before the blood and gore begins, and that indicates that you are experiencing some anxiety, or some turmoil, over both the ideas your mother has ingrained in you, and the way that the outside world looks on them.

Similarly, the act of watching another person bleed can be seen as an emotional plea from your psyche, a sort of red alert to pay attention to yourself. In this portion of the dream, you've passed though a gate to find your father apparently peeing blood onto a wall. The fact that you've passed through a gate here may represent some division between your father's mode of thinking, and that of your mother.

Your father urinating out in the open is another reference to a lack of privacy in your life. What he is releasing all over that wall, well, to you it's blood, an emotional cry of distress, but for him, it's just a little pee. I think that this is significant, and I suspect that the anxiety you've developed is over a situation in which the gap between your parents generation and your generation equates to a very different value system. You may or may not agree with your parents over the issue that is troubling you, and at this point, I would be hard pressed to say exactly what that issue is, but whatever it is, I suspect your parents are both poisonously against you on it. That being said, they aren't trying to hurt you, and they don't think that what they're doing is wrong.

At this point, where your father fails to see the blood he's left on the wall, you get a mental picture of a murder in the old house. In this case, what you remember best is a body concealed in a rug. Murders in dreams are often centers of unresolved anger, and in this instance, I can't help but wonder if your parents attitudes aren't "killing" some aspect of your self, or your life; it also seems possible that the center of the anxiety that produced this dream has to do with those attitudes destroying a relationship that is important to you. The fact that the body has been wrapped in a red and blue rug suggests that they are concealing their attitudes, prejudices or opinions under the guise of wisdom, qualifying these attitudes as coming from a higher authority than themselves, perhaps?

The list of names on the fence, well, it seems likely that this is a list of people being affected or judged by the ideas in question. It is also possible, because these names are "on the fence" that the individuals listed there have not yet been judged. The symbols just add to the mystery of the whole thing, indicating a sort of secret language only understood by the person who wrote them in.

So you walk back into the house to find your sister, and you end up in a dark, massive, windowless room. I suspect that this room is indicative of your own opinions surrounding this group of issues. Without your parents, would you be left in the dark regarding this subject? Maybe not. The door leads you to somewhere even more sinister than the white house, a version of hell that Dante couldn't have dreamt up.

The funny thing is, again, you're apparently the only one affected by the swirling fire, and the face of the devil. What resonates with me throughout this dream is that you seem very isolated from your family, as they repeatedly are not able to see the things you see, and that you are the only one who is afraid. This suggests to me that the crisis that you've been facing is one in which you have to trust your own value system, regardless of the things that you've been taught to believe. Behave with integrity, be cautious with your health and your emotional needs, and you have nothing to be afraid of.

The last thing I'd like to address is the dream about riding a bus down a mountain. Dreaming about driving around is generally a straight line metaphor from our waking lives to our inner thoughts. This means that if you're dreaming about driving a car yourself, and it's going well, you're doing well in your life. In this case, you're being driven around, presumably against your will, as virtually no one is excited about getting onto a school bus, and you're being driven through dangerous places. You're anxious because you may not feel you have the measure of control over your life that you'd like to have.

Thank you again for sending these dreams in for a free dream reading. I hope that you've found my thoughts on your dream helpful.

Recurring dreams about tornados

"For about a year, I have been having recurring dreams about tornadoes, especially within the past couple of months. Sometimes there is only 1, that passes and just keeps going, sometimes, like last night, there were many in a row. They don't do damage to the place where I am hiding at whether it be a storm shelter, or house. It just goes over, I can hear the noise and rumbling, but it doesn't cause destruction where I am. As the tornado(es) go(es) by, it becomes clear. When I see the tornadoes, I am always with 1 or both of my children, and we are running frantically to seek shelter. I am always scared in the dreams. Sometimes it takes a long time for them to get closer and sometimes they get close fast."

Thank you so much for sending this group of dreams in for a reading, and if you'd like your dreams interpreted by me, please send them to dream.reader@hotmail.com

This set of dreams is a perfect way for me to discuss my theory on the significance of the tornado in dreams because it's not a single dream, and the symbol of the tornado doesn't always appear the same way in each of the individual dreams. I've actually thought seriously about placing a moratorium on any further discussion of tornado dreams in this blog, similar to my reluctance to discuss any more dreams about werewolves, because such a large number of the dreams that I read are about either of these two symbols. I hope that by facing this set of dreams I can answer multiple emails that have been sent in to me.

A tornado is a violent force of nature which tears through an environment, destroying everything that winds up in it's path. Personally, I wonder if the folks who tend to dream about tornadoes are typically those who live in areas effected by them- as a native Californian, I've dreamt about tsunamis, forest fires and earthquakes, but I've never had one about a tornado or a big storm. It stands to reason that the existence of a violent weather event in the waking life of a person may create the fear that would cause the same event to exist in their dreaming lives; while the natural inclination may be to believe that these dreams are prophetic, it is more likely that they are just manifestations of fear rather than harbingers of destruction.

So really, if you're dreaming about a tornado, you're dreaming about a force larger than yourself that is destroying homes and lives around you. In the case of a string of dreams such as yours, it doesn't have to be the same fear that causes the dreams in all instances. The specifics regarding the speed, duration and number of tornadoes is most likely a reflection of your real-life stresses. Perhaps the things that were beyond your control a year ago generated a dream where a single tornado was after you, perhaps in these recent months you've had more to worry about, more factors that you cannot control that are directly threatening you.

That the tornado(es) do not actually do anything to you, but merely pass over you with rumbling and noise, implies that while these forces scare you, they haven't yet torn your life (or house) apart. You have always been able to find shelter from the violent storms of life, and I sincerely hope that you are always able to do so.

I hope that you've found this reading helpful, thank you so much for sending your dream into me for a reading.

a dream about a shooting, a tuna fish sandwich and an old friend

"I had a dream that I was in a room - I shouldn't have been there but I don't remember why. I ate a tuna sandwich and I went to the bathroom but didn't flush it. Someone I didn't know came into the room with a gun and moved the curtains - across the street was a shooting. I was afraid that whoever was across the street would see the curtains moving so I ran across the hallway to another room.

Eventually the police came and they were going to determine what the person that went to the bathroom had for dinner and it was going to be found out that I was in that room. I had told them I was across the hall the whole time.

Thanks so much Rachel. It was a very vivid dream...I woke up remembering that dream but also that I was in a field feeding some small animals with some water on crackers and saw a friend and her daughter who I am no longer friends with, looking at me as they got into their car."

Thank you so much for sending this dream in for a free analysis! I'd like to thank you sincerely for waiting so patiently for me to get back to you on this one. Be forewarned, I've received a lot of emails recently and it may take a month or more for me to get to everyone- but rest assured, I'm doing my best.

In this dream, you start out by going about the mundane details of a normal day- except for the fact that you are somewhere that you don't belong. Overall, I believe that this dream is about being exposed; in this case you would not be exposed for anything you have actually done wrong, but exposed none the less.

So your mind has set up the dream in such a way that you are anxious from the start, finding yourself eating a boring lunch in a place where you wouldn't expect to find yourself. Eventually, a specific danger presents itself, both in terms of the entrance of a man with a gun, and also in the possibility of your being falsely accused of being involved in the shooting simply because you found yourself in this strange place.

Being in a situation where you feel you need to hide in your dream is often a reflection of a fear of being exposed in some way. The addition of the police investigation obviously adds to that idea, and your fear of being caught in that strange room of course cements it.

The thing that interests me is that you lied to the police in the first place. I suspect that the root of this dream is in some deception that you may have created in your waking life. This may be something small, or it may be something larger, only you can be sure. It's possible that rather than telling some specific lie, you may have simply mislead someone to think you were something that you're not, or you might have held back some information because it was not advantageous to say anything about it. This has become some sort of dirty little secret (not unlike the floater you left behind in the bathroom of that small room) or a source of shame, and you're anxious about being misunderstood when found out.

Although it may sound very literal, I believe that this is what the first part of the dream is laying out before you. The second portion is also interesting, and quite possibly related, as an old friend sees you doing something rather benevolent. Feeding baby animals in your dream suggests that you are nurturing something, or someone, as best you can. Depending on your impressions of this former friend, and perhaps more importantly, their feelings about you, this action may be seen simply for what it is. Conversely, this might be something quite different. If this person is someone who you stopped being friends with because you argued, their appearance in your dream might indicate some personal growth on your part. It might also mean that you have been critical of yourself where you did not deserve it; it could also just reflect a pattern in waking life, if you have thought of this person recently while awake.

Only you can be sure what your dreams mean, but I hope that my thoughts help you come to some conclusions on them. Thank you again for being patient and waiting for an embarrassingly long time for me to finish your dream!