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TYPES OF DREAMS - personality dreams
The mind is constantly monitoring our behavior. We always try to see how things can be improved. Personality dreams are linked to the questions we ask about our own behaviour. Simply ask yourself if you have been asking yourself the following types of questions:-
I wonder if I could of done that better?
I coped well with that!
I do not seem to be doing as well as I could?
I do not like the way I am behaving!
I have noticed how I seem to have changed - I seem to be a bit more...
Personality dreams are very much about psychology. They show us monitoring our own behavior. They pinpoint changes in our behavior. Just see where you have been asking yourself questions like these then start to see if the dream symbols could have portrayed such thoughts.
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The following dream is also a personality dream. In real life we KNOW how the dreamer felt at that time. He had been working with a neighbour on a cause to improve the local community. In the dream he ends up in a place he does not like. That simply follows and mimics reality as he had ended up doing something he did not like. In reality he was more a free and easy type of person - a hippie. This new 'cause' did appeal to his own love of causes. He liked campaigning and sticking up for his rights. But his new cause involved just the types of things he did not like - difficult and time consuming administrative work. In reality it caught the following feelings "I liked this new cause but right now I dislike it because it involved just the type of pen pushing and administrative research that I intensely dislike".
THE DREAM - I am on the highway down to Mexico. I visit Mexico in my hippy travels frequently and enjoy it. Then I end up in a dark and dreary military camp with Adam (Adam had been helping me with a new cause I have been promoting in real life).
The military camp worked as a metaphor for the dreamers feelings in two ways. Firstly, the dreamer was anti authority and anti military. So to end up in a military base was went against everything he stood for. Secondly, the military involves hard work and discipline - things which again went against the dreamers personality type. So it's easy to see how the dream captures these thoughts exactly "I liked the idea of this new cause but I have ended up getting involved in something which involves a lot of discipline and hard work. All this form filling and research goes against my personality type."
The following dream ends up with the dreamers pants falling down. It recreates a situation which happened in reality several years before. His mother often tells him that he is too uptight and needs to lighten up. Obviously this theme was important at the time of the dream.He was telling himself that he needed to lighten up. He was noting his own tendency to take himself too seriously.
THE DREAM I was getting showered and taking a lot of preparation to get ready for some important event, though I'm not quite sure what the important event is; I just know that I need to prepare for it. I put on my underwear, etc., and clothes, and then head out of my bedroom in my apartment. In the living room, I'm surprised to find my mom, my aunt (her sister) and my ex-girlfriend in the room waiting for me.
I ask what they're doing there, and they say they've come to see if I'm ready. My mom asks me a riddle to which I don't know the answer, or never know the answer. And just then, when I give the wrong answer, my belt magically undoes itself, the button to my pants shoots off and the zipper to my pants shoots down; of course, I'm looking down, and I watch as my pants fall immediately to the floor; but what's troubling is, I'm not wearing my usual boxers, but tight, flashy bikini underwear (neon green), and when I look up, highly embarrassed, my mom, aunt and ex are having a good laugh at my expense.
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The following dream came at a crucial point in the dreamers life. He had made some meticulous preparations with a business venture. But he lacked the guts to move forward with this project. He was beginning to be aware of this. So if accurately translated the dream means "You have made a lots of preparations but your not willing or able to move forward". Bridges represent such crucial moments where you move forward and cross over.
THE DREAM There is a narrator. He is describing what is happening. There is a large bridge. It traverses a very steep gorge. There are some soldiers at the bottom. They are doing some training. One man is doing some maneuver. He is doing some athletic move. He somehow manages to be catapulted to the top of this bridge. It is expected that he will take hold of the bridge when he gets up there. But instead the narrator says he just comes back down again and dies. Its a huge fall.
The following dream took place at a time when the dreamer was particularly tired. The dream symbol drain was probably a play on words (he was 'drained') representing his own tiredness. But see how dreams can contain a great deal of information. In the dream there is a problem and its getting out of hand - that simply corresponds to reality as he feels drained and its a problem which in reality was getting out of hand. The dream therefore shows that this problem was needing to be dealt with.
THE DREAM - I am in a house I used to live in. There seems to be some new activity. I am looking at the drains. They are open to view and the waters are moving. It is all open to view. Some new water comes in from below. It gushes up and spills over the top. I am then outside looking at the house. Someone has reported some activity outside. There is excreta on the outside. It has overflowed.
The following dream is a personality dream. The dreamer dreams she is a cat person! For him this is a very negative dream. But see how the dream was asking deep questions. The dreamer is questioning her own behavior. In real life she was a woman who disliked people who kept cats. If she was keeping cats then its really a dream about her asking the following question "I am becoming exactly the thing that I despise! The sort of person who keeps cats"! She feels she is developing the very qualities that cat people exhibit.
THE DREAM I Keep getting dreams that I am the sort of person who keeps cats.
PERSONALITY DREAMS - ALL THE DREAMS IN OUR DATABASE
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Neglecting dream
Birds in a big sectioned cage
War zone dream
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Big dolphin dream
Bowel problems - dream interpretation
Trying on friends clothes dream interpretation
Turning off lights in house - dream interpreted
Burial dream interpretation
Dream - casual clothes and party
Married to a cactus - dream interpretation
Curious about camera shop - dream interpretation
Famous person dream
I couldn't see dream
Dream - prisoner killed by suffocation
Dream interpretation - cat person
Chip shop and art teacher - dream interpretation
Dream symbolism - Christmas
Clock dream - interpretation
Refitting work to be done
Conner from neighbours - dream analysis
No anxiety underwater dream
Crab dream analysis
Cricket match and taking my time - dream analysis
The way of the Lord dream
Rolling downhill dream
Drains overflow in house - dream
Dream about being a drug addict
Drunk or drugged - dream analysis
Eating crocodile - dream analysis
Learning from others
My college ex-boyfriend
Fall off balcony - dream analysis
Policeman in Falsgrave - dream analysis
Farm and cafe used to go in - dream interpretation
A farming cooperative dream
Shark threatening - dream interpretation
Football poster and soldier - dream symbolism
Athletic climb - dream interpretation
Man called Frank - dream analysis
Frog smiles on lilly pad - dream interpretation
German friend - dream analysis
Dream about being on an island
Holes in upstairs dream analysis
Dream interpretation - hollow tree
Little boy with no name
Ascending huge hill - dream interpretation
Man stops me in a huge house - dream symbolism
Icy path - dream interpretation
Dream - daughter causing me grief
Parents proud - dream analysis
Spider poses no threat dream
Leopard in car dream interpretation
Helicopter and skyscraper - dream interpretation
Party at my expense
Dream interpretation - native American staring at me
London dream
Man staring at me in my house - dream analysis
Large mansion - dream analysis
Terrorists dream
Map - dream analysis
Hippy trail ends up in a military camp - dream dictionary
Parents and midnight swim - dream interpreting
shopping money and friends dream
Spiders eggs and birds nest - dream interpretation
Dream symbolism - Mrs Shock
Dream interpretation - molested and kidnapped
Naked dream and people laugh
Nazi Germany dream analysis
Fulfilling contract dream
Newly built bridge
Welcoming fire - dream analysis
Dream - pet stag
Ocean, cliff, boat
Luxurious house dream
The driver won't let me off the train
Dream interpretation - panic whilst cross bridge
Dream interpretation - Pearl harbour
Pet mouse dream
Plane crashes in jungle - dream analysed
End of the world - dream analysis
Poisonous Gas
Excrement - dream analysis
Professional people - dream analysis
Dream symbolism - French oral exam
Crashing down a huge hill dream
Military and christmas day - army take over task
Run down house dream
Saved from castle dream interpretation
Must save myself in a tidal wave - dream analysis
Teacher talking to me dream
Job application and seamstress dream analysis
Seduction - dream analysis
Dream - skating down highway and primary school
Shark infested waters dream
Wonderful new house dream analysis
Beautiful sky - dream analysis
Skyscraper - dream analysis
Dream about a swaying skyscraper
Snake chasing me dream
Speed bump dream
Splashing violently at pond - dream interpretation
Superman swimming underwater - dream interpretation
Traverse a huge bridge with steep fall - dream analysis
Swimming pool dream
Teeth like chalk crumble - dream analysis
Throwing up bugs dream
Wandering around hotel - dream interpretation
trapped in a room whilst exploring a house - dream
At old house where I have no right to be there - dream interpretation
At uncles home - dream analysis
Favourite Aunt dream and church
Betrayed and disappointed dream
A dream interpretation about washing machines
Dream interpretation - Wheelchair
Wolf Friend dream analysis
Change into a freaky woman - dream interpretation
A woman's presence dream
Heroin dream
A dream about being back at school taking exams
Porn dream - a psychological analysis
Explosions in mansion dream interpretation
Dream interpretation - pride and peace and a president
Dream - kiss coworker and bathtub massage
Dream about people intruding
So many insects - dream analysis
Sleepover with best friend dream
Being a student and shouting dream
Crocodile bites me dream
Going home lone - dream analysis
President Bush dream
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