my ex baby
Hi Rayna – It’s a good thing you added that last detail about your current boyfriend being a vegetarian, or none of us over here at dreamdoctor would have known what to think. For a moment we thought you were roasting your baby on the grill – when it turns out it was really your […]
birth concerns
Hi Trisha – I think you’re thinking about when your sister is going to have a baby, and I think that having babies is on your mind seeing how you are the proud mother of a 5 month old. Congratulations! 🙂 And then I think the fact that you did not go through labor made […]
i want a baby!
Hi Katherine – I think it is great that you are as excited as you are about becoming a mother. Your child will be fortunate to have such a caring and attentive parent. I think your dream is a fairly straightforward representation of your thoughts and feelings. You would like to have a child very […]
riding a wave
Hi Barbara— Your dream shows that your friend’s recent move, and the approaching anniversary of St. Patrick’s Day, have caused you to think of re-establishing contact with her. The reason you are located on the beach in your dream is because it reminds you of where you spent your summers together, as teens, with other […]
breathing underwater
Hi Jessica— Usually when we have dreams that we can breathe underwater we make up some funny explanation, during the dream, that explains our new-found ability. So…. Do you think you are becoming a fish? Actually, next dream you have this dream, you can try to remember that this is one of those crazy things […]
walking underwater
Hi Clarence— Water in dreams is a symbol for emotions. Being submerged underwater, accordingly, is a dream metaphor for being “immersed in one’s emotions.” Given the background that you provide, we can safely attribute your recent stress about your grandchild as the cause of this deep, emotional dream. Although you recognize the situation as unusual […]
natural disaster
Hi Joan— If it’s not one deadline, it’s another! Is that how you feel sometimes, as founder and president of a large company? If you ever feel like your job responsibilities are “spilling over” or are “too much to carry,” then I think we can understand the recurring symbol of overflowing suitcases in your dreams. […]
a question
As a professional journalist I work for a popular-scientific magazine. Our special next month is about, don’t be surprised, sleep and dreaming. I am supposed to write about the latest in dream research. I already visited a sleep-deprivation lab in an academic hospital here in the Netherlands. If you have the time, would you be […]
a question
Hi Robert – We have learned a lot over the last forty years about sleep and dreaming, most notably that dreaming is driven by an inner generator that regulates its length, occasion, and oscillation between it, and, as you say, non-REM, or non-dreaming sleep. My book, Stop Sleeping Through Your Dreams, covers this history in […]
bugs in my hair
I dreamed that I was pulling centipedes out of my own head, from behind my right ear. Each centipede was larger than the one before. While I was doing this, I noticed that the skin on the faces of all the people around me was exploding off their faces, leaving a mass of blood, eyes […]
bugs in my hair
Hi Anonymous— Bugs in waking life are creepy creatures. As a rule we don’t like them, and they make us feel uncomfortable and squeamish. Accordingly, whenever we dream of bugs—whether we are trying to step delicately around them, or if they are crawling disturbingly on our bodies—we want to ask ourselves the literal question: What’s […]
animus rising
I am submitting this as a potential first step towards determining if counseling is required. Beginning at age 15, in a rather sudden and puissant fashion, I began regularly dreaming about vampires. This string of dreams and theme has continued steadily for eleven years. When I was a teenager, I attributed this to popular culture, […]