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💡Possible meaning

A shadow in a dream represents the unknown, the unconscious, and the hidden aspects of yourself. It can also symbolize fear, doubt, or insecurity. The shadow may be a representation of your repressed desires, emotions, or memories that you have not yet acknowledged.

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Take some time to reflect on your life and try to identify any areas where you may be repressing your true feelings or desires. It may be helpful to talk to a trusted friend or therapist about your dreams and what they may be revealing about your subconscious. Embrace your shadow and work to integrate it into your conscious self.

❤️ Feelings

The dream of a shadow can evoke a sense of unease or fear. It represents the unknown or hidden aspects of ourselves or situations. Shadows can symbolize repressed emotions or fears that we may need to confront. They may also suggest a feeling of being watched or followed, creating a sense of vulnerability. Overall, the presence of a shadow in a dream can leave us with a lingering sense of mystery and apprehension.

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22 Aug 2024

dream-about-dark-creatures-and-safety
Fear
Explosion
Scream
Girl
Men
Shadow

Dream

The dream started out showing Water, clear water that runs through a valley, next to fields of gold that wave in the wind and shine in the sun’s light. A girl with dark hair and a simple white dress stands next to the river. The river reflects the image of an old rock tower that’s stands a quarter mile down the river. The wind wisps through the field making particles fly into the air. They shine like little gold flecks or fireflies all around her. She slowly raises her arms into the air feeling the warmth of the sun on her back and closes her dark blue eyes, listening to the sweet sounds that the earth beneath her bare feet has to offer. Suddenly a shadow coves the land turning everything dark. The girl turns to see a hideous black creature with red eyes. Its body flowing almost like a shadow itself but obstructed by what looked like tar. Its long fingers appeared to drip this black tar liquid, as well as its mouth. Its red eyes gleaming like fire. She screams in terror from the sight of this creature and runs into the field. The creature follows her, however the creature’s body disappears. Only darkness follows behind her, turning everything that once was light into darkness. The girl runs deeper into the fields, she turns to look behind her only to find the creature on its hind legs standing tall with its teeth bare. She stands closing her eyes, waiting for the creature to take her. The creature lets out a loud cry as a blast from the sky strikes the creature killing it. The girl opens her eyes to an air craft shaped almost like an egg hovering above her. The girl runs behind a rock to hide, and watches as the doors of the air craft slowly open. Men in armored suits poor out of the air craft with strange guns in their hands. The girl gasp and turns as she hears more screams. More of the black creatures appear out of the fields and attack the men. She screams watching the men be killed by these creatures. Blast of light shot from their weapons destroying the creatures as they explode and burn in light blue fire. The creatures eventually had all been destroyed and for a moment it seemed to lay quiet. The men continue to search the area checking for survivors and making sure the creatures where in fact gone. In time the girl slowly comes out from behind the rock as she does a chill runs down her spin as she feels cold breath on her back. She slowly turns to see one of the creatures. Its face had been shot from one of the men’s guns and had burnt half of the creatures face. Blue sparks of fire still remained on its face as blood drips from its mouth and fingers. The girl shakes in fear when a blast shoots the creature in the back causing it to explode. The girl screams and ducks down covering her head. A tall muscular man with dark brown hair and scruffy beard runs towards the girl dropping to his knees. “Hey it’s ok, it’s ok” he said placing his hands on her shoulders The girl screams slightly trying to get away. He grabs her softly “Wow, Wow. It ok,” he brings her in closer and holds her. “Your Safe now.” Then I woke up

20 Aug 2024

dream-about-dangerous-situations-and-leech-experiences
Mother
Aunt
Brother
Car
Shadow
Dog

Dream

Im in a car with my brother and my car seems to be at my grandmothers, I talk to my uncle about checking the content of the car because the neighborhood my grandmother lives in is dangerous. He said nothing was in there but when I arrive to the vehicle I saw a Jordan collection in my trunk. I seem relived. It’s raining very hard. My mother calls me over to her. She’s trying to tell me to be careful. I get irritated and tell her that I know, in a lightly annoyed way. I still feel the urgency to get back in my car. This is supposed to be a goodbye that turned into a lecture. She agreed with and she goes off to a wooden bench across rhe street from my grandmas. It’s still raining hard. I go over and she’s smoking cigarette buds. I ask her for one and she gets mad at me for asking. She send my aunt that we don’t talk to anymore to the store and she leaves in a hurry. As we are waiting for her, she seems upset with me in a get your own stuff kind of way. As I turn around, the view changes into a long driveway and now we are on a side of a house. It’s night time and it’s dark. A few feet away, there’s a opening where there’s a lit street then a fence lining what appears to be another house curving up a hill. Under the fence and before the bend there’s dog I can see coming out of a doghouse built into the hill. I’m afraid of the dog. We feel like we’re hiding. I see a shadow in patch of grass, I’m confused if that’s anything or my mind is playing tricks on me. Someone comes out from the house to my right, the dog barks aggressively. Then I realize the shadow in the grass before me is another dog or a wolf. I tell my mother I was right. I was scared to go forward because I didn’t wanna get bit. I’m still expecting my aunt but a boy shows up instead, running down the hill, across the light, through the dogs and into our shadow passageway. Next thing I know, we are in another dark room, this time, the room seems to have walls that are curtains or some other lind of cloth material. It’s one of many cubicle rooms in this space. There’s a gypsy looking woman, late 30’s. She has a blue and yellow headwrap with a black dot. She peeks out of the curtain to stop the boy and asks if he flushed something down the toilet. He says “I was about to” as he tries to go off an do that. She grabs his arm and makes a comment about how funny she finds those words and sends him on his way. She then takes us to a room that’s half a lab and half a storage room. She comes to these curtains on the right side of the room and she places a spell on the curtains and they start to spin. I make comment to my brother saying how I love her character. She so positive and easy going. She then puts what appears to be leeches on my back. I feel two. As I start to feel them grab hold. Someone falls on me! As I fall to the ground, I catch a glance of a slab of labradorite on a weight to my left as well as a telescope right next to it. The person is heavy and cut my circulation off. I feel the leeches fighting to grab on to my skin. It was extremely unpleasant. I feel myself getting upset with my mom, it was her idea I try this. She try’s to console me but I can hear her also laughing at my situation. I’m so embarrassed. When I finally get up, I desperately try to grab the guy who fell on me. It looks like the rapper Post Malone. I grab his black shirt but he gets away. He’s in between two storage racks in the laboratory part of the room. I try multiple times to get my hands on him and fail every time. He seems to be very scared of me and I see the remorse on his face.

14 Aug 2024

dream-about-shadows-and-past-memories
Mother
Scream
Family
Shadow
Past
Bed

Dream

It was a nightmare. I was stuck in my bed, watching shadows move all around. I couldn't move and they were torturing me with my past memories. I kept seeing distorted faces them staring at me. My past friends, family even, they were so distorted. I finally mustered somehow to move or appear next to my couch, where my mother was sleeping. I held her tight and I was telling her how scared I was. How I was sorry for everything and how this is really disappointing and stupid from me. I eventually saw the shadow person, she was, taking and breaking things around my house. but when I told my mother nothing was happening. She eventually took me to her bedroom where I proceeded to watch that shadow woman continue to do so. until my mother told me "maybe you should go to bed earlier, and you are overreacting" I screaming "go, go away" for what felt like forever until I finally woke up the same position I was in from my dream.

5 Aug 2024

dream-about-dark-presence-and-snake-bite
Abandoned home
Alcohol
Funeral
Mother
Snake
Darkness

Dream

I was back in my childhood home in Kansas. I was as old as I am now and my mom and stepdad were there. I was in my room and I felt a dark presence behind the door. The room was super dark and I tried to turn on the lights but I couldn’t. I desperately tried going back and forth flipping the switch and pulling the chains on the fan. I even made sure the light bulbs were screwed in. The presence was angry that I was trying to turn on the lights and I saw a shadow move from behind the door towards me and I screamed for it to stop and started praying every prayer that I have. I told it to go away in the name of Jesus. It didn’t go away but it loomed over me. Then my mom came in and flipped the switch on the wall and the lights came on. The thing looming over me disappeared and she asked what I was doing and asked if I wanted to go to the store. I said sure whatever. So we went to the store and it was the one here where I live now in Missouri. (I guess my mind is combining places that make up “home”) so we’re at the store and we get bombarded with people trying to sell us flowers. One told my mom she would need them when she buried me. My mom and I both screamed “WHAT THE HELL! WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU” but the guy shugs and reiterates that she will need them soon for my funeral as if it was a fact. We push past them and go to the store. My mom has me look at cheese and I stay there for a couple of seconds before she tells me she’s done shopping. I look in the cart and it’s full of bottles of alcohol. We head out of the store and go home parking the car on the edge of the patio back in Kansas. We started drinking and then apparently it was the next day at high noon. My mom and my stepdad were like “oh there you are” and my mom was like “you had fun last night”. I couldn’t remember any of it but she said it was cool and I was funny. I shrugged and was looking at the edge of the patio where the cars were parked while my parents were around the corner drinking and looking at the side garden. I was trying to see if you could fit a third car, my car, on the edge of the patio. I had gotten on my hands and knees when a diamond back rattle snake wraps itself around my arms and around my back. I try to stay still and I try to call for my parents who were just around the corner. They didn’t seem to hear me. I kept trying to get their attention and even screamed for them a couple of times. I tried to grab the snakes head and pull it off myself but it bit my finger and slid to the middle of my back where I couldn’t reach it. I tried grabbing its tail to pull it off but it bit me in the back twice. Only then when my parents were done looking at the side garden and discussing what they wanted to do with it did they notice the snake around me. My step dad tried to take it off me once and it ended up biting me again before he was finally able to get it off of me. My hand and back stated to throb and my finger was swelling. My parents were doddling around as if nothing happened and I urged them to take me to the hospital and only after me begging them to take me did my mom say “ok let’s go”. She didn’t take me very seriously. We get in the car and she takes me back to the Walmart. I try insisting more that she should take me to the hospital and she waves me off and tells me I’ll be fine. Meanwhile I start to feel sweaty and shaky and I follow her into the store. She was trying to find the guy who tried to sell us flowers for my funeral. I kept urging her to take me to the hospital when we find the guy and she stays disgusting prices with him. My vision is going in and out as I plead for her to take me to the hospital and then I wake up.

2 Aug 2024

dream-about-stalking-and-apocalyptic-sunset
Death
God
Husband
Shadow
Park
Phone

Dream

Dreamt I was being stalked and watched by my former yoga instructor, Mimi. She was there watching me. She watched me and even walked passed me in a park, but later found footage that she used cameras. In a later part of my dream, I was in an old grocery store. It had a traditional layout to an grocery store I used to go to when I was younger. The timing was during sundown, between daylight and evening- Sunset. I was by the entrance/exit and I looked outside and saw the sky be covered by a bluish purple grey cloud. It looked like methane or like a cloud of gas, and it was brewing. It had small waves like the ocean and I knew that something was not right. I called for Ricky, my husband but he never came. Instead he was like “what”?. I remember feeling so annoyed that he didn’t listen to me when it was dire. Then the smoke fell and it killed every human being, including me. It was an act from god. I remember spiraling into shadow but it also felt familiar. Then I remember being a part of another moment simultaneously. There were people deep underground and a woman representing a group picked up the phone and heard my message. It was me but logically it wasn’t. The message said, “please stay underground. Everyone is dead. You have the incredible journey and burden of being the only remaining humans alive. May god bless you. I love you.”

31 Jul 2024

dream-about-encountering-a-tornado-and-finding-a-safe-place
Floating
Praying
Tornado
Shadow
Race
Window

Dream

I had a dream I had Grown up in some unknown town But it looks similar to Rocky Mount so as me and my cousin jay is driving around, I see a body part on the ground then I called the cops as one of the cops pulled up to me they said they was gonna need to take me in for questioning and I said OK and that’s when they gave me an escort so as there was escorting me back to the police station so me and my cousin got to the police station. The cops had turned around for some unknown reason and went back the other way, but me and my cousin did a race to see who get to the police station the fastest and that’s when we ran across field and that’s what I had my other two cousins joined in and thats when they raced us both and then my cousin Jay made it there first and I was still outside messing around with my other cousins that’s when they left and I walked on the side of the road to get to the police station as I got into the police station, I didn’t see nobody in there then that’s when I looked through a glass door and saw a woman sitting there I knocked on her door and she said come in As I was going in, I brought a table with me. I don’t know why then she told me to check in She randomly said here’s my Twitter and she was so kind but then I realized that we teleported in to a glass phone booth and that’s when I looked out the window and I saw tornado and I screamed a tornado and I said I was going to run but she told me about tornadoes and their wind and said I was gonna get picked up by it so I stayed put but then that’s when the tornado came my way picked it up a little bit then I prayed for Jesus and that’s when the tornado went away but as I looked up the tornado started forming again and as it picked me back up I fell out because it ripped the top of the booth off and I was headed for a house but didn’t know the house I caught on to the porch railing and ran in the house as quickly then I saw a basement and I ran down there I was worried about a light but there was already a white light down there and when I was going down there, I saw the white light, but I sat on the stairs and then that’s when I saw a shadow run by me and that’s when I ran to the light and it was a window and I was confused so I’m sitting there on boards floating on top of another floor below me there was things were floating and rolling around me and there was a two dogs to the left of me when I looked, and then I looked around for something to break the window, and I grabbed a screw that was in the dogs mouth and grabbed it and that’s when I woke up

30 Jul 2024

dream-about-inner-transformation
Audience
Shadow
Eyes
Mirror
Space
Hair

Dream

I had a dream in black and white of myself talking to an audience, similarly found like a narration on a film like a Television character. I remember talking about my life currently and me experiencing strange dreams and each time I spoke about a different dream, my eyes closed and it would be acted out by shadow silhouettes on a white wall. The final time I had a dream, I woke up in colour and saw that I was wearing my regular black turtleneck, black checkered suspender trousers and black Doc Marten boots. I looked in the mirror on my white desk I was sitting at on my white chair to match. At first I saw my reflection and then my inner monologue further narrated with me not physically talking, and said “Because deep down, it didn’t matter how I appeared to people, because on the inside, I have always been a Girl of Sunshine”. And the I saw myself through the mirror wearing a yellow turtleneck, a red mini skirt, black tights and brown boots, in another dimension in outer space. The version of myself still in my room smiled at myself in space and the dream zoomed into the mirror like a camera changing focus of something and I had that dream again of my appearance changing. I began wearing a yellow turtleneck with 3/4 sleeves and a burgundy skirt with white tights and brown boots. My hair changed back to the hair colour it was when I was fourteen, a blonde balayage in the middle and bottom of my hair with dark brown on the top of my head. The blonde was similar to a honey yellow colour. My eyes were white though, I couldn’t make out my pupils. I fully remember that in this state of appearance, I was in out of space. Though it was full of colour, with pink, green, purple and blue colours found in the sky in space full of white stars. I had flashbacks of times I had with friends from college and I instead of sadness I saw beauty. In the background of all of this, Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds’ cover of the song Mind Games (originally by John Lennon) was playing in the midst of it. I looked like a writer. I looked like a girl of sunshine in space and now I feel different from my old goth self. I was just lost in the song of Mind Games and Noel Gallagher’s voice. And then these end credits rolled in my mind with my name being on every credit.

29 Jul 2024

dream-of-attacked-by-mysterious-figure-opening-door-knock-on-back-door
Attack
Escape
Friend
Father
Shadow
Apartment

Dream

In my old apartment; I lived on tbe 3rd floor. I was in the kitchen making dinner for myself. It was some type of meat , vegetables and mash potatoes. The mash potatoes were very noticeable compared to the other things. Dinner was a little messy so I decided to go take a shower. Before, during and after the shower I noticed this dark shadow popping up and staring in my line of view. When I look it’ll quickly look away. Putting on my clothes and putting the food away. There was a knock on the back door, this is a privately own building so there should be no one here or no one who can get up here. I yell “Who is it!” And the voice said “Daddy” I wasn’t thrilled nor wanted to open the door for the nigga. But he got antsy and kept rushing for me to open the door. Okay sure, the min I open the door I was attacked by someone who wasn’t who they said they were. They had on all black and no face but you can tell that they were angry. Almost automatically my instinct kicked in and it felt so real. It was shouting things too me but it was all in a language I couldn’t understand. Finally I kill it and leave the house immediately. From then on up until I got to my friends store, at my friends store there was no one there, but I was fully expected then to kiss me. I am armed at this point, tired and confused. They all pop out from the back scared at how I looked but relieved to see me. They seem to be confused as I am about what is happening. Because customers were asking for me with a blank look in their eyes, when they told the customers that they couldn’t tell them that. That blank stare quickly turned back normal saying that “It’s okay we’ll find em! Just wanted to give them a present that’s all!” I looked at them in disbelief that’s when my male friend phone goes off. And it’s a direct kill order FOR ME from the entirety of the Divine 9 organization. “Kill on sight; Bring back body” I was expecting the male friend to turn but the kill order took no affect on him. That’s when all hell broke loose. As me and my friends are trying to escape to one of their safe houses all trying not to get killed or get me killed. Adopted family, Divine 9 are trying to kill me. I managed to hold my own for a good min until we got to the safe house. And my friends safe house was a FORTRESS. We were looking for answers and there was nun. Just the knocking of people trying to get in and kill me. She noted that she is below a hotel and it’s usually empty so let’s go because the Safehouse ain’t suitable for staying in over night. When we got in the hotel it looks like my current job working at Courtyard Marriot Albion. And the front desk person look like she wanted to just launch at me but had to keep it together because the friends I had, restrained people for just a second with their presence from killing me. She told us that our room is on the 8th floor. We got in the elevator and heard the front desk lady DART to the elevator. It closed and started going up smoothly but fastly passing floor after floor. Once it was getting close to the 8th floor we were getting ready to go, then 9,10,11th then the elevator started to speed. My guy friend destroyed the panel and we were not stuck. Other friend began to climb and search for a way out, we climb down to the 8th floor and got to our room. Opening the door~I wake up from the dream.

28 Jul 2024

dream-about-driving-shadow-figure
Partner
High School
Car
Driving
Racing
Shadow

Dream

I was back in high school. School let out and I went looking for my partner to see if he wanted to drive me home like usual. When I found him, he wasn’t in HIS car, but MINE. (I didn’t have a car in high school, and still don’t) Two of his friends were in my car with him, all crowded up in the back seat. I was fine with it, we were all mutual friends anyway. When I got in the drivers seat, I didn’t have my keys. There was a figure in the passenger front seat, but I didn’t recognize them or really see them, they were like a shadow. The guys in the back seat didn’t even see them or realize that someone was there. (I think it might’ve been a guardian spirit.) The shadow person started my car for me and even helped me drive since I’ve never really drove before. I remember doing a few racing stunts here and there because I knew that it would impress them since they were car guys. I was still kind of nervous about getting pulled over for speeding, but overall I was relaxed and laughing with them.

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