Background: My stepfather lived with me for a year before he died and we were very close. I always heard that if you see the dead in a dream you should pay close attention to any word spoken. My husband is more freaked than I am but I still wonder at the meaning.
Is this a warning or a message of love?
Having been on the receiving end of a similar dream many years ago, I’d say it was his way of letting you know that he is OK.
Seriously, I've had dreams about the dead before. In my mind, it usually means that you just miss the dead person and wish they were still around. I'm no mental health expert, it's just how I felt after I had those kinds of dreams.
any feelings as to who the young woman might be?
I tend to dream about things that disturb me, have me troubled, or unanswered questions that don’t leave me even when I sleep. I think that is what happens to most folks?
Since you were very close to your stepfather, it is not unusual to have a dream about him. Chances are he was on your mind.
Interesting... When I dream of the dead (dad, mom, or my chldhood best friend) they never speak to me. In any case, when it comes to dreams, it’s important to rely on feelings. How did you feel in the dream - ot how did it make you feel? Now, apply that same feeling to any experience or experiences you’ve had lately. It is likely the dream reflects something that evokes the same feeling.
One example might be - I had a dream recently where I had to change a flat tire of an old truck buried in deep snow. I was with friends/family, but they couldn’t help. The feeling was that I didn’t mind doing it, but it was going to be difficult and take a long time. In my waking hours, I feel isolated from friends only because I’m so busy with work right now. I know that I’ll be freed up in January to rejoin them. The feelings are a match, although the “dream actions” might not make sense.
I pay a lot of attention to dreams ...I have dead people loitering around in dreams all the time. Its no big deal.
Tonight seems to just be the night for strange vanities, but I’ll bite.
Dreams are by far and away merely your subconscious mind continuing to work on recent problems from your waking life. There are clear symbols, there are not-so-clear symbols and then there are emotions associated with them. It can be jumbled and confusing, but there’s almost always a thread tying it all back to recent concerns of yours.
Describe the dream in greater detail, paying attention to how things looked, how they felt, was this set in the current or in the past? Sunny, dark and threatening? Nice car, beat up old car, familiar car?
This will help you begin to sort out the symbols and associations.
Wild card is the young woman with him. What could she represent? You’re female, unless I’m misinterpreting your screen name.
Pull all this together, work, your late beloved stepfather, a young woman with him, waiting for you, plus the things that would shade it toward positive or negative, happy or sad.
In my experience, nine times out of ten, a lightbulb will go off and you’ll say, well I’ll be, I was worrying about my job and was thinking about my stepfather because he lost his job way back when, or some similar thing.
Work, stepfather, young woman, car, picking you up. Points to the past when you depended upon him, imho. Do you have a sister or stepsister?
That’s at least a start.
It could be taken that your worried about
something happening to you at your workplace.
It’s a dream.
Spirits cannot cross the great divide.
Sounds like there is something in your life that you are unprepared for and not ready to do...(but your father is patient and will wait for you.) Wondering if there is something your heavenly Father has prepared for you to do...but it isn’t the time...you are still in preparation...he is waiting for you. Not sure who the woman could represent...but if you pray about it..I am sure the meaning of this dream will become clear...all you have to do is ask Him.
Put no stock in superstition.
I dreamed of both my (deceased) parents recently and I hardly ever do. We were going somewhere and they told me to get ready.
The most interesting thing about the dream (other than getting to see and talk to my mom and dad) was the vehicle my father was driving. It was an old-fashioned (1940s model maybe) convertible with its top down. It was a very shiny brown-and-white TWEED patterned body. Almost like decoupaged paper mache'. Definitely a unique car!
Give no attention to it. Its a random collection of thoughts generated by your mind during the REM stage of sleep.
Is this a warning or a message of love?
I'm certainly no expert. I have often dreamed of my father since he died. He remains alive in my thoughts, so it is no wonder at all that I dream of him. We are never far from all those we have loved.
I hope you will rest easy and be glad to have a dream visit now and then.
Dianer0839 ...
The woman is you.
You were not ready to let your stepfather
go when you lost him. You have not dealt
with this loss emotionally, fully.
It isn’t a message from the dead. It is
a message about you moving ahead in life.
Your body and mind are wise enough to
hold onto pain until you have dealt with
it. They are also wise enough to let go
of pain once you have done so.
It is time to let go.
Good luck.
AMorePerfectUnion
You have FReepmail and I suggest you follow through with it.
1) Are you a born-again Christian, or something else?
2) Is your birth father alive? Did you ever know him?
3) What was your father wearing?
4) What was the young woman wearing?
5) What color was her hair?
6) If outside, what time of day and weather was it? If inside, how well was the room lit?
7) What kind of vehicle did they show up in? Model, year, condition?
In the last days,’ God says, ‘I will pour out my Spirit upon all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy. Your young men will see visions, and your old men will dream dreams.
Acts 2:17
Everyone in the dream is a part of you, not separate people.