Video Camera

To dream of using a video camera represents committing an experience to memory. Noticing or remembering every single thing that you're witnessing. It may also represent your attempt to document an event or entire process for later use. There might also be a lot of information or details that you want to share with others.

A video camera may be a sign that you don't want to forget a large amount of information that you're being presented with. You don't want to miss anything.

To dream of a hidden video camera represents your attempt to observe or keep tabs on someone in stealth. Keeping a close eye on someone without their knowledge. Alternatively, a hidden camera may reflect behavior that is nosy or bordering on stalking. Invading others privacy or inappropriately paying attention to people you know you shouldn't be.

Example: A man dreamed of using a video camera to film a wedding. In waking life, he started a journal about everything that was happening to him with a new work project. In this case, using a video camera may have reflected his desire to meticulously document each step and detail of the new work project, perhaps out of excitement, fear of making a mistake, or the significance he attributed to the project.

Example 2: A gay teenage boy dreamed of his boyfriend filming him with a camcorder and then seeing the boyfriend vanish. In waking life, he felt that his relationship was getting over the honeymoon phase as he and the boyfriend both learned everything about each other. In this case, the boyfriend filming him may have reflected his feelings about the process of having a dating experience with his boyfriend committed to memory in which his boyfriend learned every single thing about him while having anxieties about having nothing else new to enjoy experiencing learning about him. He may have felt that his boyfriend was now bored experiencing the process of getting to know him.

CCTV Cameras

To dream CCTV cameras represents feelings of having your every move observed. Feeling that there is always a "watchful eye" on your activities. Feeling that you are under surveillance. Heightened feelings of paranoia or that your privacy is being invaded.

To dream that you are watching CCTV cameras may reflect your paranoia or insecurity about someone embarrassing you or acting out of line with your plans. Not respecting other people's privacy or being too nosy about other people lives.

Example: A young man dreamed of seeing CCTV camera everywhere he went. In waking life he had made strong political comments on Facebook which caused a backlash of insulting comments. He felt that everything he said from that point on was being watched closely.

Sega Video Game System

To dream a Sega video game system represents feelings about about training or having challenging experiences to see how far you can take a situation where sharing isn't important because you are faster than other people while on your own. Feeling that needing other people isn't important to see how far you can challenge yourself with being good at something. Not letting other people hold you back from challenging yourself because you're better off on your own. Your inclination to test your abilities and see how far you can go in a situation where you prefer to not listen to anyone and go it alone. A challenging experience where you feel you are better at it and don't want to say anything about it.

Positively, dreaming about a Sega video game system might symbolize the enjoyment of personal challenges, self-sufficiency, or the thrill of mastering a skill or activity on your own. A conscious choice to focus on personal growth, self-reliance, and the satisfaction of overcoming challenges without external help. A period of self-discovery, where you are exploring your capabilities and pushing your boundaries.

Negatively, dreaming about a Sega video game system could represent feelings of isolation, competitiveness, or a lack of interest in teamwork or collaboration. An overemphasis on individual achievement at the expense of social connections or teamwork. Perhaps you feel disconnected from others, focusing too much on personal goals and not enough on shared experiences or cooperative efforts. A tendency to prioritize individual achievement over teamwork or cooperation because you feel better off going it alone.

Example: A woman dreamed of a virtual reality world that switched between Nintendo games and Sega games. In waking life, she had issues with how far should go to help a friend. In this case, Sega may have reflected her feelings about challenging herself to see how far she could go to test the boundaries of helping her friend changed from a more friendly inclusive experience (Nintendo) to having to test herself on her own without her friend (Sega) after her friend gave up and she was more skilled than her friend.

Cameras

To dream of a camera represents the ability to decide how something will be remembered. Your perspective on a situation and how it may influence your memories or opinion of yourself later on. An important moment or crossroads that you get to decide the outcome of. Decisions that will effect how you remember the rest of your life. The ability to control how a situation will be remembered by your actions. A wish to look your best so that it will be remembered in a good way for years to come. A pivotal moment or choice that will decide how a situation will be remembered. A wish to avoid making history in a dishonest way.

Negatively, a camera may reflect feelings about bad choices that could effect the rest of your life. Knowing a choice may bring unhappiness, failure, or embarrassment for the rest of your life. Anxiety or paranoia about being remembered in a positive way for the rest of your life. An excessive need to plan how you will make your mark in the world and be remembered for it. A wish to make history in a dishonest way. Choices that will lead to remembering mistakes. Too much concern for appearances.

A camera may also reflect how beliefs or opinions you currently have will effect your memories or impression of a person or situation.

Any pictures taken with a camera in a dream represent impressions or memories that are being formed based on your beliefs or choices.

To dream of adjusting camera settings may reflect your attempts to change the way you see a situation before forming any final impressions or making an important decision.

Example: A man dreamed of someone he didn't like telling him how nice his camera was. In waking life he was warned by a co-worker that he had to appear at a company event or he'd be remembered by other employees like he didn't care about the company. He decided not to go to the company event anyway deciding to put up with whatever bad opinion was made about him. The camera in this case may have reflected his feelings about himself having the power to influence how he would be remembered for the rest of his professional life if he chose not to attend the company event.

Example 2: A woman dreamed of her old broken camera working again. In waking life she had just gotten back together with an ex-boyfriend with whom she has had previous tried to sneak getting pregnant without asking him. The broken camera that was now working again might have reflected her feelings about her ability to choose how to remember the rest of her life if she returned to her attempts to get pregnant without asking her boyfriend.

Example 3: A young man dreamed of using a camera to take a picture of a meteor, but then realized that the image was not really a meteor. In waking life he was witnessing his friend doing something important and didn't want to ruin his memory of the moment.

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Cellphone Camera

To dream of a cellphone camera represents your ability to take the time to notice something is important or interesting for yourself.

To dream of cellphone camera videos represents feelings about experiences that you feel are important to remember having or to want noticed by others as having had. An experience you felt was important to take the time to have.

To dream of a cellphone camera pictures represents feelings about memories that you feel are important to remember having or to want noticed by others as having had. A memory you felt was important to take the time to have.

Negatively, dreaming about cellphone camera photos or videos may reflect your tendency to allow something personal to happen. Allowing something personal to be remembered. Feelings about other people enjoying experiencing or showing off noticing something bad happening to you.

Example: A woman dreamed of a cellphone recording of a shark eating a dolphin. In waking life she was noticing all of her husband's cheating behavior before he left her without doing anything about it.

Example 2: A woman dreamed of being recorded on cellphone camera by a lot of people while she was in her underwear holding a box. In waking life he was embarrassed for being single and unemployed and thought that a number of people she knew thought that it was important to enjoy judging her for it.

Example 3: A teenage girl dreamed of people using cellphone camera to record a dangerous situation and not call for help. In waking life she didn't know for sure if her friends liked her. The cellphone camera in this case may have reflected her feelings about friends having the ability to enjoying watching bad things happen to her and not do anything about it.

Hidden Cameras

To dream of discovering hidden cameras represents unpleasant feelings about others not trusting you. Feeling that you privacy or personal space has been violated. Feeling scrutinized or monitored with your knowledge. Embarrassment or surprise at how jealous of you someone else is. Feeling shocked at how nosy or controlling someone in your life is. Feeling that someone is too interested in your life for your comfort level.

To dream of setting up hidden cameras may represent your jealousy of someone else. Keep tabs on others without their knowledge. A lack of trust you have in someone.

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Security Cameras

To dream of security cameras represents feelings of being monitored, or scrutinized. You may also be concerned about what other people think you or something you're doing.

Alternatively, it may reflect a close observation of someone you are interested in or don't trust.

Example: A man dreamed of seeing security cameras filming him while he was in a music store trying to buy a cd. In waking life he was becoming annoyed with his employers at work because they were starting to watch every single thing he did at work which prevented him from enjoying his breaks.

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Video Arcade Game

To dream of a video arcade game represents a temporary escape or blocking out reality with distractions by challenging yourself to see how far you can take a situation that is based on the symbolism of the type of arcade game. Something happening in your life that is encouraging you to waste time, bid time, or wait for something more important or interesting to happen. Feeling surrounded by various opportunities to waste time, bide time, or wait for something more important or interesting to happen. You may be trying to escape from reality or block out your problems with distractions. Spending time with friends, engaging is fun activities that help to temporarily forget about problems.

Consider the theme or characters of the video arcade game for additional symbolism.

Example: A young man dreamed of ignoring his theatre class to play a Super Mario arcade game. In waking life, he dropped out of the theatre class, enrolled in military basic training which he dropped out of as well, and then returned to theatre class which he eventually dropped out of a second time. In this case, the Super Mario arcade video game may reflect his need to waste time doing whatever he could to challenge himself to a temporary escape or distraction from theatre class hoping his parents didn't find out.

Video Chat

To dream of video chat represents connection and engagement with someone that feels distant. Connection and engagement with someone that likes you in the current moment, but doesn't have to forever if they don't want to. Feeling connected and engaged with someone without a perfectly strong sense of confidence. Liking or caring about someone, but feeling distant. Interaction with others with a sense of personal distance.

Negatively, dreaming about video chat may represent jealousy of not being as close to someone as you would like to be while being social with them. Feeling interactive with old friends with a sense of personal distance.

Example: A young woman dreamed of video chatting with her boyfriend. In waking life she had a big fight with him and after they made up she was left feeling as though he liked her without a strong sense of confidence.

Example 2: A woman dreamed of talking to family members on video chat. In waking life the family members were very distant from her home.

Video Games

To dream of a video game represents feelings about a challenging experience you are having to see how far you can get doing something without failing. Testing how far you can challenge something pushing limits. Enjoying a challenging experience to test limits or to avoid failure. Feuding or competition. A win or lose situation. You also may be experiencing a situation where you need to do everything right in order to achieve a goal. Competition that feels casual. Two opposing forces trying to prove they are better than each other. A competition where you are enjoying trying to overcome a challenge faster than someone else. Attempting to prove yourself to yourself with increasing difficulty or risk. Surprise or disbelief that nobody will stop you from taking a situation as far as you can. Escapism that challenges itself in order to avoid boredom.

Alternatively, dreaming about a video game may represent a challenging experience in your waking life to achieve the best improved time or highest count in some area of your life. A challenging experience with others to see who can do the most, highest, or longest with a record. A challenge to outdo someone else's reputation or best performance.

Negatively, a video game may reflect an attitude that is arrogant about challenging itself to see how far you can go with certain behaviors without failing. Testing a situation or person too far. Ignorantly not understanding that other people don't like you testing how far you can take a situation. A reckless or dangerous attitude about testing something with how far you can take it. Issues with thinking you are better than someone else and needing to test it. A competition between people who want to get back at each other. A deadly or serious challenge to see how far a situation can be taken without failing while ignoring the deadly or serious nature. Petty feuding or teenage competition. A cold or casual view of a competition with big stakes. Childish or petty competition. Not taking a serious conflict seriously while having a casual attitude about competing. Passive aggressiveness that chooses petty attacks instead of discussing the problem or negotiating. Childishly wanting to get back at someone more than they are getting back at you. Seeing how far you can dishonesty push a situation or get away with something. Wasting time competing with others over petty achievements or goals. "Playing games" with trying see how far you can push people or put up with an obstacle to your goals. Childishness that plays games with a situation instead of being serious.

Alternatively, a video game symbolizes an escape from your problems, instead of confronting them. Intentionally wasting time. Competing in your head without competing for real.

To dream of a "level" in a video game may represent feelings of progression or advancement in a situation where you are challenging yourself to see how far you can take it. Increasing amounts of difficulty as you test yourself in a situation with how far you can take it. It may symbolize the attainment of new skills or knowledge, as well as the overcoming of obstacles or challenges. It could also indicate a need for a sense of accomplishment or fulfillment in one's endeavors.

Consider the type of video game character, video game, or video game system for additional meaning.

Example: A man dreamed of stealing 2 video games from someone who didn't like him. In waking life, he was running a business and confronting a dishonest person who was trying to compete with him illegally. The dishonest person who was trying to compete with the dreamer illegally had a very casual attitude about competing even though there was a lot of money at stake. The dreamer had to strategically take action to cut off the illegal competitor, but the competitor just kept trying to compete anyway. In this case, the dreamer trying to steal video games from someone may have reflected his attempt to abruptly stop someone from illegally competing with him in the first place to make the person go away.

Example 2: A man dreamed of playing video games. In waking life, he was forced to endure a challenge from a coworker to see how long he could walk back and forth along a path without getting tired. The dreamer kept defeating old times as the challenge lasted for months.

Example 3: A young man dreamed of playing an old video game on a CRT television. In waking life, he had a job interview scheduled. In this case, the old video game may have reflected his practicing answering questions for his job interview to challenge himself to become more confident during the job interview.

Example 4: A young woman dreamed of seeing a video game being created. In waking life, she was trying to find escapism from life in general.

Example 5: A young woman dreamed of playing a video game that involved being strategic about matching things. In waking she was aware of a guy she liked sharing things with her, but couldn't get him to answer any of her texts. In this case, the video game may have reflected her attempt to challenge herself to keep improving her relationship with the guy she liked by seeing how many things she could get him to do similar to her. She was playing games trying to get the guy to interact with her and respect her.

Example 6: A young man dreamed of seeing himself on a screen as though he was in a video game. In waking life, he was challenging himself to be the best he could be at being an expert at out-of-body experiences.

Example 7: A young adult dreamed of a video game-like scene where spider crabs came out of the wall and having to shoot them like it was a video game. In waking life, the dreamer was reluctant to accept a sister back into the home after the sister returned from a mental health facility. In this case, the video game-like scene may have reflected the dreamer's competitive tendency to try to turn people against the sister when nobody else in the family thought the same.

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Grand Theft Auto

To dream of Grand Theft Auto represents a challenging experience of testing limits to see how far you can take an experience of open dishonesty or criminality without caring about the consequences as if it's perfectly normal and acceptable to get away with it. Challenging experience in increasing difficulty to operate outside social norms or rules of morality. A sense of freedom in testing the limits of engaging in dishonesty, criminal activities, or breaking social norms. Challenging yourself with dishonestness as though it's normal with nobody telling you to stop. Feeling that it's easier to be a criminal with nobody in your life thinking it's a problem. Feeling challenged to be open to dangerous, dishonest, or criminal behavior with a sense of freedom. A challenging experience of criminality, discipline, drug use, using people, death threats, or other dishonesty that is commonplace.

Positively, dreaming about Grand Theft Auto may represent your ability to handle challenging situations or navigate through dangerous and dishonest circumstances with ease. You might feel confident in your ability to outsmart or outmaneuver others in a situation where honesty is not valued.

Negatively, Grand Theft Auto may reflect how you are competing to be a better criminal or dishonest person than someone else like it's all you'll ever want. Criminal-minded vanity that thinks it's better than everyone else and doesn't care what you do to anyone else to win. Never caring about what you do dishonest more than someone else. Challenging yourself to fixing up your life while still maintaining criminal friends or bad influences in your life. Looking out for yourself while being aware of criminal things happening all the time. Challenging experience where there are no advantages to being honest because being honest will ruin you. Total recklessness with being dishonest like it's normal. Feeling challenged to be the wisest most dishonest person you can be and to see how much you can get away with. Challenging yourself to be the most open dishonest person there is like it's all you'll aspire to do. Experiencing a situation where nobody cares about honesty like it's insane if you do. A desire to compete in being a better criminal or dishonest person than someone else, even if it means disregarding moral values and harming others. It may also suggest that you are surrounding yourself with negative influences or criminal associates while attempting to make improvements in your own life, potentially jeopardizing your progress.

Example: A young man dreamed of a Vanilla Sky movie ending in a Grand Theft Auto video game theme. In waking life, he was thinking of embracing death the previous day. In this case, the Grand Theft Auto theme may have reflected his feelings about openly challenging himself to how much he could talk about his own death with nobody to stop it as though it was commonplace behavior to be that dangerous or reckless.

Example 2: A man dreamed of a Grand Theft Auto video game-type themed dream while having a hangover. In waking life, he was having struggles with sobriety and drug addiction. The Grand Theft Auto video game theme to the dream may have reflected his awareness of having illegal connections to drug dealers and friends who were a bad influence while challenging himself to handle getting sober for the first time. He had an openly accepted view of his own criminal lifestyle.

Legend Of Zelda

To dream of the video game The Legend Of Zelda represents a challenging experience of having a personal mission you accept to do whatever it takes to correct a situation that feels dark or troubling and restore it to balance. Being honorable about restoring life back to balance from darkness. Your willingness to face complex problems and navigate through the puzzles of life, showing dedication, resilience, and a commitment to achieving a significant goal. A commitment to solving complex problems and navigating through challenging situations with determination and resourcefulness with a relentless pursuit of truth, justice, or restoration. A reflection of the lengths you will go to help a friend or restore something honest without giving up. A challenging experience of honoring or respecting seeing how far you can take something by giving personal attention to every puzzle or problem there is until to get a lighter style of thinking back. Honoring every last thing to solve every puzzle in order to restore balance to a situation. A challenging experience that involves discovery, exploration, and puzzle-solving. A personal challenge of complex puzzles and obstacles working towards an important goal. Feeling that something in your life will never be honest again if you don't do every single little thing to restore it. Having to believe in yourself no matter what in order to never live with darkness, trouble, or evil ever again.

Negatively, dreaming about Zelda may be a sign that you are overdoing making it your personal mission to restore a dark situation to a lighter one. Talking too much about honoring your personal mission to challenge a darker way of thinking instead of just cutting it out.

Zelda dreams commonly have monsters, ghosts, or or horrible creatures.

Example: A woman dreamed of walking around inside a Legend of Zelda virtual reality game. In waking life, she felt she had a tendency to go to extreme lengths to help a friend. She felt that Zelda represented her willingness to help her friend while secretly protesting, but still willing to go through whatever she had to in order to help. In this case, The Legend Of Zelda symbolism may have reflected how she was overdoing making it her personal mission to restore a dark troubling situation in her friend's life to a lighter and more balanced one by making it too personal.

Example 2: A young woman dreamed of Princess Zelda being captured by a creature of Ganon and Link failed to save her. Eventually, Link turned on the dreamer saying she should be killed. In waking life, she was battling with depression. In this case, the Zelda symbolism may have reflected her feelings about battling depression being a life-long personal competitive mission to battle dark thoughts while trying to restore her mind to balance.

Example 3: A woman dreamed of a Legend of Zelda shotglass. In waking life, she had recently put an end to being a shopaholic. In this case, the Zelda shotglass may have reflected her over-sensitivity about having to make it a personal mission to stop her addictive shopping habit from ruining her life.

Example 4: A man dreamed of seeing a yellow "radioactive triforce" symbol that was a combination of the Zelda game symbol and the radioactive warning symbol. In waking life, he was experiencing powerful hallucinations that made him believe that he had to walk back and forth in his bedroom for 4 days without sleep, food, water, or going to the bathroom while imagining himself sending positive energy with his mind to someone else in order to be freed of evil that wouldn't let go. The hallucinations eventually did let go of him with a sense of defeating it as though the "triforce" of his life had been restored.

Movie

To dream that you are watching a movie represents an experience you are having in life. The movie or TV show is then a symbol for what kind of experience you are having. Consider what the movie makes you feel or think and how it parallels situations in your waking life. Think about what the characters or storylines mean to you as symbols for your own thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. Your thoughts about how life scenarios or relationships unfold in a scripted or predestined manner, similar to a movie plot. A sense of fascination, entertainment, or learning from observed experiences.

To dream of filming a Hollywood movie represents feelings about creating experiences that other people need to find incredible or believable. Preparations, plans, or lies in order to make other people believe a story you're telling so something incredible will happen. Interesting someone else is the most incredible experience of their life. A situation that is developing that you know others will take a serious interest in. Feelings about other people going out of their way to experience something you're responsible for making happen.

Example: A young man dreamed of filming a Hollywood movie. In waking life, his computer was failing and he had to do everything he could to fix it before asking his parents for a new one so he'd ensure they believed he needed a new computer. In this case, filming a Hollywood movie may have reflected having to recount a believable story to his parents about how incredibly hard he tried to fix his computer and how pointless it was so that he'd have an incredible experience or "movie ending" of getting a new computer.

Example 2: A man dreamed of being inside a movie theatre about to sit down. In waking life, he had a number of plans to participate in an ayahuasca spiritual retreat in another country. The movie theatre reflected all his preparations to have the incredible and unusual experience at the spiritual retreat.

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Nintendo

To dream of a Nintendo video game system represents feelings of engaging in friendly and enjoyable challenges, where the focus is on having fun and testing your abilities without taking things too seriously. The desire to explore social and acceptable activities that allow you to challenge yourself in a light-hearted and entertaining way. Challenging yourself in increasing levels with a friendly, socially acceptable, cool, or fun situation that doesn't embarrass anyone else. Challenging yourself in increasing levels with an attitude that is safe about nothing being too serious and that's easily understood by everyone involved. Challenging yourself to see how far you can take a friendly situation that doesn't get back at you like it's awesome. Challenging yourself in increasing levels to see how much better you are than someone else without embarrassing anyone with it being too serious.

Positively, dreaming about Nintendo may reflect your ability to find joy and excitement in simple, socially acceptable challenges that don't put others in uncomfortable situations. Your desire for friendly competition and testing your skills in a safe and fun environment. Challenging experiences that see how far you can take it based on family life, affordability, or social acceptability don't embarrass anyone involved with being mean. Safely teaching yourself something different by taking it as far as you can without being dangerous to anyone else.

Negatively, dreaming about Nintendo may indicate a tendency to avoid serious or significant challenges in favor of more superficial and socially acceptable activities. A fear or reluctance to confront more substantial issues in your life. Privately challenging yourself to an idea in a friendly way that other people might not see the same way that you do if they found out. Feeling good that nobody can ever stop you from enjoying challenging yourself childishly with how far you can take a situation. A challenging experience of friendliness that isn't serious at all when that isn't what you really want. Challenging yourself to getting away with something with family or friends who are annoyed or angry that you don't stop it.

Example: A young woman dreamed of playing Super Nintendo in a locked room for a few days. In waking life, she going through a tough time being lonely trying to figure out how to socialize with classmates and get over social anxiety. In this case, the Nintendo may have reflected her attempt to challenge herself in her bedroom to come up with socially acceptable, cool, or fun ideas to help her socialize with classmates by telling them about them.

Example 2: A teenage girl dreamed of playing Super Nintendo with a guy who tells her he likes her. In waking life, she had a boyfriend, but a friend suggested that if she was single she should start dating the other guy who appeared in her dream. In this case, the Nintendo may reflect the socially acceptable friendly nature of testing the idea of dating another guy or seeing how much she could learn about the guy's interest in her without embarrassing her boyfriend with jealousy.

Example 3: A woman dreamed of playing virtual reality Nintendo games. In waking life, she was aware of herself going to extreme lengths to help a friend. In this case, the Nintendo symbolism may reflect feelings about challenging herself in a friendly way to see how far she could help her friend out without embarrassing her friend or anyone else with feeling it was too serious.

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Pac-Man

To dream of the video game Pac-Man represents a challenging experience to test the limits to see how far you can take a situation by trying to stay active doing new things while other people (or people from the past) don't want you to. Your determination to pursue opportunities or goals even when faced with obstacles or resistance from others. Being determined to pursue an opportunity while avoiding the "ghosts" of what people have said to you about it not being possible.

Negatively, dreaming about Pac-Man may represent wasting your time or looking stupid trying to test the limits to do new things when other people are right about already telling you it's possible. Wasting your time trying to escape good advice about something new you are trying that's not possible. Feeling that you can't escape the past or past advice from holding you back.

Pac-Man symbolism commonly appears in dreams with space or stars possibly to reflect an incredible opportunity that's never happened before with a feeling that other people don't want to allow it to happen.

Example: A teenage girl dreamed of seeing Pac-Man. In waking life, she was very motivated to move out and away from her mother to start her own life. She was aware of herself still being a minor and dependent on her mother financially. In this case, Pac-Man may have reflected her awareness of herself asserting her individuality and desiring a new life moving out while still feeling constrained by her dependence on her mother. She may have been aware of herself wasting time challenging herself to stay active doing whatever she had to in order to prepare to move out and have a life away from her mother while facing the reality of other people (ghosts) always being right that it wasn't realistic.

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