Sleep Paralysis

Contrary to popular belief sleep paralysis, or "old hag syndrome" is not a sleeping disorder. The entire experience is actually a dream state that symbolizes how paralyzed you are in waking life by problems, or negative thinking patterns you have. Feeling trapped living with a decision you made. Feeling trapped in an illegal business. Feeling unable to safely or smoothly transition to a new way of living. Feeling trapped in a relationship.

The paralyzed state represents your awareness of problems in your life that you are powerless to change. The old hag that often pushes down on persons chest represents an intuitive aspect of yourself that is negative, yet knows better. This part of you suffocates the real inner you, or paralyzes your ability to progress in life due to negative thinking patterns you see no benefit in changing.

Sleep paralysis is a sign that you need to begin to process negativity in your life. First, you need to stand up to fear whenever you feel it and make time to face fears that you know you have. Speak to people about your fears and troubles. Next, you need to resist desire for attractive people and material things that you don't believe you can ever really have. You also want to give up a need to have something at all costs.

The next thing you need to do is to begin to apologize for everything wrong you ever did in your life and take responsibility for your actions. Then you want to forgive anyone who ever did you wrong and learn to let go of the past. Jealousy, guilt, and bitterness should also be addressed.

What all this does is help you to clear your conscience and raise your level of consciousness and awareness of what you are thinking.

It's also recommended that you begin to monitor your thoughts and begin to ask yourself why you are thinking about everything you are thinking. What motivates these thoughts or feelings?

Lastly, you may want to begin to seek professional advice, or help from more experienced people so that you can gain new perspectives into your problems.

Example: A man dreamed of being paralyzed on his bed while sleeping on his back. A translucent ghost-like old hag woman witch appeared on top of him and pinned him to the bed. He swore at the woman and saw the energy from his swear words being absorbed into the old woman as food. In waking life he felt trapped inside an illegal business which he started when he was younger. He felt like the worst person in the world and that it was impossible to transition to a new form of employment because he had run the illegal business for so long that no company would hire him because he couldn't explain his previous experience to any potential employers.

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Slicked Hair

To dream of hair being slicked back represents a thinking style or attitude that is focused on doing everything you're supposed to be doing. Being on top of things all the time. Never embarrassing yourself or always being conscious of the possibly of mistakes. Making extra sure that your life or a situation is by the book.

Slicked back hair may also reflect a professional attitude or a big concern about rules or fairness.

Example: A man dreamed of seeing himself with perfect slicked back hair. In waking life he was preparing to prove himself to an old friend from high school about why he was a responsible winner in life by discussing his business with him. He was nervous about making a responsible impression on his old friend.

Sliding Glass Door

To dream of a sliding glass door represents feelings about smooth gradual access to change, easy opportunities with nothing in your way, or how effortless a change feels. A smooth transition towards a new option or idea. Seeing a future possibility clearly which you believe you can gradually initiate without bothering anyone.

Negatively, a sliding glass door may reflect total arrogance that believes making a change is very easy if done gradually when other people may find it very unpleasant. Disregarding others feelings with a gradual change as though it was too easy. Gradual change being made dishonestly because nobody is looking. Full awareness of a dishonest future opportunity or change you are gradually initiating.

Example: An older man dreamed of opening a sliding glass door. In waking life he was prepared to quickly sell a family home that had been in the family for generations with no sympathy for any of his family members. The sliding glass door in this case may have reflected the man's feelings of full awareness of the future upsetting his family while slowly and privately preparing for the home selling anyway.

Sliver

To dream of getting a sliver represents annoyances or frustrations about small issues that you have to extra careful about removing from your life. A petty or trivial issue that is hindering progress. An inability to move forward or let go until something is fixed.

Negatively, it may be a sign that you are allowing a small problem or other people's remarks to become too personal. Being so fixated on something being perfect that it prevents you from functioning.

Slot Machine

To dream of a slot machine represents situations where you are repeatedly taking a chance on something because you feel that it might work out if you keep at it. Hoping for good fortune or wishing for good luck. Feeling that if you keep taking a chance on something that the next time will be different. Testing your luck.

Dreaming of winning at a slot machine may reflect feelings of being extremely lucky for having taken a chance on something at all. Total disbelief or shock that something highly unlikely occurred so easily. Feeling good about your persistence paying off. Feelings of surprise that your "hunch" or crazy idea actually worked.

Negatively, a slot machine may be a sign that you're consciously wasting your time taking chances on something with nearly impossible odds. Repeatedly taking chances that never seems to work out. Poor judgement. Wasting money or resources hoping to get lucky.

To dream of someone else winning at a slot machine may reflect feelings of jealousy that someone else is luckier than you. Feelings about other people's persistence paying off in a big unlikely way. Shock that someone else's stupid or crazy idea worked.

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Sloths

To dream of a sloth represents you or someone else that feels good being lazy. It may reflect your feelings about someone you feel is an expert at avoiding any hard work. Being at adept at conserving a passive state.

Slow Motion

To dream in slow motion represents your attentiveness to the all the details of a waking life situation. Feeling that it's incredible that you can perfectly notice every single thing happening in a situation or that you reacted flawlessly to a situation.

Alternatively, slow motion in a dream may reflect feelings about a situation you are recalling that happened so quickly. You may be replaying a situation that happened to you in your mind.

Negatively, dreaming in slow motion may represent your frustration or impatience with the degree of progress in a waking life situation.

Sludge

To dream of sludge represents feeling left with a awful situation that is perfectly overwith and you don't know what else to do about it to deal with it. An awful situation with nothing useful left making you care about doing every single thing yourself to fix it. A situation so awful about having nothing left that you can't think of anything to do with it accept neglect it or get rid of it yourself. Feeling emptiness or dirtiness of "that's all that's left" in a situation or relationship. A situation left to you that is so awful or disgusting that you don't know what else to do with it. A situation or problem that is so unprofessionally neglected you are are in disbelief that it exists. Emptiness or immorality that only makes a situation worse if you have to know everything about it. Unpleasant feelings about needing to learn too much about a stupidly impossible immoral or unpleasant issue. A dirty, unpleasant, or immoral situation that you would prefer to never look back at. A "dirty" problem that you don't want to get involved with at all. Scumbag behavior that has embarrassed itself caught immoral crossing a "fine line of standards" with something that didn't matter at all. Unprofessional neglect that requires enormous attention or a waste of time to deal with. A situation that is too neglected to want to deal with or talk about it. A situation so awful that nobody else ever cared about it because they didn't know what else to do and now you need to.

The worst frustration of your life which you don't want to deal with at all if you don't need to. Unavoidably having to talk about problems in a dead-end relationship or marriage when you don't want to . A problem that has noticed every single last thing unprofessional before you need to deal with it yourself. Empty pointlessness that you don't believe anyone should want to notice or get involved with at all because it wastes time thinking about it.

Example: A woman dreamed of seeing a dog covered in sludge. In waking life she had discovered that her husband was cheating on her with another woman. The sludge in this case may have reflected her feelings about how dirty and empty it felt to talk to her cheating husband about the affair because it would only feel dirty learning more reasons why her relationship was overwith.

Example 2: A man dreamed of seeing sewer sludge. In waking life he was thinking about personal issues that were so "dirty" or immoral that he didn't feel like talking about it to anyone else at all.

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Slugs

To dream of slugs represents feelings of annoyance with stagnation or lethargy in your waking life that gives you strong feelings of prejudice or disgust about needing to be involved with it. Feeling annoyance with laziness or lethargy. Annoyance with something apathetic and unwanted with a sense that it might be evil.

Example: A woman dreamed of seeing another woman beating a white slug. In waking life, she was elderly and reexamining her youth and sex life. She felt relieved to be older now because she felt sex was disgusting and was relieved she couldn't get pregnant again. In this case, the white slug may have reflected her strong feelings of prejudice and disgust about her past sexual experiences because she felt old and enjoyed nothing happening at all in her sex life. The white color of the slug reflects a genuine attitude about preferring a stagnated sex life.

Example 2: A man dreamed of seeing a slug. In waking life, he had been spending a lot of time sitting around watching TV and not working. The thought of having to work again after spending so much time not working felt awful. In this case, the slug may have reflected his feelings of annoyance, disgust, and lethargy about the unwanted prospect of having to work again after a long period of idleness.

Example 3: A man dreamed of seeing a slug. In waking life, he had a really low opinion of a male customer he didn't like because he felt that the customer didn't care about anything except using him to get free stuff without paying for it. In this case, the slug may have reflected his prejudice about the annoying male customer being a poor, lazy, sluggish customer.

Slumber Party

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Smarties

To dream of Smarties candies represents feeling about treating yourself to enjoying cleverly not talking about yourself to other people too much because it's more intelligent to like what you're getting without anyone stopping it. Cleverly not talking about yourself too much because you like being helped getting something you want. Cleverly not talking about yourself too much because it will make people like you better. Enjoying avoiding saying anything negative about yourself because it will help you to get away with something as long as possible.

Negatively, dreaming about Smarties candies may represent dishonestly treating yourself to intelligently not talking about yourself too much because you like what you're getting without anyone stopping it. Enjoying dishonestly avoiding talking about yourself too much because it will make people like you better if you don't reveal the negative truth of who you are.

Children may dream of smarties to reflect cleverly enjoying themselves being clever about not talking about themselves too much in order to get something they want or avoid trouble. Children may be avoiding saying things that are unpopular or that they don't like other kids in order to keep enjoying themselves.

Example: A man dreamed of seeing Smarties chocolate while grocery shopping for Halloween. In waking life, he and his wife had decided to not allow the children outside this year for Halloween (Covid-19 time) and instead have chocolate at home while they watch scary movies. In this case, the Smarties chocolates may have reflected his feelings about cleverly teaching his kids not talk to other children about the family plans to privately enjoy Halloween at home watching scary movies this year so they could all avoid COVID-19 without insulting anyone.

Smiley Face

To dream of a smiley face represents feelings about a good mood or positive intentions being mandatory. Having to be happy or upbeat.

Negatively, a smiley face may represent feelings about being forced to put on a happy display to others. Feeling exhausted or pressured to be nice or upbeat. Feeling empty about having to make others feel good about a situation being perfect. An empty display of good tidings. An all business situation or having to be professional.

Alternatively, a smiley face may be reflect you or someone else that is totally insensitive to having to make others like them.

Smoke Detector

To dream of a smoke detector represents a person or situation in your life that warns you when a situation is getting out of hand. An indicator of trouble or excess. It may also reflect someone who controls you by telling you when you're going overboard.

To dream of a smoke detector going off represents awareness that a situation feels dangerous or excessive. You or someone else has gone too far with something. A supervisor, parent, or situation may be signaling you to cut back or abandon something.

Negatively, a smoke detector may be a sign that you are taking risks and not concerned with being responsible until the worst has occurred.

Smoke Stacks

To dream of smoke stacks represents a lack of concern for how influential negative behavior is on others. Not caring about the consequences of bad behavior or ill intentions. A smoke stack may also reflect a lack of remorse for the burden you are constantly putting on others.

Smores

To dream of s'mores represents feelings about an experience of liking getting away with doing something that you don't usually do without anyone taking it away from you.