Life Jacket

To dream of a life jacket represents security and reinforcement while confronting uncertainty or negative situations. A backup plan or insurance that you can't fail or be overwhelmed by a negative situation. Knowing that no matter what happens to you you'll make it through a serious problem. Preparing for the worst or feeling that a situation is headed towards a crisis.

Negatively, dreams of a life jacket may reflect putting too much trust is something protecting you or helping you through a difficult situation. Not being critical enough of advice. It may also reflect feelings of being stupid for having trusted something.

Example: A woman dreamed of seeing a dog wearing a life jacket that was so amazing that she dropped all her belongings in a bog. In waking life she trusted the advice of a doctor that gave her a bad diagnosis which ended up making her medical problem worse. She refused to work with the doctor ever again, but then ended up having to go to the hospital to fix her problem and felt completely controlled by the new doctors.

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Life Review

To dream of a life review represents remembrance of everything that has happened to you before you decided to move on. You may have made a big decision or experienced a big change and are looking back over your old life. You may also be looking for mistakes you made before a change happened.

Alternatively, you may be nostalgic about everything that has happened to you before starting a new chapter of your life.

Example: A man dreamed he died of a gunshot to the head and then experiencing a life review. In waking life he finally decided to move away for a new job and was remembering everything that happened to him that lead him to this decision

Life Saver

To dream of using a life saver represents an opportunity or last chance to spare yourself from being overwhelmed by difficult situations or uncertainty. You or someone else may have been saved from a jam or embarrassing loss.

Positively, a life saver may reflect feelings of being lucky to have another chance or an opportunity to walk away from a problem. Taking advantage of an opportunity before it slips away. Feeling that someone was looking out for you.

To dream of an unused life saver may reflect a backup plan or safety measure. Hoping that you won't have to do something unless you absolutely have to.

Past Life

To dream of a past life represents your memory of an earlier time period of your life or remembering who you were before you made a big change.

Example: A woman dreamed of a past life where she went into the forest to die. In waking life she had moved to a heavily forested property in the jungle of Brazil and her life was completely different now without any children.

Tree of Life

To dream of the tree of life represents a situation that is unrelenting and that requires total moral adherence. Difficult life situations that allow you make choices, but always offering the possibility of temptation or failure.

The Tree of Life perfectly symbolizes life in that like the tree, life is always difficult with the option of good or bad.

Coat

To dream of a coat represents your protectiveness and defensive persona. How you are shielding yourself from conflict or adversity.

Consider the color and style of jacket for additional symbolism.

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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 behavior 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 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 serious 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 represents 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.

To dream of the video game Pac-Man represents a challenging experience to see how far you can take something while trying to stay active doing new things while other people don't want you to. Competitiveness that doesn't waste an opportunity to do everything hoping to leave others with nothing. Intelligent competitiveness that doesn't stop what you are doing so that negative people don't stop anything. Staying active doing new things while people from your past want you to stop. Staying active doing new things while avoiding reminders of your past that make feel like stopping. Feeling surrounded by jealousy that keeps you worrying that you might not get everything you want done. Challenging yourself to achieve every single why other people haven't stopped being over jealous of you being active or doing new things. Competitively never wanting to say anything about why you don't want to stop what you are doing so nobody stops you.

Negatively, Pac-Man symbolism may represent competitiveness that ignorantly never wastes an opportunity while noticing nothing left for other people.

Pac-Man symbolism commonly appears in dreams with space or stars possibly to reflect an incredible opportunity that's never happened before.

To dream of the video game Super Mario represents a challenging experience to see how far you can take something by embarrassing other people by having to stay believable awesome no matter how outrageous a situation gets. A need to stay on top of things, like you are "fantastic awesome" to friends. Challenging yourself with nothing embarrassing you for why everyone liked you for why everything worked out awesome. Challenging yourself to be "believable awesome" that won't waste time staying on top of it. Challenging obstacles where nothing feels impossible to fix if you believably stay on top of it. Competitiveness that is "believable awesome" about never stopping being someone's friend for why everything worked out. Feeling that nothing is impossible about being awesome about never giving up being someone's friend.

Negatively, Super Mario dreams may be a sign that you are competitive about being a goof off or drunk partier that wants everyone to like you for why it all worked out. A party attitude for management when parents go on vacation. Challenging yourself to the difficulty of believing nothing is impossible to hide awesomeness of a party from parents or a boss (Koopa). Life situations where you need to "beware of the monster" of authority waking up to you. Challenging yourself to why you parents can never flip you off for why you never said anything as the reason you got away with something. Having a good time never thinking your parents are dangerous like it isn't serious to get around them find out.

Dreams of Super Mario may be common to people a party drinking that need to clean up or sober up afterwards and notice that no appearances were embarrassed covering it up.

Example 1: A young man dreamed of playing Super Mario Galaxy. In waking life, his sisters were throwing parties while their parents were away. In this case, the Super Mario video game symbolism may have reflected his feelings of being a skilled party-goer who was able to handle the challenges and chaos of the party like Mario handles obstacles in the game. He may have seen himself as the hero of the party, always staying on top of things and never giving up. The Koopa, or final obstacle, may have represented the challenge of keeping everything under control and ensuring that he didn't get in trouble with his parents.

Example 2: A young man dreamed of playing Super Mario with his brother. In waking life he had rewarded him to drinking after a long week of sobriety and work. In this case the Super Mario may have reflected his feelings about having to manage himself while drunk covering it all up so everyone else would like him for why the party worked out.

Example 3: A young man dreamed of ignoring his theatre class to play a Super Mario arcade game. In waking life she dropped out of the theatre class, enrolled in military basic training which he dropped out of, and then returned to theatre class which is eventually dropped out of. In this case the Super Mario arcade video game may reflect his need to waste time doing whatever he could to challenging himself avoiding his parents finding out about him dropping out of school.

To dream of the video game The Legend Of Zelda represents a challenging experience of having a personal mission you accept taking to do whatever it takes to correct the feeling of darkness and restore it to light. Competitiveness that accepts it for the rest of your life as why you must be honorable about restoring life back to light from darkness. A reflection of the length 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 lighter style of thinking back. Honoring every last thing to solve every puzzle their is in order to put everything back the way it was. 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 work honest again if you don't do every single little thing to get it back. Having to believe in yourself no matter what you say in order to never think dark 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 1: A woman dreamed of The Legend of Zelda virtual reality game she walked around inside. 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. The dream may have been a sign that she overdoing thinking nothing negative should be felt by her friend by making it 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 reflect her feelings about battling depression being a life-long personal competitive mission to battle dark thoughts.

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. Zelda being a novelty item may have reflected her tendency to "think about it while not thinking about it" while trying to shop her shopping habit.

To dream of the Tetris video game represents a challenging experience to see how far you can make a difficult situation fit. A challenging experience of attempting to make various tasks, responsibilities, or elements fits into a difficult situation where there is a risk of things "piling up." Feeling that life will become an "organizing death" if you don't make a situation work. Feeling overwhelmed by a management task or by a situation that keeps giving you a problem that you need to make fit. Thinking that you don't need to do anything except keep making a situation work in order to be better than someone else. Challenging experience to see how far you can make a situation fit with never having to say anything to anyone about it. Challenging yourself to always making a situation work as long as it's not too fast for you. Challenging experience of having to keep proving yourself with never letting a difficult problems pile up too much. Feeling annoyed putting up with someone who isn't listening to why you are fine the way you are. Not respecting yourself continually dealing with someone else's problems like it matters more than you do.

Example: A young man dreamed blocks falling down like crazy 3D Tetris. In waking life he was a camp counselor for young people. In this case the Tetris symbolism may have reflected his feelings about the challenges of camp counselor life as he had to see how far he could make the difficulties of camp life fit with his job managing people. The fun and chaos of camp life as he makes each project work for everyone participating while new problems are always arising requiring him to challenge himself to keep up with it.

Example 2: A teenage girl dreamed of seeing a more advanced version of Tetris and not liking it. In waking life she had considered going to school in another country. In this case the Tetris like game may have reflected her feelings about challenged to think of how changing her life to go to school another country would fit.

To dream of Grand Theft Auto represents a challenging experience to see how far you can take an experience of open dishonesty or criminality that's so accepting of it that you don't care anything except getting away with it. Challenging yourself with dishonestness like it's normal that nobody thinks of telling you to stop. A challenging experience of criminality, discipline, drug use, using people, death threats, or other dishonesty that is common place. Feeling challenged to be open with dangerous, dishonest, or criminal behavior with a sense of freedom. Feeling challenged to be the wisest dishonestest person 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. A situation where nobody cares about honesty like it's insane if you do. Challenging experience in increasing difficulty to operate outside social norms or rules of morality. Challenging experience where there are no advantages to be honest because being honest will ruin you. Total recklessness with being dishonest like it's normal.

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.

Example 1: 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 asserting he was embracing death like it was a open dangerous or reckless challenge he had prove with nobody allowed to question him to stop it. Challenging himself to how much he could talk about his own death with nobody to stop it.

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 himself getting sober for the first time. He had an openly accepted view of his own criminal lifestyle.

To dream of Sonic The Hedgehog video game represents feelings about a challenge to see how far you can take a situation that embarrassing other people with being faster when you need to. Challenging yourself with moments of high speed or rushing as a weapon or tool. Feeling good asserting yourself as a weapon to roll through changes. Innocently surprising people with too much too fast as a weapon. Acting your age as a weapon to steamroll changes quickly. A complicated situation or long-term challenge that occasionally notices high pressure or high speed to embarrass other people in your way.

Negatively, dreaming about Sonic The Hedgehog video game may represents frightening other people with doing things highspeed whenever you need to. Rushing or forcing other people out of your way by caring about absolutely nothing they are feeling as much as possible to see how far you can take it.

Example: A young woman had recurring dreams of Sonic The Hedgehog. In waking life she was a student living at school in the dorms. In this case Sonic The Hedgehog may have reflected he attempt to challenge herself see how far she can push passed other students whenever she needed to because dorm life was so hectic or busy.

Example 2: A teenage girl dreamed of running on top of the Titanic back and forth like Sonic The Hedgehog trying to dodge the water as the ship sank. In walking life she got caught doing something prohibited and was kicked out of her home. In this case feeling like Sonic The Hedgehog while running may have reflected her feelings about herself attempt to avoid being kicked out of her home by challenge herself to push passed other people as fast as she could thinking she didn't have to listen with last minute defenses that ultimately failed.

To dream of a Nintendo video game system represents feelings about having challenging experiences that are never too serious to see how far you can take it. Feeling good that nobody can ever stop you from enjoying challenging yourself childishly with how far you can take a situation. Challenging experiences that see how far you can take it based on family life, affordability, or safely being alone not embarrassing anyone else. Never nervous about why you are teaching yourself something different by taking it as far as you can with failing. Feeling good training. Enjoying training challenging yourself and never having to worry about it. Challenging experiences or competition that you can simply stop with consequences because you aren't seriously laughing at anyone else. Being in love with never having to be too serious challenging yourself. Training with challenging experiences that see how far you can take a situation without failing that notice nothing is dangerously permanent.

Negatively, dreaming about Nintendo may be a sign that you believe a challenging experience isn't serious at all while other people, like family, are being lied to or manipulated. Challenging yourself to getting away with as possible with family or friends who are annoyed or angry that you aren't stopping.

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 make 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 that tells her he likes her. In waking life she had a boyfriend, but a friend suggested that if she was single should start dating the guy who appeared in her dream. In this case the Nintendo may reflect the family friendly nature of testing the idea of dating another guy or see how much she could learn about the guy's interest in her. She may have felt completely safe simply changing the discussion if it got too serious.

Example 3: A woman dreamed of playing virtual reality Nintendo games. In waking life was aware of herself going to extreme lengths to help a friend. In this case the Nintendo symbolism may reflect feelings about challenging herself to see how far she could take helping her friend out.

To dream of XBOX video game system represents feelings about challenging experiences of training or skill where it's important to be competitive good at it. Training, competition, and collaboration. Having fun being good at your job and talking to people about it. A more serious feel to needing to test yourself with every single thing you can to be good at what you do. Not liking being left behind jealous.

Xbox dreams are common to people with employment issues.

Example: A man dreamed of his Xbox being stolen, but then found it. In waking life the man had a recent job interview. In this case the Xbox may have reflected his competitive nature about challenging himself to see how far he could take talking about himself being professional or experienced with his job to get a better job.

Example 2: A young man dreamed of a computer turning into an Xbox. In waking life he preferred to be skilled at technology privately and not help or talk to others about it. In this case the Xbox may have reflected his feelings about liking being excellent with technology while choosing to avoid talking to someone about it.

Example 3: A man dreamed of seeing his friend packing up an Xbox. In waking life the dreamer's friend got married and moved into a newly built house. In this case the Xbox being packed up may have reflected the dreamer's feelings about not talking to his friend about anything professional or competitive again due to his friend's new married life.

Example 4: A woman dreamed of being chastised by co-worker for playing Xbox because it wasted the companies money when she only played Xbox afterhours. In waking life she was told a week earlier that she needed to get a new job. In this case the Xbox being played after hours may have reflected her feelings about challenging herself to see how far she could take using a company resource that might have ended up getting her fired.

To dream of a Sony Playstation video game system represents feelings about challenging yourself to see how far you can take being completely immersed in an experience. Life situations where you are testing yourself that require imagination, escapism, being immersive. Training for professional advancement that doesn't deserve to be distracted.

Example: A teenage boy dreamed of seeing a Playstation video game scene for Tiger Woods Golf 2004. In waking life he was questioning whether to exclusively focus on training to play baseball or golf for the rest of his highschool term. He was giving it serious thought. The Playstation video game scene of golf may have reflected his feelings about himself being totally immersed or focused on training to play golf to see how far he could improve his golf skills.

Example 2: A woman dreamed of seeing a sale on for Sony Playstation 3. In waking life she was enjoying a friend's Tarot card reading regarding her relationship with her husband which encouraged her. In this case the Playstation symbolism may have reflected her feelings about Tarot card readings allowing her to challenge herself to be completely immersed in Tarot card mystisism helping her to improve her marriage and life.

Example 3: A young man dreamed of seeing a game played Sony Playstation. In waking life he was employed as a camp counselor taking care of campers and camp activities. In this case the Playstation videogame symbolism may have reflected his feelings about the camp experience being something requiring people to challenge themselves inside various immersive experiences on the camp grounds.

To dream a Sega video game system represents feelings about about training or having challenging experiences that where nobody is cheating you because you can do something yourself if you want to. Testing yourself with what you're doing is allowed. Challenging experience that feels fantastic to never have to say anyone else matters if you want to. Not letting other people's jealousy stop you because it doesn't matter.

Negatively, dreaming of Sega represents being terrible to other people if they don't want you challenging yourself on your own when you already can.

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 testing a situation on her own feeling nobody was cheating her, while the Nintendo was a reflection of an opposite alternative feeling of testing a situation that was more friendly.

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 actions 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 felt that at the time of the dream that 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 so 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 reflect 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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