Mother

To dream of your mother represents your intuition or your internal guidance. She reflects your ability to make decisions that will effect you in the future or how well you make choices based on gut instincts. She also reflects how lucky you feel about coincidences or good foresight. Feelings about how to safely get something.

Anything your mother says in a dream sheds light on what your sense of intuition is guiding you towards in life, or how you feel about your future.

If your mother is deceased in real life the symbolism for her appearing in your dream most likely still remains as intuition. Dead relatives in dreams often have the same symbolic value whether the person is alive or dead. If your mother is recently deceased or you have been spending a lot of time remembering her than the her appearance in your dream may be reflecting how much you miss her.

If your mother gives you advice in a dream, it may reflect your sense of intuition that is feeling that a certain choice is best for the future.

If your mother is very angry in a dream, it represents your negative feelings about disappointments or bad luck. In this case you feel like you can't catch a break, or bad luck seems to just keep coming towards you as your choices never seem to help you. You may regret a choice you bad.

If you frustrated with your mother in a dream for making bad choices it may represent frustration or jealousy of all your own choices not being good ones. Lying to yourself or avoiding dealing with a problem. Pregnant women may dream of being frustrated with their mothers if they are gaining significant amounts of weight and not choosing appropriate clothing.

If your mother is evil looking in a dream it represents your sense of intuition being negative and making negative choices. Bad intentions for the future. It may also reflect feelings that nothing you choose ever works out or that you are consumed by fear or bad luck.

If you mother is happy in a dream it represents a positive outlook on the future or feeling luckier. You may feel like you avoided something bad or used really good foresight.

If you mother is pregnant in a dream it represents your choices for the future or luck that is working towards something. A new experience, new idea, or a new way of living is about emerge in your life.

To dream of murdering your mother represents feelings about hurting your future or terminating opportunities. "Killing off" your good luck or making a drastic reversal of past decisions. Killing your mother may also reflect feelings about choice or plans you regret and now you feel you have to put an end to it.

If your mother dies in a dream it represents feelings of having lost your sense of intuition or consistently making bad choices. Feeling that you have poor foresight. You are unable to solve a problem, get away from negative life situations, and problems you have stay unresolved. If she dies it's very likely you have powerful fears, or moral dilemmas that you need to overcome. You may feel a permanent sense of bad luck or that you can't stop yourself from making a bad decision with something very important.

To dream of your mother driving you in your car represents waking life situations where your heightened need to plan ahead in dominant. Intuition or long term planning that feels more important to you in current situation (e.g. pregnancy).

Example: A woman dreamed of her mother telling her she was too fat. In waking life she felt that she had gained too much weight. Her mother telling her that she gained too much weight reflected her intuition feeling that she needed to be more careful about eating and exercise as she moved forward.

Example 2: A young girl has recurring nightmares about her mother dying. In waking life she felt unable to decide what college was best and that making a choice right now might screw her life up good.

Example 3: A man dreamed of being comforted by his mother. In waking life he had a bad drug experience and told himself that quitting drugs would be a good idea. The man's mother reflected his intuitive wish to lookout for himself in the future by making a good choice to stop drugs.

Example 4: A woman dreamed of seeing her sister dragging the corpse of their mother around the inside of a house. In waking life she was experiencing her sister having a very hard time in life overcoming her addiction to drugs.

People with asthma often dream of themselves being victims depending on a mother figure. This symbolism may reflect their dislike of themselves being dependent on their inhalers or always having to be careful about their reactive sensitivities.

Pregnant women often dream of their mothers. This is most likely a reflection of their heightened need to intuitively plan ahead for the baby when it's born.

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Mother-In-Law

To see your mother-in-law represents your intuition or coincidences that are compromising. Experiencing a situation that is not your first choice. Alternative outcomes or luck that is only partially achieving your true wishes. Feeling that you have to give something up to get what you want.

You may also feel that giving up your own interests or sacrificing what you want is more beneficial for the long term. Feeling lucky that your loses aren't as bad as you thought they would be. Feeling lucky to to have any kind of success at all.

Negatively, dreaming about your mother-in-law may represent disappointment or frustration. Feeling unlucky about life seeming to purposely prevent you from achieving a goal perfectly. Putting up with compromises or disappointments that are excessive.

To dream of having sex or making love to your mother-in-law represents your enjoyment of a situation that was not your first choice. It may also reflect enjoyment of alternative choices or good luck that forces you forgo your original choices. Feeling really lucky about something you didn't expect.

Example: A woman dreamed of seeing her mother-in-law. In waking life she was pregnant and began to realize that something was wrong. She eventually had a miscarriage. She ended up having 4 miscarriages before finally having a full healthy pregnancy.

Example 2: A woman dreamed of her mother-in-law. In waking life she had to make compromises with her husband as they were arguing a lot and close to considering a divorce. She had to make changes in herself and how she lived with her husband in order to save the marriage.

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Cocaine

To dream of cocaine represents feelings of emotional addiction or dependency that's dangerous about an intense artificial boost of confidence and self-importance that doesn't have to talk about it. Feelings about enjoying a dangerous or intense sense of superiority. Feelings about "riding on a high" of elite behavior or being "passed people" that never has to explain it. Enjoying an intense experience of lying all the time that never gets caught. Enjoying hypocritical behavior based on elite knowledge, being richer than other people, or feeling that you are too good to follow the rules that normal people do. Addiction to getting away with behavior that feels good being better than other people. Enjoying a sense of entitlement to breaking rules. Enjoying excess. Enjoying wild or risky behavior.

Example: A young girl dreamed of snorting cocaine during a drug recovery support group. In waking life, she was addicted to a drug (not cocaine) and was taking the drug before attending the meetings to discuss her progress. She was enjoying talking about herself at the meetings about how staying off drugs was easy, while being aware of herself taking the drugs. In this case, the cocaine usage may have reflected her feelings about enjoying a dangerous sense of superiority and self-importance with breaking the rules around people who were trying hard to recover while getting attention for pretending to be recovered.

Example 2: A woman dreamed of being offered 2 bags of cocaine. In waking life, she had a restraining order against her ex-boyfriend and was considering enjoying herself tormenting him with one-way communication knowing that he could go to jail if he responded to her. In this case, the bags of cocaine being offered may have reflected her feelings of temptation to enjoy an intense experience of "riding on a high" of superiority and self-importance by abusing her ex-boyfriend's restraining order that she felt was easy to get away with.

Crack Cocaine

To dream of crack cocaine represents feelings of emotional addiction or dependency that's dangerous about feeling good coping with a problem to the point that you will never do anything except watch yourself never let go of it while ruining yourself. Intense escapes or coping mechanisms that may be damaging or addictive. Feelings of being trapped in a cycle of addiction with a compulsive behavior. Loss of control, dependency, or the damaging effects of chasing fleeting pleasures. Feelings about yourself or someone being pathetic about having difficulty coping with getting over something. An addiction to pleasure that ultimately makes one feel like a loser. Desperation, failure, or inadequacy over one's inability to overcome an addiction or move past a troubling issue. A dependency on something that feels horrible having to give up because you feel you have nothing better to do to help you cope. Feelings of awareness of your self-destructive habit that doesn't bother you. Lust, attraction, or bad habits that you destroy yourself with in order to keep feeling good. Dangerous allure to a dependency that first makes you believe nothing you do can be a problem. A dangerous attraction or bad habit that one continues to indulge in despite knowing the negative consequences it may bring. A choice to accept yourself being permanently addicted to something that makes you feel like a loser.

To dream of a crack house may represent a perspective on a situation that is completely consumed by unhealthy coping, desperate dependency, or normalized dysfunction. A mental or emotional environment where destructive habits feel familiar, unavoidable, or accepted as "just the way things are." Feelings about being surrounded by people, thoughts, or behaviors that reinforce addiction, self-destruction, or hopelessness. Feeling trapped in a toxic environment, social circle, or mindset that makes it difficult to escape bad habits or improve yourself. Fear that staying in a certain situation will continue to damage your self-respect, stability, or future. Awareness that you are (or could be) stuck in a cycle where problems are enabled rather than confronted, and where recovery or growth feels far away. An awareness of engaging in or witnessing behaviors that could lead to serious addiction or self-destructive outcomes. Feeling that you are surrounded by people who can't overcome their need for dependency even if it ruins them or humiliates them.

Additionally, a crack house may represent feeling trapped in a cycle of harmful habits or destructive environments, where the pursuit of fleeting pleasure leads to long-term damage. A situation that feels that you have nothing better to do than to give in to your self-destructive habit. Situations where giving up all your power to an addictive pleasure is dangerously easy. Feelings about other people seeing you as someone who has a self-destructive habit that doesn't bother you. Hopeless addiction to needing to feel good coping with something that destroys you.

To dream of police raiding a crack house may represent your conscience, reality, or an external pressure forcing you to recognize that an attachment to an unhealthy coping habit needs to be "broken up" before it ruins your self-respect, emotional stability, or ability to move forward.

Crack cocaine in dreams commonly reflects addiction to pornography or sex that destroys your interest in having a healthy relationship. Allowing your sex addiction to destroy other areas of your life. Choosing to masturbate while watching pornography before ever wanting a relationship.

Example: A man dreamed of police raiding a crack house. In waking life, he was trying his hardest to get over an ex-girlfriend whom he felt was too beautiful to let go of. In this case, the crack house may have reflected awareness that obsessively holding on to the emotional and sexual attachment to his ex-girlfriend had become a destructive coping environment in his mind�one where longing, fantasy, and craving were being enabled instead of confronted.

Example 2: A woman dreamed of being in a crack house. In waking life, she was taking a lot of cancer drugs that she felt totally dependent on while feeling that other medical symptoms were ruining her life. In this case, the crack house may have reflected her feelings of being permanently trapped with a dependency on medication, where coping with illness felt unavoidable, consuming, and humiliating, while her sense of control, normalcy, and quality of life felt steadily eroded by side effects she couldn�t escape.

Mother's Day

To dream of Mother's Day represent an event or special time in your life where you are being careful about the future. Being more responsible than you usually are. Your choices are very focused on staying out of trouble before it begins. Being focused on prevention.

Alternatively, Mother's Day may reflect how lucky you feel or a lot of coincidences you are experiencing at once. You may be feeling very fortunate to have made a good decision ahead of time.

The reason for this symbolism is because mothers in dreams represent the intuition, or long term instincts.

Dead

To dream of being dead represents feelings of loss or total failure. If your death takes on a more positive theme it may reflect positive changes or transformation. The end of friendships, relationships, or some important part of your life. A fear of change. Difficulty with a transition. The end of an era.

To dream of seeing dead people represents aspects if your personality that have completely changed or lost all power. It can also reflect your projection of other people that have changed or lost power. You or someone else may have experienced a noticeable change.

To dream of seeing dead loved ones who actually died in real life most likely reflect an aspect of your personality based on your most honest feelings about them. The fact that they are dead is most likely irrelevant unless it's the most powerful quality about them. For example, seeing your deceased father most likely symbolizes your conscience just as it would if he were alive.

If loved ones have recently passed away or you've been spending a lot of time remembering them then they may represent your grief or desire to be with them again.

Example: A woman dreamed of holding a dead baby in her arms. In waking life she had just received news from her doctor that she would be unable to ever bear children. The dead baby may have reflected her dead hopes to have a baby.

Example 2: A young boy dreamed of his mother being dead. In waking life his mother began to date again after divorcing his father and he feared losing his mother because as she began dating her personality started to change.

Example 3: A young man dreamed of seeing dead people he was trying to hide. In waking life he contracted a disease that was causing his hair to fall out and was desperate to hide it from everyone he knew by wearing hats.

Example 4: A young man dreamed of seeing his ex-girlfriend dead. In waking life he was very concerned about losing his friendship with his ex-girlfriend after he broke up with her.

Example 5: A man dreamed of seeing a dead bird. In waking life he accidentally met up with an ex-girlfriend whom he had strong feelings for and learned that she had moved on leaving him with no choice to get back with her. He realized all hope was gone to ever have a relationship with her ever again. The dead bird may have reflected his feelings about accepting the potential for reconciling be impossible.

Example 6: A man dreamed of seeing a dead bird. In waking life his brother died of cancer and all hope for recovering from the cancer was lost.

Example 7: A woman dreamed of seeing dead people. In waking life she was spending a lot of time thinking about and old friendship that she lost.

Example 8: A woman dreamed of seeing a dead dog. In waking life she realized that her relationship with her boyfriend was over.

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Grandmother

To dream of your grandmother may represent your intuition or gut instincts in situations that you are already experienced in. Your ability to make a positive decision for the future when you already have previous experience. A situation where experience or already being informed helps you make choices that keep you out of trouble. Feelings that life is unfair because your intuition or luck overpowers your own wishes. Feeling that God or life makes you live in a way you didn't choose.

Alternatively, a grandmother may symbolize intuitive or wiser choices that overrides your decisions. Feeling that life or luck does something for you whether you like it or not. It may also reflect someone more experienced than you having better foresight than you. Possibly a symbol for your marriage, jobs, or family life dictating how your life will be lived. Some area of your life where you are passively decided for. Feelings about family always having to come before your wants. Intuitive choices that is out of necessity or feeling that life only gives you what you need without giving you what you want.

Negatively, a grandmother may also reflect powerful peer pressure that feels impossible to override because you could lose all your friends or an important opportunity. Feeling that you have no choice about where your life is headed as other people seem to be making the big decisions. Guilt or embarrassment for a situation you can't control at all.

Example: A man dreamed of talking to his grandmother about his new child that was almost born. His grandmother looked like she was close to death. In waking life the man was thinking about how his need to have a family was going to kill his sex life. The Grandmother most likely reflected the man's feelings about his wife's pregnancy was permanently overriding his ability to control his sex life.

Example 2: A young girl dreamed of seeing her Grandmother in a shower with her. In waking life she was 17 and taking drugs for the very first time with her friends. The Grandmother in this case may have reflected her feelings about how her social life with her drug taking friends seemed to override her ability to make decisions on drug use for herself because she would lose all her friends if she didn't take drugs by appearing as a sober outsider.

Example 3: A young woman dreamed of sleeping in a bed with her Grandmother and listening to her Grandmother tell her how immoral she was for living in sin with her boyfriend when her aunt told her it was okay. In waking life she felt guilty looking for a new job, but felt she had to. The Grandmother in this case may have reflected her feelings that she was intuitively lucky to have been given her current job when it was a necessity, while her aunt reflected her alternative intuition making her feel it was important to look for something better.

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In-Laws

To dream of an in-law represents compromise, abiding behavior, or decisions with a stronger interest in avoiding negative situations.

Like all people in dreams they may also symbolize personality traits in you based on your feelings, opinions, or memories of them that stand out the most.

To dream of having sex with an In-Law represents an enjoyable waking life experience you are having with a compromised decision. Liking something that isn't your first choice a lot.

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Stepfather

To dream of a stepfather represents a substitute conscience or decision-making ability that you have no control over needing to accept, adjust to, integrate with, or adapt to. Fathers in dreams typically reflect the conscience or our ability to make a decision. A stepfather is then symbolically a substitute form of conscience or choice that we feel forced to accept with current conditions. You may feel a choice has been made for you or that you've been pressured into a decision. The respect or challenges associated with adapting to new rules, guidance, or support from someone who doesn't make decisions in a way you are accustomed to. Adaptability to unconventional decision-making.

Negatively, a stepfather may reflect a decision that you can't stand putting up with. Struggling to come to terms with a change that you don't like. Feeling that you have to accept someone else's decisions controlling you with no say in the matter when it isn't what you wanted. Not liking putting up with someone else's substitute choices that were made for you.

Alternatively, a stepfather may reflect tension or disappointment with your real father.

Example: A woman dreamed of seeing her deceased stepfather standing up from a coffin with bullet holes in him. She told him to rest and he didn't listen. In waking life, she got into a big fight with her sister over an issue which she had no control over. She had accepted losing the argument so that she could move on with her life and stopped talking to her sister. She started talking to her sister at a later time which brought up the old arguments. In this case, the stepfather may have reflected her feelings about needing to accept her sister's decision-making with no say in the matter.

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Stepmother

To dream of a stepmother represents a substitute intuitive choice that you have no control over needing to accept, adjust to, integrate with, or adapt to. Mothers in dreams typically reflect the intuition about safety for the future, internal guidance based on your feelings about past experiences, or how lucky you feel about coincidences or good foresight. A stepmother is then symbolically a substitute form of intuition that we feel forced to accept with current conditions. Adaptability to unconventional decisions for safety for the future.

Negatively, a stepmother may reflect an intuitive choice about safety for the future that you can't stand putting up with. Intuitive choices that don't let you feel good in the manner that you are used to. Putting up with someone else's sense of safety that you don't respect. You may feel smothered, neglected, or held back. Feeling pressured into having to be careful in a way that you are not used to.

Alternatively, a stepmother may reflect tension or disappointment with your real mother.

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