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๐Ÿ’กPossible meaning

This dream symbolizes vulnerability, insecurity, and fear of judgment. It may indicate that you feel exposed or unprotected in a situation. It could also suggest that you are revealing too much of yourself and need to be more cautious.

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Reflect on the situation in your waking life that may be making you feel exposed. Are you revealing too much of yourself to others? Are you afraid of being judged or criticized? Take steps to protect yourself and set boundaries if necessary. Remember that vulnerability can also be a strength, so embrace it and use it to connect with others on a deeper level.

โค๏ธ Feelings

The dream of being exposed can evoke feelings of vulnerability, embarrassment, and insecurity. It may symbolize a fear of judgment or criticism from others, as well as a sense of being seen or scrutinized in a way that makes one uncomfortable. This dream can also reflect a desire for privacy or a need to protect oneself from potential harm or negative attention. Overall, the emotions associated with this dream are often negative and uncomfortable, highlighting the importance of personal boundaries and self-confidence.

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29 Mar 2024

dream-about-post-apocalyptic-city-with-pokemon
Died
Falling
Parent
Job
Life
Sister

Dream

I was at my previous apartment, it and the town had all become run down. Almost post-apocalyptic. There was an old tree that had fallen and rotten under the moist conditions. Rain and humidity were very much common in this environment, both in dream and real life. But it was far more prevalent in the dream. It served as a great hinding spot for hinding resources. At some point, my sister and I were young enough to need a caregiver. Our parents had both died and we were being looked after for years by my coworker, who in real life, is actually a Philosophy teacher. He was always kind to us. My sister and I were young adults and were out in this harsh landscape of what the city had become. We ran into a few pokemon, some I recognized, others I didn't. There were evolved forms of Koffing, the smoke pokemon. And a few electric-type that were familiar only in the dream. It sortof looked like Electebuz meets Elekid. For some reason, in this dream, pokemon evolution was achieved by combining two matching pokemon instead of gaining experience or any other means. So, we just went around evolving the two pokemon mentioned earlier. While walking along one of the sidwalks in some broken down part of town, found out that he had suddenly died, my sister tried to prevent me from seeing the text message telling me. I assume this was to protect me since I'm the youngest sibling. But I had told her that I had already seen it. We had become old enough not to need caregiver (very young adults/teens), but not too old to require support and guidance from an adult. After this my sister and I suddenly aged rapidly. We became old women. I ended up guiding a tour of kids around my previous apartment and showed them the local flora and fauna that had started growing after all the devastation. I was even teaching them survival since this whole place required it. One little boy pointed out the little jar of stones I had collected. And I just sort of glazed over the subject. The old tree that had fallen and rotten earlier had now grown a lichen inside of it right under the bark and around the exposed inner surface of the tree. It started falling apart the more you kept digging.

26 Mar 2024

dream-about-a-sisters-wedding-that-is-not-organized-properly
Falling
Wedding
New Job
Leaving
Bull
Friend

Dream

my sisters wedding was taking place but nothing was organized properly. I felt stressed because I still needed shoes to go with my dress and the rest of the bridesmaids were not ready. It was the day of and I realized I forgot to get new shoes and I thought to myself โ€œwait this is a dream, Iโ€™ll just think up some new shoes real quickโ€ and then it was like I forgot the rest of the time I was in a dream. We were all sat down at the church and they were playing a slideshow of my sister and her new husbands pictures of their life. Baby pictures, school pictures and everything in between. I got nervous again because I had a feeling a picture of me might show up and I didnโ€™t want anyone to see it. Even though the pictures were supposed to be of my sister and her husband I just had this awful feeling an ugly picture of me doing something embarrassing was about to show. Suddenly a picture frame on the wall falls over and collapses. There was a bunch of weapons hiding in the wall behind them that were now exposed. My sisters husband got up and tried to explain and apologize to everyone but they were already leaving. I felt weird but kept quiet because I had a gun strapped to my thigh. Iโ€™m not sure why I had done this. Iโ€™m not a gun person. Then as we were all leaving the church I tap my body as if to check I have everything. I looked in my bag and I was missing my wallet. I go back inside the church but I grab my cat who I guess I had known was there the entire ceremony. He was hidden underneath the benches of the church kind of coward away from everything. I knew he was scared. I finally get a hold of him and I can feel him fidgeting in my arms. I get into my sisters car quickly with him still in my arms and I try to soothe him in the ride. We drive up to the hospital where a friend of ours was sick in. I remember saying hi to everyone else in the room except the friend who was sick. Someone had brought their dog though so my car jagger was very on edge. I had to soothe him a bunch for him to feel just a bit comfortable. The dog was a bull mastiff and still a puppy so he was very big and clumsy and just generally unaware of his surroundings. I donโ€™t think he knew just how big of a dog he was. Jagged was terrified and I held him in my arms the entire time. I remember as soon as jagger had relaxed I looked down at him and it was almost as if I could read his thoughts or I was trying to at least. He was thinking that he could relax because I this isnโ€™t the first time I have taken him somewhere with me. Therefore Iโ€™ll never leave him, because I wonโ€™t even leave him at home. Heโ€™s by my side through everything and that thought alone seemed to ease him. Then I woke up.

21 Mar 2024

dream-about-being-in-a-store-with-a-strange-old-man
Leaving
Searching
Laughing
Problem
Self
Arm

Dream

I only remember the smallest segment of this dream but I was in this big spacious store-like place and it had much to be distracted by or peak anyone's interest even just a little. This strange older man had approached me and about two other people who were with me. He seemed to rant on and talk to one of the others about I don't know what and seemed casually disappointed about something. When he saw me his eyes seemed to light up and widen quite literally with surprise and an 'aha' moment. He was close to me now and made a comment about how 'hot' I was as if searching for something of whatever the sort for some reason. I didn't know how to feel and tried not to think much of it because of the way he said this, but even still I could never believe such a thing regardless whatever he meant by this, I just kind of awkwardly laughed it off though left speechless and dumbfounded, I probably absolutely looked confused and clueless like I couldn't even process nor understand what was happening. I didn't even really get a chance to get a word in before he reacted like as if he found the greatest solution to his little personal 'trivial' kind of problem, he basically dragged me by my arm and pulled into another room though I was clumsy and stumbled into and over the side of a couch nest to the entrance of the room and onto the floor briefly before getting up and walking through the curtains in a more nonchalant disbelief. He gave a light chuckle as if it was purely my clumsiness that led to that but he seemed amused for a moment. Suddenly I found myself in this weird lingerie looking outfit or bodysuit looking thing. It had this thong part that I guess I was adjusting and all of a sudden it felt like I was dragged into some weird modeling situation that I still have no clue about nor agreement but I tried to remain as casual and helpful as I could despite the circumstances and strangeness of it all. I could've sworn everytime I so much as glanced at him his appearance would change slowly then more surely into that of an entirely different person and younger towards their twenties. I remember seeing myself in a mirror and feeling unhappy and disgusted with myself because my body didn't look 'right' and an entirely different shape than what I thought or wanted. I tried not to make it obvious and hide certain areas or parts I felt most self-conscious of and insecure in but ultimately I felt awful and more exposed than comfortable with. There was definitely more that transpired afterwards but I can't remember anything else, I faintly and very vaguely know more happened both before and after but that's pretty much the most of my knowledge/memory.

15 Mar 2024

dream-about-running-from-a-bus-and-evil
Dead
Mother
Running away
Suffocating
Moving
Car

Dream

The dream started on a bus, with me trying to get to find a seat. The bus was dark and really uncomfortable, kind of like riding the Greyhound. I saw all these open seats, but people had stuff in them, so I just kept trying to move to the back. In the back it looked like there was plenty of seats. When I got to the middle of the bus, there was someone standing in the middle of the aisle. I tried to move past them, and they just looked at me saying, no. I said, okay, jeez. I looked at the man to my right, who had something in his seat. I said, would you mind if I sat here? He started cussing me out and saying a lot of really mean things. I said, wow, okay, sorry, didn't mean to do that. I then at the same time realized that my butt was all up in this couple's space that was right behind me. I turned around and apologized to them but they were staring at me deep into my soul with this terrible stare. I said, I thought this was supposed to be the South. But everyone here is so freaking mean. As people began to respond yelling at me, I quickly got off the bus and into the town. When I got off the bus, I was exposed to this really huge city. It felt like a futuristic city. Everything was on rail cars and pretty and technologically advanced. But something was off. There was a rail car coming straight for me and it looked like it was going to hit me. I quickly got out of the way. I said that was weird. But it felt like it was coming straight for me, like it wanted to destroy me. The next thing I saw was a car coming straight for me. It was an Uber, but it didn't have a driver. It drove straight to me, and I moved out the way. Then it stopped and opened its doors to me. It wanted me to get in. It looked nice on the inside, but I just knew something was wrong. I could not get into that car. I ran away in the opposite direction. I ran into this building. I really just wanted to get away from this really weird city. Where was I going to go? I couldn't even get back on the bus with all those people, all those mean people. How was I going to get out of this town? As I was walking in this mall, I thought maybe I could just stay here for a while. At least it's safe here. Then holes started to appear everywhere, all around. In all of these holes, there was something different. One had a mirror. One had another train. One had a different train. They were all portals into something that was trying to take me to something bad. I didn't know what was going on. I didn't understand it, but I just wanted to run. I wanted to run to safety, to get away from all these holes, all these things trying to take me away. A hole started to form right underneath my feet. I jumped and just started running forward and forward and slipped into this little hole. A hole that led downstairs to a basement. I started to creep down to this room that was right there. I looked inside and I saw these four or five people. Another person behind me slipped in. They asked, is it safe here? I said, I'm not sure. We opened the door together and walked into the room. Inside there was this man just laughing, having a good time and watching TV. I said, is it safe in here? He said, safe for now. He said they're all going to be really upset when they find out what happens to them. I said, what are you talking about? He then turned on the TV to this ad. It was an ad that showed this man getting his face cut off. His face then got sewed together and elongated like the trunk of an elephant. The extra skin from his face got shrunk and put on the very edge of the trunk-like skin. He basically had turned into his own face elephant. Someone tried to lighten the mood by saying that's going to be hard to drink out of. But I was horrified, terrified, and scared. I started to slowly back out of the room, thinking about everything, thinking about how I was stuck in this world, in this city, and there was no way out. These holes would eventually reach the basement, or I'd be stuck in the basement forever, trying to hide away from all the things that are coming after me. I started to walk upstairs, to go back to the top, just thinking about everything. I grew sad. When I got to the top of the stairs, I saw a woman, so I paused. She was going through it. The holes had appeared for her, her own holes. She was trying to run from them, until one popped up right in front of her, and she ran straight into it. It was a hole with a mirror, in an all-white bathroom. She said, no, no, no, I'm stronger than this. And the moment she said that, a rubber pink phone appeared, and she took the phone, whacked it against the mirror, and started whacking the whole bathroom, destroying it. She said, and that's it, I don't even know why I'm over here running away. I am that bitch. As she was saying these things, a belt started to grow around her, full of tools, fun, bright-colored tools that were yellow, and green, and red. She looked like she was a superhero. She started going around, destroying every hole, going outside, until she finally made it outside. She was amazing, and that's when it hit me. That's the way out, to have confidence in myself, to know who I am, and to not be afraid of who I am. The more confident I became, the better I felt about destroying these things. Tools started to form for me. I was able to destroy every single hole that came my way. After I had destroyed all the holes, I passed this bathroom, in it it looked like there was a dead baby in it. I walked into the room, and I saw this woman, so sad, her baby was on the floor. The baby was a royal blue color, like it was such and suffocated. I went over to her and the baby, and I picked up the baby. She started to say something, saying, there's nothing you can do, but I started to rock the baby, and tell the baby how beautiful it is, and the baby started to find its color again, a natural color. The mother said, how did you do that? I reminded her that she's a great mother, that she's doing her best, that she's trying her best. I handed her back the baby, and I could feel that her confidence was growing, even if I couldn't see it. I left the bathroom, and the dream ended.

15 Mar 2024

dream-about-being-in-a-house-with-other-people
Self
World
Boyfriend
Girl
House
Legs

Dream

I had a dream where I was laying on a bed in the middle of this huge house, like a reality TV type house. I was laying in bed waiting for my boyfriend to come back. It felt like a really nice, beautiful scene, the sheets were white, the room was white, and I was just relaxing, excited for him to come back. But before he came back, people started to come in. It was first two guys that came in, and I wasn't sure if they could see me, my legs were exposed, so I just laid there, hoping that they would either just walk past me, or admire my legs that packing out from the comforter. They didn't even really say anything, they just walked to the right through this door into I don't even know where, I wasn't even sure what this house was all the way, because I was waiting for my boyfriend to tell me when he got back. A few seconds later, two girls walked in, and they didn't even notice me either. I was so self-conscious when they walked in that they were going to see me sitting here on this bed being lazy, all asleep. But they were just so about themselves, and they said, let's go find our bedroom, I'm just so excited for this experience, this is going to be awesome. And then they walked off, to the left, in the opposite direction of the boys. I realized that I probably should get up and start doing the things that I needed to do in order to be prepared to live in this house. I quickly got up, tried to gather my stuff, as I rushed over to where the girls were. They were setting up their room to look all nice and pink and pretty, and I was trying to rush to get mine.

8 Feb 2024

what-does-it-mean-when-you-dream-of-a-death-1301
Death
Falling
Blind
Laughing
Bones
Breaking

Dream

Iโ€™m thinking about my art project. The ideas and the ways of writing them down. Then, all of sudden thought of a really gorey death that the character was in. I said "That's not very realistic" while laughing to myself. I suddenly wake up in a bathtub that has a small amount of water in it. Due to just waking up, I struggle to sit up and I lie in the bathtub for quite some time. It didn't take long for me to realize I was in a bathroom. The room is completely pitch black, the exception of a dim light coming from a nightlight by the sink. With barely any strength in me, I weakly pulled myself up into a sitting position and noticed the side that was in the water felt completely numb. I brushed it off thinking I was just sleeping on my side weird and stumbled out of the tub. I begin to stumble to the dim light with my eyes closed tight. I found it really difficult to walk. I was stumbling a lot, like if I had broken a bone. I reached the sink where a beautiful light switch was present. I stumble, almost falling to the ground and hastily turn the switch on but the light doesn't turn on. As I begin to panic, I hastily flip the switch over and over again in hopes that the light will turn on. Eventually the light turns on and at first, the light blinds me for a moment but my eyes manage to get used to the light quickly. The bathroom looked old and fancy. The wallpaper is tearing off yet in such good condition too. I was impressed with how detailed and decorative the bathroom looked. Then I looked at the mirror in relief, that relief soon turned into shock. I saw myself in the mirror very wounded. About 1/5 of my head was melted off, my right arm was melted off, and my right side was exposed. I could see my own organs. I was just a bloody mess. In the mirror, I saw my terrified expression. Then I remembered the liquid at the bottom of the bathtub and my numbness. Something in that bathtub caused my body to melt like this. Suddenly, my eyes rolled back to the ceiling and felt my energy leave my body as I nearly fell onto the floor. I managed to gain control of my body, but looking back at the mirror and the sight made me panic and I tumbled again. It was like I was having a seizure.

2 Feb 2024

what-does-it-mean-when-you-dream-of-a-friend-7380
Yelling
Sad
Friend
Family
Hospital
Job

Dream

Joellen who is my friend and coworker, we both manage different departments but the entire kitchen together. We were operating normally even though the kitchen looked a bit gloomy, empty and somewhat sepia toned. A little girl came running up to Joellen saying she needed Joellen to look at her family member. At this point we all start running behind this little girl. Joellen stopped to go into her office and all of a sudden now a few employees and myself are running behind the girl. She runs all the way to the end corner of the kitchen and goes through a door where you can see lines of hospital beds lined up. We stop and donโ€™t pass the door and I turn around and tell everyone not to go through the door with my hand out in front of me. I tell my staff โ€œthatโ€™s a different department and thereโ€™s nothing we can do about that as we are not medicalโ€ suddenly a bunch of patients swarm into our kitchen and start yelling that they need care and that we need to open up the kitchen. The patients are frustrated and I keep yelling out for joellen. I see her running but she canโ€™t hear me. Suddenly she hears me and stops in a somewhat playful manner, we run towards each other but for some reason we each keep saying โ€œcome here, come hereโ€ though weโ€™re both already running towards one another. We meet in the middle and realize that the patients have taken over the hospital. I end up finding out that the hospital opens up what seems like a mall and directs staff only to enter this mall. The mall is behind huge curtains of sorts or more like projector panels that are red and orange hued. I direct Joellen there and tell her we have to go behind there because itโ€™s for the staff. At this moment I start telling her the story of what happened with the little girl and before I can say that I told the staff to stop and extended my hand she starts telling the ending back to me as if she was the one who gave the order to the staff to not go past the door. Once we get past the curtain panels, we enter what seems like an old theater with the ceiling somehow exposed. We could see the sky but there was a sort of hard plastic ceiling still covering. It looked as if it had been inundated with water because as weโ€™re walking through I start to see that the seats are drenched, they looked like dirty sponges. Weโ€™re walking through tying to get out of it and we see patients scavaging to find free items they can take home. I tell Joellen โ€œletโ€™s get out of here for all we know these seats have fungusโ€ I remember seeing an old lady who looked a bit sad and Ill.

24 Jan 2024

what-does-it-mean-when-you-dream-of-a-fear-940
Fear
Fire
Snake
Leaving
Kissing
Tooth

Dream

I'm at a cabin deep in the woods, the trees, and ground are heavily covered in snow. I started a fire in the fire place and watched the flames dance as the wind hollowed loudly outside. I'm wearing a dark red knee length dress with long sleeves and fuzzy thigh high black socks and my dark brown hair is tied back in a pony tail. I hear the floor broads creaking upstairs but I am alone. I stand up from the couch and go to the kitchen. I make hot cocoa and grab a snack before sitting back down on the couch. This time I hear footsteps upstairs. But I don't feel fear. I don't feel anything as I sip my warm drink and eat gram crackers. I feel someone's eyes on me but still, I ignore it. I'm alone, I tell myself again. This place is mine. No one comes here. I feel their breath on my neck, still I I continue as I am. I feel their fingers trace down my collar bone. Still I ignore them. Their finger nail turns into a long shard claw that cuts out my hair-tye. Still I i drink my cocoa. I feel their shard teeth nibble my ear. Still I do nothing. I can feel their anger raising as I ignore their presence but I continue as I am. They jerk my head back to look at them, and finally I acknowledge them. Its a beast. It stands tall, 8'0, its skin is red shiny scales, its gold eyes look like that of a snake's, and it has a long shard point tail. The beast is male. The Beast lowers his mouth over mine, kissing me, I moan as I part my lips, his tongue is long, thin split like a snake's. I feel his sharp tail slide up my leg and under my dress, his tail rips my dress down the middle leaving me exposed.

29 Dec 2023

so-i-dont-know-if-there-was-anything-that
Attack
Parent
Fighting
Leaving
Son
Screaming

Dream

So I donโ€™t know if there was anything that happened before these events because I canโ€™t remember but all I remember was that I was with the people from my school organization that I am a part of. We were watching a movie, an African movie. I could tell the people in the movie were Nigerian. Another thing to note were some of the people that I was with were not all the people that are really part of my organization in real life but some of them were. The rest were just random people. So we were watching the movie and the movie was kind of traumatizing to be honest. It featured a family with a mom and a dad who had quite a bit of money and they had I think around 5-7 kids somewhere around that range. And everyone kept exposing their deepest secrets. Then it got to a part where the oldest son started beating on the mother. As soon as that happened, a huge fight broke out between the family. The son started to cry and was very apologetic after he beat his mother. From what I noticed, the only 2 people that werenโ€™t fighting were the youngest son and the youngest daughter. The were just sitting at the table until the youngest son got up and screamed to get them to stop. He all told them to sit down and stop fighting to which they did. Then the youngest son started to expose them even more but this time they were all too embarrassed to so anything because he was kind of putting them in their place. Then one of the older daughters came and slapped the youngest son repeatedly until he exposed the fact that she had a another woman in her room hiding while they were eating dinner. Apparently this daughter was having a romantic relationship with another woman in which it this behavior is not really approved in Nigerian culture. So she went to bring the other woman downstairs to show their parents. At that part of the movie, everyone in my organization decided to get up and leave because the movie was getting to traumatizing and they all had places to be. And thatโ€™s when the dream ended. It was kind of a lot to process but it was interesting to see. I also wondered why it was only certain people from my school organization that were there along with some random people but not everyone from my organization.

6 Dec 2023

i-arrived-at-the-hk-residential
Killing
Bombs
Dead
Monsters
Chasing
Urine

Dream

I arrived at the HK residential estate for the 2nd time to look for washroom, but I was too late and they were already closing. I walked into the mall/building anyway, but the floorplan got more confusing and it was hard for me to find a toilet available to use. Things were closed and I kept walking into doors closing in on me. Finally I found toilet available but it was so incredibly small, like shoulder to should small, I could barely fit and it was extremely difficult for me to feel comfortable peeing inside. Then a woman walked out of another stall and she could see me peeing, I felt so exposed, she gave me a smirk that gave me chills. I finished got out of the mall, next thing I know I was in an evil village, filled with weird insects like monsters and ghosts, their aim was to destroy / kill me. It was haunting. I was with other people but they were not the target, I was the only target! I had to run and run and people on the side just watched and couldn't help. There were ghost made of paper and I knew I had to be the one to destroy them by myself. I confronted them and tear those papers to pieces. There was a field filled with roaches like monster and 2 mega insect bomb that gets triggered when touched. They kept chasing me wherever I ran, I was stressed and horrified. I ran over them to trigger the bomb as I led all monster there, to kill the monsters. Before they were all dead by the bomb, I woke up.

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