Being Afraid means Temporary Misfortune  – When the dreamer is being afraid, filled with fear for something in his dream, it foretells about worries and dilemmas he is suffering from. There is a possibility of misfortune in professional and/or personal life. However, the bad luck will go away after a while, because all of the troubles will be a temporarily thing.

Others Being Afraid means Aid for Relatives – If the dreamer sees others being afraid, frightened, scared or filled with fear or apprehension, then there is a possibility that your friends, family or colleagues will have some failures and you will have to help them. It seems that those people need you to give them a hand and you should be delighted of it. Sometimes we ought to help as you never know when you will be the one who needs it either. Try to pay more attention to people that you care of and look for after them.

Context Meanings:

Afraid of Heights

Acrophobia If being afraid of heights – The dream about fear of heights can be induced by acrophobia from waking life. Very often our brain recreates such scenarios, in which we can relive true feelings without real danger to us. So dreaming about being afraid of heights can mean that you have such fear and your subconscious is trying to warn you about it. In other hand such dream can have opposite purpose – it is an aid for you to overcome your fear of heights.

Lack of confidence If fear of heights – Second interpretation of the dream about acrophobia is related to some kind of phobia in the dreamer’s life. Maybe you have fear to do something new in you life. It can be new relationship, new job or new activity. Sometimes we have dreams about being scared just because of very important events are coming in our waking life. Also, dreaming about having fear of heights can show the dreamer’s inability to make decisions and to act firmly in important situations.

Victory If being scared of heights – Old dreambooks suggest that the dreamer is going to overcome his enemies and obstacles. Fear of heights is just like indicator that your goal in the life is coming closer.  The bigger the fear is, the greater your success will be.

Afraid of Falling

Acrophobia If being afraid of falling - Firstly, the dream about the fear of falling is interpreted like the fear of heights. Both dreams can be induced by acrophobia from waking life.

Falling from bed If dreaming about falling – Real risk of falling from bed while person is sleeping is very common external stimuli. And because of this stimuli we are dreaming about the fear of falling.

Fulfillment of wish If falling or flying - It is very common to dream what we fear most or what we want to experience. In this case dream about fear of falling or flying is created because of our subconscious is trying to give us feelings about such activities.

Trauma if having fear of falling – According to scientifically proven studies of dreams, fear of falling while we are sleeping occurs because of traumatic events from our waking life. Explanations are very realistic and indicate that the dreamer had trauma from childhood like falling from parents’ arms or he had trauma during childbirth.

Dissatisfaction if afraid of falling – Ancient Egyptians explained dreams about fear in comparison to lack of confidence within the dreamer. Because of being unable to make firm decisions and not having self-confidence, the dreamer is in dissatisfaction with himself. And this conditions gives him the dream about the fear of falling.

Mistakes if crying because of falling – Modern psychology sees this dream as anxiety of mistake and the wish for fixing it. But if the dreamer was crying in the dream because of big fear, then it is indication of very big mistake, which need to be compensated in some way.

Achievements if falling without fear – If in a dream one has the fear of falling and then suddenly this fear vanished while he is in process of falling, then such dream shows big fortune for the dreamer. He will overcome obstacles and  accomplish something victorious.

Afraid of Animals

Friends or Relatives If Dogs – To be afraid of dog, shows the dreamer’s fear of the wrongdoing from or for his friend. But if the dog in the dream is afraid of you, then such dream indicates that you need to help to your friend.

Enemies or Problems If Cats – To be afraid of cat, shows dangerous enemies. If cat is afraid because of you, then it a sign that you will overcome your enemies or problems in waking life.

Worries about Productivity If Rabbit – If you have fear of bunny or you being afraid of rabbit in a dream, then it indicates your conscious fear to be to slow and be unable to act properly fast in important parts of your life. Maybe you should do less thinking and do more working.

Disintegration or phobias If Worms – In a dream to be afraid of worms, shows feeling of being unimportant or feeling of disintegration. Maybe the dreamer has bad habits or bad thoughts and that cause such feelings. Irrelevance and degradation within the dreamer also represent fear of worms in dreams. According Freud, when worm stands for penis in the dream, then being afraid of worm, shows the fear of sexual intercourse. Genophobia is name of the fear of sexual intercourse. Third meaning about the fear of worms in a dream is related to real phobia of worms – Helminthophobia, scoleciphobia or vermiphobia is the fear of worms. Especially dreaming of parasitic worms can show the dreamer fear of being infested with worms.

Troubled friends or phobia If Snakes – In a dream to be afraid of snake, or to have fear that snake is going to attack you or bite you, shows that you have fear of being betrayed by your friends. Or it can show very strong enemy that is very dangerous right now. Second interpretation of the dream about fear of snakes, is clearly an indication of real phobia in the dreamer – ophiophobia is fear of snakes.

Feminine power or phobia If Spiders – Dreaming about spiders has links to feminine power and sexuality or mother’s complex. In a dream to have fear of spider or to be afraid of being bitten by one, shows that the dreamer is afraid of some powerful woman. For a man it can be his mother or wife or his ex-partner. Maybe he has conflict with one of them. For woman it can represent her mother or conflict with other dominant female in her life. But it can be opposite and she might be that strong female in conflict with her partner. For those who have arachnophobia, dream about spiders can be just regular nightmare and representation of their fear of spiders.

Meaningless stress or phobias If Monsters – If in a dream you are afraid of indescribable monster, then it shows your inner worries about something. Other interpretation of monster in dream clearly tells that the dreamer can have some kind of phobia or energy eating fear in himself or meaningless stress in his environment.

Afraid of Events

Shocking life events If tornado, storm, lightning, blizzard, earthquake – Dreaming about being afraid of earthly disasters indicates socking life events in the dreamer ‘s waking life. But in other hand such dreams can be induced by external stimulus and show that, while you was asleep, real storm, rain or lightning was outside.

Thanatophobia, intoxication, traumas If scared of own death – Dreaming of being afraid of death or dying, shows the dreamer’s phobia of death in waking life or it indicates traumatic events from waking life. The fear of death is ancient and primal. This fear is common for most of us. Fear in the nightmare is self defense mechanism. Sometimes the dream about death is just a scenario, which must be relived in the dream, to give us insight about feelings in case of death or warn us about something. Intoxication can be external stimuli for nightmare about death. Thanatophobia, intoxication, traumatic life event or opportunity to feel fear of death – these are reasons of why such bad experience is created in our subconscious while we are asleep.

Defense if afraid of others death – If the dreamer is afraid because of some very close person is going to die in a dream, then such dream shows him how important this person is in his life and how to cope with his feelings. Very often it is nightmare and it has purpose to make the dreamer stronger person, which will overcome all obstacles in his life.

Miller’s Dreambook:

Afraid dream meanings by Gustavus Hindman Miller from dream dictionary “10,000 Dreams Interpreted” or “What’s In A Dream” or “Dreams, Their Scientific and Practical Interpretations”

To be Afraid means Misfortune – In a dream to be frightened or to feel that you are afraid to proceed with some affair, or continue a journey, symbolizes bad luck and means that you will find trouble in your household, and enterprises will be unsuccessful.

To see others Afraid means Determent – In a dream to see other people are scared, filled with fear, shows that some friend will be deterred from performing some favor for you because of his own difficulties.

Woman is Afraid of Dog means Doubt – If a young woman is dreaming that she is afraid of a dog, then such dream’s symbolic significance denotes that there might be a possibility of her doubting a true friend.

You contaminated load of leaf clippings. You mealy, defective offspring of a motherless barnacle. May a plague-ridden Rush Limbaugh shimmy in your pants. You moronic, bad excuse for earwax. You sloppy mountain of petrified camel gizards.

Also, a dream about snake in my shoe means this:

May an army of fleas viciously find shelter on your best rug. You creepy, bad excuse for bat guano. May an army of biting weasels fart upon your mother’s grave. You useless, sick, bad excuse for fungus. May many manic wolverines merrily dance in your father’s bed.

Alternatively, it means this:

May a freeze-dried and sweaty group of plague-ridden weasels spill sixty-eight times thirty-three rusty tacks upon your heinie. May ninty-nine fleas and a funky hoard of fleas seek a battleground in your house. May many biting gnats find your feet suddenly delectable. You stenchy crock of sweaty moose puckies. You egotistical, leprous, half-baked offspring of a motherless lizard.

Moreover, dreaming of a snake bing in your shoes means also this:

You par-broiled, hirsute camel scabs for brains. You insignificant offspring of a motherless barnacle. You grisly, mutilated moose gizards for brains. May the hosts of Hades gleefully procreate in the toxic dump you call home. May the hosts of Hades have a religious experience in your mother’s pantry.

Finally, the dream of snake crawling in my shoe means this:

You dried up, reeky goat cysts for brains. May the hosts of Hades bite you upon your mother’s grave. You musty offspring of a motherless lemur. May the hosts of Hades smite you forty-two times upon your heinie. You sloppy, fungus for brains. You par-broiled tub of fetid dingo blubber.

Other snake in your shoe dream meanings:

May many South American killer bees and the hosts of Hades seek a battleground in your father’s house. May the hosts of Hades gleefully throw a party in your shoes. May a crazed Rush Limbaugh find your buttocks suddenly delectable. May a truckload of plague-ridden gnats and the hosts of Hades seek a battleground in the sewer you call home.

And some meanings more:

You festering bag of mung.
You musty, unspeakable, bad excuse for fungus.
You friendless, sloppy, bad excuse for leaf clippings.
You funky, blithering offspring of a motherless simpleton.
May a nasty heard of frothing wolverines find your innards suddenly delectable.
May a sloppy hoard of disease-carrying rats and a gruesome platoon of manic cockroaches seek a battleground on your father’s best rug.
You insignificant, dismal mound of phlegm.
May a swarm of manic wiener-dogs dance in the sewer you call home.
May a sloshy platoon of freeze-dried, rabid pit-fiends find your buttocks suddenly delectable.
You insignificant, curdled lizard carcuses for brains.
You mealy, dried up, leaf clippings for brains.
You contaminated heap of filth.
You grisly ball of sloshy lizard entrails.
You leprous ball of mealy llama livers.
You petrified, spittoon spittle for brains.
May many rabid rats and a ravaging Rush Limbaugh seek a battleground in the toxic dump you call home.
You mentally-deficient, ungrateful, uncultured offspring of a motherless fuckwad.
May nine-hundred, ninty-nine rotting monkeys spit in the porto-pottie you call home.
You rotting barnacle.
You gruesome, bad excuse for filth.
You low-budget, bad excuse for shit.
May an army of disease-carrying gnats and the hosts of Hades seek a battleground in the porto-pottie you call home.
May a slimy platoon of fetid, blood-thirsty pit-fiends and a biting Rush Limbaugh seek a battleground upon your heinie.
You reeky warthog.
May a ravaging Rush Limbaugh franticly fart on your best rug.
May a deranged platoon of South American killer bees, with the fury of a particularly vicious she-bear in the midst of her menstrual cycle, construct a new home upon your heinie.
May an army of rabid wiener-dogs shimmy upon your heinie.
May a damp hoard of manic cockroaches and a smelly and gruesome group of disease-carrying maggots seek a battleground in the porto-pottie you call home.
You deranged, insignificant lump of leaf clippings.
You gross neanderthal.
May the hosts of Hades spill ninty-nine rusty tacks upon your mother’s grave.
May a grisly and rotting group of South American killer bees fart upon your mother’s grave.
May a putrefied and hirsute group of reeky monkeys and a decomposed hoard of frothing rats seek a battleground upon your mother’s grave.
May a mealy platoon of stinging scorpions and a disease-carrying Rush Limbaugh seek a battleground in your father’s bed.
May the hosts of Hades retch in the oil refinery you call home.
You sloppy, moldy eel froth for brains.
You funky, toe jam for brains.
May a ravaging Rush Limbaugh find your earlobes suddenly delectable.
May an army of disease-carrying wiener-dogs and a reeky platoon of hirsute monkeys seek a battleground upon your heinie.
May a truckload of slavering wiener-dogs find your feet suddenly delectable.
May the hosts of Hades happily sing a thousand campfire songs upon your heinie.
May a contaminated hoard of blood-thirsty wiener-dogs find your feet suddenly delectable.
You ugly pop tart.
You pompous neanderthal.
May the hosts of Hades sing three million campfire songs in the porto-pottie you call home.
You gruesome bucket of damp donkey droppings.
May a moth-eaten heard of mealy monkeys and a slimy heard of disease-carrying maggots seek a battleground in the landfill you call home.
You slovenly, freeze-dried dingo mung for brains.
You half-baked, defective, decaying, sloppy lizard gizards for brains.
You blithering, toe jam for brains.
You fly-covered, refuse for brains.
May a moldy heard of fleas and a petrified heard of stinging scorpions seek a battleground upon your heinie.
You spoiled offspring of a motherless donkey.
May sixty-eight times thirty-three South American killer bees happily find refuge on your best rug.
You insignificant bag of bat guano.
You smelly, bad excuse for leaf clippings.
May many biting maggots gleefully sneeze on your best rug.
You lame, shit for brains.
You decomposed, bad excuse for phlegm.
You mutilated, crusty lemur droppings for brains.
May a stenchy heard of frothing wiener-dogs spill three million rusty tacks in the toxic dump you call home.
You rancid sack of mucus.
You repulsive, grisly lemur genitals for brains.
May the hosts of Hades fart in your mother’s entrails.
May the hosts of Hades, with the power of Thor’s belch, sing a thousand campfire songs upon your mother’s grave.
May a fetid heard of manic weasels, with much ritualistic celebration, procreate upon your mother’s grave.
May a reeky hoard of ravaging maggots and an army of biting wolverines seek a battleground in your shoes.
You fetid, leaf clippings for brains.
You smelly, smelly, unkempt offspring of a motherless fuckwad.
You moldy offspring of a motherless pop tart.

Fear to be pulled of energy.

Question:

What haunts me? Where in my life do I fail to access with my own forces?

General Meanings:

Tired because of too big demands When big demands are placed to the dreamer, then vampire can appear in the dream who “sucks out” him.

Evil or Bad person around The blood-sucking vampire is such a frightening creature that he is commonly regarded as an embodiment of the evil. Ancient Indian dream books understand him as a warning before own gentleness which is used from other.

Psychological Meanings:

Dark and Threatening thoughts Vampires should be only seemingly dead persons, who leave their grave at night and drink people’s blood. It was believed, that vampires are unresolved souls, which could not fulfill their purpose in life when they were alive. They were overtaken by death and therefore can not find the rest.  A dream symbol of vampire and bat, points to dark and threatening thoughts and imaginations of the dreamer.

Sucking energy and fear of relations The blood-sucking creature is as a monster who goes through our dreams. Where the Vampire (blood-sucking bat) enters the dream events, he stands for a person who wants to suck out our blood – energy. The fear of emotional or sexual relationships can manifest itself in a dream of vampires. Because the person is still afraid of the unknown things, the archetypes, which symbolize this fear, can appear in dreams.

Spiritual Meanings:

Life-threatening is frequently embodied by a vampire in dreams. But the dreamer himself could also tend the fantasies about the world of the evil, so that here certain reservations are appropriated.

Traditional Meanings:

European (Judeo-Christian)

• Warning to pay attention if dreaming a vampire – The dream about vampires has a negative meaning of vermin – primitive instincts. Also you should pay attention to your surrounding because somebody wants to use you.
• Marriage because of property if dreaming a vampire (young people) – You will marry because of money and you will think that you have done a bad deal;
• Danger if seeing a vampire – You are very close to the danger, without your own fault you will lose your assets and get into the accident;
• Risky way if meeting and seeing a vampire – In the dream you see a vampire announces that you are getting into risky things. There is the risk of being caught in the nets of an exploiter;
• False friends if attacked by a vampire – In the dream you are bitten or attacked by a vampire, this signifies that you must beware of false friends;
• Destroyed enemies if kill with a stake – In the dream you fight or kill with a stake, you will defeat somebody who has bad or harmful intention towards you;
• Be aware if your friend is a vampire – You are dreaming that your good friend is the vampire, you should watch out the intentions of this person.

Hindu (Hinduism)

• Worries if seeing a vampire – To see a vampire in the dream shows that by your gentleness you will come to trouble and misery;
• Warning if meet or see – In the dream you are meeting or seeing a vampire, this is a sign that someone wants to exploit you.

Arabian (Islamic)

• Warning if see – Seeing a vampire in your dream, means that you have to be careful, so that you do not fall in the hands of usurers. Also you may be confronted with terrible reproaches by a friend;
• Fervent feelings if being a vampire – In the dream you are the vampire announces that you will give your passionate feelings in a love relationship at any way.

Contexts’ Meanings:

Being a vampire – You are a vampire in the dream, shows that you have some characteristic features that you can use to feed yourself, to attract energy from others. You have to become more independent from the others, don’t use peoples’s resources or information or position. You are like parasitic person who use others to reach your goals or improve your life. You are very selfish person, you want to achieve your aims by others for your own selfish benefits.

Been bitten or attacked by a vampire –  Means that somebody wants to feed himself/herself from you. They want to use your position, tries to profit from your position or work. Maybe someone is feeding from you to full himself emotionally. They absorb your energy. You have to be aware and to retreat from false friends or colleagues because they are using you.

To kill a vampire – This dream means that you will overcome all the difficulties and worries that you have in your life. Also this signifies that you have already got rid of bad people who feed themselves from you emotionally and  materially. You are physically or emotionally drained and now you will recover.

Seeing bloody vampire – In the dream the vampire is bloody or see the action of sucking the blood, means passion and sexuality. The person with which you are now may looked for you attractive and seductive, but now you he/she makes you feel tired and exhausted. He/she may have some character features or behave, habits which makes you feel drained.

* Please, see meaning of monster, bird.

If we dream that we are confused so this dream tells us about our real life confusion. Almost every dream symbol has two sides, and thrives on the tension, generates its position, so the confusion occurs as a help to pull yourself together and to find solution. Through confusion we may find and see new possibilities and approaches.

Traditional Meanings:

European (Judeo-Christian)

• Anger if confusion – The dream of confusion may predict loneliness and anger in near future, because you are confused and do not know which way to move;

Hindu (Hinduism)

• Gift if confusion – In the dream you are confused then you may get unexpected profit and really pleasant gift.

* Please, see meaning of insanity.

Inner sensibilities – Elf (mythical creatures) can embody the unconscious as a basis of impulses, feelings, energy and consciousness. From this, conclusion can be drawn what moves and motivates a person. Elf often expresses the need for romantic love relationships.

Psychological Meanings:

The desire of lightness in difficult situation – Who dreams of it, wants to know how an elf can rise up and fly so playfully and effortlessly: a typical escape dream from a phase of excessive demands. This is noticeable yearning for the lightness and the subconscious mind sends out signals in the form of elves: an invitation to deal playfully with challenges and sometimes to say “no”.

Traditional Meanings:

European (Judeo-Christian)

• Love experience If see –  In the dream you see an elf says that you will experience forbidden and beautiful pleasures of love;
• Crossroad If surrounded by elves – When you are dreaming that you are surrounded by a lot of elves, means that you are not sure which of two or more people to love, whom to give your love;
• Painful love If flee and disappear – When in your dreams you try to reach the elf and it flees or disappears, announces a sad love affair;
• Marriages If kissed by elves – This dream indicates imminent engagement, because you have already decided.

Hindu (Hinduism)

• Choosing the way of your life If many elves – In the dream you see many elves, means that you have to make very important decision, consider the pros and cons. Then you can choose the way which to want to go.

Arabian (Islamic)

• Lucky days If dancing with them – When you are dancing with elves, approaches you happy days, because you worth this;
• Trust yourself If you play with them – This dream warns you about deceitful hopes, you don’t have to expect something from people, you have to do it on your own.

Contexts’ Meanings:

To dream an elf – In the dream the elf appears when the person has some kind of worries and troubles and imbalance in his life. He wants to know how he can easily solve them all. Many elves in the dream, signifies that there are several ways to solve the problems , but you have to think very carefully which way to choose.

The elf attacks or chases you – In the dream you have been attacked by an elf, this announces you poverty, sorrows, humiliation. You have chosen the wrong way in your life, you want to reach your goals through the easiest way. But this success will be only temporary. After that you will have damage and worries.

To play with an elf – This period of your life is only the illusion. The temporary success and happiness will not bring you joy for all your life, because you have to work hard with all your efforts to reach better life.

To dance with an elf – This dream wants to show you that it is the time for you to become more carefree. It is time for you to relax a little bit and enjoy your life. You have to become more childish and try to enjoy the world around you. Spend some time with your family and remember your childhood and enjoy this.

* Please, see meaning of Dwarf.