(Part 2) Top products from r/dreams

You are processing the loss of your mom in your dreams. The part about her standing again, wobbly but upright, could symbolize that you are finding your balance after the loss. What you see in the image of her is actually yourself.

Communicating with deceased loved ones is possible through dreams. Here's the thing though. Most of your dreams about your mom will be about the loss of her from your life. If she comes to you in a dream and she appears healthy and happy, and she has an agenda or something she wants to communicate to you and is not acting like a character in a story, it might be her spirit communicating with you. In dreams where the image of a deceased loved one is actually some part of yourself, the dream acts like a character, not a distinct person with a distinct presence.

I want to be clear that it doesn't always happen. If a visit from her spirit would unbalance you or negatively affect your life, it won't happen. You have to be in right emotional state to handle it.

I used to be on the fence about this subject. As a dream interpreter I have to be careful about giving false hope to people in grief. I have been asked many times if people can communicate with deceased loved ones in dreams. I would usually answer with a variation of "Anything can happen." But then I read this book and my mind changed. I also wrote a chapter about the subject for a book I'm putting together and did a lot of research and interviews for it. Now I'm convinced.

If I can help answer your questions, I'm here. Just send me a message.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Girl_Without_Hands

Read that fairytale (try to read an original version of the fairy tale, not just the wiki summary).

We touch with our hands; we connect to lovers, children, pets, etc. with our hands. In today's society, we are oftentimes asked to trade our ability to touch / feel, in exchange for money. This is one of the predominant myths of modern western society. The severed hands are what you are being asked to give up in exchange for silver, or efficiency, or modern convenience, etc. At minimum, the dream is asking you to be aware of any tradeoff you are being asked to make.

After you read that, read a version of the fairytale about Bluebeard's. The box in your dream is analogous to Bluebeard's closet. You discovering the severed hands in the box is analogous to Bluebeard's wife discovering the murdered bodies of his ex-wives in his locked closet.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluebeard

Again, google around to find an original version of the fairytale.

Then just meditate on these fairy tales and their possible connection to what you experienced in the dream. And then sit back and await whatever new information the unconscious will next deliver to you in a dream. That's my advice, anyway.

If this line of connecting to your dreams interest you in any way, I highly suggest the following book:

https://www.amazon.com/Fisher-King-Handless-Maiden-Understanding/dp/006250648X/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_product_top?ie=UTF8

Its an easy and light read. Half of the book is dedicated to the symbolism of the "handless maiden". Its an excellent read, imo. Given that you actually dreamt about the severed hands in a box, I especially recommend it to you. I think you'll find it enlightening.

There is a book of a analyst who developed his personal form to interpretation of dreams because of a dream similar to yours. In the dream, he said to a taxi driver that he was a part of a dream he was having and the taxi driver looked back to him in contradiction and boredomness, like he was lunatic.

So he says the feelings of the taxi driver made him renew the notion he was having about dreaming, thus being an important dream. He did then developed a theory where that the dream world is real, and we can feel in our body the feelings of ourselves and also from the other characters in the dream when we are awaken and this could interfere in our awaken life.

I didn't finish it, but notions like the dream and the real world have some form of symbiose, or also an membrane that we can enter and also share with others are explored in the book. Also meditations exercises with the body on dreams and interpretation of some of his dreams.

The book is this one, if you want to look more: https://www.amazon.com/Tracks-Wilderness-Dreaming-Robert-Bosnak/dp/0385315260

Yes. Awesome. A fair amount of people get dreams like this.

Keep paying attention, because sometimes it can even help you avoid things you may want to avoid.

Read the book Dreams That Come True.

A researcher took a scientific approach to this topic.

You will definitely learn a lot and be able to apply it.

http://www.amazon.com/Dreams-That-Come-True-Transforming/dp/0385244053/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1452090093&sr=8-1&keywords=Dreams+That+Come+True

Yeah, that definitely sounds like sleep paralysis - your brain is aware of what's in the room with you, and is adding freaky content on top of it...

Some people use sleep paralysis to their benefit. This is a really good guide if you're interested in learning more: https://www.amazon.com/Sleep-Paralysis-Hypnagogic-Visions-Visitors/dp/0984223916

Aww that's great! I really hope the best for you!

Relevant book: https://www.amazon.com/Thinking-Changing-Rearranging-Improving-Self-Esteem/dp/0943920302

Are you female and teens or twenties? I ask because that's a common dream for women in that age bracket to have. The appearance of this man and your eventual conclusion is a sign of health and growing wisdom, If I am remembering correctly from this book: https://www.amazon.com/Women-Wolves-Clarissa-Pinkola-Estés/dp/0345409876?ie=UTF8&*Version*=1&*entries*=0

The man represents the darker destructive (if uncontainable self-destructive) aspects of your nature. That its in your dreams means you are becoming aware of the darker, baser elements of yourself. When I was a teenager, I had a dream about a creepy man watching me, always through blinds, outside a window. I had it a couple times and woke up feeling intense fear. Then one day in my dream I was in my bedroom and he was watching me from the window. Then he was in the room with me and I called for my brothers and dad and they came in with axes and chopped him to bits. I woke up very scared and told my dad that I had a nightmare, when I told him what had happened he said "that is a good dream. Something got resolved." And I was very confused because of the intensity of the fear and how vivid the dream had been. Then years later I read that book and realized my dad was right. You will need to call on masculine elements (commonly but not always represented by brothers) of your nature to reconcile and control the destructive aspect of yourself.

I think it's a part of a spiritual quest since society pins women into passive roles and we get better responses by developing our helpful, kinder more nurturing sides. Then we wall off our (the door in your dream between you and the villain) more destructive sides of our personality but it is a part of us and makes its presence known. It can be very scary when the destructive aspect of ourselves reveals itself because it's so foreign to the role we often play in society. The author of that book describes what the dismemberment in the dream does for the dreamer.

Good read: http://www.amazon.com/First-Grave-Right-Darynda-Jones/dp/0312662750

>the Hat Man in my dreams.

Many people have reported dreaming of the Hat men. Do some internet search and you will discover many more stories just like this. There is even a book about it: The Hat Man: The True Story of Evil Encounters

You should check out Dick for a Day.

How do you already know you're bi? Reading this might change your life https://www.amazon.ca/Dreams-Volumes-Collected-Works-Jung/dp/0691150486/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1565586358&sr=8-2