Many people dream of the end of the world and get really scared, assuming they’ve previewed a coming reality, but, of course, dreams are symbolic. Here’s a short one posted to the one-day dream forum last month, followed by my interpretation.
“I’ve been having constant dreams about aliens arriving, and/or aliens influencing our lives. I see end of world, panic, spaceships. But when I wake up, it somehow gives me a sense of beginning.”
My interpretation
You are dreaming of the end of the world as you know it – some aspect of your own private world or being that is coming to an end. No wonder you wake up with a sense of a beginning. We can only grow and change in the world for the better by ending some things so new things can begin. End old attitudes, so new attitudes can begin. End old personal world perspectives so new ones can begin.
And those aliens? Easy – parts of your being that you have alienated are coming back on board. You mention panic, so your dream suggests that a panic situation in the past caused you to dissociate from certain feelings or emotions and send them into your personal outer space. Because things are changing in your world now, you’re confident enough to face the old sense of panic and integrate these feelings into your being as you step into the future a more confident, calm, (unpanicked) person. Congratulations!
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Everynight I dream of dying. Most of the time, its in a meteor shower, sometimes I am murdered by an individual, or a group of people, a car crash, falling from a building, killed in the prossess of an exorcisim being preformed on me, the grim reaper, its been like this my whole life. Ive never had a normal dream.
Hi Jenni,
Here’s an article to help shed more light for you: http://www.dream.net.au/library/death_dreams.cfm
Or you might like to visit my shop and buy my ebook ‘How to stop bad dreams and nightmares’, or consult me privately. You don’t need to suffer these dreams. We can turn endings into new and better beginnings.
Hey !
I saw a very horrifying dream yesterday about the end of the world. I saw myself in an unfamiliar surrounding with a stranger whom i think i called inside as i thought he is a doctor who could check the burning in my eyes but as soon as i looked the TV. There was a live reporting going in about end of worl and the world is on fire with various parts of the world melting away. I begin to see the fire balls around me but i used to save myself everytime then i saw the reporter saying that that the our part of the world is on fire soon it was also the last one and i saw the tv reporting stopped there was a black thing . And i reciting kalma ( muslim faith about GOd is one and Mohammad as the propehet of God ) and asking God that save me. I dont feel any pain buti knew that im dead . I feel that iam on top and have left my body like a soul.
Suddenly my dream ends and i wake up in the middle of night may be 3. Iam very scared what does that dream means to me.
IN my real life my father and grandma has recently passed away , few months back. And i have a breakup with my BF and iam stressed about my exams .
Please ill be glad if you would reply to me .Im scared a lot
Hi Aisha,
Dreams like that are so terrifying because, while you’re in the dream, you really think they’re happening, don’t you? Rest assured, that your dramatic dream is your mind’s way of processing all the endings in your life – the loss of your father and grandma through their passing, and the break up with your boyfriend.
See, ‘the end of the world’ dream reflects your own feelings about the end of your world as you have known it. Things are changing. There’s the prospect of your exam – how will your life change again if you pass or if you fail?
It’s natural for us to feel terrified when our familiar world seems to be coming to an end, but the exciting thing is that all sorts of wonderful new beginnings are ready to open up for you once you have grieved for your losses. There’s a lot more to your dream that we could look at in a consultation, but I hope this has helped reassure you.
You might like to get my kindle book ‘How to stop bad dreams and nightmares’ as it includes easy exercises you can apply to help at such times:
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I have had reaccuring dreams about the end of the world! I see acid rain, title waves blk as night that reach to the sky, astrotoids and or balls of fire falling to the ground destroying anything in its path. Dropping people and they lay there screaming as If it were a movie every dream bigger and more scarier then before. You are telling me this means nothing when it happens all the time? I have these dreams regular and its not as though a dream I can feel the wind and the rain! Something Ive never done in any dream. Feel the pain the fear in everyone! Ive never heard of dreams like this until coming online. Its horrible and I always sleep through I dont wake up and I experince every peice of the moment! Horrible!!!
Hi Crystal,
Your dream is certainly vivid and it is definitely meaningful. But what it means is not the end of the world. Though we can sometimes preview events in our dreams, this is rare, (see my book ‘The Shape of Things to Come’ on this subject), and the interesting thing about recurring end-of-the-world dreams is that once they are interpreted the dreamers generally see the parallels between the dream and feelings and emotions in their waking lives around change or fear of change in their personal lives. That pain and fear you feel is your own fear and pain, held deep down. Your dream recall is fabulous, and the better we are at remembering our dreams the more we tend to dream in mutli-senses. Dreams reflect the last 24-48 hours, so each time you have this dream, review the previous two days.
hello! last night i had a very scary dream that woke me out of bed screaming , it was the end of the world there was a lot of confusion . the stars well falling from the sky , i saw my home town completely destroyed family members killing them selves , my grandfather committing suicide and saying to me ” he will not go this way ” mass graves of people on the side of the highway and the streets some piles of burning bodies and others with plain white crosses in fields of burning white candles there was a loud sound echoing across the sky a lot of screaming a lot of explosions and there i was standing in the middle of it all and everyone i knew was gone i had had a nightmare the previous night of looking down at my own body in a morgue with an autopsy incision on my chest which scared me as well but nothing like this last night i actually woke up and realized i had also wet my self i’m a 30 year old woman and haven’t done that since childhood this has really bothered me i can’t get the images out of my head please reply thank you
Hi Morganna,
I can imagine how scared you were waking up from that one! No wonder you wet the bed, given that dreams seem so real while you’re experiencing them.
The first thing to remember is that dreams are symbolic, so take a deep breath.
The second thing to remember is that dreams are the result of our minds processing our conscious and unconscious experiences of the last 1-2 days. One thing that you experienced during that time frame was your morgue dream, and you would have been processing your waking thoughts and feelings (freaking out?) about that too.
Where, in the 1-2 days before your dream, did you feel or fear that something in your world was coming to an end?
Everyone in a dream represents something about you, so all those family members and references to your home town point to beliefs/feelings about your upbringing and background, going back to your grandparents.
Change (death of the old ways) can be good. Are you curious about the new things life holds for you?
The dream of the incision on your chest suggests that an emotional injury to your heart.
These are just some things for you to contemplate. You might like to book in for a phone or skype session with me so we can really get into your dream.
I have been having several types of these dreams throughout my life. When I was younger, I always dreamed of meteor showers destroying everything. Recently though, I have had many dreams where I find myself as different people undergoing the same thing (I would switch perspectives as each met their end). The first was a girl in high school who had no idea what to do when her school announced that a nuclear missile was going to hit soon. she went looking for her friends, but everyone had left, scrambling out of the school in a panic to escape. Then she (I) heard screaming and the building collapsed. Then I switched perspective to a boy who was swimming in the ocean, suddenly a huge boiling wave of water fell came towards him and a white light flashed again and I again switched perspectives to a girl who had apparently survived a nuclear attack (everything around her was basically destroyed and people were walking around, their skin melted off their bodies) The girl was looking for help and she spotted a police station that was still standing and went in to investigate. There were several police there and she yelled to them that her family was in danger (i have know idea what is wrong with her family) but the police, who had suffered injuries, looked at her, smiled, and then shot her in the head. There was another flash of light and I woke up.
I have many dreams similar to this. What does it mean? Please help, i want to try to stop them because i feel horrible and distraught every time i wake from one!
Hi Cheyenne,
As this dream theme has been recurring for so long, and upsetting you, I recommend booking an hour’s skype with me so that we can talk it and I can help you to understand the dream and how it relates to your life. This insight will help you to improve at least one aspect of your life. I will also show you how to stop this dream. You can book here: http://www.dream.net.au/services/phone_consultation.cfm
Jane Teresa
So I have been having recurring end of the world dreams for the past couple months. I’ve always had realistic colorful dreams but these are more intense. In my dream last night I realized the world was ending but not everyone did. I climbed into someone’s basement when I saw the sky going pitch black. I broke their cupboard so I could get into the smallest space possible. Then the tornados and the earthquakes started and were happening everywhere. When it was over I came out and saw all the destruction and death, I wasn’t scared at all. I started to uncover and connect with others that had survived, the most memorable being a tattoo artist and a dj. We travelled together in a small group for almost a day, when the ocean swallowed up all the earth and I was swimming trying to survive, all of my new-made friends died. As I was swimming I saw this huge boat and I grabbed onto a rope on the outside of it and climbed on board. Once on board I realized that all of the rich of the world had known that the world was ending and they had been prepared. So anger overcame me and I walked around the boat screaming “You knew!! You knew and you did nothing!!!” Then security started chasing me around the boat and I came across the dj that I thought had died and the entire bottom half of her body was gone but she wasn’t bleeding. She was crawling with her arms on the deck, I picked her up and told her not to worry we were going to do something about this. So then I was carrying her and running from the guards. Then I came across where karoake was going on to keep all of the people amused and I grabbed the microphone and started cussing out everyone on board and screaming at them. Then I set the dj down at the computer sound system area and I told her to pick me out a song that was very theater and dramatic and then when she did I didn’t know the song at all. The words were on the screen and I could hear the music but I’ve never heard that song before in my life so I did my best but then the guards came and started chasing me again, the DJ was killed, so I ran backstage and found an unlocked door. When I went in there were 2 stars that the wealthy had saved for their own amusement and oddly enough the first one was Katy Perry. (I don’t follow her music or her at all) She was very distraught and had her head in her hands. Then I saw Russell Brandt at the other end of the room also very upset. So I started calming them down, I told Katy not to worry she still looked pretty and then i said, “Don’t worry I got this.” That’s when the security busted in and I ran past them into the main area where they almost caught me. I had my phone in my hands and I was looking through it to see if I knew ANYONE who could possibly be on this ship. When the guards got me and were holding me. I looked up and there was my ex-boyfriend who is from a wealthy family. I looked at him and ran to him just happy to see someone I knew. He and his father were on the ship. He put his arm around me and told the guards to leave me alone that I was with him and his family and that they would pay for me. That was the end.
Oddly though my ex’s and my relationship was a bad one in real life and we’ve been broken up for almost 2 years. He was mentally abusive so I’m not sure why he was there and I’m not sure why the famous people were there either….I’m confused. Any enlightenment for me?
Hi Kim,
I notice – amongst many other things – the repeating references to ‘security’ and wealth in your dream, so this is one of several key issues your dream is processing. Remember that dreams reflect the last 24-48 hours, so, since this dream began a couple of months ago, that’s when the issue became prominent. At times like this, when there’s a recurring theme going on (that reflects a recurring unresolved theme in your waking life), it’s best to book a session so we can get down to the issues and move towards resolving them.
JT
Wow iam not the only one, 31 year old male from uk ive had these dreams for years but only the last few months theve really become intense. Ive had loads of dreams fire balls hitting the earth whirlpool things in the sky, water destroying everthing but somehow i know its gona happen and try to tell and help people. Weird seeing other moons and planets close up. even down ro me being on a parrallell universe looking bac at the earth and its on fire and melting away, ive had just bout every end of world dream going. Last one was 2 day ago water was destroying everywhere an it was geting closer to our house, and instead of feeling frightened i actually embraced it as it got closer i dropped to my knees opened up my arms and said finally and i wanted it to come… then all of sudden aload of shooting stars and bits of sun flew past the sky and evaporated and dried all the water up. So now its got to the stage where i actually dont feel scared i welcomed it and it never happened il keep you all posted on the next dreams.
Hi Danny,
Yes, you’re not the only one! What I love about your dream is the way you embraced what was happening at the end and how that changed the whole outcome to something more positive. What you did was face the fear and surrender to the knowing that this was the right thing to do. This dream will have reflected a similar attitude you took – or contemplated – during the two days before the dream, and I fully expect that you will now begin to experience some very welcome new beginnings in your life. Take this key – surrender and embrace – into your waking life.
Jane Teresa
Hello, from Romania
Well, yet another one with dreams about the end of the world. Every since I was a child I was having this certain connection and respect about Mother Earth. Same relation with the Moon. It has to be where it is, no larger, red in color or anything else. It has to be far away and cold.
So imagine dreaming about these 2 being ripped appart. I was dreaming it was the end of the world, earthquakes on the Earth, the land splitting open and lava comming out of it, that feeling of immediat danger and ending. I was looking at the moon and I saw it trembling and moments later, moon was shattered. There was a big chunk left and other 4 pieces near of it.
All the time in my dream I felt that anxiety and that feeling of end and it was overwhelming.
This is not the first time I dreamt of the moon. the last dream about the moon was more pleasurable. I dreamt of going on my balcony at night and seeing all the solar system at a small scale. All of the sudden, the moon breaks from near the Earth and keeps rotating till its near my balcony. I knew I had to reach for it and touch it. After I touch it the moon was spinning away but lefting a burn mark on my balcony and some sparkly moon dust on my palm. The sensation was overwhelming, but in a good way.
I have had a few dreams about the end of the world but everybody just tells me “it’s just a dream you’re ok!” But the one I had yesterday was something new. Here it goes.
I felt rushed like I knew something was wrong, I saw the clock it was 1030, I rushed to my apartment looking for my bible. I didn’t find it. I saw the clock it was 11. When leaving my apartment I saw a tiger loose, the tiger was minding his own business. A man was shouting towards me and all I remember was kicking meat towards the tiger. Anyways as I drove back I called my boyfriend who seemed to not know what was going on. I told him I loved him so much and how grateful I was to have him in my life. I started crying because I wasn’t there with him. As I got off the phone it was 12..I turned around to see my family in a circle. I see my aunt, uncle (who is very religious) my grandma, my two little sisters, step mom, dad and my mom. I kissed everybody to let them know I loved them. I never looked back to see what was coming for us. I just remember everybody’s faces being scared. Then we all started praying. After we prayed I grabbed my little sisters and told them I’m not letting go of them, that I loved them with all my heart. I looked up to my mom and all I can see was how brown her eyes were, I told her how great of a mom she was and she smiled. As soon as she smiled I heard screams and everything got brighter. I saw flames reach over my shoulder and over my head, but felt no pain. Then I saw my spirit and my sisters spirits go into the sky. We were in a bright place. I could hear us laughing. The colors I remember were white and gold. The gold color reminded me of butter lol. I was so happy. But when my eyes opened I was shocked to find it was a dream. I had tears coming down my eyes. I could of sworn it was real. I thought I really did die.
Hi Vena,
Notice the happy ending in your dream. This comes after facing fear, deciding what to ‘let go’ and what to ‘not let go’ in your life. Food for thought.
Jane Teresa
Hi Gaia,
I love the spinning moon dream. The key is to understand your personal feeling for the moon, as all dream symbols are personal. You have given lots of clues here about what the moon means to you personally. In the dream you had before your end of world dream, you got ‘in touch with’ something (moon) that is normally ‘far away and cold’. That’s interesting, isn’t it? Following that you have an end of world dream, showing your feelings about the changes that lay ahead now that you have got in touch with (and also got a little burned by) all of this. Remember that dreams reflect the previous 24-48 hours, so this will help you find context.
Jane Teresa
Jane,
Thank you so much for your answer. I didn’t want to divulge that I am at a turning point in my life. Previous the moon shattering plus the end of the world dream I had some days stressing on changing my work place. It brings a lot of anxiety, therefore the end of the world feeling.
On the other hand, the other dream (where I touched the moon, but it didn’t burn me, just the edge of my balcony) I had couple of years ago, I had an out of this world feeling, a good feeling, an uplifting feeling. I remember waking up with a smile on my face thinking of the privilege I had touching the moon and the sparkly dust it left on the palm on my hand…not to mention seeing the whole solar system from my balcony.
Much appreciated!
May your new world bring you great joy.
Ok, I’m only 12 and I just had to say something, this may be a little long, but I just had to say something and it wasn’t a frequent thing this is the first time I’ve experienced an “End of the world dream”. So, I was in front of my house that seamed like a different house. It was like out in the plains and I hade like that wide country house that was well prepared and it wasn’t my house cause I live next to a city, but in the dream I had a gate and across that gate was like a highway with busy traffic and all that. and if you go left in front of that house you see a building with something in my dream called a train stop. It had a lamp post and you stand on a brick it eaither says a number and “K” next to it. So I was in front of my house with my friends Chris, MIchael, Munawar(a girl people think she is a boy becuase of her name), and Angelica also a girl. We were infront of that house and my friend Chris he was studying for the SAT’s which is unlikely of him. His mom called and asked for me for his help with his long division and percentage. Then magma started coming up to earth, not like magma shoots up, like magma forming in craters and bubbling. That was next to us about 3 ft. Michael and Munawar got scared so they went home. The sky started turning very reddish like at sundown but the sun still hih up and the sky very red now. The crater keeps expanding and we r at the tip of it. The crater didn’t seem deep nor was it a big crater. So me and my friends Chris and Angelica started running because it was expanded quite quickly. Chris started tripping and he fell. So we started running and my dad, little brother, and older sister was at the mall and they noticed the sky. My mom, me Angelica, Chris, and my baby sister was running.(Of course my baby sister was in my moms hands she is about 2) We ran to that train stop I mensioned before and my art teacher came running too, to it. She stood on 10k, I stood on it too and my friend. I told my mom too stand on it too and she said it wouldn’t do anything special. So me and my friend stood on it because we were freaking out and just did whatever an adult did or said. And this part is weird me and my friend Angelica admitted our love. I know but it is probably what would’ve happened it real life. Then we saw the sun like buggin’ out, like it was about to explode. Then earth came just crashing into it, but for some reason we were on Earh but there was another Earth crashing into the sun, not like a close view, but a regular Earth distance view to the sun. Then I woke up and felt that was all crazy.
I admit I;m a Christian, I’m hispanic, and Italian. I have some connection with nature. I love speaking to animals and they respond back. I can also read peoples aura’s which leads to reading their personality, but when I was 4 I had a dream of Venus carrying me across the sun, like the astronomical event the Venus Transit. Then when I was 8 I had a dream about me being carried by the moon and the moon just turned blue, like the astronomical event the Blue Moon. Now I am 12 and I had this dream. Is it weird I am having previewing dreams or is the 3rd one just a hoax? I always felt I had some connection with Lunar and Solar. Is it also weird that all these dreams happened 4 years apart from each other? I wonder whats in store for when I am 16 or if my 3rd dream does come to reality I might not have a 4th, but I should be posotive I am looking forward to the 4th dream.
But if it is real my family would all pray. Cause at a time like that it is very extremely necessary to pray. I hope we all end up in a happier place. Thank you Jane
Hi Elijah,
What wonderful recall. The thing to remember is that dreams are symbolic, no matter how real and amazing they feel. So don’t worry about whether the dream is prophetic (it’s not) and don’t worry about your family. Dreams are all about you. So take a big step back from your dream and look at all the emotions and feelings you felt in the dream and know that these were relevant to you in the 24-48 hours before your dream. That reference to 10K in your dream may be connecting with changes in your life when you were ten.
This blog is a place to discuss dreams in general – not for individual analysis – but I hope my comments help. Read some of my other posts on this blog, and maybe sign up for the free Dream Tips (emails with tips you can use to help you understand your dreams). You’ll see the sign-up form in the side panel. Keep remembering your dreams! Understanding them will provide you with a gateway to experience a beautiful life.
Jane Teresa
I had a really scary dream last night about the world ending. Im only 16 years old by the way. Anyways in the dream, the earth was having all these explosions! Well a friend of mine then finds a piece of titanium? And for some reason we thought that the titanium would cancel out the explosion and the world wouldn’t end! Well it actually worked. But 2 days later, the explosions were back, so we started looking for More titanium. I remember in my dream my mom saying, “what day is it?” and then this Chinese man says “the 21st”. Then I look to my left and hear these people screaming and I see that they have someone tied and hung up to a cross like Jesus, and they are torturing him rolling down the road. I run to my bathroom and start praying for god to keep me safe and not send me to hell. Then I start looking for more titanium and I find a gum ball machine that had titanium in it. Everyone was so relieved. And then I woke up. It was so scary! Please tell me what this means! Thanks!
-Shannon
Hello,
I had a dream last night of being with my family, such as mom, dad, brother and sister inlaw. They don’t live near me, and I myself am married with a child and one on the way.
Well, in the dream I was with them at their house, I was supposed to be traveling back to my own house but they were convincing me to stay saying it was new years the next day and that they are having a big party. So I decided to stay.
The dream then jumped to us all driving in a car downtown and seeing the entire city with a darkness apon it along with things on fire, fire falling from the sky catching everything and even people on fire, my brother nervously driving fast trying to leave the town.
The dream jumps again and now we are in the downtown area no longer in the car, but now up close to all the tragity, see everyone up close seeing things happen to them that was like watching final destination like people running in a panic but falling and tripping on to sharp objects that killed them.
I then ended up at a small station that looked like a toll booth but with out a car and there were people in the booth asking for your ID and if you didn’t have an ID you were not able to pass and go into the safe parts of the world or get medical attention and my mom wasnt able to find her ID then I woke up.
I was so afraid I still am it was super realistic and really scary. Please please please tell me what this could mean?? The only thing I can say that has recently happend with my family is my brother and sister in law have been arguing a lot and one of the arguments started from something I said. Please help thank you!
Hi Melissa,
Thank you for your contribution towards this collection of end of world dreams. Notice the question of the new year’s party, so you’ve got the end of one thing (symbolised by the end of the world) and the question of the beginning of another (symbolised by new year) and whether you’re ready to ‘stay’ with the new and celebrate it (party). I can see it may well be connected with how you feel about recent family events, and whether you’re ready to say goodbye to old attitudes and begin new ones.
The intention of this blog is comment, not interpretation, so if you’d like help with the deep and meaningfuls and the best way to move forward from here, you might like to consult me (click the appropriate menu tag on the blog site.)
Hope this helps,
Jane Teresa
I had a dream thT the world was ending. I was with my best friend her father was the president (president g. W. Bush actually) so she had a space to keep two people safe through it and she chose me as we were going into the safe bacement looking area i woke up. Semi scared because I the world ending.is a real life.fear of mine and i dream of it often. What does it mean
Hello,
I’m glad I found this website. For about the last 2 years I’ve had the same reoccuring dream that I live in a house with alot of strangers. I don’t dream it every night but it’s one I’ve dreamed over and over and always wake up remembering this one. You walk into this house and there is no other type of furniture anywhere in the house but single mattresses lying everywhere, in every corner of every room in the the house. I don’t remember much else about it except the fact that I know I live there.
Hi Kathy,
Thank you. There are many resources you can use both on this blog and on my website at http://www.dream.net.au. And you’ll learn a lot by listening to the podcasts too (just click ‘podcasts’ on the menu tab). Have a look at this post which will help you to get a feeling for what your recurring dream means: http://www.janeteresa.com/is-this-your-life/
And you can always consult me if you’d like an in-depth understanding of your dreams (choose from my services on the menu tabs).
Enjoy!
Jane Teresa
Hi Vickie,
Although the thought of the world ending is scary to everyone, it only really consumes you as a fear when it connects with a feeling of general fear of change within yourself. These dreams come up when we feel like something in our private and personal world is coming to an end. Reflect upon this. There are lots of clues in your dreams, and if you’d like help with a deeper understanding of how this dream relates to your life and what you can do with this insight to cope with change in a more positive and promising way, you might like to consult me via my professional services.
Hope this helps,
Jane Teresa
i dreamt of the end of the world by a huge wave or rising of water…what does it mean?
Hi Jaundy,
This post on dreaming of tsunamis or huge waves will help:
http://www.janeteresa.com/tsunami-dreams-and-dream-alchemy/
Jane Teresa
I Also have a reacurring dream for the past few monthes. All different in ways but all include the end of the world and mass chaos. The one I just woke from I was on vacation with my mom and son and gf. It started at a children doctors office where we had brought my son for some unknown reason but I look outside and i see white lights shooting down from the sky and also missles shooting up from the earth. I run outside and a plane flys right over me dropping bombs. One hits right near me and i thought I was going to be blown up but the explosion just missed. Another hit the doctors office they were in and i paniked but then saw them running away from the explosion. We get in the car driving back to the vacation house. There is a huge war going on civilians are being killed everywhere. There are these lights in the sky like aliens but i cant make it out almost like just white energy and there are shotting people everywhere with blasts of energy. We get to the cabin and i cant find my gun( I always carry one for personal protection). I didnt bring it with me on vacation and we have nothing to defend ourselfs. ( every dream i never can find my gun for different reason and im always looking for it) so we leave the cabin because they are fighting closer and closer to us and some how get sepperated. Im alone im worryed about where my son is how i lost him threw the bombs and choas. And I notice that people are being taken not just killed, they are being taken and having like a procedure done with a microchip and brain washing and then put back into society as like slaves of there everday lives with no free thinking (really wierd) So im hiding in a raftor of a biulding and 4 of them come in( the bad guys that i guess are taking over the earth), they are humans but its like there being controlled or possesed and they are talking about why does this man have such nice furniture he shouldnt owns these no one else does. Then they look up and all of them see me they try to get me i jump down and my only escape was threw a 4 story window i ran and jumped out hit a tree climbed down and fleed to the woods. there was a man mowing his lawn saying really weird things like r u going camping i love camping are you allowed to do that. Somehow they followed me and chased me into the woods they caught up to me I had to punch one then chop another in the throat and elbow the last one to get away. I ran and found myself taking a car and picking up some of my friends i saw and my gf but cant find my son and i am panicked wondering if hes ok and where he is. We park go into a store the owner is telling us you cant hide here theyll find you anywhere u go. Just go with them, real robotic like, they somehow find us in the store its like they know where we are een if they cant see us we try to run out back but cant so have to come to the front and they are right in our way. I picked up a glass ashtray and smashed one of the guys in the head chopped another in the throat and then my friend took out the last. WE flee and I wake up ..
All different variations of this dreams but all involving the end of the world, I never have my gun, Im always getting seperated from my son, and a huge war sometimes aliens sometimes not. I Have a dream about the end of the world at least 3 or 4 times a week all as vivid as im writting this right now.
Whats going on ???
Good to know I’m not alone in this. I’m 20 by the way. So last night I had a real hard time falling asleep. When I finally did I woke up and it felt like it had only been 5 minutes but it was like 5 hours. So I Go back to sleep and It started in a gym with me and one of my friends I use to be close to (I have recently moved at the begging of the year, away from all of my friends but my Girlfriend.) and we were playing basketball, something we have never done in real life. Well The gym sort of changed into the house I grew up in. (I haven’t been there since I was around 12.) Anyway, There was like a house party going on with various people I have seen before only a few I know on a personal level.(This is were the dream becomes clear as day.) On of my best friends, (who I’ve been jokingly calling my dad since i was 15.) said lets go out side for a smoke. (I quit a year ago.) And we were on the porch with random acquaintances of mine and some people I’ve never met. and he hands me a beer and a cigarette(Also I don’t drink) and says sit back here it comes. And I look up and in the brightest most realistic colors I have ever seen in a dream I see a red planet. and a blue one fallowing. My friend says yep, alining, Mercury, Neptune her it comes. and then one of my acquaintances on the porch(Strong military guy) was holing is girl friend(He was never the type to be with a girl) and she was saying babe put me down, because she was getting lifted and he was speechless as he and many others started flying off the earth. My “Dad” said grab on. and we grabbed on to the porch railing resisting the pulling as if gravity flipped. and then it started to get hotter and brighter. I could feel the heat. We were charging into the sun and right before we hit it my girlfriend shook me awake and I was yell-moaning and squirming around. It had only been something like 10-15 min since I feel asleep but it felt like a whole day in the dream. and I had a real hard time falling back asleep because I had freaked myself out.
Hi Demetrius,
Having a dream theme repeat 3 to 4 times a week means you are dreaming about an issue that you have been confronting every day for the past few months without finding resolution. (Remember, dreams reflect the last 24-48 hours, so this issue began when the dream began, several months ago.) It’s as if you are constantly at war with yourself. That’s why there’s usually a war theme in these dreams. Your son represents something good – an energy you’d like to have in your life – but that you feel you are losing touch with to the extent that it feels like the ‘end of your world’. There’s a lot more in your dream and you can book a session with me if you’d like to go into it and resolve this issue, but I hope this reply gives you some clues.
Jane Teresa
Hi Hunterzhorizon,
It used to be thought that we only dreamed during REM (Rapid Eye Movement) sleep. It takes about 90 minutes between falling asleep and entering the first REM phase. People do experience dreams in non-REM periods, however. Then it was thought that dreams that occurred outside REM were bland or vaguely reminiscent of daily life. Wrong again, as your very vivid dream shows.
Sometimes, if you’re sleep deprived, you can enter REM very quickly. All that aside:
You know from reading this thread that dreaming about the end of the world usually reflects a feeling – in the last 24-48 hours – that something is coming to an end within your own life. To welcome the new, we need to release the old, and at 20 and considering you moved away from your friends at the beginning of this year, you’ll certainly be experiencing a lot of change. Here’s the key: although dreams reflect the last 24-48 hours, as the dreaming brain/mind processes these last two days it compares those experiences with your past (and projects similar expectations into the future). Your dream references several aspects of your past: when you were 12, when you were 15, when you gave up smoking, and – possibly – when you gave up (or decided against) drinking. Your dream reflects a feeling of “everything aligning” which leads to a feeling of “gravity flipping”. In the couple of days before the dream issues and thoughts about the past (12, 15 etc) “aligned’ – came together – and this is resulting in a feeling of massive change in your life, the kind of change which feels like gravity flipping. Feeling a loss of security/stability (gravity) yet also a big release/let go.
Just some beginning clues about your dream, as this blog is not about giving interpretations (I offer consultations for anyone wanting deep insight), but about dreams and dreaming in general.
Hope this helps,
Jane Teresa
I’m so afraid today I have seen the same dream…aliens arriving different spaceships…people running and blackhole water is coming close…omg I am so Afraid..
I dreamt that the world was gona end and I had to get myself to another planet, I was in this space like shuttle and had to jump out onto the other planet but my mother in law fell off…so I entered the planet alone which was a replica of earth I even landed in my street…I phoned home and my sister said the world never ended just all the computers had gone off…what does this mean xx
I’m 17, and I just had what I think might have been my first end-of-the-world dream – or the first one I can remember. I remember walking around outside, in the dark, and everyone is outside, the entire city, because we’d been notified that the end of the world was coming. My little sister, who is eleven, was walking with me, sometimes breaking off to go to my mother and then come back. My mother was with my grandfather. There were many graves, all around, but organized, and we’d been told that each person had their own grave for when we die. I remember contemplating the truth of this throughout the entire dream, wondering if it really was the end of the world or if people were overreacting again. I’d been a bystander of a death earlier in the dream, one that didn’t have to do with the end of the world, only with good timing. My little sister and I were on our way to look for our mother, when everyone screamed, and I looked up to see a meteor approaching. It wasn’t going to hit us directly, but apparently there was no escape, and I fell to the ground with my hands on my head, terrified and crying. It hid and the earth shook, and my little sister was trying to explain something about the meteor to me, being a wiseass even in these circumstances, when I woke up.
Hi Dani,
Some interesting themes in your dream about questions of overreacting “again”, and about the role of “good timing” in things ending. Change – and especially good change – is about things ending so that other things can begin. Change is not a dramatic full stop (a complete ending, the end of the world, nothing new to follow) even though it may feel that way at the time.
Jane Teresa
Please help. I had a dream of the world ending. The scale between good and evil tippinng into a chaotic mess. It all started with my little brother being tortured by an evil woman she revealed herself in reflective objects. As time went on the world had divvied up the good and the bad, you chose your side. Many chose evil few chose good this dream seemed to be in no shade of gray. Me and my friend( shes everything in my mind that could be good, tall blonde big blue eyes doesn’t cuss is very sweet) we were running down a stairwell of which I recognized when the war started and we went to the very bottom. To reveal buta staircase leading into nothing becoming part of the floor. I grabbed her an hitched up 2 flights when those of evil origin came pouring into the stair wells. I turned into the first door to notice her dissapearnce I had her but now she’s gone? I knew deep in my heart turning back for we would be bad for everyone fighting on the side of good. I sent my condolences to her. And followed out into a crude type of stadium in which the evil resided millions upon millions. I took a seat from which many stared at me I came upon someone I had seen before in a dream from were I was young physically, he was someone ivdreamed of but did not know in real life. I spoke to him and he claimed no remembrance of me. I watched the music of a woman dressed as a butterfly.
I came upon a woman taking a picture of me I asked what are you doing. She responded with taking a picture oboe which would only take if I was speaking she showed ne what she captured my lips were bright scarlet while everyone else’s remained a washed out shade of the color they normally had. She was asking in the headline if I was what I was posing as.I told her to just allow the music to play and time will tell. She did. I came upon controls that shook the cAverns in Which we resided. But the evil re arranged the caverns to there want claiming that if we wished to live to give up: I returned to my people whom were shaken up and badly physically hurt. And the evil came pouring in from all sides taking us all. Please help me
Hi Kendall,
Sometimes we need shades of grey, rather than looking at the world in black or white. Better even than shades of grey are all the wonderful colours of the rainbow that exist between black and white. That’s something for you to contemplate.
Jane Teresa
PS Kendall, I’ve just written a blog that might interest you: ‘Rainbow shades of grey’
http://www.janeteresa.com/rainbow-shades-of-grey/
Jane Teresa
Just woke from a very odd dream. I have vivid full sensory dreams so parts of me feel as if I am living another life at times but this one was odd and unsetteling. A few strange sequence of events had occured leading up to the scary parts, including for the second night in a row a smoking reference. There was some artsy animated film on about smoking weed and I was trying to show my boyfriend it to convince him to do it one day (which he doesn’t in real life. Oddly the night before was about my dad trying to cinvincde me to smoke a hookah with him…which he certainly doesnt…so odd) but after the film my boyfriend was still in bed and I got in with him and it woke him up so he was cranky and left the room. I left with him and it was a cabin in the woods with all of his and mine immediate family and siblings staying together. It was early Nov. And Romney had justbeen announced pres. The evening fell quickly and it begun to snow which we were happy about. I went to grab my cell and post on FB about how snow was welcome on such an odd day when the tv station switched to the news. The lady anchor stated a huge explosion in S. Asia had occured and a disease was spredding in the wind. The camera shot however was in downtown L.A. and there were scenes of rioting and cars exploding. Each channel we flipped through had the same reports and camera shots. I thought it wasn’t real so I turned on the radio to listen for reports but all the stations played the same unrecognizable county song (??) I called my mom in the room as the tv channels kept reporting how the world can’t recover and the end is coming. I looked at her and all my family and the sky and asked outloud “is this really happening” at that moment my voive echoed and I awoke…sorry so long but I am left with a super uneasy feeling.
Sorry for typos as I am on my cell at 530 in the a.m.
Hi Alana, Remember that dreams reflect the last 24-48 hours of your conscious and unconscious experiences, so review the couple of days before this dream. You have several references to change: trying to change people’s minds (weed is a mind-changing agent), trying to convince people to try something different, a change of president, and the winds (which you could say are the winds of change in the context of your dream). Think of the world as you and your life, since everything in a dream represents the dreamer. So you have a feeling that there’s a big change in the air – or you’re trying to convince yourself to create a change – and you feel it’s a change that will bring about an ending of some sort in your life. Endings can be good or bad.
Hope this helps. For more in-depth help: http://www.dream.net.au/services/membership.cfm
Jane Teresa
I recently experienced a very creepy “end of the world” dream, and I’ve been told that these types of dreams symbolize the end of something, but I can’t relate that to my life right now. Things are BEGINNING for me more than anything. I have an internship at a pretty major successful company and I have a job interview there this week. All of my energy is focused on my career really lately, so it’s nothing romantic or anything.
There was not much “death and destruction” going on that you would typically expect from an apocalyptic dream..it was more a creepy feeling that you know these “people/aliens” are here with us, and something huge was about to happen we just didn’t know where or when..
On my way to Tallahassee alone to see a friend. Kept hearing/slightly feeling these explosion type things coming from underneath us. Creepy person with robotic characteristics, not human. Beat him over the head and cussed him out knowing he wasn’t human. He said “we will accept that if happens to one of us and (no more and then you control yourself –? Can’t remember exactly) Looking at me in the eyes, warning me. I was super scared so I stopped.
a friend was there saying his family went under ground and wanted him to join them….I didn’t know whether I should go underground or even where to go because no one know if the aliens were under ground or where they were, just that they were lurking. Remember seeing my friend’ family but I don’t remember seeing any of mine. I think I was by myself for the most part. just had an overwhelming sense of impending doom.
People kept talking about the Iphone 5 and were obsessed with it…somehow I think it was related to the aliens/monsters.
Hi Liv,
Yes, things are beginning for you in your life today, but this in turn means that things are ending, for example, your internship may be ending once you get offered the job you’re being interviewed for. What else in your life will change (end) as a result of getting the job you want with this company? In your dream you felt an overwhelming sense of impending doom due to aliens. What feels alien to you as you look ahead? You’re moving from familiar to ‘alien’ territory in a way. The iPhone 5 is the ‘future’ happening now, just as your new job is the ‘future’ about to happen now for you. You said, “All my energy is focused on my career …” (like obsessing over an iPhone 5/ obsessing over your future). You said, ” … nothing romantic” (like the robotic feel of your dream perhaps?) The explosions coming from underneath are the potential changes to your life, and although these are good, unconsciously (underground) there’s an impending sense of doom. Unconsciously you may fear some element of robotic/alien work (and less romance). It’s good to know where your unconscious is coming from. There’s so much more in your dream which we could explore in a consultation (http://www.dream.net.au/services/phone_consultation.cfm), but I hope my reply helps.
Jane Teresa
Hello Jane,
1stly I love the fact that you’re taking the time to respond to each inquiry.
The dream I had last night, I feel is symbolic but I’m not sure how to interpret, I hope that you can help.
Like everyone else, i dreamt the world was ending. That the skies opened and Jesus himself was there calling upon all of his angels.I have a 5 year old spn and 2 years ago I had a baby girl who died of SIDS 3 months later. In the dream, my son was one of the angels Jesus called upon, I remember him crying not wanting to leave me, but I told him everything would be okay, he was going to be with his sister and mommy would be there soon.
The end of the world is kindve easy for me to interpret as the symbolic beginning of the end to some life situation. But the part with my son and daughter being reunited really freaked me out. Can you help?