- Fire is a symbol of rejuvenation. It can cleanse and purify.
- Fire sustain us, but it can also destroy. We need warmth to survive, but uncontrolled fire can cause untold pain and destruction.
- Fire can provide illumination and show us the way when we are in the dark.
- Fire is also a symbol of war, might, aggression, and male power.
- Fire is linked to transformation and change. For example, the Phoenix is a bird of fire that after death, is reborn from the ashes of its predecessor.
Which of these meanings fire has in our dream will depend a lot on the surrounding context. In particular,
- Kindling a fire to serve our purposes is very different from a fire that is blazing out of control.
- A fire that warms and comforts us is different from a fire which causes fear and excruciating pain.
- The objects and people associated with the fire are also important.
This is why in dream interpretation, it is important to remember the details of our dream, for example through the use of a dream journal.
1. Dream of Fire and Control
If we dream that we are in control of the fire and are using it to serve our own needs, then fire has a positive meaning. It also signals that we want change to occur.
- Kindling a fire for others indicates that we are helping or guiding those around us. Sharing a campfire can also express a need or interest in socializing and companionship.
- Kindling a fire in our home, particularly during cold or inclement weather, suggests some imminent good fortune, we may be trying to conceive, or expecting a visit from close friends or family.
- Kindling a fire while on a journey shows that we are being creative, innovative, or leading a new venture.
- A controlled fire burning in the hearth signals comfort, warmth, and light. We may be contented with our current state of affairs. Searching for a hearth fire in our dream, may signal that we are seeking comfort and illumination in our life.
If the kindled fire is extinguished by rain in our dream, it could suggest a loss of money, job, comfort, or security.
On the other hand, if we are setting an uncontrolled fire with the purpose of destroying people, objects, and property (i.e. arson), then we are likely harboring some jealousy, bitterness, or hatred in our life toward a co-worker, friend, or relative.
- Dreaming we are setting fire to ourselves, indicates that we may be experiencing extreme stress or emotional turmoil in our life, and feel like we are burning up. It may also indicate that we want to remove some aspect of our life or personality.
- Dreaming we are a firefighter or are trying to put out a fire suggests that there are many complicated and high stress problems that are demanding our attention. There are perhaps many challenges that we may have to face and we will need to work hard to overcome them. Trying to stop a fire can also express a desire to prevent change in our life.
- Dreaming we are a fire eater shows that we have strong emotions, but they are currently being kept under control. However, if we become consumed by the fire, then our emotions may be starting to overwhelm us.
- Dreaming we are worshiping fire expresses a love for war or conflict. We may feel strongly that a resolution can only be achieved through the use of force or physical might. It may also indicate a wish for finding a more masculine partner, or the need to cultivate more masculine qualities in ourselves.
2. Dream of Fire and How We Feel
How we feel during our fire dream is also very important.
Feeling pain from being burned by our dream fire, may indicate that our current life situation is threatening and painful. There could be an unresolved issue that is causing us subconscious pain. We may be consumed by ambition, anger, frustration, and other strong emotions. We may be going through an emotionally painful break-up, or having difficult problems at work.
If we are struck by pain or discomfort from the heat of a blaze or feel its bite on our face, we may be worried of being the subject of slander, jealousy, spite, or other types of verbal and emotional abuse.
Feeling good or excited from seeing our heart on fire suggests strong positive emotions or love for someone in our life. We may currently be in an exciting relationship, and have intense desire toward our current partner.
Feeling tired or nothing at all from being burned by fire suggests that we are feeling burned-out or unmotivated.
Feeling fear and great uncertainty from a large out of control fire or firestorm signals a worry for insubordination, civic disorder, or chaos around us. There may be signs of unhappiness and insubordination at work or we may worry about social unrest in our current area. More black smoke indicates greater danger.
Feeling cool and comfortable in a fire represents a pure heart. We are confident of our current course in life, and are certain of our faith and decisions. There are no unresolved issues or deceits that are troubling us.
Feeling protected and safe in a fire may mean that we have a trusted partner or a strong support group of friends, family, or co-workers that will help keep us safe from whatever adversity that may arise in our life.
3. Dream of Fire and Objects
The objects in our fire dream are also very important for interpreting its meaning.
1. House.
A common object that appears in many fire dreams is a house. Our house or home often represents us or our family. Dreaming that our house is on fire may indicate large changes that are coming and uncertainty over those changes. It may also reflect tumultuous personal emotions, loss of mental peace, or being overwhelmed by strong feelings.
A raging uncontrolled fire in our town signals broader issues affecting our community. There could be economic issues that cause job losses or political unrest.
Finally, seeing the ruins of our house or town after a fire indicates loss and sadness. We may be worried of losing someone or something important to us (e.g. family, friends, job, money), or have recently experienced such a loss in our life.
2. Fire extinguisher.
Trying to put out a fire with an extinguisher represents a desperate need to suppress emotions and desires, or avoid changes that are happening in our life.
3. Other people.
If we see another person being burned, it shows that we have strong feelings or emotions toward that person. Whether those feelings are positive or negative will depend a lot on what we are feeling in our dream, and whether the person is comfortable or in pain from the fire.
Sharing the light of someone else’s fire may indicate a desire to share in the knowledge and companionship of others. We may be feeling lonely or stagnant, and be yearning for experiences with new people.
The Meaning of Fire Dreams
To interpret the meaning of our fire dreams, we want to pay attention to –
- Whether we are in control of the fire. In particular, did we start the fire and is the fire currently being used for our comfort, safety, and illumination.
- What we feel with regard to our dream fire. Were we afraid of it or comforted by its warmth? Were we comfortable and renewed by the fire, or did we feel pain and fear?
- Other objects and people in our dream.
Do you have many fire dreams? Tell us about it in the comments section below.
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I dreamed about the fire two nights in a row, I was trying to extinguish the fire, but it was just spreading .. even when I was pouring water the fire did not go out ..
In dream, was driving along in car and saw horses that were on fire, I stopped car and my companion and I went to help them. A dark horse came towards me with fire burning on it’s neck and head, I took my jumper off and tried using it to douse the flames but don’t think it was working, I the started rolling around on the ground to show the horse how to put out the fire and it started rolling in the dirt and flames went out. Afterwards it just lay there immobilised. Then somehow the horse had transformed into a large box/machine with a main off button, that I pressed. I then realised by pressing it I had killed the horse and started yelling at my companion (his horse had changed into a box also) not to press the button.
Then I awoke.
Dreamt something tragic today.
In my dreams I was a young girl. Some sort of a fire deity. In there I was the strongest fire. My flame was blue green (like cyan). There I was about to dance in some sort of a ritual dance to enjoy the night’s ceremony – I think the tribe was celebrating for the coming of my flame.
I was wearing a beautiful headdress and a beautiful tribal gown. My face was different – I was a teenager, an african of some sort. My hair was hidden under my headdress.
In there, while enjoying the night mum sad that I have to slowly dance and to wait for my tails – I will.have 9 of them.she said. It was some sort of a symbol of my flame’s strength.
When I completed the slow dance my tails (more like beads – brown & black) from my nape to the back of my thighs, grew. Out of the blue mum called me and asked me to accept something like a twisted plastic toy. I didn’t like it but I bought it with me anyway. As I received the plastic toy I had a wild thought that it may bring danger to my mum but I shoved it off. I danced. A few minutes later my mom decided to walk away from the crowd. She sat far away from the us, watching. In return I was just checking on her occasionally.
Then we were attacked. An ambush.
The first that thing that I had in mind was to save my mum.
I ran towards her.
The foreign looking European soldier was about to swing his sword to kill my mum but I quickly acted to stop him. Remember the plastic toy? I was still carrying it. Without hesitating I made him wear the stupid looking toy on his head to make him stop from what he was about to do.
And then my flame went on.
Bluish green fire abruptly burned just enough to burn the man I was trying to stop.
Little did I realize that my mum was still there.
Now like the soldier — an ash.
I had a dream that some place exploded into fire and I had hit by that explosion then I jerked awake.
I had a dream our family house half burnt then the rain came down and stopped It….immediately
I found myself waking into this old man’s home. He had everything clean and beautiful. He lived alone and you can tell he was a handy man .. He had ability to do his own home projects. I was using his home and plugged in some uitily that i needed i don’t know for what but i notice grass stuck to the end i still plugged it in. I knew it was bad that i dis that but still did it. I was suppose to go back and see wad it okay. I forgot and i started a fire. I watched from a distance knowing i was at fault. That feeling resides in me the most.
I dreamt of fire in the kitchen. Started fr a plant at level one unit n spread up to my washing machine in the kitchen. Also dreamt i went to neighbour’s two units n asked why they allow fire to start fr their plant. Got a reply fr a neighbour old guy, like hes unhappy w something being dropped at his balcony over time n hence he cldnt care for..even if his plant caught fire n affected others. In the dream, dreamt of me asking kids to pack their things n escaped. Also seen myself myself packing some stuffs into my blue haversack. Asked husband to call 995 n he went to call 999 n said no reply. Saw myself holding the phone n keep wanting to call 995 but it didnt materialise. I think i called the guardhse n say got fire. Got a scene like see husb managed to take pail of water n put put the fire but like not totally put out. Suddenly downstairs area, besides the plant..caught fire n strong fire was spreading n like going to spread up again, this time more fierce n fast than the earlier one. In t dream, didnt see firefighter arrive, didnt see whether we escaped.
My dream was that the hill next to my family’s house was on fire and I ignored it until it was to close and we all started to panic. There was no flame ,but the ground was burning and moving at a steady speed. I was trying to rush my family as I was throwing things into the car as fast as possible my little brother was scared and just sat in his room so I picked him up along with a pillow and a blanket. We went outside and the burning ground was closing into the house, I threw his stuff in the car and took him back inside. I sat him down and ran to my little sisters room to where she was crying, I hugged her and said it’s okay please just get clothes, a blanket, and your pillow. I ran out and into my room where I grabbed two changes of clothes and again a blanket and a pillow. I rushed to the window and the ground was almost to our car. My mom backed it up closer to the house and we continued to pack. A man told me I had to leave my dog because he was just to old but we could take the cat. I ran to my moms room where she was crying and told me to hurry and shit the blinds so the kids couldn’t get so scared. A girl was talking to me telling me not to worry, yet she was not helping and was just in the way. She grabbed my face then I slapped her and yelled don’t ever touch me again. Soon the man was opening the attic door and people began to gather and lifting the smallest people up first. Soon everyone was inside there was water, canned food, glow sticks, and umbrellas. We all sat laughing and talking and I turned around and it was raining hard and the burning ground turned back to grass. Everyone was cheering and I couldn’t believe what I saw.
I had a dream,that the man I love put out a burning fire from the gas cylinder for me,and then in that dream I had a child that is tripket for him..
Last day, I’d dream about being chased by a serial killer. Actually there was many of us, six or five perhaps, and we came off running to a desserted Savannah-like area with a cliff nearby.
I decided to went there and climbed a few bounders, and buried myself (as in totally buried) to hide. I heard the runoffs came to the cliff and to also hide, but I just know they didn’t know the same. It felt so very real. The fear, the humidity and the texture of the dirt.
A moment later, the serial killer came and spotted our hiding place, I heard him killed everyone except me, not realizing that I was hiding deep into the dirt. He by passed above me till drew further, searching for me.
That was all I remember and then I told my mom. She frankly replied that being buried alive means you’ll face a downfall or hard challenges.
In my dream I was standing in the driveway my new house that I had just purchased .My house was olive Green. The driveway was somewhat long. I walked towards the end of my driveway when I noticed some nuts and bolts scattered close to the street, all of a sudden a gold Cadillac type car came cruising by and a young man about 30 smoking a cigarette flicked the cigarette through the car window into my driveway on purpose and kept driving just past my house into the woods. the lit butt set the nuts and bolts’ grease on fire. As they caught fire there seemed to be 4 small fires in a row I panicked a little because I had no water to put it out and I knew I didn’t have enough time to go back to my house and get a hose. I noticed a shadowy man black silouhette no face standing to my left with me that I seemed to know well,and there was another clearer man standing to my right that I knew. The dark one didnt care and the clearer one didnt know how to respond to the fire just then a whitish gray wolf came quickly walking down the street as if it would pass the driveway and go into the woods. But stopped looked at me look towards the woods and went to the fires and ate all four fires putting them out and then just as quickly walked down the street where the car had driven towards the woods disappeared around the corner. I was relieved but surprised.
I had a dream last night that i was flying around a large city not sure which one and while i was flying i started to realize i was asleep and was trying not to focus on it but instead of waking up i blinked and the world was on fire buildings and cars were exploding and it got more and more chaotic on the ground and the flames reached higher and higher so i was trying to dodge explosions and flames while flying in the sky which was becoming redder and redder and then i woke up..if anyone can decipher this dream itd be much appreciated as this dream was quite unsettling
I set up the fire to prepare something for my secondary friend that have not been to my house since our school days, rain started falling shortly after they entered our compound.
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I had a dream of my dad who passed away 2 years ago. In my dream my dad was cooking fish at the first restaurant that he started working and we told my dad to be-careful not to catch fire , since there was smoke and all the lights of the restaurant went off and I soon I turned around to look inside the dinning room of the restaurant, my dad was caught on fire & and ran out and I kept saying help him help him . What does it mean ? Please I need to make sense !
I dream of my home town. A country back road plays in my head and its night. The sky shines with this blue light and i realize its fire. Theres fire coming by a full moon. I panic because of my loved ones. I somehow end up with my family and they are safe but the world around us is burning. I can feel ashes on my skin as they touch me. Dawn has broke and i walk down the country road i know and people are dead and dying all around me. A woman dying in the ditch tells me its all my fault. And I feel in a strange way that it is. Then I wake up.
I dream today a fire,, but not burned, i trying to help some people to out in fire house,, i put cold towel to a one man,, so he not burned, but the one old man say,,, PLEASE GO OUT,,, TO SURVIVE! LEAVE ME HERE,,, YOU NEED TO RUN! But i still trying to help him,,,
I had a dream today. That me and my fiancee had a child. Then the child was feeling sick, we took her to the hospital, i was lucky to know the receptionist in the hospital we go. Then she attens to us immediately. But what surprise me when my fiancee want to robb the babe body, she robbed it with aggression that the babe’s body was peeled and is showing redness and i told her the agression was too much on the babe. Then the next thing i saw on the babe was fire burning her from laps down to leg which my fiancee just standstill and confused, she doest know what to do. I immediately rush there and use sand to stop the fire when i saw that there is no water. So i safed the babe’s life while i felt angered with my fiancee. We fought there. I blamed her for what happened and she got angry too and we didnt go home walking together. But i dont know if she is coming back home or not in the dream. But both of us were angry. Please help me put more light to this.
So I don’t really have fire dreams but this one caught me off guard. Basically me, my mum and my 4 year old sister goes and visits my mums best friend and next door to her lives my biological dad who I haven’t seen in many many years. So we go round his house and meet him and it’s good n everything and then he asks us if we’re going to this party type thing that’s happening. We said yes. It time skips to later that night and I’m inside a bedroom full of other beds and a lot of children including me and my sister. We’re all looking out of the window to watch the fireworks going off for the party and a few go off at the same time. A couple flew in to the sky but couldn’t seem to go high enough and landed right in front of the house, then went off. When it exploded into a firework the house went on fire but the catch is, is that the firework going off was silent so no one knew the house was on fire except for me and all these other kids as we could see it all happening. Everyone immediately runs out of the bedroom to find their parents and/or guardians so they can escape. Me and my sister run around the house and I keep shouting ‘Mum’ really really loudly because we have no idea where she’s sleeping. So we get to a set of stairs but flames are rolling down them towards us pretty quickly and it’s just then that we hear our mum at the top of these stairs, so casually answer us with, ‘what?’ and I go wide eyed and start freaking out but my dream ends. Can someone tell me what this means?
Ive been having dreams recently. Its always where im trapped in a burning building. Everytime I find a way out, the fire destroys it. I keep hearing voices but not the words. I eventually fall down stairs and its darker and hotter. Mind you I was on the first floor. As im being burned and suffocated by the fire and smoke, I look up from the ground and saw a man with goat hooves and goat horns. I think it might’ve been the devil? Before I can say anything, I pass out from the heat and pain and wake up in my bed sweating like crazy. Im confused and starting to become paranoid. Does anyone have any ideas on what this means?
I had a dream that I was driving down a street in my old neighborhood in another state. There were multiple homes, only on the right side of the street, that had burned. They were still standing but gutted on the inside with nothing but visible black soot and smoldering smoke. There were two older homes that had burned, then the next one was fine. Then there were three homes that burned and the next one was fine. Then one home burned, then there was my old house which was fine, then the home next to it had burned and that’s all I had see. Even though my old house had not burned I was still worried about my 14 year old dog being harmed by all of the surrounding smoke. I saw her and she seemed fine then I woke up!!
Yes, I worry about her age and know that her time could be up and that bothers me, but I enjoy her to the fullest! There’s a chance that I may be moving out of state for my job, but I do not have any information yet regarding this change. At times I want to move to get away from my present manager, whom I cannot stand to be around, but I really do not want to leave the state I am currently living in. I hate the house that I’m currently living in because it’s so dark and gloomy with a lot of older, half dead oak trees around me. I am hoping to buy my own house instead of renting when my lease is up in October. However, I’m not sure where I’m going to buy if I’m not sure if I will still be living in this same state…I am dissatisfied with weight and feel I have an underlying issue with my health, but my doctor refuses to check further. So I have all of these issues going on with my life which all connect to chaos and change. I hate house fires anyway, since I’d lost a boyfriend over 30 years ago to one.
I dreamt last night of a baby sleeping comfortably in a warm fireplace. It was like it was normal and the baby was comfortable. Then an emaciated looking demon like woman with crazy teeth stole the baby from the back of the fireplace and was taunting me. It was so scary it woke me up in the middle of the night.
I had a dream last night that I was trapped. Trapped in the last place in earth that I want to be at. It’s a ranch that I grew up on, and spent a great deal of sadness and I have a lot of unwanted memories of there. I dreamt I was stuck in the ranch, and the only exit out was being blocked by roaring flames, and in the darkness of the night the only thing I see as far as my eyes reach was just the burning flames. The entire exit and town was burning down right before my eyes. All I felt was fear, fear that I would never get out, fear that I was going to die. Fear for those who already burned in the flames, I was also very sad , I felt so hopeless.
I don’t ever dream about fires, but this is the first time I’ve had a dream with fire.
Ive had dreams about the ranch a lot before, but usually it’s with tornados not a fire
Please give me your thoughts on my dream, I am deeply disturbed by it.
I dont usually dream but when I do something always happens that similar or some how ties n2 that vision. This dream: i was standing on a step stool in a closet in an apt I lived in 20 yrs ago. I pulled the string 4the light and it popped and a fires blazed… I jumped back and off the stool seeing the bright orange flames but was not afraid in the dream but awoke to my heart beating fast… I calmed myself and drifted off again and continued to have a 2nd strange dream my son was a 2 yrs old again… IMPOSSIBLE! He is a grown 20-something and in college! I dont know what any of it means but I have a job interview today and my brain never shut off so I could get a good nights sleep! I awoke at 6am wanting coffee as usual. It’s not the dreams that scare me but I know somethings ahead… when I do have dreams I expect the unexpected… it never fails… what does all this mean? Barbs
I dreamt that my gran and dad were dragged out for some treasonous reason as punishment they were to be executed by fire. So they set my gran first on fire and I sort of helped but pained and broke the executioners arm and tried to set him ablaze. I then extinguished the flames on my gran and took her in. Not much damage. It wa spoke sunburn. P.S I love my gran more than anyone in this world.
Last night, I dreamed that there was a fire in my school created by a couple of men with guns. 5 of the pupils in the school didnt quite make it out and so were forced to hide in the girls bathrooms. Then the men with guns came into the bathroom before running out after the fire got too close and we found a bunker which we hid in.
I had a dream of people looking to me to help them. I was leading them somewhere and we encountered walls of fire on both sides of the road. I told them we had to go through it, we would be ok, the road was clear, the fire is on the sides. But, I felt terrified, confident and calm at the same time.
I been arguin with my bf and had a dream that another woman was set on fire from another man I didnt kno the two people in my dream but didnt understand that at all.. woke up out my dream to get a text from my bf saying he hates his life and bye to us all so idk if I dreamed that because we been fussing badly the last couple days but I love him with everything in me n I’m scared now because I cant contact him
I had a dream of a beautiful woman with long blond hair lying on a pile of wood that was being kindled with fire. I told her to get off the woodpile or she would be consumed by the fire. She didn’t seem concerned and I watched with horror as her hair began to burn. She made no attempt to get off the burning inferno. I woke up very disturbed by this experience.
So I live in an appartment that I just LOVE. The last few days I have been dreaming 9f fire though. Last night and a few days prior I dreamt of my buildings fire alarm going off through no doing of my own. Tonight however I dreamed that my appartment burned down. I have a stuffed bunny that I almost treat like a real one that died in the fire as well. Everything was lost. And I was very sad and scared. Mostly scared. I had nothing but the clothes on my back, a dead and charred bunny, and my phone. I found out my bunny died because I was able to secretly (and unsafly) return to my burned out appartment and retrieve it. But nothing else. I was intending on staying the night in a hotel the next night after it burned down and when I got back my dead bunny I was showing it to my imaginary kids in the hotel. I was also intending on calling my mom to move in with her since I had nothing and could not afford more than 1 night in a hotel. What does all this mean?
I dreamed that I was standing in my aunt’s house (which in waking life had been the location of a three-day-long fight at Thanksgiving between basically my entire family, mostly caused by my sister’s boyfriend. At the time when I had the dream, this was recent). My sister and I were the only ones in the house, and we were standing in my aunt’s living room (which wasn’t the location of the fight, but rather the one place my sister’s boyfriend refused to go in the house so it was a good place to hide). The house was on fire, and my sister and I were burning in it. The heat was unbearable and the flames seared my skin. My sister and I were both screaming until there was nothing.
After that, the dream shifts locations. My sister and I are sitting in a place that appears to be the afterlife. She’s just kind of there, staring into nothing. Throughout the entire dream, she never says a word to me. The room we are sitting in is like a middle school cafeteria, with tile floors and round tables that have colorful attached stools. Off to the side is an escalator, with living people going up and the dead (along with some living people) going down. This felt natural, and I didn’t even realize that when the dead go down to reach the afterlife, it’s typically interpreted as going to Hell. I hadn’t even thought of it until my friend pointed it out as I was telling him later. In the dream, I vaguely knew that this was the afterlife.
Underneath the cafeteria, down a small set of stairs, was a huge mansion. There were lots of fancy bathrooms that had fancy curtains instead of doors (which to me seemed very uncomfortable). They had fluffy carpets and pretty toilet seat covers and nice showers and baths. They were really, really nice bathrooms. I’m not sure why they stood out to me, but for some reason they did. I never used any of them, but I noticed every single time I passed one. The mansion also had comfortable sitting areas, with couches and pillows and rugs. It was all colorful, both the sitting areas and the bathrooms. Lots of reds, pinks, blues, greens, and yellows. The mansion didn’t have any kitchens or bedrooms, though. Only bathrooms and sitting areas that didn’t have any TVs or books or magazines or anything. They were clearly just meant as a place for socializing. In fact, the cafeteria could probably also be seen as a place to socialize. I hadn’t thought of that until just now.
In the dream, witches are able to come visit us in the afterlife. But only witches. For some reason, only the people on my dad’s side of the family were witches and could come see me. This is especially strange because in reality, my mother and sister are Wiccan while my dad’s side of the family is Christian. My Aunt Kathy and Aunt Rachel were the ones who visited the most often. I don’t remember the visits from my cousin very well. The rest of my dad’s side of the family just never came to visit, though it was understood that they could do so. A lot of the dream was spent chatting with my aunts in the sitting areas about what was going on among the living. It was typically bad news, such as Aunt Rachel’s health slowly getting worse or my cousin falling back into her depression. However, I felt safe talking to my aunts and while they were always bearers of bad news, I was always happy to see them. Usually we all sit together on the couch and we do cover the bad news but we also chat and enjoy each others’ company. My sister is not in these parts of the dream where they visit with me.
At one point in the dream, Aunt Rachel is going down the elevator. But she’s not alive. She’s dead. And for some reason I can tell. She’s slowly going down until some invisible force violently yanks her back and she travels backwards on the down escalator, out of the afterlife. I’m sitting at the cafeteria table watching in panic while this is happening, and my sister is still there just staring into space. I watch in a panic. Later, Aunt Kathy and Aunt Rachel come to visit, both alive and well. This time, I sit on the floor with Aunt Kathy and immediately give her a huge hug, instead of hugging Aunt Rachel who almost died. Aunt Kathy and I are sitting pretty close together in this part and she’s the most comfortable person to be around. Aunt Rachel is sitting away from us on a couch. I forget the color of the couch, but for some reason I noticed it in the dream. But then, I tended to notice a lot of random colors. Mostly blues, greens, reds, and yellows. Anyway, I ask them what happened and explain how I saw Aunt Rachel in the cafeteria. Aunt Kathy says she pulled Aunt Rachel back. “I pulled her back. I saved her.” It is never explained how she does that. We have a pleasant visit devoid of bad news, and they leave. They don’t appear again for the remainder of the dream.
In the next part of the dream, there’s a boy that’s always out of focus. I don’t know what he looks like, but he’s around my age. He visits me repeatedly and we talk about reading and writing and video games. I tell him how much I hate it in the afterlife, since I really do hate it there and want to be among the living. He promises to get me out of there. I put on a tattered brown cloak and pull the hood over my face, and we go towards the exit elevator. However, the elevators are guarded by dark cloaked figures that look like grim reapers, who aren’t important to the story until this moment. One of them recognizes me as a living person and grabs my wrist to stop me from leaving, and then I wake up.
Through the whole dream, I’m uncomfortable in the afterlife. I live there and life goes on, but I love hearing about the land of the living and I miss it desperately. There’s nothing to do in this afterlife, and I hate sitting around and waiting for others to visit me. And there’s also just something about the place that makes me uncomfortable and which I don’t like about it, despite how comfortable it should be. I’m completely comfortable with my sister in the dream, though she never says anything to me. I say a few things to her, but it’s mostly just “hey sissy” or “what’s up?” or “how’s it going?” And then the conversation just ends there. But the conversation ending there feels natural, though she never says a word to me or even greets me back. She doesn’t even react to me, as though I’m not there.
I’ve been trying to figure out the meaning of this dream for months but I’ve got nothing. Any ideas?
Another thing that should be noted about my dream is that I had long hair in the dream. I had cut my hair last August, so it wasn’t long around the time of the dream or around the time of the argument.
I had dreamed last night about my me and my mom. according to my dream we went to an old lady house and ask her to heal my mother when the ild woman started tge ritual it stocks on my mind those last word if her ritual 6 devils then right after that i saw a colorful line at the sky and i feel so amazed about it, then suddenly the sky starts to build fire and showers slowly to the ground. I started to run away but still the drops if the fire burns my hands and arm little by little. I get up with fear and pain that as if it really happens.
My sister had a dream that.all her dead family members where in this room my mums d dad wear in the bed and it was on fire not a raging fire blue flames surrounding the bed .she is quiet worried about this ,what does it mean
I had a dream where me and my boyfriend stayed the night at my moms old house. In my dream my little sister owned the house and her son was there as well. I used her stove before I went to bed and turned off the stove I wake up in the dream and went to the stove the stove was really warm and eventually out of no where inside the stove went on fire I opened the stove and got the flames out with water and it worked until not even a minute the flames appeared again in the stove this time I used the extinguisher. The extinguisher just made the little flame angry so it grew bigger I threw the extinguisher down and ran to get my nephew out my sister and my boyfriend which was a challenge. When I was getting my boyfriend out I quickly grabbed the home phone and when i got my sleeping family out I called 911 and the firefighters came and my boyfriend and sister started to wake up. The house was completely on fire and I don’t know if they tamed the fire cause I woke up
I had a dream that I was pushing a pushchair (I am 53 kids grown up and no babies in family at present) out of a shop and realised that all the tall buildings in the town were alight. Then cars went past us alight on the road everything was on fire. Next from a distance I could see a huge and hear a huge group of people coming towards us and they were causing the carnage. So vivid in my mind and gives me the chills
I had a dream there were fire breathers and every time one got close to me I immediately backed away and was trying to get as far away as possible from them.
I had a dream that I was visiting my cousin and this cousin I hadn’t seen in years and they gave us a stove and we moved the stove and dint know if it worked and so I go and turn it on and it goes up in flames and I fall to the floor and the flames are just hovering over me and I’m screaming for my cousin she finally comes to the room and turns it off then she sees me and rushes me to the hospital and the I wake up scared and shaking
i had a dream about a wildfire. i was going home from school with my brother on his motorbike. as we reached the parking we saw fire in the plants and my brother had some water and stopped it. then we went down(i live in an apartment which the parking is upstairs) and sat at the balcony i looked at my right and saw huge wildfires and walked towards the garden and i leaned and saw a huge tornado from afar. it was like it was made out of fire. my family and i collected a couple of things from the garden and went inside. thats when i woke up
I had a dream about my late husband. We were in a house, co workers were there as well as a couple of children. It was pleasant, my husband and I were talking, he turns to me and says “I can’t do this anymore”, I look down and there is a fire that starts at his feet and it consumes him. He didn’t scream or anything but it jolted me to wake up. He was 65 when he died, in the dream he went back to what he looked like in his thirties, like a slow progression. He died almost two years ago.
Very Early in the morning..i had dream About a man chasing me.i didnt know that man…but it is like he knew me…so he chased me i hid..still saw talking bad words to me…After i decided to run and hide
i ran while screaming hid in the kitchen…then pretended that my grand ma was in so that he can feel scared and leave me.un fortunately he found out that i was playing games with….
in just few minutes i saw a kid…he entered i tried to go out..buh it was too late he got the small burning firewood and started ti burn me..bAsking me how do u feel
i couldnt help my self out…i got a small feeling though it wasnt that painful…Buh wen i woke up i felt those scars on my body
I had a dream that a car with four members crashed in our house n the car got on fire. And as we were living in 2nd floor I was predicting that the car crashed from the bridge beside our house.
The 2 persons from the car were army man and got injured.
I had a dream that I was watching my ex mother in laws house started a fire in the fire place and a spark set the curtain on the window on fire I put the fire out but was afraid to tell her that it happened
My dream was I was in the front room of this house and I looked out the window to see flames all over the bushes spreading so I ran to the back yard grabbed the hose and started putting it out I then tried telling someone to grab sand and spread it all over where I sprayed water and then no one did I remember feeling scared and freaked out like ah gosh I hope this doesn’t get out of control and then I remember a male standing still in the middle of the yard watching me do all the work and then I put it all out I spread sand everywhere and put sand bags around the house and then I woke up
I dreamt that I was cooking and flames ignited and caught the curtains beside me on fire and started to burn upwards towards the roof. My family and boyfriend were across the room on a sofa and a I was screaming for them to help me and the curtains were on fire, and they all just stared at me like a deer in headlights! I was frantically patting the fire out and by the time they started to slowly make their way over to me I had put the fire out. What does this mean?
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I had a dream I was in my home and when I looked out the window I saw some kind of lines on the ground that had a small flame. The next thing I know they are burning wildly and the house catches on fire. I rush my daughter out of the house. While I was calling for my cousin to get out of the house. We were both calling 911 for the fire department. That’s where I woke up.
My mum passed away seven years ago and my dad also passed away three months ago, and Left my younger brother who stays in that house. today I dreamt the house full of smoke I tried to switch off the electricity all switches were destroyed I tried to remove some items from the house but I couldn’t. I went to the main switch and it was not working well by good luck the fire fighter s came to put off the fire. I was afraid
I had a dream as fire sparked inside the room an smoke covered the whole room, is shouted fire ooo that someone should me remove the fuse from the wall before we knew it fire also entered the next room then one of our female Neighbour ran and removed the fuse. Then I woke up, pls I don’t understand the dream.
I had a dream where people in the army suit were putting fires in homes while people and pets were in the house/apartment. They were all on my back yard. So then they got to my house then the opened the window and threw the bomb inside. Next thing you know you see fire. The people in the living room got out but the people in the bedroom where the fire was, was stuck. What could this mean?
I had a dream this morning (i know it was in the morning cause I woke up at like 9am & slept again and had the dream then..) about me and my family and a boyfriend of mine that i never had in real life but actually met and fell in love with in a PREVIOUS dream. We were all in our apartment in my hometown Syria (which is still in war). Mom noticed a bag with explosive material put right in front of our apartment door. She called me and we thought what we could do with it & then she decided to take it, go down the stairs to the Main Street and throw it somewhere far away. I told her to be real quick, like to actually run. I waited home feeling worried and bad that I should’ve done that myself. Then my bf and I looked out of the balcony and we saw two cars on fire in the middle of the street, one of them close to our building and the other one on the other side of the street. The bag mom had, had probably exploded. That’s what I think and I’m feeling worse than ever. I hurry down with my bf to search for mom. On the way on the stairs I start crying and wishing to see mom climbing up the stairs every second I go down more. We reached the building’s door, opened it and saw nothing but more fire all around. I was about to go into the street where cars were on fire to find mom but then I woke up. I felt really bad and worried when I woke up.
I just had a dream that my grandparents house started to catch fire and my kid sister was in bed sleeping and I went to get her up and she finally did but I was panicked and was trying to save things I valued.
I want to know what it means when you have a dream about a woman with yellow eyes trying to grab you in your dreams but you can’t see her face only her eyes and fire in the background??? I just had this dream twice can’t sleep now!!
I had a dream about fire spreading from someone’s home that i know in real life. It started with smoke coming from someone’s chimney, but not regular smoke, it bellowed out fast, and made weird noises like fireworks were going off inside the chimney, and the smoke was shinging with firework colors. the people that tried to put the fire out couldn’t and the fire started to spread violently towards the rest of the village. I can’t walk properly in real life, yet i was running with ease, towards the home with other people, but when we got to the scource of the home, everything exploded and the whole village was set on fire. When everything burned out, we were all safe, like a force shield had protected us, but the noise still echoed and the chimney was still bellowing black smoke with the colors from the fireworks.
That’s the strangest dream i’ve Ever had. Might have been sprouted by problems in real life, but i don’t know what it means. It felt very real too. I don’t know the people that were in the dream apart from the house i knew too well.
I dreamt i was in the kitchen with my friends n we heard people screaming, we went out from the kitchen and saw our office building in fire and something explode heavily in the fire. I was very scared n i ran to call the firefighter n i screamed out “call 999”. In that dream also i saw my friend crying over a grave. The scariest dream ever.
In my dream, I saw a fire coming towards me and I hide behind a wall and directs the fire towards the person who evokes it and the fire changes its direction towards the person. I was not burnt neither felt the heat of the fire but initially it was moving towards me at a distance.
What does this dream implies?
I have never dreamed about fire like this before and it terrified me. I dreamed I was at a large enclosed college campus watching an ice hockey game in the multi purpose room and suddenly without hesitation I got up, walked to an empty large bathroom/locker room and lit a match with an expressionless face and no emotion and no thoughts going through my mind it was like a robotic response. I watched the flame grow a little then I started to panic and hit the fire alarm and activated the sprinkler system then I fled the scene and went back to my seat and pretended to be perplexed when the fire drill commended and we were all being told to calmly proceed to the center of the school for roll call but when we all got there the organizers just let everyone start going to this shopping and gaming area of the campus and no one was being encouraged to exit the facility so everyone just started hanging around doing whatever. I think many people didn’t really think the school was actually on fire or thought it’s probably so small that it will get put out soon. I waited silently for the administration to call the fire department but they didn’t. I started to grow more panicky but decided to hang around with everyone a bit longer. I kept looking towards the side of the building that I knew had a growing fire and it was starting to give me anxiety that no one was making a big deal so I tried staying calm so people didn’t suspect it was me. Then the flames started to enter the center area and I decided with a few other people we had to leave now out the front steps so we walked quickly and I saw others start to get it and began leaving as well but a lot of people were still inside hanging around not concerned about the fire to my horror. As we got further away from campus the fire started growing faster and faster and I swear I could feel the heat of the flames and my eyes widened in terror as the reality of what was occurring was dawning on me and I kept screaming and going oh my god oh my god and now I was running but looming back and to my horror I started hearing screams and the anguish I felt was over powering as it sunk in that this,made me a school terrorist and a criminal arsonist and that I would have to face imprisonment and I was thinking about all the lives that fire was taking as I ran away and I was overcome by grief and shock and shame at the mass destruction I caused with my one match and I couldn’t believe I let my life spiral so destructively out if control and hurt so many innocent people and ruin so many lives. But also feeling anger the administration didn’t do anything about it sooner like investigate and extinguish the fire or call the fire department or get everyone out of the building immediately but then again mad at myself for putting out the fire myself or call the firefighters myself or getting everyone to exit the building immediately but I didn’t want to act panicky and get people suspicious it was me so I cowardly stayed silent and didn’t try to help or fix things instead I let the fire engulf the entire school out of control and it scared the hell out of me tbinking tgis is real tgid is what my life has come to karma is going to get back back for all the destruction I’ve caused and people’s lives I destroyed. Then I woke up freaked out and heartbroken I had such a devastating dream with me as a terrorist villain.
I had a dream where I went into a building and went down a staircase and someone threw something on me like petrol or something flammable and I caught fire. I remember trying to turn around and run back out but I burnt to dead. I don’t have a temper so it’s not related to that as I am a calm person. I don’t know what this means? Does anyone have any idea?
I watch a dream that i am standing in a vally like oldage. Dont know the name.
Than suddenlly a very huge black hand made of cloudy black smoke appears in the sky and start thrashing the vally continuslly. It shaken the earth horriblly.
I heard a voice between that all happening and that was…
Kill all the sinners and do not harm good.
After that voice suddenlly sombody pick me up from roof like giant hand and put me high on the roof somwhere…
I surprise to see my uncle along with me. He ask me to look around and when i see there was a very tall hairless human who was continuslly eating big stone like 5 to 4 stone at time.
I am sick after i dream this all i dont think so because of this dream.
One more thing i want to share that i am repeatedlly watching this 911 digit for last 8 month or so. Like watching tv, number plate, time, bill number, etc..
I want your help.
Regards.
I had a dream, I can’t remember much of the context but i was with one of my best friends sitting on my bed watching a movie and i was applying lotion to my legs and arms, i wasn’t paying much attention as i was applying the lotion but i began to feel excruciating pain throughout my body, i kept applying the lotion but as I did I began to notice flames were coming from my hands or the lotion and it was burning my skin, i began to scream and my best friend who is a paramedic carried me to the shower and turned on the water, she was inspecting the wounds and said “these are second degree burns” and began tending to me. i’m not really sure the meaning of this dream but it’s left me pretty confused. any ideas?
In my dream a fire stove was tipped over on the upper level of my home.I told my husband that the house will burn down if he didnt pick up the stove.There was party going on and i also told my sister and she was trying to get upstairs I left the home with my children but as we got further awat i seen my home in flames.I dont know if my husband or sister got out.
I had a dream I was at my house with my daughter a bunch of her friends ( teenagers), and a very close friend to the family . I was in and out of the house and she was sitting on the porch in the front . I all of a sudden saw flames of fire on the second floor of the house . I was scared and called 911, but the firefighters were taking a long time to come. I’m the meantime one of the kids who was around my house took a torch lit it in front of me and I’m slow motion threw the torch into the first floor of the house . He was upset bc I was yellling who did this.. I saw his face but I do not know who he is. Last thing I rember is 5 dogs came walking out of the front door and anyone on the porch had to move bc it was getting out of control but the fire man never came . What does this mean ??
I had a dream there was a public fire sculpture but it had gone out, i made it roar very high by asking it, then people wondered how, I made it huge and letters appeared in it, i knew i couldn’t let them see so i let the fire go and left…on way home i could literally shoot fire from my fingers at will.
When I was a child I had reoccurring dreams of standing, surrounded by flames. I was not in pain, I was just standing there. What did that mean? I was about 7 or 8 years old, but it has always been a worry to me. Now I’m I’m my 50’s and discussing cremation, that dream is bothering me. Any ideas?
Dreamt that there was fire by one of my trees and grass in the backyard. I told my husband about it and he just shrugged it off and said not to worry about it. When I woke up the next morning (in my dream), the fire had spread to another tree.
My dream of fire was terrifying. Before this scene in the dream, I had been texting my mom and sister in an entirely different room. College drama stuff. There was a school event similar to prom where there was a lot of hype happening. This gorgeous girl who looked similar to me, but was not me, was doing a sort of podcast when an uncontrollable explosion from behind the camera brushed it’s flamed through her body. You could see her hair and head forced backward as the flames melted her face. Behind her, students were screaming in agony, but the room was too small. They couldn’t get out. This continued for what seemed like forever. When it moved from that perspective to my own, I was in the hallway next to the burned room. People were sobbing as the bodies of charred and mutilated people were carried out. People I had known throughout my lifetime but hadn’t formed a close bond with were being carried out by students. There bodies were so realistically burned. I knew who they all were. A friend I had known who dressed up like a zombie with my sister years ago was being carried out with a black and wrinkled body that was unrecognizable.. A teen boy who I had become friends with during the year was carried out. He was the nicest person I knew. He almost looked alive and I screamed out for him, ater seeing his limp body thrown into a pile with the rest I started sobbing. I called my boyfriend and started crying when he answered. He hadn’t gone. He was alive and one of his best friends was not. That’s around the time I was woken up by my alarm.
I had this dream nearly 20 yrs ago. Only one I recall so vividly. There was an old semi trailer on fire in a the opening of some trees,there were multiple old vehicles over grown by weeds and bushes every where. I could hear my then 3yr old son crying but I couldn’t find him. He kept crying, I kept searching, I was in a panic mode. I seen him in his car seat inside the burning semi trailer. I ran through the fire and snatched him up but I couldn’t get back out. I woke up in pure fear. This dream stuck with me for days and days.
It was nearly 2 weeks later when the wreck happened. My now ex husband and I were driving my 89 Cutlass to another town to pick up a refund of $600 for underpin we decided not to use on our trailer home. The highway we were traveling down has an interstate on ramp. Someone pulled out in front of us, to cross our lane so they could get to the on ramp.my husband slammed on the brakes but We hit them doing 60mph. I watched the front end of that car crumple, twist and crush all the way to the dash, at which point I just closed my eyes and turned my head waiting for the glass to shatter. I felt us spinning. My sons screaming woke me up. I was Covered in glass. My husband was unconscious next to me. I climbed to the back seat and unbuckled my son, handed him to the first person that came to my side. My husband had to be life flighted out.
Who did we hit? A man driving a dual sized pick up truck with a closed in car trailer. The car trailer, much like a semi trailer was what took us out. The driver made the statement “I don’t know why I didn’t look before I crossed the lane”. He was also the one who had taken my son from me when I got him out. In the end, we were all ok eventually. It took months for my husband to recover, it took a year before I could get my anxiety under control to even drive again.
I had received a warning I in my dream. It wasn’t the first but it was the last one I’ve had in nearly 20 yrs that involved fire.
My daughter dreamt I was burning in hell and that I was reaching up to her begging her to help me. Wat is the significance of the dream
I dreamt my house was on fire and while I got my mom and dog out I went back in to save some irreplaceable photos of my grandchildren I am not allowed to see. My daughters husband is controlling and after 4 years of being extremely close to my granddaughter and I was always close to my daughter we cannot see each other. It has been 4 years. She also denied my mom her dying wish of seeing her great granddaughter. In my dream I kept seeing other items I was trying to save.
I had a dream. I was going to a game at a newly built Colosseum my grade school built. My family went and I invited my girlfriend too. 10 minutes into the game and I see out the large window of the Colosseum to my right is a fire. I didn’t know what started it, but my gut told me to get out. My family told me we needed to go. I looked to where my girlfriend was sitting ans she was gone. I called her name, but my voice was drowned out by the people screaming and the fire alarms blaring on and on. Everyone left, but I wasn’t leaving till I found my girlfriend and got her to safety. I started choking on the think smoke and called my girlfriend’s name. I don’t remember what happened after that. I may have passed out from the smoke or hit by a burning building part. I woke up in my bed. I’m concerned about my girlfriend because I think the dream meant I might lose my girlfriend and I don’t know what I’d do without her. I don’t know what my dream meant by it, but I’d feel a lot better if I knew what my dream means.
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I had a dream that my cat knocked over a candle in my room then ran away, I felt the warmth and heard the fire burning (I thought it was real) all I could think to myself was “I can put it out” I instantly woke up and looked where the fire was while reaching for my water cup….but it was gone.
The night after I dreamed there was a fire in my living room and it was worse then the previous one (again I felt warmth and heard burning but it was a cold outside) I woke up, and looked down the hall and the fire was gone.
I still feel warm when I wake up even if it’s cold all around me, I think it’s just adrenaline.
A couple nights ago I had the same feeling when my sister had a seizer idk if that could be the problem or not.
Also the night before I had any of these dreams my friend said he had a crush on someone….it’s kinda sad for me because I think I’m in love with Him and we talk daily it’s a instant connection…..if anyone has any thoughts on why theses dreams are happening i could really use some help
I had a dream about a house blowing up and we had too hide so it didn’t hit me my family and friends but it hit the houses and the farm houses and we had to run because the fire was spreading around and u fell over and nearly got caught into the fire it’s wasnt a nightmare or a good dream it was both
I had a dream , somebody was outside my grandmother house and I knew what they was going to do (shoot us) I had a revolver. I told my grandma too just do it thinking I was going to shoot before they do , gun got jam and I went too the back I knew my grandma was gone but I didn’t hear shots just the felt of it everything was silent doing the moment my sister was 7 she was in the living room, I knew she was gone as well. I wen to the back seen a man really couldn’t see but i know it was somebody and he killed my 4 year old sister in my face , I was next he shot me I was going to pretend dead but I knew I wasn’t going to make it so I had the time to text my love On I got shot, and I love her. She thought I wasn’t serious hard for her to believe but I couldn’t finish the rest and I lay back thinking I was dead. Soon I started to burn on my chest , all I could think about was I was dead and going to hell, I begin to start telling god too give me another chance the fire increase in my chest I’m just touching my upper part everywhere thinking I could put it out but it was in the inside, when I kept telling god give me another chance I’m going too do right I begin to awake. I didn’t wake up in slot of fear but as it goes through my mind I wonder is this my last chance to make a difference, I need a answer to understand it more better.
dreaming that company burned and I saw that Im one of the missing person while im holding the list of it. Then I was wondering in my dreams if im already dead or still alive
i dreamnt that my uncles house the kitchen in particular burned with fire,and i started the fire accidentally because of an electric fought..what could that mean?
I dream about me and my grandma together want to keep a fire going ( maybe to cook food or something). I was a child in the dream( I am now 24 years old). My grandma started the fire and then left me to attend it and she went around to search for dry branches and hay to burn. The whole feeling concerning the fire is positive, it makes me excited, warm, hopeful and safe. I grow up with my grandparents, and my grandma represents hardworking , hope, love and persistence for me. However, there is another person appearing all of the sudden beside me and he either warns me or criticizes me( I am not so sure what he/she says now), I remember I don’t like that person in my dream. And while grandma is away during this time, another weird thing happens. When I checked my fire again, there are two soft teddy toys in danger , nearly burnt. That person tells me to let them burn, because we need to keep the fire on( grandma has not been back , and the fire is nearly out). I hesitated, but in the end I saved the two teddy toys because I love my toys and I want to keep them( one of the ears of one of the toys is lost though). After that I went to find my grandma and helped her carry the hay back to the fireplace. I thought the fire may be out till now, but a big wood chop appears there and the fire cannot look more promising. That’s all . Hope someone will read this and interpret this.
The dream I had was my brother using gas and put it all over my room on the walls, floor, bed, and myself. Then he lit it. My dream ended right when I was about to get burned. What does it mean?
I had a dream last night that my sister accidently burnt my new dupatta and it got two holes.It was a while colour dupatta.
I had a dream that the horse stables I work at caught fire, and I was blamed for it. Even though in the dream I did not start the fire. when i was leaving work as it was in flames, my sister and another worker was there. My sister doesnt work with me. My boss then talked to me the next day about how I owed her $48,000 for the damages. I would pay her $1000 dollars a month until paid back. My mom was at my work with my boss to help deliver the news to me.
I dream about fire and water a lot . But this 2 things they dont consume anything that is mine or my family’s.
In my dream I didn’t see a fire, I looked through the window after hearing the water sprinkler in the basement and saw it wetting the area.
I had a dream. I went home and the fire was startinf all over the wooden house(not my house today). I stopped it hy splashing water there wer so many small fire in ky dream i saw some member of the famoly who wqs not doing anything. So i had to stop it on kumy own. But fortunately i stopped it. What does it mean?