Interpretation: A dream that strongly features a baseball diamond represents the quality of your family life. A positive dream indicates a happy home life, while a scary or negative dream reveals trouble at home.

Interpretation: To dream that you are choking on an object, suggests that you may find it difficult to believe some advice, or accept what someone is telling you. If you are choking on food, then it may be an expression of your guilt about something. To dream that someone is choking you, means you are suppressing your feelings - you have difficulties in showing your fear, anger, or love. Alternatively, you may feel that you are being prevented or restricted from freely expressing yourself. If you dream that you are choking a person, you have feelings of aggression towards someone. You may also be trying to prevent something from being said or revealed. Also see "Heimlich Maneuver."

Interpretation: If you dreamed of attending a costume party, where everyone was in costume except you, this is a warning against false friends. To dream that you are wearing a costume, signifies that you are putting on a false face toward others. Your true self is not being revealed and you are not being completely honest with people around you.

Interpretation: To see or eat a cracker in your dream, suggests that you tend to care for the needs of others before (or instead of) your own. In some cases, this dream may also suggest that you are trying to get someone to reveal certain information or secrets.

Interpretation: Dreams where you close the curtains represent secrecy. You are concealing a personal matter or an aspect of yourself. To dream of opening the curtains means you are ready to reveal something hidden.

Interpretation: A dream featuring a gazebo reveals your romantic nature. Your dream may express wishful thinking about your real life.

Interpretation: If you dream of playing hide and seek, you are keeping some secret or withholding information from friends and/or family members. However, you may be getting ready to reveal and confess before somebody finds out. This dream also strongly suggests a need for security and protection. If you dream that no one comes to look for you, then you are feeling guilty about something.

Interpretation: To dream that you are hiding, suggests that you are keeping a secret or avoiding telling the truth. However, you may be getting ready to reveal and confess before somebody finds out. If you dream that somebody else is hiding, you are feeling the need for security and protection.

Interpretation: To dream that you are watching a movie suggests that you are watching life pass you by. Perhaps you are living vicariously through the actions of others. If you dream that you are playing a role in the movie, something from your unconscious is about to be revealed. It can also mean you are getting ready to play a new role in your life and go down a new path. Movies in dreams may also represent memories or scenes from your past.

Interpretation: A dream about a promise is related to friends, and its meaning depends whether you gave or received the promise. If you gave it, you are likely to forgive an enemy and gain a friend. If you were unable to keep a promise you gave, you are not ready to forgive somebody, even though you might want to. If someone made you a promise, an unexpected event will reveal that a so-called friend is really an enemy.

Interpretation: Recurring dreams can be extremely informative and important to decipher. Your subconscious mind has gone to a great deal of trouble to send the same "dream telegram" several times, and it will generally continue to do so until you recognize the insight being offered, or outgrow the issue being addressed. Often these dreams recur for a discrete period of time, such as during childhood, adolescence, college years, or during a specific relationship or period of employment. If you outgrow or move away from a certain lifestyle you may stop having the recurring dream, unless something in your current situation strikes a similar emotional chord from your past; then the dream may resurface, like an emotional "home movie" of certain feelings and moods.

Recurring dreams often come about for one of two reasons:

First, the dreamer has a recurring pattern in waking life that has not been consciously recognized. These dreams replay an objectively honest, though highly dramatized picture of some behavior or tendency that has an ongoing impact on current circumstances. A woman who chronically gave too much of herself dreamed repeatedly that she was a caterer, although she had never worked in the hospitality field. A man with an uncontrolled temper dreamed he carried a sword with which he beheaded anyone who crossed him. A woman who married into a rigid, old-fashioned family and tried to accommodate their restrictions had a series of dreams set in Nazi concentration camps. Like many recurring themes, these dreams reflected current conditions waking life, and illustrated the ways in which these people contributed to the very things that troubled them.

A second common connection with recurring dreams is a cyclical area of unresolved feelings or concern for the dreamer. People who have suffered abuse, trauma, injury or loss will frequently have recurring dreams about their painful experience which lessen in frequency and intensity over time. Any type of personal grief, loss, or anxiety can have a ripple effect that makes us feel vulnerable, and unable to adequately control the elements of life. When faced with any experience similar to the area of loss or threat from the past, we may dream again of the lover who left us at the alter, the teacher who ridiculed our speech, or the childhood friend we haven't seen in years.

Recurring Dreams Try to Problem-Solve: In many recurring dreams we are attempting to resolve a problem; these attempts may help slightly, be laughably ineffectual, or make matters worse. These attempted solutions often reflect the manner in which we are trying to go about matters in waking life. It is important to identify the part of your life that is being reviewed in the dreams, but it is also important to examine the way you respond during the dream action. You may notice that you are waiting in a line where you will never be served, or that you are zealously trying to chop wood with a butter knife. Recurring dreams shed light on things we're missing while we are awake; sometimes we can see we are barking up the wrong tree, and other times we are given clues toward a more workable solution.

You Are the Authority on Your Dreams: Whatever your recurring dream, you can assume it is reflecting something in your current life situation, even if the dream takes you back in time. Presuppose there is something useful and constructive within your recurring dreams, and examine the action and setting from a metaphorical perspective. These dreams can reflect the pieces of your life in a more meaningful whole, so sort through their action carefully. Examine the common dream themes to stimulate your personal associations to dream imagery, but remember, these descriptions are strong probabilities, not rules. You are the best judge of what your dreams reveal.

Interpretation: To dream of harming yourself, or being destructive to yourself, reveals that you are being your own worst enemy. You must learn to love yourself and accept all your qualities, in order to achieve happiness and acceptance from others.

Interpretation: To dream of a shirt, symbolizes your emotions or some emotional situation in your life. The shirt you wear reveals your attitudes and awareness about a particular situation - so consider the shirt's condition (ripped or neat, dirty or clean) and you will get a clue to your own feelings about something. To dream that you are giving a shirt to someone, represents your self-sacrifice and generosity to others. If you dream that you lose your shirt, it may suggest that you should get more organized in your life, especially when it comes to money.

Interpretation: To dream of soap foretells that friendships will reveal interesting entertainment.

Interpretation: To dream that you are watching television suggests that you are watching life pass you by. Perhaps you are living vicariously through the actions of others. If you dream that you are playing a role in the TV show (or appearing on the TV news), something from your unconscious is about to be revealed. It can also mean you are getting ready to play a new role in your life and go down a new path. Seeing things on a television in dreams may also represent memories or scenes from your past. Finally, the show on television may represent worried or troubled feelings you are having in a real-life situation. Also see "Game Show."