Trick or treat! It’s that time of the year again where you see children wearing spooky costumes trick-or-treating and establishments in their various Halloween-themed decorations. Halloween is a holiday rooted in the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain and was traditionally celebrated to ward off evil spirits.
Today, this occasion has gotten more commercialized. People spend tons of money on costumes, candies, and decorations each year. Some even hold grand Halloween parties. Although this is a big celebration in the United States and other North American and European countries, some countries do not practice this due to religious and cultural reasons. However, they still observe a holiday that honors their departed loved ones. People would go to cemeteries or make an altar and offer food to the deceased. Although not practically the same, both share a common theme of honoring the dead.
It is normal to associate this holiday with spirits and otherworldly creatures. Many people dress as vampires or zombies on this day. Some may even be putting realistic makeup just to achieve the scary look they want. In turn, others have nightmares involving these creatures. For instance, one could dream of being chased by a vampire, which suggests the fear of a new person in your life. There might be one particular person you want to avoid in waking life, and that could have manifested in your dream. Likewise, being chased by zombies in your dream represents a serious illness you could get. These dreams should serve as warnings that we should not overlook.
Tales of witches and ghosts, as well as dreams about dead people, also fascinate many – even skeptics – during this time. Many people assume that these dreams signify a bad omen. Whatever the interpretation is, it is important to note that this is the best time to remember people who used to be with us.
Being so absorbed in the theme of this holiday could reflect in our dreams too, such as seeing a dead person. When a dead person appears in our dreams, we are more likely to think that they are connecting with us to relay a message. Meanwhile, others claim that seeing your deceased family member portends a warning. Yet, what is true about these claims?
More often than not, when we dream of dead people, it represents our preoccupation with trivial matters. We all like to overthink from time to time. However, it might be your subconscious telling you to stop being engrossed in all your worries.
Another common Halloween activity is watching horror films. Many films are released specifically for this occasion. It is also almost a tradition for TV networks and streaming sites to feature these kinds of films. Because of this, you might watch one and dream of getting murdered or committing the murder yourself one night. As horrendous as they seem, these types of dreams foretell a looming bad event in your life.
Murder-related dreams are often symbolic. People who dream of getting murdered or witnessing killing should be wary of the people who might not be fond of them. They could fall victim to any bad scheme by these people, which could lead to extreme consequences. Similarly, if you are the one committing the murder, you might experience a dreadful incident rooted in your actions. Therefore, avoid getting into arguments or be more forbearing at the time being.
Connecting with the departed loved ones also happens in some cases. People would hire psychic mediums to communicate with the deceased. While many are still dubious about the genuineness of these practices, people who are longing to “speak” with their loved ones have no choice but to rely on them. After all, the promise of being able to “talk” to them again brings comfort to the bereaved. The same goes for dreams where you talk with your dead parents. It might be a sign of receiving much-needed support from the people around you. This might be a way of your deceased parents giving you comfort when you need it the most.
For the most part, Halloween is one of the most-awaited and extravagant holidays in the world. Although the parties and activities happening during this day are widely celebrated, we should not forget the real meaning behind this celebration and offer prayers to those who used to walk the earth with us.
What does it mean when you dream about spiders? What do spiders signify in our dream? In traditional dream analysis, a spider can denote the following: a web of lies, trust is being challenged, something is worrying you and the feeling of being trapped. What spiders mean prophetically and spiritually will depend on your cultural background and beliefs. What do spiders mean in dreams from psychology perspective? Carl Jung associates spiders with the Shadow archetype or the dark side of your personality. 
Spider dreams do not have to be scary. Feelings you may have encountered during a dream of seeing a spider can vary from morbid shock to unexpected surprise in some instances. You may just have a harmless dream of a spider standing still or wake up in your dream and the spider is on top of you. You could even keep a spider as a pet in a dream or dream of a spider in your bed.
It’s that time of year again when you look back to assess your life based on accomplishments and areas for improvement. Are you excited to get started with your goals or are you still wallowing in regrets? Either way, it’s nice to have a list of resolutions to help you hit the ground running this coming 2019. If you still haven’t thought about your New Year’s resolutions, you may want to examine your dreams for subconscious signals about what you should set your sights on.
Our responsibilities also bleed into our dreams. Almost all 
When awake, we are bombarded by external forces and stimuli which influence how we behave and project ourselves to the world. As we sleep, we carry all this information into the dream world, so that we can process and reflect on the events that happened during the day. During waking hours, our mind is constantly aware of the surroundings and the outer world, but when we dream our subconscious shifts its attention to the inner world for introspection. It is the time for internalizing all the information we absorbed and finding possible connections in seemingly random images. This is why so many people see images of themselves or their 
The self-obsessed selfie culture propagated by social media has put even greater pressure on people to look their best for fear of being rejected or ridiculed. Among the latest vanity trends and excessive focus on beauty is the dieting and exercise bandwagon. Role models, exacerbated by peer pressure and media scrutiny, further legitimize this trend touting hip terms such as “fitspiration” and “summer bod” which put a premium on unattainable and impractical body image. While proper diet and exercise are good for health and wellness, some people tend to overdo it for the sake of appearances and quick gains. The stress of losing weight and gaining six packs can sometimes be psychologically taxing that these images find their way into our dreams.
Without jumping in stormy waters of attempting to answer questions like “Can visually-impaired people have colored dreams”, let’s consider the effects of colors on our subconscious states and the most commonly-interpreted meanings of these dreams. Colors in dream interpretation are usually closely associated with parallel symbolic elements of a dream and, generally speaking, it is common that certain colors add to the emotional charge of a dream, thereby detailing and making dream recollections more saturated and prominent, but not necessarily easier to interpret. Rather than trying to focus on particular colors or colors in isolation, it is more interesting and thought-provoking to outline some of the most frequently recalled and discussed color associations, combinations and patterns in 
White and pale colors. 
Neon and screaming colors. 
But let us take a closer look at the symbolic representations and some details contained within dream related to the images of rats. Apart from their physical characteristics and features which can evoke deep feelings of repulsion and disgust both inside the dream and afterwards, some commonly-experienced dream visions can reveal interesting, if not unusual associations and imagery, especially in the context of a particular dreams scenario.
For people who are naturally afraid of rats in wake life, these dreams could be either a confirmation of their phobia and repulsion directed at the animals, or a subconscious attempt to examine or question the nature of such fear. The symbolism of encountering a rat is quite often accompanied by the scenes of dark, untidy and unpleasant surroundings transposed into the dream from reality. Therefore, it’s a good indication of the dreamer’s preoccupation with cleanliness, purity or natural aversion to chaos and disorder. However, it could also be quite possible that the person experiencing dreams about rats spends some portion of his or her wake life in unclean, cluttered and messy environments, e.g. as a warehouse worker, a head of a large household which is difficult to manage, and the like.
Undeniably, during the younger formative years, when the very foundation of memory and cognition is shaped, our subconscious reflections capture a great variety of new imagery, visual and sensory aspects of the everyday life. No wonder, adolescents experience very diverse, if not chaotic dream visions comprised of interwoven symbolic elements accumulated during the wake hours. It would probably be a complicated task for a young person to sort out distinct and discernible visions contained in their dreams in order to interpret them in a meaningful way. The exploratory nature of human mind causes us to retain important moments of our lives, but in a very erratic and disorderly way, so their analysis as far as dream interpretation is concerned, becomes difficult, if not impossible altogether. At this stage we could draw an analogy of subconscious brain activity resembling a computer file system which is being constantly updated without a whole lot of sorting and categorizing of the individual files within that system.
As we age, we gain more experience and start to separate discrete events in our “file system” into more stable and recognizable elements, which are often compiled, coded and stored based on their importance to us. Over the span of our lives, we increasingly attribute more significance to some events while forgetting or even completely ignoring those that seem mundane and unworthy of remembering to us. Figuratively speaking, the subconscious retention at this stage could probably be compared to an old vinyl record etched with certain well-defined and vivid symbolic visions coming alive during our sleep and leaving lasting recollections long after we wake up and go on with the conscious existence.