Do you ever see your own reflection in a dream? Most people are unable to see themselves in a mirror when they dream… or when they do, they tend to look really strange! We rarely look like ourselves when we look into a dream mirror. The reason why is because our dreaming mind looks at our self psychologically, not physically. Below is a good example of how our dream reflections work. This is from my nationally syndicated column The Dream Zone…
Dear Lauri,
I dreamed I was choking on something I drank. When I looked in the mirror, I saw all these veins of blue all over my face. The veins were heavier on the left side than the right. I was freaked out by the veins so I woke myself up – Nikole 35, Memphis, TN
Lauri: Like a mirror, dreams are a reflection of what’s really going on in our life as well as what is going on within the self. Your dream seems to suggest that you may have recently choked on your words in some way. Is there something you need or want to say but can’t or didn’t? When a dream draws attention to the face, it usually means there is a reality you need to face, and your dream mirror is showing you that reality quite clearly. What you see in the mirror is not a commentary on your physical appearance but rather a reflection of your psychological state at the the time of the dream. That being said, the veins on your face are more likely a play on words and mean vain. Are you afraid that speaking up about a certain issue may have been “in vain?”
Nikole replies: This is too funny. There’s definitely a situation I could’ve handled differently. I could’ve spoken my mind but decided it would be in vain and not worth the trouble. Funny how I missed the literal translation because I was so focused on the color blue. I didn’t explicitly tell someone how I felt about their actions and I just let the friendship end quietly. It wasn’t worth the effort when I looked at it as a whole.
Lauri replies: That may be why the veins were heavier on the left side of your face. Through the dream you were probably “facing” the reality that this issue would be better “left” alone.
Nikole replies: That makes perfect sense. Thanks for making it all so clear.
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OK well in my dream it was the end of the world, and it was all happening in like stages, the first stage there was fire and we were trying to stay alive and all of a sudden we find out that there are these creatures living inside of us and every time we look in the mirror we see them.
They are like dead versions of ourselves we have no pupils, we have these creepy little veins across our faces, we have these cold lifeless stairs, and these villainess smiles, stringy hair, colorless outfits.
It’s quite morbid, it’s almost as if we are possessed by these demons or maybe they’re just a part of who we are , and for some reason we seemed more terrified of them than actual death, than literal hell.
We can talk to them we can stand in the mirror and they can talk back to us, I think each person can only talk to their own demons though you can communicate with any others.
I think they can also hurt us without hurting themselves why else would people be scared of them unless they could actually cause harm.
They know things they have powers abilities far more advanced than any of our own.
(Could it be possible I was talking to my own subconscious, maybe I was staring back at me. The subconscious can be scary it can be heavily neurotic and unpredictable your subconscious is also the part of you that has instant self-preservation maybe that’s why it wanted me to live because it’s a part of me I guess, but the thing I was staring at whatever I was staring at, it hated me with a passion, I could tell as it stared at me the only thing it was thinking of was how much she wanted to kill me without killing herself, to take over on my body I guess but I I said can’t )
They knew certain things, things that no one could possibly know, things that can keep us alive.
I talked to her…it whatever you wanna call it, my memory is kind of hazy ,but it was something along the lines of her telling me “Your’e blowing it, we’re gonna die, you’ve been careless, you’ve been reckless, and we’re both going to pay for it.” I think she hurt me I don’t know how but I think she said something that hurt me she caused this shooting pain unlike any other kind of pain I’ve ever felt I couldn’t even explain it to you, felt anguishing pain after her immediate literal command.
She then told me how to stay alive, she lead me to another person who has been talking to this creature inside of him he can keep me safe she said, we can keep each other safe.
The creature inside me was extremely terrifying but hearing the stories that this boy had to say about his creature were horrific beyond words, maybe I had it easy after all. We hid in this house that he built because he’s architect, and I guess the dream kind of ended there, with us hiding…waiting around for death.
I mean the tornado of fiery death felt like the first stage of the end of the world, and something tells me the longer you lived the worse the stages get not to mention these demon like strangers possessing and tormenting us. The way I saw it we were dead if we live or dead if we die.
(That’s the second terrible nightmare this week the last one was also weird and morbid and hard to understand and possibly one of the scariest dreams I’ve ever had like seriously I woke up screaming, I think my subconscious was trying to tell me something I was getting so close in this dream I mean I was literally talking to it but I have no idea what it wants, I’m not sure how to interpret any of this)
I dreamt of looking at myself in the mirror yesterday, did research and ended up here. It was scary reading most of the comments. What happened to me when I looked into the mirror was that it was someone more beautiful than me. She was of a different race with brown hair and eye brows. I was doing makeup, wearing a white gown and was preparing to wear my brown leather sandles. That’s about it… got me curious.
I’m glad to see people having similar experiences. Everyone is connected. I just woke up from one of the most profound dream epic. One of those dreams that feels like centuries.
Anyways I looked into a familiar mirror, and began combing my mustache, I recognized myself for a second, but when I started brushing my mustache I realized I looked immensely different. The gap between the nose and mouth was huge, and I saw this because I was combing. Anyways weird experience.
I just woke up from a dresm. I was using my phone texting people and I knew i was dreaming. Somehow I thought maybe my sleeping self was REALLY holding my phone in real life so I decided to open the camera app to catch a picture of myself sleep using it if i really was holding it. It seemed like a good idea. But once the camera app was open and I saw myself I didnt look…right. i got this feeling of dread like i did something i shouldnt of i remembered my boyfriend telling me once you shouldnt look at yourself in a dream. My whole body felt paralyzed, my ears were ringing and I was trying to wake myself up, my own weird reflection was scaring me there was something wrong with my eyes. I broke the paralysis feeling and woke up, phone no where near me.
I had a similar dream last night ! Its crazy you said that because instead of using my phone to take a picture , in my dream I got out of my bed and went to the mirror but the weird part was the mirror was covered almost like I wasn’t suppose to see myself . But ofc I moved the cover and saw myself , surprisingly my face wasn’t too altered the only difference is my eyes were very weird almost like googly eyes . Immediately after that my ears started ringing and I lost my sight which was low-key terrifying bc I couldn’t wake up. If anyone has any insight on what this might mean plz reply!
In my dream there was an intruder and he looked like a whoville character idk why bc I can’t remember the last time I’ve watched that. I was being mean to him and when I look in the mirror I looked like a whoville character also but scarier. He put a spell on me or something so I was apologizing then I woke up. I now have a whoville phobia
So last night I had a dream that I was being sent back to my biological father and I went into the bathroom to get ready and something in my head told me to look in the mirror but when I did I saw this creature with bare flesh as its skin and veins constantly wrapping around and the eyes were all black with white pupils but the white was like paint splatter but as soon as I looked in the mirror I found comfort and I knew I was okay and then everything kind of dissipated and I was in a void until I woke up.
I once had a dream I can’t remember most of it but I came into his one room it was really dark and there was this mirror. It was like a rectangle but I could see myself very clearly but after a few seconds it started to change. If you have played Silent Hill 3 and saw the room in the hospital with the mirror you know what I’m talking about but my reflection just started going crazy! It was like I was getting all dirty and my skin was getting dark green! And everytime I returned it looked like that but it was strange.
I had a dream that I was checking all the rooms in the house (expect I didn’t recognize this one) there was a girl on the bathroom crying while throwing up. The light wouldn’t turn on. I asked if she was alright. She didn’t answer and kept crying. I told her I couldn’t help her if she wouldn’t turn on the light. Then something came out of a closet or something. A dark figure moving slowly on the ground. Something didn’t feel right.. All of a sudden the lights came on. There was a mirror right in front of me (Something that shouldn’t have been there facing me on purpose) I saw myself face to face in the mirror. I wasnt alone though. The figure on the ground was standing over me in the mirror with its month wide open. Its jaw was almost touching the jaw. It was a female with dirty blonde hair and a old torn tan long dress. My stomach turned, heart raced, my mind said this isn’t right. I turned around to run and thats when I woke up. When I woke up I actually flung myself up and was still so scared
I had a dream that I was in my bathroom mirror and my eyes had a blue circles inside and forming from Up under my eye to my chin was different colored veins And I sneezed the orange vein popped and everything in the house that was orange like a paint or some type of liquid bust out of it
I had a dream where I was in this big dark room with this ginormous round white mirror and I could see myself but it didn’t look like me and I stuck my hand on it and then I put my head through a mirror and I saw myself putting my head through that mirror and then when I pulled back I felt like I disrupted something bad.
I had a dream where i looked into a mirror in a bathroom (not at my house) and saw myself with some type of lettering on my right cheek, and my left eye was completely white—no pupil, no iris, just white. I don’t remember feeling scared or any type of terror really. I think I was just confused. What could this mean?
I really need help with this dream. I seen a girl with Golden Blonde Hair. It was Glowing and Beautiful. The hair was really long almost to the floor. We were inside the Mall. All the stores in the Mall were closed. It was a little dark inside the Mall. We were sitting in chairs. The girl was facing me. She was in front of me. The girl had a casual smile on we face. She was wearing a pink jacket. I was just starring at her golden hair. In real life, I became friends with this girl. We started hanging out and we became close. I didn’t know I was going to become friends with this girl. We did stopped talking to each other for a while. We had a falling out. We aren’t close how we used to be. I want to know what this dream really means.
I had a dream i was looking in a mirror andmy reflection was som3body else
Same here but I haven’t been able to find anything on it
Last night I had a dream where I walked into a bathroom and when I looked into the mirror I had distorted eyes like a filter that pulled your eyes closer, made them more pulled out. Is back away and come closer for a better look and my eyes would get bigger than smaller, with the same pulled effect. Their was a lady that kept asking if everything was okay. Even peeking through the curtain (their was a curtain instead of a door). I’m sure that lady knew I was lucid dreaming and didn’t like it.
THANKS FOR EXPLAINING TO ME MY DREAMS
I had a dream that I was standing in front of a mirror and my mouth started to melt and I was trying to hold it and put it back together then I noticed a man that looked like and old fashioned man who also looks like a professor with the one eyed glasses just looking in the mirror. I also looked behind me in the mirror since the door was kind of see through and I say something that was kind of red and orange waving behind me and it looked like a peice of clothing and then I started to scream but there was no voice coming out.
thanks for sharing a wonderful interpretation of a dream.
Thank you í had this weird dream about shaving my eye brows and looking at my faceI the mirror as í shaved stuck In my head cone to find out there was a message
I once had a dream I can’t remember most of it but I came into his one room it was really dark and there was this mirror. It was like a rectangle but I could see myself very clearly but after a few seconds it started to change. If you have played Silent Hill 3 and saw the room in the hospital with the mirror you know what I’m talking about but my reflection just started going crazy! It was like I was getting all dirty and my skin was getting dark green! And everytime I returned it looked like that but it was strange.