I am always saying, “Nothing in a dream is random. Every single detail in your dream is important and can be connected to something in your waking life.” This is particularly true when it comes to numbers and amounts of things in dreams… but of course, they are the trickiest to figure out!
What numbers and amounts in dreams mean
The short answer: Numbers and amounts in a dream are directly connected to that same number or amount in waking life. Go through the numbers in your life, such as birth dates, addresses, salary or how many years you’ve been married, then ask how that connection is relevant to your life right now. A specific amount of something works the same way: three eggs can point to three ideas or projects about to hatch.
Rule 8 from Dream On It
In my book Dream on It, Unlock your Dreams Change Your Life, I cover numbers and amounts in dreams. it is in my last chapter entitled Rules To Remember. Here is an excerpt:
“Rule 8. Numbers and amounts in a dream are directly connected to that same number or amount in waking life. If a certain numbers shows up in a dream, then you need to put on your thinking cap and go through all the numbers in your life such as birth dates, addresses, salary, how many years you’ve been married, etc. odds are, you’ll be able to connect it to something in which case you’ll then need to ask yourself how that connection – if you connect the number in your dream to your ex boyfriend’s address, for example – is relevant to your life right now. Do the same thing when there is a specific amount of something in your dream. If you dream of three eggs, then there are likely going to be three ideas or projects in your waking life that are about to hatch.”
A reader’s dream about two quarters and three dimes
Recently, Katie from Chattanooga had a very specific amount of change in her dream and wanted to know what it might mean. Her dream illustrates this rule beautifully:
What I told Katie
Katie’s reply
Katie replies: All of this makes sense to me. I do feel I’m being judged very often because of my addiction, which is how I’m a lot like my father. And I can now handle the change going on in my life that had to be made for me to survive. I’m a recovering addict of 9 months. I do have three children and they are my everything and besides myself I’m doing this for them. Two of my children are adults but my nine year old, who needs me still, our favorite song is 1980. (By the group Rehab, of all names). My love for him and my desire to raise him in a loving and sound home is what drives me daily to stay sober. And this may sound crazy.. I had exactly $80 in my pocket when i decided I was done with my life of addiction and chose to turn my life around. Wow! That is quite the connection. Awesome.
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How cool is that? The amount of change in Katie’s dream had a VERY powerful connection. And now that she can understand the connection, it will make her recovery even more meaningful.
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This dream is one of the more creepier dreams I have had. It’s been awhile now but I remember every detail. Myself, my father and mother were staying in a condo at the beach for vacation a couple of years back. This one particular day I was taking a nap. During this nap I begin dreaming. I start hearing what sounds like kids running around in the room and in the hall. It sounds like a young boy and young girl. They are laughing and giggling like kids do when they play. I do need to say that there are no children with us at all. In the dream I get up to go investigate the playful noises. Also, I am in the condo that I’m staying in. I found that strange because I never really dream about the places where I’m sleeping or where I physically am. Anyway, I get up and follow the laughter and I walk into the room my parents are sleeping in and in the dream my parents are in bed. I wake them and ask did either of you see the little boy & girl running around? I wonder how they got in here? I then say “Hey kids where are you?” I hear the giggling and running footfalls coming into the room toward me. As they approach they both have their heads down. I then remember a strange feeling about that. I then asked “ Hey, Where did you two come?” They look up and with the biggest and blackest eyes I have ever seen they simultaneously replied “Heaven.” I immediately woke up and was quite unnerved to say the least for the rest of the trip. Quite frankly it still bothers me…
In this particular dream I’m walking through the woods. I’m not alone, there are several people who I do not recognize walking in the woods and all are walking in different directions. Then something even more strange occurs, Portals begin opening up through the forest. One of the portals was fairly close to me when it opened and 2 or 3 Native American Indians came through wearing headdress, moccasins, etc. I waved at the last Indian to come through and showing no emotion really on his face, he just kind of nodded and continued walking with his group. I have no clue what this could mean but it was strangely unique and clear. It’s surely a dream I will never forget. I would just like to know more about it….
ok so I always dream of being on a plane and on this plane it has normal furniture as in a house. The plane always takes off but never gets any higher than the trees or over passes on the interstate and I am in a panic as to why we are not climbing. The plane never crashes I have had this dream for many many years.
I had a dream I walked into a wood looking house and when I looked over it was people just laying there like flimsy or if they was on drugs.when I looked over out the window it was a dusty old truck driving in circles in the yard and then it jumped to him standing in the door his head was a pig ? and the rest of the body was covered in a brown /black jacket with a human body shape! When I looked at him he was rocking back and forth like slowly like dancing to music and sung “can I have your soul” and in my dream I sung back and rocked back the same way and told him “ no you can’t have my soul” . This was really scary but I also felt someone was trying to get me at my most vulnerable moment in my sleep !
I had a dream I jumped fourty feet and landed safely on the ground and I also jumped 3 feet and landed safely on the ground
I had a dream that i was seated on grass sorrounded by a group of women in circular form each woman was carrying a baby.