Humor in Dreams

I’ve been talking a lot about how dreams can help with trauma, so I wanted to discuss a lighter topic this week. Sometimes dreams are just downright funny. I love it when I wake up and write down a dream, or read a dream from a client, and it makes me chuckle. I can only admire how clever Spirit is, especially when the humor is used to deliver a gentle correction.

In this video, I share four of my favorite funny moments from dreams. The transcript is below if you’d rather read it.

TRANSCRIPT:

“HOW HUMOR IS USED IN DREAMS”

Did you know your spirit guides have a sense of humor? They absolutely do. In fact, sometimes they’ll use comedy in your dreams to give you big lessons. The humor makes the dream stick—and it makes the medicine go down a little easier. Let me show you some great examples.

1: Steve Martin’s Head 

“People were gathered around something in a mall parking lot. It was half of a cut melon in a bin of ice, only the melon looked like Steve Martin’s head! He was cracking jokes like “My neurologist swore it was a minor procedure!”

Now, a severed head could have been terrifying. But by making it a comedian, the guides softened the message. The dream is saying that the dreamer is too much in her head, disconnected from her heart and body. Humor turned a disturbing image (a severed head) into a memorable teaching.

2:  Jill’s CEREMONIAL BOWING

My niece told me she wanted to find a native American tribe to work with. I asked, “what are you going to do with a native American tribe?” She said “Well, I thought I’d teach them Olympic level ceremonial bowing. I’m really good at it.”

She got up to demonstrate. She walked very slowly, doing an elaborate bow every few feet. I thought, “Do native Americans want to learn how to do ceremonial bowing? It seemed so impractical.

In this dream, the “Native Americans” are the dreamer’s spirit guides. They were gently poking fun at her. In real life, she had elaborate rituals before talking with them—an altar, candles, mantras…. The message here is: you don’t need all that ritual to reach us. We’re with you all the time.

Isn’t that a beautiful message? And I love how, by showing the dreamer what all that ritual looked like from the outside, they made her smile instead of feeling stung. As a result of this dream, she simplified her routine.

3:  THE LITTLE DOG

I was in a room talking to someone. A little black dog ran in from the hall and started growling and snapping at me. I shut the hall door, trapping the dog inside. When I opened it again, the dog bolted out. I thought: that’s one way to get rid of a dog—make it think it can’t get out, so then it really wants to escape!

Once again, the guides are gently poking fun. They’re pointing out a childish tendency the dreamer had to want something even more when he was told he couldn’t have it! (I think we can all relate.) The guides are showing how non-sensical that is by showing the behavior in a little dog.

By using metaphors like this, the guides make you see the behavior from another point of view so you can form an objective opinion about it. Then when you realize that behavior is yours, it leads to an Aha! moment and a conscious decision about whether or not you want to continue that behavior.

And sometimes it’s just a silly line that makes you laugh. In one dream, a museum gift shop was selling ancient Egyptian treasures. The store motto? “Not everything in here is 3,000 years old—but it’s good enough for you!” Pure comic relief—yet it helps the dream stick in your mind.

So yes, your guides have a sense of humor. If you’ve ever had a funny dream, leave a comment below. I’d love to hear about it!