In reality, I am pretty much an outcast. I have people making comments to me all the time.

This happens in my dreams sometimes as well. It’s always a female making bitchy comments to me or just being a bitch in general.

Soon, it begins to get physical and I can feel my adrenaline pumping. I know I can beat her up. Then, as I go to throw a punch or otherwise hit her, my arm (only my arm, no other part of me) gets really weak and I can only move it in slow motion, though nothing else is in slow motion. She never hits me.

A few seconds after I realize I can hardly move my arm, the dream either goes black or I wake up. There may be more, but I don’t remember it.

-- Melissa, Age 17, Columbia, S.C., USA

Hi Melissa -

It’s so frustrating when you go to throw a punch in a dream—and suddenly you feel like your whole arm must be underwater! Unghmph! No matter what you do, you just can’t connect!

Is it possible you’ve been feeling “weighed down” recently by the “women with attitude” in your life? If so, then the message of this dream is that you aren’t going to beat these people with your fists—you’re going to have to use your brains instead!

People who put other people down are insecure themselves. Are they really worth the bother? A smart and sensitive woman like yourself has got too many good things coming her way—to waste time with “the critics section!”