What do you dream about when spells have been cast on you? Signs, symptoms and how to break them

Cristina Balan Written byCristina Balan

After every live session for breaking spells, I receive the same question in dozens of forms: “Cristina, I dreamed of snakes last night. Could someone have cast a spell on me?” Here is my direct answer: dreams can be a signal, but one dream alone does not mean you are under a spell. People who have come to me after having spells cast on them have often described dreams of snakes, bats, flies or bumblebees. Also pay attention to images of dead people, cemeteries or bones, because these are precisely the things used in many of the workings I find. I take them seriously when they appear alongside other signs: nothing works out anymore, money and love are blocked, and you feel stabbing sensations or heaviness in your body. The simplest test remains the salt ritual. If you say “I release myself from magic” and your body reacts, you have cleansing to do.

Below, I explain everything I have seen in sessions and live streams: what you dream about when spells have been cast on you, what symptoms appear, why spells attach to some people, and how to release yourself step by step.

How I came to work with spells and enchantments

Honestly, I did not believe in spells. Until a few years ago, they were country tales to me. I probably had them myself for a long time, but I could not see them. When I awakened spiritually, I began seeing them and feeling their energies more and more clearly.

Since then, I have been amazed by how many people in Romania suffer with this issue. Clients arrive in waves: during some weeks, almost everyone who comes to me has spells on them. Some sessions have been like a complete lesson in magic from A to Z, because I found so many workings.

What do you dream about when someone has cast spells on you?

Dreams are one way you are shown what is in your field. This is how I see it: God, your team and the angels around you show you these things. You simply need to make the connection. Here is what appears most often in the stories of people I have worked with:

  • Snakes. This is probably the most common dream associated with spells. I have often worked on spells made “with snakes”, and the release phrase sends them back where they came from.
  • Bats. During one live stream, someone thanked me because they had just dreamed of bats the previous night, and we immediately did the release work for them. The dream told you exactly what to work on.
  • Flies, bumblebees and swarming insects. Several people have written to me about these during release sessions. Take them as a clue and use the phrase for them.
  • Dead people, graves, cemeteries, bones and ashes. These are the materials I find most often in workings done on clients: cemetery magic, magic with bones, or magic with ashes. If these images recur in your dreams, write them down.

How do you use the dream? Do not panic or rush to find interpretations. Write it down in the morning, note what you felt and which animal or object appeared, then use it as a theme for release work. Dreamed of bats? Work on the spells made with bats. It is simple.

There is something else I want you to know: not every nightmare is a spell. Dreams also reflect tiredness, stress and your fears. And fear, in essence, is a lack of trust in God. Look at the whole picture, rather than a single dream.

I want the PDF guide to breaking spells →

What symptoms do you have when spells have been cast on you?

More than dreams, I look at what is happening in your life and body. These are the signs I encounter most often.

Obstacles: nothing works out anymore

This is the first and clearest sign. You no longer prosper financially, or in anything else. Love, work and projects all stop going well. I have also noticed a pattern around abundance: first it takes away your work, and when it can no longer catch you that way, losses arrive one after another.

Sensations in the body

  • Stabbing sensations, like needles, usually in the same area. I recognize these as voodoo-type workings.
  • Pressure on the face, head or chest, around the breastbone.
  • The feeling of being bound at the ankles, knees or hands. Some describe it as numbness.
  • Heaviness in the solar plexus, where I often see a kind of black thread, like a rope.

One important point: if you have pain, dizziness or insomnia that does not go away, see a doctor first. Energy work goes alongside caring for your health; it does not replace it.

Your aura and energy

A healthy aura shines. When I see a greenish, greyish or brownish aura, I know there is something to cleanse there. Having these colours is not normal. You feel it too: you are dimmed, listless, as though someone had drained your energy.

How the body reacts during release work

Here comes the surest sign. When you position yourself on salt and say the phrases, your body begins to release. The reactions I see in people include:

  • burping and yawning. From what I have observed, those who have held a lot of anger around the diaphragm burp, while those with other traumas held in other areas of the body yawn;
  • itching on the skin, especially when you are on salt;
  • tears, sighing and sneezing. Sighs and tears come from the soul;
  • feeling cold, sweating and a runny nose;
  • nausea, dizziness and intense crying. These are the strongest reactions.

Do not be frightened, and do not hold them in. Afterwards, people write to me saying that their heads feel light, their ears feel unblocked, and the next day they “were like a rocket”. It is normal to feel hungry or crave sweets after cleansing: the body is grounding itself. If the reactions are very intense or do not pass after you stop, take a break and ask a doctor for advice.

I will get the PDF + Musc and Protection oils package →

Why spells attach: the part of you that attracted them

Here is the part few people want to hear. Spells attach to wounds. If you have unprocessed traumas, there are holes in your energy body, and anything can attach easily. A weak spirit carries out the command it receives.

In every release session, I also represent the part of you that attracted the spells. Most often, it is the part that says “I do not love myself” or “I am not worthy”. I have also encountered a part that wanted fun, because the person did not allow themselves to enjoy life. I never cleanse spells without also working on the underlying psyche. When someone comes in an emergency, we first do only the cleansing. In the next session, we definitely work on the wound.

Your family lineage matters too. If you grew up in a family where spells were cast, you are used to that energy without realizing it. It is like narcissism: if you attract narcissists, you most likely had narcissists around you in childhood. And the person harming you is usually someone you know, rather than a stranger. As the saying goes: “Protect me, Lord, from my own people; I can defend myself against strangers.”

And one more thing: stop making a sport of saving everyone else. We usually do not save the good people, but those who drag us down. That is often the lesson. I have written more about maintaining your energy boundaries in the article on spiritual defences.

Which parts of us attract spells: what I have seen in representations

I did two consecutive live streams with representations solely on this subject, and here are my conclusions. I am sorry to tell you this, but at some level you agreed: there is a soul contract, and there is a part of you that attracted the spells. This does not mean you are to blame for what someone else did to you. The person casting spells is responsible for their actions, because they violate your free will and take on karma. But your question is not “Why did they do it to me?”, but “Why did I attract something like this?”. That is where you have power.

How I work with representations

First, position yourself on salt. Without that, there is no point in talking. When you then come for a representation, you can tell me which phrases made you burp more strongly or where you had the greatest effects, and we can work differently. Ask me a simple question: “Cristina, can you represent the part of me that attracted the spells?” I enter that part's energy and say aloud what it feels and thinks. I use this technique because energy does not lie. It is the same principle as in family constellations, except that we work specifically on one theme.

And here is something I often see: not every blockage is a spell. Many are psychological: self-sabotage, loyalties to parents, childhood programs. Energetically, I feel the difference. The energy of spells is dark; you cannot dress it in light, and a psychological wound does not feel the same. So do not become paranoid. Test on salt and look at the whole picture.

The parts that emerge most often

  • “I do not love myself.” This is the foundation. It usually comes with “I am not worthy”, “I am not important” and “Life is hard”. We are not born with these programs; we acquire them in childhood, in the triangle of mother, father and you. When you truly love yourself, rather than in a narcissistic way, many things resolve.
  • The wounded and angry inner child. Sometimes the part that attracts spells is an inner child who is very angry with you because you always put them last. Your soul first gives you small signals. If you do not see them, it hits you harder and harder.
  • Familiarity with the energy of magic. If you come from a lineage that visited witches or cast spells, you are familiar with this energy without realizing it. The same applies if you have past lives in which you worked with magic. I have also observed that when spells have been cast on a mother, her children unconsciously become used to those energies and may attract them later.
  • Putting others before yourself. It is the part that says “I put others before myself”. The order that works is: God, you, your children, and only then everyone else. When you make someone else your god, the balance is disturbed.
  • Naivety. Being naive with harmful people is not a virtue. We live on a planet of duality, rather than in a world where everyone is all sweetness and flowers. When you project your own qualities onto others, you stop seeing those who do not wish you well.
  • The part that does not enjoy life. I have often met people who attract spells because they do not allow themselves to have fun, or who completely shut down their femininity and sexuality after a breakup. The neglected part remains an open door.
  • The parts we do not want to look at. A part that feels unloved or abandoned, and sometimes even has dark thoughts. We ignore it because it hurts. But the parts we do not look at manifest things, and not only spells.

If you have thoughts of no longer wanting to live, do not carry them alone: talk to a psychologist or psychotherapist, and if it is an emergency, call 112. Energy work goes alongside this support, rather than replacing it.

The exercise and phrases from the live streams with representations

Once you have seen the part, embrace it. Literally. Love heals all magic. Love and God come first; only then come the rituals, salt and musk.

  1. The self-love exercise. Wrap your arms around yourself and stay like that for 10 minutes. Give yourself love. If you can, look in the mirror too. If the part that emerged is the inner child still waiting for something from their mother, imagine taking them onto your lap. The only person who can do that now is you.
  2. When something keeps preventing you from cleansing (phone calls, interruptions, postponements), say on salt: “I cut through all obstacles to my cleansing.”
  3. “My free will belongs to me and me alone, and I do not allow anyone to affect it.”
  4. “I cancel all soul contracts through which my energy is stolen.”
  5. “I cancel all agreements made in darkness that I have.”
  6. “I cancel all magic done on my chakras.” Then get your chakras moving, because the first thing spells do is slow them down.
  7. “I cancel the Rescuer program.” Especially if the part that emerged is the one that wants to save your mother.
  8. In prayer: “I ask to be shown all the unconscious mechanisms I have in relation to my mother that are not on my soul's higher path.”
  9. “I program my field to no longer accept magic. I send all magic back where it came from.”

Alongside the general releases, go through the people you suspect one by one: position yourself on salt, say the person's name, and send everything back to them. Where the effects are very strong, you will know what it is about. Also do the releases concerning your father and mother, one per week, because there are many layers there.

An exercise that helped me: thoughts that are not yours. When death spells had been cast on me, an insistent thought kept entering my head: “I want to die”, even though I was not in that state at all. I did not fight it. I told myself: “This is not my thought; take it back”, and replaced it with “I am abundant”. The thought disappeared immediately. We all have this lesson: clearly knowing which thoughts and energy are our own. Be careful, though: I am talking about a foreign thought that did not match my state at all. If the dark thoughts are your own and persist, seek professional help.

And if spells were cast in your lineage or someone “sold their soul”, lineage karma remains there, and it is worked on in a constellation so that everyone is put in their rightful place. Heavy workings take time: in major cases, at least 60 days on salt with intense release work, plus sessions. And there is no cleansing of magic without working on yourself.

How to release spells and enchantments: the steps I use

My aim is to teach you to work on your own, rather than depend on sessions. Ultimately, you attracted them, and you are also the one who needs to do the work.

1. The salt ritual

Put coarse salt on the floor and place your bare soles on it while saying the phrases. If you have major symptoms, do it for at least 30 days. Heavy workings can require two or three months of intense work. Give yourself a chance: 30 days on salt shows you very clearly what is there and what leaves.

2. Essential oil as an amplifier

When you put essential oil on a chakra, it increases the power of the cleansing. I use MUSC oil and Mix Protecție: on the third eye, solar plexus or directly on salt. For voodoo-type stabbing sensations, these two oils were precisely what helped me. You can also put them in the water you use to mop the floors at home. You can find them together in the Musc + Mix Protecție duo.

An exercise I do very often: I close my eyes and imagine a shower of musk flowing over me, into the etheric body. Musk transforms and removes. Set the mind aside and feel where the energies that are not yours are.

3. Say the phrases aloud and push the energy out

Spoken words have creative power, so do not say them only in your mind. The formula I now use, after a great deal of testing, is:

“I send all spells, enchantments, voodoo, rituals and magical workings done on [my heart / my communication / my work / my love / my self-confidence] back to those who did them to me, and I program my field to no longer accept anything like this.”

And a few basic phrases:

  • “I cancel all soul contracts through which I agree to have magic done to me.”
  • “I cancel all the veils I have regarding magic.” (Use these especially if you are doing the ritual, experiencing effects and still wondering “What could it be?”)
  • “My body belongs to me and me alone. My energy belongs to me and me alone.”

Important: it is not just the phrase. When you say it, push the energy out. Allow yourself to feel where it is in your body and remove it.

4. Why I send it back rather than take revenge

I have tested many approaches: alchemizing into light, dissolving and sending back. Sending back works best. It costs the sender nothing to keep sending. When you return it, there is a cost to them, and then they stop, usually quite quickly.

But pay attention to the energy with which you do this. Sending back is not revenge. You remain in your own energy, align with your soul, and return only what is not you. If you enter revenge, you create even more darkness. Also know that, at first, you may feel things more strongly. It is a sign that the working feels pressure.

5. Work in the energy body, rather than only with the mind

Close your eyes. This is how I see energies best. Feel where the working was placed on you, and remove it. Draw a sword of light and cut the bonds and chains from your hands, knees and ankles. If you feel the black thread in the solar plexus, pull it out. Imagine your energy covering as a diving suit: cut it in two and step out of it into the next energy body, higher in vibration.

6. Get the chakras moving

The first thing a spell does is slow your chakras. Your chakra system should be whirring and spinning. After the release, imagine each chakra rotating faster and faster. If you want to understand better what a blocked chakra looks like, read the guide to blocked chakras.

7. Connect with God

For me, this is the number-one thing. People who do not pray have a harder time cleansing themselves, however much release work they do, because vibrationally they vote elsewhere. I always end like this: “Yes to God. Yes to life. Yes to love.” And “yes to God” means living with Him: doing no harm to others, but also not being everyone else's fool.

Rules to keep in mind

  • Do release work only on yourself. Do not begin working on others without their consent.
  • Do not release a child who does not want it. You can have children spend a few minutes on salt with one simple phrase: “I ask the energies that are not mine to leave me.” No stories that frighten them.
  • Listen to your intuition. If a particular phrase comes to you during release work, say it. You do not need my validation to say it.
  • Be careful with “spiritual gifts” and objects received from people who do not wish you well.

The oils I use: Musc + Mix Protecție →

When working alone is not enough

The phrases from the live streams help a lot, but some workings require more than two phrases. Curses are worked on at the lineage level, in a constellation, because you need to see who cursed and why. A mother's curses are worked on with the mother, while heavy workings and very tight bindings usually require individual work and time.

If you want a complete program, I have put everything I use into the PDF guide to breaking spells and energy cleansing, with the 30-day protocol, the phrases and the salt and black-candle ritual. There is also the PDF + Musc and Mix Protecție oils option. And if you want us to work together, live, for two full days, I look forward to seeing you at the Breaking Spells workshop on 14–15 November 2026. You will find all the other materials in the release-work collection.

Reserve a place at the Breaking Spells workshop →

Watch the live stream for breaking spells

If you want to do the release work together with me, position yourself on salt and start the live stream below. Repeat the phrases aloud at your own pace.

For a longer session, with release work on chakras, the body and past lives, also watch the very comprehensive live stream for breaking spells.

And if you want to see how I work with representations on the part of you that attracted spells, watch the live streams Which part of you attracted the spells? Representations and Which parts of you attracted the spells: representations. You will recognize yourself in many themes, because we all have all of them.

Frequently asked questions about spells and enchantments

What do you dream about when spells have been cast on you?

From what people I have worked with have told me, the most common dreams involve snakes, bats, flies or bumblebees. Dreams of dead people, cemeteries or bones are also worth noting, because many workings use these materials. One dream alone confirms nothing. Pay attention if it recurs and appears alongside obstacles and bodily sensations.

What symptoms do you have when spells have been cast on you?

The most common signs are obstacles: you no longer prosper financially, in love or at work. There may also be stabbing sensations in the body, pressure on the head or face, a feeling of being bound, and dimmed energy. For persistent physical symptoms, see a doctor first.

How can I tell for sure whether I am under a spell?

Do the salt ritual and say aloud: “I release myself from magic.” If you begin burping, yawning, tearing up or experiencing itchy skin, you have something to cleanse.

Which part of me attracted the spells?

In representations, the part that most often emerges says “I do not love myself”, “I am not worthy” or “I am not important”. The wounded inner child, familiarity with magical energy from the lineage, naivety towards harmful people, and the habit of putting others before yourself also appear. Do the salt ritual first, then work on that part with self-love, release work and, if needed, therapy.

How long does breaking spells take?

If you have major symptoms, work on salt for at least 30 days. Heavy workings usually require two or three months of consistent work, plus consistent work through releases and representations on the part of you that attracted them.

Can I do release work for someone else?

No. Do release work only on yourself. Even minor children should not undergo release work if they do not want it. For them, a few minutes on salt and a simple phrase are enough, without frightening them.

Is it normal to feel worse at first?

Yes, at first you may feel things more intensely because the working is under pressure. Continue at your own pace. If physical reactions are strong or do not pass, stop and ask a doctor for advice.

Stop walking around blindfolded. If you have the signs, position yourself on salt, cleanse yourself and do good deeds, because the good you do comes back to you. Sending you a kiss, and I look forward to seeing you at the next live stream.