Aardvark - Conscious or unconscious motivations that are eating at you. Those little things that are consciously or unconsciously eating at you.

 

Abandonment - May represent a neglected part of yourself, an instinctive drive, a desire or ambition. Loss of external guidance, self-esteem. Feeling of abandonment by someone close to you who has died, or simply moved away. Can represent a feeling of insecurity in a relationship.

 

Abattoir - Raw emotions or instinctive drives. A need to forsake 'earthly' pursuits in favour of 'higher' or spiritual pursuits.

 

Abby - May symbolize those parts of the psyche that lie beneath the surface, below the level of consciousness. The spiritual aspect.

 

Abdomen - Associate the feelings of pain in the adbomen with tension in your life. Can you 'stomach' some person or attitude you are having? May be the dream wanting to bring the dreamer's conscious attention to a part of the body that is diseased {use this possibility with caution}. May represent the unconscious directing you to pay more attention to your intuitive self. May represent sexual feelings. A physiological feeling of a full bladder or indigestion.

 

Aborginial - The orginal self, the true person hidden under the mask of the ego. A part of yourself that is foreign to you; repressed aspects or emotions.

 

Abortion - A blockage or aborting new directions or opportunities in your life. Expulsion or extraction of certain aspects about yourself.

 

Above - The intellect, thinking aspect. Maybe you need to lift your sights, embrace a new goal. New attitudes, tap into your 'higher' creative self.

 

Absorb - Merge or blending of different aspects, emotions or events in your life; a stronger aspect i.e., the will to find love overcoming a lesser aspect i.e., the fear of rejection.

 

Abyss - Impending danger, which can be real or just imagined.What is causing aniety in your life?Is it real or are you making mountains out of molehills? Drowning in an abyss may reflect despair and anxiety.

 

Academy - Learning experiences, regimentation. An opportunity for building new relationships, meeting new friends, crossing new bridges.

 

Accelerator - A need to speed up the process that is before you, or perhaps you are going too fast. Being in control. A jammed accelerator may symbolize losing control, bad habits or aspects that control you.

 

Accident - Unintentional behavior. Pay attention to your whole being, physical, psychological, spiritual. If the accident involves another person in your dream, what aspect of that person relates to your personality?

 

Accordion - Feeling boxed in. Controlling the inner aspects, the creative self. Feeling like an accordion.

 

Accountant - Balancing ones life by taking charge of thoughts and actions. Surmising one's life through reflection and contemplation. Objectivity and awarness.

 

Accusation - Unconscious accusing the conscious self. What is it in your waking life that needs confronting?

 

Achieve - Success in your life. A need to be more productive.

 

Aching - Painful decisions or experiences. Facing difficult choices.

 

Acid- Attitudes you have that have the power to corrupt or corrode. Self destruction, rage and anger that are boiling inside of you.

 

Dreams & REM Sleep

 

The discovery of rapid eye movement (REM) sleep suggested that sleep was not, as it was thought to be, a dormant state but rather a mentally dynamic one. Your brain is, in fact, very active in this state, almost to the level at which it is when a person is awake. Yet during this active stage in which most dreams occur, the movements of the rest of the body are completely stilled.

In normal sleeping patterns a person usually passes through five phases of sleep, the fifth being REM. The sleeping human passes cyclically through these five phases throughout a night's rest. These phases can be defined in electrical activity of the brain; much like the activity of the heart is often defined. The technique of measuring the electrical activity of the brain is call Electro-encephalogram, or EEG. When the electrical events of a person's brain are graphed on a electrical magnitude versus time axis the graph of a person who is in different stages of being asleep or awake appear to have different levels of electrical activity occurring in the brain....more

 

Acorn - Seed to potential personal growth. Planting seeds that will bear fruit later in life.

 

Acquaintance - Unconscious knowledge or information about some aspect within yourself; a person with whom you are acquainted. A reunion with someone or something.

 

Acrobat - Skill and coordination. A balancing act. Daring characteristics in your personality.

 

Actor (Actress) - A role you are playing in your waking life. Not the 'real' you, wish fulfillment. You wear a mask in the social world, acting out unconscious intentions developed from childhood and early life experiences. A desire to be noticed.

 

Acupuncture - Treating unconscious motivations. Confronting specific aspects to control pain. Alternative ways to reach healing. Pinpointing the source of your discomfort or pain.

 

Adam - Orginal aspects that within the psyche pertain to masculine behavior {see anima/animus}. Temptations, and the consequences. Patriarchal thinking, masculine over feminine. Imbalance.

 

Addiction - Dependency on something or someone. A loss of control and/or weakness. Driven by unconscious fear or attitudes. Surrendering self awareness to someone else or something else other than what is best for you.

 

Addition - Are things adding up as they should? What is the total sum of your life? Adding up the sum total of who you are and where you are going.

 

Admiration - Seeking or needing appreciation, self-esteem, approval. Too much energy placed on idealism, glorification.

 

Adolescent - 'Adolescent' judgement and not mature thinking. Confusion over rapid changes in your life; acting childish in your waking life.

 

Adoption - Bringing in new aspects of one's self. Assuming new responsibilities, perhaps those of others more than yourself. Being adopted means that the child within you needs to be released more often.

 

Adrift - Lack of guidance in your life. Needing or seeking purpose in your life.

 

Adultry - Giving energies and attention to something that is separating you from inner growth, or from things that are important in your life. May represent a merger of aspects of yourself deemed unnatural by some but are essential for balance in your life. Adultry may indicate a fear of weakness in your relation to spouse or even different aspects of yourself. An expression of repressed unconscious sexual desires considered indecent. Dreaming of your partner committing adultery may indicate fears and weaknesses in your relationship.

 

Advancement - Leaving behind old or unwanted attitudes. When you dream of others advancing and leaving you behind, it might reflect fears of being overtaken by the competition.

 

Adventure - Risky behavior or thinking. On the other hand, it may be an indication you need to be more adventerous in your approach to life. The hero/heroine path is full of adventure with many trials and revelations {see The Hero's Adventure}.

 

Adversary - Competing emotions. Inner conflict. The opposite of who you think you are; your true self. Aggressive behavior directed at you. The unconscious foe within you. Confronting the Shadow brings about healing.

 

Adversity - Distressful times in your life. Low esteem, thoughts of bad luck, catastrophe, disaster. Dreaming of overcoming adversity is taking control, being positive in the darkest moments.

 

Advertisement - A need to pay attention to your higher self or aspects that are productive and are ignored. A need to express yourself better or the need for the unconscious to express itself so you consciously understand more about your true self. Drawing attention to yourself; seeking attention.

 

Advice - Seeking an appropriate course of action. The unconscious {through the dream} providing answers to conscious problems. Deliberate action; knowledge.

 

Affair - Dreams of a spouse having an affair with no real reason to be suspicious should be seen as your own possible insecurities . Look to the possibility of the unconscious mind wanting/needing to expose itself in a manner that uses an affair as a way to inform the conscious mind. If you dream that you are cheating, then perhaps it is a feeling of being sexually unsatisfied, or unappreciated.

 

Affection - The need for love and acceptance. Your personality is one of a loving, affectionate person.

 

Afraid - Aniexty; repressed emotions; guilt. What makes you afraid in your waking life?

 

Age - Aniexty of growing old. A weakness or vulnerability; your mature strenght.

 

Agony - Difficult situations in your life. Disharmony in mental, emotional, physical or spiritual self.

 

Agree - Mutual consent of the unconscious self and conscious mind. Often a sign you are traveling the right path. Successfully working to find a solution.

 

Aggression - Aggression in your waking life that you have not acknowledged consciously. Some instinctive part of your psyche that has been neglected and is becoming rebellious and needs attention consciously. A threatening situation in your life.

 

Agriculture - Cultivating your natural instincts. Trying to work out your problems in a very down to earth efficient way. Hard work produces satisfied results.

 

Aids - Dreams of having Aids may indicate feeling threatened by some indefencable force. A dire lack of harmony in your life.

 

Air - The spiritual aspect within the psyche. Hot air colliding with cold air may indicate opposite forces within your life.

 

Air Conditioner - A time to 'cool off' to something or someone, or some aspect you possess.

 

Air Force - Discipline is need to achieve goals. The spiritual aspect needs cultivating. Organizing forces within. Flying too high.

 

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Airplane - Soaring to new heights. It may be you are looking to go beyond your capablilities. But it also could indicate new heights are what you need. Spiritual awakening. A sexual symbol representing the penis. Liberation, release, transcendence. Escaping from daily routines.

 

Airplane Crash - Losing control. Setting your goals too high and fearing failure. Drastic changes in your life. A fear of flying.

 

Airport - A desire or need for a new departure or new adventure in your personal life. A foreign country may represent your unconscious, in which the dream is telling you that you have not arrived at your desired destination. A busy airport is an indication of ambitious new beginnings.

 

Alabaster - Positive emotions; love, romance. Broken alabaster represents negative emotions, broken heart, grief.

 

Alarm - A warning of danger in your waking life. A call from the unconscious for a need to pay attention to inner resources.

 

Albatross - Unconscious warning of difficult situations, possibly bad decisions or bad luck. Something you feel that is hanging over you.

 

Albino - Merging of competing emotions. Lacking full understanding of oneself. The positive aspect of a bad situation.

 

Album - Reflecting on past memories and experiences. Organizing past experiences to help understand current situations.

 

Alchemy - A desire for change. A period of transformation, perhaps spiritual. Expecting too much from too little.

 

Alcohol - Losing control. Uncontrollable situations that need discipline to overcome. Escaping reality. Hiding a feeling of guilt. Inhibitions.

 

Alien - A part of yourself that is neglected or unknown, such as your spiritual self. Undiscovered parts of yourself. Dreaming that you are surrounded by aliens is an indication that you might be finding some difficulties ajusting to a new environment, new people or a new job.

 

Alimony - Required maintenance of some aspect in your life. A need for support of neglected parts of yourself. Justifying past actions and facing the consequences.

 

Allergies - Annoyning problems that are hard to overcome. Uncomfortable situations. Bad reactions to a certain situation.

 

Alley - Your unconscious or subconscious. walled in with no escape. Backing into a situation.

 

Alligator - Treachery, deceit and danger. Power of expression. Fear of misusing verbal expression. The power of the unconscious mind needing to express itself {repressed emotions}. Dangerous unconscious motivations that need controlling.

 

Alloy - Mental complications involving conflicting emotional situations in your life. Impairing the quality of one aspect of yourself by injecting too much of another quality.

 

Almanac - Trying to forecast situations before they happen {dreams tend to do this by means of compensation}. The temptation of easy of easy fortunes and pleasures at the cost of not doing what needs to be done.

 

Alone - A fear of being alone (if the dream is negative). A need to go it alone (if dream is positive).

 

Altar - May represent a death and resurrection, an ending to some event or relationship and the beginning of a new one. May symbolize a union of oppossing emotions.

 

Aluminium - May symbolize something of value with regard to your personal development. Silver has associations with the moon, and may therefore symbolize the feminine; intuition; or the unconscious.

 

Ambulance - An emergency, but not necessarily in a literal sense. Pay attention to the situation at hand, in the dream as well as in your waking life. A vehicle for healing, such as a part of you that has been neglected. A need to pay attention to your health. Unhealthy situations that require healing.

 

Ambush - Repressing emotions or aspects that are capable of attacking your well being at a later time in life. A clear indication of danger.

 

Ammonia - Clouded thinking. Deluted emotions that can lead to explosive situations.

 

Ammunition - Dreaming of ammunition shows your determination to use all means in your power to get to what you want.

 

Amor - Displaying love, perhaps a need to love oneself. Illicit love and pleasures. Are you tempting yourself with too much of a good thing?

 

Amputate - A need or desire to remove unpleasant emotions or situations in life. Removing unwanted parts of yourself.

 

Amusement Park - Recalling missed childhood pleasures. Pleasurable events or aspects. An empty amusement park, relates to your feeling of loneliness. Crowded emotions that tend to ovecome your pleasure sensory aspects.

 

Anaconda - Restriction of some aspect of the psyche self; repression. A snake may symbolize sexuality; psychic energy, or the power of Nature; intuitive wisdom; the unconscious.

 

Anaesthetic - May symbolize some kind of death wish or some longed-for escape from painful circumstances. Allowing the unconscious to inform the conscious self.

 

Anal Sex - A need to express your repressed sexual desires. Obtaining what you desire by going through unorthodoxed methods. The unconscious trying to penetrate the conscious mind. Illicit desires.

 

Ancestor - The natural aspect of your being; your true self. Holding on to traditionsl values. Dreaming of your ancestors you find an inner strength, a sense of security and belonging.

 

House Dreams

Houses in a dream most always symbolize the dreamer; different aspects of the psyche being represented by the different rooms, levels in the house, outer and/or inner aspects. It is your self-image, yet at the same can reveal the inner parts. Typically the different rooms of a house may symbolize the different emotions or complexes. The oldest, the deepest layers of the unconscious - what Jung called the 'collective unconscious' will be seen as basement and the hidden spaces below that level.

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Anchor - A desire for security, for someone or something that is reliable in your life. A constraint that prevents you from fulfilling yourself, hindering your progress. Stability because you are anchored in principles and values.

 

Ancient - Old parts of the psyche that inform the senses with truth instead of ego-centered desires and impulses. Your wise, mature self.

 

Androgynous - The balanced psyche. A balanced life. Incorporating all aspects of who you are into a balanced self. Bringing together opposing forces, attitudes, emotions.

 

Anecdote - A simple answer to seemingly difficult questions. A need t add humor to your life. An account of who you are.

 

Anesthesia - Trying to avoid dealing straightforwardly with your problems. A loss of bodily sensation with or without loss of consciousness.

 

Angel - Your higher (positive)or spiritual self. Possessing a clear consciousness. Helping hands that seem to come from no where.

 

Anger - You are frustrated or angry at something or someone. Some type of aggression in your life. Conflict or negative emotions or attitudes.

 

Angling - Fishing for answers in the unconscious. Being taken in, hook, line and sinker.

 

Animals - Parents may appear in a dream in the guise of animals. It then would represent a love-hate feeling toward that parent. May represent other people in which the meaning would symbolize a slyness or aggressiveness that is characteristic of that person. May be symbolic of some primative or animal part of your psyche; thus the emotional response to the animal would represent a fear (if the animal in your dream is feared) of an instinctive urge. May represent your animal nature; aggression or anger buried in your unconscious. Perhaps you need to pay more attention to your instincts instead of listening to others.

 

Animosity - Hostel emotions directed at others or your ownself. Feelings of rejection.

Ankle - A need to explore new directions. Support is needed for the foundation of who you really are or want to be.

 

Annoyed - Some unknown irritant that you may not be consciously aware of. Something that is bothering you in your waking life.

 

Annulment - Unconsciously rejecting a feeling or a situation, and that you are in a state of denial.

 

Anorexic - A need to control, often at the expense of your own good health. Lacking a normal routine that will provide balance to your life.

 

Answering Machine - Ingoring an important message that must get to you in a way or another. A need to pay more attention to your unconscious.

 

Ant - Carrying your own weight; strenght; industrious. Also can symbolize annoyance, little things that bug you. Hard work, strict discipline, team work and conformity.

 

Anteater - Little things are consuming you, taking your strenght.

 

Antelope - Grace and strenght which may symbolize fertility - the power of growth within your psyche. If repressed, it could mean destructive/threatening forces in the unconscious.

 

Antenna - May symbolize communication, your own skills or communication from the unconscious. Are you receiving alnd understanding all that you should?

 

Anticlockwise-You may be going against your true nature, taking a wrong direction, making wrong decisions. Going to the left may signify moving over from a cerebral to a more intuitive appraoch to life. {The hero in mythology always takes the left hand path, one of intuitiveness and less of social duty.

 

Antidote - Unconscious solutions to those things that poison the conscious life. Curing what ills you.

 

Antique - Information available from the deeper layers of the unconscious {your wise self}. Past experiences that are of great value.

 

Antlers - The masculine aspect: assertiveness, strength, aggressiveness, fighting spirit. Seeking respect from adversaries.

 

Anvil - Shaping your life with your own abilities. Strength, power, perhaps using these assets to shape something in your life.

 

Anxiety-May be a straightforward feeling of anxiety in your waking life. It may also be a disguise for some repressed aggression or resentment. Anxiety dreams are the most common dreams

 

Apartment - The layer of the unconscious that represents the ego life. An aspect of the ego self. Just one part of the whole self. Room for growth.

 

Ape - Your instinctive nature, natural impulses. Carefree attitudes. May symbolize sexuality, especially those aspects that tend to disgust you.

 

Apocalypse - An end to some phase, event in your life. Also see death. This is a symbol representing fear and evil. What is in your life that gives you fear or makes you want to do evil?

 

Apollo - Solving problems using your higher awareness. Your higher, more progressive self.

 

Apology - Seeking forgiveness, of oneself or others. Confronting the truth.

 

Appear - Those things that appear when they are supposed to, including unconscious aspects that are needed when called upon.

 

Applause - Recognition of those valuable assets. Seeking approval. Validating success.

 

Apple - Nutrition for spiritual growth. Fertility, growth, love and prosperity. Forbidden love, repressed desires, sweet temptations.

 

Apple Tree - Spiritual growth. Overcoming tempations.

 

What Is A Metaphor?

A metaphor is where one thing is spoken as if it were another. The house in a dream is most often a metaphor for the dreamer, the house being a representation of the dreamer. The house would represent the dreamer's psychological, physical and/or spiritual condition, a proxy for the complexes. In most instances you should take dream symbols as metaphorical references to the dreamer's condition and not a literal interpretation, to fully understand the message in the dream.

 

Apprentice - Learning how to be skillful. Conscious aspects needing guidance from the unconscious; learning to use instincts and intuition.

 

Apricot - Unconscious aspects becoming conscious. Beginning to recognize those true values within.

 

April - New beginnings. Fertility and growth.

 

Apron - Prepartion for work ahead. Cooking up new ideas.

 

Aquarium - The unconscious, where true aspects of the self reside. Confinement to unconscious attitudes/emotions that need to be brought to consciousness.

 

Aqueduct - Bridging the unconscious and conscious. The unconscious seeking conduit to the conscious mind.

 

Arcade - Losing oneself in the pleasures of life. Covering up those true aspects that provide growth and balance.

 

Arch - Discovering new dimensions. Seeking higher potential in life's endeavors.

 

Archaeology - Uncovering one's past. Self examination {see Individuation}.

 

Archbishop - Searching for credible sources, and strong references. Looking to others for resources more easily obtainable within oneself.

 

Archery - Seeking self love. Achieving one's objectives through discipline and organization.

 

Architect - The creative aspect. Skill and creativity. Planning ahead to achieve an objective.

 

Argument - Inner conflict - conflict between parts of yourself. Conflict in your life.

 

Ark - highly mystic and of a sacred nature, it might refer to something or someone you need to protect and cherish deeply.

 

Arm - An arm is an extension of yourself. Right arm often symbolizes sending or giving, left arm often symbolizes receiving or bringing in. Left arm would also symbolize the creative/metaphysical self, whereas the right arm would symbolize social duty/physical self. Losing an arm may suggest an inability to care for yourself and others.

 

Arm(s)-Arms are what we do things with. They therefore represent our ability or effectiveness, creativity or usefullness. Aches or pains in the arms may represent feelings of inadequacy, or a loss of self-esteem.

 

Armadillo - Covering up and making it hard for others to reach you. Covering up unconscious contents.

 

Armageddon - A fear of something coming to and end with dire consequences as a result. Experiencing extreme stress and lots of tensions in your life. Fear of death, or an end to something in your life. Overly religious attitudes.

 

Armor-Symbolizes an effort to protect ourselves against emotions that fill us with anxiety. Defending oneself when feeling threatened. Conscious attitudes coming under attack from unconscious resources {negative aspects being threatened by unconscious positive forces}.

 

Armpit - Hidden traits, often exposing unwanted or undesired aspects.

 

Army - Masculine aspects. Feeling strong, protected and superior. Opposing armies may represent those things in life that threaten you. An inability to measure up.

 

Aroma - Recalling joyous memories and pleasant experiences. Sweet smell of success.

 

Arrested - loss of freedom, stagnacted.

 

Artic - frozen emotions. Inflexable in your attitudes.

 

Artist - May represent the unfulfilled creative and/or intuitive side of your nature.

 

Ascent - Climbing higher or ascending to a higher position may signify simply high achievement. an arduous mountain to climb may signify a hard but rewarding task. May represent the acquiring of a more spiritual, les worldly perspective or lifestyle. On the other hand it may represent a state of mind that is too idealistic, or too much in the grip of fantasy. What is ascending may be unconscious knowledge that is ready for conscious attention.

 

Ass - May signify stupidity-your own! A symbol for animal impulses that are unconscious, intuitive.

 

Assassin - Those aspects that tend to 'kill' off potentialities. Subverting realizations of one's goals by one's own actions or by outside forces.

 

What Is Personality?

Personality is a hypothetical construct that we use in an attempt to understand two noticeable things about human behavior: The first is that, within an individual, there is a consistency in behavior from time to time and across situations. The second is that the pattern of consistency differs from person to person.

 

Attack - Conscious attitudes under attack, often from the unconscious self. Feeling threatened by someone or some thing. Real life experiences of being attacked, literally, psychologically or verbally.

 

Attic-The highest room in the house {you} where all types of things are stored {past experiences, emotions, attitudes}, most likely to do with ecentric self. They may be repressed or just stored until something wakens them. The thinking mind {as opposed to intuitive and instincts}. The human head.

 

Auditorium - An auditorium is where an audience sits. The audience may symbolize your total self, all the aspects or emotions of your psyche. It is your total self.

 

Aunt - Feminine part of the psyche; qualities or characteristics you identify with particular individual which are projected aspects of yourself. {see anima/animus}

 

Aurora Borealis - The spiritual experience. Dawn of new possibilities. Feminine or creative aspect.

 

Automobile - You, your ego, your personality, your life and it's direction. Who is driving? Where are you sitting? If you are in the driver's seat then you are in control of (or wish to take control) of your life. If someone else is in the driver's seat, they may be controlling your life. Are you riding on all four wheels? If not, something may be missing in your life. Are the tires flat? You may feel your life is going no where. Are there others with you? These may be unknown (or known but repressed) aspects of your personality. What color is the automobile? If it is red if may symbolize anger on your part.

 

Autopsy - Dissecting dead parts of the psyche. Seeking answers from past experiences. Discovering causative conditions for one's life path.

 

Autumn - A symbol of transition. It may symbolize the ending of a particular type of achievement and a beginning of something new. may represent your 'autumn' years, the second half of life. The tree bears fruit in the autumn, so too your autumn years if lived in a balanced way.

 

Avalanche - A fear of disaster. If the avalanche is snow or ice, it may symbolize 'frozen' emotions that threaten to overcome you. Those things in life that tend to be overwhelming at times.

 

Awakening - May be a symbol of a new awareness that is dawning in your life, or one that needs to be.

 

Axe-May symbolize punishment and judgement-of your ownself. Self judgement is not indusive to good psychological health.

 

Baboon - A need to express your inner feelings. Inapproperiate behavior by you or someone you know that affects you.

 

Baby - Vulnerability. A need for love.If you are really pregnant, no symbolism is needed. In a woman's dreams a baby may express a desire for a baby. A feeling of helplessness. A dependency on others, perhaps an undeveloped sense of love or acceptance.

 

Babysitter - Cultivating the 'inner' child. Protecting 'inner' emotions, a slow evolution to letting them mature and reach consciousness.

 

Bachelor - Your masculine aspect in search of balance. Going it alone. Not enough time being devoted to the other aspects of oneself.

 

Back - May symbolize hidden parts or aspects of your personality. The human back may symbolize moral uprightness and physical or moral growth. A bent back is a sign you may be overburdened or downcast.

 

Backpack - Carrying a heavy load. Decisions, emotions that weight you down.

 

Backwards - Getting farther away from your true goal. A need to retreat and analyze situations or events before moving ahead.

 

Backyard - Those parts of the personality hidden from view. Unconscious contents that have been ignored, repressed or never brought to consciousness.

 

Bacon - The essentials needed to substain life. Those parts of oneself that are left to 'hang out to dry' with an eventual realization by your conscious mind that will give nourishment to life.

 

Badge - A desire for recognizition and stature. Regarding {or perhaps not} oneself to highly. Your status in social circumstances and peer groups.

 

Badger - Trying to pursuade oneself of something by constant reminders. Unconscious contents needing to be made conscious. Until they are the unconscious will 'badger' you through dreams.

 

Badminton - Playing games. Carefree existence.

 

Bag - May represent the womb (sexual). Things in life you carry around with you. Storing information for later use.

 

Bagel - The outer shell with the true self residing within {circle}.

 

Baggage - Heavy burdens that you unconsciously or consciously carry with you.

Modern Dream Philosophies

 

Probably the most well-known of the modern dream philosophers was Sigmund Freud. Freud first developed the theory about the role of the unconscious on the individual. Freud believed the dream worked on two levels. A straightforward level showed events in dreams as remembered. However in the latent level objects and actions in the dreams symbolize sexual and aggressive feelings and ideas that are repressed. So in dreams it protects the sleeper from the effects of a realization of these wishes. The dream taps into the desire for wish fulfilment when the controlling ego is relaxed during sleep. Freud wrote "All dreams are in a sense dreams of convenience, they help to prolong sleep instead of waking up. Dreams are the guardians of sleep and not its disturbers.

Carl Jung believed a dreams content uses symbolic language. He proposed that a dream expresses collective racial unconscious memories and instincts shared by all people. These are basic ideas that are themselves symbols. These include the hero, monster, mother, father, mandala, sacrifice and the mask. Dreams also indicate the way to self actualization Jungian therapy in fact deals extensively with dreams and fantasies.

Today, most psychologists agree with Jung's theory, and it is this theory that makes dream interpretation something that we can use in our everyday lives. If Freud were alive today he would disagree with every theory that says you are able to interpret your own dreams. Jung believed that, although it was difficult, dreams were meant to be understood.

 

Bail - A need to be free of something or someone. Substituting vaulable aspects of oneself for lesser values. Help is needed in a present situation.

 

Bait - Something 'luring' within the unconscious waiting for you to tkae the bait. Those things that entince you. Teasing or harrassing aspects in life.

 

Baking - Baking a loaf of brad may symbolize pregnancy. The opening of a new phase in your life; personal development, a new idea, new attitude. Baking up new ideas.

 

Balcony - Accessing parts of oneself that have been hidden and now are available. A need or desire to be noticed.

 

Bald - A need to expose one's true self. A lack of esteem or fears of growing older. May symbolize humility and purity. Lacking hair may suggest you are not thinking logically.

 

Ball - Balls are circles and circles most often symbolize wholeness. You haved reached the part of yourself that has integarted all aspects of your being; physical, psychological, spiritual. Playing ball may represent doing those things that are required of you. Dreaming that you are watching a ball game may indicate that you need to take more of an initiative.

 

Ballerina - Feeling or moving unrestricted. The creative self. Innocence, vulnerabilities.

 

Ballet - Balance and co-ordination.

 

Balloon - A desire for freedom from daily problems. Colored balloons may represent rejoicing and happiness. An inflated opinion of oneself. The dream may be a metaphor indicating that you are losing your ground or your foothold on some situation/problem. Alternatively, it represents the process of individuation and your quest to fulfill some spiritual needs. You feel the need to be elevated in someone's eyes.

 

Bamboo - Strength and resilience. You easily bounce back from setbacks and disappointments in your life.

 

Banana - May be a sexual symbol representing the penis

 

Band - A sense of community and belonging. Banding together, co-operation.

 

Bandage - Covering up wounds inflicted upon yourself {may be inner wounds, emotions}. A need for healing of some aspect in your life.

 

Bank - Store-up but not yet used potential of your psyche. A desire for financial security. Dreaming that you are robbing a bank means that you are expending too much energy and are in danger of depleting your inner resources.

 

Bankrupt - You have exhausted your emotional energy. Feelings of insecurity.

 

Banquet - You are emotionally malnourished.

 

Baptism - The ending with a new begiining of one stage of your life to another. Self-realization; realizing the true nature of who you are.

 

Bar Mitzvah - A transformational period in your life. Moving from one phase to another. A need for mature thinking.

 

Barbarian - Your instinctial aspects. Your unrefined self.

 

Barbed Wire - Restricted access to someone or something, or some aspect in your life. Feelings of being trapped or confined.

 

Barbeque - Covering up one's true emotions. A need to express one's true self.

 

Barbie Doll - Conforming to social rules. Meeting the expectations of others. Escaping from reality.

 

Breasts

 

Dreaming about breasts can have obvious sexual meaning. However, consider all of the details in your dream in order to obtain the most appropriate meaning. Breasts also represent tenderness, love, and other matters of the heart. Breast-feeding is symbolic of giving or receiving, nurturing, and sustenance. It represents motherly love as well as physical and emotional support and well being. Old dream interpretation books say that breast-feeding is a symbol of great things to come following an extended period of hard work.

 

Barefoot - A lack of firm grounding or mobility. Relaxed, playful attitudes.

 

Bargain - Feelings of being undervalued by others. Not putting enough effort into an idea or event. Lacking confidence.

 

Bark - The outer self, ego, persona. Covering up with is underneath. Barking, as in a dog barking, may indicate you are overly emphasising something that should be cultivated.

 

Barn - The subconscious linking instinctial aspects to the conscious self.

 

Barricade/Barrier - Barriers in your life. An inability to access other possibilities in your life. An obstacle to emotional and/or personal growth.

 

Baseball - Playing games. Setting goals and achieving goals. Sexual innuendos where the masculine aspects is depicted by the bat and the feminine aspects is depicted in the form of the ball or the ballpark.

 

Basement - Basement, or what is in it are those unconscious aspects in your life {basement symbolizes the deepest part of your unconscious mind}. Explore this area first. They are also frightening places. What in your life seems dark and damp and in the depths? Most of the time they seem that way because of our fear to confront them. They ususally turn out to be harmless.

 

Basket - A symbol of the feminine characteristics of your psyche. A basket full of fruit may represent well-being. An empty basket may represent personal feelings of emptiness. It may also represent things you are holding onto.

 

Bat - Some repressed content in your unconscious that may be associated with some early traumatic experience. May symbolize intuitive wisdom. A baseball bat may symbolize male sexuality or aggressiveness. Dreaming of a vampire bat may represent someone or something in your life that is draining your energy.

 

Bath - Confronting feelings of guilt; cleansing. Getting rid of negative attitudes.

 

Bathrobe - Covering up feelings of guilt, negative attitudes.

 

Bathroom - A need to eliminate certain burdens or attitudes. Alternatively, it may symbolize purification and self-renewal. You need to cleanse yourself, both emotionally and psychologically. Dreaming that you are in a public restroom with no stalls means your frustrations about getting enough privacy. It may also indicate that you are having difficulties letting go of old emotions.

 

Battery - Batteries symbolize energy. Dead batteries would mean a lack of energy or emotional exhaustion. Components of a battery would be those aspects that make up your life.

 

Battle - Conflict in your life, perhaps between rational thinking and your irrational impulses. Look to stressful situations to detremine what the battle is about.

 

Battlefield - Major conflicts in your life. Could be emotional or part of your everyday routine.

 

Bay - Having to do shorelines it may indicate an openning up to unconscious information. May represnet new understanding about events or istuations in your life. Are you keeping someone or something at bay, at a distance?

 

Beach - The beach is the meeting place of two worlds, land and sea, which may symbolize the conscious and unconscious realms of the human psyche. Perhaps there is something within your unconscious that the conscious mind needs to ackowledge. Dreaming that you are looking toward the beach, suggests that you are returning to what is familiar to you. Alternatively, you may be adapting or accepting to the changes and circumstances in your life.

 

Being Orphaned

 

This is often a dream of neglect, fitting in, or seeking to act with benevolent power in the world. Much of the meaning to be derived from this sort of dream depends on how you locate yourself within the orphan scenario of the dream.

If you find yourself working in an orphanage, seeking to adopt a child from an orphanage, or just visiting an orphanage, you may be seeing yourself as an agent of justice in the world-this is worthy of consideration. You may be trying to fight against injustice, or trying to compensate for acts of unfairness you have committed in your waking life.

If you appear as a child in an orphanage, the connectivity of your waking relationships is worth examining. Do you have a sense of belonging and rootedness in the world or a sense of trying to find your place?

 

Beads - Beads are round and may symbolize those things in life that can bring balance and harmony. Laying groundwork for success and balance.

 

Beans - Those things obtained in life that provide emotional nutrition. Fertility.

 

Bear - May symbolize the feminine side of a man's psyche. May represent your mother, or the wisdom that is available to you in your unconscious. May represent aggressive attitudes or threatening situations. Perhaps you need to bare your soul and let everything out into the open.

 

Beard - Often symbolize virility and male sexuality. In a woman's dream it would symbolize the dreamer's own libido or primitive psyche energy. A bearded man may represent practical wisdom within the psyche.

 

Beast - Your animal nature. Those things in life that threatening and need to be confronted. If Beauty and the Beast scenario it may represent your hidden aspects.

 

Beating - May suggest that some part of your life is out of balance. Are you beating up on yourself, or do you feel someone is beating up on you, physically or psychologically?

 

Beaver - May symbolize indicate certain behavior or attitudes that are gnawing at your core. Seeing a beaver building a dam may symbolize ambition and that hard work is necessary to achieve your own goals. Are you daming up emotions that need to be let out?

 

The spiritual path....is a psychological journey

 

Bed - A bridge bewteen your conscious and unconscious self. May symbolize a need to investigate, or acknowledge those aspects that have not be perviously attended to. An unkept bed may symbolize an urgent need to address such aspects.

 

Bedroom - Dreaming that you are in the bedroom may symbolize a need to contact those inner feelings and emotions that will lead to a better understanding of who you really are. May symbolize the inner self, unconscious contents that can beaccessed through your dreams.

 

Bedspread - May represent covering up unconscious attitudes or emotions. May represent your open sexuality and outward beauty.

 

Bee - May symbolize a need for hardwork to bring about fruitful results in your life. Are you 'busy as a bee', perhaps too much so that you are neglecting other aspects of your life?

 

Beehive - May symbolize hard work and the importance of teamwork. May represent those aspects of the total psyche that work well together and bring about growth and progress in your personal life.

 

Beer - May symbolize unclear thinking or attitudes. Do you indulge too much in social life and not enough in other aspects of your life, spirituality or creativity?

 

Beetle - May symbolize destructive aspects in your life, possibly the little things often ignored untill they have become too destructive.

 

Beggar - May represent a sense of insecurity. and/or a lack of self worth or self esteem.

 

Beheading - Beheading may symbolize punishment, punishing ourselves, unconsciously, as a result of guilt feelings or emotions. The dream may be showing you a negative pattern in your life that needs to be death with. It could also symbolize a need to get free of a too dominating head-you rely too much on your intellect and neglect your instincts.

 

Behind - May represent those unconscious aspects that support the principles you should live by. Unconscious contents, possible hidden, neglected or repressed.

 

Bell - Bells sound an alert, often awakening you to insights you may overlook in your waking consciousness. May be a signal from your unconscious to prepare you for whatever is happening next.

 

Belly - The belly symbolically holds repressed emotions and unexpressed feelings. Your dream may also be telling you to trust your gut feeling and intuition. Dreaming that you are stroking or touching a belly indicates that you are coming to terms with certain feelings. You are slowly confronting and acknowledging your repressed emotions. Dreaming of your belly may indicate that your are processing and integrating your ideas and feelings from the unconscious to the conscious level.

 

Belt - Holding things together; when around waist may represent stress and tension. May symbolize punishment and discipline.

 

Bench - May indicate a tendency to procrastinate and put things aside. May also suggest that you often take on a passive role instead taking initiative.

 

Bending - Adapting to new situations. Compromising certain principles to comform to thye realities in life. Bending backwards may indicate a need or reddiness to please others. Bending forward may imply an eagerness to do something, rightly or wrongly.

 

Betrayal - Unconsciously giving up information to the conscious mind that was previously repressed. Having been betrayed may represent your suspicions about a particular person, relationship or situation.

 

Bewilderment - Two opposing forces within you that is not clear, confused. It may represent your indecision and your inability to make up your mind.

 

Bible - Seeking spiritual englightenment. Seeking some form of comfort. May also refer to your fundamental belief system. May be referring to a higher source of knowledge within yourself.

 

Bicycle - Search for balance. Difficulties in riding a bicycle may suggest that you are experiencing anxieties about making it on your own. You may need to devote more time to leisurely pursuits and recreation, providing a balance in your life.

 

Big - Dreaming that someone or something is bigger than normal may indicate that you either have an inflated opinion of yourself or of someone. May represent authority and power.

 

Bikini - Feelings of being exposed. Innocence, as in youthful exposures of being free to express yourself. Superficial desires.

 

Billboard - A message from your unconscious that you need to take note of in your path toward your goals. Playing games. Are you or is someone else palying games in your life?

 

Billiards - May represent your competitiveness. Too much attention to winning.

 

Binoculars - Focusing on certain aspects within, perhaps unconscious attitudes or emotions. May suggest that you need to take a long and close look at a situation. A need to carefully evaluate your choices and decisions.

 

Bird - The simplicity of nature and the need to get in touch with nature. An invitation to enter into the spiritual realm. May symbolize energies that can bring you healing or balance in life. A bird taking wing may represent the need for you to take wing, encombered by circumstances that prevents you from the freedom you require. A black bird may represent your unconscious, or may symbolize the feminine aspect in a negative way.

 

Birdcage - An inability to access the simple nature within you. Feelings of being caged like a bird, a loss of freedom. Feelings of being locked up and unable to fully express yourself. An inability of the unconscious to express itself.

 

Birdhouse - Your spiritual/creative self.

 

Birdseed - Nourishment for the spiritual/creative self. May indicate insufficient rewards for your efforts.

 

Birth - If you are a woman it may represent the unfilled desire for a child. If the birth is a negative emotion it may symbolize an unwanted pregnancy. May represent the possibility of new experiences and personal growth. May symbolize a new phase of personal growth as in Jung's 'Individuation Process' .

 

Birth Control - Limiting ones personal growth. Those things in your life that prevent you from growing and progressing.

 

Birthday - Acceptance of yourself. Celebrating who you are.

 

Birthmark - Identifying your true self.

 

Bisexuality

 

Sigmund Freud was a great advocate of the bisexuality of all persons. It was no surprise to him when he studied dreams in which romantic content existed that was contrary to the dreamer's usual sexual preference. Many times, this romance is a form of "mirroring."

Mirroring is the desire to find affirmation of a particular aspect of yourself {not a real bi-sexual experience or desire} in a particular sort of relationship. The romance contrary to your usual preference should be set aside initially in order to discern what sort of affirmation you may be seeking from this liaison.

Another possible reason for a dream that involves bisexuality for a typically heterosexual person is that the anima/animus is flexing itself.

 

Biting - A symbol of aggressiveness. If being biten, 'what is biting at you' or bothering you? Biting someone may mean the pressure you are putting on some other person.

 

Black - Hidden things. Your shadow (an aspect of your personality that is hidden, unknown and/or repressed within your unconscious mind.Black may represent dispair or depression. Do you feel depress in your real life? The negative.

 

Black Widow - May symbolize a fear of hidden unconsciuous aspects. A fear or uncertainty of a relationship. Hostility toward your feminine aspects or your significant other.

 

Blackberries - Hidden sexual desires.

 

Blackbird - Fear of unconscious contents.

 

Blackboard - The unconscious trying to communicate to your conscious mind. Pay attention to the message.

 

Blackmail - The unconscious seeking to dominate your conscious actions. A feeling weakness and helplessness. Dreaming that you are blackmailing someone may indicate your issues with power and domination.

 

Blacksmith - The foundation that provides inner strength and endurance.

 

Blade - The cutting edge of something in your life that can be threatening. Walking a thin line, a precarious position that you are in.

 

Blanket - Covering up some aspect or emotion. A desire for warmth and attention from others. Wrapped in a blanket may suggest a fear of the unknown, aspects within the unconscious or events in your waking life.

 

Bleach - A desire or need to cleanse oneself of unwanted aspects, emotions, events.

 

Bleachers - Reflecting on past experiences. The gathering of the different aspects of your psyche with the intent to view the whole of who you are.

 

Blender - A desire or need to blend certain aspects about yourself so to balance your life.

 

Blind - A lack of awareness or understanding within yourself. Turning a blind eye to something. May mean not knowing where you are going and/or a feeling of helplessness.

 

Blinking - A refusal or fear to see or recognize the obvious.

 

Blister - An injured ego. Blisters from manual labor may indicate the hard labor that is needed to be put forth to acheive a goal in your life. A blister on the hand may suggest an inability to achieve something. A blister on the face may suggest problems with ego identity or persona.

 

Blizzard - Cold and frigid emotions. Feelings of exclusion. An absence of warmth in a relationship.

 

Blond - A desire for a glamorous life {could be positive or negative}. Blond may represent the fair side of the psyche, a harmoneous, balanced self {or a desire for this aspect}.

 

Blood - Life's energy source. Love, passion, life itself. Losing blood may suggest you are losing energy because of inner conflicts or waking conflicts. Feelings of being emotionally drained. Dreaming that you are drinking blood may indicate that you have a thurst for vitality and power. Women often dream of blood or of someone bleeding shortly before or during their periods and when they are pregnant.

 

Also:

Blood may be a symbol of life or physical, emotional, and/or spiritual energy. It may also symbolize passion, love or even anger. Dreaming that you are bleeding or losing blood may mean that you are feeling emotionally drained. Shedding blood may also represent guilt. Dreaming that something is written in blood may represent the energy you have put into a project. Drinking blood means receiving new life or new strength. 'Displaced' blood may be menstrual blood which for a woman may represent a sexually related anxiety, and for a man may represent a fear of sex and/or of women.

 

Blossom - You are in a period of productivity or prosperity. Maturity, or a need to mature. The beauty within yourself. Your great potential needing to blossom.

 

Blue - the unconscious mind as related to the universal mind (nature). Depression,"the blues".

 

Blueprint - Intellectual thinking. The basic makeup of your psyche/ego/persona. A need to pay close attention to details.

 

Blur - An inability to recognize unconscious contents or obvious situations in your life. Confusion. Secrets that are nor recognizable.

 

Blush - A need to be more expressive. A sign of healthy aspects in your life. Embarassment.

 

Boar - An uncontrollable masculine aspect. A need to castrate certain masculine aspects that can be controlling {i.e. being overly aggressive, over bearing, combative, too competitive}.

 

Boats - May symbolize some aspect of the feminine, either with a plainly sexual reference or with reference to the unconscious. May symbolize transition if the boat is crossing a narrow stretch of water. If in a dream you miss the boat, you have failed to take advantage of an opportunity that offered itself to you.

 

Body - If the body is your own and is clothed, it may represent your ego. If uncolthed it may represent exposing your ego as it really is; controlling and out of balance with your total psyche. If it is some else's body, it may represent some hidden part of yourself. If of the opposite sex it may represent your soul or the anima/animus.A dead body may signify some part of you that is as good as dead because you have surpressed or ignored it.

 

Bog - Your are bogged down with some personal problem. If bogged down to your waist in the dream, you may need to activate or express some instinct or unconscious desire, some part of your lower nature.

 

Boiling - Things that are planned and are out of control {boiling over}. Unconscious contents that are 'boiling over' into consciousness often causing distress. Emotional turmoil.

 

Bolt - Fleeing from a situation in your life. Dreaming of a bolt may symbolize the threads that unite the different aspects of your psyche. Or it may suggest that you are protecting yourself from difficult emotions and experiences.

 

Bomb - An unconscious emotional force. The bomb could represent repressed desires and unexpressed emotions that are likely to explode or burst if not dealt with soon. A bomb threat may suggeststhat you are experiencing some inner anger and/or pressures which are on the verge of exploding into violence or erupting into your conscious life and causing pain and possible destruction.

 

Bondage - Emotions that are repressed or you are unable to express. In a sexual sense, dreams of bondage represents your desires to be more sexually submissive or that you have unacknowledged sexual passions.

 

Bone - The underlying structure of your personality/pysche. Underlying strengths and principles that sustain your life. Broken bones may represent weaken principles, or suggest weakness in plans or ideas in your waking life.

 

Bonfire - Fire aften symbolizes passion, anger, libido. A bonfire may represent a fire out of control or on the verge of being out of control.

 

Bonnet - Sheldered ideas, old fashioned beliefs. Prehaps you are closed minded to new possibilities due to outdated beliefs.

 

Book - Could represent a positive meaning - wisdom or valuable knowledge, or negative- mere opinions, therories or superficial learning. May also symbolize knowledge, intellect, information and wisdom. Dreaming of children's books may represent a collection of personal memories from your own childhood. It may also suggest your desire to escape from reality and retreat into some fantasy world.

 

Bookkeeper - {Accountant}. May represent those things you need to be held accountable for in yours, and others people's lives. Taking account of a situation.

 

Bookshelf - Storing information that may provide valuable insights later on. Are you taking heed of such wisdom? May represent the various levels of your mind where ideas, concepts, and memories are kept.

 

Boomerang - May symbolize that things that return to haunt you later in life {possible unconsciously}. 'What goes around, comes around.' Also may represent schemes in your life that go awry.

 

Boot - Wearing of boots may symbolize taking a bold position. Power foundations that when properly used will result in strong positions of strength. If used inapproperiately {worn out boots} may result in disaster. Protecting ones principles and beliefs.

 

Border - Where unconscious and conscious meet, offering vital info about some 'foreign' or unknown aspects about yourself. May represent a transition to a new phase in your life. The conversion of two states of mind or attitudes that may have been in conflict but are now coming together.

 

Boss - An authority figure. Or, an attitude on your part of being 'too bossy'. Authoritative {masculine} side of your own personality {see anima/animus}. Dreaming that you are afraid of your boss indicates your fear of authority. Mya represent actual work related issues that need to be resolved.

 

Bottle - If bottle is empty, it could symbolize emptiness in your life. The contents of the bottle indicate the nature of the emotions. For Freud, it represents the vagina. Also, bottled up emotions.

 

Boulder - May represent major onstacles in your life. But may also symbolize strength.

 

Boundary - May symbolize limitations. Perhaps you are limiting yourself beyond the boundaries of what is possible.

 

Bouquet - Symbol of approval, respect and/or affection. Healing or spiritual healing.

 

Bow - Dreaming of a archer's bow may represent pursuit and accomplishing goals. Bowing symbolizes resepct, perhaps for one's own ability or oneself.

 

Bow and Arrow - Merging of masculine and feminine enegeries to create a balance. May also symbolize a desire for perfection. Look at your love relationships for answers.

 

Bowel Movement - Eliminating unwanted or unneeded aspects in your life. Getting rid of your old habits/ways and thinking patterns.

 

Bowl - May symbolize the womb in which case you need to look to new possibilities in your life. May represent areas of your life that provide sescurity.

 

Bowling - May refer to the strikes, hits, and misses in your life. Alternatively, bowling and bowling alleys may also be a metaphor for sexual conquest. The pin deck is symbolic of the womb or vagina (as is with with any dark receptacle like caves, bowls, containers, etc.) The pins and bowling balls, can be viewed as masculine symbols.

 

Box - Freud saw anything hollow as a sexual representation of the womb of the vagina. May represent yourself, or your psyche. Openning the box would them be extremely important for you. May symbolize the unconscious, the fear of the powers within the unconscious (as in Pandora's box). May represent limitations or feelings of being boxed in. If opening the box fills you will fear, you may be uncovering aspects of yourself that make you feel anxious.

 

Boxcar - Those parts of yourself that are limiting your ability to be your true self. Those parts that you feel are inadequate.

 

Boxing - External conflicts that require you to defend yourself. May also represent internal conflict that is boxing you in and preventing an adequate balance in your life.

 

Boy

               

Boy

 

If you are female and dream that you see or are a boy, then it indicates that you are developing the masculine aspects of character. Alternatively, it may represent your feelings about a real-life boy who is important and significant to you. You may have a crush on this boy and your waking thoughts of him has carried over into the dream world. Your motherly instincts may be taking over.

If you are an adult male and dream that you see or are a boy, then it suggests your playful, innocent, childlike nature. Alternatively, it can symbolize the immature aspects of yourself that still needs to grow. Your inner child may be trying to draw your attention to parts of yourself that you need to recognize and acknowledge.

 

Boy Scout - May symbolize commitments and/or disciplines. May represent a sense of community, belonging, and/or helpfulness. May symbolize naivity, giving in to prescribed ideas that are naive.

 

Boyfriend - May symbolize an actual relationship to a male figure in your life. For a woman it may symbolize the relationship to her masculine side. Incorporating masculine aspects without letting them rule creates balance. Those masculine aspects that can be trusted.

 

Bra - Dreaming that you are wearing a bra means support and protection. Perhaps you need to have your spirits uplifted. Alternatively, it may represent your nurturing side and maternal feelings. Dreaming that you are not wearing a bra indicates that you have no discipline or control. Alternative, it may reflect your sexual nature. {from hyperdictionary

 

Bracelet - Those things that strengthen your abilities in life. Dreaming of or wear a bracelet may refer to an expression of deep passion and fire.

 

Braces - Braces for the teeth may symbolize talking too much and doing too little. Perhaps you are too quick to criticize others, or yourself. Braces for the legs may suggest you are relying too much on others for support. The dream may also be a pun on "brace yourself".

 

Bragging - Feelings of insecurity by overcompensating actions of your shortcomings.

 

Braids - Over-emphasising your ego-persona. Hair braids may represent an orderly way of thinking.

 

Brain - Your intellectual abilities, perhaps relying too much on intellectual thinking and too little on intuitive feelings. Your problem solving abilities, or lack of. Being an organ of the body, it may symbolize an aspect that is thought to be the highest self but in reality is subordinate to the heart chakra. Too much thinking and not enough giving.

 

Brakes - A need or desire to slow down in some aspect in your life. Failing brakes may suggest and inability to slow down, possibly creating disasterous collisions {conflicts}.

 

Branch - Parts of yourself that have the ability to expand and grow. Broken branches may symbolize an inability to branch out, or grow in your personal life. May also represent your relationship with family or close friends.

 

Brass - May symbolize deception, falsehood and deceitfulness. Also aggressive attitudes.

 

Bread - Life's basic needs. Something that is placed between two slices of bread may indicate those things that are fulfilling and helps you meet your required needs for survival. Communion with your higher self {a need to communicate with your unconscious self}.

 

Break - Breaking something may indicate needed changes in your life. Or it may indicate a need to break away from those things that bind or limit you.

 

Breakdown - Anything that breaks down is probably an indication something in your life is breaking down.

 

Breakfast - Beginning of a new stage in your life that provides needed nourishment. May be a straightforward symbol of thinking ahead to the next morning's meal.

 

Breasts - could be reference to a desire on your part for sex or love. May symbolize your mother (mother's breasts), indicating an attachment to your mother or the lack of love from the mother. A symbol for your relationship to 'Mother Earth'. This is the metaphysical aspect of dream. This is the source of all life. What is your relationship with the 'inner child?' See also Breasts

 

Breast Feeding - Symbolizes tenderness, love, nurture, and motherly love. Perhaps there is still a need for required loved that has been missed in your life.

 

Breathe - Dreaming that you are breathing rapidly indicates that you are experiencing some anxiety, tension, or fear concerning a new situation in your waking life. Dreaming that you are breathing underwater, represents a retreat back into the womb. You want to return to a state where you were dependent and free from responsibilities. Perhaps you are feeling helpless, unable to fulfill your own needs and caring for yourself. Alternatively, you may be submerged in your emotions. Dreaming that you are holding your breath indicates your stubborn state of mind. Your views may be one-sided and the dream is telling you to be open to the opinions of others. Dreaming that you cannot breathe indicates that you are feeling exhausted. Dreaming that you have bad breath, suggests that you are misleading others. {from hyperdictionary}

 

Breeze - Minor changes in your life. Those tasks that seem hard at first are really quite easy.

 

Bribery - You are easily influenced by others. Bribing someone may suggest you want your way and will do what it takes to have it. Or you may be too demanding, you expect too much for too little effort.

 

Bride - Integration of neglected {feminine} aspect of the Self. What part {feminine aspect} of you has been neglected and now wants to be known to you consciously?

 

Bridegroom - May symbolize the animus in a woman's dream, representing the masculine side of her personality. Perhaps you ned to integrate the masculine aspect into your life.

 

Bridge - A transition. Are there changes occuring in your life? This could be physical, psychological or spritual. Dreaming of a bridge collapse indicates that you have let a great opportunity pass you by. May symbolize birth, a transition from one phase in your life to another. Freud saw the bridge as a symbol of the sexual organ.

 

Briefcase - Carrying your responsibilities and stresses around with you.

 

Bronze - Concerns about your beauty and health. Trying to cover up the inner self with artifical beauty. {as in a tan}

 

Brook - May symbolize healing or reinvigoration; a relaxed flow of energy.

 

Broom - A need to clean up those things in your life. You may need to 'sweep' clean unconscious aspects making them visible to the 'accompany' conscious mind. Domestic aspects. May refer to the female shadow aspect of yourself.

 

Brothel - A need or desire to incorporate those aspects you once considered unwanted or undesirable but are in reality part of the human self. May indicate dissatisfaction and deprivation in your emotional or sexual relationship. A neglected feminine side because it is considered undesirable.

 

Brother - The masculine part of yourself (psyche). Projection of those qualities you find in your brother onto someone else or yourself. May symbolize some aspect of your relationship with your real brother. If you do not have a brother and dream that you have one, then he may symbolize masculine characteristics that you need to acknowledge within yourself.

 

Bruise - May symbolize a bruised ego. An injury to your ego.

 

Brush - A desire to 'brush' away something in your life, perhaps simple things that are annoying or not needed or they could be serious things needing further consideration. Searching your intelligent self for answers.

 

Bubble - An impracticable and illusory idea. Transparent attitudes or emotions that are capable of bursting.

 

Bubble Bath - Trying to cleansing yourself with artifical ideas. Total relaxation in a world of stress.

 

Bucket - An open impression of oneself. An empty bucket may represent a false impression of oneself, or feelings of an empty life.

 

Buddha - A symbol of your spiritual Self. Symbolizes wisdom, insight, compassion, discipline and inner spirituality.

 

Buffalo - May symbolize those human animal aspects that survive through difficult situations. May represent fertile opportunities that are offered to you in your path to self awareness.

 

Bug - Little things that you worry about. What's bugging you? Bugs are insects which ay symbolize either your attitudes toward your instinctive drives or unconscious forces that seem to constitute a threat to the rule of reason. If a solitary insect, it may be bringing a message from your inner self (the unconscious). Remember the cricket in Pinocchio's adventure?

 

Building - A symbol for the body and self. A damages building may represent some part of you that has been emotionally damaged. Dreaming that you or someone fall off a building may suggest that you are descending into the realm of unconscious. The lower parts of a building symbolize the unconscious aspects, the higher parts the conscious or intellectual aspects.

 

Bulb - May symbolize the inner light, those inner resources that provide the energies you need for a balanced, harmoneous life. Dreaming of a plant bulb may represent your spiritual, physical, and intellectual potential.

 

Bull - In a woman's dream it may represent the animus. The bull may refer to your masculinity (whether you are male or female).The taming of a bull may signify the harmonious integration of your animality, especially your sexuality, or th whole of the hidden, unconscious part of your psyche.The bull may symbolize fertility, as in mythology. Your unconscious has the power to bring about new life if you allow it to penetrate your conscious mind. May represent your true nature - as seen when one practices self exploration of the psyche. May symbolize stubbornness, strong will, strength, and power. Bulls are also symbolic of repressed sexual energies, fertility and virility. Dreaming of an untamed, raging bull represents that your passions may be out of control.

 

Bulldozer - May symbolize a desire or need to less utilize those masculine aspects that are often damaging to you or others . Dreaming of a bulldozer may suggess that you are feeling pushed away from what you want. Or you are being diverted away from the path to your goals.

 

Bullet - A symbol for anger and/or aggression. Dreaming of being hit by a bullet may represent those things thrown at you in life that require perseverance. Freud saw bullets as a sexual symbol, fired from a gun would represent the sexual act.

 

Bullfight - Struggle between the inner self and outer ego. Using the masculine aspects to destroy other vital aspects of the psyche.

 

Bully - May symbolize your dominating ego. Or it may represent a dominating unconscious that unknowing controls your conscious life. The bully may be seen as your shadow Self which you have rejected.

 

Bunjee Jumping - Dreaming that you are bunjee jumping may represent your ability to bounce back from adversities and setbacks in your life. The important thing is you took the initial risk.

 

Bunk Bed - Dreaming of bunk beds may represent childhood and innocence. Alternatively, it may refer to diverging and conflicting views of sexuality.

 

Buoy - The ability to hold your head above the emotional stesses in your life. It may suggest that some of your repressed thoughts or unconscious material has come to the surface and made itself known.

 

Burden - carrying a heavy load in your life. Someone is 'on your back' and needs to be told to get off.

 

Burglar - May symbolize something in your psyche that is trying to break into your consciousness. Those things that you feel are stolen away from you. Feelings of being emotionally or physically drained.

 

Burial - A death to old attitudes and/or habits. Putting to rest a part of yourself. You are finally letting go of something.

 

Burning - Feelings of anger or frustration. There is some situation or issue in your life that you can no longer avoid and ignore. Emotions or attitudes that tend to consume you.

 

Burst - Things that put you under a lot of stress and are capable of bursting or overcoming you.

 

Bus - The many aspects that make up your total self. {Everyone on a bus is usually a symbol for some aspect of yourself}. Dreaming that you are at the bus station may suggest that you have reached some new level or stage in your emotional or physical life. Waiting for a bus may symbolize an unconscious realization about yourself that is coming to conscious awareness.

 

Bus Driver - Suggests the person or internal aspect that control you or your destiny. A school bus driver may mean that through knowledge and learning you will advance rapidly in life, or will learn more about yourself through personal discovery.

 

Bush - Dreaming that you are hiding behind a bush may suggests that you are seeking protection from an outer or inner problem. A bush has spreading branches. Are you spreading yourself out too much, or not enough? May symbolize stunted personal growth.

 

Butcher - Aggressive part of self that tends to cut away at you. Raw emotions are inapproperiate behavior.

 

Butter - Overindulging in the pleasures of life.

 

Butterfly - Transformation to a higher level of Self. New realizations of who you truly are.

 

Buttocks - Sitting on valuable and unused assets. May represent your instincts and urges.

 

Buttons - Dreaming of button may indicate a dsire for wealth and security. Dreaming that you are unbuttoning your clothes indicates that you are opening yourself to others. Perhaps you need to 'button up' in some aspect of your life.

 

Buying - Accepting or searching to obtain certain aspects about yourself. An attachment to material things.

 

Buzzard - May symbolize an end of some aspect in your life, perhaps taking a long time to completely dissolve. It may represent an ugly aspect of yourself.

 

 

Cab - Someone is taking you for a ride. The person{s} or aspects in your life that control your destiny? May represent scandal and/or gossip.

 

Cabbage - Spreading out, growing in your personal life. A symbol for material or monetary things in your life {cabbage as used in money}.

 

Cabin - Independent and self-reliant. Simple side of your life. Unconscious aspects that desire to live a simplier life.

 

Cabinet - Storing place for unneeded or unwanted aspects of yourself. Your unconscious. Your feminine qualties often hidden away and not used.

 

Cable - Strength, durability, the ability to hold your own weight. Less used aspects of your psyche.

 

Cactus - Self protection. Thorny issues within your life often hidden away from sight. May be symbolic of your need to defend yourself in some way.

 

Cafeteria - Food for thought. Are you giving enough attention to those nourishing things in your life? Is their conflict in your thought process?

 

Cage - You feel imprisoned, trapped. Is the door locked? Leave if it is not. You are experiencing some inhibitions and feelings of powerlessness. It is also symbolic of you being able to control you animalistic rages and anger. Seeing a bird in a cage may suggest that you are feeling limited in your expression and a sudden lost of freedom.

 

Cage - A sense of accomplishment that provides reward internally and/or externally. Sharing yourself with others. Consider also the metaphor a "piece of cake" or some situation that is easy.

 

Cake - Seeing a cake in your dream indicates that you need to learn to share and allocate your workload instead of trying to do everything yourself. Cakes also symbolize selfishness or the feeling of not getting your fair share. More positively, the dream may represent your accomplishments and achievements. Consider also the metaphor a "piece of cake" or some situation that is easy. Seeing a partially eaten cake in your dream means missed and lost opportunities. Dreaming that you are buying a cake, suggests that you have accepted the rewards and recognition your are getting for our work. You are learning to be comfortable in the spotlight. {from hyperdictionary}

 

Calculator - The thinking aspect of your psyche. Evaluating choices or aspects in your life. May be a metaphor for someone who is calculating, cunning and scheming.

 

Calender - A need to be better organized. Different periods of your life that need analyzing.

 

Calf - Your immature ego self. Undeveloped qualities. The aspects that lend themselves to a stronger personality.

 

Sigmund Freud

 

Freud theorized that there were two types of dream content - manifest and latent. Manifest (superficial) content, he believed, had no significance because it was a mask for underlying (unconscious) issues of the dream. He believed the latent content contained unconscious wishes or fantasies. He also postulated that dreams originated either from the id or the ego. If it originated from the ego–it satisfied an instinct, according to Freud. If it originated from the id, it solved a conflict.

 

Calm - Controlled emotions. The 'calm' before the storm. Are you resting on your laruels and unprepared for the worst?

 

Calomel -May symbolize that you are being manipulated and used by others.

 

Calves - Symbolizes movement and your ability to jump from situation to situation. The power to control situations that are constantly changing.

 

Camel - You may need to conserve yourself for future problems or events. You tend to hold on and cling on to your emotions instead of expressing and releasing them. An ability to handle big problems, responsibilities, and burdens.

 

Camera - Projections of the self condition. The dream is a camera, taking pictures of your true self and not the imaged self as seen during your waking hours. Holding on to the past. A need to examine your past.

 

Camouflage - Hiding your true self and feelings. Covering up your true emotions. Hiding behind a persona that is not the true person within.

 

Camper - A person who leaves their worries behind. Do you worry too much? Also it is a covering for your vehicle, your ego. Are you covering up something within yourself or from someone else? You may be dwelling on a situation and it is time to move forward.

 

Campfire - A need to share more of yourself with others. A need to open up to unconscious aspects that can be consuming.

 

Camping - Openning up to your true idenity. A need to relax, get away from everyday stresses. A need to be more in touch with nature and for a simpler life.

 

Campus - A need to need to expand your thinking/knowledge. The outer aspects of your personality.

 

Can - Those aspects that are sealed away. Preserving certain aspects of yourself that are nourishment for your spiritual life.

 

Can Opener - A willingness to accept new ideas/concepts. A willingness to open up to others, or to those unconscious aspects that need to be made conscious.

 

Canary - Seeing a canary in your dream, represents happiness and harmony. A need to open up to your creative self. The unconscious informing the conscious mind of unknown aspects.

 

Cancer - Those things in your life that are killing you {literally and/or metaphorically}. Those things that are out of control. Disturbing aspects in your life that threaten to overcome your healthy self. The dream may be informing you of an actual disease of the body.

 

Candle - A lighted candle symbolizes enlightenment, awareness or the search for truth. A burning candle symbolizes getting old or a fear of dying. Seeing a candle blow out in your dream indicates that you are surrendering a significant aspect of yourself. For Freud this would be the penis.

 

Candy - A need for extra energy. Over-indulgence instead of following a balance routine.

 

Cane - A need for support and/or advice. A crutch that you lean on, someone or something that lends support.

 

Cannibalism - Symbolizes a destructive attitudes or emotions. Those things that consume you or your energy. Dreaming that you are a victim of cannibalism means that you feel that you are being "eating alive" by work, a relationship. or a situation in your waking life.

 

Cannon - A symbol for aggressiveness; sexual energy; your hostilities toward someone, something or yourself.

 

Canoe - Emotional balance. Giving attention to unconscious aspects that lend themselves to a harmoneous life.

 

Canopy - Symbolizes protection. It may symbolize protection from unconscious contents. What are you repressing?

 

Canteen - A desire to satisfy your emotional needs.

 

Canyon - May symbolize hidden emotions or your complexes. It may point to emotions and relationships that you did not recognize.

 

Cap - Covering up the intellectual processes needed to make good judgements. An informal aspect of yourself {as opposed to formal thinking of who you think you are}.

 

Cape - Feelings of superiority {as in the cape of Superman}. May indicate that you are trying to shield yourself from being emotionally hurt. It may also mean that you are trying to cover-up or hide something.

 

Capsize - Things are topsy turvy in your life {or seem to be that way}. You are avoiding situations in your life.

 

Captain - Taking charge or controll of situations or emotions. You {or who is seen in the dream as a captain} are in command.

 

Car

               

Vehicles

 

A private vehicle probaby represents you. Where is the vehicle going? In a straight line, or on a winding road?

If you are a passenger in a vehicle, this may mean you are not in control of your life or some aspect of it: so who is driving - what unconscious mechanism has taken over your life?

A bus may symbolize yourself and the passengers might represent aspects of your personality or elements of your psyche.                

Schoolbus

 

Car - You, your ego, your personality, your persona, your life and it's direction. Who is driving the car? Where are you sitting in the car? If you are in the driver's seat then you are in control of (or wish to take control) of your life. If someone else is in the driver's seat, they may be controlling your life. Are you riding on all four wheels? If not, something may be missing in your life. Are the tires flat? You may feel your life is going no where. Are there others in the car? These may be unknown (or known but repressed) aspects of your personality. What color is the car? If it is red if may symbolize anger on your part.

Also:

Seeing a parked car in your dream, suggests that you need to turn your efforts and energies elsewhere.

Dreaming that you are almost hit by a car, suggests that your lifestyle, beliefs or goals may be in conflict with another's.

Dreaming that you are unable to roll up the windows of your car, suggests that you are showing some hesitation and reservation about the direction that you are taking in life or the path that you have chosen.

Dreaming that you are driving a car means your ambition, your drive and your ability to navigate from one stage of your life to another.

 

Card - Playing cards may symbolize a gamble on your part. It also may mean that you have successfully utilized skills of bluff, strategy, and timing in your everyday life. In particular, diamonds indicates wealth, clubs indicated work, hearts indicate happiness in love, and spades indicate troubling times are in your near future.

 

Carnation - Seeing carnations in your dream, symbolizes light-heartedness, vitality and joy. Alternatively, it may represent bachelorhood.

 

Carnival - Those things in your life that distract you from your intended goals. Disorganiztion. Festival moods that may lead to false assumptions of reality. Dreaming that you are on a carnival ride, suggests that you are going in circles. It may also symbolize cheap thrills.

 

Carousel - Moving around a central object, becoming aware - ot asked by your dream to become aware - of your true self. Going around in circles means not achieving anything. May represent a vicious circle where you are (or feel) trapped in a situation that only can get worse. Also may represent memories of childhood freedoms that you long to return to.

 

Carp - Seeing a carp in your dream indicates that you need to put aside your pride and ego and not let it get in the way of friendships and relationships.

 

Carpenter - Overcoming obstacles in life. A desire or need to build on relationships or to build upon successes. Framing your goals so they are understood.

 

Carpet - Protecting yourself from realities of life. Covering up the realities, or true aspects of who you are. Sweeping things away from view, repressed emotions that you are covering up.

 

Carriage - Being pulled along by unwelding forces. Dreaming that you are riding in a carriage may mean that you will be put into an awkward position.

 

Carrot - Vegetables are often symbolic of abundance. It may also symbolize a lure as in the pun "dangle a carrot".

 

Cartoon- Avoiding the realities in life. Dreaming that your real life is depicted in a cartoon world means that you are perceiving the world in a comical and unserious manner. Dreaming that you are watching cartoons indicates that you are not taking life seriously. The charatcetrs in a cartoon may represent aspects of your psyche that are less than real than they should be.

 

Cartwheel - Achieving balance through great effort and patience. Having confidence in your abilities. You are able to handle obstacles and stress with more fortitude.

 

Carving - Transforming unconscious energy into conscious awareness. Your creative abilities. Carving an animal may suggest you are cutting up parts of yourself.

 

Cash Register - Registering your successes, putting things into proper perspective. May represent financial conerns. On the other hand, you may be expecting monetary gains.

 

Casino - Gambling on life, risk taking. Taking a chance on those aspects that are not normally part of your everyday life.

 

Casket - Burying yourself in emotions or attitudes that will cause changes. An end to something in your life. normally something that needs to be buried and laid to rest. With death of one thing comes new opportunities, new life.

 

Castle - Your self image. A castle is a fortified building(s). Have you fortified your emotions to prevent them from becoming conscious? Seeing a castle in your dream may mean reward, honor, recognition, and praise for your achievements. It may mean you need or seek protection fom something in your life.

 

Castration - Removing obstacles that prevent a normal sexual life. Cutting oneself off from the norm; or from a normal sexual relationship. A lack of creativity.

 

Cat - The feminine part of yourself. We all have qualities that are masucline and feminine. The feminine aspect represents the positive, creative, emotional self. In mythology cats are associated with the 'Goddess'. This is a reference to new growth in your life. If you are into Wicca, or have read stories recently of witches, a black cat could represent your higher self. Black cats also represent bad luck. Have you had unfavorable things happening in your life?

Also:

If the cat is aggressive, then it suggests that you are having problems with the feminine aspect of yourself.

Dreaming that a cat is biting you, symbolizes the devouring female.

Seeing a black cat in your dream indicatesa lack of confidence in your intuitive self.

 

Cat

               

Cats

 

Cats have both positive and negative connotations. You need to consider all of the details in the dream in order to obtain accurate interpretation. The cat can be a symbol of sexuality, femininity, prosperity and power. A cat is also an independent animal, and in your dream you may be associating yourself or someone else with these characteristics. Usually the dream is telling you about yourself and not others. Historically black cats have been symbols of evil and bad luck. If you are a cat lover and have one as a pet, the symbolism may not apply to your dream. Old, superstition-based dream interpretations say that a cat is a bad omen and that you can expect deceit from those that you trust

 

Caterpillar - Transition or transformation. A need to or in the process of changing from one thing to another. Being unaware of one's potential and/or beauty. Your evolving life. Stages in life, personal growth and development. Have you reached your goals in life?

 

Cathedral - Your spiritual self. Your higher self, having to do with creativity, the ability to make accomplishments.

 

Cattle - Giving in to the social duty; lacking individuality. Going with the flow. Being herding like cattle indicates you are giving in to social pressures, going along with the crowd.

 

Cauldron - Seeing a cauldron in your dream, implies that you are undergoing some transformation.

 

Cauliflower - Seeing or eating cauliflower in your dream, symbolizes spiritual nourishment, purity and perfection. Alternatively, the cauliflower represents the brain.

 

Cave - The unconscious mind. Pay attention to caves in your dreams. A cave may symbolize the womb. This could be a reference to the mother relationship or your relationship to your higher spiritual being. Finding treasure in a cave is finding your true self. A monster or evil spirit in a cave is an aspect of yourself which you are afraid of. Bring it up and face it. You cannot heal what you do not know or understand.

 

Caveman - Your most primitive instincts. Using these instincts may provide knowledge beyond the normal rahge of humna understanding. Your intuitive instincts.

 

Ceiling - Your intellect {as opposed to your intuitive self}. The highest possibility of a thing in your life. Seeking to obtain your highest possible place.

 

Celebration - Achievements in life. Symbolizes freedom and emotional release. Celebration dreams are common for those who anticipate some upcoming turning points or events in their waking life.

 

Celebrities - Higher aspirations, sometimes realistic, sometimes not. Seeing a celebrity in your dream may represent your beliefs and understanding about him or her, and may represent those qualities the celebrity possesses you wish to possess.

 

Celibacy - May represent your fears of intimacy. Abstaining from the norms in life.

 

Cell Phone - Being receptive to new ideas. Mobility. Getting in touch with your inner self. Dreaming that you lost your cell phone, represents a lack of communication. You have lost touch with some aspect of your feelings or your Self.

 

Cellar - The deepest part of your unconscious mind. Explore this area first. They can be frightening places. What in your life seems dark and damp and in the depths? Most of the time they seem that way because of our fear to confront them. They ususally turn out to be harmless.

 

Cello - Sensual or creative achievements. You are exhibiting much strength and stability.

 

Cement - The glue that holds things together in your life. Harden emotions.

Cemetery - May symbolize death. Not an actual death but a death to some aspect in your life. Perhaps you need to lay to rest some emotional aspect that has outlived its usefullness. May also mean sadness and unresolved grief.

 

Centaur - Seeing a centaur in your dream, symbolizes the duality of human nature. It indicates that you are trying to balance your intellectual/mental nature with your physical nature. The centaur also represents humanity, wisdom, and compassion.

 

Centipede - May suggest that you are letting your fears and doubts hinder you from making progress and achieving your goals.

 

Cereal - Orginal thinking that provides personal growth. It may also indicate your need to restore yourself in some basic way.

 

Certificate - Validating some aspect in your life.

 

Chain - Links to other parts of self. If you are chained up you have something in your life that has you shackled.

 

Chain Saw - Taking drastic measures to obtain changes in your life. Cutting away those unneeded or unwanted aspects. Getting to the heart of the matter.

 

Chair - Positioning yourself by taking control. May symbolize your need to sit down and take time out to contemplate a situation before proceeding. Dreaming that someone is offering you a chair means that you need to be open to taking and accepting advice.

 

Chalice - Your spiritual Self or a need for spiritual nourishment. Search for your individuality.

 

Chalk - An ability to understand the inner self. Learning who you really are. Learning experiences in life.

 

Chalkboard - Seeking to understand life experiences. Testing your ability to understand yourself or aspects about yourself. Learning experiences as seen from a 3rd party {as in the dream}.

 

Chameleon - Changes, flexability. An ever changing personality to suite the occurance. Adapting to new situations. Changing to please or suite others.

 

Chandelier - Seeking a brighter, perhaps grandeur future.

 

Charcoal - Going through transformations, changes. Changes in your unconscious self that can be benefitical to your conscious being. Changes having to do with heavy emotions, anger, fear, passion.

 

Chariot - Being driven by external forces, possibly having to do with conflicts in your life. A need to exercise more control over your life.

 

Charm Bracelet - May be symbolic of protection from any harm., realistic or imagined.

 

Chase - Avoiding or running away from a situation you feel incapable of handling. Chasing someone or some thing may represent a desire to obtain something these things possess.

 

Cheap - Feelings of inadequacy. Buying something that is cheap may suggest you are cheating yourself of self value.

 

Cheat/Cheating - Compromising values or principles. You may feel that you are not measuring up to the expectations of others. It could be a direct reference to some activity in our waking lives. To cheat is to be dishonest. Or it could represent cheating on our true self, an unconscious condition that is played out consciously. We are social animals and our responsibilty to our creative, spiritual selves are often neglected and ignored. Our persona may be an extension of our fantasies.

 

Check - May represent feelings of being indebted to others. Seeing a blank check in your dream symbolizes your unused potential. Seeing a check mark in your dream indicates approval and acceptance. The dream may also be a pun on checking things out.

 

Checkboard - The many aspects and facets of your personality.

 

Cheek - May symbolize intimacy and commitment. Also slang for buttocks.

 

Cheerleader - Is there competition in your life for which you need others suppport? Dreaming of being a cheerleader may indicate you have high esteem, or wish to.

 

Cheetah - May suggest you need to put your pursuit of acquiring something you wish to have or need into high gear.

 

Chef - You have the ability or should strive to have the ability to choose your own course in life. If food is involved in the dream it may suggest you are spending too much energy focusing on eating.

Chemical - Could symbolize transformations within your life. Look to spirituality if the chemical process involves gold. May also represent manipulation.

 

Cherry - May symbolize good fortune which are produced by personal growth and dedication to those goals that provide growth.

 

Cherub - Those innocent qualities of childhood.

 

Chess - A need to thoroughly think things through. The game of life. Are you the pawn or king?

 

Chest - Do you need to get someting 'off your chest'? Also symbolizes confidence and confrontation.

 

Chew - Dreams of chewing something mya indiacte a need to sort things out. Chewing gum may represent going through the same experience over and over again.

 

Chihuahua - May symbolize some vocal aspect for which you need to pay attention, perhaps unconscious contents.

 

Chicken - May symbolize some fear within the unconscious. Or a fear of confronting something in your life {are you chicken?}. May represent excessive chatter and gossip.

 

Children - Childhood aspects of yourself. Vulnerability, innocence part of your personality. A reference to a childhood experience. What has it to do with your life today?

 

Children

               

Children

 

If the child in your dream is you as a child, the significance of the dream may have to do with a childhood experience.

The child may be a symbol of your true self, That which is essentially you and which you are capable of unfolding. The fact that your real self is represented by a child suggests that your true self is a a beautiful unspoilt product of Nature; that is worthy of unreserved love; and that it needs the nourishment of your love if it is to grow.

The child may represent the transcendent nature of the self; it is much more than just your conscious ego or your present image of yourself; it holds together the opposites that are within you, 'head' and 'heart', extroversion and introversion, masculine and feminine.

The child may represent a new beginning, a new development in your psyche - a new attitude to life, a new set of values, a new reconciliation of previously conflicting forces.

There is in all of us a child - our emotional self - that often needs reassurance, to be told that all is well and there is no cause for fear, or anger, or guilt, and that love makes all things good and dissolves all pain. At the same time the child sometimes needs to be chided and corrected if it is eventually to - as it should - grow up.                

Children

 

Chimera - May symbolize those fearsome qualities within the unconscious. A grotesque product of the imagination, it may represent an inability to sort out your thought or emotions.

 

Chimney - May symbolize a need to release stored up guilt or negative feelings. Freud would see a chimney is symbolic of a phallic symbol. May also represent warmth, tradition, and family values.

 

Chin - Wisdom. Support for expressing oneself.

 

Chiropractor - A need for advice or to seek support. Also may symbolize a need to straighten out those things that are out of whack in your life.

 

Chocolate - Rewarding yourself for a job well done. A need for nurturing. Or, are you indulging too much ina good thing?

 

Choir - May symbolize spiritual harmony or a need to 'voice' {apply} these qualities in your waking life.

 

Choking - May symbolize those things that are 'hard to swallow'. If you are choking on food, then it may be an expression of self-guilt and unnurtured feelings. You may feel that you are being prevented or restricted from freely expressing yourself. Choking dreams are often a fearful experience and it is not uncommon for dreamers to awaken from them.

 

Christ - spiritual aspect of the self. Perfection. Are you asking too much of yourself? A healing part of your human psyche. Christ heals the injuried and oppressed. This is referring to the 'Christ' within, the psychological self that can heal the body through positive thinking.

 

Christian - May represent your personal beliefs. Also may suggest too much attention is placed in the masculine aspect.

 

Christmas - Celebration. A new beginning. A time of spiritual birth, or to be exact spiritual rebirth. You may need to spend more time with your spiritual self or your creative self. It is also a time for celebration. Are you celebrating something, or do you need to celebrate some aspect in your life instead of being negative about it?

 

Christmas Card - Reaching out to others. Forgiveness.

 

Christmas Tree - Celebration of personal growth within your life. Self-development, and spiritual enlightenment. It may indicate the expected pleasures, demanding responsibilities, and growing anxieties associated with the holiday season.

 

Chrome - May symbolize energy and vitality. Thats aspect of self that is resistant to outside influeneces, a reflection of inner strength.

 

Chrysanthemum - A need to cultivate those inherent aspects that provide personal growth , abundance and propersity.

 

Church - May symbolize the self, the totaly integrated psyche {which most eveyone has failed to acheieve} .Your unconscious may be urging you to 'center' yourself, to pull yourself together instead of oing in opposite directions.

May symbolize the most sacred or valuable aspect of yourself.

May represent your feelings about religion or about some institutionalized form of religion.

 

Cigar - A relaxed state of mind. For Freud this would symbolize a phallic symbol.

 

Cigarette - A lack of self discipline that may lead to self destruction. May represent a warming of implied illness within the body. Are thing going up in smoke due to an inability to discipline yourself?

 

Cinema - Your life on display. Look to unconscious aspects that may not be seen due to a lack of awareness or proper attention.

 

From dream moods

Circumsise

To dream that you are being circumcised, suggests that you are getting rid of an essential part of yourself. Alternatively, it may mean that you are regressing and cutting yourself off from feeling emotions Circle - Wholeness. You haved reached the part of yourself that has integarted all aspects of your being; physical, psychological, spiritual. Living out of this condition gives life the balance our unconscious psyche seeks. Life is a circle. We start and end up at the same position everyday, neglecting to be aware of what is about us. Put yourself in the center of the circle and not on the hub where you are just spinning your wheels.

Also, are you going around in circles in a particular situation?

 

Circus - May symbolize those aspects of self that need taming. Enjoyment of the creative aspects in life.

 

City - The whole self. Is the city dirty and forbodding? Or is clean and fresh? What part of the city do you reside? May mean a sense of community and your social environment. A city in ruins may symbolize a fear of your life deteriorating.

 

Clam - May suggest you are shutting others out. Or emotionally coldness.

 

Class - Learning experiences in life.

 

Classmates - May symbolize past lessons that can now be applied to your life. May represent aspects of self that lend to better understanding of past experiences.

 

Classroom - Aspects of self that can provide vital information of understanding situations within and without. Lessons in life.

 

Claustrophobia - Close-in {unconscious} feelings of guilt. Actual fear of closed in places.

 

Claw - Feelings of vulnerability. An inability to hold onto things that you feel important.

 

Clay - The ability {or inability} to shape things as you wish to. Creativity. According to Freudian perspective, clay symbolizes feces. This may mean a wasteful use of important qualities in your life.

 

Cleaners - The cleansing of the outer self. A need to clean up your act.

 

Cleaning - Removing negative or unwanted aspects in your life. Getting rid of unwanted burdens. You may need to clear out your thoughts and get rid of your old ways and habits.

 

Cliff - The end of the road. Are you about to fall off or do you look out from the cliff and see great things? What ever is over the cliff represents the state of your being.

 

Climbing - Are you climbing a mountain but getting nowhere? Are you trying to escape from something? Are you trying to escape from some emotional problem?

 

Cloak - Covering up, hiding something. May be an unconscious attitude. Also a need for security, warmth and the feeling of being well protected.

 

Clock - Time is of essence; get on with the task at hand. Note numbers on clock and see' numbers'.

 

Closed - Anything that is closed may symbolize those things that are not available to you. It also represents feelings of inadequacy and frustration.

 

Closet - A storage place for emotions and attitudes; may need cleaning (giving more thought to). Closing yourself off.

 

Cloth - The parts that make up your psyche, your total self. Components and various pieces that composes your life.

 

Clothes - Your persona. Attitudes you carry in life. Are you wearing old and torn clothing? Are you wearing the clothes in the dream or is someone else. This represents an emotion you have towards that person or yourself.

 

Clothesline - Revealing yourself for others to see. Revealing hidden aspects that need to be aired. May also represent your hang-ups.

 

Clothing - Your self-image, persona. How you wish for others to see you. New clothing may symbolize new attitudes, ways of presenting yourself. Dreaming that your clothing is torn or ripped may indicate that there are some flaws in your thinking or thought process. Shopping for clothing may indicate anxieties about yourself.

 

Cloud - A light cloud is inner peace; a dark cloud is low emotional energy, depression; rain clouds means a downpour is imminent.

 

Clover - A four leaf clover symbolizes a complete, balanced self, contentment about your life. You have successfully come to a resolution of some problem. A three leaf clover represents past, present, and future.

 

Clown - Hidden emotions; ability to laugh at oneself.

Club - Combative or aggressive behavior or feelings. It is also symbolic of virility.

 

Coach - High teacher (self) which is offering you assitance. A need for self discipline.

 

Coal - Unknown energy sources of potential self. It also points to your unused potential.

 

Coat - Protection; covering up emotions. Do you have a defensive persona?

 

Coat of Arms - Your roots, true identity.

 

From SpiritCommunity

Coffin

This dream symbol most likely evokes fear, but before making quick interpretations, carefully consider all of the details in this dream. The coffin could symbolize a lack of energy or vitality in the dreamer. It could represent the death of one stage of life and movement into another. (Not necessarily physical death! In fact, some cultures believe that if you see a person dead and in a coffin, he will most likely live a long and healthy life!) When dreaming about coffins, we may be contemplating the nature of the death experience and may access the state of consciousness that is attuned to the spiritual world. Most simply, and most likely, the coffin in your dreams may represent feelings of confinement and lack of freedom

Cobra - Seeing a cobra in your dream, may symbolize creation, and creative energies. Some situation or relationship has you hypnotized.

 

Cobwebs - Unused talents; indecision.

 

Cocaine - May symbolize an addiction to some thing in your life. Dependency on something. Feelings of emptiness or devoid of emotions.

 

Cockroach - Psychological, emotional disturbances that need healing

 

Coffee - Stimulation; habits.

 

Coffin - The ending of a situation or experience; boxed in; feelings that there is no growth in your life.

 

Cold - Cold emotions. Somethung may be cold about how you feel about yourself, life, work or others.

 

College - Advanced growth (spiritual, emotional).

 

Comedy - Not to take oneself so seriously; lighten up.

 

Comet - Unleashing of emotional energy.

 

Commune - Differenting emotions working together to find self harmony.

 

Compass - Direction you are headed in.

 

Computer - Your conscious mind; thoughts and emotions seen in conscious life.

 

Confession - Openning up, relieving a burden; forgiving oneself; a need to verbalize, talk and share with others.

 

Constipation - Emotional suppression; holding on to ideas and attitudes.

 

Construction - Rebuilding who you are; transformation.

 

Contest - Conflict within self.

 

Cook - The various emotions, attitudes, feelings in your life.

 

Coral - The depths of your emotions which are beautiful when understood.

 

Corn - Abundance, growth, fertility. Being more recpetive to the inner self to obtain personal growth.

 

Corpse - A part of the self that has died; Dead feelings.

 

Cosmetics - Covering up; hiding from one's true self; enhancing your self image to bolster confidence.

 

Couch - Examining your beliefs, attitudes, emotions; events in your daily life.

 

Country - Time for growth; expand your horizons; creativity; awareness of nature.

 

Couple - The two parts of self (human-animal and/or spiritual or masucline and/or feminine)

 

Court - Being judged (by self or others); perhaps being driven by guilt feelings.

 

Covenant - Pact with higher self (GOD). Commitments in life.

 

Cow - Cows often symbolize your mother, or motherhood, in the way a mother cow protects and gives an abundant supply of milk {nurturing}. They also represent the animus or feminine aspect of the male psyche. To realize this aspect {feminine} and incorporate it into your life gives balance to your life.

 

Coward - Fear of seeing self as true self; not growing.

 

Crawling - Crawling is slow movement, being on your hands and kness, on the ground, moving slowly toward your desired destination. The ground is your basic belief system or your principles. Are you proceeding as fast as you would like? Or are you proceeding to fast and need to slow down?

 

Crayons - Creativity; expressing emotions.

 

Credit Card - Looking to put off responsibilities, putting off your emotions.

 

Criminal - Cheating oneself of one's potential; following animal desires instead of spiritual and creative grwoth.

 

Critic - Self-discipline; being judgemental.

 

Crop - Growth from self-love and nurturing; small crops mean neglecting one's self or emotions.

 

Cross - Balance; realization of spiritual identity.

 

Crowd - Many parts of self; differenting emotions.

 

Crown - Praise, good work; initiation into higher awareness.

 

From HyperDictionary.com

credit card ---> cypress

 

From hyperdictionary

Crying

Dreaming that you are crying means a release of negative emotions that is more likely caused by some waking situation rather than the events of the dream itself. Your dream is a way to regain some emotional balance and a way to safely let out your fears and frustrations. In our daily lives, we tend to ignore, deny, or repress our feelings. But in our dream state, our defense mechanisms are no longer on guard and thus allow for the release of such emotions. To wake up crying, suggest the grieving of your soul and that you need to change your ways and how you approach things. Dreaming that no one hears or responds to your cries, represents your helplessness and difficulties and frustrations in trying to communicate with others. You feel that your words are falling on deaf ears. Perhaps your dream is telling you to be more vocal and work harder to get your point across

Crucifix - May symbolize martyrdom, sacrificing oneself for their beliefs. This may be an outward condition where you sacrifice your true feelings for anothers benefit or could be repressed emotions where you neglect your real needs.

 

Crucifiction - Underserving punishment of oneself; dying to one aspect of self (with death comes new birth.

 

Cruise - Emotional journey.

 

Crutch - Needing assistance or support; focusing on your handicaps instead of your abilities.

 

Cry - Releaing emotional stress.

 

Cult - Parts of self that follow directions without questions (negative); cutting oneself off from opportunities or relationships.

 

Cup - Spiritual self; full means your centered; empty means you are neglecting your spiritual self.

 

Cupid - Love, growth in romance; taking risks.

 

Cut/Cutting - Removing old parts of self-belief, attitudes. Bleeding from a cut means you are losing emotional energy.

 

 

Dagger - May represent anger or aggression. For Freud it represented the phallus

 

Damsel in Distress - In a man's dream the dream may be calling he to rescue his anima from its imprisonment in the unconscious, to realize the ignored and abused feminine side of his nature.

 

Dam - walled up emotions; if dam has burst emotions are being released.

 

Dance - joyful attitude; the dance of life (metaphysical); or dancing around a problem that you should be giving attention to.

 

Danger - inpending change about to occur; awareness.

 

Darkness - the unconscious breaking through with new information; if frightening it represents your fear of something.

 

Dawn - a fresh start; raising unconscious content to consciousness (be receptive, not fearful of it); illumination.

 

Dead/Death- the end of something, with a new beginning i.e., leaving an old job for a new one; death in a dream rarely means a real death.

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<1>If the dead person is someone you actually knew it may mean you should take notice of what he or she said or did, or what happened to him or her. The person is not coming back to 'haunt' you but to advise you or to help you. In actuality, this person is a part of your own psyche, taking the form of the dead person. Such encounters may help you to fulfill a long desired relationship, or put something right. For example, you may learn to forgive the person {or yourself}and as a consequence get peace and healing for yourself.

<2> If a deceased partner or parent appears in dreams, the above may apply. Bear in mind that the dead do live - inside us; and that it is important to realize when this is a healthy and life-enhansing thing and when it is purely negative, stunting your own personal growth. If it is the latter, resolve to have it out with the dead person the next time he or she appears in a dream

<3> If the dead person in the dream is actually a living person - and especially if that person is your partner or sibling - the dream may be expressing unconscious resentment towards that person, or a desire to be independent. Feelings toward someone close are often ambivalent {simultaneous conflicting feelings toward that person}: love or respect mixed with fear or hatred or resentment or jealousy. The usual conscious response to such a dream will be anxiety, and you will feel anxiety in the dream itself.

<4>The dead person may be you. If so consider the following possibilities:

What is being expressed in the dream may be your own anxiety about dying. Death is inevitable {an old Islamic proverb: when the angel of death appoaches it is horrific, when it reaches you it is bliss}, and facing up to the fact may bring great rewards: self-acceptance; new values; a broadening of one's personality, compensating for past omissions or lopsidedness and utilizing hitherto neglected personal resources. This would be especially applicable if you are in the second half of life.

The message may be that your old self needs to be left behind. This may mean that you must stop carrying around with you the crippling burden of your past {irrational guilt-feelings and martyrdom complex, or any other negative self-progreamming}; and, instead, you must open yourself to what the present moment is offering. Alternatively, the 'old self' may be old attachments, habits, ambitions, values, goals; in which case the dream is telling you that the only way forward for you lies through giving these up and looking deeper within yourself for better values, etc. {where 'better' means more in tune with your real self}.

 

{Primitive rites of passage,as described in mythological symbolism as well as in dreams, which mark transitional stages in a person's life - birth, initiation into adulthood, marriage and career, death - all contain death-and-rebirth symbolism and express a recognition that the development of new attitudes more appropriate to one's new stage in life {the death and resurrection of Jesus is a metaphor for such death and resurrection stages in the individual life}. The symbolic death of the initiate in these rites may also be seen as a descent of the conscious ego into the unconscious: it is the unconscious {and the compensating knowledge that it holds} that provides the means for new growth - rebirth.

 

It is just possible that, if your own death features repeatedly in dreams, it is an expression of an unconscious wish for death. Freud speculated in 'Beyond the Pleasure Principle' that there might be, in everyone, just two controlling basic drives: one towards life and love and pleasure {Eros}, and the other towards death {'Thanatos'}. This is highly controversial {as is much of Freud's theories}, but it is indisputable that many people display strong masochistic tendancy.

 

Are you compelled to repeat painful experiences? Do you tend to interpret what other people say as a criticism of yourself? If so, you may be suffering from repressed guilt-feelings and an unconscious urge to punish yourself - which sometimes take the form of a fate-neurosis and/or a wish {unconscious, as in your dream} to see yourself dead. If you feel this applies to you, talk to a friend about it or consult a psycotherapist. See Suicide

 

A wish for death may be a retreat from life's problems and pains, or a response to a sense of failure. If this applies to you, bear in mind, first, that a very sensitive person may also be burdened with an over-severe conscience {the product prehaps, of having a stern father or a sin-and-guilt religious upbringing}. In that case, see the previous paragraph. Secondly, what makes a thing a problem is usually one's attitude towards it. For example, suppose you have been made redundant {repeat mistakes over and over}. If your reaction is to see this as a punishment, see previous paragraph. If you see it as a failure, try to change your attitude or perspective by asking what creative purpose may be being served by your redundancy; perhaps, for instance, the demolishing of an inadequate or false self-image in order to make way for the construction of one that corresponds more closely to your individual ground-plan or 'destiny'.

 

<5> If the gender of the dead person is stressed, the meaning may be that your masculinity/femininity or your animus/anima needs reviving.

<6> a dead animal in a dream almost certainly refers to some part of you - an instinctive force, perhaps - and the dream will be telling you either that this part of you {e.g. guilt-feelings or inferiority complex} ought to die, because its effects are wholly negative; or that it is a valuable but repressed part of you that you must now bring to life, to rectify an imbalance in your personality.

 

From HyperDictionary.com

daffodil ---> december

deck ---> dictator

 

 

From dream moods

Death

To dream about the death of a loved one, suggests that you are lacking a certain aspect or quality that the loved one embodies. Ask yourself what makes this person special or what do you like about him. It is that very quality that you are lacking in your own relationship or circumstances. Alternatively, it indicates that whatever that person represents has no part in your own life

 

From iVillage

 

Dreaming about death is very common and it can be interpreted in many different ways. Death is usually a symbol of some type of closure or end. It implies an end to one thing and a beginning of another. Death dreams usually have positive symbolism. If you are the dead person in your dream, it could imply that you would like to leave all of your worries and struggles behind and begin anew. Dreaming about someone that you care about may express your fear about losing them. Dreaming that one of your parents died may express fear of loss, but it also may be an unconscious valve through which you release anger and other negative feelings. In some cultures dreaming about death and dying is a very good omen that represents longevity and prosperity. Deaf - closing out the truth; not listening to ones true self.

 

Debt - owing to something and not giving to it.

 

Decay - negative thoughts; something in your life is disintegrating i.e your marriage, your health.

 

Deer - Gentle, innocent aspects of self, often victimized by failure to awaken to strenghts and inner realities.

 

Defeat - going in the wrong direction.

 

Defecation - cleansing; purification.

 

Demons - repressed parts of your unconscious which are threatening to disrupt things as you know it. (search the dream for what that might be; confront it. you cannot heal what you aren't aware of. seek help if needed).

 

From HyperDictionary.com

 

Demons

Seeing demons in your dream, represents ignorance, negativity, distress or your shadow self. It also forewarns of overindulgence and letting lust give way to your better judgment. As a result, your physical and mental health may suffer. Dreaming that you are possessed by demons indicates ultimate helplessness. Depths - Dephts of any kind - a cellar, a deep place in the earth,a dep well, etc., may represent the unconscious. To explore the unconscious one must explore one's total life to find the hidden, forgotten, repressed events in life and confront them.

 

Depression - low energy; true depression in your conscious life.

Desert - Stagnation, no personal growth in your life. also may symbolize the unconscious. See Oasis.

 

Devil - In Jewis-Christian-Islamic traditions Satan was represented by a horned fertility god, a personification of the fertizing power of nature. In psychological terms, a fertilizing agent is something within the psyche that can inaugurate a new phase in the individual's development. It also may represent the repressed contents in the unconscious that can lead one to a fuller and balanced life.

 

From SpiritCommunity

 

Devil

Dreaming about devils and demons is usually very frightening and you may awake from fear. The devil does not generally represent something outside of yourself. It usually symbolizes the most negative and least developed part of you. It may be that part of you that is ignorant and destructive. You can determine the meaning and message in your dream by looking at all of the details carefully. All dreams are good dreams in that they bring unconscious materials to the conscious mind. Only then can you begin to effectively cope with the more unpleasant sides of your personality. Carl Jung called this negative side the "shadow." The devils in your dreams could be representations of your personal shadow or they could be a glance at the collective shadow. Diamond - May be a symbol for the Self, one's higher self, positive, spiritual, creative.

 

Digging - May symbolize digging for one's true self. Pay attention to whatever has been dug up. It may symbolize something within you that needs your attention.

 

Diary - your life through conscious perception.

 

Dice - a gamble; is it worth it?

 

Dirt - A symbol for something we regard as prohibited or disgusting. This would be something within you that your dream is expressing an emotional reaction to that needs your attention. Being dirty in a dream may signify something about yourself you can not accept because of guilt feelings that possible stem from childhood.

 

From HyperDictionary.com

dictionary ---> divorce

dizzy ---> drawing

 

 

From iVillage

Disease

 

The word disease literally means out of ease. Before you begin to interpret this dream on a psychological or metaphysical level, first check your health. The dream could refer to physical or emotional health Disease - inner conflict; possible illness of dreamer(the mind-body connection will provide information about the self before it actually occurs (rare).

 

Diving - Sometimes symbolizes the unconscious, a descent into the unconscious with the aim to bring repressed, forgotten aspects about oneself to consciousness. Diving and bringing up treasures may symbolize successful realization of one's true self.

 

Divorce - leaving sommething behind; a division usually leading to something positive.

Doctor - inner healing; that which can correct a wrong.

 

Dog - May symbolize your animal nature. May represent a repressed part of the psyche (foaming dog with rage). If paired with a wolf, the wolf would represent your animal nature and the dog would represent your higher nature.

 

Doll - If cuddly, may suggest your need for love and nurturing; if Barbie or Ken type may symbolize you are playing a role and suppressing your true self. In any event the doll most likely symbolizes an aspect of yourself.

 

Dolphin - May symbolize communication between the unconscious (sea) and conscious (sky). May represent some specific unconscious content that is speaking - or trying to speak - to you.

 

Dome - May symbolize intellect, or the conscious ego. May symbolize your true self and your potential perfection. May be a sexual symbol (female breasts).

 

Door - if open, an opportunity exists; if closed, a barrier or limitation in your life.

 

Dove - A symbol of peace. A symbol for love, including sexual love. A talking dove may be advice from the unconscious - take note.

 

Downhill - A symbol of decline or a fear of going 'downhill'. What in your life is declining? It also could mean letting go, relaxing, leaving stress behind.

 

Dragon - May be a representation of the unconscious when it is guarding treasure or a cave containing treasure. The treasure is your true self. The dragon-slayer is a representation of Jung's first stage of the individuation process where the ego's heroic struggle lifts itself out of the unconscious to establish its control of the unconscious forces.The dragon may represent the 'devouring aspect' of your mother. Slaying the dragon would therefore mean putting an end to such motherly attachment. It may represent the generative power of (Mother) Nature. A winged dragon may symbolize transcendence, a passing from a 'lower' to a 'higher' level of personal maturity.

Drawer - May symbolize a source of wisdom - within yourself. may represent your psyche with the top drawer representing your ego, the bottom or lower drawer being the unconscious layers of your psyche.

 

Dreaming - In a dream symbolizes an awareness of the dream state, or an unconscious awareness of something that was once unknown. This is a good time to take control of your dream and ask any questions that might shed new light about yourself.

 

Dress - A dress is clothing and it may symbolize your ego or persona. It may indicate the feelings you have toward yourself, especially a relationship to the image you present to the world. A dress would be an article of female clothing, so it may repesent your feminine aspect.

 

Driving - in most dreams points to the direction you are taking in life. If driving a car, the one who is driving (you or someone else) will be in control. If you are in the back seat some else may be controling your life, or some emotion is controlling your actions

 

Drowning - emotional overload. Seeing someone drowning in your dream, suggests that you are becoming too deeply involved in something that is beyond your control.

 

From HyperDictionary.com

dream ---> dynamite

 

 

From hyperdictionary

Drowning

 

Dreaming that you are drowning means that you are overwhelmed by emotions or repressed issues that is coming back to haunt you. You may be proceeding too quickly in trying to discover your unconscious thoughts and therefore must proceed more cautiously and slowly. If you drown to death, then is refers to an emotional rebirth. If your survive the drowning, then a waking relationship or situation will ultimately survive the turmoil. Seeing someone drowning in your dream, suggests that you are becoming too deeply involved in something that is beyond your control. Alternatively, it represents a sense of loss in your own identity. You are unable to differentiate who you are anymore. Dreaming that you rescue someone from drowning indicates that you have successfully acknowledged certain emotions and characteristics that is symbolized by the drowning victim. Drugs - In a positive sense it may symbolize sometning that balances or corrects disharmony in the body, or emotions. Also an escape from dealing with life, numbing oneself to outer conditions, searching for answers without instead of within. Looking for enlightenment from unnatural sources, or seeking enlightenment from inner sources.

 

Drunk - not seeing things clearly. Suggests that you are acting careless and insensible. You are losing control of your life and have lost a grip on reality.

 

Duck - Geese - Flexibility in handling emotional situations. If swimming, you are in control of your emotions.

 

Duel - Inner conflict. Normally it is a conflict between your conscious ego and your unconscious which represents your true self.

 

Dust - Something covered with dust is something that has not been touched for a long time. It is a shut away emotion, fear, desire within the unconscious. A person covered with dust is you and you need rejuvenation. A symbol of death or mortality in a sense that something within you feels dead.

 

Duty - It may be a true inner voice telling you waht you msut do in order to get in tune with your 'destiny'. It may be a symbol of an over-developed super-ego, reflecting either errational fears or guilt-feelings stemming from traumatic childhood experiences.

 

Dwarf - May symbolize a stunted personality - your own. Get in touch with the repressed, neglected parts of your personality and give them full attention so to better develope them.

 

Eagle - spiritual is soaring;accepting spiritual responsibility.

 

Ear - pay attention; hear what is really happening.

 

Earth - Mother Earth which could signify your real mother; your unconscious; your true self (spiritual); your intuitive self; contrasted with the sky, it may symbolize keeping your feet firmly planted on the ground.

 

Earthquake - falling apart; conflict with your mother (is your mother in the dream?); a sudden change in your daily life (something is upsetting your life).

 

East - The direction of the sunrise, it mat symbolize 'rebirth': perhaps a radical re-orientation of yourself so that you face and receive all that is good and life-enhancing.

 

Eating - nourishment is needed or is being provided;a substitute form of self- gradification, replacing your love life, fulfillment in work, etc.

 

Egg - something new in your life is being born.

 

Eclipse - A symbol for decline. An obscuring of your true self. An eclipse of the moon is a symbol of mother or the feminine. Its eclipse may therefore mean getting rid of an attachment to your mother, or an obscuring of your feminine traits.

 

Eight - same as four which is wholeness of the completely integrated psyche (spiritually, and emotionally centered).

 

Elephant - your wise self; if knowledgable of Hindu-Buddhist mythology, may represent some type of power available to you which can be positive or negative if elephant is angry.

 

From HyperDictionary.com

eagle--->eyelash

 

From HyperDictionary.com

Elephant

Seeing an elephant in your dream, suggests that you either need to be more patient and understanding of others. The elephant is also a symbol of power, strength, and intellect. Alternatively, as a creature with an introverted nature, the elephant may thus be depicting your own personality. Dreaming that you are riding an elephant indicates that you are in control of your unconscious and aspects that you once were afraid of. Elevator - the direction in which you are going; up or down; moving up is higher perception, moving down could be exploring deep rooted problems.

 

Emergency - pay attention to what is happening in your life; a call for help.

 

Emotions - emotions in a dream are just that, a particular emotion that is affecting your conscious life.

 

Empty - a feeling of emptiness, loneliness in your life;lack of self love.

 

Enemy - qualities about yourself that are being neglected; a real enemy in your conscious life.

 

Energy - anything of energy can signify psychic energy, or creative energy; get in touch with this energy, it is your true self.

 

Engagement - a commitment to something.

 

Engine - your conscious ego; emotions; the heart, that which makes your body go.

 

Equation - What is your life adding up to? Is it what you really wish it to be?

 

Escape - liberation from something in your life; or the opposite, running away from your problems instead of facing them.

 

Evening - symbolizes your mid-life or old age; peacefulness.

 

Evil - ignorance, lack of awareness; something about yourself that can be destructive.

 

From HyperDictionary.com

Evil

Dreaming that someone or something is evil indicates a repressed and/or forbidden aspect of yourself. This part of yourself may be seeking recognition and acknowledgment. Alternatively, evil may also be a reflection of your strong, negative emotions like hate, anger, etc. Excrement - May represent something you need to get rid of. Something you disapprove of. May represent money -'filthy lucre'.

 

Exhumation - May be a symbol of bringing into consciousness what has been buried in the unconscious. Do so.

 

Expert - a teacher of true knowledge; your higher self.

 

Exterior - May symbolize your persona, the self-iamge you present to the world.

 

Eye(s) - the way you see things; wisdom, knowledge; your true self (as in the eye of God); if eyes are open, seeing with clarity.

 

Failure - anxiety over unrealistic goals

 

Fairy - In a man's dream a fairy may represent his anima - the feminine side of his personality. In a woman's dream it may symbolize her mother, her own femininity, or some part of herself which would bring enrichment. See Faires/Faeries

 

Face - your ego-self; an unknown face may represent an unknown part of yourself.

 

Falling - losing control; having gooten above yourself, you now are descending to your true position; anxiety; fear of letting go.

 

From SpiritCommunity

Falling

This is a common dream which usually represents underlying fears and feelings of inadequacy and helplessness. Interpret your dream by considering your primary fears, current difficulties, and situations in your life that seem to be on a downward spiral, especially those situations that seem outside of your control (financial, romantic,etc.). Some people believe that if you keep falling in your dream and don't wake up that you will die at the point of impact. This is absolutely not true. In a falling dream you wake up out of fear and not because of danger of dying. Superstition based dream interpretations say that if you fall a long distance in your dream and get hurt, be prepared for really hard times ahead; but if you fall and are not injured your upsets will be minor and temporary. Family - your whole self; the members of the family are your emotions or complexes.

 

Famous (People) - what you would like to be; what part of the famous person represents a part of you?It could be good or bad.

 

Farm - nurturing, cultivating part of yourself. A need to place more emphasis on personal growth

 

Fat - poor self-image; also rich and abundant.

 

Father - wise, mature self; for a woman it could symbolize her masculine qualities (ego, assertiveness, strenght); straightforward representation of your true father.

 

Fear - aniexty; repressed emotions; guilt.

 

Feather - uplifting thoughts; feather in your cap is a job well done.

 

Feelings - emotions as they really are in your waking life.

 

Fence - barrier{s} in one's life, either physical and or psychological; sitting on a fence is trying to make-up your mind.

 

Ferry (Boat) - moving from one phase of life to another.

 

Field(s) - a need to get close to nature.

 

Fight - conflict in your life either external or internal.

 

Film - how you see your past; projection of the future.

 

Finger - direction in which you are going or should go; phallic symbol.

 

Fingernail - For Freud it might mean a condom (finger was seen as a phallic symbol. a finger nail protects the sensative part of the finger). Protecting oneself from sensative situations, or emotions. Repressing sensative emotions.

 

Fire - passion; fever in the body (in your waking life you are really ill); if house is on fire, something is destructive in your life; transformation. See House on Fire

From HyperDictionary.com

fable ---> feather

february ---> firebrand

 

From HyperDictionary.com

Fire

Depending on the context of your dream, to see fire in your dream can symbolizes destruction, passion, desire, illumination, transformation, enlightenment, or anger. It may suggest that something old is passing and something new is entering your life. Your thoughts and views are changing. In particular, if the fire is under control or contained in one area, it is a metaphor of your own internal fire and inner transformation. It also represents your drive and motivation. Dreaming of that you are being burned by fire indicates that your temper is getting out of control. Some issue or situation is burning you up inside. Dreaming that a house is on fire means passion and loving companions. Dreaming that you put out a fire means that you will overcome your obstacles in your life through much work and effort. Firetruck - Most often vehicles symbolize the dreamer. A large vehicle may suggest abundant emotions or aspects of your psyche. Fire often symbolizes passion, anger, greed.

 

Fish - fertility, personal growth; fish in the sea represents unconscious urges; fish is a symbol of Christ and may therfore represent your true self (spiritual}.

 

Fishing - bring up contents of the unconscious into consciousness.

 

Fist - aggression, anger.

 

Flame - a comsuming emotion.

 

Flight (Fleeing) - running away from something in your life; stand and face up to it.

 

Floating - liberation; letting go.

 

Flood - overwhelming emotions; water represents the unconscious, and being swept away by a flood may mean your conscious ego is being threathened by something in your unconscious. Identify the source and make peace with it.Floor - foundation, support.

 

Flower - growth, fulfillment, achievement of a goal; your true self (as in nature).

 

Flute - seduction (as in the Pied Piper).

 

Flying - getting above yourself; liberation; extend the range of your consciousness.

 

From SpiritCommunity

Flying

Some people believe that flying in our dreams can be an actual out of body experience, that we go to places on this physical plane as well as into the inner planes (mostly the Astral). Edgar Cayce thought that Astral travel or "soul travel" might be a precursor to becoming lucid in a dream. Carl Jung's idea was that in a flying dream we are expressing our desire to break free of restrictions and limitations. We have a desire to be free and above all difficulties! Alfred Adler thought that this dream was a type of a superiority dream in which we reveal the desire to dominate and be above others. Focusing on the libido, Freud thought that flying was another way to express sexual desires. The details of your dream will give you clues as to what it symbolizes, if your dream was a spiritual experience or ego based. Fog - not seeing clearly; being lost in the fog is being lost in your waking life.

 

Food - knowledge; new ideas.

 

From HyperDictionary.com

firecracker ---> flood

floodlight ---> fossils

 

From HyperDictionary.com

Food

Seeing food in your dream, represents physical and emotional nourishment and energies. The different types of food can symbolize a wide range of things. Generally, fruit is symbolic of sensuality. Frozen foods may imply your cold emotions and frigid ways. Eating certain foods refers to qualities that you need to incorporate within your own self. Dreaming that you are hording or storing food indicates a fear of deprivation. You do not trust what you already have. Seeing or eating stale food in your dream, suggests that you are feeling sluggish and emotionally drained. You need to be invigorated and revitalized. Foot (Feet) - looking at your feet is asking to look at the direction (or lack of) you are taking in life; feet moving forard means making progress; gronding, balance in your life; what your life is based on; contact with nature; washing your feet means healing.

 

Footprints - your past. Directions you have taken or may need to take. Past impressions

 

Foreign - unfamiliar part of self.

 

Forest - the unconscious; growth, strength; animals in the forest represent repressed contents of the unconscious.

 

Fox - Sly, manipulative, slippery. May referring to your unconscious/ conscious interaction or to your personality.

 

Fountain - a symbol for refreshment and new life and may represent life-giving powers in your uncosncious.

 

Four - wholeness; according to Jung there are four functions of consciousness; thinking, feeling, intuitiveness and sensation. The goal is to incorporate all into your waking life (you will always be inclined to one function as your lead). There are also the four corners of the earth.

 

Fragrance {oil} - emitting a smell, covering up truth.

 

Friend - a part of yourself; positive aspect of yourself.

 

Frog - a part of your psych that still lies buried in the unconscious; the Frog Prince motif where the frog represents the unconscious which at first sight is frightening but, when assimilated by the conscious ego, reveals itself for what it is - the total psyche, beautiful and true. (Joseph Campbell). See Frog

 

Frozen - emotional self closed down. Frigid emotions.

 

Fruit - new life, new developments; fruit of your labors.

 

Funeral - axiety over your health; thoughts of approaching death. Planning for the end of something in your life.

 

From HyperDictionary.com

found ---> future

 

From SpiritCommunity

Funeral

Dreaming about funerals does not necessarily symbolize physical death for you or anyone else. It could instead symbolize an ending of a different kind. You may be burying relationships, conditions or even emotions that you no longer need and that are no longer conducive to your personal growth. On the other hand, this dream may symbolize the burying of sensitivities and emotions that are too difficult to cope with. It may reflect numbness or a feeling that is the opposite of aliveness, such as depression and emptiness. Either way, burying a person that is alive suggests some emotional turmoil. Please consider all of the details in this dream to find the appropriate message. Old dream interpretation books say that dreaming about funerals is a dream of the contrary. Instead of sadness, the dreamer will experience happiness and go to celebrations, such as weddings Fur - protection, cover; instinctual nature.

 

Furniture - your attitudes; self-expression.

 

Galaxy - a view of the expansive self; your creative energy

 

Gambler - taking chances

 

Gangster - unruly aspect of self; a desire to achieve one's aims by force

 

Garage - place for tempoary resting of goals. A storage place for ideas or ambitions, or storing hidden aspects that unconsciously drive you in your waking life.

 

Garbage - discarded ideas and attitudes; trahy thinking;ngativity

 

Garden - creative self which needs attending

 

Gate - an opening for new opportunities in your life

 

From HyperDictionary.com

gag ---> geese

geisha ---> gleaner

 

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Gate

Seeing or passing through a gate in your dream, suggests that you are walking through a new phase of life. It also represents new opportunities and possibilities. Seeing a closed gate in your dream means your inability to overcome current difficulties. If you are unable to open the gate, then it indicates that your hard work will be seen as unsatisfactory. It may also mean that you are not ready or not prepared to move on to the next step.

 

Gauge - an indication of whether your life is balanced or not

 

Gavel - justice; something that is known and can now be dismissed

 

Geese - Flexibility in handling emotional situations. If swimming, you are in control of your emotions.

 

Gentitals - creative and reproductive energy; sexual feelings

 

Germs - fears that are repressed

 

Geyser - a burst of emotional or psychic energy

 

Ghost - a part of yourself that is not understood; feelings about a deceased person that have not been fully explored

 

Giant - self-doubt growing out of proportion; making mountains out of molehills

 

Giraffe - reaching out

 

Girl - sensative part of self. girlish attitudes (which can be positive or negative) See Masculine/Feminine Traits

 

Glass - a reflection of self; if broken, shattered illusions

 

Glasses - to see more clearly; take a second look at the situation at hand

 

Glove - protection; covering up your felings

 

Glue - holding things together

 

God

(1) A god or goddess figure may represent a source of meaning/wisdom/energy. Look for that source within yourself, where it is usually covered by layers of emotion.

 

(2) Male god figures may represent the animus in a woman's dreams, and goddess figures may represent the anima in a man's dreams (see Glosary of Jungian Termnology on main page). They may lead you to deeper into your psyche.

 

(3) Sometimes god/goddess may represent father/mother, functioning as a part of your own (unconscious) psyche. In such cases it is likely - though not invariable - that your feelings towards the parent are ambivalent, with fear or awe as well as affection. A stern Old Testament type God may symbolize your super-ego, whose origins often lie in irrational prohibitions imposed on oneself in childhood as a reaction to real or imagined threats of punishment.

 

(4) God(dess) may represent your true self, your potential wholeness.

 

(5) The god figure in your dream may be - God! Don't be surprised if your unconscious comes up with god images from a more ancient tradition than the ones you were brought up with: the unconscious seems to have a memory that reaches back to humankind's remotest past, and even beyond (univesral dream images such as that of God are from the primitive unconscious, therefore images will go beyond the traditional images you know from religious teachings). At a certain level of your psyche you may go beyond everything that is merely individual and experience oneness with life itself: an experience that may cause you to live authentically - for inner wisdom/ values - instead of merely role playing.

 

Goat - ability (or lack of) to digest something

 

Goddess - a source of higher wisdom or energy; the father/mother functioning aspect of self; your true self or creative self; your spiritual self; harmony in your life

 

Gold - in alchemy gold is the color for God; new life or beginnings; your true self

 

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glider ---> gown

grade ---> grocery store

 

From SpiritCommunity

Gold

Dreaming about gold could be a reflection of concerns that you have about your most precious valuables or a reference to "alchemist's gold" which is usually spiritual in nature. If you are losing gold in your dream, it may express your anxieties over a missed opportunity. However, remember "All that glitters is not gold." Your unconscious mind may be reminding you not to judge things on appearances alone.

 

Goose - Flexibility in handling emotional situations. If swimming, you are in control of your emotions. Graduation - completing the goal at hand. Moving on to new and better things in your life.

 

Graffiti - is writing on a wall. Walls are often symbolize the barriers we create so to not to confront those unpleasant aspects in our lives

 

Grandchildren - Immature attitudes. Deep unconscious aspects of self that are just now surfacing.

 

Grandfather/Grandmother - wisdom, your wise, mature self. Having to do with actual grandparent{s}

 

Grape - Grapes are nurture for the soul, and are fruit. Fruit often symbolizes new life, new developments. Also grapes are purple which may represent treausre, or your true self.

 

Grass - continuing growth

 

Grasshopper - looking for growth

 

Grave - looking inside for what has died and what new personal growth is taking place (or should be taking place). Something that is buried or needs burying.

 

Green - the fertility of nature; personal growth; to proceed in life. See Colors

 

Grey - depression, fear, old age; an unclear state of mind; insecurity

 

Grid - grids or patterns are the restrictive ways we deal with certain things, situations or emotions.

 

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groin ---> gypsy

 

From dream moods

Grocery Store

To dream that you are in a grocery store, represents some emotional of physical need that you are currently lacking in your life. You may be in need of nurturance and some fulfillment. Consider the specific items that you are shopping for. Alternatively, the grocery store signifies frugality.

 

Group - uniting the differnt aspects of the self

 

Guard - protection (or lack of); something that has you imprisioned (usually your attitudes)

 

Guide - your unconscious offering information to self knowledge; help for the ego-self in its exploration of the unconscious mind; following your instincts

 

Guillotine - to remove from your unconscious to your conscious self; intellectualizing or rationalizing

 

Guilt - Actual feelings of guilt. A way to tell us we are not on the road to happiness. A conflict between inner impulses and conventional - social or religious - morality.

 

Guitar - how are things palying in your life?; creative abilities (or wishful thinking)

 

Gums - verbalizing what you want or need. A need to express your emotions.

 

Gun - a symbol for aggressiveness; sexual energy; to kill someone with a gun is your hostility toward that person

 

 

From Yahoo!Astrology

Guns

The gun could symbolize the male sex organ, aggression, harshness, and fear. This dream may have sexual connotations, or your unconscious mind may be telling you not to harbor your negative feelings but express them more freely before they become explosive. On the more positive side of things, the gun could simply represent your need to protect yourself either emotionally or physically or both. If the gun in the dream is used to hurt or kill you or someone else, please consider your current difficulties, hostile feelings or serious arguments, which you may have within yourself or with others.

 

Guru - wisdom, your wise self.

 

Gypsy - looking to the future; undiscovered part of your personality. A loner, oucast.

Hair - Abundant hair may signify virility or male sexuality. Cutting hair a loss of virility or castration. Power or itelligence.

 

Hall - Part of your psyche. Connection to emotions, attitudes.

 

Halo - your true self (as opposed to who you think you are.

 

Hammer - male sexuality. aggression. Building something.

 

Hand(s) - ability. Hands tied are an indication something has you bound up. Washing hands symbolizes guilt. Feelings or emotions.

 

 

From HyperDictionary.com

hag ---> hardware store

hare ---> helicopter

 

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Hair

 

Seeing hair in your dream means sexual virility, seduction, sensuality, vanity, and health. It is indicative of your attitudes. If your hair is knotted or tangled, then it is symbolic of uncertainty and confusion in your life. You may be unable to think straight. Dreaming that you are cutting your hair, suggests that you are experiencing a loss in strength. You may feel that someone is trying to censor you. Alternatively, you may be reshaping your thinking or ambitions and eliminating unwanted thoughts/habits. Dreaming that you are combing, stroking or styling your hair, suggests that you are taking on and evaluating a new idea, concept, outlook, or way of thinking. You may be putting your thoughts in order and getting your facts straight. A more literal interpretation suggests your concerns about your self-image and appearance. Dreaming that you have long hair indicates that you are thinking long and carefully before making some decision. You are concentrating on some plan or situation. Dreaming that you are losing your hair indicates that you are concerned with the notion that you are getting older and losing your sex appeal/virility. You are preoccupied with aging and your appearance. Losing you hair also signify a lack of strength and that you do not possess the power to succeed in an undertaking. You may be feeling weak and vulnerable. Dreaming that someone is smelling your hair indicates sexual curiosity and your need for some sensual stimulation. You have a lot to learn about a relationship. The way yours or someone else's hair smell may remind your of a particular person. Dreaming that you are reaching for someone's hair, suggests that you are trying to connect with that person on a spiritual or intellectual level. It also refers to sympathy, protectiveness, and fraternal love. Dreaming that the wind is blowing through your hair means freedom to express uninhibited feelings. You are "letting your hair down". Dreaming that your hair is white or turns white indicates that something important has just been made aware to you. It is a symbol of wisdom and insight. The dream may also be a metaphor suggesting that you are feeling "light-headed".

 

Hang - choking off some type of emotional energy. guilt. hang-ups.

 

Harbour - Coming into a harbour may mean finding/wanting a refuge from some particular problem. Putting to sea may symbolize and exploration of your unconscious.

 

Hare - A symbol for the feminine/animus. may represent some personal characteristic - intellectual superfical cleverness, rashness.

 

Hat - a role one plays. changing hats denotes change of attitude.

 

Hawk - aggression. a symbol for the spiritual self. ascending to great heights.

 

Head - The head often symbolize intellect, the rational process as opposed to intuitive thought. Growing a second head, especially out of the right side may indicate you are thinking too much and not letting your instincts operate as they should.

 

From HyperDictionary.com

hell ---> hitchhiking

hive ---> hospitality

 

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Head

 

Seeing a head in your dream means wisdom, intellect, understanding and rationality. It may also represent your accomplishments, self-image, and perception of the world. Dreaming that someone is trying to rip your head off, suggests that you are not see a situation or problem clearly. Perhaps you are refusing to see the truth. You have to confront the situation or the person despite the pain and discomfort you might feel in doing so.

 

Headless - A beheading {being headless or having your head cut off} may symbolize punishment, punishing ourselves, unconsciously, as a result of guilt feelings or emotions. The dream may be showing you a negative pattern in your life that needs to be death with. It could also symbolize a need to get free of a too dominating head-you rely too much on your intellect and neglect your instincts Healer/Healing - wise self. a healing within the psyche. Healing old emotional/physical/spiritual wounds.

 

Heart - compassion. emotions. cutting out one's heart means one should open up one's feelings.

 

Heat - strong emotions. passion.

 

Heaven - a place within of comfort (spiritual). You higher self.

 

Height - May symbolize level of achievement. May be a symbol of 'ascension' or 'resurrection'- transcending your present or former self towards a new and richer state of being.

 

Helicopter - Rising above yourself. Are you projecting too much of yourself as being more than it is? Rotating emotions or attitudes. The blades rotate freely. What about aspects in your life, are they rotating out of control. Freedom to be yourself. Do you need to let go and do what you really wish to do instead of what society requires?

 

Hell - a fearful unconscious condition (psychological). imprisonment. fears.

 

He-Man - In a woman's dream may be the animus figure, representing the masculine side of her personality.

 

From HyperDictionary.com

hostage ---> hysterectomy

 

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Hell

 

Dreaming of hell indicates that you may be suffering from a seemingly inescapable situation. You may have placed your decision or course of action into someone else's hand. Alternatively, you may be possessing many inner fears and repressed guilty feelings. It is time to quit punishing yourself and take it easy for awhile.

 

Hen - motherhood.

 

Herd - many aspects of self. feeling contained.

 

Hermaphordite - May denote the 'marriage' of conscious and unconscious, an integration of repressed, ignored, forgotten unconscious content into conscious life which brings about healing and a more balanced life.

 

Hero - the conscious hero. rescuing a maiden is , for a male dreamer, is to acknowldge the feminine side or creative self.

 

Herring - Are you being thrown a 'blue herring', something that is false and not authenic? Is this herring your life? {also see fish}

 

Hidden - Hidden things in a dream should be sought, caught and identified. They almost certainly represent something your conscious ego needs - probably some repressed function or quality.

 

Hills - mother's breasts (you need emotional nurishment). Small obastcles in life that have to be overcome.

 

Hole - sexual symbol for the vagina. the unconscious. fears of 'bottomless' situation in life.

 

Holy/Holiness - spiritual wisdom. the deep core of the psyche.

 

Horizon - new beginnings (personal and/or spiritual). expanded sense of self.

 

Honey - nutrition for personal growth. the power of life (what thing or person provides you with this power?). the food of the gods, thus a participation in the divine conscious self.

 

Horns - May symbolize fertility - the power of growth within your psyche. Horned animals may represent evil, which in psychological terms would mean destructive/threatening forces in the unconscious (repressed emotions).

 

Horse - sexuality. your animal instincts (ego). a galloping horse may symbolize escasy. the emotions. See Horse

 

Hospital - A hospital is a place for healing. What in your life needs healing? It could be emotional, physical {sometimes dreams warn us before hand of body aliments}, or spiritual.

 

House - the symbol of yourself, your self-image. The rooms may be your emotions, attitudes, complexes. If it is parental home, what you may feel may say a lot about your childhood feelings.See

 

Hunger - a true feeling of being hungry. an emotional craving. a repressed part of self wanting to be acknowledged (hungry for acknowledgement).

 

Hunting - searching for some unknown part or quality of oneself.

 

Hurricane - Strong sudden changes, being caught in an emotional storm. Since hurricanes are associated with large bodies of water you may be experiencing some type of repressed or surpressed emotions {the ocean often symbolizes the collective unconscious}.

 

Hurting - hurt feelings. a loss of energy (emotional).

 

Husband - the relationship with one's husband. projection of image onto some other person. your animus - the masculine side of a woman. your other self.

 

Hybrid- May symbolize two opposing forces; conscious/unconscious or masculine/feminine sides of your nature. a union needs to take place.

 

I - The conscious ego. Other people, animals and objects in your dreams are usually parts of yourself that your conscious self needs to relate to and cooperate with.

 

Ice - Frozen emotions; sexual frigidity.

 

Iceberg - A symbol for your self, the tip representing your unconscious mind.

 

Ice-Cream - eating ice-cream may symbolize the free flow of previously 'frozen' emotions.

 

Icicle - May be a symbol for the penis.

 

Imposter - What the imposter is pretending to be is probably what you in real life are pretending to be: your persona or self-image.

 

Imprison - What is like ly imprisoned is some repressed emotion or instinctive drive.

 

Incest

The act of incest in a dream may symbolize a real-life incident that you witnessed or were involved in. If this is the case, talk to a good psychotherapist.

For a man, a dream of incest with his daughter will usually express fear of the erotic element in your feelings toward his daughter in real life; but also be a straightforward expression of desire.

In a man's dream involving his sister, the sister may represaent the anima figure representing the feminine side of his nature.

In a man's dream with his mother, the mother may express the desire he felt for her as a boy.

For a woman,if the dream is about her father, it may be an expression of her (repressed) childhhod desire for her father. A dream with her brother may be an animus symbol, her masculine qualities. A dream with incest with her son, or incestous desires, are probably expressing her anxiety concerning her - natural - sensuous pleasure in the sight and touch of him.

A man's dream or fantasized incest with his mother may represent a death-wish, a desire to return to the womb. This means your mother has properties of the Earth Mother (archetypal) in her negative, devouring aspect; he needs to throw off an attachment to his mother that is preventing the unfolding of his own individual self.

 

Inheritance - Receiving something that is due to you, possible contents from your unconscious. Are you receiving what you are due?

 

Inquistor - This is probably your super-ego; conscience or moral principle.

 

Insects

May symbolize either your attitudes toward your instinctive drives or unconscious forces that seem to constitute a threat to the rule of reason.

What's bugging you? Insects are annoying at times and may represent some atitudes or persons that are annoying you in real life.

If a solitary insect, it may be bringing a message from your inner self (the unconscious). Remember the cricket in Pinocchio's adventure?

 

Invalid - May represent you or some part of you. What is robbing you of your energy or ability or confidence? If it is some part of you, what part have you condemned to an unproductive existence in your unconscious (repression).

 

Invasion - A symbol that you are in danger of being 'possessed' - that is, taken over by unconscious events. What is repressed (such as childhhod traumas such as abuse) festers and may eventually take over your whole psyche.

 

Iron

signify strength, but often with overtones of inflexability and ruthfulessness ('ruling with a iron fist').

signify imperfection, inferiority - as contrasted to gold. Gold would represent your higher self, whereas iron, an inferior metal, would represent your lesser qualities.

 

 

Island

island may be a symbol of the conscious ego's realtionship to the unconscious (the unconscious would be symbolized by the sea or ocean).

It may symbolize your relationship with your mother (represented by the sea, the mother being the higher source). Is the sea threatening to engulf the island?

 

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Intruder

Seeing an intruder in your dream, represents your feelings of guilt. Consider also what unfamiliar feelings or thoughts may be breaking into your peace of mind. Alternatively, an intruder symbolizes self-indulgent behavior or unwanted sexual attention.

Invisible - Are those things that you are not aware of in your life, possibly unconscious aspects of the psyche. An invisible man or woman would indicate that those aspects {masculine or feminine} are not being utilized in a proper way in your life.

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Invisible

Dreaming that you are invisible means feelings of not being noticed or recognized for what is important to you. Alternatively, you may be trying to withdraw from the realities of life.

 

Jade - In Chinese tradition, jade contains the mysterious cosmic energy in concentrated form. It therefore symbolizes power, life, fecundity, immortality.

 

Jesus - Spiritual aspect of the self. Perfection. Are you asking too much of yourself? A healing part of your human psyche. The higher self - creative, positive. Also see Jesus in Dream Motifs. See The Lost Teachings of Jesus

 

Jewels - A symbol for your true self. If the jewel is in a casket (the unconscious), this means your real self is still is being hidden and there is something to be discovered and assimilated into your consciousness.

 

Joke - A joke told in a dream may be the unconscious trying to get your attention. Concentarte on the symbolism even of minor items in the dream, since they may bear an emotionally weighty message.

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Jaw

Dreaming that you are in the jaws of an animal means misunderstandings and hasty judgments, which may threaten your happiness. Seeing your own jaw in your dream, represents your stubbornness, determination and forcefulness. You may need to have more willpower and fortitude in some situation. Dreaming that your jaws are tight indicates unexpressed angers and other powerful feelings which you are holding back. Dreaming that you break or dislocated your jaw, suggests that you are compromising your own beliefs and principles.

 

Journey

A desire to escape from your present situation:external constraints or conflict.

A journey to a sacred place may signify you are now aware of your true self, not yet achieved but an awareness in your conscious mind.

A destination not reached is an indication you are aware of your true self (or conditions in your life) and have not let it be a part of your life.

A voyage of discovery to unknown - previosuly unvisited - lands probably means your unconscious is inviting you to make its aquaintance. The sea is a common symbol of the unconscious.

The journey in the dream may tell you what is actually happening in your life at present, or - less often - how you ought to live.

 

 

Judge

Your super-ego (the conventional morality assimilated from parents and society), functioning as an internal sensor, prohibitor, inhibitor and standard setter (Freudian).Some of its commands/prhibitions/expectations may be irrational and arise from a childhood trauma.

The judge may represent a different sort of conscience, an inner guide that tells you what you should be doing to fulfill your individual 'destiny'.

May represent being too judgemental.

 

 

Judgement

A Last judgement sort of condemnation may be a symbolic expression of some imagined guilt.

It may be a wise warning from your inner centre: if you allow old habits and attitudes to continue, you will bring unhappiness and suffering on yourself (and others).

 

 

Juggernaut - May symbolize some external catastrophe that you see looming over constantly. May cause guilt complex arising from early childhood out of some imagined crime, and causing you to conjure up pictures of future punishment. May symbolize internal, unconscious forces that threaten to destroy the conscious ego - which would mean a loss of control, psychic chaos.

 

Jumble - A reflection of some disorderly state of mind; conflict in your psyche.

 

Jungle - a symbol of the unconscious. its wild inhabitants are probably neglected, disorderly, possibly mutinous 'animal' or instinctual drives, and repressed guilt-feelings and fears.

 

Junk - Discarded rubbish symbolizes the suppressed or repressed contents of the unconscious.

 

Kaleidoscope - May be a symbol of order that can come to your psyche when all components in your life are 'centered'.

 

Key - your unconscious is offering you access to your true identity or a solution to a problem.

 

Kidnap - Trying to retrive something that has been stolen or taken away from from you, i.e your childhood. Also stealing from a part of yourself and giving to another {giving too much attention to the ego self and not enough to other parts of the psyche}.

 

Killing - A dislike of someone or something. Conflict in your life. Killing a person or animal symbolizes repression of some aspect of yourself, some instinct or desire.

 

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Killing

Dreaming that you kill someone indicates that heavy stress may cause you to lose your temper and self-control. Consider the person you have killed and ask yourself if you feel any rage towards him or her in your waking life. You may very well be expressing some anger or hatred toward this person. Alternatively, you may be trying to kill or put an end to an aspect of yourself that is represented by the person killed. Identify the characteristics of this person and ask yourself how you do not want to be like him or her. Dreaming that you have been killed, suggests that your actions are disconnected from your emotions. Alternatively, it refers to drastic changes that are happening in your life.

 

King - May symbolize your father. A symbol of yourself, in a lofty, yet undeserved position. If being dominated by a Queen, may signify a mother-attachment that is threatening to smother your individuality.

 

Kiss - The kiss of life which symbolizes your neglected side of your personality. Or it could be sexual (look at the content of the rest of your dream to determine this.

 

Kitchen - A place of preparation, where one receives certain knowledge {food} about oneself. This knowledge may be unconscious contents that have not received proper attention {not properly prepared}. What 'foods' are you cooking up in your life?

 

Knee - Knees are part of the support system of the body. Do you need to be more flexible with emotions , attitudes or relationships in your life?

 

Knife - Powerful tool which can be used creatively or destructively. Cutting away unnecessary parts of yourself, as in pruning a tree. If being cut by a knife, it may suggest you need to remove unhealthy parts of self. Also, a deep seeded (repressed) destructive wish. See Dagger

 

Knot - A problem in your life. Also, a joining together of something in your life. Reconciling of a conflict.

 

Labyrinth - A symbol of your unconscious. You must come to terms with the frightening aspect in your life, found at the center of the labyrinth. Liberation from your mother. A path toward self-discovery (life is a labyrinth in which you must return to your center (unconscious self) for wholeness.

 

Ladder - Climbing a ladder may mean 'progress'. Descending a ladder to escape a burning house may symbolize a need tp escape from your emotional self.

 

Lake - The unconscious. Water is a symbol of your unconscious self, that part of you that has not been fully explored.

 

Lamb - Innocence. A sacrifical lamb reflects a longing to be rid of guilt feelings.

 

Landing - May symbolize a need to ground yourself instead of fantasizing about your life. landing in a boat onto a shore may symbolize escaping a stunting mother-attachment.

 

Leading - If being led in a dream, who or what is leading you. Is it controlling you?

 

Leaches - are those things that suck the energy from our life. Are there emotions, events, certain people who are draining you of your energy?

 

Left - The left side of the body represents the heart, emotions, intuition. Moving right to left symbolizes moving from reason to intuition.

 

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Lesbian

Dreaming that you are a lesbian (but you are not in your waking life) means a union with aspects of yourself. It is symbolic of self-love, self-acceptance, and passion. You are comfortable with your sexuality and femininity. If, in your dream you abhor the notion of lesbianism, then it represents your fears and rejection of parts of your own sexuality. If you are a lesbian in your waking life, then the dream is simply a reflection of your own self.

 

Legs - Strong legs means confidence. Weak legs, the opposite. What principles are you standing on?

 

Lens - You are being asked to focus your attention on something. Pay attention!

 

Letters - Receiving news or imformation from other sources, perhaps from your unconscious psyche. Have you acknowledge those contents within your unconscious that may be repressed, ignored or forgotten?

 

Lift - May mean something is coming up from the unconscious and the need to look at them. Going up in a lift may mean attaining a more elevated or spiritual standpoint.

 

Light - Sunlight is a symbol of your conscious self. Moonlight is the unconscious. Light at the end of a dark tunnel symbolizes hope.

 

Lighthouse - A bridge between the conscious and unconscious mind. What is the dream trying to tell you?

 

Lightening - A sexual symbol. A flash of insight. It may symbolize punishment, as in the 'wrath of the gods'.. What is it that is threatening you?

 

Lily - A symbol of new life (new beginnings in your life).

 

Limousine - Enormous potential. Also, those parts {emotions, attitudes, aspects, etc.} that are controlled {driven} by just one aspect of your personality. Perhaps you need to use all your potential in life instead of just one narrow quality.

 

Lion - Lion may symbolize your animal nature or aggressive behavior. In a woman's dream it may represent her animus or masculine aspect.

 

Lips - A need to communicate. A sexual symbol representing the vagina.

 

Lizard - It may symbolize something in your unconscious that you don't wish to take notice of. AIt may represent a part of yourself that is 'cold blooded' and needs warmth.

 

Lock - Inaccessability. You can't get what you want. A denied part of yourself.

 

Locomotive - symbolizes power, energy, your instinctive drive.

 

Luggage - Something you carry that needs to be gotten rid of; old habits, attitudes, conditioning{may be unconscious}. It may mean a desire to - or need to - get out of some present situation; or a fear of having to do so. Unconsciously it may mean it is time to pack your bags and make a change in your life.

 

Magic - A power stronger than your ego; an unconscious force (repressed or forgotten events in your life that is overpowering)

 

Magician - As the trickster it may symbolize you are fooling yourself over some aspect in your life. It could be the unconscious trying to fool {repress} the conscious mind. See Trickster

 

Magnet - Something that is bringing you closer to your true self.

 

Man - A symbol of your self; wholeness, the inner self (spiritual). It could symbolize half of the whole self, with the other half being your feminine side. In a woman's dream it may represent her animus or her father.

 

Mandalas - A representation of the self; that is complete, whole, balanced. a disarranged manadala may represent that the healing power of the unconscious pyche is temporily out of action. Some destructive attitude - a guilt-and-anger or inferiority complex - is blocking the flow of the natural healing powers.

 

Marriage - A union of opposite forces. The bringing together of the masculine and feminine sides of your personality. Resolving conflicts in your life.

 

Mask - Your persona, the image you see yourself as (this is not the real you, only a part of your true self). Covering up the real you; covering up your true emotions about some aspect in your life.

 

Meadow - Perosnal grwoth. If parched, it would mean you are being deprived of psychic nourishment

 

Mean/Meanness - A part of yourself that is not being allowed to adequately express itself (being mean to someone in your dream).

 

Melting - Repressed emotions being allowed freedom to expression. Transformation in your life.

 

Mermaid - In a man, an idealized image of a woman. In a woman, doubts about her feminity. For a man it may mean a fear of be drowned by his feminine side.

 

Message/Messenger - Something that is coming from your unconscious (repressed memories, etc).

 

Meteor - A meteor is a streak of light from a meteorite or meteoroide. Merteoroids are powerful unleashing of energy, perhaps in your life unconscious. The light is the streak that comes about from the unconscious dream. Orbiting in space is 'orbiting'in the unconscious, something that has yet to be acknowledged consciously.

 

Meteroite - May be a messenger bringing information from your inner centre. It may be offering you greater self-knowledge.

 

Merteoroids - Meteoroids are powerful unleashing of energy, perhaps in your unconscious life suggesting you need to acknowledeg the source of this energy.

 

Mice - Mice are often symbolic of little things that irritate you in life, or small fears that drain you of energy.

 

Milk - It may symbolize mother-love, or your nurturing (or lack of) as a child.

 

Mirror - Your true self (not your ego self). The way you see yourself or the way you want others to see you (see mask).

 

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Mirror

Seeing your own reflection in the mirror, suggests that you are pondering thoughts about your inner self. The reflection in the mirror is how you perceive yourself or how you want others to see you. You may be contemplating on strengthening and changing aspects of your character. Dreaming that you are looking through a two-way mirror indicates that you are coming face to face with some inner or worldly issue. What you see is related to your persona and unconscious. Seeing images through the mirror may be a safe way for you to consider and/or confront material from your unconscious. Mirrors symbolize the imagination and a link between the conscious and unconscious. Dreaming that you are being watched through a two-way mirror, suggests that you feel you are being scrutinized and criticized. Alternatively, you may be blocking or unwilling to acknowledge your unconscious emotions. To break a mirror in your dream, suggests that you are breaking an old image of yourself. You may be putting an end to an old habit. Breaking a mirror is also an old symbol for seven years of bad luck. Seeing a cracked or broken mirror in your dream. represents a poor or distorted self-image. Alternatively, it suggests that you have put an end to your old habits and ways. Seeing a fogged mirror in your dream means a hazy concept of who you are and questions about your self-identity. You are confused in your goals in life an you may have a lack of clarity in a purpose.

 

Money - Changes in your life. Certain values in life.

 

Monk - Your true self; personal wholeness. Isolation: purity

 

Monkey - Not taking life too seriously (monkeying around). Monkeys represent mischief and may therefore symbolize unconscious forces that are "up to no good' - because you have deprived them of their proper place in your conscious life.

 

Monsters - Fears in your life. People, objects, your job, etc. Slaying a monster symbolizes overcoming these fears. See Monsters, Dragons, Serpents

 

From MDS Dream Motifs

Monsters

(1) Is the dragon guarding a treasure, or a cave which might contain treasure? If so, the cave probably represesnts your unconscious, the treasure represents yourself, the dragon that stands between you and your true self represents the fearsomeness of the unconscious for one who is still afraid of what may be lurking there.

 

(2) For Jung, the first stage of the individuation process is the conscious ego's heroic struggle to lift itself out of the orginal all-encompassing unconsciousness and to establish control of unconscious forces. This finds symbolic representation in the legendary drago-slayer, St George (St George = the ego; the dragon = the unconscious).

 

(3) The dragon may represent the devouring aspect of (your relationship with) your mother. 'Slaying the dragon' may therefore mean putting an end to whatever in your attachment to your mother is detrimental to the process of finding your own psychic individuality. Once the individual has achieved liberation from the 'dragon', the feminine side of the man's psyche and the masculine side of the woman's psyche will no longer appear in threatening form, but as an indispensable companion and guide in further stages of self-development.

 

(4) A dragon may represent the generative power of (Mother) Nature; the unconscious, felt as womb pregnant with new possibilities of life.

 

(5) A winged dragon may symbolize some kind of transcendence, some passing from 'lower' to 'higher' level of personal maturity.

 

(6) A dragon may be a symbol for your sexuality, particularily if it - your sexuality - frightens you. Is your fear irrationsal; or does sexuality threaten to rule your life? In either case, don't kill the 'dragon'; if necessary tame it. (In China, 'chi' is good, life-giving energy and the channels it runs along are called 'dragon-lines', which are said to follow underground water and underground magnetic fields).

 

Moon - Fertility, new growth. See Sun-Moon

 

Mortuary - Perhaps your unconscious is confronting you with the fact of mortality in order to change your perspective, or ambitions or values.

 

Mother - May be telling you something about your relationship with your mother. Mother may symbolize the unconscious, especially the spiritual aspect (goddess). See Father-Mother

From MDS Dream Motifs

Mother

Basic meaning: Older, wiser, more experienced part of feminine self aspect; the unconscious; intuition; natural and instinctive life; your relationship with your mother.

 

(1) A dream about your mother may be telling you something about your relationship with your mother. Mother-attachment may be so strong that the development of your own individuality has been prevented. Inner independence of mother is the first great step towards realizing your true self.

 

(2) In a man's dream, mother may symbolize the feminine side of his psyche.

 

(3) Mother may symbolize the unconscious; intuitive self; natural instinctive life; the source of nourishment and growth for the psyche.

 

Motorcycle - Male sexuality (a Macho symbol). In a woman's dream it symbolizes her masculine side; assertiveness, ego, power to control.

 

Mouse - May indicate inferiority complex feelings about oneself. Also see Mice above.

 

Mountain - Climbing a mountain symbolizes a task you are facing. If you are at the top of a mountain it symbolizes achievement.

 

From HyperDictionary.com

Mountain

Seeing mountains in your dream means many major obstacles and challenges that you have to overcome. If you are on top of the mountain, then it means that you have achieved and realized your goals. Alternatively, mountains indicates a higher realm of consciousness, knowledge, and spiritual truth. Dreaming that you are climbing a mountain means your determination and ambition. Dreaming that you fall off a mountain, suggests that you are in a hurry to succeed without thoroughly thinking about your path to success. It also means that you have a tendency to give up or escape from demanding situations.

Mouth - May be a sexual symbol, representing the vagina (Freud).Self-expression. Is there some part of you that has not been allowed to express itself, such as your creative self? Are you bottling up your emotions? Perhaps something is threatening to swallow you up.

 

Movies - Your true life on display; follow the scenes in the dream. Scenes depict current thinking, emotions, perceptions, relationships and provide insights on problems without a bias, as they really are and not always as you perceive them in your waking life. The characters in the movie often represent different aspects of yourself. You are the producer and director and have control. Change what needs to be change.

 

Moving - Making changes in your life {waking conscious or unconsciously wanting or needing to}.

 

Murder - Repressed hostility or resentment towards someone or something. If your are being murdered, it represents a repressed emotion that is threatening to mutinty if not recognized by your conscious self.

 

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Murder

Dreaming that you have committed a murder indicates that you are putting an end to an old habit and your former ways of thinking. This could also mean an end to an addiction. Alternatively, you may have some repressed aggression or rage at yourself or at others. Dreaming that you witness a murder indicates deep-seated anger towards somebody. Consider how the victim represents aspects of yourself that you want to destroy or eliminate. Dreaming that you are murdered, suggests that some important and significant relationship has been severed and you are trying to disconnect yourself from your emotions. It also represents your unused talents. Note also that dreams of murder occur frequently during periods of depression.

Museum - Your past. Your collective unconscious (that part of you that ahs access to the collective world).If so your dream is showing you something of great value.

 

Music - Take note of the emotional tone; sad, sweet, tragic. This is an emotion speaking to you.

 

Names - names in a dream are a usually a desciption of your ownself, and the relationship to the name may have meaning. If in the dream the name 'Mrs. House" is seen it may be referring to a house, an actual house you lived in, and/or, the house may be a symbol for you, the dreamer. If you are given a new name in a dream it may mean that you have entered into a new phase in your life. Names of dead people may be reference to the relationship with tha person when they were living. Or it may refer to qualities about that person that influence {positive or negeative} you. Deeper, the person, being dead, may represent that aspect of influence upon you is itself dead, it is 'dead' within you.

 

Naval - in a woman's dream it may represent motherhood. It may also represent new birth or a new development in your life. 'Naval' may refer to the military, or to military reginmentation, prompted by some event or ocurrence in your waking life, within a few dreams prior to the dream.

 

Neck - Are you sticking your neck out for some reason and is this wise?

 

From HyperDictionary.com

Neck

Seeing your neck in your dream may mea the relationship between the mind/mental and the body/physical. It represents willpower, self-restriction and your need to control your feelings and keep them in check. Consider the familiar phrase, "don't stick your neck out" which serves as a warning against a situation. Dreaming that your neck is injured may indicate a separation between your heart and mind. Dreaming of a thick neck may mean that you are becoming very quarrelsome and quick-tempered.

 

Needle - May represent male sexuality. Is something needling you? Dreaming that you are threading a needle may mean that you are burdened with something. It may indicate that you need to mend some relationship or situation.

 

Night - a common symbol for the unconscious.

 

Nine - symbol for completeness and personal fullfilment. In Greek mythology nine represents the Goddess, the highest level of being. May represent personal balance or wholeness. See Numbers

 

Noon - intellect, rationality, masculinity.

 

Noose - a warning of castastrophe if you don't change your ways

 

North - a symbol for evil, or frigidity

 

Nose - being dishonest with yourself (Pinocchio). 'follow your nose' or your instinct

 

Nudity - the naked truth; who you really are. Showing off your nudity could be a desire for sex. It may be an expression for childhood innocence. See Nudity

 

From MDS Dream Motifs

Nudity

(1) Nudity may express a longing (possibly unconscious) for chidhood innocence and freedom from artifical inhibitions.

 

(2) It may signify getting beyond outward appearances to what you really are: the 'naked truth' about yourself. It may therefore be accompanied by an anxious feeling of being exposed - that is, vulnearable.

 

(3) If you are ashamed or frightened of being naked, and move away so people can't see you, this may indicate either a fear of sexual relationships or fear of revealing your inner feelings.

 

(4) If you are showing off your nudity, this may represent either desire for sex; or a state of being at ease with yourself and not feeling a need to apologize for being the person you are; or complete honesty and openniness in your dealings with other people.

Numbness - May mean you have some repressed emotion related to something that is too shocking for you to entertain in your conscious mind.

 

Nun - your true self. abstaining fro many of life's social duties and requirements. The pure feminine self.

 

Nut - asking you to get through to th centre of yourself

 

From MDS Dream Motifs

Numbers

One - Unity, oneness (conscious and unconscious integrated).

 

Two - The number two may be a symbol for conflict: for example, between two parts of yourself (which may be represented in the dream by yourself - the dream ego - and an adversary, or by hostile brothers'sisters'twins).

(2) Two may also symbolize a union or partnership: for example, of conscious and unconscious or masculine and feminine elements in the psyche. Such union or partnership is always fruitful and creative. (In Indian philosophy one is an arid number; two - male and female - can create. A Hindu god is always represented as two-in-one, a union of male and female).

 

Three - The number three may symbolize completeness and fulfillment; or anything that may contribute to your personal fulfillment - for example, the resolving of conflict between two opposing psychic forces.

(2) Jung says three may signify that something is nearly but not quite complete; or that what is lacking in you can be supplied only by some part of your unconscious elf that you find too frightening to acknowledge and use (Even God, he says, is not quite complete without the Devil).

 

Four - Wholeness; the completely integrated human psyche.

 

Five - Five is a number for change (being the next number after four, five is starting over again).

 

Six - May be number for completeness.Six is a multiple of three (same as three). (2) May symbolize conflict.

 

Seven - is also a number for completeness.

(2) The number seven may also sinal time for change - as in the 'seven year itch'.

(3) Sixes and sevens, of course may symbolize conflict.

 

Eight - has the same significance as four, of which it is a multiple: wholeness; the completely integrated human psyche.

(2) It also symbolizes infinity or eternity; or the endless cycle of death and rebirth.

 

Nine - The number nine is a symbol of completeness, may represent personal fulfillment (in Greek mythology the number nine symbolizes the Goddess, the highest personal fulfillment of the feminine psyche).

 

Ten - one and zero; the same as one.{see 432 for more info on the number nine}

 

All other numbers are either a multiple of numbers all rady listed, therefore, having the same meaning, or, can be added together to get a number already listed (example, 117 = nine). Look at the personal significance of any number in a dream for its relationship.

 

The story of the crow determining the number of people entering and leaving a barn is a possible link to the orgin of numbers within the psyche of all of Nature's life. The crow (which the farmer wanted to get rid of and which had taken up residence in his barn) could recognize the number of people entering and leaving the barn and knew when all were gone and could re-enter the barn safely. He could do this upto the number of four people. After that, the fifth and beyond, he saw as 'many' and when five went into the barn and only four left, he could not determine beyond the number four, thus the fifth person did him in.

 

Oasis - a reward for exploring your unconscious.

 

Ocean - The deepest unconscious where one finds repressed, forgotten emotions. Also is a symbol for mother, your own mother or Mother Nature. May symbolize creative potential.

 

Octopus - a symbol for your mother or mother-attachment

 

Officer/Offical - Your super-ego (your moral principle- Freud). An authortive figure. Is this aspect good or bad?

 

Ointment - a symbol for healing. A fly in the ointment represents something within yourself- an old habit or a negative attitude - that is interfering with the healing process.

 

Old - symbolizes something within the deeper, more primitive layers of the unconscious. Seek out what this might be.

 

From HyperDictionary.com

Openning

Seeing an opening in your dream means a new influence or new-found inspiration entering your life. Dreaming that you are opening something, suggests that you are unleashing your potential. It may also mean new opportunities.

 

Opposites - those things in life that are opposite one another. Male-female, new- old, extrovert-introvert. The goal is to incorporate both sides into your life. Look to how you see/perceive things and consider the opposite as a better way. Or perhaps the opposite of what you are doing is the not the best way.

Opposum - Parents may appear in a dream in the guise of animals. It then would represent a love-hate feeling toward that parent. An opposum is a marsupial, an animal whose young is carried within a pouch. What si the relationship with your mother? Or, what is the relationship to your wise self {Great Mother metaphor}? Are you, or should you, provide a more cultivating atmosphere for those unconscious aspects {creativity/spirituality} within your psyche.

 

Orange - aggressiveness. It is the color of the sun and may represent life, or consciousness. If you are dep[ressed, it mat symbolize the dawn of a new attitude of optimism.

 

Orchestra - the many and various forces of the psyche with the potential for creativity.

 

Orgy - an exaggerated expression of ( a need for) sex. a release of energy as in breaking out of an old or negative attitude.

 

Ostrich - Ignoring the truth or reality. Refusing to face up to life.

 

Outcast - a rejected part of yourself. Repression.

 

Oven - may represent the womb, therefore a sign of pregnancy. The new birth could be physical or it could be psychological or spiritual.

 

Owl - wisdom and/or insight. May symbolize insights to the dark unconscious aspects of your personality.

 

Pack- If carrying a pack, represents carrying a load, emotional baggage.

 

Package- To send a package is to give away part of yourself. to receive a package is to get in touch with some unknown part of yourself; repressed memories, etc.

 

Pagan- Undiscipline part of personsality. Going beyond the norm. Not fitting in

 

Pain- Disharmony in mental, emotional, physical or spiritual self. (Note location of pain on your body to determine problem).

 

Paint- Changing attitudes; cleaning up, redoing; painting a picture is a new way of creatively expressing yourself.

 

Pajamas- Role you play in the bedroom.

 

Palace- Magical kingdom within the self; spiritual self. Royal ambitions {good or bad?}

 

Panic- Aniexty; repressed emotions; guilt. See Panic

 

Pants- Covering up your sexual feelings. The hidden source of your true energy, the thing that holds you up, gives you support

 

Paper- Means for self-expression. Inferior aspects of your personality {a rock would be superior}.

 

Parachute- Time to bail out. Taking risks, risky behaviour.

 

Parade- Many aspects of self; your role in life.

 

Paradise- A desire to achieve in the psyche the balance and wholeness that have been present latently and potentially from the beginning.

 

Paralyze- Temporarily unable to function well; unable to see clearly, due to some type emotional fear.

 

Parasite- Something or someone that eats away at you and drains energy; negative thinking.

 

Parents - Experienced, wise part of self; actual images of parents (may determine your relationship with parents).

From HyperDictionary.com

Panic

Dreaming that you are in a panic indicates a lack of control and power in your life. You may be feeling helpless in some situation or unable to make a clear decision.

 

Park- Place of rejuvenation; time for relaxation. Awarness of your extended self. Is park well kept or overgrown, if so does this reflect your life?

 

Parking Lot- Stuck in your daily routine; slow down your pace, park yourself.

 

Parrot- Are you merely picking up other people's values uncritically, unreflectingly? Are you only the semblance of a person, a facade?

 

Party- Celebration; reaching a new plateau, a reason to celebrate.

 

Passenger- Not in control, choosing to follow others or other ways instead of your own; not taking responsibility for determining your path.

 

Passport- Ticket to freedom.

 

Pastries - Too much of a good thing. Over-indulgence.

 

Path- Your direction in life; are you taking a path created by someone else or taking a path never taking before, your true path?

 

Pattern- Restrictive belief system; ways we handle situations.

 

Pauper- poor in spirit or in health; denying spiritual, creative self; not seeing self worth.

 

Pave- Make things smoother i life; taking time to prepare before venturing ahead.

Peacock- may symbolize male sexuality; or pride, vanity or ostentation.

 

Pearl- Self beauty, self illumination.

 

Pedestal- Seeking recognition; ego or martyr trip; putting oneself above others.

 

Pen- The ability to express oneself (or unability).

 

Pendulum- Balance your life; swinging from one extreme to another.

 

Penis- That which penetrates or impregnates; masculinity; feelings about sexuality.

 

Penthouse- Creative or spiritual part of self. Thinking mold. Higher self.

 

People - Different aspects of self; differenting emotions. See People

From HyperDictionary.com

People

Seeing people you know in your dream means qualities and feelings of those people that you desire for yourself. Seeing people you don't know in your dream indicates hidden aspects of yourself that you need to confront. Seeing people from your past in your dream, refers to your shadow and other unacknowledged aspects of yourself. It can represent a waking situation that is bringing out similar feelings as your past relationships.

Pepper - Heated emotions.

 

Purfume - Indulgence. Covering up something.

 

Perspire - Emotional release; fear; cooling down a heated situation

 

Pet - Something that nurtures us; animal instincts.

 

Photograph - Your way of seeing things; a reflection of who you are or think you are.

 

Physican- Inner healing; that which can correct a wrong.

 

Piano- Harmony, balance in your life; creative expression.

 

Picnic- Expressing your emotions; spreading out your emotional ideas.

 

Pier- Surveying emotional waters.

 

Pig- Not sharing, being hoggish. Over-indulgence

 

Pigeon- Messenger; flight and freedom.

 

Pilgrim- Exploring unknown parts of self; searching for truth.

 

Pill- A hard situation to swallow; as a mediceine, suggests healing.

 

Pillar- Strength, support.

 

Pillow- Bridge between unconscious and conscious; a need to rest; tenderness, softness.

 

Pilot- Higher self; an airline pilot is in charge of your spiritual self, a sea pilot is in charge of your emotional self.

 

Pioneer - Exploring unknown regions; looking for new ways of thinking or expressing oneself, or the need to do so.

 

Pipe- Conductor of energy (emotional).

 

Pirate- Part of self that takes away from other aspects; being robbed of your energy

 

Pistol - May be symbol of the penis. The firing of a pistol would then represent the sexual act.

From HyperDictionary.com

Pistol

Dreaming that you are aiming a pistol indicates that you are trying to target a specific goal. However, if the overtones of the dream is that of fear, anger and aggression, then the pistol means power by which you need to defend yourself against the fear and anger.

 

Planning - Unconsciously knowing what is best but perhaps not following through consciously.

 

Plastic - Artifical. Are you being your true self? Do you expressive your true emotions? Also flexible, adaptable, insensitive.

 

Plate - Being circular a plate may symbolize wholeness or completion. Have you too much on your plate so to not be able to be whole or to complete a task in life?

 

Poison- Represents something bad for you. Something that is poisoning your relationships with others or yourself.

 

Policeman - A super-ego symbol or conscience, representing taboos stemming from childhood. Being arrested by a policeman may symbolize sexuality or emotions restrained by feelings of guilt. Someone of something that represents authority.

 

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Police

Seeing the police in your dream indicates some failure to perform or to honor obligations and commitments. The police also symbolize structure, rules, and control. A more direct interpretation of seeing the police in your dream forewarns that you should avoid reckless behavior. Dreaming that you are arrested by the police, suggests that you feel sexually or emotionally restrained because of guilt. Dreaming that you are a police officer, represents your own sense of morality and conscience. The dream may serve to guide you down a straight path. If you have recurring dreams that you are a police officer, then it may mean that your past actions have left you feeling guilty. Consider your behavior/actions as the cop. Dreaming that you are having difficulties contacting the police, suggests that you have yet to acknowledge your own authoritativeness in a situation. You need to take control and be in command of the direction of your life. Dreaming that you are pulled over by the police, suggests that you need to slow down and take things down a notch. Seeing or dreaming that you are a police officer chasing a felon indicates that your naughty and more devious side is in conflict with your moral standards.

Pool- A round or square pool may be a symbol of the self.

 

Potato - Unconscious contents that can grow to be consciously nutritious. Not very intelligent {potato head}.

 

Prayer - Prayer is a communion with your higher self. Sometimes we may need to pay more attention to our spiritual/creative self and less time to social duty. It may also be what you are actually doing in your life, you are in fact communicating with your higher self. The dream reflects your life as it is at the time of the dream.

 

Priest- Your inner wisdom; or alternatively, externally imposed commands and prohibitions.

 

Pregnant- Often pregnancy in a dream symbolizes something new is coming into your life, and not always a new born baby. It may symbolize a new direction you are about to take, or wish to take. If you want to be physically pregnant, this may be a message of that desire you have in life.

 

Prince/Princess - Are anima/animus figures.

 

Prison - may represent behavior that is complusive, not under conscious control. If someone else is in prison, he or she represents some part of you that has been shut up in your unconscious, which needs to be set free.

 

Prize- Probably represents your true self or some significant personal development.

 

Punishment- Symbolizes guilt feelings due to conflict in your life, inner or outward. If you are punishing someone else in the dream, parent, partner or sibling, it may represent resentment toward that person; a part of yourself that has been projected onto that person. Being punished by a policeman or judge amy symbolize an over-dominant super-ego (conscience).

 

Purple- May represent treasure, or your true self.

 

Pursued - If by an animal, may mean some part of you is repressed but now is threatening to overcome you. If by a policeman, father or other figure authority figure, you may have an over-developed super-ego (conscience). May represent something which or someone who constitutes a threat in your domestic or work life.

 

Quadruplets - Seeing quadruplets in your dream, represents wholeness, the same as the number four.

 

Quagmire - You are bogged down, an inability to meet obligations. Being negatively stuck in some way or relationship, or some aspect of your personality.

 

Quarantine - A limitaion of your freedom. Isolation, whether it be your feelings in waking life of appyling it to certain emotions that you can not or will not express openningly.

 

Quarrel - Conflict within your life. It may indicate a conflict of the conscious will to hide unconscious apects or repression of certain aspects that you deem undesirable. May indicate hidden hard feelings and conflict toward a person you are having difficulties talking about.

 

Quartet - A balanced, harmoneous attitude. It may also represent wholeness {as in the number four}. Harmoneous expression.

 

Quartz - Deep internal processes shaping your consciousness.

 

Queen - May represent mother; the unconscious; intuition; instincts; nature; personal growth.

 

Question - To question something in your dream means your suspicions towards someone or some aspect of your life. Being questioned may indicate an unfairness in some aspect of your life.

 

 

From HyperDictionary.com

Quicksand

Dreaming that you are sinking in quicksand means that your assumption that you are on solid ground will prove misleading and you will slowly find yourself in an expected situation. Dreaming that you are rescued from quicksand by a lover means a worthy and faithful lover.

Quicksand - Your area stuck and feel you are going under with it.

 

Quilt - Cover, protection, hiding; creativity.

 

Quintuplets - It may represent the five senses: sight, smell, taste, hearing, and touch. Determine which of these {or all} need attention. May represent changes in your life.

 

Rabbit - May symbolize being the innocent victim. If so, the dream may be advising you to stop punishing yourself and, instead, accept and love yourself just as you are.

 

Raccoon - Unwilling to let others see your intentions. Not totally being honest {with yourself or others}. You have disguised yourself so to give others a different impression, or you are disgusing your emotions.

 

Race - Measuring yourself against other people instead of getting your values from inner sources.

 

Rain - Ageneral grey tone in a dream probably symbolizes sadness, like tears, or depression. On the other hand, it may symbolize fertility, growth. Perhaps a new phase is opening in your life.

 

From HyperDictionary.com

Rain

Dreaming that you get wet from the rain means that you will soon be cleansed from your troubles and problems. Rain also symbolizes fertility and renewal. Seeing and hear rain falling, symbolizes forgiveness and grace. Dreaming that you are watching the rain from a window indicates that spiritual ideas and insights are being brought to you awareness. It may also symbolize fortune and love. Hearing the tapping of the rain on the roof indicates spiritual ideas and blessings coming to mind. It may also suggests that you will receive much joy from your home life.

Rainbow - A sign of hope. A symbol for bridging the gap between your ego-self and your true self (unconscious).

 

Ram - May be a sexual symbol. If something sinister about the ram, it may symbolize your shadow (parts of your psyche that has been rejected by your ego).

 

Rape - In a woman's dream, rape may represent either (unconscious) fears of sex or (masochistic) fantasies of being raped.

A man's dream of commiting rape would probably be a straightforward symbol of sexual desire, but of a sadistic kind. You probably need to aquaint yourself with your own feminine qualities and let them play a larger role in your life. What are you trying to take vengeance for? Did your mother seem to withdraw her love from you as a boy?

Rats - Contents of your unconscious that terrify you at first glimpst, emotions or instinctive impulsives that at some time in your past gave rise to guilt feelings.

 

Rebellion - Repressed parts of you (unconscoius) that are threatening to take control if you keep disregarding them.

 

Rebirth - A new level of awareness in your life; new goals and values; new energy as a result of releasing pent-up emotions.

 

Red - may represent sexuality, passion, anger, danger. As the color of blood, red is a symbol of life, but also may be death (an end to something in your life). See Colors

 

Rejection - May be a symbol of suppression or repression, the action by which we try to get rid of something in our psyche - usually a desire - that offends our moral sense or brings about a threat of punishment. Self rejection in a dream is the 'conscience' or 'super-ego' - introjected social coventions and attitudes - that does the rejecting, and often the victim is sexual desire.

 

Relationships - It is common to dream about our relationships. You can interpret this dream by remembering the details and comparing them to the realities of your daily life. In your dream state you may be experiencing some wish-fulfillment or confronting things that you would normally ignore. Some say that relationships with strangers in your dream state represent the different sides of your personality. See Relationships

 

Religion - This could be a symbol of your spiritual beliefs, or the need for more of a spiritual focus in your life.

 

Renovation - May symbolize sel-renewal or rejuvenation.

From HyperDictionary.com

Renovation

Dreaming that you are renovating means that old ideas or habits are being replaced by new ways of looking at the world and interacting with others. It is also an indication that you have triumph over much adversity.

Rescue - Aspecst of yourself that have been neglected and need to be brought to consciousness. Being rescued from something may mean unconscious forces have been threatening to take over. The only person who can rescue you is yourself!

 

Reservoir - may symbolize your unconscious or your potential - all the unrealized, because not yet chosen, possibilities for your personal development. A calm state of still water may represent untroubled state of tranquility, or the emotional virginal state of a (young) person whose emotions have not yet been roused.

 

Revolution - Perhaps you should reconsider your point of view or outlook on something, because this could be a sign of psychological turbulence. Work to resolve conflicts in your life.

 

Riches - This could be a materialistic symbol, and may even be representative of greed. However, it could also be referring to spiritual riches.

 

Rifle - A symbol for aggressiveness; sexual energy; to kill someone with a gun is your hostility toward that person.

 

Right/left - Right/left symbolizes consciousnes/unconsciousness. Movement from left to right may signify an increase of conscious awareness. May also represent intellecy/intuition or thought/feeling; masculine/feminine; activity and assertivenes/passivity and receptiveness. In mythology left symbolizes the path to adventure, the road of danger and trials. The hero/heroine always takes the left hand path to accomplish desired results.

 

Ring - May symbolize marriage and how you feel about the (prospective or actual) marriage. May be a symbol of being commited (to a realtionship). May symbolize eternity; or completeness, wholeness; your true self.

 

River - This is a strong emotional symbol. Consider the state of the river - was it frozen? flowing? It’s representative of the passage of time as well. What are the currents in your life, the flow of emotions that tend to sometimes overwhelm you?

 

Road - A rather straightforward symbol. It represents, in most cases, the journey of life that a person is on, your path, and the way they are progressing. It represents the direction that you are pursuing. If you were more interested in what was around the road than on the road itself, maybe you should focus your attention on where you are going in life. If the road was rough, it points at some difficulties that need to be overcome.

From HyperDictionary.com

Road

Seeing a road in your dream indicates your sense of direction and pursuit of your goals. Seeing a winding, curvy, or bumpy road in your dream, suggests that you will experience many obstacles and setbacks in achieving your goals. You may be met with unexpected difficulties. If the road is dark, then it reflects the darker or more frightening choices which you have made or are making. Seeing a smooth road bordered by green trees and flowers indicates a steady progress and steady climb up the social ladder. If the road is straight and narrow, then it means that your path to success is going according as planned. Seeing an unknown road in your dream means that you new project will cause more grief than it is worth and a waste of time. Dreaming that a threatening creature is on a road, parallels a hostile situation/person you are encountering in your waking life. It is an obstacle that you need to overcome, no matter how intimidating the situation or person may appear.

Robber(y) - Material insecurities, perhaps. Maybe you feel as if you are being robbed of something in waking life.

 

Robot - The dream may be telling you that you have become a robot in some way, and that you need to gain back your creativity and individuality. It could be warning you that you are being manipulated by another person.

 

Rock - This may be representative of your stability in a certain situation. However, a rock could also be a symbol of difficulties that you need to overcome, depending on the context of the dream.

 

Roof - Apex of thought or understanding. Could symbolize the dreamer is in a dangerous or precarious situation at present. Also a symbol of protection and shelter.

 

Room - May represent the self, or some aspect of yourself. The cellar or basement may represent the unconscious. a room at the top of a building may represent consciousness; idealism; lofty aspirations. Bedroom could reflect sexual emotions. What emotions are brought to mind in certain rooms in your home?

 

Rose - A red rose may symbolize love; or passion. Roses, like flowers generally, may represent the beauty of Nature and a need to be in touch with nature.

 

Rubbish - May symbolize repressed contents of the unconscious. A need to get rid of old attitudes, fears, guilt-feelings or other complexes that have been a burden in your life.

 

Ruby - May represent passion;love or anger. May symbolize your true self.

 

Ruins - What may be in ruins is a relationship, or your self-image, or your life.

 

Running - Are you running from something in your life, some fear of something or someone? Perhaps you are not ready to deal with something and are running away from it. Physically running may symbolize you are competing for something, something in your physical life, or competing emotions.

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Running

Dreaming that you are running away from someone indicates an issue that you are trying to avoid. You are not taking or accepting responsibility for your actions. In particular, if you are running from an attacker or any danger, then it suggests that you are not facing and confronting your fears. Dreaming that you are trying to run but cannot make your feet move as fast as you want them to means lack of self-esteem and self-confidence. It may also reflect your actual state of REM paralysis while in the dream state. Dreaming that you are running alone means that you will advance to a higher position and surpass your friends in the race for wealth. Alternatively, you may be running from some situation or from temptation. Dreaming that you are running with others means festive and prosperous times.

Rust - A symbol of ageing and deterioration, rust may mean that you are due or ovedue for a rejuvinationg spring-cleaning, abandoning of negative attitudes. Something rusty may symbolize some psychic component -instinct, skill, a personality trait - that has 'rusted' throught neglect and disuse.

 

Sabotage - Self destructive tendencies.

 

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Sabotage

Dreaming that you have been sabotaged, represents waking conflicts. An overwhelming anxiety is threatening the boundary between your unconscious and your ego. You need to get rid of your old attitudes and former ways of thinking.

Sack - Concealment;elimination of undesired traits.

 

Sacrifice - Given up positive traits. You may need to sacrifice something in real life, or you have made one recently.

 

Saddle - Placing yourself in undesired situations.

 

Safari - Exploring undiscovered aspects of self.

 

Safe - Probably a symbol of the self, containing things of great value.

 

Sailboat - Emotional self; riding the waves of emotions (water symbolizes unconscious.

 

Sailor - May represent adventuing into the unconscious (self examination of one's life through reflection and exploring one's life.

 

Saint - Guidance, wise self, spiritual self. This one may need further research, depending on the saint. It may be representative of a high ideal, or your need for support or guidance.

 

Salary - Compensation, reaping and sowing.

 

Salesman/person - Open to new ideas, changes.

 

Salvation - The resolving of conflict and the achieving of balance and wholenes in the psyche. A longing for release from unconscious guilt-feelings.

 

Sanctuary - Retreating within; a level of conscious necessary for healing.

 

Sand - Constant changes; limitless aspects of personality.

 

Santa Claus - Rewarding oneself.

 

Satellite - Communication with higher self; spiritual awareness.

 

Saw - Building blocks of personality.

 

Scales - Weighing matters before deciding; balance in life.

 

Scalp - Flowing from the head (intellect); stimulation for new grwoth.

 

Scar - Emotional wounds.

 

Scarecrow - Lack of confidence; false impressions.

 

Schedule - Restrictions placed on oneself; limiting oneself. A need to discipline oneself.

 

School - A place of learning and knowledge. This could mean that one has a desire to learn, or that one seeks higher ideals. If you are going back to school, it may hint at unresolved issues, or new learning opportunities. Life; Lessons learned or not learned; approaching different levels of consciousness.

Scientist - Rational self, intellectual self; search for knowledge, seeking to find truths; guidance; higher self.

 

Scissors - Cutting away what no longer benefits you; a fear of being cut off. Might be representative of the desire to break away from something or someone. Could also symbolize cutting remarks.

 

Scorch - Heated emotions.

 

Scorpion - Poisonous thinking. Maybe a symbol of an idea that is dangerous, or that you have made some comment that is stinging and hurtful.

 

Script - Roles we play in life; following others lead (good or bad).

 

Scroll - Powerful truths; book of life.

 

Scuba - Breathing under water {unconscious}. This would symbolize unconscious realizations, fears, desires, attitudes.

 

Sea - May represent the unconscious. Putting out to sea therefore would symbolize exploring the unconscious. May be the mother symbol, either that of Mother Nature or your own mother. Drowning would symbolize a fear of being suffocated by a dominating mother or mother-attachment. may symbolize the feminine, or any aspect of it (e.g intuition, receptiveness,). For a male dreamer it would symblize getting acquainted with the feminine side of his psyche - anima.May symbolize creative potential.

 

Seam - Biding together; unity of emotions; coming apart at the seams.

 

Seasons - A symbol possibly of your present outlook. Summer is a symbol of contentment and happiness, autumn of the end of cycles and awareness, winter of resignation and patience, and spring of growth and hope. Levels of growth (spiritual, emotional); natural process of changes in life.

 

Secret - Unconscious thoughts being revealed; hidden parts.

 

Secretary - Helpful part of self; organization; identify priorities. Sub-ordinate feminine aspect.

 

Sedative - Emotionally uptight; learn to relax; responsibility.

 

Seduction - May represent a real seduction, perhaps in childhood. May represent a desire for sex.

 

Seed - May represent the potential for personal growth.May symbolize your true self. as opposed to the persona image that you falsely portray in waking life. New ideas; new beginnings; new birth (physical, psychological). Your dream might be hinting that you need to "plant" an idea and allow it to grow, or it may be showing you what will happen if you follow a certain course of action. (Does it grow into a beautiful plant, does it die, etc.)

 

Seesaw - Balance; ups and downs of life. What is at the other end of the seesaw? Is it something positive or negative?

 

Self - Represents your conscious ego, which is the centre of your conscious mind but not your total psyche.

Selling - Motivating oneself; selling onself short.

 

Semen - Creative ideas; masculine self. Seeds of new growth

 

Sermon - Discussion with the unconscious. A moralistic rebuke.

 

Serpent - New life, rejuvenation, healing. The snake/serpent sheds its skin and grows new skin; shedding the old, new growth.

In Western societies the snake is seen as evil. In Eastern mythologies the snake (or serpent) is a symbol for healing, new life.

A snake/serpent may symbolize sexuality; psychic energy, or the power of Nature; intuitive wisdom; the unconscious.

Is the snake/serpent guarding something? If so, it may symbolize either your true and total self or something you need for the next stage of personal development.

 

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Serpent

Seeing a serpent in your dream means high intellectual power, deception, and the balance of good and evil. Seeing a winged serpent in your dream indicates wisdom and that you've overcome negative ways.

 

Seven - A symbol for completeness. Also a symbol for change for the better.

 

Sewer - May repreent the flow of unconscious energy or emotion that you have tried to suppres.

 

Sex

Usually a straightforward expression of sexual desire. sex with someone other than your partner may express a desire for that person and/or a dissatisfaction with your partner.

Uninhibited sex in a dream would suggest that the dreamer's actual sex life is inhibited. Revealing of patterns in your sexual relationships that you have not been aware of.

Dreams may reveal patterns in your sexual relationships that you have not been aware of/ What sort of person attracts you in your dreams? How do you feel about this or that aspect of the sexual encounter?

Another reason for paying attention to dreams depicting sexual relations is that the shadow may very well be prominent in sex; so here is a way of getting to know your alter-ego, the hidden part of yourself.

In dreams of sex your partner may symbolize some part of your own psyche, for example, your anima if your are male, your animus is you are female, and the sexual act will often be a symbol of the union of opposites which leads to wholeness and balance in your personality.

 

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Sex

Dreaming about sex, refers to the psychological completion and the integration of contrasting aspects of the Self. You need to be more receptive and incorporate aspects of your dream sex partner into your own character. Alternatively and a more direct interpretation of the dream, may be your libido's way of telling you that it's been too long since you have had sex. It may indicate repressed sexual desires and your needs for physical and emotional love. Dreaming about sex with someone other than your spouse or significant other, suggests dissatisfaction with the physical side of your relationship. On the other hand, it may be harmless fantasy. In such situations, you may find that you are less inhibited sexually and you can even bring that sense of adventure to your existing relationship. Dreaming that you are having sex with an ex or someone who is not your current mate indicates your reservations about embarking in a new relationship or situation. You may feel nervous about exposing yourself or currently feel a resurgence of those old emotions and feelings that you felt back when you and your ex were together. Believe it or not, it is not uncommon for people approaching their wedding to experience especially erotic adventures with partners other than their intended spouses. This may be due to the intensity of your sexual passion with your fiancé. It also relates to the new roles that you will be taking on and the uncertainty that that may bring. If you are heterosexual and you dream that you are having sex with someone of the same sex means not necessarily homosexual desire, but an expression of greater self love and acceptance. You need to be in better touch of your feminine or masculine side. Dreaming that you are the opposite sex, suggests that you exhibit or need to incorporate those qualities of the opposite sex. Ask yourself, how do you feel being a man or a woman? In what ways can you incorporate those feelings into your waking life.

Sheep - May symbolize unthinking, passive comformity to a mundance existence, taking one's ideas uncritically from authority figures or others; being eaisly lead, and consequently not in control of oneself. May also symbolize going astray; taking the wrong turn in life; forsaking one's destiny.

 

Shells- A symbol of self-protection, and maybe one suggesting that you should listen to your intuition (as one listens to the sound of the sea through a shell).

 

Shepherd - This may be a reference to you following someone, a leader, in life, or, if you were the shepherd, it could be telling you that others are following you, or that you are watching over and protecting someone else. May symbolize the power of love within us.

 

Ship - May be a feminine symbol, representing the mother, or some other woman, or women in general. In a man's dream it may symbolize the anima. The vessel {emotions-attitudes-belief sysetm} in your life that you have attached your being to.

 

Shoes - This may be a hint at something dealing with your foundation, or basic principles. This could also be a reference to station in life, i.e. the phrase "I’d like to be in his shoes."

 

Shoulders - May represent unconscious emotions. May symbolize carrying a burden i life.

 

Shower - May symbolize refreshment, new joy in life, personal growth. Also getting rid of old ideas, attitudes, emotions.

 

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Sign

Seeing a sign in your dream indicates that you need assistance You need some direction and guidance in your life. Pay attention to what the sign says and what it is pointing you to do.

Silhoette - You may not be seeing things fully, only dimly. This could be representative of the unconscious, or it could be telling you that you have a limited or one-sided point of view on some matter. May be a reference to your Shadow

 

Silver - May symbolize something of value with regard to your personal development. May symbolize the feminine (silver has associations with the moon)which would represent intuition; or the unconscious.

 

Sink - A cleansing may be necessary.

 

Sinking - May be a symbol of depression or dispair. May symbolize being swallowed by your mother (mother attachment). If a ship is sinking it may represent the end of something in your life.

 

Sister - Feminine qualites of the psyche {see anima/animus www.tennlinks.com/mds2/animaanimus.html}.Qualities in yourself that you project onto other people. An older sister {for a female dreamer} may represent your 'other self' {alter ego}, that side yourself that is neglected or undeveloped {this is the 'Shadow' www.tennlinks.com/mds2/shadow.html}.

 

Six - Striving for wholeness c in your human life {as opposed to your spiritual life}. Animal instincts as opposed to intuitive instincts.

 

Sky - May symbolize transcendence, your true self. Sky may symbolize the realm of consciousness as distinct from earth or sea, representing the unconscious realm. See Numbers

 

Skunk - May suggest that you are driving people away or turning people off. A protection reaction, using an 'odoress' attitude to drive away someone, or some inner attitude against yourself.

 

Sleeping - May be symbolic of peaceful, tranquil state in which you are at one with your true self and inner awareness tkaes the place of sensory reactions to the extrenal world.

 

Slaying - A dislike of someone or something. Conflict in your life. Killing a person or animal symbolizes repression of some aspect of yourself, some instinct or desire. Are you killing off, or do you need to slay some aspect of yourself.

 

Smoke - Maybe you are not seeing things clearly in waking life, or things seem obscure to you.

 

Snake - This could be a sexual symbol, or a symbol of temptation. This is also a symbol of Kundalini; pure energy. A snake may be a symbol of wisdom, or someone that is trying to harm you in an underhanded and sneaky manner.

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Snake

Seeing a snake or be bitten by one in your dream means hidden fears and worries that are threatening you. Your dream may be alerting you to something in your waking life that you are not aware of or that has not yet surfaced. The snake may also be seen as phallic and thus symbolize dangerous and forbidden sexuality. The snake may also refer to a person around you who is callous, ruthless, and can't be trusted. As a positive symbol, snakes represent transformation, knowledge and wisdom. It is indicative of self-renewal and positive changes.

Snow - Pure, white snow could be a symbol of purity. If the snow is dirty, this could be a symbol of how you feel about yourself and your own purity.

 

Soldier - Masculine aspect, discipline. Determining own direction.

 

Son - May not be symbolic at all; perhaps the dream was occasioned by your anxieties concerning your son. However, consider that the son figure represents some part of yourself. In a man it may represent his own youthful self.

 

Space - Possibly an obvious statement that you need more space in life, a relationship, or a situation. If you were floating in space, this could be warning you that you have lost direction in life. The new frontiers in your life that need exploring. The mystical/metaphysical aspect of your being.

 

Spell - You may be unaware that you are "under someone’s spell". This could be pointing out your desire to come by something, using a spell as an aid in achieving that desire, or reliance on a higher power.

 

Spider- Representative of a fear of getting "caught in a web" or getting "spun up" in things. This could be warning you of a threat.

 

Spiral - Upward spiral may represent progress and achievement. Downward spiral may symbolize something negative.

 

Spirits - May represent the not yet discovered or utilized powers or capacities of your psyche offering inspiration, creativity, love and powers of healong (self-healing).May represent your 'complexes', psychic forces that escaped your conscious control. They will almost certainly damage your personal efficiency and destroy your happiness if you continue to repress and neglect them. Paying attention to them and giving them an approperiate creative role in your life, your personality will blossom.

 

Spirit-possession - Being possessed by bad spirits represents neurosis or psychosis. By good spirits represents submitting to a 'higher' self other than the ego; allowing creative forces to take a leading and guiding role in your life. Being too religious.

 

Spring - May symbolize the possibility of new growth in your personality.

 

Sponge - You are absorbing something in waking life, or someone else is sponging off of you.

 

Spoon - This just might be a reference to someone’s station in life, i.e. the saying "born with a silver spoon in his mouth." It could also be telling you to take things in small doses.

 

Squirrel - What is it that you have stored away that needs recognizing about yourself? Squirrels are doers, they plan ahead.

 

Stabbing - A stabbing is sometimes a symbol of deep anger or aggression. Identify that person or cause of the anger or aggression. The stranger may be some part of yourself, you are stabbing yourself for some reason.

 

Stage - Your dream might be showing you to make something public, or that you desire attention and notice.

 

Star - Maybe a form of guidance, or that you are making the most of what you have.

 

Statue - This may represent a part of yourself that is inactive, but may come to life. It could be representative of a certain thought or ideal, as the Statue of Liberty seems to represent the spirit of a nation.

 

Stealing - If you try to steal soemthing in your dream, it may mean you have some need that is not being met. Where the stealing takes place may indicate the area in which there is a lack of fulfillment.

 

Stealing Water - Water is often a symbol for those unconscious aspects. Stealing water may symbolize you have certain needs that are not being met. May indicate an area in which there is a lack of fulfillment. May symbolize unconscious guilt feelings; possibly to do with a recollection of an actual theft commited by you.

 

Steps/Stairs - A symbol of changes in consciousness. This may be an ascent or descent. Things will not be gained all at once, but in several steps.

 

Stick - May symbolize the male phallus {Freud}. Is someone taking advantage of you, 'sticking' it to you?

 

Sting Ray - Anything that swims in deep water is normally symbolic of deep unconscious aspects of the dreamer. Sting rays have the ability to inflict pain wounds.

 

Stone - May represent your true self. Cold emotions or attitudes set in stone.

Storm - May represent conflict, either in a relationship or within yourself. Emotional downpour, letting out suppressed emotions, release of flustrations.

 

Stripes - A symbol of variety or something that is subject to change. A sreference to achievement, promotion.

 

Stranger - Meeting a stranger always symbolizes an encounter with some part of your unconscious personality, your shadow. Fear of a stranger may be an expression of neurotic free-floating anxiety, which may be a result of roused but unsatisfies, usued libido.

 

Strangling - If you are doing the strangling, it probably means you are not allowing some part of yourself to express or fulfill itself. If you are being strangled, there is probably something in your life that is denying you the fulfillment and staifaction you want or need.

 

Stream - May symbolize healing or reinvigoration; a relaxed flow of energy.

 

Study - Simply, your dream could be telling you to prepare or study more.

 

Subtraction - Are you denying {subtracting} what is really there? What has been deducted from your life? {addition, subtraction, equation} What is the total sum of your life? Is it what you really want it to be or are you living a life that is not original?

 

Suicide

A dream of committing suicide doesn’t necessarily mean that you are suicidal. It could be pointing out a major change that you are about to undertake, or that you feel as if things have gotten out of hand.

If you commit suicide in a dream, it probably means you feel unable to cope any longer with a problem that has obessed and flustrated you for a long time. Perhaps you need professional help to sort this out.

Do you witness someone else's suicide" Perhaps some part of you that has been repressed and neglected is now getting desperate - in which case you need to give it urgent attention with a view to meeting its legitimate demands.

If the person commiting suicide is close to you inreal life, it may be that you harbour {unconscious} negative feelings toward that person.

 

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Suicide

Dreaming that you commit suicide indicates that conditions in your life is so frustrating that you are no longer willing to cope with a situation or relationship in the same way as you did in the past. Alternatively, you may be unable to overcome feelings of guilt and thus turning the aggression on yourself. On a more positive note, it may suggest that you are saying good-bye to one aspect of yourself or character that your have been carrying around. Seeing someone commit suicide in you dream, highlights your concerns for that person. Also consider what characteristics and qualities in that person you may be trying to "kill" and annihilate in your own self. Perhaps you hope that you are not like that person in some way and are making attempts to get rid of those traits within your own self.

Summer - May symbolize the stages of human life, in which case summer would represent the early middle age, which for most people is the period of maximum external, material achievement. After this the inner life may demand more attention.

 

Sun - The spiritual force or something that is necessary for your wellbeing. It may represent the opportunities for knowledge and learning. This could also be a sign of power. Or, your dream could be suggesting that you get out into the sun more often. See Sun

 

Sunglass - the way you look at things is somewhat shaded (biased or prejudiced). Also, you may not be seeing things clearly. Physically it could be a signal from the body that the eyes are in need of examination (rare).

 

Sunrise/sunset - Sunrise may symbolize new life, or a new phase in your life. Sunset may represent death, literally or figuratively; or the end of a phase.

 

Superhuman Beings - May symbolize authority and wisdom. But be careful not to relinquish your own inner wisdom in favour of some external imposed authoritarian code of belief and behaviour.

 

Surgery - Cutting away unwanted or unhealthy aspects of your life.

 

Swan - Symbol of peace and serenity. If you were or saw a black swan or a dirty swan, your dream could be telling you that you view yourself as unattractive, that you are behind the crowd, or that you are in a period of discord.

 

Swimming - May symbolize a trustful and receptive attitude towards your unconscious, or your mother, or nature. It may also symbolize staying 'on top' of your emotions. Do you sometimes feel you are swimming in a sea of emotions? Do you understand how to maintain yourself in the emotional waters of life?

 

Sword - A symbol of the spirit, power, and authority. It could also be a symbol of protection. A need to cut away some part or aspect in your life. This may even be a sexual symbol.

 

Target - If you hit the target, then it may be telling you that your waking judgments are correct. However, if you missed, you may want to adjust them a bit.

 

Tattoo - Your dream could be telling you that a certain action will have long lasting and visible effects.

 

Tax - Possibly a reminder that you have to pay your taxes. It could also be telling you that you will have to pay for any actions you take.

 

Teacher - A symbol of guidance. Learning opportunities may be opening up to you.

 

Teeth

(1) Teeth may be a symbol of aggressiveness. If the dream is showing someone bitting someone else, it may mean there is an aggressive nature towards that person.

(2) False teeth may symbolize insincerity. Dreaming of false teeth could be telling us that we have spoken lies recently, or that we are only putting on a show.

(3) Losing teeth may symbolize a feeling of - or fear of - getting older or impotent or losing sexual attractiveness. Or they may represent a retreat to infancy (when, toothless, you enjoy your mother's breasts and nourishment), and hence a refusal to face reality. Alternatively, they may symbolize the start of a new phase in your life (knocking a tooth out sometimes featured in male initiation rites in mythology). The loss of a tooth may represent a loss of self-respect.

(4) A bad tooth may represent a painful or rooten part of one's feelings, life or relationships; angry or regretful words.

(5) "Teeth" in the dream world are most often an archetypal image of the dreamer's sense of confidence and competence in the waking world. Dreaming that there is something amiss with my teeth usually points to insecurities about my ability to "get my teeth into it," or maybe I've "bitten off more than I can chew." Ironically, the very fact that you remember such a dream is a reliable indicator that the you, the dreamer, can deal creatively and transformatively with the problems that life presents. If this were not the case, you would not even have remembered the dream. All dreams (even nightmares!) come in the service of health and wholeness, and no dream ever came to anyone to say, "Nyah, nyah--you've got these problems and you can't do anything about them!" The more emotionally charged, or urgent the dream, the more likely that it points to a creative possibility previously hidden from the conscious mind, in response to a pressing waking life problem.

 

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t ---> telekinesis

 

telepathy ---> thunder

 

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Teeth

Dreaming that you have rotten or decaying teeth, forewarns that your health and/or business is in jeopardy. You may have uttered some false or foul words and those words are coming back to haunt you. Dreaming that you are brushing your teeth means your level of confidence, struggles and aggressiveness. You need to look out for yourself and your own interest.

Telephone - A symbol of communication. There may be a message waiting for you, or your dream could be telling you to listen to your intuition.

 

Telescope - The ability to see things that are far off. It could be a hint that you need to bring an aspect of your life into focus as well. A warning, perhaps, that you are making a big fuss over something relatively small.

 

Television - Could be relaying a personal message to you. If you see yourself on television, it is perhaps suggesting that you view yourself in an objective way, or that you need to do so.

 

Temple - A strong spiritual symbol. Was the temple run-down? If so, it could be a warning against your spiritual state. It may be representative of your attitude or feelings toward religion.

 

Tent - An impermanent dwelling or attitude, or temporary protection.

 

Thermometer - Measurement of one’s emotional state, or it could be a forewarning of coming ill health.

 

Throat - Perhaps it symbolizes some part of you that needs to be expressed. Soreness or tension in the throat may indicate conflict between head and heart, intellect and emotion or instinct, or between the conscious mind and the unconscious also see neck

 

Ticks - Ticks are parasites that suck your blood {energy}. removing ticks is to remove, or a need to remove those things or aspect in your life that are draining you, phsyically, emotionally and/or spiritually

 

Tidal Wave - May represent the unconscious as threatening to engulf the cosncious ego. May represent the sweeping strenght of some emotion.

 

Tiger - May be an anima figure. It may symbolize someone or something that has frightened you - perhaps some instinctive drive or other (emotional) part of you.

 

Time - If time is going by quickly in your dream, it may be paralleling your feelings in waking life of being rushed or not having enough time. Your dream setting may be historical, and if so, maybe it represents your attitudes toward something.

 

Tongue - This might have a sexual connotation. Your dream may be telling you to "hold your tongue" or to stop gossiping.

 

Tools - Are those things in your life that can repair what needs to be repaired.

 

TORNADO - Strong, sudden changes capable of disruption in your life. An emotional storm. Swirling emotions that can be damaging.

 

Torture - Quite simply, it could be telling you that you are torturing yourself in some way, or if someone else is doing it, maybe it deals with the current situation you are finding yourself in.

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tick ---> torso

 

tortoise ---> trickster

 

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Tornado

Seeing a tornado in your dream, suggests that you are experiencing some extreme emotional outbursts and temper tantrums. Is there a situation or relationship in your life that may be potentially destructive? Dreaming that you are in a tornado means that you are feeling overwhelmed and out of control. You will be met with a series of disappointments for the next week or so. Your plans will be filled with complications. Seeing several tornadoes in your dream, represent people around you who are prone to violent outbursts and shifting mood swings. It may also symbolize a volatile situation or relationship.

Tortoise - You could be going through a slow phase in your life, or your dream could be encouraging you to move slowly and methodically. Also you may be going into a 'shell' with some aspect in your life.

 

Train - This could be taken literally, and would mean that you need to train or you are training for something. Maybe a symbol of travel. It could also be a symbol of the physical self. Maybe it’s trying to tell you to stay "on track".

 

Treasure - Maybe a sign of wish-fulfillment. This could be telling you that you are to stumble upon materialistic gains, or possibly spiritual or emotional as well. Maybe you are looking at life in a different way, and it has become richer and more full of meaning to you.

 

Tree - A tree may symbolize the power of personal growth. Just as a tree blssoms in the spring so too should a person in their growth as a person. A dead tree would indicate you are lacking this quality in your life. A withered tree may symbolize a dried-up state of being, one who lives too much from the head with rigid rules taking the place of instinct.

 

Trial - Symbolizes that you feel you are being judged for something in life. The judge may represent your conscience. If someone else is on trial, and you are a member of the jury or the judge, it may be commenting on how you are imposing judgment upon that person in real life.

 

Triangle - Trinity; a balance of mind, body and spirit. An upward- or downward-pointing triangle may represent the vagina, symbolizing sexual union or union of the masculine and feminine or conscious and unconscious components of the psyche.

 

Trick - Your dream might be commenting on something that you are planning to do soon or that things are not always what they seem.

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tricycle ---> typing

 

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Treasure

Dreaming that you find treasures means that you have unveiled some hidden skill or talent. You will also receive an expected helping hand in your road to success. Dreaming that you lose treasures indicates bad luck in business and the revolving door of friends that has passed through your life.

Trip - Could be telling you that you are going to be travelling soon, either physically or mentally. It could also represent a change in attitude.

 

Tunnel - A symbol that might be interpreted as meaning that you are coming out of depression or a time of anxiety in your life.

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Tunnel

Seeing a tunnel in your dream, represents the vagina, womb, and birth. Thus it may refer to a need for security and nurturance. Dreaming that you are going through a tunnel, suggests that you are exploring aspects of your unconscious. You are opening yourself to a brand new awareness. Alternatively, it indicates your limited perspective. Seeing the light at the end of a tunnel, symbolizes hope.

Turtle - You could be going through a slow phase in your life, or your dream could be encouraging you to move slowly and methodically.

 

UFO's - Circular, luminous 'flying saucers' may symbolize superior intelligence or wisdom. What is 'superior' need not be outside you; it may reside in the 'depths' of yourself.

 

Ugly - To dream you or others are ugly means aspects of yourself that disgust and repulses you. These may be feelings you have rejected or repressed.

 

Ulcer - Something is eating away at you, something you can't stomach.

 

Umbilical cord - An inability to support oneself. A lack of individuality.

 

Umbrella - Quite possibly a symbol of protection. A shield against expressing your true emotions.

 

Uncle - Masculine part of the psyche; qualities or characteristics you identify with particular individual which are projected aspects of yourself. {See anima/animus}

 

Underground - Could relate to feelings of not wanting to be seen or lying low. It could also be a warning against behaving deceitfully. Also, it may be showing you that you have to dig deep or search hard to find something you are looking for.

 

Underwater - Deep emotional feelings that lead to a better understanding of oneself. Being underswater may induicate unconscious control of your life or parts of your life.

 

Underwear - Those things about yourself you consider private. Protecting or covering up your sexual feelings. A need to express or reveal your feelings/emotions.

 

Undress - Exposing what is underneath the ego-self; exposing the true self, or emotions.

 

Unemployed - Represents your lack of self worth or lack of inspiration.

 

Unicorn - The mystical power of the psyche. The metaphysical aspect of the human animal.

 

Unicycle - Going it alone. Taking control and exercising authority.

 

Uniform - This could be hinting at something in your life which you feel you have some sort of duty or obligation to. It could be a symbol of conformity or thoughts shared by others as well.

 

University - A higher understanding of things in your life. A need to educate yourself to the real you.

 

Up - Emerging from a negative situation to a positive one. An inflated ego.

 

Upside Down - Suggests that there is some situation or problem in your waking life that you need to straighten out. Something in your life is turned upside down.

 

Uranus -Acting like an asshole.

 

Urinal -A need to unleash or eliminate store up emotions.

 

Urn - Being a base with a pedistal may symbolize yourself. Has your life turned to ashes?

 

Utensils - Those tools or characteristics you possess that help you think and act in a practical manner, as opposed to an emotional one.

 

U-Turn - A need to refocus or perhaps change your mode of thinking or doing things. Altering the course you have chosen.

 

Vacation - A need to get away from everyday routines. Rewarding yourself.

 

Vaccination - Making yourself immune to your own emotions/postion or other people's emotions or situations.

 

Vacuum - Maybe you are attempting to rid your life of the negative. You could be in a vacuum, and this could relate to feelings of isolation and loneliness.

 

Vagina - A woman seeing her vagina suggests issues with fer femininity and/or sexual needs/urges. A man/woman seeing a vagina may indicate a need to reconnect with their mother. It may also indicate an impulsive sexual disorder or behaviour.

 

Vagrant - Not attending to those things you need to do. Without direction in life.

 

Valentine - A need to express one's love and affection. A desire for someone to express their love/affection toward you.

 

Valley - The peaks and lows in life. Being in a valley may suggest you are at a low point.

 

Vampire - Something is sucking the blood (passion, anger, energy) from you. Could be a particular person, event or emotion. A creature of the unconscious (dark) that is frigtening, some repressed emotion.

 

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Vampire

Seeing a vampire in your dream, symbolizes seduction and sensuality, as well as fear and death. The vampire represents contrasting images of civilized nobility and aggression/ferocity. It may depict someone in your waking life whose charm may ultimately prove harmful. Deep down inside you know that this person is bad for you, yet you are still drawn to it. Alternatively, to see a vampire suggests that you are feeling physically or emotionally drained. The vampire may also be symbolic for someone who is addicted to drugs or someone in an obsessive relationship. Dreaming that you are a vampire means that you are sucking in the life energy of others for your own selfish benefit.

Van - Carrying a heavy load that you wish to cover up. Over stressed.

 

Vanilla - Indicates a welcoming experience or inviting situation.

 

Vanished - Repressed or forgotten events or emotions.

 

Varnish - Trying to cover up the obvious. Putting a glossy coat on a situation, making something look better than it is.

 

Vase - Dreaming that you receive a vase as a gift means attainment of your heart's desires. You are open to criticism or suggestions.

 

Vat - Seeing a vat in your dream indicates sorrow, grief, and unfaithfulness.

 

Vault - Represents your inner storehouse of psychological potential. Guarding against stored treasures, perhaps stored emotions.

 

VCR - Something needs to be or has been carefully documented, perhaps someting you have overlooked. It may refer to memories and lessons of the past and the insights you can gain from it. The dream may also be calling attention to the impression you leave behind and what others may think of you.

 

Vegetables - Spiritual nourishment. It may also foretell that you are lacking in that nutrient.

 

Vehicle - You, your ego, your personality, your life and it's direction. Who is driving? Where are you sitting? If you are in the driver's seat then you are in control of (or wish to take control) of your life. If someone else is in the driver's seat, they may be controlling your life. Are you riding on all four wheels? If not, something may be missing in your life. Are the tires flat? You may feel your life is going no where. Are there others with you? These may be unknown (or known but repressed) aspects of your personality. What color is the automobile? If it is red if may symbolize anger on your part.

 

Veil - Something you wish to hide or conceal.

 

Veins - Those things that guides your course in life. The bloodline that provides your strenght.

 

Velvet - Dreaming that you are wearing velvet means distinction and honor. It also represents you sensuality and emotions.

 

Venom - Pent-up anger and hostility. Bad emotions that poison your relationships.

 

Ventriloquist - Projecting onto others your faults/shortcomings. Deception and some treasonable issue effecting you in a negative way.

 

Verdict - Facing the truth. Passing judgement on yourself or others. Others judging you.

 

Vermin - Contents of your unconscious that terrify you at first glimpst, emotions or instinctive impulsives that at some time in your past gave rise to guilt feelings. The pesky things in life.

 

Vessels - The vessel {emotions-attitudes-belief sysetm} in your life that you have attached your being to.

 

Vest - Protecting yourself, especially those things close to your heart. Protecting your loved interests or loved ones.

 

Veterinarian - May indicate a need to tame your instinctive behavior and unconscious self such that it will be more acceptable in your waking life. Confronting and healing the wounded animal instincts.

 

Victim - Feeling powerless and helpless. A desire to punish yourself.

 

Video/Camera - See VCR

Video Game - Manipulating others into doing what you want them to do. Alternatively, it suggests that you are trying to escape and not confront the stress and problems in your real life. Seeing or dream that you are a character in a video game, suggests that you are feeling controlled and manipulated by others. You feel that you have no control over your actions or are not taking responsibility for them.

 

Village - Community, simplicity, and tradition. The total various aspects of your personality. Restrictions placed on you by others.

 

Vinegar - A situation that has soured.

 

Vines - Your ambitious thoughts or ideas. Clinging to others thus twarting your ability to expand on your natural abilities. Branching out or reaching out.

 

Vineyard - Represents the fruits of your labor and your life experiences.

 

Violence - Indicates unexpressed anger or rage. The dream may also reflect repressed memories of child abuse. Reliving actual violent experiences.

 

Viper - This could be a sexual symbol, or a symbol of temptation. This is also a symbol of Kundalini; pure energy. A vipor or snake may be a symbol of wisdom, or someone that is trying to harm you in an underhanded and sneaky manner.

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Serpent

Seeing a snake or be bitten by one in your dream means hidden fears and worries that are threatening you. Your dream may be alerting you to something in your waking life that you are not aware of or that has not yet surfaced. The snake may also be seen as phallic and thus symbolize dangerous and forbidden sexuality. The snake may also refer to a person around you who is callous, ruthless, and can't be trusted. As a positive symbol, snakes represent transformation, knowledge and wisdom. It is indicative of self-renewal and positive changes. Virgin - Symbolizes purity and potential.

 

Virgin Mary - Seeing the Virgin Mary in your dream may mean spiritual harmony and/or ideal motherhood. Alternatively, the Virgin Mary represents a repressed fear of sexuality or difficulties in relationships.

 

Vise - Feeling confined and restricted. You feel that you cannot fully express yourself. Someting is pressuring you.

 

Visions - Seeing the true images of yourself instead of what the ego perceives. The ability to see clearly.

 

Visitor - Those aspects of yourself that visit you but do not stay with you.

 

Vitamins - Seeing or take a vitamin in your dream indicates that you need to strengthen your willpower. You may also need to stand up for yourself. Alternatively, it may point to you waking Seeing or eating habits and the need for you to add certain nutrients to your diet.

 

Voices - May be your unconscious wanting/trying to contact your conscious with needed information about yourself orthers that affect you. Alternatively, it may indicate neurotic thinking or behaviour.

 

Volcano - Indicates violent disputes or repressed thoughts. Something is about to erupt in your life causing turmoil and changes.

 

Volleyball - The importance of cooperation and teamwork. A need to learn to rely on others instead of doing everything yourself. It may represens your indecisiveness and your inability to make commitments.

 

Volunteer - Represents the value of helping others in need. It also implies charity and your willingness to offer your assistance. Also, look to your unconscious to see what it is volunteering to your conscious mind.

 

Vomiting - A need to reject or discard an aspect of your life that is revolting. Those emotions or concepts that you need to confront and then let go.

 

Voo Doo - Suggests that you are unconsciously trying ward off surrounding negative energy. Seeing a voodoo doll in your dream, represents a primitive and shadowy aspect of yourself. See Shadow

 

Voucher - Supplimenting your values with schemes that may eventually work against you.

 

Voyage - Your journey through life. The unconscious journey that should be acknowledged and accepted as your true path in life. The passing of unconscious information to consciousness {from land to sea}.

 

Voyeurism - A need to express your sexual desires. May suggest that you are afraid of your own desires and fantasies.

 

Vulture - The need to do away with the dead/unwanted parts of your personality. Those poeple things that prey on your defenseless aspects.

 

Wagon - Carrying a load; no power source; you need play to obtain balance in your life.

 

Waiter/Waitress - Part of self that nutures; slow service indicates not enough attention to part of self.

 

Walk - Proceeding along your path; exercise needed.

 

Wall - A barrier: secluding oneself.

 

Wall Paper - The ego self (your outer personality); covering up something; hidding inner feelings.

 

Walrus - Awkward self-expressions, feelings, and emotions.

 

Wand - Creative power within; inner reality (spiritual).

 

War - Inner conflict; outer conflict; rejecting parts of self; a need for balance in your life.

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wadding ---> warehouse

warrant ---> weasel

weather ---> whipping boy

 

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War

Dreaming of a war means disorder and chaos in your personal affairs. You also be experiencing some internal conflict or emotional struggle. You are feeling torn between aspects of yourself. Perhaps the dream may indicate that you are being overly aggressive or you are not being assertive enough.

Warden - Discipline part of self; controlling, restrictive attitudes; loss of self esteem.

 

Warehouse - The unconscious; get in touch with inner feelings.

 

Warm - Affection; balance of emotional temperature.

 

Warn - Be cautious in your endeavors; be aware of soemthing within the dream.

 

Wart - Something no longer needed; hard, callused attitude.

 

Wash - Cleansing one's emotions; clean up your act.

 

Water - Your unconscious (emotions, attitudes that are hidden that want to be made conscious); emotional energy. Water is a common symbol for fertility , growth, creative potential. Also a symbol for psychic energy {is the water free flowing or stagnant?}

 

Waterfall - Healing energies within; releasing and expression of emotions.

 

Wave - Power feelings or emotions; drawing energy in; changes.

 

Wax - Easily molded; creating a new surface (identity).

 

Weak - Giving too much of oneslef; refusal to recognize one's self worth.

 

Wealth - Knolwedge, wisdom; creative powers; abitity to achieve goals.

 

Weapon - Misuse of energies; defensive attitudes; controlling, manipulating.

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whirlpool ---> witchcraft

wizard ---> writing

 

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Witchcraft Dreaming about witchcraft, suggests that something or someone is manipulating you and your surroundings.

 

Wedding - A wedding may symbolize the union of opposites forces in your psyche, and the consequent achievement of wholeness {see 'Individuation Process'} . An example is the bringing together of the masculine and feminine sides of the psyche {anima/animus}.

 

Whale - A whale may symbolize your mother, or feminity in general. The mother metaphor would indicate a dominant mother or a mother attachment. Being swallowed by a whale would symbolize a descent into the unconscious, where you may find repressed emotions from previous experiences in life. But it is also where you will find your true self (not dominanted by the egocentric self), which may include the creative and/or spiritual. As a feminine aspect it may be addressing yout intuitice self, or perceptions in general. Do you usually trust your self, or do you give way to outside influences that ultmately bring about crisis in your life.

 

Whirlwind - A dream containing a whirlwind would normally be a nightmare. Have you been feeling some powerful prompting lately? Are You afraid of it? Why? Perhaps it wants to lift you out of your accustomed mode of life to a 'higher' level of existence. Determine to stay with the nightmarish image the next time it appears in a dream, to take a closer look at the psychic force it symbolizes.

 

White - White may symbolize purity and innocence, peace, happiness, joy; in the East it is associated with death and mourning.

 

Wife

The wife in a man's dream may be his own wife, with no symbolism at all.

Even so, bear in mind that the way you relate to your wife {in the dream or in reality} may contain elements of your relation with your mother or your anima.

Seeing a deceased wife is common. Try to feel her - and your love for her - within yourself, rather than as an external experience.

 

 

Wild

Anything wild may symbolize uncontroled and therefore potential threatening emotions. These may be in your unconscious and therefore unknown to you. Get to know them and accommodate them.

 

Wind - Wind may symbolize turbulent emotions, conscious or unconscious.

If the wind is moving dust or debris it may symbolize a possibility of, or a need for change in your lifestyle or self-image.

In religious symbolism wind represents {Holy} Spirit, which in psychological terms may be understood as an energy that can lift you from depression to joy or from mundan and material interests to a 'higher' {or 'deeper'!}level of consciousness.

 

 

Wine - Red wine often symbolizes the blood of your spiritual life. Red wine may symbolize either passion or {a more satisfying} life.

 

Wings - Wings are a symbol of transcendence. A winged creature or person may represent a part of your psyche beckoning you to a 'higher' - more spiritual, or more detached - perspective, a 'higher' level of consciousness; or liberation from an oppressive situation.

 

Wise Old Man/Woman

A Wise Old Man figure may appear in a man's dream, a Wise Old Woman in a woman's dream. The Wise Old Man may take various forms; for example, old bearded man, guru, priest or prophet, king, magician, teacher, The Wise Old Woman may appear as Earth Mother, Great Goddess, Mother Church, priestess or prophetess, teacher. Attend to whatever this figure tells you in dreams: the result could be a transformation of your personality and your life, in tune with your true self.

Such figures Jung called 'mana' personalities. Mana denotes awesome, mysterious power associated with gods but also with natrural phenomena and extraordinary human skills, genuis, holines, psychic powers and supranormal knowledge. These figures may therefore be frightening. If you find them too frightening, consult a {Jungian} therapist. People may let themselves be 'possessed' - taken over - by the Wise Old Man/Woman and become insufferably domineering, self-important, opinionated. Alternately, failure to acknowledge the 'divine' wisdom and power within yourself may lead you to project it on to some authoritarian - but not necessarily authorittative - public figure, or guru, or personal aquaintance. Whatever such a ' mana figure says to you in a dream will be extremely important and will almost certainly open up a new dimension of life for you.

Should the Wise Old Woman appear in a man's dream or the Wise Old Man in a woman's dream, it may be the anima/animus that is being represented.

 

 

Witch - Witches are priestesses of Earth Mother and they are poularly seen as malevolent {wishing evil or harm to others}.This popular view, prepetuated by those children writers and teachers who know nothing of the history of witches, derives from the Christian persecution of witches as devil-worshipers, which in turn derived from Christian tendency to separate God from nature and to worship a transcendent {sky-} god rather than an indwelling {earth-}goddess. A witch in dreams may therefore repesent either the possibilities below.

An internal source of wisdom, healing and growth.

Alternatively, a witch may be a destructive unconscious force: for example, a repressed part of yourself. In a man's dream a witch may symbolize the negative aspect of the anima. Do you suffer from moodiness and a conviction that nothing can ever come right for you? This may be because you feel in some way let down by your mother. 'The character pf a man's anima is as a rule shaped by his mother'.

 

 

Wolf

A wolf may symbolize all that you are afraid of in yourself, particuarily what you see as 'animal', aggressive and destructive. Probably your fear is irrational and stems from a traumatic childhood experience. This 'werewolf' anxiety is a fairly common ingredient in literature. It is nearly always a consequence of repressed instinct, usually sexual.

In a woman's dream it may symbolize male sexuality seen as threatening. Perhaps the dreamer needs to come to terms with her own sexuality.

It may symbolize your unconscious, seen as something frightening.

 

 

Wood - Flexible, yet durable aspect of self; nurturing and growth. When part of a tree. represents aliveness that can be molded or shaped into a new form.

 

Woods - {same as forest}the unconscious; growth, strength; animals in the forest represent repressed contents of the unconscious.

 

Wooden - Lacking flexibility.

 

Xenophia - Any fear of a foreigner or stranger may symbolize a fear of something in your own unconscious, something you probably have repressed.

 

X-Ray

Seeing through one's inner self. Examining the unconscious motives.

 

 

Yellow - May symolize cowardice ('yellow streak'); conscoiusness, awareness or intelligence; or - particularly if golden - a promise of something good and life-enhancing, or an intimation of your true self.

 

You - Your conscious ego. Ego-centric self.

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Yard

Seeing a neat and well-kept yard, reflects your ability to maintain and organize aspects of your outside life, such as work and your social activities. Seeing a messy and un-kept yard indicates that aspects of your life are out of your control.

Youth/Young Person - A much younger person of the same sex may represent your original and innocent self. If it is of the opposite sex it may represent your anima/animus (for anima/anumus Go Here

(2) A young person in a dream may offer you rejuvination (whether you are middle-aged or depressed) or a creative transformation or re-orientation of your personality and/or your life.

 

Zero - Because it is represented by a circle, zero may symbolize completeness; or your true self.

(2)It may symbolize 'nothingness' in a sense of worthlessness or emptiness. Perhaps you are being shown the vanity of vanity, the ultimate meaninglessness of worldly ambition and successs, or the ultimate insubstantilaity of the egotistic self.

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Zebra

Seeing a zebra in your dream, represents perfect balance, unity, harmony, and the attraction of opposites. Alternatively, it means that you are spending too much time in trivial and varying matters You need to establish a mindset and lay your groundwork for some solid stability.

Zodiacal Sign - If your own zodiacal sign appears in the dream it may symbolize your shadow.

 

Zoo - Were you inside the cages? If so, did you feel secure or did you feel constricted? This may be hinting at a situation in waking life.