1- Traditionally to dream of death indicated the possibility of a birth or a change in circumstances in one’s own life or that of people around. Because in the past death held gr...

Example: 41 find my way to a door and knock.It is at the end of a cul de sac.An old woman of about 60 comes to the door. Although old, she is healthy and well preserved. Without a ...

1- When a child is first born, its first awareness is of itself as an individual. It has to learn that it is now separate from its mother and cope with the separation. It begins to...

(1) What is being expressed in an avalanche dream is probably a fear of disaster, or a warning of impending disaster. Identify carefully with the avalanche itself and with the othe...

A baby is a new idea, relationship, event, direction, project, etc.The essential meaning of a baby as a symbol connects to the new life it represents. Babies grow up to become adul...

A dream of warning, especially if the parents be dead; if you have been guilty of folly their visit is to rebuke and to warn you of danger (Raphael). Obviously a dream inspired by ...

Turtles signify the odd and the unusual in your life and if you dream of seeing one you will have an odd incidence befall you and the good or the bad of it will have to be gleaned ...

Like any other animal, human beings have devel­oped certain physical and behavioural traits. Some of these traits, such as a newborn baby attempting to suckle the breast, are root...

Although the term "archetype" has a long history, Carl Jung used it to describe an instinctive tendency in the human unconscious to express certain motifs or themes. Archetypes man...

Like most emotions, love in a dream is usually a direct expression of that feeling, or a compensation for not receiving it. So one question to ask is whether we are trying to compe...

Direct expression of that feeling.It is worthwhile considering who or what the dream suggests you feel hostile towards. In general the most powerful hostile feelings are to­wards ...

First, this image expresses actual birth, maybe your own, that of your children, or others’. Wishes, fears, pain, and the joy of becoming “a human being” may be expressed her...

Baldness, Beard.A symbol of wealth and fertility. In mythology, cutting off the hair is the equivalent of castration. Samson was robbed of his strength when Delilah cut off his loc...

1- To dream of using a weapon to club someone denotes an inner violence that has remained unexpressed. It may also depict our violence against ourselves.2- We have great strength a...

also see Animals1- To be in a farmyard in a dream (if it is not a memory) shows us as being in touch with the down-to- earth side of ourselves. There are many facets of behaviour w...

1- To be giving a quote - as in a building estimate can signify the value that we put on our services or talents. We may have difficulty with the accuracy - or the acceptance of th...

1- We may be denying, or trying to control, a part of our own nature that we do not trust. We may also have feelings about other people which can only be safely expressed in dreams...

1- An orgy relates to a tremendous release of energy which can take place when we give ourselves permission to access our own sexuality.This permission will often be given subconsc...

also see Education and School1- For many people, a teacher is the first figure of authority they meet outside the family. That person has a profound effect on the child and the tea...

also see Archetypes1- To dream of a tramp in the sense of a decrepit old wanderer links us back to the part of ourselves which is not expressed fully in real life.It is Lhe ‘drop...

To dream that you are wearing lingerie, represents your sexual identity, body image and your self-esteem. You may finally be recognizing and acknowledging an aspect of yourself tha...

Dreams that strongly feature music mean you have strong feelings that need to be expressed. Heavenly music (played by angels with harps) in dreams is a very special symbol and mean...

(1) Perhaps there is some part of you that needs to be expressed.(2) Soreness or tension in the throat may indicate conflict between head and heart, intellect and emotion or instin...

This dream (especially if a woman experiences it) represents childhood nostalgia, the desire to feel protected and cared for, and above all, the urge to avoid present responsibilit...

The landscape of your dream world has a consciousness all its own, and it is not uncommon for individuals to dream frequently of alternate universes. In fact, dreams by definition ...

A bridge is essentially that which makes a connection between two separate entities. You are seeking to make connections within your own consciousness.A dream about a bridge indica...

You are dreaming of a loss to the foundational integrity of some aspect of your life. Bones as foundational elements indicate that the essence of the stressor that is being express...

Some part of your personality is expressing choices with a disregard for consequences. When a criminal appears in a dream, he or she should be considered as a character aspect of y...

Most people will fall into two categories regarding the Devil: the religious and the non-believers. There is a third category of people who don’t necessarily believe in the Devil...

This is a symbol for a temporary stopping point in your journey with the anticipation of movement in life.The primary purpose of a garage is to keep one’s car safe and protected ...

You are dreaming of abundance, prosperity, and your ability to create structure and the boundaries of self-care and nurturance.A garden is a planned, deliberate construct that crea...

You need to get a higher vantage point in order to achieve some objectivity in some area of your life. This higher perspective also offers you a higher level of consciousness.The h...

As the nurturing center of a house, the kitchen represents the heart and hearth of the self.It is where the family is fed and comes together in community.It is the room where peopl...

This is a symbol of unconscious messages that are not yet decipherable or understood. This interpretation applies only to a language that you do not know or that was created out of...

Your dream includes some sort of communication, perhaps something you anticipate hearing about. Our relationship to postal mail has changed greatly since the advent of e-mail.It is...

You are tapping into your structural thinking and getting a glimpse of the building blocks of all reality. Math and numbers are behind all of how life is constructed.The movements ...

Rain in a dream connects to emotional expression, as it is the weather system that replicates the falling of tears and water is always a symbolic expression of emotion. As such, ra...

Any dream that involves water connects to emotions. In the case of a river, the essential meaning relates to the expression of feelings and emotional flow. All rivers eventually de...

Insecurity in Life Dreams about teeth falling out often signify feelings of insecurity in some area of your life. Teeth serve three essential functions: they help us nurture oursel...

This is a practical symbol that relates to how you are moving through your life. As with any mode of transportation, a truck connects symbolically with the movement on one’s path...

The availability of emotional sustenance from deep places is what this dream is expressing. Anytime water is featured in a dream, what is being expressed is the state of your emoti...

You are dreaming of your daytime obligations and responsibilities. We are a society centered around jobs and work. Most people relate to their jobs as something that they have to d...

Dreaming of spraying someone with a water hose can evoke a range of emotions and interpretations. Dreams like this often reflect our interactions with others and our emotional stat...

Dreams of apparel, denote that enterprises will be successes or failures, as the apparel seems to be whole and clean, or soiled and threadbare.To see fine apparel, but out of date,...

To dream that you see and recognize your own handwriting, foretells that malicious enemies will use your expressed opinion to foil you in advancing to some competed position. ...

To dream of horseradish, foretells pleasant associations with intellectual and congenial people. Fortune is also expressed in this dream.For a woman, it indicates a rise above her ...

1. If watching a lover engage in sex with someone else, this reflects the dreamer’s feelings of unworthiness and/or sex­ual inadequacy.2. If engaging in sex with someone other ...

1. Parts of self may require attention.2. An aspect of personality is improperly “shaped,” perhaps even stunted.3. Un­expressed feelings of shame. ...

1. Sores on one’s body indicate suppression of negative emo­tions.2. Still smarting, as it were, over former relationship, as expressed by the sores. ...

Repressed anger toward someone that should be expressed. ...

Seeing yourself wearing a uniform in a dream suggests that you have identified with a larger group, a movement, or an organization that requires you to conform and carry out its id...

Any dream of breakage implies misfortune; to break a limb denotes sickness; furniture, loss of money; a looking glass, death; a broken window, danger of fire (Gypsy); the logic of ...

To dream of eating them danger of death or personal sickness to the dreamer (Gypsy). Evidently an anxiety dream, expressed in the doubt of the mushrooms....

Dreaming about being a hostage suggests that you may experience feelings of victimization or entrapment. This can be indicative of a situation in daily life, such as an oppressive ...

Example: I was on board a pleasure cruiser with my wife. As I stood on a high deck I looked down and saw her sitting below with very tight knickers on and nothing else. As a man wa...

The male within the female, shown as a man in a woman’s dreams. Physically a woman is predominantly fe­male, but also has a clitoris and produces some male hor­mones. Psycholog...

Memory, resources; different roles you play or attitudes and emotions expressed if wardrobe, hidden memories and emotions, such as skeleton in the cupboard, womb. Open, closed or t...

Sigmund Freud was the founder of modern therapeutic analysis of dreams. Freud encouraged clients to relax on a couch and allow free associations to arise in con­nection with aspec...

Care or expression of our natural drives, such as sexuality, parenthood, love of fellowship, the down- to-earth side of self; area in which our animal propensities— territorial f...

Author of The Content Analysis of Dreams and The Meaning of Dreams. Hall’s work with content analysis— which is looking at the personality of the dreamer through a series of dr...

If we are not the hero/ine of our own dream, we are probably still not accepting responsibility for our own drives, potentials and weaknesses.The hero/ine frequently depicts our in...

Wasted or lost energy; or something being allowed out or expressed. Idioms: leak out (be revealed). ...

Because feelings arc often felt to flow within us, as when we listen to rousing music, or notice a feeling in the chest which moves to the throat, then may become crying or other e...

Example: We climbed this tree, the baby as well, to see what was at the top.The baby fell out of the tree. We climbed down and took the baby to a room and lay it on a bed. It seeme...

One’s lover: present feelings or fears about the rela­tionship. Dream lover, someone else: your sexual desires or needs; sexuality which is either not accepted or not expressed ...

Reality, but not just physical reality; the physical world; the eternal as it is met by our waking self; stability; a remembrance of something or someone important to us.If the roc...

It refers to oneself, as in the word sorcxehxty. Al­though it includes the totality of our expenence, it seems to be most pointedly referring to our sense of identity. From this s...

Sense of security; what we have not expressed; one’s potential. ...

Emotions under pressure, expressed emotions; something transitory. Idioms: getting steamed up; full steam ahead, get up steam. ...

The ignored or little expressed side of oneself, the ‘yes but’ syndrome—I would make an effon in life, but I’m broke, people put me down, others are against me, I come from...

The person we are beneath our social mask; the feelings and urges we have but may not admit to others or even ourself; the less expressed or capable side of our nature; something w...

Below are described simple techniques which make it possible to gain information quickly from dreams. They have been put as a series of questions. What is the background to the dre...

There is a level of human experience which is typified by intense emotional and physical response to life. Such emotions and bodily drives may remain almost entirely unconscious un...

dream cult The Iroquois (Huron and Seneca) American Indians, as early as the 17th century (first European contact and study), had developed a deeper psychological un­derstanding t...

Where an animal or figure of one’s birth sign—such as a lion in a Leo’s, bull in Taurean’s, twins in Geminian’s dream—appears, this frequently represents the dreamer’...

Resistance. Toughness, also becoming passive endurance. May also point to a sadomasochism that is not expressed. Also: a romantic look back at the period when craftsmen flourished....

As in Abscess, points to an inferiority complex.A symbol for disgust. However, this dream might also show that poison is leaving the body literally or figuratively, and that the di...

An attempt to voice a desire that can only be expressed through flowers.Folklore: A girl who can be “bought.”...

Emotional or mental handicap. In this dream an important part of the shadow is expressed: your own weakness and neediness, for example. This dream symbol often appears when you are...

Left: if we are right handed, the left represents the less dominant or expressed side of oneself, or the parts of our nature we try to hide or suppress.If we write or knock in a na...

In attempting to understand our dreams, it is imponant to honour their drama or plot. Dreams appear to be very specific in the way they use the characters, objects and environs occ...

See Ladder, Stairs. Emotional changes, and the degree of those changes is expressed here. Caution, remaining aware of reality.If the lift is moving up fast—advancement, high hope...

To break a lance for somebody means that you are standing up for that person. It may, however, also point to sexual tension, as well as religious themes (the Grail). Jung saw a con...

If lightning is only illuminating the sky—a sudden idea. On November 16, 1619, Descartes had a dream and, among other things, saw lightning, which showed him that he now had foun...

Sometimes in the practice of deep relaxation, meditation or sensory deprivation, our being enters into a state akin to sleep, yet we maintain a personal waking awareness. This is l...

Even in everyday life, the way we hold and position our body, the inclination of chest and head, the movement of hands, are a means of com­munication.The apparently intuitive info...

Example: Many times in my adult life I have woken to find I have made love to my wife while asleep. Or I wake to discover myself in the middle of the sexual act. At such times I ha...

Something we have built or created in our life. As such it can be an outer achievement or erection of inner atti­tudes such as defensiveness, isolation, insularity, or an at­temp...

With the number nine you have reached a level of completion, which is also expressed in the nine-point configuration the enneagram, the system that explains the world, according to...

The game of power is always playing with fire. This image points to your passionate vitality. At issue here are the energies that are available to you and how they are being used.T...

Emotions and / or needs are vocalized.The content of your soul is made conscious, expressed, and vocalized to the people around you.The content of the speech is important....

Accumulated urges, as in Fire, but with a more intense emotional depth (Water). Waves of emotion, but also vacation and experiencing nature. In most cases, the surf is a surging so...

Example: ‘When I was very small probably even pre-school I often dreamt of flying. I was mostly dressed only in my short vest and usually floating upwards to escape adults who we...

Its obvious meaning concerns sexuality. On the other hand, every actual sexual image points to the present situation of the dreamer. Often other energies, like love or fear, power ...

See Moor. Being stuck, afraid of being trapped in the unconscious. Fear of emotions, of being “devoured back into the feminine.” This means that the masculine side in the man a...

The kind of taste determines the symbolic meaning. Taste is what is on the tip of your tongue, what is felt and should be expressed....

According to Jung, the graves of kings who were honored as gods are a symbol of the idea of resurrection. Egypt is not the only place with pyramids; they have also been found in Me...

Refers to intuition and intellect (also in the sense of awareness). Symbol for the color of the sun.Yellow also stands for irritable feelings. It may also be a sign of mental illne...

(see Bed, Closet, Dreams, Dragon, Evil, Fables) The feared or unexplored aspects of your own nature.Slaying a monster: Becoming the hero for your own life; transforming fear into v...