Dreams of furniture generally represent that which is solid in your life; that which upholds you, doesn’t let you down, displays your relics and achievements. Furniture varies in...

You are feeling overwhelmed with deep feelings and need to surrender to your emotional issues and learn how to process them. Many people have free-floating anxiety associated with ...

A dream of a butterfly could be telling you to settle down and not to flit from person to person or it could have to do with social situations.The bigger and more beautiful the but...

The car in your dream may symbolize the physical self or ego development and ego function. In that, it represents the way that you travel through your life’s journey. Consider al...

Buildings in dreams represent the constructions we make in our lives. They are attitudes and beliefs we have built from our experience, perception, and often from our family habits...

1- Dreaming of hammers or blunt instruments highlights the more aggressive and masculine side of our nature. There may be the feeling that their is an aspect of our personality whi...

Usually our dreams are filled with people. We dream about our families, our friends, our neighbors, and our classmates. We dream about strangers, colleges, famous people, teachers,...

also see Music, Musical Instruments and Organist1- We all have certain aspects of our personality which must work in harmony with one another for us to function properly.Dreaming o...

1- In dreams the sky can represent the mind. It can also signify our potential. Floating or flying in the sky can be ambivalent, since it can either mean trying to avoid the mundan...

1- Sprinkling as a symbol in dreams suggests an attempt to make a little go a long way. Perhaps we need to get the best out of situations around us, by putting a little effort into...

a/so set Water1- Dreaming of a stream suggests the awareness of the flow of our emotions.To be in a stream suggests being in touch with one’s sensuality.To be onstream as with co...

It is considered a fortunate omen to dream that you are at a Party, but it is unfavourable if you yourself give a Party, and the smarter the function the worse the omen....

Public or dance hall: how you relate to groups or the public; meeting sexuality, a place of initiation, maturing be­yond old habits, ways of life and views—perhaps because civic...

Dreams of a penguin represent loyalty, formality and extreme coping skills to be ability to function in a relatively chilly emotional climate....

A particular feeling state—for instance the room might feel sinister, warm, spacious, cold, etc., so depicts such. Sometimes a room, because of its spaciousness, represents the a...

Mediumistic aspects in a dream can represent our wish to be in contact with the dead. This does not necessarily have to be dead in literal terms, it can merely be what is ‘dead�...

1- A guru appearing in a dream is a representation of the wisdom of the unconscious. As that wisdom becomes available we often bring it through to conscious knowledge by the figure...

As an umpire in sport has the right to a final decision, he takes on the function of the higher self in dreams....

1- A figure wearing a hood in a dream will always appear to be slightly menacing. While not necessarily being evil, there may be a part of us which has been threatened.The hood can...

1- For most people, the kitchen represents the ‘heart’ of the house.It is the place from which we go out into the world and to which we return. In dreams, the kitchen can often...

also see Reflection1- Dreaming of a mirror suggests concern over one’s self-image. We are worried as to what others think of us, and need self-examination in order to function co...

A dream featuring a motorcycle takes its meaning from the function of the motor (look above, in “Motor”).If you had a passenger on your motorcycle, you will have good luck with...

1- Dreaming of going down into a valley can have the same significance as going downstairs that is, going down into the subconscious or unknown parts of ourselves.The result of thi...

Most organs in the body can be understood as being part of the system of processing the life force itself.If you dream of an organ in your body, consider the function of that organ...

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 ...

The parts of the body all have meanings based on the basic functions of those parts.The feet represent feeling grounded, while the toes are about maintaining balance.The legs conne...

You are dreaming of communication and intimacy and your ability to control these elements of life.The lips are the sensuous guardians of the center of communication and intimate ex...

Something that gets in your way in a dream is a symbolic block to moving forward in your waking life. This is one of the most frequent dream images and has a very literal meaning a...

This symbolizes a desire to increase your confidence through enhanced abilities. Most special powers can be related to one of the four elements of fire, air, water, and earth.A pow...

The release of toxicity is the primary meaning of this symbol. Urination in a dream may be pointing to a buildup of negative thoughts or unexpressed anger, hence the phrase “piss...

1. Level of function, helpfulness and pliability.2. Authentic­ity, how “real” something is, often a personality aspect. ...

1. Feeling that one is unable to function well on one’s own.2. Goes along with the crowd.3. Defenseless in the face of adversity.4. Useful to others. ...

1. One is independent, able to function on one’s own.2. One is personally or culturally free. ...

(The Glorious Throne of God Almighty.) Seeing the Divine Throne of God Almighty in its perfect form means blessings, glad tidings and correctness of one’s faith.If one sees the D...

(Casting metals, Glass, Gold, Mixing ores) In a dream, a founder represents a spendthrift, someone who cannot keep a secret, one who does not keep a promise, a minter, one who se...

(Shovel) A rake in a dream represents an employee or a servant. Its function is to sweep and gather dirt or manure and all of that means money in a dream. Only one who uses a rake ...

Separation.Viewing an Aisle tells of an upcoming discrepancy between two people or groups you are involved in. Standing to one side of an aisle shows you are one side of an issue. ...

In order to interpret the dream with a bus ride in it, the dreamer should make associations in regard to buses.The dream has very specific meaning depending on the individual’s e...

People often dream about food. All types of food are a consistent part of a dream life. Anything from meat to elbow macaroni comes up through our unconscious and leaves vivid memor...

One of Carl Jung s most interesting areas of thought is that of individuation. In a nutshell the word refers to the processes involved in becoming a self-aware human being.The area...

Relationship with authority or officialdom, one’s father, how we authorise our own activities, our sense of right and wrong; a coordinating or directing function in our­self; a ...

TV set: the function of seeing what is going on, or what is the news from within oneself. Watching TV: watch­ing one’s activity, values, politics. Television personality: see fa...

That which is flat, smooth, and connects.The function of the board is important....

See City. Security and protection, as in Dam. Sanctuary and positive femininity, as in Cave and Parents’ House. Memories of vacations, taking walks, and relaxation.According to J...

Psychological experience. It points out specific colors—see Red, Yellow, and Blue. Colors are very important if they are a function of a symbol. According to some modern dream re...

(Love, Passion, Rose, Tenderness) A kiss in a dream means satisfying one’s need, want or desire, or it could mean subordinating one’s enemy. Kissing a man or embracing him lu...

Dreams are symbolic and not literal -- most of the time. Cancer tumors in dreams represent a variety of unprocessed psychological and emotional materials that the dreamer may be ob...

See Lock. You have the right attitude and are posing the right questions, in the sense of how you are using your personal qualities. Ideas and new experiences.Locking up something ...

Wealth, “striking oil.” Fuel produces energy, as in Coal.The image of oil today also refers to environmental pollution. In addition to something dirty and destructive at work h...

Control, Law, Authority Figure. Special someone in your life. In African folklore, the King is said to be “the one who holds all life, human and cosmic, in his hands; the keyston...

A table suggests assimilation, or “coming together” of varying parts of the dreamer’s personality. It could be that you are working on becoming aware of your own multi-dimens...

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...

An expression of the Self. What this means is that some part of our consciousness, such as the memory of our address, or emotion about our dog, will have many intercon­nections wi...

J.A. Hadfield, in his book Dreams and Nightmares (Pelican 1954), puts forward what he calls a biological theory of dreams. He says the function of dreams is that, by reproducing di...

Dreams, while rarely problem-solving or creative by themselves, can sometimes offer profound insights or solutions. This article explores the unique function of dreams as a process...

also see Rill1- Dreaming of taking vitamins indicates that we have a concern about health. We may be aware that we are not nurturing ourselves properly and require additional help....

The brain is not a computer, but it has the power to compute.The word computare is Latin, and comes from putare, to think. Neither is a computer any­thing like a human brain. But ...

Example:41 dreamt my sister was attacking me with a pair of scissors. She backed me against a wall and stabbed me. During the day after the dream my sister phoned me at work and sa...

If you are lying in a hammock by yourself, it is a sign of selfishness.To be lying in one with someone of the opposite sex means you will be attending a social function....

(see Airplane / Airport)Because of its location and function, this may be the workings of your mind in symbolic form, especially the higher functions (see Attic, Balcony).Carefully...

Brakes on your vehicle in a dream reflect the ability to stop before proceeding forward. Putting on the brakes may- indicate your hesitation in moving forward in life. Brakes that ...

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...

Passion; sexuality, anger, desire; burning feelings such as resentment or frustration; our desire to destroy. Also our life process, often described as a flame which burns forever ...

Over the years many theories to ex­plain the ‘why’ of dreams have been put forward. These range from dreams being messages from spirits; being results of food eaten prior to s...

A PC may reflect your concerns about work. It may metaphorically stand for the ability to process information or for brain function. Problems with your personal computer may point ...

As the half-human, half-Vulcan adviser of the Starship Enterprise, Mr. Spock may appear in a dream to give sound and objective advice. He may bring the power of reason separated fr...

Dreams of brass symbolize the coming together of diametrically opposed personalities or energies to perform a function in unity.See Metal and Integration Dreams....

Dreams of a co-op symbolize the way you function and interact with your family or community. This dream can also be showing you the value of a synergistic partnership or team, and ...

Example: ‘1 dream insects are dropping either on me from the ceiling of our bedroom, or crawling over my pillow. My long-suffering husband is always woken when I sit bolt upright...

To have a sense of personal existence distinct from others may be unique to human beings, and in large measure due to the learning of language. Jung and Neumann’s studies of the ...

According to modem theory, the amount of information the human brain can hold is more than is held in all the books in the Library of the British Museum. Gradually it is becoming r...

Although mind and body may be a total unity, and the separation in language merely a convenience, despite its unity, our being has a number of interacting systems. The action of th...

Material aspects: Such a dream allows us to recognize and acknowledge obsessive behaviour in ourselves or others. We may be subconsciously aware or have an anxiety that someone or ...

The imagination is being used to serve a practical function. There is potential for growth, though this may also come about through belonging to a group.The chicken can also repres...

Material aspects: An emblem, much like the knight’s standard of old, is a rallying point or a call for loyalty.It is also an easily recognized instruction as in road signs. In dr...

Psychological / emotional perspective: When emotion becomes unbearable, specific action needs to be taken to exorcise the bad feeling. In dreams we can find ourselves banishing evi...

The lightning flash is a function within jewish kabbalist belief when something to be manifested is drawn very quickly through the sephiroth (spheres of existence) to become real i...

One function of dreams is to bring aspects of our thinking or feeling, which may be ill defined, towards clarification. Foreign or strange language may therefore illustrate somethi...

Because the owl sees in the dark, it represents our intu­itive sense which ‘sees’ into our unconscious. This sense ‘feeds’ by watching (or acting as an integrating functio...

lives While there may be some evidence for reincarna­tion in the work of Dr Ian Stevenson, dreams which clearly state reincarnation in their theme most likely represent pres­ent ...

What you are doing with your life. Thus your destiny or direction in life; the direction or function of your personal growth at time of dream; the movement of life through the agin...

Psychological / emotional perspective: From an emotional perspective a hinge signifies our primary emotions upon which everything hang.A broken hinge in dreams suggests that we are...

Psychological / emotional perspective: An injection may be an attempt to heal, or to make us better. We may feel that we need external help in order to function more successfully. ...

Psychological / emotional perspective: Occasionally we all need to recharge our batteries, and to dream of an island can help, or warn us, to do this.Dreaming of a desert or treasu...

Material aspects: In working life an intermediary performs the function of a negotiator. In dreams dealing with mundane matters, when two points of view need to be balanced, such a...

Material aspects: There are times when we need to be told what to do, or perhaps to have somebody who is more powerful than we are take control within our lives.A magistrate in eve...

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...

As a pan of the human survival ability, the capacity to predict the future is a well-developed everyday pan of life—so much so we often fail to notice it. When crossing a road we...

As dreams apparently emerge from what has been named the unconscious, it is helpful to understand ideas regarding it, and something of its nature. In ancient cultures we occasional...

The symbolism of nourishing the soul and conferring immortality all belong to the nurturing function of the mother goddess....

Material aspects: We all have certain aspects of our personality that must work in harmony with one another for us to function properly.Dreaming of an orchestra represents ways in ...

Our basic spinal and lower brain reactions, such as fight or flight, reproduction, attraction or repulsion, sex drive, need for food and reaction to pain. This includes the fundame...

The oven’s function of cooking represents spiritual change – the transformation of raw basic ingredients or qualities into something usable. It thus suggests spiritual transmut...

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 ...

Most people who do dream work have found it helpful to establish a system that allows them to jot down the initial interpretation of the dream quickly. Such a system makes it easy ...

Three is tense, dynamic, rhythmic, and complete (the Holy Trinity). Three is a symbol of the spirit, since it is assigned to the third stage of human consciousness (after the physi...

These figures all hold a special place in the dream hierarchy. Sometimes intermediaries between an ultimate power and man, and sometimes authority figures, their power comes from b...

(Including caretakers) in performing a dual function, that of authority figures and guardians of property, security personnel appearing in dreams tend to represent a curb on enjoym...

1- To be absorbed in what we are doing in dreams indicates our ability to be totally focused on our action. We are capable of taking in ideas, concepts or beliefs which then become...