Example: The people watching are saying “Kill her! Kill her! Kill her!” Then someone finds an extra bullet, puts it in the gun and shoots me in the stomach. I wake with my body...

Even if parts of one’s body or face are shown in a dream to be distorted or abnormal, such a dream is not usu­ally referring to the physical body. Our own idea or image of what ...

Carl Jung several times described a technique for using imagination which allowed the spontane­ous expression of the unconscious. Jung described active imagination as a putting as...

Born in Vienna, Austria. Stud­ied medicine, later became a disciple of Freud. Diverged from Freud over the sexual impulse being all important in human behaviour. Adler saw people ...

In general, babyhood self expression and pleasure. Ba­sic and perhaps rejected feelings. Also our will.If relaxed: easy self-expression.If tense: holding back feelings you might b...

The emotional and intellectual rigidity we use to protect ourself from hurt. Can depict muscular tension which blocks free flowing sexuality and feelings. ...

Many of the characters or elements of our dreams act quite contrary to what we wish ourself. This is why we often find it so difficult to believe all aspects of a dream are pan of ...

Change of attitudes, thoughts or opinions about ourself. Because we can change our social appearance by a haircut or style, it depicts changes of mind, change of image. Also being ...

Unwillingness to ‘see’ something; losing sight of something; not seeing traits which we don’t like about ourself. Idioms: blind impulse; none so blind; turn a blind eye; blin...

Dreams give us a doorway into a strange and wonderful world. Although it appears to have many of the features of our waking world, such as peo­ple, animals, objects and places, it...

An approach suggested by Carl Jung. In essence it is to honour what the dream states. In the dream quoted above under amnesia, David is sleeping on a mattress, but it could have be...

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...

If the dreamer is in the cage: frustration arising from a sense of social pressure restraining expression, or from one’s moral restraints imprisoning one; feeling caged by lack o...

Feelings of security or insecurity, our defensive atti­tudes; the way we defend ourself against ‘attack’; past atti­tudes which may have been necessary in childhood to defend...

The restrictions we place upon ourself; our sense of duty and timing; realisation of urgency or having ‘lots of time’. Ticking clock: might be the hean. Big clock: one’s life...

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...

Example: “I saw piles of French loaves. On picking one up I saw that although the crust was crisp, the inside was runny wet dough. I wondered if cooking would make them usable’...

The shell of bnttle emotions we guard ourself with, grasping or hurtful attitudes. Being nipped by crab: physical or psychosomatic pain or even illness caused by being too tight or...

Exploring dreams is like uncovering different strata of human psychological history, history we all share.The di­nosaur represents our very basic urges of life such as fear, repro...

Example: ‘She continues to attack him and, to my horror and feeling of helplessness, his head comes off. But the neck is made of some son of material with a string hanging off it...

The sort of invisible yet tangible barriers we may erect or feel around others, such as natural caution, emotional cold­ness, disinterest, fear of being hurt, or pride; social bar...

dayExample: It was a beautiful hot sunny day, and I was in a children’s playground talking to a woman I knew vaguely’ (Kim B). Mostly our mood. In the example Kim feels bright ...

Example: I entered a neglected garden adjoining a house I had formerly lived in. I was astonished that I had never noticed this garden before. I took a spade and hoe and began to w...

Easy expression of such aspects of ourself as aggression —maybe because dogs show their teeth easily—sexuality, friendship; our easy flowing natural feelings, devotion, per­ha...

There is food for the mind, food for thought, food for the body, and spiritual nourishment. We can digest informa­tion or experience, the latter being food for our growth as an in...

The changes in us which bring about new ways of relating to other people, ourself and activity.The change in personal growth may be mental, emotional or phys­ical. Sometimes the c...

The aspect of ourself which is either kill­ing out our ‘animal’, or gaining sustenance from it; the urge to get away from everyday responsibility; our breadwinnir , qualities....

Such dreams very seldom refer to physical incest, but to the desires we carry from infancy to possess or be in con­trol of the love and body of our parents. As a baby we have a se...

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...

Sense of guilt or self judgment; conscience; decision making. May depict the ‘shoulds’ and ‘should nots’, we apply to ourself, or our moral code. Sometimes, the way we judg...

Our moods and attitudes, but particularly the set of habitual feelings we meet life with. As we create our surroundings in dreams, landscapes depict what feelings we ourself genera...

A dog running across a busy road to chase a bitch isn’t acting rationally according to human standards. But he is still acting on old drives which have not integrated fresh infor...

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...

Our current ‘self image’ is displayed by what we do in our dreams.If we are the active and central character in our dreams, then we have a positive, confident image of our­sel...

Son of a pastor, his paternal grandfather and great grandfather were physicians. He took a degree in medicine at the University of Basle, then specialised in psychiatry. In early p...

Although a house represents all the aspects of self in which our identity lives—a body, emotions, creativity, etc. —a mansion is depicting the same thing with a different em­p...

Present view or opinion of ourself. Because few of us define how we really see ourself, the self image may be largely unconscious, therefore shown as a face which might be differen...

The different people in our dreams, such as doctor, lawyer, business person or tramp, in general represent the different abilities, weaknesses or interests we have ourself. Even if...

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...

If one could produce a graphic image of the whole of human nature, many different forms might be integrated within an overall shape, perhaps a circle or square. Also, if it were po...

The philosophy, beliefs or coping strategies we use to protect ourself from stress. Standing on roof: heightened awareness, see dream as spiritual guide. Mending roof: de­veloping...

Our name represents our sense of self, our essential T.If name is altered: suggests a sense of change in the way we see ourself. Other people’s names: our feelings for that perso...

It is reasonable and healthy for all of us to have a dream which surprises us or shocks us occasionally. As dreams partly deal with aspects of our urges and fantasies which we do n...

We are each obsessed in some degree. Few of us could walk down our road nude, or maybe even without shoes and socks. We take such obsessions for granted and accept them as norms, s...

In attempting to put together the information gathered from viewing thousands of dreams—not simply at face value, but explored in depth through the emo­tions and direct associat...

Attitudes we use to stop ourself feeling anxiety or emotions. This may be dangerous to our health if feelings such as guilt or grief remain unfelt. ...

Like rocking, may refer to way we relax ourself when facing stress—see sleep rocking; self gratification, sex or mas­turbation; feelings of pleasure; daily ups and downs. Idioms...

Deeply unconscious drives and processes, such as the biological activities to do with intestines and cells, so what we might feel squeamish about—might therefore connect with abo...

Several people in dream: not feeling lonely; involve­ment of many aspects of oneself in what is being dreamt about; social ability. Large crowds: enormous involvement of self in i...

This is one of the major aspects of dreaming. Unless we are born blind, virtually every dream shows us looking at, seeing or viewing the events, objects, environment and people of ...

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...

Under the ground: the usually hidden side of ourself; our unconscious depths of experience—ancient strata of psychological and physiological processes in us; pans of self we have...

Example: ‘1 talked about my mother, she was stand­ing before me in full anger and blaming me for bringing out the witch in her. She said “Look at my eyes”, they were horrid ...

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...

As a species, humans have cer­tain norms of behaviour, many of which we share with other animals. We tend to find a partner of the opposite sex and produce children. We care for o...

Example: ‘In last night’s dream the baby I dream about incessantly had been locked in a suitcase but was quite unscathed when taken out, except that it was very dirty, but stil...

Words are themselves symbols of objects, ideas, or feelings. Whether we look at mathematical equations, a film, a novel, or a business logo, each involves the use of symbols. When ...

The symbols are Virgin Mary, sometimes one’s own mother, a divine female, an old or ageless woman, the Earth, a blue grotto, the sea, a whale, a cave. Whatever the image, it ofte...

Our conscious self or ego is only a tiny pan of our totality, as is obvious when we consider how much of our memory or experience we can hold in mind at any one time.The self, as d...

Depicted as: a shadowy figure, often the same sex as the dreamer, a zombie or walking dead; a dark shape; an unseen ‘Thing’; someone or something we feel uneasy about or in som...

Privacy, our need for time where we are not always considering what others need or want of us, but can do what we want.If it is a bathroom and toilet: possibly includes the need fo...

Guns, rockets, knives, spears, etc., depict our de­sire to hurt someone or, if we are being shot or hurt in the dream, how we have internalised our own aggression or past hurts or...

From a mythological point of view, the image of the maze is closely tied to the Greek hero Theseus and to Ariadne, who loves him. As legend has it, in order to slay the virgin-devo...