Example: I saw that we had got into a fenced off area where the gentry landowners parked their cars while they went shooting. I could see the landowner in his car beyond the fence,...

Our defensive attitudes; feelings of security; social bar­riers; boundaries created by anxiety or view of life—a nation­alistic attitude might act as a barrier to seeing other ...

Carl Jung said that birds represent thoughts while birds in flight symbolize moving and changing thoughts. Birds are generally associated with freedom and abandon. In old dream int...

It is common to dream about houses. They usually symbolize our emotional and psychological selves. All of your experiences, stages of development, and parts of your conscious and u...

Space in a building: one’s potential or what has not been used up in activity yet; opportunity; sense of indepen­dence and freedom. Cosmic space: beyond thinking or limited conc...

These are the important dreams that help us maintain emotional and psychological balance and equilibrium in the face of stress and fear. Nightmares are those frightening and often ...

Feeling that you are not respecting someone else’s boundaries or wishes—or vice versa. ...

(see Adoption, Baby, Miscarriage, Pregnancy)The desire to have a child, or to have something important develop in your life, be it a project or characteristic.Memory of one’s own...

What Does It Mean to Dream About a Metal Baby?Dreaming about a metal baby can evoke a range of emotions and interpretations. At first glance, the image may seem jarring or surreal,...

Carl Jung said that birds represent thoughts while birds in flight symbolize moving and changing thoughts. Birds are generally associated with freedom and abandon. In old dream int...

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,...

Insects in dreams can reflect the feeling that something is irritating or bugging us. It may also indicate our feeling of insignificance and powerlessness. It will depend on the pa...

Psychological / emotional perspective: Psychologically, fire often appears in dreams as a symbol of cleansing and purification. We can use the life-giving and generative power to c...

Psychological / emotional perspective: The garden is often a symbol of the wilder feminine attributes, which need to be cultivated and tamed in order to create clarity. Enclosed ga...

Psychological / emotional perspective: Dreaming of a safe environment such as our own home, or sometimes a parental one, suggests that we have the opportunity to integrate learned ...

1. Severely limiting obstacles, often in life or circumstances.2. Feelings of territory or a need or desire for boundaries, usually protective.3. Possible emotional block, usually ...

If healthy it indicates the manifestation of your wishes.If unhealthy be careful of accidents. It could be an indication of not so happy events surfacing. Also - A dream of contrar...

Fruit represents abundance and prosperity. As a result of the seeds that they carry, they may also represent new beginnings. In biblical stories, mythology and literature in genera...

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...

The maze could represent your current mental outlook.A maze is a frightening and confusing place.If in your dream you are trapped in a maze and are having difficulty getting to the...

In dreams umbrellas usually symbolize the device that the conscious mind uses to protect itself from the unconscious. Umbrellas might symbolize our unwillingness to deal with negat...

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...

Our motivating drives—sex drive, ambition, sense of failure, whatever is driving us in life; desire to get somewhere’ in life; independence; feelings about the particular car i...

See Atom Bomb. Aggression and destruction, fear of war, as in Bayonet, Siege. Frequently indicates that you are being too domineering and aggressive, or need to be more so. In psyc...

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...

Adventurous, immature masculinity, but also responsible and honest. In a psychological sense, you are protected by the armor and are unreachable, which can both make sense and caus...

See Monster / Mythological Creature, Bat. Guilt feelings, and the sense of being sucked dry. These dreams often appear during depression.The vampire image points to insufficient bo...

1- To dream of an abyss indicates the dreamer recognises within themselves the so-called bottomless pit or void. This is an aspect of the unknown which all of us must face at some ...

in dreams Although sex is symbolised in many dreams, where it appears directly it shows that the dreamer is able to accept their sexual urges and hurts more easily. What is then im...

Seeking power. Aggression and symbol for masculinity. However, the knife may also point to security and protection. Often internal suffering and passions are being addressed, point...

Your own nature, the archetypal feminine— life-giving, nurturing, devouring, protecting, that which is fruitful and fertile. When the mother in the dream is your real mother, it ...

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- To dream about being or going abroad gives us an understanding of our feelings towards the widening of our horizons, or making changes in our lives. Such dreams may also be conn...

1- Dreaming of a compass is often about an attempt to find a direction or activity. We need to be able to understand the differing directions offered to us, and to follow the one t...

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- A line in a dream often marks a boundary or denotes a measurement. In dreams, it can also signify a link between two objects to show a connection which is not immediately obviou...

also see Analyst1- In dreams, to shrink is to have a desire to return to childhood, or to a smaller space in order to be looked after. In everyday life we may be aware of losing fa...

1- The snail appearing in dreams may engender a feeling of repulsion in some people. It docs, however, also represent vulnerability and slowness.2- From a psychological point of vi...

also see Gale and Hurricane1- In dreams, the wind symbolises the intellect. It will depend on the force of the wind how we interpret the dream.For instance, a breeze would suggest ...

Depth Psychology: A border always stands for the parts of your nature that play a secondary7 role in your everyday life.The dream might also indicate that you have reached or are ...

Vision: Seeing an open gate: friends are looking forward to your visit (or vice versa)—don’t disappoint them.A closed gate: you will receive a cold welcome.Depth Psychology: ...

To dream about a butcher symbolizes unbridled feelings or some illicit act. It also means that you could be pushing the boundaries of your endurance....

Psychological / emotional perspective: We are suffering from a loss of power or ability and may, in the process, find that we have cut short an experience. Since pain is often a co...

Psychological / emotional perspective: Dreams of excrement suggest that there are certain aspects of our lives which we have used up and need to expel. Large quantities of excremen...

Psychological / emotional perspective: Psychologically the struggle for individuality should take place within the safety of the family unit. This, however, does not always happen....

Psychological / emotional perspective: When luggage appears as a symbol in our dreams we should perhaps look at whether it is ours or someone else’s.If ours, it signifies those v...

Psychological / emotional perspective: In dreams, machines represent the brain and the logical thinking processes, so psychologically it is the actual process of thinking that is i...

Psychological / emotional perspective: When, in everyday life, events get out of proportion we often have to suppress our reactions. In dreams we cannot do this and so our minds cr...

Psychological / emotional perspective: When we have put others in danger, we are required to rescue them in dreams. We are then able to show a degree of nobility and courage that e...

Psychological / emotional perspective: A tower in a dream usually represents the construction of our lives – our inner attitude, outer life or both.The tower or tall building is ...

Psychological / emotional perspective: A voice that speaks through, or to, us as in trance work (an altered state of consciousness) has two areas of significance. Through us sugges...

Dreaming of an alien or aliens means you think someone is invading your personal boundaries.If you dream that you are an alien, it symbolizes the undiscovered part of yourself. Dre...

The interpretation of a dream whose central image is your father depends largely on the relationship that you have with him in real life. At a simple level, maybe the dream is offe...

What Does It Mean to Dream About a Deceased Person and Drinking a Coke?Dreaming about a deceased person can evoke a range of emotions, from nostalgia to unresolved grief. When comb...

What Does It Mean to Dream About a Metal Belt?Dreaming about a metal belt can evoke a range of feelings and interpretations. A belt traditionally symbolizes restraint, support, or ...

1. A warning that what a person is doing may result in a disaster of some sort.2. A physical wound may actually be a psychological wound. ...

(Abode, Dwelling) In a dream, a nest represents the type of bird that dwells in it.A nest in a dream also represents one’s wife, house, or the boundaries one must not cross. As f...

Judging by all of the e-mail that I receive, dreaming about bathrooms seems to be common. They are most valuable in our daily life. In our dreams bathrooms may be equally valuable ...

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 ph...

Many people from time to time will have babies or small children in their dreams.If these newborns are strangers to you, you can assume that they represent you. You are the baby an...

Those that are literally blind cannot see the world around them. They can only perceive images with their mind’s eye. When the dream is about being blind, the message is of a psy...

A moth is not very attractive, desirable, or known for many positive attributes. There is the story of a moth being attracted to the flame, which got to close to the flame and was ...

Many people reported having dreams about hospitals and surgery. This appears to be a relatively common dream setting. Most of us are in some need of healing.The healing may be phys...

Tidal waves or tsunamis suggest that you may be in a period of emotional upheaval. Anxiety, stress, and unconscious materials may be coming to the surface and affecting your daily ...

If your dream entails giving birth to twins, or if you are dreaming about baby twins, please see “ birth “. Twins in astrology represent opposites, and we may use this symbolis...

Weeds as dream symbols represent neglect. They suggest that the dreamer has not been regularly tending his physical or psychological environment. Weeds are indicative of negativity...

Playing sports may represent some aspects of the way that we run our lives, or may refer to internal struggles where one part of the dreamer’s psyche or personality is attempting...

Dreaming of a cactus indicates you’re feeling crowded, that someone (or something) is invading your space. You’re feeling the need to establish boundaries and protect your priv...

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 ...

Example: 4I was standing in a hospital corridor looking through a glass partition. I could see a man having what I thought was a heart attack. Nurses and doctors came rushing to hi...

Our ability to love, give, take, create, defend, reach out. lniury to: loss of confidence; loss of or psychological trauma regarding abilities. Left arm is the supportive feelings....

Example: 4I was afraid the thugs would comer and attack me’ (Pauline B). Example: ‘I went into an obscure cor­ner of the cloakroom and hung up the coat—then I went through t...

One’s wholeness; one’s essential self. Wedding, en­gagement ring: the state of the relationship, as in example below, where Mary is ‘choking’ on or ‘can’t swallow’ h...

Some dream researchers suggest falling is one of the main themes in dreams. In the sample used for this book, the words fall, falls, fell, falling occur 72 times in 1,000 dreams.Th...

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...

Boundaries or injuries.See Sting....

Dream about obstacles. Logical boundaries or self-limitation....

The need to get something on the sly. Greed (you are “breaking into” yourself). You can’t trust people around you. Somebody is violating the dreamer’s boundaries—emotiona...

If we keep a record of our dreams it will soon become obvious that some of our dream themes, charac­ters or places recur again and again. These recurrences are of various types.A ...

Most activities which underlie our physical and mental life are beyond our awareness. Occasionally something—an ache in the chest, a strange emotion which unsettles us—may emer...

A symbol for secret. Something is being hidden— something is being portrayed falsely.See Virgin. Fearing down a veil symbolizes Defloration. But it also refers to protection in t...

also see Journey1- Dreams of aeroplanes can represent sudden or dramatic life changes.An aeroplane taking off represents a leap into the unknown and taking risks.An aeroplane landi...

1- To be carrying extra baggage in a dream we may be carrying an extra load, either emotional or practical. We may be expecting too much of ourselves or of others. We are carrying ...

If the image of a band is that of a stripe, there is some limitation within the dreamer’s circumstances which needs to be recognised.If however the image is that of a group of mu...

1- The Cadueeus is the sign that is used by doctors and medical establishments as the sign of healing.To have this appear in a dream usually highlights health matters, which may be...

1- Like most containers, a cask represents the feminine principle.Since a cask is usually hand-made, to dream of one indicates the care taken in dealing with one’s own emotional ...

1- When we are aware of it being evening in a dream we need to recognise the fact that we need time for ourselves perhaps relaxation and quiet peace.2- The evening can be a synonym...

1- Bccausc fairies are representations of elemental forces, for them to appear in a dream signifies our conncction with those forces within ourselves. It could be that the lighter ...

also see Animals1- The lion in dreams signifies both cruelty and strength.2- In psychological terms, the lion represents all those qualities it shows majesty, strength, pride, cour...

Psychological / emotional perspective: Psychologically, when a cauldron appears in a dream we may need to take note of our intuitive abilities, or of our ability to create new thin...

Psychological / emotional perspective: Psychologically, to be at the centre, or in the middle of a situation, shows we need to be aware of both our ability to control that situatio...

1- Food signifies a satisfaction of our needs whether those are physical, mental or spiritual.It is something we might take or arc taking into ourselves. Frequent dreams about eati...

1- The act of jumping can be somewhat ambiguous in a dream. It can indicate either jumping up attempting to attain something better for ourselves or jumping down, which can mean go...

also see Planets1- The moon has always represented the emotional and feminine self.It is the intuition, the psychic, love and romance.To dream of the moon, therefore, is to be in t...

1- When man was less civilised than he is now; his animal nature was closer to the surface. It was possible for him to see and identify patterns of energy or spirits both in himsel...

1- On a practical level, silver appearing in a dream suggests finance or money. Silver is something of value which can be held in reserve against possible difficulty.2- Silver on a...

also see Archetypes1- To hear a siren as in an ambulance or fire engine - is to be warned of danger.For those old enough to remember, such a siren will evoke memories of war and de...

1- There is a great deal of ambivalence in the image of the spider. On a very mundane level it is disliked, perhaps because of its scuttling movement but also because of its associ...

1- Springtime in a dream can suggest new growth or opportunities. Perhaps there is a fresh start in a relationship.A spring of water suggests fresh energy, whereas a bed spring or ...