Machine

Things like habits that are mechanical. Also some forms of reason or activity as when we say, someone is like a machine, acting without thought or feeling. So it could often indicate our habits that we are frequently unconscious of.

A machine may also be used to represent your body’s automatic processes, especially something like the heart that goes on pumping away year after year. The body’s automatic functions and drives, such as breathing and ageing; the mechanical forces of nature; habitual or mechanical behaviour.

In some dreams people use a huge machine, like the Juggernaut, to depict the relentless activities that take place in the world that can, with apparent carelessness, roll over people claiming their life through illness or other calamity.

Intricate machine: Brain or the thinking process in its mechanical habitual form. The habitual, almost mechanical fantasies we have or things we do. The word juggernaut is from Sanskrit Jaganatha, lord of the world. Devotees formerly threw themselves under a huge cart – a juggernaut – as it moved. Such a huge machine can represent the massive social organisations we are bound up in. Some of us relate well to this process that goes on its way blind to individuals; some are ground under by its demands.

Old machine: If the machines are inn good order, the it suggest that what you did or built with your life are still productive. But is there is any problems it may be best to get rid of the old habits or ways  of life, and built a new way.

Example: ‘I am in charge of a life machine which keeps the world going. Unless I tend it all the time it may stop, and I am terrified. I hear a pulsating noise, or imagine I do.’ Mr. P. E.

Here the machine represents the heart, and the dreamer’s anxious relationship with the body’s functioning and processes. See: Engine.

 Example: ‘I see a little girl humming an innocent tune, plucking daisies in a vast lush green field. Suddenly a huge machine or monster comes ploughing through the field over the girl.’ Debbie H.

Debbie sees life itself as a machine, unfeeling, mechanical, and blind in its functioning. The word juggernaut is from Sanskrit Jaganatha, lord of the world. Devotees formerly threw themselves under a huge cart – a juggernaut – as it moved. Such a huge machine can represent the massive social organisation we are bound up in. Some of us relate well to this process that goes on its way blind to individuals; some are ground under by its demands.

  Example: One of Medard Boss’s male clients, during the first six months of his therapy dreamt only of machines and mechanical things. Boss saw this as an expression of the man’s complete sexual impotence and depression. They reflected the man’s inner sterility, his lack of anything living within his feelings and inner life. As the man gradually recognised and dealt with this condition his dream imagery changed to include living plants, then animals, and eventually human beings. When this stage was reached the man fully recovered his sexual and emotional potency.

Idioms: Cog in the machine. See: engine.

Useful Questions and Hints:

Do I recognise any associated ideas or memories about the machine?

Am I capable with machines or do I avoid them?

What task was the machine doing?

See Working with associations – Autonomous Complex – Habits – Being the Person or Thing