Male Man

I suppose one of the most striking things I experienced in recent years is that a dream image is just a ‘front’ for massive data banks of experience and information. For instance, supposing we liken your memory to a huge filing system – rooms of it. Within those rooms there is a whole section marked ‘MAN’. Within that section of ‘MAN’ are countless folders with experience and information in about particular men in your life – from father onwards. Apart from that there is a big file or system of files dealing with what you inherited culturally about MAN, and also what you have absorbed from mother and other women. Then there is the media and books. So much.

What particular aspect of all this a dream is expressing depends on how the dream presents, clothes, acts, speaks and relates as the man. So the dream image is a communication between your waking awareness and those massive files of information, and dealing with a particular aspect of your life and development. There is a whole book here somewhere.

As for the female male, and the male female, this is one of those lifetime areas of growth we each face and achieve in lesser or greater degrees. Fundamentally we are without a particular gender, but in connection with our body we often have very marked female or male characteristics and responses to life. However, as we move through the major problems we are wrestling with we start meeting our other half and finding symbols of blending. Eventually the male and female are one in us, though we can easily continue to live as a male or female. A way of cutting through to direct understanding is to use Being the Person or Thing

One of the simplest meanings a man in your dream has is that he portrays your relationship, your feelings about, or responses to, a relationship with a man. The man in your dreams in nearly always an aspect of your own feelings, hopes and fears. Even if it is someone you know well, the dream image is never that person. It is certainly an image you have built out of your memories, your views of that person, your likes, dislikes and insights, the pains or pleasures, the things you learned in relationship with that man.

The man in your dreams in nearly always an aspect of your own feelings, hopes and fears. Even if it is someone you know well, the dream image is never that person. It is certainly an image you have built out of your memories, your views of that person, your likes, dislikes and insights.

The man is in general the polarisation of thought, of activity in the world, of invention and doing, even if you are a woman, you have these qualities that will probably be dreamt of under the image of a man.

In general a person in a dream shows one of your own character resources or problems, depending upon how you relate to the character. Each character trait is a part of the your repertoire of behaviour. If you are at odds with the person in the dream or threatened by him or her, then the trait dominates you rather than you being able to use it without fear. An important point is that the dream image of the person or object summarises the trait. Through the image the you can access the resources of the trait. Therefore it is an image of power. See Being the Person or Thing

Inner male: Most people are often totally unaware of the experience they take in and how it interacts with them when we love someone or have lived with them. In other words the memories and experience we gather unconsciously change us and are not lost. It is part of you and is symbolised in dreams as a person or event. You have taken in millions of bit of memory, lessons learnt, life experiences along with all the feelings or problems met by loving and living with someone and they are what makes you the person you are. Your dreams tend to put all that in the image of the past person when you are dealing with the influences left in you from the relationship. Please read this wonderful example, it will show how much we take in from those we love or lived with.

In a woman’s dream: The man might represent your felt relationship with a particular man, or males in general. In this sense the man portrays the power of your own womanhood, indicating whether you can meet male energy with your full female energy. The man might also represent your ability to question social conventions and to attack issues with thought.

In a man’s dream: An aspect of your own character traits.

Man in black: Usually represents something we fear or a part of us we are largely unconscious of, but is coming to awareness if we allow it.  See shadow 

Mysterious Man: The mystery man can be a way of describing the mysterious life process or higher self. It can be scary because we are not, in civilised cultures, in touch with Life but are frightened of it. Nothing can hurt you in a dream, so even if you fear the man is dangerous, it is only your emotions clothed in a dream image. See What we Need to Remember About Dreaming.

Old man: This might depict some aspect of the relationship with your father, or it might be a form of wisdom you are meeting.

Half animal man: Urges and aspects of yourself that have not yet been socialised, or are at odds with today’s form of social life. See Archetype of the Animus – Ape-man Half man Half Monster

Comments

-Connie Stevenson 2016-11-29 13:44:46

Can you help? I had a dream that I was kind of stalking a male known to me. I was watching him with another girl and I also remember that part of it was that I was looking through his phone and he caught me. I can’t remember all of the dream though. What does it mean??

-mel jean villa 2016-10-22 2:59:02

Hello, I would like to ask about my dream, it has been years since I dreamed about this man, tall, masculine,broad shoulders, a man every woman would like to have, I felt secured when I was with him,but when I try to look at him I can’t see him, sometimes it’s only his eyes I could see clearly, there are some instances that I dream about him again this time I can only see his mouth, he has a beautiful smile. And sometimes I can only see his cheeks clearly but I never seen his whole face, when I tried its all blurred images. His the same guy in my dreams. But recently I dreamed again about a guy, and I felt it was the same guy I dreamed about years ago, I can’t see his whole face again its blurred, his tall,very masculine, I was talking with him like we’ve known each other for years. What does it mean? I hope you could answer me. Thanks

    -Tony Crisp 2016-10-24 12:24:12

    Mel – You are dreaming not of an actual man, but of your inner man. Most people are often totally unaware of the experience they take in and how it interacts with them when we love someone. In other words, the memories and experience we gather unconsciously change us and are not lost. It is part of you and is symbolised in dreams as a person or event. You have taken in millions of bits of memory, lessons learnt, life experiences along with all the feelings or problems met by loving and living with someone and they are what makes you the person you are. Your dreams tend to put all that in the image of the past person when you are dealing with the influences left in you from the relationship.

    I get the impression that you are longing to meet and have a relationship with such a man. This longing is natural and often overpowering, but please do not think it is your soul mate. So be careful in your choices, for in the end he is just a man, and some men can be bastards.

    Tony

-melissa kelley 2016-09-09 18:36:39

-melissa kelley
2016-09-08 5:24:21
I had a dream of a man that was half lion, he was upset so I talked to him to calm him down, then my dream took me to being in this two story house looking through clear glass sliding door’s down at the half lion and half man, he was looking up at me and I closed the curtains that hung from the glass doors, he was outside standing in white snow, I turned around and he was behind me, I asked him if he was outside all night, then I woke up, is this a symbolic dream or is it telling me something?
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-melissa kelley 2016-09-08 5:24:21

I had a dream of a man that was half lion, he was upset so I talked to him to calm him down, then my dream took me to being in this two story house looking through clear glass sliding door’s down at the half lion and half man, he was looking up at me and I closed the curtains that hung from the glass doors, he was outside standing in white snow, I turned around and he was behind me, I asked him if he was outside all night, then I woke up, is this a symbolic dream or is it telling me something?

-Zain 2015-11-08 23:31:52

i was in the room or it was washroom, i have seen one huge man wearing black dress knock the door then he came inside, i looked at his face but there was no face visible i shout on him, suddenly i wake up a i was shouting in real.
What is meaning of this dream?

-lorraine 2015-09-23 23:47:45

I cannot find an answer..maybe you can help…..I actually dreamt that I was a man in dream (I am obviously a woman) ie others saw mw as a man but to me I was still just me….what was disturbing is that in the dream there was a woman who had a 12yr old son, he did not speak and she was in a new relationship with a man who was going to take advantage of the young boy…..I found myself in a predicament, because I did not know how serious the man was…it was all confusing.

-ismeralda 2015-06-24 1:20:02

Hi i would like to know this dreamed of last time. I was in my family old house. I went out of street to buy in a local store. When I was at that store, I saw a white cream dog inside the store and that dogs seems like want to near me. I told to the store owner to looked at her dog, coz i felt bit scared. After that im going home. Weird thing was, while im walking on a small, tiny streets going home. I saw dogs and they looks bit scared for me. Idk but they didn’t do anything on me. They all just looked at me bit farther. On last street before

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