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Your name represents you, your essential identity. Your name summarises yourself. It is like a focal point around which your sense of self collects. So changing your name would suggest a change in the way you see yourself, or express yourself. Someone else’s name would depict your feelings and intuitions about them.
If the name is altered: Suggests you sense a change in the way you feel about yourself.
Other people’s names: Your feelings for that person; the quality you feel in regard to someone else with the same name; or word play or associations with the name – a woman who dreamt a friend asks her ‘Do you know where Chris is’, she replied he was on the back seat. On waking she realised she is being asked where’s the crisis? Two weeks later she had a kidney infection – in the back seat. Names also suggest qualities – as in Peter, the rock. Or your friend Pat may be a pleasure loving person, so we use the name or person to represent that quality.
Place names: These can represent your feelings about the place, or be similar to personal names in their suggestion of something.
Example: ‘On the other side of the road was a window with my wife’s ring and watch and other trinkets. I went to pick them up but a stranger put his hand over them. I then crossed the road to get a bus to Andover.’ Arthur P.
Arthur’s dream wants to make sure he gets the message by saying hand-over and Andover.
Idioms: Call someone names; clear someone’s name; have a bad name; not a thing to ones name; in name alone; in the name of; make a name for oneself; name dropper; one’s middle name; name is mud; somebody who shall be nameless; or my name’s not….; worthy of the name; name in vain; lend ones name to; name the day.
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within this week i’ve seen two names in my dreams both in black ink. first name is alex stone was printed and the second name was helen dattas in written form. now i want ot understand how it relates to me. it’s like the photograph in my dreams i was looking at it was a picture of a little white dog sitting on woman’s lap and it was blinking its eyes at me yet it was still a photograph. maybe you can help me as to how it relates to me. Thanks Bev
Bev – Names area particularly hard to understand. But are usually associations we have with the name Alex. The stone is something hard or long lasting allied with the name. Helen Dattas is something out of my range – unless you know someone called Helen and maybe a date.
Photos that come to life can suggest the living influence of past experience; our continuing involvement in what the picture depicts, or something that we held as a thought, that is taking shape and becoming real.
But sometimes you can get some ideas from saying out aloud Alex Stone – I am Alex Stone and repeating it over and over in a playful way. Let yourself play with it. I ran a class once where we all walked quickly in a circle making silly noises’. Then we said the words – in your case Alex Stone or Helen Dattas – still going round the room.
It was amazingly effective because the continuous fast walking throws us out of our normal pattern of thinking, so we could free associate. Everybody got a full realisation.
Tony
i dreamed i visited with a friend i communicate with often and, after some time being together, she asked for my name. in waking hours things in my life are changing, energy pulling me in a new direction. it feels related, do you think so?
Alii – It is obviously changes are occurring for you, but whether there is a sign in the dream of this I cannot tell from so little description of the dream. I need more description to get more clues.
Tony