DREAM INTERPRETER
Dream meanings - enabling you to interpret your own dreams
Tony Crisp
ADOLESCENCE/ADOLESCENT - Adolescence is the time of your greatest sexual growth, and development of new ranges of emotion, intellect, and sensitivity. So any adolescent in your dream often points to yourself at that age, and the things you faced - or if you are not yet a teenager, then the things you feel about moving toward adolescence.
During adolescence we move from youth to becoming a mature adult. This means learning in some measure to be independent of the work energy, the money and time given by parents. It means making your own decisions, earning your own keep and establishing yourself in the community and world in some way. Sometimes the break from parents is made by establishing a relationship. However it is achieved the change needs a level of heroism in many ways, and if you succeed the difficulties change and deepen you.
The major changes here are the meeting of sexual drive that urges you toward the opposite sex; the finding of a sense of self that enables you to meet other adults in a world of action and interaction; the success or failure to let the flame of you life forge action in the world sufficient to satisfy your urge to power, to creativity, toward recognition and acknowledgment by your fellows. Failure to achieve these may lead to some level of remaining dependence upon parents for money, emotional support, or even housing - lack of full heterosexual adaptation, and so a remaining in adolescent homosexuality - a partial passivity in the world or a difficulty in initiating change.
Many things we face while young are never resolved, or remain as potentials, and are frequently confronted later in life. We can then either resolve them or bury them again.
Dead teenager: Hurt feelings of love or wanting to be loved; damaged self esteem or feelings of value in the world.
Female teenager in a female's dream: Possibly feelings to do with the process of sexually maturing; competitive feelings in relationship to men; some aspect of your own feelings as a teenager.
Female teenager in dream of female teenager: If this is a known friend, it most likely represents the attitudes and qualities, or lack of them, seen in the friend. In which case the other aspects of the dream describe the part these qualities play in your life. If it is an imagined female, it usually depicts yourself in some way, perhaps in a way you might not usually see yourself. Possibly she is enacting the issues of most importance in your life.
Female teenager: The feeling or emotional side of dreamer rather than the thinking assertive; uncertainty or inexperience in relationships; powerful sexual/romantic attraction or feelings.
Holy youth: The eternal side of your nature, forever young.
If a particular/known teenager: Define how you see the character of the teenager and take it to represent those characteristics in yourself.
If dreamt by a child: Depicts the feelings or assessment of their own future, or ways of meeting future relationships. Or it might show a relationship, its pleasure or difficulties, with a teenager such as brother or sister.
If dreamt by adult: Whether the young person is your own child, someone you know, or a stranger, it is often an expression of yourself at that age and the things you were confronted by at the time. Therefore define, perhaps by writing down, what attitudes and feelings were predominant in your own teenage years. Common themes are uncertainty/shyness, inexperience, immaturity, high sexuality, idealism, ambitious hopes and plans for the future, depression, the confidence or strength of youth. You can decide which, if any, of these your dream deals with by defining what feelings are expressed in the dream. For help with this See: themes.
Male teenager in dream of male teenager: Possibly represents feelings of competition or aggression with other males, depending on dream content; the qualities depicted by the dream male, and their place in your life.
Male teenager: Sexual inexperience, social aggressiveness or uncertainty. Oneself at that age if the dreamer is a male. Aspects of relationship not lived out in dreamers teenage if the dreamer is a woman, or reflections of things still active in you from the past.
Teenager of opposite sex: Feelings of sexual attraction coloured by adolescent vulnerability, idealism or uncertainty; uncertainty or inexperience in relationship; or what you feel about that particular teenager.
Example: I was flying over a landscape covered in trees like a large parkland. I was reasonably low down in my flight path, and the land looked fairly flat. But suddenly a long low hollow or depression became visible as I neared it. I knew intuitively there was a young man down there who had been injured. Sam T.
Sam explored this dream and contacted strong feelings of depressed withdrawal from his own teenage years. The words 'long low depression' were very descriptive of what he found.
The dream below shows Hillary taking her teenage feelings into her love making. This is because Hillary had no chance during teen years to mature sexually, so as an older woman, she now finds herself meeting a young girl's feelings with her lover.
Example: My lover, and I were going to try and make love, both with our own hurts and being aware of each others difficulties. We were both very gentle with each other. A young girl came in under the bedclothes with us. I thought it would interfere, but I could see it wasn't worrying her. She was playing hide and seek. We were in bed out in the open countryside. Hillary.
Useful questions are:
What did I face as a teenager that is still a factor in my life?
What am I exploring about being a teenager, and what can I learn from this?
What is the character of this adolescent and how does that relate to me at the moment?
What theme or actions surround the teenager, and do they give clues my present situation?
What things are happening in the relationship with this adolescent and do they throw light on a present relationship?
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