DREAM INTERPRETER
Tony Crisp
CARPET Luxury, richness, splendour. Sometimes symbolises insulation against worldly influence or physical desires, or flights of soul or imagination. Sometimes depicts one's financial state, bare floorboards being poverty, but the colour or design can be the important point.
CARNIVAL Dropping social or moral restraints; letting go; creativity; social connections; sexual opportunity.
CARROT Sometimes represents the penis. It can also depict what you have to pull out of yourself through hard work, or 'digging'. Promise of reward, as used with Donkey. See: Food.
CARRY-CARRYING This usually suggests you posses, or are carrying something within yourself. What it is depends very much on what you are carrying.
Example: My father died when I was 3 - 1973. I recently dreamt I was carrying my fathers coffin at his funeral. On the way to the church I dropped the coffin and the lid fell off exposing his face at the advanced stage of decomposition. I replaced the lid so as not to grieve my mother further. But I followed my father's spirit into the gaps of the coffin.
If it is a positive living thing: Can you acknowledge that you have this energy or feeling, and can use it to your own benefit?
If it is a dead thing: The exanple above shows how we can carry a lifeless thing around in our memory, or our feelings. If such a thing appears in your dream, ask yourself where in your body or feelings are you carrying this deadness. Why do you need to hold on to something that is not living and growing? Can you now let go of it?
If it is an object: Is this a useful object? Does it suggest a burden or a possibility? Is it useful in some way? You need to ask yourself what it is you are carrying around. Is it a wasteof energy, such as old memories that are not productive? If so can you let go of it? If it is a useful thing, what talent or skill do you have that you may not be using?
CARVE Similar to carpenter. To work on the yourself and carve out inner qualities. Leave indelible marks, memories, fears, regrets, on your feelings or thoughts. To work hard at difficult situations and carve a niche for yourself.
CASKET Secret hidden memories. Wonders hidden in ourselves. Special things. See: Coffin for burial casket.
CASSETTE Can simply be the sort of pleasure we feel on listening to music; the impressions left on us by events, people - therefore memory, but often memory integrated by the unconscious into insights; information we have gathered; the impression we might leave behind at death - what remains of us; the impression we would like to give others.
CASTLE Feelings of security or insecurity. Your defensive attitudes; the way you defend yourself against 'attack'; past attitudes which may have been necessary in childhood to defend yourself while strengthening your identity. Possibly your way of defending against the remembering or experiencing of childhood pain.
CASTRATE/CASTRATIONThis represents a fear of not coping sexually. Losing sexual confidence or desire. Cutting off deeper feelings, sympathies, ambitions and energies. To cut off the penis or testicles illustrates the action of repressing the feelings, emotions and urges represented by them. This cutting off may be done by a fear, by feelings of guilt about sexuality, conviction of inferiority, dread of pain or being repulsed or thought repulsive.
CAT You may have felt a lot of affection from a cat, and so associate it with sensual, or even sexual pleasure. It can also represent your need to care for someone or be cared for, to have close physical contact.
For some people a cat is a substitute baby, it can therefore depict the strong maternal feelings and desires. Or a male cat can represent male sex drive.
The term 'catty' refers to a spiteful woman. So if the cat in your dream is angry it might depict yourself if female, or feelings about a female friend.
Because cats are independent and often alone, they may represent the secret part of yourself, or independence. See: Kitten; Animal; larger entry on Cat.
CATACLYSM Looked at from the point of view that dream images represent our own life and feelings in some way, the end of the world, and the fears that go with it, depict the powerful and threatening inner and outer changes that accompany major transitions. The transition from childhood to adolescence for instance is the end of the world that existed for the whole lifetime of the individual up until that point. Such points of transition occur several times in the life of anyone who dares to grow and adapt. Menopause for women, the leaving home of children, the loss of a job, retirement, can all be represented by the end of the world - or a world. See: Atom Bomb.
CATACOMB An exploration of your inner contents or past experiences and their effect on your present life. A descent into the unconscious, so meeting feelings about death and rebirth, deception and wisdom. A search for your inner roots, lasting values, underlying abilities. The unconscious link with forebears.
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