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Dream meanings - enabling you to interpret your own dreams

Tony Crisp

FOR FEATURES ON DREAMS SEE DREAM ENCYCLOPEDIA

DEGENERATE/DEGENERATING There is a feeling of sliding back, of not living up to what you hope and desire. It occasionally refers to some process in the body that needs caring for. Sometimes refers to ageing, or the prelude to a rebirth where degeneration heightens prior to regeneration.

DELAY Frustration. Putting things off. Unwillingness to make a decision, or confront or acknowledge that which is symbolised in dream.

DELL A quiet retreat within yourself. A way you have found of creating inner quiet. Female sexual organs.

DELUGE An release of emotions that you feel as overwhelming, as might be experienced in breakdown or shock. See: Water.

DELVE To explore memories, past experiences, inner contents, underlying feelings. See: Earth.

DEMOLISH/DEMOLISHED/DEMOLITION The breakdown of ideas, philosophies, emotional attitudes, or ways of life in which you have been established. The threat to hopes you have cherished. The feeling that some other person is undermining us by criticism, arrogance, antagonism or aggressiveness.

Major changes in your inner or outer life have been, or are being, undertaken.

DEMON Expression of things in life and yourself that you feel threatened by. You may feel an urge is sinful, so you repress it. Your dream then presents it as a demon or devil, not necessarily because it is, but because that's how you see it. Thus, a person who has terrible feelings of guilt about sexual urges, may represent them as a demon threatening to possess them. Therefore a demon may represent guilt, hatred, feelings of uncleanness, aggressiveness or desire for love, and so on. See: Devil; Satan.

DENTIST May represent fear of pain. Or else the care we must take of that which expresses via the mouth, the things we say, opinions expressed, anger.

This also depends on your relationship with dentists - fear of being hurt; the courage and ability to deal with painful areas of experience; father's distressing sexual attentions - or rape feelings. See: Teeth.

DEPART/DEPARTED/DEPARTING This suggests a leaving of an old way of life, or a relationship. It might also depict a search for something new, or desire for a change. Such a departing may reflect becoming more independent of parents or lover. If you find work or a relationship difficult, the departing might show you wanting to run away from responsibility or demands.

In some dreams this can refer to death, perhaps when we see a spouse walking away from us, or departing on a journey. This is not necessarily a prediction, but a confrontation with what we feel is likely to happen.

Sometimes: Desire to get away from responsibility or difficulties.

DEPTH See: Deep.

DERELICT Parts of yourself you have not taken care of, or not used, or have used badly.

DESCEND/DESCENDING/DESCENT To regress into earlier, more youthful ways of looking at things, or behaviour. This may mean you are meeting the effects of a childhood hurt or betrayal. It can indicate a period of depression, or feeling low. In some dreams where there is intense fear, it can show a fear of falling or descending from favour, power or authority. Coming down to earth from a more idealistic, fanciful, or visionary viewpoint.

Descending a hill: This sometimes refers to the ending of youth, the beginning of old age. But it also can mean losing a wider view of things, getting back to everyday life.

Going downstairs or descending in a lift: In manu dreams this appears to link either with a lowering of sexual excitement, or to coming down to earth. If it is stairs there may be some anxiety about falling involved - falling in love, failing to keep balance.

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DESECRATE To belittle or scoff at our deepest intuitions about the purpose of our life, our spiritual directions, our deepest feelings and needs. It is to deny ourselves things for which we may deeply hunger in an inner sense.

DESERT A lack of feeling; intellectual aridity, scepticism, doubts. A lack of certainty about self, life, the future. Loneliness - being deserted - having nothing growing in your life.. It can also depict a woman's inability to bear a child.

The wilderness with which outer life seems to present us, creating a terrible thirst and hunger for certainty and real experience of our inner being. In the desert these desires, and the aridity, cause us to see mirages, or illusions. So the desert represents all the so called logical, intellectual, arid opinions, beliefs, speculations and biases men hold on to when they lack true inner knowledge and certainty. It also represents the actions and thoughts that arise in our lives from such beliefs and opinions. These cause nothing living or carrying real satisfaction, to grow in our lives.

DESK It may represent work, or a project you are dealing with. Because it might be the place you write letters, it could also link with communication. See: Table.

DESTINATION Your unconscious is able to summarise your abilities and desires, and present them as a destination you are moving toward, or hoping for.

DETECTIVE The search for clues as to ones own identity and meaning in life. The techniques or skill you use to follow information and lcues to discover insight or meaning. Suspicion as to your own actions and motives.

DEVIL All those desires, ideas, habits, that have come into your life, that go against the promptings of your deepest nature. All the aspects of life of which you are not master and which can therefore influence you against your will. For instance, you may not be master of anger, emotions, hungers, ambitions, and these may lead you to do things that deep down you do not wish to do. While the results of these tendencies may seem devilish, at the same time they offer the opportunity of wrestling with them and developing strength and awareness.

The angers or urges may even feel to you as if they are strong enough to control you, so you represent them as an external force pushing you to some sort of evil. In each of us there is also the potential for creativity or destruction. This is especially noticeable in connection with our fears, such as fear of illness. Such a fear, if based on imagination rather than a real cause, can still produce illness. In this sense our own mind can turn against us. Your undirected fear may thus be pictured as the devil or an evil entity.

Having watched a person meet the devil in their dream exploration, what they arrived at is very helpful in understanding your dream devil. She saw that her lack of self esteem, her self doubts and depression were like an open door that allowed destructive feelings and fears to enter. These attitudes or feelings may have been inherited from ones recent or ancestral family. Once this is understood it is easy to see other things that leave such a door open are childhood trauma or abuse, and the attitudes and standards we often pick up - rather like infections - from others around us, and cultural attitudes. When this 'devil' enters us it can lead to self criticism, negative comparisons, the denial of ones own talents and 'light', and in bad cases, crime, murder and the infliction of child abuse and trauma.

Such feelings, and the entrance of foreign and destructive forces, is seen by our unconscious as the devil, demons or even a vampire. They suck away the life force and create tiredness and illness in your body. Recognising them is very important for your health and personal wholeness. This is called a dybbuk in Jewish folklore. Remember that devil is lived spelled backwards, and evil is live backwards. They both suggest the turning of your life force back on itself. See: Demon; Satan; Obsession.

DEVOUR/DEVOURED/DEVOURING If you are being eaten by a creature of some sort, this shows you being deeply influenced by urges that you feel will rob you of your will or direction. In English we often use the phrase devoured by worries, and your dream will use just this imagery to show what is harming you. Being swallowed by something huge may be something quite different. We all have a sense of universal life around us. This is so huge that when we become aware of it we sometimes feel threatened, as if it will take away our personal identity.

If you are devouring something or someone, it suggests you are being possessive, overbearing, or deeply insensitive to another being's needs. You might, of course, be absorbing something very fully.

DIAMOND Hardness of nature; what you value; the aspects of your life that are lasting and valuable, not only in an everyday sense, but in a cosmic sense. See: Jewels..

DIARY Memories; insights into yourself; looking within and discovering things you might not otherwise know.

DICE Fate, chance, luck, a gamble.

DIE See: Death.

DIG/DIGGING/DUG Most often this represents working on yourself in some psychological way, such as delving into your memories and past, to uncover what is buried there. But it can also suggest self improvement without the looking back. See: Delve.

DIGEST To absorb, to make use of, to understand and incorporate into your way of life. To accept. See: Food.

DINNER Receiving nourishment, social pleasure; acceptance; social intercourse.

If alone: Independence; loss of family ties; lack of social relationships or outside stimulus. See: Food.

DINOSAUR Your present personality and body has arisen from processes and experiences that are millions of years old. The dinosaur or a prehistoric animal often represents your sense this primordial past out of which your present self has grown. The dinosaur can also depict deeply instinctive urges, or your feelings about being a devouring monster. See other dinosaur entry.

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DIRT A sense of what is unclean, or of being unclean in mind or body. We have to realise however that dirt is only misplaced earth, which can form the material for growing vital things. See: Earth.

DISAPPEAR/DISAPPEARANCE/DISAPPEARING To forget, to lose sight of something. Or it may express a hope to be rid of that thing. Occasionally it can symbolise spiritual power and the magical world of the mind, where thoughts, feelings and memories constantly appear and disappear. In this case it suggests something that is manipulated or emerges from the unconscious.

DISINFECTANT This has been used in dreams to represent tile power of healing, of cleansing fear, or feelings of guilt and being dirty. It is sometimes linked with pain, or burning as a cleansing power. That is, the painful experiences of life have a healing power in themselves, due to the way in which they force attention to the cause of pain, and make us adjust, or let go of emotions, desires and attitudes that have caused trouble, but which we would never have let go of otherwise.

DISC See: Circle.

DISSECTION Intellectual enquiry that lacks feeling and sympathy. But it can also show a deep self analysis that might be painful, a sort of tearing oneself apart to discover why or what is happening.

DITCH Obstacles; things you might get caught or trapped in, therefore a hazard; a drainage or release for your feelings; a way of getting rid of something - 'ditching'; feeling discarded or thrown away

DIVE/DIVING If you are not showing off or challenging yourself in your dream, then it is probably indicating that you are taking a chance, or entering something new and unknown, perhaps facing fears in doing so.

DIVINING ROD Intuitive realisation. Or intuitive directions.

DIVORCE This might be either that you are angry at your partner, or that you fear for the continuance of your marriage. It can also mean difficulty with your inner partner feelings/intellect. Occasionally this is a dream that looks ahead to the future, because one senses a parting of the ways.

DIZZY Losing your sense of balance, of relationship with others, and the world. Fear of falling, sense of strain, or being on the edge of falling in love, out of love, or into inner consciousness.

DOCTOR The healing forces of your being. Also intuition or self knowledge about the state of your body or mind. Your feelings about, or need for, an authority figure. May also represent fear of illness or death.

DOCUMENT Usually an important idea, or important information about yourself.

DOG In general the dog in your dream represent strong feelings or urges that are only slightly socialised or proper. If you have loved dogs and been loved by them, then it can depict this love or caring given or received.

Because the dog features in so many ways in dreams, you have to consider the context in your dream. So it may represent faithfulness, doggedness, a dirty dog, or unclean feelings or urges, usually of sexual nature. Is often used to represent a person who threatens or attacks you emotionally, such as as a father or marriage partner, who shouts, barks and rages, or shows their teeth at you. In this case it refers more to feelings induced by the attack. Or it can symbolise, depending upon the dream content, your own feelings of anger and aggression.

The dog is generally thought of as a male creature, quite different to the femininity of cats. It thus stands for male sexuality and adventurousness or aggressiveness. As it sees in the dark, and has keen ears, it is sometimes used as a symbol of instinctive or intuitive knowledge. The dog here also represents the instinctive life. That is, the person who lives without much feeling or thought, like an animal. In some dreams, the dog is used in a similar way to the Egyptian symbology, as a guide into the unconscious, or land of the Dead. See: Larger entry on Dog.

DOLL This frequently represents yourself when you were a baby, or at least, your feelings when young. Many dreams including a doll show it being savagely beaten or injured. In this case it could show you how hurt you felt in your own childhood, or perhaps it means you are angry and need a target that will not hit back. Occasionally, in a woman's dream it could mean you want to be cared for like a precious doll.

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