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Dream meanings - enabling you to understand your own dreams

Tony Crisp

FOR FEATURES ON DREAMS SEE DREAM ENCYCLOPEDIA

LABEL A description, or 'label', you may be applying to yourself. So the label might be about an image you have of yourself. You may also have unconsciously labelled somebody else. If the label is obviously about an object, then it can be describing a quality you have, negative or positive. Sometimes the label might be about information you hold unconsciously that is helpful.

LABYRINTH See: Maze.

LADDER This shows you attempting get somewhere that is presently out of reach, difficult to attain, or perhaps involves risks and anxiety. Depending upon your feelings in connection with the ladder, it might show feelings of achievement through effort and daring.

The ladder is sometimes a symbol of social success or failure, so if there are such feelings involved, it would seem you are meeting feelings about social or work standing.

Freud also describes the ladder as a symbol of sexual intercourse, the rungs representing the physical movements of sex and the mounting orgasmic feeling represented by the climb.

LAGOON Often depicts the unconscious or unconscious feelings and fantasies.

LAMA See: Guru.

LAMB This may refer to the childlike, dependent, vulnerable part of yourself. There are other possible meaning though, such as new life. This might link with your own child or childhood, and with innocence. See: Animal.

In Christianity the lamb has always been linked with Christ. As innocence and purity the weakness of the lamb has enormous power, and can defeat evil. In ancient societies who bred sheep, the spring lambs were a sign of survival of the often harsh and hungry winter. At last there was food. So the sacrifice of the lamb was linked with the feeling of being given life and redemption.

LAME The difficulty, or lack of confidence or strength you might face in making your way through the events of life. It can represent any impediment in your being that makes going difficult. Lameness can also represent uncertainty about how or where you 'stand' in life. A lame left leg depicts weakness in the feelings and ideas out of which you gain support. Lameness in the right leg suggests weakness in dealing with external activities

The symbolism of Jesus healing the lame man, Math. 11:5 is the power of wholeness healing the difficulty. The contact with our own wholeness enables us to face life with the energy and capacity each event demands.

LAND - undeveloped Potential; the opportunities you meet to make yourself real in the world, to create something from within yourself. This might sometimes represent the undeveloped parts of your own nature that need attention and cultivation or character building.

LANDSCAPE Landscapes particularly depict your feeling moods and attitudes. They show what habitual responses of feeling you meet the world with. This is because in dreams you create your own surrounding and environment out of your unconscious attitudes, fears, or wisdom. These surroundings, like your dream houses, show what attitudes or feeling atmosphere you live in most of your life. See: Countryside.

Gloomy: Pessimism; self doubt; depression; a gloomy view of life.

Sunny: Hopeful: Optimistic; something to look forward to.

Recurring scenes: Habitual attitudes with which you approach situations. Recurring scenes of past residence: A stance you developed from that period of your life.

Recurring landscapes: Areas of our feelings or psyche we often return to or experience.

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LAMP Focusing of attention or understanding. See: Light.

LANGUAGE Communication, and therefore understanding or misunderstanding. The unconscious often uses mysterious or foreign languages to express what lies within yourself that has never been thought about or put into words. Much of your most fundamental childhood experiences were pre-verbal, and so only accessible as powerful feelings and feeling responses. Even from babyhood you can make profound decisions about what you will reject or accept. These decisions are formulated entirely as profoundly potent feeling responses. Dreams sometimes express these, and intuitions about your own wholeness, as strange words or a mysterious language. If you play with the sounds and let them develop what they contain can become verbalised.

LANTERN Unlike lamp, the lantern is usually significant of what shines out from yourself, perhaps as feelings, understanding, or wisdom. Also, it is the insights or understanding that you use to guide you in your life journey. See: Light.

LARDER Hungers; sensual satisfaction; your store of memories or feelings that satisfy or nourish you. See: Eating; Food.

LARGE If something is big it usually says you have a lot of feelings about it, or perhaps you feel threatened by something. It can also mean it is important, or you feel inferior to whatever it represents.

LATE Feeling you have left something too late or you have missed out on something. Or perhaps you realise you have not acted quickly enough to avert a situation or take advantage of it. It can also mean an avoidance of responsibility.

LATHERCleansing, or fuss, working ourselves up into a lather.

LAUGH Release of tension, effort to sympathise or calm, ridicule of another or self, taking things lightly, misunderstanding, depending on dream. Sometimes much laughter can hide tears or sadness.

LAUNCH The committing of self to some direction or project. The launching of new venture, a new interest. The start of something, such as a relationship.

LAUNDROMAT This shows some way that you are changing attitudes, represented by the clothes. See: Washing.

LAUNDRY Attitudes that need to be, or have been, cleansed. See: Washing.

LAVA Unconscious contents that have emerged under pressure and heat of emotion, usually from the past.

LAVATORY See: Faeces; toilet.

LAWN Part of yourself that need frequent attention lest it becomes out of hand, overgrown. If you have concerns about what the neighbours would think of an unruly lawn, then this would figure as your dream association. It can also suggest feelings of relaxation or family life, maybe a play area. In some people's dreams it links with their feelings of being exposed, to things like the rain, lightening and birds so suggests anxiety. See: Grass.

LAWYER Often links with feelings of uncertainty or difficulty involving another person or group of people. You may be trying to clarify action to take in the dream, or sort out your feelings about an issue. The lawyer may also represent inner certainty or confidence, an authority figure, maybe even a desirable lover.

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LAXATIVE Something you are doing, or can do, to loosen up tension, and release emotional blockages, undesired feelings, or memories.

LEAD Metal - Heavy hearted; a weighty situation; feeling burdened; materialistic attitudes.

To lead: To feel sure in a way that creates confidence for less certain parts of your thinking and feeling to be motivated; some strong feelings or ideas that motivate you.

Following leader: An influence from something such as a belief or even a need to feel confident. The leader might therefore represent either the confidence or the need.

To be on a lead: To direct something, as when you control your feelings, or give yourself certain boundaries to live within. To have a measure of control.

LEADER May be the part of us from which we presently take our lead. Or parts of us we should take direction from, depending on dream.

LEAF The living, growing part of you. The part that is still vulnerable because of its newness, or outworn (depending on colour of leaf) part of your thinking or feeling. You can also be blown like a leaf, suggesting separation from your roots and main growth; or you can take a leaf from someone’s notebook, thus following their example or idea. The leaves as a whole, if falling, can represent the end of your life, the passing ego that dies, but leaves the trunk, the process that gave life. See: tree.

LEAK This suggests energy being lost, or emotion expressed without any control or direction. The energy leak might arise from any number of past traumas, using energy to keep them unconscious.

LEATHER Basic, or instinctive responses, instinctive drives, or toughness. If wearing the leather as a coat for instance, it might suggest feelings about fashion, animal welfare, or that you are expressing yourself in a fundamental way.

LEDGE Depending on what you feel in the dream, the ledge can show feelings or insecurity, risk or danger, as when you are balancing on a ledge and not feeling safe. Or it can be a place of safety or refuge as when you escape from something to the ledge, or find support there after a difficult climb or fall.

LEECH Something or somebody that is surreptitiously draining your energy. The leech might also, because of its past use in medicine, have the association with a healing process, In this case it might be showing the draining away of 'bad blood' bad feelings. See: Blood.

LEFT If you are right handed, left is nearly always used to denote the unconscious, habitual or supportive parts of yourself; things outside your conscious ego, darkness, ignorance, devolution, the forces of destruction, the earth. For instance your left hand supports the action of the right in most activities, such as writing, hammering a nail, etc. So the left can relate to your confidence, all the subtle feelings and skills that together support the actions you do in the world. This might be reversed if you are left handed.

The left may also represent those parts of yourself that are not predominant. The desires and urges that are not allowed the major role in your life. In some dreams there is a play on what is right (correct), and what is left (wrong).

A few people might also find that in some dreams one side of their body represent the feelings and attitudes they absorbed from their mother, and the other side what they absorbed from their father.

The play between left and right is sometimes used in dreams to illustrate the dynamic action between opposites in our own nature. For instance the play between what we consider, from our cultural upbringing, to be right and wrong, good and bad, constructive and destructive. Although the terms good and constructive may help us make useful decisions, sometimes the way to real growth is a balance between the opposites.

- Your internal world of feelings, memories and values - the left; your external world of activity and environment - the right. A secondary choice - left; the 'right' choice at the time - right. Parts of self unconscious or shadowy - left; your conscious known self - right. The immoral, selfish, wrong action - left; the moral, right action - right. See: Right; Arm; Leg.

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