DREAM INTERPRETER
Dream meanings - enabling you to interpret your own dreams
Tony Crisp
LIGHTNING Sudden discharge of tension in a possibly destructive manner. Sudden enlightenment or realisation. Fear of fate or punishment from conscience. Revenge. Sudden and disturbing change or release of emotions or sexuality.
Killed by lightning: Life changes occurring. These changes may be arising from within through the expression of aspects of oneself previously not released. The energy of the lightning may be repressed powerful drives - such as teenage sexuality - and may be felt as destructive. The repression of oneself in this way feels like death, or that one is not fully alive.
Lightning struck tree: Death in some form. i.e. the loss of love, the ending of some part of ones personality, etc.
Lightning striking someone: Pent up emotions or sexuality in connection with the person. If the person is a male, it may refer to tension or held back feelings being expressed in connection with a male friend or partner.
LILY Has the same significance as the Indian Lotus. Its roots are in mud, it reaches up through water, and opens in air to the sun. This symbolises the roots of our consciousness in the deeps of the unconscious and material experience. This unfolds into feeling values, emotions, the psychic realm, and eventually blossoms into intellect, self realisation that realises the Sun, or spirit. In the Indian scriptures the petals of the mythical lotus unfold to reveal a jewel at the centre. This represents the unfolding of human consciousness to a realisation of the eternal nature underlying all its activities.
LIMP/LIMPING Limp in the sense of not firm, suggests feelings of mild depression, loss of enthusiasm, or even sexual anxiety, the inability to response to sexual stimuli. This afflicts men and women, and may be due to excessive pressure of personal expectations on ones own sexual drive. Limping See: Lame.
LINE Distance; movement; movement in space or time; a dividing force, or a division such as a boundary. This is expressed in the phrases 'At this point I draw the line' - 'This is the bottom line'. If there is a suggestion of this in the dream, someone drawing a line for instance, then it suggests their decisiveness, or their boundary.
Tangled line: Changes and decisions in life; indecision or confusion.
Zigzag line: Movement; change; the basic pleasure or achievement of leaving ones mark.
LION Appears in many dreams, and usually signifies anger, desire to hurt, aggressiveness; or fear of these feelings in others or ourselves. We may feel fear of our own anger due to it threatening injury to others in a way that would reflect upon self, and devour our other feelings and desires. The lion can often express feelings of love that cannot express normally, and become aggressive instead. If we see someone we love showing interest in another, or if we feel ousted by brother or sister for parents’ love, our feelings may seem to us like a terrible lion. Daniel in the lions’ den is a beautiful symbol representing how these feelings may be calmed and changed if our life is given to the influence of the spirit. See larger entry on lion.
LIQUID The heart, or courage, can turn to water, meaning that resolves have become soft. Or the heart can melt, suggesting a change of heart, opening to sympathy. To become liquid is usually to change, to become soft, to realise your innate formlessness and flowing nature. If your legs turn to water, then your motives have let you down.
Liquid also depicts the way your feelings flow through, or are involved in your body. See: Water.
LIST The list may be a personal reminder of things that need doing, so may refer to changes you need to make in your life, or things to attend to at work or in a relationship, depending on the setting of the dream. The list may refer to personal qualities, a sort of summary of your abilities or potential. It may remind you of important realisations, important facts or situations which you need to be aware of. List in dreams may also present you with choices to make, so refer to decisions you are facing.
LITHE Emotional or mental adaptability, lack of bigotry or obstinacy.
LITTLE Does not impress your conscious self. The feelings of childhood. The ability to avoid notice. To feel small or insignificant.
LIVER Apart from being a body dream that may be pointing out some dietary need, it often symbolises a state of irritability or long suffering.
LIZARD The lizard usually depicts your most fundamental and inbuilt responses, such as the fight or flight response, drive to procreate, territorial feelings, ritual behaviour. These are part of your primitive brain functions, and are very necessary. Because of this, the lizard and more so the snake, can represent the very process of life in you. This life activity flows through your functions and expresses as what you experience. So emotions for instance, are a particular expression of this life process. But emotions can be crippling when they are all to do with fear, guilt and self-incrimination. Therefore the lizard or snake can be shown as deadly, poisonous, and it then needs to be led in another direction. i.e. your emotions and anxieties, those basic responses, need re-channeling.
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