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Dream meanings - enabling you to understand your own dreams

Tony Crisp

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MACHINE TThings like habits that are mechanical. Also some forms of reason or activity as when we say, someone is like a machine. A machine may also be used to represent your body's automatic processes, especially something like the heart that goes on pumping away year after year. In some dreams people use a huge machine to depict the relentless activities that take place in the world, social pressures and demands, that can, with apparent carelessness, roll over people claiming their life through illness or other calamity.

In some dreams people use a huge machine to depict the relentless activities that take place in the world that can, with apparent carelessness, roll over people claiming their life through illness or other calamity.

MACKINTOSH A protection used against emotions. As when someone tells us we are hateful or a liar. Some people get terribly upset or drenched, it rolls off others like water off a duck’s back.

MADNESS This sometimes represents fear of the unconscious drives and images. It can also represent the torment of a difficult birth, or the search for identity amongst shattered perceptions of the world and people. The dream madness is often a partial expression of feelings that might be sane if we could allow them expression in their fullness. Pains and inhibition tend to twist and malform what might otherwise be healthy. See: Idiot.

MAGGOT Life or effects in your life, that have sprung from parts of yourself that are no longer growing or properly given life. The effects however, are usually efforts on the part of nature to cleanse, heal or deal with the situation. As an example, if there is a great deal of tension on the neck due to held back emotions, a dream might portray this dis-ease as an area full of maggots.

Maggots might also appear in a dream where there are fears about death or disease. This is because maggots often represent the negative view there is of death as the final decay. See: Corruption.

MAGI See: Guru.

MAGIC Conscious attempts to direct or control the unconscious. underlying, or even spiritual forces of your being.

The child mind in us might see almost any process of life as magic. Also love has what some call a magical quality, as we often feel completely changed when the spell of it is upon us. See: Black Magic; Left.

MAGNET Attractiveness. Repulsiveness. Likes and dislikes, physical or personality charms, and the way in which they are used. The power resident in the body, that can be used for healing, or emotional psychic impact upon others; as in hypnosis, where one being has such an impact upon another that his suggestions are carried out to a greater or lesser degree. This is why hypnosis was often called magnetism. Christ is spoken of as the magnet that attracts and redeems.

MAGNIFY See: Lens.

MAGPIE Desires caused by material possessiveness.

MAHOUT The conscious self directing the mighty cosmic forces within.

MAIL See: Letter.

MAIL MAN - See: postman.

MAKE-UP See: Cosmetic.

MALE/MAN One of the simplest meanings a man in your dream has is that he portrays your relationship, your feelings about, or responses to, a relationship with a man.The man in your dreams in nearly always an aspect of your own feelings, hopes and fears. Even if it is someone you know well, the dream image is never that person. It is certainly an image you have built out of your memories, your views of that person, your likes, dislikes and insights, the pains or pleasures, the things you learned in relationship with that man.

The man in your dreams in nearly always an aspect of your own feelings, hopes and fears. Even if it is someone you know well, the dream image is never that person. It is certainly an image you have built out of your memories, your views of that person, your likes, dislikes and insights.

The man is in general the polarisation of thought, of activity in the world, of invention and doing, even if you are a woman, you have these qualities that will probably be dreamt of under the image of a man.

In general a person in a dream shows one of your own character resources or problems, depending upon how you relate to the character. Each character trait is a part of the your repertoire of behaviour. If you are at odds with the person in the dream or threatened by him or her, then the trait dominates you rather than you being able to use it without fear. An important point is that the dream image of the person or object summarises the trait. Through the image the you can access the resources of the trait. Therefore it is an image of power.

In a woman's dream: The man might represent your felt relationship with a particular man, or males in general. In this sense the man portrays the power of your own womanhood, indicating whether you can meet male energy with your full female energy. The man might also represent your ability to question social conventions and to attack issues with thought.

In a man's dream: An aspect of your own character traits.

Old man: This might depict some aspect of the relationship with your father, or it might be a form of wisdom you are meeting.

Half animal man: Urges and aspects of yourself that have not yet been socialised, or are at odds with today's form of social life.

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MALFORMATION Whatever is symbolised is not expressing its true characteristics.

MA/MAMA Feelings about your mother, receptiveness of mind, change, fertility. See: Mother.

MANDALA - See: archetype fo the mandala.

MANE If on an animal, it suggests power, strength, wildness or freeness of feelings and urges. If on a human See: Hair.

MANSION The mansion, like house, shows all the different departments of your life, such as the bathroom for cleansing, library for mental growth, etc. The mansion however, is sometimes used to show just how big you are, how much you hold in yourself, and perhaps the amount of work you have put into becoming who you are. See: House.

MANURE The things you no longer need, that no longer nourish you, but can now be used in new growth when broken down. The manure might be new ideas or a new encounter that stimulates growth. IT might show too, how your personality is an almost organic thing that integrates bits of experience and ideas in its growth. See: Faeces.

MAP Clarifying ideas of direction in life. Understanding of what one has or wishes to do, and how to do it. You might be wondering what direction you need or want to take in life, or where your present course of action is taking you.

MARATHON Participation in life, in the human 'race'. What happens may sum up your feelings about how you feel about life. It might also have tones of winning or losing. See: Race.

MARE A female, fertility, the deeply physical and biological urges and processes that enable your body to exist.. See: Horse.

MARK/MARKED A mark may suggest the influence that created the mark. We may be marked by certain experiences of life, or leave a mark through our actions. A mark may also have arisen by intention, or by accident. The mark may represent a sense of ownership or a connection, as with a trade mark. The mark may indicate quality or lack of it - the mark of Cain, or a goldsmith's mark.

MARKET Everyday reality. Your contact with the world in general, the hustle and bustle, the commerce of life, the commercial instincts, the unsympathetic mob. Trade, the buying and selling, even of yourself, perhaps in your skills or labour. In some dreams the market place is where you meet a person who represents the highest in yourself. This might be in the form of Christ or a being you know is radiant with love.

MARRIAGE Desire for, or problems in, marriage. What happens at the wedding shows your feelings about, or difficulties in facing, marriage. It can therefore clarify feelings, difficulties, unconscious attitudes. But please do remember that dreams often depict your fears, they are seldom predictions. So learn from the dream to sort out what is troubling you. Don't use them to trouble yourself.

Marriage appears in dreams often to symbolise the uniting of various parts of your being. For instance men often neglect their feeling values and live in their intellect, while for women vice versa is often the case. Thus, if a woman dreams of marrying a man it may represent the uniting of these two parts. It epitomises a growth of sympathy and relationship between parts of you that were previously not well related.

MARSH/SWAMP Symbolises any feelings that tend to bog you down, hold you back, or retard you. Or you may be stuck in material emotional values that are not helping your progress. Sometimes the swamp is used to represent the relationship existing between mother and child, or sometimes, though not so often, between father and child. The marsh here represents the difficulty felt in breaking away from parental control, the emotional hold over you, and the ties of security and protection. Or the difficulties faced in becoming real individuals.

The swamp may show feelings of despair of great uncertainty in a relationship.

MARTYR May suggest a holier than thou attitude, a reluctance to change opinions in the face of criticism or condemnation, rightly or wrongly. Willingness to suffer for convictions. The sacrifice of part of yourself because of convictions. As a dream symbol this is not really healthy, in that all aspects of the nature come alive and are useful in your wholeness. Moving toward wholeness brings a resurrection of the dead or repressed parts of yourself, made clean and harmonious. See: archetype of the scapegoat/martyr.

MARY-VIRGIN - Mary reresents motherhood or thepositive and even holy feelings about ones mother that arise in one at a very early age. But Mary is also a symbol of religious openness or receptivity.

Mary represents the human soul or psyche and its possibility of dropping pre-conceptions, thus attaining an inner virginity and through that being receptive to the unseen or unconscious side of self. Christianity named this the Holy Ghost. But older cultures also depicted this inner state of fertile receptivity. For instance Egypt expressed this human possibility in the form of Isis. Also Buddha's mother Queen Maya, in 500BC, is said to have dreamt that a six-tusked elephant pierced her side with one of its tusks. This produced an immaculate conception. She understood the dream to mean the resulting child would become a monarch whose domain was the world. So the idea of virgin birth was not new to Christianity.

When we experience this personally, the child we conceive is the union between the receptive conscious self and wider awareness. This receptivity and virginity of mind leads to the birth in oneself of a force or activity that gradually transforms and enlarges ones life and experience. In the west we call what grows in us 'The Christ'. Other cultures give it different names. See: Lifestream; Archetype of the Christ; archetype of great mother; virgin.

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MASK Hiding yourself. Or it might reveal a secondary personality, or characteristics that are not predominant in daily life.

MASS - in church. The approach of your individual personality to the sense of wholeness, the communal whole or collective mind, or to the Christ. See: Christ.

MASSEUR Healing influence, loosening up of rigid attitudes, tensions, preconceptions, repressions.

MATADOR Conflict or struggle with sexual drives. See: Bull.

MATTRESS See: Bed.

MAYPOLE Phallic symbol, but not necessarily directly sexual. It represents the positive, dynamic, creative forces of growth and fructification in nature and man, that cause the growth of crops in the spring. It can also suggest the point beyond time and space where all things connect.

MAZE This often portrays the confusion of ideas and feelings, the conflicting urges and opinions, the difficulty in finding your way through the mass of apparently irrational emotions and images arising from within, or the variety of opinions and authoritative sources of information outside. This area of self is sometimes an area of seeming chaos. It needs some other level of yourself than the rational mind, the intuitive faculty, to guide you through. Sometimes you need to admit you are lost and need help.

Occasionally: The circuitous and often confusing route you take to greater maturity. In this sense the maze represent an attempt to find your way through conscious thoughts, opinions and doubts, to an experience of your fundamental nature. At the centre of the maze however, instead of a treasure you may find emptiness. What is at the centre - you are - reality - the unconscious.

MEAL Taking in life; absorbing something of life and the world; being enriched. If you are with others, then it might reflect something about the way you relate socially to people. It could also be a sharing of life and experience with others. See: Food.

MEASURE/MEASUREMENT/MEASURING This might depict questions about how long - days and weeks - something will be. It might show comparisons such as how 'big' something is in your life. Or perhaps how you measure up to your own or other people's expectations.

MEAT We often say, one man’s meat is another man’s poison. Here it represents your likes and dislikes, the characteristics, the experiences of life. Meat also represents sexual or physical experience, physical strength, prowess. To partake of meat is to partake of experience of the body, or material values.

MECHANIC Your means of dealing with habitual reactions to life. Your skill at dealing with problems, when you can't get started in the mornings, or on a project.

MEDICINE Sometimes it means you need to take something you do not wish to. It also represents healing energies that can be released into your conscious life, or positive changes that can be brought about..

MEDICINE MAN See: Guru.

MEDITATION If you dream of meditating, the dream often defines a form of meditation that would be particularly suited to your needs. As a symbol it portrays your approach to your own wholeness and wider awareness.

MEDIUM A medium may represent the intuitive function, acquaintance or contact with the psychic rather than the spiritual; the knowledge of unconscious impressions, or of the dead.

MEET/MET/MEETING This is usually about contact, about relationship, and especially about the factors governing the relationship. For instance in one dream a man looking after children meets a man who he judges to be irresponsible. In fact the man is ill and therefore not acting normally. So the factors governing the meeting are misjudgment or misinformation.

Meeting is also about confrontation, or encountering challenge, the new, or about some sort of communication. There might also, in the communication, be questions asked.

A group meeting: Activities, decisions, directions that are not simply your own. Your involvement with other people. But also, at a more symbolic level, the bringing together of more aspects of yourself. Therefore a large group suggests a lot of energy involving many different aspects of yourself.

MEGALITH/MENHIR Forces of the unconscious emerging into your daily affairs. See: Rock.

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