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Dream meanings - enabling you to understand your own dreams

Tony Crisp

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PEOPLE Several people in a dream usually depict the way you relate to other people, or the different aspects of yourself.

Couple: Depending on the context of the couple in the dream, they can represent the dreamers parents and the family situation and environment at the age of the couple portrayed; if the dreamer has been married, can depict the dreamer's marriage situation at the age of the couple; hopes for a relationship; possible outcomes of a relationship; friendship; partnership; some sort of relationship.

Dead people: The influence those people still have in your life - i.e. you are still influenced by them, or your relationship with them, even though they are dead. Feelings about death. See: Dreams About Dead People.

Group of people: A group of people can depict how one meets the pressure of social norms; public opinion.

Large crowds: Enormous involvement of self in issue; ones relationship or feelings about the social environment one lives in; in groups we have a feeling of being looked at or on view - how we relate to that may be depicted by what we are doing in the dream group.

Old person:This may refer to ones parents or to life experience. It can of course face you with feelings about ageing, and how you are dealing with it..

People from our past: Considering that the major part of our learning and experience occur in relationship to other people, such learning and experience can be represented by characters from the past. For instance a first boyfriend in a dream would depict all the emotions and struggles we met in that relationship, and what we learned from it or took away from it in terms of fears. Therefore dreaming often of people we knew in the past would suggest the past experiences or lessons are very active at the moment, or we are reviewing those areas of our life. A woman who had emigrated to Britain from a very different cultural background frequently dreamt, even twenty years afterwards, of people she knew in her native country. This shows her still very much in contact with her own cultural values and experiences.

Several people in a dream suggest: Not feeling lonely; involvement of many aspects of oneself in what is being dreamt about; social ability.

PEPPER Stimulant, hot tempered, heated feelings, desires to hot up the affair.

PERFUME/SCENT/SMELL See: Odour.

PERSPIRE/PERSPIRATION/SWEAT Strong emotion, deeply moved, excitement, fear, intense feeling. It can also suggest you are feeling ill at ease about how others feel about you if you are worried about your body odour.

PESTLE Masculine force, or drive, breaking down problems. Also phallus, when thinking of the sexual use of the words pound or grind.

PET Very often depicts your feeling of responsibility or caring; your feelings of affection or need for affection, such as we might feel for a pet.

The pet can depict your natural drives such as procreation, desire to be 'petted. These feelings may have been 'house trained' or caged, or not fed, depending on dream. Therefore the action in the dream will indicate what you are doing with this side of your nature.

The pet can suggest you are feeling like a pet - only being able to do what the person you are dependent upon wishes.

An unfed pet: Often has to do with feelings of responsibility toward caring for someone else, or caring for your own basic needs. Maybe the children have grown up and left, and there is no one to spend your caring and affection on. Or else you are so busy you forget your own needs.

Baby pets: If in a woman's dream may signify her maternal drive, her desire for children; your own dependent self and feelings.

If we have kept a pet such as is dreamt about: What the pet in the dream depicts depends very much on what your relationship with the pet was. For instance a woman whose daughter kept a rat which was well liked, would have completely different associations and feeling responses in connection with rats than many people.

In the dream of a child: Usually refers to the child's feelings of being dependent. A pet is a creature that depends on humans - like the child - to feed it and care for it. It cannot make any decisions of its own because it is imprisoned in a cage of some sort. So a child often uses the pet to depict its own condition of dependence and inability to make many of its own decisions. The dream may also be a way to child experiments with ways of developing independence. But pets are frequently sources of great love and affection, so it can represent this side of the child - its need for affection. See: Animals.

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PETAL Sensitive and gentle parts of your nature, that may be crushed or destroyed.

PETRIFY The normal expression of yourself is blocked through fear or lack of confidence. As an example, you may love your father, but be petrified of showing it due to his cynicism.

PETROL Emotional energy and drive. Potentially explosive emotions. See: Fuel.

PETTICOAT Inner feelings that few see. Sometimes symbolises sexual feelings, or even psychic body or aura. See: Clothes.

PHANTOM See: Ghost; Demon.

PHARMACY/PHARMACIST See: Chemist.

PHLEGM Rubbish, blocked emotions, fears about health, poisons in system of body, or mind. Sluggish, stagnation.

PHOENIX The ability to find a new impulse, new strength, new growth even in death; the power in oneself to transform the dying, depressed, dark and desperate into new endeavour and growth.. See: Death.

PHOTOGRAPH A memory, an impression one may have forgotten, or occurred subliminally. In some people’s dreams the photograph comes to life, suggesting a memory, hope, or impression that is now coming into activity, or is an active influence in the present.

Developing photos: Bringing to consciousness feelings, realisations or memories that were previously unconscious or latent.

PHYSICIAN See: Doctor.

PIANO Expression of yourself in some way. Subtle feelings or realisations. The music might also link with memories or the past.

PICTURES - PAINTINGS Your works, the things you have done, the picture you have painted of your possibilities and inner world. See: Photograph.

PIG Low, greedy, having no refinement. But due to the sow’s ability to suckle enormous numbers, may also symbolise sustenance of a material sort, or earthy motherhood. Pig headed is stubbornness. Generally represents sensuality, lost in material vices. Can sometimes mean the power of material experience. See other entry for pig.

PILGRIM Symbolises the quest for self realisation, or understanding of yourself.

PILL An experience you need, or are making yourself meet because you think it is good for you; something you 'swallow' because you think it is right - you may 'swallow' lies or excuses; an attempt to deal with internal feelings by external means.

If we dream of a particular pill, one we have just been taking, it naturally associates with the events or reason for taking the pill, or its influence in your body.

PILLOW Restful, relaxing thoughts and feelings. The softer parts of self. Someone you want to hug or hit.

PIMPLE Irritating inner feeling that has risen to consciousness. Worries about how you appear to others. A personality trait that is not healthy.

PIN Connections with things, as you can’t pin that on me. Good luck. Minor hurt, possibly from someone else. Painful sex.

PINCH Hard times, painful circumstances, miserliness, stealing. Test of reality. Someone hurting you.

PINEAPPLE Fruitfulness of soul. Quality or royalty. Self confidence. See: Fruit.

PIPE/TUBEPipes sometimes represent connections, the passage of feelings or influence between people. A large pipe might depict a difficult way out of a situation, or immense social connections. Crawling through a pipe suggests feelings or fears of being hemmed in, trapped, or in the narrow straits, or difficult circumstances within or in outer life. May also represent birth, either symbolically, or as memories in the form of intense feelings.

Sewage pipe: Group unconscious, the negative feelings of society.

PIPE SMOKING Masculinity, adulthood, assurance, calmness, patient and peaceful, fears about cancer.

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PIRATE Your own piratical or plundering urges or what you feel plundered by; sense of having someone else take what is important to you.

PISS Letting go of tension or long held feelings. Feelings of relief. The flow of life through you.

Dreams in which we try to go to the toilet but it is mysteriously locked or closed, may be due to the need to pee during the night.

PISTON Force, energy. Penis.

PIT Trapped by events or outer circumstances, but due to attitudes and desires, that have led you to the pit. Problems, feelings of being imprisoned and buried by your life.

PLACE/ENVIRONMENT The environment in which the action of the dream takes place signifies the background of experience or circumstances that support the situation dealt with in the foreground.

A helpful way of defining this is to give it a name, a name such as one does with dream people. You do this by trying to sense what your main feelings are about regarding the place, or what happened to you there, and how that left you feeling. You might have felt a lot of conflict in a certain town or while living in a particular road. So you could call that 'My conflicts'. Or a place may be linked with a loving relationship, so could be called 'My ability to Love'.

Example: I was near a lake in the countryside. Everything was frozen. I saw some horse droppings still steaming and this seemed to be the only living thing around. Kevin K.

Kevin's comments on this are that the frozen lake and countryside express his feelings about the world around him. He sees it as cold and uninviting. It is frozen and there is no life in it for him. That is, he cannot find anything in life to excite him or have meaning. The horse dung he realised is the resources he can use to change his life. The dung can be manure or food for growth, or fuel to burn for energy and heat. This made him feel as if there is a way to transform his old unsatisfying patterns of 'frozen' emotions into something growing and satisfying.

So Kevin's dream setting illustrates his view of the world - that it is a cold uninviting place. So it is the feeling state he lives within most of the time.

PLACENTA Aftermath of deeply felt dependence. Our dependence on others, or theirs on us. Depending on someone else to nourish or support you in a very fundamental way.

PLAIT The inner strength that comes from uniting parts of yourself into one aim, one direction, one leadership. Plaited hair may suggest youth or girlhood.

PLANE See: Aeroplane.

PLANET You may use a planet in a dream to suggest a subtle influence touching your life. A planet might also suggest a different life style, a new world of experience, perhaps thorough relationship or change.

Sun Centre of yourself, the source of vital energy and life. Consciousness and awareness. Warmth and uplifting moods.

Moon Subtle, half seen influences in your life and love. Strange moods. See: Moon.

Mercury Intuition. It thus represents universal mind, or knowledge of all things. Also changeability, or a reflection of change, as with mercury in a thermometer. Therefore Hermes, the god of Mercury, can be a guide.

Venus Love, motherhood, receptivity, feminine loveliness and gentleness to which a man can turn and find strength and inspiration. Wife and Mother of God. Man’s wife. Eve and Mary. Emotions, feelings, sympathy; beauty, harmony and love.

Mars Expression of energy through activities. Can be destructive or warlike, or add vigour and fire to creativeness. Masculine; energy ruled by passions, desire, greed. Aggressiveness.

Jupiter Growth, expansion, increase and preservation. A huge ‘influence of a benevolent, generous nature, The soul becoming free of material values. Wealth, prosperity, good fortune.

Saturn Slowness, retarding influence. Emotional coldness. Ruler of fate and time, so ones kismet or karma.

Uranus Change, fluctuation, sudden reverses.

Neptune Psychic; emotions, inner self, death-rebirth and the unconscious.

PLANTS Depending upon what the plant is, it shows something growing in yourself or you life. It can sometimes represent your children and how they are progressing-growing. If the plant is shrivelled, it shows a lack of life energy or enthusiasm in some area of your life.

PLATE In having a lot on ones plate, it means a lot to cope with or deal with, or get through. The plate with food on it can depict what is in front of you in life; what you have received or earned from life, what is yours.

May also symbolise needs, hungers, appetites. At one time a symbol of status, when only the rich afforded china or silver.

PLATEAU Often appears in the dreams of people who have reached mid-life. It suggests reaching a place they can rest, as there is less need to carry on climbing in search of the security or better job. It can also mean there is no change, or things are more even and certain.

PLAY As in a theatre: This is often a way of bringing a certain theme to your attention. The theme probably refers to something important in yourself. The play might also be a way of exploring things, as perhaps a relationship, or a dangerous situation. This allows you to practice dealing with it. Also the 'play' of your thoughts or emotions.

The play is usually something happening in the public eye, so may also include the theme of being see, being liked or judged, or admired.

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