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Dream meanings - enabling you to understand your own dreams

Tony Crisp

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PLAYING This depends what the game is, and what you are doing or experiencing in it. The tremendous number of idioms around the word 'play' show the many possibilities of the symbol in dreams - Come into play; fair play; foul play; make a play for; make play of; play a part in; play along with; play at; play cat and mouse; play dead/possum; play down; played out; play fair; play false; play for time; play hard to get; play it cool; play no part in it; play on words; play safe; play people off against each other; play something down; play the field; play up; play upon a weakness/fear; play up to someone; the state of play; play somebody at their own game; child's play; play ball with; play it by ear; play fast and loose; play gooseberry; play havoc with; play merry hell; play into their hands; play ones ace; play ones cards right; play second fiddle; play the fool; play the game; play the white man; play to the gallery; play with fire; two can play at that game.

PLOUGH To break and change habits, opinions and attitudes of the past. To prepare for change or the reception and growth of new ideas. To make past experiences fertile.

PLUMBING The way in which emotions or feelings are directed. If you believe in free love, this belief directs your emotions differently to those of someone who feels that sex is a sin. Each of these attitudes is a different plumbing system. A burst water pipe would therefore represent a breaking out of emotions. Or it could depict an actual physical ailment, possibly in the intestines or the 'water works'. i.e. urinary tract. See: Tap.

PLUMB - LINE A sense of rightness, of living according to what you know, deep within, to be the true upright.

PLUNDER To abuse someone's rights and feelings against their real wishes. In lesser, or other ways, we are often plundered by others who disregard our real feelings, or vice versa.

PLUNGE To press into something that is unknown, untried. Taking a risk, being daring.

POCKET Memory; inner reserves of vitality, money, capabilities, tools, pen, etc.; possession, ownership; vagina. What you secretly have tht perhaps others do nto know.

POCKET BOOK See: Wallet.

POD Restrictive and protective influence you break out of. Somebody is said to come out of their shell when they break free of reserve or restraining influences. Parental influence could be symbolised as a pod. The pod might also refer to the experience of being in the womb.

POEM/POET/POETRY Imaginative faculty that may, through inspiration or intuition, express your deepest feelings, feelings and meanings that may be hidden to the more conservative, conscious, self. I have virtually no record of people dreaming about poetry or poets. Where it does happen the poem seems to sum up profound feelings that summarise the dreamer's best or worst view of life. So it seems a poem is a form of self expression of subtle content or impressions, probably like a gestalt. Therefore the poet would be the aspect of your own mind that forms such intuitive gestalts.

POINT/POINTING Meaning: meeting or unity; direction. Arriving at a destination; something powerful or focused enough to penetrate. This can refer to an idea or an experience that can enter us or get through any defences we may have.

Pointing suggests a way of directing your attention to something, or drawing attention to some aspect of yourself.. See: Dot.

POISON A warning that you might be taking in something that can harm you mentally, emotionally or physically. This might be in the form of words, thoughts or substances.

POLE See: Maypole; Oar.

POLE STAR Your highest intuition about direction. A link with the cosmic sense of yourself. See: North Star.

POLICE/POLICEMAN/POLICEWOMAN Social code; sense of right and wrong, or how you wish to appear in the eyes of others. Conscience, rules of conduct. Your morals, or ideas and feelings as to how you feel you are expected to react to others. The policeman does not necessarily represent innermost or spiritual directions, but only social or more conscious codes. These, like the country’s laws, can change, arbitrarily, and be replaced by other laws or moral codes. The policeman is therefore most often a symbol of outer and social relationships, and how we feel about them. Often represents a sense of guilt and perhaps links with ideas or feelings about punishment, and behaviour influenced by the need to conform to orthodoxy or uniformity.

Policewoman: As policeman, but moral issues that have arisen more from sympathies and feeling values than from accepted or unconscious conscience or sense of wrongdoing and guilt.

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POLITICAL/POLITICIAN/POLITICS Sometimes symbolises interests in how you govern your outer life as distinct to inner life. Naturally, if you have strong political feelings, it would symbolise the underlying attitudes that produce these feelings or ideas. It also links with shrewdness, or attempts to manoeuvre or influence; or perhaps to do the thing that others will support.

POLLEN Sperm, fruition, fertility as from new ideas.

POOL The inner world of your mind and imagination. Particularly links with looking into yourself and becoming aware of what you are feeling or daydreaming. Sometimes if you are in the pool, or remember being in the pool, it might be referring to a time, perhaps in the womb, when you felt connected with all living things through shared awareness. Sometimes such dreams appear to show you the river of your life stretching through time.

POPE Spiritual values or dogmatic religious authority, depending on your associations. A father figure.

POP STAR Similar to what has been said about famous people, but might also carry feelings to do with intense teenage sexuality or need; what you hold as an ideal or idol; a role model; egomania.

PORPOISE - See dolphin and porpoise.

POSTER See: Newspaper.

POSTMAN Some part of yourself, or a realisation that has brought something to your notice. An experience that has made you realise something. Hopes for contact with or news from someone..

POSTURE Posture in dreams is a major way the dream communicates meaning. It expresses things you may never have put into words. Therefore postures and movements in dreams are expressive of how you feel or think beneath the layer of your everyday life. Because there are so many postures and movement you might make in your dream, it is impossible to list them all here. You can arrive at their meaning by taking on the posture, or exploring the movement, to see what it feels like. When you feel the quality of the posture or movement, take time to put it into words. This is important as it makes the subtle feeling more conscious and known. See: Movement.

POT (See: Hash) A cooking pot is similar to an oven. A receptive part of you that, because it receives the new things of life, opens you to change. It might also link with changing things, transforming something unpalatable to something enjoyable.See: also Cook, Oven, Food.

POTATO Depends more than usual on the dreamer’s own associations. Do we regard it as fattening, starchy, forbidden, enjoyable, messy, or what? See: Food

POTTER We can potter around, which suggests doing nothing in particular. Objectively, it may symbolise an attempt to shape and make something of the raw material of your life. Subjectively it suggests being affected by outside influences.

POVERTY Feelings of being inadequate; negative emotions depriving you of well being; sense of deprivation; being tight emotionally and sexually. Sometimes an expression of insecurity.

PRAY Expressive of an inner desire, fear or need. Also an alignment of self with your wholeness. May present information about the inner self of which we are unaware. See: Meditation.

PRECIPICE Fear of falling. Fear of failure. Difficulty in attaining our goal. Confrontation with great change, or a leap into the unknown, something that faces you with some anxiety. Also the sense of the enormous expanse of the mind and spirit. If at the bottom of the cliff it can depict a great obstacle in your life. See: Cliff; Fall.

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PREGNANT/PREGNANCY This can point to the development of a new approach to life, a new project you are creating, a new outlet of expression, or new faculty.

If you are pregnant when you dream this, don't be too worried by anxiety dreams about the baby. Virtually all women have them. Only get worried if they persist. A scan can quickly see if you are anxious or intuitive. See: pregnancy and dreams, and your dream baby for a longer description.

But if you are not pregnant, or even if you are a man dreaming this, is it usually about a new area of your potential or personality developing; a deepening relationship with your potential is producing a new area of experience, a new talent or facet of your personality. It is still unborn - i.e. not yet expressed outwardly - but it is developing. It can also showm in the drama of the dream, how you are bringing to birth a new scheme or creative idea is 'hatching'.

In a woman's dream: May refer to desire for a child; fear of being pregnant - i.e. in a relationship but not wanting to be pregnant. For a woman being pregnant may depict what is resulting from a relationship with a man she has become deeply involved with. The following example illustrates this.

Example: I dreamt I was pregnant and was certain the father was a man I feel a lot of love for. However as I was dreaming I realised he had a vasectomy so couldn?t be the father. This caused me to feel great uncertainy and I was questioning who the father could be as I hadn?t been with anyone else. Also I realised the pregnancy lasted 11 months and the baby was due. Angela.

Angela felt a great connection with a man who had told her he could never be her partner, and although good friends, had pulled away from any sexual contact. This caused great confusion in Angela because she had got a lot from the relationship, shown by the pregnancy. The confusion as to who the father was probably depicts her search for a man who could help her ?give birth? to the new and positive direction in life that had arisen from the current but platonic relationship.

If pregnant at time of dream: If physically pregnant, then it most often refers to this, and the fears, hopes, attitudes, desires, ideas and physical condition regarding it. Carolyn Winget and Frederic Kapp researched on the dreams of 70 pregnant women. Those women whose dreams included a high percentage of anxiety themes were the ones who delivered their babies in the shortest time - less than ten hours. The conclusion was that by allowing feelings of anxiety in our dreams we are less influenced by anxiety in waking, and we can deal with situations more confidently. Someone else pregnant in dream: An aspect of oneself about to bring forth new characteristics; an intuition about that person. See: Example under girl; cave; third example under penis in body

PREMONITION When we have a premonition in a dream, it may not necessarily materialise. Sometimes it must be taken symbolically. To dream of a fall down a ladder may easily symbolise apprehension with regard to the loss of your job, failure in marriage, or losing the esteem of others. A premonition of a drowning son may symbolise the feeling that hopes in life are being drowned by anxiety. But of course, a few such dreams do predict actual events. There is usually a particular tone about such dreams that one can learn to notice. It is usually very clear and direct.

PRESCRIPTION Worries about your health. Or it might be a suggestion from your unconscious that you need to take seriously. Suggests being out of harmony, or ill at ease with the inner self.

PRESENT Depends very much on who or what gives the present. May symbolise the giving or receiving of love, recognition, depending on the context.

PRESS See: Newspaper.

PREY Either the victim or others’ desires, or victimising others. The fear of being hurt or destroyed in some way. There is a play here between the top dog and under dog; the victim and the victimised.

PRIEST Depends on the attitude to priests, and experiences of them. May represent religious or spiritual aspirations. Sense of sin.

PREHISTORIC/PRIMEVAL Deep levels of the unconsciousness, instinctive feelings, unconscious powers and activities. Levels of being that developed in you in ages past, and are given to you as a physical and mental heritage. We feel these as instincts, as profoundly strong reactions to situations. It is the part of us that makes the hair stand up at times when we sense something we do not understand consciously.

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