DREAM INTERPRETER
Dream meanings - enabling you to interpret your own dreams
Tony Crisp
RAT One can be a rat, or smell a rat, or rat on someone. Underhand activities carried out without admitting the real motives, such as sex without love, or for material gain. Is also said to represent time gnawing away unknown at our life, and we may turn to find it empty. The rat can also depict what we most hate or feel repulsion toward.
RAVEN Death, fear, the unknown. The dark intelligence. Forces in life that seem to have intelligent direction, yet are not outwardly visible. The negative aspect of father.
RAZOR Intellectual acuteness. The ability to cut through the useless or misleading to the real issue. But such cleverness may be dangerous if we are not humble, for you can also cut away feelings and pleasure in living. It symbolises the thin dividing line between wisdom and folly, life and death, genius and the irrational, self and the universal.
READING Realisation, thinking, looking at self, reviewing ideas, considering something, or memorising or memory.
REAP Experiencing the results of your actions. Harvest from previous activities.
RECEIVE//RECEIVED/RECEIVING This is usually about a straightforward receiving of something like feelings from a relationship, or ideas that are helpful.
RECIPE The way to use yourself, or the right proportion of things to aim for.
RECORDS - paper or filmed. Usually memory or information you may have forgotten or not accessed before.
RECTUM The rectum is the final part of the colon or large intestine just prior to the exit, which is called the anus. Sometimes the two words are confused, so the exit might be called called the rectum.
What matters in regard to your dream is what you have understood it to mean prior to the dream. This whole area is one that is very sensitive to emotions and sexual experience. It links with very primal feelings and may easily become tense, or respond to hurt in oneself or others.
One of its main functions in life, as with the bladder, is to control or release the excretion of faeces. As a baby the process is spontaneous and beyond our control, so has to be learned. It therefore frequently becomes a physical focus for any problems or lessons to do with control or letting go. Thus we have the phrase 'he/she is really anal' meaning they hold on to everything or try to control everything.
This holding on or ability to both control and let go, are at the very basis of dealing with adult life, and influence whether we can allow our creativity and sexuality flow. Problems here deeply influence how we deal with our sexual and emotional love, and our ability to let ourselves flow out into activity an creativity. Tension and holding on can lead to a type of auto-homosexual experience. In other words instead of the flow going outwards to others and the world, it is turned back on itself and become inturned sexuality and aggression. See: Faeces.
RED In many dreams this links with strong feelings, even to the degree of horror. So there are probably issues worth exploring when red appears in your dream.
Red also represents your primal emotions, the earthy side of your nature, and your sexuality. In depicts your strength, your vitality and your power to heal.
Because of the modern association with traffic lights and warnings such as brake lights on cars, it may sometimes be used as a warning, or a way of saying 'stop' or 'no'.
From findings concerning early humans we know that the colour red, and substances such as red ochre, played a large and important part in their life. In Africa red ochre was, and still is, called the 'blood of the earth' and is used in rituals to do with death and renewal. Because red is connected with blood and its obvious link with health, being alive, and the process of childbirth in women, ochre and the colour red are often used in healing practices. See: Colours.
A recent research team of U.S. and Germany scientists found that color red influences the way people function. It reduces the ability to perform well at whatever task they are doing. University of Rochester and University of Munich researchers reported that even if peoplebeing tested were aware of even a hint of red, their performance would be reduced in quality to a significant degree. University of Rochester psychology Professor Andrew Elliot, head of the research, said people associate the color red with mistakes and failures.
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