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Dream meanings - enabling you to understand your own dreams

Tony Crisp

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FOR FEATURES ON DREAMS SEE DREAM ENCYCLOPEDIA

SACK May suggest unemployment, ruin, plunder. Acquisitiveness on a mundane, earthy level. Poverty. Also the womb.

SACRIFICE The surrendering or giving up of some part of yourself; or sacrificing the wishes of others for your own purposes. It can sometimes show some sort of decision, or point of change, where a sacrifice is made in order to grow. It can therefore represent being able to let go of something. The sacrifice, shown in some dreams as a human sacrifice, may be painful. See: Bull.

SADDLE To impose your will on something or someone. To be imposed on, or saddled with, something. Feeling out of control if thrown from saddle, or perhaps sudden change.

SADISM This might connect with childhood hurts you are not fully facing, and so living out on others, ore feel are lived out on yourself, or a sexual problem leading to hurtfulness instead of love.

SAFARI Coming face to face with your instincts or unsocialised urges.

SAFFRON ROBE Wisdom, renunciation. Letting go of personal desire or ego.

SAILING What happens to you in the boat suggests how well or badly you are meeting the changes, the tides and storms, or calm waters of your life. If there is someone else with you in the boat it links with how you are dealing with a relationship, or group project.

SAILOR Your means or strategies of coping with emotions. Desire to change, to move, to see more of life. Ability to cope with life.

SAINT See: Guru.

SALAD Taking in feelings and influences that are alive and create personal growth.. See: Food.

SALIVA/SPIT Love or hate. It carries your inner feelings or spirit with it. The feelings connected with the saliva suggest what 'energy' it carries with it.

SALOON See: Bar-room.

SALT Value, goodness, luck, taste, adding spice to life. Something that transforms your experience. Salt also preserves. When Lot’s wife looked back and was turned into a pillar of salt, it symbolised the desire to stop spiritual or mental progress. Salt here symbolises materialism, stagnation, lack of growth or change, preservation. Salt may also suggest friendship, good or bad luck.

SAND Time, the incessant wearing away of things, the multitudinous aspects of life governed by time. Small irritations or abrasiveness. Difficult progress. See: Desert.

SATAN The power of material values in life. The things in life we cannot control, such as anger, sex desires, ambitions, fear, worries, etc. Those things that lead us contrary to the innate nature.

Steiner has depicted these forces as dual, calling them Lucifer and Ahriman. Lucifer is the power of egoistic desires, pride, looking after self first. My work, my religion, my beliefs, are better than yours! All these selfish traits lead to inner conflict, conflict in the world, and are the work of Lucifer.

Ahriman is described as the power of ignorance, of reason without feeling values, of dry intellectualism, the emphasis of materialism and a science that leads to lack of aim, lack of contact with all life; an education that is full of facts, but without any wisdom or insight, that does not develop the power of intuition. See: Devil; Obsession; Demon.

SATELLITE Communication with others and with your sense of wholeness. Link between physical and spiritual nature. Sometimes a feeling of being isolated or disconnected, as in a relationship where you are treated like a satellite - all your activities having to centre around something or someone.

SAUSAGE Male sex organ or sexual feelings. Material values.

SAVINGS Sense of security, energy, wealth.

SAW Criticism, cynicism, a questioning state of mind. Enquiry. Cutting remarks or experiences. Energy to reshape old attitudes; wordplay on See; sex as the relationship meets hesitations; masturbation.

SAXOPHONE Self expression, spontaneity.

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SCABBARD The body, the sheath of soul. If empty it could suggest either death or an empty threat.

SCALD To tell off, or be told off, or criticism; pain, a deep hurt.

SCALES Balance, justice, fair play. Weighing information or decisions.

Scales on fish may represent the shining thoughts and feelings that make up the innermost self.

SCAR Memory of a painful experience, emotional upsets.

SCARAB Eternity, continuity of life, the soul, the transmuting influence. See: Alchemist.

SCARECROW Having no life, no spirit, empty of feelings, of worth. An illusion,

SCENT See: Odour.

SCHOOL The feelings you have about learning. The attitudes, responses and strategies you learned at school - such as interrelationships, class structure, competitiveness, authority, mortification, group preferences, habits of behaviour or feeling reactions developed during those years.

Classroom: Study; relationship with authority; whatever sense of yourself developed at school. You need to ask yourself what you actually learned at school.

Graduating: The tests you meet in life and relationships; entrance into a new life; the sense of achieving adulthood, or the skill leading to adult independence; probably also associates with your sense of value.

Gymnasium: Taking risks in learning something new; daring; physical health.

Library: Your knowledge and learning ability; stored information.

School clothes: Social attitudes or moral rules learned at school.

School friend: Your own attitudes developed in school, as you are 'meeting' them in the present. Can sometimes refer to feelings of rejection or aloneness due to the stress faced by many children on leaving their mother for the first time to attend school.

SCIENTIST Your analytical mind, an attempt to weigh and measure life, to discover its usefulness and how to apply it. May also symbolise an intellectual unfeeling attitude. Your creative curiosity.

SCISSORS Cutting remarks, cynicism, sharp tongue, anger or hate, and when we cut someone up. Sometimes appears in dreams of castration, where parental aggressiveness has cut off the development of the child’s emerging manhood or womanhood. There might also be a link with the cutting of links with parents or people whom you emotionally or economically depend upon. See: Castration.

SCORCH Anger, over-heated remarks or attitudes which may cause mental injury.

SCORPION Bitterness, the sting of bitter remarks.

SCOTS Careful, thoughtful, economical, but attempting to be just.

SCRAPE To scrape something often symbolises the friction between two parts of our nature, or between us and someone else.

SCREW/SCREWED/SCREWING Sexual intercourse. The male genitals. To make secure, an attempt at security.

SCROLL Important Ideas or realisations.

SCRUB See: Bathing.

SCURF Ideas, opinions, thoughts.

SEA To be all at sea, or lost. Whereas a river has a male significance, the sea is the mother into which the male enters. It is Mer or mother of consciousness. Life began in the sea, at the depths. Our blood is salt like the sea, and thus we have an inner sea. It represents universal mind or being, the collective unconscious, nature’s memory where all experience is stored. The infinite cosmic mind. The surface is conscious life, on which the ship, or idea of self, floats, but is really supported and surrounded by uncharted depths. To dive into it is to dive into self, to look beneath the surface of consciousness, to look back to the source of life, to enter the womb or soul, to reach limitless mind. The sea shore Is the point where all our elements meet. The sea holds either in its depths, or floating somewhere, vast treasures, all the things which men have ever made or thought of or done. Thus the sea can wash them ashore and bring them to our notice, or unveil them to us.

Because the sea is Mother and the united consciousness of all beings, or the unconscious, it is associated with birth and death. To come up out of the sea is to be born, to become conscious. To cast oneself upon, or under the waters, is to let go of awareness of the physical world and the sense of individuality, and become aware of your origins.

The sea is also universal substance, the stuff that dreams or thoughts or emotions are made of. It is moved by the moon or the wind, and shaped by the earth. Thus it symbolises an aspect of inner life, the substance of consciousness, that takes form as thought, emotion, revelation, depending upon which circumstances are shaping it, or whether it is the spirit or Inner urges that move it. So waves are impulses, waves of emotion or urges.

A journey at sea cuts us off from our usual activities. It puts us in closer and inescapable contact with fellow travellers. It also offers the possibility of missing the boat, something that may be irreversible. This all points to how we are always in the midst of enormous natural forces, times and tides of activity. Your sea dreams will indicate your relationship with this. See: Fish; Water.

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SEAL As in sea, the inner energies, rising within. A seal is a trust, a security or promise, a sign of integrity, which we can abuse or use as a power. It depicts the emergence into your conscious life of your deepest instincts and life energies - in Eastern terminology the kundalini. As the seal can emerge from the water entirely and live on land, the seal is sometimes used to represent the emergence from the womb and the pleasures or difficulties of life as a 'land animal' physically independent of our mother. This is especially so if it is a baby seal. Otherwise the possible meanings are much the same as dolphin. See: Dolphin.

SEAM Connections with others; the strength of beliefs or convictions; the weak point of attitudes or philosophy.

SEANCE Attempt to contact the unconscious elements of yourself. A condition in which intuitive knowledge, repressed desires, or unconscious wishes can express, but perhaps in the guise of spirits of the dead - i.e. the parts of yourself that died or were killed. Ideas or feelings about death and after life. The unknown, the irrational, the dead.

SEARCH/SEARCHED/SEARCHING Usually indicates an attempt to find: a past way of life - like wanting to have childhood lack of responsibilities; a lover from the past; trying to find an answer to a pressing problem; searching for ones identity or sense of value in a particular setting. Also it may indicate a feeling of having lost something - youth; sexual appeal; creativity; motivation.

SEARCHLIGHT Focused attention, concentration on a particular issue. Meditation and concentration. The search for something. Trying to understand and make conscious.

SEAT See: Chair.

SEASONS See: Spring; Summer; Autumn; Winter.

SEAWEED Developments, ideas or concepts that have formed in the unconscious, and have come to mind ready made. An intuitive answer to a problem. Inner tangle of feelings.

SECRET Something known inwardly, but not yet recognised outwardly. You may know at heart that someone does not care for you, but because you so badly want them to, you may refuse to recognise this.

SECRETARY The other woman, the second interest, The background of activity upon which creative work can take place. The orthodox aspects of self that yet lend a hand in the development of the creative or spiritual aspects.

SEDATIVE Sleeping pills may represent attempts to cover up worries, fears, anxieties, painful emotions and thoughts. An attempt to push them into the unconscious. Something, an influence, that is putting you to sleep.

SEED The stored influence, experience, of the past. Your potential of a new beginning, or new growth. Seeds can also represent the sperm or ovum. See: Germ; Eight.

SELF/I/MYSELF The way we appear, or do not appear in a dream, represents our relationship to, opinions of, and hopes for self.

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