Dragon

Because the part of our mind we name ‘the unconscious’ is so ancient and huge, we sometimes depict contact with it as a dragon or monster. In myths the hero is often shown doing battle with a dragon, serpent or some other monster, to get a treasure. This is probably because the dragon depicts the massive and irrational forces of the unconscious, the life urges and untamed fears and sexuality that one must face and deal with in order to gain the treasure of potential locked in sexual, mental and emotional energy. See Reaction to the unconsciousPotential

It is also the untamed or unsocialised sexual drive which can overpower or trap a girl emerging into womanhood, or threatens a youth facing manhood. The integrating it means facing one’s fears of the vast power of such natural drives, and finding satisfying expression. See Meeting yourselfReaction on Meeting Our Hugeness

Example: In the dream I entered a cave and I saw a dragon resting inside, it woke up, saw me and we stared at one another for a moment and then it moved and I saw a sack of diamonds and diamonds overflowing/ coming out from the cave wall, it looks like the dragon was guarding it.

“In Asian cultures dragons were, and in some cultures still are, revered as representative of the primal forces of nature, religion and the universe. They are associated with wisdom—often said to be wiser than humans—and longevity. They are commonly said to possess some form of magic or other supernatural power, and are often associated with wells, rain, and rivers. In some cultures, they are also said to be capable of human speech. In some traditions dragons are said to have taught humans to talk.” Quoted from Wikipedia.

Narratives about dragons often involve them being killed by a hero. This is typical of the Christian view which is to kill anything – such a devils, sex, demons, serpents and dragons. But to kill the very basic and powerful within us is pointless, for in doing so we have lost our real source of power and creativity. The Chinese  Dragon is a mixture of a serpent and dragon. See Serpent Power

Example: I dreamed of a dragon that flew through my house at night watching over me and my family. It was only 3 feet tall or so and I only saw its silhouette in the darkened house and thought of him only as “the dragon” with no other name. I felt with him there I had nothing to worry about and felt safe and at peace. It was a very pleasant dream.

This is a very special dream. It shows the dreamer at ease and protected by the forces of life in her. She must have a very wonderful family for the dragon to protect her family. If she could at sometime imagine herself as the Dragon and be quiet and watch what changes occur in her body and feelings, she might know exactly what the dragon is in her life. It is also something that can warn you and guide you when you are faced by dangers, or lead you in the years ahead; that is why I suggest becoming closely connected to this wonderful power.

Joseph Campbell felt that the frog is another example of the dragon and other frightening monsters whose role in mythology is to guard treasure. The dragon represents the dark and frightening aspects of ones own nature; the huge instinctive feelings we usually resist or repress. We often call someone a dragon if they are fiery and aggressive, so we might use it in that way too.

Love Your Dragon

The treasure guarded by the dragon is your Core Self, which enables one to attain real womanhood or manhood. To love the dragon is to open to the great treasures we hold within us and to know for certain that we are far more than simply a body.

 

Useful questions and hints:

In what way am I relating to the dragon – with fear – with strength – or cooperatively?

Did I gain any understanding or information from the dragon?

Is there any treasure or reward involved in this – if so what?

See

Energy Sex and Dreams – Kundalini – Techniques for Exploring your DreamsIndividuation Secrets of Power Dreaming

 

Comments

-BlueEyedSoul 2017-11-10 5:48:29

I had a dream about 2 dragons flying in the sky, one big but smaller than the 2nd one. The smaller one was greyish, the huge one black and fierce.
They attacked me in a mountain area, but I was not afraid. When the big black one came for me, a fought back (breathed fire?!). He turned into a beautiful big stranger with black hair and in my dream I instantly reconized him (no idea who he is when I wake up). I asked him “why have i never seen you humen, I’ve known you all my life”

And then i woke up…

    -Tony Crisp 2017-11-12 14:15:39

    BlueEyedSoul – Dreams emerge from a level of our being that formed at least 26 million years ago. It was prior to the use of our language, and so the dream creator sends formless information that almost wakes us up, and our brain, an incredible translator, put images we can identify with on the message.

    So all the people, animals, places you see in your dreams, are simply your own feelings, fears, hopes and wonder projected onto the screen of your sleeping mind as images. So, it makes sense to take the image of your dream person, thing or animal back into you and own it. In that way, you are meeting and dealing with the things about yourself you are not owning or conscious of. That is why dreams are often difficult to understand, because we are hiding things from ourselves.

    Again, so of course you knew the beautiful stranger all your life, because it has existed as an unconscious part of your immense potential. It started as a very ancient part of you that you never before were aware of, shown as the black dragon. Please read http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/brain-levels-and-dreams/ because it IS the ancient you that has been forgotten.

    The dragon was black because it was unconscious. You fought it because many people as their awareness reaches beyond what they feel is their normal self feel scared. Such resistances cause us to create awful dreams and fears as a means of avoiding our own inner world and its wonders. We feel that we will be swallowed up and we will die. It is important to say that when we meet the experience of powerlessness through becoming aware of the hugeness of your Life, which we are usually unaware if, it feels like something alien or attacking and it is a shock.

    You breathed fire as a way of expressing your own fighting and living larger self, and in doing so touched the beauty that you have within you. A male, of course, for it is your real soul partner. See http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/archetype-of-the-animus-jungs-view-of-the-male-in-the-female/

    But you have only touched your own inner wonder and vastness. For dream images are like icons on a computer screen – you have to ‘click’ on your dream images to make them come alive. Thinking about them doesn’t work. You need to open yourself to the magic of them.
    To make them into the wonderful gateways they are you may have to learn certain skills.

    To do that see http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/acting-on-your-dream/#BeingPersonhttp://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/exploring-a-dream-2/http://dreamhawk.com/approaches-to-being/opening-to-life/

-seraphine 2017-09-11 12:01:57

hello,

i had a dream last night. i was walking on the street, beside you can see the sea and mountains. when i stop beside the seawall to look at the scenery, when i look down the seawall i saw a white dragon sleeping, on top of a white dragon there’s a man sitting, so i try to touch the dragon, but the dragon is friendly then the dragon woke up and stretched his wings. then when i look on the right side there’s another one dragon, like a gold or bronze one sleeping also. what’s the meaning of that? thank you

    -Tony Crisp 2017-09-12 12:57:06

    Hi – It would help you to understand your dreams, if you would read – http://dreamhawk.com/news/summing-up/ and also http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/features-found-on-site/ which has so much information in.

    Nothing can replace your own ability to understand your dream. With a little effort you can do this by practising what is described in – http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/acting-on-your-dream/#BeingPerson or http://dreamhawk.com/dream-dictionary/getting-at-your-dreams-meaning/

    Tony

    Seraphine – In dreams we enter into a completely different mental state. One in which we can enter a world of wonder. Dragons, unicorns, centaurs, Pegasus, the phoenix, fairies, and gods like Shiva and Krishna have never been a real part of our physical world, but they are a very real and powerful part of our inner world, for they are images our inner and dream world create to describe the immense forces we that make up the world of our mind and consciousness.

    You entered that world – an amazing thing. Because of that you saw things beyond what most people are able to witness – the dream sea, the mountains and the dragons.

    The images of your dream are symbols of magnificent things, huge ancient things that when met most people retreat in fear of. The white dragon represents the purity of your life energy – it is the creative energy that gives you life. It in most people only sleeps – in other words it remains outside of their awareness. The dragon/your life energy, like the image of the dragon are ancient beyond understanding, it is huge with great power and enormous wisdom, for its great age brings understanding.

    The man on it is your own inner guide. The golden dragon is another aspect of it, for it has many ways of expressing – the gold suggests it is both a treasure and it last forever.

    But Dream images are like icons on a computer screen – you have to ‘click’ on your dream images to make them come alive. Thinking about them doesn’t work. You need to open yourself to the magic of them. To make them into the wonderful gateways they are you may have to learn certain skills. See http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/acting-on-your-dream/#BeingPerson and http://dreamhawk.com/approaches-to-being/opening-to-life/

-Alisha 2017-07-15 1:42:32

I had a dream in which i repeatedly told the word dragon sexuality

-Min 2017-07-11 2:12:07

I dreamt of going somewhere and there alot people is waiting near the cliff.. when they come near the cliff , an animal come out and give someth8ng to them.. there were fox and many other animal. In that dream when i reach the cliff, a big white dragon appear and gave me an egg.. after i recieved the egg,it hatch an a baby dragon come out.. since then, baby dragon was around me protecting me.. after a while it grown bigger but still protect and look after me.

-Min 2017-07-11 2:11:22

I dreamtof going somewhere and there alot people is waiting near the cliff.. when they come near the cliff , an animal come out and give someth8ng to them.. there were fox and many other animal. In that dream when i reach the cliff, a big white dragon appear and gave me an egg.. after i recieved the egg,it hatch an a baby dragon come out.. since then, baby dragon was around me protecting me.. after a while it grown bigger but still protect and look after me.

-Brigid 2017-07-10 6:35:40

I had a dream where I was at my grandma’s farm, behind barn and I aproached a giant red dragon (or a serpent. I didn’t really saw the wings but I think they were too small for a dragon) that dragon looked a bit like hydra with 3 heads, though I don’t know if other two heads were heads at all. It had a golden like patterns on skin, it’s teeth where also golden. After that I went to a barn and there was a man who said he’s that dragon. I think that after that we played together somehow (with dragon). After a little bit of friendship moments something happened related to teeths. A whole village and my family went to kill it for some “money”? Then it was killed I cried a bit but a dream cut to a swamp filled with half eaten sharks, whales and huge (not eaten) crocodiles. They were all alive. It looked like we, with my friend on helicopter were flying to get that dragons bones. After that it cut to a bit more normal scene. Me and my friends, it seems we were at some kind of amusement park and where was a some kind of machines that supposed to be a something like “with who you’re gonna a be machine”. I always seem to get a girl but I always showed a picture of dudes but not that girl.
I don’t know what this is. If I watched something like anime before going to sleep I would blame it on that, but I didn’t watch anime for awhile. Neither did I watch other cartoons or movies in which a dragon like that would be present. So what is this? Some random dream?

-sol 2017-07-05 17:33:07

This dream I had few years ago but cant get it out of my head ever since,I know its very important and related to the spiritual path.
So I am holding a rope attached to the tail of a humongous black hooded dragon.I am struggling to hold on,it looks like we’re inside the earth,there’s dirt,mud and rocks everywhere and the Dragon seems like swimming in it.The dragon tries to throw me away with its tail but cant do it,then he/she tries to eat me and appears as if she/he is chasing its tail,but can’t.The terrain is so rough and she/he cant shake me off even tho I am less than a mosquito to her/him.This goes on for a while but not for a moment I think of letting go.
Then the terrain starts to get softer less rocks more mud,the dragon does not fight as aggressively now and I start to climb the rope getting closer to the body.The terrain gets even softer and now water appears.Finally I reach the dragon’s body,its collosal, I can hardly catch on to one scale.Now I’m on it’s back and we’re into water,the experience from horrifing becomes adventurous and then pleasant.I’m climbing it’s back slowly and it becomes easier by the moment,then we are out of the water and flying in the air,its wonderfull.The air starting to get thinner there is no resistance at all and the colours are becoming so vivid and psychedelic,its ecstatic.Finally I reach the head and I see its beautiful face it is rounded, thorny with fantastic yellow eyes.Awe is not enough to describe that moment,I feel warm safe and loved.I dont remember any words only this endless bliss.

-Lex 2017-06-11 10:39:07

My dream is that i had a baby dragon it was blonde and it didn’t really have scales just blonde feathers and i was holding him and some rich people invited me to their home too see the dragon i arrived and somehow after a while he got into a bathtub and i washed him he was looking at me really sweet fast forward at the end of my dream the rich people came with me to see the dragon which was still in the bathtub and when we were walking upstairs they had this really strange stairs like square and i got dizzy for a sec and then everyone saw him and i took him into my arms and left. Yeah that.s kinda it

-Amar 2017-03-20 4:44:58

hi… i got this dream when i’m 12 – 13 but now i’m 37, but i still remember that dream. i swimming at the lake/sea.. and i saw a cave under water. i get in and saw a red dragon been capture inside that cave. it spoke with me, cannot recall what that dragon said.. it warning or pleading to release him, but i don’t agree and get out from that cave.. i swim away but that dragon attack me with fire and burn half my body.

-Chris 2017-01-01 20:34:27

I had a dream that I was a dragon flying around mountains and valleys. Then I met this amazing woman who was in the form of a Phoenix.
We flew around for a bit then she told me to breath her in. Once I did that I took her under the ocean cause she couldn’t touch water. But she was protected inside of me and could see everything through my eyes.
After we explored for a while we surfaced and she taught me how to breathe fire.
Then she helped me to fly into space where she didn’t need to breath, and helped me create a fire bubble around me so I could breath.

    -Chris 2017-01-02 6:39:45

    Heres what seems to fit this dream and my current place in life.
    As I was a dragon that was not fully developed, I take this to mean that I’m at the turning point of exploring and tackling my fears and insecurities surrounding sexuality.
    The pheonix teaching me to breath fire and take me to a place she is familiar with, but I’ve never been.
    I’d take to mean that this new romantic interest, will be my guide to overcoming those fears and insecurities as well as taking me to a new level of sexual experience.
    The pheonix also may represent some career or financial changes?

    And my taking the pheonix under water would represent me guiding this person to a level of emotional openess that I’m familiar with but she is not.

    Did I miss anything? Or is there perhaps some different interpretations?

      -Tony Crisp 2017-01-02 13:43:46

      Hi – I must take time to upgrade the dream dictionary, so must halt from answering your posts – I started the revising in 2006, and haven’t neared the end yet. I believe someone else may start.

      So, for a while I urge you to read http://dreamhawk.com/approaches-to-being/i-am-no-longer-interpreting-dreams/

      Also, here are so ways you can find your dreams meaning – http://dreamhawk.com/approaches-to-being/questions-2/#Summinghttp://dreamhawk.com/dream-dictionary/getting-at-your-dreams-meaning/ or http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/acting-on-your-dream/#BeingPerson and http://dreamhawk.com/approaches-to-being/opening-to-life/

      Hundreds of questions about your dreams have already been answered if you scroll down to the very bottom of the page were people’s questions/comments were replied to. Also, see http://dreamhawk.com/approaches-to-being/questions-2/

      Tony

      Chris – A dragon is not just about your sexuality – it is about your whole amazing potential. It is Life itself which is everything, and you are still growing in your relationship with it – aren’t we all!

      Please read http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/energy-sex-and-dreams/ – If you understand that you are more than sex or ambition you might be able to get a lot more than a career change.

      Example: I am in a landscape and notice that everything is brown; the whole world is brown and lifeless. There is also a feeling of solemnity or dullness. I have enough lucidity to wonder why the world of my dream is so brown and dull. As I ask this I become more aware of what feeling the brownness expresses. It is seriousness – with no room for humour or fun. The feeling deepens, real enough and clear enough to look at and understand. I see it is my father’s attitude to life that I have unconsciously inherited. I realise how anxious he always felt about life, and how I took this in. That is how I became a ‘brown’ person. I see too that I do not need to be either brown or serious anymore.

      Then the landscape changes. There are trees, plants and animals in brilliant colour. I wonder what this means, and the landscape begins to spin until the colours blend and shimmer. Suddenly my body seems to open to them, as if they are spinning inside of me, and with a most glorious feeling, a sensation of vibrating energy pours up my trunk to my head. With this comes realisation. I see how stupid I have been in my brown, anxious existence, how much life I have held back. The animals and plants are the different forces in my being that blend into energy and awareness. I feel I am capable of doing almost anything, like loving, writing a song, painting, telepathy, or speaking with the dead. This sparkling vibrating energy is life itself and can, if I learn to work with it, grow into any ability or direction I choose. I wake with a wonderful sense of my possibilities.

-Lorry de Jesus 2016-12-12 2:51:03

I have dream last night with dragons in our bed crawling then following us and we have to run out of those dragons to avoid them. Then the following day they were gone after a day they showd again,I guess those were so strong. What does this dream meant? Thank you

-Vi 2016-11-15 17:50:46

I dreamed of a beautiful, big red dragon. The dragon and I are friends but in my dream the red dragon was angry at me. The dragon was not feeling well. I couldn’t fly him anymore because he wasn’t feeling well. Then I asked the dragon to come to my house to recovery and the dragon came to sleep in my big closet. I gave the dragon a bowl of water or some type of liquid and the dragon got better. It came back to its full potential. And wanted to head out to explore the world.. to conquer it once again. To fly with me again. This dream took all of my energy this morning. I feel still exhausted by this dream. What could this mean? It’s still very clear on my mind.

-Marrissa 2016-09-18 2:21:59

I had a dream that i was in waterand i saw a red dragon in water, it spoke to me briefly, i saw that it was injured and was dying. I ran away from it because i was scared and because i did that it got mad and blew fire. The fire turned into lava and i was swimming under water. I started to drown and i had to go up for air. But when i did i got burned by the lava. Can you help me understand my dream?

    -Tony Crisp 2016-09-19 12:48:47

    Marrissa – In the first place, whenever we dream its images are not like real life, because a dream is nothing like outer life where things could hurt you, but is an image like on a cinema screen that even if a gun is pointed at you and fired it can do no damage – except if you run in fear; so all the things that scare you are simply your own fears projected onto the screen of your sleeping mind.

    Also people are very confused about the difference between their waking life and their dream life. They believe that what they dream is the same as what they meet in waking life. In other words, we take as a truth that what is important outwardly is as important in our dreams. So you are as upset by a dream as if it had actually happened in waking life. Such mistakes make us feel things that are ridiculous. This happens with the morals we live by, which may be necessary in waking life, but we try to make them fit to our much bigger and freer dream/inner life, and that causes conflict because the two worlds are completely different. So in dreams about sex we do not have to live by the same small moral world often necessary in waking life. In dreams we experiment emotionally and sexually, so dreams often stand in place of actual experience. In doing so we expand our mental and emotional life without any danger or consequences. Through dreams we may experiment with new experience or practice things we have not yet done externally.

    It seems that your fear of the dragon and the lava come because you confuse real exterior life and threats with your dream life, which is like a game using virtual reality where nothing can hurt you.

    The dragon in your dream is an image depicting your own huge potential. But most people do not realise that they are a huge and wonderful example of Life, a miraculous being. You take yourself, your personality, with its concerns about everyday life as a measure of what you are. So when you get near to your own hugeness and its power – the dragon and lava – you are scared of it.

    But we are all amazing when we stop hiding from our own potential. Please read http://dreamhawk.com/interesting-people/edgar-cayce-and-the-cosmic-mind-superminds/ and http://dreamhawk.com/inner-life/jesse-watkins-experience-of-enlightenment/

    Maybe also see http://dreamhawk.com/dream-dictionary/potential/

    Tony

-Brittany 2016-08-01 20:25:31

Hello i had a dream last night that i had a little pet dragon. The dragon was small like a puppy and fit in my arms so i believed it to be a baby. I thought he was cute and sweet but he was black and red and very prickly. If he were bigger i would have probably been scared. I called him Dragon or D. I left my house and left D as well to go to a gathering on a bridge (like a party). But while i was there i really really missed the dragon. I felt really sad to have parted with him so i got on my moped and went back to be with him. It was a vivid dream and my feelings of love and care for the baby dragon were strong. What could this mean? Ive never dreamt of a dragon before and i dream at least 3 nights a week for the past 10 years.

    -Anna - Tony's Assistant 2016-08-05 13:04:08

    Dear Brittany – There are a view symbols in your dream that could reflect change and so I wonder how old you are; http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/individuation/
    A baby pet dragon may reflect your natural drive towards procreation and the way you perceive this drive.
    Does it fit in your social, working/studying life?
    What is prickly about the situation?
    What is the worst that could happen if this drive grows?
    Which thoughts and feelings arise when you use http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/acting-on-your-dream/#BeingPerson when you hold the baby dragon and when you miss the baby dragon?
    Anna 🙂

-Johnalyn 2016-07-05 10:28:29

i had a dream about a lot of baby dragons inside my bag while i was on my way home from work. what could be the meaning of that? after finding the dragons and play with them a little, i suddenly woke up and realized that i slept for 5 minutes only.

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