Feet Foot
Your basic psychological support system, therefore the attitudes and ideals you use to get around in the world. Feet are also your ability to balance. Where you place your feet in the dream can also indicate whether you feel secure in your present life situation, or whether you are finding conditions, ‘footholds’, to advance or make changes.
In the bible it says, “The feet are symbols of desire. They must be bare: drawn out of everything temporal and mortal.” This suggests that our feet can represent our desire or motivation, and to take our shoes off means we are willing to drop our own purpose and follow the urge from our core instead of desires for things that pass away. The feet may therefore indicate your involvement in all things physical, and all the beliefs and viewpoints that are dependent upon it. (The Bible can be seen as collected folk wisdom that is venerated, and so can be disconnected with any religious organisation).
To dream of feet might also suggest your sensitivity to your present life situation, whether it is rough going or not.
Our feet can sometimes be linked with roots, in that we stand upon the earth with them. As such they are the way the lowest or most primitive in us is transformed, just as roots lift up earth in the process of transforming it into living cells.
As the idioms below suggest, we mention feet a lot in our everyday language to indicate attitudes, motivation or lack of it, and how well or badly we are coping in life and relationships.
Barefooted; To be in contact with reality, your real life situation. Might also suggest rough going if walking is hard. Of course, in some cultures it could mean poverty.
Loss of foot or feet: Incapacitated in making moves, or in being independent or self-motivated; in the Oneirocritica, c.AD 350, it says that to lose ones feet points to a barrier in regard to a planned journey.
Muddy feet: This suggests that you are mired in attitudes that are very material or very practical and have lost sight of your other dimension of being.
Washing feet: Is not only a sign of caring for yourself or being cared for, but is also a statement offering you a new life that is free of the worries and fears of the everyday physical world.
Example: When I asked how it could be possible that such love could be a part of my life I wept as I received the response. It was that we must learn to wash somebody’s feet. I felt this very deeply. I saw that it wasn’t simply a case of taking a flannel, a piece of soap and washing off the dirt from someone’s feet. That is not what it is about. That is not what it’s supposed to be.
To touch such love is painful and I was weeping as if in agony. What is it to wash somebody’s feet? I don’t understand. I am listening but I don’t understand. I feel it but I cannot grasp clearly what is meant.
Then I was told that the person who washes somebody’s feet is the servant. You have to realise, first of all, that you are a servant. You are nothing more. You are not proud, you are not above somebody else. You are a simple servant of life. And yet you are life – that grand mystery of life. Like the grass, life can be trodden under foot. You have to realise that before you can really touch anybody with that great love.
Idioms: back on your feet; caught flatfooted; cold feet; drag your feet; fancy footwork; feet of clay; footloose; grass grow under; itchy feet; jump in with both feet; heavy foot; land on your feet; put my foot down; put your foot in it; pussy-foot around; put your best foot forward; put your foot in your mouth; set foot in; shoot yourself in the foot; sweep you off your feet; take a load of your feet; two left feet.
Useful Questions and Hints:
Do any of the idioms suit the situation in the dream – if so what does it suggest?
If my foot or feet are damaged, in what way is my ability to progress or ‘stand’ in waking life difficult?
Am I in good or difficult ‘standing’ in my life – if difficult can I imagine changing it?
See Associations Working With; Inner World; Techniques for Exploring your Dreams
Comments
I had a dream I was outdoors in the dusk. And I was sitting on top of the hood of my estranged boyfriends work van hugging my youngest daughter in terrorr. A black tarantula with one stripe on its leg crawled on my foot. It was so big that it almost covered my entire foot. I was scared and kicked it away. What does that mean??
Louisa – I take it you were seeking a safe place to be because of your fear. You must have felt your estranged boyfriends van was a safe place.
But 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, so 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.
So what fear caused you to create an image of a tarantula? Your dreamt of young daughter is often used in dreams to represent you at that age. So what terror were you facing at that age. Please try to remember, because dreams do not show such scenes unless we are strong enough to deal with them.
Perhaps you could try using to help – https://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/acting-on-your-dream/#BeingPerson
I had a dream last night that my feet were hurting. They were hurting so bad I could not walk. When I inspected them, there was a tumor on each foot underneath my toes, that had little pieces sticking out of each one. Then the skin was peeled off of my heels in strips and there was blood everywhere. The pain was so intense and no one would help me walk or help me wrap them in guaze. Every time I tried to wrap them someone would tear the guaze off. The pain felt so real and once I woke up it was like I still felt the leftover pain from my dream, but I wasn’t sleeping in any weird position or anything. Why my mind do dis
Hi – It is important that you read https://dreamhawk.com/forums/index.php?topic=529.msg1472#msg1472
Nothing can replace your own ability to understand your dream. With a little effort you can do this by practicing 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
Taylor – Look, the reason you felt such pain was because you were dreaming, and dreams take place in a totally different world than your waking life. In the dream world you cannot be hurt; you cannot drown, you can’t die in a dream, no tiger or other animal can harm you. Of course you can feel feelings of dying, or being hurt, or drowning, but they are all images you create because you feel afraid and you haven’t be able to meet the fact that the awful tings in your dream are all created by your fears.
Dreams also symbolise so the images you take as referring to outer physical life are really representing you mental and emotional life. So it sounds as if you are having a really tough and painful time in ‘standing on your own feet’. Also you feel that no one else is helping but making things worse.
We are capable of creating devils and angels, monsters. How do we do all that? I am seeing the it as something like the seashell effect. You put it up to your ear and you actually hear sounds in it – but the sounds are actually those you are creating in your inner ear amplified by the shell. This is like a magical Penny Dream Arcade machine that creates wonders of music, images, devils, the presence of God and angels – but all of which is actually in response to our own imagination, fears, beauty or ugliness – all of which are made wonderfully real by the machine of our dreams, creating intense pleasure or pain.
See https://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/example-8/ – https://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/eight-step-method-to-manage-intense-emotion/
I had a dream that I awoke from sleeping and felt the need to cover my feet. I reached by the end of the bed for bootie socks but found actual feet instead. After touching one foot I looked and saw two feet. They were attached to a body but my concern was more with the feet.
Hi – It is important that you read https://dreamhawk.com/forums/index.php?topic=529.msg1472#msg1472
Nothing can replace your own ability to understand your dream. With a little effort you can do this by practicing 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
Brandy – I take it your cold feet woke you. So then you woke up to the fact you were not alone, but you were busy dealing with your feet.
I feel that there was a feeling that you missed, so please try using https://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/acting-on-your-dream/#BeingPerson
Hi! I would like you to help me interpret a dream I had. I dreamed i was standing up and a boy wrapped his leg to mine. He made me sit on his lap. I was surprised and looked him in the eyes. He just smiled.
Looking forward to getting your reply soon.
Thanks!
Hi – It would help you to understand your dreams, if you would read – http://dreamhawk.com/approaches-to-being/questions-2/#Summing 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
Ely – It sounds as if you have found yourself a dream lover. If you handle it well, you can get ultimate satisfaction from such a lover.
But to help you, I suggest you read a couple of things – http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/archetype-of-the-animus-jungs-view-of-the-male-in-the-female/ – http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/energy-sex-and-dreams/ – http://dreamhawk.com/relationship-sex/learning-to-love/
Hi… Hopefully you can help me out a bit with a better understanding…
My 3 yr. old son woke up @ like 3:30 a.m. bawling. I went in is room & he was saying “I scared, I scared” I began to comfort him. He then said “someone cut my feet.” I just feel like this is odd for a 3 year old. He was so scared it took me until the light came up to get him back to bed.
I know you can’t go in full detail but a better understanding would help me help him and put my mind at rest atleast alittle bit.
Thank you
Hi – It would help you to understand your dreams, if you would read – http://dreamhawk.com/approaches-to-being/questions-2/#Summing 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
Ashly – Like a television show or film, it is only when we see the credits at the end of such a film that we realise just how much behind the scenes work has taken place to produce the film. And this is precisely what dreams show – the behind the scenes activities and dramas.
Dreams depict all the aspects of what is taking place within the child. Sometimes, just for the child to tell or draw a dream helps them integrate the underlying feelings and processes. Another thing they can do is to model their dream. In this way the awful dream event or creature can be put outside them and they can manipulate the frightening things – for instance they can put the creature in a cage where it cannot hurt them.
If you yourself can understand that 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, so 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. And if you can therefore understand that dream fears are all about fears, hurts and threats that threaten the person or child’s confidence in their on coping strategies and aid them towards confidence and coping, you will do wonders.
Remember that a child’s greatest fears are to be abandoned or threatened by what they see or hear – television and films for a child are almost the same as the real world.
While small, my youngest son told me he dreamt his pet baby mice had opened their eyes. When I asked him what it means for a baby mouse to open its eyes, he told me that it showed they were ready to become independent. I then asked him what it might be like to be a pet, and he said a pet couldn’t do anything for itself, not even get its own water or food. He went on to say that because he was small, he sometimes felt like a pet. So we talked this over and he decided he could start getting his own glass of water by putting a chair near the sink. He was moving toward independence.
I had a dream I was stuck in some kind of cement mud and couldn’t move ??
Hi – I am stopping from answering your posts fully – but will try to give hints; sometimes long ones because I quote from masses I have already put online. Also, I need to take time to update the site – dreamhawk.
It would help you to understand your dreams, if you would read – http://dreamhawk.com/approaches-to-being/questions-2/#Summing 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
Emily – When you think about a friend or a person you meet, you are only taking in your thoughts, impressions and feelings about them. So many people do not realise that they have an inner person equally as powerful as the external person you know. You have taken in millions of bits of memory, lessons learnt, life experiences along with all the feelings or problems met by meeting or living with them, and they are what makes you the person you are. The memories and experience we gather unconsciously change us and are not lost. It is part of you and is symbolised in dreams as a person or event. Such an inner person can appear in dreams because you still carry the memories or impressions of them, and so they influenced what you hold within you.
Many people are lost and feel as if they cannot more, are trapped, even by past loves. But in fact the more people we can ‘digest’ or accept as part of our own experience, the more freedom we have. Each person we have within us in this way is a new space, a new area or space to live in.
Example: Then I slowly became aware of a deeper sense of the discomfort. It was a feeling of being stuck in one place and not being able to move. It wasn’t anything to do with moving physically but was as an awareness. It felt awful and I tried to move but couldn’t. The only way of describing it was as if we are all made out of the same stuff – as an example concrete – and as such we filled all space. So the little space I filled could not move because all around was filled by others. I felt really stuck and wondered what I could do, but there seemed no way out of it. Yet I could not believe this was really how things were.
Most of this was spontaneous thoughts and movement through the experience, so that was how I was led to thinking about my cousin Sid again, and his situation of being constantly linked with his mother even after he died. Then I realised that I was linked with Rita, and in feeling that I realised that I could move in at least two positions – me and Rita – because of the loving connection I felt.
Then came a flood of realisation, every person I had loved was another position I could be in; and then I knew all the animals I had loved and even people I had a casual relationship with. But there was even more because in dreams and sessions I had become or encountered amazing things, people, creatures, the alien beings and others. I knew then that I was FREE to go anywhere and be almost anything, because their life pattern was now part of me. Then with a rush of wonder, I realised that the more people and creatures I loved, the bigger I became.
I had a dream that a girl’s feet were cut off. Her hands were tied up and she was just hanging there. I couldn’t really see her face because it was drooping a bit and everything was in a blue color (like black and white movies but blue instead).
I never moved closer to her, but I did look up and down and noticed her feet looks like it was cut off not too long ago.
In reality, I’m not going through any obstacles or anything bad.
On my facebook, I saw that my bff said she was depressed and, lately, her statuses didn’t sound like her at all. I worry about her because we haven’t hung out in a long while but we do message each other and too on the phone.
What could the dream mean?