Horse Horses
There is not so much difference between the horse and the dog. They are both domesticated animals, and so represent urges and drives in ourselves we have learned to harness or direct. The big difference is that the horse can carry us and serve us in our labours much more powerfully than a dog.
For myself I feel the horse is the most beautiful and loved herbivore.
The dream horse also depicts or expresses our pleasurable energy and exuberance, the sort of enthusiasm or feelings of well-being that can ‘carry’ one through the day easily; dynamic sexual drive; the physical energy and life processes that ‘carry’ us around. As such it may also link with the life processe. Horses like other animals are quick to respond to love and danger. So they can be panicked and you can feel the effect of this part of you. See Mammal Brain
The energy that carry – or pull – us through growth and ageing, as happens when we dream of a horse drawn carriage or cart. Therefore in old age the unbidden processes which move us toward death may be depicted as the horse in a threatening or helpful role. The horse depicts human instincts that have been harnessed or socialised for generations, but have perhaps been let slide into non-use or crushed. It is also survival drive, sexuality, love, all yearning toward service, toward metamorphosis, all that has powerful energy to move us.
A horse or a man on a horse can sometimes signify a messenger or a message.
In his book Dreams and Dreaming, Norman MacKenzie says the horse ‘… is dynamic power and a means of locomotion; it carries one away like a surge or instinct. It is subject to panics like all instinctive creatures which lack higher consciousness. Also it has to do with sorcery and magic spells, especially the black, night horse, which heralds death.’ In a woman’s dream the horse can sometimes represent her relationship with a man and the power and strength she gets from that, as in the following dream.
Example: As I talked to the pale golden horse it felt more and more as if I was talking to a male companion who was in union with me. As I talked about my mother, she was standing before me in full anger and blaming me for bringing out the witch in her. H.
Example: A rather shadowy man in a building opposite to where I used to live as a teenager was introducing me to a new job. I seemed to understand that I was to do a milk-round. He led a small horse from out of the building. It was to draw a cart. When the horse saw me it ran to me and become very excited and loving, rubbing against me and licking me with a very long tongue. I was both pleased and slightly threatened. Threatened because it was so intense. At one point though we rubbed against each other with a degree of sexual pleasure.
I believe many young girls feel totally as if they are fully connected and loved as the photo illustrates.
But our dream horse can be a wonderful guide and mirror for us.
Example: I love horses too and they are great teachers, for they mirror what goes on inside us. I used to ride horses for many years and when I was not convinced about what I asked the horse to do, it would not consider me as its leader and was more likely to refuse to do what I had asked. Their sensing is perfectly developed. Anna, A few weeks ago I saw a documentation about Buck Brannaman. He says –
“Your horse is a mirror to your soul, and sometimes you may not like what you see. Sometimes, you will.” So says Buck Brannaman, a true American cowboy and sage on horseback who travels the country for nine grueling months a year helping horses with people problems.
Black or dark horse: Unaccepted passions; threat of death. The unknown parts of your tremendous energy arising out of unconscious processes. The dream horse represents the very long history we have had with horses, through peace and terrible wars there are very long associations we have with them. It shares all that with us and so can be realisations emerging from our long past. Or it can represent threatening changes. Riding a black horse can represent the amazing energy used to bring awareness of things that had been unconscious into consciousness.
Blinkered horse: Not allowing oneself to see what is happening around you; anxiety about life, or an attempt to control ones natural anxiety or panics.
Controlling the horse or fear of it: Trying to control, or fear of, feelings of love and sexuality, of our own natural drives and emotions that are powerful enough either to give us motivation in our activities, or drag us along unwillingly.
Dead horse: Serious loss of energy or motivation which could lead to illness or depression; an old and dying set of habits and motivations or way of life.
Falling off horse: Relating badly to ones urges and needs. This could result in tension, breakdown or illness.
Grooming a horse: Taking care of ones basic needs such as food, shelter, sex.
Horse and carriage: The natural processes of life that move us through youth to old age; forces that can move us, either from within or as natural events, but which, if we are relating well to the horse, we can guide in some measure. It can also indicate the inner power which brings thoughts to awareness, things you might be blocking to think about. The horses represent the power which draws the mind.
Horse dragging the dreamer along: Impetuosity of feelings; feelings dragged along by natural urges.
Horse loving you or expressing sexual feelings: The flow of positive and natural sexuality and warmth from within.
Horse race: The events of everyday life, and your relationship with people; everyday competition and where you rate yourself in it; what happens in the race shows how you are relating to opportunity, or how you feel about your accomplishments and being part of the ‘human race’.
Horse running freely: Allowing ones emotions or sexuality free reign; love of life.
Horse unwilling to move or carry: Your inner natural reaction is against the action or direction you are trying to go. Sometimes this is a warning that you should not go in that direction.
Horseshoe: Good luck, receptivity if prongs upwards; bad luck or lack of receptiveness if prongs downwards.
Large horse: Enormous energy.
New born horse: Emerging energy or new motivations.
Old or worn out horse: State of your feelings, perhaps worn out from overwork; may refer to a member of the family.
Riderless horse: Sometimes represents the death of someone, as in the following example.
Example: “I dreamed that I was awakened by the sound of a horse’s hooves in the street. I saw a white horse, with no rider, stopping at midnight in front of our house. I knew it came for my younger sister. I went to the door and opened it to call her, when suddenly I saw her coming down the stairs, all dressed in white. She did not say a word to me, but walked with stately steps down the stairs, through the hall, and out of the door. She mounted the horse and rode away. I woke up crying.” The woman’s sister died a month later.
Riding or leading horse easily: Good relationship with inner drives and emotions; the harmony between instinctive drives and personality.
Running away from a horse or horsemen: Fear of sexuality, which includes responsibility for parenthood and relationship. Fear of ones own strong desires or urges; avoiding the responsibility of directing ones own feelings and desires.
Sick or dying horse: Loss of health, energy, enthusiasm. Have a physical check.
Speaking horse: Realisation of what you are feeling but have not been aware of; expression of levels of feeling or body processes usually unconscious.
Strange or unknown horseman/woman: Message from the unconscious; a new opportunity or event.
Struggling to control the horse: Fighting with ones urges and natural drives; difficulty in controlling ones emotions or sexuality.
The mare: femininity, receptiveness, fertility or a woman.
The stallion: masculinity, power and virility or a man.
This energy wave rises, but in fulfilling itself in genital sex the wave falls again, self-awareness with it. However, if the energy is released, and yet not allowed to spill out in the full sexual release, the energy keeps on rising – flying in fact – lifting awareness with it, until it becomes a vast awareness of life and death. The white horse can have a similar meaning. For instance a woman turning her love of her children into social caring suggests a way of expression that goes beyond personal drives or the instinctive urges toward personal survival. She ‘flies up’ into a wider social context. See: Cayce, Edgar.
In mythology Pegasus was born from the blood when Perseus cut off Medusa’s head. Pegasus then lived roaming freely until Bellerophon caught him with a golden bridle given him by Athena. Bellerophon went through adventures such as the slaying of chimera with the help of Pegasus. But Bellerophon tried to ride Pegasus to Mount Olympus (Heaven) but Zeus caused Pegasus to throw him off and fall back to Earth.
However Pegasus arrived at Mount Olympus where he served Zeus. The symbolic meaning of this is that when the uncontrolled and undirected processes of thought and intellect are stilled a new level of experience or energy is released. This new way of relating to sexuality or life energy can uplift or expand consciousness to the point where we arrive at cosmic consciousness. But the old human personality cannot manage this and falls away as a new being emerges. Chimera, the destructive and illusory view of life arising from a purely sensory view of life is killed in the process. See: cosmic consciousness.
Thrown from horse: It depends on who is thrown from the horse and why. In general though it suggests that the instinctive or spontaneous life force has cast off an attitude that is restraining it, or not dealing with it well. One dreamer who saw a man thrown from a white horse realised that it showed how, “The forces of restraint, moral, sexual, worldly active that I have been imposing on myself have been thrown off.”
Tied up horse: Inhibition; need for release of feelings and allowing freedom of expression to feelings and creativity.
Training a horse: Developing new habits; directing your energies in a socially acceptable way; learning to direct sexual and emotional energy.
Uneasy on ride: being taken for a ride; feeling ones emotions or natural urges are dominating.
White horse: Changing sexual drive into love and wider awareness; a meeting with expanded awareness of yourself.
Wild horse: Undirected energy; sexuality which might not take care of personal or interpersonal needs.
Working horse: The energy or motivation needed to work; how you feel about yourself, that you are only a work-horse, or perhaps treated as such.
The astrological sign of Sagittarius is depicted by the half human half horse. Sagittarius, the Archer, is a ‘Mutable’ ‘Fire’ sign. In it the free, unrestrained activities of Aries which became ‘fixed’ qualities in Leo, now become balanced and harmonised, and work toward high aims. It is represented in the Zodiac as a Centaur-like being, half human, half animal, turning to shoot an arrow at the ‘Scorpion.’ The Sagittarian is said to have high ideals and philosophy, prophetic insight, and the power that overcomes sin and death. |
In this sign the animal nature is ruled and directed by the human spiritual nature. The symbol of Sagittarius – half beast and half man represents this new emergence. The emergence of the human out of the animal, and the different sense that human beings have of themselves. It suggests a new type of human being in fact. If we look at the Zodiac from there on – Capricorn, we have the half goat half man figure – until we arrive at Aquarius, a fully fledged human figure. The human faculty is to transcend, to make that change. To switch across seasons, physiological changes, to actually attain consciousness. This allows us to look at the seasons, to adjust to them in a completely new way than the animal.
Example: ‘As I talked to the pale golden horse it felt more and more as if I were talking to a male companion who was in union with me.’ Alison B.
Alison’s horse is obviously portraying her feelings for a man, but also that motivating and active power in herself. The dream shows how easy and integrated she is with this.
Example: I was driving along Tottenham Court Road with my wife and my youngest son. As we neared Euston Road I saw the magnificent sight of hundreds of horses coming full gallop toward me. I knew it was a great horse race – something like the Grand National. There was every sort of horse – many riderless, all surging in a mass so thick there seemed no space between them. Then we were walking in the Covent Garden area, and it was still a market. I was crying openly at the wonder of what I had seen. Edward.
Edward’s tears are because his dream brought him a glimpse of something much bigger than his own small life. He touched the amazing flow of the energy behind the human race in its infinity of forms. Perhaps just lightly he experienced cosmic consciousness, the state of awareness that transcends ones own limitations of body and mind. But the dream also has elements of the competitive drive we feel as humans, and the struggle to know where we stand in relationship with others and the mass of other people we exist within.
Idioms: Back the wrong horse; from the horse’s mouth; don’t look a gift horse in the mouth; horse sense; you can lead a horse to water; wild horses; workhorse; horsing about; getting on your high horse; eat like a horse; back the wrong horse; beating a dead horse. See: spiritual life in dreams .
Useful Questions and Hints:
What is your relationship with the horse and what does this say about how you relate to your own motivating and energising drives?
Where is the horse taking you, or where are you directing the horse – this gives you clues to your direction in life?
Is the horse decidedly male or female – if so is there a connection with how you are relating to someone or yourself?
See Talking to Inner Self – Summing Up – Techniques for Exploring your Dreams – Martial Art of the Mind
Comments
My dream this morning.
I was in a country lane waiting to join a race.. then i saw from far a bunch of wild horses riding towards me…(colorful n majestic) all great dust and no riders. I guided my chestnut brown horse to the side to avoid the stampede and went up a hill. In my dream i felt that my horse is well trained and reliable. I saw a whole big herd of wild horses passing by.
Dear Juju – Your dream starts with being aware of your own state of mind while also being aware of what waking life is about; competition.
The country lane refers to your feelings of relaxation, and what you are without trying or forcing your way through to “reach your goals”.
The wild horses could refer to becoming aware of your own undirected urges – which might not take care of personal and/or interpersonal needs – and/or those of other people who all take part in “the race”.
The decision you take is to not join the race in approaching life that way and so you get out of the way.
In your dream you are very aware that you did learn to direct your energy and that you make conscious choices.
You used your energy to get a wider view of life or opportunities. A hill or mountain often represent the influence of your potential and the energy of growth or change latent in that potential. Therefore being on a hill can show you in a state of mind, or an attitude, perhaps even a form of meditation, that is opening you to the action of the growth energy within you.
A wonderful (inner) job!
See also http://dreamhawk.com/dream-dictionary/potential/
and
http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/energy-sex-and-dreams/
Anna 🙂
I had a dream that me and my closest friend were walking down town of our town and these horses got loose (one at a time) and had their bridals on and each time a horse came running at us(happened 3 separate times) I held my had up at them and they emeaditly stopped and then bowed down to me and I would take them by their bridal and return them.which the owner who I know, would say how did you get him, he’s so wild. The 4th house was just an all golden baby. Which I scooped up and returned. We continued walking and it skipped to me holding a paper that said ” the mills family” which is my family. It had a big picture of my little brother on it. But no matter how hard I tried to read it I coulnt . I fear for my little brother who happens to be in prison. Could you help me interpret my dream
Dear Dawn – Thank you for sharing your dream with us. The way I see your dream is that you are exploring how to deal with your own undirected energies.
An undirected energy could be an expression of a conditioned reflex and/or an autonomous complex.
Human beings in general are still largely moved by the old reptilian and mammalian urges, pushed into war, conflict and murder, territorialism and old mating patterns in ways that are far from rational. Most of us are urged to action by factors that are still completely or largely unconscious, arising as they do from levels of our being we know little of.
Becoming aware of these inner drives and learning to manage them is what the inner work is about.
See http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/conditioned-reflexes-or-responses/
and
http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/autonomous-complex/
and
http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/habits/
You ARE able to become aware of these inner urges and this enables you to stop them and “bowing to you” I see as a form of willingness to work together again.
The next step is that you return them to the owner – male or female? –and he/she is an aspect of you as well.
I believe that it means that you “own” the energy as yours, as some aspect of yourself that you are learning to direct, which is a wise way to approach your inner world.
After having done your own inner work first, your dream expresses that a new motivation/energy arises; it is the love and the care you feel for your (inner) family and especially for your little brother; it is not “poured into a fear form anymore though”; “I fear for my little brother who happens to be in prison”.
I believe that at this point of your inner journey it is not possible yet to read the message on the paper and I trust that you WILL be able to “get the message” at some point in the future.
See also http://dreamhawk.com/dream-dictionary/what-we-need-to-remember-about-us-3/#Seed
and
http://dreamhawk.com/dream-dictionary/practical-techniques-for-understanding-your-dreams/
Does that give you a start?
Anna 🙂
Thank you for this website, and for Anna’s contribution as well.
I dreamed I was trying to control a raging mustang. The horse was dark chestnut and angry. I had it around the head, and in desperation, I did the cowboy thing I always abhorred which was to grip it’s ear. This was not working so I bit it’s ear! I hung on for dear life. I felt it would kill me if I let go. I awoke upset and a little shocked at my techniques! What do you reckon about that Anna? Not one of those dreamy horse riding dreams (I’ve had those too). I’m a horse artist by the way!
Dear Lesley – Thank you for sharing your dream and your website with us; I love your paintings and the way you dare to express parts of your inner journey so openly.
The way I see your dream is that you dare to “get your teeth into something”; I also saw that in the way you approached the inner process of dealing with the loss of your sister.
So in this dream as well you are not taking a passive attitude and you dare to deal with your angry horse with great energy.
On another level I see it as that you are not afraid in the dream to identify with the animal that is alive inside you, because when a horse is angry, it is more likely to bite.
See also http://dreamhawk.com/news/becoming-one-with-the-animals/
and
http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/animals-as-dream-figures/
I trust that you know that anger may be a way of hiding your vulnerability or real pain.
In this case, it could be important to feel the anger and discover what is underneath it. Sometimes deep feelings from childhood emerge once the anger has been felt. Such a surfacing of encapsulated emotions usually brings about deep insight into why certain traits are so powerful in your nature.
I feel it will be helpful to explore this possibility because of what you experienced in the dream “I felt it would kill me if I let go”;
could “letting go” be merely a symbol for allowing these emotions and who/which part of you is “me” who is afraid of dying (to the old way of dealing with this part of your inner world?)?
I understand from what I have read on your website, that you have found your own creative ways of exploring and communicating with your inner world and perhaps we can add something to it?
See http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/secrets-power-dreaming/
Anna 🙂
My husband dreamt that a group of about 6 horses, bridled and saddled (but without riders), were walking across the patio (verandah) of our house. My husband was in lying in bed with the dog – and the dog got very excited and wanted to chase them. My husband was curious about why horses were walking across our property without riders. We don’t own any horses.
Can you please tell us what it means? thanks in advance.
Multiple days in a row I have dreamt of horses. All manner of horses. Running, grazing, wild, and domesticated. Different types and colors of horses and different ages of horses. This includes Pegasus and unicorns. They flash in a series. .. sometimes full body sometimes just neck up.
I think horses are beautiful. To look at. From afar.
I’m scared of horses. I’m afraid to get stepped on or bitten. Despite my fear of horses I still keep having these flash dreams.
I honestly do not think it has anything to do with sex or sexual energy. But I’d like to know your opinion.
Thank you.
I have been constantly dreaming of a horse I used to own. He was the kindest horse I’ve ever known. He never let me fall, was always there for me, always listened, and I’m sure he understood me. After I started middle school, he became lame, and we sold him to a friend because we couldn’t afford the vet bills. I still ride him but once I was in 8th grade, she sold him to someone and I never saw him again. I never got to say goodbye. Now I keep dreaming about him coming back to me. Why? What does this mean?
Dear Ale – Unfortunately you do not share anything about the content of the dreams.
Your dreams about your loving horse “coming back” to you could mean that you have met a man in your waking life and the way he approaches you remind you of the loving traits you perceived in your horse.
Your dream could also reflect that it will be helpful to (more fully) integrate traits like kindness with yourself (and others), being there for yourself (and others).
To learn that it is important to take time to listen within yourself and to others – develop your intuition and your understanding of non-verbal communication – so that you can understand what goes on in your inner world and in the inner world of other people.
Also by becoming aware of your animal nature and your innate drive for survival, you can develop the capacity to respond with choice versus react to the pressures of life.
See http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/brain-levels-and-dreams/#mammalbrain
and
http://dreamhawk.com/dream-dictionary/friend/
and
http://dreamhawk.com/inner-life/using-your-intuition-1/
Does that give you a start in exploring these dreams?
Anna 🙂
My dream last night was scary and made me feel really sad. I lived on a huge field and there was a huge swing that i was on. My boyfriend was in the background although i could not really see him. When on the swing, like 5 friends ran over to me and started to climb this big giant swing. When they were on, we all saw a huge storm coming our way, like a tornado. First, there were big gushes of wind that were blowing everything away. then we saw houses and cars and trees and objects coming towards us. All we did was hold on to the swing and hope for the best. i woke up in my dream and i was safe and sound but worried and so sad because i did not know if my boyfriend was alive. I heard something or someone at the door and as i peeked through the peephole, there was a brown horse trying to open the door just staring at me when he noticed i was looking at him through the peep hole. Moments later my boyfriend walked in, bruised and hurt but alive.
Dear Emma – You wrote: “I woke up in my dream and I was safe and sound but worried and so sad because I did not know if my boyfriend was alive”.
This reflects that until the moment you wake up in your dream, you are hiding feelings that you do not wish to acknowledge or become aware of.
These feelings are symbolised by “a huge storm, like a tornado”.
Do you recognize “mood swings” in your inner world; emotions and urges against which you feel powerless and which “(emotional) outbursts” might be hurtful to your boyfriend too?
Because a dream is sent to help you, your dream creator showed you the solution too; open the door and allow the brown horse to enter your inner world.
You can do that while awake using the power of your imagination.
This brown horse is a symbol of your natural urges and the need to learn to harness and direct these inner urges and drives.
Dream animals represent your fundamental drives such as the fear reaction, anger, need for food, urge to breathe, sex or procreative drive, parental urges, drive for recognition or dominance in groups; survival drive; love of offspring; spontaneity; home building.
See http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/animals-as-dream-figures/
and
http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/animals-in-your-dreams/
There are several ways to get in touch with your “inner horse” and to learn about its needs in your life. A playful approach is “Meeting the Animal” http://dreamhawk.com/body-and-mind/meeting-the-animal/
I believe that self-observation will be a helpful tool to become aware of your thoughts and emotions, so you can learn to manage them.
See http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/self-observation/
Does that give you a start?
Anna 🙂
A strange dream, as usual, adventurous with lots of people and movimentation.
Now… the horse part:
I was just making it to the other side of a street. Beneath that street, which was something like a bridge, there was a white horse, a very big white horse, bigger than normal…
The ambient had quite a few different levels of platforms like narrow but long bridges in an interwining and interlacing style, all based on earth-ground. The one i was on was a dead end, nothing on the other side of it.
The horse, I could see it down beneath, tried to climb as if it wanted to save itself or ask for some help. As it jumbed it seemed to grow unproportionately bigger and tried to place it’s two front legs on the edge of that platform. It didn’t make it the first time, but it tried again and then it managed to stabilise. But the more it would try the bigger it would seem and all the more frightening.
The horse talked to me and it had a female face, a face of a common maybe poor or lonely woman. the conversation i don’t remember but it was tranquil. All I know is me exchanging rings in the end with that horse that had become an ordinary female person…
I felt to share this because I woke up with a strange feeling. It could mean a lot or nothing at all to my personal life, but you don’t dream to marry a horse too often. 🙂
Thank you
i dreamed that i was passing by a white horse with an old man sitting beside it in a garden while i was going inside the church to attend something.I seemed to notice the horse and the old man but i just ignored them and go where i am going
Dear Dhea – There is wisdom in us as old as time. To survive the future we need to reach beyond the barriers that we have developed in ourselves and in our society through the ages. These barriers that we have gradually developed in our way of life show in how society and sometimes our religion express and create dogma. Over many generations some things have become almost rigid. Because of events in the past they have been necessary. But at a deep level of our being they do not exist in that rigid way and are transcended.
I believe you met that wisdom in you as old as time when you saw a white horse with an old man sitting beside it in a garden.
See http://dreamhawk.com/dream-dictionary/church-chapel-temple/
and
http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/wisdom-in-us-as-old-as-time/
Anna 🙂
I had a dream that I went looking for my husband for lunch at a park her works at when I saw a group beautiful ponys running around me then saw my husband driving his work truck then realized the horses were following him too they were different colors.what got me was I saw young teen girls in his back seat.they were beautiful looked innocent..
Horses appeared in my dreams in a few different ways last night. In one scenario, I saw a woman posing with her horse, well lit, beautiful, on the side of a major N/S freeway in California. I commented to someone later that women are doing this just to have others see them as they pass.
Later, I was at the apartment of a female artist that I knew years ago, I was talking to her about subleasing my apartment and I looked out the window- there were horses contained behind a fence and one of them looked at me while chewing on the fence.
Dear Melannie – As I see it, your dream starts with exploring what motivates you to be creative; for what intention do you use your creative impulses.
See http://dreamhawk.com/dream-dictionary/create-creative-creativity/
and
http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/creativity-doorway-to-the-wonderful-fire/
You wrote “I commented to someone later that women are doing this just to have others see them as they pass”.
I feel it will be helpful to explore which parts/aspects/characteristics of you like to be seen and how do you perceive this motivation to be creative; as positive, as negative or as neutral.
See also http://dreamhawk.com/approaches-to-being/touching-your-core-self-part-6/
In the second part of your dream you meet the creative person you are and you consider opening your mind to other influences.
You are aware that you cannot freely express your creative energy and your dream horse expresses that it might even frustrate you; “one of them looked at me while chewing on the fence”.
If you feel like exploring this dream for yourself, you can use http://dreamhawk.com/dream-dictionary/practical-techniques-for-understanding-your-dreams/
Anna 🙂
Walking through a wheat feild, then a group of horses run past me (20+)all have no riders. Next up in the middle of a war in a western scene like a Mexican American war, guns, bow and arrows, swords and more. Horses being slaughtered I’m crying the only thing on me being hurt is my feet from being barefoot (I’m the only one who is barefoot)i see the anatomy of a horses neck then the war is over I’m not sure if anyone is leading the horses now there are hundreds during this war. I walk behind them and talk to my best friend as we go through a tunnel a man says hurry up these horses are not mine this isn’t exactly legal. horses are gone. I arrive to an ocean or lake with a train of some sort that has washers and dryers I only have one outfit that needs to be washed no one had room for me but have me money to wash my own clothes the cost to wash went from 4.75 to 6.25 then to 7.15 kept rising anytime money was put in it.train cars are wobbling almost falls into the water. Then walking down the street past a couple of schools that I went to not sure of the conversations and I awake after this…this is the second or third time I’ve had this dream
Dear Maddy – Your dream starts with expressing how you were not able yet to integrate your wonderful potential – “a group of horses run past me” – because of a conflict between your conscious self – and so conscious attitudes – and the Life Will.
See also http://dreamhawk.com/dream-dictionary/what-we-need-to-remember-about-us-3/#Important
The horses are slaughtered and without the feeling connection to the physical energy and life processes that ‘carry’ us around, your life became difficult and limited.
The man in your dreams is nearly always an aspect of your own feelings, hopes and fears and “he” believes that “the horses are not mine this isn’t exactly legal” and so “horses are gone”, meaning they became the Shadow.
The Shadow is any part of ourselves that we reject, and so do not allow sufficient expression in our life.
The shadow develops in us, according to Jolande Jacobi, because as we grow and absorb our culture, we naturally repress parts of our nature as they are not acceptable to parents or society. These grow and mature in just the way our conscious personality does, through experience and further information – except the shadow has a life under the surface like any socially unacceptable organisation, criminal activity or individual. But often it is the functions or instincts in us that date from prehistory, when present day social and sexual restraints did not have survival value, that make up a large part of the shadow.
See http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/the-archetype-of-the-shadow/
The man in your dream thus expresses a BELIEF, because the horses/potential/Life energy is all available to you too.
Many of our beliefs are unconscious. They were absorbed in childhood and often remain without any conscious evaluation.
I see your journey toward the ocean or a lake as an attempt to get more in touch with your feelings. So perhaps you can enter this dream again and explore what you were feeling, because there is no mention of it in your dream description.
See http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/processing-dreams/
and
http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/emotions-and-mood-in-dreams/
Because the communication with your unconscious – for instance while using dreams – is a two way process, processing your dream(s) will make that recurring themes disappear or change because the attitudes or habitual anxieties that gave rise to them have been met or transformed.
You did become aware in the dream that your attitude is somewhat limited – I only have one outfit – and so you do not perceive/believe that you have very wide choices in life yet.
You also become aware that with every step you take on your inner journey, you will have to bring a bit more of yourself to deal with past negative feelings or habits.
See http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/habits/
The school can represent habits of behaviour or feeling reactions developed during those years – puberty occurs at this time, and confronts you with many new feelings, choices and drives, and that was a part of your ‘schooling’.
Your dream ends with you walking past a couple of schools, and perhaps you will decide to enter one of the schools of Life?
Schools can also be about ‘higher learning’ and this is not about maths and language, but about life skills, about love and how you connect with your own wholeness and potential, and the universe in which you are intricately embedded.
Anna 🙂
Hello so in my dream there was a Chestnut Stallion no one liked.. Another rider named Elie was on her appilosa and was just stare at me like I was crazy. I tried to let the Stallion know I was there .. Cause outside was a tornado forming, and I finally earned his trust and I lead him outside.My mom and Dad were in my dream and they look at me like ” How can you like this horse?’. I gave the stallion a hug and I felt a strong bond so as the tornado came torward us I got on his back and I felt free and open. When we got to the to of a mountain we both stood there and I gave a another hug and we saved everyone and every horse joined the Stallion and we fought the horse slaughter. Please tell me what this means!!!! I want that Stallion lol!
Dear Aanika – I can understand that you want that stallion and your dream does express that you are able to have and be that beautiful horse.
See also http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/acting-on-your-dream/#BeingPerson
First I like you to understand that every image and person in your dreams is an expression of your own life process. As such it is alive and intelligent and is something sent to help you. A dream is like a projection from a movie projector, except that you are the projector.
Everything you see as outside you is coming from you, your emotions, your fears, your beliefs, your joys and explorations are all you, clothed in the dream images and drama. So when you dream of someone you should not feel you are dreaming about that actual person. As with most dreams, the person in the dream is not the person themselves, but is a collection of memories, associations and feelings about him or her.
Your dream starts with conflicting thoughts between you and what or who you associate with Elie and her Appaloosa horse.
See http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/association-of-ideas-with-dreams/#Working
What I associate with it is that the name Eli(e) is Hebrew for “my God,” “high,” or “elevated” and the Appaloosa is an American horse breed and one of the most popular breeds in the United States.
In other words Elie could be a symbol of a popular religious approach in the USA toward sexuality and natural inner urges, which might be based merely on “black and white thinking; a black and white moral code” rather than listening to your inner needs.
In your dream you choose for the brown stallion – a brown animal is a symbol for your natural urges that you are probably comfortable with – and this choice could be a symbol of using your inner power to free yourself from “Elie’s approach” and listen within and allow your dynamic sexual drive; the physical energy and life processes that ‘carry’ you around.
See also http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/energy-sex-and-dreams/
This transformation process is symbolised by the tornado; it indicates a sense or intuition that you are moving toward life changing and perhaps sudden events that will bring great change.
Part of your process of becoming a self-aware and independent human being is symbolised by “My mom and Dad were in my dream and they look at me like
” How can you like this horse?’
See http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/individuation/
and
http://dreamhawk.com/dream-dictionary/mother-mum-ma/#InnerMother
and
http://dreamhawk.com/dream-dictionary/father-dad/#InnerFather
With your inner stallion you reach the top of the mountain. Because the mountain indicates states of mind or being that stand beyond the commonplace, and links with what essentially is your latent potential, it can show you opening to that power of change and growth. In other words, it indicates an influence from your core – rather than from being influenced by other forces – influencing your personality.
See http://dreamhawk.com/dream-dictionary/core/
With this influence you manage to stop killing all your inner urges – “we fought the horse slaughter” – and this enables you to become a whole human being; “we saved everyone”.
See http://dreamhawk.com/dream-dictionary/whole-2/
It is a beautiful dream about daring to allow LIFE to heal and grow you.
So trust your dream and be patient for in waking life this process will take time.
You CAN do it!
Anna 🙂
I dreamt that I was outside a paddock and inside it were four horses, three with male riders and one whose rider kept dismounting. The field was muddy and every time the rider dismounted, the horse came toward the fence in front of where I was standing and lay down on its side in the mud. It refused to stay on its feet without its rider. The horses were also male.
I dreamt that I was riding a horse.. I felt really comfortable and at ease but some how I ended up off the horse and I asked a friend if she could help me get back on the horse but she wouldn’t so I ask the horse to sit while I climbed back on him I remember the being very gentle and listening I was so at peace with the horse crazy cause all I kept thinking was this was so easy to ride cause I had never rode one
Dear Christine – I take it you have read that riding or leading a horse easily is a symbol of having a good relationship with inner drives and emotions: the harmony between instinctive drives and your personality.
Your dream also shows that you use your creative power and perseverance to get back on the horse again.
A beautiful dream to help you take this feeling with you in your waking life: “all I kept thinking was this was so easy to ride cause I had never rode one”. The dream also expresses gentleness with yourself and with your inner process.
So try “Being the horse” while awake too:
http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/acting-on-your-dream/#BeingPerson
See also http://dreamhawk.com/dream-dictionary/create-creative-creativity/
Anna 🙂