Swallow Swallowed Swallowing
This suggests you are either taking something in, or if you are swallowing without putting something in your mouth, then you are holding something back, pushing down feelings or a healing process.
What you swallow can also indicate what you take into you in terms of food, ideas and criticisms, feelings and suggestion you might have ‘swallowed’. When you swallow something it affects you negatively or positively.
This might be about holding back emotions, swallowing words or anger, or taking in something. This will depend on what you are swallowing and what you feel about that. In general we swallow things to absorb them for various reasons. Swallowing food has a different urge behind it than swallowing alcohol or medicine.
Idioms: Swallow your pride; he/she swallowed it; a difficult pill to swallow; hard to swallow.
Comments
I dreamed that someone else child was swallowing a cat. He was grabbing the baby and i could see the cats back paws sticking out of the baby’s mouth. Than i woke up coughing and gagging. (I do have a cold been coughing all day)
Hi – It would help you to understand your dreams, if you would read – http://dreamhawk.com/news/summing-up/ — http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/features-found-on-site/ — http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/acting-on-your-dream/#BeingPersonor — http://dreamhawk.com/dream-dictionary/getting-at-your-dreams-meaning/
Tony
Anastasia – When you think about a baby, a friend or a person you know, 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 change you and make 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.
So the baby is actually a part of you, maybe yourself at that age. Swallowing a cat suggests that at that age you were taught to swallow/repress either your instinctive reactions such as crying for your needs, food when needed – or your good feelings. See http://dreamhawk.com/health-and-healing/inner-baby-and-child/
I dreamt my sister woke up, we (my mom, her and I were taking a nap in the living room), in a panic and couldn’t scream, she’d accidentally swallowed 7 finger length earrings. I felt useless in my dream. She pulls all 7 earrings out and then I woke up[in real life from my dream]. She has 2 little girls, my sister, and I have somewhat prophetic dreams, prophetic in that they come to pass sooner rather than later, so I thought maybe my nieces were in danger. Ugh I hate these kind of dreams.. they keep happening more and more frequently – my very surreal like dreams .
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
Jordan – You obviously looked at swallow, but your dream is full of other images. So did you look at earrings? For it suggest intuition, and pulling stuff out again, which means it should never have been allowed in you.
In dreams this suggest you, not your sister, has swallowed stuff about being intuitive, and swallowing such things are not good. See http://dreamhawk.com/inner-life/using-your-intuition-1/
When you think about a friend a sister or a person you know, 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 change you and make 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.
I dreamed that I swallowed a medium size clear quartz crystal point that I have had for many years now. I remember feeling concerned at first, then my feeling changed to that of not so concerned. When I woke up, I felt startled because of the thought of a crystal going down my throat, but at the same time, not frightened, which puzzled me a bit. It was a very vivid, yet strange dream to me.
Any thoughts or opinions of what this could possibly mean?
Thanks:)
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
Stephanie – The feeling frightened and then not frightened is because we tend to mix up outer events with our dream self. 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.
Swallowing leads to the digestive tract. But remember that dreams deal with our inner world experiences. Our inner life gathers incredible amounts to ‘feed’ upon. A major source of nutrition is our life experience, what we see, hear, feel and generally experience. The process of Life itself is hungry – obviously for physical food but also for our emotions, our thoughts and realisations. But the action of digestion is incredibly important.
When we digest, whether it is an idea, something we have read or learned, it has to be first surrendered to the life process. We can see this in our body – it is first chewed and swallowed, then broken down into parts and the useful stuff, the building stuff, can be taken into us and the rest is passed out. The important thing is that even if it is dead or living food, it is transformed into our own living being – in other words our living understanding. If it has not been transformed through digestion it is like something dead inside us. But to be capable of such digestion we must swallow the experience and allow our unknown self to do its work
So the crystal you swallowed is a dream crystal, and has little to do with an actual crystal. What you took in and need to digest is all the feelings, ideas and beliefs that are associated with your crystal. Try using http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/acting-on-your-dream/#BeingPerson
I had a dream I swallowed a cat and pulled it right back out oddly . I also remember seeing a frog or toad in my dream too what can that mean ?
I had a dream where I was the one being swallowed by a human. She was a sword swallower but she swallowed hangers, dressers, hampers, anything and could take it back out. She also did humans but she could only do this under water. I’m wondering what the heck this means?
Dear Sara – The way I see your dream is that a part of you in the role as “sword swallower” is expressing an attitude which is quite the opposite from hard to swallow; you take in every possible idea or belief that comes your way.
Perhaps this happens because “you are not present” and so whatever you take in goes out again without it having any effect, it is not digested or integrated in any way. Digesting and integrating can only take place if there is a “more or less conscious mind/person/psyche” available to do the work.
See http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/integration-meeting-oneself/
I felt that this was also symbolised in the part under water where the sword swallower swallowed you as a dream figure. To me that is like expressing that you (your consciousness) have (has) to “fill in your own space”, to BE there for yourself; to be aware.
Swallowing others under water I see as not only seeing what is going on unconsciously or under the surface in a group, but also absorbing it all to fill in the empty space in you.
I wonder if you recognize yourself as a person who is mainly occupied with understanding what goes on in other people’s mind, rather than what goes on in your own inner world and if self-observation might be a helpful tool for you too to connect more with your own core.
Through simple self-observation one gradually arrives at a form of insight which leads to a transcending of oneself as you stood prior to the insights. One may even arrive at a massive altered state of awareness – an insight into the impermanence of your present personality, and the experience of liberation arising from it.
Observing your own ebb and flow of thoughts and feelings, your own habits and responses to things, is one of the most powerful of tools to use in transforming your life. This also leads to a fuller connection with your intuitive connection with your core.
Much of our behaviour is largely or wholly unconscious. Becoming aware of something can by itself produce a change. If you are not aware of how you act or respond, there is less likelihood of satisfying change.
See also http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/self-observation/
I feel it will be helpful to step into the role of “swallower” in your dream to better understand this aspect of yourself.
For that purpose you can use http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/acting-on-your-dream/#BeingPerson and/or http://dreamhawk.com/dream-dictionary/practical-techniques-for-understanding-your-dreams/#TalkingAs
Good Luck!
Anna 🙂