Posts Tagged ‘dream analysis’

Shooting Shot

A hurt received, or given. Fears or worries about death. The destruction of a part of yourself by another which is demanding energies in an aggressive way.

Example: I was getting ready to leave and this dark haired guy told me I couldn’t leave, I felt scared and was going to leave anyways, he pulled out a pistol and shot me in the stomach, I fell down, but there was no blood. The thoughts in my head was, “OH NO”. Next thing I remember is that I was still on the floor in the same place and I got up and I remembered being shot but I didn’t seem to have any pain or blood and was moving normally etc. I started looking for a way to leave I was sneaking around trying not to get noticed so that I could get out of there without the shooter guy seeing me.

The interesting thing in the example is that even though she could see no hurt came from being shot, yet she was still scared of the guy with the shooter. And it is overcoming such fears that can release you from terror and hurts that haunt us.

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 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.

Being shot: A traumatic injury to feelings, often out of parental or other close relationship. It need not be something dramatic like being assaulted, but can be a quiet injury like not bonding emotionally with parents, or feeling as if you have been a target for other peoples ridicule. Occasionally a bullet wound suggests some sort of illness in the part of the body indicated. It can often depict critical remarks that are deeply wounding. So the criticism is felt as an attack.

But being shot can also indicate penetration, the breaking through your barriers of old patterns of thinking and feeling, to allow something more into your life. It may be painful but growing or being enlarged is often like that.

Someone or something else shot: Still usually refers to dreamer.

Dreamer shooting someone or something: Anger; fear or defence against meeting feelings or insights; being very critical; aggressive sexuality; exploring feelings about death.

Idioms: Get shot of; shot across the bows; shot in the arm; all shot to pieces; shot in the dark.

See Attack Attacked Attacker; Active Passive

Shoulder

Strength; ability to support self or others. To let someone cry on our shoulder is to support or help them to unburden themselves through the strength of sympathy and the ability to help. Shoulder to the wheel also represents putting influence, strength or weight into something. Ability to take the burdens of life.

Shovel Spade

Digging in to your unconscious; the techniques you are using to uncover your past experience or what is unconscious and therefore buried.

Shrink

Losing power and impressiveness, changing relationship with things. Possibly shows a return to childhood feelings or perspective.

If other things shrink: They are becoming less threatening or interesting, or play less important part in ones life; are seen as connected with the unconscious, aspects of which are often seen as of ‘little’ significance, yet are full of the sort of power which motivates or undermines our resolves.

Shower

A way of changing or shifting ones feelings; cleansing irritations or emotions that cloud ones inner life. See: bath.

Side

Something on the side is something that is not real pleasure, or real work, not your greatest aim or goal. It is not directly confronting you, but may be a support in some way. A side issue.

Sick Vomiting

Discharge of feelings and ideas that your system finds irritating or poisonous to well-being.

The feeling of having thought, felt, or expressed things that do not agree with your real feelings. Discharge of disturbing but usually unconscious feelings.

We each have an important physiological and psychological function called homeostasis or self-regulation. It is the most important process of the body and mind’s natural function and is used to balance, maintain and heal us and expresses as sneezing, vomiting, crying or laughing. If the self-regulatory processes of your being ceased its action you would be dead in a very short time. Even a brisk walk causes such enormous changes in the body it would kill you without the action of self-regulation. The production of lactic acid, unchecked, would destroy the system. Also, the drop in blood sugar, unless balanced by the release of glucose from the storage in tissues and liver, would result in your collapse.

Often, in dreams, nightmares and dreaming of vomiting it shows signs of a last ditch attempt to bring up and discharge disturbing emotions or trauma. Vomiting takes place because we have an inbuilt defence system that does its best when our body is attacked or injured to deal with, repair or balance to deal with what caused the injury. The process is called homeostasis- meaning any self-regulating process by which biological systems tend to maintain stability while adjusting to conditions that are optimal for survival. Or, if we put something harmful in us the process sicks it out again.

But textbooks seldom mention that the process is also active psychologically and is often called self-regulation. Jung, Hadfield, and people like Caldwell and Wilhelm Reich, have often writing about self-regulation active in the mind and emotions.  Hadfield in his book writes, “Dreams are compensatory or ‘self-regulatory’. Hadfield says of this, “There is in the psyche an automatic movement toward readjustment, towards an equilibrium, toward a restoration of the balance of our personality. This automatic adaptation of the organism is one of the main functions of the dream as indeed it is of bodily functions and of the personality as a whole. This idea need not cause us much concern for this automatic self-regulating process is a well-known phenomenon in Physics and Physiology. The function of compensation which Jung has emphasised appears to be one of the means by which this automatic adaptation takes place, for the expression of repressed tendencies has the effect of getting rid of conflict in the personality. For the time being, it is true, the release may make the conflict more acute as the repressed emotions emerge, and we have violent dreams from which we wake with a start. But by this means, the balance of our personality is restored.”  See Self-regulation – Psychological Vomiting

If sick in the sense of illness. See: Illness

 

Sidewalk

See: Pavement.

Sight

See: Eyes.

Sign Signed Signature

Your agreement. The mark you leave in the world, or what you will to happen. The influence you put into operation, perhaps out of sight of yourself.

Silence

Uneasiness; unspoken feelings; expectancy; being unable to voice your feelings; condoning; absence of life – death; the silence – non existence or void – out of which personal life emerges. An opening to intuition.

Silver

Old precious or sad memories or intuitions. Things from the past that can be precious or tarnished.

Silver cord: A great deal has been written about a silver cord that is supposed to link the physical body with an astral or spirit form. As in the manner of all dream imagery, this is a symbol representing the connection or harmony of the two, and should not be taken to be a literally real thing. It has arisen out of the view that we have a distinctly separate physical and astral body, a view that arose out of our materialistic view of life. Recent investigations of this show that we create, when we are in this image mode of our inner experience, what is called a residual image of who we are. This means we create out of our beliefs, an image representing ourself. This has no validity outside of our own beliefs, self image and concepts. See: out of body experiences. See: Moon.

Sing

Sense of harmony with others or self. An expression of some inner harmony.

Sink Sinking

The feeling of losing your control of circumstances or a relationship. Loss of confidence or feeling overwhelmed by emotions.

Sinking can also mean the sense of not developing or of succeeding at anything.

Sinking into darkness or water also has a similar sense – being overwhelmed by despair. But they are simply emotions and can only claim you if you believe they are true – but you are the surviving member of ancient line of people who survived hunger, death, defeat, loneliness and all the troubles that humans are heir to – yet you survived , so live with hope. See Emotions and Mood and Emotions and Mood in Dreams

Sister

Relationships and feelings concerning a sister. She may represent qualities in yourself, but which ones depends upon how you feel about her, what age she is in relationship to yourself, and whether you are her brother or sister.

So she may depict your feeling self, or the lesser expressed part of self; rivalry; feelings of kinship.

In brother’s dream – younger sister: Vulnerable emotions; rival for love of parents. Older sister: Capable feeling self.

In sister’s dream – younger sister: One’s experiences at that age; vulnerable feelings; rival for parents love. Older sister: Capable feeling self; feelings of persecution.

Six

The symbol of this is the double triangle, or circle divided in six. It represents symmetry, unity of spirit and body, the visible and invisible. It is the harmonious relationship between man and God, spirit and body, the eternal and the transitory. Its sign is Virgo which expresses as craftsman or critic. It is a sign of service and rules the intestines. The sixth house rules health.

It can sometimes indicate the sixth sense, intuition and the psychic, as the following dream indicates.

Example: I had a dream that I was walking along with my sister in almost a zoo / animal sanctuary and we suddenly were under threat (by what, I am not sure). Feeling threatened my sister and I tried to help the animals around us get to safety and I ended up with 6 grey baby owls. They were all different sizes but small and needy. We took them to a house I presume I was staying in and set up a room for them but the moment I sat down and set them down… they came cuddling back up to me. So I carried them around until my dream changed to some social setting at a party.

The owls are often representing intuition and ability to see things others cannot see – so intuition and being psychic.

Also six can be word play for sex, a subtle way to remind us of sexual issue without being obvious.

Idioms: Sixes and sevens; six of the best; hit for six.