Posts Tagged ‘dream analysis’

Snow

Usually frozen feelings or emotions. Sometimes purity, dormancy, the stilling of the outer life as in winter, when the seeds and roots rest in the earth, or unconscious, till the new spring. Ideas, morals, or intellect that have frozen your feelings.

Being in a winter or cold emotional climate can restrict your emotional growth or expression.

Soap

Cleansing. An attempt to come clean, to be rid of guilt or conscience or something that makes you feel grubby. See: Washing.

Sock

These are often used in dreams to represent the personal quality, cleanness or untidiness of the person. They therefore depict some sort of judgement about what sort of person you are, or how you see someone.

Socks sometimes are shown as protective in some dreams, perhaps stopping creatures from getting on your skin, or stopping shoes rubbing, so depicting the way you deal with irritating events. In some such dreams they represent defensive attitudes or thoughts with which you repress or avoid ‘squirmy’ feelings about things like blood and inside your body. Socks can also be associated with warmth or protection from a difficult situation.

Socks can deal with issues about coldness or heat, and so represent having ‘cold feet’ about a relationship or situation, or getting ‘hot’.

Putting socks on might suggest getting ready to go somewhere, making a change or trying something on.

Socks also can represent particular roles, such as a footballers socks, or special quality socks for business or social ritual. The strange idioms surrounding socks also show other associations, like ‘pull your socks up’ – knocked my socks off (suggesting a powerful experience); rock socks; sock it to me.

Looking at someone’s socks is usually about the judgement or impression of them we have from what they are wearing – or it may link with a memory of someone we know who had similar socks.

Useful questions:

What surrounds the socks in the dream’s action – relationship, appearance, going out?

Do the socks connect with protection or warmth in any way – if so how?

What do these socks ‘say’ about appearance, role or status, and how does that apply to  me?

See Techniques for Exploring your Dreams – Secrets of Power Dreaming

Solar Plexus

Sensitivity to hurt or pleasure. See: Abdomen.

Solder Soldered Soldering

Friendship, unity, strong bonds.

Soldier

The fighter in you, so your fighting abilities. Also your readiness to fight because you are battle-ready, trained to defend, fight, shoot, harm, kill, whatever is in your way to defend yourself or your goals.

This usually suggest some sort of conflict. You may be meeting with urges within yourself, or decisions. There can be a drive due to personal growth, to face old hurts, but you are shying away from pain, and thus the conflict.

The soldier in a dream is one of the great symbols of life and our personal struggle to survive. From the very beginning we are one of millions of sperm and only one survives. Even then we have to face the difficulties of being born and surviving the challenges of life. It is a great battle we face, to maintain life, to grow and express our potential, to have a mate and help form offspring, and to pass on to our offspring what we have that has enabled is to survive. It takes the ability to fight, the ability to persist, to learn the lessons of our life, and hopefully leave a mark. Here is an experience that give some idea.

As I looked at these massive formations I understood that they had been carved or created through events in the passage of time. Each mosaic, each part of the overall mosaic, had been formed by enormous creative acts, or by long-standing actions. So these latter were like ideograms or archetypes. So, for instance, mother creatures have cared for, fought for, died for their young. This pattern of behaviour has been so enormously potent and perhaps we can use the word successful, that it has created, shaped aspects of eternity. It has left its pattern, its artwork, on time itself. Thus eternity honours that pattern by giving it a place in the very structure of itself. No one being created such a mosaic in the formations. Such a mosaic was large and had in it the essence of all the lives that formed it.

Deserting: This suggests that you have not faced a conflict or problem in your life.

If in opposition with the soldier: Things you feel in conflict with; your internal conflicts and involvement with the ‘wars’ or trauma you have experienced in the past.

If you are a soldier or are united with soldiers: Your willingness or ability to face internal conflicts and hurts; daring to confront the difficulties of life. But of course many of your dreams will be about what you are facing as a soldier, or what you anticipate facing, and as there are so many possibilities I suggest you try Easy Dream Interpretation

In a woman’s dream: Inner conflicts; feeling threatened regarding relationship with a male.

Military service: Feeling bound by social or personal disciplines or restrictions; learning strengths and self discipline to meet internal conflicts.

Example: I am in a huge black cave and the German soldier comes up to me and grabs my butt to feel if he wants to rape me or not. My butt is flabby and I hope that means he will not be interested in me. He walks away, still thinking about it. I am starving and ask a woman how to get food. She says we all have to find our own. Another woman offers me a plastic container with lasagne in it. I eat one bite and then the soldier is back wanting to rape me. I feel resigned and angry and hungry and tired.

Example: I asked the man to allow me to exit out of the revolving door to Euston Road. I did this and found a battle going on, bullets flying, and people dead in the street. I lay beside a dead body pretending to be dead in case I got shot. A soldier, possibly American, came up to me as I lay face down. He told me I had an alien clinging to my back. I thought of this something like a limpet clinging to my back where the back pain is, with roots into my body. This was a creature from space. He put a knife under its shell and removed it from my body.

The soldier is an example of a part of you not afraid of conflict or death. He is the higher part of you, like Krishna who says not to avoid or be afraid of conflict or death.

Solicitor

Someone you believe you can trust to help you face or deal with issues of social law, injustice or property disputes.  See: Lawyer.

But if you get ‘wrong’un’ it may be like this – money, ‘that great solicitor that has often succeeded in persuading people to sell their very souls’.

Son

Feelings or worries concerning a son. Growing part of self. Hopes or worries about the future. Your extroverted self; desires connected with self expression; parental responsibility.

Dreaming son is dead: A mother often kills off her son in her dreams as she sees him make moves toward independence. This can happen from first day of school on. Becoming independent from  mother often feels like a tearing away after years of constant caring. It is a huge change, and feels like the son has died to her.

But the death of a son also signifies feelings of great loss, or the end of something, perhaps a relationship, or something that meant a great deal to you.

Mothers dream: Your ambitions; potential; hopes. It can also represent your marriage. The child is the fruit of the relationship, so can represent the state of the relationship.

Father’s dream: Yourself at that age; what qualities you see in your son; your own possibilities; envy of youth and opportunities; rivalry. As above, can represent your marriage-relationship.

Someone else’s son: Feelings about your own son; feelings about younger men.

Sound Sounds Noise

Sound in dreams are similar in impact to sounds we hear in waking. They carry information to you very directly. So you feel fear or pleasure depending on the sound. Therefore the important thing its to define what feeling reaction you have to the sound, and what information you gather from it. Take this as the thing to consider in understanding your dream. Ask yourself, is the sound a warning? Does it carry information? Is it producing pleasure?

Often, in opening to life and allowing it to express through us – as happens in using LifeStream – it expresses as various sounds. Sometimes this is a way that Life exercises us and leads us to be more mobile in vocal expression. But sometimes it is a way of healing old difficulties from childhood, where certain sounds or words were difficult. See People’s Experience of LifeStream

Sounds are sometimes a power in dreams. They reach out and cause something to happen at a distance. This suggests a use of positive will, a confident expression of yourself in a way that you expect a result to follow.

Example: The old Jewish scholar now led me to a side entrance to the right of the building front. A big door opened as he approached, as if done by a magic eye. Suddenly he nimbly ran in and did something so that two huge granite doors at least a foot thick began to close me in. The Jew watched with pleasure at my plight.

My indecision stopped me acting decisively. I could easily have run back. Instead I hesitated and saw the doors close on me. I could see the Jew hoped I was to be imprisoned for good, buried alive between these huge granite slabs. But somehow I released the vibration – sound – a hymn that flows through my body at night. In a way that I cannot properly describe, it made the doors powerless to trap me. Also it penetrated to the very core of the building. In the dream that seemed very significant, but I do not know in waking why.

Example: One man in class during the vowel sounds (chanting) said, “As you began the sounds I had the terrifying sensation that you were calling a dark shape out of my body.” Questioning him afterwards I discovered that he had a fear of weakness for that part of his body, and the “dark shape” was probably a representation or embodiment of his fear. The fact that the sounds seemed to call it out of him would suggest that sound would actually be able to call these dark shapes out of us by his using such sounds. 

See Using the Voice

Soup

This might be sustenance, sustaining or strengthening emotions. But it depends what is happening to the soup. If spilt it can suggests making a mess of things, or feeling insecure about a social event. Offering soup depicts a giving of yourself, of your care and affection. The soup in a saucepan might be showing how you have gathered many things together to nourish yourself or someone else. See: Food.

South

The genital area of self; warmth, lightness, feelings. In the southern hemisphere: Coldness, darkness; death. In some countries, as in South America, southern USA, the south may symbolise different attitudes, as to the coloured population, or different ways of life.

The four major directions such as North, East, South and West also have unconscious significance, but this must depend upon whether you grew up in the northern or southern hemisphere. What is said is for the northern hemisphere, reverse it for the southern hemisphere. There are polarities in your nature. Two obvious ones are your physical body, that gives the appearance of solidity and is obvious to others, and your thoughts, that are not visible or apparent to others; also sleep and waking.

Growth in the South it is the time of Summer – unless you live in the southern hemispehere. From  the bloom we transform into the fruit of the labors.  It is the time of mid-day, the hottest part of the day, the part when the sun is overhead and no shadows are cast.. Maturing and growing into an adult to be that who was are. It is the time to accept the change and learn, to understand.

Red is for fire, passion, time of fertility. The South is the place of passion in all things, sex, fertility, mating – the fires that burn within. The direction of fire, like the phoenix  we can rise from the flames, we take and rise again from childhood into being an adult in the direction of the South.

Space

When we dream of space we dream of opportunity, the opportunity to explore, to build in the space, to explore our imagination in creativity. There is so much opportunity in a large space some people might even be frightened of it.  It brings with it the feelings that here, in a large space, one can go beyond the present view of the world one has created. The realisation ones personal experience is not all there is. Perhaps this is why some churches are so huge and encompasses so many differences in size and surrounding – a real feast for ones mind and emotions. I remember once walking into a church in Paris and feeling that it must have been built for giants; the supporting columns were so immensely tall.

But there are spaces and spaces. Some are very small, even impoverished and some give flight to ones fancy. Dreams do all this through their wonderful imaginative use of settings and people. Here is a dream showing the poverty of mind of the dreamer and his eventually transcending it.

 “I dreamt I was watching a man who insisted on living in a small stable like room that was foul with his faeces and urine. He wouldn’t go out or clean it and his clothes too were filthy. He wouldn’t be helped by his friends, but blamed his condition on anything and anyone but himself. As I watched though, he came to the point of accepting responsibility for his own condition. He came out, and we then happily asked if we could put his clothes in the washing machine. He started a new life.

When the dreamer explored his dream he saw an attitude he had in which he loved to have problems or ‘shit’. He saw that again and again, when talking to people he would describe this shaky condition he was in, the problems he faced, the difficulties he had. For instance, he might say, “It’s OK for someone like you, you’re not so anxious. You didn’t have such a bad start. You have more money. You have more luck on your side, etc, etc.” He just revelled in the shit he was talking.

I saw how he used this defence because he was anxious life or people would ask something of him. If he had a nice problem, he could run back and hide in it. It helped him escape the necessity of saying, “What you are asking makes me feel anxious. I’m afraid I might fail. Don’t ask me for love or help, it frightens me.”

Here is another dream, showing how ever confinement in a small prison cell can be overcome.

 “I was in a prison cell with two other men. I felt it was in Spain somewhere. We ate, slept and defecated in the cell. I was standing at the bars of the cell, and had the impression I had been in the prison for years. I was shouting and cursing the people who had put me in the prison, full of hate and self pity.

One day as I stood raging at the bars I suddenly realised that my years of shouting had availed nothing. The only person who was upset by it was me. I was the victim of my own anger and turmoil. It was as if I had been haunted all my life by ghosts of anger and passion. I dropped the attitudes or ‘ghosts’ and was free of them. Years went by and one by one I recognised and dropped other habits of emotion and thought that had trapped and tortured me. I realised I could be totally free within myself.

One morning I woke and sat up on the mattress on the floor that was my bed. The last ghost of inner entrapment fell away. A fountain of joy opened in my body, pouring upwards through me. It was so intense I cried out. My cell mates called a warden because they thought I had gone mad. They stood looking at me as I experienced radiance so strong I felt as if I must be shining. I was aware my joy poured into them, although they thought I was possibly insane. I could sense the enormous change in me influencing them, and I knew it couldn’t help but change them also. I realised that I might never be released from the prison, but it didn’t matter as I had found a fuller release than simply walking the streets. Even though remaining behind prison bars, I would still be touching people’s lives deeply. Nothing would ever be the same again.”

Something I realised deeply some years ago was that our homes, the space we live in, deeply influence our moods. I first realised this when witnessing an animal psychologist produce a change in a hamster who bit his keepers, to one easy with them and no viciousness. All he needed to produce this change was a house suited to its needs. In fact it needed a larger space with different ‘rooms’.

For instance it has also been revealed that the brains of mice can be profoundly affected by the kind of cages in which they’re kept, raising questions about some of the most fundamental experiments in biological science. This links in so deeply with dreams, and begins to show how our houses and of course our social environment deeply influences us. In fact it has been shown that the brain structure of children brought up in deprivation is changed for the worse.

Amazing how a space can be so suffused with dark feelings, and yet there is another side to that – you can feel wonder, excitement and longing too. Here is another dream illustrating it.

In the dream I am standing by a door pausing before I walk through it into a room. The room had about it the feeling of the room in the first house I owned. In it we had a room used for nothing else but meditation and study of ‘the inner life’. We called it the sanctum. So I am outside the sanctum. I know that I am going in to meet, or give myself or surrender to God. So as I pause before entering I let the sweet feeling of this surrender fill me. It feels like an opening to a wider life of experience. Suddenly the door opens and an intense wind enveloped me. It gripped me as with an invisible power and pulled me into the room. It felt to me as if the power I was surrendering to – God – wanted me as badly as I wanted to be filled, and had reached out and pulled me into itself. As this happened I cried out in surprise and with some shock, waking myself as I felt gripped by this great power.

Of course the great power was everything that one ever wanted – love, sex, being wanted, being treasured and held in a wondrous power and a relinquishment of all cares. It was an all at once feeling. The dreamer later commented on his dream:

So we use or see our space through the limitations or freedom of our mind and attitudes. A beautiful home can be a place of torture if it is as restrictive as a prison – or a damp cave can be a refuge if it has warmth and love in it.

Space in a building: Your potential or what has not been used up in activity yet. It therefore connects with opportunity, and possibly a sense of independence and freedom.

Awareness of space: Awareness of experience going beyond the present view of the world one has created. The realisation ones personal experience is not all there is.

Travelling through space: You are exploring what it is to be found in the depths of your mind – the unconscious. See Going Beyond

Cosmic space: Beyond thinking or limited concepts and ego boundaries; beyond what is established already; being out of touch with reality.

Someone or yourself in space: Depending on dream, it may suggest feeling out of touch with other people; introverted because of feeling ill at ease with yourself or daily physical life and sexual feelings. It can be awareness of spiritual life beyond the boundaries of the physical senses; expanded awareness.

Example: She began spilling tears which became a steady stream running down her cheeks. And she began to talk of the overwhelming love she was feeling, as she was sobbing. The people with her listened as she described the wonder of being in the presence of a warm Light where she felt so loved, so clean, so treasured. I remember the awe that all of us had in the room. She said I am in space and am filled with love.

Space station: Going into space in dreams shows a huge change in how you see the world, so the space station is the first step toward the changes in your perception. See Altered states of consciousness

Useful Questions and Hints:

What is it the astronaut or I am doing in this dream, and how might that relate to my waking activities?

Am I learning anything from the astronaut?

If I stand in the role of the astronaut what is my view of life and the world.

See Being the Person or Thing – Secrets of Power Dreaming – Autonomous Complex

 

Spaceship

Your means of exploring reaches of inner experience beyond the limited awareness given by the senses. Therefore might mean exploring ones inner resources through intuition, or opening new aspects of mental function or experience, such as happens in altered states of consciousness, or unusual mental functioning. See: Rocket.

Example: I dreamt one night that I was in a spaceship and I could more purses with my mind. It was so easy to move them as I had been practising.

When I woke up I decided to integrate the spaceship. In stepping into the image and being  the spaceship I took off and soared through space. I felt immensely free and uninhibited. I felt I had no body to confine me, and there was only infinite time.

See altered states of consciousness; ufo

Speak Speaking Spoke

This depicts some form of communication, often between your unconscious view of life and your waking self, or between an aspect of yourself that does not dominate your behaviour, and your mainstream self.

Difficulty in speaking: This can mean that you have something you want to express, but it is still largely unconscious, or is held back through uncertainty. You therefore need to imagine yourself speaking it clearly, allowing it to come out, perhaps first in private.

Spear

This has many meanings depending upon how it is used in the dream. It can depict male sexuality, but usually in the form of confidence or self affirmation. Such power can of course wound, oneself or others, but it can also protect and penetrate what is guarded or hidden. The spear therefore can represent a penetrating intellect or inquisitiveness. In some cultures the spear represented manhood in the sense of the skill to be independent and provide for or protect others – to be a warrior.

Spectacles

Glasses represent attempts to understand things; the attitudes which colour your view of life; the ability to see or understand. Therefore broken or lost glasses might show you not understanding a situation that confronts you.