Posts Tagged ‘dream analysis’

Crutch

This might say you are feeling incapable or weak in some way, or needing support at the moment. It might be something you are using for support because your real strength is not functioning – for instance alcohol or medical drugs may be a crutch substituting the skills to meet anxiety and responsibility. But the crutch can also be a support while you are healing or strengthening.

A discarded crutch suggests healing or that you have become independent of others, or moved beyond crippling fears or dependency.

Useful Questions and Hints:

Who or what am I relying on – leaning on – at the moment?

Do I feel incapable or crippled in some way at the moment?

Which way would I fall without support?

See Habits – Questions – Techniques for Exploring your Dreams

Cried Cry Crying

The release of sorrow, grief, guilt, misery, loss, memories that have been held back, knowingly or unknowingly, during the day or even over years. It may be the release of any type of emotion, from enormous pain to wonderful joy – they all produce tears. The way we struggle to grow or attain, the effort we put into life and perhaps feel we get no reward, the love we have for someone, are all springs from which tears can flow.

Sometimes we cry out of an intuitive knowledge of another person leaving, or dying, or sorrow over something we have done. Or else they might be crocodile tears in an attempt to convince yourself that you feel badly over an attitude, desire or action, or in order to manipulate someone.

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.

Tears can sometimes express things we have no words to describe or know. They communicate without speaking. If this is so in a dream it is worthwhile seeing if there is a clue in the people, things or events in the dream as to what the emotions are emerging from. You may be crying out for something, or your body weeping for something you need.

Example: I dream my past boyfriend of five years has come to tell me he is going to marry his ex-girlfriend. I am so distraught that I jump out the window, and break my neck. The paramedics come to gather me up and place a football helmet on my head. Then I am on my death bed in the hospital where I am crying and grieving for the hopelessness of the lost relationship. My old boyfriend holds my hand and very coldly says, “You are going to make a radiant corpse.” I wake feeling I had been given a message from my deeper ‘self’. I had grieved for the last year without feeling I was able to move on. Two days later I went to the doctor – I was having palpitations and dizzy spells. He told me I had a leaky valve in my heart. I felt this dream was my wake-up call! Since then I seem to have moved on in my life. I believe my broken heart manifested itself physically and my subconscious warned me of the damage.

In some dreams we cry can depict a cleansing of yourself and a change of heart or forgiveness where old feelings are washed away. You may need to cry or release and ‘wash out’ long held emotions.  Another sort of change we can cry about is when we enter womanhood or manhood, as in the following example.

The girl is with her boyfriend. She had been ‘initiated’ into sexual activity. Sex with her boyfriend has changed her image of herself.

Example: ‘A ritual began whereby a large knife was drawn and a few deep cuts were made to both our faces. I put my hands to my face and saw them covered with blood, crying and crying.’ O. S.

Sometimes we cry as a baby in our dreams, and that is important and should not be stopped until it is understood.

Example: I was crying like a new born baby and I knew someone loved me. I knew they understood what pain was and were not afraid of it or of death. This pierced me right through. It was my grandmother, but to me it felt like some higher being who had reached out of the unknown to help me. The bonding cry was a signal to say “I recognise you! I recognise you! I’m bonding to you. I’m bonding to you! Someone recognises me. I can cry now because I am in the presence of love.”

To feel rejected as a child and to need acceptance can cause a lot of inner pain and crying, and may not be understood by others or even oneself. The following example isfrom a man who was put in an orphanage by his mother. Max was his lover and partner.

Example: My first image was to take her face in my hands and say Mum I want you to acknowledge me. I want to tell you that I love you very much. You have asked me to be your Man, Son, Lover to know and accept you. Well Max /Mum I do know you and I see your fear and I can tell you now that it is all right but do you not realise that because I love at child level I have to know everything about you for my survival, yet at the same time because of my inner work I can see and understand from an adult point of view. So you can see that I know everything about you, and it is all fear. I have died for both of us Max because of this Love and so it is OK to let go. If you can see this pain that I have suffered for us and just tell the truth then my Love can become unconditional and can only love and support you. We can then let go and go out into the world to look for what we want collectively or as individuals, but that Love is still there from Mum to son or vice versa. As I am saying all this I am very emotional and crying, and then I asked her to bless me to ACCEPT ME. To validate me in the world. There it was still looking for ACCEPTANCE.

Baby crying: Your fundamental needs are not being, or were not in the past, met. These include basic things like feeling happy and relaxed in your environment, feeling wanted and loved, having a sense of connection with other people, and being nourished. There may be something distressing you are feeling/needing at the ‘baby’ level that you are not acknowledging. It could also be a new project or aspect of you needing more care.

Example: ‘An old lady made room for me to sit at the end of one of the three seats of a bus. As we drove away a very large chicken size baby bird flew in. It had short stubby wings and yellow down, but flew expertly. I believe it first landed on the lady and chirped squeakily. But in it’s squeaks it actually spoke, saying it had lost it’s mother. It sounded as if it were crying.’ Andrew.

Example: I cry like a baby. The question burns in me – Why is life like this? I cry again. Then I realise that at first when I was born I was too small and undeveloped even to be able to cry properly, so I couldn’t let out my misery. It is such a relief to cry now and be understood, to have known what I felt at that terrible time.  I am aware of my connection with my stream of life having been broken – the umbilical cord.

Idioms: It’s all over but the crying; cry in your beer; cry the blues; a far cry; cry her heart out; cry me a river; cry over spilt milk; cry your eyes out; a crying shame; for crying out loud; hue and cry.

Useful Questions and Hints:

What am I crying about in the dream, and does that connect with waking feelings?

What feelings do I hold back in daily life, and how can I release them?

Is there a deeply felt need I am not allowing?

What hurts are my tears expressing?

See Associations Working With – Emotions and Mood in Dreams – Life’s Little Secrets

Crypt

This often depicts your unconscious memories or feelings. But it may indicate repressed parts of you, or family influences from the long past. It may also show feelings emerging from the unconscious, or fear of death. Such feelings are not necessarily reflecting truth, but a reflection of cultural anxieties or ideas about death. See Face Fear; Cave; Basement.

This meeting with feelings about death is sometimes like a test or initiation. It is almost as if the most beautiful may exist in a crypt, and you can only get to it by some form of psychological dying. This keeps a lot of people out, because they feel they are meeting something bad. They only pass into the beautiful if they dare to meet their fears of death.

In some dreams the crypt indicates feelings about or contact with dead relatives or people. This connection the crypt has with death is occasionally expressed in dreams as a shrine – a shrine in which the memories and love of a dead parent, child or partner is revered. If not that, then ones ancestors.

Example: I was in some kind of cave or crypt. My father told me and my family of his coming death. He was calm and caring but my mother, sister and myself were grief stricken and for some reason went to buy him gifts.  Mrs. C.M.

Useful Questions and Hints:

How do I relate to the crypt, and what does that indicate about my relationship with the unconscious or death?

What is it I am discovering or feeling in the crypt, and what does that suggest?

Am I in contact with someone who is dead, or am I discovering things about death in this dream?

See Do Dreams Explain Death – Near Death Experiences – Techniques for Exploring your Dreams

Crystal

The human sense of the eternal, so a symbol of your core self. But a crystal can also depict rigid views or emotions, crystallised opinions, thus habits.

A crystalline form is often a symbol of the Self. In other words, you are only conscious of a small part of yourself. Most of your body functions, and memories are unconscious. Also, your links with others and life itself at a deep level may remain unknown. The word Self is used to mean your whole being, known and unknown. If the crystal is felt to be of great beauty or valuable, then it is certainly linked with what is of greatest value in yourself – your pure consciousness beyond physical sensations and thoughts.

The thing about dreams is that they show everything that is inside you as an outside image. So the crystal can actually represent the force that gives you bones and other inner activities. Crystal of whatever sort always form the same crystalline structure, so often are images of forces in us that are always constant, so can represent a part of us that is always true – our core Self. See Touching Your Core Self

The shape of the crystal, in its beautiful structure, arises through the workings of some inner force or power, invisible, but evident in its symmetry. So it can represent the hidden inner power active within you that shapes who you are. Dr Marie-Louise von Franz writes in Jung’s book Man and His Symbols, writes, “The mathematically precise arrangement of a crystal evokes in us the intuitive feeling that even in so-called ‘dead’ matter there is a spiritual ordering principle at work. Thus the crystal often symbolically stands for the union of extreme opposites – of matter and spirit.” This inner power may in some dreams be seen to shine out or to focus what are your innate talents or potential.

A crystal may also depict realisation, i.e. “It became crystal clear”. See: jewels.

Cut crystal glasses or chandeliers suggest refinement or quality, and the chandeliers might also link with what has already been said above about crystal. Glasses can also link with alcohol though, and be showing its influence on you.

Clear Crystal: This is about clearing the mind of thoughts and emotion and enabling you to look into the immensity of your inner being. It represents a space of infinite wonder, a situation or state of mind not limited by form or smallness so it allows you to seek what you want in the infinity. Although it has no image or formit has the potential of all things – a magical state.

Crystal ball: The crystal ball usually stands for insight, prophecy, the future, your hopes and plans, fate, intuition, gazing into yourself. It can, because of its shape, denote the Self, or completeness, indicating your ability to be aware of intuitive impressions and creative imagery. It can also indicate the world of your inner feelings, passions, love and dreams – your soul, and your ability to look deeply into it. The following dream illustrates this.

Example: My beautiful friend looks into the crystal. It is not a thing made of glass, but a great dimension of mind which appears to open in the room, hanging in the centre of it, about eight feet across. She tells me I am already touching something that is beginning to happen in the world. My life will become involved in it. I will play my part – by no means a key role or leader, but one which I will gain great satisfaction and love from.

But remember that delving within like this can uncover the dark shadows cast by past fears, traumas and the memory of acts and emotions we usually choose to keep in the darkness of unconsciousness. It can also show you what you know in your heart, as in the following dream. See Using Your Intuition; The Inner World

I was with a gypsy looking at a crystal ball. She told me that my present relationship – a woman with children I am living with – will last and flower. I began to cry. Then there were other people there as well. A man put his hand on me and said it was okay to cry, and I felt they supported me in this.  Don S.

Useful Questions and Hints:

If my dream crystal is of great beauty and value, what can I understand or feel from it about my own deepest self?

If I have dreamt of a crystal ball, what has been seen in it about who I am and my direction in life?

What can I gather about what is valuable or beautiful in myself from this dream?

See Life’s Little Secrets – Life’s Little Secrets – Methods of Awakening

Cube

Matter, physical existence. It is symbolic of the number 4, and thus stands for stability, strength, material expression, the body. The square or cube is an enclosure in three dimensions, like our body, that in its centre hides a fourth dimension, the soul. Can also represent orthodoxy, the establishment. See: Numbers.

Cuckoo

Sexual promiscuity, the egg laid in another nest or woman.

Wanting to, or feeling your partner is, having sex outside your relationship; pregnant with child from another man than ones partner. Cuckoo can also mean crazy – as with the film ‘One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest.’

A cuckoo clock can suggest slightly irrational thoughts that keep repeating, or thoughts about being unfaithful.

Example: My head is a cuckoo clock with a fabric tube coming out of my chin and hanging down. The cuckoo clock is full of wasps which are buzzing – when I shake my head I can hear them. They fly out the tube in my chin. I am scared of wasps, but cannot run away as they are inside my head. HELP!

A cuckoo is a creature of nature, and it lays its eggs in a nest for other creature to rear. We may say that is unnatural, yet it is a part of natural behaviour. As humans we have all manner of behaviours, and so it is natural for men to lay their eggs in a woman’s womb and then leave her to rear the offspring.

Useful Questions and Hints:

Is my dream showing signs of being used by a ‘cuckoo’?

Or is it so do with crazy behaviour – or like the example a fear?

Is there something happening in my dream that is a clue to its meaning?

See Background – Techniques for Exploring your Dreams – LifeStream

Cuddle

Unity, sharing of feelings.

Cuddly Toy

You might be desiring the sort of non-threatening relationship you had with parents, or just plain seeking a relaxed feeling and love. Also the pleasure of holding someone or feeling warmth. See: teddy bear; toys.

Did you attack the toy in any way? See doll

Useful Questions and Hints:

Do you still have a cuddly toy?

What did you feel in the dream about the toy?

Was it my toy or someone else’s?

See Techniques for Exploring your Dreams – Learning to Love – Associations Working With

Cul-de-sac

The cul-de-sac means you feel or fear there is no way ahead in your present direction, or no way out of a present situation or relationship; or at least, no way to develop it further. Don’t forget this only reflects a feeling, and not a situation cast in stone. Shift the way you feel, look at it from a different standpoint, and the thing can change. See: Secrets of Power Dreaming.

This has definite sexual implications, usually representing the inside of a woman’s legs. A door at the far end is the vagina. If there is a sexual element in your dream, then it may also indicate guilt, or a sexual experience that has no future. There is another aspect of cul-de-sac expressed in this next dream – the materialistic view of life.

Since being a young child I have dreamt I was in a cul-de sac, with a Punch and Judy show at its entrance. A skull lives in the P&J show and if anyone tries to leave the cul-de-sac the skull goes into the house to prevent them leaving. What does this mean?  Fiona.

In this dream a cul-de-sac is way of saying a ‘dead’ end. Death is the subject of this dream, as shown by the skull hiding in the show – of life. This is a view of life many of us are given as  children, and do not shake off – that life is a dead end, leading to nowhere but the grave.  This attitude may cause us to avoid full participation in life because life offers only a conflict in which every one is eventually killed. The crocodile gets us all.  In nature nothing exists that does not carry forward what existed in the past, even at a physical level.

Another example of cul-de-sac is given in this dream. It was dreamt by a man who having read Freud’s idea that we want to sleep with our parent thought it was totally ridiculous.

Dreamt I run away from police into a cul-de-sac. It is night and I cannot see a thing. I feel my way to a door, and knock. An old woman of about 60 comes to the door. Although old she is healthy and well preserved. Without a word I grab her in my arms and embrace her sexually. Then she is naked and I feel her cold flesh against mine and I have intercourse with her. As I do so, she moans in apprehension and pleasure. I know that she has had no sexual life for 20 years, and I have now awoken her passions again. She takes me to an upstairs room, and I believe her husband comes back, but she gets rid of him somehow, I think for good. When she’s back upstairs, she notices the window is open, and a strong wind blows the curtains apart. This terrifies her into feelings of guilt and shame, and she makes me hide behind the bed while she tries to close the window. She leans out of the window to push her neighbour’s curtains back also, and falls to her death. I then wander in gardens outside.

This is a description of the whole Oedipus complex as stated by Freud. The older woman represent the mother.

Useful questions:

What dead end in life am I moving in and perhaps not recognising?

What leads me or directs me into the dream cul-de-sac and what can I understand from that?

What does the dream drama say about this – i.e. is there a way out, and what am I learning?

See Secrets of Power Dreaming – Techniques for Exploring your Dreams – Questions

Cup

This is usually linked in some way with satisfying ones thirst. In other words the cup suggests either the fullness or absence of satisfaction and felt needs, or the circumstances the cup reminds you of. For instance a cup from home or family can associate with good or difficult times, or with a past or present relationship, and people we shared time with in a social way. Who you are with in the dream also suggests what feelings of satisfaction or need you are dealing with.

The cup can represent a receptive attitude or femininity and the womb, or receptivity and pouring oneself out as in prayer. In the saying “My cup overflows” – or cup of suffering, it suggests your inner condition. In this sense the cup is a receptacle, and can depict what you hold in yourself, or how you measure or taste or experience things.

The cup can depict feelings you are experiencing or giving, as in sharing  yourself or receiving something from someone else, as when a drink is given by someone or you give it.

A dream cup might be representing what is in it – tea, coffee, milk etc. Some dreams are about health and how your body responds to what you take in, so if there is a sign of this in the dream take notice.

Example: We start going. I grab at a Styrofoam cup with coffee, cigs, ashtray, etc. and put them in my lap. I am sitting on a car seat that is sideways to the rest of the seats. Hot wax (pink) spills on my pant leg.

This dream seems to show a very casual and hurried relationship with the cup.

Sometimes the imagery of the cup is used to represent the body and what we hold within ourselves – showing the quality, richness or emptiness of who we are or feel ourselves to be. It is important to remember that dreams depict what we feel or fear about ourselves as well as what we are beyond those fears or self judgements. As in the New Testament where Jesus asks that the cup be taken from him, the cup can show what we face in life and in our feelings at this time. Do we drink something bitter or enlivening?

Example: Through its I have grown out of the chaser of rainbow ends and mirages to one who can accept an imperfect world, my own imperfection, and take cups of water from shaking hands. I take my place as a man among mankind – not the saints. “When those Saints go marching in, I am not to be among their number.”

A broken cup suggests either you do not have a good inner feeling about giving or yourself to others, or about receiving. There is a problem involved somewhere in giving or receiving. Do you feel you have nothing to give or are unworthy of receiving?

Golden or precious cup: The core essence of you. This cup indicates that part of your nature that does not corrupt or ‘rust’ like your body and the things you might see as valuable in worldly goods. So it might therefore be shown in your dream being dug up, pulled out of the earth, or buried in ruins or ancient places. This shows the influence in you from the long past.

Carrying cups to others shows you serving or looking after the needs of others.

Measuring cup can link with care you are taking to be precise or ‘measured. Or it might say you are preparing something carefully or you don’t want to overdo something.

Overflowing cup can either mean you life is full and you have more than you need, or that you are wasting precious resources. What is being lost or poured out?

In another sense this represents your life energy and how it is being expressed. So it links with sexual expression, with emotions and how you express yourself outwardly.

Round Bottomed: Once filled you cannot put cup down until you have drunk all the contents. Drinking it may mean taking on something you like or do not want to face, so take care.

The quality of the cup shows how you like to present yourself to others or how they present themselves to you.

Two cups indicate sharing with another person in some way.

Idioms: cup of tea; cup runneth over; there’s many a slip twixt the cup and the lip

 

Useful Questions and Hints:

Essentially what am I giving or receiving with the cup?

What does the cup hold, and is that indicating what I am facing in my life?

Who am I involved with in this dream, and what is being given or received in the relationship?

See Techniques for Exploring your Dreams – Resistances – Active Passive

Current

This word is used to indicate both what is present – a current experience – and also a flow or influence.

In both senses it shows something having an impact on you. What the impact is depends on the other dream events and characters. But it suggests the influence of other people and events to push you into certain decisions, directions or feelings. It can also be the inner pressure of your desires, the direction of the your life, or influence of inner tendencies.

The current in some dreams, whether a river, the sea or electrical, also might relate to the flow of life-biological energy moving through you. Air, water and food constantly flow through you, giving rise to the energy you express as movement, feelings, sex, speech, thinking and awareness. Dreams often show this current of energy as interactive, as in the following dream.

Example: I was in a big stream with my two sons, M. and N. It was a fairly strong current and the boys were getting hurt. I told them that whatever you do reacts with the current. It was like karma. Everything done influenced the current, and so one must be very aware of every action, or else it rebounds and causes injury.

The dream shows life energy as capable of being creative or destructive. Expressed as anger, despair, self loathing, it can destroy health of mind and body. Expressed as creativity, love and curiosity it can change your life and the world. It vivifies whatever it flows into, enhancing negative or positive tendencies. See: river; snake.

A current can also indicate the outer flow of circumstances or events as they act upon us and influence or pull us along. The inner pressure of desires, the direction of the inner life, or influence of inner tendencies.

Electrical current: See: electricity.

Useful Questions and Hints:

What influence or effect is the current having – i.e. am I struggling against it; am I going with it; is it influencing someone else – and how does that apply to my life?

Is the current carrying me anywhere and if so where or to what?

Does this current link with my personal energy, and in what way?

Does the current represent influence of others, or events pushing me into certain decisions?

What inner pressure of desires or tendencies does this represent?

See Techniques for Exploring your Dreams – Karma – Energy Sex and Dreams

Curse Cursed Cursing

Autosuggestion. That is, inner results of fears entertained. Also symbolises the inheritance of past actions, past lives, or hereditary traits or taints. It sometimes refers to the power of material values to influence decisions and life, the power of hate.

When you actually believe something, it is taken as real by the part of your mind that controls all your body processes and your decisions making. So if you believed you were seriously ill you would not only feel bad, but you would order your activities around your believed sickness. An example of this is when on entering a room of our house we see a strange man; the our heart beats faster, and we get ready to run or fight. But when we see it is just an arrangement of a hanging coat the emergency feelings disappear.

A curse is like that, something taken in and believed that can create great harm. It might also symbolises the inheritance of past actions, past lives, or hereditary traits or taints.

But dreaming about giving or receiving a curse is also often about deeply felt hurts or the desire to undermine or even destroy someone’s well-being. Meditation or prayer are ways to heal such feelings or hurts. See Black Magic

Sometimes dreams represent tangled emotions and urges brought about by past hurts as a curse placed upon you. In such cases it is helpful to see if you can trace what the dream presents back to its origins in your experience.

I believe that the enormous amount of anxiety people suffer is the real curse – anxiety about animals attacking them in their dream; anxieties about being possessed, or by being cursed – and all of these awful images can be seen as simply our fears, pains and anxieties taking on form in our dreams. And int he end dreams are virtual realities that we create in our sleep. Even the wonderful dreams of God and angels are an external virtual reality, and mirror of our own inner immensity and our enormous variety. Unfortunately people either accept them as externally real, or as fantasy. But they are reflections of your potential, that cannot be seen in your daily life that is so dominated by your physical senses and hungers and fears.

So the images and fears we experience in our dreams are projection upon the vast screen of our mind. They are all projections from you. Running from them is like trying to escape from yourself. But such dreams are like a computer game with full surround virtual reality. In such games you can be killed a thousand times and yet you survive to deal with the monsters again. That is unless you learn a way through and go on through the levels. But unlike those games there is a wonderful intelligence behind the dreams we have, and if you listen and learn from it you will find a real mastership – not a false one of deny any fear or repressing anything that threatens you.

Useful Questions and Hints:

What is the curse, and what does it suggest or carry – and can I see signs of such negative emotions in my lie?

If I am the one cursing, what am I feeling so strongly about?

Do I have a strong belief in something negative, such as sickness or bad luck?

Does this imply tainted hereditary traits? (Go back into the dream and make changes. Beliefs can be modified.)

See Secrets of Power Dreaming – Techniques for Exploring your Dreams – Avoid Being Victims

Cut Cutting

If something is cut it can depict severing connections, separation, to become independent, to cut off sympathy or affections. If an object is cut or torn it points to possible regret at the damage, or maybe desire to damage.

If the cut is on the body it indicates a hurt or sense of injury to whatever the part of the body represents. This may link with a hurtful relationship with someone. Or it can mean being opened up to external influences such as an infection. If you are doing the cutting then it is about desire to injure. It may also represent your sexual desires, that through the pain associated with experiences of being let down, scorned, ill treated, the feelings of love only express as the desire to hurt, to cut, to connect through pain. Can also mean reducing in importance or impact.

Cutting in an organised way, or even when random, can point to change, as when we cut our hair. Also we can cut something to open it or reveal something, to get something, or to get somewhere, as when we cut through red tape, or cut a lemon to get its juice.

A plant cutting that you are going to plant may link with good and growing parts of yourself that you are looking for a life situation to ‘plant’ or experience them in. It may thus depict a search for a caring and ‘fertile’ relationship. See: plants.

Example: My father was THE original authority in my life. I had cut off from him because of the lack of support, and I had done the same with school and other authority situations. The worst bit of all though, was to see that in my desire for my father’s love, I had been seeking older males in a form of latent homosexuality.

A short cut: If it works fine, but a short cut may in the end be a long way.

Cutting through: Cutting through entanglements, through barriers is a sign that you are using strength of purpose to get rid of things such as worries, fears and even neuroses to become whole and healthy.

Cut off from: Shows that you either feel someone has shut down any emotional contact or support, or else you have done it.

Idioms: A cut above; you can’t cut it; cut to the chase; cut through; cut away; cut back; clean cut; cut from the same cloth; cut corners; cut the crap; cut a fine figure; cut a wide swathe; cut and dried; cut him off; cut it fine; cut it out; cut losses; cut his teeth on; cut me some slack; cut to the quick; cut off your nose to spite your face; cut price; cut the mustard; cut down to size; cut to ribbons; cut your own throat; have your work cut out; short cut; cutting edge; low cut.

Useful Questions and Hints:

Have I been opened up to something, or to see what is going on inside me?

Am I consciously or unconsciously cutting off feelings, connections, or importance regarding a situation in life?

Am I angry about something, or have a desire to cause injury?

What am I trying to open up or get to?

See Techniques for Exploring your Dreams – Questions – Life’s Little Secrets

Cyclone

Emotions and urges against which you feel powerless, and which may become obsessive.

See: tornado

See Techniques for Exploring your Dreams

Cyst

A morbid collection of memories, emotions, energies, that are not harmonising or adding to your life in general.

A cyst on a certain part of the body can show a physical or psychological hurt connected with that area. So a cyst on the right leg could indicate weakness in your confidence in external activity. See: abscess boil.

Useful Questions and Hints:

What memories, emotions, energies are causing me problems at the moment? (Imagine going back into the dream and drain the cyst, or apply healing cream to it.)

Have I got a physical condition or pain in the area shown – if so might it be a good idea to have it checked?

Does my dream give me any clues to its cause?

See Techniques for Exploring your Dreams – Secrets of Power Dreaming

Dagger

Aggressive urges, hatred, expression of force whether intellectual, moral or physical. Can denote male aggression or penis.

This is the sort of weapon that can be easily hidden and used in treachery or betrayal. It can depict the sort of attack we make on someone through criticism and underhanded remarks or rumours. In ones own hand it might suggest those things but can also depict defences, or being defensive. See: weapons. The following example clearly shows two defensive images – the castle and the dagger.

Example: I dreamed that it was a cold night in a castle and I had a dagger in my hand. Then a pale guy (with blood dripping from his mouth) attacked me and I stabbed him.

Daggers have often been used as an instrument of initiation or of rituals. In a dream where one is killed by a dagger, apart from the meaning suggested above, it can also be about the death of an old self, and the transition to another stage of life, an initiation. See: individuation.

Useful Questions and Hints:

What am I angry or defensive about?

Am I aiming my anger at someone in particular?

Can I see signs of defensiveness in how I relate to others?

Am I pressurising or threatening others, whether intellectually, morally or physically?

See Techniques for Exploring your Dreams – Background – Dreams are Virtual Realities