Posts Tagged ‘dream analysis’
Girl Girls
Female under the age of thirteen: Feelings; emotional self; young sexuality; vulnerability.
In male’s dream: Emotions; sexual feelings; daughter. But a young girl can also be used to depict a new pattern, a new opportunity to relate to a female. In contrast to an old woman, the girl is a shift from old patterns of relationship you may have developed with your mother or a wife. So she could represent a development in you away from old and perhaps destructive patterns. See Anima
In a female’s dream: Oneself at that age – whether older of younger; feelings about sister or daughter; the aspect of oneself portrayed by the girl – as in following example. The young girl, depending on your age, could depict a new aspect of yourself emerging or being met. See Characters and People in Dreams
Another girl with your man: How you deal with your sense of being wanted; anxiety about not being attractive or loveable; suspicion; a side of yourself which relates you differently to your man.
Example: I had a very clear dream of seeing a young woman’s legs, slim, perfectly hairless and well shaped. Then I saw her again with very tight tights on. She had a very beautifully shaped vagina that was not flat but like a new bud, with the crack well defined.
The dreamer then explored his dream and says if it: As usual it seemed as if a voice explained it to me. I was told that the young girl’s legs were representing my feelings of beauty, and the shaped vagina was her developing womanhood. With it came feelings of seeing a young girl opening to womanhood, and how beautiful it is. I saw that it was a beauty for me without any sexual feelings, but was a wonderful act of nature or life in the development of a young woman. Previously such views always had sexual overtones for me. Such a development in a young woman was almost holy, and invited love not sex. Sure love could lead to sex, but not sex that is usually called love.
If you are the young girl in the dream: Take care to watch what your dreams tell you. Be sure always remember that you have the wonderful potential for life and growth, and handle it with care and reverence.
Another girl with your man: How you deal with your feelings of being wanted, or anxiety about not being attractive or lovable. Maybe your suspicion he wants another female, or this could indicate a side of yourself that relates you differently to your man. See: Adolescent; Teenage girls love dreams.
A young girl with a baby: This is often about a girls feeling about motherhood and practicing being a mother.
Example: ‘I was watching, and at the same time I was, a young girl sitting on a lawn.’ Honey
Teenage girl: Apart from what is said in the link about teenage in adolescent, there are a few more things.
Many many dreams sent to me by girls are about boyfriends. It is natural for many young girls to obsess about boyfriends. The ‘crush’ is largely a young persons hormonal flooding and needs to be handled with care otherwise there can be enormous emoiotnal hurts. So please read Ages of Love – Summing Up.
Also even when a boyfriend has been left there can be all manner of feelings, confusion and hurt to deal with. Most people are often totally unaware of the experience they take in and how it interacts with them when we love someone. In other words 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. You have taken in millions of bit of memory, lessons learnt, life experiences along with all the feelings or problems met by loving and living with someone and they are what makes you the person you are. Your dreams tend to put all that in the image of the past person when you are dealing with the influences left in you from the relationship. Such things are you and you cannot escape from yourself. See crush
So I would suggest you integrate all the good and bad things from your relationship with them; because in your dreams about them you are meeting your feelings. And if you do not do this the negative memories or desires for them will keep coming back. So try doing this by taking the dream images of your ex and pulling them back into your body. Yes, literally making them one with you. Do this slowly and allow any feelings that arise. This may sound strange but all the images in our dreams are projections from us onto the screen of our sleeping mind; so taking them back into you is like owning them and integrating them.
Example: I dreamt of being with a woman who was desperately seeking a man. I was also with my own female companion. I believe the woman had been suddenly dropped by her man, and I and my partner were close and with her.
Still in the semi-awake state I tried ‘being’ the woman, and had a very clear response. I experienced being her, but was also me with experience of seeing into myself in some degree. I saw that the woman, like most of us, was a female creature whose instinctive drive was to find a mate. But she was not aware of this as an instinctive drive but as a personal feeling. As such she had become, like many women and men, lost in a huge web of personal ideas about whether they were attractive, sexy, with many complications about love, gender mixed with childhood unconscious traumas and the heartbreak all that brings.
Example: ‘I was away from home somewhere and was helping and encouraging a young Japanese girl, who was pregnant, to come back to England to have her baby here. I felt a lot of care for her.’ Dave L.
Dave explored his dream and discovered a lot of sexual pleasure in connection with the girl. He had held himself back in this area most of his life, and as he was learning to allow his sexual feelings not simply genital sex, he found a deepening in his caring also.
Example: Who is the spider?” He looked at it, and as his consciousness hurtled through walls of shattering glass, it turned into a hideous old crone who trembled with delight as she clawed at the lovely woman beneath her. The patient was now almost numb with horror. “It’s no one I know. I’ve never seen a witch like that. Who is she?” he moaned. Again the shattering walls of glass, and the old woman had turned into a girl. “It’s a girl!” he said, staring intently into the inner space of his psyche. “Oh, my God, it’s me! It’s a girl me! I was jealous of all of the women, of my mother and my grandmother and my sister. The girl is myself fighting a battle of supremacy with the other women, just as I fought the battle with the males. How could it be?”
Useful questions:
What aspects does this girl have or represent?
Do I have these same aspects within myself?
Consider how you are relating to the girl and what it shows?
Ask your self if the girl is a young you that is showing you something?
See Avoid Being Victims – Questions – Techniques for Exploring your Dreams – Animus
Girlfriend
Your emotional feelings, attachment to, the girlfriend; the difficulties, struggles with feelings and sexuality felt in connection with girlfriend or other males; your insights into her behaviour.
A girlfriend can either be a negative feelings acting on your or a very positive guiding force.
Example: We went to the same restaurant. This time it was narrower. We drank red wine from large goblets. On reaching for my goblet I knocked it over. The wine spread rapidly and I thought it was blood. I felt fear and ran from the dining room. Next I was sitting on a camel, being led by another girlfriend of mine. It was down a street where I had worked. It is called Hope Street. H. B.
The dream shows the connection the unconscious often makes between wine and blood. It shows how the alcohol produces transformations that lead the dreamer to experience fear. But the positive influence of the girlfriend changes fear to hope.
Ex-girlfriend : Any feelings or hopes still connected with her; the ex-girlfriend or lover often becomes a symbol for all the hopes for love that are not being satisfied at the moment, or in the present relationship; occasionally the past. Most people are often totally unaware of the experience they take in and how it interacts with them when we love someone. In other words 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. You have taken in millions of bit of memory, lessons learnt, life experiences along with all the feelings or problems met by loving and living with someone and they are what makes you the person you are. Your dreams tend to put all that in the image of the past person when you are dealing with the influences left in you from the relationship.
Example: I had a dream that I had the most beautiful girl with long brown hair and beautiful blue eyes and she was my girlfriend and in reality I have never met her and I don’t know who she is. Continuing, we were at the mall and we were about to kiss but right when we kiss I wake up and dream is gone. Could this have a meaning? cause I REALLY want to see her again since we loved each other so much and is it possible that she could be real and be having same dream as me? I am 15.
I doubt very much that you are having the same dream as this beautiful girl – the reason is that she is the feminine part of yourself. I know that doesn’t feel right, but having been through trying to find such a woman, it took me a long time to figure the truth. And the truth is, we are all mixed sexes. So you have nipples, and women have a tiny penis hidden usually out of sight – the clitoris.
The aim of dream is to lead you to inner wholeness. Remember the story of the Sleeping Beauty. The prince has to cut his way through brambles to get through. He sees that many others have died in the attempt. Then when he kisses the sleeping princes she wakes and they marry. In other words the dreamed of lover was woken from the unconscious and they become one.
Useful questionsand hints:
Do you feel that the dream girlfriend would complete you?
Is she a sexual conquest or a friendly lover?
Are there difficulties in relating to her fully?
Have you noticed things have improved over time?
See Ages of Love – Ages of Love – Techniques for Exploring your Dreams
Giving
Relatedness; the sort of exchange or give and take which goes on in a relationship, even the internal relationship with oneself, or the environment.
Giving: One can give affection, support, sex, ideas, as well as wounds. One needs to see what the interaction is by looking at what is given.
Giving or receiving advice: In a dream this is often important information, unless one is being mocked or cheated. Often such advice can be about a problem you face or the direction of your growth.
Giving birth: See birth
Giving false hopes: We constantly give ourselves false hopes through our desires and thoughts, but giving others false hopes can bring consequences. See Avoid Being Victims
Received: Consider what is received to define what you are accepting or rejecting in oneself or from others. See: accept; gift; Receive.
Example: I dreamt I was standing before an immense wall of what looked like water, but it was upright and steady. It stretched upwards and sideways as far as I could see. Because it looked like water I stretched out my arm to touch it, and was surprised that my hand and arm penetrated it easily. And as I pushed my arm in deeper to see if I could feel anything, an arm to my left protruded from the wall. I felt I was witnessing a deep truth; the wall was the hidden life we are all surrounded by. Whatever I put in came out toward me.
The Idioms show the many ways this action can be used. Idioms: Don’t give me that; give and take; give as good as one gets; give away or give-away; give oneself away; give somebody away; don’t give a brass farthing; give place; give a piece of ones mind; give them enough rope; give someone the evil or glad eye; give someone the elbow; give ones notice; giving passage; giving off; giving ourselves.
Useful questions and hints:
Have you seen in dreams that we get what we give?
What were you giving or being given?
Was it received or rejected?
See Karma – Clicking On – Techniques for Exploring your Dreams – Processing Dreams
Glacier
Emotional tension, repression, and frozen feelings. Probably repressed feelings over a long period of time. Or perhaps fear of living or expressing your feelings or emotions, so a frozen chunk of past experience. It might at times point to a difficult period of your life when you were living in a cold and hostile atmosphere or environment.
Large amount of frozen areas of life experience, or feelings seemingly impossible to move on from. Or a feeling of awe about the hugeness of natures creations and the timeless aspect of it. Also the possibility of finding things from the long past uncovered.
Useful questions and hints:
What am I doing in relationship with the glacier?
Was I aware of any feelings while with the glacier?
What was my experience of the glacier?
See Summing Up – Techniques for Exploring your Dreams – Characters and People in Dreams
Glass
Glass represents the invisible but powerful feeling or social barriers we use in everyday life.
The sort of invisible yet tangible barriers we may erect or feel around others, such as natural caution, emotional coldness, disinterest, fear of being hurt or pride; social barriers. Invisible aspects of oneself which nevertheless may trap us, such as fear, lack of self respect; self doubt.
Glass can be a protection for food and to cook in. Also a protection against the weather and cold.
Frosted or smoked glass: Desire for privacy; keeping parts of oneself hidden; an obscure or unclear view of a situation; occasionally relating to death – the very real yet obscure experience we all face. Barriers or social techniques you use to gain privacy. It can also suggest keeping parts of yourself hidden, or an obscure or unclear view of a situation. Occasionally it relates to death – the very real yet obscure experience we all face.
Breaking glass: Breaking through a barrier; shattered emotions. What barrier are you breaking through, what restraint? It might also mean shattered emotions. Breaking a relationship; shattering an illusion; broken hearted.
Breaking something made of glass: Breaking a relationship; shattering an illusion; broken hearted.
Stepping on broken glass: Glass may not be very visible, so may represent hidden dangers; being careless about direction in life or present situation; or if it is being done without heed to injury, represents self inflicted pain.
Glasshouse: Something in your experience that protects fragile aspects of your growth; something that is itself fragile; a subtle but real barrier between the energy of your life and the aspects of you that are needing to grow.
Glass inside you swallowed: You have taken in very dangerous feelings, ideas or events that can knock down your ego or personality from within. It may cause a great energy loss because of loss of blood.
Example: Later, a lot of very ugly injuries and cuts appear in my chest and throat because I swallowed bits of glass, I realized the glass is going through my body, but nobody in my family believes and they think I did it to myself.
Next, same injuries but now in my belly, and I start throwing up blood, again and again, throwing up even my entrails. Now everybody believes I have glass splinters inside my body, and something has to be done.
Finally, when the bits of glass are in the last stage of my intestines, a doctor comes and something like a surgery is conducted. I can “see” the interior. With a pair of tongs the doctor is helping the glass to be “got out” without hurting anything in my body, and among the dirt (crap) he found a flower and in the interior of the flower he found a piece of glass, but then he realizes, that it was not glass, it was a diamond.
An amazing dream saying that amid all the pain and fear of illness when it is all felt and faced and healing is sought or thought, then it is realised that the awful hurts and fear was all in order to allow the awareness that at the heart of such experiences is the connections with the unchanging and eternal. See Diamond
Useful questions and hints:
Is the glass protecting me in some way?
Or am I in a dangerous situation with glass?
Am I looking though glass at something or somebody?
See Being the Person or Thing – Clicking On – Summing Up
Glasses Spectacles
Ability to see – understand – or lack of it; a way of hiding oneself, as behind sunglasses. Terms like ‘short-sighted’ or ‘long-sighted’ help to understand the use of glasses in a dream.
Coloured glasses: Suggest attitudes that may colour your view of life, as with ‘rose tinted glasses’.
Finding glasses: I shows that you have gained a new insight or are seeing things more clearly.
Lost or broken glasses: May indicate that you are not taking care of the insights you have gained that would give you a better view of what confronts you.
Sunglasses: Protectiveness or disguise.
Example: I keep pulling my glasses off and rubbing my eyes; I can maneuver pretty well without them, but I’m very aware that if a cop were to stop me for anything I’d be in trouble.
Useful questions and hints:
Is there a problem with my glasses in the dream and if so what does it signify.
Have I noticed any forgetfulness lately or lack of ability to focus?
What am I faling to clearly understand?
See Associations Working With – Inner World – Techniques for Exploring your Dreams – Identity and Dreams
Glisten
See: Glow.
Globe
Wholeness, your complete nature, symmetry or proportion. Usually refers to the soul or spirit, in the same way as a square or cube often represents the physical in a dream. Or it may represent the world. Sometimes the globe is in divisions denoting the different faculties or aspects of your nature.
What is meant by this is that although as a conscious person our life might be a mess, we still have health and wholeness as a potential. It often leads to a realisation that there is another subtler and more powerful world linked with out physical world. It also symbolises the amazing potential we all have if we find it. See giant
Or the globe may represent the world, in other worlds your present ‘world’ or experience or activity, the way you see or experience life. See: world.
Example: The Lady appeared amid the glowing light. On 13th September 1917 30,000 people met. Two skeptical Priests chose higher ground to watch. At noon the sun grew dim; a globe of light advanced down the valley to the tree; shiny white ‘petals’ fell out of the empty sky but vanished as people reached out to catch them. The children again saw the Lady amid the globe of light: she promised them a miracle. The Priests saw the globe and were much shaken.
The children who had first seen the Lady at Fatima in Portugal, were give two prophecies by the Lady. The first was that the present war would soon end and the second was that an even worse war would begin in 1939. See Our Lady of Fatima
Example: I dream of my late son, who passed this summer from Pneumonia. (Drug induced). We are in a globe type room, sort like an observatory. It is bright and colorful though the ceiling has stars and sky like patterns. My son is standing in the center of the room with me by his side. I am instructing him on something. I have a mentor (a male figure) looking on silently. I just know the mentor is for me. I mentor my son even though the/my mentor does not speak or anything.
The globe type room is something I have come across several times. It is a way of showing you a more global view of life. An enlargement of your awareness. The stars and sky patterns are also to help you realise the beauty and that your awareness has gone beyond what you can usually know through your senses; a wonderful dream. I think you already have a lot of experience in this other world knowledge, for you are clearly helping your son from the Highest in you.
Useful questions and hints:
What have you felt or realised in regard to the globe?
Was it glowing or well lit?
Were you aware of any knowledge given you?
See ESP in Dreams – Edgar Cayce – Secrets of Power Dreaming
Glove
Insularity against the world. It may also be an invitation, like a dropped glove, or handkerchief. Can stand for a hand without any life in it. Protection, or the attitude of avoiding contact, or something that does or does not fit in some way. See: Clothes
Gloves: Protection, as in wearing rubber gloves; keeping ‘one’s hands clean’ as in the sense of avoiding ‘dirty business’; being out of touch.
Also: Holding their glove would be holding their hand. Picking up a dropped glove: Similar to picking up a handkerchief dropped by a woman – an invitation to a relationship.
Idioms: Hand in glove with; iron fist in velvet glove; with kid gloves; with the gloves off.
Useful Questions and Hints:
How is the glove(s) portrayed?
Is this about protection, or a desire to avoid contact with someone or something?
Does a situation fit me well…or not?
If this is a dropped glove, is it an invitation of some kind?
See Techniques for Exploring your Dreams – Secrets of Power Dreaming
Glow Glowing
When something glows with an inner light, it means that it is expressing the inner energies. It shows something that contains a great deal of yourself, and often links your individual awareness with the whole. The actual form will probably symbolise some personal quality, through which the wholeness expresses. It is the inner light, not the form, that expresses the connection with the whole. But from the form you can understand which part of you is relaying direct influence or guidance. See: Dark; Light.
Glue
One can be glued to the television, or a book. It can therefore express emotional and intellectual involvement, empathy, sympathy or love. But it can also mean bonds or dependencies you find difficult to break.
A means of fixing things to places, or to mend them. Sometimes it is an attempt to cover up mistakes by gluing things together. May indicate a wish to bind someone or something to you. Spilling glue might have sexual indications.
Example: My father points out a circle on a sign, like an Indian hoop, but it’s an auto tire with tools glued to it to advertise a local car repair shop.
Example: She becomes aware she has some sort of glue all over her face. She is trying to pill it off and it teats her skin slightly as she pulls it away. She feels it has been suffocating her.
Example: I dreamed, I am putting glue on my face, which dries to a film like a mask, and I think of putting it on my penis. This dream occurred just as I was getting involved in the company, which indeed sold an adhesive (though not intended for the body). Yet I did not know what to make of the dream. A few days later, one of the officers of the company joked with me that perhaps the glue would be good for patching condoms. And then, as I became involved with the job, I found myself writing advertising material that was disagreeable to me. I had to go along with attitudes that at least were not discussed to the point of agreement. So I felt sometimes that I had to present a mask and was impotent to express my own opinions.
Useful questions and hints:
Do you feel you are ‘stuck’ with something?
Has it worked or is a strange thing being glued?
Was your face involved?
See Emotions and Mood in Dreams – Waking Lucid Dream – Techniques for Exploring your Dreams
Gnarled
The marks of time and work. The difficulties and struggles of life, but often displayed as wisdom or inner power.
Example: I dreamt that I stood before an immense tree. It was old. It was gnarled with the storms and summers of its life. It was wonderful to see. And as I crouched over my toolbox half in the cupboard under the stairs, with tears streaming down my face, I knew that I am the tree of life. I could feel all that has lived before living in me. It was a precious moment.
Example: I dreamt a lot of sweets, brightly wrapped, were being put into my open hands. All I saw of the giver were his hands. Beautiful, big, gnarled hands of a working man.’ Alex U.
In exploring his dream Alex saw the hands as the holiness of everyday human experience, especially regarding self-giving, as in parenthood, love and work – the hands of the self giving spirit of love that we usually forget. Alex doesn’t eat sweets, so they represent pleasures he seldom allows himself, the pleasure of everyday life and love .
Useful questions and hints:
Did you get any sense of life experience from the dream?
Was there any lesson learnt from what you saw?
What were your feelings about the dream?
See Associations Working With – Processing Dreams – – Techniques for Exploring your Dreams
Gnaw
Something may be eating away at you inside, such as conscience, worry. What is gnawing represents the source of worry. Gnawing can also mean attacking a problem or situation, or link with hunger for something. See: Eating.
This seemed to have a strong connection with a woman I had fallen in love with. I felt torn, in conflict, lost. I have not felt quite like this for many years. Gnawing away at my innards was just the same anxiety as I had experienced all those years ago with Silvia.
Gnawing images can in fact indicate deep anxieties, as follows:
I remembered the tremendous physical anxiety I had felt when searching for work. It was an actual pain in my lower abdomen, a real burning gnawing deep inside. I went right into the anxiety, and it was the fear any life form feels when exposed to danger. I remembered the film of baby turtles hatching in the warm sand. As they made the perilous journey from dry sand to the sea, seagulls swooped and ate them; alligators snapped them up; fish swallowed them. The anxiety was that of stepping out from underneath our rock into the open sky, and taking ones chance with life. If fear paralysed us we would dodge more slowly. But the seagulls might get us however fast we moved. It was the chance we took. There was no guarantee of success or failure.
My parents had sowed in me the seeds of enormous anxiety about sticking my neck out from the rock of security. Now, as I was exploring fresh pastures, I faced the agony of anxiety of the unknown, unseen seagull.
Negative thoughts that eat, gnaw, and destroy your creative ideas and connections.
Example: Then I was out in the garden. A small rodent type of animal was running around. Apparently it was our pet that we have adopted. It was foraging about, and as I watched it found what looked like a carcass of a dead animal, and began to eat the remains. Still watching I saw that the “dead” creature was still alive, and the rodent was eating its internal organs. Then the creature being devoured turned over onto its back, and opened itself to being eaten. At this point it looked like a large squirrel – not a grey – that had been cut open and gutted. I couldn’t see its heart beating, but it seemed alert and was okay about being eaten. I was pondering this and the animal got up and ran away. Some dogs chased across a road. A car skidded, hitting one of the dogs, but not badly injuring it. I pointed at the dog saying, “You know you shouldn’t have done that.” It looked at me as if it knew.
An interesting view of this is given in the persons exploration of the dream: The main thing I felt was the small rodent and the small creature, squirrel, it was eating. I arrived at the understanding that the squirrel was partly about hibernation. This represents a desire to pull back from activity, to hibernate in the sense of the spending more time with my inner life. It also links with the experience of a readiness to die, and I mean that in the way that one can melt back into the primal source of things. In the dream this is represented by the fact that the squirrel at first is almost invisible because it looks as if it has sunk into the earth, and only a small piece of fur is showing. As the squirrel I felt the rodent was disturbing me from sinking deeper. It was winter and time to become inactive in the world. This was me gnawing away at a process of disintegration that was going on in me.
Useful questions and hints:
Do I feel I am gnawing away at something in my mind?
Or is something eating away at you?
Are you destroying your positive feelings in some way?
See Emotions and Mood in Dreams – Associations Working With – Techniques for Exploring your Dreams
Gnome Goblin Knockers or Spirits
A part of our personality left undeveloped or not integrated. For instance we may have musical ability which was suppressed by the need to bring up children; a part of self malformed by painful childhood experience or lack of emotional nourishment. It may therefore be a link with our unconscious. See: Fairy.
A gnome in a dream represents the power of the unconscious when linked with ones deepest wishes or childhood dreams. See: dwarf.
The magical world that relates to one’s “inner child,” and the inner treasures or abilities that the dreamer may possess. But they often represent the forces of the unconscious that can reveal great gems of truth, or stand in the way of doing it yourself.
Goblins or Knockers: They represent the mischievous, ill meaning side of us that we have not acknowledged and so appear in strange forms. As a knocker it might be a warning of some sort, depending on the rest of the dream.
Spirits: Apart from spirits of the dead the term may also refer to any incorporeal or immaterial beings, such as demons or deities. In a dream they are usually associated with parts of our emotional energy that has been repressed by fear or misunderstanding, and so is expressed as frightening or destructive influences. See ghost
Example: I fell asleep on a long couch journey to Spain whilst travelling through France. A colourful gnome jumped up and down the kerb. A while later I saw in my dream a black thin female figure with a band of bright light around the head like a band. She was moving gracefully like a puppet. It had a peaceful aura. When arriving in Spain I saw the gnome in a souvenir shop exact size, and next to it were a few dolls with weird big black eyes. Also I saw the black figure resemblance whilst at a cabaret show. Puppets came on that were black with fluorescent lighting around the head, identical except they were men.
Useful questions and hints:
Do I feel threatened or frightened by my dream?
Can I recognise that the dream characters are projections of what I have read or seen?
What can I do to alter my dream?
See Possession and Dreams – Summing Up – Secrets of Power Dreaming – Processing Dreams
Goal
Your aims, ambitions. The goal may also refer to the purposefulness of your unconscious drives. There could also be a link with winning or losing, as in sport. Therefore success or failure.
May refer to the external goals you have set yourself, but dreams often use the image to refer to the internal sense of where you are going in your life as a whole, and not just what job you might achieve. After observing the symbol forming action of the unconscious, Jung came to the conclusion that the unconscious itself was purposive and had certain goals. Such goals arise out of the connection the unconscious has with all life, and its sense of wholeness.
Although we may think that the goals we longed to reach when we were teenagers are not longer applicable,what was felt so strongly leaves a mark and still influences us unless we have alterd it. Also there is the influence of traumatic experiences that continure in a negative way. See – Conditioned Reflexes and Life’s Little Secrets
It might not be that you have purposely set yourself goals, but you might have a great attraction or urge toward something – and that is a goal. But apart from that there are tasks that we are born to deal with or meet. These are flaws in our character that dreams particularly point out and show us ways to deal with. I know I use this example often, but it is excellent.
Example: I was in a prison cell with two other men. We ate, slept and defecated in the cell. I was standing at the bars of the cell, and had the impression of having 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. Suddenly I realised that my years of shouting had availed nothing. The only person who was upset by it was myself. I was the victim of my own anger and turmoil. I dropped the attitudes and was free of them. Years went by and one by one I dropped other habits of emotion and thought with which I had trapped and tortured myself. 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. So intense was it I cried out. The cell mates called a warden. They stood looking at me as I experienced a radiance so strong I felt as if I must be shining. I was aware my joy poured into them, although they thought I was mad. Nothing would ever be the same again. Andy.
Here the problems were shown and the way to deal with them also. Andy did apply what he learnt from the dream and he did find a fountain of joy opened in him.
Useful questions and hints:
So what goal have you set for yourself?
What goals do you have spiritually?
What goals do you have for relationships?
What goals do you have for your health?
What goals do you have for your home?
What goals do you have for what you want to do with your energy/work/creativity?
What can you see are faults in yourself you need to work on?
See Life’s Little Secrets – Avoid Being Victims – Dream Yoga – Ages of Love – Secrets of Power Dreaming
Goat
Rutting masculine sexuality, or if a female goat the fertility and procreative power; ability to climb, personally or socially; tough ability to survive difficulties; sometimes connected with repressed natural drives which become reversed or evil/live when symbolising the devil – or the animal drives or instinctive and pooled consciousness prior to ego development. If you dream of the goat god Pan, see girl in the wood.
It can also depict somebody butting into your life, or conflict with someone if the goat is attacking. Also sure-footedness or meeting difficulties with ease.
If you have kept goats it may well represent responsibility or caring. If you have bred them you might use the goat to depict your own reproductive urges.
In the Bible the goat represents the bad guys in the phrase ‘separating the sheep from the goats’.
As an astrological sign the goat is the sign of Capricorn. For Capricornians the goat may represent their basic character. Capricorn is a “Cardinal” “Earth” sign. It is the sign of hard, long struggle, and finally, high attainment. This suggests a slow starter, somebody who makes it late in life. It’s symbol is a compound creature, half goat, half fish. The front portion has the head and front legs of a goat, the hind portion a fish’s body and tail. The “Goat,” with only his front legs, is patiently and perseveringly struggling to climb a mountain, but is handicapped and hindered all the time by having to drag with him his Piscean after-part. This represents a stage in human evolution during which humans were developing personal identity, but their instinctive drive were still powerful and difficult to deal with. It still depicts this in a person’s life today. The Capricornian is said to be ambitious with definite aims and purposes. They are patient and perseverance in overcoming difficulties. Thus they finally succeed in the attainment of their Zodiacal goal.
Example: I dreamt I was in a large room sitting near one wall. In front of me was a nanny goat, pregnant with very large teats. The goat asked me, or I knew that she needed, milking, because there was too much pressure of milk in her udder. I started to do this and noticed the goat was very squat, powerful and with tremendous physical stability. That is, its shape made it difficult to unbalance. I seemed to know how to milk the goat. A backwards and forwards motion was necessary, and no squeezing needed. It was like masturbation. As I did this I watched the milk flow on the floor, and thought what a waste it was, but felt soon her baby could feed. Then I watched her give birth. It was a very quick and easy thing, but I believe it was a human child, not a goat. I don’t know if the goat was then a woman, but a woman also gave birth, and I realised while still dreaming that I had dreamt twice about giving birth and this was because a birth process was at work in my unconscious. Paul.
This dream shows the many associations we have with the goat, everything from the procreation of motherhood to sex and masturbation. In fact Paul says of his dream, “As I remembered the dream I realised what some of it meant. The goats milk pressure is the pressure that builds up making it necessary for me to masturbate. That it is milk means it is my self-giving, my flow of love to others, wasted on the floor. The dream suggests this will soon change, and something is being born. Also the fact it is a breast yet it is being masturbated, means childhood needs for the breast are developing into real genital needs.
Idioms: Get my goat; an old goat, meaning an ageing man still lusting after women.
Useful Questions and Hints:
What can I understand from how the goat is portrayed in the dream?
What am I doing with the goat and what does this suggest?
Does the goat in any way portray elements of masculinity or femininity, maybe connected with mother or motherhood?
See Mammal Brain – Techniques for Exploring your Dreams – Energy Sex and Dreams