Posts Tagged ‘dream analysis’

Hades

This may relate to some sort of self-torment, perhaps through feelings of guilt or difficult decisions made in the past. See: Hell.

Hag

Sometimes represents grasping, evil emotional tendencies; or can hide the old wise woman of instinctive or natural wisdom.

Hair

Mostly hair in dreams links with the way you are thinking, your self image and attitudes. In some dreams it can link with sexual attraction or even what sexual characteristics you are displaying. Therefore changing the style of your hair would show you changing the way you see yourself, or how you want others to see you.

We sometimes use our hair and the way we style it to show what group or social group we identify with. So a hair style could link with a social group or status – business; hippie; middle class; smart and motivated; laid back; Goff’s; punk; artistic etc.

Example: I was watching a man do a stage act. It started with him looking directly toward me and gradually taking on the character of a hippie person. His hair was in a pony tail at the back and he became less well groomed. Then he shook his hair loose from the pony tail and went through amazing changes in which the whole styling and colour of his hair altered and changed the way he looked, and even his sex. For instance his hair became shoulder length, red, beautifully styled in a full waved perm of shining hair. As this he was a beautiful female. At another moment he turned profile and the hair styled backwards into a mane of wavy hair. T.C.

This dream shows how the hair depicts character and mental attitude, even gender. See: washing hair.

Baldness: Ageing; feeling obsolete; lack of thought; maleness.

Beard: This depends on the age of the person and the situation in the dream. For instance stubble on a teenage boy suggests he is moving into manhood. But a beard can also suggest carelessness – as when someone hasn’t shaved; a mask if someone uses it to hide their youth; or a way of life that does not conform, or like a backwoodsman. Sometimes the link is with a war veteran, suggesting a long exposure to conflict and extreme living conditions.

Black wig: This wig suggests the false thinking, the unconscious false thoughts, still prevalent and to be dealt with.

Brushing hair: Clarifying or bringing order to attitudes or thoughts. Getting rid of emotional or relationship tangles or tangled ideas.

Changing hair style: Changing the way you see yourself, your self image. Perhaps also changing attitudes and a change of mind.

Chest hair: Masculinity, virility. If it is on a woman, it suggests her expressing masculine qualities.

Colour of hair: In everyday life we unconsciously gather a lot of information from someone’s hair colour. For instance racial background is one immediate thing we see. But hair colour might well link with someone we know – our father, or mother, or someone close to us. If that is not the link it can suggest attitudes – light-headed for instance; dark thoughts; fiery temperament with red hair, or age and perhaps wisdom with grey or silver hair.

If the hair is artificially coloured this shows the person or yourself trying to be something you are not at your ‘roots’. But this might also show an attempt to stand out, to be different to those around you to gain attention or change your self image.

Combing hair: See: comb.

Cutting off beard: Making a change; feeling more certain about your manhood; or uncertainty about manhood, depending on dream. It can also suggest a fuller meeting or self expression, and uncovering of who you are. In some cultures it might suggest leaving behind traditional religious beliefs.

Cutting hair: It can be about a change taking place in you – it cold be to smarten yourself up, or to have a real personal change. Cutting hair or a hand or some other part of the body may be about an initiation into another type of life. In traditional initiation rites and a boy’s or girl’s initiation to manhood or womanhood the cutting of hair, was symbolic of growth beyond childhood and a taking on of mature life. See Long Hair

Cutting hair right off: This depends on what hair is cut off. If it is wild and unkempt, then it would show a real change and a more disciplined way of thinking and acting. If the hair style suggested some sort of social, religious or cult affiliation, then it would show a move away from that. In general it shows cutting back on what you think or dream, like clearing out a cupboard of all the things no longer needed. It can also show denial of sensual, sexual and physical drives, as with a monk, or acceptance of age or baldness.

Dark hair: The thoughts and ideas that move you yet are largely unconscious. Might show ‘dark’ thoughts or attitudes. But it can also suggest racial dispositions, such as Latin passions or responses, or the black cultural way of being. As mentioned above, it can also link with someone you know.

Disheveled hair Mental confusion, personal carelessness about how you appear to others. It might also be an indication that you are ruled by crazy thoughts and ideas.

Fair hair: Awareness; ‘light headed’. Might link with racial types such as Scandinavian stock, or indicate a coolheaded person. Being blonde is also for many women and men a statement of wanting to be attractive, or wanting to attract attention and not be one of the crowd.

Genital or armpit: Sexuality. Your natural or instinctive feelings and drives. See: pubic hair below.

Hair on chest or body of female, even child: The male side of the woman; might be parents desire for a boy generated male characteristics. It could also be a sign of something unusual breaking through, something that you didn’t expect growing into your life. See archetype of the animus

Hair in mouth: Hair in ones mouth is a cause of tremendous irritation or discomfort. So may be something that is very disturbing or difficult to speak about. Also the mouth is associated with eating and speaking.

You would want to get rid of the hair and irritation as soon as possible. So it may be something you are saying that is so wrong it makes you feel irritated. But hair can also represent your thoughts, so maybe it is something you are thinking and not words.

But the way you can find out for yourself is to imagine yourself in the dream and explore the feeling with the idea – what does this mean. You could use Being the Person or Thing

Long matted: Not caring about social image or self; drop out.

Long hair: Freedom; permissiveness; girlhood with woman.

Plaited or pony tail: Girlhood; socialised or disciplined thoughts and feelings.

Pubic hair: Some dreams mentioning pubic hair do so in a way that suggests it as a glimpse of what lies beneath – or at least a glimpse of whatever pleasure or emotions, perhaps even fear or pain, are generated by the experience of or thoughts/fantasies of sex. When the pubic hair is missing it is about the revealing of the sex or gender. Of course, today, the appearance or absence of hair could refer to the latest fashions in sexual display.

Another possibility of the lack of pubic hair is that your sexual feelings, needs and power are being made conscious, or are brought to awareness.

In connection with teenagers it shows the emergence of their sexual life and all that will bring.

Short hair: If it  was long it shows a radical change in the way you see yoruself, perhaps more busines like or less feminine. It can also show that you are maturing beyond the girlhood or boyhood stage. Your present age has nothing to do with the change. See Ages of Love

Tight style: Discipline; self restraint.

Very long beard: Sense of eternal or long life.

Washing hair: Changing ones attitude; altering the way one thinks about something or ones viewpoint. “Wash that man right out of my hair” mind/feelings.

White beard: Wisdom or experience gained through long life, and perhaps an awareness of life beyond the senses.

Wig: False attitudes or thoughts; an assumed social front.

Woman’s dreams – Armpit or leg hair: Social expression of sexuality or physicality.

Idioms: harebrained; hair of the dog; get in your hair; got you by the short hairs; keep your hair on; hair raising; have us by the short hairs; let one’s hair down; make you hair curl/stand on end; didn’t turn a hair; pulling hair out; put hairs on your chest; tear one’s hair out; split hairs, without turning a hair. See: shampoo.

Useful Questions and Hints:

What is being expressed by the hair style or things done to the hair?

Is the hair coloured, if so what impression do I have of it?

Is this different in any way to my own hair style – is so what do the differences suggest?

See Victims – Secrets of Power Dreaming – Life’s Little Secrets – Techniques for Exploring your Dreams

Hairdresser

See: Barber.

Hall

A point of unity; coming together of things, or connection with new people and ideas. It can also represent an important change, such as occurs in marriage, or social acclaim.

Buildings Hallway

The hall or passage in a house may depict how you relate to other people, how much you let them into your life. It might also suggest the connections between the different parts of yourself, such as different interests or talents. Occasionally the hallway in a woman’s dream indicates her uterus.

The way one meets other people or allows them into ones life or intimacy. It can also be the receptive female reproductive function; connecting link with aspects of oneself.

Example: ‘I find myself in the entrance hall of a very large house. The hall is very large with a curved staircases either side meeting at the top to form a balcony. There is nobody about and I am frightened. I start to walk up the stairs but then find myself hiding in the roof with very little space above my body.’ Mrs B.

The hall is probably Mrs B’s childbearing ability and her image of herself as a woman. The words ‘little space above my body’ suggest her main area of life has always been her childbearing function or physical attractiveness as a woman, and she has not developed her mental self. See also: corridor under house and buildings ; white under colours.

Halo

Expressive of the inner light. See: Glow.

Hammer

Power, of a material physical nature. Threat of aggression. May refer to male sex organ, or sexuality in its physically forceful, unsympathetic aspect. Or can express your desires to hammer something home or make yourself felt.

Practical abilities you have; suggestion of things we might need to do in our life – hammer out a situation with someone, cut away old attitudes, drill through resistances to discover our real feelings, etc.; male sexuality in different aspects.

Hand

Most frequently dreamt of part of body. It depicts how you express yourself in action or relationships; your grasp of life, of ideas, of opportunities. It shows the way you hold on to – or let go of – people, your children, situations – this is why people are handcuffed to take away their power. The hand is an extension of your power – to give, take, wound, heal, support or do. Sometimes it is hands we reach out to protect ourselves or others. With our hands we touch other people and the world around us.

The hands express the full range of human emotions and desires. Everything from violence to the tender caress, or skilful surgery or creativity, are manifest through the hands. Here are some examples: He clutched at my hand – I put my hand over the receiver – She had her hand on my butt and pinched hard – He caught my hand and begged me silently to listen to him – The woman tries to hand me a purple composition book – they are second-hand  – Staff in hand I smash it down – I reached the cot and put my hand out to smooth the sobbing a little – The woman next to me keeps trying to hold my hand –– My dog took my right hand firmly in his mouth and led me.

Fingers: More than anything else it is through the fingers you feel and explore the things around you . Although your eyes allow you to see the world, it is with your fingers you take hold of it, work with it, create or destroy.

Fingers can be expressive of your feelings. It can be the finger of scorn; accusing finger; finger of suspicion; beckoning finger, or to put your finger on something and therefore know something about it.

Fingers represent your grasp on things, your method of materialising yourself, or leaving your mark upon matter. Therefore your personal skills.

The thumb is the jewel in the crown of the human hand. Without the thumb the human hand is nothing but a grabbing and holding thing. The thumb has the characteristics of personal identity.  The thumb in essence is a symbol of status, of human status. It depicts our personality, our uniqueness and what mark we leave on the world in living our life. Its strength shows what makes us stand out. Its weakness depicts the characteristics leading to our merging into the crowd. So it indicates ones standing in connection with other human beings, where you place yourself or where others place you because of their relationship with you.  The thumb is an indication to how assertive a person is, whether they are able to express themselves satisfyingly during their life, and how capable they are of influencing and mastering the environment around them.

The finger can represent the penis, as is common use in sex-play: or your means of sensing. or fingering things. Fingers can, as the wedding ring finger, suggest something like marriage. The finger print also denotes your uniqueness.

The fingers had a life long before human beings existed. They lived, they were part of life on this world; and they had to do with the gaining of greater control over food and movement. They are not peculiar to human beings. Their past is something we have taken up, we have carried forward, we have added to and shifted flexibility in the thumb. But the fingers were there, delicately shaped, and formed. They were already waiting for us to take them and glorify them.

The dog or the cat could pick up its babies and carry them and move them around but the ape can pull its fleas out. It can hold a stick and manipulate in quite a different way, and this is the fingers this is what the fingers built, this is the platform from which we are able to touch the world, move it direct it in a different way.  This past is still here in our hand. The fingers are the lengths they are because of the way our forebears or whatever creatures that we arose from, used them. They are the connection that we have with them.

There is a quality in the fingers relating to the physical world, with changing things, with being able to manipulate, being able to create, to take hold of the world and reshape it in an enormous variety of ways, much more so than other creature.

The first finger: Is what we point with and suggests directing ones power or influence outwards. It is what we delicately hold things with using our thumb. This is the finger we point with, it is a directive finger, it can even be rude to point with this finger because it is representative of us and our ego.

The second finger: Ninety nine percent of the time  this finger is the longest on the hand. It tells us of the conventional side of the character, the ability the person has to respond to law, to rules. It indicates family, responsibility and the things we carry as responsibility in our life. What I am saying is the finger connects with things that have deep and fundamental origins within us and that provide the balance and certainty and in our life and which we must take care and responsibility of. It not being a digit that alone sees any action, but one that is always involved right in the middle of all the fingers activity. This finger to me shows the basis of a person, their makeup and the responsibility they can take on, the importance of their family and those things that are very much supportive within their life.

The third finger: This finger connects with our creativity. It is about what we externalise in our life and about our energy and our drive to create.  This is the expression of the person more in raw energy terms. When we look at the hand and see the tendencies within that character, whether they are physical or artistic in some way or intellectual, this finger represents really the expression of those tendencies, expression of creativity in whatever way the subject expresses themselves. Generally this finger is the third longest finger on the hand. So this finger is partly unconscious. It represents the unconscious, because as a physical aspect it is less determined than the thumb and first two fingers. It is more spontaneous, it has less to do with personal deliberation than the other part of the hand.

This finger is less deliberate and conscious than the thumb and the first two fingers, so in that sense it has to do with many of the interactions that go on between us and other people that are less deliberate, that are semi unconscious in a way. Many people don’t recognise those factors in their life, they don’t recognise the emotional factors or the social factors in their life that although barely conscious, are extremely powerful.

The fourth finger: It represents how we communicate ourselves to the outside world, our ability to be fluent in communication. If this finger is very long and well formed the person is good in communicating, in relationships and in interacting with people, it is about our relationships with people together with our communication.

Blood on your hands: Shows you have hurt or even killed an aspect of yourself. See Blood on Hands

Claw-like hands: Clawing, wounding ability.

Dirty hands: Dirty work; unclean activity; something you have been doing that has left ‘dirt on your hands’ – suggesting perhaps that you want to get rid of the influence it has left in your life.

Fingernails: These sometimes depict your ability to effect or change something, to grasp small things. They could also reflect your way of life such as rough physical work or otherwise, suggesting whether life has been hard or kind. Perhaps also your state of health. They might be weapons, or reflect your personal condition – i.e. dirty or cared for, whether you are ready to really use your hands.

Fist: Anger; restrained anger; threat; graspingness, selfishness, arrogance, aggressiveness, tension.

Handshake: Contacting an aspect of self; friendship; testing a relationship or gaining an impression of someone.

Left hand: The left hand – if you are right handed – are those supportive qualities, those strengths and traits that express in daily life underlying and making possible the action of the right arm. In other words they are the loyalties, the care and strength of support, almost unconscious energy we put into what we do with our right hand and arm – our outer activities. The left arm is the qualities that support outer activities and relationships. In a certain way it represent confidence, the absence of which would undermine all the external things we would be trying to accomplish.

Palm of hand: It is the most used form of contact with the world, with matter and work or creative action. The other side of the hand is the opposite of that, and suggests a none physical action or purpose. It is about the mental faculty of decision making of non physical activity. It can also been seen as a notepad on which you write memos.

Right handed: If you are right handed this indicates your active outgoing self, your conscious and capable skills such as you express with this hand and arm. It is the part of you obvious to others and yourself, your strength or lack of it. Injury or malformation of this arm indicates inability to be creative and productive in the outer world. It shows problems regarding manifesting or making real, what you wish or will to do.

Rough hands: Marks left by difficult or demanding experience; roughness in handling others.

Idioms: a bird in the hand; a free hand; an old hand; at the hands of; bite the hand that feeds; can’t put my hands on it; caught red-handed; change hands; don’t hand me that; eat out of the palm of your hand; firm hand; first hand; give me a hand; hand in; hand out; hands are tied; hands down; hands full; hands up; hand me down; hands off; hand over fist; hand to hand; hand to mouth; hard hand; have it in hand; helping hand; in good hands; hold your hand; in the hands of; lay my hands on; laying on of hands; lend a hand; like the back of your hand; open-handed; out of hand; out of our hands; raise a hand; second hand; upper hand; wash your hands of; burnt fingers; at one’s fingertips; snap one’s fingers; soil one’s hands; try your hand at; green fingers; have a finger in; itchy fingers; sticky fingers; fingers crossed; lay a finger on; point the finger at; get one’s finger out; fingers to bone.

 

Useful Questions and Hints:

What is it I am doing with my hands or fingers – is it creative, destructive, giving taking, etc?

What feeling, thoughts or attitude am I expressing with my hands, and how does that relate to my life?

What descriptive words are linked with my dream hand(s) – strong, big, hurt, small – and what does that say about what I am doing?

See Processing Dreams – Secrets of Power Dreaming – Martial Art of the Mind – Karma

Handbag

See: Bag.

Hanger Hanging Hung

Anything that hangs depends upon the thing it is hanging by, or from. So hanging in a dream shows a state of depending for support on one thing, as shown in the dream. It can signify dependence, fear of falling, lacking support. Or it may be you have found something to hang onto that actually supports you in an otherwise difficult situation. It is then helpful to define what it is in your waking life that is giving such support.

A person who is hanged: Awful repression of self expression, to the point of feeling dead or depressed. Perhaps feelings of life not worth living. To dream of being strangled, or of hanging oneself, signifies “oppression and distress”. See: neck.

From another perspective, suicide is something to avoid if we take cause and effect into account. See karma; Answer to Critics; suicide

Useful Questions and Hints:

Do you feel you are depending upon something or just hanging on?

Is there someone or something that gives you support?

If you are dreaming of suicide explore the dream to find answers?

See Techniques for Exploring your Dreams – The power of Habits – Avoid Being Victims

Harbour Port

Departures; meetings and partings; leaving a phase of life behind, or meeting a new one, and how we encounter such changes.

It can also indicate business, or the holiday environment where you meet opportunity or failure, love or abandonment. In other words Life in all its variety.

Hard

Unsympathetic, unfeeling, unresponding. Difficulty.

Hare

Intuition; creative ideas; the crazy irrational notions we sometimes call intuition. This probably arose because of the hare’s habit of suddenly bounding up from its hiding place unexpectedly, as intuitions often do. The hare can also depict the victim or hunted feeling; swiftness; timidity or shyness. The hare occasionally appears as a supernatural figure giving advice; or as a sacrificial animal. As such it depicts our ability to make great changes in life, or to draw on potential that has enormous unexpressed resources.

In past cultures the hare was often given great respect. It stood for intuition, rejuvenation and resurrection, and thus of the immortal nature of humans. The hare was sometimes the messenger of the gods. It was also seen as a fertility symbol, and was predominantly female and connected with the moon. In this connection the hare is the Easter Bunny, connected with the Moon Goddess Oestra or Eostre. The Native Americans saw the hare as a hero/saviour, the personification of light. For some reason early Christianity saw the hare as representing lust – but many animals represent lust in Christianity as this religion has had a huge struggle with sexual drives. It seems to be a faith that has difficulties with sexuality. The Jewish faith see hares as unclean. This rests on a law that only grass eaters with cloven feet should be eaten.

The Winnebago North American Indians saw Hare, like Trickster. He was in animal form and has not yet reached mature human form. He was seen as the founder of human culture-the Transformer. The Winnebago believe that the Hare gave them their famous Medicine Rite, and so he became their saviour as well as their culture-hero. This myth was so powerful, that those who used the Peyote Rite were reluctant to give up Hare when Christianity was offered them. So they merged him with the figure of Christ, and some said they had no need of Christ since they already had Hare.

The picture shows an ancient picture of three leaping hares. The symbols is from old English churches in Devon and Cornwall, but the image was also linked with the Moon Goddess. The gestation period of the hare is 28 days, and so there has always been a link with the moon and human menstrual cycles. Easter was originally a festival celebrating the period of fertility.

Example: I was walking across open moorland, followed by a crowd of people. I was their leader, and was supposed to be leading them to “Salvation”. The only thing was, I had no idea in which direction salvation lay. We came to a barbed-wire fence and stopped. I was considering the best place to cross, when I noticed a rabbit beyond the fence. My dog was with me, and leapt on the rabbit to kill it as in my previous dreams, but this time the rabbit fought back and bit his foot, and he stood back respectfully, as he would if a cat clawed him. I now saw that the rabbit had turned into a huge and powerful hare, with four pink furry babies. Then the hare spoke to me, saying, “Where are you going?”

‘I told him we were looking for salvation. He listened, then quietly said “Turn back. Go back to whence you came. At this I became irritable and said, who was he to tell us what to do. There were so many so called authorities telling people how to discover truth, and yet most of them either disagreed or hadn’t found it themselves.

‘The hare looked at me and suddenly disappeared. Then, in a few moments it reappeared. This impressed me tremendously. I felt it was a sign of complete self mastery, and knew the hare was the master. He then said again, “Go back, and carry on with your accustomed tasks. Do not seek wildly the Kingdom of Heaven, for you already have what you seek within you. Your seeking only hides it.” Now the hare speaks again. “Go back,” says he. “For what you search is within you already, as the plant is within the seed. Go back therefore, carry on your accustomed callings, and wait, for it is nigh upon you from within and without. But wait, and you will know it.” Then we all turned around and went back to our village, and carried on our usual tasks, knowing that in time, we would realise our heaven.

Useful Questions and Hints:

Does the hare give you a message, if so can you put it into words?

Is there any warning indicated in the dream – if so what is it?

Is there anything new or vulnerable arising in you intuitively?

See Mammal Brain – Using Your Intuition – Techniques for Exploring your Dreams – Edgar Cayce

Hashish

Either the release of intuitive information and experience of inner self, or it can represent artificial insight, or the fantasies we experience through personal delusion or hopes and fears. See: Addicted.

Hat

In many dreams a hat depicts ones present opinions, beliefs, or mental attitudes. For instance a Jewish skull cap would represent the religious beliefs of the wearer, a cap might suggest informal or relaxed attitudes, a hard hat used for building work suggests protectiveness, and hats are fundamentally protective in any case. A huge hat might suggest an irrational or impractical state of mind, or a mind that is expansive. See: Clothes.

The colour of the hat is of great importance too. Often a red hat suggests difficult feelings or danger is involved. See: colours

A hat can also point to a role or status, such as would be suggested by a soldier’s, chef or policeman’s hat.

In this way a hat in a dream can define what you are doing ‘in your head’ in the way you deal with your emotions, sexual desires and relationships because of your attitudes and opinions.

Some hats represent ideologies or various cultures, such as a Tibetan hat, or a Sikh head scarf. This may show how you are being influenced by or in conflict with different ideologies or ways of looking at people, life and the world.

Someone else’s hat: This often shows you what you feel or intuitively sense about the person it belongs to. In this way it might be showing you what is going on inside their head.

Someone’s hat seen without them around shows you sensing their presence in your life, their influence.

Taking off hat: In the past this was used as a sign of respect or humility. But it could also show you changing your attitude or state of mind – removing or shifting your values or thoughts.

Idioms: At the drop of a hat; brass hat; eat one’s hat; hang on to one’s hat; hang ones hat; hat in hand; hat trick; hats off; take my hat off to; tip of the hat; under one’s hat; old hat.

 

Useful Questions and Hints:

What type of hat is this, and does it suggest a role or status – if so how do I relate to that?

Is this hat linked with a social situation such as a party, theatre or work?

What attitude does this hat link with or illustrate, and am I expressing that attitude?

See Characters and People in Dreams – Techniques for Exploring your Dreams – Questions – Background