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Haunt Haunted

Memories, feelings, guilt, which haunt us, or parts of the wider awareness of the unconscious which attempt to communicate. What communicates can sometimes be the husks or influences from past traumas or events, which have been emptied of hurt and real influence, but still affect us as habit patterns. They can also be fantasies, hopes, longings we have given time to, and so filled with our life and sexual energy, and which now influence us. See ghoul; ghost

Also we are so programmed by what our parents fear or believe that we carry these into us and are haunted by them in our dreams. Our emotions can cause much suffering, and unless one can uncover the roots of such despair, it may feel as if one were bewitched, haunted or cursed by such feelings. Or it may be that rather than darkness, one is haunted by the dreams of ideal and wonderful love that only lead one on to misery – a sort of chimera or mirage that tempts but provides no reality. Unless we can come to terms with what is behind the haunting images of death we meet in waking and in our dreams, we fail to live fully and daringly. This is because we are too troubled by death lurking in the shadows of injury and the unknown.

Example: I dreamt I was aiming to get out of a house. I had a feeling it was deserted, and I was pulling my dad with me. My father looked tall and thin and rather worse for wear, so I had to support him – and at the same time I knew it was me I was pulling along. We had to pass through a room to get to the front door. As we entered the room I had a feeling it was haunted in some way – there was a sort of heavy threatening feeling about it. I got the door open to the front door but my father was gone – disappeared. In his place was a young woman about late twenties; so I caught her arm and pulled her out of the building.

When he explored his dream the result he got was – It was that the old deserted building was representation of an old way of life and attitudes I had lived in years passed – that was why it was deserted. The heavy atmosphere and haunting of the room was a hangover of depression and negative thinking I used to have that could still be felt at times. And my father/me was an attitude or view of myself I have at times, one of a worn out old man. I was in a hurry to get out of the building into the sunlit street. My father/me disappearing was that I had let go of that attitude, and the woman depicted opportunity to love.

Useful questions and hints:

Does this represent a particular old memory, fear, or piece of the past that ‘haunts’, or keeps coming back to me?

Does it indicate dread of the unknown? If so what is it you dread?

Do I have things from the past that I have tried to bury or forget about?

See: Spirits – Hallucination – Life’s Little Secrets – Dreaming of Death – Techniques for Exploring your Dreams

Hawk

Often a messenger or a far seeing creature. Because it flies high it has an overview of what it surveys. It can therefore signify the spirit or the flight of the soul.

But it is also a hunter and can attack, so can be seen as in opposition to the victim predator theme.

See: Eagle.

In some dreams it is shown as a eye that sees all, and also the trained intuition that sees more than the physical eyes.

I realised he was like a wild bird, a hawk flying high across Peaks. His mind soared across concepts in which many people remained their whole life. His vision encompassed a wideness I had never previously met. So, for me he was a teacher, a master revealing dimensions of life I had not guessed at.

Here is another man’s vision of what the hawk means.

In one moment it brought together all that I had experienced in the past and previous times of vision. It encompassed enormous amounts of information in simple words. The words now, without the vision seem empty. But as it was happening I could see the vast sweeps of time and how the individual human life is woven into the whole pattern of events, and how the present life is in every way an extension of that weaving. This opened a view that I had never seen before, as an expression, in ordinary or extraordinary human events, of these vast sweeps of history, of how huge dramas are involved in the most simple of human events. I saw that when our vision expands, when, like a great hawk our awareness soars above this moment, and takes in the huge horizons that stretch away from this time, this place, this period of our life, we gain a vision of tremendous context, tremendous background for all that surrounds us and we experience. In fact this ‘context’ was so enormous I could, even with this wide view, not grasp it all.

But a hawk is also a hunter and can attack, so can be seen as in opposition to the victim predator theme. So can be grasping and attacking. See: Eagle.

Useful questions and hints:

What was the hawk doing – attacker, seer, wise or hunter?

Did you feel anything in the dream?

Was the hawk a source of wonder or of fear?

See Martial Art of the Mind – Secrets of Power Dreaming – Associations Working With – Inner World

Head

You can lose your head, have a head for heights, figures, or use your head. Usually relates to your mental cleverness or intellect, your thoughts. But it is also often to do with attitudes and decision making. Apart from this it represents consciousness, awareness of self or controlling factor. In some dreams it might help to think of the idioms about the head in your particular language. For instance in English we say ‘get ahead’ meaning improve ones standing. Or head over heels, meaning crazy in love. See: Face.

The head usually links with your thoughts, opinions, your intellect, and especially your ability to make decisions. Therefore it is an indication of your intentions.

Because your eyes, ears and mouth are part of your head the turning of the head toward or away from someone or something links with this ability to make decisions, to avoid seeing or being involved in something.

The head, as with the face, can also depict your self image. This is fairly understandable from the huge number of idioms about head and face, such as ‘lose one’s head, lose face’, so one might literally dream of a headless figure. The position of the head also shows what is felt, as when we say ‘held held high’ or ‘hanging my head’. One can also be ‘in ones head’, meaning locked up in thinking and worries and so not seeing what is going on around you; or ‘out of ones head’ meaning crazy in some way.

Dreams may also use the head as an image to show how one is ‘in two minds’ about something, or is changing ones mind. This might be shown by having two heads, or changing ones head.

Dreams may also use the head as an image to show how one is ‘in two minds’ about something, or is changing ones mind. This might be shown by having two heads, or changing ones head.

Example: A big man, with several gunmen, came into the house at Woburn Walk, threatening to kill my father. I held them off by threatening the leader with the 410 shotgun held at his head. There was no definite conclusion one way or another at the end of the dream.

The dream is obviously using the idea of the head as being vital to life. It is just and idea as you cannot be killed in a dream. See What do You bring to Your Dreams?

Here is another dream showing how we do not need to be frightened of attackers.

Example: I was in bed. There was a knock at the front door. My wife answered it. I heard a scuffle and a man’s voice. He was assaulting her. My wife said in the struggle I would come, and the man laughed. I got out of bed and got my gun. I went into the room and rammed the rifle barrel in his face. My wife got clear. He said I wouldn’t have the nerve to fire the gun, still slightly mocking. I said, “Wouldn’t I!” And swung the gun like a club, smashing it on his head. He ran out into the street and I threw the broken gun after him.

Head without a body: This might mean you are not in touch with your physical and sexual needs, or it could mean you eel like a ‘nobody’.

Flames coming from the head: We all have areas of the brain that are seldom developed – you know the old story of only 10% of our brain is used. The flames show that in some way you are awakening those higher brain functions. You may at times while awake feel a tickling or tingling feeling on the top of your head, and that may be a sign of the awakening.

Idioms: above one’s head; a good head; a head start; banging ones head against brick wall; come to a head; egg head; enter one’s head; funny in the head; get it through your head; get something into one’s head; get your head together; give head; go off one’s head; head above water; head of steam; head in the clouds; head in the sand; head man/woman; head over heels; head up hold your head up high; heads will roll; lose your head; off the top of my head; over one’s head; out of my head; swollen or big head; square head; talk your head off; turn one’s head; two heads are better than one.

Useful Questions and Hints:

What am I doing with my head – turning to look at, turning away, held up, down?

Where am I ‘heading’ in my dream, and what does this indicate?

What is the drama of the dream suggesting about the head – losing it – hurt – changed – and how does that link with my waking activities or attitudes?

See Summing Up – Easy Dream Interpretation – Being in Control – Edgar Cayce

Heal Healer Healing

Parts of oneself that can channel healing influences to bear on your present needs.

Through the use of dreams one can use these visions of the night to discover and heal the deepest issues in oneself, and to touch the high ground of their spiritual awareness. They can present in symbols past traumatic experience. If met this can lead to deep psychological healing. Such dreams are therefore an attempt on the part of our spontaneous inner processes to bring about healing change.

A healer in a dream is a wonderful sign that you are accessing the healing forces in yourself. Use the image to help your own and others healing process. See Secrets of Power Dreaming; It is important the 2 wills

Example: I know my body has the ability to heal itself, but I didn’t know how. As I was working to renovate our house, and it was difficult, and the pain had continued for six months without any change, so in LifeStream I asked what I could do. The answer was quite detailed. Holding in mind the pain in the arm I waited for the responses to arise from within. Soon, spontaneous fantasies and ideas bubbled into awareness, almost as if someone were explaining the situation to me. I was led to understand that during the past year I had not only been working hard physically to renovate the building, but because of divorce, family conflict within my new relationship, plus the change of home, I had experienced much stress and anger. During my sawing, plastering and hammering, I had discharged much of this anger and stress. As with any hard work, the cells in my right arm had broken down, but the anger and tension had prevented the cells from regenerating adequately.

As this insight emerged I could see what a shrewd summary of my recent unconscious attitudes it was. The emerging explanation went on to say that each cell is a tiny individual life, and in the body, they each take on a particular task. Some live as workers in the muscles; some are thinking beings in the brain, and some act as transformers, as in the liver. Each cell depends upon the others to co-operatively share food, oxygen and pleasure. The cells in my arm didn’t mind the hard work, but they also needed to share the pleasures of eating, music and love making. I had been unconsciously deluging them with anger and tension, and denying them laughter and relaxation.

So when I ate I would consciously allow the pleasure I felt in my mouth to be felt by the rest of my body, particularly the right arm. When I made love, I attempted to relax and let my whole body feel the pleasure, not keep it in the genitals. I frequently concentrated on my right arm, relaxing it and allowing pleasure felt elsewhere to flow to it. Within a week it was completely free of the pain, and the problem has never returned.

Useful Questions and Hints:

What do I feel needs healing in me?

Does the dream says anything about how to be healed?

Can you explore the maning of the dream?

See Techniques for Exploring your Dreams – Avoid Being Victims – Life’s Little Secrets

Hear Hearing

See: Ear.

Hearse

Feelings about death or reminder of time left to live. It can be a warning of someone’s death if there is a person connected with it. Or a project or issue that is now dead and needs to be buried.

A white hearse is still a reminder of death, but with a positive ‘things will be okay’ message. See: Funeral.

Example: When I finally rush upstairs to get myself ready I see the hearse and coffin have already arrived and my husband and two children are – in the clothes I got ready – going down the path weeping. I think “Cheek! They’re going without me.” Then I realise the funeral is mine.

Example: I was present at a funeral, and moved about in the house among the mourners without being in the least degree able to realise the death of my friend as a case for mourning. I saw the coffin placed in the hearse, and in due course I was marshalled to a place in the funeral procession, which proved to be not in the mourning-coach, but in my own carriage. By my side, in the shadow, sat a gentleman, who, after being silent for a short time, said to me in a well-known voice, “I agree with you that death ought not to be regarded as a subject for mourning, and that the trappings of woe are out of place on an occasion like this.” I looked up to see who it was who had thus divined my own thoughts, and saw, without the least feeling of surprise or fear, that the speaker was no other than the friend whose body was then in the hearse on the way to the grave. It seemed to me to be quite natural that he should thus divine my thought, and that we should be together, he talking and I listening, as if death had not parted us. It also seemed quite natural that a moment or two later he should vanish away as he did, and I be left alone as I was, with a strong conviction that I ought to be able to come and go, divine and speak as he had done.

Useful Questions and Hints:

What else was mentioned apart from the hearse?

Were you just a watcher or were you involved?

What feelings did you have – and where they ones you had had at some time?

See Plot of the Dream – Characters and People in Dreams – Talking As – Dreaming of Death

Heart

Emotions, sympathy, tenderness, love, affection. Also inner feelings, desires, secret thoughts, conscience. You can take heart, and thus carry on through difficulties, or lose heart and give up. In some dreams the heart stands for worries you may have about your health. It might not be that you have heart problems, but simply that because of down feelings, your ‘heart’ is not in what you are doing, so there is no zest for life.

Your dream heart indicates your emotions, and through them your pity, sympathy, your likes and dislikes. Of course it also might point to your actual physical heart. This obviously links with relationships and their challenges. If you think it refers to your physical heart get it checked out.

Example: I experienced a degree of fear that the problem with the motor referred to my heart. I let myself slip into the fear and it dissolved and I saw that it referred not to my physical heart, but to my heart as my feelings. I could see that the problem is to do with no feeling connected with people. There’s nothing that makes me feel connected with people. I don’t feel excited about anything.

Being stabbed, shot or in any way injured in the heart may depict deep emotional hurts, but also may be a warning of physical heart problems.

Many dream about the heart are in connection with pounding or racing heart, and these are indications of anxieties or fears, sometimes of illness or death, that are pushed into the unconscious where they rattle about scaring you. Most of these are simply what they show themselves to be in the dreams – fears. Fear that is repressed can cause great tension and illness. Most of such fears are groundless and best brought out into daylight where you can see them for the lifeless, bloodless creatures they are. See: fear – dealing with.

But if your heart is often beating irregularly, or beating fast it is worth having it checked.

The dream heart also depicts your connections with other people as the following example shows.

Example: I was in what looked like huge white ribs. In the ribs was a big heart beating. Beyond that was my homeopath. I could hardly breath, struggling to live. I could hear the heart beating, but as I listened I could also hear another heart beating. It seemed to me it was my sister’s heart connected to my own invisibly. The homeopath came forward and stretching open the ribs, reached into them, took hold of the invisible heart – it was like a shadow behind the other heart – and pulled it out. Immediately I could breath again and felt I was whole. In everyday life I and my sister have been incredibly linked, even to the point of having cramps at night on the same nights, though living in different parts of the world. I had become ill recently out of this connection, but as soon as I had this dream I was well again, but my sister became ill. She has just been diagnosed as HIV positive and is dying.

In the Bible there are nearly a thousand mentions of the word heart. In modern language we might describe this as referring to unconscious intentions or feelings. This might still be the case with heart appearing in dreams. So it could relate to what you are feeling, desiring and intending unconsciously, as with the example above.

Idioms: after your heart; break your heart; change one’s heart; cry your heart out; done one’s heart good; don’t let your heart run away with your head; eat your heart out; faint of heart; from bottom of heart; have a heart; have no heart; have a heart; heart like stone; heavy heart; lost your heart; my heart’s in my mouth; open-hearted; pluck at the heart strings; sick at heart; steal your heart; take it to heart; the heart of the matter; wearing your heart on your sleeve; young at heart.

Useful Questions and Hints:

What feeling or attitude is involved in this dream and where do I meet that in my waking life?

What is happening to my dream heart, and how does that relate to my life?

Is there fear or some threat of death here, and what anxiety am I feeling while awake?

What am I pushing into my unconscious that my heart dream is showing me?

See Dreaming about an Ex – Beware of Love – Secrets of Power Dreaming

Heat Hot

Strong feelings, release of feelings or exuberance. Sexual passion or excitement as being on heat. Uncontrolled desires. Power or great energy. Heat in dream or in your body often accompanies great change or a healing or transformative process.

Heat can bed to cause incredible pain as the example shows.

Example: Then they brought in a white rabbit, and thrust its eyes through with heated irons. And as I gazed, the rabbit seemed to me like a tiny infant, with human face, and hands which stretched themselves towards me in appeal, and lips which sought to cry for help in human accents. And I could bear no more, but broke forth into a bitter rain of tears. Anna Kingsford

Heat is a sign of life in our body. It is sometimes called the ‘fire of life’. If the fire becomes a raging inferno in our dream it probably shows signs of illness. Also heat can indicate trauma.

Example: In a repressed home where the spontaneous expression of feelings was not allowed and had to be covered up with white paint. If strong emotions began to bubble up through heat, the thin veneer of social politeness might blister and possibly peel away. The family image would be tarnished if feelings trapped beneath the surface heated up and became visible. Mary was stunned by these comments but recognised their validity. Suddenly she found herself flooded with previously repressed memories about specific incidents of physical abuse and emotional trauma from her childhood. These were memories that had been totally blocked from awareness during the intervening years. She realised that she had internalised the adult fears that her family’s social position would be destroyed if someone were to find out the family’s guilty “secrets” about her abuse. Mary was therefore expected to “whitewash” them.

Idioms: a dead heat; heat is on; if you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen; put the heat on; take the heat; the heat is on

Useful Questions and Hints:

What way am I experiencing the heat?

Is the heat being used for some purpose?

Do I have difficult feelings about the heat?

See Energy Sex and Dreams – Techniques for Exploring your Dreams – Life’s Little Secrets – – Settings in Dreams

Heaven

This might suggest you find life difficult, and this is a compensatory dream. It might also be an intuition about life after death or a retreat from life, even a meeting with your religious concepts. A sense of heaven in a dream can be touching your own sense of harmony or integration. Being away from the pain or unhappiness of a terrible relationship or place or being in love or deeply happy and be shown as heaven. See: Mention of heaven and hell in spiritual life in dreams.

“The ancient mystery religions viewed the planets as a ladder or stairway to heaven that was travelled by the soul after death. The ruling god, or later the archangel or archon, of each planet corresponded to an aspect of the personality: love, power, anger (this is the origin of the ‘“Seven Deadly Sins” and the “Seven Virtues”)

That is an old pictorial way of explaining heaven. It does say that we each may go through a process of going through different levels of experience in ‘heaven’. But today’s view of heaven and hell are that they are self created by the way we live and what we do with the energy of life we all have. We can make of it a hell of remorse, bitterness, sacrificing others for our own good, living only a life based on greed or a life based on the fact that we are all part of the web of life and in doing so find lasting satisfaction. See Summing Up

We can go through the levels while still living in the body by a process of maturing by learning from what our life presents us with – the good and the bad are all learning experiences. See Life’s Little Secrets

Hedge

See: Fence.

Hedgehog

This probably refers to the sort of response we sometimes have of being easily hurt by situations or peoples remarks or actions. It could also mean we feel someone we know is very prickly or easily offended or irritated. or memories which create pain or irritation. Sometimes it illustates a vulnerable part of oneself which easily withdraws, but can react by hurting others.

But in fiction hedgehogs are often depicted as rather forgetful and rural characters who are slightly short-sighted and having a very personal view of the world.

Example: I stood on a mini hedgehog and got spikes stuck in the bottom of my foot. I pulled them out and put the hedgehog on the sofa. Then I sat on the sofa to recover from the spikes in my foot, and got spikes in my buttock. There was no real pain. I just wanted the spikes not to be a part of me. Can you interpret this?

There is a real clue in your phrase – I want the spikes not to be a part of me. Something is irritating you. It causes you  not to be as active or mobile in exterior activities, maybe even relationships. It also has the effect of you not being able to relax as much as you need – thus the spines in the bottom. I don’t know where these old memories or irritations arose from. But as you call this a mini hedgehog, it may have originated from when you were yourself a mini human being. To get a hold on those spines, ask yourself what minor irritations are causing you not to relax or get about, and pluck them out of your life.

Example: As Joe and I turned a corner I saw something on the path. At first I didn’t recognise it. Then I realised it was a hedgehog giving birth. Perhaps at first I thought the hedgehog was dead. I pointed it out to Joe and we stood watching it. I warned him not to get to close because he took a step toward the hedgehog and I could see it trying to move away in apprehension. I wondered what Joe made of this sight of something so fundamental. I felt it was something important for him to see. An important experience.

Useful Questions and Hints:

Am I feeling a need to withdraw from being in contact with others?

Is someone, or am I, being ‘prickly’ or easily irritated?

What defences do I use to protect myself?

See Animal – Mammal Brain – Techniques for Exploring your Dreams

Heirloom

Good or bad tendencies that have been passed on from family, or acquired from society, powerful links with the past, possibly to do with talents or tendencies.

Hell

Hell in dreams usually refers to your self created misery, perhaps arising out of such things as anger or resentment you cling to, or a sense of being different or unwanted. It may be due to feelings that burn in you, pain from past trauma, or memories of, or feelings connected with, a place or relationship you were deeply unhappy in.

Example: I then went into the telephone box and tried to make the call to reconnect, again another shock there was nobody to connect with, again the realisation that I was an orphan, another great wave of emotion tore me apart. I then turned toward the dogs as they came at me, I began to feel the sickness that I have always experienced in sessions but I just shrugged and let the feeling wash over me, it felt like I have always ended up in hell by that route, and I realised afterwards that hell is hell and will never be anything else. I felt that there was some thing deeper and so I kept to a centre line, again there was no feeling and so I turned toward the god dream that I had when Rob was here. The look of total love for me in God’s eyes gave me the strength to trust my own process.

Example:  Suddenly it was as if Kevin was with me, talking with me. He seemed in one of his pissed off moods. Not badly, but certainly frustrated. He said that no matter how he tried, he couldn’t get home. Being half asleep I started to feel sorry for him. Then I suddenly realised that this was Kevin and he was dead, and not being able to get home was his life-long problem – at least the feeling of it – because he had been put in an orphanage when a child. So I excitedly told him that his life problem was now his death problem. That because he felt he couldn’t get home, he created this environment for himself now. I tried to help him create a different feeling stance, one from which he could ‘get home’. He began to get the idea, and the scenery gradually changed. He created a walled courtyard, sunny with vines and plants, with an adjoining house. The house had a room with a huge window overlooking a view of the sea.

Helm

As on ship. Will power, the efforts made to direct your life. Whoever is at the helm would symbolise the directing influence of your life. Business man would represent ambition or money, a priest would denote religion; an artist stands for creativeness and beauty.

Hen

Motherly feelings; something to do with being female or caring for young. See: Chicken.

If being eaten suggests nourishment. Otherwise a female, or the female in a male; being ‘chicken’ or scared.

If you know chickens and have watched and reared them you will have other associations, such as motherhood, the wonderful fatherhood of the cockerel. Also the stillness and concentration of the broody hen. See Associations Working With

Example: A large cockerel was amongst them and to my amused pleasure began immediately to chase the hens. They all ran madly away. My father was there now and said the chickens wouldn’t lay with that chicken chasing them. I said it wasn’t a chicken that’s a cockerel, and they would soon calm down. My mother now came. I said the chickens would stop running eventually because the cockerel was bigger than they. She said, no, it wasn’t the size, but the manner and attitude of his approach. She meant it caused an instinctive responses them.

When I explored the dream I realised that of course. I am a cockerel that is inwardly a chicken. I am chicken because I won’t see my own homosexuality. I am chicken because I have made myself a passive female. My mother says it is not the size, its the – inner – attitude. Of course, my inner attitude, as a chicken, is changing. I have been the size of a cockerel, but with the soul of a chicken – female.

This dream can lead to the thought that a cockerel with chickens can mean the eggs are fertile, which might mean for a woman that she is ready to have a baby.

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.

Here the chicken obviously represents the dreamers own childhood feelings of desertion. The old lady is the mother.

Sometimes there may be associations with ‘chicken feed’ and so the question is, are you working for nothing?  Also is there any sign of this being a ‘hen party’? If so ask ourself if you are guilty of it.

The cock: a male or the male sexual characteristics; confidence.

The hen: Mother; motherhood; being immersed in motherhood concerns and perhaps not having a life beyond that.

Chicks: This is a reference either to your own babyhood and feelings or events associated with it, or to external baby or babies. This may at times point to vulnerable people or assets.

Idioms: chicken feed; chickens come home to roost; chicken hearted; she’s no chicken; cock of the walk; don’t count your chicks/chickens before they are hatched.

Useful Questions and Hints:

Is the bird in my dream expressing any of the important stages of growth such as babyhood, leaving the nest, or making a nest?

What quality or attitude is the bird expressing and how does that relate to me?

What is the rest of the dream indicating about the bird?

See Being the Person or Thing – Emotions and Mood in Dreams – Inner World

Helper Assistant

This relates to your own problem solving abilities or your strength and skill to deal with or heal what confronts you. Sometimes this embodies feelings such as security or love that have, in the past, enabled you to meet difficulties or situations.