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Your connection with other people and the world, possibly at an unconscious level until you give it attention. Life’s unbounded possibilities, with all its variety and conflicting opposites; your unconscious, with its huge resources of experience and information; intuition; Life – in the sense of the infinite possibilities of interaction and meeting with all the people, animals and natural processes that are a part of our everyday life; the exploring of the possibilities of interaction.

Intuition

Information that rises to consciousness either from a summary of our complete memory or experience, possibly including past lives; or is an unconscious contact with the mind of another person, living or dead, or arises from a contact with the universal mind, or memory of nature, which summarises all experience and knowledge, all peoples’ and creatures’ aims, and the way we can best relate to them, and all future possibilities. See https://dreamhawk.com/inner-life/using-your-intuition-1/

Invent Invention Inventor

Creative aspect of oneself; personal insights; the Self. Maybe a problem solving aspect.

 We each have what could also call it the inventor, organiser, and source of dream images. Jung called this centre the ‘Self’ and described it as the totality of the whole psyche, in order to distinguish it from the ‘ego,’ which constitutes only a small part of the total psyche. When this appears in our dreams it is usually a helping influence. But some dreams, not from the Self are often shown as an evil inventor – often seen in cartoons.

If you are born under the sign Gemini and identify with it, the inventor may apear in your dreams as an aspect of you that you are dealing with.

Our dream inventor can often give us useful avenues to heightened or creative thinking, presenting a technical or theoretical problem in a vivid form that the brain has been unable to conjure up during the day. Leonardo da Vinci, a fertile genius in both science and art, clearly recognised this when he asked, “Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?” Our intuition can produce in our dreams the woman or man with new concepts, the innovator, the inventor.

 

Useful Questions and Hints:

Is the inventor and evil genius or a revelation of the new?

Has anything been invented or shown in my dream?

What theme of plot is in the dream?

See Plot of the Dream – Techniques for Working your Dreams – Questions

Invisible

Becoming invisible, or appearing out of nowhere suggests something emerging from the unconscious, being forgotten, or relating to the unconscious; or hidden influences – as when touching dimensions of experience states of consciousness usually unknown.

Most of the world around us is invisible, because our human eyes are only sensitive to 1% of visible light, and our ears only aware of 1% of sound. But we are sometimes aware of these ‘invisible’ things through subtle feelings or strange events. Because I knew, that when I left my body and stood in our sitting room in London, my dog saw me and barked, it gave me a clue to another event. (See Talking with the dead) It was Christmas Eve and I was walking with my dog Vince. A friend of my father saw me and invited me in for a drink. My dog, a rather calm and non-aggressive dog, was quietly standing by me until he looked up at the ceiling, a white painted corner without any noticeable characteristics, and started barking at the ceiling. This was so completely out of character that I wondered what he could see that I couldn’t. The man, when questioned, completely was unresponsive. But I believe my dog saw and responded to something invisible to me.

And have you not seen that religion is not only an acknowledgement of what is invisible to us and we fail to understand and yet depend upon, but it is also an opening to it, a willingness to relate to it? Can’t you see that your very existence is brought about by things so far beyond your knowledge that it is only a statement of your impoverishment to suggest an awareness of God is an expression of some sort of smallness and failure? Have you never understood that? It can also be something far more even than that. It can be an active loving relationship with the invisible and unknown that gives you life. And such love is an exchange, a sharing, and a way of merging one with another. Imagine that; a glorious love affair with the very spirit of life! A love affair with the invisible and forever indefinable. Is that something you are afraid of?”

In many cultures they are very aware of what is usually invisible, and open to it in rituals or trance states. For them and many others it is a very important part of their life, as religion is in many cultures.

Example: I want to share with you some of my experience here with foundis (kind of initiates in here is Mayotte – off coast of south east Africa). Last night, I was invited to a rumbu; it’s like a trance state and at the end you communicate with djinns. Very interesting, they have here a real place or idea for the invisible realm which exists (even in villages, ziara, where the invisible world lives).

Example: The first woman is an enormous fleshy torso, somehow raised so that her stomach is at the height of my head.  Her face and legs are invisible; I see only great mammalian breasts swelling and hanging from a broad body with rolls of subcutaneous fat.  Her vaginal lips are plainly double, her outer lips large and open, within which further lips frame a dark cavern, seductive and yet a place of unconsciousness, submission and re-entry into a primal state of non-being.  J.

Example: Satan attacked a woman. He was invisible. The woman turned black as he raped her. She didn’t die. At this point I woke and went to the toilet. On returning to bed I continued the dream, particularly wondering what I was in conflict with in the image of the Devil. I found it disturbing and frightening to be confronted by such a powerful opponent. Partly because of the rape, I realised it was held back sexuality. I then approached the ‘black’ woman with tenderness and this transformed the Devil into available energy, sexual or emotional. I tried this again and again. Each time it worked, and I could observe the connection between Satan and what I do with my sexuality. See Devil

Example: I cannot separate myself from the process of life. That process of death leaves behind shells, bodies, tree trunks, but it goes on creating other forms. That was exactly the message of the great mandala on the wall, where the invisible centre created all forms – forms which were then discarded, only to create more.

Useful Questions and Hints:

How did I become aware of the invisible in my dream?

Did the invisible have an influence of me or surroundings?

Was I frightened by the dream?

See Jesse Watkins Enlightenment – Hallucinations – Edgar Cayce – Interview with Jill Bolte Taylor –  Life’s Little Secrets – Near Death Experiences

Invoice

To receive an invoice often symbolises a bill of reckoning. In other words, something you have done or thought, is now producing consequences that have to be paid for. To send an invoice suggests you are calling in what events owe you. But sometimes people might cheat you, as in the example.

 Example: We had gone to bed early and the door bell rang.  When I answered it a salesman was there. I felt he was one of the pushy people who have nothing I want. All they want to do is sell something they have which will earn them a crust. The man was into the house. I got hold of his hair and dragged him out of the house – his body literally prone and dragging on the floor – put him out and shut the door. He had left some invoices or something similar in the house. I went to the door and was about to push them through the letter box when he came and started pushing a bill for two pound through the door for calling on us. I pushed it back with the other stuff.

That is the way you should treat dream hecklers.  “In the ancient view of dreams recorded in the yoga Atharva Veda, being active or even actively aggressive, was seen as a positive sign, even if one was injured or mutilated as a result of ones active stance; whereas if the dreamer passively accepted injury in a dream this was seen as a negative implication. This was because it was felt that the active or passive stance within the dreams indicated a similar disposition during waking life. As the active person is generally more successful, the dream sign of an active disposition was seen as fortunate”.

 

Useful Questions and Hints:

Did you send or receive the invoice?

What was the outcome in the dream?

Wht feelings did you have or where indicated in the dream?

See Secrets of Power Dreaming – Techniques for Working your Dreams – Characters and People in Dreams

Iron

Strength; material power or force. Strength of will, perhaps unbending emotions. Brutality. Will that does not allow any partnership with the emotions. Hardness and unfeelingness.

This often indicates strength, use of will, protection, or something that is practical and long lasting. But it is also unyielding and can carry heat or cold well, so may refer to feelings about either not being vulnerable, or to being unfeeling or burnt. Metal bars often figure in dreams where the dreamer is fighting off an attack, or actually attacking someone. This indicates really hardened feelings and anger, along sometimes with the desire to hurt.

Iron is one of the common minerals, and some of these are important in the life of the body. In a very real sense, human life brings consciousness to the minerals and the plant substances. Human life transforms, or can transform or lift up these substances, and occasionally this is indicated in a dream. See: chemicals.

 In a number of dreams iron gates are mentioned, or trapped by iron bars. These can either mean you are trapped by a very rigid view of your life situation or that your thoughts are a form of prison out of which you cannon escape. A woman whose mother had recently died dreamt that “we were standing outside a garden with a wall and wrought iron gates. My mother went through the gate, but I couldn’t”.

Metal in its various forms are often mentioned as jewellery. See gold; silver; jewellery 

 Example: 002:040 002:040 And the fourth kingdom shall be strong as iron: forasmuch as iron breaketh in pieces and subdueth all things: and as iron that breaketh all these, shall it break in pieces and bruise. 002:041 And whereas thou sawest the feet and toes, part of potters’ clay, and part of iron, the kingdom shall be divided; but there shall be in it of the strength of the iron, forasmuch as thou sawest the iron mixed with miry clay. From the Bible, Daniel.

Here iron is seen as strength that can break things in pieces.

 Example: The dream of a pregnant woman. She was feeling very much under the weather and had a dream in which a voice told her she should take iron and calcium tablets. She followed the suggestion, taking kelp and iron, and soon regained her health. This same woman seems to have such dreams fairly frequently. At a time when her husband was ill through overwork, she dreamt that he should take vitamin A and more butter. Remembering the truth of her ‘pregnancy’ dream, he did this, and it was the beginning of his gradual recovery. It is worth stating that neither he nor his wife had previously given much attention to vitamin therapy.

Idioms: Iron fist in velvet glove; iron curtain; man of iron; iron will; rod of iron; strike while the iron is hot.

 

Useful Questions and Hints:

What was my relationship with iron – health, protection or a barrier?

Did I experience any feelings in the dream?

Was I aware of any message in the dream?

See Emotions and Mood in Dreams – Plot of the Dream – Summing Up

Ironing

Smoothing out some situation regarding ones feelings or attitudes. Trying to get the difficulties or problems out of ones feelings or social life.

Just before menstrual bleeding the endometrium is thicker and its surface more spongy or “wrinkled” before it sloughs off and menstrual bleeding starts. At this time several women report dreams where they need to iron wrinkled clothing. One woman reported, “I was in the bathroom ironing.”

 

Useful Questions and Hints:

What was being ironed?

Was it succesful in smoothing the material?

Do I iron clothes usually?

See Summing Up – Context/Theme – Secrets of Power Dreaming – Associations Working With

Irrigate Irrigation

It represents allowing emotions or feeling values to come into your life, a healing process that will promote growth and a new sense of yourself. So it suggests cultivation of growing parts of you.

Irrigation ditches suggest ways you have worked on to direct you emotions and energy toward growth.

Sometimes it may be a way of showing you what has been left in your nature from the work of people a long time ago. See The Conjuring Trick

Useful Questions and Hints:

Have I felt dried up or sterile lately and need irrigating?

Where is the water being directed?

Do I feel a new impulse has come into my life?

See Techniques for Working your Dreams – Summing Up – Allowing the Spontaneous Flow

 

Island

Something that has come from the depths of your unconscious, but is now established in everyday life. A part of yourself cut off by emotions or isolation or lack of communication. Feelings of isolation or loneliness, or your attempt to cut yourself off from others due to your feelings about them.

The island can also suggest the way you feel safe from the world, or feelings about being trapped.

The loneliness could be as one might feel when retired from work, isolated from a situation you once knew. Being on an island could signify being independent. The island might also signify a small sphere of operation or influence in your life, or feeling trapped; or conversely, feeling safe from the world through introversion or independence.

One can I form an island of charm through belief which stands against commons beliefs like fortress on an island.

The collective unconscious is seen by some thinkers, like Jung and Sheldrake, who see individual human consciousness like an island in a huge ocean in which there are countless other islands. Above the surface of the water, which is like individual waking self-awareness; in this there is a sense of separate existence, with definite boundaries where the shore meets the sea. Beneath the surface however, one island is connected to all other islands. The land stretches away under the waves and rises here and there into other islands. So, it is thought, personal awareness, beneath our everyday consciousness, shades off into a connection with a collective unconscious we all share. Through this connection we may be able to arrive at insights into other people otherwise denied to us.

Swimming or getting to an island: Move to independence.

Desert island: Attempt to ‘get away from it all’ – or feelings of not connecting with others.

Island in stormy sea: Personality traits such as independence and self assurance that give strength amidst difficult emotions and turbulence.

Large island with other people: Isolating oneself by involvement with a particular belief, group of people or problem.

 Example: A woman in red tells me about an island which is at our left side in the sea, not too far from the beach. It is an artificial island she says, which was created by using sand from the bottom of the sea. I look at the white sand in the clear water and I am surprised about the way the island was made. It is a very small island and it looks beautiful with a lot of trees and plants. I see many boats in front of the island. Then I see what looks like a bridge from the beach toward the island, but the bridge is just beneath the surface of the sea.

The island is a place of beauty that has been brought up from the depths of yourself and is now apparent to you, but you do not know yet how to live on it – make it a permanent situation. But there is a hint in the bridge that is invisible being underwater. Yet if you dare to actually walk to it you will find you can do it. Instead you try the sailing boat – probably because you have experience of it. But you can posses the island! Use – Secrets of Power Dreaming

Useful Questions and Hints:

Am I on the island or far from it?

Is it my island – in fact everything in dreams is your own, though many people feel that they are not worthy or do not ‘own’ it?

What is my relationship with to or with the island?

See Techniques for Working your Dreams – Questions – Avoid Being Victims

Ivory

Something precious or beautiful, such as an insight or personal quality, which has grown out of the push and shove of life experience. Black ivory is the unconscious aspects of the soul or personality. Can also represent purity of purpose.

Because it comes from an elephant, and is the power of a tusk, it can represent the great power of the elephant – the remover of all life obstacles.

Homer in the Odyssey says – Two gates for ghostly dreams there are: one gateway of honest horn, and one of ivory. Issuing by the ivory gates are dreams of glimmering illusion, fantasies, but those that come through solid polished horn may be borne out, if mortals only know them.

 Example: I am staying in a relatives house. He has all these scrapbooks and knickknacks of his daughter who died. I want to steal an ivory piece of erotica (a woman opening her legs to reveal her snatch). I put it in the pocket of my blue smoking jacket.

Example: I am at a museum in some dry place like Australia. It has the most beautiful ‘natural’ exhibits I have ever seen. The most beautiful exhibit is of something that is like an upside down ivory tree, its roots sticking up in the air, with figures of people – angels – naturally formed in the small, fine roots.

Example: In 544 BC, the Buddha’s mother, Queen Maya, dreamed her bed was transported by four kings to a high Himalayan peak, where four queens adorned her with jewels and brought her to a golden palace. A white elephant with six shining ivory tusks appeared and painlessly pierced her side with a thrust of its tusk. She awoke to the song of a blue bird and realised that she had immaculately conceived.

 

Useful Questions and Hints:

What do I feel in connection with the ivory?

Do I have any associations with ivory?

Is it something I have wanted to own?

See Associations Working With – Summing Up – Allowing the Spontaneous

Jackal

As dog but a wild version; a trickster figure like coyote and fox; a deceiver; being a scavenger it has sometimes been associated with death as with crows and vultures.

Due to being able to see in the dark and the light, the jackal was seen by the Egyptians as a pathfinder in the underworld – i.e. the unconscious – leading the dead to the other world. As such it can be a great help in showing you the way when you are uncertain. See: coyote.

 

Useful Questions and Hints:

What sense do you arrive at of your dream jackal – is he/she sneaky, divine, wise or a messenger? Whatever it is can you sum up what you get from the jackal in the dream?

What do you experience if you imagine yourself and talk as your dream jackal? (For help doing this see Stand in Role)

What are the key words used in describing the interaction between yourself and jackal?

See: key words – Techniques for Working your Dreams – Animals

Jacket

Feelings with which you clothe yourself. Particularly to do with degree of formality you present yourself with. See: Clothes.

Jaguar

Anger; power of assertion and fierceness.

In its native country the jaguar is seen to have mystical powers. In other words the jaguar in our inner world and dreams has great power that can be used if one can meet the inner creature that you are. So it may represent sexual power, the ability to control or be controlled.

Therefore an animal associated in myth with the unconscious and the power of the Mother Goddess. Native people see the jaguar as a guide as they travel the inner world.

A dream jaguar can represent certain things such as speed. stealth, power, sleekness and a predator. If we see the puma has the same associations as the jaguar, the following shows how dreams show how such creatures inhabit our inner life.

Example: It was a large building, but my main impressions were of a huge – seven foot – butler type character who I immediately thought of as Lurch. He came apparently to assist me and lived or existed in the place. I noticed he had a huge knife stuck in his belt and I thought he might use it to attack me. This didn’t worry me too much, but I asked him why he had it. He told me there was a big Puma in the place that leapt on one and you had to guard against it. So he gave me a knife to do so.

We walked off to explore the building and the beautiful big Puma leapt on me. But at this point I knew that nothing could harm me in the dream state. So I caught hold of the Puma in my arms and held it. As I did so I saw it was the beautiful, powerful, female and wild untamed aspect of a woman I loved, and treated the she cat lovingly.

In exploring the dream the dreamer said, “As Lurch I am the Guardian of the Threshold, and I am the guide to what is beyond. My task is to produce fear in those who reach this place. For only those who can face fear can go beyond here safely. I also test the traveler, as I did with B. by giving him a knife. I attempted to frighten him by my appearance – half alive – and by carrying a knife, and also by telling him the puma would harm him. But he passed the test by loving the puma instead of killing it. To pass beyond here you need courage and love.

“As the puma I am life. I am love and the untamed expression of being alive, of feeling passion and love. I am both a test and an opportunity in B’s life. He was not afraid of me, and so I become his companion. I am a native of the America’s –  the inner world. I know this territory. I can survive here. It is what I do, what I know. I can hunt for you B, but I need something from you too. Take the lead and we will be of good to each other.

I am the influence of your woman in your being and in your direction. I am her energy and spirit playing upon you and within you. Together with the Guardian we can walk into new experiences to claim what is there for us. This was a beautiful experience, full of promise of a companionship that has real meaning – entering new territory of inner and outer life – and real companionship – out of having qualities to share that are complimentary to each other and important in what we are journeying to – and a love that has been tested. See Guardian of the Threshold

 

Useful Questions and Hints:

If I imagine myself as the jaguar, do I feel anger, power or fear?

Is it a male or female jaguar in my dream – and how does this link with me?

What is the jaguar doing or trying to do – and does this relate to any of my waking activities or feelings?

See Stand in Role – Settings in Dreams – Life’s Little Secrets – Edgar Cayce

Jail Jailer Gaol Gaoler

This can point to any of a range of attitudes such as – guilt, self criticism, a sense of alienation, intellectualizing life – anything restricting the way you express yourself. So the jailer is the attitudes or concepts you imprison yourself with, or hold yourself back with. See: prison. Feelings of being restrained by your environment, morals, philosophy.

What we believe or imagine about who we are, or what we are not, is for many people an incredibly potent torturer and jailer. But many of what people call their demons are unbelievably subtle, and capture us, restrict us, shut out the possibility of a full life, or being able to respond with our own creativity. The real problem is that we often accept this as normal or barely notice them. See Archetype of the Paradigm – Masters of Nightmares

 Example: I now lives in a state in which I am constantly tortured and put down by seeing that unlike my sisters I have never had a child, have not achieved any lasting success in my life and live in a tiny bedsit which I might have to leave due to not being able to pay the rent. There is also an inner ghost haunting me through my feelings that I have not lived up to my father’s hopes. I long to earn enough to own my own house, and to have a loving partner who closely my life. The lack of all of these pulls me down to frequent feelings of despair and hopelessness.

All of what Lisa feels about her life – no child – no external achievement – no partner – no house of her own – not measuring up to her family – are all true, but only in a certain way. What is devastating is that Lisa believes she is what she feels. Those beliefs are her jailers keeping her trapped.

Example: I was in a prison with several others – all in one cell. It felt as if I had been in the prison for years. I was standing near the bars angry and shouting about the injustice of my incarceration. As I stood raging I suddenly realised that all my anger was having no affect on the world. I was the only one suffering it. I saw that the peace and freedom I wanted from release I could have now by letting go of my anger. I would then be in peace, and would be free of my own negative emotions. I forgave my judges and gaolers, and a change came over me. In the following years I learnt to drop the other ideas and emotions I tortured myself with. I was filled with joy until my bliss filled the cell. In this way all had a changed relationship. In a strange way I was now utterly free.

Useful Questions and Hints:

Can I admit to myself what I am imprisoned by?

Do I use self justifications to avoid admitting the truth to myself?

Is there a way out of the prison I have created?

See Avoid Being Victims – Martial Art of the Mind – Secrets of Power Dreaming – Summing Up

Jam Conserve

In a mess, a sticky situation. Conserved ideas. Fruits of labour. Pleasure, perhaps childhood pleasure or feelings. The sweetness of your life.

 Example: With Nan living in a monastery. Grounds and grounds were beautiful. I was feeling insecure within the relationship but could not know why. As I was walking through the grounds and I looked through a magazine and saw pictures of me, one holding a pot of jam. The article was about male chauvinism, and the jam represented my selfishness. I was so angry about it and where did they get the photos?

Here the jam is seen as selfishness, probably because he is pictured as holding it and maybe not sharing it.

Jam on my brakes: This can indicate a personal emergency that you need to be aware of. It might show a health problem, or saying you need to be careful in driving your car or yourself.

Log jams: If a river is bursting a log jam,it suggests blockages have been removed. It can indicate delays and confusion, and frustration, also feeling stuck with no way to turn. It is good to take time to look back at your life and reassess your life situation.

Traffic jam: This might link with many things depending on what you feel in the dream. Some possibilities are feelings of frustration about not reaching your goals; a life situation in which you are caught up in a public or communal activity or event and find it difficult to escape and go your own way and your own pace. This might also be an expression of feeling trapped by circumstances or other people. Or things in your life not flowing well with feelings of frustration, blocked emotions or finance.

Idioms: in a jam; in a terrible jam; jam packed; jam session; something jams; jam tart; jammed together; traffic jam

Useful Questions and Hints:

What sort of jam is being described, can I define it?

Do you feel in some sort of jam in your life?

Or do you feel jammed up?

See stuck in life – Summing Up – Norman Cousins – Talking to Inner Self

Jar

See: Cup.