Posts Tagged ‘dream analysis’

Buildings Library

 Acquired wisdom or life experience. Sometimes the books are very old, suggesting wisdom antedating this present life and experience. This is the meaning of Jung’s theory of the racial unconscious, and equally that of reincarnation.

A dream library is also your enormous range of information within you, perhaps not opened yet. We all have millions of bits of information within, and very often we discount it, yet if we listen to it – open the door to that library – we will be amazed how much we know and how big we are inside. In fact have remembered life lessons from in the womb and so much more since then. You have a faculty of your mind that also creates new patterns of connectivity between previously unconnected pieces of gathered information. The result of that is often seen in dreams.  See Using Your Intuition

It can also suggest a search for information,  a search for the truth of who you are. Ones life experience, the wisdom and skills we have gathered, the intellect; research. Also relates to thinking and the head.

The many minds, lives and imaginations you can find within you – as shown by all the books.

If you work in a library: It shows you have a relationship with the books and the information or fascination they hold. You are in a situation where you can help people find that they are looking for. Are you yourself looking for something – yourself?

Huge library: Collective unconscious and collective consciousness. The vastness of the mind or cosmic mind. See: the conjuring trick; book; school.

 Example: Mary who is also a member of Alcoholics Anonymous, had come to him with a disturbing dream in which she’d had sex with a man who, she said, she heartily disliked because he was such a terrible liar.  Mary then confessed that she’d recently been guilty of lying herself. She’d borrowed the tape of a lecture from her local library in order to duplicate it, but had wiped it instead. And then handed it back without admitting what had happened. Her dream had highlighted the fact that she too, was a liar.

Example: Only one remembered sequence today. I was involved in helping to extend a library service in a small community – possibly an American small town.

In exploring this dream I saw there was already one section/building opened, but we were going two form two more. I identified the existing library as connecting with the head. The other two would be connected with the chest/heart, and the pelvis/genitals. This connection – or the realisation of it – was repeated several times, perhaps to engrave it in memory.

 Example: I was at the library with Ken and a little girl who was about 8 years old.  She was only present in the background in the beginning of the dream.  She didn’t say or do anything.  I was no longer aware of her after that.  I don’t know who she was, but she appeared to be someone I was very familiar with.

The dreamer explored the dream and found: Library – As a seeker of truth I was suffering from not being true to myself. To seek the truth was of utmost importance – though I was not consciously aware of the full extent of what this all meant.   Within me there was a strong drive to find the truth of whatever it was that my spirit was calling me to find.

Little Girl – She represented my untruthful childhood living out of fear that if I disagreed with anything my mother said, or didn’t like what she liked, I would hurt her; she would withhold her love from me; or punish me.  So I lived contrary to what I believed, felt, thought at all times.  My mother never really knew the real me and my heart because I hid everything from her out of shame, fear, guilt, disapproval.

 

Useful Questions and Hints:

What was the connection with the library?

Was it just a mention or did I find something?

Is a library something I use?

See Summing Up – Questions – Magical Dream Machine – Seeing into our Far Past

 

Lifeguard

Your ability to deal with the rough patches of your life, and recover from occasionally ‘going under’ emotionally, or being submerged by your problems. It can also be a real teaching person, an expression of your best wisdom.

Useful Questions and Hints:

How do I deal with rough times – turn to drink, drugs, or open to full life experience?

What wisdom or help did the dream lifeguard offer?

Did the dream make a difference to me?

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

Light and Dark

Being aware, being seen, waking as opposed to sleeping. Light means being able to understand and have insight, to see. Lightness of heart, hope, confidence and release from dark feelings and fear. It can also at times indicate becoming aware of how others might see one. But it needs to be understood that darkness is necessary for light to be recognised. If you lived in a world of just light you would have no shape, no colour, no dimension, for all those things come from the ‘mating’ of light with darkness. Colour, awareness of shape are all aspects of darkness.

Apart from ordinary dreams of light, there is a much deeper meaning in some dreams. This is clear in Genesis

The Universe/God was originally the darkness of night. Universe/God then created light. Science says that it look 300,000 years for light to finally shine in our Universe.

“And the earth was waste and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep; and the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. “And God said: Let there be light; and there was light.” Genesis is a scientific treatise – See The Hidden Bible

For the Creative force of our Universe was Everything and everything cannot take a shape or form, for then it would be something, a thing. The spiritual worship of light is misplaced, for we were all started in the darkness of Everything. Light is for the human recognition of what we sense in the Hugeness we hold within us in Darkness. If everything was light you would not be able to recognise yourself, for colour and shape exist because kight and darkneess mix to give us our experience in the world. But people have been led to fear the dark – the witching hour shows how we were told to fear witches and the dark of midnight. See Witch

It says that the heavenly lights, the stars were for signs and for seasons. As all old religions saw the stars as a great influence on human life, so do our dreams. This was made real to me when I dreamt a great dream with the Star Beings. It was a dream about things we call Gods, but not the sort of gods shown in films about them, but beings whose bodies were the stars and creative forces of the universe. We have called them the Astrological signs. And in some dreams they may be an intimation of such wonderful powers. See The Star Beings

Dim light: The clarity of daytime consciousness is dimmed.

Very bright light: Intuition, enabling you to see things more clearly and often including so much of your life and its meaning; the Self; a mega concept.

Spot or searchlight: Focusing attention on what is shown.

Flickering or dimming lights: Uncertainty; struggle to understand; loss of power or mental clarity; feelings about approaching death. Also can show a change of normal awareness, from darkness to light, saying something unusual is about to be experienced.

Projected light, as with a film or slides: See: projector.

 Example: ‘I am alone in the house. It begins to grow dark, so I switch the light on, but the light is very dim. So I go to another room and try another light, but this light is even dimmer. I carry on like this all over the house until I am in virtual darkness and very frightened.’ J. W.

J. W. was six at the time of the dream, and here light depicts feelings of sureness or confidence, which give way to anxiety. The light is the opposite to the emotions of fear which arise from within.

 Example: “I had that experience you were talking about”, she said. I had been talking about awareness of the eternal – cosmic consciousness. “There was great light. Light was everywhere.”  Again she was like a child, an Oriental child, full of wonder at what it had seen.

Example: I got out of bed and went towards the mouse. As I did so I saw that it was not just white, but shining. It also seemed to grow larger, first to the size of a rat, then to that of the cat. I was now close to it and it looked enormous, shining with an inner light, white and radiant. It was a thing of great beauty. Its eyes especially struck me. They were pink, but also shining.

Idioms: Bright lights; cold light of day; come to light; hide ones light; in it’s true light; lighter side; in a good light; see the light; light at the end of the tunnel; throw a light on. See:  Dark, Glow.; day; flames.

Useful Questions and Hints:

What happens to the light in my dream?

Does the light affect you in any way?

Did you feel any inspiration of fear?

See Dreams are Like a Computer Game – Colour and Energy in Dreams – Clicking On

Buildings Lighthouse

Warning of danger of unconscious elements that may wreck areas of your life unless avoided. Use the light to become aware of what the danger is. It might also relate to loneliness or feelings of isolation. See: light.

The sea often represent the tempestuous and unruly aspects of our experience, or the unknown depth of our nature. So the light from the lighthouse can act as a guide through difficult times, or lead us into the unknown as the example shows; it is a true example.

Freud felt that anything the shape of a lighthouse represented sexual feelings. Having searched through 7000 dreams I cannot find any particular mentions of sexual feeling in connection with lighthouses. There is a very wide range of people meeting difficult situations in various ways. But regarding the phallic symbolism of the lighthouse, I feel it shows a wonderful power that faces all storms and throws light in the most difficult of times. It offers protection and care to those wise enough to stand in its light.

Example: The dreamer considering suicide then goes on to dream: Unlike any dream environments she’s known, her mind feels clear, alert, and free. Is she awake, asleep, or somewhere in between, in this place that’s more vivid than previous reality? Her surrounding is cylindrical, vibrant, and vast; white light emanates with a strength that almost hurts. The only route is up the helter skelter stairs of this lightening bright, snow blindness light-house. Tentatively, so unsure she starts to ascend; round and round she coils windowless walls forlorn, until she reaches the top and it’s sacred platform.

Relief from the piercing light is achieved where windows open on to darkest space. Her anxiety easing, she approaches the central display: an exceptional, universal camera obscura. Far from static it reveals the whole world and with just one thought from the viewer’s mind, a place and a loved one instantly appear presented real time for one to observe. Standing mystified, a presence then joins her and informs her with seemingly no external voice at all: “This is the place where people come after death’s fall.”

With instant recognition of her self-mortification, she spontaneously utters: “Oh, so I’m dead!” The presence inwardly sighs: “No, you’ve misunderstood my intention: I’ve brought you here to show that each of the dead choose someone to guide and watch over on earth. And that you have a someone still loving you. Your self-destruction is unnecessary; you just need to give life a reasonable chance. Please think on this experience and what I have said; your duty is still to life, it’s not yet to death.”

Useful Questions and Hints:

What events or feelings surround the lighthouse in our dream?

Do you recognise that you are in the presence of a great light giver?

What would you say was the theme or plot of the dream?

Try reading the Plot of the Dream; Easy Dream Interpretation 

Lightning

Sudden discharge of tension in a possibly destructive manner. Sudden enlightenment or realisation. Fear of fate or punishment from conscience. Revenge. Sudden and disturbing change or release of emotions or sexuality.

Sometimes information leading to a realisation builds up over time, but in a flash is put together forming a new, perhaps life changing, insight. The build up toward a change in life style or direction might similarly occur, and so may be depicted by lightning. It is the build up of tension, whether of insight or emotion, and its sudden breakthrough into consciousness that lightning represents. See: aura.

Killed by lightning: Life changes occurring. These changes may be arising from within through the expression of aspects of oneself previously not released. The energy of the lightning may be repressed powerful drives – such as teenage sexuality – and may be felt as destructive. The repression of oneself in this way feels like death, or that one is not fully alive.

Lightning struck tree: Death in some form. i.e. the loss of love, the ending of some part of ones personality, etc.

Lightning striking someone: Pent up emotions or sexuality in connection with the person. If the person is a male, it may refer to tension or held back feelings being expressed in connection with a male friend or partner.

Example: My husband and I were walking around a rocky area. We were on a flat part, but there was rocky hillock on our right. My husband was ahead of me. We were each carrying a child. Mine was female and my husband’s was male. I looked down at the rocks we were walking across and saw they were covered in a bright yellow substance. At first I thought it might be gold, but then smiled as I realised it was probably paint. It was shiny and I was worried it would be slippery and I was walking carefully, but it seemed okay. The scene changed and we were now in a poorly lit room, no children but with a shadowy male figure. We were chatting amiably. Then I noticed my husband was wearing a pair of light coloured trousers and he was fidgeting as if he wanted to go to the toilet. He was almost squirming and a fart escaped. I said he had better go to the toilet. He got up and went out of the room. Suddenly a big shadow seemed to come over the place and a great force attacked the place. I felt it was lightning or some power descended and wrecked the place. The walls crumbled, a direct hit. I was then swept along by the force horizontally above the ground outside. I was very frightened and scared that my body was damaged. I was swept passed the shadowy man who was in a corner. I saw I was heading for a brick wall and didn’t know if the force would smash me against it, over it or through it. H. K.

This dream is interesting in that it not only illustrates lightning in a dream, but because of the dreamers associations shows how such dreams are formed. HK had travelled abroad and was trying to establish herself in the new country. After some months she had managed to get a job, but was sacked at the end of a month without warning. The employers refused to tell her why, but from information gathered, it appeared to be money problems in the company, as they could hire someone else for a third of HK’s wages. So it seems likely the rocky ground is the life situation she and her husband are in – rocky in that it is a new country and quite difficult to establish themselves. The going is not easy. The child they are carrying is their own vulnerable feelings. The lightning is the sudden event in H.K’s life. She feels carried along by events she appears to have no power over. Lastly, in their bedroom a rather attractive bare brick wall faced their bed. Prior to the dream, on the morning after her dismissal, her husband had woken, looked at the foot of the bed against the wall and jokingly said, ‘It’s looks like were up against a brick wall’ referring to the Idioms ‘Back against the wall’ and ‘Bang ones head against a brick wall.’

But the lightning and the house being smashed depicted big changes.  And that was what happened because the woman quickly found a much better job with a millionaire family where she worked for many years. But shortly afterwards her husband did get fidgety and left the marriage. At the time she saw him as a fart.

 

Useful Questions and Hints:

Did the lightening hit or damage anything?

Did it produce any changes?

What do you associate with lightening?

See Associations Working With – Being the Person or Thing – Techniques for Exploring your Dreams

Lily

Has the same significance as the Indian Lotus. Its roots are in mud, it reaches up through water, and opens in air to the sun. This symbolises the roots of our consciousness in the deeps of the unconscious and material experience. This unfolds into feeling values, emotions, the psychic realm, and eventually blossoms into intellect, self realisation that realises the Sun, or spirit. In the Indian scriptures the petals of the mythical lotus unfold to reveal a jewel at the centre. This represents the unfolding of human consciousness to a realisation of the eternal nature underlying all its activities.

Limp Limping

Limp in the sense of not firm, suggests feelings of mild depression, loss of enthusiasm, or even sexual anxiety, the inability to respond to sexual stimuli. This afflicts men and women, and may be due to excessive pressure of personal expectations on ones own sexual drive. It can also in women be due to the ageing process, so they have to use lubricants because they cannot produce their own. 

Limping See: Lame.

Example: Sarah, my best friend, said she was sorry and put the gun in her mouth and pulled the trigger. Her body went limp in some sort of basket chair she was sitting in. I had went to go towards her when I saw the gun but it was too late and I clenched my eyes together when it happened.

 

Useful Questions and Hints:

What was limp, and why did it happen?

Plants go limp from lack of water, do you take enough clean water?

We often go limp when we feel life isn’t worth living?

See Avoid Being Victims – Norman Cousins – Life’s Little Secrets – Life Changes

Line

Distance; movement; movement in space or time; a dividing force, or a division such as a boundary. This is expressed in the phrases ‘At this point I draw the line’ – ‘This is the bottom line’. If there is a suggestion of this in the dream, someone drawing a line for instance, then it suggests their decisiveness, or their boundary.

Tangled line: Changes and decisions in life; indecision or confusion.

Zigzag line: Movement; change; the basic pleasure or achievement of leaving ones mark.

Link

See: Chain.

Lion Lioness

Lions appear in many dreams, and usually signifies anger, desire to hurt, aggressiveness; or fear of these feelings in others or ourselves. We may feel fear of our own anger due to it threatening injury to others in a way that would reflect upon self, and devour our other feelings and desires. The lion can often express feelings of love that cannot express normally, and become aggressive instead. If we see someone we love showing interest in another, or if we feel ousted by brother or sister for parents’ love, our feelings may seem to us like a terrible lion. Daniel in the lions’ den is a beautiful symbol representing how these feelings may be calmed and changed if our life is given to the influence of love.

The power of our physical strength, of our temper, of our emotions or sexuality; love that has become anger through jealousy or pain; leadership; ones father or fatherhood, or mother if it is a lioness; an image of the father/mother God; leadership; watchfulness or guardianship; self assertion or boasting because of the power of the lions roar. The story of Androcles and the lion shows how the pain felt by our ‘animal’ life process, if tended by the conscious personality, brings a loving relationship between conscious and unconscious.

Many children experience recurring dreams of a lion chasing them through their house. This is most likely due to a developing struggle with their natural feelings of anger and aggression. This because their parents might attempt to quieten or control the child’s temper, or criticise it as ‘bad’.

Being frightened of an attack or possible attack from a lion suggests an ‘attack’ of anxiety or fear about something. Consider the rest of the dream to define what.

Many people dream of being chased or run in fear when they see a lion in their dream. But your dreams are simply a projection of your own emotions or fear upon the screen of your sleeping mind. So why don’t you rerally express those emotions instead of being afraid of your own feelings. Why not roar back!!?? But please see Nothing can Hurt You in Your Dreams

 As an example of what you can do in your dreams, here the dreamer ‘roars’ back!

 Example: When I arrived at the attic I put the dog down. But now the attic was empty and dark. I could feel my hair stand on end and my skin ‘crawling’. Actually I feel it all again as I write this. The feeling arose because there was an unformed dark shape creeping around at the far end of the room. The dog was really afraid and came into my arms. Then the dark creature leapt at me, transforming into a massive mouth with huge fangs and awful demonic face. Immediately I leapt at it in the same way and smashed against its face with my own huge fangs. This utterly disarmed it because it had felt, in its primitive way, to terrify me. It surprised me too that I could so immediately transform into a monster when necessary.

Example: A huge black panther chased me. I fell and it clawed my back. I/it was about to chew my back to bite me. I didn’t know whether to relax or struggle. After being floored by the Panther I managed to get up. I later did active imagination. I allowed the panther to eat me, and I thus became the panther. Then I, as the panther, noticed a tiger. Feeling enormous temper – anger – hate I leapt upon the tiger to claw and devour it. I really felt strong temper. It kept really appearing to get smaller and smaller. Eventually I saw it as just a toy cuddly tiger. Then its head came off as a pantomime horse does, and I was amazed to see that my cousin Sidney was inside it, who I felt had mercilessly teased me as a child. The panther was my own feelings of anger.

As an astrological sign, the lion is the sign of Leo, a ‘Fixed’ ‘Fire’ sign. In the dream of a person born with the sun in Leo, the lion may represent their basic character. It is said to be the heart of the Zodiac. In it all the activities of Aries have been concentrated and given purpose, permanence, passion and a certain nobility. It is the Royal Sign denoting Love, the Ruler of Life. Subjects of this sign are said to be proudly ‘faithful’ and scorn what is weak, small-minded, or mean. It is the sign of the Sun – the physical and also the Divine Sun. In terms of human evolution the sign of Leo represents rulership of the animal kingdom, to become a dominant creature, expressing the best of the instinctive and natural within human nature. Thus in The Witch and The Wardrobe, the greatest strength and unifying influence is the lion. But there is a step beyond this into independent awareness where one recognises oneself not only as the powerful and creative universal animal life, but as an individual human being as well.

Useful questions and hints:

Are there signs that this is about anxiety or anger – if so can I define what they connect with?

If the lion suggests strength and protectiveness, am I relating well to it?

What do I feel if I imagine myself as the lion?

What are the key words I use in describing this dream?

See: key words – Being the Person or Thing – Mammal Brain

Liquid

As the examples show, liquid can represent many things, from blood to amniotic fluid. It can indicate the delicate flow of nervous energy, the flow or losses of sexual energy, urinating, even the pouring out of your self to others, or its restriction. See: Water.

Because feelings are often felt to flow within us, as when we listen to rousing music, or notice a feeling in the chest which moves to the throat, then may become crying or some other expressed emotion, they may be shown in a dream as fluid.

It depends very much on what the liquid is – medicine, acid, poison, alcohol, water.

The heart, or courage, can turn to water, meaning that resolves have become soft. Or the heart can melt, suggesting a change of heart, opening to sympathy. To become liquid is usually to change, to become soft, to realise your innate formlessness and flowing nature. If your legs turn to water, then your motives have let you down.

Liquid in bottle: A change of feelings, as when we drink wine or medicine; influenced by exterior emotions; contained or withheld emotions. Look up what the liquid is in the dictionary

White liquid: Milk of kindness, self-giving; or sperm, the magic fluid out of which life emerges.

 Example: Finger and feet began to get cold. An icy coldness slowly spread all over my body. A liquid warmth was then all around me. I thought I was haemorrhaging. A needle was stuck in my left arm and my chest was being cut open – it didn’t hurt. There was a lot of activity. They said I had gone. I was trying desperately to let them know I was still there. Then I was in a bag and sliding off a table. The bag was tied above my head. Then from the confined darkness I was free. There was a brilliant light all around. I could still see the sack with a body still in it far behind me. I was incredibly happy and full of energy. Trish L.

Example: I have a two-pronged needle with red liquid. I know it will hurt him. I didn’t want to but I had to inject him. He yelled in pain. He turned on the bed, writhed around, and threw himself around. I snuck up and finished the dosage.

Example: I dreamed I was urinating. (BTW, I am male). In the dream I was having severe pain in my bladder and genitals. As I urinated, I began to pass bright red blood only ….forcing out all liquid from my bladder. As the flow ceased, I could feel my bladder refilling with blood and it would start over again. This went on for a few cycles until I woke myself up. Unfortunately I have had pain now there since the dream (for about 4 days).

Example: “I was looking at a little match box shaped thing and one looked into it like a window. I looked at my arm through the window, then my vision was full of patterns of my energy going up and down my arm. It was very beautiful, leaf like shapes with glass like balls and clear liquid but even the liquid making patterns on the move up and down.” Wendy O.

Example: Not sand coming out but liquid, mucous membrane. . . . . pouring through. . Smash the walls –look in –semi transparent. Step in, fluid is warm, I lay in it, I can breath under it. . I am a seal (the baby who can emerge from the water?). This is the, way of lightness. . I want out. . Just fluid. Hold me here forever. The essence of life. You can live and dwell in this. . I want out. . . I‘m still in the bubble, but standing up. . Fairy land, sparkle & images. . Uncertain. Fluid stuck to me still attached.

Example: Suddenly a bottle in the bag my wife was carrying the picnic lunch in fell over and spilled a sticky brown liquid on the floor and on me. It was a large cider bottle. I tried to stand it upright, but my wife had hold of the plastic shopping bag so tightly I couldn’t, and the liquid still ran out. I shouted at her, “Let go. Let go!”

When the dream was explored the dreamer found the part of the dream carrying the picnic lunch represents a social occasion. The place is somebody else’s home – anybody. My wife carries the equipment for this. The bottle is the pouring out of your own soul. Being sticky means you do not enjoy the feeling of this. You try to prevent this because you see it as a loss of power. Love brings so much energy you will have more than enough. The struggle is the pushing against the outflow of yourself. The cry of let go is to break the hold others have over you. They demand your feelings, your love. You do not wish to give. You bring the wrong attitude to this.

 

Useful Questions and Hints:

How do I react to the liquid?

Do I take it or refuse it?

Does the dream explain it in any way?

See Associations Working With – Clicking On – Summing Up – Techniques for Exploring your Dreams

List

The list may be a personal reminder of things that need doing, so may refer to changes you need to make in your life, or things to attend to at work or in a relationship, depending on the setting of the dream. The list may refer to personal qualities, a sort of summary of your abilities or potential. It may remind you of important realisations, important facts or situations which you need to be aware of. List in dreams may also present you with choices to make, so refer to decisions you are facing.

Are you on a list of people – if so is it a waiting list, or a list with the ‘best’ at the top? What feelings do you have about the list? A healing list, or a list to be included or not included in an activity, a mailing list, or a list of people you fancy?

Some people have a list of things they want to do – in life or before they die. A list of places they want to visit or spend time in. Doyou have a list of what yu want to achieve?

 Example: We were looking over lists of concerts (rock). He said, “You’ve probably not been to many.” I said, “Ha. I certainly have.” He showed me his arm. Two rock groups were engraved in red on his arm. “The Million Dollar Kid” and the “Crystal XXX.” We strolled down the street. I told him how the people had kindly re-hired me and that I was feeling pretty good now and I could handle it.

Example: He was jealous of my interest in this other man. I told him, “Hey, I’m 21 years old.” He looked hurt and scared. He sneered and said, “If you see this man, I’ll cut you off from my money. Ha! How will you support yourself?” I felt confident, strong. I said, “I have skills and talents.” I listed some and added that I could type 70 words a minute and if I had to, I could be a clerk-typist. I wouldn’t starve. I left him.

 

Useful Questions and Hints:

What was your dream list about?

Did it list particular things?

Was it about you as a person or someone else?

See Summing Up – Being the Person or Thing – Characters and People in Dreams – Martial Art of the Mind

Lithe

Emotional or mental adaptability, lack of bigotry or obstinacy.

Little

Does not impress your conscious self. The feelings of childhood. The ability to avoid notice. To feel small or insignificant.

Liver

Apart from being a body dream that may be pointing out some dietary need, it often symbolises a state of irritability or long suffering.

Irritability; suggestion for health or diet changes, perhaps in connection with alcohol. See: body; Dream Body.

Livers were often used in the past by diviners to tell the future.

The liver also carries a lot of glycogen. If you eat far more carbohydrates than you need, glucose and glycogen can be turned into a long-term storage form – fat. If really starved of fuel the body can break down protein in muscle tissue to use as fuel. Sugar and most sweeteners including honey, malt, maple syrup, molasses and very refined foods, like most biscuits, cakes, white bread and cereals, whose processing and overcooking has already turned their complex carbohydrates into simple sugars, are fast-releasing. Hardly requiring any digestion, they release their sugar content so rapidly into the bloodstream that they are akin to putting racing fuel into a mini. The blood sugar level rises rapidly, often giving a noticeable boost to energy, then the body races to lower blood sugar levels to avoid flooding, and blood sugar levels plummet, often too low, causing a drop in energy one to three hours after eating. This is called low blood sugar or hypoglycaemia in the blood often causing headaches).

Glucose levels in the blood are our short-term storage of fuel. The more even this supply, the better our cells can function. They are neither starved nor flooded with fuel and can call on reserves when needed. The blood sugar balance is carefully controlled by hormones, chemical messengers released from endocrine glands. Insulin from the pancreas helps lower blood sugar levels by helping to transport glucose from the blood into the cells. The manufacture of insulin depends upon vitamin B6 and zinc. Drinking alcohol is bad for the liver because it uses up the B vitamins the liver needs.

Around fifteen thousand deaths and two hundred thousand injuries associated with drunken driving occur yearly in the United States. Alcoholic cirrhosis of the liver is one of the major causes of death; vast absenteeism, accidents, and job loss in business and industry occur, with an annual estimated loss of $500,000,000; many, if not most, divorces and broken homes occur in connection with excessive drinking; one-third to one-half of all traffic arrests are for drunkenness, far outnumbering any other category of arrest; 60 per cent of all arrests are for offenses directly related to use of alcoholic beverages, and 50 per cent of those in prison committed their crimes after alcohol consumption.

Example: I go out of my house to get in my car and discover the side has been bashed in. “I know who did that,” I say. “My father.” (My father stilted my ambition, my motivation to be/do something by always putting me down, making me feel inadequate/not good enough. My body the side of it=the liver, weakened from drinking – a legacy from my father?)

Example: Dreamt Ann had become my lover. Also, as I drove back to Welcombe from marketing, I realised I had recently several times mentioned Prometheus chained to a rock and having his liver devoured – by, as I added, guilt. My liver and large intestine have not felt comfortable and I wondered if there was a connection.

Useful Questions and Hints:

What does my dream point to – a physical or psychological situation?

Have I felt guilt recently?

Do I drink a great deal?

See Avoid Being Victims – Life’s Little Secrets – Defence Mechanisms and Resistances – Life Changes

Lizard

The lizard usually depicts your most fundamental and inbuilt responses, such as the fight or flight response, drive to procreate, territorial feelings, ritual behaviour. These are part of your primitive brain functions, and are very necessary. Because of this, the lizard and more so the snake, can represent the very process of life in you. This life activity flows through your functions and expresses as what you experience. So emotions for instance, are a particular expression of this life process. But emotions can be crippling when they are all to do with fear, guilt and self-incrimination. Therefore the lizard or snake can be shown as deadly, poisonous, and it then needs to be led in another direction. i.e. your emotions and anxieties, those basic responses, need re-channelling.