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Meet Met Meeting
(As in meeting someone – what do you meet?).
This is usually about contact, about relationship, and especially about the factors governing the relationship. For instance in one dream a man looking after children meets a man who he judges to be irresponsible. In fact the man is ill and therefore not acting normally. So the factors governing the meeting are misjudgement or misinformation.
Meeting is also about confrontation, or encountering challenge, the new, or about some sort of communication. There might also, in the communication, be questions asked.
The person we are meeting or moving toward can also depict the future, the person we are becoming or moving toward in our growth. It is therefore helpful to define what sort of person they are.
We might, as often happens, be meeting ourselves, thoughwe often put another person there to confuse our so logical mind; but I see so oftens that soemthing tells me again that within each of us lies a radiance that enriches us if we can meet it, that this radiance constantly tries to show us how to become whole, that becoming whole may take strength, surrender and trust.
We also meet again and again, yet for some reason cannot see it, Life’s age old unconscious processes are still the major part of our being, yet we seldom consciously meet them. See Life
What do you meet in the dream? Is it a dark figure which suggests something about you that you are barely conscious of and need to know.
Is it an animal which is usually your instinctive or spontaneous reactions to events, you intuition or your fears that you are meeting.
Is it a woman and you are a man Then you are meeting your feelings and your female self. Also you might be experimenting with your sexual impulses. You cannot call having sex ‘making love’ – it may be sexual desire which is largely a natural impulse, but it is seldom love. See Love; Archetype of the Anima
Is it a man and you are a woman Then you are meeting your more rational self or your male self. It might be a way you are trying to see whether the man is the ‘one’ – and that is something seen in many dreams. Maybe you feel it would be nice to fall in love and marry again. So you may be hoping that the dream is some sort of indication that ‘he’ still wants to be with you. I can only pass on what I see happens when someone has such a dream. There is such a huge difference between our inner life and outer life. Our inner life often tries to digest or integrate the experience of a relationship, or/and we live out the things we would love to happen. You realise how happy someone can be in a relationship, so you can’t help wondering if it could happen to you. See Archetype of the Animus; Questions; Learning to Love
Are you looking for support? Whether a woman or a man, we often find support in our dreams. But you must be aware that dreams arise and take place in very different set of circumstances than our waking life. So the people and animals should not be thought of as external, but are ways that you inner most self is showing the politics of your own inner world. See Summing Up
Useful Questions and Hints:
If the meeting did not work well ask yourself what went wrong?
If it went well see if you can build what you felt or realised into your life.
Have ever realised meeting yourself?
See Life’s Little Secrets – Avoid Being Victims – Techniques for Exploring your Dreams
Megalith Menhir
The eternal or universal aspect of self emerging into consciousness. See: Rock.
Because I believe the universe has good will, out of the very force of my life, and from the stuff of mind, I create a rock in the midst of a shoreless sea. In an ocean of change and uncertainty I form an island of charm.
There was a period of time when we were not humans with self awareness. As such we were animals moved by instincts. But there was then a cross over to self awareness, and in imagination I saw what was perhaps the first of these creatures pile one rock upon another, something no animal had ever done, and this was both a mystery to those who had not reached that level called self awareness, but also a stimulus. We may then venerate or hold as of immense value such art forms. They contain in them the vast dimensions of the ungraspable, of the infinity of our own within. They stand before us as representatives of the alien in our midst, in ourselves. They remind us of what we are not masters of, and what may take hold of our life.
Then out of that ocean onto the shore of self-awareness, perhaps for moments only at first, a daring Then out of that ocean onto the shore of self-awareness, perhaps for moments only at first, a daring creature crawled and said – ‘I am’. Doing so they left a mark – footprints, two stones rolled together, scratches on a rock, a cave painting. And those creatures still in the ocean looked out upon them and wondered, until a spark was struck in them too. Perhaps struggling for a closer view they emerged and gasping also exclaimed – I am – and added another rock. So great structures gradually grew put of humans.
Our consciousness has been whittled out of the rock of possibilities by the love, the struggle and pain, the endeavour and wit of their lives. Particularly our psyche has been shaped by or modelled on our parents and the traces in their life, unknown though they may be, of their parents, backwards for many generations.
Example: I have come across a cave dug into a rocky cliff. A track sloped down from a hill or a mountain past the tunnel entrance, which was on my left. I saw a few men emerging from the tunnel. Small broken rock covered the exit to the cave forming a level surface to walk on. I knew the men had found treasure in the cave. I saw bits of gold, like chunks of rock, on the ground near the exit. I knew also that there was still a great treasure in the tunnel. Another person went in to get some of the treasure. However, I knew that to have a treasure you had to answer a question put to you by something like a Guardian of the tunnel – maybe a sphinx. The person didn’t emerge and I knew they had not been able to answer the question. But I heard the question I would be asking if I went for the treasure. It was, “What goes into everything twice?”
The man who dreamt the above dreamt explored it fully. He says of it, “What I did found was that the cave is an absence of something. It is the result of work done of clearing out, of chipping away at what was there. This led to revealing what we consider to be treasure. The treasure was there but it had not been revealed, it was part and parcel of the rock. So I am left wondering what the something is inside the cave that asks the questions of those who enter.
What I find interesting about the dream is that there are pieces of gold lying about outside the cave. So one could gather a lot of treasure simply from what is already available. There would be no need to enter the cave. But there is the promise of enormous treasure inside. It isn’t so much the wealth, but there is the impression that the treasure is not simply lumps of gold, but un-nameable things that one would find extremely valuable. I feel, as I enter more deeply into my wider awareness, that the men who came out with the treasure depict the enormous amount that I have mined from the long years of my exploring. I have in fact already gathered enormous treasure. Of course I still wonder what else there is left to find.
I am feeling that the person who went in and did not come out represents the unanswered questions that we all hold within ourselves. Those questions of course keep us still within the mine, still seeking answers and understanding. That is the part of self that continues to chip away at the rock face, knocking away the rock from the gold, uncovering more of the possibilities that were held within that solidity.
Example: I was on a beach in somewhere like Ibiza. I met Danny; I knew that I didn’t have the money like him to live a different life, so I wondered what I could do. I saw a rock mound with water running through it. I then saw that ancient peoples had carved out some more of the rock and had inserted abalone shells around the running water creating a trough. As I looked on, I suddenly realised that this was an expression of the divine and that I could live here and dedicate my life to the divine, thereby giving my life as much meaning if not more than Danny’s.
Example: Here and there in the desert were huge rock formations, a little bit like what one sees in Monument Valley in Arizona. But these rock formations were not plain or slightly coloured rock. Also they were immense. They had the appearance of massive mosaics – brightly coloured mosaics. But the mosaics did not form illustrations or patterns. However, some pieces of the mosaics were larger than others. And each piece might be in itself multicoloured and a sort of miniature pictograph.
As I looked at these massive formations I understood that they had been carved or created through events in the passage of time. Each mosaic, each part of the overall mosaic, had been formed by enormous creative acts, or by long-standing actions. So these latter were like ideograms or archetypes. So, for instance, mother creatures have cared for, fought for, died for their young. This pattern of behaviour has been so enormously potent and perhaps we can use the word successful, that it has created and shaped aspects of eternity. It has left its pattern, its artwork, on time itself. Thus eternity honours that pattern by giving it a place in the very structure of itself. No one being created such a mosaic in the formations. Such a mosaic was large and had in it the essence of all the lives that formed it. So the rock formations and the mosaics on them represented influences that will flow into the future. They were sources of power or influence that shaped the phenomenal world. They were the body under the coat so to speak.
Example: We turned left off the road. I stood on a small rise looking down into a large hollow between hills. In front of me was a colossal stone column of a design I had never before seen. It was the height of Nelson’s column in Trafalgar Square, but very much wider. On top it had a design that was so subtle and unique I cannot even recall it. This design had been carved into the solid rock. This suggests, I suppose, that this uniqueness has not been brought through to consciousness. The column seems to be of solid rock, neither natural nor man-made, but formed by some inconceivable mystery. The design at the top was alien, not in the sense of being a threat, but with a sense of otherness. The form was not natural, yet at the same time it was not man-made. Perhaps it would describe it by saying it seemed as if nature and human intelligence had somehow blended to form it. For they had the naturalness of form that an anthill or honeycomb has, where “nature” expresses herself through her insect bodies. This was in a class with these works of nature, yet more complex, showing She had used a higher order of intelligence.
Useful Questions and Hints:
Were there any designs on the rock?
Did I have any thoughts or realisation about the megalith?
What do I feel it means to me?
See Being the Person or Thing – Magical Dream Machine – Processing Dreams
Melt
To change hardness of nature giving way to feelings of softness. A change; emotions softening. The softness of ones emotions can lead to a feeling of merging with someone. There can also be a melting of ones sense of self, of existing. Our personality has indeed, as far as we are concerned, while we sleep has melted away and disappeared. Yet the next morning we awake and all is well. We have survived. The sense of bodilessness often brings with it a melting of ones boundaries and a feeling of being part of all life. This is sometimes called an ‘oceanic’ experience because it can feel like one is melting into an enormous ocean of life or consciousness.
The melting of ice suggests that a very hard emotional surface is softening or disappearing. Melting snow is also the losing of emotional coldness, but not with the harshness of ice.
Example: I was in a street and met a dark haired young woman. We embraced and kissed. The feeling of mutual pleasure was intense. So much so I felt what she was feeling as if we did not have separate bodies. I felt an orgasm grow inside her pelvis and reach its pitch, flowing into the rest of her body. It was her orgasm but it felt as if it were mine also. It was a beautiful melting experience with no harshness or disappointment anywhere.
Example: Now the preparations have ended and I am to go off alone up the mountains to meet whatever waits for me there. Now it feels as if something is flowing into my body. I am now experiencing a state or condition that has been very marked or strong in my life lately. My breathing becomes very slow, it seems even at times as if it has stopped, and everything becomes very still. It feels like being dead. My body becomes so still it disappears and all that is left is awareness submerged in enormous emptiness or space. There is a paradox in this experience because it feels as if I, my sense of self, has melted away, and yet there is still a very definite experience of existing. I suppose what has stopped is what I have called movement. The movement of thinking, of feeling, of longing or hoping for things.
Example: I held out my hand to the doll, with love, and it came alive and crawled to me. It came to me as a lonely child might come into ones arms hungering for love. I held it close to me, and Joan came over and I held her too. Then all barriers seemed to melt, and everything disappeared from view. All that existed was I as a united being and consciousness. It was, I think, beautiful. I used the word think, because I find it difficult to describe the experience. We melted into each other beyond the sense of being separated by the surface of ones skin If one literally entered during sexual intercourse, and melted together like drops of water uniting, this is how it would be.
Useful Questions and Hints:
Did you experience melting or just seeing something melt?
What would you imagine it would feel like to actually melt?
Do you keep a hard edge to your feelings as protection?
See Avoid Being Victims – Using the Voice – Norman Cousins – Being the Person or Thing
Menstruate Menstruation Periods
The possible association depends very much upon what age you are, and what gender. But if you are female, it can suggest (in order of age) emerging sexuality and child bearing, and any joys or worries you have about this. Dreams of young women often experiment with the whole process of menstruation and pregnancy long before there is any inclination to experience sex as an external fact.
It might refer to your acceptance or conflict with this powerful and spontaneous process of life working in you. In a sense it takes over your body as distinct from your personal desires. This calls for some adjustment, so the dreams might illustrate this.
The dream might reflect concerns about pregnancy, or in a few cases, directly shows that you are pregnant.
Lastly the dream might be showing actual physiological conditions needing attention. If you are worried about any such dream, check it out with your doctor.
Emerging sexuality; procreative drive; mystery of life; acceptance of life working in yourself if menstruating – non acceptance of basic life drives if not menstruating.
Menstruation connects her with the forces of death and renewal occurring within her during every menstruation. It connects her with the tremendous link with natural forces of mothering and the strength of womanhood and the female principle in the Earth and universe.
Blood can also mean fertility when it is connected with menstruation. It can be a painful cleansing and difficult period of releasing the old. The old dies away and leaves space for the new to grow. For women there is obviously a strong link between bleeding and menstruation. Therefore in women’s dreams involving blood, the colour red or bloody felsh in any form, the blood may depict whatever feelings, pleasure, difficulties are associated with menstruation and the power of female fertility for the dreamer.
Dreams of collapse and destruction are more prevalent before a woman’s menstrual periods. 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.”
Women with negative attitudes toward their menstruation (“the curse,” “falling off the roof,” “on the rag”) showed 15 percent of their dreams during the first two days had concerns about their body health. While those with positive feelings toward menstruation (“my secret friend,” “my monthly visitor,” “Mother Nature calling”) had less than 2 percent of dreams showing concerns.
Menstruation is the assurance of true femininity and the sign of womanhood. At such a time women often dream of receiving an engagement ring or married to strangers. Women frequently dream of being in water or swimming during menstruation.
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.”
Problems with menstruation: Problems with relationship between what life needs of personality, and what personality wants of life; might refer to physiological problems which need attention. In man’s dream: Ones receptive nurturing nature; the aspect of the male self which can ‘conceive’ creative ideas.
If ill: problems in sexuality, creativity, emotions or in letting go of ‘I want’. See: pre menstrual tension; Menstruation and dreams.
Example: For the past year and several months I’ve had a recurring dream at least 10 times pertaining to my menstrual cycle and bowel movements. These dreams have always been embarrassing. Either my period has came down unexpected while I’m sitting on the toilet and/or I am catching a bowel movement in my hand and trying to hide it from people around me. I have been thinking of what possible meaning this could be.
This is about the person holding onto their inner emotional rubbish/shit because they feel embarrassed if they allow it to be expressed.
Example: We’re commiserating about the woes of menstrual periods. We talk about how uncomfortable it is when one’s flow is very heavy. We’re enjoying our conversation and I like her a lot. We have so much in common. Finally she says she needs to change her tampon or pad. I offer her a tampon (regular) but she says that she doesn’t use them when she’s out like this. (I get the feeling she means it’s too inconvenient.) At first I was sitting on the end of the aisle and she was sitting to my right. Now she’s squatting in the aisle on my left. I thought she was going to the bathroom but she changes right there in the aisle. She pulls out a thing that looks like a tampon but it’s round and white on a string. It’s about 1/2 – 1 inch in diameter. This is what she will use. She doesn’t seem the least bit uncomfortable about doing it in the aisle. It seems to be natural for her. I then ask her how she handles working when her flow is so heavy. She laughs and says there’s no way she can work. Her boss just tells her to take her shoes and go home. He knows she’s going to be off work when she’s on her period.
Useful Questions and Hints:
Do I have problems talking about menstruation?
What do I feel about menstruation?
Is it easy or painful for you?
See Techniques for Exploring your Dreams – Being the Person or thing – Magical Dream Machine
Merchant
The business, commercial side of self. Desires for profit in some area of your life.
It could also suggest the skill in knowing and dealing with the things we need in the business of living. The ability to buy and sell by understanding the things you are profiting by.
Useful Questions and Hints:
Is this showing the business side of myself?
Is this indicating a scheming aspect in the way I relate to others?
Am I looking for profit in a particular area of life?
See Being the Person or Thing – Market – Business and Dreams – Business Woman/Man
Mercury
Intuition; changeability. Difficulty to grasp.
Mermaid Merman
Love arising from the unconscious. The unconscious drive toward reproduction, or seduction toward reproduction. In some cases it can show your love of your image of someone rather than the reality of them as a human being. The link between the deep forces of the unconscious and the waking self. The unconscious image or idealised sense of womanhood – mermaid – or manhood – merman; love of ones image of someone rather than the reality of them as a human being. Meeting a mermaid or merman is an indication that you are exploring the beauty of your larger self and gaining spiritual awareness.
If mermaid: The inner image of womanhood, still held in the waters of the unconscious.
Useful Questions and Hints:
Have I experienced any intuitive realisation recently?
Do I love images of mermaids?
What do I feel when I dream of a mermaid or merman?
See Clicking On – ESP in Dreams – Secrets of Power Dreaming – A Huge Change Happening
Message Messages Messenger
This is a way your unconscious manages to give you information, or suggest that something is important to think about. It can also suggest intuitive insight into whatever the message is about.
Information to take seriously; a communication from your intuition or unconscious; information you need to know.
A beacon can suggest that you are the messenger, the beacon to guide or warn.
Alarm clock ringing is probably a message to wake up to something happening in your life or to remember something you had set yourself to do. Sometimes a warning.
Birds can indicate messages that are being delivered to you.
An envelope and letter definitely indicate messages.
Strange or unknown horseman/woman often signifies a message from the unconscious, a new opportunity, relationship or event.
Angels are traditionally said to be messengers from the Highest. Many people have conversations with them and find them helpful. But even if we do not believe in angels, it is an excellent thing to do to construct one to interact with your intuition.
There are thousands of things that you are unconscious of at the moment. For instance I can ask you a question you are presently unconscious of, but you will be aware of it when I ask you. So here is the question – What is your present or earlier address.
As you can see, something that you were unconscious of becomes know when you are asked a question. But there are many things that we hold the answers to that we have never put into words or never been conscious of. Yet we have millions and millions of pieces of information gathered even in a short life, pieces that would only be brought together by a question. But also it is now believed after the finding that at base we are quantum which connects with all things, that we have infinite information which can be accessed by asking questions in the right way.
So you construct an angel by holding a feeling or an image of a consciousness that is connected with you – your unconscious – but is like an inverted – upside down – triangle. The angel is at the point of the triangle, but is also the body of the triangle witho9ut any ceiling. So it extends forever to collect the answers to your question.
So if you come away from a dream empty handed then you have received a wonderful communication and ignored its message. OK, it may be difficult to understand. So what, many things are not handed to us served up with gravy. Struggle with it, pray for help with it, live with it, for this is a message that is vital to you – ask your angel. Ask with a feeling that you have asked a friend an important question and now you are waiting quietly to hear the answer. See using intuition
Example: The following dream has a very deep meaning and a clear guidance-message: The dreamer is in a dark, swampy forest. It is night. He has lost his way and is desperate, not knowing where to go, wallowing in the morass . . . He is not religious, but he falls on his knees and begins to pray, imploring the Higher Forces to help him out of this predicament and to show him the way!. . Suddenly a clear ray of light appears from the black sky, moving and showing a stable way among the boggyness. He rushes forward! But after several steps on the right path — he loses it and feels very frightened and lonely. He falls on his knees again, praying and begging for guidance and help. . . The golden ray reappears from above, leading him out of the dark and swampy dangerous forest. . Three or four times he goes astray, losing the right way. The helpful golden beam always reappears after he offers a sincere and deep prayer to be shown the right direction, where to go, the way out of the darkness and bog. . . His prayer was right: he asked no favors, no gifts, only the right way.
Example: Many of you will remember the cartoon character, Casper the Friendly Ghost. Casper is a
little ghost who would help his friend Wendy the Good Witch, whenever she was in strife. When I was very young I thought everyone had their own Casper guiding them through life. I honestly thought Casper was guiding me because I often received messages when I needed help.
How silly this sounds now, but at six years of age, I didn’t know any better. It wasn’t until I was about eight that I realised what I had mistaken to be Casper, was really my Conscience or Intuitive Voice. By then I was old enough to understand that Casper was a cartoon figure, and wasn’t real. Phew…what a relief it was to know that no ghosts floated around me. Quoted from The Voice of Intuition by Emily Chantiri
Example: Ah yes, “We are shattered, tattered, demented remnants of a once glorious army. Among us are Princes and Captains of Armies, Lords of Battle, amnesic, aphasic, ataxic, jerkily trying to recall what was the battle the sounds of which still ring in our ears: is the battle still raging? If we could make our way back to join the main body of the army. “Gropings, orientations, crumbs, fragments, bits of the jigsaw, a few demented ravings that may help the reconstruction of the lost message. I am just beginning to regain my memory, just beginning to realise I am lost, just getting faint sounds of old familiar music – snatches of old tunes, moments of deja-vu, a reawakening of a long-numbed agony – an unendurable realisation of what a debacle it was, what a shambles, what betrayal, horror, stupidity, ignorance, cowardice, craven lust, wretched greed. Faint recall of a raving nostalgia, for the Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory, Paradise lost.” (The Bird Of Paradise by R. D. Laing – Quoted from my book Yield).
Example: I released my demons prematurely – before I had sufficiently developed my strengths and skills. This happened because I didn’t listen to my inner self’s messages. In my arrogance, I actually thought I knew better. This led to my depression and opened the gates to my inner demons. So…I am now forced to fight a premature battle.
You can be an archaeologist by exploring the buried message of your dreams by using
Being the Person or Thing – Clicking On and Peer Dream Work.
Useful Questions and Hints:
Was the message clear or do I need to clarify it?
What or who was the messenger?
Is it a message I feel I can trust or act on?
See Clicking On – Techniques for Exploring your Dreams – Characters and People in Dreams
The Voice of Intuition by Emily Chantiri
Example: Ah yes, “We are shattered, tattered, demented remnants of a once glorious army. Among us are Princes and Captains of Armies, Lords of Battle, amnesic, aphasic, ataxic, jerkily trying to recall what was the battle the sounds of which still ring in our ears: is the battle still raging? If we could make our way back to join the main body of the army. “Gropings, orientations, crumbs, fragments, bits of the jigsaw, a few demented ravings that may help the reconstruction of the lost message. I am just beginning to regain my memory, just beginning to realise I am lost, just getting faint sounds of old familiar music – snatches of old tunes, moments of deja-vu, a reawakening of a long-numbed agony – an unendurable realisation of what a debacle it was, what a shambles, what betrayal, horror, stupidity, ignorance, cowardice, craven lust, wretched greed. Faint recall of a raving nostalgia, for the Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory, Paradise lost.” (The Bird Of Paradise by R. D. Laing – Quoted from my book Yield).
Example: I released my demons prematurely – before I had sufficiently developed my strengths and skills. This happened because I didn’t listen to my inner self’s messages. In my arrogance, I actually thought I knew better. This led to my depression and opened the gates to my inner demons. So…I am now forced to fight a premature battle.
You can be an archaeologist by exploring the buried message of your dreams by using
Being the Person or Thing – Clicking On and Peer Dream Work.
Useful Questions and Hints:
Was the message clear or do I need to clarify it?
What or who was the messenger?
Is it a message I feel I can trust or act on?
See Clicking On – Techniques for Exploring your Dreams – Characters and People in Dreams
Metal
Hardness of feelings; the restrictions of the real world or of ones own imagination; strength of or use of your will or obstinacy; reality. See: Iron.
Metro
See: Underground.
Mew
Loneliness, a call from the soul, a longing for comfort, friendship or love.
Microbe
See: Germ.
Microscope
The ability to perceive the subliminal and usually imperceptible parts of your nature, and sensations. Possibly an insight into the cellular processes of your body; the intricate workings of your mind, or your usually hidden feeling responses – depending upon what you are looking at through the microscope.
Introspection; extended cellular perception; making mountains out of molehills. The ability to look within yourself at the usually imperceptible parts of your nature and mind.
The world seen through a powerful microscope or telescope is very different, and our senses only show us very limited aspects of the universe that can be enhanced by such instruments.
If we were the size of an atom, or even a molecule for instance, reality would appear completely different to us. The incredible speed with which we, as an atom, interact with our environment would give us a totally different view of time and space. Years of activity for our atomic self would be only a second of time to our bodily self.
The eyes only ‘see’ a small part of the light spectrum; the ears a small part of the sound octaves; and you cannot look into the depths of your body or mind, as a microscope might; nor can you gain a broad view of the galaxies and what they hold – you do not know what is going on around you or within you except in your dreams.
In fact our consciousness is capable of being a high-powered microscope with a range of optic lenses that can be manipulated to suit the individual eye or the matter being observed. There are worlds within worlds and you hold them all within you and can be conscious of them.
Dreams express a contact between ones individual sense of identity and the living consciousness of our total environment. So the dream process is creative in that the individual experiences contact with the process of life, and can learn to relate to it more effectively. Also out of this contact emerges a creative response in action, emotion, art, speech, music, dance etc. In this area the dream acts like a microscope or telescope, through which the dreamer can literally explore the cosmos or the depths of their own psychobiological being. This has all the characteristics of the deepest of spiritual experiences.
Example: I see like a zoom lens and I’m coming closer to a corner under the eves. A red and white thing is all messed up in a heap there and I feel terror. I think, “I don’t want to see.” It’s like my childhood memories and it will scare me or be too ugly to look at. But as I come closer, it changes into a sweet kitty and it sits there looking at me. I feel better now. The place is dusty and cold and long forgotten, except for that cute kitty.
Useful Questions and Hints:
Have I ever experienced seeing more than my eyes usually allow?
Did I see through a microscope – what did I experience?
What did I realise as I explored the strange world?
See Using Your Intuition – Jesse Watkins Enlightenment – Diving into the Depths of Mind
Midget
See: Dwarf.
Milk
Due to it being a product of a mother, it usually represents the ability to give of oneself, the giving of sustenance, self-sacrifice, nurturing the young or needy parts of you or others. It may also indicate motherhood, infantile sustenance, or sympathy. It can be the symbol of something bland, harmless, mild, lacking the stimulus of alcohol, tea, or coffee. Thus the word ‘milksop’, that is another name for childlike, unmanly, cowardly. On occasions milk can also represent sperm or the female vaginal flow. See: Food; Drink.
Through the mother’s it breast a baby receives nourishment, but it also receives in the milk things that help the baby meet the infections and threats confronting it in the external world.
An adult drinking milk might suggest the person has not matured – or needs more calcium in their diet.
Being milked: Giving of oneself; taking support or nourishment from someone else; taking, or being taken, advantage of.
Example: Quoted from Dreams, The Language of the Unconscious by Hugh Lynn Cayce. ‘I dreamed my brother and I with our wives were out on a party with B.B. I fell asleep at the table. We got home very late. My brother left the car and walked home. He and I stopped to look at a bottle of milk that was marked “undistilled milk!”‘ An intuitive analysis of this dream by Edgar Cayce suggested that it represented the man as having too many late nights. This is portrayed by his falling asleep at the table. It also is said to suggest a need for more physical exercise in the part where his brother walks instead of using the car. And lastly, Cayce says, ‘Change from the present supply (of milk) for this shows adulteration in same.
Example: A young woman was there, not particularly good-looking, but okay. I suppose I would describe her as a fairly plain young woman, neither highly intelligent nor stupid. Almost immediately we were in a sexual relationship. I was sucking her breast. It was very beautiful and warm sweet milk was coming out into my mouth. It felt very satisfying, both for me and for her.
Idioms: Milk and water; milk of human kindness; milk somebody; cry over spilt milk.
Useful Questions and Hints:
What is happening to the milk in the dream?
Am I drinking it or giving it?
Do I avoid drinking milk, if so what is my dream suggesting?
See Life’s Little Secrets – Magic Mirror of Dreams – Role in the dream
Mill Milling
Process of extracting what is useful from ones gathered experience. Can be painful as it needs intense self awareness; crushing or painful experiences of life. Trying times or feelings. Suggests the breaking down of old attitudes and beliefs.
To mill or being involved in milling is a way of transforming one thing into another – something that couldn’t be easily used by humans into something useful. As such it can link with nourishment.
Grist for the mill: Suggests that everything can be used if and when it is milled. Also often refers to making a profit.
Milling around: Having not set direction or not making firm decisions or choices.
Example: The scene shifted to later that same evening. I was in a small, outdoor amphitheatre and a lecture was going on while people were milling about. It was still a rave scene and there were all kinds of beautiful, psychedelic visual effects happening up on the stage and all around on the side walls, though the theater was open aired. I realized the whole effect was inducing a trance state and it felt really good to collectively be linked emotionally.
Run of the mill: An ordinary situation that does not stand out.
Useful Questions and Hints:
Am I the miller or involved in milling?
What is being ground up and for what purpose?
What am I doing milling around?
See Being the Person or Thing – Characters and People in Dreams – Summing Up