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Narrow Narrowly

We can in our dreams have vast horizons or narrow horizons, and so you need to ask yourself what is meant if you dream about a vast horizon, and what state of mind is indicated by narrow horizon. It can suggest narrow minded; limited choices or view; feeling restricted by a set of beliefs or theories, or your sensory perceptions or intellectual understanding. Sometimes it indicates fear of going beyond ones narrow boundaries, or the narrow focus of self we know in our daily life. Limited movement in any but one direction. Limitation of choice. 

If you are trapped in a narrow tunnel it can sometimes indicate memories of your birth struggle. See  

As the throat is the narrow channel through which we express or repress our emotions and reactions, it can become a site of great tension or pain, or of intense pleasure. See throat

Dreams often show the dreamer narrowly escaping from some danger. But it is usually they are avoiding meeting a conflict or fear that they need to address. See

Sometimes a dream might be showing the dreamer in a tight, narrow or restricting situation. This is might because the person feels like their work is trapping or imprisoning them.

But dreams cannot be described by the narrow and superficial conceptual model used in academic psychology.

 

Useful Questions and Hints:

Am I trapped or finding release from the narrow thing?

Can I identify with the feeling of being restricted or not appreciated?

Do I ever feel imprisoned by others, the situation or even myself?

See Prison – Martial Art of the Mind – Eight Step Method to Manage Intense Emotion – Self Help

Nation

Characteristic symbolised by the people as a whole. See: Abroad.

Native

Natural feelings; being uncivilised, feelings without too much social restraint. See: aborigine; black people.

A native in a dream probably means you are in touch with the natural world and honour it as part of your life as many native people do.

The native may also be a link to relating well to your own nature energy and motivations.

The modern western adult is often very much out of touch with the life giving processes within them and may feel isolated and often ill at ease in the world. The black figure in dreams, or the native, can give us a much needed connection and balance. It can also be an image of less sophisticated parts of you.

Thus the native in a white person’s dream may represent a level of our mind or consciousness that does not differentiate and separate things in the same way our conscious rational mind usually does. This native, natural or archaic stratum of consciousness produces a sense of being connected with the mysterious spirit of life itself, and so has a sense of sharing life with all the creatures around it. It also gives insights into the wisdom learned through collective human and animal experience. The native would suggest contact with the insights, intuitions or influences arising from such a source. But being aware of this ancient starts of our awareness usually takes place within the person who has been born and influenced by western culture. So one cannot simply ‘go native’ mostly because the native within still sees things in symbols, and unless these are brought into the modern mind and understood can lead to a loss of real perspective. See important

Some people are born a native to this underneath world, the place inside us. They understand and move easily in it and know themselves as part of a larger life. See the unconscious

 

Useful Questions and Hints:

What did the native give or tell me?

Did I understand the symbols of any ritual shown?

Was there a change in the way I felt?

Can I move easily in the world within me?

See Inner World – Jesse Watkins Enlightenment – Meeting yourself – Individuation

Nature

Those parts of your being that have arisen with little or no interference. Not moulded by conscious ambitions, desires.

Navel

Birth, dependency – especially upon mother; the way we connect our deepest self with the outside world. Having no navel would suggest you have no connection with your parents and forebears, or have lost or repressed any feelings of such connection. In some literature or drama it is shown as meaning the person is an alien or spirit. See navel and umbilical cord under body; birth dreams. Particularly read the piece under active imagination about the umbilical connection loss.

A symbol of an outer connection with our innermost feelings and being. It also represents a sign of dependency, of our dependence upon mother, upon the life process, upon earth.

The navel is a very important dream subject and can indicate your feelings of connection with your mother. But such feelings transfer onto any person we develop a close and feeling relationship with. So when there is any threat or disturbance in the relationship with husband, wife, or partner, this area might be involved and appear in a dream, or you might feel the pain or shock there. These feelings might be positive or very disturbed, depending upon your birth and childhood experiences. The likelihood is that such feelings will be blamed on the partner, wife or husband, instead of you being aware that they arise from ones earliest experiences of connection and physical and emotional dependence.

The navel, and its link with the umbilical cord, also can deal with feelings of dependence and the need for nourishment at a basic baby level. As such they sometimes become very linked with sexual need and what is felt in the sexual relationship. See Ages of Love

At a more abstract level, this area – the solar plexus – links with the way we connect with other people and the world through sympathetic feelings. It deals with how we take things into us from others, and what we give out. The digestive tract, with its ability to absorb and excrete is an image of this, but needs to be seen in a psychological way. Hurt, disturbance or pain in this area of our psyche can lead to tension and painful emotions or even physical sensations in relationship with a person or life.

Also the navel, like the nipples, can act as a sexual stimulus for some people.

Useful Questions and Hints:

How would I describe my early connection with my mother, or with my present partner – is it easy and secure, or do I still hold back or feel insecure in any way?

Is something happening in my life related to secure connection in a relationship?

What is the situation of the navel in my dream?

See Arm Circling Meditation – navel; umbilical cord; blood sucked

Near Nearer Nearest Nearness

When something is near to you in your dream, it shows the strength of your feelings about it, or how aware of it you are. The nearer it is, the more conscious and feelingful you are about it. The nearer something is to you in a dream, the closer it is to becoming conscious in a direct way rather than as a symbol. See: adjacent under positions.

There are many ways people dream of nearness – near the edge; people near me; near to the scrap heap; near to death; stand near him to give him moral support; near me is a woman. We can be near so many things in so many ways. In dreams you can be so near to someone or something you can merge into them/it. That is because what we see as outside us in a dream is simply our different thought, attitudes, abilities, fears and hopes all projected outward in the drama of our dreams.

Some people feel near to madness or despair. Their situation has become apparently helpless. But such helplessness only exists if you believe in it. See Martial Art of the Mind and

People get terrified when they begin to realising that they are fundamentally bodiless consciousness, we create a dream image of ourselves with a body. Also to realise that we are not in control of our life can create enormous fear. Out of that arises all the fear of death – for even if we lose all our limbs we are still us. See Life’s Little Secrets

 

Useful Questions and Hints:

What am I near to in my dream? Look it up to gain more insight.

In what way is it influencing me?

Am I in some way trapped by being near?

Is fear or pain a trap for me?

See Method to Manage Intense Emotion – Techniques for Exploring your Dreams – Martial Art of the Mind

Neck

The neck may indicate the way you connect your thinking (your head) with your feelings and sexuality (your body). Your neck is also the weak or vulnerable part of you, unlike the chest or head that is protected by bone, so any attack to the neck shows being influenced through your vulnerable feelings.

A woman who experienced a lot of neck pain and explored the underlying causes of this wrote:

Over the past few weeks and last weekend I got an opportunity to spend an extended period of time alone and relaxed during which I was able to tie the threads together, and understand what the throat and neck symptoms are about. I had been thinking along the lines of suppressing my inner creativity due to fear of censorship and that is one element, but I think the more fundamental is that the throat is constricting my experience of the environment, because I am scared stiff of what it will do to me. If I experience the outside world “raw”, it will evoke such strong emotions in me that I will be blown apart, annihilated, so I cut down what I experience of it and I try to manipulate it so that I cut out anything that will evoke painful emotions. S.

As the throat is the narrow channel through which we express or repress our emotions and reactions, it can become a site of great tension or pain. What S. is realising is that she is causing her neck pain through her ‘constriction’ in her throat. When S. tried to drop her controlling attitude she described what she met as follows:

I guess it’s a process that needs to occur bit by bit: you can’t turn over ingrained belief patterns all at once. The other day my neck tension became very painful and wearing and I felt very demoralised because I thought all my progress was an illusion. The next day I woke in a state of terror and anxiety but the tension had gone. “Good,” I thought, “I would rather have the terror”. And I have been trying to keep the terror and investigate it. It is the terror that I will not know how to deal with what life brings, or how to cope, and the resulting emotions will be overwhelming and ultimately blow me apart. So there are issues of self-trust, but I think that is because I am assuming that I’ll be using my father’s rules. I have to convince myself that if I use my rules, life will be a beach!

Problems with the neck often refer to the way the neck can act as a bottleneck, or of traffic jam for deeply felt emotions. In such a case you need to examine what feelings are persisting, what emotions or words you haven’t allowed yourself to say. As the neck connects the head-thinking, with the body-feelings and sexuality, the neck may refer to a split or non connection between these two main areas of your being.

To be strangled in a dream may be due to difficulty in breathing, feelings of being unable to express easily or say what you really feel. Some relationship situations leave people feeling that life is being choked out of them. To have your head cut off, is to have thinking divorced from feeling.

You can stick your neck out, which means to take a risk; have a lot of neck, or nerve or audacity. These meanings have arisen possibly from the head being severed in execution, or hanging, or strangulation. The neck is a weak point, and to offer it suggests confidence, fearlessness. So the neck may depict a certain attitude, such as confidence or caution. The neck is also the point up to which we can be easily immersed in water. Beyond that point there is danger. So it can depict what we can take in life, and what is more than enough.

Because the throat holds our organ of speech, the neck sometimes depicts our will, our ability to ask for what we want, and also our confidence, as when we use the idiom, ‘stick my neck out.

Back of neck: This suggest emotional energy that is largely unconscious and may be blocked. Our biological energy not only flows into movement, sex, digestion, etc, but also into being aware, feeling, expressing who we are and our potential. As described by S. above, this can be held back for various reasons. If it is not is flows up the spine into the head. It may then express through the mouth, or be experienced as an uprush of understanding or insights.

Head hanging off: Dolls sometimes lose their heads because they have been so abused by their owner, so this may link with feeling that life has so harshly treated you that you feel like a helpless doll being dismembered. See: Dismembered body.

This can also suggest ‘losing ones head’. See: head.

Held by back of neck: Some dreams show someone being held or carried by the back of the neck. This is probably a link with how we see cubs being carried, suggesting helplessness and dependence, along with being cared for.

Hung from neck: Quite a few dreams show someone, or yourself, hung by the neck. There are many possible things this might indicate. For one thing it definitely links with death or the possibility of death. Such a death might be the result of self sacrifice, as show in the Tarot card of the hanged man, or it might be as the result of social action – a cause and effect of things done; a punishment because of feelings of guilt.

However, many hangings are due to suicide, and so might in a dream reflect depression, loss of any pleasure in life, a retreat from pain, or feelings of hopelessness or guilt.

In some dream however, there is a different sense of the hanging. It suggests not a death but an almost complete suppression of the life in one. A strangulation of the flow of pleasure and creativity that would otherwise stream through one. In such a case the rope needs to be removed and a new way of relating to oneself developed. (For help doing this see Secrets of Power Dreaming

Gripping neck or strangled: This has connections with strangled the creative flow in oneself or another. It is a way of repressing or controlling ones natural responses and feelings. But it may be shown as being gripped or strangled by somebody else, and might therefore show how another person’s influence in your life has a strangle hold over how you express yourself, what you say, and what you do.

Large neck: This suggests power, the ability to survive or face threats and persevere. It also may indicate having an inner strength or bigness.

Small or thin neck: Vulnerability of some sort, maybe emotionally. It could also indicate lack of reserves as far as health or illness are concerned.

Idioms: Breaking one’s neck; breathing down ones neck; dead from the neck up/ down; neck and neck; neck of the woods; pain in the neck; put ones neck on the line; risk one’s neck; stick one’s neck out; up to one’s neck. See: throat.

Useful questions or hints:

Is the neck in any way threatened or attacked – if so what am I feeling vulnerable about or attacked by?

Is something or someone gripping the neck – if so am I, or my responses to someone else, causing me to hold myself back?

Is something stuck in my throat – is so what is it I am having difficulty saying or expressing – maybe in asking for what I want or need?

See Secrets of Power Dreaming – Being the Person or Thing – Questions

 

Necklace

Display of special qualities; richness of feelings; feelings connected with the giver; social position. Jewels in necklaces represent your highest wisdom something to treasure and care for. See: Jewellery.

Power, authority, augmentation of personality, social attractiveness, charm or amulet. May associate with person who gave it, and the relationship with them. It can sometimes represent the things you hang round your neck, as a millstone round the neck. That is, obligations, karma, difficulties, set backs.

In Hindu tradition, it is believed that a spiritual thread binds together all things in existence, as a necklace binds together pearls and other treasures of the ocean floor.

Given as a gift: An acknowledgement of your special qualities.

Golden Necklace: Suggests a loving gift, or may imply many abilities of a spiritual long lasting nature.

Pearl Necklace: Beauty and wisdom that has arisen from the depths of your being.

To find or dig up a necklace of coins: Suggest the uncovering within yourself or your life things of great value, of abilities or talents, often from the long past. Such influences often come in the form of new abilities arising, or as intuitive awareness of how to respond to certain situations or relationships in your life. So they can be links with what is usually the hidden side of life.

 Example: I was the top of a hill on my knees digging in the earth with my right hand. It was fairly easy. I pulled up what felt like coins, and found they were all joined together, forming something one could wear. This was in the form of a necklace from which ran a long loop from one edge to the other, perhaps reaching fairly well below the breasts. There were coins set a little way apart all around this loop. Then in between there were two connections from coins going down in a V to a single line that connected with the bottom of the loop. From this single line, and the coins on it, there were connections to the coins on the loop, reaching low on the trunk.

The coins, or really, medallions, were shining silver, depicting Christian or ancient saints and martyrs. It was, I knew in the dream, like a rosary, which one could use in prayer. But instead of just the Ave Maria’s, and the Our Father’s, all the other saints were included. Thus it was a very comprehensive guide to prayer. Some of the silvered chains between the coins were missing, but these had been mended with something else. The shape of it suggests the sign of the cross people make on their body. But it shows the right way to do this is first touching the brow, then the two breasts, and then down to the genitals – the real sources of power. Richard.

Useful Questions and Hints:

Was the necklace a gift and if so who from?

Did I find the necklace or was I wearing it?

What feelings do I have about the necklace?

See Characters and People in Dreams (Use it on anyone who gave you the necklace) – Being the Person or Thing – Questions

Needle

It depends what sort of needle. If it is one used to give fluids in hospital, then it can suggest an inflow of life-giving energy or influence, or it could indicate a health problem.

Needles can link with drug use, and indicate possible poisons or infections entering your body. If dreamt in connection with a child, it might be worth making enquiries to see if the dream has any truth in it.

Needles can mend things or sew them up, and if your dream suggests this it is about healing old hurts or even securing something.

It can also suggest small hurts, small pricks, male sexuality, or something irritating you by getting ‘under your skin’, penetrating insight, male sexuality or power to mend ills probably with some pain. Also irritations. Or the ability to pierce through the surface of things and get to the heart of the matter.

Seeing a being of light piercing the centre of the forehead with a needle usually represent the beginning of awakening intuition.

Compass needle: Choices or direction, like the swinging needle. What direction is it pointing – see north – east – south – west

Needle in body: Sickness in body.

Needle on electronic apparatus: An important indication of what is happening emotionally or physically. See body

Needlework: What one has made of oneself. Creative activity showing the direction of your creativity.

 Example: Another man and I were almost completely submerged in deep, dark water. I was aware of a pain in the area of the solar plexus. Then I saw a hand with a large needle sew my lips together.

The man was feeling a lot of friction at work, and the dream was a hefty hint to keep his mouth shut to prevent being fired.

Idioms: Get the needle; needle in a haystack; stick a needle in; needling someone. 

 

Useful Questions and Hints:

Am I feeling needled – if so what about?

Do I express my creativity through needlework?

What was happening with the dream needle?

See Being the Person or Thing – Creativity – Conditioned Reflexes

Nectar

In past ages nectar was thought of as the drink of the gods. In other words it is the transformed essence of life experience – the spirit existing within the physical. It is that which can be extracted from what flowers in your life and your growth.

In some traditions it is taught that what flows from lovemaking – the nectar from the vagina – is a divine drink. Taken as a symbol in a dream this suggests that what arises from love is a transforming living energy that can heal and uplift.

Some dreams suggest the nectar arises from something certain cells or subtle organs in your body create. This nectar would be the result of opening yourself to the influence of your core, your eternal nature. The result of this would be a taste of heaven. See Honey.

Neighbour Neighbor

Probably a symbol of the qualities we feel they have. They may be helpful or grumpy. Or may be used as a male or female symbol. See: Man; Woman.

Ones relationship with other people; the qualities we see in our neighbour, or the conflict we have with them. They are the social environment in which you live, the quality or lack of it with which you are surrounded. Your interaction shows the manner in which you live your life. They are part of what you are aware of and what you observe, and part of what you accept in your social environment. See Characters and People in Dreams – Levels of the Brain;  Secrets of Power Dreaming

Example: I discover that my neighbor has organized a classical music program for his guests. Mr.R, my neighbor looks completely different in the dream.He offers us some delicious rice cakes,a specialty from the region he comes from.
I am so glad I came down or I would not have known about the music program or got to eat the delicious food.I had had the urge to eat those rice cakes earlier and now I got to eat such well made,authentic rice cakes that only someone from that region could make so perfectly.

Mr.R says all his guests would be going to the music program and he was serving breakfast to them before they went there.I notice a food stall has been set up near the building entrance with many containers of food for the guests.

The dreamer sees her neighbour as a helpful and organising influence in her life.

Useful Questions and Hints:

Have you ever had problems with neighbours?

In the dream what is the relationship with the neighbour?

Are you naturally a friendly person or a loner?

What do I feel about the neighbour?

See Summing Up – Questions – Being the Person or thing – Techniques for Exploring your Dreams

Nest

Emotional dependence upon parents; home life; not being independent; female sexuality; nest egg. Of course there are different types of nests, birds, bees, ants, and other creatures – even crocodiles have nests for their eggs.

What you dream in connection with the nest might indicate the home you have created, especially if it was for your children or loved one. It can depict the emotional, economic and psychological ties or dependencies you have, or have had with your parents.

Because this involves raising young, it might also show what is happening in you in being a parent, its pleasure and difficulties. In this connection it sometimes represents the female function of holding eggs and hatching them – so the vagina and uterus. Maybe even a nest egg.

The urge to find a partner and reproduce is also an aspect of all living creatures, as is nest or home building, caring for young, and the urge to gain respect within ones social group. Building a nest is an instinctive urge and arises from our deeps. It shows us creating a place if safety and a good environment to raise our children. It can be called a holy urge and its depth of feeling is difficult to understand.

The vagina in a woman’s dream really is her nest in which she keeps her eggs. It means expressing the full flood of her sexual need with its desire for a child, a caring and supportive nest to rear that child in.

In some cases another male may ‘lay his seeds/eggs’ in a nest that he himself did not help build. This is the idea of the cuckoo/cuckold.

Example: Later, in daylight I noticed a hornets nest in the side of the house. The next door neighbour’s son knocks it off and hornets enter the house and stung me. I angrily show the neighbour and son the huge watery swellings. I clout the boy for stirring up the hornets. I had held my arms above my head and the swelling decreases. Now, with lowered arms I see a bubbling up of skin spread up my arms to chest, then to my entire front. I have no apparent sexual organs because I am covered in a wafer of dead skin.

Example: There was the shiny little tool I had bought so many months beforehand for just such a need. As I picked it up I had an immense experience of my father, and his father, and all the people who have used tools to create their home — and beyond this the animals that strive so hard to build a nest, to make a den, in which to rear their children.

Leaving nest: Gaining independence; meeting change or leaving a dependent relationship.

Making nest: Home building; parental urges; partnership if with another bird; a sign of wanting a family and getting ready for it.

Nest: Home; family environment; security; even the womb.

Destroying nest: An aggressive desire to break away from family dependence, or a desire to wreck a relationship.

Eggs in a nest: It may be a sign in a woman’s dream that she is pregnant, or ready to conceive. It might also suggest that money is coming.

Broken eggs in a nest: Family problems, broken promises or betrayal, or a conception that didn’t work.

Idioms: Foul ones own nest; hornets nest; feather ones own nest; cuckoo in the nest; nest egg.

 

Useful Questions and Hints:

Where there eggs in the nest?

Have I ever collected eggs from a chickens nest?

What were my feelings for, or relationship to the nest?

See Being the Person or Thing – Secrets of Power Dreaming – Summing Up – Emotions and Mood in Dreams

Net

The subtle aspects of emotions, words or a relationship that we may get trapped by or in; attitudes in oneself or others that may trap or imprison subtle living parts of ones being.

Nets can protect us and provide safety, catching us when we fall and are caught, or when using a mosquito net. Also a source of food when using a fishing net. But they also can entangle and entrap, as when the gladiators used nets against their victims.

We all have a complex net of connections with others, and so includes love interests, work, creativity, friendship, victims and others.

Basketball net: This may be about success or failure – getting the ball into the net or missing. Or it might be about the quality of your aim/aims in your life.

Fishing net: There is a saying that a fish doesn’t know it is water until it is out and struggling for breath. So fish can represent in our dreams unconsciousness of our real situation. So a dream net is something designed to catch part of s that have remained unconscious, and then through hard work of fishing and hauling is led to become more conscious. But people set nets to catch a man or woman, usually unconscious of what is happening. It such situations it is the instinctive desires the woman or man works on. There are many women trapped by their enormous desire to be loved who are stripped of their savings.

Net curtains: Suggests a need for privacy, or a desire not to be seen. Hiding your inner thoughts and feelings.

Tennis or badminton net: The net can suggest something you can be caught by and so fail – or missing it is success. So it might include feelings of competitiveness etc.

 Example: I stop in a red brick building which is strange because all of the windows have been newly bricked up. I go inside to see what is going on and suddenly it begins to collapse. I turn and see a man going into a position of kneeling and bowing forward as if paying respect or praying to something, so I do the same thing. The building collapses on top of me, but I am not hurt because of this posture I am in. Instead of bricks slamming on top of me, it is like a mosquito net falls over me.

Example: I am happily walking down an interminable straight road of small terraced houses. On approaching one in the middle of a terrace, the net curtain is drawn back and a hand continually beckons. It is that of my GRANDMOTHER, dead fifty years ago!

Example: I see my white satin top and the net petticoats and feel that the dress should be prettier than that and decide it will have a long satin skirt over the net. The two women, one dark-haired, bring the bouquets they had made – satin with a white gardenia. I am very impressed at their kindness in making these.

Idioms: caught in a net; net surfer; safety net; surf the net; the net effect.

 

Useful Questions and Hints:

What was the net used for?

Did it catch anything?

Was success or failure shown or felt?

See Fish – What is the main action in the dream? – Water – Being the Person or Thing

Nettle Poison Ivy

Feeling stung by remarks; irritation – feeling nettled; sickness in the body; a difficult situation you may try to avoid – as in ‘grasping the nettle’ or ‘stung into action’.

Poison ivy: Poison thoughts or feelings that can cling and cause hurt. Or something that you need to avoid or be aware of.

Useful Questions and Hints:

Is someone or some situation irritating me?

Does this indicate sickness in my body somewhere?

Am I trying hard to avoid something?

Should I be more careful where I go?

See Avoid Being Victims – Martial Art of the Mind – Being the Person or Thing

New

Whatever is new in ones life – a relationship, opportunity, or a scheme. If contrasted with old, an attempt to decide, contrasting what we already know from the past/old, and what is arising.

Each day is a new experience, although we may approach it with old feelings and attitudes. The old habits can become new habits with a bit of work. Each new experience adds to who we are and implies growth. But it is ours to choose what direction that growth goes. See Habits

Here is an example of growth and change.

 Example: Sitting in a window box facing outwards, with Neal H and my son on my left. I felt very scared of falling and asked my son and Neal to climb back into the building. I felt too scared to move until they had shifted.

When I explored the dream I saw it related to my recent situation. Although I am now working for two magazines, the frequency of payment is much less than before. So we are running out of money – my wife being out of work. I have felt very insecure and anxious during the last few days (the fear of falling). I thought of going back to the my previous employment to work, that I see as trying to get back to the safety of the building behind (I had worked in the ‘building’ trade) me – in the past. The two boys are my younger self that is more vulnerable, the parts of me I am trying to grow.

When I imagined doing that it was purely out of fear. In staying in the box though, I feel I am growing and opening to something positive entering my life. So I feel the dream shows that my unconscious assessment of my situation is that if I trust the flow of events I will enter a new stage of growth and experience. I am going to try that. Years later I can see it worked. Dan

The mind in our dreams also deals with problem solving, predicting outcomes of action, playing with possibilities via imagination, creating the new out of old material, replaying disturbing events in order to find ways of meeting them constructively, to form new insights from old experience.

The new can include many things like a new love affair, a new car, anew job or a new direction. The new can be a wonderful thing or a dead end. Dreams can often see what would be good or bad. They can do this because they have the sum total of who we are and what our potential is. See Incubating Dreams

Useful Questions and Hints:

What in my dream is the new thing?

Was it welcome or something I am avoiding?

Am I hoping for news of some sort?

See Using Your Intuition – Genius – ESP in Dreams – Edgar Cayce

News Newspaper

Something that is news to you; or you have just become, or need to be, aware of; something conscious rather than unconscious; something publicly known about yourself. Publically making secret information available. People’s secrets exposed to the world.

Wanting to get your experience or thoughts into the newspaper or on TV suggests something important has impressed you.

In a dream we may be seeing newspapers as the propaganda put out to influence us for political, financial or religious reasons. They often rely on sampling techniques that reveal the trend of “opinion” or “wants” that is, of collective attitudes. On the other, they express the prejudices, projections, and unconscious complexes (mainly the power complex) of those who manipulate public opinion. It also may represent current public opinion, prejudice, race-consciousness ideas and attitudes, as well as worldly thinking.

Newspaper can be used to wrap things in, to line draws or to cover things, so suggests something like yesterdays newspaper that is no longer useful or relevant.

 Example: I had this dream at a time when there was a lot of talk and anxiety in newspapers and on television about nuclear war. In the dream a nuclear attack had been announced. I immediately thought of my children who are away in boarding school. I go out into the street to see if I can get to them, but realise it is hopeless. In the street everybody is walking about as if it were a holiday Sunday. I realised there was no time to get to my children so decided to join the people on the street. John C.

John had this dream at a time when there was a lot of media coverage about nuclear attack. It is therefore most likely dealing with his real fears about how he would deal with such an attack if it happened.

Working for a newspaper: Suggests you will be capable of a wide audience for your thoughts or work. See A Dream is Like a Seed

 

Useful Questions and Hints:

Do I feel that something in my life has become commonly known?

Do I feel a need to ‘spread the news’ about a situation?

Am I receiving new information or becoming aware of something I need to know?

See Archetype of the Paradigm – Summing Up – OBE Experience – Techniques for Exploring your Dreams