Posts Tagged ‘dream analysis’

Lice Fleas Bugs Worms

Things said, thought or done that make you feel uncomfortable or ashamed; feelings that one is, or someone else is a parasite in a relationship. See Fleas lice parasites

These are not simply ideas or feelings as many believe, but are inextricably woven into the structure and cells of our body. So bringing them out of the body is like tearing out from the fabric of our intellect, emotions, and body, a growth or structure that is built into them. So they can be fear of illness, attitudes that are life denying such as jealousy, envy, or even anger turned inwards.

These may even be apparent to our imagination as dark frightening shapes or creatures that have been living in our being like parasites. One man in class during the vowel sounds (chanting) said, “As you began the sounds I had the terrifying sensation that you were calling a dark shape out of my body.”

Questioning him afterwards I discovered that he had a fear of weakness for that part of his body, and the “dark shape” was probably a representation or embodiment of his fear. The fact that the sounds seemed to call it out of him would suggest that an initiate would actually be able to call these dark shapes out of us by his word and the power of his own conquest that lay behind it.

Large parasites such as worms are something that has got into you somehow, and is living on your energy. It helps to get rid of them by recognising what it is.

Parcel Package

Usually a memory, idea or experience you have not explored, investigated or cared to open to consciousness. Talents you have not used, ideas you have not applied, loving words we have not uttered.

Also the gifts of love and support received from others that you may not have fully been aware of or appreciated.

Something we have experienced but not explored the import of. A parent may die, for instance, but we may not ‘unwrap’ the feelings evoked enough to see we have taken something to heart. If we did we might find a regret of not expressing the love we felt while Mum or Dad was still alive, and we now want to be more daring in giving love.

Ones potential or latent skills; impressions or ‘gifts’ received from others – such as support, love, their example – but not made fully conscious.

A package deal is a bundle of thing as one deal. A package holiday for example includes the accommodation, the flight or travel all in one. Any wrapped package suggests the unknown.

 Example: ‘An unconventional looking postman delivered a registered package. But I didn’t open it.’

This was taken to mean that due to an unconventional experience, the dreamer had realised something. Something had ‘registered’ on his consciousness, but he had not explored the possibilities of it. The registered package is a double symbol, because it also suggests something valuable contained in it.

The packaging that goes with ‘life’ – which means the unwanted things that come with what you did want. In other words you might need company, but you have to feed them as well. Ask yourself whether you are collecting views or things that are of no use to you.

Package delivered to dreamer: An unknown but possibly good thing.

Carrying a parcel: A responsibility, perhaps a surprise or something you are carrying, such as a grudge, a loving feeling, longing to be recognised that you haven’t unwrapped. 

Useful Questions and Hints:

Am I sending it or receiving it?

Do I have good feelings about it difficult ones?

Does the parcel or package have connections not explored?

Could this represent talents not used, or good ideas not yet applied?

See Working with associations – Inner World – Being the Person or Thing – Using Your Intuition

Park

Your public self and how it is growing, or how you see your growth and endeavour from a public viewpoint. It might also associate with relaxed feelings, or even romance.

A park can have associations with so many things, such as childhood pleasure, being bullied; sexual pleasure or attack, games played, a place to do crazy things like setting of a home made bomb, walking the dog, firing off a rifle, having a date, swimming, being in the dark and scared – and so much more. So see if you can see what feelings and memories you have on your dream park.

National park: Meeting your own natural self as opposed to the self you may have to live to survive socially or economically.

Amusement park: Amusement park

Parking lot car park: See: parking lot under car

 

Useful Questions and Hints:

Was it frightening or happy experience in the park dream?

What memories or associations do I have with parks?

What was the theme of the dream?

See Plot/theme of the Dream – Being the Person or Thing – Conditioned Reflexes – Animals

Parking Lot Parked Carpark

A socially acceptable place to rest, to meet, to make some sort of change or exchange. The parked car might also mean you have stopped ‘going anywhere’ in life, or that you have changed to walking – getting somewhere through personal effort. Or even that you have stopped ‘driving yourself’ – relaxing.

Can’t find parking place: Perhaps you are finding it difficult to relax, to get out of the demands of the ‘traffic’ of your life.

Parliament Congress

Your sense of social unity, or social pressure. The point of decision, of whether the issue is needed by enough aspects of yourself to make it necessary or rightful. Decision making. See: Government.

Parrot

Copying, without judgement, what others do or say. See: Birds.

Party Social

Light heartedness; celebration; social relationship and how you deal with it; sexual or business opportunity. A desire for recognition or warmth.

Your feelings about groups; social skill or lack of it; social pleasure; search for partner.

 Example: ‘Then I was in a place where we were having a staff party. Not very big but people were sitting at tables eating in a party mood. I sat with my child, maybe youngest son, no one else at the table. I felt I didn’t wish to get involved with the others, the feeling I often get at parties, just alone in a crowd. I left with my son. Some young men tried to dissuade us but I pushed away from them.’ Simeon T.

Simeon finds that he does not have a love for groups. The dream shows this is a feelings that started in his childhood – his youngest son.

 Example: I dreamt I was with relatives and friends at a party in a restaurant. I become petrified with fear because a big wild cat, a lion perhaps, or a puma, sniffs round me, rubs against me and stares at me. I am 34 and although happily married I have difficulty with relationships. This dream has recurred for ten years.

The party represents her relationships with friendly people. The woman was anxious about her own uninhibited and unpredictable sexuality. The cat was untamed, and capable of expressing its natural feelings unpredictably. The dream showed the “cat” side of the woman’s nature doing no harm to her or others. It suggested she could relax and allow herself more freedom of expression. The dream recurred because she was stuck amid unnecessary fear and tension over her natural feelings.

Dreamer as the host of the party: Our relationship with the different aspects of self; exploring social relationships or our feelings about groups.

Dreamer as main guest, at birthday party: Wanting family or social acclaim and love, or feeling loved or valued.

 

Useful Questions and Hints:

Do I enjoy or loathe parties – if so why?

What do you feel about birthday parties?

Do I organise parties?

See Questions – Assisted Passage – Recurring – Plot/theme of the Dream – Techniques for Exploring your Dreams

 

Passage

A way of making a change, or the restrictions you accept to arrive somewhere. The difficulties you face in growing or changing. The passage, like a tunnel, can sometimes depict what you met in being born. It can also be associated with the rectum – the back passage, and the vagina – the front passage.

A sense of being ‘in-between’ regarding work, love or life; change as in a ‘rite of passage’ – so the movement between stages or phases of life; the back passage – rectum, or front passage – vagina and so the birth passage. See: corridor.

If this is a passage in a house it might be showing something about the way you connect with the different facets/rooms of your character. But it is also a buffer zone where a person might be let in to your life but kept away from fuller intimacy.

But a passage can be a passage of music, or passage on a boat or train – thus a passenger – the passage of time, the passage of energy, a bridge is a way of allowing passage, the sage passage, perhaps even a passage through the dilemmas we face.

Example: One man, Hyone and I worked with, dreamt he was in the dim entrance passageway of a house. It was not a welcoming place. When he let himself experience the feelings involved in the dream, he realised the corridor described how he had unconsciously felt about himself. He had held back from sharing himself with other people because he felt dull and uninteresting – like the passage. The positive side of the dream was that although he had not developed a fascinating exterior life, he/the corridor had great depth. This encouraged him to take the risk of allowing more people into his life. The passageway, leading as it did from the front door to the house interior, was an excellent symbol of the part of his own character which connected his own inner feelings and qualities with the people he met.

The ritual, whether it is found in tribal groups or in more complex societies, invariably insists upon this rite of death and rebirth, which provides the novice with a “rite of passage” from one stage of life to the next, whether it is from early childhood or from early to late adolescence and from then to maturity. Every new phase of development throughout an individual’s life is accompanied by a repetition of the original conflict between the claims of the Self and the claims of the ego. Quoted from Man and His Symbols by Carl Jung. See Individuation

The long passage: It suggest a time of searching or looking. It can represent memories of birth and the passage leading to birth.

The dark passage: This may be an initiation into the mystery of death. It is not an entrance into endings, but of release from the limitations she or he has been bound by previously.

The passage of energy: Some people experience vibrating energy passing through or in them. Sometimes they pass the energy on to others for healing.

Allowing passage: Allowing someone to have room to pass you, or offering someone passage on a boat or bus. It depicts a giving of oneself or thinking of other parts of you that need to be moved.

The sage passage: This suggests a move or decision that is wise and allows further opportunity or personal growth. See growth

Idioms: Work ones passage.

Useful Questions and Hints:

Do I recognise any of the ‘passages’ describe above?

What was the setting of my own passage?

Was I lost or trapped in it or was it a way to somewhere else?

See Collective Unconscious – Settings in Dreams – Being the Person or Thing – Initiation

Passenger

If in a car, it suggests you are following someone else’s lead or direction.. Dependence on other people’s decisions, energy or drive. Or a mutual or cooperative direction being taken, as in a business venture or relationship. See: Car.

Being a passenger: Feeling that circumstances are carrying you along, either because you are passively allowing them to, or because you feel powerless to change; sense of being carried along by the process of life such as ageing; a joint direction you are taking, as in a business venture or relationship. Passengers are usually those who are important in your life. Even if they are not people you know. What they represent in age, sex or temperament is usually indicating something you need to take notice of. Being a passenger can be a symbol of passivity, if you feel you are allowing someone else or some other force to determine the journey.

The interaction with the passenger often shows how you relate to others that are ‘travelling with you’ in life. They are also people who influence your direction and the choices you make.

Example: I was inside a large boat, probably a tanker. There were a lot of passengers, but it appeared as if we were imprisoned in a huge room. It was very dingy and dismal. I am not sure though whether people realised they were prisoners. Maybe one only realised one was imprisoned if one tried to escape. Bob.

This boat obviously represents a situation Bob finds it difficult to get out of, and is only just realising he is trapped in. It also shows him involved with other people. Does he feel trapped in his body?

Example: Dreamt about being in a large removal van with a woman sat on my lap. I held her breasts with pleasure. Don.

In exploring his dream Don found that holding the woman’s breasts showed how he was holding onto and held by sexual pleasure. Holding the woman made him a passenger, and not directing his life. But when he let go he could be the driver. This led him to realise that he was tied to his sexual need like a dependency – a dependency that directed his life.

Example: ‘I was a passenger in a very large eight wheeled lorry, my husband being the driver. We stopped at a pedestrian crossing in our town and my husband got out of the driving seat and went into the local town hall near a crossing. I waited in the lorry for what in my dream seemed hours. The next thing I remember is that I was then riding a bicycle on the other side of the crossing and cycled away up the road.’ Diann R.

Her husband’s involvement with social and work activities – the lorry and hall – make Diann decide to become more independent rather than wait for her husband to be ‘with her’.

Passenger in car: Being motivated or moved by someone else’s viewpoints, opinions or enthusiasm; being dependent, perhaps on who is driving the car; allowing a secondary part of self, such as indecision, pride, or stubbornness, to direct decisions. The passenger door in particular refers to the people you let near you or push away if you do not let them in your car.
Being a passenger in a bus: Suggest you are okay about making a life journey in company with others, or if there is any anxiety it could expresses a worry that someone else is controlling your life.
Carrying passengers: Feeling you are taking the responsibility in work or family. See: car.

Useful Questions and Hints:
Am I a passenger – and in what way am I alone or going along with somebody in life?
What am I feeling about being the passenger?
Who is the passenger and how do I relate to them?
What is happening between the passenger(s) and me?
Is anyone sharing a difficulty with me as a passenger?
See Fantasy and Dreaming – Meeting yourself – Techniques for Exploring your Dreams

Passport

Symbol of travel, of change, of your integrity or identity. It also relates to feelings of confidence about acceptance, or facing authority.

Your sense of identity, with its connections with racial, national and family background; feelings about travel; authority or confidence, especially regarding your identity. In some cases it suggests the right to exist as a member of the community so can often suggest self confidence or lack of it.

 Example: My advice to a couple of MP’s who are harassing Jim and I for drinking. We both served honorably, with distinction in our wars (WWII, Vietnam). This is after they keep questioning me about some stamps I have, my passport and papers, warning me/us not to drink. I am really angry at these MP’s/top dogs who are trying to interfere in my life (and Jim’s) for drinking.

Example: I seem to cross back over the border several times. At one point I was on the wrong side of the border without my passport and it was only after a lot of walking, traversing secret passageways, etc., that I am able to get back on the right side of the border without getting caught without my passport. Then I seem to be working as a border patrol agent in an office.

If your passport has expired: This suggests that for some reason you are trying to make great changes in life, moving from one set of values or way of life to another, but you haven’t got the right attitude of ability to manage it. See frontiers

 

Useful Questions and Hints:

Have I ever had problems with my passport?

Were there problems in my dream?

Have I never left the country and so never had a passport?

See Working with associations – Being the Person or Thing – Conditioned Reflexes – Secrets of Power Dreaming

Path

The approach or attitudes one uses regarding life in general, or in relationship or work. The direction one has decided on or is following; the way a relationship or marriage is going; a line of thought or enquiry. I often represent the path of self discovery.

A dream path often leads you through certain environments or to someone or a place, so it is important to note where it leads. See Settings in Dreams  – Plot/theme of the Dream

An old or ancient path: It is a way or inner direction or discipline many people have taken through millennia – a great path to enlightened. See Enlightenment; A Modern Approach – Enlightenment

If a well worn path: A well established or habitual way of doing something; the way other people do it, so following the norm. The path sometimes represents ones overall direction or experience of life within the process of growth and change.

Across the path of another thing or person: There could be a collision so be aware of ‘colliding’ with someone or something. It could also suggest a meeting you will encounter.

Losing a partner on the path: Fear or intuition that the relationship will end or partner die first.

Meeting someone on the path: This depends what is the condition or mood of the person. Are they injured and need help – are they trying to avoid you – are they pleased to see you?

 Example: Now the hare speaks again. “Go back,” says he. “For the path you search for is within you already, as the plant is within the seed. Go back therefore, carry on your accustomed callings, and wait, for it is nigh upon you from within and without. But wait, and you will know it.” Then we all turned around and went back to our village, and carried on our usual tasks, knowing that in time, we would realise our heaven.

Useful Questions and Hints:

What was going on regarding the path? (Am I on the path, off the path etc?)

Is this my direction in life? (Describe the path situation in the dream to come up with some idea of the meaning. This is a very broad symbol).

What do I actively love doing?

See destiny – Settings in Dreams – From Hell to Heaven – Techniques for Exploring your Dreams

Pavement Sidewalk

A safe place to be in the activities – traffic – of life. Your public activities, open to the influence or view of other people or social influences. Your present direction, and so an indication of what you are meeting in your life at present.

It also seems a safe place get off busy and dangerous areas – such as parking a car. A sidewalk can also be a good and easy way to get somewhere – except if there are a mass of people on the path.

Example: I touched the ground, I turned into a tree. There was a park on one side and a road on the other side of me and I was planted on the pavement. I was the first tree on the corner and there was a fence around me. My friend arrived and saw me and I told him that I had turned into a tree. He said that I had a good thick trunk.

Example: I come across a group of huge cats (they might be tigers, but I’m not certain) lying down in the street. The pavement is completely covered by them in that section; there might be 50 or more of them. They are a light tan with black markings. I’m pulled aside by one lone cat away from the rest of the group onto the sidewalk. At first, I fear she will hurt me, but she’s very gentle and curls her body around me with a paw over me.

Useful Questions and Hints:
Was I on or off the pavement/sidewalk?
What were you doing or where were you planning to go on the pavement?
Do you ever socialise on the sidewalk?
See Being the Person or thing – Dream Action – Thing I fear

Pay Paid

 

 See: Money.

In nearly all the dreams studied that refer to pay, the action is to pay for something like a fare or goods. None of them are about being paid. This suggests that pay and paying depict concerns about wanting to, or having to, give something of value, either to get something, or to feel a situation is dealt with. The payment can therefore refer to what you have to bring to a situation to make it work, or get positive results.

 

A bill you have can suggest what you are willing – or unwilling – to pay or give of yourself in your growth toward becoming more fully yourself. If the bill relates to others it can either suggest what they owe you – in terms of the service, or what of yourself, you have given them – or what they are giving or willing to give in the way they are rlating to you or working with you.

As human’s we pay an enormous price for being human with self awareness. Look around at the number of people crippled by anxiety, depression and mental illness. Mostly caused by the society or situations we live in, for in so called ‘primitive’ societies such problems do not exist.

Being paid: Results of previous effort or experience. Reward for what you have done or been.

A young man had in fact left a higher paid job and taken a much lower paid work because he felt he couldn’t cope because of a back problem.

Paid experts: The Expert/Patient relationship is something that is badly in need of renovation. As R. D. Laing suggested, what we need is not more experts and organisations, but something seen as a central function in a sane society. We need courage and faith in our own ability to move toward wholeness – and companions who will be with us while we experience the Journey into ourselves.

In search of change in his life, D. paid over $10,000 to the practitioner. There was no observable change in him, yet he could not ask for his money back.

I was barely able to move and crawled about on hands and knees. I went to see an osteopath but she told me that I was in so much pain and tension so she dare not work on me – I still had to pay her fee though! She told me I might have cancer (wrong because it was 20 years past and I still have no cancer). So much for experts.

Paid for: Another form of slavery occurs in the life of many prostitutes who are perhaps enslaved by their dependency on the trade to support them, or are slaves to a pimp, and the pimp may be an addict himself using the woman to pay for his habit and using threats of violence to keep her under control.

Pay attention: When we pay attention our body’s pains and feelings, and what it happening inside of us, we switch from denying the lessons that our body and feelings are offering us, to a student of Life. Giving attention means opening ourselves to all our sensitive being – emotions, intuition/gut feelings, body sensations, awareness of how tense or relaxed we are, and our movements and dreams.

 Example: A reformed alcoholic, John, who told me that his doctor had given him an ultimatum. The doctor had said that John must either give up alcohol or die from liver failure. When he stopped using alcohol he started experiencing the everyday anxieties about paying his bills, the feelings about his past and failed relationships, about his own behaviour and who he was in the world. These were difficult for John to face, so he was tempted again and again to use alcohol to suppress or deaden such feelings. Therefore John changed the wording of the ultimatum to, “Feel my feelings or die!” As can be seen, John did not confront his difficulty until he stopped using alcohol. Sometimes it is an event or change in life circumstances that confronts us with what possesses our will.

Apparently John had to ‘pay’ for his past drinking by facing feelings and realisations previously repressed by alcohol.

Inattention to ones dreams can also lead to a price to pay.

 Example: Another typical case was that of a lady who was living above herself. She was high and mighty in her daily life, but she had shocking dreams, reminding her of all sorts of unsavoury things. When I uncovered them, she indignantly refused to acknowledge them. The dreams then became menacing, and full of references to the walks she used to take by herself in the woods, where she indulged in soulful fantasies. I saw her danger, but she would not listen to my many warnings. Soon afterwards, she was savagely attacked in the woods by a sexual pervert; but for the intervention of some people who heard her screams, she would have been killed.

There was no magic in this. What her dreams had told me was that this woman had a secret longing for such an adventure-just as the mountain climber unconsciously sought the satisfaction of finding a definite way out of his difficulties. Obviously, neither of them expected the stiff price involved: She had several bones broken, and he paid with his life.  Quoted from Man and His Symbols

Useful Questions and Hints:

What am I willing to pay or give for my life style, relationship or services?

What am I paying or being paid for?

Do I ever not have enough cash to be able to pay for things?

What life style do I have/

See Karma – From Hell to Heaven – Techniques for Exploring your Dreams – Jesse Watkins Enlightenment

Peacock

Pride, outer show, attempt to impress, beauty. Sometimes the same as phoenix. In some cultures the peacock represent the soul or psyche – ones sense of self with all ones individual memories and characteristics. Because the peacock could shed all its beautiful feathers and then grow them again, early Christians saw it as a symbol of resurrection and immortality. As the peacock is a male bird displaying for the sake of a mate, it can also obviously represent male sexuality in its proud, ostentatious or displaying mode.

Pride; self display; vanity; the desire to be more attractive; sometimes the same as phoenix. Outer show, attempt to impress. Due to the beauty of its tail, and the iridescent eyes thereon, it is sometimes also a symbol of the opening in the soul of beautiful spiritual qualities, and a realisation of the eye of God watching us, directing us.

 It can of course represent being as “proud as a peacock” about some accomplishment and would like to “show off.”  But Edgar Cayce saw the peacock as a symbol of the warning, “Pride goeth before destruction.” (Prov. 16:18)

Peacock feather: A peacock feather might represent beauty, self aggrandisement. So it might mean you have achieved the quality it depicts. In India they symbolise spiritual awareness.

 Example: There were trees and a grassy patch of ground. A dog was having puppies. But a great flock of small black birds emerged running and skimming over the grass. I heard myself remark, “They are smaller than the others and there are more of them.” Then, from among the trees emerged a large peacock, tail half raised. The dream left me feeling that from small things could emerge something large and beautiful. Mrs E. E.

 

Useful Questions and Hints:

What do I associate with peacocks and how was it shown in the dream?

Is this about pride, or the attempt to impress, what was I feeling?

Does the peacock represent a visionary or watchful aspect of me?

See Birds – Beauty – Instincts – From Hell to Heaven

Pearl

A beautiful personal quality that has developed through trials or irritations. Pearls are sometimes associated with tears, so might represent loss or pain. See: Jewels.

Pedestal

To place apart, to separate, to place above other things, to idolise, value or worship.

To feel special or to make special; to place above other things; to idolise or worship. Putting someone or yourself on a pedestal can be like seeing that person is “above you” This detracts from you because you are neither superior nor inferior when you are a whole person. See whole

 

Sometimes we put people on a pedestal not to idolise or look up to but to mock, to humiliate or to destroy.

 Example: After they had walked up a wide, elegant, white marble staircase, Eleanor became terrified, “because on that landing was a small white marble coffin on a pedestal.” Eleanor screamed and woke herself up.

Example: The Great Metaphysician, a faceless figure is enthroned on a pedestal made of rubbish. The figure is consciously or unconsciously an ironical representation of the man who strives to discover the “truth” about metaphysics, and at the same time a symbol of ultimate loneliness and senselessness.

Example: Deeper musing upon this theme revealed to me that the habit was also a convenient tool of society. If the religious can be placed on that alabaster pedestal, the rest of us are “safe” as well as “saved.” So I looked at this rigidity and all the structures in the past that had contributed to it and a mantra began to form: “Laughing at what life has held.” I allowed my breathing to deepen and entered into a meditative state… an image formed: People I recognised wore the faces of so many “masters” who had stood in for the voice of the One Master in my life-I faced them and laughed … at first a nervous giggle, then a full-bodied laugh and finally a cacophony of hilarity. Soon stillness settled and I felt a movement-the bodies were forming a circle, joining hands, a new smile upon the lips of the faces. . . the mantra changed to: “Laughing with all life has held.”

Example: He told me what he did to this woman and how he tortured and killed her but he got emotional when talking about me said he would never hurt me and that he put me on a pedestal. Which in real life he does, he adores me and we recently found out we are expecting a baby. He is such a kind gentle person, loved by everyone that’s why it has shaken me so much I do not understand it.

Useful Questions and Hints:

What did I feel about pedestal and what was on it?

Was something on – if so what was it?

Have I ever put someone on a pedestal – or ever been put on one?

See Emotions and Mood in Dreams – Working with associations – Inner World