Posts Tagged ‘dream analysis’
Phantom
Pharmacy Pharmacist
See: Chemist.
Phlegm
Rubbish, blocked emotions, fears about health, poisons in system of body, or mind. Sluggish, stagnation.
Phoenix
The ability to find a new impulse, new strength, new growth even in death; the power in oneself to transform the dying, depressed, dark and desperate into new endeavour and growth. It is a fact that we are all dual in nature and so have the dual nature of life and death. Death is as much a part of life as birth. But it is through death that life renews itself.
The following insight arose from a dream the person explored.
Example: Our body is all the time dying as thousands of cells die, and in doing so the new and living body can continue. Suddenly I realised that this was the meaning of the phoenix – it was consumed by the flames, and yet it arose anew. We have the fire of life within us, that in consuming us gives birth to us continuously. It is the warmth of our body, the warmth, even passion, of our emotions and that is life – continuous through death.
Our bodies renew themselves every day: stomach cells renew every five days; our skin cells are replaced every month; the skeleton is replaced every three months; the raw material of DNA is replaced every 6 weeks; our brain cells are completely new every year. The whole body is replaced every two years. Quoted from “The Biology of Belief” by Dr. Bruce Lipton.
This may be represented in your dreams as a phoenix. See: Death; birds.
Useful Questions and Hints:
What did I feel about the phoenix in my dream?
Do I ever feel some part of me is dying?
What about the feeling of renewal?
See Archetype of Rebirth or Resurrection – Jesse Watkins Enlightenment – Being the Person or Thing
Photograph Photos Photograther
These are usually about memories, wanting to be remembered or noticed. They also enable you to look at yourself in different ways. Photos are also used for many different reasons. They illustrate news; they show us what someone looks like; we use them sometimes almost like holy icons on an altar of family memories and links; they rekindle love or other feelings; they are used as sexual stimulation; they are almost like the presence of the dead.
Developing photos: Bringing to consciousness what was latent or unrealised before.
Looking at family photos: Realisation of past or present influences in your life. The activity of the family environment, mentally and emotionally.
Photo of yourself: Your self image at the moment, or you need to look at yourself or get an objective view.
Photographer: Indicates you are skilled in capturing memories, or experiencing and recording beauty or events. Seeing and experiencing the wonderful range of human life.
Photos that come to life: The living influence of past experience, and your continuing involvement in what the picture depicts. Something that you held as a thought is taking shape and becoming real.
Taking photos: Capturing a realisation; taking notice of something; remembering.
Useful questions:
Is this a memory or impression that I have forgotten, but is re-emerging?
Is the photo showing how I feel about a certain person?
What is this photo used for or illustrating in the dream?
Physician
See: Doctor.
Piano
Expression of yourself in some way. Subtle feelings or realisations. The music might also link with memories or the past.
Pictures Paintings
Your works, the things you have done, the picture you have painted of your possibilities and inner world. See: Photograph.
Pig
Low, greedy, having no refinement. But due to the sow’s ability to suckle enormous numbers, may also symbolise sustenance of a material sort, or earthy motherhood. Pig headed is stubbornness. Generally represents sensuality, lost in material vices. Can sometimes mean the power of material experience.
Fertility; physical appetites; life directed only by physical needs; sensuality; ungoverned passion or appetites; uncleanness; untamed human nature. The sow represents giving of oneself and sustenance; procreative fertility; lack of spiritual directive. She can also depict a very physical sexuality.
Idioms: Pig in a poke; happy as a pig in shit; make a pig of yourself; pig in the middle; pigs might fly; pig headed.
Useful questions are:
Am I dealing with my physical appetites here?
Does my dream pig relate to ignorance of anything except physical needs and horizons?
Is fertility or sexuality shown in my dream?
Pilgrim
Symbolises the quest for self realisation, or understanding of yourself.
Pill
An experience you need, or are making yourself meet because you think it is good for you; something we ‘swallow’ because we think it is right – we may ‘swallow’ lies or excuses; an attempt to deal with internal feelings by external means.
If we dream of a particular pill, one we have just been taking, it naturally associates with the events or reason for taking the pill, or its influence in your body.
It may not be put into words, but the intimation made by many doctors is that if one is depressed, it is a biochemical situation or a brain malfunction. If one is withdrawn or autistic, it is not that there is a vital centre of personality which has for some reason chosen to avoid contact, but that a biochemical or physiological situation is the cause. It’s nothing personal – take this pill to change the biochemistry, because you are not really a person, you are a biochemical mess.
Countless numbers of people need a sleeping pill in order to sleep. Or else they face the tortures of fear, nightmares and formless anxiety. These arise because sleeping is a doorway to meeting the unconscious with all its hidden and unmet traumas and their pain and fear. It is a meeting with Life and is not in itself a fearful thing, but because we have been raised to forget that we are the products of the universe, of Life, Life which we avoid meeting, kill out any animals within us and outside of us, we grow into diminished people. We forget that it was not us, our ego, which created us, even as mothers we did not create our children, it was the process of Life that formed and nurtured us.
All of what Lisa feels about her life – no child – no external achievement – no partner – no house of her own – not measuring up to her family – are all true, but only in a certain way. What is devastating is that Lisa believes she is what she feels. It is this point that is the fulcrum, the lever that can shift defeat into release. And that lever has nothing to do with repeating positive affirmations to fight the gloom. It has nothing to do with meditating light flooding her being to dispel the darkness. It has nothing to do with taking a pill or injecting a chemical to deaden the pain. It has everything to do with recognising who we really are, and emerging from the locked cell we have been a prisoner in.
Example: ‘I was in my mother’s bedroom with my teenage boyfriend. We lay in my parent’s double bed and he was kissing my breasts. I realised we were near to making love and told him I was not on the pill. Seeing him taken aback I told him my father has contraceptives in a nearby drawer. The dream fades as he is trying to put one on.’ Julia.
Example: We live in a “pill age.” Millions of people, with no forethought at all, take tranquilizers, penicillin, birth control pills, cold remedies and energizers—and the attitude is that the “pill” is the solution to everything. Ancient Sanskrit records spoke of pills of gaiety, prepared from hemp and sugar. More recently the Assyrians of the seventh and eighth centuries used hemp as an incense. Still later Marco Polo told the tale of the Old Man of the Mountain and the Assassins (Hashishims) he gathered around him—a tale so exotic that it has captured the imagination of his readers ever since. The Old Man of the Mountain, after promising neophytes a foretaste of paradise, intoxicated them with a drug and introduced them to a secret garden where they were fed exquisite foods, drank delicate wines, and were indulged by beautiful women in every whim. The warriors actually believed themselves in paradise, and after their return to the mundane world would defend the Sheik with their lives. They no longer feared a death which promised such bliss.
A pill we are actually taking: May link with feelings or physical reactions to the drug being taken.
Idioms: Sugar the pill; bitter pill; the pill.
Useful Questions and Hints:
Do I regularly take pills?
What type are they, medical, leisure, vitamins, or pain killers?
What would I use pills for?
Are they taken habitually or because of need?
See Being the Person or Thing – Dreams are Like a Computer Game – Secrets of Power Dreaming
Pillow
Comfort; support; may represent someone you rely on or want to be close to. Or a substitute lover you are holding. Attitudes you use to soften the blows or hardness of life. Cushions often appear in dreams to do with finding things hidden under them, so suggest searching in what is presently covering what you feel is there. They might also have a link with a particular person if they gave you the cushion.
Some pillows have special functions such as helping sleep, aiding posture, or holding something to influence your mood or confidence. So if ones of these is in your dream then it is expressing that as an influence in your life.
Jacob took the stone that he had put for his pillows, and set it up for a pillar, and poured oil upon the top of it. And he called the name of that place Beth-el.
A dream pillow: There is the tradition that suggests that if a young woman sleeps with a piece of someone’s wedding cake under her pillow she will dream of her own future husband. Another example comes from an article in Time magazine (September 20, 1976, pp. 94-5), where it was noted that when the Dalai Lama performed the three-day ritual of the “Sermon of the Wheel of Time,” he gave each of his disciples two reeds to sleep on, one for under the pillow and one for under the mattress. He requested that they remember their dreams so that he could interpret them as part of the ceremony.
Similarly we might try placing a letter to our dream creator under your pillow. In the letter you could ask for guidance, healing or inspiration.
Hugging pillow: Feeling alone and needing contact.
Idioms: pillow angel; pillow talk
Useful Questions and Hints:
What is the action with the pillow?
Do I feel anything in the dream – emotions?
Am I using the pillow in some way?
See Being the Person or thing – Conditioned Reflexes – Characters and People in Dreams
Pimple
Character blemishes if on face; worry about how you appear to others; sense of not being inwardly clean; feelings about ones spots.
Irritating inner feeling that has risen to consciousness. Worries about how you appear to others. A personality trait that is not healthy.
Example: The bump became a black string tied up in some kind of knot inside my hand. I pulled on one end of the string and it unravelled easily and I painlessly pulled it all out. A moment later, on the same spot on the back of my hand, I pushed through a large amount of pus, as though from a pimple and I saw it come out in one large dark green/black swoop of gunk.
The knot that you pulled out suggests either emotions that were not expressed and became knotted up in an inner tension – shown by past dreams of running away; or a knot that tied you to another person in a way that undermined your self confidence.
Example: I was looking at my bare back and saw these little pimples that looked almost like blackheads. I was talking to someone, I believe my brother, while I began popping them. When I started popping them these parasite worms Caterpillar things started coming out. The first one was medium sized but the next one I popped was huge. I’m not sure how it didn’t cut my skin because these parasites had sharp ends. I could feel them coming outside of me and in the dream I was just laughing and playfully saying “Ewww” as pulled the huge worms out of my back.
So it seems you realised a feeling or an attitude that got under your skin, and like a parasite was not doing you any good. So you were ‘pooping’ them out of you. (Your words). Such things are disturbing when you realise you have been carrying them around in you without being aware of them.
Useful Questions and Hints:
What did you feel when you saw the pimple(s)?
Do pimples bother you when or if you have them?
What was happening in the dream with the pimple?
See Skin – Face – Inner World – Techniques for Exploring your Dreams
Pin Pins
Connections with things, as you can’t pin that on me. Good luck. Minor hurt, possibly from someone else. Painful sex.
Small ideas, actions or information that help create something or hold things together; ones connection or emotional bond with things.
If stuck in: Irritation or hurts; irritating or painful sexual intercourse.
Pin can also refer to what in the UK is called a badge, so can link with abilities, affiliation with a group or organisation and what public or personal feelings and acclaim arise from that. See badge.
Example: the dream of a woman with an unhappy ability of correcting her husband in public: She dreamed she was pinning a safety pin through his cheek in the presence of others. Later she wished to remove the pin, but her husband refused to allow her, saying, “I will wear it all day.”
In analyzing this dream, we had to discover what the safety pin in her husband’s cheek meant to her. She finally realized she had “marred his appearance or image and caused him to lose face.” She could then relate it to the previous day, when, in front of others, she had rebuked him. In the dream, her husband’s decision to wear the pin all day represented the memory of the rebuke which rankled. The dream called for her not only to apologize but to desist from further reprimands, for they were already “under his skin.”
Idioms: For two pins; don’t care two pins; on pins and needles; pin back ones ears; pin ones hopes on; pin someone down; pin something on someone; pin money.
Useful Questions and Hints:
What was the pin in the dream doing?
Was in sticking in you or someone else?
What do you associate with pin or pins?
Have you used them in creating clothes?
See Creativity – Self Help – The Seed Meditation – Pain-Meeting It
Pinch
Hard times, painful circumstances, miserliness, stealing. Test of reality. Someone hurting you.
Pineapple
Fruitfulness of soul. Quality or royalty. Self confidence. See: Fruit.