Posts Tagged ‘dream analysis’
Prescription
This may be a suggestion from your unconscious that you should take seriously.
Sometimes is can be a warning to take particular foods or vitamins or even a warning against taking a particular medicine. Or it can be a health or attitude situation that needs help with. It is often not prescribing a medicine but something you should do, a new direction in life or new attitudes.
Example: After getting inside the dentist’s office they called my name and I went up to the desk. They gave me a prescription I have never heard of. On the bottle it said that it “was for calming, but not to be taken by those who are over active with the main vein.”
Example: He was not able to work and then we lost our house. It was obvious, after his death that he kept his prescription addiction a secret and unfortunately, I was not aware of the depth of his condition when he took his life. My husband passed away from a drug overdose on Feb. 28, ’11. I have had several dreams of him and feel him around me all the time (even with objects that have been obviously moved to get my attention) – but not once in these dreams does he speak.
Useful questions or hints:
What did you understand from the dream prescription?
Are there things you can apply or do?
Is it a response from a health worry you have?
See Water Wonderland – Body Dowsing – Super Organism – Techniques for Exploring your Dreams
Present Presents
Depends very much on who or what gives the present. May symbolise the giving or receiving of love, recognition, depending on the context.
If you can, examine the presents given and what you feel about them and wish to do with them. Are they life affirming or dangerous?
Receiving: Pleasure, expectation or disappointment. Being affirmed; feeling recognised or loved; gaining something from a relationship.
Giving: feelings of warmth or even love – or it might be a habit or duty through expectation. Giving of self – negative or positive; perhaps having sex. If it is a present actually received in life, probably relates to giver and how it was given. See: parcel or package.
Example: Dreamt last night I visited S. at a house. She came to the door and gave me two presents. I put them in my pocket. One was a revolver, and I believe the other was a ring. Then I walked along a lonely road, I believe it was dusk. The road led past an army camp on the right – perhaps American? Before I got to the camp I was stopped and searched by two soldiers. This was because the camp was very important, or secret, and only those known to be safe were allowed near it. When the revolver was found, I was immediately suspected of ill motives. They said, “Well, even if you had no intentions of using this gun in connection with the camp, the fact you are walking that way, and carrying a gun, makes you suspect.” I felt I was in a very awkward situation, and kept thinking what a fool I was not to have realised the gun would be seen in this light. But as one of the men was examining it, in some way it fired. Instead of a bullet however, a little flag popped out. On it was written, “I love you.” The atmosphere immediately changed, and became even more positive and loving than it would have been without the original suspicion.
Being present: Represents readiness to listen to or respond to what else the dream shows you.
Example: I’m making love to Howard. It is pleasant. Then he turns and presents his butt so I can lick his penis. I’m not thrilled, but everything else is so pleasant, I guess I can accommodate him.
Useful questions or hints:
Was I giving or receiving? See giving; receive
What feelings did I experience or were suggested in the dream?
What was the present(s)?
See Key Words – Context/Theme – Context/Theme – Being the Person or Thing
Press
See: Newspaper.
Prey
Either the victim or others’ desires, or victimising others. The fear of being hurt or destroyed in some way. There is a play here between the top dog and under dog; the victim and the victimised.
This depends on who or what is the victim and what or who the hunter. It may show you being the victim of others’ desires, or victimising others as preying on another. The fear of being hurt or destroyed in some way. Preying (possible pun for “praying”).
If it is a bird of prey it might appear as a threatening influence. Also because it often represents wider awareness it may at times feel as if you are ‘carried away’. Being lifted into the unknown in this way can cause unwarranted fear.
The word prey can also indicate how millions of people why fall easy prey to petty worries, fears and self-pity. See Martial Art of the Mind
The man who fears the communications of his inner world is as much afraid of the feminine element in himself as he is of real women. At one moment he is fascinated by her, at another he tries to escape; fascinated and terrified, he flees so as not to become her “prey.” He does not dare to approach a beloved (and therefore idealised) partner with his animal-like sexuality.
Example: Last night I had a dream that I went out on my back deck and a hawk swooped down right in front of me, into a pool of small birds and caught one. As it settled over top of its prey it clutched its prey tighter. It was now gigantic and its wings spanned clear across my backyard. As it arched it’s back it spread its wings, and made direct eye contact with me as it knocked the birds out of the sky that were trying to get him to release his prey. As it begins to take flight it reached down and pecked its caught prey in the head killing it. Then it began to hover where it was in front of me flapping its wings in a soothing motion. I remember I was really excited and was gripped with awe, so much so I began to jump up and down in disbelief that he was 10 x’s as big as me and that no one else was seeing it or had seen it. Then I woke up and was still so excited and at awe to have seen this.
Useful questions or hints:
Am I the prey in the dream, or am I preying on someone else?
Does this represent the fear of being hurt or destroyed in some way?
Do I feel I am victimizing others?
See Because Factor – meeting things I fear or dislike in my dream – Dream Yoga – Techniques for Exploring your Dreams
Priest Priestess
Depends on the attitude to priests or priestesses, and experiences of them. May represent religious or spiritual aspirations. Sense of sin; sympathy; a sense of community; a non sexual relationship. Sometimes an expression of your own wider awareness and wisdom.
Ones religious beliefs; ones relationship with religious beliefs.
There is a sentence in some marriage ceremonies which says, “With my body I thee worship.” This may seem like a statement of religious nonsense, but I sense it comes from a deep insight into the innermost nature of women and men.
I see that because we are creatures created by the laws of nature, which are the laws of the universe, without which we would not exist. It is also obvious that you and I would not exist without the universe, and living beings on our planet are in some mysterious way a fulfilment of the forces and possibilities of this universe that is our home. Therefore, if we are part of and an expression of the forces integral in our universe, why shouldn’t we reflect the universe in some way, and its dimensions? Isn’t that the message of the mysteries? “Let us make them in our own image.” See
As an image of this glory we are all priestesses and priests; but we may not know it until we dig deep in ourselves to touch our core self. See Core Self; Creation
When we touch our core we come to recognise a woman’s body as the centre of creative forces which can bring forth a new being – creation. As such she is a thing to be worshipped. This should not be seen as worship of her personality or ego, for it is the holiness of the Life function of creation that is worshipped not her personality. That is why she is a priestess rather than a person. For a priestess is a server of the divine. There Is A Huge Change Happening
The same applies to the divinity of manhood – the priest.
Example: Then, in standing in the role of the woman, I felt my beauty as a female. Not that I was particularly beautiful, or like a film star in my own looks. My feelings were that simply as a healthy woman I was beautiful – that womanhood is beautiful. I felt the fullness of my body with my rounded arms, full breasts, round thighs and calves. I had stood naked revealing myself in this act of worship. This had no lasciviousness in it or any connection with pornography. It was a ‘revelation’ of female beauty to be felt and worshipped.
| Example: I walked the ancient pavements, where churches built on temples stood, and temples had in yet older times been raised on the holy groves and mounts where gods had trod.
And I, wandering and at ease with the paths And ancient stones, Came to a low wall Above an open rising courtyard. And then below me, in that place of worship, a woman stood naked and adored. No painting beauty, yet beautiful. Full limbs with Swelling hips and breasts, simply and wonderfully woman. She was and is the revelation – There for any to see the splendour of this most ancient goddess – Revealed and revealing – While I knew all the ancient fires that burn in worship, and heard the voices singing to her flowering. |
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Useful questions or hints:
Have I ever sensed in myself the splendour that made me a priestess or priest?
Do I ever dream of such a person I love and adore?
Do I feel religious feelings are foolish and I don’t need them?
See Diving into the Depths of Mind – Talking to Inner Self – Entering the Silence – Techniques for Exploring your Dreams
Prehistoric Primeval
Levels of being that developed in you in ages past, and are given to you as a physical and mental heritage. We feel these as instincts, as profoundly strong reactions to situations. It is the part of us that makes the hair stand up at times when we sense something we do not understand consciously. See Levels of the Brain
This usually refers to deep levels of your unconscious; your basic and instinctive responses to life events and people, or perhaps unconscious powers and activities. The levels of your brain and body that developed in ages past. Your own primeval urges and drives, such as fear, territorial aggression, mating rituals, survival; urges that have not been integrated fully into our present social situation, perhaps because they were repressed during childhood or because you were not strong enough to meet them. Many of our social rituals – such as the father giving the daughter in marriage that possibly arose out of the need to allay aggression between males, and break the father’s sexual bond with the daughter – arose from these basic drives. Also our babyhood or prenatal life.
Example: A number of us, soldiers, were moving up to the battlefront. We had to climb over a pile of rubble, like a wall, and ran across open ground. There was a great fear of being shot down as we came into the open. This did not happen, and once passed the obstacle I felt it was actually a sort of training circuit getting us used to battle conditions. We moved on into the fighting. A volcanic type of eruption from the bowels of the earth spewed up a prehistoric monster. There was a lot more, but cannot clearly remember.
The dream came just before the man was able to allow a deeply buried childhood trauma to emerge. The prehistoric creature was a release of a power that was the means of releasing such ancient and trapped emotions. See Life’s Little Secrets
Prince
Conscious (or in a woman may be unconscious) intellectual, masculine qualities. Sometimes it depicts the attitudes and qualities in us that searches for truth, tries to find a way through personal difficulties, or attempts to direct or use the physical and mental heritage. It is also often used to represent the best in a man, and an ideal male in a woman’s dream.
The best aspect of the dreamer if male; ones brother or lover/boyfriend if female. It can represent the animus in a female dream. Conscious (or in a woman may be unconscious) intellectual, masculine qualities. Sometimes it depicts the attitudes and qualities in us that searches for truth, tries to find a way through personal difficulties, or attempts to direct or use the physical and mental heritage. It is also often used to represent the best in a man, and an ideal male in a woman’s dream. See: anima; animus – under archetypes.
A prince can also indicate noble birth and the possibility if inheritance. In a dream it can suggest a fuller expression of your innate immense potential; also your ability to be of service to others. The negative side of it is that you might believe yourself to be superior or of better class than others, perhaps feeling you have the right to order others about.
This might be likened to the story involving a young prince – Buddha – who lived a life of intense advantage and in looking at the life of those not so advantaged felt their pain. He did not preach a way of the rich sharing what they had with everyone, as was and is done in such systems as the Native Americans or many tribal people, but taught a way to escape from pain by killing their sense of self. And of course it still carries on, and today we are a people who are medicated out of their social pain.
Example: With a prince in Chaing Mai. Unlike another prince he is driving a white Toyota Corolla. A very nondescript car and not a new one at that. I have a feeling the car is stored for him in the auto club.
The dream obviously indicates the advantages of class, but the prince does not show off his position but drives an ordinary car, another indication of class.
We partake in that extraordinary moment of creation all the time. And it is only when we can love broadly that we can be a part of it. It is only when we can love that broadly that we can enter into it without manipulating it. But there is a quiet presence to be drawn upon if we so seek. That presence enters every moment. There is no moment more significant than another. This is the moment of creation. This is the moment when you can recreate yourself – again and again and again. Or perhaps you want to create yourself again, and hold onto that moment. Or you can play with it until you have exhausted it and let it lie in the way. Isn’t that life, when we hold on to moments, a lover, a beloved, the child, the lost waif, princess and the prince, business person, the world dominator – my God, the roles we can assume are extraordinary. And it’s all okay because it is all a part of creation and creativity. Nothing is ever lost or destroyed.
Another prince represents another path. The prince in the story The Sleeping Beauty represents our conscious mind, our intellect and worldly experience, that feels incomplete, that knows a longing for this ‘other half’. He is more than just our ‘conscious mind’ however. He is a particular state of consciousness, for he dares to search for a Myth. His longing, his incompleteness makes him brave, ready to test the truth or falsity of the Legend. He is certainly not an indifferent consciousness, who stumbles accidentally on the Beloved. He has to cut his way through the terrible briars and thorns surrounding the hidden castle. In these brambles others have been lost and died, for they are all the confusion, pain and ignorance that surround and hide our own ‘Sleeping Beauty’ that lead others to depression and suicide. To reach her we have to face, to experience, to cut through this hedge of ignorance, fear and cynicism that has grown around our own happiness and completeness.
Example: I am out in the countryside somewhere walking along and it is wet – raining? – a swamp like area and I see one crocodile in the water, then another, then another. I start to flee in one direction, and then I see another. They are everywhere and it appears I am going to die. Then a man – a kind of Prince Charles-like figure – very calm, self-assured, steady, and deliberate – shows up with another man and the Prince Charles figure fires a shot at one of the crocs and I am saved. Because I was so frightened I want him to keep shooting, but he doesn’t really need to and doesn’t. The threat is over.
The dreamers comments on this are: I feel like I am going to be overcome by archaic instinctual forces, but I am save by a calm, forceful, self-assured, steady, deliberate masculine part of me.
Useful questions or hints:
What qualities feelings do I associate with the ‘prince’?
Does it represent a positive or a negative attitude?
Do I feel the specialness of being created by the universe?
What was my relationship with the prince?
See What Can be Done – Active Passive – Context/Theme – Techniques for Exploring your Dreams
Princess
Conscious (or in a man may be unconscious) emotional, intuitive, feminine qualities. Sometimes represents the inner self, receptive, gentle, sympathetic nature. A sense of beauty and love in alignment with life. The princess in a woman’s dream can depict her strength to search for meaning and ways to positively deal with difficulties and personal problems.
The best aspect of the dreamer if female; ones lover/girlfriend if male. It can represent the anima in a male dream. See: anima; animus
From the examples below you can see that dreaming of being a princess can mean you expect to get your own way in life, or being regarded as someone important or of higher rank in the social order.
Example: I am an important person, maybe a princess. I am in a wheelchair and go out for a walk. I am surrounded by reporters and gawkers that crowd around me and get in my way. They are shouting questions. I am aloof and angry. I intimidate them. They want to rush forward and help me, but I stare at them and they don’t dare. Barb S.
Example: I am a queen or princess. I can have anything I want. I feel sexually excited and grab a man and slide him under me and make love to him. I don’t care who he is. I have an orgasm.
The princess in the story of Sleeping Beauty depicts another aspect of a dream Princess. The Princess is part of the duality of each of us, male and female. It not only is it the female aspect of a male, or the essence of femininity in a female, but the Princess also represents what is lost in most of us, put to sleep by losing awareness of our whole world of faculties – the unconscious. Literally it is only gained by going to sleep – our waking intellect has to ‘go to sleep’ to be aware if it. But the princess has to go to sleep in us so that the critical intellect can develop. When this development has taken place, then the two aspects of self, the rational and irrational can marry.
The frog and the princess who aids the frog to transform in a prince are about the power of transformation in our inner world. The things we despise or avoid are often – in our dream world – the things that have wonderful qualities of transformation. See transformation; creative dreaming
Example: I entered through an old fashioned drapers shop to find several people there at some sort of meeting and realised it was a group of royalty with their aides, etc. I was to join Princess Diana as a princess. I think I stayed by her and she told me how to behave and what to say to the dignitaries. She told me not to be nervous and that I would soon get used to the life. I sat next to her and she had on her lovely print going away outfit with the print ostrich feather hat. I remember saying to her that it still looked smart, and, “I don’t suppose you will be casting it off yet?” I had my eye on it.
This Princess dream appears to be an exposure to old world values and ways of behaviour – Princess Diana was obviously a role model that she must have admired and ‘had her eye on’ and so became an inner world figure. See Inner World Making
A subtle and negative form of a dream princess is one who asks her male to answer question that are riddles. If the men cannot answers the questions, they must die-and she wins.
This depicts the men in a destructive intellectual game. It is typified in men who are so locked into the neurotic pseudo-intellectual dialogues that the man is trapped in his feelings of intellectual superiority and is stopped from getting into direct touch with life and its real decisions. He reflects about life so much that he cannot live it and loses all his spontaneity and outgoing feelings
There are many more stories with deep meanings, like Snow White and the seven dwarfs, and Cinderella; the Greek hero Perseus saves the Ethiopian princess Andromeda from a sea-monster and later marries her. These are all variation of lifting inner awareness out of its dark imprisonment and welcoming it – and, indeed, submitted to it – as an indispensable factor in ones life and happiness.
Useful questions or hints:
What was my relationship with the princess?
Was I the princess – or in love with her?
Was she a dominant figure in need of rescuing?
See Myths Legends and Fairy Tales in Dreams – Inner World Making – Individuation – – Techniques for Exploring your Dreams
Prison Prisoner Imprisoned
Most often it depicts feelings of being imprisoned by the inability to cope with circumstances, moods, or relatives. You may be trapped by inadequacies, fears, moral codes, ambitions, sense of superiority or a relationship. If the person imprisoning you is a male or female, you need look at what is happening in your relationship that either makes you dependent, or robs you of freedom in some way. See Beware of Love
One of the most frequent sources of imprisonment is your own habits, trapping you in old ways of feeling and responding. But it can be the result of any limiting influence within, or outside of you. If the influence seems to be from outside, it is only because you have not yet discovered your own attitudes that make you subject to that limitation. So they trap you through your own anxiety, patterns of behaviour, and concepts such as right and wrong, good and bad. See Habits; Avoid Being Victims
Example: I was in a prison cell with two other men. We ate, slept and defecated in the cell. I was standing at the bars of the cell, and had the impression of having been in the prison for years. I was shouting and cursing the people who had put me in the prison, full of hate and self pity. Suddenly I realised that my years of shouting had availed nothing. The only person who was upset by it was myself. I was the victim of my own anger and turmoil. I dropped the attitudes and was free of them. Years went by and one by one I dropped other habits of emotion and thought with which I had trapped and tortured myself. I realised I could be totally free within myself. One morning I woke and sat up on the mattress on the floor that was my bed. The last ghost of inner entrapment fell away. A fountain of joy opened in my body, pouring upwards through me. So intense was it I cried out. The cell mates called a warden. They stood looking at me as I experienced a radiance so strong I felt as if I must be shining. I was aware my joy poured into them, although they thought I was mad. Nothing would ever be the same again. Andy.
Andy in fact achieved this freedom by applying what he learnt in the dream. But it took practice and using the wonderful lesson.
Useful questions or hints: What does the dream show as the cause of being imprisoned?
Was there a ‘because’ factor involved? See Because Factor
Did I dream of a way out of imprisonment?
See Secrets of Power Dreaming See: imprisoned; wolf under animals; cage or cell; escape; holding; trapped.
Prize
Some gain in self understanding or insight found through your endeavours. Realising or achieving something valuable. Recognition of your own skill, growth or achievement. A desire to win, or be superior. Fear of losing. Feeling rewarded; occasionally intuition about a coming acclaim; feeling good about yourself, therefore self congratulation; can also be compensatory in that you want or need praise and recognition.
To understand what the prize refers to, you must remember that most of the processes of your life take place unconsciously – for instance digestion, heartbeat and cell regeneration. What you might not know is that this unconscious action sometimes expresses as if it were an independent part of you. It comments through intuition and dreams on how well or badly you are treating these vital life processes, in fact life itself. So a dream prize can be a positive comment from your unconscious that you are relating well to Life.
This was shown in woman’s dream in which her prize was the realisation of the part her masculine side played in her life and success.
If someone else is receiving the prize do you feel jealous? If you do, then you are feeling unrewarded and in need of praise. The unconscious respects above all else efforts toward becoming a fuller and more balanced person. Even if the dream prize is for a race or tournament, it can still be about succeeding in the human ‘race’ we all take part in.
If you are generally unrewarded in life, the dream might be compensatory because you need encouragement. In which case take time to recognise the things you have achieved and are good at.
Example: There are a bunch of tiny burros and we try to ride them. If we stay on long enough, we win a prize. The prize is permission to make love to a person of our choice, if they agree. Several men try to ride and don’t make it. I manage to hang on and win. I am given a small container with birth control stuff in it. I like this one man and am shy and want to ask him, but am afraid to. I am on a bed area that belongs to my parents. Then I put a small kitten in a car where his puppy already is. I get into the driver’s seat of the car with the animals. A part where I choose another man to make love to and get into a cubicle and we start to thump and bump when the man of my real choice is upset and tries to figure out a way to intervene. He does interrupt, maybe making a noise or sending someone in or slamming a door. I come out before the thing has gone to orgasm.
Useful questions or hints:
Are you receiving the prize?
What is the prize for?
Have you been rewarded in life generally?
Have I gained some self-understanding or insight?
Is this about the desire to win or to be superior?
See Karma – The Fundamental Process – How it Flows – Survival Skills – Techniques for Exploring your Dreams
Prop
An idea, belief, or outer influence, like alcohol, or drugs, that you may need at a particular time to keep from falling or failing in some way. We may take a particular medicine due to a fear of illness for instance. Although we may not be ill at all, a medicine helps to suppress the fear. Dreams often aim at removing the prop and facing up to the fear which caused us to lean upon it.
But the prop may also represent what you are doing for someone else, or for another situation, propping up a person or an activity by your support. Also a prop can represent strength without which what was supported would fall/fail. Also there are many kinds of prop or props – a clothes line prop; a prop/propeller; a stage prop; prop up the bar.
Example: There were ordinary train type or bus type seats there, but there was no place to put my feet because if I put them down there were sort of emergency brakes and so I had to sort of prop them on the cow catcher.
Example: Look, this is how it works. Your sister is a stage prop and represents whatever you associate with her. For example, if she is a support to you then she acts as that in your dream; or if she is someone who is always needy and desperate, then she represents that in your dream.
Useful questions or hints:
Is this a prop or crutch I am using in life such as alcohol or drugs?
What I am doing for someone else, propping them up by my support?
What props do I use to support my self confidence – perfume, make up, clothes or what?
See Key Words – Autonomous Complex – Secrets of Power Dreaming – Learning to Allow Yourself
Propeller
A driving force or interest. The driving energy of your emotions or decisions. This energy might arise from ambition, your will, desire to be somebody, or to get somewhere, or just energy you need to express. If there is damage to the propeller, it could suggest you have lost the enthusiasm or energy that usually gets you ‘off the ground’ in what you undertake.
Example: I was flying with an Xbox remote controller that had a small propeller attached to the front of it. To my surprise the fan was generating enough power and lift for me to hold on from it and fly. I flew quite a bit, it was really easy to manoeuvre with, but at some point I felt that my hands were getting tired of holding the remote controller. So I decided to land. It was so much fun.
Useful questions or hints:
What is the driving energy behind my emotions and decisions?
Do I sometimes lack the drive to do things and can I see what does it?
What part did the propeller play in your dream?
See Instincts – Emotions and Mood in Dreams – Plot/theme of the Dream – Techniques for Exploring your Dreams
Prophesy
See: Premonition.
Prosecution Prosecute Prosecutor
Either a fear of having done wrong, a desire to do so, or guilt. Or is this the feeling that someone else has wronged you and you have a drive to right what is felt as a wrong.
If you are being prosecuted it might represent anxiety about possible results, or anger or desire to fight against the prosecutor. Prosecuting is an active action and might even be seen as persecution.
Example: In court I am discussing the case with the prosecutor (top dog). We go over various people/categories and he wants to prosecute them all. Some I agree with, but some I don’t. One a woman – we call her “thirds” for her need for 3 sex acts – seems to be out of control when she is drunk but okay otherwise. He wants to prosecute her, but I don’t agree.
Example: A woman picks up one of the kids in a car. I tell the younger kids they can’t come in my house. They have to wait outside. I am very angry. I will call the police. The phone rings and it is a mother wanting to know what I plan to do. I say I will prosecute to the fullest extent of the law because of the poor turkeys. It is difficult to talk because I am so angry. I can’t breathe.
Useful questions or hints:
Have done something wrong or feel guilty?
Has someone wronged me and I desire to take action to right this wrong?
What are my feelings in the dream?
See Active Passive – Emotions and Mood in Dreams – Working with associations – Processing Dreams
Prostitute Prostitution
May depict the misdirection of love and affection for financial ends, or selfish motives. Or feelings of sexual inadequacy. Desperate sexual needs.
The whore is also a symbol of the earth in its destructive mother aspect. The swallower of souls, of masculinity and attempts to mature. It is the whore, or mother, from whose emotional or sensual hold on us we have not found a way to break free. So it represent powerful feelings of need that we feel angry about, and therefore project aggressive criticism to our mother.
Dire sexual need unconnected to feelings of care or respect; sexuality breaking out of deadening moral restrictions; feeling you have ‘sold out’ or betrayed your real self or real feelings in order to survive or for money; on the game, or playing sexual games. See Archetype of the Prostitute; Archetype of the Female Choice
Modern slavery is also often shown as a way to force someone into prostitution.
In some societies such as England and the USA they do not want to admit or face the prostitution and crime surrounding it, so instead of admitting to ourselves we dream of awful ghostly or forbidden images that haunt us. In other countries prostitution is accepted and legal.
Sterility in men and women has been incredibly important for people through the ages, and in the temples of Isis and Seraphis in Greece and Rome, with Diana in Ephesus, or Ino in Sparta, a cure was achieved through a form of sacred prostitution. In fact during the late 16th and 17th centuries in France, male impotence was considered a crime, as well as legal grounds for a divorce.
Woman’s dream: Unacknowledged sexual longings; feelings of ‘cheapness’ or guilt in sex; desire to be more free sexually.
Woman dreaming another woman is prostitute: Ones own hidden desires; feeling the other woman is promiscuous or might be in competition with her; uncertainty about ones own sexual value.
Man’s dream: Wishing a woman was more available; wish that sexual relationship were as simple as an exchange of cash; being ill at ease about his sexual practices; feeling unable to break free of sexual dependence on partner/mother.
Example: Dreamt I was involved in having a prostitute work for me. Terry.
On looking at my dream and wondering why the prostitute was working for me it was obviously to do with love and sex. What it showed me was that I always try to use love and sex for personal gain. It always has to be on my terms instead of loving a person for their own sake.
Example: The woman has been pushed into being aware in a rudimentary way of how the class system pushes women of lower birth into a terrible dilemma. I stood in the role of the woman and described how those in positions of authority, and that meant almost anyone born into greater wealth and education, were all used it to manipulate the lower class. It was used like a pressure to push women into taking a man in one form or another. As the woman I felt that I had avoided prostitution by accepting that men wanted sex, so I could choose either to have it unwillingly with one man or with many. I chose the one man option, and did what was necessary to keep myself in that role, as the other options I felt were worse.
Example: The dream felt as if it was set in Germany, but I was my present age and temperament. I was relaxing in a city, it was daytime, and I was sitting on a bench on a wide pavement. There didn’t seem to be many people about. As I sat there a woman came up to me and asked me if I wanted sex with her. I told her that I was not interested in sex and she took hold of my arm in a way to make physical contact with me, and said to me something like, “Oh yeah!” I put my hand over hers in a very warm compassionate way, and I could feel that gentle love for another human being who is having a hard life. As I did this I said to her that I didn’t want sex but if she was hungry we could go to have a meal somewhere. She looked at me and said that she didn’t want to do that as she had to work. I understood that if she didn’t work she couldn’t survive in her world.
I explored the dream involving the prostitute. It was clearly a confrontation with the possibility of sex. But it was sex represented in a particular way, the power of being possessed by the desire. The prostitute gains her living because men are directed to her by their desire, a desire they cannot stand aside from. They therefore risk disease, social condemnation and personal accusations. However, I do not reject this with any judgement, simply with compassion. In fact the dream felt as if it incorporated the wonderful feeling of transcending much of what ties the human soul in bondage.
Example: I went to a place with my mother and her best friend where we had intercourse with male prostitutes, one after the other. I was lost, and before my turn came I was in a corridor from which I could hear but not see. This was the most exciting part. I felt that my orgasms would be extremely intense since the men were “professionals,” and since I was excited, and in a brothel with my mom. From Sexual Dreams by Gayle Delaney.
Example: We have no money, no food. We think about ways we can get money. We decide the only way is to be prostitutes. We lure 3 guys in 3 cars to us. I have 3 men in my car, 2 standing and one lying down in the trunk. I sit on top of him. I’m so good that he has orgasm in just a few seconds. I feel a sense of accomplishment. I’m a good prostitute. One of the guys standing hands me $15. I say, “No, I said $50 to $100.” He says, “Take it or leave it sister,” and sneers. I feel calm. I stand up and put my hands on my hips like Wonder Woman and use my mind power. Their wallets float to me. They looked flabbergasted. I smile.
Other associations might be: Feeling you have ‘sold out’ or betrayed your real self or real feelings in order to survive or for money; on the game, or playing sexual games.
Useful questions or hints:
Does this involve selling yourself?
Are you a slave to your need for sex or a woman or man?
Does dreaming of a prostitute produce feelings of desire or repugnance?
Or do you feel it is a service to mankind?
Does this indicate a lack of love and affection?
Is this about sexual longing, but feel I have lack of skill for an everyday relationship?
See Being the Person or Thing – Characters and People in Dream – Growth/Personal – Beware of Love
Proverb
Many people dream of a popular proverb, or sentence from a poem, hymn or song. This is because it summarises their feelings, desires, or inner realisation as depicted in the dream.