Posts Tagged ‘dream analysis’
Prowler
See: Burglar.
Push Chair – stroller – buggy
Relating to babyhood, being dependent or even pregnancy. It could also suggest having responsibility if you are pushing it.
Many of us have memories, not always nice ones of being in stroller/buggy/push chair.
Example: When I arrived there was a baby boy in a push chair near the front of the house, with lots of people around. I started talking to the baby and he really responded to me with a lot of pleasure. Later I had a strong urge to hold him, and eventually asked the mother if I could hold her baby. I mention this because I realised once again how strong the female in me is, and how much I can relate to children through that part of me.
Useful questions or hints:
What memories or associations do I have with being in or pushing one?
Did you even experience any fears connected with the stroller/buggy/push chair?
What feelings do I have of seeing my child in the stroller/buggy/push chair?
See Role in the dream – Inner Mother – Magic Mirror of Dreams – Being the Person or Thing
Psychoanalysis Psychoanalyst Psychologist
Often used as a dream symbol of your attempts to understand self, to release self from problems, to find one’s true being. In these dreams the analyst usually depicts your strength or character brought to bear on the difficulties you are trying to redeem.
If you are undergoing therapy, it can represent the dynamics and the personal responses you are feeling about what is happening. The psycho-analyst represents the part of yourself effecting change, mental and emotional growth, insight, ore even your resistance or difficult feelings about the dream character.
It may also be used as a symbol of a fear of mental illness, or the difficulties you experience in meeting the irrational part of yourself. See: analyst under roles
Example: The psychologists have trained a pack of theories and facts which they keep in leash, like so many bulldogs, and which they let loose upon us whenever we depart from the strait and narrow path of dream probability. Helen Keller
Example: My psychologist has diagnosed me as transsexual. Tony Crisp diagnosed me as human; and as Tony Crisp pointed out, human beings are paradoxical. That makes me the biggest paradox of all time.
Useful questions or hints:
Did the psychologist give me any insights or useful information?
Was I the psychotherapist in my dream?
Did I agree or disagree with the psychologist person?
See Active Imagination – Individuation – Collective Unconscious – Techniques for Exploring your Dreams – Analyst – Guru.
Pubic
Bar Room Pub
What happens in the bar may indicate how you relate to social relationships at a basic level. A public bar can either represent the sense of pleasure, love of company and entertainment, or sometimes the place where you experience changes in yourself – i.e. influence of alcohol or spirit. Often indicates how you relate to groups, or relaxation – or conflict – with friends and others. The meaning depends on the action and relationships occurring in the dream. There may therefore be signs of aggressiveness or defensiveness. It can also indicate your feelings about society, or exploring ideas or feelings, as one might in a communicative atmosphere in a bar.
It can be about your hopes, fears or expectations in regard to finding a sexual partner. Therefore the meaning might be about the meeting or avoiding of the complexities of relationship, gathering information or realising things unconsciously gathered.
The bar-room can be about difficulties regarding alcohol; your technique for avoiding confrontation with loneliness, anxiety, sense of failure, etc. See Alcohol.
Barman/barkeep:
Idioms: Prop up the bar; colour bar; barring the way.
Useful Questions and Hints:
What is taking place in the bar and how does that relate to me?
If there are difficulties what are they?
What is the essential dynamic of the relationships in the bar?
See Easy Dream Interpretation; Stand in role.
Pull Pulled Pulling
Doing something about a situation; positive action or expression of will. Through effort we can pull a memory back to awareness or pull something out of the unknown within us through a creative action. Also you can pull someone or something out from its hiding place.
A great deal of the words pull and pulling are connected with human issues like ‘pull yourself together’ – ‘pull together’ – ‘pull apart’ ‘pull all the stops out’ – and ‘pulling out’.
Being pulled: Being influenced by someone or something else; being pulled by your emotions – perhaps attracted to someone; going along with something – as when ‘going with the flow’.
Pulled against ones will: Being influenced by aspects of your nature that you feel at odds with; influenced by someone else against ones own inclinations.
Idioms: Have pull; pull away; pull back; pull ones socks up; pull out; pull through; pull together; pull something off; pull strings; pull the women; pull together; pull up ones roots; pull rank; pulled over; pulled up: pulling it down; pulling out;.
Useful questions or hints:
Do I ever feel I am coerced or pull in a direction or by someone else?
What was being pulled the dream?
Was the pull a help or something you resisted?
See carry the dream forward – Life’s Little Secrets – Avoid Being Victims
Pulse
The state of your enthusiasm or energy; feelings about health; anxiety about death.
Put your hand under your clothes so you can feel your heart beating and the pulse of life in you. There you have it, the conscious you is touching and directly experiencing in a quiet moment how that mystery we call Life is right there in every moment of your being spontaneously giving you existence. You are touching the unconscious. You can feel it moving right under your hand. You know it is not your conscious will, knowledge or beliefs that is pulsing that beautiful movement. Right now life is breathing you and beating your heart. And that is just the very evident surface signs of what it is doing. Feel it! Do you really fully understand that? Isn’t that an amazing miracle and mystery? Wouldn’t it be wise and wonderful to get to know that mystery directly and more fully?
Part of acupuncture involves reading pulses. In both Chinese and Japanese systems, the pulse is read – in three positions and at three depths – at the radial artery, just above the wrist. We use our index, middle and ring fingers, placed side-by-side along the course of the artery. In total, then, there are six positions: three on the right wrist and three on the left wrist.
Pulse-reading is an aspect of the medicine that, for most, requires many years (decades, lifetimes) of practice in order to master. It requires great energetic sensitivity — a capacity to “listen” very deeply. It is an art-form as much as it is a science. I’ve also felt it to be something very much like a language, or – to use computer lingo — an operating system. It’s a means of translating information from one medium (the client’s bodymind) to another (the practitioner’s bodymind) which depends upon the creation of specific cognitive/perceptual alignments.
J. Esquirol, a French psychiatrist noted for his humanitarian attitude toward patients, spent considerable time in the 1830’s sitting beside sleeping mental patients, observing their facial expressions and movements and noting their pulse and respiration. He claimed that he often knew when patients were dreaming and could predict the general nature of their dream content from this combination of behavioural and physiological indices.
Another example of pulsing it given in this mans dream: The bull then turns to the left, where a cow is visible. The halter is still hanging from its neck, so to prevent it being hindered I approach it to remove the halter. I am careful because its horns are long and splendid. I notice that the very tips of the horns are delicately carved in a simple curved design. I manage to pull the halter off and the bull sees the cow. It responds, its whole body indicating a change. I particularly notice or see its tail. This appears to be stretched out on the ground as if the bull is lying down with tail pointing backwards. As I watch I see ripples of movement in the tail, surging and pulsing. I have the impression of deep impulses of life surging in the body of the bull. The cow at first does not want the bull. There is some memory of the cow running for the open gate, but it doesn’t go out. It is unnecessary anxiety.
Useful questions or hints:
In what way was the pulse mentioned and used?
Do I worry about my pulse/heartbeat?
What does my dream say or suggest about the pulse?
See Understanding this Site – Being in Control – Using Symbols to Change Life Problems – Life’s Little Secrets
Puncture
Physical problems or injury; let down by something unexpected; unexpected delay in some area of your life; frustration or irritation.
Puppet
Manipulation or feeling manipulated; feeling powerless against what feels like an external influence – the power of alcohol or drugs for instance. The puppet maybe links with your speech or actions not being wholly your own, but were probably from past programming that we all receive from our parents. It is probably a habit that you have not noticed previously. See Programmed
If you are working the puppet ask yourself if this is about manipulating others, or is it about taking control of yourself. Perhaps even that you need to feel in command?
If you are the puppet, look up at who is pulling the strings. What do you see and what does it mean?
Watching a puppet show suggest becoming aware of how apparently everyday events are controlled by something or someone behind the scenes. What sense do you have of that?
Rudolph Steiner says there is an action in human life he named Ahriman. It is the power of ignorance, of reason without feeling values, of dry intellectualism, the emphasis of materialism and a science that leads to lack of aim, lack of contact with all life; an education that is full of facts, but without any wisdom or insight, that does not develop the power of intuition. The mass media, and dictatorship, making puppets of men to a regime, a man, a fear, a totalitarianism. The power of spirit alone puts these forces into their place. Only then these act as powers of growth, development of understanding, the energy used to rise up. They are then unveiled as evolutionary powers that were threatening only because we could not use them correctly.
Example: I am a teacher at a grade school. A man teacher follows me around teasing me to be in a puppet show (hand held puppets that are so heavy you wear part of it). He’s funny and I keep laughing. He won’t let me alone, so I’m laughing and saying no and telling him to go away. Then I reluctantly agree to do it. I play a lady horse. The wire and cardboard on my arm is very heavy. I sashay around and sing and shinny. I’m very funny. The guy is aggressive, sharp-witted and persistent. He likes me but it’s overwhelming.
Useful questions or hints:
Are you manipulating the puppet?
Are you the puppet?
Is it a puppet show you are watching?
See Habits – Easy Dream Understanding – Settings in Dreams – Because Factor
Puppy
Youth, heedlessness, spontaneous affection and enthusiasm. It often represent a child, or feelings about wanting a child, being pregnant with a child, even one of ones own children. Also vulnerability or dependent needs. Like any young animal, it can depict your need to care for or love something, or be loved.
Punishment Torture
Depicts the internal pain, or fear of retribution, that occurs inside us due to conflict between our social training and internal drives. The more rigidly moral we are, the more Hell and punishment we dream about; a means of allaying guilt out of childhood feelings of responsibility for such things as being unloved by parent (we must have done something awful or be awful), death of parent, abused by adult. See: hell.
We have to remember also that not so long ago historically torture was a common part of everyday life. It was used in all manner of ways to force people into slavery, obedience or confession. Millions died in this way, and we still carry the racial memory of it inside us – either as tortured or torturer.
Some dreams illustrate self punishment or self harm. This can arise out of guilt or holding back of your own natural feelings which then turn back on you and express in dreams as forms of torture or punishment. Sometimes we cannot recognize our own natural or instinctive urges and punish or even torture ourselves. This shown in dreams as trying to kill the animals in our dream. The urges in you that are natural but are judged to be anti social or bad, might need to be helped into modern life or transformed in some way, not killed out, maimed or tortured.
A man with problems he associates with his mother may torture or injure his woman partner because he unconsciously wants to hit back and hurt her.
Stanislav Grof, in observing the experiences of many people facing the agonies of their birth during therapy noticed the imagery that often arose was of being in hell tortured by the devil. When these same patients moved toward pleasure, the images became heavenly or cosmic.
The struggle with and fear of ones own natural drives – the resistances to change and wholeness – is often the fundamental pain of life in birth and the after effects in adult life that produce images and feelings of torture. We all have an underbelly of human life; this is often exposed by difficult circumstances of ones life and can reveal what is hurtful or torturous.
Male control over women was often done by physical punishment, and often linked with sexual pleasure, or the oppression and authority of the ruling classes or the punitive minions of the state.
Looking for evident themes of self punishment we can see such dreams as – ‘I was waiting for my friends all night but they never turned up’ – ‘My fiancé married somebody else.’ Such self punishing themes occurred with greater frequency in depressives people’s dreams. These themes can be changed by recognising that depression is partly a set of habitual responses that can be changed. Try imagining each dream reaching a more satisfying conclusion.
Example: I kept saying, “I didn’t hurt anybody. I didn’t.” This was expressive of a sense that the pain inflicted to my face (nose) during the operation, must be because I had done something wrong. I could see that I associated inflicted pain with the punishment a parent gives because of some “bad” action. I could not understand why the pain had been inflicted on me. Also, I felt that religion itself was a projection out of the unconscious, from such fundamental premises. In other words, inflicted pain equals punishment. Pain equals God’s punishment.
Useful questions or hints:
Was I receiving or giving punishment?
What sort of punishment or torture was shown in the dream?
What feelings were experienced in the dream?
See Karma – Martial Art of the Mind – Avoid Being Victims – Secrets of Power Dreaming
Purchase Purchasing
This often indicates some level of choices being made, decisions faced; there may also be elements of how much or little you are being influenced by internal desires or external sales pressure. One dreamer says when she feels so good at work she immediately goes out to buy a new house. This suggests confidence and social power are involved in purchases. But sometimes we make purchases when things go wrong, as a means of counteracting the down feelings. In some dreams the question of your financial status arises, so purchasing may be dealing with how you are feeling about your money situation or whether you can afford what you want.
Have you ‘bought’ or accepted an idea, or bought into a situation or condition? How much did you pay, or what is the ‘price’ you had to pay for this. Is it worth it? You can buy into a something without realising – to buy into it is to accept an idea behind it – I never bought into the idea of a federalist Europe – Let us not buy into it by purchasing these lumps of farmed meat; chicken breasts from animals that have no natural life and whose normal cycles have been manipulated for sales and production.
Buying a bargain: Feelings of capability.
Purchased from: Success or failure to succeed, depending on whether the sale is made; may also indicate change, as when one sells a car or house. See: sell; shopping.
Purchasing a house: In general this may relate to making a decision to change, or wanting a change in your life or circumstances. Purchasing something in a dream also often involves the process of deciding or being uncertain. The decision making is to do with clarifying what you want, what you would like.
Example – I am a car. Joel has recently purchased me, and he is driving me, largely because he feels I will help him gain respect from other people. I am quite a large car, and have a lot of power. But even with all this energy I do not make my own decisions. I am directed by Joel’s desires and wishes, and enable him to fulfil them more readily.
Useful questions or hints:
Did I quickly decide on my purchase of did I ponder about it?
Was I looking for a particular thing?
Did I buy something or was I selling it.
See Secrets of Power Dreaming – Processing Dreams – Role – Dream Visualisation
Purgatory
See: Hell.
Purification
See: Baptism.
Purple
This has always been associated with royalty, with spirituality and the law. In terms of the personality it is seen as relating to the ability to deal with practical matters and with spiritual power. But it can suggest an overbearing attitude. It might also relate to the body, suggesting poor circulation, heart problems, palpitations or indigestion.
Example: When I looked into his liquid brown eyes I just saw directly through his soul and it went way out into some deep purple void which I knew to be the ultimate universe. PL
In the example the deep purple suggests an as yet unexplored or known dimension of experience. This links in some dreams with serenity and peace.
Purple is also the colour of a bruise, and in some dreams can either indicate hurts you feel, or sexual passion.
Idioms: Born to the purple (royalty); purple with rage; purple language; purple rank.
Useful questions:
What are my major feelings in this dream, and where do they appear in my waking life?
Does my dream link the colour with deep wonder or cosmic powers?
Is there any feeling or imagery to do with sickness – if so what does it suggest about me?
See: Colour.
Purse
Something in your nature you value and try not to lose. Your sense of identity and power to be socially acknowledged as an effective person. Sometimes it represents a woman’s sexual feelings, the vagina. See: Bag if USA purse.
Losing your purse can often signify that you have lost your way in life and you need to reconsider the direction you are going in life. It can also mean losing your power – as without money or cards you sometimes feel powerless. So check yourself to see if you have lost such qualities such as patience, love, generosity, forgiveness, and other moral principles. Therefore, losing the bag is like saying you feel undermined or helpless. But the bag or purse also has many things you value, and so its loss points to feelings of losing something that you might miss intensely.
A purse or handbag often carries your means of getting about in the world and being effective. It also may contain personal things you would not want anyone else to see. So it can depict your sense of power or helplessness, depending upon whether or not you posses or lose it, and also your personality, your identity.
In some dreams the purse or bag has definite links with sexuality or the vagina. What you are doing with the bag in such a dream indicates unconscious feelings about your sexual activities and feelings.
Whether the key word is losing, finding or emptying, this is the important message of the dream. Having defined it, you could helpfully ask yourself what you have lost, found or got rid of.
If you found a purse, remember that it is intimately linked with another person, so it is like having a strong link with that person. How do you handle it?
If the purse is given to you, depending upon your gender, it could be a sign of intimacy, or an offer of friendship.
Carrying a purse in a dream may signify the secret place of important possessions, which are being closely held.
Example: We are arguing. I get away. I think the man is upstairs. My mother comes out and catches the woman going through her purse. They get into a fight. My mother is sitting on a chair and the woman is standing in front of her and I either feel my mother is going to bite this woman’s breast or I see her do it. I feel a sense of danger.
Example: A rather shadowy man gave me a leather pull-string purse or pouch. In the pouch was powder that the man suggested I pour onto my rather stained trousers. Immediately the powder started working like yeast, cleansing and purifying my trousers in a spreading action. I knew that this yeast, or pollen, had also penetrated my body, and was gradually working through me, purifying and healing. – Adrian
Example: A young college girl who had decided to have sex with anyone dreamed: I found myself with my boyfriend in a street lighted by a red lantern. I believe the town was Las Vegas. The next minute I was adrift on an angry sea holding tightly to my purse. I knew I had a valuable jewelled cross in my bag which I must not lose. A little boy, however, assured me it was all right to release my purse and put it down. When I reached shore, I discovered to my great horror that I had lost the purse.”
The red lantern indicated a “red light” district and symbolized not only danger, but the free love to which she had agreed to through the advice of “the little boy.“ The little boy represented immaturity of thought. Las Vegas heightened the warning that she was gambling with her inner life. The little boy in the dream was “the one“ with whom she was having sexual experiences. Alone and “at sea” with the angry waves showed the “drift“ of her soul. The loss of the purse and the valuables, especially the jewelled cross, pinpointed the purpose and message of the dream—to re-evaluate her life and to return to the safety of the shore and feelings arising from her core, even though it meant a crucifying of the sexual urges she had felt.
Idioms: hold the purse strings; you can’t make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear.
Useful questions or hints:
What happened to your purse/bag in the dream?
Did you find the purse/bag?
Did someone give you the purse/bag?
Were sexual feelings indicated in the dream?
What do you feel in regard to the purse?
See Working with associations – Makes Inner – Your Core Self – Being the Person or Thing