Posts Tagged ‘dream analysis’
Pus
Emotions infected by fears, self doubts, jealousy, etc. Occasionally a sign of physical illness.
Negative feelings; possible malfunction physically; stagnation or lifelessness in area in which pus is seen. Pus in mouth would symbolise inadequacy or degeneration of ways of communicating with others, feelings of repulsion or not talking from your authentic self.
Example: The respite was short lived. Ten days after the doctor’s treatment, I dreamed: I saw an index finger with the little flap of skin turned back to expose pus.
I checked my finger carefully and noticed pus around the base of the nail. The infection had come back to life. I resumed ointment and castor oil treatment. I anxiously sought dream information. The resulting dreams indicated a connection between the infection and my overly strong preoccupation with it. It was difficult to reduce my preoccupation since I was constantly reminded of the problem by the ever present protective bandage and the fact that I typed several hours each day. Nevertheless, my finger did improve noticeably.
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 was 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: “Was looking at my knuckle and saw that I had a nasty boil which had come away as I did the washing up and all that was left was a big hole, pink and healthy looking skin around. It felt very close to my knuckle bone. My lover had told me he was leaving me for good, and going back to his children. That evening, I cried most of the night.” Hilary K.
In Hilary’s case the abscess has released its pus, or painful feelings, perhaps through her prolonged crying.
Useful questions or hints:
Where is this pus located? (The location would point to the underlying problem)
Is this about stagnation, lifelessness, or a negative quality of some kind?
What part of my body was the pus coming from?
See Body – Techniques for Exploring your Dreams – Cannot be hurt or die in your dreams – Victim – How can I Avoid Being My Own?
Push Pushed Pushing
Pushing: Being positive in what you want; exerting ones will or effort of will. It can also indicate manipulation or control of something. If you are forcefully pushing someone, then it is usually your anger that is involved. Ask yourself why you might have feelings of anger in regard to that person or what that person represents. But pushing something or someone away is also an act of rejection or resistance, as is being pushed away.
Pushing back at someone might not be about anger, but about holding your own ground.
Being pushed: Feeling coerced or taken for granted. Feeling bullied, attacked or rejected. It can also suggest resistance of some sort.
Idioms: Give someone the push; when it comes to the push; push off; push/press on; push-over; push ones luck.
Useful questions or hints:
Have I felt pushed around – and how did I react?
Did I push someone in anger of as defence?
Was I active or passive in the dream?
See Active Passive – Animals in your Brain – Being the Person or Thing
Pyjamas Pajamas Nightgown
Being casual or intimate; sexuality; difficulty in facing life or sleeping. See: Clothes.
This can have many associations, depending upon the context in the dream. It can, for instance link with being in hospital where you have to wear pyjamas or a nightgown, and so suggest you are dealing with an issue that needs healing or transforming. See Associations Working With
Sometimes this links with sexual feelings, but if so these are usually obvious or suggested in the dream.
It can be about sleeping and dreaming – linking with the parts of yourself you meet when you drop your guard in sleep; or about intimacy with another person.
Sometimes a dream shows us still in pyjamas while we are awake and the day is passing and perhaps we are dealing with people. This can suggest we are not properly prepared for what we are doing, or are unclear about how to present ourselves to others.
In street or public in night clothes: Revealing ones, perhaps honest, self to others; inappropriate attitudes.
Useful Questions and Hints:
If this connects with hospital, what is it I am trying to heal or deal with?
Am I uncertain about my direction or how to present myself to others?
What am I feeling in the dream, and can I translate this into waking situations?
See Techniques for Exploring your Dreams – Secrets of Power Dreaming
Pyramid
In popular association, the dead, mysteries. Its shape, however, would speak to the unconscious in another way. Having a square base it represents physical stability, while its triangular sides symbolise the material connections with creative processes, or the hidden side of life.
It also links with entering into the deepest secrets of your nature, and therefore with death. Your enormous potential and so again wider awareness, which can lead to integration of self. Sometimes it is an invitation to explore the realm of death and memories of past sojourns. Being triangular in shape it might refer to the number three or the triangle in relationships. See Three; Triangle
In popular association, the dead, mysteries. Its shape, however, would speak to the unconscious in another way. Having a square base it represents physical stability, while its triangular sides symbolise the material connections with creative processes, or the hidden side of life. Also a perfect expression in matter of invisible, or creative, forces. The point denotes the Unseen or Unknown/Life, where all things meet. The top stone stands for the link between our human qualities and the unknown potential we all have – See Spirit; Core Self
Power flows down from the point to the base, and up from the base to our core self. From The Fundamental Ground proceed the gods, the Elohim, or divine powers, who are the active agents of creation. From the fundamental processes of nature proceed all the hierarchy of the unseen forces of creation, with the various orders from highest to lowest.’ The rising power represents evolution of form and consciousness, from the lowest to the highest.
Therefore, the inside of the pyramid represents initiation. It is the descent of divine power resulting in the growth of expanding consciousness and faculties in man. The stages of this unfolding are the stages of initiation – the levels of maturity we are capable of. Humans are therefore, as an initiate, the descent and ascent of divine creative power. The descent is the formless spirit into incarnation into matter; the ascent is the realisation of one’s divine potential. The Queen’s chamber represents Baptism, the King’s chamber rebirth or spiritual consciousness and the pit the soul lost in material values. See Baptism, Death.
The shape of a pyramid with its base pointing upwards represent the physical world or self reaching up till at its apex it is nothing – it become the formless spiritual. The capstone is the final piece that completes the physical structure and leads toward the spiritual. Referring to Christ – our best – it has been called “… the Stone the builders rejected.”
Another term for the capstone on a pyramid is the “all seeing eye”. Which suggests the beginning of break through to wider awareness? The first stages of this are intuition and steps onward to enlightenment. It is because at the top of the pyramid you have a full view of everything around you. With that view you can predict events because you can see those moving in a way that would bring them into contact with others – thus prediction. See Enlightenment.
Example: I am on top of a huge pyramid structure, and I am placing the capstone into position, it is inscribed with various Egyptian glyphs and slides into place with a clunk, the outer scaffolding we have used to build the structure is removed, and I become aware of the tremendous height and feel a little insecure. I get a grip and decide to abseil down, I arrive at the bottom safe and sound, a female who was with me, says something quite strange, I love you, pointing to some other person present. Then again to another, she then turns to me and says, but most of all I love you! She then kisses me passionately. I am taken aback by all this, as it was definitely unexpected. This dream had a BIG feel about it, and I felt that whoever this female was, I had to go with her.
Placing the capstone in position is an incredible thing to do. It seems like an end to a long journey that has occurred in your dreams. It is an end but of course every end is a beginning. And it seems that the love you were seeking at the beginning of the dream journey.
Useful Questions and Hints:
What was happening to the capstone in the dream?
Did you have any sense of its importance?
What do you feel has been completed in your life – or missing from it?
See Easy Dream Understanding – Initiation – Settings in Dreams – Avoid Being Victims – The Harvester
Quadrangle
The boundaries of your life experience. The garden of your mind and soul. Physical experience.
Quarrel
Conflict within yourself or with exterior situation or relationship. See: people – it describes some of the main areas of human conflict – also Conflicts
Quartz
Fundamental internal processes, such as those shaping your body – consciousness can influence these, so the dream may show what relationship exists between your personality and the unconscious forces at work within you. Your wholeness or sense of the timeless. See: Crystal; Rock.
Also the Self. See: Archetype of the Self; jewels.
Quay
In some dreams people are facing danger or making decision about their direction. See: .
Departures; meetings and partings; leaving a phase of life behind, or meeting a new one, and how we encounter such changes. See also: Harbour; beach.
In some dreams people are facing danger or making decision about their direction. It is a place of decisions, of great emotion where we might be leaving or meeting someone, also a place of change and new opportunities.
If you have worked on a quay then you need to see what feelings, what you learned from being there and any big events that have added to your life experience. See Working with associations or Techniques for Exploring your Dreams
Useful Questions and Hints:
What is your situation with the quay – working, leaving or arriving?
Do I have any memories of being at a quay – if so what are they?
What new experiences or worlds of experience did it lead to?
See Background – Look at I – Features on Site – Magical Dream Machine
Queen
Feelings connected with your mother. Ruling passions. A desire to rule over others emotionally, or to be respected. Also your need for recognition and acclaim.
Queue
Waiting for something you want; feelings about where you stand in relation to others; or whether you will get what you are seeking. There might also be feelings about what you deserve, or what you can allow yourself – i.e. maybe you feel other people deserve more.
Waiting for something you want; feelings about where you stand in relation to others; or whether you will get what you are seeking. There might also be feelings about what you deserve, or what you can allow yourself – i.e. maybe you feel other people deserve more. See: waiting.
End of a queue: Feeling left out, unconsidered, forgotten; putting oneself as not important, being late or not a lot of hope or even feeling last.
Orderly queue: This suggest feelings of consideration for others and that you have respect for others rights.
Disorderly queue: Shows feelings of the strongest win, or those who wish to grab and push their way in without regard for who was there first.
Example: I was going to make a trip to London. My mother said she would pay my fare – she died two years ago. She packed my case and laid 5 pence on top of the clothes. I set off to the station. stood in a long queue for my ticket. When it was my turn to pay I opened the case for the money only to discover in place of the money was worthless scraps of paper all torn to shreds. I was unable to make the journey.
Example: ‘Yeah, yeah, you love me. I’ve got it. Yes, sure you love me. Sure, I understand. Join the queue. I’ll believe it when I see the payments. I’ll look it up next month when the accounts come in. I’ll see what you paid in. Okay love? See you.’
Idioms: join the queue
Quicksand
Feelings of hopelessness that undermine your plans, hopes, or efforts or fear of losing ground in competition with others, and emotions that engulf you.
Quicksand may suggest losing secure footing and sinking into one’s mess of emotions. It can also represent personal situations in one’s business or life that one is not in control of.
Useful Questions and Hints:
What do you feel threatened by or might be lost in?
Are you feeling trapped in some way?
Do you feel ill?
What is causing a sinking feeling?
See Avoid Being Victims – Martial Art of the Mind – Meeting yourself
Rabbi
Symbol of your attitude to your religious tendencies, or to Jewish religious ideas.
Rabbit
Due to human associations with its rapid breeding it is often linked with sexual desires. Also its softness and non aggression sometimes to the point of depicting us as a victim, or foolishly passive; may thus represent unworldly idealism. Perhaps because of its tendency to be the victim of predators, is often used as a sacrifice in dreams, which suggests the hurt we might experience to the soft, vulnerable parts of our nature as we experience the pain of meeting reality in the maturing process; feeling hounded by someone; ones vulnerable child self; docility or humility.
If the dreamer hunts rabbits: It could mean some element of self or others being criticised, attacked, ‘hunted down’ or hounded; instinctive urge to dominate.
Pet rabbit: Wanting to be petted or cared for; gentle contact and caring; responsibility.
Rabbit hole: Alice down the rabbit hole illustrates this – a going within self an experiencing the world within, that many are totally unaware of. So, going into the unconscious; the womb; perhaps attempting to escape from problems by turning being an introvert. Going into a rabbit hole could also suggest sexual intercourse. See: unconscious.
Rabbit in your garden: A quiet attack on your resources or personal growth; also may connect with the general definitions above.
EXAMPLE: Then they brought in a white rabbit, and thrust its eyes through with heated irons. And as I gazed, the rabbit seemed to me like a tiny infant, with human face, and hands which stretched themselves towards me in appeal, and lips which sought to cry for help in human accents. And I could bear no more, but broke forth into a bitter rain of tear. Anna Kingsford, From Dreams and Dream-Stories.
EXAMPLE: The nightmares returned – one terrible one in February 1896 about a tramp, seen holding over a well ‘washing, but with a kind of amused tenderness, an object that I thought was a rabbit, but I presently saw that it was a small deformed hairy child, with a curious lower jaw, very shallow: over the face it had a kind of horny carapace. . . made of some material resembling pottery. ….. The horror of it exceeded all belief.’ A. C. Benson, quoted in David Newsome, On the Edge of Paradise.
These two examples show how our dream process links the vulnerability of rabbits with childhood or children, and our own vulnerability and human pain.
Useful questions are and hints:
What part or role in my dream is my rabbit playing?
Can you put words to it?
If the dream rabbit is vulnerable what vulnerability in me is this reflecting?
If the rabbit transforms into something stronger in what way am I myself changing?
If I stand in the role of rabbit what do I feel?
See Techniques for Exploring your Dreams – Questions – Magical Dream Machine
Race
Feelings of competitiveness, questions of capability, worthiness, success and failure, or fear of losing or being inferior. It can also show your passage through life, your participation in the human race, and how you feel you have performed. What you do in the race, how you feel, may show what you put into your life and creativity.
Racing car or bike: Competitive drive; sexual energy; daring.
Running the race: Exerting yourself; expressing yourself; the struggle or contest of life; participating or being involved; the course of your life.
The finishing line: Your goal, or a goal you are aiming for or have reached, perhaps like a point in your life. Achievement of something in life, for instance achieving confidence; the end of life.
Marathon: The marathon depicts our participation in life. In it we are part of a ‘race’ – the human race. The imagery of the marathon is wonderful in depicting this. In it is all manner of human expression. Some participate out of competition. They want to struggle to achieve, to break barriers. Others are there almost crawling on hands and knees. They stay the course despite their condition. Determination, anger, fury, show on their faces. Some are participating for the sheer fun of it, in funny costumes, seeing the comedy of life. Others are putting in this enormous human effort for others – to collect funds for charity. Still others just love being with the crowd, meeting, mating, communicating. Apart from the various ways of participating by running, the crowd of onlookers are also a vital part of it; as are the recorders, the police, the helpers by the wayside, the officials who organise behind the scenes. The race is all of these in its totality. This is life.
Below is an example of the meaning of marathon.
Example: My husband has a gamy – crippled, damaged – leg in real life. In his dream though he is running in the London Marathon. He is running along with everyone doing okay. He sees the finishing line and all his family are there cheering him on. Then he crosses the finishing line and we all rush forward to hug him. We are all happy except for his son in law who is crying. He keeps wondering why his son-in-law is crying. Edna. LBC.
So the dreamer sees himself as a part of all this. He has two good legs because he feels his life has been full and adequate despite the condition of his body. He doesn’t feel crippled. At the end, the finishing line, death, he realises he has developed bonds of love with his family that will go with him over the boundary line when his life is finished. But there is pain too as his son-in-law cries. This is most likely due to the real sense of death and the ending of all the experience of the ‘race’, all the togetherness and loss of what he has been and done as a young man.
Useful Questions and Hints:
Do I feel that I am part of the human race?
Do I question my worthiness as a person, or fear of being inferior?
Does this indicate my progress through life and how I rate myself against others?
What part did I play in the dream – participant, watcher, helper, or official?
If I was competing who or what was I competing against?
Do I have to win or do I not mind losing but just being a participant?
See YES – You Can Dream a New Life – Features Found on Site – Techniques for Exploring your Dreams
Radar
Intuition, with which we sense things out of sight. It may particularly deal with threats we sense.
One’s subliminal sense of other people – or of what feelings or ‘signals’ other people are giving out. Exploring beyond one’s usual ability or senses. As described in the last example knowing things clearly through intuition, but also touching the More of your own potential
Example: I am in a spaceship flying to the moon. Initially we are flying very low, seeming only to dodge large objects near the ground. At first I am frightened, but as the trip continues without mishap – it as though we are controlled by radar and a computer – I feel more and more secure. Later, when we take off into space, I begin to feel ecstatically happy. I am free to explore the wonders of the universe!
Example: This is an operation to rescue a bull moose, I think. We have to go thru some elaborate manoeuvrings, sending three small jets into the air one right after each other in three different directions very close to the ground to evade enemy radar and get this operation under way. (I am in one of these jets). We are proud of our cleverness.
Example: ‘It started as an inward light, went outside me many years later, seeming to control me by long distance radar. Then it came nearer, close above my head, becoming something I felt rather than heard, and spread down the neck and over the shoulders. It told me what to do, not only in emotional crises but in quite practical matters at other times. I knew of lodgings to go to five minutes after they had become vacant. I knew where clothes that I needed were to be found, in shops I did not consciously know existed. I knew that I ought to write a special letter to my mother, and failing to do so suffered bitter remorse, since she died only a few days later. This voice is now my guide from beyond, and has become something like the ‘More’ of which William James speaks when describing mystic experience.
Useful Questions and Hints:
Does my ‘radar’ pick up on the emotions of other people or places?
In the dream what is the radar used for and how does that relate to your life?
Is it used to find my way or to avoid attack?
Am I aware of other people in a radar sort of way?
See Secrets of Power Dreaming – Using Your Intuition – Body Dowsing – Releasing The Unconscious Wisdom