Posts Tagged ‘dream analysis’
Records – paper or filmed.
Usually memory or information you may have forgotten or not accessed before. See: CD
Any video or film, even if the characters or theme seem strange, is nearly always a depiction of some aspect of you. Some drives or areas of self act or express despite what we would want. These are named autonomous complexes. Recent research into brain activity shows that in fact the brain has different layers or strata of activity. These strata often act independently of each other or of conscious will. Sensing them, as one might in a dream, might feel like meeting an opposing will or being possessed by an alien force. Integration with these aspects of self can of course be gained. See Animals in your Brain
You are yourself an amazing recording apparatus. You have taken in millions of bit of memory, lessons learnt, life experiences, along with all the feelings or problems met while living with or loving someone, and they are what make you the person you are – they are YOUR memories. Your dreams tend to put these memories into the image of the past person when you are dealing with the influences/recordings left in your from the relationship. See this wonderful example.
But if you are not honouring what you have taken into you, it might be giving you indigestion of the soul. What I have found over years of investigation is that everything we take in, experience as well as food, needs to be dealt with in a particular way. We are a living process like all living things. We have to transform what we take in into living processes. For instance when a plant takes in water and nourishment it changes it into living cells the same with us if we are healthy, we change food into our living body and awareness. As I wrote years ago, “We often take for granted some of the most astounding facts about our everyday life. They seem so normal we barely notice them. But just think, the potatoes or rice you ate yesterday is today capable of sitting and laughing at a television program. When you digested the food you ate, in some way that is truly astounding, it transformed into your movements, and feelings, and being able to do maths and enjoy a video”. (Quoted from SuperMinds).
How we do that with our experience, well we have to digest it fully by experiencing it fully. If we do not do that it is like plastering stuff/experience on ourselves that is like thick coating which leads to all sorts of mental disorders. Look around you and see the massive crap many people are carrying. Experiencing it fully is a life process like digesting our food. We cannot do it ourselves (we do not consciously digest our food) because Life in us does it. You help it by imagine taking an image if a person in your dream, or the recording or instrument into you. Literally imagine that you are going to take them into your body and you are accepting them – not as outside people, but as the experience you took into you. Then you must allow any feeling to surface fully – that is how we digest experience. In our culture we have been taught to repress everything, that is why we have so much social sickness. See Life’s Little Secrets and People’s Experience of LifeStream
Useful Questions and Hints:
What have I sought access to in this dream?
Were there words, information or music in the dream?
Have I in any way digested the mass of experience recorded in me?
Are my memories simple lifeless ideas I have, or have they become living parts of me?
See Memory and Dreams; The Long Memory of Existence; Breakthrough to Memory; Water Wonderland – Techniques for Exploring your Dreams
Records
Paper or filmed: Usually memory or information you may have forgotten or not accessed before.
Rectum
The rectum is the final part of the colon or large intestine just prior to the exit, which is called the anus. Sometimes the two words are confused, so the exit might be called the rectum. What matters in regard to your dream is what you have understood it to mean prior to the dream.
This whole area is one that is very sensitive to emotions and sexual experience. It links with very primal feelings and may easily become tense, or respond to hurt in oneself or others.
One of its main functions in life, as with the bladder, is to control or release the excretion of faeces. As a baby the process is spontaneous and beyond our control, so has to be learned. It therefore frequently becomes a physical focus for any problems or lessons to do with control or letting go. Thus we have the phrase ‘he/she is really anal’ meaning they hold on to everything or try to control everything.
This holding on or ability to both control and let go, are at the very basis of dealing with adult life, and influence whether we can allow our creativity and sexuality flow. Problems here deeply influence how we deal with our sexual and emotional love, and our ability to let ourselves flow out into activity and creativity. Tension and holding on can lead to a type of auto-homosexual experience. In other words instead of the flow going outwards to others and the world, it is turned back on itself and become in turned sexuality and aggression. See: Faeces.
This whole area is one that is very sensitive to emotions and sexual experience. It links with very primal feelings and may easily become tense, or respond to hurt in oneself or others. One of its main functions in life, as with the bladder, is to control or release the excretion of faeces. As a baby the process is spontaneous and beyond our control, so has to be learned. It therefore frequently becomes a physical focus for any problems or lessons to do with control or letting go. Thus we have the phrase ‘he/she is really anal’ meaning they hold on to everything or try to control everything. As already mentioned, this area, which links very strongly with the genitals, psychologically links with the earliest stages of our development and our earliest experiences as a baby. Many muddled or unconscious experiences are contained in this area of our psyche regarding sexual feelings, desires and self expression. So if you are dreaming about this area it might be that you are becoming more aware of these things. If so you may begin to experiences many sexual urges and confusions that previously remained unconscious or buried in your body. See This base area of the body also depicts the powerful instinctive and biological forces or potential lying at the base of our being – at the base of our personal development. These forces, sometimes represented by a snake or lizard – the instinctive reproductive, flight and fight drives – are the power flowing into our life. If they are not allowed to flow into the development of our personality, we will lack energy and power in some way. In other cultures they are encouraged to flow beyond the fundamental pathways of genital sex toward the functions of greater awareness and insight, thus opening their other possibilities. See Energy Sex and Dreams.
Useful Questions and Hints: Am I meeting any experiences to do with controlling or letting go – if so what is involved? Am I getting rid of some of the crap I have carried around internally or externally? What struggles with infant feelings or sexuality am I meeting – if so what are they? See Use the body to discover dream power – What is the main action in the dream? – Victims
Red
Even where red appears quite casually in a dream, as with the hat in the example, there is frequently fear, screaming, horror or a sense of danger in the same dream. Red also represents ones basic emotions, earthy nature, and sexuality. In this sense it depicts your strength or vitality and your down to earth health and power. But because of the modern association with traffic lights and warnings such as brake lights on cars, it may sometimes be used as a warning, or a way of saying ‘stop’ or ‘no’.
Example: These men were throwing a big red rubber ball into a field, and if we didn’t catch it, we would get shot. Example: ‘An old woman with a very pink, lined face, and wearing a clashing red hat, knelt close to my face. The woman leaned forward to poke my hand, and I recoiled, screaming myself awake.’ Joy S.
But red must also be understood in context with the other ideas presented. For instance a road accident where blood is seen has a different feeling in your dream that a lovely young girl with red hair – a sign of a lively and perhaps passionate woman. From findings concerning early humans we know that the colour red, and substances such as red ochre, played a large and important part in their life.
In Africa red ochre was, and still is, called the ‘blood of the earth’ and is used in rituals to do with death and renewal. Because red is connected with blood and blood’s obvious links with health, being alive, and the process of childbirth in women, ochre and the colour red were and still are, often used in healing practices. Red wine is also seen as blood in the magical rituals of the church and other groups. See: blood under body; archetype of blood; wine.
A recent research team of U.S. and German scientists found that the colour red influences the way people function. It reduces the ability to perform well at whatever task they are doing. University of Rochester and University of Munich researchers reported that even if people being tested were aware of even a hint of red, their performance would be reduced in quality to a significant degree. University of Rochester psychology Professor Andrew Elliot, head of the research, said people associate the colour red with mistakes and failures.
Less frequently: Red can link with blood; menstruation; the biological life force; conception; reproduction; death. Pale pink: Baby feelings; gentle love; weakness.
Red and grey often appear together: Emotions connected with depression or lack of motivation and pleasure.
Red brick building: Homeliness; warmth.
Red clothes or motif: Sexuality; passion; strong emotions.
Red earth: Fertility; richness; the healing power of the body; the collective memory of past human struggles and discoveries which we now inherit as personal or social skills, or ease of performance of things that would have been difficult or impossible for our ancestors.
Red eyes: This usually suggests feelings or fears about sickness or being irrational or deeply emotional.
Red face: Anger; high emotion; illness .
Red hair: Passionate thoughts, angry ideas, great energy like a fire. See: hair.
Red flowers: Love; passion; dangers of passion.
Red furniture or decor; Plush: richness; comfort.
Rose pink: Love, as one might give to a child.
Idioms: paint the town red; redneck; see red; in the red; red carpet; red letter day; red light district; red faced; red handed; red tape; run a red light.
Useful questions and hints:
Are there signs of powerful emotions in the rest of the dream – if so what am I feeling passionate or emotional about?
Is there a warning of danger here, or a message to stop – if so what does that apply to in my life?
Do I feel in any way connected to the earth, to the spirit of nature or life in this dream – if so what does that tell me?
See Colours – Emotions – Techniques for Exploring your Dreams
Indian Red Indian
The psychic, inner life. The part of us that is at home in the irrational or unconscious, and relates to the spirit through this. See: AmericanIndian.
Indian If you are not a Native American Indian, then it suggests an aspect of your own desires or needs which you do not usually identify with or acknowledge. But it is sometimes the voice or action of the wise unconscious, your intuition. See: aboriginal.
If you are a Native American or have some blood, or have been initiated into their ways, then you have a very great heritage, one that will give you greater ability to dream true or see visions (waking dreams). These can guide you on your life path.
Example: Then my father gets into a small row boat and I get in. He slowly and carefully goes over the wooden boundary. The motor gets caught. My father says “Uh-oh.” I say, “Don’t tell me uh-oh, when we’re in deep water.” We then get over the thing. Then I’m in a canal. An Indian guide is behind me paddling. He is reciting the legends of our people. I feel like I’m going home.
Example: I had a vision once. Two Indians where dancing around a firer. One old and one in his early 20’s they had eagle feathers and suddenly an eagle appeared and the one that was young stood at the edge of the cliff and said sister we are waiting for you, sister we need you, sister we miss you, come back. Sister we need you. And then I had another one this time the old man joined.
Example: my great grandmother was Cherokee and she was taken from her tribe by an Irish trapper. They had 10 children my grandmother being one of them. When I was a little girl my great grandmother lived in a small trailer beside my grandmother and every time we went to see her I stay with my great one I will call her Pearl. She Smudged me many times and warned me never to tell anyone not my parents or any other family member. She told me to remember that we always came from the blue clan.
She said you will see things others will not see some of us do…I hope you will be ok granddaughter.
I saw the spirit of my grandmother a few times and my heart was missing my people felt something like her calling me back…that was 8 years ago. But a few months ago I was meditating when I came into a smoky hut with a circle of what appeared to be Elders and a couple of older women in the back bundled in blankets….One spoke in his native tongue and I understood him perfect (I am trying to learn it now) but he was saying “Things are not like the old ways …there is no respect in our lands…you have eyes like the color of the sky but your blood runs red and your heart is of our clan”…then he paused.
From that point on …occasionally I will hear his voice or sense his presence but whether this is real or not it sure seems it.
Useful Questions and Hints:
Have you met or been instructed in your dream by an elder of chief?
What have you learned from your dream?
Was the dream a form of initiation?
See initiation – Native American – Native American Dream Beliefs – Iroquoian Dream Cult
Reed
Humility, flexibility, in religion and mythology the reed represents the human will that has been surrendered to Life or the spirit, and is thus directed by the Life will. It does not represent weakness, for it takes a strong will not to be moved by worldly ambitions or sensuality, but to surrender or sink personal interests into those of the universal. See It is important the 2 wills
Example: I move closer to the reed that is growing in the shallows of the lake and while doing so I see some goldfish in the lake in front of the reed. I reckon I will scare them away when I reach the reed and I am surprised to see that they are not afraid. I think there are three of them. Two I remember; one is an orange goldfish and the other one is white with light orange coloured parts on its body.
It does not represent weakness, for it takes a strong will not to be moved by passing sense impressions and flitting ideas, but to surrender to the subtle impressions beyond thinking and senses.
In some dreams reeds can also be used a breathing tube, either to hide under water or to help a person with a blockage to breathe. Reeds can also be used a roofing in a dream, protection against bad weather/emotions. Reeds are sometimes used to tie a boat to or to hang onto if in rushing water. Both ways of securing something or feeling secure.
Example: As time passed he showed me a collection of musical instruments he had. I held one in my hands. It was shaped like a reed flute, thin at the mouthpiece, widening to a horn shape, but with an extending lip like a shoe horn. It was black and at times I thought it was slightly transparent. The man told me it was made of some sort of asbestos. I suggested it was an early form of the clarinet, and he agreed.
Useful Questions and Hints:
What part did the reed(s) play in my dream?
Were they to hold on to, breathe through or protective?
What did I feel about the reed or reeds?
See Dreams are a reflection of your inner world – Using Symbols to Change Life Problems – Mountain Path – Jesse Watkins Enlightenment
Reflect Reflecting Reflection
Reflections from a mirror or water usually represent, especially if they show your face or body, what image you have of yourself, what you feel about yourself. Sometimes what you see is an unconscious image from the past that needs re-evaluating. To do that you need to ask yourself where those feelings or that image arose from. In understanding it you can re-appraise it.
Dreams are a magical mirror in which your innermost hopes, longings, fears/terrors and genius are made real. They are made real as external environments, people, animals and relationships. So the person you dreamt about is not them, but is a dream image made out of your feelings and memories.
Looking at your reflection in a mirror is usually about concerns over ones ‘image’ or how others feel about you, self-examination, self-love, negative only if the love is not shared with others. In some dreams it reflects anxiety about changing or ageing. There is the possibility of self-assessment, so how you are judging yourself at the moment. But also being absorbed in yourself. The mirror particularly depicts self-awareness in the sense of insight into your behaviour or character traits.
Present view or opinion of oneself – because few of us define how we really see ourselves, the self image may be largely unconscious, therefore shown as a face that might be different to what we are used to seeing; how we feel others see us; may also be aspects of ourselves the unconscious is showing us that we may not have been aware of.
We are all playing the game of life – the game we play in which we face or run away from the things that scare us; in which we explore the depths of our existence or learn how to love – or simply meet a reflection of our own weakness, terror and of course the wonder of your inner genius. For that is all it is – a magic mirror in which we see ourselves naked of pretence.
Also we can reflect on and learn from experience. Reflecting on a subject in dreams is often a way to see it with wider significance, and even solve problems.
Useful Questions and Hints:
What feelings or impressions do I get from or in the dream?
If I was looking at a reflection of myself what did I see or feel?
What was my dream reflecting of me?
See Dreams are a reflection of your inner world – Magical Dream Machine – Secrets of Power Dreaming
Refrigerate Refrigerator
To cool down our emotions or sexuality; to be cold emotionally or sexually; a romance that is cooling off; something we have put in ‘cold storage’. To keep things such as feelings fresh or preserve them. See Frozen
It is noticeable that many characters in American films and dreams have bottles of beer they carry around. They usually get them from the fridge. We can see from such films that they get a bottle of beer out of refrigeration and walk around with it in their mouth (like a babies bottle without a teat on). As alcohol is a downer, it may reflect a national characteristic to repress their sensitivity, like switching from one level of awareness to another one.
Example: He kissed me once, then twice, each time more lingering. He said passionately, “Here, put the beer in the fridge and come here!” My brother Dwight, who had come in behind him, said, “Whoa! I guess I’ll go sit in the car.” I had been putting the beer into the fridge. I noticed that “Harry”, had written letters and messages to me on the beer cartons. I read one about the president getting him enlisted into the navy. I picked up a little Budweiser and gave it to Dwight.
In this dream there are themes of sexual passion, bear drinking and not wanting to see what was really happening, which is a form of refrigeration of one’s feelings.
Useful Questions and Hints:
Do I feel difficulty when I experience emotions?
What do I keep repressing/refrigerating?
Have you ever noticed how much you edit/cut-out what you think and feel?
See Self Observation – Individuation – The people we carry inside us – Techniques for Exploring your Dreams
Regeneration
See: Death.
Relationship
Relationship in dreams is a fundamental theme. But the men and women you meet, love and fight with, are most frequently showing how you relate to the many and varied attitudes and abilities you have. The great love affair is therefore the drama in which you meet your own masculine or feminine self.
Relatives
A great deal of who you are was absorbed or learned from the close or difficult relationships you experienced while a child. Extremely powerful feeling responses developed to deal with what you needed and what actually happened to you. For instance a man who was placed in an orphanage while young, to top from sinking into deep depression, had to learn to get love from whatever females he could make contact with. As an adult he still experienced a drive to have several women he could turn to when in need.
Relatives in dreams, therefore usually depict family values, a way of life, or particular feelings or responses. In some way they show aspects of what you are doing now in your relationships and activities. So look for such issues as security; attraction or repulsion to males, females; introversion or extroversion as a way of life; dependence or independence and their many levels of growth or action; sickness or anger as a means of getting love, and so on.
Seeing parents dead: Sometimes dreamt at a time you are learning to become independent, so you are letting their influence or power in your life die. See: Brother; Sister; Father; Mother.
Remember Remembered Remembering
A huge percentage of your experience remains forgotten in a general sense. You cannot easily bring it to consciousness. But occasionally a smell, a scene, triggers powerful remembering. In dreams such remembering can happen also. It is then usually about parts of your experience that are important in their connection to the present.
See: Amnesia – Integration – Meeting yourself
Rent
Interpersonal responsibility or relationship; what we have to ‘pay’ for what we have or want.
When the word rent means torn, it can represent a tearing, perhaps forcefully, of something. The ‘something’ might be your feelings, emotions torn apart. If you are doing the rending, then you are destroying something. What feelings caused the action?
Back rent: Represents locked up energies in past repressions of pain etc. These have to be paid up, to right things. Sometimes feeling stressed because of not being able to pay.
Being the landlord: Feeling more secure because extra money come in. But it depends how you see the people renting from you. In any case you have a relationship with the person or people, and the way you handle the relationship shows how you relate to Life.
Collecting rent: What we want from others, or what we are getting from them in the way of feelings, influences.
Unable to pay rent: Depends on your feelings in the dream. Do you feel you cannot keep up with the demands of everyday life? Do you feel that life owes you a living and you have no intention to pay the rent? Do you feel that the financial system and the social system are all awful and so you feel you can disregard their demands? Whatever you decide, honestly ask yourself whether you want people to do the same to you.
Useful Questions and Hints:
What situation were you in with rent in the dream?
Can you justify your actions in the dream?
Do you feel fine about paying your way?
Is the demand too much?
See Understanding this Site – Secrets of Power Dreaming – Business and dreams – Emotions and Mood in Dreams
Reptile
Any reptile in your dreams may depict your surface feeling reactions to that creature, such as like or dislike, attraction or repulsion. But in many cases reptiles such as a snake or lizards are used to portray your very basic instinctive responses to life, such as the fear reaction, flight or fight response, the sexual drive toward reproduction, territorial display, and ritualistic social behaviour – shaking hands, bowing, etc.
The reptile also frequently shows how you are dealing with such enormous flows of emotional or nervous energy. For instance fear is a great protector, but in human life, because we can keep stimulating the response by imagination, by words, it can become overactive to the point of illness. A gazelle may be chased by a lion. If it escapes it doesn’t spend days shaking or drinking alcohol to cover its fear. In a few minutes it is quietly grazing. A human in such an encounter can replay it over and over.
The point is that you cannot become a fully mature human being until you learn to meet these ancient drives and integrate them into your everyday life. So it is important to develop a working relationship with the snakes, lizards and frogs in your dreams. Also the reptile in our dreams is often an expression of our physical makeup. See: Reptile Brain; Snake, Alligator, Frog.
Restaurant
Sociability, relaxation, friendship. Search for sustenance or strength, or ways of directing your life. Perhaps also a search for company or sexual partner, the nourishment of companionship.
Search for emotional or sexual satisfaction; hunger for company or sexuality. Because ones sociability might at times be a fear of being alone, might represent this. Also an experience of giving or receiving, and therefore to do with sustenance or revitalisation. See: Food.
Useful Questions and Hints:
What did I feel was the main points or feelings in the dream?
Was the restaurant about relaxing or about impressing people?
Did you plan to celebrate an event or being with someone?
Was alcohol a part of the meal?
See Alcohol – Eat Eating – Digest – Techniques for Exploring your Dreams – Questions
Rescue Rescued Rescuing
Intervention in your life by someone else’s action or emotions; something that changes the situation you are in, or changes mood. An intervention or action that has brought about a radical change in yourself, possibly from real psychological or even physical difficulty. It is worth defining what brought about the change, so you can use it in the future.
Being rescued can also mean that you were trapped by your own inner problems or attitudes and was rescued by your own higher self – your core self. See Core
Rescuing someone else, or an animal: This is an action you take to preserve something important inside yourself from being destroyed by common held attitudes or ways of life. For instance a sense of wonder and creativity can be destroyed or ‘drowned’ by materialistic or cynical viewpoints.
Rescued by animal: The supportive and loving action from the unconscious ‘animal’ level of oneself. See Animals in your Brain
Example: I am looking at a scene from the top of a cliff. There are large rocks sticking out of the sea at the bottom of the cliff. As I watch this scene a large black – wild? – horse charges towards the edge of the cliff. It carries on running, straight of the edge of the cliff. I am looking down the cliff to see where it will land. I lose sight of it but I am sure it will hit the rocks and be killed. Then I see it swimming straight out to sea. Sometimes it goes under a wave but its direction is strong. Suddenly I realise what the horse is doing. It has been trained to save lives. It had gone into the sea to rescue some people who would otherwise drown. Leon C.
The horse here represents the natural drives in ourselves we have harnessed for generations and made sociable, and lifted to a spiritual purpose.
Can also relate to one’s desire to do something admirable or noble, such as saving souls, helping someone in distress, and thus having power in life.
Rescuing someone of the opposite sex: Breaking the bonds of emotion, sexuality or dependence that tie us to parents or others.
Useful Questions and Hints:
Where you rescued or rescuer?
What was the situation you were rescued from or rescuing someone from?
Considering that all dream characters are created out of your own memories and feelings, what part of you was in trouble and was rescued?
See Being the Person or Thing – Dealing with Fear – Summing Up