Posts Tagged ‘dream analysis’

Scientist

Your analytical mind, an attempt to weigh and measure life, to discover its usefulness and how to apply it. May also symbolise an intellectual unfeeling attitude.

Creative rational mind; the drive or ability to analyse or intellectual curiosity. In some dreamers the scientist is the fear of rational critical people – or looking at oneself analytically; attempted insight into the unconscious through rational investigation.

The scientist represents a learned person, a discoverer, inventor, and developer of new ideas, experimentation and invention. In some people’s mind, the scientist also represents eccentricity and absentmindedness.

The scientist of your dream can indicate the power to bring about change or results – as when working with chemicals or great universal forces a scientist brings results.

Depending on the theme of the dream, a scientist might also indicate a great questioner, a quester for the truth. The scientist may mull the facts over, he may worry, but in principle what he has to do is wait to see what the results are.

Scientists do have personal ambitions, and like most human beings, scientists can be racist and hypocritical and can make bad moral choices in complex situations.

 Example: Joyce Armstrong came in looking a bit dishevelled and said she had discovered what God was, and said God was a tiny piece of metal in the womb that developed into a baby. There was a lot of coming and going in the bedroom after this. Then I got up and went into the garden. There was a white haired venerable man there who was a psychic researcher or psychic scientist. I told him what Joyce said, and he was going to look into it.

Example: As I arrived, I saw some very strange globes or ovoids, about eight to ten feet across, spreading across the water in formation. A scientist, with a very complicated large instrument was trying to analyse what these were. They were colourless, perhaps like an air bubble, but opaque and perhaps more solid, but fluid in movement. There were perhaps six or eight of these on the water. The question, not spoken, but felt, was, were they from outer space?

Something was released, but was the means to opening, for another power, or flow, from beyond myself, to come into me from the spheres. This flowed in, and I then slept in a deep peace that bathed all my body. There was a flowing feeling which received another power. The pleasure is the means for this other level of experience to flow in.

 

Scissors

Cutting remarks; cynicism; sharp tongue; anger; fear of or feelings about castration – female castration expresses in cutting off breasts – the cutting off of developing sexual characteristics in body and mind; sometimes refers to separation or independence – as in cutting umbilical cord. We can cut off or repress any aspect of our feelings or mind, so the scissors can depict this.  See: Castration.

Scissors used in hair cutting could suggest changes in you appearing by cutting out some thinking, or over thinking some things. See Hair

Cutting cord: Death; cutting something or someone out of one’s life; cutting off or cutting out feelings. It could also relate to the umbilical cord. Sometimes are shown in regard to separation or independence – as in cutting umbilical cord, or cutting someone out of your life. For some people the separation can indicate a death.  See Umbilical Cord

 Example: A girl suffering from anorexia told me a dream in which she was cutting off her own breasts with scissors. It takes little imagination to see the dream as portraying the development of her sexual traits – her breasts – and depicts her trying to rid herself of them. Perhaps she ‘cuts them off’ by not eating, and thus not giving her body and psyche enough energy and nourishment to mature. In the past, it would have been recommended that she give offerings to a goddess, thus aligning her with the unconscious archetype or power to become a woman. Such methods were the form of psychotherapy used by ancient cultures.

Example: I recently took three antidepressant pills over 6 days. During this time, I had dreams that my brain was being snipped with scissors. I also developed a large pimple between my eyes – the region of the third eye or crown chakra. And…my friend in Singapore developed a searing headache between her eyes (again the crown chakra) just after I took the third pill. When she called me to tell me about it, her headache automatically went away. All of this suggests to me that antidepressants cut off our third eye connection to our higher self or whatever spiritual connection exists.  Jan

Example: I had a dream that I was carrying a foetus inside me. My uterus was see-through, so I could see the foetus’ every movement which made me feel sick to my stomach. I loved the baby but it was a burden to me. The next thing I remember from the dream is that I was holding the baby, which was somehow still a foetus inside a bag of fluid. I cared for it, but suddenly realized that the bag was punctured and the baby was suffocating from the lack of fluid. When the fluid was completely drained from the bag, the bag got so tight that it was about to suffocate the baby. So I took scissors and cut it off, knowing the baby would die no matter what I did.

The dream tells me a story that the dreamer has been carrying a conflict inside of her. It is difficult to have conceived of this and yet it is creative act and yet a burden. Then she is ‘holding the baby’ and she realised that what she has taken so long on giving life to is suffocating. What it means is that she has taken a lot of time and bad feelings to bring this out of her to her awareness, and it is a conflict between love and being burdened. Is it about a risk she has taken with love?

 Example: The woman then went into a kind of transfiguration trance and seemed to become in turn, a native Indian, a midlands woman and an Aztec idol, all combined. I shook the short, stumpy hand of the green and yellow idol and the voice then told me that I should get my hair cut, not a lot, but trimmed just a little to tidy it up.  Then my husband apeared and got some scissors and in two or three snips had done the job, he did it very well and it seemed to suit me.

Useful Questions and Hints:

What is it you desire to cut out of your life?

Are you cutting away or releasing what is unnecessary in your life?

Do you feel cut off from others, or from yourself?

Have you something or someone that is influencing you and you wish to cut off from?

See Secrets of Power Dreaming – Meaning of Your Dream – Identity and dreams

Scorch

Anger, over-heated remarks or attitudes which may cause mental injury.

Scots

Careful, thoughtful, economical, but attempting to be just.

Scrape

To scrape something often shows the friction between two parts of your nature, or between you and someone else. So mainly this is friction of some sort, but can also be about trying to clean something, to scrape away or change the way it was – the way you were. Occasionally it deals with feelings about separating things.

It can sometimes relate to work, when we scrape earth away as an archaeologist or scraping earth back into a pit.

Idioms: scrape the bottom of the barrel; scrape by; scrape me off the ceiling; scrape them together; scrape them off

Useful Questions and Hints:

Am I scraping away (discarding) fears or old parts of myself?

Is this about friction within myself, or possibly with someone else?

Am I carefully uncovering something in me?

See Achaeology – Mines Mining – Accident Accidental Accidentally

Screw Screwed Screwing

Male sexuality; intercourse; security or mending something. It is often used in the sense of something being ‘screwed up’.

Screwing on can mean you are trying to stop a leak, prevent things from spoiling or fixing something. The screw advances as it turns.

Screwy can refer to crazy thoughts or being slightly mad.

Example: I had a sense that my mother wanted always to be in control. She couldn’t dare to let me be a man. What with being an infant mother to myself, then bringing myself up from six, followed by being the mother to my children, my male life has been truly screwed up. ‘I feel sad about me. In fact, I feel sad about all of us because of the injustice of life and the casualties we become. It’s called human life.

Example: A small leather strap is being screwed into my right side. It is decided not to install one on my left side. I look back in a while and the screw has come out. I take the strap off. Sam

The dreamer was working on a project and one worker was screwing things up. This constricted-strapped-the action and the monetary returns. Remember-right side is the action side. If he did not get his feelings (left side) screwed up, the project would undo itself! Sam hung in there and kept cool emotionally. The situation worked itself out.

 Example: We both briefly enter the open doorway of the porch together, then return to the yard. It’s then that I notice her thick lips with bright red lipstick. She says to me, “I have screwed everyone-” and I insert disbelievingly, “in the city?” She answers, “Yes, in the city. I have screwed one day a week every week.” My feeling is, “How could anyone go to bed with her since she’s so weird?”

The woman dreamer says, “I’d been putting off dealing with this question of femininity and escaping the responsibility of a marriage-type commitment; this was easy for me to do because of my youthful appearance. I could continue to avoid facing the responsibility of dealing with this new area of growth and remain comfortable and safe in my present casual friendships. But it was time now to grow up and accept the challenge of learning what it means to be a woman.

 Example: I was dreaming about my dog Tramp, and realised there is a “Tramp” in me that wouldn’t mind just having a non commitment passionate fuck. It seems to me that I have feelings of love for certain women, and I don’t feel that about this particular woman, and I don’t want to have to act it out. But I can feel in my body that I do need a really good screw.

Screw: Can refer to the propulsion of a boat. A power to move in water. Getting near it can suggest danger.

Idioms: Got a screw loose or missing; put the screw on someone; have a screw, or screw you; get screwed; screw up; screw me over; screwy

Useful Questions and Hints:

Is this a play on words for sex, as in ‘screw around’?

Does this imply something going wrong as in ‘screwing up’?

What feelings were felt or implied in the dream?

What do I think of with the word screw?

See Emotions and Mood – Getting at your Dreams Meaning – Energy Sex and Dreams – Avoid Being Victims

Scroll Scrolling

As can be seen from the examples, mention of a scroll in a dream suggest very important events in the inner life of the dreamer.

Dreaming of scrolls can indicate you have uncovered in yourself wisdom arising from your ancestral memories, or form your contact with the depths of your own consciousness. It might also ling with abilities unfolding in you like intuition, seeing more in life than what your senses usually show you, or knowledge that springs up without thinking. There may also be a link with quantum memory, what in past ages was called akashic records.

The scrolling example also highlights an important and amazing transformation.

 Example: I receive some news. I am in a room with many other people.  The local priest is present and hands me one of two scrolls.  When he hands one to me, I am a little bewildered, but open it just enough to see in old style calligraphy writing “The Last Will and Testament” these words are in red ink and the rest of the document is in black.  I do not read any more and fold up as I am surrounded by several other people.  I call the priests name, and as I do, he says, “do not read it yet” and I say “I didn’t, I know, the time is not right”.

Example: Me and on old friend of mine were standing in front of one in particular.  An old store that looked somewhat run down and withered.  It had a large display window in front showing strange random items used for rituals like scrolls and manuscripts.  We stepped inside and walked slowly toward the counter.  Inside of the shop were old book cases filled with books of all kinds and colors.  All of them from the look were hardback books.  On a table to the right of the counter were stacks of old papers and research tools like magnifying glasses.  We spoke to the clerk but I can’t remember what was said nor what the clerk looked like.  Only that he was old and wore dark clothing and we left.  When we got back outside I looked into the sky.  A large white shooting star shot across the sky and I felt a smile on my face.

But what did come alive and impress you was something alive and active in the universe you were created by. I think it points to a message of great importance for you.

 Example: The evening before she had the dream her boy friend had rung her up. C. was struggling to end the relationship. She said to him – Look, as far as I am concerned you are dead! That night she dreamt – She saw a scroll pinned up on the wall. The writing said ‘Adrian – her boyfriend – is dead.’ She felt shocked and could not believe it. She went off to look for him and found in a white plastic body bag. She could see his outline. He was gasping for breath, suffocating. She felt sad.

Example: Soon after the dream shifted to a computer screen and I was checking my emails. I was scrolling down the in box and then clicked on a message thinking ‘why didn’t I check this before?’ the message appeared with a picture of a huge bird and it looked like a Eagle (but the colour was white with a bluish/black outline) with its wings fully spread and moving as if the Eagle was flying; and there was a message underneath in tiny English letters which I read something similar to ‘ your life is going to transform’- I can’t remember the exact words but it was something similar to this and then I woke up.

Useful Questions and Hints:

Does the dream indicate any important ideas or realizations?

Where any new things shown to you?

What was the message of the dream?

See Meaning of Your Dream – The Inner World – Using Your Intuition – Being the Person or Thing – Life’s Little Secrets

Scrub

Unlike bathing or showering which are quite relaxing, scrubbing uses a lot of energy. It therefore shows that you are energetically cleansing something, maybe something in you that has got grimed in and so needs scrubbing off.

Scrub can also refer to low bushes, so suggests barriers that are usually easy to get through.

 Example: But mostly trying to figure out these dreams just makes me feel queasy and revolted. I’d really like to just scrub them from my memory entirely.

Example: I clear shelves and desks, removing utensils and garbage from them. I scrub the shelves. Others question why I’m putting so much effort into scrubbing these filthy shelves. I say that anything worth doing is worth doing well.

Useful Questions and Hints:

Am I working hard to clean up parts of my personality, or some other situation?

What is it that is being scrubbed?

Can I identify with what is being done in the dream?

See Life’s Little Secrets – Getting at your Dreams Meaning – The Two Powers

Scurf

Ideas, opinions, thoughts.

Sea Ocean

Life began in the sea, at the depths. Our blood is salt in the same degree as the ancient sea, and thus we have an inner sea. In your dreams it represents the universal and fundamental processes of life in you.

Awareness of these processes are not easily accessible to your conscious mind, but are nevertheless constantly influencing you and what you do. When you do at times have some consciousness of this level of yourself, it is often experienced as a huge ocean of mind, the collective unconscious as Jung called it. It feels like nature’s memory, where all experience is stored. So in your dreams about the sea, you may be accessing some aspect of this immensity, stretching from today to the primeval depths of your existence.

Most of the activities that underlie our physical and mental life are beyond our awareness. For an immensely important period of development your being existed in a pre-conscious, pre-verbal state as it grew from the single cells of sperm and ovum to the foetus and new born child. But even after birth there was a timeless period before speech and self-awareness were achieved. Therefore a great deal of your experience and drives lie outside of, or underneath, the clear conceptualisations gained with speech, and your sense of self. Occasionally something – an ache in the chest, a strange emotion that unsettles you – may emerge into consciousness, then disappear. See Wild Side

The sea, with its surface and hidden depths, lends itself to depicting this human experience of known and unknown regarding yourself. The enormity of the sea is also a visible image of the enormity of your own inner world – much of it unknown and lying in pre-birth or pre-speech – and also the relationship you have with the processes underlying your existence, that you exist by yet know so little about. The sea holds vast treasures, curiosities, and your history. Not simply because life emerged from the sea, or your blood is as salt as the ancient sea, but because so many ships and shorelines are now beneath the waves. Sometimes these can be recovered, and this too is an image reflecting your relationship with your own deeps.

Therefore the sea may depict a strange environment in which you might have no skill in surviving; something new or strange that confronts you; the boundary between unconscious and conscious; the processes and the origins of your life; the wisdom, still unverbalised because locked in process rather than insight, of your existence; source of the huge life drives, such as that urging you toward independence, mating and parenthood; a symbol of infinite energy, potential or consciousness, in which human existence is only a tiny part; The waves of experience we face in life, some acceptable, some threatening.

Although some writers say the sea may represent one’s mother, and the situation one meets in becoming independent of her, it is probably better to think of the sea representing the state of being and awareness we emerged from in our mother’s womb. That is, a non striving, non demanding existence in which our needs were usually met without a personal struggle or without any defined sense of self. Therefore a sinking into the sea could be seen as a sinking back into this loss of personality or personal striving and independence. A struggle to survive could be partly a difficulty with existing by one’s personal effort and work – the difficulty of ‘keeping one’s head above water’ in life and being independent. See Individuation

Going under the sea: Remember we were conceived and grew in the waters of our mother’s womb, and amount of salt in our blood is the same as that in the ancient sea at the time life began as single celled creatures. So, it suggests bringing internal contents to consciousness; remembering the womb experience; letting our ego surrender a little; looking at death.

Also it shows that we, our conscious self, has entered more deeply into the enormous depths of our consciousness; we have literally dipped below the level of our conscious self. See My Body is a Moving Sea

If there is a sense of hugeness or depth: Going beyond the boundaries of experience usually set up by our conscious self or ego. See Our Reaction to meeting the Huge that we Are

Learning to swim: Learning to survive in a new environment, such as happens when we emerge from childhood into adult sexual drives, or the school or work environment. At such times anxiety or uncertainty may threaten to engulf us just as it does when we learn to swim. Dealing with life needs us to be able to meet such feelings without turning back. See: swimming.

 Rescued from the sea: See: air sea rescue.

Sea shore: This is similar to beach if you are on the shoreline, the border between everyday life and your unconscious sources of motivation energy and life. But if you are looking at the beach from a distance, it could suggest a different way of life, somewhere you haven’t reached yet, or are leaving behind. So it could depict change or somewhere you are trying to get to or reach.

 Example: I dreamt I am standing on a steep hillside that slopes into the sea. I look across the sea, and the air is so clear I can see the far coast twenty miles away with amazing clarity. In fact, it is so clear it seems to me I can see every detail of a rocky cove across the water. The clarity amazes me and it seems the cove is only a few hundred yards away. It stands out with all its many colours. I find it so impressive I want to run back to get my camera. I hesitate from doing this though because I wonder if the scene will disappear.

I explored this dream many times but I could not get a clear insight into what the beach arose from in my experience. Then, with the help of a friend, I reached it. When I came to exploring the beach again, at first it seemed as subtle and unreachable as ever. Then I began to define what I was as the beach – a meeting place for water, earth, air and sun – earth, air, fire and water. But the beach is not any one of them. It changes with the seasons and with the action of storms, of erosion and temperature. It isn’t the air, or the sea or the earth. It changes yet stays the same – the beach. Suddenly I felt this in myself, saying, “I am not anything. I change yet am unchanged. I am all things but nothing.” This gave me a very powerful sense of my own eternal spirit underlying all the changes of my body and personality. Robert.

The shore/beach can therefore also depict the spirit that underlies all things. This is because if you were to say what a beach is, you could not say the sea was the beach, or the sky, or the land. None of them separately is the beach. The beach is the indefinable amalgam of them all. In just that way the spirit is the indefinable everything that underlies the particulars of life.

Tide: Rising and falling of feelings such as love, pleasure or sexuality; may refer to ageing when going out; tide in our affairs. See: beach; fish; water.

Tidal wave: Any release of emotional or sexual energy. The reason this image is used is that when we feel enormous release of emotions such as might happen when we fall in love, have a baby, or are publicly condemned, our ego often feels carried along by the experience rather than in control.

But huge waves cause many people enormous fear or terror. Often this is because of a past experience such as attack or rape. But dreams are not simply replays of the awful emotions, but are ways you can meet and transform them into healing. See Tsunami; Life’s Little Secrets; Secrets of Power Dreaming; Summing Up

We may have learned how to ride such waves as surfers do. This requires confidence, daring and balance. If we can do it we can open ourselves to much greater range of feeling or change than if we felt threatened. Even happiness may be repressed due to feeling threatened. Anxiety or depression is one of these enormous waves that may threaten to engulf us, and so is one of the human conditions the tidal wave represents. Yet if we face it and meet it can be an enormously transformative influence. See Yoga in Dreaming.

 As a tsunami it is saying that some tremendous change has happened deep in you and in the world. Tsunamis are caused by earthquakes on the sea bed, or massive earh changes. So many people are dreaming about them at the moment because of the enormous change going on around us and within us. So learn to face them without fear and be ready to meet change in your life and in your family.

 Example: I could see in the distance a Tsunami coming towards us. I found Collette to tell her, and we went to see if we could find a way out for everyone. At the back of the building there was an open area that had an opening with big rocks like a gully, Collette and I agreed it was a way out. Collette went to get the others but as she did my arm went over the boundary and my hand felt water and I knew it was too late. I went to tell Collette. I felt fear and acceptance that there was nothing I could do.

Working on this dream with Tony who invited me to be the Tsunami, which I did.

As the Tsunami I felt expansions in myself wider higher boundless, full of charged energy. Staying with what I was sensing I felt my attention was drawn to something pushing from behind me. I followed that sensation of what was pushing me and it went down my body and continued to go down deep into the earth like a root. As this continued the image came to mind of being in an umbilical cord. I was it and in it and I felt sick between my throat and belly.

Staying with what was happening I felt a black tar like substance, it felt like it lined part if the inside of the cord and it was thick and dense. I felt it was something I had been dealing with all my life and it felt like it came from my mother, but as I became aware of that thought I knew that it went a long way back, ancestral or beyond. I felt emotional, staying with the image the dense heavy blackness, something started to move in my belly, a bubble type ball of energy came out from the blackness into my hands and it felt like I was like a baby inside.

Holding the energy bringing it out up my body, then it was taken back in through my mouth, like eating my own tail, a complete circle moving slowing down my body transforming the blackness as it went.

I became the Tsunami again and it I saw that it was like an LSD trip, levels of attachments of what you identify with; like being in a room but you are not a room. Having things in the room, but they are not you having emotional attachment to them, but you are not those emotions and it washed away what we/I am attached to, letting go of stories of my self, because I am not the story, but have lived through it. I am the energy of the Tsunami, the energy of everything. As I made my way home I felt very much in the moment, with waves of people of all colours, cultures, shapes and sizes. On the bus the conversations, behaviours I noticed, I could see myself in it all buildings cars traffic lights all connected.

Waves: Impulses, feelings and emotions, such as sexuality, anxiety, anger. Waves can also indicate an impulse such as life in one that has its beginnings from a mysterious source.

 Example: ‘My husband, and I were standing looking at the sea’s surface. It was just falling night. I saw a mass of dark shapes, thought it would be a school of fish. Then we were looking at water birds, maybe ducks, again dark shapes as the light had almost gone. Then there was a hole in the sea, like a belly button, I was wondering what it was, how was it being made, was there something under the water? Something very big was coming up to the surface very close to me. It shot me to wake.’ Ginny Q.

Ginny and her husband had been exploring the content of their dreams. The image of the sea shows Ginny sensing there are enormous depths to her own being, and something big – a previously unconscious complex of insights and feelings – is becoming conscious.

 Example: ‘A small speed boat was at sea. But the sea dissolved anybody who fell in. One man fell in but held himself together as a blob of water and jumped back to the speedboat. I remember the words ‘The sea is a great solvent’.’ Tim P. 

Tim is aware of his unconscious sense of being a part of the huge ocean of life or energy. In it one might lose sense of identity. In the end, identity is ‘held together’ by one’s own belief in oneself.

 Example: ‘I am either standing at the edge of the sea or near, when suddenly enormous tidal waves appear in the distance and are coming closer. I know they will engulf me, I turn and run away. Sometimes they do overtake me, other times I wake up.’ Mrs A. V.

We can run from pleasure and wider insight, just as much as from pain or fear.

On the first night I slept with my present wife when she fell asleep I noticed she struggled with her breathing. While she was still asleep I spoke to her suggesting she would relax and allow her breathing to be easy. Within moments she responded. This encouraged me and I suggested her whole body would relax, and the barriers within her dissolve, allowing healing and well-being to be experienced. Within ten minutes she suddenly awoke and told me a dream.

She was at the rear of a house sunbathing with her family, feeling very relaxed and happy. As she sank into the enjoyment waves, like a tidal waves began to roll up her body. The pleasure was so intense she couldn’t take any more and woke up.

Idioms: All at sea; plenty more fish in the sea; lost at sea; stranger things happen at sea; between the devil and the deep blue sea.

Useful Questions and Hints:

Does the sea represent the great collective unconscious and all the information we have at hand for the asking?

Is this about potential for creativity?

The emotions felt in in dreams are the real stuff underlying the images, what do they portray?

See Quick way to understand dreams – Life’s Little Secrets – Street Wisdom – People’s Experience of LifeStream

 

Seal Sealed

A seal is a trust, a security or promise, a sign of integrity, which we can abuse or use as a power. It depicts the emergence into your conscious life of your deepest instincts and life energies – in Eastern terminology the kundalini, for our centers of perception may be sealed, so not usable..

For seal, as in a stamp or design – it suggests authority or permission. It can also represent a person or their influence, power, or lack of it.

Example: In a very real sense a nightmare is a symbolic presentation of an original situation full of important information. But it has got hermetically sealed within layers of resistances or defences – basically fear, avoidance of pain, and feelings of threat.

Sealed in that sense means something difficult to alter or deal with. For instance, something that has sealed a relationship, like giving a ring.

Lips can be sealed, by not speaking about a secret.

See: seal under fish and sea creatures.

 

Sea Lion

See Seal.

Seam

Connections with others, showing the strength or weakness of what holds you together. The strength of beliefs or convictions, and so the weak point of attitudes or philosophy.

If you are sowing or in some creating a seam, it suggests you are bringing two or more things or people together inempt to make it permanent. Or if you are making a seam to mend something, it shows work you are doing to heal an injured part of your life.

In geological terms, it indicates that you have found a rich area of your inner digging/searching or archaeological searching. See Archaeologist Archaeology

 Example: James Mason and I are in the back seat of a car. He kisses me and pinches my left nipple. I’m sexually excited. I say, “But people can see.” An older woman is standing outside the car. He insists. I put on a pretty, brief pleated skirt with see-through lace seams and a turquoise velour top. He leans back in the car and says in a whisper in my ear, “Take off your panties.” I feel sexually excited. I do so. I get out of the car, noticing I can see flashes of my legs through the lace. He is possessive and demanding and I love it.

Example: Of course, eventually it is all going to fall apart. We try to maintain the validity of that false self with all sorts of methods, everything from alcohol, antidepressants, hard drugs to calming meditation. Our medical fraternity are overwhelmed by people whose lives are falling apart – perhaps even their bodies. In fact, they are being asked to patch up something that really do need to come apart at the seams. What we actually need is some sort of wise support as we gradually dismantled this pseudopod, this false self. R.D. Laing had the right idea is suggesting that we need to help people, to give them an environment in which this can take place. Our real self is very often still at the emotional level of babyhood in its development, and for many people that is a terrifying prospect, to regress to that sort of vulnerability. As it says in the new Testament, “Except you become as little children, you cannot enter the kingdom of heaven.” See Beware of Love

Idioms: coming apart at the seams.

 Useful Questions and Hints:

Is the seam one you have created?

Does it appear strong or coming apart?

What sort of seam is it?

See The Slow Breath – The Inner World – Techniques for Exploring your Dreams

Seance

Considering that dreams can create, even while awake, visions and powerful experiences, as shown by drugs such LSD, psilocybin, also meditation techniques, a séance can create situations which promote altered states of consciousness. These states can frequently allow people to access levels of mind that are usually unconscious, allowing the person to reach creative solutions and contact the dead. See ASC

An example is given by Dr Grof as he was treating a young man using LSD as therapeutic tool to deal with depression.

 Example: “In one particularly unnerving session a young man suffering from depression found himself in what seemed to be another dimension. It had an eerie luminescence, and although he could not see anyone he sensed that it was crowded with discarnate beings. Suddenly he sensed a presence very close to him, and to his surprise it began to communicate with him telepathically. It asked him to please contact a couple who lived in the Moravian city of Kromeriz and let them know that their son Ladislav was well taken care of and doing all right. It then gave him the couple’s name, street address, and telephone number.

The information meant nothing to either Grof or the young man and seemed totally unrelated to the young man’s problems and treatment. Still, Grof could not put it out of his mind. “After some hesitation and with mixed feelings, I finally decided to do what certainly would have made me the target of my colleagues’ jokes, had they found out,” says Grof. “I went to the telephone, dialled the number in Kromeriz, and asked if I could speak with Ladislav. To my astonishment, the woman on the other side of the line started to cry. When she calmed down, she told me with a broken voice: ‘Our son is not with us any more; he passed away, we lost him three weeks ago.’”

Of course, it doesn’t mean that any person who claims they can go into trance can actually enter waking lucid dreaming. Many people claim to and can earn money by looking or acting as if they can contact the dead. See The Waking Lucid Dream – Edgar Cayce

But dreaming of being at or running a séance usually indicates or suggests a desire or ability to contact the dead. It can indicate intuitive knowledge, repressed desires, or unconscious wishes. It might also link with parts of yourself that are dead or you killed in some way. But also links with the unknown, the irrational, the dead. See Dreaming of Death – Near Death Experiences – Rudolph Steiner’s Philosophy of Life and Death – The Archetype of Death – Journeying Beyond Dreams and Death

Search Searched Searching

Usually indicates an attempt to find something or someone. Maybe you are looking for a past way of life – like wanting to have childhood with its lack of responsibilities. Or perhaps you search for a lover, even from the past.

Some searching is about your attempts to find an answer to a pressing problem, a search for your identity or meaning in a particular setting.

It may of course be that you feel you have lost something – youth, sexual appeal, creativity, or motivation. 

Example: She says, ‘I am walking with another girl (Who seems to be a shadowy replica of myself) outside the studio. Some young men who also work at the studio are following behind us, calling out to us and joking. I say to the girl, “If they ask us to have a drink with them when we pass this public house we will accept, but if they don’t, we’ll just keep walking.”

The young men, however, do not ask us to join them. The girl turns back, but I keep on walking. I go down a subway station at Chancery Lane (near where I work) with the intention of going to Oxford Street. (Oxford Street symbolises Life to me.) I board a tube train. It is quite crowded with young girls, who look rather like myself. Suddenly, a charming, softly spoken woman of about mid-thirty (my age in fact) appears and tells us that we are all required to take part in a film. In fact, we have no choice, as our carriage is being driven off to a huge building. We are all ushered into a large room. There is a rather unpleasant man who seems to be the director. In the middle of the room is an enormous iron wheel, and on the end of each spoke is an iron chair, into which, one by one the “victims” from the train are being clamped by iron bands around the arms and throat. I get a distinct feeling of fear and distrust in spite of the charming woman’s efforts to reassure me. She says, “You will be released when the film is shot.” I do not believe her, and look around for some means of escape.

Meanwhile, my turn to be clamped into the chair is coming very close. The other girls seem to give no feeling of fear, they are submitting to the ordeal like sheep going to the slaughter. I am still aware that in the background the sadistic man is gloating about the whole thing. I make a frantic dash to the doorway. Outside there are tunnels leading in every direction. I run down one only to find the end is blocked by an iron gate, through which, grinning at me maliciously, is a ticket collector. I turn and run down another tunnel and suddenly find myself running along the top of the train in which I had arrived. It is stationary. I peer down when I see a group of young people walking along a street which is parallel to the train. They are dressed in “trendy” clothes, but their eyes are devoid of any expression and their gestures are mechanical. They are walking straight into a cul-de-sac. I decide not to join them; and turn to look the other way. A group of young children and some adults are playing in the street, yet everything is silent and dim. A man is leering at them. The buildings all around are high, dark and poor looking. I manage to bypass them all and find myself looking at a beach scene. Groups of people are sunbathing and playing on the beach. Yet again I am struck by the lifeless and mechanical actions and their expressionless eyes, as if they are living yet dead. I suddenly get a glimpse of the sea beyond them. It is beautiful, alive, moving, a translucent emerald green. The sun is sparkling on it. It is the only alive thing I have seen on my travels. I long to get to it. I will get to it, and drown myself in its purity and beauty. I start to make my way towards it when sand dunes build up before me, making the journey difficult. The sand slips under my feet, but I struggle on. Suddenly, out of the crowd, a matronly woman comes after me, trying to drag me back, saying, “You shall not escape.” I feel anything is better than living like the “puppet-like” people on the beach, and I make a frantic effort to escape her clutches and break away and enter the sea, quite happy to know I will die there.’

The dream beautifully illustrates a person searching for meaning and a life that is an expression of her own real self, not simply living out of social rituals and programming. The sea in dreams often represents the core of life within you. See Core – looking

 Idioms: Searched high and low; a searching look; search me.

Searchlight

Concentration; insight. Trying to understand or realise something by using meditation and concentration. The search for something. Trying to understand and make conscious. Focusing attention on what is revealed in your recent life.

A spot of concentrated awareness on certain memories or experiences. The darkness around the spot of light is the massive amount of our experience or potential still remaining dark/unconscious.

Useful Questions and Hints:

What did the searchlight reveal?

Do you have felt responses to what is highlighted?

What is still hidden in the darkness?

See Torch – Being the Person or Thing – Summing Up – Questions