Posts Tagged ‘dream analysis’

Seat

See: Chair.

Seasons

Most of us have been raised to see the seasons as an external event. Even the Christians who continue the ancient rituals have the same feeling. Yet we know very well, if only unconsciously, that we are a product of nature, the Earth and its seasons. We are all influenced by the cycles of growth and death, and yet we usually fail to sense the seasons as an almighty influence within us.

Also, we are unconscious of being a part of nature in the sense of knowing as our own experience the enormous influence the seasons have on our inner life, and the power we could get from acknowledging them.

All of these inner influences are depicted graphically in the Christian Festivals. Usually we see them as about historical dramas regarding Jesus, but thy are in fact an amazing dramatic presentation of the influence of the Earth upon us all. They represent the times or periods of one’s life.

The seasons of each year have a marked inner effect upon us, and they also repeat to us over and over the periods and phases of our life. In spring, every growing thing forms new and energetic growth – as in our own childhood, unless it is blighted in some way.

The summer period of human growth is typified as the fertile and flowering period, which carries on to the forming of seeds and offspring. In a sense, we become a garden in which plants flower and form seeds.

Autumn is a period of almost quiet rest after the amazing power of Spring and Summer. It is a time of harvest and also a turning point, as many plants trees get ready for winter, and so a great change occurs.

Winter, a seeming death of so much, but under the surface enormous preparation is happening. The old life, the past has been taken in as leaves and foliage, and has become fertiliser for the new year’s growth, the new life following from the past – the many pasts, for seeds or the survivors of the winter have in fact carried the experience from the beginning of life. And that experience is held in readiness for another season and its experiences.

Useful Questions and Hints:

What season appeared in your dream, and what feelings were involved?

Was it a difficult, cold, stormy, or happy season?

Was there a lesson to learn about your life from the season dreamt of?

See: Spring; Summer; Autumn; Winter – The Inner World

Seaweed

Developments, ideas or concepts that have formed in the unconscious, and have come to mind ready made. An intuitive answer to a problem. Inner tangle of feelings. It can also suggest being able to move with the tide of events and feelings, or being entangled in something arising from within. Can also be food. A tremendous fertiliser for growing things

Something unseen and hidden touching your foot – so a shock or fear.

Example: While looking at the seaweed on the beach this morning, I remembered a dream. All the seaweed I had put on the compost had rotted and had been put in the ground. Now there was a marvellous crop of tomatoes. The plants were really weighed down with fruit, that was nearly ripe enough to pick. I told a man who was with me he could start picking as soon as the tomatoes were ripe.

 

Useful Questions and Hints:

What way where you relating to the seaweed in the dream?

Were you observing its movement, gathering it or entangled in it?

Were you swimming in it?

See Settings in Dreams – What is the main action in the dream? – Water Wonderland

Secret

Something known inwardly, but not yet recognised outwardly. You may know at heart that someone does not care for you, but because you so badly want them to, you may refuse to recognise this.

Secretary

The other woman and also the practical business side of self-supporting creative action. The secretary has the cliché image of the ‘other woman’ – or perhaps in today’s world, the ‘other man’. There might even be a play on power between a secretary love and boss – is the power in the authority or the sexual drive?

The secretary also indicates the background of activity upon which creative work can take place. She or he depicts the orthodox aspects of you that lend a hand in the development of the creative or transformative aspects of you.

For many people this is an indication of work and feelings about it. In some dreams the secretary can indicate a loving and caring influence, someone who has useful information and abilities. Also a secretary can act as a filter or block against contact or communication with the Boss – the Core.

 Example: I was interviewed for a job as a secretary for this college professor who has a terrible reputation as a womanizer who “feeds” on the young college girls. I am a sophisticated, together woman in white high heels and a business suit. I am also beautiful and tailored. BS

Example: The male sex drive is such a mechanism. Looking for a younger woman is partly mechanical. Do we have to mechanically go along with it? Yet it moves so many people. There is the big director trying to be so important, and in comes the secretary and he can’t help looking at her legs and breasts. The thrill in the belly, the hunger deep down to touch that soft warm young body.

 

Sedative

Sleeping pills may represent attempts to cover up worries, fears, anxieties, painful emotions and thoughts. An attempt to push them into the unconscious. Something, an influence, that is putting you to sleep.

Seed

In dreams seeds often represent your sperm or ovum; one’s children or feelings about one’s children; hopes for children; the collected influence and experience of the past; a new idea arising out of past experience; a suggestion; a possibility or potential; something that can emerge in your life. 

A single cell, which is a seed from which all life forms evolved from, doesn’t become old or die because it is immortal, for it keeps dividing and doesn’t die. In dividing it constantly creates copies of itself, but as it does  so it gathers new experience, it changes what is copied, so becomes the ‘seed’ for multi-cellular organism. We all started from the original one cell, and we, you and I,  are the result of gathered experience.

No plant or creature grows from a dead seed, and each living seed carries within it all the past gathered from all its forebears. So, the seed in your mother’s womb is as old as and even older than human kind, and you carry that wisdom or memories in you. But in this life you developed a new brain, and the memories, education and programming you gathered this time are what you built your personality from, but beneath that is a very ancient self. Finding this very ancient self, hidden as it is by all your personal thinking and opinions, you find you are free from all the painful emotions, suicidal urges and personal hurts. To explore it see Opening to Life

From Krysia garden

As adults we believe we are complete and whole. But what I sense is that we are only a phase, and out of us can emerge another being, carrying forward into a different sort of existence, all that can arise  from you. A seed is a return to the source of life and it/our beginnings under the sun. Consciousness on our planet started in the slime of creation, the slime we return to, to procreate. And from that slime which is a vehicle for our seed to exist in, our awareness goes through the whole process of evolution as we develop in mother;s womb, the dividing of cells, the forming of structure and organs, the creation of a creature with gills, and on to a human type form ready to breathe air, carrying your seed onwards.

As an egg and sperm we are tiny single celled creatures. The next two stages of development as the cells increase in size and number resembles the activities found in many simple living things such as plants. The twenty day old embryo develops four brachial grooves, which in the embryo of a fish grow into gills. At this point the formative forces which produce a fish are active, as were the formative forces of a plant at an earlier stage. These are then supplanted by forces which bring about features of the potential mammalian upright animal we could be. See Programmed 

Imagine if a sperm or ovum thought it was a finished form. Of course it would in one sense be correct. It might be a healthy and well formed sperm or ovum. As such it is complete, whole. But put together the sperm and ovum, and suddenly they die to what they were. Their previous form perishes. Out of all they were emerges another form entirely, the foetus. Now supposing the foetus believes it is a complete and finished form. The same applies. It is only a stage, and perishes to emerge as something quite different, a separated, breathing and eating being. That is ourselves.

As one textbook states, “A human is not constructed like a modern office building, as cheaply and efficiently as possible. . . but rather like an ancient historic edifice to which wings and sections were added at different times and which was not modernised until it was almost completed.” See Levels of the Brain

Example: A seed is a potential. In the case of the seed, the potential holds certain inherited factors. As I have said, it is the reappearance of a previous seed, with padded experience. The potential alone however, cannot express, it needs a limiting (not too limiting, in fact, but nurturing) condition to direct its potential. Also, and unless it brings something different into the nurturing, limiting condition, it becomes one with that condition. I think it is obvious what this means in human terms. When the seed is planted, it brings with it first of all the huge dark potential, and also inherited factors. The inherited factors consist of the physical body of the seed, which is what the dark potential has realised of itself in its contact with matter, and the possibility of change built upon what has already been realised.

“There’s no way of knowing. Perhaps an ancient oak tree – Yet barely to my waist. Shaped and stunted by harsh onshore winds, by the salt and the rock. It is clinging and growing to the very shape of the wind, and stunted,as you or I might be, by circumstances of our birth, or events – by the enormous onshore winds that shaped this oak tree. Yet it is still a magnificent oak tree. Just as you or I, at our core, are magnificent human beings.”

As the plant grows from the seed, it emerges out of what already exists. It cannot, as human consciousness tries to do, emerge out of what does not exist in itself or in its surroundings. The differentiated elements of itself are fused into a new entity by the power of growth. This power of growth, or as we have called it, potential, must exist, as the plant proves its presence. As has already been said, it matters little whether this is a cosmic or chemical principle. It is present.

Example: For some time, I was still, as in the womb. I was a sphere around the spark of life, my sexual feeling. All my experience at this time seemed to be internal. It was as if I had passed through all my pains, right back to the very spark or germ of my being. This I offered to the unseen, to the Invisible Life within me, from whence the spark had arisen. I acknowledged its source. From there on I was a seed, a small grain of wheat, and my penis was a germ. As I relinquished myself to the Invisible Intangible Life, the germ began to spread its roots through the rest of my being, which was like a food store. As the wheat germ now grew with life in it, my arms and legs became roots spreading out over the Earth. My body uncurled and I jerked slowly open into the spread-eagle position, my penis being the growing stem.

Example: I began to feel afraid, for having fallen deep into myself, I felt that if I dropped any further back I would cease to exist. Then I knew the fear was unnecessary as every time we go to sleep we drop back into the condition where we lose any sense of personal existence, yet we emerge none the worse the next day. So, I let myself drop.

Suddenly I was aware that something held me. It was the process that had grown me from seed in the first place. My ego had not created me or grown me. But now this deep part of me was unfolding me again, like a plant opening. I understood that we each have this force at our centre, and as I watched it working in my body and life, it seemed to communicate with me. This felt like a holy gift, that the mystery of life would live in me.

See Seed Meditation 

Self I Myself

The way we appear, or do not appear in a dream, represents our relationship to, opinions of, and hopes for self.

The struggle for Identity

The image we have of our self in our dreams shows the struggle we have with who we think we are. It is the way we gain identity. In this struggle. this adventure – very like the Odyssey – we meet all manner of creatures, people, demons, temptations. We travel into dark places, climbs to the heights of wondrous experience, discover magical powers. One of the functions of dreams can therefore be thought to be that of aiding the survival of our identity in facing the multitude of influences in life – and even in death.

Dreams show us that our personality is a small thing that only includes a small part of what we are. In Jung’s portrayal of the self, our ego is only a small part of us, the complete sphere depicts our Whole.

The Search for Self:

Some dreams are about showing us who we are. Such dreams may at times seem puzzling because they lead us into into uncertainties and a sort of void. To understand this better see The Archetype of the  Self:  Void  – Archetype of the Void – Dream Example 3 – 

Sell Selling Sold

This sometimes links with a difficult parting or loss, as for instance selling a house. In this case it might point to change, or feelings about change. It can also reflect business or financial concerns, positive or negative. Selling or buying may also refer to your contact with the world in general, the hustle and bustle, the commerce of life, the commercial instincts, and the unsympathetic mob.

Some dreams about selling or buying are about your work, and can be intuitions about the market or opportunities. Selling and buying is, after all, about exchange, and that is a fundamental aspect of all life forms, so your inner self is very involved with the opportunities you might meet and how you deal with them.

In recent times, although the age old techniques are still used to induce or push people to become shopaholics, an enormous amount of research has been undertaken to define exactly how human beings, and of course animals, can be changed or manipulated. After all, such information is incredibly important to religious and political organisations, and to businesses who wish to induce people to buy or use their products. This has given rise to such varied approaches as physical and mental intimidation, brain surgery, brainwashing, electric shock therapy, drug use, subtle advertising and propaganda, the use of suggested fear in order to sell or induce.

Being sold to: Deciding what you want and what you will ‘pay’ for it in your life. If you make a living from buying and selling, then the dream would perhaps relate to your work and opportunity.

Buying: This often indicates some level of choices being made, decisions faced, and 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.

Buying a bargain: Feelings of capability.

Purchased from: Success or failure to succeed, depending on whether the sale is mad. May also indicate change, as when one sells a car or house. See: sell; shopping.

You the seller: If you dream you are the seller, you need to consider what it is you are offering, and what does its value is to you. Are there issues of buying and selling, or how to make a living in life, or desires for profit in some area of your life.

Selling yourself: It can show in the way you use someone else’s need for or dependence on you – whether you are male or female – to manipulate, extract money from, or abuse them. It is actively involved when you sell yourself out.

Selling yourself out also means going along with the materialistic view so predominant in our times. Life only leads to death, so what the hell does it matter what I do, who I hurt or maim, so long as my own interests are served – type of attitude. What will it cost me to stand up for what I believe in or love?

 Useful questions and hints:

Are you buying or selling?

If selling what is it you hope to get a reward from and what associations do you have with it?

If buying what is it you want, and what does that suggest about you?

What are you doing at the auction?

Semen

Essence of masculinity; the sense of one’s personal identity, but also the potential one has as an individual. Thus the withholding of sperm in the dream might be the non-giving of self, warmth, emotion, bonding.

During ‘wet dreams’, often experienced by adolescent males, there is involuntary emission of semen. But women and girls also produce an emission when aroused but without the vital seeds.

This indicates not only the power of co-operation in pregnancy, but also all the immense influence and background that lies behind a human birth. It can be the germ of an idea, or the wonderful potential behind life. It is sometimes used in dreams to suggest energy. It can also be an image of the duality of life and the need to combine in a symbiotic relationship to unfold innate qualities. Thousands of generations of experience lie latent in the sperm and ovum. It is also eternal in that although the body carrying it dies, the sperm, if it passes on in reproduction, carries on living. It therefore has an unbroken life back to the beginning of life on our planet – and maybe beyond.

It can therefore represent your whole long history, all your forebears in the male line, all your potential for the future. See Ancestors

But it can also figure in dreams connected with intuitions about pregnancy, desire to be pregnant, or fear of it.

In another sense the sperm is the carrier or messenger of love that ignites the process of life as it gives itself entirely to the ovum – like cupid’s arrow penetrating the heart. As such it is the waters of life flowing out from a man to those he loves. If it does not flow with love, it is in some way a gift of sickness.

Example: I laugh. By now we’ve agreed he and I are sleeping together alone, but just as plutonic friends. We cuddle and giggle like teens. I feel something wet on my nightgown and realize it is semen emission, either leakage or he had an orgasm. We both start giggling uncontrollably like teens in a library. It’s so ironic that we’ve agreed to be friends, and sleep together and then he has an emission.

Example: My lover had masturbated while sleeping in our bed and as I saw that he had done it quite openly, I felt hurt and frustrated. He was marvelling at all the semen that was all over his side of the bed. I felt that I didn’t mind if he didn’t want to have intercourse with me because it did make him feel very drained the next day, but if he were masturbating it was the same end result surely, so why not with me? Was there another reason that he wouldn’t tell me. I jumped out of bed and went into the kitchen, trying to be ill in the sink so he would come and comfort me, but I could see I was playing a game, so went back to bed and started to hit him on the chest with my closed fists, telling him how I felt.

Example: One female patient could never understand her curious urge to be filled with semen until through this fantasy she discovered that she was led not by sexual desire but by oral greed, and the liquid she required was not semen but milk.

See: Seed.

Septic

Infected by an opinion or fear.

Seven

The symbol of seven is the Triangle above the square. It relates to the cyclic expressions of time in the cosmos and in man’s life. It is an outer expression of an inner spiritual principle. Thus at seven a child loses its milk teeth, at fourteen develops sexuality, at twenty-one enlarges the faculties unfolded in the teens, at twenty-eight stabilises them etc.

There are said to be seven centres within our body, which are powerful functions that are also sense organs. As such they act on our body and personality. They are expressions of different levels of consciousness, and different forces or principles, such as growth, reproduction, and sensation. Thus it represents the influence upon the physical, of the invisible rhythms within us, the cosmic keyboard of harmonic vibrations or energies.

The zodiacal sign is Libra the manager. It rules the kidneys, and the seventh house rules marriage. Seven is the number of initiation, and there are seven colours in the spectrum, seven notes in music. See: Dimensions of Human Experience – Energy Sex and Dreams – Kundalini – Numbers.

Sew Sewing

Creating a new attitude; changing old habits; healing a hurt, or tear in a relationship if mending.

Because most of us have been torn at some time in life, and because many people experience great innrt conflicts, a tearing insude creating division, we might well sew togther what has been rent asunder.

Apart from mending, sewing is also about attachment, joining one thing to another, so can portray what is happening in parting or coming together, or trying to connect.

Sewing can also be creative, and so can show you creating something or perhaps having creative insights or ideas.

See: Darn.

Sewage

See: Cesspool.

Sex

Sexual dreams usually express hidden desires; the way we would like to express sexually, or problems in this area. Although sex is symbolised in many dreams, where it appears directly it shows that the dreamer is able to more easily accept their sexual urges and hurts. What is then important is to attempt an understanding of what setting or drama the sexual element occur in. Our psychological and sexual nature, like our physical, never stand still in development unless a pain or problem freeze them at a particular level of maturity. Therefore, our sexual dreams, even if our sex life is satisfactory, show us what growth, what new challenge, is being met.

Whenever a healthy man dreams, he experiences an erection, no matter what the subject of the dream. Women also experience such stimulus while dreaming.

While dreaming you can safely allow any form of sexual pleasure you desire. Don’t let the useful morals of waking life intrude into your dreams. If your sexual dreams are frustrating, or do not lead to deep pleasure, drop the fears and limiting attitudes that are blocking the full flow of your excitement and pleasure.

Your longing for sexual partners that isn’t openly expressed, will attempt to become real in your dreams. It doesn’t mean that you are dissatisfied with your present partner if you have sex with other people in your dreams. All of us have such secret longings, and it is healthy for them to be allowed as we sleep. What it usually suggests is that you are exploring other experiences or dimensions of sex that you can then bring into your waking relationship.

Sometimes sexual pleasure is depicted in dreams as a tidal wave, or a snake, or something you may be resisting. This is because full sexual bliss floods the whole body, releasing tensions, bringing peace and a healing action physically and psychologically. To achieve this, learn to let go of rigid self control and be ready to feel your emotions.

Enjoying sexual pleasure with an animal, such as being kissed or licked by a cat, is the way dreams describe your own sexual urges at their most uncomplicated and basic level. It doesn’t mean you are weird. In such dreams you are dropping the complicated social rules that usually direct how you express yourself.

The energy behind the sexual drive is enormously important. It can flow in many different ways. It not only expresses as genital sex, but also in caring for others. If it is blocked illness can result. Your dreams show in detail just how you are dealing with this most important area of your life, and what is standing in the way of satisfaction and health. Do not accept the ready made formulas of popular sexual norms. Your dreams will show your own intimate and unique needs. Remember your dreams and be enriched by them.

Having sex with friends sister or brother is a normal way of exploring what it would be like to have sex with them. But it doesn’t mean you should act on it. In dreams you are free of all the difficulties attached to having sex physically, so it is harmless in dreams, but can cause many difficulties physically and socially.

Example: Laughing and happy, the flow of pleasure to E, leading to a kiss. The deep internal pleasure of kissing gradually widened until it led to genital feeling. I realised so many things as this lovely gentle growth of feeling and flowing occurred. I realised that I and most teenagers have too much technical sex instruction, so it is portrayed as an erect penis entering the vagina. But I was seeing it wasn’t like that at all. First of all came the gradual relationship with E. As that deepened it led to touching, being happy together and kissing. The kiss, oral pleasure, was our first area of loving with our mother. From that original centre of pleasure, it grows into anal and genital pleasure. This was what was happening. Then gently the body began to move. But there was still no erection. The movement was the forerunner of the inner pleasurable urge to thrust and penetrate. So there was a slow and internal growth through escalating feelings, and not an outwardly ordained set of movements that led to “sex”!

Shade Shadow

Feelings of being in the shade, or obscured by somebody else. It may be wife, husband, or parents who make us feel inferior, and in their shadow. Usually something is standing in our way, in the sense of not enabling us to see the light, or gain understanding. A shadow is also a symbol for the unconscious activities that sometimes control actions. So a shadow can depict inner feelings seldom expressed. A shadow can also be a sign of coming events, the shadows cast from the future. This is because we often see someone’s shadow before we see them.

Idioms: Afraid of one’s shadow; shades of; shadow of one’s former self; worn to a shadow. See Archetype of the Shadow – Shadowy Figure