Posts Tagged ‘dream dictionary interpretation’
Appendix
Something within yourself that may become a problem; an internal problem; possibly referring to the appendix itself. But it is often a psychological or a physical or energy problem as the following example shows. The man was using LifeStream.
Example: The movement involved not only the hips swaying left and right, but also the shoulders, or at least, whole rib cage, swinging left and right, in opposition to the hips. The result of this was an extraordinary amount of pain internally. The areas of pain were appendix area, liver area, left and right side of chest.
So intense was the pain I could only do the movement slowly and carefully at first. I was surprised at the degree of pain, also at the pain in the right of the chest, and area I have never felt discomfort. The nearest I can arrive at a description is to liking it to muscular cramp. As one massages such cramp it gradually melts. Such was the internal feelings, as if the intense pain were being massaged away, broken down, dispersed, as a lump melted.
As the pain was dispersed, the movement became more flowing and active. Last week I had to rest frequently during this movement, but this week it kept on for 30 or 40 minutes causing much heat and perspiration. Since then the pain and appendix difficulty has gone and never appeared again.
If you have had appendicitis: Feelings you associate with that time.
Having appendix out: Inner pain or problem needing attention or being attended to.
Useful questions are:
What am I vaguely aware of that might be a grumbling problem needing attention?
Do I have actual discomfort in the area of my appendix – lower right abdomen – if so maybe I should have a check?
What do I need to remove from my attitudes or from my past experience?
See Life’s Little Secrets and Easy Dream Interpretation
Applause
Desire for acclaim or giving oneself acclaim; something that you feel is worthwhile or praiseworthy – define what it is from the dream events; approval or need for approval. Such a need may be covering a deep personal uncertainty.
Useful questions are:
Am I giving or receiving applause – whatever it is can I define what it is for?
What is it my dream is suggesting is praiseworthy and how does that apply to me?
Do I feel the applause is deserved and why or why not?
Apple
Because of the way Genesis was presented it often represents temptation and the Garden of Eden. It can also link with the fruits of ones action, or the consequences of action, the fruit of ones labour; also pleasure, food or sustenance. See: food.
Here is a re-translation of the piece about the apple and the Garden of Eden.
It entered their consciousness asking, “Did Elohim really mean that I should not totally experience material existence? Surely, if I entered the sphere of opposites I would gain knowledge and experience from it?
And the divine wisdom in men warned them of the consequence of this, saying, you must not centre your consciousness in matter, for by that you will die to your cosmic awareness and have only consciousness through physical senses.
But the forces of individuation, flowing into matter, seemed to say that if they allowed their being to enter into and experience physical life, how could they lose their eternal consciousness? Instead they would gain knowledge of the opposites, of the paradox that Elohim knows.
Then the desires for this fired their will, for many spirits wished to know life in physical realms; to experience fully the knowledge of time and space, of the incompleteness of being just male or female, of looking out through the senses of a physical body, and knowing the feel of winds and water, separation and aloneness. Thus came about the fall of the angels, and many spirits fell into life within a physical body.
Here are two example showing how apples can be used in dreams:
Example: I was on a plane or a journey. On my right sat an American, very flabby, with a paunch. I was eating an Apple, (I had been on a fruit fast during the day), and my elbow sometimes touched his paunch, it felt lifeless, lacking vitality. I told him he ought to eat only apples for a while, and all the dead flesh would fall off him.
Then a young Chinese man came to me and pointed out a line marked on my apple, on the green, less developed side. He said every apple had it if one looked, and under the line was a hair, “hair of discontent.” He said this was poisonous, and best not eaten. I slid my fingernail under the line, and pulled out a long hair. I thought this was wonderful, and that I had been given real wisdom of the East.
Example: The words then came, “Eat not.” I have a strong feeling this was the forbidden apple, and in some old way, this was why I had not been able to eat apples lightly, because for the past few months, if I ate apples I suffered strong acid indigestion. Something seems wrong with my digestive system anyway, as I have had acid indigestion, pains, and now piles. I felt, though, that the apples could now beaten, and have in fact being able to eat them without ill effects since this session.
Idioms: American as apple pie; an apple a day keeps the doctor away; apple of his eye; bad apple; Big Apple; the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree; upset the apple cart.
Useful Questions and Hints:
In the dream was it a fruit you enjoyed, a temptation or something else?
What were you doing with the apple, or how did you use it?
What did you feel in the dream about the apple?
Try using Talking As, as a way of understanding the apple in your dream.
Appointment
Reminder of something we unconsciously feel we are about to meet, or something we need to meet. This can be about the importance of a relationship, or of taking care of a person or situation. An appointment can suggest the need to ‘get together’ with someone or that aspect of yourself, or that there are important things to deal with. See: romantic date for romantic appointment.
Broken missed or cancelled appointment
It depends upon what led to cancelling or missing the appointment, ask yourself was it something that you really wanted or was it something that you wanted to avoid.
Appointment book
Probably an agreement or agreements that you yourself wanted.
Doctors or healers appointment
This is usually about something that is important and so take notice of it.
Appointment with death
Usually it refers to you meeting the feeling you have about death. If you continually avoid the appointment it points to you fear of death – best to meet it. See near death experiences.
Useful Questions and Hints:
Is this dream about trying to live up to the imperatives of work, other people’s needs or deadlines I have set myself?
Is this about remembering something such as the importance of something in my life?
Have you agreed to do something and forgotten?
Try Talking As or Processing Dreams to see if you can get a clearer idea of the message of the dream.
Aquarium
Your inner world of feelings, thoughts and intuitions. It probably represents the ability to see or understand some of the usually unconscious processes in your body and yourself. It can also relate to the unconscious processes going on under the surface. Being empty or full suggests whether you are allowing your inner feelings to become know or remain empty. See: fish and sea creatures.
Example: During the weekend I had two dreams, although I was lucid at the time. I was in a huge indoor aquarium. The water was very clear, but had a slight yellowish or straw colour tinge to it. I was swimming under the water looking at the many creatures. I had a sense of being within a very ancient environment. The creatures were all primordial, each functioning in its own distinct way, some of which would be dangerous to me if I related to them wrongly – i.e. if I let them contact my skin, or get into my cavities. But I was fascinated and felt a sense of wonder and privilege. As I swam I began to feel that I was actually looking within myself to the ancient processes of the blood and cells. I had a sense that we are all the time immersed in this ancient aquarium, relating to its creatures one way or another.
Useful Questions and Hints:
What am I becoming aware of within myself?
What does the theme of this dream suggest about my inner feelings?
What creatures are in the aquarium, and are there poisonous or dangerous things in me or is it beauty?
Use Processing Dreams to explore your dream.
Arab
This depends whether you are of Arab or Islamic ethnicity. If you are then it is depicting an aspect of yourself. If not, then you need to define what your feelings and associations you have with Arabs and particularly the dream figure. In general it may represent masculinity, passionate manhood, possessiveness. See: Abroad.
Useful questions are:
If I imagine myself as this person what do I feel? For help doing this see Stand in Role under peerdream work.)
What is my relationship with this dream character and what might that represent in my waking life?
What am I doing in the dream – running; waiting searching; bargaining; pleading; looking for love – and can I see that in my life in any way?
Archaeologist Archaeology
If you are an archaeologist or involved in the work, then it relates to whatever is concerning or interesting you at the moment. But it will still probably have a more interior meaning.
It links to the process of gradually bringing your past experience to consciousness. Literally it shows you digging into what are usually your unconscious layers of yourself to unearth personal meaning and perhaps deal with past problems that were buried. See archaeologist.
Useful Questions and Hints:
Have I been ‘digging’ into myself in any way – if so what have I uncovered?
Have circumstances or events uncovered what was previously buried in me?
What part of my past are my dream images suggesting?
You can be an archaeologist by exploring the buried message of your dreams by using Processing Dreams and Peer Dream Work.
What is the archaeologist doing and what does that suggest?
Is something being uncovered or dug up, and if I describe myself as that what do I define about myself?
What are my feelings in the dream?
Have I been ‘digging’ into myself in any way – if so what have I uncovered?
Have circumstances or events uncovered what was previously buried in me?
What part of my past are my dream images suggesting?
Archer
See: Aim.
Architect
Here is the image of the process or function in us that plans, that designs in a creative and perhaps considering way. It may be about plans for a better or different living condition, or about business or even a relationship. The architect is also pointing to a process of checking and directing progress.
This might be about how you wish your ‘space’ to be, or how to use the space you have. So it might relate to your mind or attitudes. Or does you dream show you making an architects plan of your inner life or even your future?
As an architect you or your dream character can be the architect of future change.
Useful Questions and Hints:
What am I planning to change or build in my life, and does this dream relate to that?
Does this dream reflect or comment on any of my dreams or goals in any way?
What is the architect in my dream doing, and what can I gather from that if I translate it into everyday life?
Find out more by using Processing Dreams and Talking As.
If I imagine my self as the architect how do I describe myself. For help doing this see Standing in Roles.
Arena Amphitheatre Coliseum
This usually represent the focus of attention on whatever is happening in the arena. It is a mental ability to bring an unimaginable number of associated bits of information and experience together in considering something. The many people in an arena therefore show the amount of interest. It can also suggest an area or focus of conflict or contest.
The arena is also a place of drama, where the deepest moments of life are played out or examined. It therefore suggests something being dramatised or considered by you, something being witnessed, or a testing of oneself, as in a sporting event, especially if the area is a stadium rather than an arena. It can also show participation with others in life or endeavours. See: theatre.
If it is a coliseum type arena it often has associated links with being killed by wild animals or gladiators, or being in the role of gladiator. Usually it is about releasing fears or struggles from within you that you had not met before and may be frightened of or even terrified. As I often explain, whenever we dream its images are not like real life, because a dream is nothing like outer life where things can hurt you, but is an image like on a cinema screen that even if a gun is pointed at you and fired it can do no damage – except if you run in fear; so all the things that scare you are simply your own fears projected onto the screen of your sleeping mind.
Sometimes the entrance to the arena through a dark tunnel can be fears, struggles, or meeting powerful sexual urges and either be beaten down by them or deal with them. See Meeting yourself; Energy Sex and Dreams
It is a place in which you can be a spectator, a judge or centre of attention.
Useful Questions and Hints:
Is there a big issue in my life I am in conflict about, examining or rehearsing in some way?
What is my attention focussing on at the moment or my dream is showing as important?
Am I involved with others in a way that is now being felt as important?
Use Acting on Your Dream to see what it suggests.
Argue Argued Arguing
This could refer to something you are feeling conflict about and have different but conflicting feelings about. Or it might show you releasing feelings about someone that you do not tell them to their face. It might refer to feelings about parents arguing, so depict the anxiety or anger you felt at the time.
Conflicts can occur between the many facets of oneself such as your body needs and your intellectual ideas about life; your sexual or instinctive nature and your sense of what is right from your upbringing; between your fears, and your appetites and desires emerging from vulnerabilities and neurotic behaviour, and your deep core of life. See The Life Will and aggression.
Arguing with opposite sex: This might refer to a tension existing between you and your partner, about memories of difficulties with an ex partner, or about a conflict existing between your rational outgoing self and your feeling intuitive self. See Dealing with an Ex.
Arguing with authority or police: Might show a struggle you are experiencing between the pressure you feel from society or expectations of others and what you want or feel. See police.
Useful Questions and Hints:
What or who am I arguing with in my dream, and what connections can I make with that?
Do I resolve the argument, and if so what are the key factors of the resolution?
If I do not resolve the argument, how can I resolve it in my mind and feelings now I am awake?
It may be useful to use Carry the Dream Forward and use Processing Dreams.
It can help to deal with anger and aggression by using The Cushion Technique.
Arid
This suggests that little or nothing is growing in your life or activities. It may refer specifically to your relationship(s). On occasion it might refer to attempts to conceive.
The lack of water also may mean that you are not allowing your emotions to express. See: desert.
Useful Questions and Hints:
Am I feeling empty or meaningless at the moment?
Am I questioning what is emerging from my life?
What would I say are the fruits of my life?
Try exploring your dream with Processing Dreams. Also try reading What we need to remember about dreams.
Ark
ark An area of yourself that has been shaped by following your innermost urges and intuitions, as opposed to those arising from fear, passion, ambition. Or something can come out of the ark and thus be old fashioned. For some people the ark represents a survival aid in times of stress. So it might depict a means of escape from a difficult situation.
An ark is a safe refuge, therefore feelings or attitudes that have some strength and survival value.
Example: The ark is obviously connected with religious beliefs, and I see Christ as an Ark. The only way I can explain this is to ask you to imagine a being that has been able to develop a symbiotic relationship with all life forms at the level of sentience or consciousness. In our own view of life, such a being is incredibly highly evolved. But also imagine that this being does not have a physical body, existing as it dies outside the limitations of time and space as we usually know it. The image I saw was of an immense being standing in space by earth, absorbing all human experience. This being was an Ark because, from what was being shown me, even if humanity destroyed itself, all its experience would be preserved and expressed again in another time and place. Nothing of importance would be lost. Even such an apparently small thing as a child’s love for its Grandma would be preserved and allowed to live again.
Carter uses the image of the ark in his poem So That We Build, and suggests a mistake or a transgression prior to deliverance. So it might be that in your dream is might say you have survived a transgression.
This suggests that the bonds we create and live by are a part of the system itself. What survives is to create a bonding system which actually survives and perpetuates itself. It cannot do this without utilising the hidden but powerful underlying systems in cosmic processes. There is another fundamental action – it is that when we move against an implicit social conditioning, we feel the pressure or pain of that – whether it is sexual, clothing, or whatever it is. When we actually face the discomfort of that we actually meet consciousness. We discover the underlying feelings and forces that have created the conditioning in the first place. So in facing out discomforts we may uncover a new person we can become.
The biblical account of Noah taking pairs of the animals aboard the Ark to preserve them suggests the preservation of our animal instincts not the repression or destruction. The meaning of taking pairs – one of each sex – is that we can uplift these animal tendencies we find within. This says that if we do this then we are the ark, and our body the structure of the ark.
Exampl: Hello Tony I am puzzled by this recent dream as it seems so at odds with my conscious understanding: I return to my home town, a small seaside place and find that where the Church I used to attend, which was close to my mother’s retirement home, stood, my Mother had had it demolished and built a small supposed to be luxury but, actually in places, a bit over the top modern hotel. I went into the new place looking for my room but it was a new hotel room full of sports – wear.. in the dream it had the name of my second son …Roddy’s room. Although the space the hotel took up was large the 3 bedrooms were close almost crammed together at the end of a long hallway.
As I explored I came upon people building a strange boat type ark. It was ready to go to sea and after some indecision involving a man who said I could not go, I leapt on but all the doors were shut so I sat right at the front on a sort of step. The boat was on the promenade and then turned sharply onto a slipway and began to move quickly down the slip-way. I looked at the sea hoping it would be calm as I was on this exposed bit and as I looked I saw that the sea was a massive wave, tall as a skyscraper very dark and huge and we were racing towards it. I realised there was a young woman beside me and as I frantically thought how to escape she said “What a sadist to send us this wave.” I woke myself up very frightened. S.
S. – I see that despite all the promised luxury your actual living space is diminished – the three rooms at the end of a long hallway. The ark suggests a way out of the mess, based on old ideas of religion. But in fact the door is closed to you and as the young woman remarks, “What a sadist to send us this wave.” Yet I feel that the wave is the way out, even though frightening. This may not seem a very good idea, but you have to remember that when we dream we are creating images that clothe feelings and emotions. If you can see that facing what is an uncomfortable feeling and going through it frees you from it. Either that or you could visualise other alternatives
Useful Questions and Hints:
Is there a difficult situation I am trying to escape from?
What am I trying to save or salvage from my present life?
What part in my dream is this ark playing?
Am I in some way the ark? Using Processing Dreams may help.
Arm
Arms usually refer to your ability to love, give, take, create, defend, reach out. Our arms, especially the arm we use most, can also represent all the struggle and effort we have put into life, what we have given and taken, what skills we have learned or created in the work and labour of life and love.
Arm or arms reaching toward you: This can mean an extension of love or even aggressiveness. You would know from the feeling the move stimulates.
Example: Tonight it happened again and several memories kept pushing into awareness. One in particular is a memory of you as a baby too young to able to speak. It was when mum and I ran a guest house and we had you in a pram in the front garden. One of the guest, a woman who looked okay came and said she wanted to walk you in the pram down the road. She started to push the pram, suddenly you looked at me without making a sound and stretched your arms toward me. It was a signal that hit me so hard emotionally I ran and took the pram from her. I think she was mortified by my actions. I don’t suppose you have any memory of it but for me it was a powerful enough to remain imprinted in my memory.
Right arm: If you are right handed this indicates your active outgoing self, your conscious and capable skills such as you express with this hand and arm. It is the part of you obvious to others and yourself, your strength or lack of it. Injury or malformation of this arm indicates inability to be creative and productive in the outer world. It shows problems regarding manifesting or making real, what you wish or will to do.
Left arm: The left arm is those supportive qualities, those strengths and traits that express in daily life underlying and making possible the action of the right arm. In other words they are the loyalties, the care and strength of support, almost unconscious energy we put into what we do with our right hand and arm – our outer activities. The left arm is the qualities that support outer activities and relationships. In a certain way it represent confidence, the absence of which would undermine all the external things we would be trying to accomplish.
Example: Dreamt Pete was in my father’s shop in London. Someone had shot him in the left bicep and I was trying to help him. I had a small box on the counter and there was fluid or blood in it, and I put the hurt muscle in it hoping to heal it. When the gunshot flesh was in the blood the blood bubbled and effervesced, becoming hot. I felt the flesh would not be of any use now, but wasn’t sure. In the end though I was considering cleaning away the injured flesh from the arm. All I could see were the sinews with a small amount of flesh on them – no muscle in between. But I began to feel that gradually new cells might grow and develop into a new muscle – granulate.
The dream was explored, and it was seen that it was the dreamer himself who was injured. His father had never shown interest in him and this had undermined his confidence. It led him to weep with the pain of this. He was in his forties, and felt a complete failure, yet the dream promised new growth which turned out be true.
Injury to: Loss of confidence or ability to reach out or create; loss of or psychological trauma regarding those abilities. Left is the supportive feelings. Right is extroverted activity.
Tied up: Sense of restriction to activities.
Bicep: Strength; sense of being capable.
Idioms: Chance one’s arm; give one’s right arm; arm twisting; keep at arms length; with open arms; one arm tied behind back, babe in arms; strong arm tactics. See: left; right; body; Example under white.
Useful Questions and Hints:
If my arm is injured, what in my life am lacking or I feeling inadequate in?
What am I doing with my arm(s) and how does that link with waking life?
If this is a positive dream, what of myself is it bringing my attention to?
Explore the depths of the meaning by using Talking As.
Armchair
Usually associated with rest or relaxation. A particular armchair might link with certain memories, such as courting or love-making. It might link with a person because of where a family member or friend sat. But any item or furniture can also associate with likes or dislikes, or a particular relationship or time of life.
Useful Questions and Hints:
What are my memories or associations with the armchair?
If I don’t not know this armchair, what do I feel about it in the dream?
What would I say is the function of an armchair, what is it for, and does that define it in the dream?
Use Talking As to define what the armchair means.
Armor Armour
The emotional and intellectual rigidity we use to protect ourselves from hurt. Can depict muscular tension which blocks free flowing sexuality and feelings; or our defence systems, such as frantically arguing for our beliefs, or killing out our feelings in a relationship; fear of getting hurt – but also ability to protect oneself from hurt or attack. So it can be the attitudes or feelings you use as a barrier to stop other people ‘getting through to you’, a hardness or rigidity of attitudes; defensive attitudes; self doubt; inner conflict.
If the armour is seen as defensive, it may point to deep anxieties in regard to what is suggested by the dream action – such as relationship, work, health.
Shining armour: Idealism; the strength of ones beliefs or resolve. In a woman’s dream, feelings of romance about finding a male who is strong enough to care and help her meet the difficulties of life.
Example: I was a soft crab, under a stone on the sea-shore. With infinite starvation, and struggling, and kicking, I had got rid of my armour, shield by shield, and joint by joint, and cowered naked and pitiable, in the dark, among dead shells and ooze. Suddenly the stone was turned up; and there was my cousin’s hated face laughing at me, and pointing me out to Lillian. She laughed too, as I looked up, sneaking, ashamed, and defenceless, and squared up at him with my soft useless claws. Charles Kingsley – from Alton Locke, 1850.
Kingsley’s description is a magnificent picture of the softness and vulnerability we use our ‘armour’ to defend against. But the next dream gives an entirely different use of armour. The dream shows how new life can arise out of the death of the old, and how failure can become victory when we find our golden armour arising from awareness of our core self beyond death.
While heavily pregnant 11 years ago I dreamt I and thousands of Japanese-like soldiers had been at war and lost. Our punishment was beheading. Not wanting to see my comrades killed I went to the front. I was dead, outside my body. Dressed in golden armour with a lion symbol. I told my comrades they outnumbered the enemy. They won and took my baby from my dead body. BMW. #
Here in the way of all Life, death is followed by new life.
Useful Questions and Hints:
What use is being made of the armour, and what do I gather from this about myself or my attitudes?
Am I using the armour as an intellectual or emotional barrier?
If I am wearing the armour how do I feel without it, and how does that reflect in my life?
Here are some ways to move beyond vulnerability – Methods of Awakening – Life’s Little Secrets – Facing Fear.
Also see Techniques for Exploring your Dreams – Secrets of Power Dreaming