Posts Tagged ‘dream dictionary interpretation’

Butterfly

The beautiful that emerges from the unpromising, or ugly. The spiritual that emerges from physical experience. Transformation.

Buy Buying

Your desires for thing, or your search for something you want, or feel you want. Making choices, or being able to make choices. See: Shop.

This often indicates some level of choices being made, decisions faced; 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.

One dreamer said that 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.

Have you bought or accepted an idea, or bought into a situation or condition? How much did you paid, or what is the price you had to pay for this. Is it worth it?

Example: I have bought a very large old wooden home. When you enter the home through the foyer you walk into what is a very large dark ballroom. The only furnishing is a very small round table in the far left corner with an oil lamp on it lit. I don’t enter. Instead I walk up the stairs to the right which are above the kitchen. When I reach the landing there is a very long hallway with a rail running the length of the hall. On the right there are many, many doors lining the hallway that I have no interest in opening and I never have. What I truly love is standing at the rail and just looking into the ballroom. I long to sit at the table and read, in a long black dress. I am incredibly happy there and don’t wish to share the home with others. How I wish I could find the home to buy it. I look for it all the time.

I sense that this dreamer has a very rich and varied inner life, which she only let some people see or share. But she have so much more, all inherited from the past, which she does not open the doors to. And I am wondering if the reason is that you have not met the mystery of your house.

Buying a bargain: Feelings of capability.

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

Idioms: buy a round; buy favors; buy into; buy out; buy that; buy the farm; buy time;

buy up; buyer’s market.

Useful Questions and Hints:

What is it you have bought or wish to buy?

Or are you searching for something?

If you cannot find satisfaction try imagining one.

Use carry the dream forward and Easy Dream Interpretation

Cab

See: Taxi.

Cactus

Your dream cactus may be suggesting that you are confronting a situation in life in which you can be hurt if you are not careful.

Some cacti also act as hallucinogens so if you know this the cacti could depict your ability to shift your state of mind.

The cactus is also a very hardy plant, capable of living in very dry and infertile environments. Your dream might well be using this to point to a situation in your life in which you feel lacking in some way. See: desert.

Is it something or someone you can’t ‘pick up’ because they are so prickly?

Example: T. seems very impressed with a kind of cactus plant at an open air market/nursery. She takes a picture of it. Leach is the name of the salesman? The photographer? That I see in the picture. The plant costs $14,000.

Useful Questions and Hints:

Am I feeling I need to be careful in handling a relationship or situation?

Is somebody, or am I, being very prickly?

Am I in a dry and sterile situation at the moment?

See Easy Dream Interpretation and Talking As

Caduceus

These linked snakes usually link with forces of power and possibly healing in yourself. Like any power, it can be creative or destructive, or even quiescent. So the dream context is important in understanding what the power is doing in your own life. See: Snake.

Cd Video Computer Game

There could be several associations to choose from with this, so you need to consider the rest of the dream to decide which is appropriate. It could relate to the sort of pleasure you get, or the relaxed feeling that arises when you listen to music. It might also link with memory, or the impressions you leave with people that play in their feelings even when you are not there.

Video: If it is of yourself, it is a view of yourself as you were at the time of the video. Or it is an independent view of a person or life situation. Bother worth investigating.

If it is of yourself, it is a view of yourself as you were at the time of the video. Or it is an independent view of a person or life situation. Both are worth investigating. Seeing a video of yourself often shows an aspect of you that you were not aware of. See if you can define what the differences are.

Computer games – see Computer Games

 Example: So, the dream first is portrayed as a video game and the main character is me and I’m in a castle but it’s actually a school too. I’m talking to people I don’t really know if my life. But then I go up stairs searching for items in closets just like a video game. Then the video game style stops. Then I am going down dark halls upstairs that no one is in still checking closets. Then I come to a closet that has a light on. I open the door and it’s a bright room full of clothes and there is a man in there who looks like he is from the circus. He is giving me women’s clothes to try on. (I’m a boy by the way so this is cross dressing). I try and lock the door so nobody will come in, but the lock is broken. The last part of the dream is I’m searching for a bra and can’t find one. So, what does this all mean?

This young man is trying out roles to see what fits him. He is doing it like playing a video game because he knows no harm can come to him – it’s just a game. Even so he doesn’t want people to see what he is doing in cross dressing.

Watching videos: While watching something you are in a very special state of mind or being, for you are opening your being to massive impressions and allowing them in some degree to play the keyboard of your feelings and emotions. See Keyboard Condition

See Being the Person or Thing – Record player – record – cassette – cd – computer disc

 

 

 

 

Cafe

Easy going source of relaxation and sustenance. Meeting point of different parts of your nature. See: Food; Bar (room).

But there are many possible associations here.

This is basically a place you go to satisfy hunger or thirst. So it may link with what you have eaten at a physical level, but with need for emotional and sexual hunger at a personal level. But each café has its own atmosphere and class. So it may be referring to a status or level in society or your environment.

It can also relate to easy going ways of relaxation and getting your needs, or a meeting point for different parts of your nature. This can include an indication of family connection, but often involves sexual connection in one way or another. In some dreams it may indicate danger as when the driver assaults one, or it may be the opposite as in the following example.

Example: A couple of leather jacket types started to verbally harass me. I told them to watch out, because I’d protected myself before and I’d do it again. A 3rd man said, “Ya, she’s right. Leave her alone.” I walked on. I went into a cafe to call a taxi. I think I was crying. A taxi driver there said “Hey, where do you want to go?” I said, “Are you a taxi driver?” He said, “Ya.” I said, “Let’s go.” I feel rescued. Barb.

Example: It started with me meeting a man (or rather a boy of about 17 – I’m 25) that I don’t recognize, but in the dream we knew each other. We were sitting on a couch at a café and for some reason I tried to kiss him, but instead of kissing me back, he spat me in the face. I ran out of the café to take a bus home. At the bus stop, there was a trash bin with a dead fox and a dead crow in it.

So I feel you offered love, and that is a very powerful thing – but you didn’t get the response you expected. Then you ran away. The young man represents, I guess, your feelings about wanting a man in your life, and then the rejection. The spitting comes from being confronted by something so painful. Then when you do not return you are faced by death and trash can. In other words, a dead end. You could change what are habits of reaction by using Secrets of Power Dreaming

For some people the café is a work situation and so would refer to that. See: restaurant.

 

Useful Questions and Hints:

What is the atmosphere of the café like? Is it course, working class, refined, expensive, etc?

What am I doing or seeking in this café?

Am I in relationship with somebody or am I seeking food or drink?

Try using Stand in role and Acting on your dream

Cage Cell

This usually points to your feelings of frustration and perhaps anger, or even a sense of defeat or emptiness. The prison in our dreams is of our own making, created out of our attitudes and fears. So it is important to define just what you feel in the cage, and what the associated feelings are with he cage/cell itself, and the other people involved. See: Prison.

If the dreamer is in the cage: Frustration arising from a sense of social pressures restraining expression – or from one’s moral, sexual or conceptual restraints imprisoning one. You might be feeling caged by lack of opportunity or lack of developed abilities. We might however, be choosing to inhibit or restrict an aspect of ourselves. One might restrain anger for instance.

The cell also often depicts how we imprison ourselves within our own anger, resentment, or depressed feelings, or we may be trapped by childhood trauma and be imprisoned by fear of pain or losing love. If a child is in a cell this almost certainly points to this type of imprisonment through emotional pain. See Avoid Being Victims

The cell is also often linked with living a life apart from the normal consumer, nine to five life, and can show a facet of you living a life of meditation or inner seeking.

Example: ““I was in a prison cell with two other men. I felt it was in Spain somewhere. We ate, slept and defecated in the cell. I was standing at the bars of the cell, and had the impression I had been in the prison for years. I was shouting and cursing the people who had put me in the prison, full of hate and self pity.

One day as I stood raging at the bars I suddenly realised that my years of shouting had availed nothing. The only person who was upset by it was me. I was the victim of my own anger and turmoil. It was as if I had been haunted all my life by ghosts of anger and passion. I dropped the attitudes or ‘ghosts’ and was free of them. Years went by and one by one I recognised and dropped other habits of emotion and thought that had trapped and tortured me. I realised I could be totally free within myself.

One morning I woke and sat up on the mattress on the floor that was my bed. The last ghost of inner entrapment fell away. A fountain of joy opened in my body, pouring upwards through me. It was so intense I cried out. My cell mates called a warden because they thought I had gone mad. They stood looking at me as I experienced radiance so strong I felt as if I must be shining. I was aware my joy poured into them, although they thought I was possibly insane. I could sense the enormous change in me influencing them, and I knew it couldn’t help but change them also. I realised that I might never be released from the prison, but it didn’t matter as I had found a fuller release than simply walking the streets. Even though remaining behind prison bars, I would still be touching people’s lives deeply. Nothing would ever be the same again.”

A cage or cell is often used to show the mind and how we live within certain ideas and beliefs and maybe do not wish to move out of them.

Occasionally it might refer to your rib cage.

Something or somebody else caged: Desire to restrain whatever is represented by the thing, person, caged.

In a cage with something or somebody else: Pressed into a close relationship or confrontation with the person or thing with you – and it is a situation difficult to escape from.

See: escape; fence; holding; hospital under house and building; prison.

 

Useful Questions and Hints:

If I am imprisoned what is it in myself or environment that is holding me?

What does this situation confront me with?

Am I unable to feel really free in the relationship I am in?

What of myself or another am I restraining?

Are the restrictions of this situation made of pain?

Try using Secrets of Power Dreaming and Easy Dream Interpretation

Cake

Pleasure and sensual satisfaction. It might even relate to childhood pleasure, or rewards. Similar to symbolism of bread, but more luxurious, less practical. See: Bread; Food.

This is often linked to the pleasure we feel at special times of sharing, so suggests shared pleasure, a time to celebrate something. But many people eat sweet things as a way to deal with boredom or difficult feelings – perhaps as a way of quieting the inner child.

Cake is a high energy food, and it might be used in that way in your dream – as a source of sustenance as you meet high energy expenditure in a difficult task.

But cakes are often made with a lot of love, and can indicate love in your life. So if you are sharing then you are giving of yourself to others. Or if received it is a sign of love and care given.

Example: I was about 8-10 I had this recurring dream once a year for about 3 to 5 years it would be right around my birthday. My parents would be getting in their car and starting to leave the house (forever). I would start to get worried and try to run to them but my brother and sister would call out and I would turn around seeing them eating cake and they would be really fat all the sudden but I didn’t want to go by them I was afraid and then I’d wake up. Aaron.

Aaron this appears to be a terrible shock your parent gave you, and it probably happened as you say, around your birthday. The threat to leave the child is the most devastating thing. It is much better to smack a child than to make threats that can last a lifetime. Once the child has received this threat it can mean, to the child, that its parents could give it away or leave it at any time. So from there on it lives in fear.

If you are eating the cake it shows you allowing yourself some enjoyment, satisfying a hunger or need. It may also relate to celebration, as with a wedding or birthday cake. If so, ask yourself why your dream is reminding you of this. But making the cake depicts you being independent and creating a pleasurable situation for yourself or others. If it is for someone else, who are they, and why are you giving it? They might be a needy part of yourself.

If you were making the cake and can remember why, it will give you insight into why you need pleasure or nourishment at this time.

Wedding cake: This traditional represented fertility and plenty. It also signifies all the plans and preparation that goes into marriage, and the shared fortune that lies ahead of the couple.

Folklore: In folklore there is a tradition that if you sleep with a piece of wedding cake tinder your pillow you will dream of your future mate. If you have this dream it probably refers to a prediction and depends on what the dream says.

“A Greek girl, on St Catherine’s Eve, bakes a cake with salt and wine, explaining that it is no more than an old custom, but secretly hoping it may help her to dream of her future husband. Traditional beliefs and practices of this kind have their counterpart in every country and in every age, as is shown by historical records that date back as far as Rome, Greece, and the Egypt of the pharaohs.” Quoted from Dreams and Dreaming by Norman MacKenzie.

Idioms: a piece of cake; have your cake and eat it, too; icing on the cake; nutty as a fruit cake; take the cake; that takes the cake

Useful Questions and Hints:

What was the atmosphere surrounding the cake – celebration, sharing, hunger – and how does that apply to me?

Did I make this cake, and if so why or who for?

If I am sharing it, in what situation?

See Being the Person or Thing; and Talking As

Calculator

Your attempt to figure out a situation or dilemma. It appears in dreams where the dreamer feels uncertain about a situation in a relationship and is trying to deal with this and be clear. It can also link to the cost of things – i.e. what sort of effort or risk something is going to ask of you.

Useful Questions and Hints:

What is it I am trying to figure out?

Do I arrive at satisfaction, and what might that apply to?

If there is cost involved, what am I feeling about this while awake?

Try Being the Person or Thing and Dreams Like a Computer Game

Calendar

A reminder of time passing. Perhaps associated with things that have happened in the past, or to happen in the future. So a reminder of important times or dates.

This also links with a need or urge to plan things. Because of this it might point to agreements you are making with other people, and whether you have or are going to keep the agreement.

Occasionally it might deal with prediction of what you intuitively sense is coming into your, or somebody else’s life. Of course this prediction might be an expression of wish fulfilment or even anxiety, so take care in deciding what it is you are feeling.

Useful Questions and Hints:

What is this dream reminding me of or pointing out to me?

Am I looking ahead here, and if so what is suggested will or should happen?

Is there something here I need to take care of or plan for?

See Acting on your dream and Talking As

Calf

(See: calf body) Because it is a baby animal it can represent your own childhood, and your dependent link with your mother. It might also suggest feelings about a baby or your feelings about babies. The calf might also be associated with food or money if you are a farmer or in the food industry. See: Animal.

In some dreams calf is used as a measurement to see how deep water or mud is when walking, or dress length.

The calf is new life striving to survive in the world.

There is also the fatted calf, which if dreamt of represents the return of ones will to the highest in you rather than giving your life to grabbing everything for oneself. If you do not know what the highest in you is, ask your dreams to show you and give you a taste of it.

Example: I dreamt I was a disembodied observer watching a young calf with its mother cow. There was a sheepdog with the calf. Because the calf was new-born the dog was stronger, but it was a friend of the calf. They were following the mother over the hill behind where I used to live. As they went over the top of the hill the calf became stronger. At the bottom of the hill, there was a stile. The cow tried to crawl under the stile, but got stuck. It appeared almost to be dying, lying flattened to the ground, looking no bigger than the calf. As it was lying there, the calf and the dog were lying together patiently waiting. They were curled up on the ground together, motionless. Then a change occurred, and the mother cow seemed to gain strength. The calf and the dog then leapt and danced together like two dogs playing.

The dream was explored by the dreamer and he said, “The hill behind the house I lived in was a huge barrier for me as a young boy. My house was on the edge of fields in which were cows and cart horses. I felt so small and scared by them; but gradually I found the courage to cross the hill to visit a friend. So the dream is about feeling vulnerable and yet with the dog, which is the life that supports and cares for me and gives me confidence, and the mother who was a powerful mother, I made a big change in my life by facing things I had been scared of. Also when I got to the stile – the other side of which was the place my loved grandmother had lived – it felt like I had to died to reach my dead grandmother. Then all the strength I had inherited from my mother rose up and I danced with the feeling of life in me – life that was at the same time death, for I was no longer afraid of death.”

Useful Questions and Hints:

Do my feelings suggest this is pointing to my own childhood – if so what is my dream showing me?

What has been recently born into my life?

Am I meeting dependent feelings in a relationship?

Try Being the Person or Thing; Easy Dream Interpretation.

Call Box

See: Telephone.

Camel

This often associates with the ability or personal qualities to face difficult experiences the dry places of life. Such dryness is when there is little satisfaction, no feelings, nothing growing in your experience maybe even sterility of one sort or another. A word that can be connected with this in some dreams is barrenness. So it is saying that you can survive such dryness of spirit or of body – you are a survivor.

The camel may also link with patience, long suffering, perseverance. Or having inner stores of energy or resourcefulness that will carry you through difficult situations. John the Baptist clothed himself in camels hair. This means his patient, persevering seeking of truth despite living in the wilderness of intellectual doubt.

The camel at times can also represent pregnancy because of it hump/bump.

Useful questions are:

Is there an aspect of my life that feels sterile or lacking growth at the moment?

Is the camel in the dream helping me to deal with a difficult environment, and if so how does that relate to my life at the moment?

What is the action with the camel, and how does that translate to my present life?

What are my personal qualities in regard to dealing with difficult times?

Try being camel and see what you get from it Being the Person or Thing – Easy Dream Interpretation

Camera

This usually shows some aspect of memory or taking notice. The dream may also show you something important that you have seen out of the ‘corner of your eye’ but not processed into waking awareness. It also links with wanting to carry the essence of people with you if you have to leave them or be away from them.

The camera can show your ability or inability to be really aware of what is going on around you. It can also be used in a dream to show different perspective of life than your usual views. Sometimes in dreams the camera is like a time machine in that it captures moments of life that can be looked back on or replayed. See: photos.

Example: dream about my camera. I was in a car full of people and remembered I had left my camera at home and asked if they wouldn’t mind if we went to fetch it. They did not mind and took me home. My father was curled up looking pitiful asleep on a chair. I got my camera and then lowered it through a square opening and threw it down to the level below. I was a first worried that that action might damage the lens but it rolled quietly and was fine. I decided not to follow the camera through the opening.

The camera links with memory, memory of your father. The level below suggests a move to the past, maybe to be with your father. You do not follow that feelings however.

Movie or video camera: Being filmed has elements in it of parts of your life being on display to other people, and shows how you feel about that.

Useful Questions and Hints:

What am I trying to capture or memorise here?

Am I trying to direct my attention to something – if so what?

What person am I trying to take with me through life?

See Being the Person or Thing; Avoid Being Victims and Secrets of Power Dreaming

Can Tin

Cans or tins are mentioned in so many ways in the dreams I have in my collection that it is impossible to give general meanings. You have canned soup, tin shed or tin roof, a tin of tobacco, tin toys, tin art work and so on. So it would be helpful to read Techniques for Exploring your Dreams

But if it is canned food or goods, it probably indicates something that has been kept in good condition for ages and can now be used or accessed. It might help if you used Being the Person or Thing. It could also be softness or protection. If a can it can suggest storage of memories or nourishing feelings and experiences.

Example: I dreamed that I was eating a tin of sardines in a house with friends, although none of the friends were people I actually know in real life, just made-up dream friends. As I was eating the sardines I noticed that they were quite large pieces of fish. There was a giant piece of tail I took a bite of, then I noticed that there was a large whole eel underneath the chopped fish.

The eel started to move and lift its head as I backed away from the tin, startled. Then I realized that to wasn’t an eel, but an otter. It was covered in slime from the sardine tin, but it crawled out and began running around the room. My friends and I looked on in disbelief and when it went for the screen door, I gave it a nudge to let the otter outside. My friends started yelling at me for letting it out, but I didn’t see why we should keep it captive.

The dream shows the man living out of a tin – artificially preserved lifestyle. But in eating the fish, something from his real life feelings he finds a living experience that he gives it freedom of expression.