Posts Tagged ‘dream dictionary interpretation’

Cube

Matter, physical existence. It is symbolic of the number 4, and thus stands for stability, strength, material expression, the body. The square or cube is an enclosure in three dimensions, like our body, that in its centre hides a fourth dimension, the soul. Can also represent orthodoxy, the establishment. See: Numbers.

Cuckoo

Sexual promiscuity, the egg laid in another nest or woman.

Wanting to, or feeling your partner is, having sex outside your relationship; pregnant with child from another man than ones partner. Cuckoo can also mean crazy – as with the film ‘One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest.’

A cuckoo clock can suggest slightly irrational thoughts that keep repeating, or thoughts about being unfaithful.

Example: My head is a cuckoo clock with a fabric tube coming out of my chin and hanging down. The cuckoo clock is full of wasps which are buzzing – when I shake my head I can hear them. They fly out the tube in my chin. I am scared of wasps, but cannot run away as they are inside my head. HELP!

A cuckoo is a creature of nature, and it lays its eggs in a nest for other creature to rear. We may say that is unnatural, yet it is a part of natural behaviour. As humans we have all manner of behaviours, and so it is natural for men to lay their eggs in a woman’s womb and then leave her to rear the offspring.

Useful Questions and Hints:

Is my dream showing signs of being used by a ‘cuckoo’?

Or is it so do with crazy behaviour – or like the example a fear?

Is there something happening in my dream that is a clue to its meaning?

See Background – Techniques for Exploring your Dreams – LifeStream

Cuddle

Unity, sharing of feelings.

Cuddly Toy

You might be desiring the sort of non-threatening relationship you had with parents, or just plain seeking a relaxed feeling and love. Also the pleasure of holding someone or feeling warmth. See: teddy bear; toys.

Did you attack the toy in any way? See doll

Useful Questions and Hints:

Do you still have a cuddly toy?

What did you feel in the dream about the toy?

Was it my toy or someone else’s?

See Techniques for Exploring your Dreams – Learning to Love – Associations Working With

Cul-de-sac

The cul-de-sac means you feel or fear there is no way ahead in your present direction, or no way out of a present situation or relationship; or at least, no way to develop it further. Don’t forget this only reflects a feeling, and not a situation cast in stone. Shift the way you feel, look at it from a different standpoint, and the thing can change. See: Secrets of Power Dreaming.

This has definite sexual implications, usually representing the inside of a woman’s legs. A door at the far end is the vagina. If there is a sexual element in your dream, then it may also indicate guilt, or a sexual experience that has no future. There is another aspect of cul-de-sac expressed in this next dream – the materialistic view of life.

Since being a young child I have dreamt I was in a cul-de sac, with a Punch and Judy show at its entrance. A skull lives in the P&J show and if anyone tries to leave the cul-de-sac the skull goes into the house to prevent them leaving. What does this mean?  Fiona.

In this dream a cul-de-sac is way of saying a ‘dead’ end. Death is the subject of this dream, as shown by the skull hiding in the show – of life. This is a view of life many of us are given as  children, and do not shake off – that life is a dead end, leading to nowhere but the grave.  This attitude may cause us to avoid full participation in life because life offers only a conflict in which every one is eventually killed. The crocodile gets us all.  In nature nothing exists that does not carry forward what existed in the past, even at a physical level.

Another example of cul-de-sac is given in this dream. It was dreamt by a man who having read Freud’s idea that we want to sleep with our parent thought it was totally ridiculous.

Dreamt I run away from police into a cul-de-sac. It is night and I cannot see a thing. I feel my way to a door, and knock. An old woman of about 60 comes to the door. Although old she is healthy and well preserved. Without a word I grab her in my arms and embrace her sexually. Then she is naked and I feel her cold flesh against mine and I have intercourse with her. As I do so, she moans in apprehension and pleasure. I know that she has had no sexual life for 20 years, and I have now awoken her passions again. She takes me to an upstairs room, and I believe her husband comes back, but she gets rid of him somehow, I think for good. When she’s back upstairs, she notices the window is open, and a strong wind blows the curtains apart. This terrifies her into feelings of guilt and shame, and she makes me hide behind the bed while she tries to close the window. She leans out of the window to push her neighbour’s curtains back also, and falls to her death. I then wander in gardens outside.

This is a description of the whole Oedipus complex as stated by Freud. The older woman represent the mother.

Useful questions:

What dead end in life am I moving in and perhaps not recognising?

What leads me or directs me into the dream cul-de-sac and what can I understand from that?

What does the dream drama say about this – i.e. is there a way out, and what am I learning?

See Secrets of Power Dreaming – Techniques for Exploring your Dreams – Questions

Cup

This is usually linked in some way with satisfying ones thirst. In other words the cup suggests either the fullness or absence of satisfaction and felt needs, or the circumstances the cup reminds you of. For instance a cup from home or family can associate with good or difficult times, or with a past or present relationship, and people we shared time with in a social way. Who you are with in the dream also suggests what feelings of satisfaction or need you are dealing with.

The cup can represent a receptive attitude or femininity and the womb, or receptivity and pouring oneself out as in prayer. In the saying “My cup overflows” – or cup of suffering, it suggests your inner condition. In this sense the cup is a receptacle, and can depict what you hold in yourself, or how you measure or taste or experience things.

The cup can depict feelings you are experiencing or giving, as in sharing  yourself or receiving something from someone else, as when a drink is given by someone or you give it.

A dream cup might be representing what is in it – tea, coffee, milk etc. Some dreams are about health and how your body responds to what you take in, so if there is a sign of this in the dream take notice.

Example: We start going. I grab at a Styrofoam cup with coffee, cigs, ashtray, etc. and put them in my lap. I am sitting on a car seat that is sideways to the rest of the seats. Hot wax (pink) spills on my pant leg.

This dream seems to show a very casual and hurried relationship with the cup.

Sometimes the imagery of the cup is used to represent the body and what we hold within ourselves – showing the quality, richness or emptiness of who we are or feel ourselves to be. It is important to remember that dreams depict what we feel or fear about ourselves as well as what we are beyond those fears or self judgements. As in the New Testament where Jesus asks that the cup be taken from him, the cup can show what we face in life and in our feelings at this time. Do we drink something bitter or enlivening?

Example: Through its I have grown out of the chaser of rainbow ends and mirages to one who can accept an imperfect world, my own imperfection, and take cups of water from shaking hands. I take my place as a man among mankind – not the saints. “When those Saints go marching in, I am not to be among their number.”

A broken cup suggests either you do not have a good inner feeling about giving or yourself to others, or about receiving. There is a problem involved somewhere in giving or receiving. Do you feel you have nothing to give or are unworthy of receiving?

Golden or precious cup: The core essence of you. This cup indicates that part of your nature that does not corrupt or ‘rust’ like your body and the things you might see as valuable in worldly goods. So it might therefore be shown in your dream being dug up, pulled out of the earth, or buried in ruins or ancient places. This shows the influence in you from the long past.

Carrying cups to others shows you serving or looking after the needs of others.

Measuring cup can link with care you are taking to be precise or ‘measured. Or it might say you are preparing something carefully or you don’t want to overdo something.

Overflowing cup can either mean you life is full and you have more than you need, or that you are wasting precious resources. What is being lost or poured out?

In another sense this represents your life energy and how it is being expressed. So it links with sexual expression, with emotions and how you express yourself outwardly.

Round Bottomed: Once filled you cannot put cup down until you have drunk all the contents. Drinking it may mean taking on something you like or do not want to face, so take care.

The quality of the cup shows how you like to present yourself to others or how they present themselves to you.

Two cups indicate sharing with another person in some way.

Idioms: cup of tea; cup runneth over; there’s many a slip twixt the cup and the lip

 

Useful Questions and Hints:

Essentially what am I giving or receiving with the cup?

What does the cup hold, and is that indicating what I am facing in my life?

Who am I involved with in this dream, and what is being given or received in the relationship?

See Techniques for Exploring your Dreams – Resistances – Active Passive

Current

This word is used to indicate both what is present – a current experience – and also a flow or influence.

In both senses it shows something having an impact on you. What the impact is depends on the other dream events and characters. But it suggests the influence of other people and events to push you into certain decisions, directions or feelings. It can also be the inner pressure of your desires, the direction of the your life, or influence of inner tendencies.

The current in some dreams, whether a river, the sea or electrical, also might relate to the flow of life-biological energy moving through you. Air, water and food constantly flow through you, giving rise to the energy you express as movement, feelings, sex, speech, thinking and awareness. Dreams often show this current of energy as interactive, as in the following dream.

Example: I was in a big stream with my two sons, M. and N. It was a fairly strong current and the boys were getting hurt. I told them that whatever you do reacts with the current. It was like karma. Everything done influenced the current, and so one must be very aware of every action, or else it rebounds and causes injury.

The dream shows life energy as capable of being creative or destructive. Expressed as anger, despair, self loathing, it can destroy health of mind and body. Expressed as creativity, love and curiosity it can change your life and the world. It vivifies whatever it flows into, enhancing negative or positive tendencies. See: river; snake.

A current can also indicate the outer flow of circumstances or events as they act upon us and influence or pull us along. The inner pressure of desires, the direction of the inner life, or influence of inner tendencies.

Electrical current: See: electricity.

Useful Questions and Hints:

What influence or effect is the current having – i.e. am I struggling against it; am I going with it; is it influencing someone else – and how does that apply to my life?

Is the current carrying me anywhere and if so where or to what?

Does this current link with my personal energy, and in what way?

Does the current represent influence of others, or events pushing me into certain decisions?

What inner pressure of desires or tendencies does this represent?

See Techniques for Exploring your Dreams – Karma – Energy Sex and Dreams

Curse Cursed Cursing

Autosuggestion. That is, inner results of fears entertained. Also symbolises the inheritance of past actions, past lives, or hereditary traits or taints. It sometimes refers to the power of material values to influence decisions and life, the power of hate.

When you actually believe something, it is taken as real by the part of your mind that controls all your body processes and your decisions making. So if you believed you were seriously ill you would not only feel bad, but you would order your activities around your believed sickness. An example of this is when on entering a room of our house we see a strange man; the our heart beats faster, and we get ready to run or fight. But when we see it is just an arrangement of a hanging coat the emergency feelings disappear.

A curse is like that, something taken in and believed that can create great harm. It might also symbolises the inheritance of past actions, past lives, or hereditary traits or taints.

But dreaming about giving or receiving a curse is also often about deeply felt hurts or the desire to undermine or even destroy someone’s well-being. Meditation or prayer are ways to heal such feelings or hurts. See Black Magic

Sometimes dreams represent tangled emotions and urges brought about by past hurts as a curse placed upon you. In such cases it is helpful to see if you can trace what the dream presents back to its origins in your experience.

I believe that the enormous amount of anxiety people suffer is the real curse – anxiety about animals attacking them in their dream; anxieties about being possessed, or by being cursed – and all of these awful images can be seen as simply our fears, pains and anxieties taking on form in our dreams. And int he end dreams are virtual realities that we create in our sleep. Even the wonderful dreams of God and angels are an external virtual reality, and mirror of our own inner immensity and our enormous variety. Unfortunately people either accept them as externally real, or as fantasy. But they are reflections of your potential, that cannot be seen in your daily life that is so dominated by your physical senses and hungers and fears.

So the images and fears we experience in our dreams are projection upon the vast screen of our mind. They are all projections from you. Running from them is like trying to escape from yourself. But such dreams are like a computer game with full surround virtual reality. In such games you can be killed a thousand times and yet you survive to deal with the monsters again. That is unless you learn a way through and go on through the levels. But unlike those games there is a wonderful intelligence behind the dreams we have, and if you listen and learn from it you will find a real mastership – not a false one of deny any fear or repressing anything that threatens you.

Useful Questions and Hints:

What is the curse, and what does it suggest or carry – and can I see signs of such negative emotions in my lie?

If I am the one cursing, what am I feeling so strongly about?

Do I have a strong belief in something negative, such as sickness or bad luck?

Does this imply tainted hereditary traits? (Go back into the dream and make changes. Beliefs can be modified.)

See Secrets of Power Dreaming – Techniques for Exploring your Dreams – Avoid Being Victims

Cut Cutting

If something is cut it can depict severing connections, separation, to become independent, to cut off sympathy or affections. If an object is cut or torn it points to possible regret at the damage, or maybe desire to damage.

If the cut is on the body it indicates a hurt or sense of injury to whatever the part of the body represents. This may link with a hurtful relationship with someone. Or it can mean being opened up to external influences such as an infection. If you are doing the cutting then it is about desire to injure. It may also represent your sexual desires, that through the pain associated with experiences of being let down, scorned, ill treated, the feelings of love only express as the desire to hurt, to cut, to connect through pain. Can also mean reducing in importance or impact.

Cutting in an organised way, or even when random, can point to change, as when we cut our hair. Also we can cut something to open it or reveal something, to get something, or to get somewhere, as when we cut through red tape, or cut a lemon to get its juice.

A plant cutting that you are going to plant may link with good and growing parts of yourself that you are looking for a life situation to ‘plant’ or experience them in. It may thus depict a search for a caring and ‘fertile’ relationship. See: plants.

Example: My father was THE original authority in my life. I had cut off from him because of the lack of support, and I had done the same with school and other authority situations. The worst bit of all though, was to see that in my desire for my father’s love, I had been seeking older males in a form of latent homosexuality.

A short cut: If it works fine, but a short cut may in the end be a long way.

Cutting through: Cutting through entanglements, through barriers is a sign that you are using strength of purpose to get rid of things such as worries, fears and even neuroses to become whole and healthy.

Cut off from: Shows that you either feel someone has shut down any emotional contact or support, or else you have done it.

Idioms: A cut above; you can’t cut it; cut to the chase; cut through; cut away; cut back; clean cut; cut from the same cloth; cut corners; cut the crap; cut a fine figure; cut a wide swathe; cut and dried; cut him off; cut it fine; cut it out; cut losses; cut his teeth on; cut me some slack; cut to the quick; cut off your nose to spite your face; cut price; cut the mustard; cut down to size; cut to ribbons; cut your own throat; have your work cut out; short cut; cutting edge; low cut.

Useful Questions and Hints:

Have I been opened up to something, or to see what is going on inside me?

Am I consciously or unconsciously cutting off feelings, connections, or importance regarding a situation in life?

Am I angry about something, or have a desire to cause injury?

What am I trying to open up or get to?

See Techniques for Exploring your Dreams – Questions – Life’s Little Secrets

Cyclone

Emotions and urges against which you feel powerless, and which may become obsessive.

See: tornado

See Techniques for Exploring your Dreams

Cyst

A morbid collection of memories, emotions, energies, that are not harmonising or adding to your life in general.

A cyst on a certain part of the body can show a physical or psychological hurt connected with that area. So a cyst on the right leg could indicate weakness in your confidence in external activity. See: abscess boil.

Useful Questions and Hints:

What memories, emotions, energies are causing me problems at the moment? (Imagine going back into the dream and drain the cyst, or apply healing cream to it.)

Have I got a physical condition or pain in the area shown – if so might it be a good idea to have it checked?

Does my dream give me any clues to its cause?

See Techniques for Exploring your Dreams – Secrets of Power Dreaming

Dagger

Aggressive urges, hatred, expression of force whether intellectual, moral or physical. Can denote male aggression or penis.

This is the sort of weapon that can be easily hidden and used in treachery or betrayal. It can depict the sort of attack we make on someone through criticism and underhanded remarks or rumours. In ones own hand it might suggest those things but can also depict defences, or being defensive. See: weapons. The following example clearly shows two defensive images – the castle and the dagger.

Example: I dreamed that it was a cold night in a castle and I had a dagger in my hand. Then a pale guy (with blood dripping from his mouth) attacked me and I stabbed him.

Daggers have often been used as an instrument of initiation or of rituals. In a dream where one is killed by a dagger, apart from the meaning suggested above, it can also be about the death of an old self, and the transition to another stage of life, an initiation. See: individuation.

Useful Questions and Hints:

What am I angry or defensive about?

Am I aiming my anger at someone in particular?

Can I see signs of defensiveness in how I relate to others?

Am I pressurising or threatening others, whether intellectually, morally or physically?

See Techniques for Exploring your Dreams – Background – Dreams are Virtual Realities

Dalai Lama

See: Guru.

Dam

This often indicates the way we ‘bottle up’ our emotions, and drives such as ambition or sex. There is often tremendous power or energy waiting to be used or directed in the dream of a dam. So it can depict the controlled release of such physical, emotional, mental and sexual energy.

The dam can show not just how you restrict, hold back or repress energy, but also how you direct or conserve it. The following dream shows another aspect of this.

Example: My boyfriend and I were at a local beach. I had been there before but he hadn’t. It was at a dam situated just up from the beach. I was floating in the air about ten feet above him, and he was dead. He had drowned. Since I had this dream we have broken-up. I still love him very much. T.H.

The dam here suggests the boyfriend was holding back his feelings, and so was shown as dead, drowned in his emotions that he kept dammed.

Building a dam shows you developing ways to control the way your emotions or sexual feelings express.

A dam bursting is an indication you either feel threatened that your emotions or sexual needs will overwhelm you, that you have no control over your feelings, or that you are experiencing tremendous release from repression or tension. See: river.

Useful Questions and Hints:

Is this dream about holding back or releasing?

In what ways do I restrict or release my feelings and sexuality?

Am I holding back my flow o feelings and energy?

Is this about what I sense in someone else?

See People Animals and Objects of our Dreams are Projections – Techniques for Exploring your Dreams – A Dream is Like a Seed

Damage Damaged

The suggestion here is of a hurt or stress that has done some sort of harm. What the harm is depends very much on the dream and surrounding events and people. Often the damage does not break or completely ruin what is shown. But it is information about what is being hurt or stressed.

For instance you can damage a relationship, your health, your work prospects, your respect for someone. So it is helpful to define what is being indicated in the dream. Is it bad diet, uncontrolled habits or anger? Is it lack of care or attention to detail? You can damage yourself or others by things you do or say, or even by what you do not do or say. In this way your mouth can be a deadly weapon.

Look up the thing that is damaged for more information. See: hurt; broken.

Useful questions and hints are:

What is it that is damaged and what in my life, body or relationships is that pointing to?

Is there any indication of how I or someone else is creating the damage?

Is stress or carelessness damaging my life, prospects or people I care about?

See Techniques for Exploring your Dreams – Secrets of Power Dreaming – Life’s Little Secrets

Dance Dancing

If you are dancing with someone it shows feeling at one or in harmony with someone or others, or aspects of yourself; or unity, as seen in the cells working as a harmonious whole.

It can also express happiness, or a sexual mating dance. Sometimes getting closer or more intimate emotionally or sexually. In fact so many women love dancing and want to dance with a partner because it is a woman’s way to express her full female self and sexuality.

If dancing alone or watching someone dance, the meaning depends upon what you feel as you dance or watch. It often suggests enjoyment, self expression, release, allowing your creative or sexual feelings to flow.

Many figures dancing in time with each other is an expression of an insight into how life expresses through a multitude of creatures or people, and ones own part in it. This can mean cooperation or social integration. Some dances lead to a trance state in which one touches the divine.

Many women have an urge to dance, and in past ages this was a way of expressing her beauty to a man. Today it can be a means to express oneself, ones creativity or feelings.

We can communicate something to other people by our dancing.

Example: One evening I joined a free dance group. As I danced I had a strong impression somebody was watching me and getting something from it – feeling my spirit as it flowed in the dance. At the end I stood very still for some time, sunk in the stillness again. I felt that whoever it was watching and sharing with me wanted to speak to me, but nobody came to me, so I moved away. Then a while later Una, an elderly Irish lady came and told me how much she had got from my dance.

And ancient form of dancing is done by the Sufis who twirl, rotating on the spot. This can produce dizziness, which if continued can produce a faint. This causes the ratioinal mind to faint, and so brings about a condition in which one can contact one source, perhaos having a profound vision. This was the method of Jalal ad-Dīn Rumi.

 “In Black Africa, many women traditionally pride themselves on being dancers and birthers – endeavours that require uncompromising physical strength, mental clarity, rhythmic integrity, and a direct link to forces greater than themselves. As dancers they give birth, bringing to the birth process the tremendous strength acquired over years of night long and sometimes week-long- ‘spirit dances’. Daily work, the honouring of womanhood, the deities, the ancestors, the darkness, and the celebration of birth itself are all depicted in the dance. And the dance is carried into the fibres of everyday life.”

Animals dancing: Harmony with unconscious drives and sexuality.

Dancing with someone usually shows a loving relationship, or even the prelude to a sexual relationship.

Circle dancing:  And ancient form of dancing is done by the Sufis who twirl, rotating on the spot. This can produce dizziness, which if continued can produce a faint. This causes the ratioinal mind to faint, and so brings about a condition in which one can contact one source, perhaos having a profound vision. This was the method of Jalal ad-Dīn Rumi.

But also it relates to the nucleus of the human identity. Although we are, in our everyday life, the magical and mysterious process of life, it is difficult for us to actually answer the question ‘Who am I?’ or ‘What am I?’ with any lasting conviction. The mysterious essence of ourselves is met in dreams as a circular or square object or design. So circle dancing can show you getting closer to you own centre.

If the dance is awkward: Lack of harmony connected with what is depicted.

Skeletons or dark ‘things’ dancing: Developing a relationship with what we fear – meeting it; dancing with death – in life we always dance with death, meaning we have an intimate relationship with it, but might not be ready to recognise who our partner is.

Stepping on partners toes shows you upsetting others or being awkward in your relations with others.

 Example: ‘We were both shy of each other but as the dance went on I found I could move so well to his steps that we felt like one, it was so effortless that it felt like floating.’ Heather.

Useful Questions and Hints:

What was expressed in the dance and what do I gain from that?

Am I expressing spontaneity, creativity or love in this dance?

Did I feel any connection with the divine?

See Techniques for Exploring your Dreams – Secrets of Power Dreaming – Life’s Little Secrets