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Freeze Frozen

This usually shows that you have been frightened of expressing your emotions, or that you have denied a part of your memories, feelings or sexuality. It might be that you emotional natures has no developed by being in a cold environment. You, or someone near you, has been or is cold emotionally. It can also mean you miss or need affection or warmth. So it is about being unfeeling, but sometimes painfully unfeeling. To become cold emotionally and perhaps sexually. To need affection or warmth. To be unfeeling, but sometimes painfully unfeeling. See: cold

It depicts what is meant by the term cold shoulder, where we shut off any display of warmth or compassion. It also therefore shows the dreamer as having ‘frozen assets’ in a personal sense.

But often it means that the dreamer has shut off a part of themselves in a sort of cold storage – a freezer. Something what is frozen can be thawed, and so the frozen things can depict potential, personal assets not yet used or brought to life.

Frozen can also mean stillness, a quietness of mind and emotions.

A freezer would depict either your ability to repress your feelings, or ability to store something for the future – like denying spending now so you can save for something in the future.

Icicle: Frozen male sexual feelings.

Iceberg: Similar to ice, but may suggest frozen potential.

Body locked in ice, perhaps dead: Deadening of all our feeling reactions and enjoyment or motivation.

Idioms: Break the ice; cut no ice; put on ice; tread on thin ice.

 

Useful questions and hints:

What am I unfeeling about at the moment?

Is there a part of me frozen in the past and unable to move on?

Is this about stillness and a sense of peace in me?

See Associations Working With – Martial Art of the Mind – Secrets of Power Dreaming

 

Friend

Your feelings or worries about this friend. If the dream friend is no one you know then usually represents the inner intuitive feelings that encourage and advise you. The character of this unknown person will tell you what aspect of yourself the friend displays. Or it may relate to your contact with friends. See Characters and People in Dreams

Good friend: Each person, object or even place in a dream should not be thought of as a symbol, such as a road sign that needs interpretation. A person or object is a living part of you, just as your hand is not a symbol it is a living part of you. As such a person is alive and responsive, with enormous depths. And a good friend is a wonderful aid in your life, an aid that can see you through the difficult times, and show you a new side of yourself.

To understand the friend you need to be that friend. I mean imagine yourself in their body and see how it feels, and describe yourself as them, even ask them questions. In doing so do not forget that this is a part of yourself you are making more real. Don’t get the silly idea this is someone else, even though they have the face and body of someone else. In this way you will discover an enormous amount about your own strength and ‘goodness’. But if you cannot do that, then at least imagine talking to them ask them questions and listening for their replies. Or if you cannot even do that, then remember that you have a good friend and treasure it.

Bad Friend: This is the opposite of what was said above. So take heed of what you learn and try to avoid repeating the mistakes.

Boyfriend: See boyfriend

Girlfriend: See girlfriend

Example: A male friend of mind had finally come back from his vacation and I was flirting with him and he turned me down. We were eating pancakes outside. I remember leaving the table and the pancakes no longer hungry. Then I came back wanting to eat the pancakes again. Then I got in my car and drove for a long period of time.

Example: Back in January, my boyfriend’s friend was murdered. The trial is going to start soon and recently I have been having a reoccurring dream about his friend. I knew his friend but we were not close. In each dream, he is wearing the same clothes and hat and he is talking but I can’t understand him. We had the same first name and the look on his face gives me a weird feeling. He looks as if he is worried about something and I can’t understand what he is saying. I asked if anyone else has dreamt about him and everyone says no. What does this mean? Why would he come to me of all people? Is he trying to communicate with me? Thanks.

Example: The priest was going to question and assault my friend in connection with some opinion he had offended the church with. I went to stand near him to give him moral support, and physical help if necessary. I hated seeing anybody degraded. The priest saw my move and sent three thug type men to shoulder me out. They surrounded me to knock me down. I went berserk and knocked them all over the place with kicks and punches. John P.

Useful questions:

Is this friend someone I know? If so, what do I think and feel about this person?

If I do not know the friend in the dream, what characteristics does she/he have that reflect my own life at the moment?

If I imagine myself as this person what do I feel or realise?

See Being the Person or Thing – Processing Dreams – Learning to Love

Frog Frogs

Any amphibian and reptile depicts your basic spinal and lower brain reactions, such as fight or flight, reproduction, attraction or repulsion, sex drive, need for food and reaction to pain. This includes the fundamental evolutionary ability to change and the urge to survive – very powerful and ancient processes. Your relationship with the amphibian in your dreams depicts how you deal with such urges in you, and how you deal with the impulses from the ancient part of your brain – probably the spinal brain. (Thanks Melissa).

The deeply unconscious psychobiological life processes, that transformed us from a tadpole/sperm, into an air breathing frog/adult – therefore the process of life in general and its wisdom. The enormous information such symbols hold if we explore them gives them their power. It can also suggest a meeting with what we find difficult or repulsive in life and ourselves, that if we can accept it transforms into personal potential and power – the frog into the prince story. It is often a form of love that transforms the dark sides of oneself, the toad or beast, into something that is life enhancing. It can also be sub-personality, an aspect of ones character that is usually unconscious, but occasionally shows itself in behaviour.

The frog has also been associated with the power of resurrection and renewal.

Frogs spawn: Sperm, ovum and reproduction. It can also occasionally show as a doorway to another dimension. See: sub-personality; Autonomous Complex

Example: I felt close to a woman, and we were holding hands. Together we walked into a large building. I believe my woman companion had been in the place before. I say this because I was feeling slightly uncertain and she was feeling confident and supportive.

Inside the front door of the building was a wide passageway probably about 15 or 20 feet wide. Not far along this passage something completely filled the space ahead. It looked like frogs spawn, but much more ethereal, perhaps like patterns of energy with just a little material substance. With no real hesitation the woman and I walked into this wall of energy. I believe we knew more or less what would happen – that we would be absorbed and become wholly a part of this life form. As we walked into it I was trying to analyse what was happening and what it felt like. I lost all sense of my body as a dense form, but I could still feel my partner’s hand in mine in a very delicate way – again like energy playing upon energy

It can also relates to being a little frog in a big pond, or pointing our that like frogs, you are  jumping from one thing to another, or perhaps moving forward in leaps and bounds.

Frogs were linked with the Egyptian frog goddess Heket. It was associated with the flooding of the Nile. The association was made because when the Nile left its riverbed, millions of tiny frogs also appeared. So frogs represented abundant life and fertility to the Egyptians. An image of the goddess was worn by pregnant women as a talisman for a safe birth.

The frog and the princess who aids the frog to transform in a prince are about the power of transformation in our inner world. The things we despise or avoid are often – in our dream world – the things that have wonderful qualities of transformation.

Because frogs lay a mass of eggs they are symbols of fertility. This can represent the creativity you have unconsciously, or sometimes it is dreamt when a woman is pregnant.

We have a brain in us that is there because of our evolutionary history as a reptile.  See Reptilian Brain. Perhaps because of that Joseph Campbell felt that the frog is another example of the dragon and other frightening monsters whose role in mythology is to guard treasure. The reptile/dragon represents the dark and frightening aspects of ones own nature; the huge instinctive feelings we usually resist or repress. The treasure is your Core Self, which enables one to attain real womanhood or manhood. That is why the frog has also been associated with the power of resurrection and renewal.

Useful questions and hints:

What deeper levels of my life process or of survival drives am I becoming aware of?

Is there something of myself I am repulsed by and yet could be transformed?

Do I still need to emerge from dependence into a fuller maturity?

See Being the Person or Thing – Avoid Being Victims – Jesse Watkins Enlightenment

 

 

Front

This usually relates to what you are aware of, and what other people can see, about yourself or what you are doing. This is so whether it is the front of a house, a car, or yourself. It is the ‘front’ or facade you use to meet other people and events with. It is also the part of yourself that takes most of the impact of relationships and events.

When the term ‘the part of yourself’ is used, it means those personal traits, attitudes or skills you use. A person may be aggressive in business deals, but this might be something he or she has to use to cope with what is necessary in business. So it is only a ‘part’ of their nature, perhaps a ‘front’.

Front of body, house, etc.: The more public or expressed or exposed part of one’s nature, or attitudes used to meet ‘the world’. Also a ‘front’ or facade, used to create an impression; the point of stress where we as a person contact others and meet impacts, and so are more vulnerable.

Sometimes, as with the front of a car, or the front door of a house, especially if bonnet or door is being opened, it can link with sexual feelings. Something in front of you shows you being confronted by whatever it is, or it is becoming a more conscious part of your experience. See: Back.

But the front door if it is someone there is is probably about a new experience or person that is comng into your life.

Example: I was looking at my bookcase and remembered that Tim had commented that it didn’t look like I was a great reader. As I thought this I wanted him to know that what was seen on the bookcase was only the front row of books, and there were a lot more behind them.

This dream clearly shows how the woman has a lot more depth than her first impressions give. It is obviously telling her not to be put down by her man friends comment.

Example: I was on an unpaved road with an unseen companion. In front on my right was a steep hill road. It ascended through trees. As I looked I realised it was the road to the hospital where I had experienced such trauma as a three year old, and in which I had my tonsils out – both. I explained to my companion that the road used to be almost impassable, but it was now widened and tarmaced. I felt a sense of an awful past as I looked at the road. Then I was standing on the edge of a precipice or cliff. My wife was about four yards away near the road. I stepped in an area of soft earth. It gave beneath my weight and I sank up to my waist. I realised the cliff edge was unstable and the whole area would fall. I was sinking and shouting to her to help me. She was gaily walking about and made light of my call for help. I cried out again. Still she ignored me. I shouted again for her help. She took no notice and I sank deeper, the ground gave way and I fell to my death.

The front in this dream refers to what he is now facing, as is explained in the following: “I explored this dream with a friend. It was about the effects or attitudes of being left in the hospital by my mother. Mainly that I feel nobody – the woman I love – will come to my help in a crisis. So deep down, because my mother could apparently leave me in a hospital at three, I do not trust anybody – maybe not even myself. If you cannot trust your mother, who can you trust? I have transferred this mistrust to her also. Likewise, for reasons of her own, she doesn’t trust me.

I felt an area of hurt feelings in me to do with trusting nobody. Gradually the feelings melted into gentle feelings of need for others. I needed to be held sometimes. I need the stimulation and variety of other people’s company. I need some involvement from others in what I do with my life. I also feel the pleasure of having something that others wish to share. I realised how wonderful it is to have found something in myself that can contact and integrate the various aspects of my nature, such as my painful experiences, my sexuality, the highest in me, and so on. I want to share the ability to experience oneself so widely with others.”

Idioms: A lot of front; in front of; putting up a good front.

Useful questions and hints:

What is it that I am aware of that the dream brings more fully to my attention?

Whatever this front is, what is it expressing?

What is this the front of, and what does that suggest?

See Background and foreground – Background – Techniques for Exploring your Dreams

Frontier

This suggests you are making great changes in life, moving from one set of values or way of life to another. You are probably meeting some sort of barrier or hesitation. It suggests a point in your growth where you may have to prove yourself or make changes. The change might involve experiencing different territory, a different way or life or relationship – and thus a new experience of life. Hesitations and uncertainties may prevent you making the crossing. See Border.

Borders also relate to decisions or moral questions of whether a particular direction you are taking is expressive of your true purposes or identity, or if it will harm others. Frontiers are an everyday part of our life in other ways too, such as the border between sleeping and waking; between what we feel is right and wrong; between advancing and pulling back; between limited awareness and expanded awareness.

A frontier town can mean that you are experiencing your much more basic, natural but perhaps challenging self. This reflects more ‘homespun’ beautiful, uncomplicated, innocent feelings about life and love. These attitudes offer enormous space and opportunity as the many restrictions of social and political life fall away.

Take time with this because it is about something amazing that we all share. In dreaming or becoming lucid you are experiencing something of the usually hidden world of our body, of your mind, of your whole biological past, and Life in you that lies beyond the frontier of your personal awareness.

Here are frontiers we may cross. Greater insight into the functioning and health of your body’s organs and cells, along with insights into what is necessary to maintain or improve health and well-being.

Awareness of your forgotten journey from conception, through birth and childhood. This enables you the possibility of clearing any difficulties of development that occurred in that unfolding.

Gradual awareness of the incredible ancestral journey you are the end product of.

Recognition and entrance into the level of awareness or consciousness out of which your personal self awareness has emerged and is immersed in.

Beginning the journey along what has been called in the past the spiritual path. In plain language this means the slow entrance of your personal awareness into what exists beyond the frontier of sleep. Taking the focussed light of self awareness into the darkness of the unconscious world of sleep and the body. If you take this path, at some point you will confront the fundamental consciousness of the universe and recognise your existence in it. It will need you to meet fear, anger and many strange things – strange to you. See Dweller of the Threshold

Example: So I let go of the searching, of the hoping to find what had been – my marriage. Then arose a wonderful feeling as if I were standing on the frontier of a new territory. It felt very welcoming, very uplifting to have so much space and so much opportunity. I felt quite deep emotions, not in a sad way, but certainly in a full sense of feeling. Kath, who I was with, was also moved by seeing me experience deeply.

Useful questions and hints:

What new area of experience am I trying to move into?

Are there hesitations, self examination or questions of identity to face here?

What new opportunities or experience offer themselves here?

See Techniques for Exploring your Dreams – Questions – Features on Site

Fruit

Fruits may represent experience or efforts and what emerges from them. Especially the ‘fuits’ of your life, your abilties and rewards from your actions. Sometimes it represents that you have arrives at your lifes goals.

Soft or luscious fruits such as fig or peach: May represent female genitals.

Long fruit such as banana: May depict a hunger for sweet things; male penis.

Apple:  Satisfaction of hunger. temptation; breast.

Frozen

See: Freeze.

Fuel

Feeling drives; motivation; whatever has ‘fuelled one’s drive’. Petrol/gas is also a resource, something you know you can call upon to achieve something or ‘get somewhere’. So having an empty tank would suggest you have no such resources of energy, or motivation or ‘drive’ to achieve what you desire or need to do. It can sometimes indicate exhaustion and poor health. So it might indicate a change of diet or life style – getting more rest?

There is an interesting complexity here as you need resources – money – to get the resource of fuel. See Petrol

Funeral

This can reflect concerns about death, perhaps because someone close has died and confronted you with death. Death is an important aspect of your life, and dreams use such a dream to explore the subject, and find greater wholeness and healing. See: What Happens When I Die? Death.

Sometimes we dream of seeing someone we know buried when we want them out of our life. So this is a reminder that we want to make a break in a relationship.

Very occasionally we dream of the funeral of a close relative or friend, and this is because we have an intuitive realisation about their coming death.

People often dream of witnessing their own funeral. This is because we all wonder about death, and so sometimes practice it in our dreams. Seeing someone else buried might be a hidden wish to ‘get rid of them’. Very occasionally it is a premonition about the person’s health. A funeral may also represent the end of something in your life, like a relationship, or mourning for someone dead.  Feelings about one’s own death. Very occasionally a warning about health of person buried, or wanting the buried person out of one’s life.

Example: During my teens I was engaged to be married when I found a more attractive partner and was in considerable conflict. Consistently I dreamt I was at my fiancé’s funeral until it dawned on me the dream was telling me I wanted to be free of him. When I gave him up the dreams ceased.

Dreaming about a funeral can also be saying that something that is now dead in your life needs to be laid to rest.

A funeral gathering can also be a time when people concentrate on the passing of the person, and it can be a wonderful experience of lifting them. See Babs

One’s own funeral: It is a common dream to watch one’s own funeral. It depicts your own philosophy about your end. May also remind of what you want to do while alive; desire for sympathy from family; retreat from world; a feeling of deadness in life.

Burying yourself: Leaving an old way of life or old self behind.

Someone else’s funeral: A wish they were dead; a wish to be rid of them. It is often unconsciously used as an easy way out of a relationship – to fantasy them dead. It avoids the responsibility of making your wishes known. See: Second example under death.

Parents funeral: Difficulties with or move toward independence; exploring the feeling of their loss; repressing or letting go of the painful past. See: burial; death; death and rebirth under archetypes; death and dreams; death is there life afterwards?

On witnessing and experiencing a friend (Chris’s) mothers funeral.

 In describing this I have to say first that I did not go to your mother’s funeral with any sense of seeking an experience or looking for some sort of insight into what was going on. I went to be with you as your friend. And, as you know, the service was far from inspiring. The priest was stumbling over what he was reading, didn’t remember your mother’s name, and so there was some level of irritation with most of us because of what was happening.

So I wasn’t moved by the ceremony. I was there involved in what was going on around me. But suddenly it seemed that something opened in me and I could see or sense that all the people there, although they were not attempting to do what I was now sensing, were producing something by their very presence as a group. The funeral itself, the fact that everybody was there to be part of your mother’s funeral, acted as some sort of focus. It focussed their attention, their feelings and their thoughts as a lens might do. It focused all their mental and emotional energy on your mother’s spirit. I saw her lifted, buoyed up by it because in life she was crippled by Alzheimer’s. I suppose it would be right to say it was almost like she was brought awake by it also. So she was energised and lifted up to be with her chosen spiritual love, who was Christ. And what I had thought to be a funeral became a wedding as she was united with her love. That was a very wonderful thing to see.

So I believe funerals should not be a time of sorrow, but a rejoicing in the new state of life the dead experience.

Useful questions and hints:

What am I feeling in the dream, and where do those feelings appear in waking life?

Have I actually really confronted death with my feelings and seen it as part of life?

Is there a suggestion here of still trying to be, or failing to be, independent of parents or partner?

What do I want to achieve or do before I die?

See Secrets of Power Dreaming – Dreaming of Death – Talking with the dead – Edgar Cayce

 

Fungus

Feelings about decay or disease. Sick ideas, emotions. In a few dreams the fungus represents deeply unconscious and basic processes of your body or mind that have mysterious influences or possibilities.

It can be almost invisible things that can latch on to you and cause results that become observable. They are things that have a life of their own as far as you are concerned. The dream fungus can also mean that you are worried about something and what to do about it. Maybe the feeling that something grotty is in you.

Useful questions and hints:

What am I feeling negative about or seeing as decaying in my life?

What is the fungus on, and what might that indicate?

Does the dream give me any other clues?

If this is a magic or mysterious fungus what can you get from it?

If I imagine myself as the fungus what do I feel or how do I describe myself?

See Avoid Being Victims – Dreams are Like a Computer Game – Secrets of Power Dreaming

Fur Furry

Your animal instincts breaking through into everyday life. These instincts are wholesome and strengthening, so needn’t be repressed in most cases. If you have feelings about animal hides, then the fur could relate to this. See: Animals.

The fur can also be about feeling attractive or soft – like ice skaters in fancy costumes. If you have feelings about animal hides, then the fur could relate to this.

The condition of the fur is also a sign of health or illness.  Another angle is seeing fur as the sign of a dead or injured animal. See Levels of the Brain

Useful questions:

Is this about being in touch with my own animalistic side?

Am I meeting with my natural feelings and instinctive wisdom?

Do I have strong feeling about using animal hides?

What feelings are in the dream? Explore them and see what associations they lead to.

See Associations Working With – Techniques for Exploring your Dreams – Edgar Cayce

Furniture

Attitudes or habits developed from family or home life, especially if it is a piece of furniture from family home or a past dwelling. The beliefs or feelings we ‘furnish’ our mind with, perhaps from a past relationship. Domesticity – the disciplines and restraints we use in a relationship, or in our home life or notions about self, our self image.

Old furniture from family that has been inherited can mean things such as a karmic link that you are dealing with.

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?

bed This is an important symbol to understand. It often shows exactly what you are doing in the subtle areas of relationship. So can link with your close relationships, intimacy – an intimacy in which the qualities of the other can become part of you and a blending take place. Such a blending is not only that of you and another, but your known and presently formed self with what you hold within and latent.

But a bed is the place you sleep, so in a spiritual sense might be depicting your sleeping self, the parts of you still unconscious and not awake to who you really are and the issues needing attention in your life.

The bed also obviously relates to sexual pleasure; rest; the holy place in which we meet oneself and or another person deeply and passionately. But it can also suggest desire to get away from the world, to withdraw into oneself, to be passive.

It can depict sensual rather than sexual contact; sickness; privacy; the testing place of the relationship. Sometimes it represents sleep and meeting our unconscious – or torture – because in bed we may be tortured by insomnia, worries, physical pain.

Our life situation – made your bed, now lie on it. Bed is one of the commonest symbols in dreams.

In the example below the man is wrestling with his desire for pleasure and his sense of commitment; but also, whether he will keep his pleasure for himself, or share it with his wife. See: Example in contraceptive; bed wetting.

Example: ‘I sit on a bed. Near me, looking at a book I am holding is a woman I know, Jane. I realise as we talk that her foot is touching mine. As my wife is on my left across the room I feel uncomfortable about this. Now Jane has her left hand on my penis. I have only underpants on. The contact is pleasant and undemanding, but I feel more and more ill at ease. I feel Jane is not having any respect for my relationship with my wife and start to tell her so.’ Mr B. S.

Idioms: Bed of nails; bed of roses; go to bed with; make one’s bed and lie on it; test bed.

carpet Sometimes depicts one’s financial state, bare floorboards being poverty; can be the colour or design that are important; comfort or lack of it in life – do you feel satisfied with self; a cover up; feeling of being walked on.

A carpet in a much used room can also indicate, like a swimming pool, your shared experience with another person or family, or your own collective experience, as it is on the carpet that so much takes place in your life. It is difficult to create an image that summarises the mass of time and events you share with family or loved ones – or even your own lonely existence, but a carpet does that.

Idioms: Sweep something under the carpet; on the carpet; roll out red carpet; rug pulled out from under ones feet.

chair Passive, relaxed attitude; inactivity; receptivity or openness; escapism.

A chair can be placed in a workplace, outdoors, in a doctor’s surgery or in a thousand different environments. The different environments change the feelings associated with the dream chair. See environment

Placing of chair in group: Sense of status.

Wheelchair: An in-valid situation; a sense of weakness.

If pushing someone else: Seeing self as carrying an invalid.

cupboard or wardrobe Memory; resources; different roles you play or attitudes and emotions expressed in wardrobe; hidden memories and emotions – such as skeleton in the cupboard; womb.

Open or closed or trapped in cupboard: Whether we are ‘open or closed’ to other people; trapped in old feelings; sense of isolation.

mattress Similar to bed – the situation, comfortable or otherwise, one has created in life. You made your bed, now lie on it. Comfort; sexuality; relaxed feelings. See: bed.

Jung sees the mattresses as a marriage. A matrees can also be where we hide things such a money, books or magazines.

Example: ‘I am sleeping rough in a garden with a woman I do not love. I think I should try to make the best of the situation, but my feelings against it are too strong. Then I decide I don’t ever want to live like that again and tear up the mattress we slept on. As I do this I realise, as if waking from amnesia, that Pat lives just across the road. She has specially moved there because of our love. I realise with horror I had forgotten and may have lost her.’

Example: I lifted up my mattress and under my bed there was a giant newborn dead babies and a coffin. I opened up the coffin and there inside was another dead baby.

Rotting mattress: Something very wrong with your life situation.

Uncomfortable mattress: This suggest either a relationship difficulties or that something is troubling you while asleep.

rug See: carpet in this section above.

table Social connection with others; communal activity; everyday certainties that support your activities, such as confidence you will get paid at the end of the week; your attitude toward the inner and exterior community; an area of work or expression; an altar or self giving – if table is bare, perhaps not giving much of self.

Coffee table: Relaxed social connections. A centre for people to sit around and talk or discuss. Sometimes it isimprtant issues. A table for children to play on, so suggestst something connected with childhood. Can also be a work surface.

Dressing table: One’s attempts to create a good social image.

Place at table: Self image of your status.

Quality of table: The quality of your relationship with others.

Idioms: Lay your cards on the table; tabling a motion; table talk; table hopping.

Example: ‘Then I was in a place where we were having a staff party. Not very big but people were sitting at tables eating, a party mood. I sat with my child, maybe youngest son, no one else at the table. I felt I didn’t wish to get involved with the others, the feeling I often get at parties, just alone in a crowd.’ Simeon T.

Simeon’s dream table shows him not feeling inclined to connect with others. So it shows how he relates socially.

Example: Several people are sitting around a coffee table having a discussion.  Bitsy’s husband, Phil, and Kent’s father are the main talkers.  They are discussing something about love.  I can’t remember their exact words but their position was that one must maintain a marriage and make it work no matter what.  Love for another person doesn’t matter and should be ignored.  There is a book sitting on the coffee table.  The cover of the book is partially obscured.  Something is on top of the book.  Somehow the obscuring item is removed and I can see the title of the book.  I can’t remember the title but it totally disagreed with everything they were saying.

Useful questions and hints:

What is the table being used for?

Is it a table you know?

Has itbeen a part of you life for ages?

See Associations Working With – Techniques for Exploring your Dreams – Summing Up

Fuse

An electrical fuse represents that part of your ideas, resolves or confidence that may break down if pressure is brought to bear. Or it can be a word play to indicate unity.

Sometimes a fuse is a signal or a sign of danger, as when a fuse is lit for a bomb, or  a fuse blows again and again without cause.  Sometimes the fuses can go in a house when a person has died.

The fuse is a connection between your body or yourself, and the energy flowing into the various ways you express yourself – movement, dance, sex, speech, thought, curiosity, etc. The example below how intense sexual feelings can be shown as dangerous.

A noise or light in the room sets off an orgasm as I’m sitting on a couch. I put a magazine up by my face, pretending to read it so no one will see my face and I try not to respond to the strong orgasm. I’m embarrassed. Then I hear electricity zapping in the next room. I am aware this is dangerous and am leaving the house so I’ll be safe, when I see a small girl child bend down to pick up the zapping cord. She’s standing in the water. I yell, “NO! NO! Don’t touch that.” She seems unharmed. I rush out of the house, carrying her, looking for the fuse box.

Dreams also use the idea of fusing one thing with another. Two people can be fused into one, or we can fuse with an animal as one being. But fusing if an everyday part of us. What we take into us mentally, psychologically or physically becomes one with us. When we eat for instance it become the living part of us. Also we take into us the many things learnt in a relationship and they are fused with us. How many people do we fuse with as we grow and mature?

Useful questions:

What is happening to the fuse, and what does this suggest about my energy flow?

Have I being stressed lately and ‘blown a fuse’?

What will be ignited or destroyed by the fuse.

What do I feel myself merging with or integrating?

See Summing Up – Secrets of Power Dreaming – Life’s Little Secrets

Gale

See: Air; wind; tornado; whirlwind.

Games and Gambling

In some games there is real prizes like money, but in many there is the sense of success or feeling of defeat, so dreaming of games can indicate these. But in dreams, games are often used to represent life, where chances we take can have very direct connection with real events.

Such adult ‘games’ as making a record, developing a business, starting a job, bring us into direct interaction with the world, with an incredibly wide range of responses. Such games are extremely satisfying because of these interactions, but like racing driving, can be fatal because of their reality. What we do in our dream game will indicate how we are playing the ‘game’ of life. We may be playing recklessly, by the rules, skilfully, caringly etc. These indications can be seen as comments on our real life activities. Please read Dream as Computer Game.

Stances used to meet life; not taking life seriously – making a game of it; competitiveness; sense of winning or losing; team work; life skills. See: playing.

Particular games suggest different ‘stances’.

Ball games and athletics: Competitiveness; conflict within the dreamer – the two sides of oneself such as the winner or loser, the opposition and the home team. It could include a sense of win or lose, success failure, and of course the game of love.

Baseball: What we do in our dream game will indicate how we are playing the ‘game’ of life. We may be playing recklessly, by the rules, skillfully, caringly etc. These indications can be seen as comments on our real life activities. Professional players are also heroes for some people or a role model. If so what are you modelling your life on?

Cards and chess: Use of strategies and observation.

Computer games: In such games the person playing can get very involved in the game, so tha they feel as if they are facing real dangers, using real skill and facing awful odds. So in the dream you are exercising your life skills. Computer games as such that you can be killed or fail a thousand times and emerge none the worse. But if you learn the rules of the game of Life then you can go up the levels in this virtual reality world as well as in life.

Football matches, baseball, rugby: See football

These are generally the same as the above, but have another side to them. They also represent for many people the strong drive to identify with a tribe, a group. They are therefore ways the person gains identity and a sense of connection with people around them. In growing internationalism, such games may be of vital importance to maintaining a sense of identity within what may feel like being lost in a multitude.

Tennis Relationship and the sometimes battle for who is going to dominate that goes on in it; competition; the game people play in approaching sex, i.e. veiled remarks, casual telephone calls, verbal clues to readiness, etc.

Gambling: Taking risks with your life, health, family; work, money – whatever is indicated in dream.

Games like darts, billiards etc.: Your aims and ambitions; aiming at a goal and trying to achieve it; the difficulties of achievement.

Golf: Unless you are a caddy it suggest some sort of social level. It may suggest some skill and ability, and rewards if you are good at it.

Opponents: What you are meeting or in conflict with. This may be a part of your nature, such as self awareness, sexuality, even your body. You might be in conflict with life itself or ‘God’.

There are many games one can play like the  sexual game or the mating dance.

Example: Men in uniforms that are dresses, playing some game. Others just standing around. While I am watching, a man takes my arm, my hand and tells me what is going on. He then leads me back somewhere in the park and wrestles me to the ground trying to kiss me. I squirm away from him, saying I don’t want any of that homosexual junk. He is angry, thinking I had led him on, but he leaves. I also feel a little guilty, thinking that I should not have let him take my hand when he did so.

Idioms: Beat somebody at their own game; deep game; dirty game; fair game; game of chance; game to the end; give the game away; know what someone’s game is; mug’s game; name of the game; on the game; waiting game; game is up. See also: ball under shapes and symbols; doll; toy.

 

Useful questions and hints:

Am I a player or an observer?

What is the challenge here and how does that apply to my life situation?

What is happening here in regard to competition?

See Summing Up – Secrets of Power Dreaming – Conditioned Reflexes

Gang

A group of fears, aggressive tendencies, or parts of yourself. It may also suggest your need to conform to a group, or to follow a leader.