Posts Tagged ‘dream dictionary interpretation’
Glass
Glass represents the invisible but powerful feeling or social barriers we use in everyday life.
The sort of invisible yet tangible barriers we may erect or feel around others, such as natural caution, emotional coldness, disinterest, fear of being hurt or pride; social barriers. Invisible aspects of oneself which nevertheless may trap us, such as fear, lack of self respect; self doubt.
Glass can be a protection for food and to cook in. Also a protection against the weather and cold.
Frosted or smoked glass: Desire for privacy; keeping parts of oneself hidden; an obscure or unclear view of a situation; occasionally relating to death – the very real yet obscure experience we all face. Barriers or social techniques you use to gain privacy. It can also suggest keeping parts of yourself hidden, or an obscure or unclear view of a situation. Occasionally it relates to death – the very real yet obscure experience we all face.
Breaking glass: Breaking through a barrier; shattered emotions. What barrier are you breaking through, what restraint? It might also mean shattered emotions. Breaking a relationship; shattering an illusion; broken hearted.
Breaking something made of glass: Breaking a relationship; shattering an illusion; broken hearted.
Stepping on broken glass: Glass may not be very visible, so may represent hidden dangers; being careless about direction in life or present situation; or if it is being done without heed to injury, represents self inflicted pain.
Glasshouse: Something in your experience that protects fragile aspects of your growth; something that is itself fragile; a subtle but real barrier between the energy of your life and the aspects of you that are needing to grow.
Glass inside you swallowed: You have taken in very dangerous feelings, ideas or events that can knock down your ego or personality from within. It may cause a great energy loss because of loss of blood.
Example: Later, a lot of very ugly injuries and cuts appear in my chest and throat because I swallowed bits of glass, I realized the glass is going through my body, but nobody in my family believes and they think I did it to myself.
Next, same injuries but now in my belly, and I start throwing up blood, again and again, throwing up even my entrails. Now everybody believes I have glass splinters inside my body, and something has to be done.
Finally, when the bits of glass are in the last stage of my intestines, a doctor comes and something like a surgery is conducted. I can “see” the interior. With a pair of tongs the doctor is helping the glass to be “got out” without hurting anything in my body, and among the dirt (crap) he found a flower and in the interior of the flower he found a piece of glass, but then he realizes, that it was not glass, it was a diamond.
An amazing dream saying that amid all the pain and fear of illness when it is all felt and faced and healing is sought or thought, then it is realised that the awful hurts and fear was all in order to allow the awareness that at the heart of such experiences is the connections with the unchanging and eternal. See Diamond
Useful questions and hints:
Is the glass protecting me in some way?
Or am I in a dangerous situation with glass?
Am I looking though glass at something or somebody?
See Being the Person or Thing – Clicking On – Summing Up
Glasses Spectacles
Ability to see – understand – or lack of it; a way of hiding oneself, as behind sunglasses. Terms like ‘short-sighted’ or ‘long-sighted’ help to understand the use of glasses in a dream.
Coloured glasses: Suggest attitudes that may colour your view of life, as with ‘rose tinted glasses’.
Finding glasses: I shows that you have gained a new insight or are seeing things more clearly.
Lost or broken glasses: May indicate that you are not taking care of the insights you have gained that would give you a better view of what confronts you.
Sunglasses: Protectiveness or disguise.
Example: I keep pulling my glasses off and rubbing my eyes; I can maneuver pretty well without them, but I’m very aware that if a cop were to stop me for anything I’d be in trouble.
Useful questions and hints:
Is there a problem with my glasses in the dream and if so what does it signify.
Have I noticed any forgetfulness lately or lack of ability to focus?
What am I faling to clearly understand?
See Associations Working With – Inner World – Techniques for Exploring your Dreams – Identity and Dreams
Glisten
See: Glow.
Globe
Wholeness, your complete nature, symmetry or proportion. Usually refers to the soul or spirit, in the same way as a square or cube often represents the physical in a dream. Or it may represent the world. Sometimes the globe is in divisions denoting the different faculties or aspects of your nature.
What is meant by this is that although as a conscious person our life might be a mess, we still have health and wholeness as a potential. It often leads to a realisation that there is another subtler and more powerful world linked with out physical world. It also symbolises the amazing potential we all have if we find it. See giant
Or the globe may represent the world, in other worlds your present ‘world’ or experience or activity, the way you see or experience life. See: world.
Example: The Lady appeared amid the glowing light. On 13th September 1917 30,000 people met. Two skeptical Priests chose higher ground to watch. At noon the sun grew dim; a globe of light advanced down the valley to the tree; shiny white ‘petals’ fell out of the empty sky but vanished as people reached out to catch them. The children again saw the Lady amid the globe of light: she promised them a miracle. The Priests saw the globe and were much shaken.
The children who had first seen the Lady at Fatima in Portugal, were give two prophecies by the Lady. The first was that the present war would soon end and the second was that an even worse war would begin in 1939. See Our Lady of Fatima
Example: I dream of my late son, who passed this summer from Pneumonia. (Drug induced). We are in a globe type room, sort like an observatory. It is bright and colorful though the ceiling has stars and sky like patterns. My son is standing in the center of the room with me by his side. I am instructing him on something. I have a mentor (a male figure) looking on silently. I just know the mentor is for me. I mentor my son even though the/my mentor does not speak or anything.
The globe type room is something I have come across several times. It is a way of showing you a more global view of life. An enlargement of your awareness. The stars and sky patterns are also to help you realise the beauty and that your awareness has gone beyond what you can usually know through your senses; a wonderful dream. I think you already have a lot of experience in this other world knowledge, for you are clearly helping your son from the Highest in you.
Useful questions and hints:
What have you felt or realised in regard to the globe?
Was it glowing or well lit?
Were you aware of any knowledge given you?
See ESP in Dreams – Edgar Cayce – Secrets of Power Dreaming
Glove
Insularity against the world. It may also be an invitation, like a dropped glove, or handkerchief. Can stand for a hand without any life in it. Protection, or the attitude of avoiding contact, or something that does or does not fit in some way. See: Clothes
Gloves: Protection, as in wearing rubber gloves; keeping ‘one’s hands clean’ as in the sense of avoiding ‘dirty business’; being out of touch.
Also: Holding their glove would be holding their hand. Picking up a dropped glove: Similar to picking up a handkerchief dropped by a woman – an invitation to a relationship.
Idioms: Hand in glove with; iron fist in velvet glove; with kid gloves; with the gloves off.
Useful Questions and Hints:
How is the glove(s) portrayed?
Is this about protection, or a desire to avoid contact with someone or something?
Does a situation fit me well…or not?
If this is a dropped glove, is it an invitation of some kind?
See Techniques for Exploring your Dreams – Secrets of Power Dreaming
Glow Glowing
When something glows with an inner light, it means that it is expressing the inner energies. It shows something that contains a great deal of yourself, and often links your individual awareness with the whole. The actual form will probably symbolise some personal quality, through which the wholeness expresses. It is the inner light, not the form, that expresses the connection with the whole. But from the form you can understand which part of you is relaying direct influence or guidance. See: Dark; Light.
Glue
One can be glued to the television, or a book. It can therefore express emotional and intellectual involvement, empathy, sympathy or love. But it can also mean bonds or dependencies you find difficult to break.
A means of fixing things to places, or to mend them. Sometimes it is an attempt to cover up mistakes by gluing things together. May indicate a wish to bind someone or something to you. Spilling glue might have sexual indications.
Example: My father points out a circle on a sign, like an Indian hoop, but it’s an auto tire with tools glued to it to advertise a local car repair shop.
Example: She becomes aware she has some sort of glue all over her face. She is trying to pill it off and it teats her skin slightly as she pulls it away. She feels it has been suffocating her.
Example: I dreamed, I am putting glue on my face, which dries to a film like a mask, and I think of putting it on my penis. This dream occurred just as I was getting involved in the company, which indeed sold an adhesive (though not intended for the body). Yet I did not know what to make of the dream. A few days later, one of the officers of the company joked with me that perhaps the glue would be good for patching condoms. And then, as I became involved with the job, I found myself writing advertising material that was disagreeable to me. I had to go along with attitudes that at least were not discussed to the point of agreement. So I felt sometimes that I had to present a mask and was impotent to express my own opinions.
Useful questions and hints:
Do you feel you are ‘stuck’ with something?
Has it worked or is a strange thing being glued?
Was your face involved?
See Emotions and Mood in Dreams – Waking Lucid Dream – Techniques for Exploring your Dreams
Gnarled
The marks of time and work. The difficulties and struggles of life, but often displayed as wisdom or inner power.
Example: I dreamt that I stood before an immense tree. It was old. It was gnarled with the storms and summers of its life. It was wonderful to see. And as I crouched over my toolbox half in the cupboard under the stairs, with tears streaming down my face, I knew that I am the tree of life. I could feel all that has lived before living in me. It was a precious moment.
Example: I dreamt a lot of sweets, brightly wrapped, were being put into my open hands. All I saw of the giver were his hands. Beautiful, big, gnarled hands of a working man.’ Alex U.
In exploring his dream Alex saw the hands as the holiness of everyday human experience, especially regarding self-giving, as in parenthood, love and work – the hands of the self giving spirit of love that we usually forget. Alex doesn’t eat sweets, so they represent pleasures he seldom allows himself, the pleasure of everyday life and love .
Useful questions and hints:
Did you get any sense of life experience from the dream?
Was there any lesson learnt from what you saw?
What were your feelings about the dream?
See Associations Working With – Processing Dreams – – Techniques for Exploring your Dreams
Gnaw
Something may be eating away at you inside, such as conscience, worry. What is gnawing represents the source of worry. Gnawing can also mean attacking a problem or situation, or link with hunger for something. See: Eating.
This seemed to have a strong connection with a woman I had fallen in love with. I felt torn, in conflict, lost. I have not felt quite like this for many years. Gnawing away at my innards was just the same anxiety as I had experienced all those years ago with Silvia.
Gnawing images can in fact indicate deep anxieties, as follows:
I remembered the tremendous physical anxiety I had felt when searching for work. It was an actual pain in my lower abdomen, a real burning gnawing deep inside. I went right into the anxiety, and it was the fear any life form feels when exposed to danger. I remembered the film of baby turtles hatching in the warm sand. As they made the perilous journey from dry sand to the sea, seagulls swooped and ate them; alligators snapped them up; fish swallowed them. The anxiety was that of stepping out from underneath our rock into the open sky, and taking ones chance with life. If fear paralysed us we would dodge more slowly. But the seagulls might get us however fast we moved. It was the chance we took. There was no guarantee of success or failure.
My parents had sowed in me the seeds of enormous anxiety about sticking my neck out from the rock of security. Now, as I was exploring fresh pastures, I faced the agony of anxiety of the unknown, unseen seagull.
Negative thoughts that eat, gnaw, and destroy your creative ideas and connections.
Example: Then I was out in the garden. A small rodent type of animal was running around. Apparently it was our pet that we have adopted. It was foraging about, and as I watched it found what looked like a carcass of a dead animal, and began to eat the remains. Still watching I saw that the “dead” creature was still alive, and the rodent was eating its internal organs. Then the creature being devoured turned over onto its back, and opened itself to being eaten. At this point it looked like a large squirrel – not a grey – that had been cut open and gutted. I couldn’t see its heart beating, but it seemed alert and was okay about being eaten. I was pondering this and the animal got up and ran away. Some dogs chased across a road. A car skidded, hitting one of the dogs, but not badly injuring it. I pointed at the dog saying, “You know you shouldn’t have done that.” It looked at me as if it knew.
An interesting view of this is given in the persons exploration of the dream: The main thing I felt was the small rodent and the small creature, squirrel, it was eating. I arrived at the understanding that the squirrel was partly about hibernation. This represents a desire to pull back from activity, to hibernate in the sense of the spending more time with my inner life. It also links with the experience of a readiness to die, and I mean that in the way that one can melt back into the primal source of things. In the dream this is represented by the fact that the squirrel at first is almost invisible because it looks as if it has sunk into the earth, and only a small piece of fur is showing. As the squirrel I felt the rodent was disturbing me from sinking deeper. It was winter and time to become inactive in the world. This was me gnawing away at a process of disintegration that was going on in me.
Useful questions and hints:
Do I feel I am gnawing away at something in my mind?
Or is something eating away at you?
Are you destroying your positive feelings in some way?
See Emotions and Mood in Dreams – Associations Working With – Techniques for Exploring your Dreams
Gnome Goblin Knockers or Spirits
A part of our personality left undeveloped or not integrated. For instance we may have musical ability which was suppressed by the need to bring up children; a part of self malformed by painful childhood experience or lack of emotional nourishment. It may therefore be a link with our unconscious. See: Fairy.
A gnome in a dream represents the power of the unconscious when linked with ones deepest wishes or childhood dreams. See: dwarf.
The magical world that relates to one’s “inner child,” and the inner treasures or abilities that the dreamer may possess. But they often represent the forces of the unconscious that can reveal great gems of truth, or stand in the way of doing it yourself.
Goblins or Knockers: They represent the mischievous, ill meaning side of us that we have not acknowledged and so appear in strange forms. As a knocker it might be a warning of some sort, depending on the rest of the dream.
Spirits: Apart from spirits of the dead the term may also refer to any incorporeal or immaterial beings, such as demons or deities. In a dream they are usually associated with parts of our emotional energy that has been repressed by fear or misunderstanding, and so is expressed as frightening or destructive influences. See ghost
Example: I fell asleep on a long couch journey to Spain whilst travelling through France. A colourful gnome jumped up and down the kerb. A while later I saw in my dream a black thin female figure with a band of bright light around the head like a band. She was moving gracefully like a puppet. It had a peaceful aura. When arriving in Spain I saw the gnome in a souvenir shop exact size, and next to it were a few dolls with weird big black eyes. Also I saw the black figure resemblance whilst at a cabaret show. Puppets came on that were black with fluorescent lighting around the head, identical except they were men.
Useful questions and hints:
Do I feel threatened or frightened by my dream?
Can I recognise that the dream characters are projections of what I have read or seen?
What can I do to alter my dream?
See Possession and Dreams – Summing Up – Secrets of Power Dreaming – Processing Dreams
Goal
Your aims, ambitions. The goal may also refer to the purposefulness of your unconscious drives. There could also be a link with winning or losing, as in sport. Therefore success or failure.
May refer to the external goals you have set yourself, but dreams often use the image to refer to the internal sense of where you are going in your life as a whole, and not just what job you might achieve. After observing the symbol forming action of the unconscious, Jung came to the conclusion that the unconscious itself was purposive and had certain goals. Such goals arise out of the connection the unconscious has with all life, and its sense of wholeness.
Although we may think that the goals we longed to reach when we were teenagers are not longer applicable,what was felt so strongly leaves a mark and still influences us unless we have alterd it. Also there is the influence of traumatic experiences that continure in a negative way. See – Conditioned Reflexes and Life’s Little Secrets
It might not be that you have purposely set yourself goals, but you might have a great attraction or urge toward something – and that is a goal. But apart from that there are tasks that we are born to deal with or meet. These are flaws in our character that dreams particularly point out and show us ways to deal with. I know I use this example often, but it is excellent.
Example: I was in a prison cell with two other men. We ate, slept and defecated in the cell. I was standing at the bars of the cell, and had the impression of having 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. Suddenly I realised that my years of shouting had availed nothing. The only person who was upset by it was myself. I was the victim of my own anger and turmoil. I dropped the attitudes and was free of them. Years went by and one by one I dropped other habits of emotion and thought with which I had trapped and tortured myself. 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. So intense was it I cried out. The cell mates called a warden. They stood looking at me as I experienced a radiance so strong I felt as if I must be shining. I was aware my joy poured into them, although they thought I was mad. Nothing would ever be the same again. Andy.
Here the problems were shown and the way to deal with them also. Andy did apply what he learnt from the dream and he did find a fountain of joy opened in him.
Useful questions and hints:
So what goal have you set for yourself?
What goals do you have spiritually?
What goals do you have for relationships?
What goals do you have for your health?
What goals do you have for your home?
What goals do you have for what you want to do with your energy/work/creativity?
What can you see are faults in yourself you need to work on?
See Life’s Little Secrets – Avoid Being Victims – Dream Yoga – Ages of Love – Secrets of Power Dreaming
Goat
Rutting masculine sexuality, or if a female goat the fertility and procreative power; ability to climb, personally or socially; tough ability to survive difficulties; sometimes connected with repressed natural drives which become reversed or evil/live when symbolising the devil – or the animal drives or instinctive and pooled consciousness prior to ego development. If you dream of the goat god Pan, see girl in the wood.
It can also depict somebody butting into your life, or conflict with someone if the goat is attacking. Also sure-footedness or meeting difficulties with ease.
If you have kept goats it may well represent responsibility or caring. If you have bred them you might use the goat to depict your own reproductive urges.
In the Bible the goat represents the bad guys in the phrase ‘separating the sheep from the goats’.
As an astrological sign the goat is the sign of Capricorn. For Capricornians the goat may represent their basic character. Capricorn is a “Cardinal” “Earth” sign. It is the sign of hard, long struggle, and finally, high attainment. This suggests a slow starter, somebody who makes it late in life. It’s symbol is a compound creature, half goat, half fish. The front portion has the head and front legs of a goat, the hind portion a fish’s body and tail. The “Goat,” with only his front legs, is patiently and perseveringly struggling to climb a mountain, but is handicapped and hindered all the time by having to drag with him his Piscean after-part. This represents a stage in human evolution during which humans were developing personal identity, but their instinctive drive were still powerful and difficult to deal with. It still depicts this in a person’s life today. The Capricornian is said to be ambitious with definite aims and purposes. They are patient and perseverance in overcoming difficulties. Thus they finally succeed in the attainment of their Zodiacal goal.
Example: I dreamt I was in a large room sitting near one wall. In front of me was a nanny goat, pregnant with very large teats. The goat asked me, or I knew that she needed, milking, because there was too much pressure of milk in her udder. I started to do this and noticed the goat was very squat, powerful and with tremendous physical stability. That is, its shape made it difficult to unbalance. I seemed to know how to milk the goat. A backwards and forwards motion was necessary, and no squeezing needed. It was like masturbation. As I did this I watched the milk flow on the floor, and thought what a waste it was, but felt soon her baby could feed. Then I watched her give birth. It was a very quick and easy thing, but I believe it was a human child, not a goat. I don’t know if the goat was then a woman, but a woman also gave birth, and I realised while still dreaming that I had dreamt twice about giving birth and this was because a birth process was at work in my unconscious. Paul.
This dream shows the many associations we have with the goat, everything from the procreation of motherhood to sex and masturbation. In fact Paul says of his dream, “As I remembered the dream I realised what some of it meant. The goats milk pressure is the pressure that builds up making it necessary for me to masturbate. That it is milk means it is my self-giving, my flow of love to others, wasted on the floor. The dream suggests this will soon change, and something is being born. Also the fact it is a breast yet it is being masturbated, means childhood needs for the breast are developing into real genital needs.
Idioms: Get my goat; an old goat, meaning an ageing man still lusting after women.
Useful Questions and Hints:
What can I understand from how the goat is portrayed in the dream?
What am I doing with the goat and what does this suggest?
Does the goat in any way portray elements of masculinity or femininity, maybe connected with mother or motherhood?
See Mammal Brain – Techniques for Exploring your Dreams – Energy Sex and Dreams
God
And He said, “Hear now my words: If there be a prophet among you, I the LORD will make myself known unto him in a vision, and will speak unto him in a dream” (Num. 12:6).
“I will pour out of My Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams” (Acts 2:17).
“For God speaketh once, yea twice, yet man perceiveth it not. In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falleth upon men, in slumberings upon the bed; Then He openeth the ears of men, and sealeth their instruction, That He may withdraw man from his purpose, and hide pride from man. He keepeth back his soul from the pit, and his life from perishing by the sword.” (Job 33:14- 18).
Jung says that while the Catholic Church admits of dreams sent by God, most theologians make little attempt to understand dreams in relationship to God.
God and Christian morality is as incoherent as our own core of logic about our sovereign independent agency. He (God) says he is the one who puts our will and thus our specific actions into us, but then condemns or glorifies us arbitrarily, to demonstrate His power. Even so, he continues to treat us as morally self-authoring entities, the origins of our actions. But he continues to maintain that it is not us, but only Him, who is the origin of our will, while still condemning or praising us. How can the potter be morally angry and impatient at his own clay products? God’s moral attitude is manifestly incoherent or self-contradictory.
In fact the whole image of God we have been given is ridiculous. God is shown as a male figure, never with a female aspect. Yet God, being the creator of Everything, so that all things have their source in Him??
The fundamental description of god in Hebraic teaching was ‘ain soph’ – the unknown god. Being Everything, it can never be a THING because things like maleness would be something. But it/God becomes something in expressing itself. For the word Elohim is usually translated as God, but it actually means gods. See Secret Bible
Example: As I experienced this, I realised that everything that exists is a part of that wondrous being. There is nothing that is not of its love. So that whatever arises in the universe arises out of, and as, THAT. The human sense of God is a realisation of the very substance of our own existence. The awe we might feel is from an intuition of what has been given us as our own being.
And as that great unity of energy and consciousness died, its very last impulse was for those new beings that might arise from its death. The impulse that flashed out we call love. It flashed through the universe permeating its every particle, in a way that we cannot yet perceive, but which is like a touch upon the pulsating chaotic movements of particles and lives. See Big Bang and God are the Same
Example: For a while I drew nearer the awareness of ‘God’. I wanted to be able to have a clear view of what this experience was and how to describe it. It seemed to me that there was no great astral, ethereal being we call God. In my awareness I sensed that there was something connected with the living bodies and minds of all things. It was something like music in the sense that out of the many separate instruments an overall sound arises.
Or it could be like the body that comes about from the unity of countless cells, yet is different than any single cell. A reality that does not have its base on any one thing, yet has existence nonetheless. So I saw God as a reality that is as ever shifting as music because of the changing face of physical events and mind arising from it. This thing ‘God’ is as near to us and as practical as our own heartbeat. If we feel our heartbeat and honestly ask ourselves what causes our existence, do we really know? We probably have some formulaic idea such as chemical or biological processes. But neither chemistry nor biology explain the full answer. What is at our base is a mystery, and it seems wise to me to stand before that mystery humbly and open to it in our dealings with everyday life.
My sense of God did not present itself as something that was an ultimate being causing all things, but as an intrinsic aspect of what exists, and that exists because of reality, and acts upon it. You can never grasp it because it always moves and evolves. I felt it to be like wind. Could I be the wind? It is featureless yet touching and influencing things.
Then a strong image of a snake arose. The influence of God, of the featureless power that can enter a human life and transform it was like a snake. The snake can bite you, and its venom may flow throughout your being and kill you. Most of us are very frightened of this. The reason being that the venom will take away your personal boundary of self. It melts the boundary of egoic self-interest, and personal connections with family and children, with choices in action. It replaces the personal interests and fears with a self that is part of the one great life. So, the fear of the snake is not because its venom is deadly, but because it transforms. It turns you into a being who is part of the whole. It robs one of the artificial walls placed between self and the collective pool of life consciousness.
Being a god: You are always the hero of your own life. You are the central character of your own drama of experience. As such you are the deed doer, the hero or fallen god, especially when the dream is portraying dramatic life events.
We are all deities. As it says very clearly in Genesis, “And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: … So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.”
So we are all the image of God – Unfortunately we live in a world that denies it.
Meister Eckhart has this to say of it: So now I name it in a nobler fashion… It is free of all names, and void of all forms. It is one and simple, as God is one and simple, and no man can in any wise behold it.’
Because God is neither male or female, darkness or light, the created or the creator, but is everything at the same time, it is foolish trying to define what is behind existence.
God in a dream can depict several things: A set of emotions we use to deal with anxiety – i.e. our own belief that a higher power is in charge, so therefore we are okay in the world and are not responsible – thus an escape from responsibility; a parent image from early infancy; a set of moral or philosophical beliefs one holds; self judgement; something/someone we worship; a feeling of connection with humanity; an expression of the fundamental creative/destructive process in oneself; a sense of ones living interaction or relationship with all beings and the universe.
So to dream of God might be an expression of your religious feelings or emotional feelings about God. But it is helpful to remember that if you have strong feelings for a friend, or think about them and feel uplifted or moved, the feelings in no way are that friend. They are only about that friend. So in most cases, when someone tells us they were moved by God, they are usually meaning they were moved by feelings or ideas they experienced about God.
God also depicts processes in oneself that can be enormously transformative. Seen in a very practical way, if a person has no belief that there is anything in life that stand beyond their present situation and weakness, they might never open to the possibility of it. Even if God is only an idea, opening to the influence of that idea allows the action within oneself of an enormous enlargement of functions such as self-healing, widening of awareness, and reaching beyond ones previous limitations and boundaries.
In some dreams however, one has an experience almost as if there is no separation between what is sensed as God, and oneself. This formless, often emotionless experience, may be thought of as an opening to your fundamental and core self.
The archetypal image of God when investigated in dreams, often reveals itself to be an underlying sense that we have within us of our own core self – and so therefore in some way – life itself, the creative impulse of life. This unconscious realisation that we are the Creator, that the holy essence of life itself is expressing as our own being, is so difficult to accept that it is usually projected outward to form an external God. We approach this external God as if it is something distinct from ourselves. Yet again and again, when people delve deeply into themselves they arrive at the realisation – I AM GOD – I AM THAT I AM.
The powerful emotions we sometimes experience about God may well be connected with our tremendous childhood need for love and approval from parents. But equally as likely is that the immense feelings we have about meeting God in a dream, may express the wonder and perhaps terror we experience in meeting the enormity of realising we are the Creator. As the ego melts and realises itself as the One Great Life, undifferentiated, there can no longer be a sense of real separation.
Example: When I explored the emotions that had surfaced in recent dreams about God, I came across something totally unexpected. I had decided I would treat the image of God like a dream image, and ‘get inside it’, find out what was behind it. When I managed to do this I found with amazement that my desperate need for my father’s love, a love he found difficult to express, had been transported into my internal sense of God.
At this point I suddenly saw that my urge for God is actually the urge for my father’s love. My unsatisfied urge to receive love from my father, became a power to create an image of a loving God, an image of a cosmic father who can love – and from this inner creation of the psyche I can get the love I need. I created a loving God because that was my need. But others may create an avenging God to deal with their feelings of guilt; or a mysterious beautiful ever present God to deal with a sense of parental loss, and so on. The image takes the place of real human love – a second best. I see also that it is much more honest to say – not God loves me – but I love myself. I have become the father. I am the God. I have dared to take on the role of father and God. Tony C.
Example: I felt myself to be a primitive tribal male. Suddenly I encountered a force – or what I saw as an immense being. This being I felt was a god or God, but looking back it wasn’t an all encompassing being, so was more like a god, or an aspect of God. My visual impression of it though, was of something so huge yet visible, that I was at first terrified, and so were my ‘people’. If one can imagine an immense skyscraper rising into the clouds and beyond, yet not a building but a living being, this was my view of it. This being I knew as the All Shaper. It was the power which gave form or shape to everything. As such it could influence the shape one had become through the errors of history or the deeds of ones family or oneself. The pristine shape or matrix which guides the cells to form organs could be restored.
There was a problem however. This being was terrifying and beyond the gods of my people. To stand before it or acknowledge it was akin to transgressing all the lore of the tribe, all its customs. So not only was the All Shaper something more than we had known before and so threatening to our – and my – world view, but also to take it as ones god was to break with all the tribal traditions and to stand apart and different to ones whole tribe. Christopher.
Here is another view of God – there can be any number of such views.
At this point I experienced the living God, the influence of which, (the spirit we had felt). I had been aware of this God before, but never in such detail. It was experienced by me as the buzzing, radiating consciousness of all creatures. It was the united consciousness of all people and creatures everywhere. Not simply an aggregate of influence, but a living unity of consciousness. In the dream “we” were praying to this God, which is at the same time, oneself and more than self, and I here understood how such prayers work or fail. Because this God is not simply separate people doing things in the outer world, but collectively is unified effort, and is both the individual and collective consciousness. It can therefore both receive, be influenced by, and influence, individuals and groups. But because it is the collective being, its buzzing being is concerned, if that is the right word, with communal interest, with the whole, with the individual in their relationship with the collective. Where there is a collective desire, it is so powerful it becomes a certainty in realisation. There is so much power behind it, virtually nothing could stand in its way. Even though at first it is only held in collective mind, a certainty of it becoming manifested is almost absolute. This is rather like insurance statistics as reliable guide to future events. So if we pray for something that is of value collectively, the power of “God” is behind its manifestation.
But what I saw was that this is only one form of God. There are many gods – but for some people, this appears to be the absolute God.
Example: Is it God that I will find?
My experience replies – If you so wish for a God, then you can create the experience of one out of your own longing and energies, your creativity – and such a God will be wondrous.
But when I look to the ends of my own experience I do not find a God. I find the fundament of my own being – a primal condition of awareness that is ever with me though seldom dwelt in. It is a reality not a God. It is a foundation in my being, not a being giving me foundation. And what is there to find save consciousness and its reality? It leads to no wonders – it is a wonder. There is no escape from myself. But there is the liberation of that realisation.
Example: I witnessed a conversation between a man and a woman, and the man says, “Religion; that’s surely a direction for failures and people who can’t really cope with facing reality.”
And the woman he is accusing of this inability to face reality says, “You poor person! Is your mind or awareness so tiny that you have never realised the forces and processes of your own body are beyond anything you understand? Can’t you see that your very existence is brought about by things so far beyond your knowledge that it is only a statement of your impoverishment to suggest religion is an expression of some sort of smallness and failure. Have you never understood that? Have you not seen that religion is not only an acknowledgement of what we fail to understand and yet depend upon, but it is also an opening to it, a willingness to relate to it? It can also be something far more even than that. It is can be an active loving relationship. And such love is an exchange, a sharing, a way of merging one with another. It is an exchange – a sharing of bodily fluids – the very substance of life. Is that something you are afraid of?”
Goddess
As the oldest form of worship, of feelings of awe, were in regard to the woman and her ability to give birth, goddess worship was probably the first human religion. It recognised the miraculous power resident in a woman’s being, the bloodiness and wonder of an emerging new life, and the close link this had with death. Such powerful responses are still very much part of our inner life. The goddess still walks among us. For each woman who is a mother is a goddess, having given birth to Life. See: Goddess–holy oriental woman under woman.
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As a woman you have innate in you the power to create a new life. A woman is only incidentally part of the creative act of childbirth. The processes of creation are far deeper than her personality. So she cannot say this is my body and my fetus, and so I can do what I want with it. |
In a woman’s dream: The unconscious connection you have has with all women, and all female creatures. The power of the collective psyche underlying your personality; the mysterious connections with nature and the forces of nature the woman is in tune with through menstruation, child bearing and mothering. Also you are always the heroine of your own life. You are the central character of your own drama of experience. As such you are the deed doer, the heroine or fallen goddess, especially when the dream is portraying dramatic life events.
You are a goddess: We are all deities. As it says very clearly in Genesis, “And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: … So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.”
So we are all the image of God – Unfortunately we live in a world that denies it. See Big Bang
In a man’s dream: Your collective sense of women as a whole and not as individuals; personal fear of female power, usually relating to early experience of your mother; your capacity to love in a transcendent way. See Archetype of the Goddess
Useful questions and hints:
As a man can I recognise the goddess aspect of the woman who is my mate?
As a woman can I recognise the goddess aspect of myself?
How do I relate to the goddess?
Can I explore her divinity in myself by using Talking As?
See Life’s Little Secrets – Dream Yoga – Techniques for Exploring your Dreams – Edgar Cayce
Gold Golden
The best or most valuable in oneself or in opportunity, or the eternal in your life. Something that stands the ‘acid test’ or does not tarnish with time, in terms of personal qualities, such as love, patience or care in work or something you value or want in your life.
Gold can sometimes indicate riches, as in an increase in money, opportunity or way of life. Or is the real power you are seeking your life – the power to help, to heal, to see.
If cheap or false: Something you valued but does not deserve respect.
If tarnished: Something beautiful and valuable in yourself, perhaps your spirit, that you have let become soiled. See: gold under colours.
Gold crown: If it is on a baby’s head it shows the child has a great soul, and will probably do well in life. I on an adult suggest achievement or wonderful ideas, even great wisdom.
Gold letters in name: It can mean that you see yourself as important, or that your dream is telling you that your future is assured.
Gold teeth: Often relates to words you speak that have wisdom.
Losing gold: Suggests that you are worried about your future, or have lost a great opportunity or a valued relationship.
Mining gold: It often means that you are finding the greatest value through your efforts. One man in reviewing his life’s work dream that ngiht he had found gold. It was the recognition that there were some things of great value in what he had done. Mining also meant that one sometimes had to chip away at the rockface of life to uncover the gold.
What that means is that you have chip away at the difficulties that face you and by doing so you gradually clear them and arrive at the gold. See Life’s Little Secrets
Painting gold: If the body it represent healing old hurts or misunderstanding. Or it can mean changing something into a promise of the good.
Example: I had a dream where the outline of a heart appeared and one half of the heart was ruby crystals and the other half was diamond crystals. Then as I watched, the colour gold outlined the heart again. Then all of a sudden a bright white light burst out of the heart at me. It was so bright it actually woke me up. I had just learnt to do Reiki at the time and had done quite a lot that day, so I’m assuming it had to do with that. Is that the case or can I attach other meanings to this dream as well. I would appreciate your input.
The dream is about initiation, and is certainly bought about by opening to your core self. And by core I mean the drama of how humans long for a connection with life that transcends time, space and death. It is a desire for wholeness. But another way of defining it is that which doesn’t change, what does not shift in human nature, what remains as the foundations of existence. The lovely images of your dream shows the heart, the centre of you, filled with jewels. And jewels mean something that have been formed through ages and are usually dug out of the rocks – and so are very precious. So to have many of them tells you that you have such a treasure in you to uncover and allow to express. The gold outling the hear shows it is a lasting gift that cannot be tarnished.
Example: I was standing on a bridge overlooking railway tracks. Young women dressed in bridal gowns and blindfolds were struggling to climb the steep embankment. People threw the brides gold coins as they got to the top. They thought it was good fun, but I decided it wasn’t worth the risk of injury. I am getting married next month, although I am not a ‘young’ bride – nor a ‘middle aged’ one!
This illustrates the mixed feelings you have about marriage. You fear you may get hurt or disillusioned in the process. The bridge represent the link you are making with your man, and the railway track is the social norm ones life conforms to in some degree – you grow up, get married, have 2.5 kids, retire at 65.
But the gold coins and the scramble show another side to yourself. This is more of an unconscious wisdom you have. You see life has risks, you may get hurt. But the pain and the joy, the struggle and the peace are all parts that together can lead to a whole and mature you. The gold and the roundness of the coins represent this wholeness you might achieve. It says life is not about being safe, but about daring to grow.
Idioms: pot of gold; worth their weight in gold; a golden opportunity; golden age; golden rule; golden years; kill the goose that lays the golden eggs; silence is golden
Useful questions and hints:
What does the gold in your dream represent?
How did you come by the gold; hard work, a gift, by reviewing, or by daring?
Was the gold a promise of a new life, an initiation into something better?
See Life Changes – Dreams are Like a Computer Game – Facing Fear – Techniques for Exploring your Dreams
Golf
See: games.