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Kill Killed Killing
Being killed: An interior or exterior influence which you feel is ‘killing’ – undermining, making ineffective, strangling, choking – ones self confidence, or sense of identity.
Killing oneself: In the example the dreamer has killed himself in some way and is becoming aware of it.
Example: It was something like a semi detached and sited on a slope. I was outdoors and I think felt or knew that we had just taken over this house. But I felt uneasy as if something from the past was linked with it.
Then I was at the back of the house, on the part sloping down from the back wall of the house. I noticed things covering what turned out to be a big hole dug against the back wall, deep into the soil. This was where I felt most ill at ease about the place. The hole had been covered with bits of board and other odd pieces of junk. I lifted these at the left of the hole and looked in. Sticking out from the side of the hole, about three feet down was the dead body of a young man. I could see the back of his skull had been smashed in. But although he had obviously been under the soil for some time, and had now been uncovered, the body was still in good condition, being slightly dried out or mummified.
I felt really guilty and connected with the body, as if I had been part of his murder, and was wondering frantically what I could do to hide or get rid of the body. Part of the problem was that pulling it out risked being seen with it.
In ‘being’ the body in the dream the man said, “But it wasn’t until I got into the role of the dead body that any depth of feelings emerged. Almost as soon as I was in the role of the dead body I began to think about and feel things connected with the way I had killed my sexuality as a teenager. Gradually these feelings deepened and I was describing my feeling hatred in regard to sexuality and how the masses were pulled along by their genitals into some sort of conformity and performance. I felt anger and loathing for what I felt at the time were the cattle human beings were. At the time I despised and hated them. I also felt repugnance at the way people talked about sex or appeared to enjoy it. It has to be understood that in that period in history in the UK, most of sex was depicted in terms of smut, dirt, animal desire, hidden pornography, or loveless fucking. I wept deeply, at times hardly able to breathe, with the pain of seeing what I had done to myself. I said sorry over and over. I saw that I need not have killed my love and sexuality, but could have expressed it in a tender and loving way.
Killing: Repressing or stopping some aspect of oneself – as when we kill our love for someone.
Killing parents: In the example below Audrey’s height shows her as a child. She is releasing anger about the attitudes and situations her father forced ‘down her throat’. To be free of the introverted restraints and ready made values gathered from our parents, at some time in our growth we may kill or bury them in our dreams. Although some people are shocked by such dreams, they are healthy signs of emerging independence. Old myths of killing the chief so the tribe can have a new leader, depict this process. When father or mother is ‘dead’ in our dream, we can inherit all the power gained from whatever was positive in the relationship. Also is is a lesson on standing on ourown feet alone.
Example: ‘My father was giving me and another woman some medicine. Something was being forced on us. I started to hit and punch him in the genitals and when he was facing the other way, in the backside. I seemed to be just the right height to do this and I had a very angry feeling that I wanted to hurt him as he had hurt me.’ Audrey V.
Sometimes a dream about our family is a literal statement in symbols, of what we sense is happening in the family.
Killing animals: This shows you killing urges or needs you have that are natural and instinctive. Mostly this is injurious to your wholeness, but occasionally needs to be done to deal with special life situations. The killing might also point to feelings of pain and conflict, as when we kill out something in us that is natural or even beautiful; like when we trained to be nice to everyone even though our instinctive reaction is to avoid them. The same applies to reasonable anger. See: family and relationships; animals.
Example: ‘When inside the house I dream of recurrently, I am terrified of someone, a man who is trying to find and kill me.’ Barbara T.
As a young woman Barbara discovered the dead body of her father he had shot himself in the house of her dream. Being killed here shows Barbara feeling overwhelmed by the feelings about her father – the man.
Example: ‘Some two weeks before my dear wife died of cancer of the oesophagus, at about three a.m. in the morning, she shot up in bed screaming ‘No. No! No!’ On questioning her she said her mother, who had died in November 1981, was trying to kill her.’ Gerry B.
In this unusual dream the wife feels the approach of death, depicted by her mother. As dreams suggest death is as much a new area of experience as adolescence was, it would have helped to meet the mother of this dream and find a more positive relationship as described in Processing Dreams. See: death.
Example: A big man, with several gunmen, came into the house at Woburn Walk, threatening to kill my father. I held them off by threatening the leader with the 410 shotgun held at his head. There was no definite conclusion one way or another at the end of the dream. I thought afterwards that there was a great deal of fear of persecution in the dream, and wondered what would happen if I let myself be persecuted, i.e. if I dropped the fear of threat.
Being threatened by gunman again. But this time there is no sense of fear. However the dream does not end conclusively. During a borderline state today, I saw that I (we?) had got to the “pockets” of trouble, and it was now being worked on.
Another interesting dream because the next day he dreamt: “That I had been having treatment for mental illness, but I didn’t know it. My wife somehow drew my attention to it, and I realised that there were great gaps in my memory, signifying the times I had been insane. I also thought that since the treatment I was worse, as I had several symptoms of a troublesome nature that I had not had previously. The dream left a very strong aftertaste.”
The pockets of trouble that were being met were in fact his previously unmet fears and trauma. So the threat of death by the gunmen was showing his fear of persecution, which he then was willing to face. This led to feeling that at times he had been completely unaware of his problems. That led to his troublesome symptoms that could now surface.
Idioms: dressed fit to kill; if looks could kill; kill a penalty; kill an elephant; kill for; kill me; kill off; kill ourselves laughing; kill the goose that lays the golden eggs; kill time; kill two birds (with one stone); time to kill; curiosity killed the cat; killer instinct; killing me; make a killing
Useful Questions and Hints:
Considering that each person dreamt of is usually and aspect of oneself, what was being killed?
Did you feel a connection with the death or feel guilty?
How did you react to the killing?
See Summing Up – Characters and People in Dreams – Being the Person or Thing
King
Ones father. As the father the king may depict our need for approval and loving acknowledgement or what you are ruled by so authority. This may involve feelings of inferiority / superiority.
Also: In times past the King represented the group, the overall collective psyche of the people. He
therefore became synonymous with God, as the Pope is today. The word God was here equivalent to ‘the collective psyche’. So the King or Queen may represent our relationship with our fellows; our sense of identity, or depict the way we feel in relationship with the society in which we live. The acclaim or lack of notice given by the monarch in our dream also deals with this theme – of how we see ourselves in connection with the public – our public image of ourselves.
See: people; queen.
Example: I was engaged to be married to the Emperor. I then discovered he was in love with another woman and planned to marry her. I was devastated. Sally LBC.
Sally felt unloved by her father, and the drama of her dream works out this theme of feeling rejected.
Here is another dream of a woman which she explored: I am the unseen. I cannot be seen. I am the natural way. My kingdom is the natural way. Those who seek me, like Ayana, will find me. I grant audience to all those who seek me. The tank (the wreck) entered my domain and was promptly destroyed for being unnatural – just as white cells in one’s body destroy invaders in order to protect its environment. That is the way it is. It is a self-regulatory process.
Here is king used in a different way: My wife had screamed due to some trouble with her period. She was pregnant. The troubles she was having were the traditional signs that she was pregnant and bearing a King Child. I felt that the whole pregnancy would be difficult due to these signs of kingship, but the delivery would be easier. I didn’t feel too pleased about her having a baby, but soon adjusted to the idea.
The woman was in fact having a baby, but it was not diagnosed at that time. The baby turned out to be an unusual child, and could walk at 5 months, and at school outstripped all his peers intellectually.
Example: I was being presented to a Persian king in the grounds of his palace. As we talked a group of happy, laughing young girls came into the garden, followed by a rather sad looking middle aged woman who I thought must be the king’s chief wife. This woman was obviously in charge of the harem and was sad, I felt, because the king no longer wanted her sexually and had relegated her to the role of household organiser. One of the girls came to Sally and said, ‘Don’t you recognise me? We were together in a previous incarnation ‘.
From Dream Power by Ann Faraday.I realised the king represented my husband, and I was the chief wife. In the early years of our marriage we had been joyously sexual, but this has faded in recent years, and we have grown apart sexually. But I felt he was too inhibited to have affairs with other women, as the dream suggested. The past life I see as referring to the early years of our marriage. Some months after the dream however, my husband brought home a young girl from work – in the film industry – and said she needed temporary accommodation. There followed a long series of affairs with different girls, while I cooked, cleaned and looked after them all.
Kiss
Acceptance of what is being kissed – Pat in the example mentioned below, accepts or allows her sexuality depicted by the cat. It can also be a sign or sexual agreement, tenderness or a movement toward unity.
Occasionally a sign of betrayal or duplicity, as with Judas kissing Jesus. This would be depicted by the feelings in the dream. The kiss is also the flowering of love, and your dream response can be an indication of how you are meeting such love.
In a sense, a kiss is always a merging with the person or creature who is the dream character. Because we are always inside of ourselves male and female and also everything we dream about, it may therefore show merging more fully with these other sides of you. Or if it is the same sex kiss, then you are merging with your own self image.
If you look at lips you will see that they are the softer and more vulnerable and inner part of your body. Kissing is like exposing your soft internal self or organs to another person. That is why it is so intimate.
Expression of love, passion, sympathy, union, becoming closer in sympathies or understanding. The kiss is also the flowering of love, and your dream response can be an indication of how you are meeting such love. Also a kiss is often an adult way of going to the breast, and in doing so – kissing – you are starting the flow of sexual feelings.
Example: I felt, still young, inexperienced and a bit clumsy, but laughing and happy, the flow of pleasure to Janice, leading to a kiss. The deep internal pleasure of kissing gradually widened until it led to genital feeling. I realised so many things as this lovely gentle growth of feeling and flowing occurred. I realised that I and most teenagers have too much technical sex instruction, so it is portrayed as an erect penis entering the vagina. But I was seeing it wasn’t like that at all. First of all came the gradual relationship with Janice. As that deepened it led to touching, being happy together and kissing.
The kiss, oral pleasure, was our first area of loving with our mother. From that original centre of pleasure, it grows into anal and genital pleasure. When that happens the body begins to move. But there was still no erection. The movement was the forerunner of the inner pleasurable urge to thrust and penetrate. So there was a slow and internal growth through escalating feelings, and not an outwardly ordained set of movements that lead to “sex”!
Example: Dreamt I was in the basement of our house in London. I was lying on a camp bed (I think) with Sheila and another woman, perhaps Ann. I was being quite sensuous with them. Then another woman came in and lay on the bed on my right. She was sometimes like Win’s friend, but also like other women. She seemed to settle as a dark haired young woman. I climbed off the bed and lay on top of her. I made love to her, but it seemed to be by kissing her breast and mouth. The sensitivity was so great there seemed to be no need for anything more. Yet there also seemed to be genital intercourse as there was an underlying thought of her/we going to Australia, and that our intercourse reached into the future via the as yet unborn or unknown. This latter was very strong. Pete
Example: Then I arrive at the preschool where I am doing a field study, and I am a teacher and my students and I are playing a name song. When it gets to one of the male volunteers, he leans in and kisses me. I don’t recognize his face, but I seem to know him. I have a strong physical attraction to this person and throughout the dream I hope he feels the same way.
Example: Tumble words, like couples in the woods. Please each other at each touch, And yet be free to look upon the sky. Or at the pigeons starting from the trees As I pass by. Kiss her warmly on the cheek And on the breast, my words.
Example: I felt I had to go back for something. I went back and the woman was crying. I understood that our conversation had awoken her youth – in the sense of her desires for love and a willingness to face sexual experience, and give herself in it. This was very beautiful, but difficult to explain. We went to her bedroom, where we embraced and kissed. This was wonderful as I felt great tenderness, and willingness to lose myself in her need, which I did.
Example: I was kissing S. but her breath smelt, and I was put off. Also, her skin felt like putty.
Example: My father had asked to use a telephone in one of the factories. He had phoned his father, who was old, and had been put in a nursing home. His father was then with us. We were in a room, still in the central area, and my father was in a bed with his father. His father looked old and weak, and like my uncle. Then my father put his arm around him and kissed him. I felt uncomfortable because I could feel the emotions becoming so powerfully loving they would be difficult to cope with.
This is about the enormous and often unexpressed love between family members.
Example: I find my husband along with Ashton Kutcher (famous actor). I become very excited to see Ashton and we start talking. Then I see my husband run up to some girl who walks in and start kissing her. I run up to him, screaming, “What are you doing?” He looks at me and tells me that he doesn’t want to be with me anymore and just walks away with this girl. I’m feeling very sad and confused when Ashton walks up and comforts me. He takes my hand and we walk outside into this tunnel.
A part of the dream not quoted included an earth tremor and terrorist attack. It shows the dreamer facing enormous changes in her relationship and even life direction. To quote from ARE dream interpreter, “You may need to sit down and talk about your relationship with your husband, your hopes for the future, and even any communication issues that may be occurring in the present. I hope that helps.”
Example: ‘I went to the fridge to get out some mincemeat to feed the cat. It came in. As it fed I had a strong urge to touch it, such strong feelings of love were pouring out of me. The animal looked up at my face as I wanted to kiss it. The lips had pink lipstick on. I kissed it, it’s paw came up around my arm, I could see the black claws. We were rolling around on the floor, it felt very sexual.’ Monica.
This is an expression of the enormity of our natural ‘animal’ urges.
Idioms: blow a kiss; kiss ass; kiss curls (hair style); kiss it better; kiss of death; kiss it off; Kiss of life; kiss off; kiss something/somebody good-bye; kiss the blarney stone; throw a kiss
Useful Questions and Hints:
Does the kiss express fondness or passion?
Is it with a dream character or someone you know?
What does it signify to you?
See Characters and People in Dreams – Techniques for Exploring your Dreams – Questions – Beware of Love
Kitchen
A place of transformation where you can change parts of your nature. It also links with how well you provide for yourself or neglect your body needs. It might also portray you caring for others, or in the mother role.
Oven: The place in which you make the unpalatable parts of life experience palatable and sustaining.
Pots and pans: What enables you to prepare and change food to something that is attractive and edible – your cooking skill or otherwise.
Kitten
Feelings about vulnerability or babyhood. It could refer to feelings about caring for someone or something or someone vulnerable. Also parental urges, perhaps protectiveness, or signs or having a baby, maybe in the womb.
Kittens can also indicate a woman’s sexual feelings and emotions that are still developing, and may be felt as an urge to care and nurture.
Example: Jane dreamed that she had opened a drawer in a cupboard and there she had found a little kitten half crushed and nearly dead. She took it in her arms, and gave it milk and coaxed it back to life. Then she took it into the garden, where a cat sat looking at it. She was afraid of what the cat would do and told it not to hurt the kitten.
Jane realised at once that the dream was a showing what had actually been happening. Eileen, a you woman who constanly irritated Jane through her never ending small tolk, was the little kitten and she herself the sinister cat. Until late in life Eileen had been at the beck and call of her invalid mother and had never had a life of her own. Then her mother died, and the half-crushed little kitten struggled back into life again. But the cat was a danger. It disapproved of the little kitten’s first efforts to make new and independent contacts, its own contacts, with other people, and disliked its gushing ways, now that at last it could say what it really felt without fear of mama’s displeasure. Quoted from The Way Within by Wyat Rawson.
So Jane came, after feeling so much hatred for Eileen, to realise the situation emotionally and thus could really sympathise. She no longer felt irritated, or, if she did, could laugh at herself over it, so that the whole situation was changed. So the kitten represented what she had been doing to a childlike person.
Example: She dreamt she was in her brother Dan’s apartment, on the bed with a lion. It was purring and snuggling up to her like a kitten; she had complete control over it. Since her brother didn’t share her enthusiasm about dreams, she associated the Dan of her dream with Daniel in the Lion’s den and his ability to control the lions, a symbol of her emotions. She was greatly encouraged.
In this dream the kitten aspect of the dream with her young emotiosn that because of a love expressed for her animal self was now fully integrated. See Mammal Brain
Useful Questions and Hints:
Does the dream kitten have any feelings of your own vulvearbel femininity?
Has the kitten been neglected, and can you give it care and love?
Do you ever feel like sexual kitten?
See Mammal Brain – Programmed – Genius – Techniques for Exploring your Dreams
Knapsack
The resources and difficulties you carry in life; your past experience or karma; a burden – perhaps of nursed anger or other negative feelings – if we feel parenthood a heavy load you may see your child as a burden. These things that we carry in the knapsack/haversack are often unconscious traits or faults. Although we may also be carrying life skills or tools to use in special situations.
It can also depict resources and abilities to meet changing circumstances and needs. See Karma
Example: I am in the courtyard of a castle full of people dressed in the Tudor fashion. I go down a staircase as if I were a ghost with no weight, able to do the most extraordinary gymnastic feats. My friend (a tall, well-made young man, rather like an American college man in Elizabethan dress) is with me. We want to get out of the castle. We make for a small gate which is closing and at the last minute slip through. As we go, my friend gives a sheathed dagger to one of the men at the gate, who receives it in a haversack. Outside my friend turns to me and says, “You see what that means, to get out of the castle you must give up the dagger.”
In this dream I had little difficulty in understanding what was meant. I am again in prison-this time the prison of two besetting faults-hyper-critical intellectualism on the one hand, sentimental romanticism on the other. In the romantic castle I can do the most marvellous things, but I have no substance, no weight. To be free I must “give up the dagger”. The “dagger” I understood to be my inveterate intellectualist habit of stabbing my friends, colleagues and fellow-technicians by the “faint praise and civil leer” method. “The other point was equally well-taken: an inveterate tendency to be infatuated and make a fool of myself over mere femininity, summer frocks, hats and clothes. Once out of the romantic castle I was enabled to see these for what they were. The haversack was what I carried unconsciously within – my critical stabbing intellectualism.
Example: Dreamt I was walking past the churchyard in Old Amersham. This was on my left. I was aware of carrying my car toolbox on my back, arms through the handles like a haversack. When I reached the corner shop, the weight was so intolerable I fell over backwards. For some time I lay on my back held down by the toolbox, struggling to release my arms from the handles. Eventually I managed this and stood up, holding the toolbox in my left hand. I made some remark about, “I must be getting old.” This referred to falling under the weight.
Here there is direct mention of the tools or life skills we may be carrying. But it shows how heavy and difficult they are to bear. The dreamer says, “I was struggling at the times with so much intellectual baggage, conflicts within myself that had in fact floored me”.
Useful Questions and Hints:
Was it a heavy thing or a good thing I was carrying?
Did I feel it was useful or a burden?
What do I feel I carry with me on ‘my back’?
See Autonomous Complex – The power of Habits – Techniques for Exploring your Dreams – Summing Up
Kneel
Humbleness, a receptive condition of mind; a state of awe, or acknowledgment of dependence or even defeat. See postures
Humility, sometimes because of being betrayed or hurt so much you are on your knees and are thrown down because to it. An acknowledgement of dependence or co-operation. Or sometimes from a tremendous sense of awe. It can be a sign of defeat, a recognition of a superior force.
Also often used to get closer to or examine someone or something.
Example: On my right in the hedge I found my manuscript of my present writings scattered, wet with rain, and jumbled. I gathered the manuscript out of the hedge, realising this was what happened when one left it to other people to look after and circulate ones work. Now I was in the foyer of a large well-kept hotel. Kneeling on the floor I sorted out and set into order the manuscript. Despite its fate it now seemed undamaged and complete. None was lost. I was now going to care for it myself.
Here kneel is shown as an indication of being humble enough and close enough to sort out his own problems.
Useful Questions and Hints:
What was being expressed in the kneeling?
Did you feel defeated or were you examining something?
Have you ever been on your knees – was it in prayer in being thrown down?
See Secrets of Power Dreaming – Questions – Visions and Hallucination
Knife
Sometimes it can represent painful or aggressive sexual intercourse or the penis. Also a cutting intellectual insight or aggression, depending on how used in the dream. An attempt to wound someone. A knife is also a daily implement for eating or cooking with, so can indicate you everyday activities.
It can be a “two-edged” thing that can be defensive or as a forceful attack. A knife can be a force for destruction and aggressiveness and hostility. It can sometimes represent a piercing mind.
Example: I recently had a dream in which I was with a group of Americans wearing full body suits with roller blades fighting war in South Korea with children and grown men. They only had knives and I could really feel the knives stabbing me. Through all this I saw my brother walking through with lollipop in his mouth. I kept screaming at him but he did not know where it was coming from. Then all of sudden he was be killed. I wanted to wake up because I knew it was a dream but it felt so real I did not know what to do. It really scared the shit out of me. I couldn’t help but to run over to him but by that point he was gone. I need someone to help figure that out.
First of all it sounds as if you are in a situation which creates a lot of feelings about surviving by fighting, and even killing. Sometimes this type of dream occurs if you feel anxiety in the place you live. The stab wounds are the hurts you feel, the negative things that are said to you that really wound you. And the death of your brother is difficult to understand unless I knew what your brother means to you. But obviously, from your dream, he represents a vulnerable part of you. That is shown by him walking with a lollipop in his mouth, without noticing the danger. So to me it all says that you feel hurt and angry about the environment you live; hurt so much it has killed your childhood – in other words the innocent and childlike attitudes. That is a nasty place to be.
Example: I was visiting the Blue Mosque in Istanbul, entrance to which was through a bazaar lined passage. We were given knives to protect ourselves. The mosque was lit solely by a huge furnace at one end. Devils were jumping up and down in the flames. My companion said “The fires of the Apocalypse”. Some Turks said they would kill us if they saw us again.
Because of the passage and the Blue Mosque, this dream refers to your experience prior to birth. The rest of the dream suggests you have fear of dying and are very defensivenss. I imagine this would make you afraid of women at a very basic level of relationship. Any closeness beyond the superficial could lead to fear of losing your identity – i.e. death. That you are dreaming about this says the feelings connected with it are surfacing in your everyday life. So you will recognise what I am talking about. In fact the threat at the end means that if you dare to meet these feelings, you will confront the fear of death powerfully.
Example: He said that there was a large puma that sometimes jumped out on you unexpectedly from the shadows, and you needed a knife to protect yourself. Having said that he handed me such a knife, knowing somehow that I had come to explore the house of my ancestors. The suggestion in handing me the knife was that I killed the puma if it leapt on me. Then he and I started to walk into the shadowy areas of the house to begin my search. We had only gone about ten yards into the dim space stretching before us when a very large puma leapt on me. As I felt its impact on my chest I held it firmly in my arms and realised that I had no intention to kill or hurt it.
The dreamer realised that he had been tested to see whether he would feel fear because of the large knife, or would kill an animal. So he had passed the first test of non violence, and of loving the animal. Something we need to learn in order to deal with the inner world well. We are only killing aspects of ourself or repressing them by the action of killing them.
Idioms: Get one’s knife into someone; on a knife edge; under the knife surgery; cut it out; cut the air with a knife. See: Arms; weapons.
Useful Questions and Hints:
What was the knife used for or intended to be used for?
Were you threatened by a knife in the dream?
Were you feeling you could defend yourself?
See Summing Up – Martial Art of the Mind – Dreams are Like a Computer Game
Knitting Nitting
Something you are concentratedly working on or creating in your life; knitting a relationship together; consider what garment is being made and refer to Clothes.
Creativity: ideas or thoughts you knit together. You can knit your brows, suggesting concentration or worry. It can be a way of relaxing or even an expression of love.
Example: Perhaps one of the biggest causes of bewilderment is that the outer world does not at all conform to our inner instinctive life. In a certain sense, because so much of our inner life has been formed out of the experience of millions of years of survival in very different conditions, the external world of today often does not reflect the close knitted group life of the past. The home/cave does not provide the emotional and social warmth it once did; the isolation within huge cities has no connection with our inner needs for being a meaningful part of society.
Useful Questions and Hints:
What feelings or associations are connected with this knitting?
Am I expressing love by creating a garment for someone?
Is it many parts I am knitting together?
Or is it mending or repairing like a hole?
See Key Words – Summing Up – Associations Working With – Inner World
Knob
Penis or ones hold on a situation. Knobs may represent a situation that is a turning point in life or that the dreamer can get a handle on things again. The knob is also a symbol for a threshold, for passing from one condition to another.
A knob can be something that gets in the way of a smooth ride or feeling. It can be an experience of meeting something that wakes you up when things seemed to go so smoothly. You can also injure yourself on it, or use it in a pleasurable way.
Example: I walked into a classroom or conference room set up with tables, there was no one in the room but me. I noticed that the door closed behind me so I walked back to open it (the door opened into the room I was in). As I touched the door knob, it started to turn from the other side and a former friend opened the door and walked in.
Example: “Well, slit my drawers, if it isn’t Henry, standing up for me like a gentleman!” What is that all about? It is something to do with how the dark and light tussle each other. The creative and destructive rub shoulders and recognise each other. “Hello dark brother, what are you doing in this place where all the knobs hang out?” From Black Power
Doorknob: Turning point in opportunity, sexual or otherwise. The ability to make a change or to enter into a new situation.
Knobs on radio or electronic equipment: Do you have the power to make the change you want? What are you aiming to do with the equioment? It could be about getting what you want or desire to happen – or are you simply searching for something to satisfy you?
Useful Questions and Hints:
Do you want to change a situation or trying to?
Did you msnsger to get the result you wanted?
What was on the other side of the door?
See Secrets of Power Dreaming – Key Words – Questions – The power of Habits
Knock Knocked
This shows something is trying to get your attention. It might also mean that there is a change, or something new coming into your life. Occasionally links with sex or desire for sex. Some aspect of self, or a realisation is asking to be let into consciousness.
A knock at your door can be an opportunity of any sort, or a demand or even an attack. It might be your core self wanting your attention, so an opening to a wider life.
You knocking can indicate that you want someone’s attention, or that you need to knock harder if there is no response, for you may miss and opportunity.
As can be seen from the idioms and examples, knock can be used in many ways, and because dream images are created by our collected impressions, language is important in understanding our dream and the many images it uses.
Knocked down by a car: ‘Killing’ or injuring some part of yourself or someone else through misplaced drive or ambition. If it is an aggressive act then it suggests a desire to hurt.
Being run over or a threat of being run over sometimes suggests getting in the way of events, ‘traffic’, that is part of the social or local action. So a small privately owned store could be ‘run over’ or knocked down by a large supermarket opening near it. But it can also mean someone is ‘bulldozing’ or threatening you in some way.
Sometimes it is an animal that is knocked down in our dreams, and this probably indicates that in our ‘drive’ to do something or get somewhere, we have not been aware enough of our basic animal needs, such as food, sleep, sex, or companionship. A similar thing might be said of running over a child – not enough care to deal with our dependent or vulnerable emotional needs. See: Accident.
Knocking: Trying to get attention; wanting to be allowed into someone’s life; sexual act.
Knocking down a building: Something that is passing away or has passed. This can refer to a way of life or a particular personality style. For instance one may be very moral and rigid at one stage of ones life and then a major change happen and one can be more mobile and adaptable. This could be depicted as a building or house that has fallen or been knocked down, or ageing and the process whereby one loses some functioning or sexual attractiveness of the body in ageing.
Example: “I can remember being dressed as a heroic warrior running through crowds of people or soldiers who were trying to stop me. I pushed or knocked them aside and ran toward what was a huge caldera – the mouth of a volcano. It was hugely deep, and in its depths was a massive glow from volcanic lava. But I knew that this was the core of oneself, so I ran and leapt into the void falling into what I knew or felt sure was the light at the core of my being.”
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
Example: And remember that there is always creative action. If you fought the establishment head on you might get knocked down – but a singer can criticise the establishment and be acclaimed.
Example: So if I came in the door cowed by the difficulties of life I was saying to my children – “God it’s hard out there. It knocks me down and I can’t deal with it.” But if I come in buoyant and smiling, then I am saying, “Hey, that was interesting. There is so much to do out there that is fascinating and involving.” I knew that the confidence or lack of it my children had in growing up and entering the adult world depended a great deal on how they saw me come through that door. Because in me they saw reflected what the world might do to them.
Example: ‘I find my way to a door and knock. It is at the end of the cul-de-sac. An old woman of about sixty comes to the door. Although old she is healthy and well preserved. Without a word I grab her in my arms and have sex with her.’ Patrick S.
This is an example of a Freudian view of knocking. The cul-de-sac is the inside of a woman’s legs. The door and knocking is an opening to sexual pleasure, and the old woman is the dreamer’s mother.
Example: Overprotection is as dangerous as under protection. Children need to be faced with as much as they can bear as fast as they can take it, for hard knocks are bound to come and they must be prepared for them. The answer here does not lie in the extremes of fashion, the patterns set by previous generations, or the actions of impulse. It is to be found in understanding what each age and each child can bear in terms of pain, confusion, and disillusionment, and a gentle but firm insistence that he face it. This is a fine line, but concerned, sensitive parents can find it.
Idioms: don’t knock it; knock against; knock around with; knock flat; knock it off; knock me over with a feather; knock off; knocked off my feet; knock out; knock the wind out of his sails; knock them down, drag them out; knock up; knock you down a peg; knock you out; knock your socks off; school of hard knocks; the knock against
Useful Questions and Hints:
What the knock answered or felt as a threat?
Was I knocking and did I get attention/
What did I feel in the dream?
See Secrets of Power Dreaming – Questions – The power of Habits
Knot
A problem, or a relationship tie. A tangle of feelings. In Buddhism, there are three inner knots that have to be untied, before Nirvana or Liberation can be reached. They are the knots of passion, emotion and intellect that bind us to limited and illusory awareness of self. We may be tied to our work, wife or husband, to mother’s apron strings.
Tangle of feelings or tension; relational tie such as dependencies, pain or anger which knot us to another person. Or a problem; the ties we have to work, family, mothers apron strings or viewpoints – in this sense can be the umbilical cord, or tie to mother during pre-birth life. Through association with its sound can mean ‘no’ or ‘not’. See: rope.
A knot in a dream might also refer to not enough, not able to, not allowed to do or be. It could also indicate that you are a highly disciplined person, every item in its place, no loose ends dangling, no nonsense.
An expression of the energies tied up negatively in the female love energies and the emotions. Dreams show these are often knotted in the problems women face in love relationships. But one can work on the feelings. So it is important to see if you can feel any connection with the thing or person. Perhaps using Talking As will help.
The shadow cast by the knots tied in your heart, your head and your belly, by belief in the Devil. Like children’s hands held between a candle and the wall, your pains, desolation’s, and terrors have cast grotesque shadows upon your consciousness, which you took to be real, and you lived according to their demands. See Summing Up
Perhaps you will have to accept this on trust, but love is not something you possess or develop. It is like life itself, like breathing, given to you as a part of your existence. It flows through you, and that flow may have been damaged or twisted during your life, but it is still fundamentally there in you and can be released by undoing the knots caused by past experience. Then it is yours whether you are with a partner or not. Love is then a meeting of equals who shine the precious flow of this wonder on each other and magnify it. We do not claw at each other trying to get what is missing in ourselves.
For modern humans the freeze response triggered by our fight or flight instinct means that the muscles remain tensed and poised for action….action that is never really initiated. That’s why we often get “knots” in our backs, shoulders, neck, and arms. Meaning we have not discharged the tension. (Help from the USAhttp://cmhc.utexas.edu/stressrecess/index.html ) See Life’s Little Secrets
Example: I worked on this dream. To begin with I felt a knotted feeling in my stomach. In exploring this by focussing my attention inwards and allowing spontaneous imagery and emotions, I found a lump that I had kept deep within that no one could touch or ever has. I split the lump and two halves of a walnut appeared. There was a picture of my mother in one half and my father in the other, as they were when I was a child. As I looked, the two halves crumpled into dust.
This was the secret I have carried since childhood, that unlike the other children in the orphanage I had parents. Yet I too was left. The emotions came to the surface and I really cried. After this wave passed I was left in a very passive state. I then saw myself go into the telephone box and try to make the call to reconnect with my parents. Again another shock. There was nobody to connect with. So once again the realisation came that I am an orphan. This brought another great wave of emotion that tore me apart.
Example: I am on this island with this JFK look-alike and his girlfriend. It is very romantic on this island and I envy this couple very much. I swim in the water, following them who are walking on land and see how much in love they are. Afterwards we go to a nightclub. His girlfriend is drunk and I have to carry her (she is knotted up – her arms and her legs – like a contortionist into about half of her real size). I carry her downstairs to a shower. (In the shower, the JFK guy sort of ignores his girlfiend and I have to take care of her. I realise that she is knotted up – unable to express herself freely.)
Example: Cules had been bewitched due to the ignorance of his parents in not protecting him from the evil practice of tonsil pulling. It is a dastardly cunning scheme, one of the many practised by Them, of tying one’s soul in knots at an early age.
Idioms: get your shirt in a knot; don’t get your knickers/panties in a knot
Useful Questions and Hints:
Have you felt knots of tension in your body or emotions?
Do you have knots tying you to family or partner?
Do you experience the knot of fear, or the painful knot of losing?
See Life’s Little Secrets – Avoid Being Victims – Beware of Love – Techniques for Exploring your Dreams
Koran
Expression of spiritual insight.
Krishna
The Indian Christ. See: Christ.
Label
A description, or ‘label’, you may be applying to yourself. So the label might be about an image you have of yourself. You may also have unconsciously labelled somebody else. If the label is obviously about an object, then it can be describing a quality you have, negative or positive. Sometimes the label might be about information you hold unconsciously that is helpful.
Self image; how you feel others see you; your view of what is labelled; definition of your feelings if labelled to someone else. If the label is obviously about an object, then it can be describing a quality or purpose in your life of that object, or what it represents. Sometimes the label might be about information you hold unconsciously that is helpful.
If the label is on a letter then see address. If the label is on you or another person, it may be some sort of judgement you or others have attached that needs re-evaluating; or it may be bringing something important to your attention.
If we label our beliefs, religious or otherwise, and our scientific findings as sure knowledge, we are on a slippery slope. The reason is that history shows us that knowledge and beliefs are always changing. Even if an old piece of knowledge still stands, the new will certainly shift our view of it. See Enlightenment
Be careful of the labels you put on yourself, because they are usually restrictive, and medical and psychological labels often pathologise the situation.
Example: At first with laughter, then with pain, I saw that this had made me suspicious of my own mother. I had not fitted the ‘norm’ in terms of size, strength or behaviour, so not only had I lived with a ‘danger alert’ process going all the time, but also with the realisation I was not up to scratch. Instead of the full term child who is more adjusted to the environment I had emerged still in a condition adjusted to the womb. My psychological state was also, I felt, quite different, a sort of experience of the death world, the world before birth and after death.
Society, I felt, has a sort of labelling or measuring system. It has emerged out of biological criteria of survival and fitness, and is largely unconscious. People haven’t even acknowledged they are acting under such drives. ‘My genes are best, and everybody else’s are abnormal. But only the best of mine are going to get through’. Out of this I sensed that mothers who have children who are not ‘the best’ suffer a great internal struggle about their child. Part of them cries out, ‘That is no child of mine!’
So the child/person who is not seen as ‘fit’ are not given social rewards, starting with such rewards as recognition and warmth from ones own parents, and escalating from there into recognition and rewards from social groups and organisations. I personally felt as if I were not seen as fit for several reasons. My premature birth led me to be slightly less robust, and also my mixed cultural background during a time of war made me less fit. I didn’t have the right label attached.
Example: Bernard said that as he felt what it was like to be a new born baby, he experienced what he called an instinctive expectation of being greeted by warmth and welcome. This wasn’t provided by his parents. The greeting seemed harsh, as his birth had complications for his mother. The absence of warmth and welcome led to a feeling of not wanting to emerge, of wanting to ‘stay in the egg’, as he put it. This decision of not wanting to get involved in the new environment of life outside the womb had persisted unconsciously all his life, causing him to be an introvert who did not want to be involved with other people except as necessity dictated.
Bernard had always explained his tendency to withdrawal as his natural character. He had never thought of it as neurotic behaviour. This is often the case. We rationalise what pushes from unconscious sources. It is only when such behaviour becomes very disturbed, or continually thwarts our attempt to love, or create, or lead a life free of depression or panic, that we might begin to re-label our behaviour. An important point to remember is that at the time of it original occurrence, the links or decisions we make are rational and perhaps a very important part of surviving.
Useful Questions and Hints:
What do I unconsciously label myself as?
Do I put labels on other people?
What was the label in the dream?
See Avoid Being Victims – Martial Art of the Mind – Techniques for Exploring your Dreams
Labyrinth
See: Maze.