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Leg Legs
This points to the things that support you in life. Your support may depend upon parents, job, money, religion, friends, your own confidence. Sometimes an event occurs, or we receive news, that knocks away our support or self confidence, and dreams represent this by a problem or injury to your legs. Legs can also depict the ability to get about in life. Ambition for instance, may give us drive and confidence to stand up and do something in life. If your business fails though, ambition may crumble, represented by your legs being kicked away from you, or being injured.
It helps to know which leg, because although most of us are aware if being right or left handed, but few people realise that this applies to legs also. It makes a difference in interpretation. See: Left; Right; Growth
Dreaming about your leg or legs usually connects in some way with what motivates you, the emotional and physical strength you use to get about in life. To have one’s legs knocked out from under one means loss of confidence and ability to carry on with life.
Although you may depend upon someone like partner or parent for support, or on work or position for self value, ultimately the legs represent your own emotional or conceptual support system. So in your dream about leg or legs you may be considering what state your own confidence, your own self value is in. When trying to understand legs in your dream See: lame.
In some dreams legs are shown as having the qualities of roots, and bringing strength from the earth. This shows you drawing on deep reserves of your strength and wisdom from your connection with the Earth’s processes and chain of life. See
Example: ‘My Mother asked me to go and buy some butter for her. A chain on my left leg prevented me from going very far. I look down the road and see my Mum, Dad and my four brothers in the back of a car. I wave and call and they drive right past me, going over the chain I am wearing on my leg.’ Lorraine. LBC
Example: I was in a very loving relationship in which I had developed powerful emotional links with D. We communicated many times each day while apart at work, etc. But one day there was no communication. I felt tremendous anxiety and emotional pain and shock, really frightened that she had dropped me. In fact she hadn’t, but my fears were very real and difficult to deal with. A real shock.
Having no legs: This shows a serious lack of confidence or the inability, perhaps sometimes, to stand up for yourself.
Injured leg or legs: Feeling insecure or unable to stand up for yourself, or to be independent.
Left leg: If you are right handed this indicates that your less dominant or less conscious motivation, the emotional and physical strength you use to get about in life is involved. (Reverse if you are left handed.)
Right Leg: If you are right handed it indicates that your dominant or conscious motivation, the emotional and physical strength you use to get about in life is involved. (Reverse if you are left handed.)
One leg shorter than another: This links with whether you are right or left handed. If you are right handed, then the right leg represents your outward activities, and your left represents your feelings and attitudes – possibly vice versa if you are left handed. So a short left leg would suggest you lack confidence, therefore your outer activities are not fully supported. If it is a short right leg, then you have not developed enough skill or strength to be outwardly as effective as you are capable of.
Putting hand on leg: An approach to sex, or a warm friendly sign.
Smooth or hairy legs: Smooth legs show a more feminine strength, hairy a more masculine.
Trying to run but legs will not respond: This may simply be because while dreaming all your voluntary muscles are paralyzed so do not respond to you attempts to move. Or you feel as if you do not have the ability to do what you are asking of yourself.
Another reason might be because you are trying to go in a direction you feel anxiety about, or have no desire for. See: paralysis while asleep.
Idioms: a leg up; cost an arm and a leg; felt like I had a ball and chain on my legs; I couldn’t stand up for myself; last legs; leg over; leg work; legless; didn’t have a leg to stand on; my legs went to jelly; my legs were paralysed; on his last legs; pull your leg; tail between his legs.
Useful Questions and Hints:
Are my dream legs/confidence shown to be healthy, or do I need to work on them?
Am I ‘standing up’ well, or do I need to work on my confidence?
Where are my legs taking me in the dream, and how do I relate to this while awake?
See The Life Will – Acting on your dream – Techniques for Exploring your Dreams – Techniques for Exploring your Dreams
Lemon
Possibly symbolises the feelings of bitterness, sourness. In some nations the lemon also has strong associations with health, so it might show a suggestion to use for your health.
Length Long
The length of something in a dream usually signifies its duration or perhaps its importance. The size symbolises its impact upon you. If something is very long, it might also link with boredom or loss of interest.
Dreams often take a long time to really become a recognisable part of your life. They are like a seed, it is something that comes from a deep part of you; it is something that is working upwards toward being conscious. As such it often, like a seed, takes time to break through to the surface, and then it has to grow. See How it Flows
Some experiences stretch time until it seems there is no end to it. Like an endless journey we cannot see where it leads. That often happens when we confront a childhood experience where time in the child’s mind doesn’t exist. See Programmed
As can be seen from the examples below, length and long appear in dreams in many ways.
As can be seen from the examples below, length and long appear in dreams in mnayt ways.
Example: Dreamt last night that my dog went to the toilet and passed a large piece of three ply wood, like a long sided triangle, about eight inches long. As I looked at it, I thought, “My God, old Tramp really is tough, he has swallowed that, and now he’s passed it through none the worse.”
Example: I see an elephant fixed by harnessed to other elephants. He catches my scent, and with terrible power charges along a narrow riverbank that is at the back of dwelling houses. Two other elephants are dragged helplessly with him, but all, by some miracle, stay on the ledge, though his rush is frightening to watch. I, with two others, enter the front of the pub. It is old and long out of use, rubbish and rubble lying everywhere. Over the rubble, from the rear, the elephants trunk reaches out for me, and we touch with real love, and unafraid.
Example: So smitten are we that we cannot bear to have our children near us long, but must leave them behind, buy them a toy to stifle any attempt they may make to relate with us, shut them in a room or a school or any damn place so long as we don’t have to face them as they are. To take hold of their natural stream of life and twist and kick it until it is so well and truly buggered it hurts itself.
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.
Useful Questions and Hints:
Was it a long way I travelled or could I see a long way – what was my dream showing me?
Was it time that was stretched or was it your vision of things?
Do I feel as if I am alone and a long way from others?
See Jesse Watkins Enlightenment – Habits – Techniques for Exploring your Dreams
Lens
Concentration, focusing of attention or understanding. May also represent something becoming bigger, or more important.
Leopard
Sometimes represents libido or sexual drives that appear as threatening. It also depicts anger, passion – in caring or protecting, spitefulness and power of response. That is, responses without too much thought.
As with any of the big cats, anger, temper; spitefulness, cruelty; courage; passion – even passion caring for your children. Because of the leopard’s spots, which can be seen as eyes, the leopard has represented The Great Watcher – i.e. wider awareness. See: wider awareness.
Useful questions are:
What attitude or feelings is my dream leopard expressing, and how does that relate to me?
If I imagine myself as the leopard, do I feel anger, power or fear? (For help doing this see Stand in Role under peer dream work.)
Is it a male or female leopard and what does that lead me to feel or associate with it?
What is my relationship with the leopard and what does that suggest?
Leper
Uncleanness, disease, decay, loss of social acceptance, or feelings of being unloved and unacceptable.
Leprechaun
See: Fairy.
Lesbian
See: Homosexuality.
Letter
Communication or lack of it. Feelings, intuitions or hopes in regard to something received from another person, or a group of people, Hoping to have contact with or news from a person or company. News of opportunity, or love coming to one.
This is about the giving or receiving of feelings and thoughts. But is it a letter received, a letter waited for, a letter already sent and regretted or answers hoped for? If you can look at your dream and see what your relationship with the letter is, then see where this applies to your waking life, you will have a direct connection with what the dream is dealing.
If you dream about old letters, who are they from and what do they say? They are probably connected with memories and how they are still influencing you – or a relationship that is still meaningful.
What is it you are waiting for in your waking life? What do you want from someone else? If you know, perhaps there are more direct ways you can go about getting results. Or perhaps your dream gives some indications.
Who are you writing to and what are you saying? Is it something you have thought about and said already, or is it something new? Sometimes your dream letter reveals things you might not say generally.
If the letter is not opened it usually refers to things you know but have not let yourself really become aware of. Try opening the letter and observing what you feel or think.
Blacked edged: News of or feelings about death.
Letter from particular person: Thoughts about or intuitions concerning the person letter is from; unrealised feelings about sender; hopes – perhaps to have contact with person.
Opening letter: Realising something; receiving news; sexual intercourse.
Unopened letter: Feelings, thoughts or intuitions that have not been made conscious or recognised; opportunity that has not been taken up or recognised yet; virginity.
Sending a letter: The thoughts or feelings you radiate to others, perhaps unconsciously. A prompt to contact the person you are posting the letter to. Desire to be in contact.
Waited for letter: Hoped for confirmation of love, friendship, plans.
Example: I had felt something of a past traumatic incident arising, and had phoned my wife saying to her that I felt something strange going on and deeply needed to know when she might be coming back. She said she would let me know. So I waited for a telephone call, a letter, some indication, having pleaded with her for this support. Nothing came. No call. No letter. No support. Then the crack widened and all hell broke loose from within me.
Example: Someone had brought him a letter in which were several sheets. On one of these there was a portrait of a former teacher, whom he much admired, holding a torch. Another sheet looked like a big invitation card, seemingly addressed to this same teacher, and having on it the words ‘Request for your Presence’. On the back of a third sheet the teacher had drawn the picture of a liner, and his voice could be heard saying: ‘Here are the cabins you are having, eleven, seventeen and twenty-three.’ As he spoke, he marked them off on the side of the ship, eleven at the top, seventeen further down and nearer the stern, and twenty-three still lower and further aft. The boy then awoke, feeling very unsettled and thinking, ‘I must ask mother which cabin we are going to have.’
The associations came at once and without any hesitation. The three numbers were connected with three different people. Number twenty-three reminded him of a friend of his own age with whom he used to play about in the streets, picking up the fag-ends of cigarettes and smoking them. Number seventeen was connected with another boy friend, who was cheeky, fat and lazy, and loved ragging about. They used to go on camping expeditions together. Eleven was the number of his own home and made him think of his mother.
The dream sketches the possibilities before him. He looks for his teacher’s help in planning the future, and the teacher appears holding a torch in his hand to clarify the situation. There are three directions in which the boy can go. The lowest and least worthy way is to become a guttersnipe, picking up fag-ends in the street. On a higher level, he can become a playboy like his fat friend and live an easy and self-indulgent life. Or, finally, he can follow the urge represented by his mother, one connected, as he explained, with ‘music, mechanics and ideals’. He decides to ask his mother which way to go. Quoted from The Way Within by Wyatt Rawson.
Idioms: chain letter; French letter – condom; letter perfect; love letter; dear john/jane letter saying she/he is with another person; poison pen letter; red letter day.
Useful Questions and Hints:
Was there a message you understood?
Do you depend upon communications for you well-being?
Do you write to people often – and if so for what purpose?
See Being the Person or Thing – Techniques for Exploring your Dreams – Questions
Level Levels
In some dreams much is made of different levels, or of a particular level. The meaning can differ vastly depending on the context. The different levels may deal with feelings of class, superiority, worth or power. Or they might suggest different levels of response, such as a mental response, a gut level response, a sexual response, etc.
When the levels are in a building: This often refers to the different ‘levels of ones personal experience such as physical sensation – ground level (first floor in U.S.A.); sexual feelings – can be middle floor or ‘downstairs’; emotions – upper floor; the head and thinking – top floor; memories, being apart from other people – the attic. These building levels might also suggest levels of importance, or clarity-practicality.
Levels can also show the fear and difficulty one faces in making a change from one way or level of life to another. For instance we may have lived life as a nine to five worker, and so we see the world through those needs. But a totally new way or level of seeing and responding might suddenly open, as when we become self employed or out of work. In dreams this might be that a hole opens suddenly, and we see another world going on below, or above us. Or a person appears out of nowhere from another level. Sometimes with shock we realise life has many other ways of being. Perhaps we even explore them. See: Levels in Waking andDreaming
Levelling
Smoothing feelings or pains. Making the going easier.
Librarian
Faculty of memory or contact with universal mind. The creative or linking process of your mind. It can link with research, finding answers to questions you have.
A library has films and tapes, so it might suggest ways you either entertain yourself, or are finding ways to block out feelings that trouble. So a librarian could be the guiding, knowledgeable or parental influence in your life.
Example: Someone I know is raped and sodomized by someone I know. I am a policeman and I don’t know what to do. I am the one who commits the rape and sodomizes Wandee, a librarian at our school. When someone – the police, her mother? – comes to investigate, I see there is a pictorial illustration /representation of what I did (the writing is on the wall, so to speak). I try to cover up so they don’t see it – it is a poster on the wall, about top of the bed level opposite the bed in the bedroom.
Although I don’t want to admit it to myself I know that I am guilty. I just couldn’t/wouldn’t or didn’t control myself. Like not being able to control myself trying to see my wife’s customers undress in the bedroom.
Example: I go to the library, walking through the streets thinking, “I can write a story about a country I’ve never been in! I can do it.” I go in the library to reserve a room to do my research. The librarian leaves, is busy. I call up and reserve a room for Sunday, very pleased with myself because the librarian said there weren’t any available. I start to write it into her reservation book and realize I’ll get in trouble, so I wait until she returns and fess up to using her phone, etc.
Example: Mary who is also a member of Alcoholics Anonymous, had come to him with a disturbing dream in which she’d had sex with a man who, she said, she heartily disliked because he was such a terrible liar. Mary then confessed that she’d recently been guilty of lying herself. She’d borrowed the tape of a lecture from her local library in order to duplicate it, but had wiped it instead. and then handed it back without admitting what had happened. Her dream had highlighted the fact that she too, was a liar.
Useful Questions and Hints:
What was my relationship with the librarian?
Did I find what I was looking for?
What sort of figure was the librarian – stern, helpful, etc?
See Characters and People in Dreams – Being the Person or Thing – Martial Art of the Mind
Buildings Library
Acquired wisdom or life experience. Sometimes the books are very old, suggesting wisdom antedating this present life and experience. This is the meaning of Jung’s theory of the racial unconscious, and equally that of reincarnation.
A dream library is also your enormous range of information within you, perhaps not opened yet. We all have millions of bits of information within, and very often we discount it, yet if we listen to it – open the door to that library – we will be amazed how much we know and how big we are inside. In fact have remembered life lessons from in the womb and so much more since then. You have a faculty of your mind that also creates new patterns of connectivity between previously unconnected pieces of gathered information. The result of that is often seen in dreams. See Using Your Intuition
It can also suggest a search for information, a search for the truth of who you are. Ones life experience, the wisdom and skills we have gathered, the intellect; research. Also relates to thinking and the head.
The many minds, lives and imaginations you can find within you – as shown by all the books.
If you work in a library: It shows you have a relationship with the books and the information or fascination they hold. You are in a situation where you can help people find that they are looking for. Are you yourself looking for something – yourself?
Huge library: Collective unconscious and collective consciousness. The vastness of the mind or cosmic mind. See: the conjuring trick; book; school.
Example: Mary who is also a member of Alcoholics Anonymous, had come to him with a disturbing dream in which she’d had sex with a man who, she said, she heartily disliked because he was such a terrible liar. Mary then confessed that she’d recently been guilty of lying herself. She’d borrowed the tape of a lecture from her local library in order to duplicate it, but had wiped it instead. And then handed it back without admitting what had happened. Her dream had highlighted the fact that she too, was a liar.
Example: Only one remembered sequence today. I was involved in helping to extend a library service in a small community – possibly an American small town.
In exploring this dream I saw there was already one section/building opened, but we were going two form two more. I identified the existing library as connecting with the head. The other two would be connected with the chest/heart, and the pelvis/genitals. This connection – or the realisation of it – was repeated several times, perhaps to engrave it in memory.
Example: I was at the library with Ken and a little girl who was about 8 years old. She was only present in the background in the beginning of the dream. She didn’t say or do anything. I was no longer aware of her after that. I don’t know who she was, but she appeared to be someone I was very familiar with.
The dreamer explored the dream and found: Library – As a seeker of truth I was suffering from not being true to myself. To seek the truth was of utmost importance – though I was not consciously aware of the full extent of what this all meant. Within me there was a strong drive to find the truth of whatever it was that my spirit was calling me to find.
Little Girl – She represented my untruthful childhood living out of fear that if I disagreed with anything my mother said, or didn’t like what she liked, I would hurt her; she would withhold her love from me; or punish me. So I lived contrary to what I believed, felt, thought at all times. My mother never really knew the real me and my heart because I hid everything from her out of shame, fear, guilt, disapproval.
Useful Questions and Hints:
What was the connection with the library?
Was it just a mention or did I find something?
Is a library something I use?
See Summing Up – Questions – Magical Dream Machine – Seeing into our Far Past
Lifeguard
Your ability to deal with the rough patches of your life, and recover from occasionally ‘going under’ emotionally, or being submerged by your problems. It can also be a real teaching person, an expression of your best wisdom.
Useful Questions and Hints:
How do I deal with rough times – turn to drink, drugs, or open to full life experience?
What wisdom or help did the dream lifeguard offer?
Did the dream make a difference to me?
See Life’s Little Secrets – Avoid Being Victims – Life Changes – Techniques for Exploring your Dreams
Light and Dark
Being aware, being seen, waking as opposed to sleeping. Light means being able to understand and have insight, to see. Lightness of heart, hope, confidence and release from dark feelings and fear. It can also at times indicate becoming aware of how others might see one. But it needs to be understood that darkness is necessary for light to be recognised. If you lived in a world of just light you would have no shape, no colour, no dimension, for all those things come from the ‘mating’ of light with darkness. Colour, awareness of shape are all aspects of darkness.
Apart from ordinary dreams of light, there is a much deeper meaning in some dreams. This is clear in Genesis
The Universe/God was originally the darkness of night. Universe/God then created light. Science says that it look 300,000 years for light to finally shine in our Universe.
“And the earth was waste and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep; and the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. “And God said: Let there be light; and there was light.” Genesis is a scientific treatise – See The Hidden Bible
For the Creative force of our Universe was Everything and everything cannot take a shape or form, for then it would be something, a thing. The spiritual worship of light is misplaced, for we were all started in the darkness of Everything. Light is for the human recognition of what we sense in the Hugeness we hold within us in Darkness. If everything was light you would not be able to recognise yourself, for colour and shape exist because kight and darkneess mix to give us our experience in the world. But people have been led to fear the dark – the witching hour shows how we were told to fear witches and the dark of midnight. See Witch
It says that the heavenly lights, the stars were for signs and for seasons. As all old religions saw the stars as a great influence on human life, so do our dreams. This was made real to me when I dreamt a great dream with the Star Beings. It was a dream about things we call Gods, but not the sort of gods shown in films about them, but beings whose bodies were the stars and creative forces of the universe. We have called them the Astrological signs. And in some dreams they may be an intimation of such wonderful powers. See The Star Beings
Dim light: The clarity of daytime consciousness is dimmed.
Very bright light: Intuition, enabling you to see things more clearly and often including so much of your life and its meaning; the Self; a mega concept.
Spot or searchlight: Focusing attention on what is shown.
Flickering or dimming lights: Uncertainty; struggle to understand; loss of power or mental clarity; feelings about approaching death. Also can show a change of normal awareness, from darkness to light, saying something unusual is about to be experienced.
Projected light, as with a film or slides: See: projector.
Example: ‘I am alone in the house. It begins to grow dark, so I switch the light on, but the light is very dim. So I go to another room and try another light, but this light is even dimmer. I carry on like this all over the house until I am in virtual darkness and very frightened.’ J. W.
J. W. was six at the time of the dream, and here light depicts feelings of sureness or confidence, which give way to anxiety. The light is the opposite to the emotions of fear which arise from within.
Example: “I had that experience you were talking about”, she said. I had been talking about awareness of the eternal – cosmic consciousness. “There was great light. Light was everywhere.” Again she was like a child, an Oriental child, full of wonder at what it had seen.
Example: I got out of bed and went towards the mouse. As I did so I saw that it was not just white, but shining. It also seemed to grow larger, first to the size of a rat, then to that of the cat. I was now close to it and it looked enormous, shining with an inner light, white and radiant. It was a thing of great beauty. Its eyes especially struck me. They were pink, but also shining.
Idioms: Bright lights; cold light of day; come to light; hide ones light; in it’s true light; lighter side; in a good light; see the light; light at the end of the tunnel; throw a light on. See: Dark, Glow.; day; flames.
Useful Questions and Hints:
What happens to the light in my dream?
Does the light affect you in any way?
Did you feel any inspiration of fear?
See Dreams are Like a Computer Game – Colour and Energy in Dreams – Clicking On
Buildings Lighthouse
Warning of danger of unconscious elements that may wreck areas of your life unless avoided. Use the light to become aware of what the danger is. It might also relate to loneliness or feelings of isolation. See: light.
The sea often represent the tempestuous and unruly aspects of our experience, or the unknown depth of our nature. So the light from the lighthouse can act as a guide through difficult times, or lead us into the unknown as the example shows; it is a true example.
Freud felt that anything the shape of a lighthouse represented sexual feelings. Having searched through 7000 dreams I cannot find any particular mentions of sexual feeling in connection with lighthouses. There is a very wide range of people meeting difficult situations in various ways. But regarding the phallic symbolism of the lighthouse, I feel it shows a wonderful power that faces all storms and throws light in the most difficult of times. It offers protection and care to those wise enough to stand in its light.
Example: The dreamer considering suicide then goes on to dream: Unlike any dream environments she’s known, her mind feels clear, alert, and free. Is she awake, asleep, or somewhere in between, in this place that’s more vivid than previous reality? Her surrounding is cylindrical, vibrant, and vast; white light emanates with a strength that almost hurts. The only route is up the helter skelter stairs of this lightening bright, snow blindness light-house. Tentatively, so unsure she starts to ascend; round and round she coils windowless walls forlorn, until she reaches the top and it’s sacred platform.
Relief from the piercing light is achieved where windows open on to darkest space. Her anxiety easing, she approaches the central display: an exceptional, universal camera obscura. Far from static it reveals the whole world and with just one thought from the viewer’s mind, a place and a loved one instantly appear presented real time for one to observe. Standing mystified, a presence then joins her and informs her with seemingly no external voice at all: “This is the place where people come after death’s fall.”
With instant recognition of her self-mortification, she spontaneously utters: “Oh, so I’m dead!” The presence inwardly sighs: “No, you’ve misunderstood my intention: I’ve brought you here to show that each of the dead choose someone to guide and watch over on earth. And that you have a someone still loving you. Your self-destruction is unnecessary; you just need to give life a reasonable chance. Please think on this experience and what I have said; your duty is still to life, it’s not yet to death.”
Useful Questions and Hints:
What events or feelings surround the lighthouse in our dream?
Do you recognise that you are in the presence of a great light giver?
What would you say was the theme or plot of the dream?
Try reading the Plot of the Dream; Easy Dream Interpretation