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Machine
Things like habits that are mechanical. Also some forms of reason or activity as when we say, someone is like a machine, acting without thought or feeling. So it could often indicate our habits that we are frequently unconscious of.
A machine may also be used to represent your body’s automatic processes, especially something like the heart that goes on pumping away year after year. The body’s automatic functions and drives, such as breathing and ageing; the mechanical forces of nature; habitual or mechanical behaviour.
In some dreams people use a huge machine, like the Juggernaut, to depict the relentless activities that take place in the world that can, with apparent carelessness, roll over people claiming their life through illness or other calamity.
Intricate machine: Brain or the thinking process in its mechanical habitual form. The habitual, almost mechanical fantasies we have or things we do. The word juggernaut is from Sanskrit Jaganatha, lord of the world. Devotees formerly threw themselves under a huge cart – a juggernaut – as it moved. Such a huge machine can represent the massive social organisations we are bound up in. Some of us relate well to this process that goes on its way blind to individuals; some are ground under by its demands.
Old machine: If the machines are inn good order, the it suggest that what you did or built with your life are still productive. But is there is any problems it may be best to get rid of the old habits or ways of life, and built a new way.
Example: ‘I am in charge of a life machine which keeps the world going. Unless I tend it all the time it may stop, and I am terrified. I hear a pulsating noise, or imagine I do.’ Mr. P. E.
Here the machine represents the heart, and the dreamer’s anxious relationship with the body’s functioning and processes. See: Engine.
Example: ‘I see a little girl humming an innocent tune, plucking daisies in a vast lush green field. Suddenly a huge machine or monster comes ploughing through the field over the girl.’ Debbie H.
Debbie sees life itself as a machine, unfeeling, mechanical, and blind in its functioning. The word juggernaut is from Sanskrit Jaganatha, lord of the world. Devotees formerly threw themselves under a huge cart – a juggernaut – as it moved. Such a huge machine can represent the massive social organisation we are bound up in. Some of us relate well to this process that goes on its way blind to individuals; some are ground under by its demands.
Example: One of Medard Boss’s male clients, during the first six months of his therapy dreamt only of machines and mechanical things. Boss saw this as an expression of the man’s complete sexual impotence and depression. They reflected the man’s inner sterility, his lack of anything living within his feelings and inner life. As the man gradually recognised and dealt with this condition his dream imagery changed to include living plants, then animals, and eventually human beings. When this stage was reached the man fully recovered his sexual and emotional potency.
Idioms: Cog in the machine. See: engine.
Useful Questions and Hints:
Do I recognise any associated ideas or memories about the machine?
Am I capable with machines or do I avoid them?
What task was the machine doing?
See Working with associations – Autonomous Complex – Habits – Being the Person or Thing
Mackintosh
A protection used against emotions. As when someone tells us we are hateful or a liar. Some people get terribly upset or drenched, it rolls off others like water off a duck’s back.
Mad Madness
(For USA meaning of mad see anger)
This sometimes represents fear of the unconscious drives and images. It can also represent the torment of a difficult birth, or the search for identity amongst shattered perceptions of the world and people. The dream madness is often a partial expression of feelings that might be sane if we could allow them expression in their fullness. Pain and inhibition tend to twist and malform what might otherwise be healthy. See: Idiot.
Until recent times madness was an enormous threat. It seemed to attack people without warning, and people couldn’t deal with it except by awful incarceration. There was awful fears that it might be catching and people would often put their relative ‘away’ from them in one form or another.
A dog running across a busy road to chase a bitch isn’t acting rationally according to human standards. He is still acting on old drives which have not integrated, so no fresh information has been learned n about the environment – the traffic.
Being mad or irrational in a dream, or meeting a person or animal which is mad or insane, usually shows us facing urges to behave, or emotions which feel very threatening, or we cannot understand. Perhaps like the dog, they are drives which were sane in a past environment. The dream madness is often a partial expression of feelings that might be sane if we could allow them expression in their fullness. Pains and inhibition tend to twist and malformed what might otherwise be healthy.
Also often people who do not understand what is happening to you judge you as insane.
Example: Suddenly I realised that I had had an unconscious fear of insanity for many years. It had only cropped up occasionally, once here when some very rational Americans visited me. I remember this event very clearly. They had come to look at my collection of spiritual books. The meeting left me feeling very shaken. It was, I think, because contact with them led me to look at myself from their viewpoint, which was that I was a loser and to be interested in such things pointed to being crazy. Sometimes this also occurred in earlier years. It usually revolved around my interest in the occult and irrational, when a sudden feeling of being wrong, unbalanced, or mad, came upon me. Its cause was not that I was mad, because later events proved I was sane; it was because the men had acted so sure of themselves it caused me to question my own sanity.
Example: I shrieked, screamed and contorted as these powerful words and fears came out of me. Madness was the last thing I had expected to come up. I saw how love had been so painful that I had almost cracked up when relating to S. I had to use yoga, fasting, prayer, to stop myself going over the edge. At the time I had read a comment about not editing what one allowed into consciousness. I started doing it but felt such terrible urges and feelings that I clamped down on it again. Also I saw the same pattern with P. When she left I had been near to a breakdown.
“So much pain. Nobody knows. Don’t love anyone, you might go mad. Don’t come near me, you’ll send me crazy. Love drives me mad. Mad! Don’t show it, no. Don’t tell anyone how you feel, or they’ll think I’m mad. I’ve got to hide it all. Hide it so no one knows. Find my feelings, how I’m going mad. Cover it up.”
Example; There is a tendency on the part of the public to minimize such reports because it is commonly believed that “miracle drugs,” particularly tranquilizers, have worked all miracles available and that there is no longer need for serious concern about the mental health problem. Actually, this is not the case.
What has happened is that tranquilizers have made it possible – to dispense with strait jackets, padded cells and other means of physical restraint. Also, these drugs and the energizers have made patients somewhat more accessible to psychotherapy, hence enabling them to be released in shorter periods of time than before. In New York State, which uses tranquilizers on a large scale, the average hospital stay has been cut from eight to four months.
When the patients return to their communities, they are able to obtain adequate maintenance therapy, primarily through prescribed tranquilizers and energizers. (Despite complicated side effects, the anti-depressants —monomine oxidase inhibitors—are now being used in the treatment of over four million Americans per year.)
But for all this, hospital admission rates for the mentally ill continue to rise. Therefore, it is clear that these drugs now in use, and some three hundred others being clinically tested, are not solving the problem.
With LSD, however, the psychiatric profession for the first time seems to have a means for dealing effectively with some of the deeper problems of mental disease which elude the tranquilizers and energizers. Medical reports indicate that LSD dramatically reaches into the roots of the disorder, rather than merely disposing of the symptoms and easing the patient. In some cases—with catatonics and autistic children, for instance—the therapist finds himself able to make contact with the patient for the first time since onset of the illness. As Dr. Gordon H. Johnsen * puts it: “During the first two years of our work with these compounds, LSD, we were in doubt of their value . . . We now consider that they give us therapeutic possibilities in areas where we were formerly powerless. In fact these drugs are of such great importance in our psychiatric instrumentarium that we can hardly think of doing without them. Indeed, this is a great step forward in psychiatry.
Except, a controlling government since this was written has banned all such use – so the mentally ill still are basically suppressed. But recently there is a move to reinstate its use. See Scientists Find LSD Makes The Brain More Complete;
Being confronted by a mad person or people: Meeting parts of ourselves which have not been integrated with our present situation; cultural fear we have about meeting the unconscious.
Being mad: Feeling threatened by the irrational and perhaps disintegrated aspects of the unconscious.
Example: My cell mates called a warden because they thought I had gone mad. They stood looking at me as I experienced radiance so strong I felt as if I must be shining. I was aware my joy poured into them, although they thought I was possibly insane.
Example: I dreamt I was involved with a place like Atam. It felt like a human swamp. If you got involved in it you became sucked down into an animal condition of loss of self. Feelings of hopelessness, pointlessness, and a cancerous attack filled those in the place. I walked alone. On the right were a pile of slabs. One of the inmates – because it was also a mental hospital – prison – (i.e. there was no cure. Once in you stayed mad) pulled out some slabs. Inside the pile were bodies of people who had been drawn into the place. Awful things had been done, like putting one person’s head on another body. I was both an observer and an inmate. Lost in madness, the only drive was to draw others into the same state. As I was entering the place a couple walked past with their young boy. I looked at the child, and the madness in my eyes – terribly infectious – entered the soul of the boy. I felt he would eventually become an inmate.
Inside however, amidst the dirt and human wreckage, three young men, who were perhaps themselves inmates, were singing and playing a piano to the others. I felt that they had begun a healing process that was the only thing which would transform the place. They sang from their own pain and degradation, yet with a feeling one could change.
In exploring the dream the dreamer wrote that: I worked on the dream with my wife. It expressed a fear I have had of becoming a drop-out. During the past year, in sessions and life, the terrible power of pointlessness, of the human condition, of our inheritance of fear, pain and illusion, has been at times almost unbearable. I have often felt I would crack, and give up to become a drop out. I said to Anne that the price of failure to meet oneself in and out of life is to drop out. The urge to do this in the last few months has been strong and persistent – to run away from the difficulty and pain into an acceptance of being a smashed human being.
What has helped me avoid this is that: 1) I can see I have actually come through many problems, so I feel it is possible I can work through those that remain.
2) Running away does not remove the misery of the condition, it only removes ones reminder of it. Our problem is wherever we are.
3) As I wrote in a recent session, I see we are those disillusioned primitives. There is no way back. There does seem to be the possibility of the freedom I glimpsed in a session – not bliss, not worldly dulling, but aloneness, consciousness, self responsibility. It offers the joy of rising above all through the veils of illusion, pain, fear, ignorance and habits to a point where we can begin to create our own life. It does not seem to be easy, but it does offer some sort of real existence. The dream was a facing of this fear and a step toward moving beyond. (The dreamer has managed to move beyond this state into peace.)
Idioms: boiling mad; don’t get mad – get even; don’t go away mad – just go away; get mad; go mad; hopping mad; like crazy/like mad; mad about; mad as a hatter; mad hatter; rip-snorting mad; spitting mad; stark raving mad
Useful Questions and Hints:
Where does my fear or dream of madness stem from?
How do I face such feelings?
Have I ever seen beyond such madness?
See Life’s Little Secrets – Martial Art of the Mind – Techniques for Exploring your Dreams
Maggot Maggots
Life or effects in your life, that have sprung from parts of yourself that are no longer growing or properly given life. The effects however, are usually efforts on the part of nature to cleanse, heal or deal with the situation. As an example, if there is a great deal of tension on the neck due to held back emotions, a dream might portray this dis-ease as an area full of maggots.
Maggots might also appear in a dream where there are fears about death or disease. This is because maggots often represent the negative view there is of death as the final decay. See: Corruption.
Impurities in body; sickness or sense of illness in the body; sense of corruption; feelings about death.
We are buffeted, torn by all the fears, angers, hates, prejudices human beings are heir to. There’s no creator we are told by our pundits. We are only maggots. There is no life after death.
Possible need to cleanse body of toxins or infection, or a sense of dis-ease emotionally in that area of self; something, like a fear or resentment, eating away at one. It could also indicate a decay or part of you lacking life, something ‘eating away at you’. Remember that maggots only live on rotting things. Because of this they are sometimes used on humans to eat rotten flesh. As soon as they have eaten all the sick flesh the maggots drop off.
The unconscious telling us that a part of our attitudes is not wholesome or ‘well’. So repressed emotions causing tension in the chest might be represented as maggots. The secret witnessed in dreams is that if you dare stop running from these emotions and cut-out cartoons of death, with their maggots and rotting bodies, you will break through the screen the images are projected upon. The wondrous reality of life will be waiting for you there, ready to share the love and transformation that lies in death. Dare to challenge the mirage.
Maggots in ones body: The unconscious telling us that a part of our attitudes is not wholesome or ‘well’. So repressed emotions causing tension in the chest might be represented as maggots. See: body; corruption.
Useful Questions and Hints:
Do the maggots appear on or in my body anywhere?
Am I aware of anything in my life that is rotten?
What does the dream point out about me?
See Plot of the Dream – Secrets of Power Dreaming – What is your role in the dream
Magi
See: Guru.
Magic
Conscious attempts to direct or control the unconscious. underlying, or even spiritual forces of your being.
The child mind in us might see almost any process of life as magic. Also love has what some call a magical quality, as we often feel completely changed when the spell of it is upon us. See: BlackMagic; Left.
Might be the wish to accomplish something without effort or difficulty; desire to control situations; without knowing the underlying processes, our mind and emotions do things which appear as magic. To the child mind in us all, growth from a cellular speck to becoming a person is pure magic. Magic also represents the power of unconscious sexuality and how it can be hurt, bewitched, or we are controlled by it.
Because the unconscious will use any belief system or cultural symbols we have absorbed to express a theme, the powerful images of witches or evil characters we see on films or in fiction are often used to depict important experiences. For example a dream in which a spell or curse is placed on one can portray the influence a painful experience has left on one’s emotions. If you had been deeply hurt while in your mother’s arms, your unconscious would equate pain with being held close by a woman. This ‘cross wiring’ of associations could meaningfully be portrayed as a ‘spell’ which makes one feel frightened in the apparently loving situation.
But whenever we dream the images are not like real life, because a dream is nothing like outer life where things could hurt you, but is an image like on a cinema screen that even if a gun is pointed at you and fired it can do no damage – except if you run in fear. So all the things that scare you are simply your own fears projected onto the screen of your sleeping mind.
Magic words: Usually dreamt as a form of protection against the fears you are not master of, or else to give a form or magic power – in other words call forth the power of the unconscious.
Magical implements: Things such as wands or rings are all means of producing confidence in the magic we all have but do not usually believe in.
The magical Mass: The flesh of the hero or messiah would have given the magic power of fearlessness to those who ate this sacred meal. Therefore the person would have been killed, torn apart, and the flesh eaten and would have been like seeds of the new life, the new consciousness, which would take away the fear of death. We see this ritualised in Christianity where the body and blood of the saviour are consumed.
Woman’s magic: Adornment on men and women were probably first worn in ancient times when an attractive stone hung upon ones person caught the attention of others, so could be thought of as woman’s magic – probably to get a better man. The same with men, to show how different they were and as sign of being important. In today’s world they can signify the attention given to a woman, the memories attached to what is worn, or to attract attention as with rings in ones lips or nose.
Example: I felt immediately in love with this man, bronze skin, deep dark and noble eyes. We couldn’t stop looking to each other, like magic we make a bond and started to dance slowly a ballad, not music at all in the scene. I was so excited, and confused, the love I felt for that horse transform to more love now that he was a man, and same to him.
Love is a magic dreams can show us and open in us. It is our own magic that we usually deny we have, and it takes entry into our inner world to know and appreciate it.
Example: I felt at the time, and still believe it correct, that I had fallen asleep yet remained awake. Waking, critical awareness had been taken through the magic doors of sleep into a universe it seldom ever sees – deep dreamless sleep.
Useful Questions and Hints:
Do I feel I have magic powers that other’s do not possess?
What was the magic I was facing or doing?
Do I understand what the magic was I was involved in out of symbols?
What confidence in my own magic of love or ability do I feel I lack?
See: Inner World – Victims – Dream Like a Computer Game – Techniques for Exploring your Dreams – spell.
Magnet Magnetism
The influence – to attract or repel – we have on others or they have on us. Repulsiveness. Likes and dislikes, physical or personality charms, and the way in which they are used. The power resident in the body, that can be used for healing, or emotional psychic impact upon others; as in hypnosis, where one being has such an impact upon another that his suggestions are carried out to a greater or lesser degree. This is why hypnosis was often called magnetism. Christ is spoken of as the magnet that attracts and redeems and is also the highest common denominator.
Even matter shows a form of like and dislike in magnetism – like poles repel, opposite poles attract. A child may scream if someone it dislikes gets near it, but an adult will probably tolerate the nearness, or refrain from expressing displeasure – a pity to stop a child expressing its real feelings. In our dreams we often express our real feelings.
Also magnets have a formative power and might express is in dream – shaping iron filings for instance. There can be a magnetic force that can be very powerful between people, usually called love. But it can be very dangerous at times as the example shows.
Example: I saw, floating on the water, many, many patches of hair – scalps. It looked as if the bodies had all dropped away, all rotted. I understood – lucidity – that as this was the dream world, something was wrong, as the people should have been able to change or deal with their dream surroundings. As it was, the water was like a higher dimensional trap. It was an image injected into personal dream images, that were not ones own, but an intriguing one. In some way it swallowed those who entered it.
Suddenly a youngish European man flashed to my side. He said, “Look away. You must not see what I do.” We/I, knew he was going to deal with the “trap”. This he did, while we averted our gaze. I knew that he could do this as he had the keys of about five levels of initiation of which I knew nothing. He was, in fact, an initiate.
I see that within each of us is the possibility of drawing another person into us. But it can only happen if we do not have a strong repulsive force. Also it seems to be that one is more susceptible if one was led to feel that without another person (ones mother?) you could not survive. The power that pulls one in is the fear of not being able to survive without the other person. In exploring how it could be dealt with I was shown that one has to recognise the power that pulls you and stops its action – by use of will and also be recognising its cause. That does not mean cutting of any feelings for the person, but it does mean recognition of what it can mean if it continuous.
Digital photos can be deleted by a magnet and this suggests things you have been impressed by, perhaps almost unconsciously, that are still awaiting development but could be lost.
But we are also all influenced by the enormous magnetism of our Earth. Life vibrates. As this vibration and our sense of it is known, we may experience the waves of sparkling radiance that are flowing through you, or maybe sense it as waves rolling around the earth, generating from the earth’s power or magnetism. These waves roll around and therefore through all of us.
Useful Questions and Hints:
In what way was the magnet depicted in my dream?
Did I or do I feel a magnetic force in some way?
Do I feel attracted or repelled by someone or something?
See Active Passive – Context/Theme – Working with associations – Inner World – Techniques for Exploring your Dreams
Magnify
See: Lens.
Magpie
Desires caused by material possessiveness.
Mahout
The conscious self directing the mighty cosmic forces within.
See: Letter.
Mail Man
See: postman.
Make-Up
Our ability to change the impression we make on others; cover up for our real feelings or situation. See: Cosmetic.
Example: The place was a seedy joint. I felt badly about the entertainment. I went down the stairs to the dressing room. I put on makeup and an evening dress. I got up there and sang my heart out. They liked it. It was classy.
Useful Questions and Hints:
What part is the makeup playing in my dream and in my life?
What do I feel about the makeup, and how does that relate to my present situation?
Am I trying to hide or cover up something – if so what?
See Identity and Dreams – Inner World – Associations Working With
Male Man
I suppose one of the most striking things I experienced in recent years is that a dream image is just a ‘front’ for massive data banks of experience and information. For instance, supposing we liken your memory to a huge filing system – rooms of it. Within those rooms there is a whole section marked ‘MAN’. Within that section of ‘MAN’ are countless folders with experience and information in about particular men in your life – from father onwards. Apart from that there is a big file or system of files dealing with what you inherited culturally about MAN, and also what you have absorbed from mother and other women. Then there is the media and books. So much.
What particular aspect of all this a dream is expressing depends on how the dream presents, clothes, acts, speaks and relates as the man. So the dream image is a communication between your waking awareness and those massive files of information, and dealing with a particular aspect of your life and development. There is a whole book here somewhere.
As for the female male, and the male female, this is one of those lifetime areas of growth we each face and achieve in lesser or greater degrees. Fundamentally we are without a particular gender, but in connection with our body we often have very marked female or male characteristics and responses to life. However, as we move through the major problems we are wrestling with we start meeting our other half and finding symbols of blending. Eventually the male and female are one in us, though we can easily continue to live as a male or female. A way of cutting through to direct understanding is to use Being the Person or Thing
One of the simplest meanings a man in your dream has is that he portrays your relationship, your feelings about, or responses to, a relationship with a man. The man in your dreams in nearly always an aspect of your own feelings, hopes and fears. Even if it is someone you know well, the dream image is never that person. It is certainly an image you have built out of your memories, your views of that person, your likes, dislikes and insights, the pains or pleasures, the things you learned in relationship with that man.
The man in your dreams in nearly always an aspect of your own feelings, hopes and fears. Even if it is someone you know well, the dream image is never that person. It is certainly an image you have built out of your memories, your views of that person, your likes, dislikes and insights.
The man is in general the polarisation of thought, of activity in the world, of invention and doing, even if you are a woman, you have these qualities that will probably be dreamt of under the image of a man.
In general a person in a dream shows one of your own character resources or problems, depending upon how you relate to the character. Each character trait is a part of the your repertoire of behaviour. If you are at odds with the person in the dream or threatened by him or her, then the trait dominates you rather than you being able to use it without fear. An important point is that the dream image of the person or object summarises the trait. Through the image the you can access the resources of the trait. Therefore it is an image of power. See Being the Person or Thing
Inner male: Most people are often totally unaware of the experience they take in and how it interacts with them when we love someone or have lived with them. In other words the memories and experience we gather unconsciously change us and are not lost. It is part of you and is symbolised in dreams as a person or event. You have taken in millions of bit of memory, lessons learnt, life experiences along with all the feelings or problems met by loving and living with someone and they are what makes you the person you are. Your dreams tend to put all that in the image of the past person when you are dealing with the influences left in you from the relationship. Please read this wonderful example, it will show how much we take in from those we love or lived with.
In a woman’s dream: The man might represent your felt relationship with a particular man, or males in general. In this sense the man portrays the power of your own womanhood, indicating whether you can meet male energy with your full female energy. The man might also represent your ability to question social conventions and to attack issues with thought.
In a man’s dream: An aspect of your own character traits.
Man in black: Usually represents something we fear or a part of us we are largely unconscious of, but is coming to awareness if we allow it. See shadow
Mysterious Man: The mystery man can be a way of describing the mysterious life process or higher self. It can be scary because we are not, in civilised cultures, in touch with Life but are frightened of it. Nothing can hurt you in a dream, so even if you fear the man is dangerous, it is only your emotions clothed in a dream image. See What we Need to Remember About Dreaming.
Old man: This might depict some aspect of the relationship with your father, or it might be a form of wisdom you are meeting.
Half animal man: Urges and aspects of yourself that have not yet been socialised, or are at odds with today’s form of social life. See Archetype of the Animus – Ape-man Half man Half Monster
Malformation
Whatever is symbolised is not expressing its true characteristics.
Ma Mama
Feelings about your mother, receptiveness of mind, change, fertility. See: Mother.