Posts Tagged ‘dream dictionary interpretation’
Matador
Conflict or struggle with sexual drives. Or it might show sexual tensions.
Or on the positive side the ability to dance with or relate well with the enormous instructive drive to protect, care for and mate. See: Bull.
Mattress
Similar to bed – the situation, comfortable or otherwise, one has created in life. You made your bed, now lie on it. See: Bed.
Comfort; sexuality; relaxed feelings.
Example: ‘I am sleeping rough in a garden with a woman I do not love. I think I should try to make the best of the situation, but my feelings against it are too strong. Then I decide I don’t ever want to live like that again and tear up the mattress we slept on. As I do this I realise, as if waking from amnesia, that Pat lives just across the road. She has specially moved there because of our love. I realise with horror I had forgotten and may have lost her.’ David H.
David was sleeping on a mattress on the floor in his present relationship. But he realised from the dream that he had slipped back into attitudes which had existed in his prior relationship, and might very well damage the present one.
Jung sees the mattresses as representing a marriage. A mattress can also be where we hide things such a money, books or magazines. So it suggests things you like or want but are afraid someone will see what you are doing.
Example: I was aware of having a lot of money in a night safe that I had to hide from somebody who was coming to steal it. I knew he would look in the usual hiding place so I found secret compartment in the mattress at the top of the bed. But when I put it in it looked so obvious I was afraid he would notice when he made the bed.
Rotting mattress: Something very wrong with your life situation. Or a comment on your relationship.
Uncomfortable mattress: This suggests either a relationship difficulties or that something is troubling you while asleep. What makes the mattress uncomfortable, and can you define what the discomfort is?
Useful Questions and Hints:
What is the comment on the mattress in the dream – comfortable, uncomfortable, alone?
What do I associate with the mattress?
Do I like going to bed?
See Working with associations – Inner World – Techniques for Exploring your Dreams – Secrets of Power Dreaming
Maypole
The maypole is a symbol of this universal connection between all things. This is a sexual symbol, but not necessarily directly about genital sex. It represents the positive, dynamic, creative forces of growth and fertility in nature and in you. But it can also represent the still turning point around which all phenomena connect, or the point beyond time and space where all things connect.
It also represents the positive, dynamic, creative forces of growth and fructification in nature and man that cause the growth of crops in the spring.
Example: We have dreamt of the Maypole with streamers (ribbons) in different colours leading to each member of the group. The colours seem to indicate what is occurring within an individual. Or we may see the Maypole with streams of light touching each member. At times, the Maypole will not be there, but instead light will be seen encircling each member, joining us in a larger circle of light. At other times there may be a fountain of water, overflowing and shimmering like hundreds of sparkling diamonds. These droplets then touch each of us in the group. These experiences seem to indicate a unification of consciousness, all members seeking and sharing the same Ideal. Norma Coles, Florida.
Useful Questions and Hints:
Have I ever danced around a maypole or swung around a pole or even spun around to make myself giddy?
Do I see the maypole as a sexual symbol around which maidens circle to become fertile?
What was the message of my dream and the feelings in it?
See Secrets of Power Dreaming – Processing Dreams – Magical Dream Machine – Questions
Maze
The maze is an ancient symbol often used in mythology. It can depict the difficulties of finding your way out of the entanglement of dependence upon your mother and cultural norms.
Also we are often lost in the confusion of ideas and feelings, conflicting urges and opinions and the difficulty in finding your way through the mass of apparently irrational emotions and images arising from within, or the variety of opinions and authoritative sources of information outside.
This area of self is sometimes an area of seeming chaos. It needs some other level of yourself, the intuitive faculty, in relationship with the rational mind, to guide you through. Sometimes you need to admit you are lost and need help.
This dream of someone is an example or this – Before waking this morning I had an extraordinary lucid experience that involved me in what felt like a real place. The clearest part of this was of me in a maze. The walls of the maze were made of hedges, as the whole thing was outdoors. But I realised, because I was lucid, that I had purposely created the maze as an experiment. The point of the experiment was that the maze was complicated enough to make it difficult for me to find my way out. So, confronted by the difficulty of emerging from this dream maze, because of the lucidity, I could understand that this was a dream image, a reflection of the actual world I live in, and in doing so I simply realised that I was not actually in a maze, but only lost in feelings of being trapped in my own mind, and was thereby free of the maze.
I then experimented again and again with this, moving to exist beyond the images I had been, or could be, lost in. This was such an extraordinary experience and realisation it is difficult to put into words with enough impact to make it real. What it led me to see was that all dreams involve us in an environment or situation of one sort or another. Usually we feel the dream to be so real, and the feelings we experience because we are immersed in them, to also be real, that in a very real way we are trapped. But we are trapped in the feelings, ideas and beliefs, not the dream. So if we were in a prison cell in a dream, then there would be no way out of that cell without a key. But realising oneself as being the awareness behind the feelings and images means there is no prison; there is no entrapment; there are no walls to hold you. The apparent reality of the dream is then seen as simply pictures and feelings – stuff of the mind that we have conjured and become identified with and lost or trapped in. Even imagery with positive feelings is a form of trap if we identify with them. The more I look at the experience the more I realise that virtually everybody on our planet is trapped in a prison of their own emotions, thoughts and ideas. To recognise this in any reasonable degree leads to an extraordinary sense of freedom. To see that we live our life trapped in the world of thoughts, of emotions, of sexual drives, of fears or beliefs, is astonishing.
Example: If we place you in the centre of a circle and put all our dream characters, animals and objects around you in a circle, and if add to this all the many things that impact upon us such as peoples influence on you; your thoughts and emotions and how you are swayed by them; your physical urges such as hunger and sex, and of course pain and pleasure; your desires such as ambitions, your sense of being a success or failure, and the hundred and one other things that hit you as you stand in the middle, as well as your intuition, social pressure, hormonal influences, fears, ideas and images from media or people, your instinctive drives etc., we would see what a diverse mass of influences we stand in the middle of.
So the maze can represent the circuitous and often confusing route you take to greater maturity. In this sense the maze represent an attempt to find your way through conscious thoughts, opinions, doubts and childhood traumas fantasies and beliefs, to an experience of your fundamental nature. At the centre of the maze however, instead of a treasure you may find emptiness. What is at the centre – you are – reality – the unconscious – Life. We need to realise that we all live in a very real inner world that we mistake as us – you – me – I. This world is created by your thoughts, beliefs and opinions and it seems impossible to find ones way out of it. But the secret is to realise that it is really a creation of our own mind and so we can dissolve it by seeing the opinions as opinions, the thoughts as simply thoughts, and your beliefs as simply beliefs.
Useful Questions and Hints:
Do I realise the enormous power of my inner world?
Do I feel lost in the welter of ideas and impressions that impact within me?
How do I find my way when confused?
See Inner World – Secrets of Power Dreaming – Autonomous Complex – Individuation
Meal
Taking in life; absorbing something of life and the world; being enriched. If you are with others, then it might reflect something about the way you relate socially to people. It could also be a sharing of life and experience with others. See: Food.
Measure Measurement Measuring
Might refer to wondering how long – days and weeks – something will happen. The amount of friends you have is often used as a measure. Comparisons are an awful measure, because you often compare yourself with someone who you believe is better than you. But that is not how Life sees you. You are the survivor of countless lives of your predecessors; you are also the winner if the enormous effort of conception. Also you are a life form, and living example of life. Life is a miracle no one has understood. We might clone life, but we cannot create it. So you are a miracle with enormous untapped potential – so stand up straight and be proud. How ‘big’ something is in life. How you measure up to your own or other people’s expectations?
Example: “I know this may sound strange, but the most powerful thing for me was that I realised I am alive. The realisation was accompanied by the sense of being life. I now know I am life and life is not just a chemical reaction or a set of biological drives or responses. As life I am always exploring, reaching out, becoming, learning what I am capable of and what I am. Just to exist is itself a great pleasure and miracle.”
To quote from Edgar Cayce, “The fact that man’s body is a speck of dust on a small planet leads to the illusion that man himself is a small creation. The measure of the soul is the limitless activity of mind and the grandeur of imagination. No soul takes on flesh without a general plan for the experience ahead. The personality expressed through the body is one of many that the individuality might have assumed. See Edgar Cayce
How do we measure success in our life? Many people who are seen as successes often commit suicide or are depressed, despite their riches. Being a success is probably learning how to integrate the many aspects of yourself, to have working relationship with your inner life, and so find an expression that is a reflection of the deeps in you. What we call ‘love’ is not a measure of success. Love in our culture is a terrible merry-go-round which can throw you off at any moment. Look around at the many, many failures. See Beware of Love – Life
Example: A shoe salesman had me take off the shoes and measure my feet. The measuring device showed the same size that the shoes are, so I was baffled as to why they were suddenly pinching.
Shoes represent your present attitude or chosen way of life. The dream is saying you need a bigger view of what you are doing, because you present attitude is not fitting you.
Useful Questions and Hints:
How do you measure yourself- by money – good looks or lack of them – success?
What does your dream say about measurement?
Are you proud that you are a living survivor of countless generations of forebears?
See Big Bang and God are the Same – Martial Art of the Mind – Karma – Levels of Awareness
Meat
We often say, one man’s meat is another man’s poison. Here it represents your likes and dislikes, the characteristics, the experiences of life. Meat also represents sexual or physical experience, physical strength, prowess. To partake of meat is to partake of experience of the body, or material values.
Physical or worldly satisfaction or needs; the best bit of life; nourishing; good fortune or good hunting in ones endeavours. Sometimes refers to sexual behaviour, suggesting it is lacking anything but a physical dimension.
If you are a vegetarian: Something to be avoided; feelings of guilt; death.
If you have difficult feelings about killing animals or eating meat, it can be about those feelings. After all we kill whatever we eat, but as we are all from the same family we are only giving to ourselves – though the way we did it might be questionable. Realise that everything is alive and can respond. Plants too are living beings and respond what is done to them. We need to recognise that we are all from the same source and our only difference is the body we inhabit. Life gives itself to us as the creative action, and it is always dying as it gives itself to us. See Big Bang and God are the Same
Example: Experimenting with this I attempted communication with a sick New Zealand tomato tree we had. It was in a large tub, well fed and watered, but had the greenfly, and was also wilting. We had sprayed, but the general debility of the plant seemed to attract the fly. I used the technique of LifeStream to see if my intuition could asses the condition of the plant. The first thing I felt was an unexpected wave of love, as if the plant was wordlessly saying thank you for caring. Then I had the sense of my consciousness meshing with the consciousness/being of the plant. My impression was that the plant was an entity, a form of life and awareness, but it did not have a focused consciousness which could formulate the idea what causes this sickness? Because I could ask the question, and because I allowed my consciousness to consider the plant, a new situation arose; the plant could be aware of itself. The difficulty of the process was that everything was direct non-verbal experience. As the experience of plant life was new to me, I had to spend some time allowing the sensations to soak in and be analysed by my rational mind. What arose out of this was the understanding that the root system of the plant needed to spread sideways, not down. We therefore put the plant in a sack, with the same earth spread thin. Within a week the greenfly had all gone, without spraying, and the plant grew strong and luxuriant.
Raw meat: instinctive or powerful emotions or drives; Quoted from Dreams and Dreaming by Norman Mackenzie. ‘It was found that some themes not only appeared in widely separated cultures, but that they also evoked very similar responses. C. G. Siligman, for instance, found that dreams about raw meat occurred in Ireland, Switzerland, China, Greece, the Ukraine, Nigeria, Tanganyika, Borneo, and Achin in Sumatra – and that in all these places such a dream was associated with some impending misfortune. In the Ukraine it presaged a burial; in the Zungeru district if Nigeria, the death of a friend; in Tanganyika, it was a symbol of a funeral feast. The origins of this common belief may be simple: for many poor societies, the consumption of large quantities of meat would be limited to funerals and similar occasions, and the association would therefore be direct.’
Useful Questions and Hints:
Do you feel anything in reading the definitions above?
What was your activity or relationship with the meat?
Did you have any feelings in the dream?
See Emotions and Mood in Dreams – Working with associations – – Secrets of Power Dreaming
Mechanic
Your means of dealing with habitual reactions, or the practical, ‘how things work’ side of life. Your skill in dealing with problems, when you can’t get started in the mornings, or on a project. The mechanic might also point to a physical problem, depending on the dream content. See Car; Engine
Medicine
Healing influence; meeting experiences we might not like but need to change a negative situation; positive changes that can be brought about; actual drugs we are taking.
Some medicines can actually make things worse, so if your dream suggests this try stopping taking the medicine.
Dreams depict our inner processes as intelligent and responsive, not just as chemical actions and reactions as modern medicine so often does. Therefore your conscious attitudes influence these fundamental living processes in you – processes that maintain health, digestion, your heart, rebuild damage and fight infection. Negative feelings or attitudes can cause these ‘animals’ or natural processes in you to despair or lose motivation, and thus lead to depression or illness.
We need to remember that our experience of self, our personality, is capable of being radically shifted simply by taking a drug or medicine – as with antidepressants, ecstasy or cocaine. This often reshapes the way we see ourselves, so an evolution in the process of identity building has occurred in our society. Identity in the end is not a set of beliefs or behaviours. The self is not limited to these. In today’s world our identity is often shaped by chemicals/medicines/drugs. The consumption of drugs, alcohol, sleeping pills, and certain medicines including anti-histamines tend to keep our awareness in the deep levels of Delta sleep, thus depriving us of the REM sleep so necessary for balance and sanity.
Example: My doctor suggested I take a statin based medicine. At first there was no problem, but I gradually got so weak I couldn’t even turn over in bed. I suggested to my doctor that I stopped taking it and he supported me in the decision. Within days I began to gain strength again and am about my normal strength now.
Example: In my dream I was in the hospital giving birth I could feel the strong pain medicine working and I assume I had been given an epidural.
Considering that dreams are actually a creation out of ones own feelings, this dreamer has a strong belief that she needs pain killers, even though she has never had a baby. Many media films often act out a very painful birth, which give women the idea that all births must be painful. But here is another woman’s description of her actual birth experience.
Example: It was my first child and as my baby started it appearance I was in agony. But instead of tensing against it I surrender to it and it became a wonderful ecstasy of birth without any drugs. See A Method to Shorten Labour
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.
Example: Frank Takes Gun, national president of the Native American Church, says: At fourteen, I first used Father Peyote. This was on the Crow Reservation in Montana, and I was proud to know that my people had a medicine that was God-powerful. Listen to me, peyote does have many amazing powers. I have seen a blind boy regain his sight from taking it. Indians with ailments that hospital doctors couldn’t cure have become healthy again after a peyote prayer meeting. Once a Crow boy was to have his infected leg cut off by reservation doctors. After a peyote ceremony, it grew well again.
Idioms: Taste of ones own medicine; take ones medicine.
Useful Questions and Hints:
If I take the medicine out if its symbols, what was it?
Do I associate anything with the dream medicine?
What was I doing with or feeling about the medicine?
See Self Help – Dealing with Fear – Summing Up – Processing Dreams – Techniques for Exploring your Dreams
Medicine Man
See: Guru.
Meditation
Being self responsible for state of mind; listening to intuition and unconscious; introverting awareness, or escaping from external world.
For people involved in any form of personal growth, they occasionally have a dream in which some form of instruction is given as an aid to their unfolding. Such dreams are worth following as the unconscious has the ability to sift and consider our collective experience, and present what applies to our need.
But there are basically two types of meditation – with seed and without seed. With seed means you have a goal or state of being you wish to get to, so involves a goal of some sort. Without seed is to totally not have any goals or hopes of reward or getting anywhere.
The first one, with seed, is based on ones personal desires, hopes or goals, the second, without seed, is based on your conviction that you are an integral part of life and the cosmos. This can be a form of surrender to what you feel is underlying your existence and so is trusting in yourself.
Sometimes we are influenced by old cultural viewpoints. We need an extension to fully be who we are and what we are. Our technological gadgets demonstrate this perfectly. Who would be interested in a mobile phone that only worked occasionally if you knelt in prayer for hours, or had to repeat certain mantras or types of meditation before it would function? We want something reliable and functional that is an expression of our best. I have seen it at work within myself in the past. A splendid possibility of enhanced awareness and response to situations.
We need to be able to meet the circumstances of our today, in all its variety, with real quality. That is true whether we are faced with making personal, political, counselling decisions, or whether we are responding to our children in a way to help them unfold their unique possibilities. Perhaps we want to guide our children in a way that takes in who they really are, and at the same time equip them to meet the possibilities and dangers of everyday life. We need to be able to help them to discover what their roots are. Not just their father and mother and immediate forebears, but what they have inherited from their culture, and their history. We need a wider perspective to guide us, and this is possible to us. See Using Your Intuition
See Life’s Little Secrets; way of meditating; Mind and Movement; Meditation With Seed – Try this remarkable meditation; The Breath Meditation; The Arm Circling Meditation; The Squatting and Standing Meditation; Letting things Happen; Lsd – Hypnosis – Meditation – The Dream; Enlightenment
Example: ‘While recovering from a major operation and experiencing enormous pain I dreamt my father – dead – appeared standing at the end of the bed, and he said in a very matter of fact voice, ‘Think of five pink bouquets’. My father would never have used those words, so the scene impressed itself on me. I therefore woke and tried to visualise the five bouquets. I managed to get three in a row, four, but I could not manage five until I formed them into a diamond with one in the middle. When I achieved that my pain subsided, and did so each time I used the image – why I do not know.’ Ken S.
Ken’s experience suggests a psychosomatic effect from his dream proposed meditation. Such meditations often show ways to alter character attitudes or help find strength to make necessary changes in life.
Useful Questions and Hints:
What am I hoping to find through meditation?
What does the dream say about meditation?
Have I hit difficulties?
See Magic Mirror of Dreams – Bodiless Awareness – Being the Person or Thing – The power of Habits
Medium
A medium may represent the intuitive function, acquaintance or contact with the psychic rather than the spiritual; the knowledge of unconscious impressions, or of the dead.
Intuition, but perhaps in an obscure way; contact with the unconscious or the dead in its symbolic form. See: the dream as extended perception under esp in dreams; symbols and dreaming.
If you dream you are a medium and you are trying to communicate with a dead person, remember that at death we have no physical organs to speak through, so it all has to be done through thoughts. Also that at the level of thoughts we create huge difficulties by what we think. So a thought such as, “I am not a medium so I cannot talk with my dead son” is like a brick wall that we have created and cannot get through. Thoughts and imagination are incredible powerful and are real at the level of dreams and the dead – and of course your own inner world. See Inner World
Example: The woman dwarf had features that, even in the dream, reminded me of someone. On waking I realise it was the dwarf woman who played the ‘medium’ in the film Poltergeist. Once in the room with her I felt more strongly I had known her for many years. She told me she was going to look in her crystal ball to tell me what she could see for me. The room was quite dim. It was her bed-sitting room, and like the corridor, had an air of things going on difficult to see in the dimness.
Example: I was at a public meeting with some friends (that I was trying to introduce to Spiritualism) and the medium who looked about 80 came to a woman in the front row who also looked about 80 and said, ” Mother in spirit dear,” she said it with a slight lift at the end so it sounded like a statement or a question. To everyones amazement, the woman said “No, she is still alive”. So the medium said, ” Well it must be your grandmother because she comes on a motherly vibration”.
I have seen a clairvoyant at a public meeting wave a vague arm that encompassed about 50 people at the back of the church, and say” does anyone recognize a Fred?” Amazing. I liked to think that if there is some heavenly beings orchestrating all of this then a least some have been getting to the people who need them the most and of course there are the “message groupies” that go to every meeting possible and absolutely must have a message but that’s another story. Larry
Example: I approach my God and ask to see what would be a direction that would be rewarding to my wholeness, and to other people as well. I prayed for guidance and what arose was the realisation that I had always wanted to be a medium, and I could do that if I wanted. It was something I had wanted to do for a long period of my life. The reason I hold back is because I feel it is a questionable process. At times what arises in this way is amazingly to the point and unexpected. Other times it seems like me making up drivel. A clarity about self doubt then came. I am a man who could go in almost any direction in terms of doing what would be satisfying, but don’t go in any direction much because I am haunted by self doubt. The crippling thing is that I doubt the very thing I love – the spiritual experience. I doubt the very validity of what is the centre of my inner life. I love that – I doubt that. So this leaves me in a sort of limbo.
Useful Questions and Hints:
What do you associate with a medium?
Have you ever been to one?
What happened in my dream with the medium?
See Using Your Intuition – Using Spontaneous Voice – Edgar Cayce – Processing Dreams
Meet Met Meeting
(As in meeting someone – what do you meet?).
This is usually about contact, about relationship, and especially about the factors governing the relationship. For instance in one dream a man looking after children meets a man who he judges to be irresponsible. In fact the man is ill and therefore not acting normally. So the factors governing the meeting are misjudgement or misinformation.
Meeting is also about confrontation, or encountering challenge, the new, or about some sort of communication. There might also, in the communication, be questions asked.
The person we are meeting or moving toward can also depict the future, the person we are becoming or moving toward in our growth. It is therefore helpful to define what sort of person they are.
We might, as often happens, be meeting ourselves, thoughwe often put another person there to confuse our so logical mind; but I see so oftens that soemthing tells me again that within each of us lies a radiance that enriches us if we can meet it, that this radiance constantly tries to show us how to become whole, that becoming whole may take strength, surrender and trust.
We also meet again and again, yet for some reason cannot see it, Life’s age old unconscious processes are still the major part of our being, yet we seldom consciously meet them. See Life
What do you meet in the dream? Is it a dark figure which suggests something about you that you are barely conscious of and need to know.
Is it an animal which is usually your instinctive or spontaneous reactions to events, you intuition or your fears that you are meeting.
Is it a woman and you are a man Then you are meeting your feelings and your female self. Also you might be experimenting with your sexual impulses. You cannot call having sex ‘making love’ – it may be sexual desire which is largely a natural impulse, but it is seldom love. See Love; Archetype of the Anima
Is it a man and you are a woman Then you are meeting your more rational self or your male self. It might be a way you are trying to see whether the man is the ‘one’ – and that is something seen in many dreams. Maybe you feel it would be nice to fall in love and marry again. So you may be hoping that the dream is some sort of indication that ‘he’ still wants to be with you. I can only pass on what I see happens when someone has such a dream. There is such a huge difference between our inner life and outer life. Our inner life often tries to digest or integrate the experience of a relationship, or/and we live out the things we would love to happen. You realise how happy someone can be in a relationship, so you can’t help wondering if it could happen to you. See Archetype of the Animus; Questions; Learning to Love
Are you looking for support? Whether a woman or a man, we often find support in our dreams. But you must be aware that dreams arise and take place in very different set of circumstances than our waking life. So the people and animals should not be thought of as external, but are ways that you inner most self is showing the politics of your own inner world. See Summing Up
Useful Questions and Hints:
If the meeting did not work well ask yourself what went wrong?
If it went well see if you can build what you felt or realised into your life.
Have ever realised meeting yourself?
See Life’s Little Secrets – Avoid Being Victims – Techniques for Exploring your Dreams
Megalith Menhir
The eternal or universal aspect of self emerging into consciousness. See: Rock.
Because I believe the universe has good will, out of the very force of my life, and from the stuff of mind, I create a rock in the midst of a shoreless sea. In an ocean of change and uncertainty I form an island of charm.
There was a period of time when we were not humans with self awareness. As such we were animals moved by instincts. But there was then a cross over to self awareness, and in imagination I saw what was perhaps the first of these creatures pile one rock upon another, something no animal had ever done, and this was both a mystery to those who had not reached that level called self awareness, but also a stimulus. We may then venerate or hold as of immense value such art forms. They contain in them the vast dimensions of the ungraspable, of the infinity of our own within. They stand before us as representatives of the alien in our midst, in ourselves. They remind us of what we are not masters of, and what may take hold of our life.
Then out of that ocean onto the shore of self-awareness, perhaps for moments only at first, a daring Then out of that ocean onto the shore of self-awareness, perhaps for moments only at first, a daring creature crawled and said – ‘I am’. Doing so they left a mark – footprints, two stones rolled together, scratches on a rock, a cave painting. And those creatures still in the ocean looked out upon them and wondered, until a spark was struck in them too. Perhaps struggling for a closer view they emerged and gasping also exclaimed – I am – and added another rock. So great structures gradually grew put of humans.
Our consciousness has been whittled out of the rock of possibilities by the love, the struggle and pain, the endeavour and wit of their lives. Particularly our psyche has been shaped by or modelled on our parents and the traces in their life, unknown though they may be, of their parents, backwards for many generations.
Example: I have come across a cave dug into a rocky cliff. A track sloped down from a hill or a mountain past the tunnel entrance, which was on my left. I saw a few men emerging from the tunnel. Small broken rock covered the exit to the cave forming a level surface to walk on. I knew the men had found treasure in the cave. I saw bits of gold, like chunks of rock, on the ground near the exit. I knew also that there was still a great treasure in the tunnel. Another person went in to get some of the treasure. However, I knew that to have a treasure you had to answer a question put to you by something like a Guardian of the tunnel – maybe a sphinx. The person didn’t emerge and I knew they had not been able to answer the question. But I heard the question I would be asking if I went for the treasure. It was, “What goes into everything twice?”
The man who dreamt the above dreamt explored it fully. He says of it, “What I did found was that the cave is an absence of something. It is the result of work done of clearing out, of chipping away at what was there. This led to revealing what we consider to be treasure. The treasure was there but it had not been revealed, it was part and parcel of the rock. So I am left wondering what the something is inside the cave that asks the questions of those who enter.
What I find interesting about the dream is that there are pieces of gold lying about outside the cave. So one could gather a lot of treasure simply from what is already available. There would be no need to enter the cave. But there is the promise of enormous treasure inside. It isn’t so much the wealth, but there is the impression that the treasure is not simply lumps of gold, but un-nameable things that one would find extremely valuable. I feel, as I enter more deeply into my wider awareness, that the men who came out with the treasure depict the enormous amount that I have mined from the long years of my exploring. I have in fact already gathered enormous treasure. Of course I still wonder what else there is left to find.
I am feeling that the person who went in and did not come out represents the unanswered questions that we all hold within ourselves. Those questions of course keep us still within the mine, still seeking answers and understanding. That is the part of self that continues to chip away at the rock face, knocking away the rock from the gold, uncovering more of the possibilities that were held within that solidity.
Example: I was on a beach in somewhere like Ibiza. I met Danny; I knew that I didn’t have the money like him to live a different life, so I wondered what I could do. I saw a rock mound with water running through it. I then saw that ancient peoples had carved out some more of the rock and had inserted abalone shells around the running water creating a trough. As I looked on, I suddenly realised that this was an expression of the divine and that I could live here and dedicate my life to the divine, thereby giving my life as much meaning if not more than Danny’s.
Example: Here and there in the desert were huge rock formations, a little bit like what one sees in Monument Valley in Arizona. But these rock formations were not plain or slightly coloured rock. Also they were immense. They had the appearance of massive mosaics – brightly coloured mosaics. But the mosaics did not form illustrations or patterns. However, some pieces of the mosaics were larger than others. And each piece might be in itself multicoloured and a sort of miniature pictograph.
As I looked at these massive formations I understood that they had been carved or created through events in the passage of time. Each mosaic, each part of the overall mosaic, had been formed by enormous creative acts, or by long-standing actions. So these latter were like ideograms or archetypes. So, for instance, mother creatures have cared for, fought for, died for their young. This pattern of behaviour has been so enormously potent and perhaps we can use the word successful, that it has created and shaped aspects of eternity. It has left its pattern, its artwork, on time itself. Thus eternity honours that pattern by giving it a place in the very structure of itself. No one being created such a mosaic in the formations. Such a mosaic was large and had in it the essence of all the lives that formed it. So the rock formations and the mosaics on them represented influences that will flow into the future. They were sources of power or influence that shaped the phenomenal world. They were the body under the coat so to speak.
Example: We turned left off the road. I stood on a small rise looking down into a large hollow between hills. In front of me was a colossal stone column of a design I had never before seen. It was the height of Nelson’s column in Trafalgar Square, but very much wider. On top it had a design that was so subtle and unique I cannot even recall it. This design had been carved into the solid rock. This suggests, I suppose, that this uniqueness has not been brought through to consciousness. The column seems to be of solid rock, neither natural nor man-made, but formed by some inconceivable mystery. The design at the top was alien, not in the sense of being a threat, but with a sense of otherness. The form was not natural, yet at the same time it was not man-made. Perhaps it would describe it by saying it seemed as if nature and human intelligence had somehow blended to form it. For they had the naturalness of form that an anthill or honeycomb has, where “nature” expresses herself through her insect bodies. This was in a class with these works of nature, yet more complex, showing She had used a higher order of intelligence.
Useful Questions and Hints:
Were there any designs on the rock?
Did I have any thoughts or realisation about the megalith?
What do I feel it means to me?
See Being the Person or Thing – Magical Dream Machine – Processing Dreams
Melt
To change hardness of nature giving way to feelings of softness. A change; emotions softening. The softness of ones emotions can lead to a feeling of merging with someone. There can also be a melting of ones sense of self, of existing. Our personality has indeed, as far as we are concerned, while we sleep has melted away and disappeared. Yet the next morning we awake and all is well. We have survived. The sense of bodilessness often brings with it a melting of ones boundaries and a feeling of being part of all life. This is sometimes called an ‘oceanic’ experience because it can feel like one is melting into an enormous ocean of life or consciousness.
The melting of ice suggests that a very hard emotional surface is softening or disappearing. Melting snow is also the losing of emotional coldness, but not with the harshness of ice.
Example: I was in a street and met a dark haired young woman. We embraced and kissed. The feeling of mutual pleasure was intense. So much so I felt what she was feeling as if we did not have separate bodies. I felt an orgasm grow inside her pelvis and reach its pitch, flowing into the rest of her body. It was her orgasm but it felt as if it were mine also. It was a beautiful melting experience with no harshness or disappointment anywhere.
Example: Now the preparations have ended and I am to go off alone up the mountains to meet whatever waits for me there. Now it feels as if something is flowing into my body. I am now experiencing a state or condition that has been very marked or strong in my life lately. My breathing becomes very slow, it seems even at times as if it has stopped, and everything becomes very still. It feels like being dead. My body becomes so still it disappears and all that is left is awareness submerged in enormous emptiness or space. There is a paradox in this experience because it feels as if I, my sense of self, has melted away, and yet there is still a very definite experience of existing. I suppose what has stopped is what I have called movement. The movement of thinking, of feeling, of longing or hoping for things.
Example: I held out my hand to the doll, with love, and it came alive and crawled to me. It came to me as a lonely child might come into ones arms hungering for love. I held it close to me, and Joan came over and I held her too. Then all barriers seemed to melt, and everything disappeared from view. All that existed was I as a united being and consciousness. It was, I think, beautiful. I used the word think, because I find it difficult to describe the experience. We melted into each other beyond the sense of being separated by the surface of ones skin If one literally entered during sexual intercourse, and melted together like drops of water uniting, this is how it would be.
Useful Questions and Hints:
Did you experience melting or just seeing something melt?
What would you imagine it would feel like to actually melt?
Do you keep a hard edge to your feelings as protection?
See Avoid Being Victims – Using the Voice – Norman Cousins – Being the Person or Thing
Menstruate Menstruation Periods
The possible association depends very much upon what age you are, and what gender. But if you are female, it can suggest (in order of age) emerging sexuality and child bearing, and any joys or worries you have about this. Dreams of young women often experiment with the whole process of menstruation and pregnancy long before there is any inclination to experience sex as an external fact.
It might refer to your acceptance or conflict with this powerful and spontaneous process of life working in you. In a sense it takes over your body as distinct from your personal desires. This calls for some adjustment, so the dreams might illustrate this.
The dream might reflect concerns about pregnancy, or in a few cases, directly shows that you are pregnant.
Lastly the dream might be showing actual physiological conditions needing attention. If you are worried about any such dream, check it out with your doctor.
Emerging sexuality; procreative drive; mystery of life; acceptance of life working in yourself if menstruating – non acceptance of basic life drives if not menstruating.
Menstruation connects her with the forces of death and renewal occurring within her during every menstruation. It connects her with the tremendous link with natural forces of mothering and the strength of womanhood and the female principle in the Earth and universe.
Blood can also mean fertility when it is connected with menstruation. It can be a painful cleansing and difficult period of releasing the old. The old dies away and leaves space for the new to grow. For women there is obviously a strong link between bleeding and menstruation. Therefore in women’s dreams involving blood, the colour red or bloody felsh in any form, the blood may depict whatever feelings, pleasure, difficulties are associated with menstruation and the power of female fertility for the dreamer.
Dreams of collapse and destruction are more prevalent before a woman’s menstrual periods. Just before menstrual bleeding the endometrium is thicker and its surface more spongy or “wrinkled” before it sloughs off and menstrual bleeding starts. At this time several women report dreams where they need to iron wrinkled clothing. One woman reported, “I was in the bathroom ironing.”
Women with negative attitudes toward their menstruation (“the curse,” “falling off the roof,” “on the rag”) showed 15 percent of their dreams during the first two days had concerns about their body health. While those with positive feelings toward menstruation (“my secret friend,” “my monthly visitor,” “Mother Nature calling”) had less than 2 percent of dreams showing concerns.
Menstruation is the assurance of true femininity and the sign of womanhood. At such a time women often dream of receiving an engagement ring or married to strangers. Women frequently dream of being in water or swimming during menstruation.
Just before menstrual bleeding the endometrium is thicker and its surface more spongy or “wrinkled” before it sloughs off and menstrual bleeding starts. At this time several women report dreams where they need to iron wrinkled clothing. One woman reported, “I was in the bathroom ironing.”
Problems with menstruation: Problems with relationship between what life needs of personality, and what personality wants of life; might refer to physiological problems which need attention. In man’s dream: Ones receptive nurturing nature; the aspect of the male self which can ‘conceive’ creative ideas.
If ill: problems in sexuality, creativity, emotions or in letting go of ‘I want’. See: pre menstrual tension; Menstruation and dreams.
Example: For the past year and several months I’ve had a recurring dream at least 10 times pertaining to my menstrual cycle and bowel movements. These dreams have always been embarrassing. Either my period has came down unexpected while I’m sitting on the toilet and/or I am catching a bowel movement in my hand and trying to hide it from people around me. I have been thinking of what possible meaning this could be.
This is about the person holding onto their inner emotional rubbish/shit because they feel embarrassed if they allow it to be expressed.
Example: We’re commiserating about the woes of menstrual periods. We talk about how uncomfortable it is when one’s flow is very heavy. We’re enjoying our conversation and I like her a lot. We have so much in common. Finally she says she needs to change her tampon or pad. I offer her a tampon (regular) but she says that she doesn’t use them when she’s out like this. (I get the feeling she means it’s too inconvenient.) At first I was sitting on the end of the aisle and she was sitting to my right. Now she’s squatting in the aisle on my left. I thought she was going to the bathroom but she changes right there in the aisle. She pulls out a thing that looks like a tampon but it’s round and white on a string. It’s about 1/2 – 1 inch in diameter. This is what she will use. She doesn’t seem the least bit uncomfortable about doing it in the aisle. It seems to be natural for her. I then ask her how she handles working when her flow is so heavy. She laughs and says there’s no way she can work. Her boss just tells her to take her shoes and go home. He knows she’s going to be off work when she’s on her period.
Useful Questions and Hints:
Do I have problems talking about menstruation?
What do I feel about menstruation?
Is it easy or painful for you?
See Techniques for Exploring your Dreams – Being the Person or thing – Magical Dream Machine