Posts Tagged ‘dream dictionary interpretation’
Merchant
The business, commercial side of self. Desires for profit in some area of your life.
It could also suggest the skill in knowing and dealing with the things we need in the business of living. The ability to buy and sell by understanding the things you are profiting by.
Useful Questions and Hints:
Is this showing the business side of myself?
Is this indicating a scheming aspect in the way I relate to others?
Am I looking for profit in a particular area of life?
See Being the Person or Thing – Market – Business and Dreams – Business Woman/Man
Mercury
Intuition; changeability. Difficulty to grasp.
Mermaid Merman
Love arising from the unconscious. The unconscious drive toward reproduction, or seduction toward reproduction. In some cases it can show your love of your image of someone rather than the reality of them as a human being. The link between the deep forces of the unconscious and the waking self. The unconscious image or idealised sense of womanhood – mermaid – or manhood – merman; love of ones image of someone rather than the reality of them as a human being. Meeting a mermaid or merman is an indication that you are exploring the beauty of your larger self and gaining spiritual awareness.
If mermaid: The inner image of womanhood, still held in the waters of the unconscious.
Useful Questions and Hints:
Have I experienced any intuitive realisation recently?
Do I love images of mermaids?
What do I feel when I dream of a mermaid or merman?
See Clicking On – ESP in Dreams – Secrets of Power Dreaming – A Huge Change Happening
Message Messages Messenger
This is a way your unconscious manages to give you information, or suggest that something is important to think about. It can also suggest intuitive insight into whatever the message is about.
Information to take seriously; a communication from your intuition or unconscious; information you need to know.
A beacon can suggest that you are the messenger, the beacon to guide or warn.
Alarm clock ringing is probably a message to wake up to something happening in your life or to remember something you had set yourself to do. Sometimes a warning.
Birds can indicate messages that are being delivered to you.
An envelope and letter definitely indicate messages.
Strange or unknown horseman/woman often signifies a message from the unconscious, a new opportunity, relationship or event.
Angels are traditionally said to be messengers from the Highest. Many people have conversations with them and find them helpful. But even if we do not believe in angels, it is an excellent thing to do to construct one to interact with your intuition.
There are thousands of things that you are unconscious of at the moment. For instance I can ask you a question you are presently unconscious of, but you will be aware of it when I ask you. So here is the question – What is your present or earlier address.
As you can see, something that you were unconscious of becomes know when you are asked a question. But there are many things that we hold the answers to that we have never put into words or never been conscious of. Yet we have millions and millions of pieces of information gathered even in a short life, pieces that would only be brought together by a question. But also it is now believed after the finding that at base we are quantum which connects with all things, that we have infinite information which can be accessed by asking questions in the right way.
So you construct an angel by holding a feeling or an image of a consciousness that is connected with you – your unconscious – but is like an inverted – upside down – triangle. The angel is at the point of the triangle, but is also the body of the triangle witho9ut any ceiling. So it extends forever to collect the answers to your question.
So if you come away from a dream empty handed then you have received a wonderful communication and ignored its message. OK, it may be difficult to understand. So what, many things are not handed to us served up with gravy. Struggle with it, pray for help with it, live with it, for this is a message that is vital to you – ask your angel. Ask with a feeling that you have asked a friend an important question and now you are waiting quietly to hear the answer. See using intuition
Example: The following dream has a very deep meaning and a clear guidance-message: The dreamer is in a dark, swampy forest. It is night. He has lost his way and is desperate, not knowing where to go, wallowing in the morass . . . He is not religious, but he falls on his knees and begins to pray, imploring the Higher Forces to help him out of this predicament and to show him the way!. . Suddenly a clear ray of light appears from the black sky, moving and showing a stable way among the boggyness. He rushes forward! But after several steps on the right path — he loses it and feels very frightened and lonely. He falls on his knees again, praying and begging for guidance and help. . . The golden ray reappears from above, leading him out of the dark and swampy dangerous forest. . Three or four times he goes astray, losing the right way. The helpful golden beam always reappears after he offers a sincere and deep prayer to be shown the right direction, where to go, the way out of the darkness and bog. . . His prayer was right: he asked no favors, no gifts, only the right way.
Example: Many of you will remember the cartoon character, Casper the Friendly Ghost. Casper is a
little ghost who would help his friend Wendy the Good Witch, whenever she was in strife. When I was very young I thought everyone had their own Casper guiding them through life. I honestly thought Casper was guiding me because I often received messages when I needed help.
How silly this sounds now, but at six years of age, I didn’t know any better. It wasn’t until I was about eight that I realised what I had mistaken to be Casper, was really my Conscience or Intuitive Voice. By then I was old enough to understand that Casper was a cartoon figure, and wasn’t real. Phew…what a relief it was to know that no ghosts floated around me. Quoted from The Voice of Intuition by Emily Chantiri
Example: Ah yes, “We are shattered, tattered, demented remnants of a once glorious army. Among us are Princes and Captains of Armies, Lords of Battle, amnesic, aphasic, ataxic, jerkily trying to recall what was the battle the sounds of which still ring in our ears: is the battle still raging? If we could make our way back to join the main body of the army. “Gropings, orientations, crumbs, fragments, bits of the jigsaw, a few demented ravings that may help the reconstruction of the lost message. I am just beginning to regain my memory, just beginning to realise I am lost, just getting faint sounds of old familiar music – snatches of old tunes, moments of deja-vu, a reawakening of a long-numbed agony – an unendurable realisation of what a debacle it was, what a shambles, what betrayal, horror, stupidity, ignorance, cowardice, craven lust, wretched greed. Faint recall of a raving nostalgia, for the Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory, Paradise lost.” (The Bird Of Paradise by R. D. Laing – Quoted from my book Yield).
Example: I released my demons prematurely – before I had sufficiently developed my strengths and skills. This happened because I didn’t listen to my inner self’s messages. In my arrogance, I actually thought I knew better. This led to my depression and opened the gates to my inner demons. So…I am now forced to fight a premature battle.
You can be an archaeologist by exploring the buried message of your dreams by using
Being the Person or Thing – Clicking On and Peer Dream Work.
Useful Questions and Hints:
Was the message clear or do I need to clarify it?
What or who was the messenger?
Is it a message I feel I can trust or act on?
See Clicking On – Techniques for Exploring your Dreams – Characters and People in Dreams
The Voice of Intuition by Emily Chantiri
Example: Ah yes, “We are shattered, tattered, demented remnants of a once glorious army. Among us are Princes and Captains of Armies, Lords of Battle, amnesic, aphasic, ataxic, jerkily trying to recall what was the battle the sounds of which still ring in our ears: is the battle still raging? If we could make our way back to join the main body of the army. “Gropings, orientations, crumbs, fragments, bits of the jigsaw, a few demented ravings that may help the reconstruction of the lost message. I am just beginning to regain my memory, just beginning to realise I am lost, just getting faint sounds of old familiar music – snatches of old tunes, moments of deja-vu, a reawakening of a long-numbed agony – an unendurable realisation of what a debacle it was, what a shambles, what betrayal, horror, stupidity, ignorance, cowardice, craven lust, wretched greed. Faint recall of a raving nostalgia, for the Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory, Paradise lost.” (The Bird Of Paradise by R. D. Laing – Quoted from my book Yield).
Example: I released my demons prematurely – before I had sufficiently developed my strengths and skills. This happened because I didn’t listen to my inner self’s messages. In my arrogance, I actually thought I knew better. This led to my depression and opened the gates to my inner demons. So…I am now forced to fight a premature battle.
You can be an archaeologist by exploring the buried message of your dreams by using
Being the Person or Thing – Clicking On and Peer Dream Work.
Useful Questions and Hints:
Was the message clear or do I need to clarify it?
What or who was the messenger?
Is it a message I feel I can trust or act on?
See Clicking On – Techniques for Exploring your Dreams – Characters and People in Dreams
Metal
Hardness of feelings; the restrictions of the real world or of ones own imagination; strength of or use of your will or obstinacy; reality. See: Iron.
Metro
See: Underground.
Mew
Loneliness, a call from the soul, a longing for comfort, friendship or love.
Microbe
See: Germ.
Microscope
The ability to perceive the subliminal and usually imperceptible parts of your nature, and sensations. Possibly an insight into the cellular processes of your body; the intricate workings of your mind, or your usually hidden feeling responses – depending upon what you are looking at through the microscope.
Introspection; extended cellular perception; making mountains out of molehills. The ability to look within yourself at the usually imperceptible parts of your nature and mind.
The world seen through a powerful microscope or telescope is very different, and our senses only show us very limited aspects of the universe that can be enhanced by such instruments.
If we were the size of an atom, or even a molecule for instance, reality would appear completely different to us. The incredible speed with which we, as an atom, interact with our environment would give us a totally different view of time and space. Years of activity for our atomic self would be only a second of time to our bodily self.
The eyes only ‘see’ a small part of the light spectrum; the ears a small part of the sound octaves; and you cannot look into the depths of your body or mind, as a microscope might; nor can you gain a broad view of the galaxies and what they hold – you do not know what is going on around you or within you except in your dreams.
In fact our consciousness is capable of being a high-powered microscope with a range of optic lenses that can be manipulated to suit the individual eye or the matter being observed. There are worlds within worlds and you hold them all within you and can be conscious of them.
Dreams express a contact between ones individual sense of identity and the living consciousness of our total environment. So the dream process is creative in that the individual experiences contact with the process of life, and can learn to relate to it more effectively. Also out of this contact emerges a creative response in action, emotion, art, speech, music, dance etc. In this area the dream acts like a microscope or telescope, through which the dreamer can literally explore the cosmos or the depths of their own psychobiological being. This has all the characteristics of the deepest of spiritual experiences.
Example: I see like a zoom lens and I’m coming closer to a corner under the eves. A red and white thing is all messed up in a heap there and I feel terror. I think, “I don’t want to see.” It’s like my childhood memories and it will scare me or be too ugly to look at. But as I come closer, it changes into a sweet kitty and it sits there looking at me. I feel better now. The place is dusty and cold and long forgotten, except for that cute kitty.
Useful Questions and Hints:
Have I ever experienced seeing more than my eyes usually allow?
Did I see through a microscope – what did I experience?
What did I realise as I explored the strange world?
See Using Your Intuition – Jesse Watkins Enlightenment – Diving into the Depths of Mind
Midget
See: Dwarf.
Milk
Due to it being a product of a mother, it usually represents the ability to give of oneself, the giving of sustenance, self-sacrifice, nurturing the young or needy parts of you or others. It may also indicate motherhood, infantile sustenance, or sympathy. It can be the symbol of something bland, harmless, mild, lacking the stimulus of alcohol, tea, or coffee. Thus the word ‘milksop’, that is another name for childlike, unmanly, cowardly. On occasions milk can also represent sperm or the female vaginal flow. See: Food; Drink.
Through the mother’s it breast a baby receives nourishment, but it also receives in the milk things that help the baby meet the infections and threats confronting it in the external world.
An adult drinking milk might suggest the person has not matured – or needs more calcium in their diet.
Being milked: Giving of oneself; taking support or nourishment from someone else; taking, or being taken, advantage of.
Example: Quoted from Dreams, The Language of the Unconscious by Hugh Lynn Cayce. ‘I dreamed my brother and I with our wives were out on a party with B.B. I fell asleep at the table. We got home very late. My brother left the car and walked home. He and I stopped to look at a bottle of milk that was marked “undistilled milk!”‘ An intuitive analysis of this dream by Edgar Cayce suggested that it represented the man as having too many late nights. This is portrayed by his falling asleep at the table. It also is said to suggest a need for more physical exercise in the part where his brother walks instead of using the car. And lastly, Cayce says, ‘Change from the present supply (of milk) for this shows adulteration in same.
Example: A young woman was there, not particularly good-looking, but okay. I suppose I would describe her as a fairly plain young woman, neither highly intelligent nor stupid. Almost immediately we were in a sexual relationship. I was sucking her breast. It was very beautiful and warm sweet milk was coming out into my mouth. It felt very satisfying, both for me and for her.
Idioms: Milk and water; milk of human kindness; milk somebody; cry over spilt milk.
Useful Questions and Hints:
What is happening to the milk in the dream?
Am I drinking it or giving it?
Do I avoid drinking milk, if so what is my dream suggesting?
See Life’s Little Secrets – Magic Mirror of Dreams – Role in the dream
Mill Milling
Process of extracting what is useful from ones gathered experience. Can be painful as it needs intense self awareness; crushing or painful experiences of life. Trying times or feelings. Suggests the breaking down of old attitudes and beliefs.
To mill or being involved in milling is a way of transforming one thing into another – something that couldn’t be easily used by humans into something useful. As such it can link with nourishment.
Grist for the mill: Suggests that everything can be used if and when it is milled. Also often refers to making a profit.
Milling around: Having not set direction or not making firm decisions or choices.
Example: The scene shifted to later that same evening. I was in a small, outdoor amphitheatre and a lecture was going on while people were milling about. It was still a rave scene and there were all kinds of beautiful, psychedelic visual effects happening up on the stage and all around on the side walls, though the theater was open aired. I realized the whole effect was inducing a trance state and it felt really good to collectively be linked emotionally.
Run of the mill: An ordinary situation that does not stand out.
Useful Questions and Hints:
Am I the miller or involved in milling?
What is being ground up and for what purpose?
What am I doing milling around?
See Being the Person or Thing – Characters and People in Dreams – Summing Up
Mines Mining
The seven dwarfs of Snow White worked in a mine. It represents the unconscious physical and mental activities. The mine might be showing these activities, or at least your digging within your experiences, memories, deeper levels of consciousness, to bring up the treasure and valuable resources buried within. Also the seven dwarfs can also be linked with the seven centres in the body. See Kundalini
Underground mine: For many a place of work; otherwise the unconscious and its resources, so bringing to consciousness ones potential and innate wisdom.
Entrance to the mine: Feelings about the unconscious; vagina. See: ore.
Land or sea mines: These represent reactions in us that have been set in place in the past, and can be triggered by present events. For instance, A person may have sustained an eye injury in the distant past, causing some loss of sight. In the present, if anyone puts things near his face, or hits his face, an automatic violent response occurs. This type of response can be symbolised by a mine, or mines. They can represent anything put in place in the past that now is released as powerful emotions or emotional explosions.
Example: As I struggled, I became vaguely aware that I was dreaming, a fact which glimmered like a pinprick of light seen from the foot of a mine-shaft. I groped desperately towards it, even as I realised that the multifarious shapes of memory and imagination were materialising in the very street around me. I averted my gaze as a squat, malformed figure limped by, unwilling to acknowledge it as the progeny of my own brain.
Example: There is also the sense I have that the cave that has been dug, that has been mined, connects with natural caves that go deep into the earth within the mountain. I have a sense that these link with the far past, with the origins of life on earth, and our own beginnings.
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?”
I thought the answer to be 1/2, but wasn’t sure.
The man who dreamt the above dreamt explored it fully. He says of it, “Now I am beginning to enter the dream more fully, and I feel as if I am looking over the countryside of my life – the 70 years travelled – two marriages, five children, several relationships, a variety of skills learned, but through it all the theme that started very early in my life of searching into self; seeking what wisdom one might find in that way, and attempting to release innate potential. Of course behind much of that was the urge to find personal healing from emotional pain and depression.
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 unnameable things that one would find extremely valuable. There is also the sense I have while working on the dream with CJ, that the cave that has been dug, that has been mined, connects with natural caves that go deep into the earth within the mountain. I have a sense that these link with the far past, with the origins of life on earth, and our own beginnings.
A question I asked myself now is, who are the men that come out with armfuls of treasure? What aspects of myself are these men who had come out with the treasure? Who also – what part of myself – is the person who went into the cave and did not come out? Is there a part of me trapped in the search, trapped in this inner exploration?
As I begin to feel my way into the question, I have a sense that the cave connects with the house of the ancestors. This arises out of a feeling that both of them lead into the unknown, into a darkness that has not yet been fully explored.
And as I stand observing the countryside of my life I feel in a very good state at the moment. I feel there are no great issues or pains claiming my attention. But I do wonder if there are still strands to unravel from the past. What work is there still to be done? What issues or knowledge still to understand? What is there that I can still become at one with?
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 also 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 of ourselves.”
Useful Questions and Hints:
What was I doing in relationship with the mine?
Did I experience any thoughts or feelings in connection with the mine?
Have I ever worked or been in a mine?
See Working with associations – Inner World – Being the Person or Thing
Mink
Status, material values. animal or sexual desires. Because of the present ban on animal skins, it may link with feelings you have about that, or something you desire that is banned.
Minotaur
The intellect dominated by sexual desires. It probably represent in today’s dreams, the possession by the untamed sexual impulse we see everywhere today.
This is a theme which appears in many cultures or myths connected with the bull. It is of the Hero confronting and overcoming the bull. Lao Tzu for instance found, struggled with and eventually rode the bull, representing the human struggle and victory over instinctive or reactive habitual forces influencing consciousness. Also Theseus saves Ariadne from the Minotaur, suggesting that the conscious self has to meet and transform the instinctive sexual drive, the entangling forces of emotional dependence upon cultural norms, mother and public opinion, to be capable of a mature heterosexual relationship. Theseus, or our active growing self, frees Ariadne, the feminine or intuitive feeling principle. From this a new life can be born or emerge.
Theseus represented the young patriarchal spirit of Athens who had to brave the terrors of the Cretan labyrinth with its monstrous inmate, the Minotaur, which perhaps symbolised the unhealthy decadence of matriarchal Crete. (In all cultures, the labyrinth has the meaning of an entangling and confusing representation of the world of matriarchal consciousness; it can be traversed only by those who are ready for a special initiation into the mysterious world of the collective unconscious.)
“When Theseus saved Ariadne from the Minotaur, he had to make his way through a labyrinth; Perseus cut off Medusa’s head to rescue Andromeda. Both labyrinth and Medusa may be negatively charged symbols of mother. If such an image appears in a hero-rescuing-damsel dream, it may be taken as indicating that the dreamer needs to free himself from an emotional entanglement with – or all-consuming dependence on – his mother. Only then will he be able to let the feminine in himself express itself. (If he doesn’t let it express itself, it will still do so – but in destructive emotional outbursts.)” Quoted from A Dictionary of Dream Symbols by Eric Ackroyd.
See Ox Herding – Super Heroes and Mythical Creatures
Mirage
The illusions we sometimes chase out of our thirst or hunger for something, perhaps love or wealth. See: Desert.
An image or belief that promises satisfaction of some sort but if followed gives no reward. Or it may be that rather than darkness, one is haunted by the dreams of ideal and wonderful love that only lead one on to misery – a sort of chimera or mirage that tempts but provides no reality.
One might be the chaser of rainbow ends and mirages, and change to one who can accept an imperfect world, ones own imperfection, and take cups of water with shaking hands. To take my place as a man among humankind – not the saints. When those Saints go marching in, I am not to be among their number.
Example: Some children are going to show me the “life thing.” They pull me into a room and are going to stand me up on a short platform but I want to be more important or higher, so I insist I stand on a dresser. I hold my arms up in the air and then notice a clingy sensation around the fingers of my left hand. I pull it down to look at it and am appalled. A thick spider’s cocoon is wrapped around them and spider eggs are in there and hatching! I squirm to get it off me, and then I see there are snakes wrapped around me and termites or maggot insects on me. It is all nightmarish and scary and disgusting. I wish I’d never been so arrogant as to want to be higher. The children knew this and see I’ve learned my lesson and help pull off the snake. There is a strong sense of life among the decay – the seamy side of life. Barb.
Example: A powerful wave of emotion flushed through me leading me to bang on the floor with anger and frustration. I was shouting out that I was pissed off about forever chasing a carrot or rainbow and never getting the reward. A fucking carrot dangled to keep the workers labouring on until they are too old to work. And at the end of it no satisfying reward for their life of labour. They are just dumped. If it isn’t sex that is dangled as the reward it is financial riches or some dream. Politics, religion, all dangle these dreams in front of us and give nothing – just a fucking mirage. Nothing real at the end of it.
Useful Questions and Hints:
In the dream was I chasing a mirage or aware of its temptations?
Was the mirage offering water or sexual satisfaction?
Have I been chasing a mirage in my life?
See Being the Person or Thing – Conditioned Reflexes – Clicking On – Avoid Being Victims