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Padlock
Often in dreams it is about personal security or fear of being ‘got at’ by someone chasing you. It also represent a barrier that someone else has put in place to stop you in some way. It is like someone saying ‘No’. Or if it is your padlock, you are saying ‘No’. Difficulty opening it either as owner or not, shows how hard it is to overcome this ‘No’. See: Lock.
Sometimes it can represent an attempt to have sexual contact. It depends whether you are locked or unlocked.
Example: I go to a locked doorway on the left of the building. The lock – padlock – is securing the top of the door, but by pushing very hard I forced entry through the bottom, the lock still in place. I cannot recollect why I entered, but now a man comes from another part of the building and catches me trespassing. He accuses me and I make all manner of excuses.
Example: A man chases me up the stairs to my boarding house apartment on the 4th floor. When I get inside, I put a big padlock on the door and pray that the clasp will hold if he starts pushing on the door.
Useful Questions and Hints:
What is my dream showing me I have locked up?
Have I discovered what the key is to unlock myself?
Are my tension and depression signs of my locked position?
See Life’s Little Secrets – Avoid Being Victims – Secrets of Power Dreaming – Martial Art of the Mind
Paint Painting
There are many sayings that illustrate how paint can be used in dreams. We can paint the town red, paint too rosy a picture, whitewash everything, paint too clear a picture. It can also represent a memory caught in an artistic mood.
These suggest letting loose pent up high spirits; being too optimistic; trying to cover up mistakes; being too honest. Painting can also symbolise self expression, realisation of inner contents, hiding the real condition of things with a veneer of paint, or to put a new appearance on things.
The unconscious frequently senses things, or synthesises out of our experience, views of things we have not been consciously aware of. A dream may depict this as a painting; subtle feelings or realisations; a view we have of or about something.
The realisations connected with a painting or picture can often indicate memories of what live is us unconsciously as our heritage from the past prior to our birth. See seed
If we look at a painting, we see certain colours on it. That particular painting exists because of the texture, the minerals, the earth and chemicals that go into the paint or ink used. It is also a result of the movements, the skill the artist has put into it. It is an incorporation of all those things and many other things not mentioned. It is also an expression of the light that falls on it. Without the light it is not apparent. In different lighting conditions it will change its character in some way.
So the painting is partly an expression of a human being and their qualities and skills; it is partly an expression of the chemicals and minerals and surfaces involved. As such it is an extraordinary thing. When we look at it we are witnessing all that goes into it. Maybe we don’t realise it; perhaps we don’t see everything that composes it. Maybe we don’t realise that in its present form it has substances from when the earth was you, that its atoms are from the beginning of time, or that the canvas it is on was formed by the efforts of several people not even consciously known by the artist. And of course, the painting is unique. There will never be a painting exactly like that. A copy might appear on the surface as the same, but there will never be quite the same mixture of minerals, chemicals, movements, human qualities, that entered into the painting.
A paint box perhaps shows talent in that direction, or that you are expressing something form within.
If you are painting a picture it shows you in the middle of creating or expressing or realizing something. If you know what the subject of the picture is this will indicate what the connection is. Sometimes things we realise deep down do not easily translate into words. The dream painting is a half way house, and your feelings about it help you put into words your inner intuition.
Are you simply looking at the painting, or is it being destroyed? Whatever the action is this refers to the subject of the painting or your intuition.
Any form of artistic expression: Self expression; expressing ones feelings or intuitions; ones inner situation; creative ability.
Painting as in decorating: Making changes in the way we live or feel about ourselves; expressing feelings; the impression we give to others; what ‘colour’ we are painting things, in the sense of painting a very black picture; a cover up. We can paint the town red; paint too rosy a picture. Or we might be working at changing our appearance or life style. See: photographs.
Example: So many men and women have not trod this path of being ready to walk directly into the darkness of personal death, because life as it is painted by the extant philosophy and religion have taken away all personal connection with the underlying reality of life in them. Life is a spirit that never takes form yet is in all form.
Example: The object of active imagination is to give a voice to sides of the personality (particularly the anima/animus and the shadow) that are normally not heard, thereby establishing a line of communication between consciousness and the unconscious. Even when the end products-drawing, painting, writing, sculpture, dance, music, etc.-are not interpreted, something goes on between creator and creation that contributes to a transformation of consciousness. Jungian Lexicon
Example: In sleep, we may approach some inner landscape that represents our wholeness – the latent qualities of our own being. The wonderful thing is that our dream is our own. It uses our own symbols, our own emotions, our own understanding, our own possibilities. With these it paints a truly personal wonder we call a dream. Surely this is worth understanding?
Example: She is tall but slight in her figure, which is hidden not only by her clothes but by a long skein of light brown hair that falls below her waist. I sense her breasts are small and quiescent. Her back is straight and her buttocks narrow. She is still and calm but occupied in pouring powdered paint onto a papier mache relief map, which instantly transforms the territory beyond into a colourful, exotic landscape filled with African animals of all description leaping and running with enormous energy.
Useful Questions and Hints:
How is ‘painting’ portrayed in the dream?
Is this about self expression or self realization?
Am I putting a new appearance on things, giving them a new veneer?
Is this a play on words such as ‘painting the town red’, ‘painting a rosy picture’, ‘whitewash everything’, ‘paint a clear picture’ and so on?
Are you painting a picture?
What do you feel the picture describes?
What happens to the painting?
See Emotions and Mood in Dreams – Being the Person or Thing – Genius
Palace
A sense of importance, or privilege. In some dreams about a palace, there are evident feelings of something special happening. This probably links with the way palaces are used in fairy stories, as for instance the palace in which the Sleeping beauty lives. Such a palace represents the wonders of yourself, your amazing mind and qualities that might be sleeping or overcome by enemies – i.e. disuse or ignoring them.
The palace is also the storehouse of your culture and past, the treasure house of your family, your social and racial inheritance. In one ancient palace dating about 884-859 BC, the tree so Life was carved on a wall. See The Sacred Tree In Dreams And Myths
An old place: This is usually a very important dream. What the palace contains or is found here through exploring the dream are signs of a past and what you still need to remember about who you are; probably skills that are still latent in you.
Palace tombs: These also are extremely important. They contain the memories of your ancient past that can only be unlocked by exploring them. See Being the Person or Thing
A golden palace: A dream place where great transformation of yourself can take place, or important realisations can be experienced.
Example: If I explain, if I tell you what I am – I am a palace. I was a wondrous palace. I am only a ruin of what I was. This building. This part of the building wasn’t a ballroom. It wasn’t an eating place. It was a place where certain things happened. It was a place where many people left things. They came here and they gathered and they left. It was a place of exchange. If you could bring something here, then you could take something away. Or you could take something away if you gave something. There is an old story that has to do with how humans sold their souls. That is a degradation of what I am, what took place here. I am a place of exchange, not a place of selling. You would give something of yourself and gain something
Example: In 544 BC, the Buddha’s mother, Queen Maya, dreamed her bed was transported by four kings to a high Himalayan peak, where four queens adorned her with jewels and brought her to a golden palace. A white elephant with six shining ivory tusks appeared and painlessly pierced her side with a thrust of its tusk. She awoke to the song of a blue bird and realised that she had immaculately conceived. Her dream was interpreted as signifying that her child would become a universal monarch. Five of the Buddha’s dreams, along with dreams of his father, King Cudhodana, and his wife, Gopa, appear in the Pali scriptures and describe his future vocation as a wandering monk
Example: A Muslim who saw in his dream a huge palace with a cross on its roof. He heard a voice saying that the palace belonged to Jesus Christ and only He could open the gate. Sometime later he was reading Pilgrim’s Progress and saw on one of the pages a picture identical to his dream. It was this experience that directly led to his conversion to Christianity.
Useful Questions and Hints:
What were you doing or experiencing in or about the palace?
Did anything happen to you in the palace?
Where you attacked or meet anything that frightened you?
See Settings in Dreams – What is the main action in the dream? – Clicking On
Palmist
Intuition; or inner feelings about how you want to live your life, or where you wish to go.
Pan Pot
There is a side to this, however that sometimes links a kitchen-the sink, stove, pots, and pans to represent a person, especially a housewife, with the idea of being a servant or slave in her own household. There may be feelings of anger and frustration associated with these dreams, which would be shown in the handling of the food and utensils-the pots and pans especially-so be aware of all these possibilities. (This was written by a woman who had obviously suffered).
But I, a male, remember when my wife went away for a long stay with her sister, leaving me with four children, how easy it was. The children were all off to school early, and by ten o’clock the house was tidy and clean. The children had helped in keeping their rooms tidy and so I had hours each day to do as I liked. Then I started cooking the children’s main meal so it was ready for them when they arrived home from school, for I had noticed that the children were hungry and would try to snack if there was no ready food. I also cooked all the bread and did all the washing – and cleared out a lot of rubbish.
Of course if the wife also works and she has to do everything at home and the male simply sits or is out drinking, then she needs to kick him where it hurts. I grew up in a working family and learned to cook when I was young, so it was no problem to get a meal ready for my wife if she was late home. I think it might be important for women choosing a man to see whether he can cook, clean or is a mother’s boy. So many people say they fall in love, and actually known nothing about their prospective partner. At the time I had a wife who hated housework. I often struggled to do the work that I did hours a day and year after year, but I did it because I wanted my children and myself to have food in the house and feel warmth.
For cooking: This may link with the care you give to yourself or your family, with everyday life and its needs, or represent some sort of receptive situation.
Chamber pot: This refers to what you need to discharge from you, either emotionally or physically. It also might refer to the female genitals.
Cooking pot or pan: Receptive state of mind and feelings perhaps connected with creativity – cooking – family life or providing for ones needs; everyday life.
Chamber pot: Feelings and values connected with excretory functions; female sexuality.
Pots and pans: Can represent your feelings about preparing food and what you put into it or fail to give of yourself.
Dented Pans: Perhaps you resent cooking and so do not take care of these precious tools of family life.
Handle Broken or Missing: Be careful, you may not handle your task well.
Idioms: Flash in the pan; sex-pot; shit or get off the pot; pot of gold; chimney pot; pot hole; melting pot; coffee pot; pot shots; flower pot; pot bound; from the frying pan into the fire; pan out; a chicken in every pot; gone to pot; piss pot full; pot calling the kettle black; pot of gold; sweeten the pot
Useful Questions and Hints:
What are my feelings in the dream about pots?
Do I like or hate cooking – if so why?
What was the situation in the dream?
See Context/Theme – Techniques for Exploring your Dreams – Habits
Panther
Fierceness; temper; anger; In Christian symbolism it represented power to protect against evil. See: leopard.
Useful questions are:
What attitude or feelings is my dream panther expressing, and how does that relate to me?
If I imagine myself as the panther, do I feel anger, power or fear? (For help doing this see Stand in Role under peer dream work.)
Is it a male or female panther and what does that lead me to feel or associate with it?
What is my relationship with the panther and what does that suggest?
Panties
Your hidden feelings. Your sexual feelings and desires. See: Clothes.
Pants
Paper
It depends what the paper is, whether it is a research paper, a newspaper, writing paper, wrapping or Christmas paper, paper objects made by folding, paper towels, paper as in a kitchen roll, toilet paper. If you can look up the particular type you may find something. Also the context in which the word paper appears is important. See Context/Theme; Newspaper.
So having read Context, see if you can begin to describe your dream differently, and see Key Words
Blank writing paper: Unexpressed sentiments or ideas; opportunity to express creative ideas or feelings to someone; feeling a lack of communication with someone else; writers block.
The blank writing paper method: The work of Dr. Caron Kent, gives a summarised version of this method. He began to explore himself because of his own need to deal with his depression by giving himself regular time at a typewriter and writing spontaneously whatever came to mind. In this way he found he began to contact areas of experience and feeling previously unavailable. He developed this in his practice as a psychotherapist into working with the body and feelings directly.
The idea in this approach is to sit down with a pencil and plenty of paper or at your computer. Have a clock or watch before you so it is easily seen. You must now, non stop, write whatever comes into your head, for ten minutes. You do not try to think, you simply write whatever word comes into your head and there is no need for it to make sense, whatever word appears with the thought what does my dream mean. This cuts out the rational thinking mind and leads to you tapping the unconscious.
So you must actually not stop writing for ten whole minutes. If, for a moment, your flow blocks, write continuously the last word until further ideas arrive. This is not done by thinking about what you should write, rather you should drop any attempts to think. There may be rather strange results at first. However, practice will bring the flow and harmony that you are seeking. The benefits of this will only be seen through practice. Try to do this exercise as many times as possible during the next week. Write anything that comes. You simply hold in mind about the dream without thinking about it. Actually, once you have asked about the dream you can drop thinking about it.
Wrapping paper: Depending on the colour and quality – how you feel others see you; the exterior impression of what you are getting or giving in a relationship; the outward appearance of your own potential.
Paper animal or figures: They give the appearance of being real but they are only paper and not real. So it may be about feelings you have about that. “Everything else is paper,” which means that it is not a living impression.
Research papers: May represent important thins you have or are beginning to realise. Or point to things you would do well to investigate.
Taking pen to paper: It suggests an urge to express your creativity or to communicate an idea for you to remember. It also could be a motivation to communicate something important to other or someone.
Example: I brought my daughter into an attic and it was filled with the most brilliant coloured art supplies, paints, pencils, paper etc. and I said to her, this is all for you. Then I woke up and couldn’t wait to start clearing out all the clutter. I’ve been working all day!! TK
Example: In the latest dream I was reading a paper with the heading ‘Broken Hearted Babies’, with a picture of both of us as babies, with our names underneath. Amanda – Teletext.
Example: But I couldn’t remember when the baby was born so I got the birth certificate and I started looking for the birth date and how much he weighed at birth, but it wasn’t a birth certificate it was some type of paper that I couldn’t understand so I gave up on looking.
The birth certificate is important. It is saying that there is something you do not understand about you or your baby and its background. It was a dream baby without a father and known background. Because you do not understand what it means to have a dream baby you could not understand what was said on the paper. I believe it was telling you that Life gave you this baby, and it will grow in you to change your life.
Idioms: Commit to paper; not worth the paper it’s written on; on paper; paper tiger; pen to paper; paper over the cracks.
Useful Questions and Hints:
Is the dream showing things I usually do with paper or it unusual?
What would I describe as the action in the dream?
If I have written anything what is it and what meaning does it have for me?
See Writing it Down – Creativity – Secrets of Power Dreaming
Parachute
A symbol the unconscious would use to represent overcoming the fear of falling. It therefore suggests a feeling, thought or technique you use to deal with anxieties. If you are descending with a parachute, it could mean you are coming to a more practical stance after flying high. See: Fall.
Depicts whatever life skill one uses to deal with anxiety about failing or falling; achieving a more down to earth practical attitude after flying high, or retreating into flights of fancy.
If the fall is under control as a parachute descent, it shows a shift in your attitude, a coming down to earth from a too lofty stance – or sometimes sexual surrender. It could also mean depending on context, “Bail out”.
Example: I was sitting on a very high flagpole. I began to topple over for I lost my balance. A man on the ground shouted, `Use your parachute!’ I had none and so fell to the ground and died.” The parachute symbolized the advice, “Slow down!”
Useful Questions and Hints:
Does my dream represent overcoming fear of falling, failing, or heights?
Did I feel that I was facing pain or even death?
Did I land safely of fall badly?
See Summing Up – Secrets of Power Dreaming – Martial Art of the Mind
Paradise
This might be that you are feeling in harmony with yourself. It could also suggest you have been practising some form of meditation, and you have felt the timeless state within yourself. The experience of being in the womb is often felt to be paradise.
Experience of being in the womb; feeling in harmony with self. See: heaven.
Sometimes it indicates that you have found a way – even temporary – to deal with you problems and anxieties.
The casting out from the Garden of Eden, from the Paradise of the womb is one of the first and greatest possible shocks the infant faces as it moves into growth. Such immense psychic events are not simply things that happen only once. They are archetypal patterns that express in many ways at many levels. So although the discharge from the womb at birth is the first level of expulsion from Paradise, this enormous sense of loss can also be encountered in the loss of a parent or carer through separation or death. It can be met through the loss of the fundamental state of consciousness that exists prior to the arrival of self-awareness as language is learned and the concept of self develops. Self-awareness usually brings with it the loss of innocence – loss of the guiltless, concept-free condition. These may be experienced as separate shocks or shifts.
When the mind becomes exhausted and collapses through shock, loss or meditation, then what has always existed underneath the noise of thoughts and emotions becomes known. In this state we become a being empty of the massive structure of concepts and thoughts built over a lifetime. We suddenly find that the world we created out of our learned responses and ideas melts away, and we are in the Garden.
The story of the Garden of Eden is a wonderful description of this fundamental state of awareness. In the fundamental state there is little or no sense of self; there is a certainty that this blissful awareness is eternal, and that this is the real self. Along with this there is usually a direct experience of some kind that all creatures, all history, all beings, are part of your existence in the eternal now. Sometimes a jump beyond paradox occurs in a conviction that what you experience in this oneness is the source of all existence (God), and you and it are one and the same. Along with this is the sense that the blissful self-existent consciousness is the fundamental stuff of what we know through our senses as the physical universe. See Programmed
Example: I was in a very expansive place and . . . everyone was there-thousands of entities like myself who belonged there and were also in spirit . . . we were all one, yet each of us was separate. We were in a paradise of complete warmth, happiness, and comfort. I was shown that the physical is actually almost like what we consider the dream state. I also realised how time-oriented, primitive, encumbered, and tiny the Earth is compared to the place from which I was observing it. There was no time-past, present, or future. It just is. Even though I experienced this, I can’t explain it in words. … Looking at the Earth and the physical realm from there made it seem insignificant. I could not imagine why I had worried and was so concerned about what went on down on Earth. From out there the Earth seemed but a speck of sand. I realised that the concept of time went hand in hand with the physical dimension, one reason being that there has to be a time limit on our Earth lives for the assignments we are trying to fulfil. It is hard to explain the insignificance of an Earth life from this other perspective. While I felt detached from the Earth, I was also still strongly me while on Earth. The most amazing thing, however, was the realisation that I had gotten the whole thing reversed and that the dream is actually the physical. Quoted from Our Dreaming Mind by Castle. Dreams of Jeanette Fusco
Idioms: Fools paradise; a stranger in paradise.
Useful Questions and Hints:
Did I have an experience of paradise in my dream?
What do I feel paradise is like?
Have I searched for it?
See Enlightenment; ASC – Prison – The power of Habits – Questions
Paralysed Paralysis
An expression of how fear paralyses you. Sometimes we become paralysed because unconscious fears attempt to become expressed; or urges we fear attempt expression. We can also be paralysed by sense of guilt, sense of inadequacy, or ignorance. When Jesus healed the paralysed man he said Thy sins are forgiven thee. This suggests the paralysis arose from a sense of guilt.
Example: “I feel completely removed from myself,” “feeling of being separated from my body,” “eerie, rushing experiences,” and hearing “hissing in the ears,” and “roaring in the head.” These events appear to be much like the OBE sensations of vibrations, strange noises, and drifting away from the physical body (Everett, 1983).
Example: ‘It starts as a dream, but I gradually become aware that I cannot move. The harder I try to move the worse it gets and I become very frightened. I can neither move nor wake myself up. Sometimes I feel as if I am leaving my body. But to deal with the fear I have learned – its a recurring thing – to stop struggling, knowing that I will eventually wake.’ Susan Y.
Sometimes while dreaming a person experiences a profound physical paralysis. This occurs because while you dream your brain switches off the voluntary muscles. If you then become partly awake and attempt to move, it feels as if you are paralysed. The resulting fear causes deeper paralysis. If this happens to you it is important to remember what the cause is – temporary loss of ability to control the voluntary muscles – this enables you to wake slowly without the anxiety. See: sleep paralysis.
It can suggest a lack of confidence. It can arise from fear or a sense of not being able to cope, as well as feelings of hopelessness, or that there is no way out of a present situation.
For many people, the emotional results of events in childhood have a paralysing effect in their present life. So if there is great fear or pain associated with the paralysis it would be worth seeking to get behind the fear or pain to its roots.
Dreaming one is paralysed may depict the paralysing effects either of fears we have, or what we have imagined as real in the way described in the entry above. We may be ‘paralysed’ by feelings of guilt, inadequacy or internal conflicts.
Useful Questions and Hints:
What is paralysing me in the dream – and can I locate that feeling or situation in my waking life?
Am I aware in the paralysis, as when lucid in a dream?
Are there influences in my life or circumstances at the moment that leave me undecided or in conflict?
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Lice Fleas Bugs Worms
Things said, thought or done that make you feel uncomfortable or ashamed; feelings that one is, or someone else is a parasite in a relationship. See Fleas lice parasites
These are not simply ideas or feelings as many believe, but are inextricably woven into the structure and cells of our body. So bringing them out of the body is like tearing out from the fabric of our intellect, emotions, and body, a growth or structure that is built into them. So they can be fear of illness, attitudes that are life denying such as jealousy, envy, or even anger turned inwards.
These may even be apparent to our imagination as dark frightening shapes or creatures that have been living in our being like parasites. One man in class during the vowel sounds (chanting) said, “As you began the sounds I had the terrifying sensation that you were calling a dark shape out of my body.”
Questioning him afterwards I discovered that he had a fear of weakness for that part of his body, and the “dark shape” was probably a representation or embodiment of his fear. The fact that the sounds seemed to call it out of him would suggest that an initiate would actually be able to call these dark shapes out of us by his word and the power of his own conquest that lay behind it.
Large parasites such as worms are something that has got into you somehow, and is living on your energy. It helps to get rid of them by recognising what it is.
Parcel Package
Usually a memory, idea or experience you have not explored, investigated or cared to open to consciousness. Talents you have not used, ideas you have not applied, loving words we have not uttered.
Also the gifts of love and support received from others that you may not have fully been aware of or appreciated.
Something we have experienced but not explored the import of. A parent may die, for instance, but we may not ‘unwrap’ the feelings evoked enough to see we have taken something to heart. If we did we might find a regret of not expressing the love we felt while Mum or Dad was still alive, and we now want to be more daring in giving love.
Ones potential or latent skills; impressions or ‘gifts’ received from others – such as support, love, their example – but not made fully conscious.
A package deal is a bundle of thing as one deal. A package holiday for example includes the accommodation, the flight or travel all in one. Any wrapped package suggests the unknown.
Example: ‘An unconventional looking postman delivered a registered package. But I didn’t open it.’
This was taken to mean that due to an unconventional experience, the dreamer had realised something. Something had ‘registered’ on his consciousness, but he had not explored the possibilities of it. The registered package is a double symbol, because it also suggests something valuable contained in it.
The packaging that goes with ‘life’ – which means the unwanted things that come with what you did want. In other words you might need company, but you have to feed them as well. Ask yourself whether you are collecting views or things that are of no use to you.
Package delivered to dreamer: An unknown but possibly good thing.
Carrying a parcel: A responsibility, perhaps a surprise or something you are carrying, such as a grudge, a loving feeling, longing to be recognised that you haven’t unwrapped.
Useful Questions and Hints:
Am I sending it or receiving it?
Do I have good feelings about it difficult ones?
Does the parcel or package have connections not explored?
Could this represent talents not used, or good ideas not yet applied?
See Working with associations – Inner World – Being the Person or Thing – Using Your Intuition
Park
Your public self and how it is growing, or how you see your growth and endeavour from a public viewpoint. It might also associate with relaxed feelings, or even romance.
A park can have associations with so many things, such as childhood pleasure, being bullied; sexual pleasure or attack, games played, a place to do crazy things like setting of a home made bomb, walking the dog, firing off a rifle, having a date, swimming, being in the dark and scared – and so much more. So see if you can see what feelings and memories you have on your dream park.
National park: Meeting your own natural self as opposed to the self you may have to live to survive socially or economically.
Amusement park: Amusement park
Parking lot car park: See: parking lot under car
Useful Questions and Hints:
Was it frightening or happy experience in the park dream?
What memories or associations do I have with parks?
What was the theme of the dream?
See Plot/theme of the Dream – Being the Person or Thing – Conditioned Reflexes – Animals
Parking Lot Parked Carpark
A socially acceptable place to rest, to meet, to make some sort of change or exchange. The parked car might also mean you have stopped ‘going anywhere’ in life, or that you have changed to walking – getting somewhere through personal effort. Or even that you have stopped ‘driving yourself’ – relaxing.
Can’t find parking place: Perhaps you are finding it difficult to relax, to get out of the demands of the ‘traffic’ of your life.