Posts Tagged ‘dream dictionary interpretation’
Quadrangle
The boundaries of your life experience. The garden of your mind and soul. Physical experience.
Quarrel
Conflict within yourself or with exterior situation or relationship. See: people – it describes some of the main areas of human conflict – also Conflicts
Quartz
Fundamental internal processes, such as those shaping your body – consciousness can influence these, so the dream may show what relationship exists between your personality and the unconscious forces at work within you. Your wholeness or sense of the timeless. See: Crystal; Rock.
Also the Self. See: Archetype of the Self; jewels.
Quay
In some dreams people are facing danger or making decision about their direction. See: .
Departures; meetings and partings; leaving a phase of life behind, or meeting a new one, and how we encounter such changes. See also: Harbour; beach.
In some dreams people are facing danger or making decision about their direction. It is a place of decisions, of great emotion where we might be leaving or meeting someone, also a place of change and new opportunities.
If you have worked on a quay then you need to see what feelings, what you learned from being there and any big events that have added to your life experience. See Working with associations or Techniques for Exploring your Dreams
Useful Questions and Hints:
What is your situation with the quay – working, leaving or arriving?
Do I have any memories of being at a quay – if so what are they?
What new experiences or worlds of experience did it lead to?
See Background – Look at I – Features on Site – Magical Dream Machine
Queen
Feelings connected with your mother. Ruling passions. A desire to rule over others emotionally, or to be respected. Also your need for recognition and acclaim.
Queue
Waiting for something you want; feelings about where you stand in relation to others; or whether you will get what you are seeking. There might also be feelings about what you deserve, or what you can allow yourself – i.e. maybe you feel other people deserve more.
Waiting for something you want; feelings about where you stand in relation to others; or whether you will get what you are seeking. There might also be feelings about what you deserve, or what you can allow yourself – i.e. maybe you feel other people deserve more. See: waiting.
End of a queue: Feeling left out, unconsidered, forgotten; putting oneself as not important, being late or not a lot of hope or even feeling last.
Orderly queue: This suggest feelings of consideration for others and that you have respect for others rights.
Disorderly queue: Shows feelings of the strongest win, or those who wish to grab and push their way in without regard for who was there first.
Example: I was going to make a trip to London. My mother said she would pay my fare – she died two years ago. She packed my case and laid 5 pence on top of the clothes. I set off to the station. stood in a long queue for my ticket. When it was my turn to pay I opened the case for the money only to discover in place of the money was worthless scraps of paper all torn to shreds. I was unable to make the journey.
Example: ‘Yeah, yeah, you love me. I’ve got it. Yes, sure you love me. Sure, I understand. Join the queue. I’ll believe it when I see the payments. I’ll look it up next month when the accounts come in. I’ll see what you paid in. Okay love? See you.’
Idioms: join the queue
Quicksand
Feelings of hopelessness that undermine your plans, hopes, or efforts or fear of losing ground in competition with others, and emotions that engulf you.
Quicksand may suggest losing secure footing and sinking into one’s mess of emotions. It can also represent personal situations in one’s business or life that one is not in control of.
Useful Questions and Hints:
What do you feel threatened by or might be lost in?
Are you feeling trapped in some way?
Do you feel ill?
What is causing a sinking feeling?
See Avoid Being Victims – Martial Art of the Mind – Meeting yourself
Rabbi
Symbol of your attitude to your religious tendencies, or to Jewish religious ideas.
Rabbit
Due to human associations with its rapid breeding it is often linked with sexual desires. Also its softness and non aggression sometimes to the point of depicting us as a victim, or foolishly passive; may thus represent unworldly idealism. Perhaps because of its tendency to be the victim of predators, is often used as a sacrifice in dreams, which suggests the hurt we might experience to the soft, vulnerable parts of our nature as we experience the pain of meeting reality in the maturing process; feeling hounded by someone; ones vulnerable child self; docility or humility.
If the dreamer hunts rabbits: It could mean some element of self or others being criticised, attacked, ‘hunted down’ or hounded; instinctive urge to dominate.
Pet rabbit: Wanting to be petted or cared for; gentle contact and caring; responsibility.
Rabbit hole: Alice down the rabbit hole illustrates this – a going within self an experiencing the world within, that many are totally unaware of. So, going into the unconscious; the womb; perhaps attempting to escape from problems by turning being an introvert. Going into a rabbit hole could also suggest sexual intercourse. See: unconscious.
Rabbit in your garden: A quiet attack on your resources or personal growth; also may connect with the general definitions above.
EXAMPLE: Then they brought in a white rabbit, and thrust its eyes through with heated irons. And as I gazed, the rabbit seemed to me like a tiny infant, with human face, and hands which stretched themselves towards me in appeal, and lips which sought to cry for help in human accents. And I could bear no more, but broke forth into a bitter rain of tear. Anna Kingsford, From Dreams and Dream-Stories.
EXAMPLE: The nightmares returned – one terrible one in February 1896 about a tramp, seen holding over a well ‘washing, but with a kind of amused tenderness, an object that I thought was a rabbit, but I presently saw that it was a small deformed hairy child, with a curious lower jaw, very shallow: over the face it had a kind of horny carapace. . . made of some material resembling pottery. ….. The horror of it exceeded all belief.’ A. C. Benson, quoted in David Newsome, On the Edge of Paradise.
These two examples show how our dream process links the vulnerability of rabbits with childhood or children, and our own vulnerability and human pain.
Useful questions are and hints:
What part or role in my dream is my rabbit playing?
Can you put words to it?
If the dream rabbit is vulnerable what vulnerability in me is this reflecting?
If the rabbit transforms into something stronger in what way am I myself changing?
If I stand in the role of rabbit what do I feel?
See Techniques for Exploring your Dreams – Questions – Magical Dream Machine
Race
Feelings of competitiveness, questions of capability, worthiness, success and failure, or fear of losing or being inferior. It can also show your passage through life, your participation in the human race, and how you feel you have performed. What you do in the race, how you feel, may show what you put into your life and creativity.
Racing car or bike: Competitive drive; sexual energy; daring.
Running the race: Exerting yourself; expressing yourself; the struggle or contest of life; participating or being involved; the course of your life.
The finishing line: Your goal, or a goal you are aiming for or have reached, perhaps like a point in your life. Achievement of something in life, for instance achieving confidence; the end of life.
Marathon: The marathon depicts our participation in life. In it we are part of a ‘race’ – the human race. The imagery of the marathon is wonderful in depicting this. In it is all manner of human expression. Some participate out of competition. They want to struggle to achieve, to break barriers. Others are there almost crawling on hands and knees. They stay the course despite their condition. Determination, anger, fury, show on their faces. Some are participating for the sheer fun of it, in funny costumes, seeing the comedy of life. Others are putting in this enormous human effort for others – to collect funds for charity. Still others just love being with the crowd, meeting, mating, communicating. Apart from the various ways of participating by running, the crowd of onlookers are also a vital part of it; as are the recorders, the police, the helpers by the wayside, the officials who organise behind the scenes. The race is all of these in its totality. This is life.
Below is an example of the meaning of marathon.
Example: My husband has a gamy – crippled, damaged – leg in real life. In his dream though he is running in the London Marathon. He is running along with everyone doing okay. He sees the finishing line and all his family are there cheering him on. Then he crosses the finishing line and we all rush forward to hug him. We are all happy except for his son in law who is crying. He keeps wondering why his son-in-law is crying. Edna. LBC.
So the dreamer sees himself as a part of all this. He has two good legs because he feels his life has been full and adequate despite the condition of his body. He doesn’t feel crippled. At the end, the finishing line, death, he realises he has developed bonds of love with his family that will go with him over the boundary line when his life is finished. But there is pain too as his son-in-law cries. This is most likely due to the real sense of death and the ending of all the experience of the ‘race’, all the togetherness and loss of what he has been and done as a young man.
Useful Questions and Hints:
Do I feel that I am part of the human race?
Do I question my worthiness as a person, or fear of being inferior?
Does this indicate my progress through life and how I rate myself against others?
What part did I play in the dream – participant, watcher, helper, or official?
If I was competing who or what was I competing against?
Do I have to win or do I not mind losing but just being a participant?
See YES – You Can Dream a New Life – Features Found on Site – Techniques for Exploring your Dreams
Radar
Intuition, with which we sense things out of sight. It may particularly deal with threats we sense.
One’s subliminal sense of other people – or of what feelings or ‘signals’ other people are giving out. Exploring beyond one’s usual ability or senses. As described in the last example knowing things clearly through intuition, but also touching the More of your own potential
Example: I am in a spaceship flying to the moon. Initially we are flying very low, seeming only to dodge large objects near the ground. At first I am frightened, but as the trip continues without mishap – it as though we are controlled by radar and a computer – I feel more and more secure. Later, when we take off into space, I begin to feel ecstatically happy. I am free to explore the wonders of the universe!
Example: This is an operation to rescue a bull moose, I think. We have to go thru some elaborate manoeuvrings, sending three small jets into the air one right after each other in three different directions very close to the ground to evade enemy radar and get this operation under way. (I am in one of these jets). We are proud of our cleverness.
Example: ‘It started as an inward light, went outside me many years later, seeming to control me by long distance radar. Then it came nearer, close above my head, becoming something I felt rather than heard, and spread down the neck and over the shoulders. It told me what to do, not only in emotional crises but in quite practical matters at other times. I knew of lodgings to go to five minutes after they had become vacant. I knew where clothes that I needed were to be found, in shops I did not consciously know existed. I knew that I ought to write a special letter to my mother, and failing to do so suffered bitter remorse, since she died only a few days later. This voice is now my guide from beyond, and has become something like the ‘More’ of which William James speaks when describing mystic experience.
Useful Questions and Hints:
Does my ‘radar’ pick up on the emotions of other people or places?
In the dream what is the radar used for and how does that relate to your life?
Is it used to find my way or to avoid attack?
Am I aware of other people in a radar sort of way?
See Secrets of Power Dreaming – Using Your Intuition – Body Dowsing – Releasing The Unconscious Wisdom
Radiant
Radioactive
Powerful energies arising from within, that seem to threaten the conscious self. Contamination, harm through unconscious influences, such as emotions picked up from others, attitudes radiated from others that we have not noticed, but have been influenced by, most likely in a negative way.
The effect on one’s self from other people’s thoughts or feelings. A subtle influence from other people or one’s surroundings. Usually other people’s negative attitudes or ill wishes. Hidden influences that can be destructive or damaging to your health.
If the dream points to something that is causing an effect, it is worth checking if the thing or stuff is in fact bad for you.
Radio activity is often used in healing some dangerous illnesses, so if you are receiving such or in need of it you might see mention in your dreams. If so, take notice of what the dream suggests.
Useful Questions and Hints:
Is the dream a warning about something affecting you?
What does the dream suggest or imply?
Is a health problem involved?
See Health and Healing – Dealing with Stress – Emotions and Mood in Dreams – Techniques for Exploring your Dreams
Raft
A flimsy philosophy, or inadequate motives or ideas, with which we hope to deal with life. A relationship that might be drifting without purpose, or afloat on flimsy principles. Or in some dreams a lifesaving change in yourself or situations.
Something lifesaving; feeling adrift without control or direction. If it is rough going on the raft it might be saying that you feel you are a victim or circumstances. Sometimes people feel threatened by the great sea creatures, but this may be fears of meeting their larger self. See The Life Will and the Human Personality
But as the second example shows the raft represent a close association with the enormous sea of the unconscious.
Example: I was on an obstacle course race and I was paired up with an indigenous mother and her daughter to the foreign land we were on and the first part of the obstacle was to be race on a make-shift raft by myself in the middle of a huge lake and I was to meet up with her on the second part. I reached the end of the first part of the course and the lake had turned into a river. Everyone else had started out ahead of me and I was having trouble manoeuvring my raft initially. Everyone who was participating were my friends and family and they had left me far behind, but I was not upset about it, in fact I found comfort in taking my time even though I was struggling with the raft so much, but the part of the dream that stood out most to me was after the dream had turned into a river.
The obstacle course is your life as dreams see it. The obstacles you meet and overcome are real life issues and when you overcome them you are learning it and it is then applicable to everyday life. But the obstacles are all big things that were put in your life to learn from and grow spiritually. It seems that you were not born with the best equipment to deal with the life issues you meet – the make-shift raft. Also you are left behind by your family in their performance. But in fact you have a very valuable gift that will soon put you ahead. The gift is that you are not blaming others for your difficulties, and that is a rare gift.
Example: Dreamt I was with L my son far out to sea on a small raft like boat. L was about three, and the boat was a flat canoe shaped thing about two feet wide and eight long. It was just above the water. It seemed secure apart from that, but water did sometimes roll over its surface. I could see no land, but felt sure I knew the direction and was paddling with my hands to go in that direction. I felt it would take a long time, but didn’t feel anxious about that. L was sat in front of me, also quite happy.
When exploring this dream a little, I felt it was about being afloat on the infinite ocean of life, and the small raft/boat was the rather flimsy attitudes or threshold that stands between me and that ocean. It didn’t seem to matter if I didn’t get anywhere by my efforts.
Useful Questions and Hints:
Am I on a raft or watching one?
Was being on a raft troubling or a good feeling?
Did I feel alone or deserted?
See The Unconscious – Nothing Can Hurt You in Your Dreams – Being the Person or Thing
Ragged
Without neatly defined morals, philosophy, or social sense etc.
The first example however describes a very different situation. It shows an enormous increase in his life energy, also the increase led him to be with a woman and stimulated his sexual desires. It may have arisen because he was no longer locked into having to conform.
Example: I was an elderly tramp, dressed rather raggedly. Much of the dream is forgotten, but I remember that the sun began to go into supernova, getting brighter and brighter. I realised that everything would be burnt, and sought shelter in a nearby barn. As the sun got brighter and brighter it shone in through every chink in roof and walls and I saw that it was no protection at all. I walked out, but the sun seemed normal although everybody else except one woman had been destroyed and there was no sign of them. I walked off with the woman – somebody else’s wife – and started to hold her from behind.
Example: I came to a spot where a train had crashed years before. It must have plunged into the ravine, and rails and parts of the train were embedded in the rock and earth. From here I could see that a road ran nearby. I climbed up onto the road, hoping to hitchhike, but I was too ragged. At least, I got no lifts.
The dreamer, Frank, said that he had jumped off a train to escape a woman he had become a sexual slave to. He carries on and describes his mental condition as, “I knew that a great change had overtaken me during my imprisonment to the girl. I had lost all the previous regard for myself. I really inwardly now felt like a down and out, without any pride or respect for myself. I was not criminally moved, simply empty of all normal human self-regard.”
Useful Questions and Hints:
Were you the ragged person or were you an observer?
What do you associate with being ragged?
Did you notice any feelings or emotions in the dream?
See Tramp – Magical Dream Machine – Techniques for Exploring your Dreams – Questions
Rails Railway Train Station
Opportunity or choices in life; your life direction if on train – or the direction the events in life are taking you, perhaps your direction of growth. Sometimes the train refers to the direction or events you are involved in with others, a train of events’ in fact.
Carriages: A particular compartments or facet of your life. The situation or environment you are in at the moment – perhaps with particular people.
Leaving someone behind or being left behind: Feelings about loss of spouse; or break-up of relationship; being left; change of some sort; watching someone take a direction or get involved in things that mean parting.
Lines or tracks: The rails themselves represent orthodoxy, the accepted way of going about things, moral values or a direction that is hard to change, and perhaps shared with others. Thus one can say someone has gone off the rails. A communal or generally accepted direction; habitual pathways of thought or action; rigidly fixed to certain attitudes or way of life; inflexibility.
Missing the train: feeling left out of opportunity; sense of inadequacy; held back by one’s own hesitations; hidden desire to avoid change or to make one’s individual journey; not connecting with an opportunity or events.
Railroad crossing: A need for awareness and observation in case of danger. Possible block to progress. Conflict between your personal direction — the car – and the prescribed direction of the train.
Railway station: Moving toward something new; making a choice or having a choice of directions – directions that may need decision, planning and or choice; changing scenes – i.e. from family to work environment; leaving something behind – a relationship, one’s youth; one’s ability to change; effort to get somewhere in life or experience something new; parting or meeting, saying farewell or waiting for someone; changes in a relationship or work. The station can also depict the ‘station’ you have reached, or are moving toward in life. So it might therefore be a situation you are in or trying to reach.
Sometimes ‘station’ in your dream can mean your life state or station. So it is your present life situation. The station you try to reach is the place or situation you will arrive at when you bring your desires and actions under direction.
The train journey: The aspect of our journey through life that has connections with other people and has a predetermined end unless you change trains. It is therefore limiting your individual will, and passing through certain stages. It may show a journey into self-awareness. And because you are being pulled along by a power other than your own efforts, it can refer to ageing and death – especially where there is a feeling of ‘departing’ or ‘time of departure’; the train of thought or experiences that carry us through life. But it refers in general to your movement through life as time passes.
The journey might be one you remember making in the past, or meeting someone from a previous journey. These can both refer to influences in your present life from prior to your birth.
Ticket: See ticket
Train engine: The energy that takes us through life; libido.
Example: I lived in a village/town at the foot of a huge mountain. I felt desperate and that I had to do something – I must climb the mountains straight away. I ran away from home, family, to straightaway start to climb the mountain. The beginning of the journey was on a train. Although it had been night and raining, now it was light and blue sky. As the train slowly climbed the mountain, I looked out on the scenery behind us. There were strange rock formations, mountain valleys, lovely vistas, so beautiful I wept openly at the beauty. Others in the carriage noticed how moved I was.
Idioms: Go off the rails; lose track of something; make tracks for; on somebody’s track. See: airport; ticket.
Useful Questions and Hints:
If I was on a train, where was I going?
Did anything important happen on the train?
Did you or did you not have a ticket?
See Being the Person or Thing – Journey – Journey Inward – Water Wonderland