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Roof
The philosophy, beliefs or coping strategies we use to protect yourself from stress. The roof can also suggest how you are dealing with the energies of emotion, and whether your ‘house’ or personality, is sound. See: House.
Hole in the roof: Suggest something that has attacked your sense of security. Or if you are on the roof seeing into a room below of an unknown house or a previously unknown room, it suggest past dwelling places, past lives, and therefore seeing into them one can see things that could be useful in today’s life.
A person climbing out of a hole in the roof can symbolise becoming a mature man/woman. In legends and folklore this process of climbing out, being pulled through the hole in a rock, crawling out of a narrow passage, is a frequently recurring image of birth or rebirth.
Example: I suddenly realise I was on the roof of my old home, though it didn’t resemble it at all. Standing there I could see a hole in the roof that allowed me to look down into a room, or an area, that had got walled off as the house was being renovated. I saw things in the room that I knew belonged to me and I planned to get them. This is an important point because, 1) I have dreamt this in various ways many times. 2) Our home was a huge project and never completely finished. So the dreams show these unused areas – sometimes enormous. Also it shows areas or aspects of self that were lost in the past and are now realised.
Standing on a roof: Heightened awareness. See: spiritual life in dreams
Mending roof: Developing new coping strategies; feeling vulnerable; developing the qualities on your life that lead to wholeness.
Leaking roof: Need for new coping strategies; a suggestion that you need to deal with personal problems.
No roof: If not a threatening dream, suggests no barrier between personality and psychic or spiritual awareness; a sense of connection with life or wider awareness. If threatening, feeling invaded by forces outside oneself.
Roof garden: Spiritual or mental growth or flowering of new ideas, insights or abilities. See: Last example in window.
Room
A particular feeling state – for instance the room might feel sinister, warm, spacious, cold, etc. – so depicts whatever you feel in the dream room. It can also indicate experience of life in the womb, or your present life situation if it is a room you are living in. In this sense the room can depict what difficulties, what traps, what poverty or richness of life you are living in.
Sometimes a room, because of its spaciousness represents the amount of potential or opportunity you have. The ‘containing’ quality – feeling restricted – of a room may also depict involvement in your mother.
The décor of the room usually suggests how you feel about the quality of your life.
Bare room: This may suggest you feel your life lacks comfort, or the joy of your own created environment. It can also suggest potential.
Entering another room: Entering a new experience or phase of your life, a new feeling.
The finding of extra or secret rooms: A common dream theme – recognition or discovery of previously unnoticed aspects, abilities, fears, or traits in yourself. If the discovery is distressing, this may reflect a feeling of a change in your status quo which is disturbing. But the hidden room can indicate entering a new dimension of your awareness, one that reveals previously hidden or unknown facets of your personality
Example: ‘There was a room in my house I had never been in before. It was filled with water and had three kittens submerged in it. While in the room I didn’t need to breath.’ Audrey P.
The room here represents Audrey’s childbearing function – her womb i.e. the reproductive drive, the unconscious desire for a child or more children, and the possible neglect of those feelings and longings. The room can therefore depict mother or qualities of mothering.
Example: I am at my original flat but come across an extra room or sometimes part to the flat no one knows about. I am always surprised when I find it, but inside myself I know of its existence. It is as though it belonged to me although I am unaware of ever having used it. It is usually a bedroom but sometimes a lounge with a bed in it. It’s obviously lived in. The bed is unmade and it’s a little untidy but comfortable. I feel very familiar with it but recognise none of the contents as mine.
The dreamer explored this dream and discovered it help her artistic abilities left to her form er father’s influence.
Sometimes the room can hold old attitudes or things you left behind because of life’s necessities. Or at other times it can be things you did not want to admit to yourself, as in the following example.
The room immediately reminded me of the way I had described my awareness of my sexual stagnation during the first dream session – like a room that had been closed for years and had been unopened. Everything had been left as it was. Perhaps a murder had taken place, and the powerful aura pervaded the whole place.
Room without doors or windows: May represent the womb and life in the womb. What is happening in the room may show the state of a pregnancy, feelings about pregnancy or feeling trapped.
Small Room: Lack of space or opportunity or small time dealings. It could suggest a limitation of vision or potential.
The room: Love has only one place of expression – The ground floor. That is, love cannot be expressed unless it is brought down to earth.
Useful Questions and Hints:
What feeling did you or do you have about the room?
Did something happen in the room, and can you describe it?
Does the room have a history, if so what impressive memories do you have about it?
See Techniques for Exploring your Dreams – Questions – Secrets of Power Dreaming
Root
Your beginnings, basic levels of consciousness, things you are tied to by necessity, love or connections.
Rope
Strength to connect to or with some others or to something; to secure or bind things, or pull you up or along – or someone or something.
The rope can also act as a safety barrier, or a feeling of confidence as a rope does as a person climbs down a hole or a mountain face. In this case it is supportive connection or feelings of confidence; the safeguards you use in attempting something risky. Or a symbol of control, as are handcuffs, chains or a rope.
A rope can be used for strangulation of the flow of pleasure and creativity that would otherwise stream through you. In such a case the rope needs to be removed and a new way of relating to yourself developed.
A rope can also suggest a lifeline that links you to or with someone else, or a means of escape from a difficult situation.
A rope that is neatly coiled represents organization, inner twining and balancing of mind, body and soul. A rope that is frayed or knotted represents disassociation.
Feeling tied up. Feeling in knots. Feeling restricted.
Ropes connected with sailing suggest skill and wisdom in dealing with all manner of ‘weather’ in your life.
If you are tied up: What is holding us back from expressing? Strength turned against oneself.
Tying someone else: Restraints we use to hold back particular parts of our feelings or drives; sometimes sexuality. See: cord; knot.
Plaited rope etc.: The inner strength that comes from uniting parts of you into one aim, one direction, or one leadership. Weaving different influences in your life together; uniting conflicting feelings or people, or a triangle situation.
Example: I find myself feeling nauseous. I have an image of a thick rope coming up from the depths of my entrails bringing bile. I am ashamed. I retch. The more I focus on the image of the rope, the more I gag. Tony offers to bring me a bowl and leave the room but I feel I cannot take the urge too literally. Perhaps I am not ready yet.
Idioms: end of my rope; roped together; give him enough rope and he’ll hang himself; rope into; know the ropes; learn the ropes; show you the ropes; hangman’s rope.
Useful Questions and Hints:
How is the rope being used?
Is this about connecting to something, or securing something?
If I am being tied by a rope, does this indicate feelings of being restrained, holding myself back from self-expression?
See Working with associations – Makes Inner World – Being the Person or Thing
Rosary
Prayer and its influence, therefore to do with spiritual exercises, spiritual gifts or meditation. Stages of your inner growth or experience. It might also represent your feelings about its use if you are or have been a catholic. A spiritual exercise is something you use to open your awareness to the new, as with, if I put my hand on my heart and feel the Life in me beating away, and I open to the strange mystery of Life in me, then Life is telling me part of its mystery, and if we remain open to that mystery we may enter a new dimension of self-awareness. See How I Became a Virgin
Beads are often used for prayer in some countries, as in Greece, in Buddhism and with the rosary. So the rosary or beads might represent your attitude of mind in prayer, or what you meet from prayer or meditation. They might therefore indicate precious things you find in yourself. See: jewellery.
When used for meditation it could mean you are concentrating your thoughts and therefore making your aim more powerful – rather like magnifying glass focussing the suns rays.
Example: I was the top of a hill on my knees digging in the earth with my right hand. It was fairly easy. I pulled up what felt like coins, and found they were all joined together, forming something one could wear. This was in the form of a necklace from which ran a long loop from one edge to the other, perhaps reaching fairly well below the breasts. There were coins set a little way apart all around this loop. Then in between there were two connections from coins going down in a V to a single line that connected with the bottom of the loop. From this single line, and the coins on it, there were connections to the coins on the loop, reaching low on the trunk.
The coins, or really, medallions, were shining silver, depicting Christian or ancient saints and martyrs. It was, I knew in the dream, like a rosary, which one could use in prayer. But instead of just the Ave Maria’s, and the Our Father’s, all the other saints were included. Thus it was a very comprehensive guide to prayer. Some of the silvered chains between the coins were missing, but these had been mended with something else. The shape of it suggests the sign of the cross people make on their body. But it shows the right way to do this is first touching the brow, then to two breasts, then down to the genitals – the real sources of power. Richard.
Useful Questions and Hints:
Am I sending a prayer out in the dream and if so, what was it for?
Do I sense any stages of inner growth or experience?
If I am catholic, what do I feel about the dream rosary?
See Spirit – Spiritual Life In Dreams – Techniques for Exploring your Dreams
Rose
Love; the flowering of personal qualities, your soul or self. Sometimes the vagina. The flowering of our ripeness to live, love and reproduce, and its passing. Because flowers are the beautiful sexual organs of the plant it often refers to our own flowering of our sexuality and the wonder of love that is connected with such opening.
But sexuality is often seen as only relating to the urge to reproduce, but unfortunately people take that to simply mean sex. But we are actually seeking the reproduction of our whole potential; namely a healthy physical body – the ability to relate in a caring loving manner to each other, which starts with the relationship between father and mother and child. But from that it expands to a relationship with the culture and society of the time, with the great learning we have been left, and then a relationship with Life/God itself. I use the word IT because you cannot call the amazing emergence of our universe and ourselves a He – for it is all inclusive and is still a mystery we are still exploring. See Opening to Life
The Rosicrucian’s, who use the cross with a rose at the centre, speak of it as symbolising the trials and difficulties of life, upon which the soul personality of man opens and blooms like a rose.
The rose has always represented love, and has even been a major symbol in Christianity, the Virgin being called The Mystic Rose. In general, the rose depicts a quality in you opening and flowering. It can also signify deep sensuality, sexuality and the vagina.
But the most common association is the giving or reminder of love. However, the colours have gradually assumed different meanings, indicating what type of love is given. So in some countries you would not give a woman red roses unless she were single and you were sincerely in love with her. The red rose is passionate, sensual love.
The yellow rose has the meaning of friendship and gladness; the white rose depicts purity, silence, even secrecy. Pink suggests gentle love, ‘thank you’ and appreciation. Orange roses are expressing desire and enthusiasm. A red rosebud is an image of girlhood, passion but still unexplored or just opening. A thornless rose is saying ‘this is love at first sight’.
Example: I came across a hawthorn tree woven into which was a rose bush. The berries and hips were loaded, but not quite ripe.
Example: I began to realise how life was bursting forth in the garden. Looking up in the hedge I noticed a large pod expanding on top of a stalk. It was visibly getting larger, like a balloon. Suddenly it opened, forming many stalks with leaves and small rose buds. Another pod was doing the same. As I watched I noticed a young woman nearby. I called to her to witness this extraordinary explosion of growth and life – a dynamic extravagant springtime of activity. I wept at the beauty. I wept because of the profound wonder of the formless reality that underlies the vast ever changing world of phenomena.
Example: One person, “looking for herself, came upon a tightly closed box. Tearing it open – in her fantasy – she found inside a lovely rose, and realised that she had been enclosed in a box of Puritanism, of self-denial and physical shame. The outer petals of the rose, pink and mauve, seemed to whirl and dance; they sent her fancy spinning off like a ballerina into flowered landscapes of delicious femininity. The inner petals were shaded from the light, obscure and mysterious. Here the colours darkened to deep crimson and velvet purple. They reflected her deep animality. These she avoided, until she realised that it took both the light and the dark to make a lovely rose. She could not have one without the other. Gradually the rose became a nourishing symbol in her life and growth.”
Useful Questions and Hints:
What colour are the roses?
Did someone give them to you?
What are you doing with the roses?
You might have a personal association with the colour of the roses, if so what are they?
Who gave you the roses in your dream, is it a special person or love in your life, or a person who deserves attention?
What you are doing with the roses indicates how you receive love and attention. Throwing them away for instance would show you rejecting the love offered.
Round
Wholeness or completion. See: Circle.
Row Rowing
Making personal efforts to get somewhere. If there is someone in the boat with you it suggests efforts in a relationship. It might link with fitness if you use rowing for exercise. Or competition or cooperation if you are in a rowing team. See Boat
If someone else is rowing the boat, it shows someone else is making an effort for you. See Characters and People in Dreams
Row: If this is a row as in arguing: See: argue.
Rubber
See: Contraceptive; Elastic.
Rubbish
See: Garbage.
Ruby
Emotions, passion, sympathies; extending self to others. It may also depict a connection with blood. The feelings, sympathies, love, arising from the spirit, rather than material values. The ability to reach out and contact others. See: Jewels; Blood.
Rudder
The principles you guide your actions by; the strength used to deal with the pressures taking you away from where you want to go.
Sureness about direction in life; ability to take a direction in life and maintain it against other influences.
Example: I had a dream last night where I was in a boat that was not working well. It was floating and I would suddenly find myself in the water checking the rudders of the boat to make sure they were steering the boat. I would get nervous when I saw the boat approaching shallow waters. The other people in the boat did not seem to be bothered by the shallow water and I would feel better about it and think it was alright since no one else seemed bothered. I did not know who the people were in the boat. At least I cannot recognize them now. When the boat arrived at a destination, everyone was happy because we were out at sea for quite some time.
I feel this describes how you relate to other people, especially in groups. Your dream gives me the impression that you need to know where such relationships are heading – thus the rudders – and are cautious about getting in situations you cannot manoeuvre.
Even so you do not like to be ‘at sea’ too long – any ship that was out of sight of land was in an uncertain position and in danger of becoming lost. Again you need to get your bearings and links with wanting to know where you are in relationships. This is again portrayed in the mooring of the boat. You need a firm mooring in some way to feel okay and certain
Rug
Sometimes depicts one’s financial state, bare floorboards being poverty; can be the colour or design that are important; comfort or lack of it in life – do you feel satisfied with self; a cover up; feeling of being walked on.
Ruins
An old and now useless way of life you led in the past; a particular personality structure that has now broken down; feelings you have abut some aspect of your life. The ruins in many dreams are shown as a castle, and this suggests the defences you used at one time to survive, but are now not necessary.
Run Running
Running with exuberance in a dream suggest you are flowing with life energy, or strong and easy motivation.
You can run to or run away, or even run from someone or something, so it is important in some dreams to define which one it is. Also it is important to define if you are running to get somewhere, to reach a goal, or simply running as an expression of exuberance, or to get fit. See: Chased.
Running away: Avoiding something; trying to get away from something, your own emotions or sexuality for instance, so not meeting problems in a way that will resolve them. This can indicate anxiety about what you are running from. It might be old painful experiences or feelings of guilt.
Running to: Trying to reach a goal, so an energetic attempt to get somewhere. If you are running toward someone or in relationship to someone such as children, this suggests feelings of responsibility and self-giving. But in some dreams it is evident the dreamer is sometimes running toward danger.
Running to get fit: It can suggest you are taking your health seriously. It depends on why you are running though. Are you running because you have an underlying fear that in fact is making you run to avoid death? If so it is better to meet the feelings of fear of death, and when that is done you can run with good feelings. See Fear Frightened
Running something like a business: Meeting the challenges of running your own individual way of life. Or depending what the dream is maybe about your own business information. See business woman/man
Running with great pleasure: The unhindered flow of your innate self, so an expression of the person you can be if the tensions, blockages and hesitations are dropped away.
Running without knowing why: Uncertainty or lack of clarity about what you are feeling or expressing – where you are going to or from.
As if made of lead: Held back by one’s own hesitations. Or maybe, because you are a life-form, and so are created by the process of Life, and because life has a flow or current which carries you forward all the time, through babyhood, childhood, adolescence, and onwards, you could be trying to fight the current. See: Paralysis; Sleep Paralysis; Opening to Life
Idioms: Run for one’s money; run of the house; out of the running; on the run; run along; run down; run for it; run out of steam; run out on someone; run up against; run wild.
Useful questions and hints:
Does this show a sense of urgency and haste?
Am I trying to escape from an emotion or fear?
What do I feel as I am running or watching someone run?
Could it simply be a feeling of exuberance and life energy?
See Secrets of Power Dreaming – Working with associations – Makes Inner World – Allowing the Spontaneous
Rust
Negligence; sense of ageing; seeing how transitory worldly things are. It might imply that something connected with you has not been taken care of, is worn out and might not be of service. So something encrusted with rust suggests not only age but also lack of use.
Rust is a sign of how iron consumes itself, so there may be a suggestion of this in the dream, rust appearing on something that is consuming itself. Is something corroding your life?
Rust on some things makes them work less efficiently, so the dream rust might be saying things need cleaning up for your life to work well. If you dreamt of rust, it might indicate neglect, lack of care, old age, or a “rusty” skill.
Example: It was a big room – a bathroom; old-fashioned and high-ceilinged. It was a mess, and I thought the first thing I could do was to set-to and clean it (the bath, sink, everything was dirty and grimy). However, when I went to the bath to clean it, I saw that the back of the bath had all rusted away, so it was beyond being cleaned, a completely new bath was needed.