Posts Tagged ‘dream’
Banana
Male penis; disguised sexual desire; enjoyment of sweet food, pleasure.
It is often also used as a sign of love and caring in dreams. In some dreams it is a recommendation for your diet.
Taking one or handing one to someone: Desire to receive or have sexual relation. Or a caring action.
Man eating one: May be homosexual tendency. Or perhaps a dietary suggestion
Idioms: Fingers the size of bananas; go bananas; tough bananas.
Useful Questions and Hints:
What do I feel about bananas – do I enjoy or dislike them?
Is there any hint of sex or sexual feelings in this dream – if so what do they point to?
What am I doing, or how am I relating to the banana and what does this suggest?
See Processing Dreams.
Balloon
Party mood and maybe linking with feelings about something to celebrate. Breasts and perhaps connection with sex through similarity to condom; the womb.
Something that can appear large, colourful and growing, but is only full of air we blow into it – life we give it with our imagination and emotions – and can be burst and disappear suddenly like a bubble. In other words a big deal about nothing – a lot of hot air. But imagination eat creator.
If the balloon is mysterious and perhaps white or glowing, it can represent feelings about a dead person who has ‘floated away’ from physical life.
In some dreams it might show a feeling of being fat and blown up. Also the balloon might be linked with gaining attention, as with advertising balloons.
Balloons are much like bubbles, so see bubbles.
Deflated balloon: The power or emotion gone out of something; a lost dream or hope; feeling deflated.
Feeling you are blowing up like a balloon: This might link with an experience of being anaesthetised. Also it could suggest increasing tension and feeling you might be heading for a crisis, or even of pregnancy.
Hot air balloon: Escape; getting away from the everyday difficulties or routine; wonderful fantasy; a birds-eye view of life on the world; a lot of ‘hot air’ as in empty or boastful talk; floating away from being practical or grounded. The ascent in a balloon may show going up in the world or achievement; feeling light headed or ‘floaty’. Descent in the balloon may show coming ‘down to earth’ or a feeling of setback.
Airship or blimps: It may suggest a huge presence hovering over you. Unlike an airplane that has to keep moving the airship can stay in one place, and because of its immense size might be felt as uplifting or threatening.
Releasing a balloon: Hope; testing an idea or ideal to see where it takes you; letting go of something or someone; letting events decide the situation.
Something suspended by a balloon: Feelings of rising in the world or being in a good place, but lack of security.
Useful Questions and Hints:
What is the feeling surrounding the balloon, and how do you relate to those feelings?
What is the balloon being used for and what do you associate with that?
Is the balloon rising or descending, and does that relate to events in your life?
Try Being the Person or Thing to define the dream meaning.
Ballroom
Place of romance or courting, therefore memories, the past, hopes and dreams. It could also relate to feelings of competition; relationship with other people; social position, such as feelings of class. Sometimes it suggests times past, historical scenes and the atmosphere they created. This probably relates to deep seated feelings you have about the parts of yourself you still haven’t brought to awareness. See: dancing.
Useful Questions and Hints:
What are you doing in relationship with the ballroom, and what does that suggest?
Is this a place you have been in the past – if so what memories do you have of it?
What is the theme here and what action in your life does it portray? See: themes.
See also Talking as a Dream Character and Characters in Dreams.
Band
If it is a particular band or group, it may link with how you see the group, and what you feel about them. Otherwise it could depict feelings you have at the moment about working in harmony with others, expressing your won creativity. Sometimes this refers to teenage feelings and emerging sexuality. Team work; sense of different parts of self working harmoniously; or work for a musician; teenage emotions and feelings, perhaps to do with sexuality; comradeship.
Band of metal, material or colour around something: See colours or for metal see the type of metal or ring. The band in general suggests a binding quality, a wholeness, a form of connection or unity. It can also be a limitation or restraint. In some dreams it points to an influence, quality or power, the nature of which will be seen in the events and feelings of the dream.
Elastic band: Sometimes used as a way of drawing one back when they get too far away, or as a tight band to restrict the flow of blood, and therefore the function of what is restricted.
Useful Questions and Hints:
What part am I playing in the group, and does this help me understand the way I relate to the people I am involved with?
Are we creating something as a group – if so what does it suggest?
If this is a metal or other band, what quality or restraining influence does it have?
Explore your dream using Processing Dreams
Bandage
Feeling hurt, or fear of injury. The bandage also connects with healing and sometimes death.
Bandit
A bandit in your dream may represent an attitude that takes but does not give. Or it can be a warning against others who might take advantage of you and what you own.
Or it could be male sexuality in its adolescent, aggressive stage.
Useful Questions and Hints:
Do you recognise these attitudes in yourself or others?
Is there anything you can do that overcomes them?
Do you feel threatened by the bandit in the dream – or are you the bandit?
Try carrying the dream forward and Talking As.
Bank
Money worries or decisions about or events to do with money and the whole lifestyle that goes with it. Therefore it may indicate dreams or hopes about the future; resources – financial, mental and spiritual such as suggested by savings. It could relate to your internal sense of security – if threatened then feelings of insecurity and fear – again savings. It can indicate emotional resources such as confidence and sexual certainty; social power; feeling of pressure about debts or social money situation; something you depend upon.
The bank might depict the ways, the attitudes, skills or otherwise, with which you deal with your resources or energies. In other words what you do with the energy you stored up/banked. See: Money
Bank raid: Threat to security; feelings of anxiety. Or if you are a bank robber, feelings of desperation about money. Perhaps not feeling socially connected in the way to get money flowing to you, so suggesting that you access resources by force instead of understanding.
Bankruptcy: Feelings of despair or failure; the end of a scheme or relationship; the realisation or feelings that the direction has not worked and must be abandoned, whether a marriage, business or direction in life. Or it could be doing too much and exhausting your reserves, materially or emotionally.
Difficulty drawing money out: Frustration about earning power and thus ability to find security or esteem; lack of confidence or negative feelings about personal value. Perhaps there is a need to be personally affirmed, or a sense that you do not feel valued.
Talking with the bank manager: Thinking about, or trying to deal with issues of finance, personal resources or self esteem. If the bank manager is serious, then you need to look closely at your finances. If he is amiable, you are probably doing well despite worries. The bank manager also represents the wisdom or attitudes you can use as a resource to deal with the economics of your life. See Talking As.
Vaults of a bank: Deep unconscious resources; your potential or reserves.
Working at a bank: Dealing with money issues, security, personal values.
Idioms: Bank on; burst/break the bank.
Useful Questions and Hints:
What worries or concerns do I have about money?
Is my dream showing me new insights or understanding about how to deal with my life?
If there are difficulties in the dream, what are they and how does that connect with my waking life?
See A useful way to understand your dream – Dream Understanding.
Bank Of River Canal
A barrier or safety measure – i.e. to stop the river flooding, so a way to deal with emotions and maybe block them or direct them. A place in the sun, or an exposed place. It could also relate to a difficulty to be overcome when trying to climb out of water or up the bank. Minor difficulty or obstruction; a boundary, such as the boundary of what you might permit sexually or creatively.
The river or canal bank not only contains, it also directs the flow of energy. So any features of its structure or shape would give an idea of what is being directed and how.
Useful Questions and Hints:
Is this a barrier to my progress or a safety feature in my dream?
Am I facing a barrier to my progress – if so what
Is this bank about the way my energies are being channelled?
Are there indications such as feelings, thoughts or obstacles to help me understand the dream?
Try using Easy Dream Interpretation.
Banquet
Social relationships and a chance to be recognised or seen as being chosen. Perhaps feelings about class, social position or status, or business/sexual opportunity. It might also be about feelings concerning eating and drinking, or a drive to impress, or being impressed.
Useful Questions and Hints:
Is social recognition important to you?
How do you place yourself socially?
What did the dream events suggest about my relationship with the banquet?
Try using Easy Dream Interpretation.
Baptism
Being baptised or witnessing a baptism could suggest a new influence entering your life, and a cleansing away old attitudes. Because baptism is a readiness to let a new influence into your life, it could show you opening to your inner possibilities, or to life pervading and healing you, or an influx of what had been latent or potential in the Self. So in that way a door to a new experience of yourself.
Sometimes it links with birth or experiences connected with your own birth, and is thus a re-connection of your conscious self with the deeper life-giving unconscious elements within you. And birth does not necessarily relate to being a baby, because we can be born many times, such a spiritual awakening. This may be allied with an experience of the old attitudes or way of life dying or passing away. See: compensation theory; religion and dreams; archetype of Christ.
Baptism in water: Relates more to the emotions and to inclinations arising from ones birth experience. In Christianity it connects with the recognition by the community of the identity of the baptised baby or person. It therefore suggests an entering into this fellowship or Christian community. As this cannot occur unless you have a sense of allegiance and good wishes toward the group you are joining, it points to a change of heart. See baptism as an ancient mystery.
In other cultures baptism has the meaning of cleansing away old attitudes, concepts and ways of life, to allow a new growth from within and from ones social contacts. In the Bible water is spoken of in a particular way. For instance – Their hearts melted and became as water. (Josh. 7.5.) Water was also used to wash with and, more important, to quench ones thirst. So baptism in water brings one in connection with being cleansed, being changed inside oneself, and having ones longings/thirst satisfied.
Baptism by fire: This still has the cleansing in it, but the experience may be more painful, more fierce, burning away the old material of ones personality through powerful passions or emotions.
Baptism in blood or wine/spirit: Blood and wine are often synonymous in dreams, and may depict being deeply immersed in experiences that link you with collective humanity. For instance we all meet certain experiences, such as ageing, and to know how your personal experience links you with millions of others is a form of baptism in blood. It also may mean that you inherit the work, attitudes, insights, left by millions of humans.
Baptism in energy or vibration: Sometimes individuals experience what feels like a force flowing through their body, causing it to vibrate or tremble. Accompanying this there is usually a feeling of great immersion in life, or connection with all life, or the mystery that lies within all life. Occasionally this immersion is known to be into a collective mind in which countless others exist. Of course this may be true of the other forms of baptism also.
In many cultures some form of water container stands in front of the temple. People either washed in this, or symbolically wash by dipping their hands in it. Such cleansing water can still be found just inside every Catholic Church, and outside Japanese Shinto temples.
It is possible that in general baptism represents a turning away from the ego centred, or child dependent and self centred life, toward that of becoming socially aware and wanting to be a caring and functional part of the group or society you live within. This turning around is often accompanied by the recognition of your deep links with ones culture, and the enormous debt you have to it for language and the formation of your identity. This does not go against the idea of a rebirth, or the opening to your deeper unconscious as proposed by Jung. Recognition of your cultural inheritance as it has worked in you unconsciously, is in itself the gaining of a new life, and is an access to a wider awareness. See: archetype of baptism.
Useful Questions and Hints:
Have I recently experienced an influx of new life or an opening to a deeper awareness?
Has there been a growing awareness of my links with humanity and life in general?
What am I aware of experiencing in connection with baptism in my dream?
Try using Acting on your dream to gain a fuller understanding, or Arm Circling Meditation to explore the experience of baptism.
Bar
(If metal or other rigid material – For bar/pub see bar room.) Strength; male sexuality; rigidness; an expression of aggression. It can represent energy or be a symbol of power, or a lever to shift obstacles. Sometimes it is an extension, barrier, fastening or support, or to can be a play on word suggesting the banning or exclusion of something, or an impediment; a means of discouragement, whether used as a weapon or as a physical barrier.
Exercise bar: Comment on your fitness, or what your body needs to get fit.
If barring way: Obstacle; block against your self expression.
Metal bar: Weapon; defensiveness; aggressiveness or anger; strength; penis.
Sand-bar: Safe place to stand out of the water – emotion; possible danger if in a boat – or a place to land, i.e. make a change, possibly from drifting in life or feelings.
What we do with the bar: How we are expressing energy or power at that time.
Useful Questions and Hints:
What is being done with the bar, and what meaning or feeling do you attach to that?
Does the bar have strength or is it lacking power – and is that feeling apparent in your life at any time?
What do you feel if you imagine holding the bar in your hands?
Try using Talking As if you are uncertain of the meaning in your dream.
Bar Room/Pub
What happens in the bar may indicate how you relate to social relationships at a basic level. A public bar can either represent the sense of pleasure, love of company and entertainment, or sometimes the place where you experience changes in yourself – i.e. influence of alcohol or spirit. Often indicates how you relate to groups, or relaxation – or conflict – with friends and others. The meaning depends on the action and relationships occurring in the dream. There may therefore be signs of aggressiveness or defensiveness. It can also indicate your feelings about society, or exploring ideas or feelings, as one might in a communicative atmosphere in a bar.
It can be about your hopes, fears or expectations in regard to finding a sexual partner. Therefore the meaning might be about the meeting or avoiding of the complexities of relationship, gathering information or realising things unconsciously gathered.
The bar-room can be about difficulties regarding alcohol; your technique for avoiding confrontation with loneliness, anxiety, sense of failure, etc. See: Alcohol.
Idioms: Prop up the bar; colour bar; barring the way.
Useful Questions and Hints:
What is taking place in the bar and how does that relate to me?
If there are difficulties what are they?
What is the essential dynamic of the relationships in the bar?
See Easy Dream Interpretation.
Barber Hairdresser
Change of attitudes, thoughts or opinions about oneself. Because we can change our social appearance by a haircut or style, it depicts changes of mind, change of image. Therefore being in someone else’s hands – the barber or hairdresser – shows the influence someone else might have on the changes we make in our life.
In some dreams there appears to be a lot of anxiety or fear surrounding the barber dream.
Sometimes having a hair cut can mean you are getting rid of so much thinking. In that way your inner life has a chance to open more. The hair and dealing with it can point to the way we deal with our thinking, controlling it, or allowing it to be out of control. Our thoughts can build up to become labyrinths we lose ourselves in, or terrifying scenes of fear we torture ourselves with. So sometimes our dreams point out what we are doing in that way, and perhaps how quieting or surrendering our thinking can open us to a transforming influence. And usually, while you are having a hair cut you are looking in a mirror. This is the gift of reflection, the ability to see your Self. The image you see might not be to your liking, but is a true reflection of you, warts and all. See: Hair; Roles.
Useful Questions and Hints:
If my hair has been changes, what changes in my attitude or image am I going through?
Is my thinking needing to be changed or quietened?
What are the changes going on in my life at present?
Try Secrets of Power Dreaming – Techniques for Exploring your Dreams – Life’s Little Secrets
Bare
Basically this is about feeling exposed. This may be desirable or undesirable depending upon what you feel in your dream. It can indicate a desire to be attractive and noticed – as in the example, where Miss L. is enjoying an acceptable form of intimacy, or being open about what you really feel. It is also showing you feeling people know what you are feeling or desiring, or else being open about what you feel. This often refers to sexual feelings, or feelings you usually hide.
At times it can be a sign of anxiety about not being adequate socially or that you do not ‘look’ good, or lacking ability to conform to social norm. See: Naked; Clothes.
Example: ‘I am at the doctor’s being examined. It is always the same. I have all my clothes off and he examines me from the roots of my hair down to my toe nails. I am just at the point where I am going to ask him for his diagnosis when he fades away.’ Miss L.
How we feel about being naked in the dream may simply show our cultural background and childhood training in regard to being undressed. In some families it is easy and natural, and in others something to be ashamed of and arousing critical remarks.
There is an almost instinctive drive in many young children to uncover themselves to others. Erich Fromm, in his book Dreams – The Forgotten Language, says that, “It is hardly possible to pass through a village in country districts without meeting a two or three year-old child who lifts up his or her blouse or frock before the traveller, possibly in his honour.” As adults, if such behaviour were punished or frowned upon we may still be stuck in this behaviour, desiring the acceptance we should have received at an earlier stage of our growth.
Useful Questions and Hints:
Am I feeling relaxed about this or exposed and vulnerable – and does that reflect how I feel about people knowing who I am?
Is there any signs of sexual feelings here, and if so what does the dream suggest about my response?
If there is a reason for my being naked, what is it?
Try using Easy Dream Interpretation to see if you can uncover more of the dream’s meaning.
Barometer
This is an indication of your state of inner pressure or emotional climate. It can also depict what you sense of coming events or situations.
Clearly about the changes of mood and feelings that are either happening or arising shortly. This is like your own personal dashboard to say what changes are coming. The barometer also can indicate good or bad weather/situations coming your way. In other words good feelings and difficult ones.
It can also be a barometer of your pace, accomplishment and frustration.
Useful Questions and Hints:
What is the barometer suggesting is coming in my moods or feelings?
Is this about my feelings, or fair weather or a storm coming in my life?
Is there any suggestion in the dream of how to meet these changes?
Find out by using Easy Dream Interpretation.
Barricade
barricade We can barricade ourselves from thoughts, from emotions, fro actions from outside or from within.
Example: The change had torn that away, leaving her separated from everything she had known. It was a devastating feeling to have nowhere and no one to be connected to. Growing in her was an awareness that she could, out of the aloneness, commit acts of desperation, criminal acts to the degree she had never considered before. Connection and family had unknowingly given her a barricade against an internal riot that would hit out at others. With the barricade down, even though so recently, the internal mob were shouting angrily. Bess didn’t understand the fine points of this, she simply felt like something was crushing her from the inside, and she trembled, not from the cold. Quoted from The Steel.
Barricades can stop you getting away from something or stop you getting hurt, like barricades around a hole.
It can be the defense you use against others, or events – of something used against you. May be in the form of an excuse such as “I’m too ill to go to work, or I’ll never get anywhere, so what’s the use of trying”. Perhaps you live in thought only, a dried out travesty of living; for thought of things is never things themselves, however near it comes. So you can build a wall of thought about yourself, a barricade against the need to feel and experience – against living. See: Armour; Fence.
Useful Questions and Hints:
Am I aware of any barricades that I erect or meet in my life?
What can I do about going beyond barricades?
Are they a necessary part of my life?
Try Being the Person or Thing.