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Bed
There are many associations you might have with bed – rest, sleep, unconsciousness, sexual pleasure, relationship, dreams, escape from the world into sleep. Try to define what feelings or attitudes are involved with the bed, and ask yourself where they apply to your waking life.
This is an important symbol to understand. It often shows exactly what you are doing in the subtle areas of relationship. So can link with your close relationships, intimacy – an intimacy in which the qualities of the other can become part of you and a blending take place. Such a blending is not only that of you and another, but your known and presently formed self with what you hold within and latent.
But a bed is the place you sleep, so in a spiritual sense might be depicting your sleeping self, the parts of you still unconscious and not awake to who you really are and the issues needing attention in your life.
The bed also obviously relates to sexual pleasure, rest. the holy place in which we meet oneself and or another person deeply and passionately. But it can also suggest desire to get away from the world, to withdraw into oneself, to be passive.
Example: I have a two-pronged needle with red liquid. I know it will hurt him. I didn’t want to but I had to inject him. He yelled in pain. He turned on the bed, writhed around, and threw himself around. I snuck up and finished the dosage. He yelled in mock anger. He grabbed me. We tumbled to the floor. He started to make love, wildly, lovingly. Later at the table, an ugly woman with horrible eyes, glazed, hazy, and blue, came in. Said to him, “So there’s the louse.” I gave her a straight look. I said, “Just leave him alone!” Anger. She steadily looked at me. Another woman, possibly my mother watched the tense scene.
It can depict sensual rather than sexual contact; sickness; privacy; the testing place of the relationship. Sometimes it represents sleep and meeting our unconscious – or torture – because in bed we may be tortured by insomnia, worries, physical pain. See Bed Partners.
Our life situation – made your bed, now lie on it. Bed is one of the commonest symbols in dreams.
Bunk Bed: May link with childhood or sharing ones space. I guess if you slept in a bunk bed you will have many personal associations too. See Associations Working With
There a lot of mentions of bunk beds in my dream collection, but they all suggest a space in which children are on holiday or sharing. Only one has any mention of sex and that refers to unexpressed adolescent sexual desires.
Double bed: A relationship. The events that surround the bed image will give an idea of what the state of the relationship is. Sleeing alone in double bed shows either that you do not have a partner, or are not interested in having one. Or it could simple mean you enjoy your own space.
Top bunk bed: Usually in regard to someone who is top dog or you respects, like an older person. But some times to put the younger person on top.
Lower bunk bed: Easier to get in and out of. Your dog or pets find it easier to share with you. But depends what associations you have with it.
High Bed: Possibly relates to feeling either secure from things like mice on the floor, or anxiety about being high up. Height often links with either of these, or depicts a commanding position.
Hospital Bed: This is usually connected with healing, even though there may be some pain or scary bits in it.
Sometimes one dreams of a dead relative or friend in the hospital bed and they are alive again. This is probably a mixture of a real communication and the dreamers beliefs. See Symbols and Dreams.
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In the example below the man is wrestling with his desire for pleasure and his sense of commitment; but also, whether he will keep his pleasure for himself, or share it with his wife. See: Example in contraceptive; bed wetting.
Example: ‘I sit on a bed. Near me, looking at a book I am holding is a woman I know, Jane. I realise as we talk that her foot is touching mine. As my wife is on my left across the room I feel uncomfortable about this. Now Jane has her left hand on my penis. I have only underpants on. The contact is pleasant and undemanding, but I feel more and more ill at ease. I feel Jane is not having any respect for my relationship with my wife and start to tell her so.’ Mr B. S.
Example: One day as I stood raging at the bars of my prison I suddenly realised that my years of shouting had availed nothing. The only person who was upset by it was me. I was the victim of my own anger and turmoil. It was as if I had been haunted all my life by ghosts of anger and passion. I dropped the attitudes or ‘ghosts’ and was free of them. Years went by and one by one I recognised and dropped other habits of emotion and thought that had trapped and tortured me. I realised I could be totally free within myself.
One morning I woke and sat up on the mattress on the floor that was my bed. The last ghost of inner entrapment fell away. A fountain of joy opened in my body, pouring upwards through me. It was so intense I cried out. My cell mates called a warden because they thought I had gone mad. They stood looking at me as I experienced radiance so strong I felt as if I must be shining. I was aware my joy poured into them, although they thought I was possibly insane. I could sense the enormous change in me influencing them, and I knew it couldn’t help but change them also. I realised that I might never be released from the prison, but it didn’t matter as I had found a fuller release than simply walking the streets. Even though remaining behind prison bars, I would still be touching people’s lives deeply. Nothing would ever be the same again.
The bed and the prison are very powerful symbols in this remarkable dream. The prison that he was in and felt he would remain in is his body, the source of and also the way of release from his entrapment. The bed that he woke from is the bed he had been ‘asleep’ on for so long – the bed of self torture and illusion.
Here is another example of bed from a very different viewpoint.
Example: I was in bed. There was a knock at the front door. Brenda answered it. I heard a scuffle and a man’s voice. He was assaulting my wife. She was struggling and said I would come, and the man laughed. I got out of bed and got my gun. I went into the room and rammed the rifle barrel in his face. Brenda got clear. He said I wouldn’t have the nerve to fire the gun, still slightly mocking. I said, “Wouldn’t I!” And swung the gun like a club, smashing it on his head. He ran out into the street and I threw the broken gun after him.
In this dream the dreamer woke up from being a rather passive person to being one who took charge of the situation.
Example: A headmaster called me into his study. He showed me a top to something like a small Buddha figure. I realised that it was mine from the long past, and I had lost it without even realising it. I tried to remember the details of having owned it, but could not. The headmaster did not give it to me. He then took me to a room with a bed in it. On the ceiling were marks from ejaculations. I then recreated the scene, and saw Les on the bed in sexual abandon. Then I was with an old lady in an attic. She was saying that she preferred people not to get friendly with her rather than be friends then leave her and hurt her. As she talked we seemed to get nearer and nearer, as if the words were on the surface, and underneath the words was an attraction to each other. In the end I went to her and we fell back on the bed together.
Again the body shows that the dreamer had forgotten and lost something precious and was unconscious of it. Les was his association with his sexual ability and he realised that was how he had lost the Buddha figure. At the end of the dream there are difficulties about relationship, but they are passed through.
Idioms: Bed of nails; bed of roses; go to bed with; make one’s bed and lie on it; test bed.
Useful Questions and Hints:
Is there any sign of this being about relationship issues?
Is this about or hints of sexual pleasure?
Is there indications of or desire for rest or escape?
See Ages of Love – Dream Characters – Simple Dream Interpretation.
Bees
Collective activity or working as or within a community, hard working or self sacrificing. The bee is not separate from its quest for nectar – in other words the bee is the whole wonderful connection between you, your work, the people you are connected with and the harvest of experience you gather from your life.
Because bees build fantastic egg laying colonies which the use to give life to thousands of life forms, I sense tha if you dream of bees working a hive, entering a hidden hive, or a swarm, it my be about your own cellular health in a positive way.
But because bees can sting you might be avoiding being stung – so avoiding pain, avoiding being stung by being taken advantage of.
If you dream of a bee stinging you it can suggest either that you have been hurt/stung in the past, or you are still reacting to being stung by someone’s hurtful remarks. Or else that you need to careful of hurting others with your remarks or criticism. But some things such as stinging remarks or even relationships tend to get under your skin, as in the following example.
It might also be a pun on being busy, busyness, business, or are you working yourself to death like bees do. Can be a “stinger;” a pun on “be-ing,” or beingness, “to be or not to be.”
Because bees produce honey there is a suggestion that bees can harvest a sweet and satisfying experience, and suggests what you have gathered from your life experience. honey
Example: I dreamt this morning that a bee found a crack or slit in the skin of my throat (right side of my neck below the ear) and worked its way in, burrowing itself beneath my skin. I didn’t see the slit, but it must have been there, however microscopically small, because it managed to burrow itself in there. It found an opening and worked its way inside the flesh of my neck. Next thing I know either more bees did the same OR the bee managed to reproduce itself inside me, because the mass on my neck grew larger like a large tumour. Inside I could feel the movement and buzzing of these live bees inside my neck, beneath the skin. I had a large lump on my neck, it was a mass of 20-50 bees growing and living there. Like a cancer that was alive and kicking, taking up residence.
Example: Later, in daylight I noticed a hornets nest in the side of the house. The next door neighbour’s son knocks it off and hornets enter the house and stung me. I angrily show the neighbour and son the huge watery swellings. I clout the boy for stirring up the hornets. I had held my arms above my head and the swelling decreases. Now, with lowered arms I see a bubbling up of skin spread up my arms to chest, then to my entire front. I have no apparent sexual organs because I am covered in a wafer of dead skin. My wife looks at me and has no feeling of caring, and does nothing to help. She is telephoned by another man. I see him and her at the same time. He says for them to go off together, and gives the impression of how sexually adequate he is, and how inadequate I am. I feel so hurt and angry I decide to leave my wife for good.
Idioms: a bee in her bonnet; the bee’s knees; queen bee; honey bee; honey of a bee.
Useful Questions and Hints:
What do I know about Bees and how do I feel about them?
Can I recognise any signs of being hard working and self sacrificing?
How about the unconscious life processes going on in my own self?
See Being the Person or Thing – Avoid Being Victims
Beer
See: Alcohol.
Beetle
Sometimes used a symbol of eternal life, of fate, or cause and effect. See Insects for a fuller explanation
Beggar
This represents the side of yourself that you may keep in the background. It is sometimes called the shadow or the parts of yourself that do not dominate. It might link with feelings or traits you are ashamed of, or with a sense of your own inadequacy – what is usually called lack of self worth. It might also link with the desire to ‘drop out’; to avoid involvement in society; or a cringing, passive attitude; passive anger; feeling poor in spirit – ‘low’. Or it may be a sense of being without talents or worth, of being an outsider.
In a few cases, a wise man lies hidden under the rough exterior who can tell you the secrets of your life and destiny. As such it shows the wisdom and strength gained by meeting the loss of all material support and social standing. See: archetypes of beggar; archetype of outcast and archetype of the shadow.
Useful Questions and Hints:
Is there a part of myself I am denying in some way?
Why am I hiding this part of myself?
How am I relating to this character, and how might I improve the relationship?
Try using Talking As and Processing Dreams.
Behind
This can indicate the past, or something you are unaware of. Or it can link with something that was ‘alive’ and influential in your life at some time, but is now left behind perhaps like a seashell on a beach left behind by what was living in it. It might therefore link with someone or something being left, or a phase of your life that has been passed through.
Remember that dream images and actions are often only used to suggest something other than directly what is dreamt about. So seeing something behind something or someone or hidden behind something can relate to the dream.
Example: I dreamt I was aiming to get out of a house. I had a feeling it was deserted, and I was pulling my dad with me. My father looked tall and thin and rather worse for wear, so I had to support him – and at the same time I knew it was me I was pulling along. We had to pass through a room to get to the front door. As we entered the room I had a feeling it was haunted in some way – there was a sort of heavy threatening feeling about it. I got the door open to the front door but my father was gone – disappeared. In his place was a young woman about late twenties; so I caught her arm and pulled her out of the building.
When I explored the dream the result I got was – It was that the old deserted building was representation of an old way of life and attitudes I had lived in years passed – that was why it was deserted. The heavy atmosphere and haunting of the room was a hangover of depression and negative thinking I used to have that could still be felt at times. And my father/me was an attitude or view of myself I have at times, one of a worn out old man. I was in a hurry to get out of the building into the sunlit street. My father/me disappearing was that I had let go of that attitude, and the woman depicted opportunity.
Here is a clear illustration of how the person you dream about is often an aspect of your own feelings. Your father, lover, boy friend may be just representing your own feelings.
Some sentences taken from dreams show its many significance’s:
“But behind that was a need for a companion who would be with me in a particular way.” – “The UK is way up in the forties and fifties, so we are weeks behind you.” – “there are so many subtle things that we might be missing; many of us live very much in our thoughts or emotions, so are within the restrictions of a belief system, and dreams can illustrate dimensions of us that can leave those restrictions behind.” – “saw the baby and a voice from behind her told her.” – “now I hear a few people behind me saying that he is hear to collect the murder weapon.” – “came into my bed and said he saw a man behind the door.”
If this is your buttocks: See: buttocks.
If you are left behind: Feelings of not being as good as other people; feeling burdened with things that prevent you from being accepted by others; feeling you can’t keep up with what is needed.
Someone behind you: Something or someone that you may not be aware of and your dream is bringing it to your attention. It might suggest you are turning your back on someone or something. The person can be from the past; or they can be someone who is supporting you, backing you up, or that you gain strength from. See: Back.
Voice invisible giving advice behind you: This is very often the voice of your intuition speaking from a very informed position.
See: back; left behind; behind under positions.
Useful Questions and Hints:
What is it that is behind, and what does this suggest is in the past or that you are not aware of?
What is it you are behind in, or how are you comparing yourself with others?
Are you now becoming aware of something that was previously out of sight?
Try talking as the thing or person behind. It can often be a revelation. Talking As and also Simple Dream Interpretation.
Bell
A bell in your dream can be a warning, a signal or something calling for your attention. It might also be a summons, depending on its context in the dream. See Context Theme
A bell such as that in a church might indicate rejoicing; it might be a signal that someone has died, or suggestion of a wedding, originally a warning for the whole community, or simply a practice of bell ringing.
Occasionally in some dreams it is a reference to breasts which swing like bells. See Like Bells.
Telephone bell: Someone trying to get your attention or an attempt to communicate.
Doorbell: Something new coming into your life – negative or positive depending on dream; hoping for contact with someone.
The Final Bell: This suggests the last chance to do whatever the dream indicates. It is worth attending to it.
Diving bell: It indicates that you are ready to go into the deep unconscious – or are already exploring it. See Unconscious – What Is It ?
Ringing bell: If it is a door bell you are pressing then you are trying to get someone’s attention or trying to experience what is behind the door – all of our fears, the devil, the angels. All that we place behind the door within ourselves. And they are only available to us if we walk through the door. See Pandora’s Box
If you are in the house and hear the door bell ring, it suggest an opportunity; the unexpected; new experience or relationship.
Idioms: all the bells and whistles; bells and whistles; clear as a bell; had his bell rung; hell’s bells; rings a bell; with bells on.
Useful Questions and Hints:
How am I responding to the bell, and what does this suggest about my relationship with what it signals?
Am I the one ringing the bell – if so what am I trying to do?
What do I feel is coming into my life?
Try being the bell or a person in your dream by using Being the Person or Thing.
Belly
Almost half the dreams on file that mention abdomen, belly or stomach, show the dreamer being shot, as in the example below. This is obviously to do with a particular type of hurt. When human beings learned to stand up, they exposed their vulnerable underbelly. If we are hurt or threatened we tense the pelvic and abdominal area. The sort of hurt referred to is that related to when we might be deeply criticised, feel badly wronged or slandered. This area often feels the pain of a broken relationship too.
Example: ‘The people watching are saying ‘Kill her! Kill her! Kill her!’ Then someone finds an extra bullet, puts it in the gun and shoots me in the stomach. I wake with my body completely straight with my hands on my stomach. I feel my whole body cracking up inside.’ Vanessa. LBC
Vanessa wakes to just such tension, with a sense of her body being fragmented. In her dream Vanessa was re-enacting a disaster in which a man rampaged and shot down many people, and she was feeling the fear it engendered. See Nothing Can Hurt You in Your Dreams.
Very often has to do with vulnerability, but also sensual feelings, passions, hungers, the physical side of self. Or in body dream may refer to an internal organ. See: Abdomen; Digestion; Absorb.
Here is a woman’s take on bellly.
Example: I then walked on down the street to another shop where Jared was working. I gave him the pin. He was overcome by my kindness. He hugged me a lot. I felt his pot belly and his flaccid penis. I started to feel like it was time to move on.
Example: I was looking at my belly button. There was a good three inches of cord sticking out. The end of it was red and raw. Cassie A.
Cassie had been in a long dependent relationship which she had recently broken. She felt at the time of the dream she was having to stand alone and do things for herself. The end of her relationship felt like a ripping apart, and thus the sore cord. See Umbilical.
If your dream is about pregnancy in any way see Pregnant in my dream; Pregnancy; Woman’s Creative Power.
Example: I felt sick between my throat and belly, staying with what was happening I felt a black tar like substance it felt like it lined part if the inside of the cord it was thick and dense and I felt it was something I had been dealing with all my life. It felt like it went along way back ancestral or beyond and I felt emotional. As I staying with the image the dense heavy blackness something started to move in my belly, a bubble type ball of energy came out from the blackness into my hands. It felt like I was like a baby inside, holding the energy bringing it out up my body then taken back in through my mouth like eating its own tail, a complete circle moving slowing down my body transforming the blackness as it went. I became the Tsunami in my dream, and it I saw it as levels of attachments that you identify with. It was like being in a room but you are not a room having things in the room. But I am letting go of stories of my self. I am not the story but have lived through it , I realise with wonder that I am the energy of the Tsunami the energy of everything. The blackness transformed in this wonderful energy.
As I made my way home I felt very ‘in the moment’. I experienced waves of people all colours, cultures shapes and sizes. On the bus the conversations behaviors, I could see myself in it all, the buildings cars traffic lights all connected.
Here B. explored her dream of being a huge tsunami and the blackness in her belly.
Another exploration to clean the gunk out of her belly.
Example: I sit down and and as I tune in I receive the message, ‘Your old stories are defunct.’
Tony then gets me to do REM, moving my open eyes quickly down from top left to bottom right and then going within. I feel that to cleanse the gunge that lies deep in my belly, instead of pulling at the rope we could insert a hollow tube through my mouth and have water come in and cleanse that way. I do REM in the oposite direction from top right to bottom left.
As it has been there for quite some time it is quite hard to remove and I become aware that to do so could mean the whole structure will fall apart. Tony assures me that it is safe to let it die. As the water continues to jet onto the filler I become aware of a new born life form which has been protected by the structure. Its skin is slightly mottled and I become acutely aware of its breathing and the strong sense of magic pervading from and all around the creature. The creature lies in a crib in the centre of a room, alert, curious, enchanted and I am fascinated by this incredible discovery. From death new life miraculously arises! Beneath the man made structure behold a faery child! I reconnected with the magic that lies at my very core; the newness, the freshness, the playfulness and innocence. I am renewed! Untouched, at the centre, whole, safe, breathing, alive, wondrous beating heart, coupled with the capacity to come to each moment afresh and be fascinated by what I discover. This is my birthright! Tara
Being hit in the belly: This might be related to criticisms you have received, or some kind of felt hurt.
Laying down on belly: Sometimes represents a way of crawling away from attack or of remaining hidden.
A doctor puts his hand on my belly: A healing or examination of some sort – or even sexual feelings. If ther eis any information given about you belly give it serious thought.
Light or a spirit entering your belly: This sometimes happens in a woman’s dream and signifies a wonderful child will be born to you. You child can result in physical birth or be a dream child.
Escape from the belly of – or being in – the whale or big sea creature: This is usually the sign or a great change in your life, and it relates to what is called The Night Sea Journey. It is a journey into the experience of entering what was previously unknown or unconscious within you; a search for self. See archetype of the night journey.
Shot in the belly: something to do with sex, a painful response to relationship, or feeling a target of someone’s verbal or emotional attack.
Dreaming of grapes near a woman’s belly: A woman dreaming of this can believe that she might be pregnant.
Idioms: belly up; belly up to the bar; yellow belly; belly aching; have a bellyful; eyes bigger than one’s belly; have a strong stomach; turn one’s stomach; butterflies in stomach.
Useful Questions and Hints:
Does this relate to issues with the abdomen area?
Is there in the dream and sensuality, passion or maybe hungers in general?
What is the theme of the dream?
Have you felt hurt or attacked recently?
What feelings were evident in the dream?
Try using Easy Dream Interpretation.
Below
If something or someone is below you in a dream you might be feeling superior, or you are looking back on something, like looking back on the past. If you have climbed to somewhere, then what you are looking back on is a more inclusive viewpoint.
Something you feel is ‘beneath you or what is ‘below’ in the body – so the non intellectual aspects of self. Something one can now look back on from a detached viewpoint. If below something else it could suggest a feeling of being in an inferior position or observing someone or something you look up to. See above.
You could also, depending on what you are doing in the dream, have a birds eye view, giving a wider awareness of what you are viewing. Without understanding what is below you it may lead to misunderstanding what is seen.
Example: I have a view that looks over houses, and below is a market square. I say, presumably to the woman, what a marvellous view, and think what an excellent photograph it would make if only there was someone in the foreground. Then I see a young woman in the square, with a baby in a pushchair. She is attractive. Her baby falls out and gets dirty, and she ignores it, and I feel that despite her attractiveness, this side of her is repulsive. There is a greengrocer’s shop on the left of the square, run by Arabs or Pakistanis. One of their children throws something at someone in the square. People throw things back. Then the Arab parents come out, and do not at first realised their children started it.
If you are falling from a height then the ground, or what is below you, is vitally important. See Nothing Can Hurt You in Your Dreams.
You could be below the surface of water, and the meaning depends on what is felt about this; is it an emergency or is it an exploration? See swimming pool.
Example: When I got to the pool I found it was covered with glass, and although my dog Tramp now came to the surface, he could still not breathe due to the glass. I quickly pushed the glass away, and was about to dive in and feel around in gloomy water, when I saw Tramp just below the surface. I pulled him out. He was drowned and stiff, but I gave him artificial respiration, and he came to life.
I use so many examples to show the many ways the word can be used in ones dreams.
Example: Dreamt we, as a family were walking along a road. To our left was a steep cliff falling away at the roads edge. My young son fell down the cliff. He was only a baby, and we thought he was dead. Then I went to a nearby house and phoned police. I went back to the cliff. We could hear crying from far below and so felt Mark was not dead. I, or someone, was lowered down on a rope to bring him up.
Idioms: Beneath my contempt; It’s below my standards; a notch below; below the poverty line; notch below.
Useful Questions and Hints:
How has below been used in my dream?
Is there any connection with my recent feelings or thoughts?
If the dream has a negative ending what can I do to improve it?
Belt
If it is a belt such as on a car or machine, it depicts how power or energy is being directed or used. So problems with the belt would suggest that ones powerful drives such as ambition, sexuality, desire for acclaim, are meeting with conflicts or obstructions etc.
Seat belt: This has to do with restraint and feelings of safety in emergencies. So not fixing it could be to do with feelings that you are not taking enough care in situations or relationships, or else you want to avoid social restraints.
If a clothing belt: Often tightly restrained sexuality or emotions, or protectiveness or support. Taking it off might therefore suggest relaxing or giving yourself more freedom or naturalness. It could also be something to do with you attractiveness, or wanting to look more attractive.
A man’s belt: Is largely functional to keep trousers up, so might suggest feelings about sexuality or restraining it – taking it off the reverse. But some belts are for carrying tools or equipment, so might associate with skills or abilities you have developed.
If you have been punished with a belt in the past: Then it could have direct links with those events or feelings.
Particular types of belt: Like a cowboy belt, or a fancy decorated belt would have a connection with how you felt about the belt while wearing it.
If it is an ornamental or dress belt: Indicates your feelings about it and that will be the key to its meaning.
Conveyor belt: Something automatic going in a particular direction or purpose. Obviously the belt doubles back on itself in a non ending circle. If you are on it maybe it is an easy way to get somewhere – but where does it lead in your dream.
Idioms: Belt up; tighten one’s belt; belt you; grain belt; ; had a belt; tighten our belts; under my belt.
Useful Questions and Hints:
What function does this belt have – is it decorative, practical, protective or to carry equipment?
What function is this belt playing, and can I identify with or understand that?
What is the condition of this belt and what is it driving or linked with?
Can I feel this energy or drive in myself?
Is this a belt I own – if so what feelings or associations do I have with it?
What action is occurring in connection with the belt?
What feelings are there about the belt.
Using the Simple Dream Interpretation can help. Or see Secrets of Power Dreaming
Berries
Very much depends on what the dream portrays. If they are poisonous for instance, then it suggests the realisation of possible contact with something that might poison your mind or feelings with fears or disturbing thoughts. This might even apply to food you are eating or allergic to.
If healthy, then the contact with possibly useful or nourishing experiences.
Berries can also suggest fruitfulness or ripeness. As berries are seasonal there may at times be a link with coming into season, or even with menstruation. See: Food.
Useful Questions and Hints:
Am I eating these, and if so what do I feel their effect is?
Is the dream showing the berries are ready to harvest – if so what is ripe in my life now?
If I am seeing these as harmful, what associations do I have with these berries?
Use Peer Dream Method to explore your dream.
Bible
Dreaming about the Bible may link with your traditional moral standards, perhaps inherited without re-evaluation. It will also often indicate your feelings about religion.
In some dreams it involves your most inclusive realisations, your highest or most inclusive realisations about yourself and your place in the world. In that case it would be about those things you hold to be most true.
As it represents traditional religion, it may depict your conflicts or difficulties with religion. See: bible – dreams and symbols; spiritual life in dreams; religion and dreams.
Useful Questions and Hints:
Is my dream showing me feeling I am in touch with great wisdom – if so can I say what that wisdom is?
If I am in conflict with what the bible represents, what is at the heart of my feelings?
What moral standards do I hold, even unconsciously?
See Prayer And Dream Interpretation and Processing Dreams.
Biceps
Strength or ones sense of being capable.
Because biceps are the strength of the arms they, as the arms, are the strength that flows into to your ability to love, give, take, create, defend, reach out. Our arms, especially the arm we use most, can also represent all the struggle and effort we have put into life, what we have given and taken, what skills we have learned or created in the work and labour of life. See: Body; arm.
Injury the bicep: If it is the hand you use most it is your confidence and ability to act in the world, to work and create. If the non-dominant bicep, is probably you ability to support what you do that is injured, your confidence that supports the action. See Left; Right.
Useful Questions and Hints:
What part does the bicep play in my dream?
Do I feel weak or strong in my ability to hold, love and create?
What do I associate with the bicep when I think of it?
Try Talking As to define it.
Bicycle Cycling
Personal effort or motivation which gets you somewhere. For many people a bicycle was their first experience of mastering a body skill and gaining greater freedom. In your dream it might therefore represent youthful freedom or enthusiasm without responsibilities, the perseverance and confidence to master a skill, mental balance – confidence – which enables one to achieve ones goals. It could mean facing dangers in learning a skill or confidence or even adolescent sexuality.
Cycling can also refer to the cycles of feeling or mood we pass through. So it can imply that one is experiencing a cycle which you may be trapped in. The way to get out of this cycle is to step back from it using observation, this is like stepping back and not be lost in the emotions or moods. See self-observation and letting things happen
Bicycle race or riding with many other people: Dreams often use this scenario to represent an overall view of your situation in life. It shows how you feel about your place in the human race, whether life is a struggle or pleasure, etc. See: race.
Falling off bike: Losing balance – losing confidence; awkwardness; vulnerability. This could also suggest a problem occurring in your chosen direction, a failure of your energy or ability to achieve.
Flying on bike: The magic of believing in yourself and therefore being able to achieve things that would otherwise be seen as impossible.
Pump: This often seems to link with sex or masturbation as in example.
Example: We walked a bit further and came to a hut beside the road. we laid down behind the hut in some long grass to make love but suddenly I saw a snake and jumped up. It turned out to be only a bicycle pump but by now we were aware of other people nearby and the moment had gone.
The snake and pump in this dream are obvious links with sexual desire.
Riding a bicycle downhill: Taking or facing a risk; being daring; need for care. It might also suggest ‘going downhill’ in the sense of losing advantage, losing the ‘high ground’.
Stolen bicycle: If you are using the stolen bicycle, it suggests a feeling of needing someone else’s skills or confidence’ of not having developed your own initiative or life skills. If you have had your bicycle stolen, then it is a feeling of losing your ability to get on through your own efforts; loss of enthusiasm or confidence.
Example: I was walking up a hill pushing a bicycle. Several other people went by riding theirs but that didn’t worry me. I went on up the hill and could only gasp in wonderment when I got to the top – I could see for miles and everything was in the most wonderful colours you could ever imagine. My first thought was ‘How wonderful God is to create such a beautiful world for us.’ I thanked him then and there. I thought ‘I wonder if it is like this behind me?’ as I looked around, right up close to me was what seemed like a huge black wall. As I looked along the wall, right at the end the marvellous view started, this continued round to the side of me and in the huge expanse in front. I can’t remember any road or pathway going down the hill, onwards. Muriel M.
Muriel’s dream presents what she feels about life when she sees it as a whole. The bicycle and her relationship with others illustrates that she doesn’t see herself achieving as much as others, but this does not perturb her, or rob her of her wonder at life. The black wall suggests that the past, the territory she has already covered, is now gone and only what she lives and creates in this moment is before her.
Example: I am in a bicycle race with many other people. I come to a very long hill. It is difficult and I have to push my bicycle. It takes me until midday. When at the top I meet a lot of family. Then I cycle on, realising that because the road is flat, I can go much further before nightfall than I covered in the morning. Anthony.
Anthony was in his late forties at the time of the dream. It shows him feeling as if the first half of his life has been a long difficult climb. His assessment or intuition of the second half of his life is that it will achieve much more, or cover more ground and he will have more human and warm relationships, represented by his family. The bicycle represents his personal efforts to deal with life and his place in the human race.
Bicycle wheel: Like any circular thing, it represents your wholeness, the best of you. If you have lost the wheel or it is damaged, it shows you have lived or done things in your past that have lessened your effectiveness in life, and you are trying or ought to deal the failure in daily life.
Example: One of my wheels had broken. Apparently a new wheel was supposed to be in the room, which was like a spares store. I looked in a cupboard on the left of the room, but although other people’s wheels were there, I couldn’t find mine.
On exploring this dream the dreamer he saw that, “The dream was given to show the difficulties now coming into your own life. The wheel represents that wholeness which you seek and need. The wholeness is broken from past lives. The wheel reminds you that your journey up on the trackless way must have this wholeness. When you lost this wholeness, you lost your proper relationship with my light, life, and love. This must be found within the future.”
Useful Questions and Hints:
Is this depicting my personal effort to move and change in life, or is indicating my life as a whole?
Are other people involved and in what way?
What attitudes or skill are shown in the dream?
Maybe Acting on your dream will help.
Big Bigness Huge
If something is very large in a dream, it usually denotes the emotional and mental impact of the thing, as ‘It was a big thing in my life. It was bigger than both of us.’ Important; relationship – as when we feel small beside somebody with a ‘big’ reputation.
You can have a big smile, a big heart, a big house; or you can face or fall into a big hole or meet up with big trouble. So you need to define what it is you are meeting. And it is always useful to remember that dreams are simply mental images and are not to be frightened of or overly impressed by.
Many big things can cause people who dream them a lot of unnecessary fear or panic. So things like a huge tsunami rushing at you; a great fish of whale swallowing you; or a giant and threatening person are actually a sign you are nearing a very important experience.
Such enormous things are showing you your own immensity. The human personality – the You that you call yourself, with a name, is only a tiny thing. It is moved and tossed around by all manner of drives, ambitions, emotions, fears, temptations, worries, love and desire with its pains and hopes; it is something we take so seriously and get carried away into awful situations; we take many sorts of pain killers to deal with ourselves. Things such as alcohol, coffee, medical drugs and street drugs, and yet we are still prone to break down, as can be seen by the number of people who need antidepressants or are totally lost in themselves.
We are small because we know nothing about who we are and how we came to be – except of course in the words we have been taught are really the truth. We do not know anything about the mass of things that keep is alive – except what we have read, yet more words. We are largely unconscious of what makes our heart beat, and all the millions of things that life behind our existence does, so we are moved by whatever moves us – whatever that is – childhood fears and social programming, or haunted by the past.
As we begin to meet the Hugeness that we are we often react to it with fear or panic. So we dream or being attacked by aliens or frightening creatures. If we realise that they are things we have created with fear we will pass on.
A woman wrote to me that she could see in her dream a massive wave building up and coming towards her. It was so huge that the water was retreating as the wave was building. She said she couldn’t move because there was nowhere she could run from it, and so she stood in fear of it. Then as it hit her she woke in fear.
Now I want to say to somebody like that, “Why are you frightened of life?” I say this because it is so obvious in the dream that what is coming to her is something so huge and wonderful, and yet she is the terrified of it. That wave was a massive force of positive change that if she had met it would have transformed her life. Unfortunately many people are frightened of Life. See Summing Up
Idioms: Big of somebody; big brother; big fish/noise/wheel/shot; big guns; big head; go down big; big time; too big for shoes; big time; a big rig; a big wig; Big Apple; big boys; big break; big bucks; big cheese; big deal; big hairy deal; big picture; big wheel; in a big way; make a big deal of it; make a big to-do; make it big; open up a big can of whoop-ass; play a big part; talk big; the big cheese; too big for his britches; what’s the big idea.
Useful Questions and Hints:
Is there something really BIG going on in my life – if so what is it?
What is the big thing in the dream and what do I feel about it?
Do the feelings in the dream tell you what this is about?
How do I relate to the big thing?
Try using Acting on my Dream to see if it helps.
Bill
To receive a bill often symbolises a bill of reckoning. In other words, something you have done or thought, is now producing consequences that have to be paid for. For USA Bill, See: Money; cheque.
Something being asked of you that you might not like – what you owe to others. It might also be past actions catching up with you, either in a negative or positive way. It can be a reminder of something you need to do or attend to.
A bill you have can suggest what you are willing to pay or give of yourself in your growth toward becoming more fully yourself. If the bill relates to others it can either suggest what they owe you – in terms of the service, or what of yourself, you have given them – or what they are giving or willing to give in the way they are relating to you or working with you.
If presented to someone else: Something you feel is owed to you or something you want from someone else.
If presented to you: Something you owe someone, or something being asked of you by someone.
Useful Questions and Hints:
Is the bill given or received?
If received, what have I got to pay for, and how does that relate to me?
If given, what have I done, or what from the past does it relate to?