Posts Tagged ‘dream’
Bull
The symbol of the bull often refers to the instinctive responses or energy in us that are powerful enough to drag us along, cause us anxiety if we are in conflict with them, or carry us further in our endeavours if we can work with them. Such instinctive urges may be in connection with sexual attraction and desire, feelings about people invading our territory, and protectiveness for family. But we have to remember that the bull is a domesticated animal, and so its enormous energy is available for transformation or direction. See Mammal Brain
Where the bull connects with sex drive, it may depict the aspect of it that is generally under control, but may occasionally be wild if provoked. The bull can also represent the basic drives toward parenthood, and caring and providing via sex. The bull might link with aggressiveness, a ‘bullish’ trait in you or someone else; or personal traits to do with being very basic or earthy, and perhaps sexual in ones relationships, and being moved by impulses such as sex or aggression, without being aware of this. The bull is of course a symbol of strength, ferocity, obstinacy, maleness and power. So at a times it can represent your father, or an enraged father.
The bull in your dreams represents the way you may have faced this power in the past. If you have faced it without love it will cause enormous tension and frustration. That is the negative side to the bull. The problem is that of the will turned back on itself. It was perhaps frustrated by guilt about success and love. The reason it is difficult to face the bull was because the bull was your lust, your sexual love. The conflict you felt about love also turned against and destroyed your sexual desire.
The bull also represents striving to break through. This might not be allowed because to break through would-be to face your past.
The aggressive bull: Often shows the frustration arising from your basic drives being taunted or thwarted. For instance a person may wish for a family, yet be frustrated by a form of sexuality in their partner that does not care for children. Or their inapt ability in sexual and family relationships causes such frustration blocking an easy and satisfying life.
The killed bull: A killing of the natural drives connected with family, sex and procreation.
If sacrificed: May show self-giving, or the abandonment of the life in which sexual relationship occurs.
The ridden bull: Shows a harmony between self awareness and its decision making, and the basic ‘animal’ drives, or the reverse if the riding is difficult or a fight.
To realize your place in this flow of events there is neither joy nor sadness, rather infinite satisfaction. Once achieved this realization of the perfect harmony of all things will never be voluntarily renounced.”
Example: I dreamt I was in a farmyard. A small boy climbed all over the bull, and it became terribly angry. It had been chained without attention for too long. Now it tore away and sought the cows. The gates were closed, but the bull smashed through the enclosing fence. I had rushed to the fence and sat astride it, but on seeing that the bull smashed it like matchwood, I looked around for some safe place. Meanwhile the Bull charged the first cow to mount it, but so terrible was its energy and emotion that it could not expressed as sex. It smashed the cow aside as it had done the fence. Then it rushed the next and passed it over its head, charging and smashing the next. Meanwhile I climbed into somebody’s garden trying to get out of the district.
Example: Was in Wilson’s farmyard. There were some puppies or something – not sure – and I went to get them some oats. To do this I walked to the top of the hill where the oats were kept. I had a bucket and a young man came with me. As I was filling the bucket with oats, we saw a bull nearby. It looked a bit thin in the flank, slightly cow like. My friend was a bit nervous, but I told him the bull was all right, and to give it some oats. The bull was so hungry it emptied the bucket in a couple of mouthfuls. So I scooped some more oats out for it. My friend looked at its penis, remarking how huge it was. I said, “I should think so. After all, it’s a long way into a cow.”
Example: Dreamt I was on top of the hill opposite Amersham hospital. There were bulls and cows in the field. I was afraid they would chase me, and tried to get away on a bicycle. But seemed to go very slow.
The dreamer explored this dream and says: When my feelings began to be released through dropping thoughts, sexual desire and love arose which I felt threatened by. I therefore attempt to escape by my efforts at self-advancement or meditation.
Idioms: Like a bull at a gate; bull in a china shop; red rag to a bull; score a bull’s eye; sacred bull; take the bull by the horns.
As an astrological sign the bull is the sign of Taurus. Therefore with Taureans the bull may depict their innate characteristics and how they are dealing with them. Taurus is a ‘Fixed’ ‘Earth’ sign. The bull, and the time of year it is within, symbolises being in tune with the instinctive earthy side of oneself. An animal born out of season, a calf for instance, would find it difficult in nature to survive, because there would be less food, and it might not be strong enough to face the winter. Therefore the Taurean is born ‘in season’ and has a harmony with the natural cycles. The sign denotes bodily, mental or spiritual strength; also inherited qualities of possessions; practical, useful powers or gifts. Its essential characteristic is that of service. The person born in this zodiacal sign is said to be a steady-going, reliable, practical, rather conservative person; slow to anger, but likely, if angered, to be a formidable adversary.
In past cultures the bull was considered sacred. In Egypt for instance the bull was never sacrificed. But in Mosaic times, and in the Persian cult of Mithras, the bull was used for sacrifice to God. In these approaches the bull was a symbol of servitude. But there are many different cultural approaches to the bull. In Christianity it was seen as representing brute force or the earthy quality of human life. In other cultures it was male procreative power, or the power of nature or God in action. It was occasionally called the Shaker, as it was seen as a symbol of the earth shaking – earthquakes.
There is a theme which appears in many cultures or myths connected with the bull. It is of the Hero confronting and overcoming the bull. Lao Tzu for instance, struggled with and eventually rode the bull, representing the human struggle and victory over instinctive or reactive habitual forces influencing consciousness. Also Theseus saves Ariadne from the Minotaur, suggesting that the conscious self has to meet and transform the instinctive sexual drive, the entangling forces of emotional dependence upon cultural norms, mother and public opinion, to be capable of a mature heterosexual relationship. Theseus, or our active growing self, frees Ariadne, the feminine or intuitive feeling principle. From this a new life can be born or emerge. While we live within and do not recognise or acknowledge the instinctive nature we all have, we fail to see the opening to a new form of awareness, one that is still in harmony with the instinctive and yet is not controlled by it. See animals
Useful Questions and Hints:
What is my relationship with the bull in the dream, and what does that suggest about my relationship with sex or natural urges?
Is the bull out of control or peaceful, and does that show my own inner condition?
Am I using or abusing the enormous energy of the bull in my dream, or am I afraid of it?
Try Being the Person or Thing and read Mammal Brain.
Bullet
A bullet often links with feeling wounded, hurt, or the desire to wound or hurt. Therefore, being shot in the chest or stomach suggests feeling the impact of someone else’s attack in one form or another. But remember that in the end it is you doing the shooting. See Dreams are a reflection of your inner world
Dodging bullets might therefore illustrate the way you are dealing with anxiety, with difficult life situations or hurtful situations in a relationship – perhaps criticism or direct verbal or social attack. Firing bullets would be the opposite of this, directing aggression or criticism at someone else.
Bullets can also depict sexual impregnation or aggressive sex.
In some dreams there is a link with fear of or exploration of death – a sort of ‘what happens when I die’ feeling.
But remember that whenever we dream its images are not like real life, because a dream is nothing like outer life where things could hurt you, but is an image like on a cinema screen that even if a gun is pointed at you and fired it can do no damage – except if you run in fear; so all the things that scare or hurt you are simply your own fears projected onto the screen of your sleeping mind.
Useful questions are:
What is my dream suggesting I am anxious about or hurt by?
What hurtful words or actions am I aiming at someone?
Am I feeling wounded by someone, or by events from the past?
See What do You bring to Your Dreams? and Stand in role
Burglar Intruder
This might indicate fears or difficult emotions arising from within you in a way that threatens you. If this applies it could indicate neglected parts of yourself which if met could enlarge who you are as a person.
Example: It being dark outside. In the window were displayed a number of colour transparencies that Bill had taken of an artist’s work. They were abstract paintings. On the left a panel of the window was opened and we entered the showroom, looking at the transparencies. Then suddenly a voice spoke from a loudspeaker on the ceiling. It said that we had set of a burglar alarm, and police were on their way. We hurried out the way we came, hoping to escape the police, but as we did so the voice said, “You can’t escape. I have seen you and know what you look like now – that porcelain one with a broken nose.” I knew he was referring to me, and felt he must be watching through a closed-circuit television.
Burial Bury Burying Buried
This is obviously connected with death. So it can represent fear of death of self, or loved ones, unconscious desire to see others dead, or at least out of the way. But it also is often used when we feel buried away from society, or buried under the events of life. Sometimes we bury or repress a memory, emotion, desire or talent. Our past is buried within us. Your dream might also use this drama to show you letting go of the past, of something that is now dead, or has been let die.
The earth also can represent our mother or the past. Burial may therefore symbolise being killed or ruled by an over possessive mother, or inability to break from her dominating influence. Being weighed down by past actions.
This often expresses our desire to either leave something behind, something that no longer has any life in it for us, or our urge to repress or distance ourselves from something. We might bury someone who is still alive to show how much we want them out of our life.
This may be a letting go of the past as we knew it, and opening the way to a meeting with what we gained from it.
Burial can also hold in its images feelings about death or loss.
In a positive sense burial is a doorway to a new life. Long before Christianity taught of resurrection ancient cultures were sure that, like putting a seed in the earth, it’s death led to new life.
Buried alive: Memories of birth and its fears. Horror of being trapped in a situation that might kill you emotionally or sexually.
Burial mound: Several things might be expressed by this. Firstly it can link with your inner awareness of the influence of your ancestors as it affects your life today. It can depict the ghosts, or influences from the past in this way – the things that haunt you. Sometimes it is used to give you an experience of touching the spirit of the Earth again, the return to your own primal feelings and wisdom. In this way it is like a temple to all we have inherited and the timelessness of the Earth.
See: coffin; funeral; archetype of death and rebirth.
Useful Questions and Hints:
Do I feel in the dream that I am glad to get rid of what is buried – if so what do I associate with that feeling?
Is this something I buried a long time ago in the dream? If I imagine myself as the buried thing or person what do I feel? For help doing this see Stand in role
Am I wishing to see something or someone out of my life?
See Dreaming of Death and Steiner Life after death
Burning Burnt
This can show burning emotions, and usually connects with the release of emotions or energy. What this means is that sometimes emotions are so strong in us they burn away attitudes or feelings in us that are leading to the pain we feel. By concentrated thinking or pursuing something, this too is like a burning action, consuming old habits or feelings. Do burning can also mean pain, the pain of something injured in you at some time.
Of course, the burning thing can also give warmth.
Love can be a fire that burns through things we have held on to in our nature and cleanses us if we can allow it. For instance jealousy in a relationship can be burnt out if we maintain love instead of allowing the pain of jealousy turn to anger and blaming.
Your body is constantly burning the fuel you put in it as food, so anything burning can also represent the process of life in you. Burning cleanses anything it consumes, and usually alters it. So burning can suggest enormous change, the transformation of what existed previously.
Burning has often been used in attempt to get rid of evidence, of things from the past, so can point to something you want to remove or destroy.
Useful Questions and Hints:
Is there pain connected with the burning or pleasure?
Am I experiencing strong feelings about anything at this time?
What in my is being burnt out or cleansed?
See Being the Person or Thing and Talking As
Bus Coach
You are driven along and so it may indicate habits, going along with the crowd, so maybe lacking the ability to chart a course for yourself. It can also mean that you are trying to get somewhere but depending on others, or another person to get your there. This can point to the experiences you gain with other people, or other people’s influence. It is particularly about what you meet in your undertakings or relationship with a group of people, and the direction taken in company with others.
Occasionally it might point to an overweight problem.
The journey and its events can sometimes point to what you are doing or trying to do in your waking life.
Bus stop: Waiting for events to take you somewhere; being involved with strangers or other people in a direction you are taking; depending on social events to get you to where you want to go; trying to get somewhere in life; trying to leave something or someone behind.
It can also be a danger point where you meet your own fears of attack.
Example: I was walking toward a busy street where I could get a bus or a taxi. A man walked up to me and started to harass me. He was going to rape me. I got angry. At first, I warned him to leave me alone. He grabbed me and in one swift and powerful kick to his groin, I got him. He fell to the ground, groaning.
Bus depot or coach 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, ones youth. Ones ability to change; effort to get somewhere in life or experience something new; parting or meeting, saying farewell or waiting for someone. A change 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.
Bus Driver: The aspect of you in charge of where you are going – is it fear, not taking responsibility, wanting to relax? Try using Being the Person or Thing to defined the character – or use Characters and People in Dreams.
Catching the bus or coach: This suggests a move toward getting to a goal you have, maybe with help from another part of you. A feeling of success that you are on your way and can relax now.
Missing the bus: This is to do with missing an opportunity. Not being ready to effectively be part of a relationship or situation. Sometimes problems or attitudes we have that stand in the way of being able to maintain a love relationship or take an opportunity that comes along.
Riding a bus to work: If you take a bus to work each day, then the bus can link with your associations with your career and represent your general attitude and outlook about work, also those you work with, or things you do as a group.
School bus: This probably links with attitudes and behaviour you had as a school child; the lessons or reactions you developed or even the love, hate or pain you felt on such a bus.
Idioms: Miss the bus; big as a bus; take the bus/plane.
Useful Questions and Hints:
In what way is my life direction linked with others?
How much am I depending on others to help me get to my goal?
What have I missed out on through not being up to it?
See What is the main action in the dream? And Talking As
Butcher
A butcher may denote a fear of another person’s anger; or being a butcher symbolise your own aggressiveness. Or it can represent material philosophy, worldly attitudes, lack of love and feeling. An aspect of you that makes dead think appetisable and edible.
It can represent some some form of aggression, either directed to others, or toward yourself. May also relate to dealing with parts of your life that are dead but hold useful functions or experience.
Someone who feels easy about killing things and cutting them up. So it could point to either your inturned anger which is often about frustration, or emotional pain which becomes an urge to hurt yourself. One dream suggests it is about tearing yourself apart to find out where the pain comes from.
Example: Woman: I am the transpersonal Feminine, and I come in a Sherlock Holmes cape so that you will use your skills of detection and get the meaning of my lesson. You really need to get this lesson. So just experience the position you are in, and look, and put the pieces together.
Judith: I GET IT, pure and simple. With my “Knife-Wielding” Feminine self, I have too often “cast a Male Shadow” for people to see in order to protect myself from attack. I have raised my fists in anger, I have opted for analysis, psychologizing and thinking things through, rather than experiencing the fear or passion or love or vulnerability of the moment. I have taken controlling positions in my work, rather than owning up to my own feelings of insecurity. In my fight for ridding my life of sexism, I became possessed and outshadowed by my own masculinity, and became male-like in a fight which I thought was against men. Allowing the Feminine in me to live and breathe felt like asking for assault and sure death. The so-called resistance was always against experiencing the Feminine. I have either been personally oppressed and weakened by the Masculine, or I have become Masculine myself, and in either case, there has been no room for the Feminine.
It is obvious that there is a subtle payoff in allowing male domination to continue and in staying stuck in “Knife-Wielding.” However, our Feminine selves, in all of their myriad forms, become flat, pale, weak and passive, suffocated, and we do not then have to experience them. Aspects of our Feminine selves become bloodied and butchered by our own hands. A “right” relationship with the Masculine would allow the Feminine to emerge; we would have to experience the very thing we have feared all along: our Feminine selves in their full form.
Useful Questions and Hints:
What is your relationship with the butcher?
What is the butcher doing?
If you imagine yourself as the butcher what do you feel.
Try using Being the Person or Thing; Secrets of Power Dreaming and Processing Dreams
Butterfly
The beautiful that emerges from the unpromising, or ugly. The spiritual that emerges from physical experience. Transformation.
Buy Buying
Your desires for thing, or your search for something you want, or feel you want. Making choices, or being able to make choices. See: Shop.
This often indicates some level of choices being made, decisions faced; there may also be elements of how much or little you are being influenced by internal desires or external sales pressure; one dreamer says when she feels so good at work she immediately goes out to buy a new house. This suggests confidence and social power are involved in purchases. But sometimes we make purchases when things go wrong, as a means of counteracting the down feelings. In some dreams the question of your financial status arises, so purchasing may be dealing with how you are feeling about your money situation.
One dreamer said that when she feels so good at work she immediately goes out to buy a new house. This suggests confidence and social power are involved in purchases.
But sometimes we make purchases when things go wrong, as a means of counteracting the down feelings. In some dreams the question of your financial status arises, so purchasing may be dealing with how you are feeling about your money situation.
Have you bought or accepted an idea, or bought into a situation or condition? How much did you paid, or what is the price you had to pay for this. Is it worth it?
Example: I have bought a very large old wooden home. When you enter the home through the foyer you walk into what is a very large dark ballroom. The only furnishing is a very small round table in the far left corner with an oil lamp on it lit. I don’t enter. Instead I walk up the stairs to the right which are above the kitchen. When I reach the landing there is a very long hallway with a rail running the length of the hall. On the right there are many, many doors lining the hallway that I have no interest in opening and I never have. What I truly love is standing at the rail and just looking into the ballroom. I long to sit at the table and read, in a long black dress. I am incredibly happy there and don’t wish to share the home with others. How I wish I could find the home to buy it. I look for it all the time.
I sense that this dreamer has a very rich and varied inner life, which she only let some people see or share. But she have so much more, all inherited from the past, which she does not open the doors to. And I am wondering if the reason is that you have not met the mystery of your house.
Buying a bargain: Feelings of capability.
Purchased from: Success or failure to succeed, depending on whether the sale is made; may also indicate change, as when one sells a car or house. See: sell; shopping.
Idioms: buy a round; buy favors; buy into; buy out; buy that; buy the farm; buy time;
buy up; buyer’s market.
Useful Questions and Hints:
What is it you have bought or wish to buy?
Or are you searching for something?
If you cannot find satisfaction try imagining one.
Use carry the dream forward and Easy Dream Interpretation
Cab
See: Taxi.
Cactus
Your dream cactus may be suggesting that you are confronting a situation in life in which you can be hurt if you are not careful.
Some cacti also act as hallucinogens so if you know this the cacti could depict your ability to shift your state of mind.
The cactus is also a very hardy plant, capable of living in very dry and infertile environments. Your dream might well be using this to point to a situation in your life in which you feel lacking in some way. See: desert.
Is it something or someone you can’t ‘pick up’ because they are so prickly?
Example: T. seems very impressed with a kind of cactus plant at an open air market/nursery. She takes a picture of it. Leach is the name of the salesman? The photographer? That I see in the picture. The plant costs $14,000.
Useful Questions and Hints:
Am I feeling I need to be careful in handling a relationship or situation?
Is somebody, or am I, being very prickly?
Am I in a dry and sterile situation at the moment?
See Easy Dream Interpretation and Talking As
Caduceus
These linked snakes usually link with forces of power and possibly healing in yourself. Like any power, it can be creative or destructive, or even quiescent. So the dream context is important in understanding what the power is doing in your own life. See: Snake.
Cd Video Computer Game
There could be several associations to choose from with this, so you need to consider the rest of the dream to decide which is appropriate. It could relate to the sort of pleasure you get, or the relaxed feeling that arises when you listen to music. It might also link with memory, or the impressions you leave with people that play in their feelings even when you are not there.
Video: If it is of yourself, it is a view of yourself as you were at the time of the video. Or it is an independent view of a person or life situation. Bother worth investigating.
If it is of yourself, it is a view of yourself as you were at the time of the video. Or it is an independent view of a person or life situation. Both are worth investigating. Seeing a video of yourself often shows an aspect of you that you were not aware of. See if you can define what the differences are.
Computer games – see Computer Games
Example: So, the dream first is portrayed as a video game and the main character is me and I’m in a castle but it’s actually a school too. I’m talking to people I don’t really know if my life. But then I go up stairs searching for items in closets just like a video game. Then the video game style stops. Then I am going down dark halls upstairs that no one is in still checking closets. Then I come to a closet that has a light on. I open the door and it’s a bright room full of clothes and there is a man in there who looks like he is from the circus. He is giving me women’s clothes to try on. (I’m a boy by the way so this is cross dressing). I try and lock the door so nobody will come in, but the lock is broken. The last part of the dream is I’m searching for a bra and can’t find one. So, what does this all mean?
This young man is trying out roles to see what fits him. He is doing it like playing a video game because he knows no harm can come to him – it’s just a game. Even so he doesn’t want people to see what he is doing in cross dressing.
Watching videos: While watching something you are in a very special state of mind or being, for you are opening your being to massive impressions and allowing them in some degree to play the keyboard of your feelings and emotions. See Keyboard Condition
See Being the Person or Thing – Record player – record – cassette – cd – computer disc
Cafe
Easy going source of relaxation and sustenance. Meeting point of different parts of your nature. See: Food; Bar (room).
But there are many possible associations here.
This is basically a place you go to satisfy hunger or thirst. So it may link with what you have eaten at a physical level, but with need for emotional and sexual hunger at a personal level. But each café has its own atmosphere and class. So it may be referring to a status or level in society or your environment.
It can also relate to easy going ways of relaxation and getting your needs, or a meeting point for different parts of your nature. This can include an indication of family connection, but often involves sexual connection in one way or another. In some dreams it may indicate danger as when the driver assaults one, or it may be the opposite as in the following example.
Example: A couple of leather jacket types started to verbally harass me. I told them to watch out, because I’d protected myself before and I’d do it again. A 3rd man said, “Ya, she’s right. Leave her alone.” I walked on. I went into a cafe to call a taxi. I think I was crying. A taxi driver there said “Hey, where do you want to go?” I said, “Are you a taxi driver?” He said, “Ya.” I said, “Let’s go.” I feel rescued. Barb.
Example: It started with me meeting a man (or rather a boy of about 17 – I’m 25) that I don’t recognize, but in the dream we knew each other. We were sitting on a couch at a café and for some reason I tried to kiss him, but instead of kissing me back, he spat me in the face. I ran out of the café to take a bus home. At the bus stop, there was a trash bin with a dead fox and a dead crow in it.
So I feel you offered love, and that is a very powerful thing – but you didn’t get the response you expected. Then you ran away. The young man represents, I guess, your feelings about wanting a man in your life, and then the rejection. The spitting comes from being confronted by something so painful. Then when you do not return you are faced by death and trash can. In other words, a dead end. You could change what are habits of reaction by using Secrets of Power Dreaming
For some people the café is a work situation and so would refer to that. See: restaurant.
Useful Questions and Hints:
What is the atmosphere of the café like? Is it course, working class, refined, expensive, etc?
What am I doing or seeking in this café?
Am I in relationship with somebody or am I seeking food or drink?
Try using Stand in role and Acting on your dream
Cage Cell
This usually points to your feelings of frustration and perhaps anger, or even a sense of defeat or emptiness. The prison in our dreams is of our own making, created out of our attitudes and fears. So it is important to define just what you feel in the cage, and what the associated feelings are with he cage/cell itself, and the other people involved. See: Prison.
If the dreamer is in the cage: Frustration arising from a sense of social pressures restraining expression – or from one’s moral, sexual or conceptual restraints imprisoning one. You might be feeling caged by lack of opportunity or lack of developed abilities. We might however, be choosing to inhibit or restrict an aspect of ourselves. One might restrain anger for instance.
The cell also often depicts how we imprison ourselves within our own anger, resentment, or depressed feelings, or we may be trapped by childhood trauma and be imprisoned by fear of pain or losing love. If a child is in a cell this almost certainly points to this type of imprisonment through emotional pain. See Avoid Being Victims
The cell is also often linked with living a life apart from the normal consumer, nine to five life, and can show a facet of you living a life of meditation or inner seeking.
Example: ““I was in a prison cell with two other men. I felt it was in Spain somewhere. We ate, slept and defecated in the cell. I was standing at the bars of the cell, and had the impression I had been in the prison for years. I was shouting and cursing the people who had put me in the prison, full of hate and self pity.
One day as I stood raging at the bars 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.”
A cage or cell is often used to show the mind and how we live within certain ideas and beliefs and maybe do not wish to move out of them.
Occasionally it might refer to your rib cage.
Something or somebody else caged: Desire to restrain whatever is represented by the thing, person, caged.
In a cage with something or somebody else: Pressed into a close relationship or confrontation with the person or thing with you – and it is a situation difficult to escape from.
See: escape; fence; holding; hospital under house and building; prison.
Useful Questions and Hints:
If I am imprisoned what is it in myself or environment that is holding me?
What does this situation confront me with?
Am I unable to feel really free in the relationship I am in?
What of myself or another am I restraining?
Are the restrictions of this situation made of pain?
Try using Secrets of Power Dreaming and Easy Dream Interpretation
Cake
Pleasure and sensual satisfaction. It might even relate to childhood pleasure, or rewards. Similar to symbolism of bread, but more luxurious, less practical. See: Bread; Food.
This is often linked to the pleasure we feel at special times of sharing, so suggests shared pleasure, a time to celebrate something. But many people eat sweet things as a way to deal with boredom or difficult feelings – perhaps as a way of quieting the inner child.
Cake is a high energy food, and it might be used in that way in your dream – as a source of sustenance as you meet high energy expenditure in a difficult task.
But cakes are often made with a lot of love, and can indicate love in your life. So if you are sharing then you are giving of yourself to others. Or if received it is a sign of love and care given.
Example: I was about 8-10 I had this recurring dream once a year for about 3 to 5 years it would be right around my birthday. My parents would be getting in their car and starting to leave the house (forever). I would start to get worried and try to run to them but my brother and sister would call out and I would turn around seeing them eating cake and they would be really fat all the sudden but I didn’t want to go by them I was afraid and then I’d wake up. Aaron.
Aaron this appears to be a terrible shock your parent gave you, and it probably happened as you say, around your birthday. The threat to leave the child is the most devastating thing. It is much better to smack a child than to make threats that can last a lifetime. Once the child has received this threat it can mean, to the child, that its parents could give it away or leave it at any time. So from there on it lives in fear.
If you are eating the cake it shows you allowing yourself some enjoyment, satisfying a hunger or need. It may also relate to celebration, as with a wedding or birthday cake. If so, ask yourself why your dream is reminding you of this. But making the cake depicts you being independent and creating a pleasurable situation for yourself or others. If it is for someone else, who are they, and why are you giving it? They might be a needy part of yourself.
If you were making the cake and can remember why, it will give you insight into why you need pleasure or nourishment at this time.
Wedding cake: This traditional represented fertility and plenty. It also signifies all the plans and preparation that goes into marriage, and the shared fortune that lies ahead of the couple.
Folklore: In folklore there is a tradition that if you sleep with a piece of wedding cake tinder your pillow you will dream of your future mate. If you have this dream it probably refers to a prediction and depends on what the dream says.
“A Greek girl, on St Catherine’s Eve, bakes a cake with salt and wine, explaining that it is no more than an old custom, but secretly hoping it may help her to dream of her future husband. Traditional beliefs and practices of this kind have their counterpart in every country and in every age, as is shown by historical records that date back as far as Rome, Greece, and the Egypt of the pharaohs.” Quoted from Dreams and Dreaming by Norman MacKenzie.
Idioms: a piece of cake; have your cake and eat it, too; icing on the cake; nutty as a fruit cake; take the cake; that takes the cake
Useful Questions and Hints:
What was the atmosphere surrounding the cake – celebration, sharing, hunger – and how does that apply to me?
Did I make this cake, and if so why or who for?
If I am sharing it, in what situation?
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