Posts Tagged ‘dream’
Eleven
11 The eleventh hour has represented last minute activity, last desperate efforts. It also represents strength to face and control animal nature or instincts, which gives us liberty from them. It is two on a higher level, or another level, symbolising a reflex of number ten, which is the dynamic directive to reincarnate, or re-express. Eleven is the matrix, or mould, within us, that receives and restores form after the pattern we have already created in the past; or on the basis of what we have experienced in the past. The astrological sign is Aquarius, the seeker or scientist. It governs ankles and nervous system, and the eleventh house rules long friendships. See: Numbers.
Elf
A force active in your unconscious.
An elf is a small part of S-elf and is a useful part of your abilities. Elf or elves seem generally to have been thought of as a group of beings with magical powers and supernatural beauty, ambivalent towards everyday people and capable of either helping or hindering them. However, the precise character of beliefs in elves across the Germanic-speaking world has varied considerably across time, space, and different cultures. See: prominently associated with sexual threats, seducing people and causing them harm. For example, a number of early modern ballads in the British Isles and Scandinavia, originating in the medieval period, describe human encounters with elves. Dwarf.
From point of view seen from dream study, they are obviously repressed or shadows part of our own nature that are best integrated into consciousness. See Integrate Integrating; Digest
Principally about communication, or connection. This connection may be through ones thoughts or intuition, not only through physical links such as the telephone line. So what you remember in the email is worth considering. See: letter.
If the email is from someone you know it will usually carry a message relevant either to the way you relate to that person or how you see them – i.e. business, love, shared interest, etc.
Useful questions and hints:
What is communicated and what relevance does that have to me?
If this is junk mail who is it from?
Am I intuitively having insights that I am not recognizing or really aware of?
See – Secrets of Power Dreaming – Techniques for Exploring your Dreams – Life’s Little Secrets
Embalm
The attempt to prolong the present form of beliefs and feelings, despite the fact that life has moved on, and is attempting to express in new ways. Fear of death. Desire for physical immortality.
Sometimes we hold onto a past part of our life or memories instead of surrendering them up to the process of Life. See Life’s Little Secrets
Useful questions and hints:
What am I trying to preserve that is dead in me?
Is it something I believe in or are convinced of?
Am I scared of facing death?
See Techniques for Exploring your Dreams – Secrets of Power Dreaming – Dreaming of Death
Emblem
This probably relates to what you deeply, but perhaps unconsciously identify with, or have links with. For instance you might identify with the culture of your parents if you are en immigrant, or you might identify with a certain type of person. So the emblem in your dream would show you where strong psychic strengths are. It could be a link with your inner confidence. See: badge; medallion; symbol.
The image of the tree has been see as the natural emblem of the female, to whom through sex man’s worship is ever drawn? But other things can be seen as emblems.
Useful questions and hints:
What is an emblem that is full of life and feelings for you?
Is there anything yougive a tlot of time and energy too (such as sport or children) that has an emblem?
Do you feel somethings are holy?
See Processing Dreams – Settings in Dreams – Life’s Little Secrets
Embrace
See: Cuddle.
Embryo
Something developing in the unconscious. Something growing within which we are not yet aware of and not yet sufficiently developed to express outwardly, and that is vulnerable. Or a regression to early levels of consciousness. A desire to live in womb-consciousness.
An extremely vulnerable part of us. It can refer to our own prenatal experience or our feelings connected with our prenatal life – for instance we may have been told our mother tried to abort us. Even if this is not so, the idea acts as a focus for our feelings of rejection and infantile pain. The embryo or foetus would therefore symbolise such feelings. See: baby.
From conception until birth the growing organism increases its weight alone up to 27 million times. So it is an energetic urge, but also one which brings detailed control over the miracle of forming a living human body. This comes about by stage after stage of formative forces acting in the construction of our being. As an egg and sperm we are tiny single celled creatures. The next two stages of development as the cells increase in size and number resembles the activities found in many simple living things such as plants. The twenty day old embryo develops four brachial grooves, which in the embryo of a fish grow into gills. At this point the formative forces which produce a fish are active, as were the formative forces of a plant at an earlier stage. These are then supplanted by forces which bring about features of the mammalian upright animal we can be. See Programmed
The embryo can also depict a fragile and new part of you growing. It could even be an indication of pregnancy. In some dreams the embryo links with feelings of great peace in which you experience your core self. See Your Core Self
Example: She kept saying ‘Larisa, your ship is going to leave’, urging me to leave her and get on the (apparently ) my ship. Finally I said ‘one last kiss’ and I kissed her and reached for the pole? to get on my ship. But it slipped through my fingers and I get into the sea. I went down to the bottom of the sea and I lay on the floor of the sea for a million years – aeons or so it seemed. There was no sense of time. I lay all covered up like in a shell or a flower or a womb – but it felt very embryo like.
Useful questions and hints:
Do I sense this as expressing my own uterine life, or as a fragile growing part of me?
Have I been thinking about pregnancy – do I need to check to see?
Am I at the beginning of a new project or way of life that is still at the embryo stage?
See Creative Dreaming – Programmed – Techniques for Exploring your Dreams
Emerald
Unless you have personal associations with this jewel, it suggests growth and connection with living things. See: Jewels.
Emergency
Something you are feeling anxious or stressed about. The dream might even be a warning, but check out the anxiety aspect first.
If this is an emergency call to the police or ambulance, then it is an important call for help or support, and you need to ask yourself what it is you are trying to get help or support for.
Emperor
Sometimes this figure, like king, represents feelings about your father. It may indicate your need for approval or parental blessing, or what feelings or needs you are ‘ruled’ by.
A ruling figure like this also can represent the whole, the will of collective humanity. See: king.
Father and mother are symbolized as king and queen or emperor and empress, children as little animals, death as a journey.
Useful questions and hints:
What is your relationship with the emperor or empress in your dream/
Do I relate to them in a childlike way?
Do you need approval or parental blessing for your decisions?
See Techniques for Exploring your Dreams – Processing Dreams – Being in Control
Emigration
The changing of habits, ideas. The search for self. A change of direction in life.
Perhaps a search for a better life, or the hope for a change in the future. See airplane
Useful questions and hints:
Have I been feeling restless and in need of change?
Are there signs of a life change at the moment?
Have my family got a history or immigration, and if so what has that left in me as lifestyle or viewpoints?
What is it you hope for?
See Techniques for Exploring your Dreams – Questions – Characters and People in Dreams
Empty
Lack of something or a receptive condition. Lack of pleasure, enthusiasm, good feelings or it can fear of loneliness or lack of relationship. Sometimes it indicate a sense of isolation. Or it can be one’s potential; opportunity; space to be oneself. Depends on feeling quality in the dream.
Empty can refer to so many things such as empty or boastful talk, and empty house, empty of any feelings, life will appear empty and meaningless, empty room, empty periods, empty chair, empty fuel tank, empty plate, empty trivialities, in the end all is void and empty – and so on.
Emptiness can sometimes show how you limit yourself in your thinking or feeling. Feeling destitute and empty with no visible means of support or help can be changed into a place of rare beauty, depending on your associations. See Secrets of Power Dreaming
There is an inner emptiness that is often thought of as nothingness. But that nothing is everything; if it were something it would be some-thing and therefore could not be everything. As such it is your core self.
When people think of emptiness they usually see it as a destruction of everything – a death of self. But the nothingness of the void is part of the paradox of existence – for the nothingness is at the same time everything. But everything is all inclusive. As such it cannot have any defined characteristics or shape, otherwise it wouldn’t be everything. This is because if you were to say what a beach is, you could not say the sea was the beach, or the sky, or the land. None of them separately is the beach. The beach is the indefinable amalgam of them all. In just that way the Nothing is the indefinable everything that underlies the particulars of your life. The Next Step.
Empty bottle: Resources you have used up, or that you are feeling empty or have nothing to offer others.
Empty house, buildings, shell: Outgrown habits or ways of life; old attitudes; death; depression or/and potential. See house.
Example: I was down in a low bit of a village, trying to get to a road high up on a hill where the sun was shining and was walking through dark, empty houses. Heather.
The use of empty in this dream can be understood by the comparisons existing between the ‘down low, empty houses’ feeling, and the ‘high up sunny hill’ feeling.
Emptying bag: Getting rid of attitudes or feelings one has been carrying about; unloading or looking at the thoughts and memories one has been ‘carrying’; leaving or dumping a lover.
Useful questions and hints:
What is it that is empty, and what loss, absence or potential does this suggest?
What do I feel about the emptiness?
How am I responding to the situation?
See Avoid Being Victims – Emotions and Mood in Dreams – Techniques for Exploring your Dreams
Enclosed Enclosure
The defences we use, such as pride, beliefs, anger, to protect ourselves from deeply feeling the impact of the world, relationship, love, anxiety or pain. These are often presented in dreams as traps or restraints, even though they are parts of our own personality. For instance one may feel trapped by one’s own feelings of dependence upon family.
Example: ‘I am trapped in a bricked room with no way out and I shout for somebody to help me. Then either a big bird or a creature with long arms tries to catch me, and I scream.’ Karen S.
Karen had previously lost a baby, been divorced, had an unsatisfying relationship with a man. She feels trapped by the defences she has herself built ‘brick by brick’, but is frightened of the opportunity of change represented by the bird. What encloses or traps us in our dream gives a clue to what constrains us in waking.
Example: ‘As I go through a tunnel it either gets smaller so I can’t get through, or it goes on so far there is no end to it. I am trapped and terrified.’ Don M.
This sort of enclosed dream is typical of trauma relating to a difficult birth. In fact Don’s mother was in labour for four days, and never had another child because of the pain.
An enclosure can be the way we preserve our own identity from the influences of the world. Or if it is an enclosure with animals in, it might show how you keep your own natural life processes protected or separated from the social and commercial influences surrounding you. But if we search with enough courage, trust in our inner process, then we will find a way as in the following dream.
Example: One person, “looking for herself, came upon a tightly closed box. Tearing it open she found inside a lovely rose, and realised that she had been enclosed in a box of Puritanism, of self denial and physical shame. The outer petals of the rose, pink and mauve, seemed to whirl and dance; they sent her fancy spinning off like a ballerina into flowered landscapes of delicious femininity. The inner petals were shaded from the light, obscure and mysterious. Here the colours darkened to deep crimson and velvet purple. They reflected her deep animality. These she avoided, until she realised that it took both the light and the dark to make a lovely rose. She could not have one without the other. Gradually the rose became a nourishing symbol in her life and growth.”
Sometimes we can be trapped and made ill by the very things we felt would free us.
Example: I was like Atlas, supporting a world upon my shoulders and arms. It was so heavy I swayed and stumbled, and eventually was crushed – falling over – lying on my back, arms and legs wide. My hands went back and tried to lift up this world but failed. Then they went into a prayerful position, high up, and afterwards seemed to spin the world up above my chest, then take it upon my shoulders again and gradually rise. I seem to remember that flickers of strength or energy had gradually arisen from within me to enable me to lift the world. Now my right hand began to swing round and round, fast and faster. My left hand joined in and I understood that I was whirling this world faster and faster. Suddenly, and with a mighty effort, out rushing breath, and a sense of finality, I let go and the world swung into space – in orbit. It was here that I saw it as a creation drama, and felt from within that all such dramas have great inner meaning.
It took me months to realise the truth behind that wonderful experience I had in LifeStream. The world was what I had created by my religious, beliefs I had inherited and that I now saw caused me years of illness. Then I had stood before a wonderful light. But I still felt I had manacles and chains of my wrists, and said with great passion, “Please take these chains off me!” And the Light replied, “Tony, I love you. I would never put chains on you, you put them on yourself.”
Useful questions:
What type of enclosure is it – a trap, a fence, a wall, a prison – and how does that reflect my life?
If I am enclosed by people, in what way am I held?
What do I feel about the situation?
Am I trapping myself through my own attitudes or beliefs?
See Avoid Being Victims – Habits – Techniques for Exploring your Dreams
Encrust
Things, ideas, habits, that have collected around, or overlaid whatever the symbol represents. A dirt encrusted mirror would represent the lack of ability to look at self, or to see yourself as you are, due to material or earthly desires and values.
Something encrusted with rust suggests not only age but also lack of use. An ornament encrusted with jewels indicates a very rich source of wisdom and connection with your core self.
Example: As the cleansing programme begins I become aware of a fibre glass or man-made structure, something like a Michelin man, riveted together. There seems to be encrusted material caked on in places, rather like temporary dental filling or Polyfilla. 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. My friend 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!
Useful questions and hints:
What is it that is encrusted and what does that suggest or relate to in my life?
What do I feel about what is encrusted?
Is this something I owned and got left?
See Habits – Techniques for Exploring your Dreams – Dreams are Like a Computer Game
Encyclopaedia Encyclopedia
Memory, inner knowledge; collective human wisdom, so may depict connection with the collective unconscious. See: Book; collective unconscious.
Sometimes we use encyclopedia or records in dreams to reference past life memories, or memories from long past. Here are a series showing this.
Example: I was walking by a riverbank near a cemetery. As I walked and drew near to the cemetery, I saw submerged in the river a record player – in fact my record player. I walked into the river and pulled it out.
Prior to this I had experienced several dreams showing the river being blocked, or silted up, or made sluggish with reeds and weeds, and in this dream he was walking in the direction the river flowed, it being clear and free flowing. The river is the flow of his life, showing the energies of growth and creativity, the energies underlying emotions, thinking and sexuality. The dream shows him as consciously following their flow. The cemetery is the many past lives buried with him. The record player is the faculty of memory covered up by the emotions or flow of his inner life, but now he is bringing this faculty to the surface. He felt this dream had something to do with past lives, but was far from being sure.
Dream 2. About two weeks later I had the following dream: A friend and I entered an old empty house which had not been lived in for a long time, and we explored its rooms. In an upstairs room we came upon what looked at first like a baby grand-piano. When I opened the lid, however, it was seen to be a record player with a very large turntable, and I noticed behind the piano, stacked against the wall, a large number of records. They were as huge as the turntable, at least two feet across. I put one on; it was Cheiro (the palmist and prophet) speaking about prophecy. My friend was fascinated with the record player, and said he was going to renovate it, clean it up and use it.
Useful questions and hints:
What was I reading or seeing in connection with the encyclopedia?
Can I remember any associations with encylopedias?
Did I learn anything from my dream or the encyclopedia?
See Techniques for Exploring your Dreams – Associations Working With – Secrets of Power Dreaming
End
Used in many different ways, depending on context. It can indicate reaching a goal, or the end of something pointing to change. It can be a release or death.
End of path or road: The end of one’s life; the boundary of what one already knows or has done; end of a relationship especially if walking with person.
End of tunnel or cave: Finding the way out of a difficult or depressed stage of life.
End of table or queue: Feeling left out, unconsidered, forgotten; putting oneself last.
End of garden, room, tunnel or road: Can be used to show polarity or opposites, as in following example in which the end of the tunnel suggests and opposite to the fear she is experiencing.
Example: I’m trapped in a long passageway or corridor. I can’t get out. I’m feeling my way along the wall – there is a small light at the end of the tunnel, I can’t get to it. I’m very frightened. I wake up before I get to the end. Then I feel afraid to go back to sleep. Margaret C.
Many people dream this ‘end of life’ theme. In virtually every one of these dreams, there is a highlighting of ‘things to do’. Such dreams are a way of deciding what is of most value in the dreamer’s life.
Example: ‘I found myself alone in the garden at the far end of the house near the stables.’ M.M.
Here ‘the end’ relates to being alone, as opposed to being in the house with people.
Example: We were flying over a big lake. I saw two ladies who trying to end their life. One was in casuals wearing red t-shirt n blue jeans and another one in grey Indian attire.
Idioms: At an end; end of one’s tether; wits end; end of the day; be the end of; a sticky end; dead end; the deep end; end it all; end of the line; both ends meet; not the end of the world; loose ends; to no end; light at the end of the tunnel. See: cul-de-sac.
Useful questions and hints:
What is it that is ending in my life?
Have I gone as far as I can go in this particular direction?
What am I at the end of?
See Techniques for Exploring your Dreams – Associations Working With – Secrets of Power Dreaming