Posts Tagged ‘dream’
Fellowship
Unity between varying parts of yourself such as intellect, emotions, senses, sex. For often our reason does not agree with our passions, and our emotions lead us differently to our spirit.
Female
A female in dreams often represents the more feeling, intuitive, irrational part of self. If it is someone you know, she probably symbolises your opinion and feelings about her, or what she has led you to feel. See: Girl; Woman.
But a female is not simply a human being, but can be the very essence of the female principle, merging with the male principle. So the dream female holds in it all that experience, all those patterns of behaviour, whether of the mother wolf with her cubs, or the eagle rearing its young. To touch such enormous wealth of experience is to be penetrated by the holy; something so beyond the limitations of our own small personality enters us and leaves its imprint.
Example: I had the experience of finding myself sinking deep beyond my personality, my conscious self, and facing enormous forces or beings I had never been aware of. It started with a feeling of dying, and after experiencing that I felt the presence of my dead mother. I saw her face as a young woman, my mother. But then with fascination I saw her face was one face amongst countless others. I began to realise that I was confronting something difficult to explain, something that was a reality at a level or a dimension I had not met or experienced before. It was a huge being which I began to see was capable of taking in and holding every mothers experience and person, and was itself a complete synthesis of all mothers, in fact She was The Mother of everything. It was difficult for me as a human being to grasp its magnificence. I realised in my own small way why people in every culture kneel before the images of this Mother. In some wonderful way She was my mother and yet behind and working through my mother was The Female. I saw too that every woman I had loved or dreamed of was a meeting with this Great Mother. Then, because I saw and felt in the presence of this Figure, hurts I had done to the nature of women, I wept and asked forgiveness. I was shown that it wasn’t what I had done to any woman, but the hurt I had given to the nature of womanhood, with its great drives and energies that make women want a child and love from a man. Then in forgiveness She took me into herself and I felt and still feel AWE.
“When you make the two into one, and when you make the inner as the outer, and the upper as the lower, and when you make male and female into a single one, so that the male shall not be male, and the female shall not be female: . . . then you will enter [the kingdom].” Quoted from The Gnostic Gospel of Apostle Thomas
Fence Barrier
A barrier. Difficulty in yourself. It is either something which bars your progress or expression, or is used as a protection from things outside yourself, or from things getting at you. If you are sitting on the fence, it shows you attempting to avoid decision or action.
In many dreams a fence or wall also suggests social barriers, the attitudes and feelings people express to keep others at a distance, to keep a separation between those of different social, religious or economic class. This sort of fence may also depict tension or conflict, as was expressed by the Berlin wall between two opposing powers. It can indicate the natural barrier we have separating our personality, our awake self, and the huge forces that keep us alive and stand behind our existence. See The Tree of Life – The Spine
The fence often depicts our fear, which is an enormous barrier to progress in our life, also our sense of social barriers, class barriers, or the attitudes we use to segregate the sexes, races or classes in work, opportunity or relationship. It can represent the need for privacy; territorial feelings; the social rules we use to give each other respect, or the de-fences we erect to ward off what we fear as danger of hurt.
Also our boundaries or fears in relationship or society which might prevent us daring to express ourselves or be creative.
Stretched wire mesh fence: May represent the tension or stress that is holding one, or trapping one in anxiety – see third example. See: wall.
In the first example the fence depicts the social boundaries we feel in approaching each other, especially if there is a class, wealth or authority difference. In the second dream, Arthur relates to the fence as a protection, in just the same way one might if a feared bull were loose in a field. In this case the fence is used to depict the things we do to avoid what frightens or threatens us.
Example: ‘I saw that we had got into a fenced off area where the gentry landowners parked their cars while they went shooting. I could see the landowner in his car beyond the fence, looking angry that I was in his property. I thought I would break through the fence with the elephant I was riding, but then saw a low area which the elephant easily stepped over.’ Arthur P.
Example: I was on a road and noticed that a magnificent elephant had appeared. It had enormous tusks and ears, the latter being powdered with blue dust and adding tremendously to its impact. As it was coming in my direction I was frightened and began to run. I ran off the road, over a fence into a field. I thought the elephant would be stopped by the fence. It wasn’t. It walked straight through it after me. Arthur P.
Example: We have then been caught and are in a sort of prisoner of war camp. At some point I see my sister and her boyfriend -Tony – going in and out of the camp through the wire fence. Tony has cut a slit in the wire and bent it back on either side so that they can slip in and out as they choose. Although they are seen nobody actually seems to be able to stop them. They ignore the words as if they aren’t directed at them (like you can’t go out, or stop). Louise W.
Louise comments on the dream, saying ‘One of the things I found when working on the dream was that when I was the wire fence I was stress itself. An image that went with it was that I was spread and stretched over the fence.’
Example: I dreamt last night that a black Spanish fighting bull charged me. I climbed a high wire mesh fence, like that surrounding tennis courts. There I was safe, as the Bull charged again. It charged people. I came down from the fence trying to help divert the bull’s destructiveness.
Here the dreamer is meeting sexual feelings that he had always avoided in the past and still feels threatened by. As the dream shows, he tries to avoid facing these feelings, but in the end has to deal with them because they had been destructive in his life.
Idioms: Rush one’s fences; wrong side of the fence; sit on the fence.
Useful Questions and Hints:
How is this fence presented in the dream, and how am I relating to it?
Am I ‘sitting on the fence’ about a decision or to avoid something?
Is this fence a barrier or protection against something getting at me, or keeping me away from a situation?
Do I feel offended about something, as in someone ‘crossed the line’?
See Secrets of Power Dreaming – Associations Working With – Habits
Ferret Ermine Polecat
Inquisitiveness, sexual forcefulness that can injure another person’s feelings; the ability to ferret out things from the unconscious, but usually through force or fear or by denying other feelings. The ferret is a ferocious carnivore and so could easily be used to represent aggressiveness or forceful seeking of ones needs. It is also a great survivor, so can represent survival. The ermine was traditionally linked with virgin saints and thus purity.
The ferret is often kept as a pet, and is popular as such in USA. They are wonderfully inquisitive and playfull, so depending upon your associations with them can represent many things. See Being the Person or Thing
Example: I am standing in my wife’s garden. A ferret (one we had set free after trouble over them with neighbours – the ferrets belonged to my son) came down the garden to me. It was plump and healthy. I picked it up to look at it, and saw an enormous scar running the full length of its left side. I realised that although it had survived, and was well, it had been an incredible struggle, and was scarred for life. Then I realised that my son had hid the other ferrets somewhere. Patrick.
This example shows another side to the dream ferret entirely, and also illustrates how we personalise dream images. Patrick’s son had kept a female ferret as a pet and mated it so it had pups. The ferret, Blanche, was a very playful and loving animal, though prone to get excited and aggressive if food was around. One day Blanche and her babies escaped from their cage and attacked the neighbours chickens so Patrick hid them in his large building. They once more escaped from their enclosure and got under the floorboards of the multi-storey house. All but one of them were retrieved. But that one lived under the floorboards for six months, managing to survive somehow with water and food without being fed by Patrick. Patrick tried to humanly catch it in a cage, but although it entered the cage until it triggered the trap, it fought so enormously to get out it managed to escape from the metal cage. Patrick had to eventually poison it as it was beginning to gnaw electric cables. The ferret therefore became for Patrick a symbol of survival against enormous odds, so represented the great injuries he had sustained in his childhood and his survival of them. But also it showed his loving relationship and care for the natural and instinctive level existing in him during babyhood. It shows how, as an adult, he had listened to and cared for that instinctive life in him through working with his dreams. The hiding of the other ferrets expressed how Patrick hid this sensitive caring side of himself from others because he had been hurt enough in childhood, and was now suspicious of how others would deal with that side of himself.
Useful questions are:
What characteristics is your dream ferret displaying and how do they relate to your life?
In what context does the ferret appear? See: context.
What does the ferret communicate to you by its actions or behaviour?
What arises out of your relationship with the ferret?
See Animals – Associations Working With – Secrets of Power Dreaming – Edgar Cayce
Ferry
Movement toward change; connections in a relationship; often associated with ferry across Styx and death. If across a river, end of a relationship or a transition from one phase of life to another or one life situation to another. It can also signify the emotional connections in a relationship. Sometimes links with death of or the loss of someone.
The link can be with work, with your desire to get somewhere and your ability to overcome a barrier. If so the ferry suggests the skill you have in going beyond difficulties or the money/energy you expend to get there.
Remember that on a ferry you are leaving one thing or place and arriving at another. So it can point to the end of something – a relationship or way of life – and the beginning of something else.
Example: I keep dreaming about ferries, always crossing an area I don’t recognise. I am sometimes with my ex-boyfriend – we split 11 months ago – or I may be with my dad, but generally alone. I usually just make the ferry, and sometimes have to jump or swim for it. I always get on it again to come back from wherever.
The interesting thing here is that you include both ex-boyfriend and Dad. The ferry suggests your need to be connected or ‘with’ a man. Sometimes you feel you make that connection, but you still have a sense of yourself as alone. So I wonder if the relationship with your father left you without the feeling of being close or loved. Jumping for the ferry shows you making a real effort. You make this effort in relationships, possibly because you carry a feeling you are never quite good enough to be loved. That is a deadening emotion, and you need to develop another conviction about yourself. It is worth frequently looking directly at yourself in a mirror and saying – “Celia, I really love you!” This may promote emotions, but persist until you can feel strong in appreciating yourself.
Example: My granny appeared before me with the face she probably had as a young woman. It was like the visual version of her essence. She wasn’t old and wrinkly but smooth and radiating. We spoke to each other in thoughts and she was unhappy and sort of crabby (like how she had been most of her life), In response to her emotional state, I tried to impart some wisdom to her about letting go of anger and accepting things as they are and feeling peace. Then she told me she had to go on a flight away and that she wouldn’t be back. I grabbed onto her legs and said that I wasn’t ready to let her go. We talked some more and then she began to get worried that she had missed her flight. I told her not to worry and led her to a meadow where my brother was. He said goodbye to her and we both led her into a small boat so she could ferry herself to the other side. I intuitively understood in the dream that my brother and I could not go with her. Anyways, I told my husband about the dream and that I thought I should find an internet cafe somewhere to contact the family back home to see if Granny was all right. The next morning we arrived in Havana and found internet to check our emails and I found a message in my inbox from my Mom telling me that my Granny had passed away the previous night.
If ferry you know: Consider why you use the ferry, what you associate with it. See: Associations Working With; bridge
Useful questions and hints:
Why am I on the ferry and where am I going?
What am I moving away from or toward in the dream?
What am I observing or feeling about the ferry?
Do I know where I am going or want to go?
See Dreaming of Death – Edgar Cayce – Techniques for Exploring your Dreams – Questions
Fever
May be a sign of bad health, or symbol of great stress and emotion that in its intensity is burning out its own causes, and thus ridding you of the worries or insecurities that produced it. Fever is like fire in the body and can relate to being hot blooded, burning up with desire, or ‘having the hots’
During a fever we sometimes break through the barriers between waking and sleep and even death. Our conscious self is only a tiny thing compared with the immense unconscious processes that give us life. We can break through into this immensity when ill. Then we might get lost in delirious images, or know ourselves in bodiless awareness which can be frightening if you are not experienced in exploring ones inner world. In this wider world you may experience a wider awareness and abilities such as described below.
Example: I entered into a place – a void of nothingness – it was space with only limitless pulsating black. It would not end and time had no meaning there. I was aware of this and desperate for it to stop and to awaken. It was a physical place-a somewhere else. After an eternity that was probably an hour I awoke from this sleep. I did have a fever – this much is true. Once I fell asleep I went straight back to this place. It was terrifying. It continued all night. Some years later I was recounting this dream to a very close friend. This moment confirms to me that this was no ordinary dream. I have not told you a small section of the dream. I was telling my friend of the blackness and the pulsating black – his eyes widened (sorry to be dramatic) – I was about to tell him the next part but he finished it for me. All of a sudden from the blackness did you see a cottage in the background with a basket and rose clippers with some roses in. I was stunned. I had never told anyone of this. My friend had had a fever at the time as well some years after mine. I have experienced the feeling of the void a couple of times since.
Useful questions:
Do I have a burning desire about something?
Is this a sign of great stress or emotion, burning itself out?
Am I concerned, or should I be concerned about my health?
See Going Beyond – Life’s Little Secrets – Techniques for Exploring your Dreams – Jesse Watkins Enlightenment – Reaction to the unconscious
Fiddle
As this is associated with music, or skill as a musician, it probably shows you expressing your innate potential with skill – or otherwise if the fiddle is not being played well. It might also relate to ‘ fiddling about’ and so suggest you are doing nothing constructive. Or you can be ‘on the fiddle’ and so be attempting to cheat. You can ‘play second fiddle’ or ‘first fiddle’ and thus realise how you feel about a relationship or situation in which you are second best, or in the limelight. It can also represent sexual intercourse, or even masturbation. See: music; musical instrument; violin.
Useful questions and hints:
Is a piece of music being played – if so see associations?
Do you play the fiddle – if so what are your associations?
What happened in the dream and what did you feel?
See Associations Working With – Techniques for Exploring your Dreams – Secrets of Power Dreaming
Field
Field’s often appear with animals, and suggest the dreamer’s contact with what is natural in themselves. It can also suggest freedom from social pressure; one’s sense of oneself when away from other people, with one’s own natural inclinations; field of activity or study; feeling states – depending on condition of field, cloudy, bright, overgrown.
It can therefore indicate room to grow or to explore, space to expand and opportunity to explore new aspects of yourself. The natural field might also show your inner condition, what work you have done on your ‘nature’ – things growing and a good harvest, or a wild unkempt situation.
It might suggest a field of activity or study or feeling states – depending on the condition of the field – cloudy, bright, overgrown, etc. This type of field can also often reveal things if you dig below the surface – treasure, ancient artifacts or even bombs or difficulties.
A field can be place of safety; a place in which you are an obvious target; a place of opportunity because of its space, like a football field; a place to keep animals in and to act out ones drama in – sexual, fighting, hiding etc. or you can be conained in or held back by fences. You can live in a field in a tent or a caravan. You can be in a force field. You can grow or harvest things in a field, and be in various roles in it – farmer, hunter, lover, soldier and so on. See Characters and People in Dreams.
Field across river or very green fields: Death or the dreamers concept of spiritual realm. See: landscapes.
Example: Example: I saw a dark brown fertile field in which a plough was cutting large furrows. Suddenly I myself became the field and the sharp steel plough went easily through the length of my body and cut me into two halves. Although it hurt, it was indescribably beautiful. I experienced myself as the ploughed-up field, and the furrow as my own flesh, but it was not bleeding.
Medard Boss reports this dream of a woman who though experienced in sex, had not previously felt deep love. He says the richness and depth of her sexual feelings when in love, are depicted by the dream and being joyfully cut open.
Idioms: A level playing field; have a field day; lead the field; out in left field; play the field.
Useful questions and hints:
Does this show a particular area or activity and what I have done in it?
Am I feeling an opportunity to grow or explore my potential?
Could this represent ‘the playing field’ or staging of a situation in my life?
See – Associations Working With – Techniques for Exploring your Dreams – Processing Dreams
Fiesta
See: Carnival.
Fight Fighting
Most often this expresses feelings of anger you may have been holding back during waking. But it can also, like a war scene in a dream, point to an area of conflicting feelings or interests.
Occasionally a fight can express feelings not so much of aggression, but of struggle for what is right for you; a fight for your ‘space’, a fight against urges in yourself, or influence from other people. This could be a fight for independence. See: War.
Usually, as in the example below, the dreamer’s anger or frustration. A fight may express difficulties in regard to independence or self confidence or desire to hurt another person, or damage their reputation.
A fight also depict, as in the second example, fighting for our space; our values or honour. We may fight for survival – for our health or fight crime, resist criminal impulses. We may also feel attacked by another persons opinions, or be assaulted by sexual desire; fight against depression; have a conflict over moral issues. See: attack.
Example: ‘Some three years ago I had constant dreams with my mother. We were nearly always in some sort of argument or fight.’ Marjorie B.
This is about the way a person ‘fights’ for their independence, not because the mother is preventing them, but because to be independent needs a lot of skill; such as financial independence, ones own opinions not controlled by parents, and ability to meet ones parents without fighting them
Example: ‘I realised a door had been left open that should have been locked and I felt very vulnerable. Suddenly a sword of light appeared in my hand and a voice told me that it was my weapon to fight the evil.’ Mrs D. B.
But something many people overlook is that we are all life-forms, and so are created by the process of Life, and because life has a flow or current which carries you forward all the time, through babyhood, childhood, adolescence, and onwards, you could be trying to fight the current. See Opening to Life
Fight or flight response: See flight or fight
Idioms: Fight it out; fight like cat and dog; look for a fight.
Useful questions and hints:
What is the fight about, or what am I fighting for?
What inner conflict or turmoil am I experiencing and what does this dream say about it?
Am I struggling toward independence or to stand my ground in a relationship?
See Techniques for Exploring your Dreams – Characters and People in Dreams – Being in Control – Programmed – Conflicts
Film
Sometimes a way of looking at a part of your behaviour, or experimenting with feelings, as something outside of you, rather than confronting them as part of yourself. Therefore it might be a part your own past or character which you do not wish to acknowledge. The theme of the film is usually important, because it will illustrate something relevant to your own life. In some cases it a urge to escape from what is pressing in your life. See: cinema.
Example: When I looked at the film it was a carnival going on in the street, people with gay clothing and crowds watching. Two girls were going to sit in an old model type car, but someone said it would be better if they sat on the back of the car as they could been seen in the parade. Then I was looking into the crowd to find me and it was like looking at a snapshot, it felt very important that I find me, I saw my green slacks just showing, right at the back of the crowd. H. K.
Here the main feature in the dream is the effort to ‘find me’. So the dreamer is watching the film in order to clarify their own self image, or find out who they are and how they relate to other people – the crowd.
The film might be an attempt to view yourself objectively, so images of your behavior and character projected from your intuitions about yourself.
Films are one of our means of escaping from reality but also an expression of creativity. We often watch a film in company and so it could be saying something about a relationship. See: Cinema.
Example: Our house on top of a hill was flooded. I went to a building in town and had to say a password to get in. I met friends of mine who are in my favourite band. Buddhist monks were in the room. We watched a short animated film. An attractive male pop star started touching my thigh. I felt very happy and relaxed. I am 18 and a virgin.
Starting with the last scene, I think you would like to lose your virginity to a man who wasn’t a run of the mill type – someone who has some public recognition – recognition you also want for yourself. The rest of the dream is about your personality, an interesting mixture of creativity, music, Eastern philosophy, powerful emotional urges and sexuality; each aspect seeking expression and balance with the others. But this special blend that is you, keeps hidden. Maybe you haven’t recognised it yourself – thus the secret password. If so, take time to acknowledge your real interests and let them shape what you do in the external world. Here lies your power.
Example: In my dream I felt like a character from a film, changing my image to become a new character. I felt very sexy and attractive, but knew I was in disguise. My husbands relatives tried to get in but I slammed the door. I felt embarrassed and frightened they might see the clothes and wig. A comfortable presence was behind me. I’m single, early twenties.
A fascinating dream weaving together thoughts about future marriage, how you feel others might see you, and an emerging and attractive side to your personality. Anything new feels strange. Established character traits are more like habits than essential aspects of yourself. Underneath the make-up we are all shape shifters. But you feel the new things you are trying out might be seen as outrageous or false. But looking at the vast range of character traits in people throughout the world, which ones are RIGHT or TRUE? Of course you might be seen as outrageous by some people. So will you risk developing the sexy and attractive facet of yourself? Or will you let your inner wisdom – the shadowy character – guide you? From being a she/he your wholeness comes. See Archetype of the Shapeshifter
Film characters: These often depict particular characteristics or feelings such as fear, love, practical efficiency etc. So it would be useful to define how you feel about the character. See Characters and People in Dreams
Film from camera: Mostly to do with memories or dreams. The old films were very sensitive to light and can be ruined; digital photos can be deleted by a magnet and suggests things you have been impressed by, perhaps almost unconsciously, that are still awaiting development but could be lost. Or if the film is developed or saved then they are memories.
Useful questions and hints:
What is the subject or theme of the film? See: plot.
If I am in the film what part am I playing?
When I describe the dream what words do I use?
See Characters and People in Dreams – Secrets of Power Dreaming – Associations Working With
Film Star
See: FamousPeople
Filth
Find Finding Found
Usually, as in the first example, to discover, realise, become aware of some aspect of oneself and gain access to or use of. One might be living with constant resentments about one’s past or present situation, and then ‘find’ release from this for a day, yet not be conscious how it was achieved. The dream might attempt to define this. Or it might be a new idea you realise unconsciously in sleep.
Example: ‘I went into a cellar. It was rather cave like. I had to scramble to get into it. The entrance was difficult to find, but I had discovered it many years before and been in lots of times. I found objects in the cellar and was looking for something.’ Tony C.
Example: ‘Then I was with my dead father and was showing him a handful of exotic bank notes I had found in the building. They were £100 notes. I wasn’t sure if the money was legal tender or not. The notes had unusual design.’ Andy LBC
Andy has found a sense of his own value – the money – but is not sure if other people also value him. The dream illustrates the attempt to ‘find a place’ in society. The effort to search and find is frequently to do with one’s own identity, and what one is searching through is one’s experience or inner sense of life, as in Tony’s cellar above, or the example below.
Example: ‘I was looking into the crowd in the film to find me and it was like looking at a snapshot, it felt very important that I find me, I saw my green slacks just showing, right at the back of the crowd.’ Trudy K.
See: digging – seeing-see-sight.
Idioms: Find oneself; find fault; find out; find one’s bearings.
Useful questions and hints:
What did you find – was it of value?
Did you succeed in finding what was sought?
What have you been looking for in life or yourself?
See Inner World – Associations Working With – Secrets of Power Dreaming –Life’s Little Secrets
Finger Fingering
More than anything else it is through the fingers you feel and explore the things around you . Although your eyes allow you to see the world, it is with your fingers you take hold of it, work with it, create or destroy.
Fingers can be expressive of your feelings. It can be the finger of scorn; accusing finger; finger of suspicion; beckoning finger, or to put your finger on something and therefore know something about it.
Fingers represent your grasp on things, your method of materialising yourself, or leaving your mark upon the world; therefore your personal skills. The finger print also denotes your uniqueness.
The finger can represent the penis, as is common use in sex-play: or your means of sensing. or fingering things.
Fingers can, as the wedding ring finger, suggest something like marriage. The finger print also denotes your uniqueness.
Fingernails: These depict your ability to effect or change something, to grasp small things. They also reflect your way of life such as rough physical work or otherwise, suggesting whether life has been hard or kind – perhaps also your state of health. They might be weapons, or reflect your personal condition – i.e. dirty or cared for, whether you are ready to really use your hands, or whether, as with painted fingernails, you use them in a social sense.
Thumb: Indicates your identity, your uniqueness and what you have achieved in the world. The thumb sticks out from the other fingers and indicates independence. Means of identification or of getting a grip on things. Indicaates power and holding ability. You can express approval (thumbs up) or disapproval (thumbs down.
Index or first finger: This is a finger that indicates or points at things, so might be directing your attention or accusative in some way. It is an extension of the energy of your personality. It is The finger of authority, and giving direction. It can also often be judgemental. Can either make a point or point to solution.
Second finger: This may depict things that are where you have grown from as a person – your origins. It also links with the responsibilities you take on and your relationship with the law of the land.
Third or ring finger: This concerns your creativity, what talents you have and whether you are an artistic intellectual or physical type. In the west it has obvious connections with marriage and relationships. Can represent the finger of success, popularity or creativity, and art. It is obviously the finger indicating marriage.
Ring finger, Left Hand: Symbol of marriage, vows, promises, and commitments.
Rash Under Ring: Shows problems with commitment or the relationship in general.
Fourth finger Little Finger: This is about social interactions and communication. If it is damaged or very small it could suggest a childlike or immature manner. Sometimes seen to represent mental power, intellect, memory, diplomacy. Also power of communication, and expression of words. A power or lack of in communication, and expression of words in speaking or writing.
Example: In my childhood, aged between about five or ten, I used to dream about being on a roof with an archetypal witch figure bending over me. Pointing a very long finger-nailed hand at me – giving me an ‘I’m going to get you’ feeling. Simon.
Idioms: butter fingers; can’t put my finger on it; cross your fingers; fickle finger of fate; fingers the size of bananas; fucked by the fickle finger of fate; get the finger; get the bird; keep your fingers crossed; lift a finger; point a finger at; put my finger on it; work my fingers to the bone; wrap around her/his finger; get fingered; at your fingertips; finger; finger of suspicion; beckoning finger; green fingers; sticky fingers; burnt fingers; can’t put my finger on it; snapping his fingers; tapping fingers; intrusive fingers; slip through my fingers.
Useful questions and hints:
What is being done with the finger(s) and what can I gather from that?
What is being expressed in the dream?
What interaction between people is taking place with the fingers?
See Techniques for Exploring your Dreams – Secrets of Power Dreaming – Dreams are Virtual Realities
Fire Fire station
More than anything else fire represents the process of life. Just as all living things do, fire needs to be fed to remain alive. So a fire burning low could show your life process at a low ebb.
A fire in dreams represent destroying the old, what was alive or lived in the past, and releasing their energy. The fire is the growing power within you consuming old forms of living.
Fire can also represent passion; sexuality; anger; desire; burning feelings such as resentment or frustration; our desire to destroy.
Fire can show the process of growth or change in us that radically alters our old dependencies and viewpoints. Fire completely alters much of what it touches, so can depict big changes. Beacon fires were also signs of warning or of something important happening.
It can indicate, depending on the rest of the dream, an emergency or calamitous change.
Our life process, often described as a flame which burns forever through different generations but leaves only ash behind. Like the fire, to exist our being burns other life forms as its fuel. Thus it destroys yet gives life, so is linked with our vital energy. We have the fire of life within us, we eat and feed the fire that consumes what we eat. It is the warmth of our body, the warmth, even passion, of our emotions and that is life – continuous through death.
Fire occasionally refers to physical illness or a warning of it.
House burnt down: Big changes in yourself and your attitudes; leaving old standards or dependencies behind or a sign of sickness.
The fireplace: Homeliness; the womb.
Underground flames: Unconscious emotions or desires which one may need to face for real growth. Illness that has not come to awareness yet.
Fire in the sky: Great changes in viewpoint; meeting the next step in maturity. Artemidorus said fire in the sky meant war or famine. For the Africans a bush fire meant war.
Fire going out or a cold burnt out fire: Suggests your life is low or showing illness. A fire out can indicate either a love or relationship that no longer has any warmth in it, or a life that was lived and is now only ashes.
Fire Station: The central ability to deal with deal with destructive influences in you; and the power of using the life energy that can either injure or uplift.
Firewood: Gathering firewood may be to light the inner fire. More than anything else fire represents the process of life. Just as all living things do, fire needs to be fed to remain alive. We eat and breath to keep the fire alive – and if a huge part of you is only just waking up it needs feeding. Fire can also show the process of growth or change in us that radically alters our old dependencies and viewpoints. Fire completely alters much of what it touches, so can depict big changes.
Example: ‘I was in a small terraced house with a friend I had known years earlier. It was her house, there were two or three children in it. Suddenly, it caught fire, I wanted to stay and put the fire out but she did not. She dragged me outside and down the street. We saw the house burn down. I had this dream the day I got home from hospital, after undergoing a hysterectomy.’ Mrs G.
Here the fire depicts the consuming feelings of loss regarding Mrs G’s child bearing function. Also the loss of an area or era of her life.
Example: ‘I found quite a large old fire place. I asked my husband if he would like a fire. I thought it would be cosy if we both enjoyed the fire together. Woke up with warm feeling towards my husband, he reached out to me.’ Dinah Y.
Here fire is not only home making and human warmth, but also sexuality.
Idioms: Too hot to handle; you burn me up; old flame; the burning bush.
Useful questions and hints:
How is the fire portrayed in the dream?
Does it represent passion, burning love or consuming emotional fever of some kind?
Is it about purifying past hurts or mistakes?
Could this imply transformation of something?
Is this possibly a warning of illness?
See Dreams are Like a Computer Game – Facing Fear – Processing Dreams