Posts Tagged ‘dream’
Fungus
Feelings about decay or disease. Sick ideas, emotions. In a few dreams the fungus represents deeply unconscious and basic processes of your body or mind that have mysterious influences or possibilities.
It can be almost invisible things that can latch on to you and cause results that become observable. They are things that have a life of their own as far as you are concerned. The dream fungus can also mean that you are worried about something and what to do about it. Maybe the feeling that something grotty is in you.
Useful questions and hints:
What am I feeling negative about or seeing as decaying in my life?
What is the fungus on, and what might that indicate?
Does the dream give me any other clues?
If this is a magic or mysterious fungus what can you get from it?
If I imagine myself as the fungus what do I feel or how do I describe myself?
See Avoid Being Victims – Dreams are Like a Computer Game – Secrets of Power Dreaming
Fur Furry
Your animal instincts breaking through into everyday life. These instincts are wholesome and strengthening, so needn’t be repressed in most cases. If you have feelings about animal hides, then the fur could relate to this. See: Animals.
The fur can also be about feeling attractive or soft – like ice skaters in fancy costumes. If you have feelings about animal hides, then the fur could relate to this.
The condition of the fur is also a sign of health or illness. Another angle is seeing fur as the sign of a dead or injured animal. See Levels of the Brain
Useful questions:
Is this about being in touch with my own animalistic side?
Am I meeting with my natural feelings and instinctive wisdom?
Do I have strong feeling about using animal hides?
What feelings are in the dream? Explore them and see what associations they lead to.
See Associations Working With – Techniques for Exploring your Dreams – Edgar Cayce
Furniture
Attitudes or habits developed from family or home life, especially if it is a piece of furniture from family home or a past dwelling. The beliefs or feelings we ‘furnish’ our mind with, perhaps from a past relationship. Domesticity – the disciplines and restraints we use in a relationship, or in our home life or notions about self, our self image.
Old furniture from family that has been inherited can mean things such as a karmic link that you are dealing with.
armchair Usually associated with rest or relaxation. A particular armchair might link with certain memories, such as courting or love-making. It might link with a person because of where a family member or friend sat. But any item or furniture can also associate with likes or dislikes, or a particular relationship or time of life.
Useful Questions and Hints:
What are my memories or associations with the armchair?
If I don’t not know this armchair, what do I feel about it in the dream?
What would I say is the function of an armchair, what is it for, and does that define it in the dream?
bed This is an important symbol to understand. It often shows exactly what you are doing in the subtle areas of relationship. So can link with your close relationships, intimacy – an intimacy in which the qualities of the other can become part of you and a blending take place. Such a blending is not only that of you and another, but your known and presently formed self with what you hold within and latent.
But a bed is the place you sleep, so in a spiritual sense might be depicting your sleeping self, the parts of you still unconscious and not awake to who you really are and the issues needing attention in your life.
The bed also obviously relates to sexual pleasure; rest; the holy place in which we meet oneself and or another person deeply and passionately. But it can also suggest desire to get away from the world, to withdraw into oneself, to be passive.
It can depict sensual rather than sexual contact; sickness; privacy; the testing place of the relationship. Sometimes it represents sleep and meeting our unconscious – or torture – because in bed we may be tortured by insomnia, worries, physical pain.
Our life situation – made your bed, now lie on it. Bed is one of the commonest symbols in dreams.
In the example below the man is wrestling with his desire for pleasure and his sense of commitment; but also, whether he will keep his pleasure for himself, or share it with his wife. See: Example in contraceptive; bed wetting.
Example: ‘I sit on a bed. Near me, looking at a book I am holding is a woman I know, Jane. I realise as we talk that her foot is touching mine. As my wife is on my left across the room I feel uncomfortable about this. Now Jane has her left hand on my penis. I have only underpants on. The contact is pleasant and undemanding, but I feel more and more ill at ease. I feel Jane is not having any respect for my relationship with my wife and start to tell her so.’ Mr B. S.
Idioms: Bed of nails; bed of roses; go to bed with; make one’s bed and lie on it; test bed.
carpet Sometimes depicts one’s financial state, bare floorboards being poverty; can be the colour or design that are important; comfort or lack of it in life – do you feel satisfied with self; a cover up; feeling of being walked on.
A carpet in a much used room can also indicate, like a swimming pool, your shared experience with another person or family, or your own collective experience, as it is on the carpet that so much takes place in your life. It is difficult to create an image that summarises the mass of time and events you share with family or loved ones – or even your own lonely existence, but a carpet does that.
Idioms: Sweep something under the carpet; on the carpet; roll out red carpet; rug pulled out from under ones feet.
chair Passive, relaxed attitude; inactivity; receptivity or openness; escapism.
A chair can be placed in a workplace, outdoors, in a doctor’s surgery or in a thousand different environments. The different environments change the feelings associated with the dream chair. See environment
Placing of chair in group: Sense of status.
Wheelchair: An in-valid situation; a sense of weakness.
If pushing someone else: Seeing self as carrying an invalid.
cupboard or wardrobe Memory; resources; different roles you play or attitudes and emotions expressed in wardrobe; hidden memories and emotions – such as skeleton in the cupboard; womb.
Open or closed or trapped in cupboard: Whether we are ‘open or closed’ to other people; trapped in old feelings; sense of isolation.
mattress Similar to bed – the situation, comfortable or otherwise, one has created in life. You made your bed, now lie on it. Comfort; sexuality; relaxed feelings. See: bed.
Jung sees the mattresses as a marriage. A matrees can also be where we hide things such a money, books or magazines.
Example: ‘I am sleeping rough in a garden with a woman I do not love. I think I should try to make the best of the situation, but my feelings against it are too strong. Then I decide I don’t ever want to live like that again and tear up the mattress we slept on. As I do this I realise, as if waking from amnesia, that Pat lives just across the road. She has specially moved there because of our love. I realise with horror I had forgotten and may have lost her.’
Example: I lifted up my mattress and under my bed there was a giant newborn dead babies and a coffin. I opened up the coffin and there inside was another dead baby.
Rotting mattress: Something very wrong with your life situation.
Uncomfortable mattress: This suggest either a relationship difficulties or that something is troubling you while asleep.
rug See: carpet in this section above.
table Social connection with others; communal activity; everyday certainties that support your activities, such as confidence you will get paid at the end of the week; your attitude toward the inner and exterior community; an area of work or expression; an altar or self giving – if table is bare, perhaps not giving much of self.
Coffee table: Relaxed social connections. A centre for people to sit around and talk or discuss. Sometimes it isimprtant issues. A table for children to play on, so suggestst something connected with childhood. Can also be a work surface.
Dressing table: One’s attempts to create a good social image.
Place at table: Self image of your status.
Quality of table: The quality of your relationship with others.
Idioms: Lay your cards on the table; tabling a motion; table talk; table hopping.
Example: ‘Then I was in a place where we were having a staff party. Not very big but people were sitting at tables eating, a party mood. I sat with my child, maybe youngest son, no one else at the table. I felt I didn’t wish to get involved with the others, the feeling I often get at parties, just alone in a crowd.’ Simeon T.
Simeon’s dream table shows him not feeling inclined to connect with others. So it shows how he relates socially.
Example: Several people are sitting around a coffee table having a discussion. Bitsy’s husband, Phil, and Kent’s father are the main talkers. They are discussing something about love. I can’t remember their exact words but their position was that one must maintain a marriage and make it work no matter what. Love for another person doesn’t matter and should be ignored. There is a book sitting on the coffee table. The cover of the book is partially obscured. Something is on top of the book. Somehow the obscuring item is removed and I can see the title of the book. I can’t remember the title but it totally disagreed with everything they were saying.
Useful questions and hints:
What is the table being used for?
Is it a table you know?
Has itbeen a part of you life for ages?
See Associations Working With – Techniques for Exploring your Dreams – Summing Up
Fuse
An electrical fuse represents that part of your ideas, resolves or confidence that may break down if pressure is brought to bear. Or it can be a word play to indicate unity.
Sometimes a fuse is a signal or a sign of danger, as when a fuse is lit for a bomb, or a fuse blows again and again without cause. Sometimes the fuses can go in a house when a person has died.
The fuse is a connection between your body or yourself, and the energy flowing into the various ways you express yourself – movement, dance, sex, speech, thought, curiosity, etc. The example below how intense sexual feelings can be shown as dangerous.
A noise or light in the room sets off an orgasm as I’m sitting on a couch. I put a magazine up by my face, pretending to read it so no one will see my face and I try not to respond to the strong orgasm. I’m embarrassed. Then I hear electricity zapping in the next room. I am aware this is dangerous and am leaving the house so I’ll be safe, when I see a small girl child bend down to pick up the zapping cord. She’s standing in the water. I yell, “NO! NO! Don’t touch that.” She seems unharmed. I rush out of the house, carrying her, looking for the fuse box.
Dreams also use the idea of fusing one thing with another. Two people can be fused into one, or we can fuse with an animal as one being. But fusing if an everyday part of us. What we take into us mentally, psychologically or physically becomes one with us. When we eat for instance it become the living part of us. Also we take into us the many things learnt in a relationship and they are fused with us. How many people do we fuse with as we grow and mature?
Useful questions:
What is happening to the fuse, and what does this suggest about my energy flow?
Have I being stressed lately and ‘blown a fuse’?
What will be ignited or destroyed by the fuse.
What do I feel myself merging with or integrating?
See Summing Up – Secrets of Power Dreaming – Life’s Little Secrets
Gale
See: Air; wind; tornado; whirlwind.
Games and Gambling
In some games there is real prizes like money, but in many there is the sense of success or feeling of defeat, so dreaming of games can indicate these. But in dreams, games are often used to represent life, where chances we take can have very direct connection with real events.
Such adult ‘games’ as making a record, developing a business, starting a job, bring us into direct interaction with the world, with an incredibly wide range of responses. Such games are extremely satisfying because of these interactions, but like racing driving, can be fatal because of their reality. What we do in our dream game will indicate how we are playing the ‘game’ of life. We may be playing recklessly, by the rules, skilfully, caringly etc. These indications can be seen as comments on our real life activities. Please read Dream as Computer Game.
Stances used to meet life; not taking life seriously – making a game of it; competitiveness; sense of winning or losing; team work; life skills. See: playing.
Particular games suggest different ‘stances’.
Ball games and athletics: Competitiveness; conflict within the dreamer – the two sides of oneself such as the winner or loser, the opposition and the home team. It could include a sense of win or lose, success failure, and of course the game of love.
Baseball: What we do in our dream game will indicate how we are playing the ‘game’ of life. We may be playing recklessly, by the rules, skillfully, caringly etc. These indications can be seen as comments on our real life activities. Professional players are also heroes for some people or a role model. If so what are you modelling your life on?
Cards and chess: Use of strategies and observation.
Computer games: In such games the person playing can get very involved in the game, so tha they feel as if they are facing real dangers, using real skill and facing awful odds. So in the dream you are exercising your life skills. Computer games as such that you can be killed or fail a thousand times and emerge none the worse. But if you learn the rules of the game of Life then you can go up the levels in this virtual reality world as well as in life.
Football matches, baseball, rugby: See football
These are generally the same as the above, but have another side to them. They also represent for many people the strong drive to identify with a tribe, a group. They are therefore ways the person gains identity and a sense of connection with people around them. In growing internationalism, such games may be of vital importance to maintaining a sense of identity within what may feel like being lost in a multitude.
Tennis Relationship and the sometimes battle for who is going to dominate that goes on in it; competition; the game people play in approaching sex, i.e. veiled remarks, casual telephone calls, verbal clues to readiness, etc.
Gambling: Taking risks with your life, health, family; work, money – whatever is indicated in dream.
Games like darts, billiards etc.: Your aims and ambitions; aiming at a goal and trying to achieve it; the difficulties of achievement.
Golf: Unless you are a caddy it suggest some sort of social level. It may suggest some skill and ability, and rewards if you are good at it.
Opponents: What you are meeting or in conflict with. This may be a part of your nature, such as self awareness, sexuality, even your body. You might be in conflict with life itself or ‘God’.
There are many games one can play like the sexual game or the mating dance.
Example: Men in uniforms that are dresses, playing some game. Others just standing around. While I am watching, a man takes my arm, my hand and tells me what is going on. He then leads me back somewhere in the park and wrestles me to the ground trying to kiss me. I squirm away from him, saying I don’t want any of that homosexual junk. He is angry, thinking I had led him on, but he leaves. I also feel a little guilty, thinking that I should not have let him take my hand when he did so.
Idioms: Beat somebody at their own game; deep game; dirty game; fair game; game of chance; game to the end; give the game away; know what someone’s game is; mug’s game; name of the game; on the game; waiting game; game is up. See also: ball under shapes and symbols; doll; toy.
Useful questions and hints:
Am I a player or an observer?
What is the challenge here and how does that apply to my life situation?
What is happening here in regard to competition?
See Summing Up – Secrets of Power Dreaming – Conditioned Reflexes
Gang
A group of fears, aggressive tendencies, or parts of yourself. It may also suggest your need to conform to a group, or to follow a leader.
Gaol
See jail
Garage Gas/Filling Station
Personal home garage: Depends how you see a garage. It may be a tool shed, workshop, frozen food store, storeroom, as well as a car park. So you need to define how you feel while in it. Is it a quiet place to go to; a functional store area; a place to create?
Car repair garage – gas station: Need for personal attention or ‘repairs’ to your ambition, drive, or ability to motivate yourself. Reserves of drive, energy, motivation; abilities, personal ‘tools’ to meet life; resources; things you do not need but can’t let go of. Often a See: car.
Can be about making decisions about where to go or what to do, also about a rest stop or dealing with hunger. Needing more vitality or energy. Or if you work there is might be about refuelling others energy.
Car park garage: This can be a place to wait, to hide what you are up to, or a shift from one mode to another in terms of your intentions or energy.
Car garage sale: In many dreams this is shown as a looking for something, or a sorting out memories or impressions.
Useful questions and hints:
If this a garage at home what are you using it for or what are you doing in it?
Is it a place you keep secrets or have things you build something?
If it is repair garage, what is being attended to, or experienced there?
Do I feel lacking in energy or vitality?
See Summing Up – Techniques for Exploring your Dreams – The power of Habits
Garbage Trash
Parts of your experience and feelings you, or society, no longer feel is useful. Occasionally one discards, or considers as useless, some aspect of self, or ability, which is actually valuable. We must realise, however, that all thought and feeling are expressions of our inner energy. As such, while we discard an expression of the energy, we must not discard the energy lest it leave us empty and unsatisfied. This is why garbage, or compost, must be thought of as material capable of being used in a new form. What do you associate with the things thrown away? See Fertiliser
Useful questions and hints:
Does this represent the ideas and opinions I want to drop, or already have?
Are there useful things in the garbage? If so can you consciously recycle your ‘garbage’.
Everything in your dreams are expressions of you emotional or mental energy – even if they are misspent energy. So your ‘dream garbage’ is real energy that can be re-used.
See Associations Working With – Secrets of Power Dreaming – Summing Up
Garbage Can
See: Dustbin.
Garden
Your garden dream often reveals what you are doing with your latent possibilities. It is pointing out whether you have cultivated your abilities, or buried them. Also such dreams often deal with problems we face or questions we ask ourself.
A garden is sometimes a place of love in a dream. In which case it can denote what is growing or dying in your relationship. Another garden theme is connected with activities we do in the garden, like pets we keep, or work done. This connects with what is growing in the area of your natural urges, the pets, and what you are doing that is socially visible, the work in the garden.
Your inner life or feelings; the real you, your memories and growing space, or the personal attributes, potential and characteristics. As such it may indicate your inner quality or problems, the conditions your attitudes and actions have created in your life. Can also indicate the area of growth or change in your life; what you are trying to cultivate in yourself.
It can be about a feelings of peace; being near to your natural self, a meditative attitude. In literature and songs, the garden has often been a place of courtship or love and sex.
The garden can also be a representation of an area of conflict when relatives or neighbours tend to do things that upset your feelings. It is also a private area and so could suggest your are entering someone else’s area.
A pool or swimming pool in the garden usually relates to shared experience, times when you felt at-one with people, or someone in particular. See: Digging; Pool.
One of the things I am seeing at that the moment about symbols and dreams is how beautifully they hold tremendous amounts of information and meaning. I am thinking at the moment about the soil, the garden – they are so rich in meaning. Whatever our forebears did, whether they were deceitful and lying or courageous and strong, whether they had honour or were cowards, whatever they did, and perhaps over time they did everything, their lives were the drama that brought us into being.
Their lives have given us the substance of our body and our personality. We are the heirs of that drama. What we grew from is what they left us. It was the heritage from the past. In dreams this is often represented as a piece of land, a garden. It was the piece of land – is the piece of land – that you inherited. Whatever that land might be, whatever its condition, that is what you have. Whether it is beautifully rich with orchards growing on it, or whether it is covered in rocks and brambles, that is your heritage. Bemoaning the condition or being proud of the condition doesn’t change it. The thing is to take up your tools and develop that land. Let us fertilise it. Let us honour it. We can make it rich. We can enrich it because it is the real stuff and has in it all the potentials of life. Because of that, as rocky or as thorny as it might be, we have all that we need. On that land we can let the tree of life grow.
Beautiful garden: Suggests satisfaction at time of dream; depicts the beauty and perhaps creativity or abundance of your inner feelings.
Overgrown or weeds in garden: Awareness of particular parts of your personality which need working on. Perhaps negative habits need ‘weeding out’.
Square or circular garden: Holds a lot of your gathered wisdom and insights which would be useful if made conscious.
Walled garden: This refers to a state of mind, or a state of being, in which you are aware of your innermost and fundamental self.
Garden pool: Childhood, or early stage in the evolution of ones self consciousness, during which there was a sense of communal awareness; sense of unity with life; ones feelings which may be observable if ones attention is turned inwards – one looks under the surface. See: the self under archetypes; digging; processing dreams. Idioms: Bear garden; up the garden path.
Example: ‘I was working in quite a large garden by my house. A part of the garden was like a little alcove by other buildings. The garden was kidney shaped. I had dug this small plot and was considering how I might relax and sunbathe there. My daughter said I should have worked harder on it – dug it better. I felt intense emotions of resentment and anger at her criticism. I started telling her what a bad time I had in the past. How difficult it was even to work, let alone work hard.’ Beatrice G.
This shows the garden as depicting what one has ‘worked on’ or produced in life. This could mean externally or ones own nature. The daughter is Beatrice’s own self criticism, which pushes her on, though she has a tendency to want to relax ‘in the sun’. This aspect of garden suggests how ‘fruitful’ ones life has been socially and spiritually.
Example: I had a deep sense of being part of everything, and of everything being a part of me. It was very real and I had a spontaneous image of standing in a great garden, an immense place of creation and unity – the Garden of Eden feeling. As this happened I had an insight that most of the people in the world do not have, and perhaps do not want to be a part of this unity.
Idioms: Beer garden; up the garden path.
Useful questions and hints:
How would you describe the garden? Is it tidy, beautiful, a mess, a place to grow and cultivate? Whatever it is, see if you can grasp what it says about your soul.
Do I cultivate or neglect the possibilities and potential in my life?
Does this represent love and other beautiful feelings?
What state of mind does this suggest – peaceful, dangerous, a place to get lost in?
See Summing Up – Using Symbols to Change Life Problems – Techniques for Exploring your Dreams
Gardener
The down to earth but wise aspect of self; the wisdom or insights gathered through life experience, from which we can direct our own growth and life to integrate the many parts of our nature. What are you growing or neglecting of your thinking, creative ideas, talents, and potentials. It can sometimes indicate a teacher or minister.
If you are a gardener it may also signify the many things you have perhaps unconsciously witnessed and learnt about the processes of growing, flowering, producing seed and life and death. You may also have learnt about your relationship with the earth and what it holds, also the feeling of satisfaction that comes from transforming an area of land and yourself. What grows can indicate the wealth or poverty of what you are harvesting in your life. Have you cleaned the rubbish, removed what is rotting, cared for seedlings?
If you are a keen gardener and see clay as a poor soil to grow things in, the clay can suggest difficult terrain or difficulty in changing yourself.
The process in each of us – the Christ – that synthesises our life experience, and considers what love, what resonance with all life there is in it. See: Compensation Theory; digging; garden.
Example: I look up and see her get up from a bench and walk away. I feel that I will never get her back. Then I am in a garden area at the side of the church, there is a young boy in a small green house and an old gardener and his wife. One of them comments on how the boy keeps mucking things up, thinks he knows what he’s doing but doesn’t. Then a woman like one of the old film stars like Jayne Mansfield sits on a bench that is in front of me at eye level and I find myself trying to look at her crotch as she cross’s and uncrosses her legs.
Example: I dreamt I was on a garden with an old man, a young boy and a young man in his thirties. The plot of land had something of the feeling of an allotment. It was well tended, and I had the sense the young man had been doing most of the work on it. The soil was rich but at the moment dry. A few shoots were just breaking the ground from hundreds of bulbs which had just started shooting.
The old man was kneeling at the edge of one end of the oblong plot of land. He was digging up bulbs one at a time and looking at them, then putting them back in the soil again. As the soil was dry he had to dig the hole a bit bigger to get them back. The bulbs had good roots and the shoots were firm. I was agitated about the old man digging them up though, and felt he should let them be. This seemed to link with my own propensity to dig up seeds when I was younger, to see if they had germinated.
The young boy was simply watching and was quite shadowy. The younger man was getting on with whatever work he was doing. I spoke to him after leaving the old man. Henry G.
Henry, the dreamer is a man in his late fifties. He explored his dream and summarised what he realised as follows: In connecting with the feelings in the dream the different aged males are all facets of myself. The old man is my own sense of ageing, and the feeling of dryness and being outside of the opportunities that I associate with those younger than myself. My feeling that nothing is growing in my life makes me want to dig under the surface of things to see if there are any new things that might arise. The younger man is the active and creative period of my life during which I did in fact ‘sow a lot of seeds’ which are now emerging into reality. The boy is my impatience but also the aspect of myself from which new ideas and directions can emerge. He is that part of me which is still growing, like the bulbs. The garden is my soul/soil. It is all the work I have done to cultivate skills and attributes in myself and create things in the world. What is important is that even though I am in my fifties, these younger parts were skills and attributes I developed in the past and are still active in me today.
Weeding the garden: Suggests removing the things that you have developed in your life that need removing so your own growth can go easier.
Useful questions and hints:
What is the gardener doing – weeding, planting, digging?
Is there something you are creating in the garden, or something cared for? If so, ask yourself what you are creating, or growing in your life?
The gardener often links with activities in your body, so what you are doing in the garden that directs energy into your body and the world, what is suggested by your activities?
The gardener brings thing to life, and helps them grow to a new dimension, emerging into the light. Are there any signs of this in your dream?
See Summing Up – Martial Art of the Mind – Clicking On
Garret
See: Attic.
Gas
If referring to dangerous airy substance: Harmful thoughts, insinuated evil masquerading as ideas or refined feelings. Also as in the example it can be about something that causes you to lose awareness, not remember or even feeling you are dying.
It could at times lead to an explosive situation, indicating enormous energy release.
Example: “At the eighth session I re-lived with great anxiety fighting against being anaesthetised for tonsillectomy. I fought with three doctors who tried to hold me down and I was anaesthetised in a state of acute terror. After the recall of these memories, I felt a great sense of relief from tension.”
If referring to car fuel: See: petrol
Example: The teacher leads the men to a river. He places the girl on the waves where she floats happily, still gurgling. He then pushes her under water. Here I become the baby. I can feel myself breathing water and my arms thrashing. It doesn’t hurt. Then everything goes black and I feel as if I’ve been given gas at the dentist’s. I am 17 and dreamt this while sitting exams.
Useful questions:
Is there a subtle or even poisonous influence in you life?
Is the gas explosive? If so be careful of ‘explosive’ life situations.
Gas can do so many things, everything from put you to sleep, to lighting, or lifting you up in an air balloon. So what is the gas doing in your dream, and what is its influence?
See Being the Person or Thing – The power of Habits – Techniques for Exploring your Dreams
Gasoline
Emotional or sexual energy. See: Fuel