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Giant
In many dreams the giant represent huge forces that are behind our own lives and existence. For example you are constantly moved in your body by forces that you do not control or even fully understand.
The potato you ate yesterday remembers your address today
We often take for granted some of the most astounding facts about our everyday life. They seem so normal we barely notice them. But just think, the potatoes or rice you ate yesterday, is today capable of sitting and laughing at a television program. When you digested the food you ate, in some way that is truly astounding it transformed into your movements, and feelings, and being able to do maths and enjoy a video. Not even the brainiest person in the world has been able to make a robot or creature that can eat potatoes and change them into the ability to read this book. If we can already do that amazing thing, what else might we be able to do?
This giant in your dream is showing you face to face with
We are all subject to the forces of growth – it is one of the main functions of life. But because growth is a push toward change, change that we do not want to face, we often resist it, often without realising we are doing so. Psychiatrist say we have resistances to meeting the uncomfortable aspects of our self. A young woman who was anorexic dreamt of cutting off her breasts, suggesting trying to cut out the living process that was moving her into being a full woman. So such resistance can also relate to how we try to dissociate from our own process of growth and ageing.
The human personality – the You that you call yourself, with the realisation that you as a person with a name, is only a tiny thing. It is moved and tossed around by all manner of drives, ambitions, emotions, fears, temptations, worries, love and desire with its pains and hopes, we take many sorts of pain killers to deal with this meeting with ourself. Things such as alcohol, coffee, medical drugs and street drugs, and yet we are still prone to break down, as can be seen by the number of people who need antidepressants or are totally lost in themselves. Look around at the number of people who have to take anti depressant, or who have to use alcohol every day, or smoke or take other drugs – all means of not facing the difficulty of meeting self awareness which shows us the reality of an enormous giant being.
Paul Levy writing about this says: “This process can be so extreme, so radical, that the ego experiences it as death …. This experience is related to the shaman’s descent to the underworld as well as the archetypal journey of the wounded healer. See Programmed
But we have to remember that having a personality with self awareness is a very new thing and has only existed for a short time. Before that we were like animals that lived only in the Life Will – what we usually call instincts. So the development of self awareness was an immense step, and left us very vulnerable, and still does.
Many people as their awareness reaches beyond what they feel is their normal self feel scared. Such resistances cause us to create awful dreams and fears as a means of avoiding our own inner world and its wonders. We feel that we will be swallowed up and we will die. It is important to say that when we meet the experience of powerlessness through becoming aware of the hugeness of your Life, which we are usually unaware if, it feels like something alien or attacking, and it is a shock.
When we begin to meet the Hugeness that we are, we often react to it in our dreams or in waking with fear or panic. So we dream of being attacked by aliens or frightening creatures; or being swallowed by a whale or something huge, a tsunami, or even possessed by evil entities. If we realise that they are things we have created through our own fear we will pass on.
The story of Jack and the Beanstalk is about this meeting with the giant self we all are. One of my sons dreamt he climbed up the huge beanstalk and felt the presence of the Giant Being. He also felt sure they were aware of him and that they would kill him.
That is exactly what the story is about. There he finds himself exposed to many different views and opinions, one of which is that one can grow beyond the normal everyday experience of people and gain a much richer and extensive view – the magic beans, the power of personal growth.
People who never find this power of personal growth may remain stuck in life situations from which they may never emerge. The situation might be one of never establishing a full and satisfying sexual relationship; constantly feeling hurt by the actions of others; existing in a state of depression or anxiety; forever having to seek activity or company to deal with ones own inner emptiness; experiencing enormous jealousy or anxiety in a relationship; feeling you have never made it in life – the list could be endless.
This grows in him and he is enlightened by it because he is able to see a vaster view than those locked in chasing after financial riches or being lost in worldly cares or desires. But this brings him to the world of giants. As said, “The Life Will is an enormous activity, a giant in its abilities and coverage. Also, people meeting it fear they are dying or will killed. See Enlightenment
That is true, YES they will be killed, but not physically. It is a facing of the huge Life Will that seems threatening to the small and less powerful Conscious Will as the massive influx of information and experiences is released from the Life Will. See Death of Ego
If you are the giant, then it might mean you have feelings of power over others, or you are a big person. On the other hand, it might suggest you feel inferior and are compensating. A giant in a dream can also depict feelings you had about parents who, in your childhood, were giants physically and emotionally.
If someone else is the giant. then it may symbolise your relationship with them, such as feelings of inferiority, powerlessness, fear. If you take the trouble to understand what the other person signifies, apart from their size, it is often found they represent one of your emotions, fears, or ambitions, that have become too big for you to handle and have grown to giant proportions.
Childhood feelings about grownups, especially the frightening side of parents. If you are the giant, then it means you have excessive feelings of power over others, and being a big person. If someone else is the giant. then it may symbolise your relationship with them, such as feelings of inferiority, powerlessness, fear. If you take the trouble to understand what the other person signifies, apart from their size, it is often found that they represent one of your emotions, fears, or ambitions, that have become too big for you to handle and has grown to giant proportions.
There are also giant insects and creatures, and again this says their size is magnification of normal fears and feelings.
But some giant figures of not awful or destructive. These are perceptions of something that is wonderful and beyond your understanding as the following dream describes:
Example: I see this great giant of a man, I feel I mustn’t look at him in case I offend him, but he has such beautiful eyes. It is Life. I look away because I’m so uncertain. They are looking at me, those eyes. Look, isn’t it beautiful. A different sort of a human being, can I come and look at you? It’s like something everyone always dreamed about; the love you always wanted but never dared ask for. I love you. I love you. It’s the eyes of my dog as it loves me, elephants, dolphins and people who have poured out to me – life itself.
Example: It was like the end of the world. The wave of destruction and fire rolled towards us. I grabbed the girl, almost carrying her, and ran. I felt if we ran far enough, we might escape, yet somehow felt there was no escape. Now a huge giant stood upon the earth. I believe he swallowed someone. Then he explained that he had been trapped beneath earth within the pylon, behind a barrier of water, and had now escaped. He was the father of all beings, but people had never realised it. His seed had gone into the waters, and somehow fertilised things and created people. At one time he had tried to escape by coming up through the water, holding his breath, but he had not quite made it. But he had grabbed a woman and taken her back down with him.
The dreamer appears to be meeting the giant forces that are behind our own lives and existence. He feels frightened because he had never come face to face with what was behind his own life.
Example: I needed to go to the toilet to pee, and this created many bubbles in the water. As I watched something caught my attention, for it seemed that each small bubble was an eye looking up at me. Wondering what this could mean I looked more closely, to see not eyes, but I’s. Each bubble had a tiny reflection of me in it. I was amused because there were dozens of tiny copies of me all looking up at me with their separate existence.
I felt how true it is that each of us are like little bubbles, all in our own small sphere of experience. Then it struck me that although all of these tiny individuals appeared to have a separate identity, a separate body in space; and although they all had eyes with which they were looking at the world, they only had awareness out of my own consciousness. In fact they had no existence outside of me. Unknowingly they were all reflections of me.
Suddenly, and with some apprehension, I realised the meaning of this interesting dream that my unconscious had been communicating. I am a bubble. My personal awareness, although it seems distinct and separate, is in fact the reflection of one great giant consciousness pervading the universe. So who am I when my bubble bursts, as it must, and I return to my source? The fear I first felt has long melted. It has been replaced by joy as I have explored what it means to burst and return home. The giant is now a part of my life.
Useful questions and hints:
Who is the giant… myself or someone else?
Is this about feelings of having power over others, or that I want to?
At the other end of the scale, are these feelings of inferiority, powerlessness or fear?
Has some situation become too big for me to handle?
Or is this something grand I am meeting?
See Reaction to the unconscious – The Life Will – The Life Will – Secrets of Power Dreaming
Gift
This may be an intuition, unconscious knowledge, or what is received in a relationship – such as support, sense of worth, acceptance. Sometimes a dream reminds us of the gift of life, and shows us how we relate to it. Or fertility and the coming of a child is a wonderful gift.
A gift can also be like marking ones territory, as with a wedding ring; the forming of a connection.
In North American tribal traditions a gift is often seen as a feather or a dead animal found by the person. In such cases it is felt that Life, or the Great Spirit, has ‘gifted’ the person with the quality of the animal.
There can also be ‘gifts of the spirit’. These are listed as Wisdom; Knowledge; Discerning of spirits (Human, Angelic, Demonic); Speaking in tongues; Interpretation of tongues; Prophecy; Faith; Working of miracles; and Healing. These can be thought of as an entrance into a wider life, and the gifts are an extension of human knowledge and ability.
But in our dreams we are often shown or initiated into gifts other than those listed. One person dreamt he had received the gift of a quiet spirit, and the ability to care for others. But another dreamer dreamt this:
Example: Here I had the feeling of my being stretching back endlessly through my fathers. As I saw this I said, spontaneously, “Through what I have been given in my culture I have a soul. Without the self giving of men and women throughout the ages I would have no soul, no personal awareness of my own. Because of language, and the accumulation of knowledge, I have a soul. This is mankind’s gift to me. Without it I would be like an animal without self awareness.”
Some gifts are very personal however. This next dream shows this:
Example: Steve, my lover, gave me a copper kettle, same shape as the one John, my husband, took to bits and then never put back for me. I was very happy with the gift. I saw the kettle was clean, with no dents, not highly polished, but with a homely glow.
Considering that a kettle can indicate a woman’s feeling of wanting to provide a good home for her lover, and also her ability to bear a child, the gift is a symbol of the deep feelings that create love.
Giving gift: Giving of self; hoping receiver accepts or likes you.
Receiving gift: Something that you have received or offered by someone or some aspect of yourself.
Receiving unwanted gift: Difficulties in accepting someone, or something from within; perhaps sometimes to do with pregnancy. See: Giving.
Useful questions and hints:
If I am giving the gift to someone, what do I see myself sharing?
Does the gift suggest what it is I am receiving or have any special associations for me?
If the gift is unwanted, what difficulty am I experiencing about accepting someone or something from within?
For subtle gifts, take time to explore the feelings you get when you imagine giving or receiving the gift.
See Life’s Little Secrets – Techniques for Exploring your Dreams – Questions
Girdle Corset
Sexual restraint, or the restraint of pride or vanity that shows only as an outer facade, and does not bring about inner changes. Self inflicted restrictions, holding yourself back in some way. Or even presenting yourself as you think others want to see you, perhaps by using an external alteration instead of an internal change. The restriction may be connected with your sensual or sexual feelings.
Corsets and girdles in a male dream is often linked with a particular type of sexuality, as described in this following piece.
Example: Image after image of women flashed through consciousness. Pictures of women in black brassieres and black corset straps. Women with fags in their mouth with unfeeling hard faces. Women having a period. It was the cultural images I had been handed of women. See: armour.
Useful Questions and Hints:
What restrictions am I putting on myself?
Am I trying to fit into someone else’s idea of what I should look like?
Are sexual feeling appearing in this dream at all – if so what do they suggest?
See Processing Dreams – Techniques for Exploring your Dreams – Questions
Girl Girls
Female under the age of thirteen: Feelings; emotional self; young sexuality; vulnerability.
In male’s dream: Emotions; sexual feelings; daughter. But a young girl can also be used to depict a new pattern, a new opportunity to relate to a female. In contrast to an old woman, the girl is a shift from old patterns of relationship you may have developed with your mother or a wife. So she could represent a development in you away from old and perhaps destructive patterns. See Anima
In a female’s dream: Oneself at that age – whether older of younger; feelings about sister or daughter; the aspect of oneself portrayed by the girl – as in following example. The young girl, depending on your age, could depict a new aspect of yourself emerging or being met. See Characters and People in Dreams
Another girl with your man: How you deal with your sense of being wanted; anxiety about not being attractive or loveable; suspicion; a side of yourself which relates you differently to your man.
Example: I had a very clear dream of seeing a young woman’s legs, slim, perfectly hairless and well shaped. Then I saw her again with very tight tights on. She had a very beautifully shaped vagina that was not flat but like a new bud, with the crack well defined.
The dreamer then explored his dream and says if it: As usual it seemed as if a voice explained it to me. I was told that the young girl’s legs were representing my feelings of beauty, and the shaped vagina was her developing womanhood. With it came feelings of seeing a young girl opening to womanhood, and how beautiful it is. I saw that it was a beauty for me without any sexual feelings, but was a wonderful act of nature or life in the development of a young woman. Previously such views always had sexual overtones for me. Such a development in a young woman was almost holy, and invited love not sex. Sure love could lead to sex, but not sex that is usually called love.
If you are the young girl in the dream: Take care to watch what your dreams tell you. Be sure always remember that you have the wonderful potential for life and growth, and handle it with care and reverence.
Another girl with your man: How you deal with your feelings of being wanted, or anxiety about not being attractive or lovable. Maybe your suspicion he wants another female, or this could indicate a side of yourself that relates you differently to your man. See: Adolescent; Teenage girls love dreams.
A young girl with a baby: This is often about a girls feeling about motherhood and practicing being a mother.
Example: ‘I was watching, and at the same time I was, a young girl sitting on a lawn.’ Honey
Teenage girl: Apart from what is said in the link about teenage in adolescent, there are a few more things.
Many many dreams sent to me by girls are about boyfriends. It is natural for many young girls to obsess about boyfriends. The ‘crush’ is largely a young persons hormonal flooding and needs to be handled with care otherwise there can be enormous emoiotnal hurts. So please read Ages of Love – Summing Up.
Also even when a boyfriend has been left there can be all manner of feelings, confusion and hurt to deal with. Most people are often totally unaware of the experience they take in and how it interacts with them when we love someone. In other words the memories and experience we gather unconsciously change us and are not lost. It is part of you and is symbolised in dreams as a person or event. You have taken in millions of bit of memory, lessons learnt, life experiences along with all the feelings or problems met by loving and living with someone and they are what makes you the person you are. Your dreams tend to put all that in the image of the past person when you are dealing with the influences left in you from the relationship. Such things are you and you cannot escape from yourself. See crush
So I would suggest you integrate all the good and bad things from your relationship with them; because in your dreams about them you are meeting your feelings. And if you do not do this the negative memories or desires for them will keep coming back. So try doing this by taking the dream images of your ex and pulling them back into your body. Yes, literally making them one with you. Do this slowly and allow any feelings that arise. This may sound strange but all the images in our dreams are projections from us onto the screen of our sleeping mind; so taking them back into you is like owning them and integrating them.
Example: I dreamt of being with a woman who was desperately seeking a man. I was also with my own female companion. I believe the woman had been suddenly dropped by her man, and I and my partner were close and with her.
Still in the semi-awake state I tried ‘being’ the woman, and had a very clear response. I experienced being her, but was also me with experience of seeing into myself in some degree. I saw that the woman, like most of us, was a female creature whose instinctive drive was to find a mate. But she was not aware of this as an instinctive drive but as a personal feeling. As such she had become, like many women and men, lost in a huge web of personal ideas about whether they were attractive, sexy, with many complications about love, gender mixed with childhood unconscious traumas and the heartbreak all that brings.
Example: ‘I was away from home somewhere and was helping and encouraging a young Japanese girl, who was pregnant, to come back to England to have her baby here. I felt a lot of care for her.’ Dave L.
Dave explored his dream and discovered a lot of sexual pleasure in connection with the girl. He had held himself back in this area most of his life, and as he was learning to allow his sexual feelings not simply genital sex, he found a deepening in his caring also.
Example: Who is the spider?” He looked at it, and as his consciousness hurtled through walls of shattering glass, it turned into a hideous old crone who trembled with delight as she clawed at the lovely woman beneath her. The patient was now almost numb with horror. “It’s no one I know. I’ve never seen a witch like that. Who is she?” he moaned. Again the shattering walls of glass, and the old woman had turned into a girl. “It’s a girl!” he said, staring intently into the inner space of his psyche. “Oh, my God, it’s me! It’s a girl me! I was jealous of all of the women, of my mother and my grandmother and my sister. The girl is myself fighting a battle of supremacy with the other women, just as I fought the battle with the males. How could it be?”
Useful questions:
What aspects does this girl have or represent?
Do I have these same aspects within myself?
Consider how you are relating to the girl and what it shows?
Ask your self if the girl is a young you that is showing you something?
See Avoid Being Victims – Questions – Techniques for Exploring your Dreams – Animus
Girlfriend
Your emotional feelings, attachment to, the girlfriend; the difficulties, struggles with feelings and sexuality felt in connection with girlfriend or other males; your insights into her behaviour.
A girlfriend can either be a negative feelings acting on your or a very positive guiding force.
Example: We went to the same restaurant. This time it was narrower. We drank red wine from large goblets. On reaching for my goblet I knocked it over. The wine spread rapidly and I thought it was blood. I felt fear and ran from the dining room. Next I was sitting on a camel, being led by another girlfriend of mine. It was down a street where I had worked. It is called Hope Street. H. B.
The dream shows the connection the unconscious often makes between wine and blood. It shows how the alcohol produces transformations that lead the dreamer to experience fear. But the positive influence of the girlfriend changes fear to hope.
Ex-girlfriend : Any feelings or hopes still connected with her; the ex-girlfriend or lover often becomes a symbol for all the hopes for love that are not being satisfied at the moment, or in the present relationship; occasionally the past. Most people are often totally unaware of the experience they take in and how it interacts with them when we love someone. In other words the memories and experience we gather unconsciously change us and are not lost. It is part of you and is symbolised in dreams as a person or event. You have taken in millions of bit of memory, lessons learnt, life experiences along with all the feelings or problems met by loving and living with someone and they are what makes you the person you are. Your dreams tend to put all that in the image of the past person when you are dealing with the influences left in you from the relationship.
Example: I had a dream that I had the most beautiful girl with long brown hair and beautiful blue eyes and she was my girlfriend and in reality I have never met her and I don’t know who she is. Continuing, we were at the mall and we were about to kiss but right when we kiss I wake up and dream is gone. Could this have a meaning? cause I REALLY want to see her again since we loved each other so much and is it possible that she could be real and be having same dream as me? I am 15.
I doubt very much that you are having the same dream as this beautiful girl – the reason is that she is the feminine part of yourself. I know that doesn’t feel right, but having been through trying to find such a woman, it took me a long time to figure the truth. And the truth is, we are all mixed sexes. So you have nipples, and women have a tiny penis hidden usually out of sight – the clitoris.
The aim of dream is to lead you to inner wholeness. Remember the story of the Sleeping Beauty. The prince has to cut his way through brambles to get through. He sees that many others have died in the attempt. Then when he kisses the sleeping princes she wakes and they marry. In other words the dreamed of lover was woken from the unconscious and they become one.
Useful questionsand hints:
Do you feel that the dream girlfriend would complete you?
Is she a sexual conquest or a friendly lover?
Are there difficulties in relating to her fully?
Have you noticed things have improved over time?
See Ages of Love – Ages of Love – Techniques for Exploring your Dreams
Giving
Relatedness; the sort of exchange or give and take which goes on in a relationship, even the internal relationship with oneself, or the environment.
Giving: One can give affection, support, sex, ideas, as well as wounds. One needs to see what the interaction is by looking at what is given.
Giving or receiving advice: In a dream this is often important information, unless one is being mocked or cheated. Often such advice can be about a problem you face or the direction of your growth.
Giving birth: See birth
Giving false hopes: We constantly give ourselves false hopes through our desires and thoughts, but giving others false hopes can bring consequences. See Avoid Being Victims
Received: Consider what is received to define what you are accepting or rejecting in oneself or from others. See: accept; gift; Receive.
Example: I dreamt I was standing before an immense wall of what looked like water, but it was upright and steady. It stretched upwards and sideways as far as I could see. Because it looked like water I stretched out my arm to touch it, and was surprised that my hand and arm penetrated it easily. And as I pushed my arm in deeper to see if I could feel anything, an arm to my left protruded from the wall. I felt I was witnessing a deep truth; the wall was the hidden life we are all surrounded by. Whatever I put in came out toward me.
The Idioms show the many ways this action can be used. Idioms: Don’t give me that; give and take; give as good as one gets; give away or give-away; give oneself away; give somebody away; don’t give a brass farthing; give place; give a piece of ones mind; give them enough rope; give someone the evil or glad eye; give someone the elbow; give ones notice; giving passage; giving off; giving ourselves.
Useful questions and hints:
Have you seen in dreams that we get what we give?
What were you giving or being given?
Was it received or rejected?
See Karma – Clicking On – Techniques for Exploring your Dreams – Processing Dreams
Glacier
Emotional tension, repression, and frozen feelings. Probably repressed feelings over a long period of time. Or perhaps fear of living or expressing your feelings or emotions, so a frozen chunk of past experience. It might at times point to a difficult period of your life when you were living in a cold and hostile atmosphere or environment.
Large amount of frozen areas of life experience, or feelings seemingly impossible to move on from. Or a feeling of awe about the hugeness of natures creations and the timeless aspect of it. Also the possibility of finding things from the long past uncovered.
Useful questions and hints:
What am I doing in relationship with the glacier?
Was I aware of any feelings while with the glacier?
What was my experience of the glacier?
See Summing Up – Techniques for Exploring your Dreams – Characters and People in Dreams
Glass
Glass represents the invisible but powerful feeling or social barriers we use in everyday life.
The sort of invisible yet tangible barriers we may erect or feel around others, such as natural caution, emotional coldness, disinterest, fear of being hurt or pride; social barriers. Invisible aspects of oneself which nevertheless may trap us, such as fear, lack of self respect; self doubt.
Glass can be a protection for food and to cook in. Also a protection against the weather and cold.
Frosted or smoked glass: Desire for privacy; keeping parts of oneself hidden; an obscure or unclear view of a situation; occasionally relating to death – the very real yet obscure experience we all face. Barriers or social techniques you use to gain privacy. It can also suggest keeping parts of yourself hidden, or an obscure or unclear view of a situation. Occasionally it relates to death – the very real yet obscure experience we all face.
Breaking glass: Breaking through a barrier; shattered emotions. What barrier are you breaking through, what restraint? It might also mean shattered emotions. Breaking a relationship; shattering an illusion; broken hearted.
Breaking something made of glass: Breaking a relationship; shattering an illusion; broken hearted.
Stepping on broken glass: Glass may not be very visible, so may represent hidden dangers; being careless about direction in life or present situation; or if it is being done without heed to injury, represents self inflicted pain.
Glasshouse: Something in your experience that protects fragile aspects of your growth; something that is itself fragile; a subtle but real barrier between the energy of your life and the aspects of you that are needing to grow.
Glass inside you swallowed: You have taken in very dangerous feelings, ideas or events that can knock down your ego or personality from within. It may cause a great energy loss because of loss of blood.
Example: Later, a lot of very ugly injuries and cuts appear in my chest and throat because I swallowed bits of glass, I realized the glass is going through my body, but nobody in my family believes and they think I did it to myself.
Next, same injuries but now in my belly, and I start throwing up blood, again and again, throwing up even my entrails. Now everybody believes I have glass splinters inside my body, and something has to be done.
Finally, when the bits of glass are in the last stage of my intestines, a doctor comes and something like a surgery is conducted. I can “see” the interior. With a pair of tongs the doctor is helping the glass to be “got out” without hurting anything in my body, and among the dirt (crap) he found a flower and in the interior of the flower he found a piece of glass, but then he realizes, that it was not glass, it was a diamond.
An amazing dream saying that amid all the pain and fear of illness when it is all felt and faced and healing is sought or thought, then it is realised that the awful hurts and fear was all in order to allow the awareness that at the heart of such experiences is the connections with the unchanging and eternal. See Diamond
Useful questions and hints:
Is the glass protecting me in some way?
Or am I in a dangerous situation with glass?
Am I looking though glass at something or somebody?
See Being the Person or Thing – Clicking On – Summing Up
Glasses Spectacles
Ability to see – understand – or lack of it; a way of hiding oneself, as behind sunglasses. Terms like ‘short-sighted’ or ‘long-sighted’ help to understand the use of glasses in a dream.
Coloured glasses: Suggest attitudes that may colour your view of life, as with ‘rose tinted glasses’.
Finding glasses: I shows that you have gained a new insight or are seeing things more clearly.
Lost or broken glasses: May indicate that you are not taking care of the insights you have gained that would give you a better view of what confronts you.
Sunglasses: Protectiveness or disguise.
Example: I keep pulling my glasses off and rubbing my eyes; I can maneuver pretty well without them, but I’m very aware that if a cop were to stop me for anything I’d be in trouble.
Useful questions and hints:
Is there a problem with my glasses in the dream and if so what does it signify.
Have I noticed any forgetfulness lately or lack of ability to focus?
What am I faling to clearly understand?
See Associations Working With – Inner World – Techniques for Exploring your Dreams – Identity and Dreams
Glisten
See: Glow.
Globe
Wholeness, your complete nature, symmetry or proportion. Usually refers to the soul or spirit, in the same way as a square or cube often represents the physical in a dream. Or it may represent the world. Sometimes the globe is in divisions denoting the different faculties or aspects of your nature.
What is meant by this is that although as a conscious person our life might be a mess, we still have health and wholeness as a potential. It often leads to a realisation that there is another subtler and more powerful world linked with out physical world. It also symbolises the amazing potential we all have if we find it. See giant
Or the globe may represent the world, in other worlds your present ‘world’ or experience or activity, the way you see or experience life. See: world.
Example: The Lady appeared amid the glowing light. On 13th September 1917 30,000 people met. Two skeptical Priests chose higher ground to watch. At noon the sun grew dim; a globe of light advanced down the valley to the tree; shiny white ‘petals’ fell out of the empty sky but vanished as people reached out to catch them. The children again saw the Lady amid the globe of light: she promised them a miracle. The Priests saw the globe and were much shaken.
The children who had first seen the Lady at Fatima in Portugal, were give two prophecies by the Lady. The first was that the present war would soon end and the second was that an even worse war would begin in 1939. See Our Lady of Fatima
Example: I dream of my late son, who passed this summer from Pneumonia. (Drug induced). We are in a globe type room, sort like an observatory. It is bright and colorful though the ceiling has stars and sky like patterns. My son is standing in the center of the room with me by his side. I am instructing him on something. I have a mentor (a male figure) looking on silently. I just know the mentor is for me. I mentor my son even though the/my mentor does not speak or anything.
The globe type room is something I have come across several times. It is a way of showing you a more global view of life. An enlargement of your awareness. The stars and sky patterns are also to help you realise the beauty and that your awareness has gone beyond what you can usually know through your senses; a wonderful dream. I think you already have a lot of experience in this other world knowledge, for you are clearly helping your son from the Highest in you.
Useful questions and hints:
What have you felt or realised in regard to the globe?
Was it glowing or well lit?
Were you aware of any knowledge given you?
See ESP in Dreams – Edgar Cayce – Secrets of Power Dreaming
Glove
Insularity against the world. It may also be an invitation, like a dropped glove, or handkerchief. Can stand for a hand without any life in it. Protection, or the attitude of avoiding contact, or something that does or does not fit in some way. See: Clothes
Gloves: Protection, as in wearing rubber gloves; keeping ‘one’s hands clean’ as in the sense of avoiding ‘dirty business’; being out of touch.
Also: Holding their glove would be holding their hand. Picking up a dropped glove: Similar to picking up a handkerchief dropped by a woman – an invitation to a relationship.
Idioms: Hand in glove with; iron fist in velvet glove; with kid gloves; with the gloves off.
Useful Questions and Hints:
How is the glove(s) portrayed?
Is this about protection, or a desire to avoid contact with someone or something?
Does a situation fit me well…or not?
If this is a dropped glove, is it an invitation of some kind?
See Techniques for Exploring your Dreams – Secrets of Power Dreaming
Glow Glowing
When something glows with an inner light, it means that it is expressing the inner energies. It shows something that contains a great deal of yourself, and often links your individual awareness with the whole. The actual form will probably symbolise some personal quality, through which the wholeness expresses. It is the inner light, not the form, that expresses the connection with the whole. But from the form you can understand which part of you is relaying direct influence or guidance. See: Dark; Light.
Glue
One can be glued to the television, or a book. It can therefore express emotional and intellectual involvement, empathy, sympathy or love. But it can also mean bonds or dependencies you find difficult to break.
A means of fixing things to places, or to mend them. Sometimes it is an attempt to cover up mistakes by gluing things together. May indicate a wish to bind someone or something to you. Spilling glue might have sexual indications.
Example: My father points out a circle on a sign, like an Indian hoop, but it’s an auto tire with tools glued to it to advertise a local car repair shop.
Example: She becomes aware she has some sort of glue all over her face. She is trying to pill it off and it teats her skin slightly as she pulls it away. She feels it has been suffocating her.
Example: I dreamed, I am putting glue on my face, which dries to a film like a mask, and I think of putting it on my penis. This dream occurred just as I was getting involved in the company, which indeed sold an adhesive (though not intended for the body). Yet I did not know what to make of the dream. A few days later, one of the officers of the company joked with me that perhaps the glue would be good for patching condoms. And then, as I became involved with the job, I found myself writing advertising material that was disagreeable to me. I had to go along with attitudes that at least were not discussed to the point of agreement. So I felt sometimes that I had to present a mask and was impotent to express my own opinions.
Useful questions and hints:
Do you feel you are ‘stuck’ with something?
Has it worked or is a strange thing being glued?
Was your face involved?
See Emotions and Mood in Dreams – Waking Lucid Dream – Techniques for Exploring your Dreams
Gnarled
The marks of time and work. The difficulties and struggles of life, but often displayed as wisdom or inner power.
Example: I dreamt that I stood before an immense tree. It was old. It was gnarled with the storms and summers of its life. It was wonderful to see. And as I crouched over my toolbox half in the cupboard under the stairs, with tears streaming down my face, I knew that I am the tree of life. I could feel all that has lived before living in me. It was a precious moment.
Example: I dreamt a lot of sweets, brightly wrapped, were being put into my open hands. All I saw of the giver were his hands. Beautiful, big, gnarled hands of a working man.’ Alex U.
In exploring his dream Alex saw the hands as the holiness of everyday human experience, especially regarding self-giving, as in parenthood, love and work – the hands of the self giving spirit of love that we usually forget. Alex doesn’t eat sweets, so they represent pleasures he seldom allows himself, the pleasure of everyday life and love .
Useful questions and hints:
Did you get any sense of life experience from the dream?
Was there any lesson learnt from what you saw?
What were your feelings about the dream?
See Associations Working With – Processing Dreams – – Techniques for Exploring your Dreams
Gnaw
Something may be eating away at you inside, such as conscience, worry. What is gnawing represents the source of worry. Gnawing can also mean attacking a problem or situation, or link with hunger for something. See: Eating.
This seemed to have a strong connection with a woman I had fallen in love with. I felt torn, in conflict, lost. I have not felt quite like this for many years. Gnawing away at my innards was just the same anxiety as I had experienced all those years ago with Silvia.
Gnawing images can in fact indicate deep anxieties, as follows:
I remembered the tremendous physical anxiety I had felt when searching for work. It was an actual pain in my lower abdomen, a real burning gnawing deep inside. I went right into the anxiety, and it was the fear any life form feels when exposed to danger. I remembered the film of baby turtles hatching in the warm sand. As they made the perilous journey from dry sand to the sea, seagulls swooped and ate them; alligators snapped them up; fish swallowed them. The anxiety was that of stepping out from underneath our rock into the open sky, and taking ones chance with life. If fear paralysed us we would dodge more slowly. But the seagulls might get us however fast we moved. It was the chance we took. There was no guarantee of success or failure.
My parents had sowed in me the seeds of enormous anxiety about sticking my neck out from the rock of security. Now, as I was exploring fresh pastures, I faced the agony of anxiety of the unknown, unseen seagull.
Negative thoughts that eat, gnaw, and destroy your creative ideas and connections.
Example: Then I was out in the garden. A small rodent type of animal was running around. Apparently it was our pet that we have adopted. It was foraging about, and as I watched it found what looked like a carcass of a dead animal, and began to eat the remains. Still watching I saw that the “dead” creature was still alive, and the rodent was eating its internal organs. Then the creature being devoured turned over onto its back, and opened itself to being eaten. At this point it looked like a large squirrel – not a grey – that had been cut open and gutted. I couldn’t see its heart beating, but it seemed alert and was okay about being eaten. I was pondering this and the animal got up and ran away. Some dogs chased across a road. A car skidded, hitting one of the dogs, but not badly injuring it. I pointed at the dog saying, “You know you shouldn’t have done that.” It looked at me as if it knew.
An interesting view of this is given in the persons exploration of the dream: The main thing I felt was the small rodent and the small creature, squirrel, it was eating. I arrived at the understanding that the squirrel was partly about hibernation. This represents a desire to pull back from activity, to hibernate in the sense of the spending more time with my inner life. It also links with the experience of a readiness to die, and I mean that in the way that one can melt back into the primal source of things. In the dream this is represented by the fact that the squirrel at first is almost invisible because it looks as if it has sunk into the earth, and only a small piece of fur is showing. As the squirrel I felt the rodent was disturbing me from sinking deeper. It was winter and time to become inactive in the world. This was me gnawing away at a process of disintegration that was going on in me.
Useful questions and hints:
Do I feel I am gnawing away at something in my mind?
Or is something eating away at you?
Are you destroying your positive feelings in some way?
See Emotions and Mood in Dreams – Associations Working With – Techniques for Exploring your Dreams