Posts Tagged ‘dream’
Gravity
Being held down by physical appetites, material ambitions, worldly philosophy. Weighted down by worldly experience.
Green
Most of the plant kingdom is green, and so many dreams use it to depict something in that you is connected with growth, potential for growth, or capability of fruition and regeneration. A green living thing might emerge from apparently lifeless earth, suggesting a new living direction or feeling is emerging in your life.
These positive associations are linked in some dreams with healing or positive change, and green is often found mentioned in dreams about heaven.
The negative associations are with envy or jealousy. Also when things go mouldy they often go green, and slime or infected mucous is green, so at times green may mean something is bad or likely to undermine your health or positive feelings.
Many growing things are green before they ripen or flower, so green might also suggest not yet being ripe or lacking experience.
Because traffic lights use green as a ’go’ sign, in some dreams it can suggest a positive yes to decisions or directions you are taking.
There is an obscure but sometimes relevant connection for people who are working to unfold their inner qualities. The green leaves of plants are instrumental in allowing light to become the energy in transforming the mineral forces of the earth into living tissue. So in some dreams the green is used to show how your own process of opening to the forces of Light and Life are transforming your lower or less conscious levels of self into greater consciousness and expression. In all it is about transformation. See Life’s Little Secrets
Sometimes a dream snake is green, and this shows the possibility of great inner growth, healing and change, depending upon your relationship with the snake. See: snake.
Blue green: This indicates healing or change coming from within or from a spiritual dimension.
Dark yellow/greens: Evil intentions; growth of negative attitudes; sickness; envy; jealousy.
Greenish grey: Pessimism and lack of enthusiasm or ‘colour’ or satisfying growth in your life.
Idioms: Green fingers; green with envy or jealousy; green eyed monster; green light; green – naive.
Useful questions:
Do I sense the feeling quality of green in the dream – is so what is it?
Am I meeting changes and personal growth or healing at this time, and in what way?
If there are negative feelings in connection with the green, what of such feelings can I note in my waking life?
See: Colour.
Grenade
Anger, violence, explosive emotions. See: Bomb.
Grey – Gray
This sometimes indicate feelings of living an unhappy or colourless dull existence, a daily round without excitement or stimulus, or morbid or serious thoughts. Sometimes it suggests officiousness or officialdom.
Grey is the mid point between black and white, so in that sense depicts balance or calmness, but it can also indicate lack of clarity, indecision or blurring of distinctions. Like fog, it suggests not being able to see clearly. The grey could mean not judging myself, as in the past you might have got caught up in black and white thinking about yourself. It could also mean invisibility or a way of protecting yourself.
Artemidorus wrote that, “.. a sky that is gray, gloomy or full of clouds, signifies failures and afflictions. In fact grey or gray is often used in language to indicate such feelings, as in the following sentence, taken from Castle’s Dreaming Mind. “If a dreamer needs to be sensitised to how gray, confining, or confusing his or her outlook is toward life, dreams may be cast in sombre, prison-gray tones or the dreamer may wander around in a fog.” These states of mind can lead to ill health or at least a lowering of excitation and energy in life. An extreme example of how grey indicates difficult feelings is seen in the following dream.
Example: I have had a series of dreams which feature grey people standing beside my bed, and each time I have woken myself up by screaming, with my heart pounding, my being unable to move. JS
With grey hair it has several possibilities depending on the tone of the dream. It can link with maturity, wisdom or gathered experience. But it can also point to ageing, the loss of faculties with increasing years, and the path to death along the avenue of diminished interest or sparkle in life.
Grey clothes suggest neutrality or lack of ‘colour’, or in some dreams officialdom. But as with the grey colours worn by puritans, it can also suggest a moral stance, an avoidance of extremes or vivid passion. Such a stance might be one of avoiding full relationship or involvement in life. It might also suggest lacking anything more than a ‘bread and milk’ diet sort of life.
But some dreams describe grey in a powerful and exciting or enjoyable way. One dream includes a ‘beautiful, grey, old time car’. Another has a grey carpet that reminds the dreamer of home and comfort. Silver grey is sometimes felt to have these positive and life giving qualities.
Idioms: A grey world; a grey area; grey matter (brain); grey power.
Useful questions:
Is the dream environment I am in a grey one, and if so what aspect of my life does it reflect?
Does my life lack colour at the moment, and if so in what way?
Is this grey in the dream depicting my own feelings, or is it how I see the environment I exist in?
See: Colour – Techniques for Exploring your Dreams – Questions – Processing Dreams
Grotto
See: Cave.
Ground
See: Earth.
Group
This shows how you feel about being one of a crowd, and what sort of strategies you use for dealing with a group – whether a follower, a leader, a quiet introvert, or an extrovert.
Grove
Similar to Garden, but being trees, specifies the growth or area of your ideas and habitual emotions.
Guard
We guard our language, our thoughts, our actions. The guard can symbolise the morals, social pressures, fears, used in this way. It may also represent a fear of losing something, such as respect, love, social standing, virginity. Can symbolise protection also, such as in the form of a guardian. See: police.
Guide
The principles that guide your direction in life. They may be a worthy or unworthy guide, depending on the principles or desires by which you are directed. The guide may also be an animal, in which case see it under its heading. Or it may be an intuitive guidance.
Example: I am sitting in a chair. Across from me are a woman to the left and a man to the right sitting on a sofa. They have black skin, hair and clothes. On my right a tall man sitting…white skin hair and clothes. I know he is a spiritual advisor, counsellor or guide.
The guide says to me “would you even say that this is a therapeutic depression?”
I am unsure as to what he means by the word “therapeutic”…but feel a little jolted, maybe insulted, for lack of a better word…maybe insulted at his implication that it was necessary for healing…and reply “No” to his question.
Many people look to their dreams as a sure guide to what to do and believe in ther life. But of course we may be influence by our fears or beliefs, and dreams cannot guide us while we take them literally, for dreams are from the world beyond rationale thought, and so thinking about their meaning is of no help. The following example may explain this.
Example: Last night, I again asked my guides to show me through my dreams whether our relationship was good for my best self. This was my dream:
I am living in a large old house with P (my husband) and I ask him about a girl that I recently discovered online who is an adult film star and frequents the same cafe that he occasionally works at. When I ask him if he knows her, he admits to me that he has known for a while and recently had oral sex with her. He apologizes, but says he is somewhat interested in her and intends to pursue her. I get very upset and verbally attack him and pull his hair and have a bit of a tantrum. When I am calm, I feel better, but still completely betrayed and saddened.
In the first place it is very seldom that any dream states things straight out as in everyday life – even in waking life things are usually not that clear. To get at the real meaning of a dream you have to enter into each character and object in the dream, and be them. Because dream come from a very ancient part of us that uses ‘felt’ things as a language of dreams. So you have to feel the quality of your dream people and objects. Try being the girl – the adult film star.
I am not you, but the first thing I have to say when I imagine myself as the film star is, “I am not a real person, only an imagined one who is about sex.” She is an imagined one because she does not actually appear in your dream, but is a raging feeling in you. As such she becomes a target to believe in. So the dream is a magic mirror reflecting you, your feelings and fears – so you see your husband in the light of a person with no integrity. Such feelings grow because you cannot ‘find him out’ and so your feeling, which you project onto him, grows, ruining the relationship, until he maybe actually finds another woman.
If I am right, instead of projecting your feelings onto your husband, try seeing where they come from in you – usually parents or a previous relationship in which you were actually left for another woman so fear it will happen again. Try Acting on your dream
So the unconscious can be seen a kind of intelligence that attempts to guide and otherwise assist the conscious self. The language of the unconscious is, however, indirect and symbolic, and requires, not interpretation, but efforts made to explore the enormous emotions and feeling hidden in the images of dreams.
Useful Questions and Hints:
Have you tested your guide to give you information that can be checked?
Have you simple thought about your dream or actually explored it?
What is it that guides you in life or dreams – define it if you can?
Is my guide an expression on my own wishful thinking or desires?
See Using Your Intuition – Being the Person or Thing – Techniques for Exploring your Dreams – Edgar Cayce
Guillotine
Losing ones head, or threat of it; killing out ones ability to think and reason – so perhaps becoming irrational. See: Body; Head.
It could be a way of meeting the fear of death. It can also be a graphic way of saying that your head is cut off from your feelings.
Example: I felt I could really die, not just as an illusion, not just in the drama of other people but my own life would have a very normal end. I know now I never wanted to face this but realise there is such a thing as really living. When I felt this, it did not take long to discover that if there is such a thing that could lift one up and this can only be the life I am leading. With this horror of death realised, I started to experience a most fantastic happiness with the realisation that after all I do not have to die now. I felt I was no longer with my neck under the guillotine. This was the very feeling I have been living under all my life. Right from my childhood, and without my knowing it. I did not know that all the time I was living it was as if a rope was round my neck or my head was on the guillotine. But now I had this unique opportunity to experience what it felt like to die. It has revolutionised my life.
Example: I dreamt I was in a line of young women like myself, and as I looked ahead to where we were going I saw that as each came to the head of the line they were decapitated by a guillotine. Without any fear I remained in the line, presumably quite willing to submit to the same treatment when my turn came.
Working with Carl Jung he explained to her that this meant she was ready to give up the habit of “living in her head”; she must learn to free her body to discover its natural sexual response and the fulfilment of its biological role in motherhood. The dream expressed this as the need to make a drastic change.
Useful Questions and Hints:
Where you witnessing the guillotine or on it?
What did you feel during the dream?
Were there feelings about dying?
See Near Death Experiences – Dreaming of Death – Secrets of Power Dreaming – Techniques for Exploring your Dreams
Guitar
See: Fiddle.
Gulf
Is there something separating you from a person, or a situation? The gulf might even be a feeling of some kind that caused a rift between you and an individual or a situation. If the gulf is huge, see Abyss.
Gull
See: Birds.
Gum
See: Glue.
Gun
This could be a sign of urges to hurt someone. It may also signify fear of being attacked and hurt by others, or a sense of inadequacy when facing aggression. For some people the gun relates to a sense of power and strength to meet the world. It is a confidence based on an exterior object. The gun can also represent aggressive or frightening sexuality.