Posts Tagged ‘dream’
Helm
As on ship. Will power, the efforts made to direct your life. Whoever is at the helm would symbolise the directing influence of your life. Business man would represent ambition or money, a priest would denote religion; an artist stands for creativeness and beauty.
Hen
Motherly feelings; something to do with being female or caring for young. See: Chicken.
If being eaten suggests nourishment. Otherwise a female, or the female in a male; being ‘chicken’ or scared.
If you know chickens and have watched and reared them you will have other associations, such as motherhood, the wonderful fatherhood of the cockerel. Also the stillness and concentration of the broody hen. See Associations Working With
Example: A large cockerel was amongst them and to my amused pleasure began immediately to chase the hens. They all ran madly away. My father was there now and said the chickens wouldn’t lay with that chicken chasing them. I said it wasn’t a chicken that’s a cockerel, and they would soon calm down. My mother now came. I said the chickens would stop running eventually because the cockerel was bigger than they. She said, no, it wasn’t the size, but the manner and attitude of his approach. She meant it caused an instinctive responses them.
When I explored the dream I realised that of course. I am a cockerel that is inwardly a chicken. I am chicken because I won’t see my own homosexuality. I am chicken because I have made myself a passive female. My mother says it is not the size, its the – inner – attitude. Of course, my inner attitude, as a chicken, is changing. I have been the size of a cockerel, but with the soul of a chicken – female.
This dream can lead to the thought that a cockerel with chickens can mean the eggs are fertile, which might mean for a woman that she is ready to have a baby.
Example: ‘An old lady made room for me to sit at the end of one of the three seats of a bus. As we drove away a very large chicken size baby bird flew in. It had short stubby wings and yellow down, but flew expertly. I believe it first landed on the lady and chirped squeakily. But in it’s squeaks it actually spoke, saying it had lost it’s mother. It sounded as if it were crying.’ Andrew.
Here the chicken obviously represents the dreamers own childhood feelings of desertion. The old lady is the mother.
Sometimes there may be associations with ‘chicken feed’ and so the question is, are you working for nothing? Also is there any sign of this being a ‘hen party’? If so ask ourself if you are guilty of it.
The cock: a male or the male sexual characteristics; confidence.
The hen: Mother; motherhood; being immersed in motherhood concerns and perhaps not having a life beyond that.
Chicks: This is a reference either to your own babyhood and feelings or events associated with it, or to external baby or babies. This may at times point to vulnerable people or assets.
Idioms: chicken feed; chickens come home to roost; chicken hearted; she’s no chicken; cock of the walk; don’t count your chicks/chickens before they are hatched.
Useful Questions and Hints:
Is the bird in my dream expressing any of the important stages of growth such as babyhood, leaving the nest, or making a nest?
What quality or attitude is the bird expressing and how does that relate to me?
What is the rest of the dream indicating about the bird?
See Being the Person or Thing – Emotions and Mood in Dreams – Inner World
Helper Assistant
This relates to your own problem solving abilities or your strength and skill to deal with or heal what confronts you. Sometimes this embodies feelings such as security or love that have, in the past, enabled you to meet difficulties or situations.
Herb
Healing, or some particular influence such as drowsiness, stimulation, cleansing.
Herbs were often dreamt about by primitive tribes who sought healing information from their dreams. And many of the great herbal cures were found in that way. This can still be found in some peoples dreams – they dream about a food or herb that will be helpful to them. So a gift of herbs may represent the gift of healing.
Dream were often said to be proked by having herbs near one while going to sleep. Mugwort was one such. They were used as a form of evoking helpful dreams or anwers to questions. See Incubating Dreams
Useful Questions and Hints:
Did the dream suggest any herbs to use or avoid?
Was there a person teaching me what the herbs were useful for?
Do I work as a healer?
See Summing Up – Life’s Little Secrets – Techniques for Exploring your Dreams
Hermit
Sometimes symbolises a desire to escape the demands of the world. Or a hermit is the representative of your inner feelings. This means the part of or inner strata of your mind that is not involved in external life. See: archetypeof the hermit.
Hero Heroine
If you are not the hero/ine of your own dream, you are probably still not accepting responsibility for all your own drives, potentials and weaknesses.
Professional players are also heroes for some people or a role model.
The hero/ine frequently depicts your initiative and unexpressed potential. We might see your highest ideals as coming from an exterior figure such as Christ, and so miss touching the depths of your own being, and avoid responsibility for your urges or actions.
What happens to the hero/ine shows how your creativity and expressed love fare. See: archetype of the ideal Christ; archetype of the hero/ine and archetype of the self; compensation theory; religion and dreams.
The story of the birth of Christ, of Buddha or of any holy person, is actually the story of your own birth. We are all the children of that great creative act – the Big Bang. I know science talks about it in a materialistic way, but dreams see it as the creation of all that exists, and it is holy and full of wonder. See Summing Up
This suggests that we are all the heroine or hero of our own life. We all are the source of all the great myths, we are all undertaking the great Odyssey – for were we not the one who faced the enormous and threatening journey of conception and birth, often lost in the mists of time? Do we not face life and death daily? Do we run and hide from the threats and fears or do we realise who we are and meet life and death until we rise triumphant?
Useful Questions and Hints:
Can I face responsibility for my own actions or do I choose to blame others?
Do I have a sense that I am special or have something special to do in life?
Can I as a person live some heroism in my daily life and relationships?
What are the life challenges, inwardly and outwardly, that I face?
Can I define them and look at my strategy to deal with them?
See Life’s Little Secrets – Avoid Being Victims – Jesse Watkins Enlightenment – Techniques for Exploring your Dreams
Hide Hidden Hiding
You may be hiding from feeling, or avoiding awareness of something you don’t want to see. Are you being protective – hiding how you really feel about someone, or about your sexual feelings concerning someone.
Hiding a body or object: Not facing difficult feelings connected with the body or thing.
Hiding from something dangerous, or dangerous thing hidden: Feeling threatened either by unconscious contents or an exterior situation.
High
See: Height.
Highway
See: Road.
Hill
Difficulty, obstacle, something needing energy with which to deal with it. A hill also symbolises the climb to higher attainment, wider view of life or opportunities. A hill or mountain often represent the influence of your potential, and the energy of growth or change latent in that potential. Therefore being on a hill can show you in a state of mind, or an attitude, perhaps even a form of meditation, that is opening you to the action of the growth energy within you.
You climb to success, or go down hill to failure, illness, death. You can see further from above, or be overshadowed at the foot of a hill.
The symbolism in the New Testament shows the crucifixion taking place on a hill, and this represents the top of the head and the sexual, emotional, mental nature being opened to a wider and less objective and self centred life. See mountain
A hole at the bottom of a hill: Especially if surrounded by shrubs, depicts the vagina. Or if like a cave it suggests you are entering more deeply into the levels of your mind. See Levels of Awareness
Going downhill: Feeling as if circumstances are pushing you; feeling you might, or have, lost control; the second half of your life, or old age. It also suggests that you are going backwards into past memories. See bridge
But sometimes going down hill leads to the beauty of everyday life, of coming down from heights and reconnecting with basics with a new view of it.
Going up hill: Difficulties; hard work or effort; the first half of our life; or life itself if it feels like an uphill struggle. Climbing a hill can link with the rising feelings of passion or sexual pleasure, or the transition from expressing energy genitally to expressing it in less physical ways. Such a shift from a lower mood or sensation to one felt as exhilarating or lighter is often shown as ascending.
Example: I was walking up a hill pushing a bicycle. Several other people went by riding theirs but that didn’t worry me. I went on up the hill and could only gasp in wonderment when I got to the top – I could see for miles and everything was in the most wonderful colours you could ever imagine. My first thought was ‘How wonderful God is to create such a beautiful world for us.’ I thanked him then and there. I thought ‘I wonder if it is like this behind me?’ as I looked around, right up close to me was what seemed like a huge black wall. As I looked along the wall, right at the end the marvellous view started, this continued round to the side of me and in the huge expanse in front. I can’t remember any road or pathway going down the hill, onwards. Muriel M.
Green sunny hillside: Feeling whole; a sense of heaven.
On a hill: A clear view of our situation; achievement; something we have made an effort to attain; expanded awareness.
Example: I was down in a low bit of a village, trying to get to a road high up on a hill where the sun was shining and was walking through dark, empty houses. Heather.
This shows the different feelings we sometimes associate with high in a hill and down in the valley.
Also: Hill or hills sometimes represent breasts or the belly.
Top of a hill: Apart from what has been said above, the top of a hill is often used in sacred symbolism to represent the crown of the head, which in turn relates to the potential we have as human animals to expand our awareness beyond what is available through our physical senses. This expanded awareness takes us beyond time and separation into a more unified life.
The term High Way is itself a wonderful symbols as the next dream shows.
Example: ‘I am riding through thick fog. I feel I should turn back. But then I see a pale golden white glow and know that if I continue to the top of the hill I will emerge from the fog into a most beautiful place.’ C. B.
C. B’s dream illustrates the emergence of the expanded awareness mentioned above in connection with the top of a hill. See: levels of awareness.
Useful Questions and Hints:
What hill am I at the starting point of, or am I going down to earth?
Do I sense a change in my feelings in connection with the hill?
What do I realise about the hill?
See: Techniques for Exploring your Dreams; altered states of consciousness; high; descending; last example in flying.
Hippo Hippopotamus
Weight, power through physical weight and size. Or it could be a way of saying that we feel uncomfortable with being ungainly or overweight.
It can also represent emotional clearing, or emotional turmoil. Of course if it comes into your life, it could suggest a ‘big event’ or thing in your life. If it is a baby hippo and you are looking after it there may be a suggestion that a big event is occurring in your life, one that will grow and claim much of your time. Being a creature that lives underwaqter a great deal, it can represent what is unconscious in your life.
The hippopotamus, sacred in Egyptian and African traditions, is the second largest mammal on earth. Its name means “Water Horse,” and it spends most of its day in water. This animal, very substantial in physical terms, can guide us in grounding ourselves so we can face and dissolve emotional issues (the power of water).
In ancient Egypt the goddess Taueret was in the form of a pregnant hippopotamus with large sagging breasts. She represented motherhood and the care of children.
Example: Today I dreamt of a slightly smaller than life sized hippo – probably about a metre tall. The hippo seemed to be alive and yet like bronze model. It was sitting on its behind with its mouth wide open.
The message or understanding I received was that it was a doorway to the collective unconscious.
Useful Questions and Hints:
What do I know and feel about the hippopotamus?
Is this about weight or physical size (do I feel huge)?
Is this about a hippo in the water and if so, does it indicate ‘knowing what lies beneath the surface’?
Is the dream hippo indicating anything about weight issues?
If so what?
Am I living a secret life – underwater?
Are they indications of pregnancy or birth in the dream?
See Animals – Techniques for Exploring your Dreams – Jesse Watkins Enlightenment
Hit Hitting
Apart from aggressiveness, you may hit on an idea, hit on the answer.
An expression of energy or aggression, often fear. If you are hitting a child, it suggests you are still trying to destroy or repress the development of your own child self. In other words, as a child events that happened to you, parental or social punishment or restrictions, may have held back your emerging curiosity, enthusiasm, sexuality, or love. Maybe these things were crushed. But they are still within you to resurrect, and will call out to be healed. So the hitting in your dream would be a continuation of the repression that you received in your early years.
Because of problems we never resolved with our parents, while we are together with a partner we tend to hit them with everything we needed to have worked out with our parents. This is because any emotions or love that was hurt with parents now gets projected onto the present love.
Example: I hit the ground and I could feel intense pain everywhere. I thought ” I love you Thomas ” (my boyfriend). Then I died and everything went black. I then remember standing over my friend who jumped off same building but wasn’t fully dead yet. I felt bad that he was in pain and was looking in his eyes. I then smushed him like a bug with my foot so he would be out of his misery.
As can be seen in this dream you cannot die in your dreams,although you can imagine and feel what you think it is like to die like that. Then as with a computer game, there you are again to play once more – the game being played is The Game if Life.
In one woman’s dream she wrote to me that she could see a massive wave building up and coming towards her. It was so huge that the water was retreating as the wave was building. She said she couldn’t move because there was nowhere she could run from it, and so she stood in fear of it. Then as it hit her she woke in fear.
Now I want to say to somebody like that, “Why are you frightened of life?” I say this because it is so obvious in the dream that what is coming to her is something so huge and wonderful, and yet she is the terrified of it. That wave was a massive force of positive change that if she had met it would have transformed her life. Unfortunately many people are frightened of Life. See Life’s Little Secrets
Being hit in the guts in a dream is usually about hurts in a relationship or something to do with sex, feeling a target of someone’s verbal or emotional attack.
Example: I was attending an adult class with about 20 or 30 people, mostly men. The teacher came in. He said something and a man asked a question or spoke back. The teacher got really angry and hit him with a walking stick. Someone else in the class remarked on the beating and was attacked also. A man sitting next to me on my left said that if the teacher hit him he wouldn’t sit and take it.
But as the second man was hit, my companion said something like – Bloody hell. The teacher landed two mighty blows on his arse, but he didn’t move. I said in horror “Good God!” whereupon the teacher moved to hit me. I stood up and said, “If you hit me with that thing I’ll whack you in the fucking ear.” I felt keyed up and ready to fight. He backed off and threatened to get the headmaster on me. I told him to try it. He said if I could do better try it. So I took over the class and it went really well.
Then I seemed to be witnessing a young man making love with a girl in a room. A teacher burst into the room and got angry at the couple. The young man was not at all cowed. He said, “You burst into a private room without knocking. We happen to be adults. I want an apology.” The teacher was silent for a time then apologised. The young man said, “Thank you sir. I am proud to acknowledge you as my teacher.”
The dreamer was a man in his forties, and the dream, when he explored it was about the sort of violence he witnessed at school. It shows how he felt and what he wanted to do, to stand up for himself for taking such heavy blows – but at the time lived in the belief that it was normal. But he was now seeing it from a different viewpoint, and handled it very well. As you can see, you do not have to cower to aggressors in your dreams.
For dreams or hitting another car or person or being hit see car
Hitting a child: Is usually a response stimulated by supreesing ones own growth or having a childhood in which your own growth was punished. Hitting a child is the aggressiveness turned against your own growing sexuality.
Idioms: a hit; hit and miss; hit and run (baseball); hit and run (traffic); hit home; hit it off; hit man; hit me (card games); hit me; hit me for a loan; hit me with your best shot; hit my funny bone; hit on; hit on all cylinders; hit paydirt; hit rock bottom; hit speeds of; hit the bar; hit the books; hit the bottle; hit the brakes; hit the bricks; hit the ceiling; hit the ground; hit the ground running; hit the hay; hit the high notes; hit the nail on the head; hit the road/trail; hit the skids; hit the spot; hit town; hit the wall; shit hit the fan; the fat hit the fire; where the rubber hits the road
Useful Questions and Hints:
Was I witnessing the hitting or doing it?
Was I hit physically or in the way of being not recognised or shown love?
How did I react to hitting?
See Active Passive – Characters and People in Dreams – Talking As – Techniques for Exploring your Dreams
Hive
See: Bees.
Hoe
Efforts of self cultivation, and weeding Out faults. See: Garden.
Hold Holding Held
There are five aspects to holding.
One: To control, as in controlling or ‘holding ones breath’; to be able to manipulate, kill or do something with what is held; this includes holding onto something for support or protection.
Two: Ownership – this is mine to share or not.
Three: In touch with; knowing; having a ‘grasp’ of.
Four: Responsibility; left holding the baby; ones situation.
Five: Intimacy; taking to oneself, taking hold of oneself as in masturbation; as in second example.
This is complex. It might be that you are trying to control something – as when you hold your breath. You might be trying to control how you feel about someone or something – as when you hold on to something or someone in a dream.
Holding something enable you to manipulate, or create. So you need to define if what you are holding, or the way you are holding, in the dream, has this sort of quality.
Are you trying to protect something or someone by holding? Or are you holding in a possessive way? This might mean an attempt at ownership and not sharing.
Is the holding a sign or responsibility, as when you are holding a baby? Or is it an expression of tenderness, as when you are holding someone?
Holding something in your hand, apart from possession or control, can also mean you have access to it or have the experience of it.
The personality types that we hold within us. If we can tap them they are an enormous resource. Technically they are called Autonomous Complex, and hold in them such varied and spontaneous responses to life, that they have enormous creative potential if they can be met and expressed in a way that does not dominate or destroy the central personality. So it is helpful to integrate these disparate aspects of their personality and unconscious.
We can be held prisoners by our own beliefs, ideas, convictions and habits. Our real existence is formless and beyond conception. It is this realisation that frees us from the prisons of recrimination, of feelings of defeat, of ideas and words – even of constant failure. Being formless, there is no mood, no passion, no philosophy that can hold us. So we can slip away from the agony of guilt or self judgment, we can laugh at the phantom of being right or wrong. See Avoid Being Victims; Allowing the Spontaneous
Example: ‘I am a prisoner in a room with three boys aged three, five and fourteen. They seem to be my children. There are two prison warders, a man, a woman. The man was subservient to the woman who holds the keys and keeps control.’ The children are hungry and frustrated, keep asking me to free them. I asked the woman warder but she refuses, saying, “Sit down and keep quiet”. I suddenly got up, went over to the male warder and said firmly, surprising myself, ” There is no reason to keep these children here. You are a man. Why don’t you assert your authority and free them?” The man warder got up, took the keys from the woman, who didn’t resist, opened the door, we went out. Carol J.
Example: ‘I was in a large removal van with a woman sat on my lap. I held her breasts with pleasure.’
In exploring his dream Don found that holding the woman’s breasts showed how he was holding onto and held by sexual pleasure. Holding the woman made him a passenger, and not directing his life. But when he let go he could be the driver. This led him to realise that he was tied to his sexual need like a dependency – a dependency that directed his life.
Idioms: can’t hold a candle; don’t hold your breath; get a hold of; have a hold over someone; hold a candle; hold a grudge; hold a meeting; hold back; hold down; hold forth; hold her liquor; hold in; hold it; hold me responsible; hold on; hold out for; hold that over my head; hold the fort; hold the phone; hold the purse strings; hold up; hold water; hold you up; hold your drinks; hold your hand; hold your horses; hold your mouth the right way; hold your nose; hold your own; hold your temper; hold your tongue; how you hold your; .no holds barred; the way you hold your mouth; hold-out; holding the bag
Useful Questions and Hints:
Are there ideas or convictions I hold onto like lifesavers?
What do you hold onto as if you own it?
What do you feel about control?
See Being in Control – Active Passive – Beware of Love – Techniques for Exploring your Dreams – The Slow Breath
Hole
An error you may fall into, a difficulty you are facing, or a danger that confronts you. A big hole might suggest a descent into the unconscious, memories. A hole, especially with grass, foliage or bushes around it, can represent the female sex organs.
Any hole, tunnel or cave, not only suggest female attributes such as receptiveness, they also indicate the unknown or what is still unconscious. If the tunnel, hole or cave is dimly lit, it suggests aspects of you that are not defined, in the shadows of other more fully expressed qualities. See: Cave and Fall.
A hole can also be an escape route, so you need to define if this is true in your dream.
Difficulty or tricky situation in life; a situation you might ‘fall into’; a place to hide or feel protected in – therefore womb like feelings; an escape route or a way through from one situation into another; a way of ‘seeing through’ something; an ‘opening’ or opportunity; the vagina. Occasionally refers to death. Or sometimes used as word play meaning whole.
A hole is also something that things can go into or come out of. Food goes in our mouth for instance and comes out the other end. So poking food in a hole could link with eating. But holes can link with leaks, and sometimes dreams use a leak to suggest the way we lose energy or waste our energy resources. (Rocket dream as example.)
Going in hole: Meeting feelings, urges or fears we usually keep unconscious; confronting aspects of self buried beneath our surface awareness; memories of womb existence; death – burial.
Falling in hole: Of course it could mean you are meeting a difficulty that you didn’t keep your eyes open to see. But some holes we fall into or find ourselves confronted by are there as a challenge to see if you are confident that nothing can hurt you in your dreams. Falling is not fatal or even harmful in dreams. We tend to take things we are rightfully scared of in everyday life and then take them into our dreams where nothing can hurt us. But of course we still fear if we do not understand that dreams are like computer games and are virtual realities. You can get killed a hundred times in dreams and yet you awake the next day none the worse – except if you are frightened, and it is fear that can do you harm, not dreams. See dream yoga.
Holes in clothes, objects: Faults; weaknesses; illness; ‘full of holes’.
Holes in body: Sense of weakness; emptiness in ones life such as loneliness; illness; negative feelings about that part of self; see body for appropriate part.
Hole in head: Letting everyone know what you think; gossiping.
Hole in road: Difficulty ahead. Death or death of person falling down the hole.
Pothole: If you are going into it, it suggests you are exploring the precviously uknown memories or parts of your nature, gaining a deeper understanding of yourself. It could even suggest going back into a womb type awareness.
Small hole: It depends where it is and the context in which it appears. It could refer to the vagina, or a hole on your body.
Useful Questions and Hints:
Is the hole frightening or beckoning?
Where is the hole – in me or in the surroundings?
What feelings did I experience in the dream?
See Associations Working With – Inner World – Martial Art of the Mind – Techniques for Exploring your Dreams