Posts Tagged ‘dream’
Midget
See: Dwarf.
Milk
Due to it being a product of a mother, it usually represents the ability to give of oneself, the giving of sustenance, self-sacrifice, nurturing the young or needy parts of you or others. It may also indicate motherhood, infantile sustenance, or sympathy. It can be the symbol of something bland, harmless, mild, lacking the stimulus of alcohol, tea, or coffee. Thus the word ‘milksop’, that is another name for childlike, unmanly, cowardly. On occasions milk can also represent sperm or the female vaginal flow. See: Food; Drink.
Through the mother’s it breast a baby receives nourishment, but it also receives in the milk things that help the baby meet the infections and threats confronting it in the external world.
An adult drinking milk might suggest the person has not matured – or needs more calcium in their diet.
Being milked: Giving of oneself; taking support or nourishment from someone else; taking, or being taken, advantage of.
Example: Quoted from Dreams, The Language of the Unconscious by Hugh Lynn Cayce. ‘I dreamed my brother and I with our wives were out on a party with B.B. I fell asleep at the table. We got home very late. My brother left the car and walked home. He and I stopped to look at a bottle of milk that was marked “undistilled milk!”‘ An intuitive analysis of this dream by Edgar Cayce suggested that it represented the man as having too many late nights. This is portrayed by his falling asleep at the table. It also is said to suggest a need for more physical exercise in the part where his brother walks instead of using the car. And lastly, Cayce says, ‘Change from the present supply (of milk) for this shows adulteration in same.
Example: A young woman was there, not particularly good-looking, but okay. I suppose I would describe her as a fairly plain young woman, neither highly intelligent nor stupid. Almost immediately we were in a sexual relationship. I was sucking her breast. It was very beautiful and warm sweet milk was coming out into my mouth. It felt very satisfying, both for me and for her.
Idioms: Milk and water; milk of human kindness; milk somebody; cry over spilt milk.
Useful Questions and Hints:
What is happening to the milk in the dream?
Am I drinking it or giving it?
Do I avoid drinking milk, if so what is my dream suggesting?
See Life’s Little Secrets – Magic Mirror of Dreams – Role in the dream
Mill Milling
Process of extracting what is useful from ones gathered experience. Can be painful as it needs intense self awareness; crushing or painful experiences of life. Trying times or feelings. Suggests the breaking down of old attitudes and beliefs.
To mill or being involved in milling is a way of transforming one thing into another – something that couldn’t be easily used by humans into something useful. As such it can link with nourishment.
Grist for the mill: Suggests that everything can be used if and when it is milled. Also often refers to making a profit.
Milling around: Having not set direction or not making firm decisions or choices.
Example: The scene shifted to later that same evening. I was in a small, outdoor amphitheatre and a lecture was going on while people were milling about. It was still a rave scene and there were all kinds of beautiful, psychedelic visual effects happening up on the stage and all around on the side walls, though the theater was open aired. I realized the whole effect was inducing a trance state and it felt really good to collectively be linked emotionally.
Run of the mill: An ordinary situation that does not stand out.
Useful Questions and Hints:
Am I the miller or involved in milling?
What is being ground up and for what purpose?
What am I doing milling around?
See Being the Person or Thing – Characters and People in Dreams – Summing Up
Mines Mining
The seven dwarfs of Snow White worked in a mine. It represents the unconscious physical and mental activities. The mine might be showing these activities, or at least your digging within your experiences, memories, deeper levels of consciousness, to bring up the treasure and valuable resources buried within. Also the seven dwarfs can also be linked with the seven centres in the body. See Kundalini
Underground mine: For many a place of work; otherwise the unconscious and its resources, so bringing to consciousness ones potential and innate wisdom.
Entrance to the mine: Feelings about the unconscious; vagina. See: ore.
Land or sea mines: These represent reactions in us that have been set in place in the past, and can be triggered by present events. For instance, A person may have sustained an eye injury in the distant past, causing some loss of sight. In the present, if anyone puts things near his face, or hits his face, an automatic violent response occurs. This type of response can be symbolised by a mine, or mines. They can represent anything put in place in the past that now is released as powerful emotions or emotional explosions.
Example: As I struggled, I became vaguely aware that I was dreaming, a fact which glimmered like a pinprick of light seen from the foot of a mine-shaft. I groped desperately towards it, even as I realised that the multifarious shapes of memory and imagination were materialising in the very street around me. I averted my gaze as a squat, malformed figure limped by, unwilling to acknowledge it as the progeny of my own brain.
Example: There is also the sense I have that the cave that has been dug, that has been mined, connects with natural caves that go deep into the earth within the mountain. I have a sense that these link with the far past, with the origins of life on earth, and our own beginnings.
Example: I have come across a cave dug into a rocky cliff. A track sloped down from a hill or a mountain past the tunnel entrance, which was on my left. I saw a few men emerging from the tunnel. Small broken rock covered the exit to the cave forming a level surface to walk on. I knew the men had found treasure in the cave. I saw bits of gold, like chunks of rock, on the ground near the exit. I knew also that there was still a great treasure in the tunnel. Another person went in to get some of the treasure. However, I knew that to have a treasure you had to answer a question put to you by something like a Guardian of the tunnel – maybe a sphinx. The person didn’t emerge and I knew they had not been able to answer the question. But I heard the question I would be asking if I went for the treasure. It was, “What goes into everything twice?”
I thought the answer to be 1/2, but wasn’t sure.
The man who dreamt the above dreamt explored it fully. He says of it, “Now I am beginning to enter the dream more fully, and I feel as if I am looking over the countryside of my life – the 70 years travelled – two marriages, five children, several relationships, a variety of skills learned, but through it all the theme that started very early in my life of searching into self; seeking what wisdom one might find in that way, and attempting to release innate potential. Of course behind much of that was the urge to find personal healing from emotional pain and depression.
What I find interesting about the dream is that there are pieces of gold lying about outside the cave. So, one could gather a lot of treasure simply from what is already available. There would be no need to enter the cave. But there is the promise of enormous treasure inside. It isn’t so much the wealth, but there is the impression that the treasure is not simply lumps of gold, but unnameable things that one would find extremely valuable. There is also the sense I have while working on the dream with CJ, that the cave that has been dug, that has been mined, connects with natural caves that go deep into the earth within the mountain. I have a sense that these link with the far past, with the origins of life on earth, and our own beginnings.
A question I asked myself now is, who are the men that come out with armfuls of treasure? What aspects of myself are these men who had come out with the treasure? Who also – what part of myself – is the person who went into the cave and did not come out? Is there a part of me trapped in the search, trapped in this inner exploration?
As I begin to feel my way into the question, I have a sense that the cave connects with the house of the ancestors. This arises out of a feeling that both of them lead into the unknown, into a darkness that has not yet been fully explored.
And as I stand observing the countryside of my life I feel in a very good state at the moment. I feel there are no great issues or pains claiming my attention. But I do wonder if there are still strands to unravel from the past. What work is there still to be done? What issues or knowledge still to understand? What is there that I can still become at one with?
I feel, as I enter more deeply into my wider awareness, that the men who came out with the treasure depict the enormous amount that I have mined from the long years of my exploring. I have in fact already gathered enormous treasure. Of course I still wonder what else there is left to find.
I am feeling also that the person who went in and did not come out represents the unanswered questions that we all hold within ourselves. Those questions of course keep us still within the mine, still seeking answers and understanding. That is the part of self that continues to chip away at the rock face, knocking away the rock from the gold, uncovering more of the possibilities that were held within that solidity of ourselves.”
Useful Questions and Hints:
What was I doing in relationship with the mine?
Did I experience any thoughts or feelings in connection with the mine?
Have I ever worked or been in a mine?
See Working with associations – Inner World – Being the Person or Thing
Mink
Status, material values. animal or sexual desires. Because of the present ban on animal skins, it may link with feelings you have about that, or something you desire that is banned.
Minotaur
The intellect dominated by sexual desires. It probably represent in today’s dreams, the possession by the untamed sexual impulse we see everywhere today.
This is a theme which appears in many cultures or myths connected with the bull. It is of the Hero confronting and overcoming the bull. Lao Tzu for instance found, struggled with and eventually rode the bull, representing the human struggle and victory over instinctive or reactive habitual forces influencing consciousness. Also Theseus saves Ariadne from the Minotaur, suggesting that the conscious self has to meet and transform the instinctive sexual drive, the entangling forces of emotional dependence upon cultural norms, mother and public opinion, to be capable of a mature heterosexual relationship. Theseus, or our active growing self, frees Ariadne, the feminine or intuitive feeling principle. From this a new life can be born or emerge.
Theseus represented the young patriarchal spirit of Athens who had to brave the terrors of the Cretan labyrinth with its monstrous inmate, the Minotaur, which perhaps symbolised the unhealthy decadence of matriarchal Crete. (In all cultures, the labyrinth has the meaning of an entangling and confusing representation of the world of matriarchal consciousness; it can be traversed only by those who are ready for a special initiation into the mysterious world of the collective unconscious.)
“When Theseus saved Ariadne from the Minotaur, he had to make his way through a labyrinth; Perseus cut off Medusa’s head to rescue Andromeda. Both labyrinth and Medusa may be negatively charged symbols of mother. If such an image appears in a hero-rescuing-damsel dream, it may be taken as indicating that the dreamer needs to free himself from an emotional entanglement with – or all-consuming dependence on – his mother. Only then will he be able to let the feminine in himself express itself. (If he doesn’t let it express itself, it will still do so – but in destructive emotional outbursts.)” Quoted from A Dictionary of Dream Symbols by Eric Ackroyd.
See Ox Herding – Super Heroes and Mythical Creatures
Mirage
The illusions we sometimes chase out of our thirst or hunger for something, perhaps love or wealth. See: Desert.
An image or belief that promises satisfaction of some sort but if followed gives no reward. Or it may be that rather than darkness, one is haunted by the dreams of ideal and wonderful love that only lead one on to misery – a sort of chimera or mirage that tempts but provides no reality.
One might be the chaser of rainbow ends and mirages, and change to one who can accept an imperfect world, ones own imperfection, and take cups of water with shaking hands. To take my place as a man among humankind – not the saints. When those Saints go marching in, I am not to be among their number.
Example: Some children are going to show me the “life thing.” They pull me into a room and are going to stand me up on a short platform but I want to be more important or higher, so I insist I stand on a dresser. I hold my arms up in the air and then notice a clingy sensation around the fingers of my left hand. I pull it down to look at it and am appalled. A thick spider’s cocoon is wrapped around them and spider eggs are in there and hatching! I squirm to get it off me, and then I see there are snakes wrapped around me and termites or maggot insects on me. It is all nightmarish and scary and disgusting. I wish I’d never been so arrogant as to want to be higher. The children knew this and see I’ve learned my lesson and help pull off the snake. There is a strong sense of life among the decay – the seamy side of life. Barb.
Example: A powerful wave of emotion flushed through me leading me to bang on the floor with anger and frustration. I was shouting out that I was pissed off about forever chasing a carrot or rainbow and never getting the reward. A fucking carrot dangled to keep the workers labouring on until they are too old to work. And at the end of it no satisfying reward for their life of labour. They are just dumped. If it isn’t sex that is dangled as the reward it is financial riches or some dream. Politics, religion, all dangle these dreams in front of us and give nothing – just a fucking mirage. Nothing real at the end of it.
Useful Questions and Hints:
In the dream was I chasing a mirage or aware of its temptations?
Was the mirage offering water or sexual satisfaction?
Have I been chasing a mirage in my life?
See Being the Person or Thing – Conditioned Reflexes – Clicking On – Avoid Being Victims
Mirror
This has a great many levels of meaning. Basically it is a looking at yourself, a self examination; and the face in the mirror may not match your own. It may be better or worse. That is, in self examination you may come across, or see, parts of our nature that are the worst side or the best side of yourself. These re the things you do not usually see about yourself. You may, for instance, see innate possibilities as they would be in full bloom. But the mirror might only reflect your negative worries about yourself, or how you think you appear to others. Worries about ageing might be one of these. Nevertheless, the dream process usually tries to lead through worry to growth.
This can show concern over ones ‘image’ or how others feel about you, self examination, self love, negative only if the love is not shared with others. In some dreams it reflects anxiety about changing or ageing. There is the possibility of self assessment, so how you are judging yourself a the moment. But also being absorbed in yourself.
The mirror particularly depicts self awareness in the sense of insight into your behaviour or character traits.
The mirror appears in many religious symbols and in much folklore. Water was probably the first mirror, and as such represents human consciousness, soul, or self awareness. This looking at oneself can therefore be a way of depicting self awareness, your ‘I’, as a distinct individual.
Alice goes through the mirror to enter Wonderland, which is again symbolical of looking within self, and exploring unconscious contents.
Indian and Buddhist philosophy use it in a slightly different way, as also Yoga teachings. It is explained that when we look at a mirror we do not see its actual surface. We do not see the actual mirror, only the images reflected on its surface, which appear as reality. Likewise, mind or consciousness is like a mirror. In it we see the images of physical existence and life experience, which we take to be the only reality. But the Yogi asks himself, what is this that is conscious of all these images? What is this mirror we call consciousness? Who am I outside of the images?
The mirror is also similar to water and can depict looking into the unconscious to see who you are. But like a crystal ball, sometimes you see things that your intuition is telling you. The following example illustrates this.
Example: Was looking in a mirror. Suddenly a shadow appeared on it. At first the shadow seemed threatening or frightening. Then I saw it was only a directive, a figure with its arm and hand extended as if pointing. Looking behind me I saw the shadow was cast by a featureless cat or animal. Its head was completely smooth, without eyes or ears. At first I thought it could not see or hear, but then realised it must be able to, as it was pointing to a man out in the rough sea. The man had a lifejacket on, so was in no immediate danger. But the sea was very rough. I went out and brought him in, dried him off, put him in my house to recover.
Here the cat is the dreamer’s intuition telling him that inwardly he is experiencing some stormy weather, and needs to take care of that part of him. It also points out that his intuition does not depend upon having physical eyes.
Changed face in the mirror or multiple selves: Becoming aware of aspects of ones character which are usually unknown or not accepted.
Example: ‘Getting ready for a wedding in an upstairs room, feeling a bit unsure of what to wear. I look in a mirror and see I have on stockings and suspender belt with a very short frilly petticoat. It looks very sexy. I am aware the door is open and have an urge to close it, but then feel okay about looking sexy and people seeing me.’ Nora LBC.
Nora is looking at how she may appear to others if she allows her natural feelings to show.
Cracked or broken mirror: Distorted self image. A poor understanding of yourself, or perhaps a warning that your sense of self is cracking up.
Useful Questions and Hints:
Is what I see in the mirror pleasnt or unpleasant?
Can I accept it may be a side of myself?
What can I do to meet the image I see?
See The Harvester – Resistances – Archetype of the Paradigm – Techniques for Exploring your Dreams
Miscarriage
May be an attempt to heal the experience, if dreamer has had miscarriage or abortion. From the point of view of the unconscious it is at times important to name the baby. Fear of miscarriage. The loss of new idea, project or growing aspect of self.
The dream may express a fear of miscarriage, or even that you need to take care about your health in order not to miscarry. A local woman who was told by her doctor that she was in the middle of having a miscarriage and should go out and buy some new clothes to compensate for the loss came to me to see if anything could be done. As I knew that the capillaries could tear and be the cause I suggested she take a high dose of vitamin C and a good multivitamin and mineral capsule and vitamin E capsules. This because most people eat white bread and white rice, lots of sugary foods, all lacking the B, C and E vitamins.
A couple of days later she told me the bleeding had stopped. Later still she showed me the wonderful state of her hair and how healthy she looked. She later gave birth to a healthy boy.
Dropping a baby: It might at times suggest a miscarriage.
Example: I found a wad of something in my underwear. I was scared so I called my mom to my room. She was surprisingly calm and told me I had miscarried twins. I asked her not to tell my husband because I already knew they weren’t his. Awake life: My husband and I are living together but separated. Living in VA for Navy but I plan to move back to CA. I have been seeing another man and have only been in a sexual relationship with him. I have been very depressed and hopeless lately not knowing if I should stay in VA or return to CA. My mother passed away 3 years ago but was there in my dream. Thank you Tony.
The twins in this dream probably represent the two men in her life that were discharged. The influence of the mother in her life is a calming effect in her dream.
Example: And while a father can forget his children with equanimity, a mother never can. This too has been tried. The child’s death is hers, his fate is her fate. Hence the irrational shock and despair of miscarriage. Hence the inability to forget a child given up for adoption. Women patients have made every effort to down these ghosts, to no avail. One finally retraced a child she had last seen twenty-seven years before and for only a few hours after its birth.
This bond, so intense and persistent on both sides of the relationship, is fortunate for humanity. Without it children are almost hopelessly wounded. One psychiatrist treated two orphans in whom no mystic mother could be found. In infancy their mothers had not been with them to offer any of the selfless love and compassion they needed. After they grew up they remained isolated in their adult personalities, incapable of the magical fantasy of oneness and the love which is its fruit. For after the age of fusion is past, the psyche cannot any longer conceive of such a relationship. It is closed off from its dream by the partitions of reality.
Useful Questions and Hints:
Have you already miscarried at some time – if so your dream might be about fear of miscarrying again?
It might be to check your diet and take vitamin/mineral supplements?
Have you lost or frightened of losing a project of an ability?
See Life’s Little Secrets – Secrets of Power Dreaming – Pregnancy and Dreams – Yoga and Childbirth
Miser
As money can symbolise power, authority, sexual potency, material security, a miser would represent the fear of losing or using abilities, security, potency, or of spending or giving feelings to others. Scrooge is an excellent example of this, miserly with worldly effectiveness, affection, sympathy and so on, thus the constant counting of money for reassurance in face of insecurity and fear.
Mist
Indecision; inability to see the real issues in yourself and your environment. Something that hides your view of things, but also what you can hide in. See: Fog.
People emerging from a mist sometime it represent an intuitive impression from an otherwise unconscious part of you – a guide. Or can be something that you are just beginning to be conscious of, so it might be scary. When something arises that you do not understand you can communicate with your unconscious by saying, “I don’t understand this. What does it mean? Please clarify this.”
Example: Quickly the huge column of twisting storm moved down the open countryside directly toward the house. At one point I thought it changed course and would miss us, but it turned back and came straight at us. At this point all the distant view was obscured by a whirling mist. It was suddenly dark as the massive whirlwind blotted out everything but its own presence. Then it hit the house. I was expecting the roof to be ripped off, but there was no sound of rending or breaking. There was great tension though and I turned to look out of another window across the room facing the opposite direction. I could see great turmoil as the wind hit people and objects outside. It presented a great contrast with the house, unmoved and unshaken. Through the window it appeared as if an earthquake were lifting people up and dropping them. The earth itself shook and rolled like it were water rippling.
Useful Questions and Hints:
Has something that was unclear become easily understandable?
Do you feel lost in a fog of idea and opinions?
What has unexpectedly appeared on your life?
See Working with associations – Martial Art of the Mind – Kundalini
Mistress
In the Jungian sense it would represent an anima projection. That is, being dominated or influenced by the projection of all our fantastic longings, imaginings, desires, hopes and hungerings for ideal love, on to a physical and ordinary woman who is not such a wonderful creature. But as we long for her to be such, we project these qualities on to her. It may in fact be that the woman wishes to be regarded in this light, as a goddess, and so encourages these feelings. In legend, before Eve, a being called Lilith was created by Adam’s longings. But she was really only a phantom. Nevertheless, when Eve arrived, Adam’s attention was still much turned to Lilith. The same problem still haunts men and women.
Moat
An emotional defense used against others. The sort of ‘I feel ill’ defense against relationship.
A defense used to keep others at bay, or to shut out the impacts of your everyday experience. We use all manner of feelings, thoughts, justifications, or even religious beliefs, to keep others, or the world, at bay.
Sometimes this is in connection with love or intimacy, and the underlying reason might be that love is so painful that we fight it off, even with anger. So it is helpful to ask yourself what you use to defend yourself. Is it some form of justification? Is it anger? Or do you create a numbness of feeling?
Example: Marne and Ellie and the younger set are there. They believe in fundamental religion and the Bible and I am going to debate them about reincarnation. I am walking around a large house with lots of interesting floors and no walls that I am aware of. There is a dirty water channel around the house like a moat. Dangerous fish monsters are in there and if you swim in it to get to the other side, you are eaten alive.
Example: I sigh and say, trying to kiss him on the mouth, but he pulls sharply back from my kiss, “I’d rather take the test and fail then not take the test at all.” I curl up around his chest and try to kiss his cheek. He pulls back coldly. His hair is nearly shaved off, he is skinny. I tentatively kiss him several times more and keep talking. I say, “You talk about me. You have five heavy cement walls, two moats with dragons in them, dungeons and two alien spaceships guarding the fort.” He smiles and returns a sweet kiss.
Useful Questions and Hints:
What am I defending against or what defences are holding me back?
Did I build the moat out of my insecurity?
Are there threatening things in the moat?
Is there a drawbridge connecting the other side?
See: Castle under house and buildings; defence; defence mechanisms.
Modem
This, like telephone, is about communication with others. But it is probably less personal. It is more about contact in general, how you manage to keep in contact with the world, with business activities, and especially with your intuition and wider awareness.
It is an active thing that reaches to make contact, to search in a way that goes into and shows you the unknown. But it can also be an Achilles Heel, an open door for others to do damage to you. See enemy; Telephone
Example: There are several advantages as well as several disadvantages to doing research on computer networks. Until the final draft, this has been a paper-less project. This has an environmental advantage, no trees were cut down for this project. All research and writing has been done right here, at home, with a computer and a modem. Via the Internet, I have been in contact with climbers from around the world. I have saved many dollars and much time, by avoiding the previous necessity of travel.
Useful Questions and Hints:
Have I ever been attacked via my modem?
What do I associate with a modem?
Do I understand what a modem does?
See Working with associations – Being the Person or Thing – Using Your Intuition
Mohammed
Human expression of contact with God. The voice of the spirit.
Mole
Living a secluded life; attitude of a recluse; short-sightedness; an avoidance of human company; unconscious forces or influence; something going on beneath the surface – this may be something you can’t actually perceive, but suffer the consequences of, as with molehills; an undermining influence.
It often refers to an individual who secretly undermines you as a spy.
But it can also be a positive messenger from your unconscious.
Useful questions are:
Am I getting intimations of an unconscious or usually unseen influence at work in my life?
What does the action and my relationship with the mole suggest?
Does this in any way relate to living a secluded life?