Posts Tagged ‘dreaming’
Bank
Money worries or decisions about or events to do with money and the whole lifestyle that goes with it. Therefore it may indicate dreams or hopes about the future; resources – financial, mental and spiritual such as suggested by savings. It could relate to your internal sense of security – if threatened then feelings of insecurity and fear – again savings. It can indicate emotional resources such as confidence and sexual certainty; social power; feeling of pressure about debts or social money situation; something you depend upon.
The bank might depict the ways, the attitudes, skills or otherwise, with which you deal with your resources or energies. In other words what you do with the energy you stored up/banked. See: Money
Bank raid: Threat to security; feelings of anxiety. Or if you are a bank robber, feelings of desperation about money. Perhaps not feeling socially connected in the way to get money flowing to you, so suggesting that you access resources by force instead of understanding.
Bankruptcy: Feelings of despair or failure; the end of a scheme or relationship; the realisation or feelings that the direction has not worked and must be abandoned, whether a marriage, business or direction in life. Or it could be doing too much and exhausting your reserves, materially or emotionally.
Difficulty drawing money out: Frustration about earning power and thus ability to find security or esteem; lack of confidence or negative feelings about personal value. Perhaps there is a need to be personally affirmed, or a sense that you do not feel valued.
Talking with the bank manager: Thinking about, or trying to deal with issues of finance, personal resources or self esteem. If the bank manager is serious, then you need to look closely at your finances. If he is amiable, you are probably doing well despite worries. The bank manager also represents the wisdom or attitudes you can use as a resource to deal with the economics of your life. See Talking As.
Vaults of a bank: Deep unconscious resources; your potential or reserves.
Working at a bank: Dealing with money issues, security, personal values.
Idioms: Bank on; burst/break the bank.
Useful Questions and Hints:
What worries or concerns do I have about money?
Is my dream showing me new insights or understanding about how to deal with my life?
If there are difficulties in the dream, what are they and how does that connect with my waking life?
See A useful way to understand your dream – Dream Understanding.
Bank Of River Canal
A barrier or safety measure – i.e. to stop the river flooding, so a way to deal with emotions and maybe block them or direct them. A place in the sun, or an exposed place. It could also relate to a difficulty to be overcome when trying to climb out of water or up the bank. Minor difficulty or obstruction; a boundary, such as the boundary of what you might permit sexually or creatively.
The river or canal bank not only contains, it also directs the flow of energy. So any features of its structure or shape would give an idea of what is being directed and how.
Useful Questions and Hints:
Is this a barrier to my progress or a safety feature in my dream?
Am I facing a barrier to my progress – if so what
Is this bank about the way my energies are being channelled?
Are there indications such as feelings, thoughts or obstacles to help me understand the dream?
Try using Easy Dream Interpretation.
Banquet
Social relationships and a chance to be recognised or seen as being chosen. Perhaps feelings about class, social position or status, or business/sexual opportunity. It might also be about feelings concerning eating and drinking, or a drive to impress, or being impressed.
Useful Questions and Hints:
Is social recognition important to you?
How do you place yourself socially?
What did the dream events suggest about my relationship with the banquet?
Try using Easy Dream Interpretation.
Baptism
Being baptised or witnessing a baptism could suggest a new influence entering your life, and a cleansing away old attitudes. Because baptism is a readiness to let a new influence into your life, it could show you opening to your inner possibilities, or to life pervading and healing you, or an influx of what had been latent or potential in the Self. So in that way a door to a new experience of yourself.
Sometimes it links with birth or experiences connected with your own birth, and is thus a re-connection of your conscious self with the deeper life-giving unconscious elements within you. And birth does not necessarily relate to being a baby, because we can be born many times, such a spiritual awakening. This may be allied with an experience of the old attitudes or way of life dying or passing away. See: compensation theory; religion and dreams; archetype of Christ.
Baptism in water: Relates more to the emotions and to inclinations arising from ones birth experience. In Christianity it connects with the recognition by the community of the identity of the baptised baby or person. It therefore suggests an entering into this fellowship or Christian community. As this cannot occur unless you have a sense of allegiance and good wishes toward the group you are joining, it points to a change of heart. See baptism as an ancient mystery.
In other cultures baptism has the meaning of cleansing away old attitudes, concepts and ways of life, to allow a new growth from within and from ones social contacts. In the Bible water is spoken of in a particular way. For instance – Their hearts melted and became as water. (Josh. 7.5.) Water was also used to wash with and, more important, to quench ones thirst. So baptism in water brings one in connection with being cleansed, being changed inside oneself, and having ones longings/thirst satisfied.
Baptism by fire: This still has the cleansing in it, but the experience may be more painful, more fierce, burning away the old material of ones personality through powerful passions or emotions.
Baptism in blood or wine/spirit: Blood and wine are often synonymous in dreams, and may depict being deeply immersed in experiences that link you with collective humanity. For instance we all meet certain experiences, such as ageing, and to know how your personal experience links you with millions of others is a form of baptism in blood. It also may mean that you inherit the work, attitudes, insights, left by millions of humans.
Baptism in energy or vibration: Sometimes individuals experience what feels like a force flowing through their body, causing it to vibrate or tremble. Accompanying this there is usually a feeling of great immersion in life, or connection with all life, or the mystery that lies within all life. Occasionally this immersion is known to be into a collective mind in which countless others exist. Of course this may be true of the other forms of baptism also.
In many cultures some form of water container stands in front of the temple. People either washed in this, or symbolically wash by dipping their hands in it. Such cleansing water can still be found just inside every Catholic Church, and outside Japanese Shinto temples.
It is possible that in general baptism represents a turning away from the ego centred, or child dependent and self centred life, toward that of becoming socially aware and wanting to be a caring and functional part of the group or society you live within. This turning around is often accompanied by the recognition of your deep links with ones culture, and the enormous debt you have to it for language and the formation of your identity. This does not go against the idea of a rebirth, or the opening to your deeper unconscious as proposed by Jung. Recognition of your cultural inheritance as it has worked in you unconsciously, is in itself the gaining of a new life, and is an access to a wider awareness. See: archetype of baptism.
Useful Questions and Hints:
Have I recently experienced an influx of new life or an opening to a deeper awareness?
Has there been a growing awareness of my links with humanity and life in general?
What am I aware of experiencing in connection with baptism in my dream?
Try using Acting on your dream to gain a fuller understanding, or Arm Circling Meditation to explore the experience of baptism.
Bar
(If metal or other rigid material – For bar/pub see bar room.) Strength; male sexuality; rigidness; an expression of aggression. It can represent energy or be a symbol of power, or a lever to shift obstacles. Sometimes it is an extension, barrier, fastening or support, or to can be a play on word suggesting the banning or exclusion of something, or an impediment; a means of discouragement, whether used as a weapon or as a physical barrier.
Exercise bar: Comment on your fitness, or what your body needs to get fit.
If barring way: Obstacle; block against your self expression.
Metal bar: Weapon; defensiveness; aggressiveness or anger; strength; penis.
Sand-bar: Safe place to stand out of the water – emotion; possible danger if in a boat – or a place to land, i.e. make a change, possibly from drifting in life or feelings.
What we do with the bar: How we are expressing energy or power at that time.
Useful Questions and Hints:
What is being done with the bar, and what meaning or feeling do you attach to that?
Does the bar have strength or is it lacking power – and is that feeling apparent in your life at any time?
What do you feel if you imagine holding the bar in your hands?
Try using Talking As if you are uncertain of the meaning in your dream.
Bar Room/Pub
What happens in the bar may indicate how you relate to social relationships at a basic level. A public bar can either represent the sense of pleasure, love of company and entertainment, or sometimes the place where you experience changes in yourself – i.e. influence of alcohol or spirit. Often indicates how you relate to groups, or relaxation – or conflict – with friends and others. The meaning depends on the action and relationships occurring in the dream. There may therefore be signs of aggressiveness or defensiveness. It can also indicate your feelings about society, or exploring ideas or feelings, as one might in a communicative atmosphere in a bar.
It can be about your hopes, fears or expectations in regard to finding a sexual partner. Therefore the meaning might be about the meeting or avoiding of the complexities of relationship, gathering information or realising things unconsciously gathered.
The bar-room can be about difficulties regarding alcohol; your technique for avoiding confrontation with loneliness, anxiety, sense of failure, etc. See: Alcohol.
Idioms: Prop up the bar; colour bar; barring the way.
Useful Questions and Hints:
What is taking place in the bar and how does that relate to me?
If there are difficulties what are they?
What is the essential dynamic of the relationships in the bar?
See Easy Dream Interpretation.
Barber Hairdresser
Change of attitudes, thoughts or opinions about oneself. Because we can change our social appearance by a haircut or style, it depicts changes of mind, change of image. Therefore being in someone else’s hands – the barber or hairdresser – shows the influence someone else might have on the changes we make in our life.
In some dreams there appears to be a lot of anxiety or fear surrounding the barber dream.
Sometimes having a hair cut can mean you are getting rid of so much thinking. In that way your inner life has a chance to open more. The hair and dealing with it can point to the way we deal with our thinking, controlling it, or allowing it to be out of control. Our thoughts can build up to become labyrinths we lose ourselves in, or terrifying scenes of fear we torture ourselves with. So sometimes our dreams point out what we are doing in that way, and perhaps how quieting or surrendering our thinking can open us to a transforming influence. And usually, while you are having a hair cut you are looking in a mirror. This is the gift of reflection, the ability to see your Self. The image you see might not be to your liking, but is a true reflection of you, warts and all. See: Hair; Roles.
Useful Questions and Hints:
If my hair has been changes, what changes in my attitude or image am I going through?
Is my thinking needing to be changed or quietened?
What are the changes going on in my life at present?
Try Secrets of Power Dreaming – Techniques for Exploring your Dreams – Life’s Little Secrets
Bare
Basically this is about feeling exposed. This may be desirable or undesirable depending upon what you feel in your dream. It can indicate a desire to be attractive and noticed – as in the example, where Miss L. is enjoying an acceptable form of intimacy, or being open about what you really feel. It is also showing you feeling people know what you are feeling or desiring, or else being open about what you feel. This often refers to sexual feelings, or feelings you usually hide.
At times it can be a sign of anxiety about not being adequate socially or that you do not ‘look’ good, or lacking ability to conform to social norm. See: Naked; Clothes.
Example: ‘I am at the doctor’s being examined. It is always the same. I have all my clothes off and he examines me from the roots of my hair down to my toe nails. I am just at the point where I am going to ask him for his diagnosis when he fades away.’ Miss L.
How we feel about being naked in the dream may simply show our cultural background and childhood training in regard to being undressed. In some families it is easy and natural, and in others something to be ashamed of and arousing critical remarks.
There is an almost instinctive drive in many young children to uncover themselves to others. Erich Fromm, in his book Dreams – The Forgotten Language, says that, “It is hardly possible to pass through a village in country districts without meeting a two or three year-old child who lifts up his or her blouse or frock before the traveller, possibly in his honour.” As adults, if such behaviour were punished or frowned upon we may still be stuck in this behaviour, desiring the acceptance we should have received at an earlier stage of our growth.
Useful Questions and Hints:
Am I feeling relaxed about this or exposed and vulnerable – and does that reflect how I feel about people knowing who I am?
Is there any signs of sexual feelings here, and if so what does the dream suggest about my response?
If there is a reason for my being naked, what is it?
Try using Easy Dream Interpretation to see if you can uncover more of the dream’s meaning.
Barometer
This is an indication of your state of inner pressure or emotional climate. It can also depict what you sense of coming events or situations.
Clearly about the changes of mood and feelings that are either happening or arising shortly. This is like your own personal dashboard to say what changes are coming. The barometer also can indicate good or bad weather/situations coming your way. In other words good feelings and difficult ones.
It can also be a barometer of your pace, accomplishment and frustration.
Useful Questions and Hints:
What is the barometer suggesting is coming in my moods or feelings?
Is this about my feelings, or fair weather or a storm coming in my life?
Is there any suggestion in the dream of how to meet these changes?
Find out by using Easy Dream Interpretation.
Barricade
barricade We can barricade ourselves from thoughts, from emotions, fro actions from outside or from within.
Example: The change had torn that away, leaving her separated from everything she had known. It was a devastating feeling to have nowhere and no one to be connected to. Growing in her was an awareness that she could, out of the aloneness, commit acts of desperation, criminal acts to the degree she had never considered before. Connection and family had unknowingly given her a barricade against an internal riot that would hit out at others. With the barricade down, even though so recently, the internal mob were shouting angrily. Bess didn’t understand the fine points of this, she simply felt like something was crushing her from the inside, and she trembled, not from the cold. Quoted from The Steel.
Barricades can stop you getting away from something or stop you getting hurt, like barricades around a hole.
It can be the defense you use against others, or events – of something used against you. May be in the form of an excuse such as “I’m too ill to go to work, or I’ll never get anywhere, so what’s the use of trying”. Perhaps you live in thought only, a dried out travesty of living; for thought of things is never things themselves, however near it comes. So you can build a wall of thought about yourself, a barricade against the need to feel and experience – against living. See: Armour; Fence.
Useful Questions and Hints:
Am I aware of any barricades that I erect or meet in my life?
What can I do about going beyond barricades?
Are they a necessary part of my life?
Try Being the Person or Thing.
Bartender
bar tender This depends whether male or female. Also depends on your relationship with alcohol. If you drink frequently, then it possibly relates to the feelings that lead to drinking. Other possibilities are sociability; loneliness. See: Woman; Man; Roles.
It might also relate to advice given by the bartender or friends or drugs offered.
Useful Questions and Hints:
What happened in the bar and how is that relevant to me?
What was my relationship to alcohol in the dream? See Alcohol.
What feelings or emotions were felt in the dream?
See Easy Dream Interpretation.
Basement Downstairs
This part of the house is often used in dreams, and represents hidden motives, part of us that is barely known and so is often can the unconscious, so the unknown feelings, memories or past experiences, your biological past, and the place where your conscious mind contacts hidden powers, universal wisdom, and even other minds. Sometimes it means base deeds, low morals, underlying dislikes or traumas. It is from the basement, below, or within, that libido or life force arises. Fears and terrors sometimes come from downstairs. This is because it is the place we hide our old memories and hurts – in the unconscious. But it also holds the understanding of your wholeness. See Pandoras Box
It suggests what is unconscious or below ones usually level of awareness. Also may still have associations to do with ‘below stairs’ referring to what is beneath one or a lower class. Also in the cellar or basement one is near to the earth, the primordial forces of nature, what moves beneath ones ‘street level’ personality.
The basement can also link with what your present personality has been built upon, your past or family and cultural influences. If there are no walls to the cellar, or tunnels leading from it, it shows an openness or connection with influences beyond your own personality.
But it can be the power place, where so much of your life takes place – within you – in thinking, feeling and willing. It suggests what is unconscious or below ones usually level of awareness.
Also may still have associations to do with ‘below stairs’ referring to what is beneath one or a lower class. Also in the cellar or basement one is near to the earth, the primordial forces of nature, what moves beneath ones ‘street level’ personality.
Such a basement can in some dreams cause anxiety, but in others it offers a huge opportunity and many possibilities. It can be the place where hidden feelings can erupt such as anger, sexual longing, spiritual insight – anything because we are in the unconscious. See the unconscious and collective unconscious.
Example: It was a huge basement store, full of second-hand goods. My son bought some things, and pulled out four pound notes to pay. I asked him where he had got them from, and found he had stolen them. I was so angry I hit him with a poker, breaking his arm – or at least, I was frightened I had broken his arm. Having once hit him I wanted to go on and on hitting him, but struggled against this.
The spiritual can be born here instead of in a stable.
Example: Was in a basement. My wife and a woman I was in love with was giving birth to a Baby, but I was somehow the one who gave birth to it, without a doctor being there. I remember my love chewed through the cord. I looked at the baby, it was a lovely boy. Its lower face was covered by a tight caul, but I pulled this off and it began to breathe. It opened its eyes and looked about, fully conscious. Then said something about Jesus, and, “It is gone!” The baby was then take an upstairs, and I felt it was a holy and wonderful baby. I was going to rest from the rigours of the birth, but on looking around saw how dusty and dirty the basement was. I began to clean it, and felt I would go upstairs and rest afterwards.
Example: What happened was that I seemed to go through the ground to what lies underneath. I don’t literally mean under the earth, but underneath people, underneath the events in life, what is usually hidden; only I felt it as like going into a vast place underneath everything. I understood that this was what is usually called the unconscious, or in past ages the underworld. In it I felt at the roots of all living things.
The first thing I saw was my youngest son. He was crouched just below the surface, unable to break through to the outside – what we call everyday life. This was a revelation because it explained so much about his behaviour. It showed me exactly what difficulties he was facing. Lots of people never get to even glimpse this hidden world of beings and energies, but my son had always known it and been held by it, almost like he had never been born from it. Seeing him at first deeply concerned me. But I understood that this was his life. Although it was difficult he would learn things denied to most people. He would know them instinctively because he was a native to this underneath world, the place inside us. So I stored the memory and moved on.
I found that I could think of anyone I knew and gain insights into what they were like inside. This was because this place, or condition I was in was like a space underneath a town. From here you could get into anyone’s house. You could touch the roots of trees and all living things, because they all emerged from here. My own sense of myself was different too. I knew without doubt that I had existed throughout all time. If I asked a question about the past, I knew just what had happened then, the whole struggle of humanity to grow, to meet itself. I knew because my central self had been a part of it all.
Then I came to what I called the Temple of The Animals. Again I have to describe it as a picture, a scene, but it was more like a direct knowing or experience. Here all that lived was gathered together. Not only as rank upon rank of animals in a great amphitheatre, but gathered in being linked as one mind, one spirit, knowing each other. So that when I walked into the temple I met this vast spirit which was as ancient as life, and had experienced all that life had done on this planet, and knew all the wisdom of its immense experience. And this Great Spirit looked upon me and knew me. It entered my own spirit looking to see if I knew how to love my mate and care for my children. It did this, as I understood it, because central to all that life had done in its many forms, was this great theme of self giving in caring for offspring and mate. It had learned how to love, and if I had not learned that lesson, I couldn’t receive the blessing it could give. As it was, it judged I had sufficiently learned the lesson of giving myself. Then I received the blessing of sharing a small part of its wisdom and ancient love.
A snake in the cellar or cave: Our psycho-biological drive; the energy behind our growth and motivation which includes sex drive. Often experienced as our emotional or feeling drive or zest for life. This connects us with awareness of our evolution as a person. See Snake.
Bad smell: Negative emotions which could cause depression or illness. See: house.
Useful Questions and Hints:
Am I harbouring unknown motives, fears or perhaps anger?
Are there things I am not letting myself think or feel?
Am I finding wonders or tragedy in the basement?
It is important to know how to work with what you find in the unconscious, so please read Important to Understand This and also Nothing Can Hurt You in Your Dreams – Super Heroes and Mythical Creatures
Bat
The flying bat is often associated with the devil or vampires, night or death. It is a creature that can see in the dark, lives in caves, and so is an aspect of unconscious inner workings, that go on in the darkness, or the part below our conscious awareness. But it is we who create this fear.
It can therefore represent thoughts or influences emerging from the unconscious, and can be wonderful rather than frightening. Being able to see in the dark – i.e. intuition. A such it can be felt as a fear of the unconscious. As such it can be felt as a fear of the unconscious. See Facing Fear.
The Australian aborigines see the bat as the spirit of death.
Example: I had a dream that I was playing tennis with a friend and suddenly a black bat attack on my neck and bit me and when I look at the ground there are unfamiliar animals that are crawling there and 1 man is sweeping all of the tiny animals. I ran in the house and 1 tiny blue bird follows me and I close the door. In my dream my house don’t have roof and I let the bird fly in the sky and I look at the poor animals being swept outside the gate like a leaves fallen from the tree. They are alive and they can move but it seems like they are afraid of the man. Then I was running outside like I’m playing hide and seek with someone and I enter another house and my relatives are with me and I met a guy inside the house and we went in a room and from window I saw my kids playing outside.
As can be seen from the dream, the bite of the bat brings about an enlargement of her ability to see and appreciate things.
Useful questions are:
What did I feel about the dream bat, and what part does that feeling play in my life at present?
Was there something I realised on seeing or dealing with the bat?
If there was fear, what was it about as base?
What is my dream bat doing in this dream, and what does that suggest about my own activities?
Try using Processing Dreams,
: Male sexuality; positive aggression; defensiveness.
A baseball or cricket bat often appear in dreams as a form of confidence that you could deal with attack. But of course they are both also to do with expressed skill in dealing with the things life throws at you. A bat is an extension of your body and so expresses the timing, skill and expression you put into the game of life. See: games and gambling.
Useful Questions and Hints:
Am I using the bat as defence or as a skill in dealing with things?
Is the bat being used against me – if so how am I dealing with the situation?
What skill or lack of it is being shown in using the bat?
Being the Person or Thing can help you define the meaning of the bat.
Bath Bathing
For many people the bath links with feelings of being able to relax and spend time alone without demands from other people. Therefore it indicates relaxation; cleansing; wanting to ‘come clean’ or be rid of guilt.
Such cleansing could depict a change of heart or forgiveness where old feelings are washed away. To do this you may need to cry or release and ‘wash out’ long held emotions.
But some bathing dreams or fantasies often depict the bath as a form or ritual which is getting one ready for something, perhaps a new experience, or the deepening of ones experience in an important area of your life, such as sexuality. Such an initiation might involve the meeting with your feelings or fears about relationship or your life situation – perhaps meeting your own male/female self more fully.
Bathing also includes nakedness, and therefore vulnerability, the revealing of your secrets or things you are sensitive or ashamed of. This might embody marriage/relationship intimacy.
If you are in the bath with someone then it can suggest being immersed in an influence of some sort; deep sharing, perhaps blending of qualities.
Some dreams show bathing as a powerful change or renewal and may sometimes relate to feelings about life in the womb.
Also: Need to cleanse the body internally. See: baptism, swimming pool.
Bathing in a river: Being open to flowing feelings and urges within yourself; allowing yourself to be influenced from within by urges toward change or growth or expansion of awareness.
Bathing in the sea: Being open to a more universal – less self centred – awareness of your relationship with life.
Jacuzzi: A jacuzzi is often a shared experience; or if it is a big bath like Japanese bath it can be like swimming pool, a shared experience. What is shared would be shown by the events and mood of the dream. Also it is a massage and so can be extra relaxing, or irritating if you do not like it.
Example: Now the imagery gets more specific and I watch/experience an exquisite Japanese ritual of meeting, touch, massage, that is leading to sex. Several young women are with me in a large bath. They are not trying to be directly sexual, but are getting close, touching me, massaging, allowing me to feel their flesh near me. The beauty of it is in understanding how wise and artistic the whole approach is. I see it is to lead my awareness out of being bound by everyday affairs. It diffuses concentration on particulars of external life and gradually opens my senses to feel and allow pleasure. It helps the mind to drop fixation on externals and allow it to drop boundaries until one senses oneself as in a semi dream state. This allows sex to be not just a particular thing; not just a physical penetration or being entered, but something that connects you emotionally and mysteriously with another person, and to the huge mystery that is that person and oneself. Ones partner is not simply a human being, but the very essence of the female principle, merging with the male principle. Graham H.
Useful questions:
Can I define my relationship with the bath and the outcome of this dream?
Do I experience any change in this dream, and if so what is it?
If I am being cleansed, what am I preparing for?
If I am with someone who am I with and in what way?
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Bathroom
If you are from the USA going to the bathroom can mean you want to use the toilet, in which case see toilet – or maybe you need to wash or have a shower or a bath, in which case see bath/bathing.
Battery
Ones resources of energy or vitality. Problems with the battery might depict health difficulties or even worries about heart weakness. But dreams are a magic mirror that reflects our inner state and world. So any worries may only be a belief you have about yourself, and if you are worried it is shown in your dream exactly what it is – a thought and emotion that is using you vital energies unwisely.
Example: In a dream I realised that I had often held thoughts and feelings of ill health or that there was something wrong with my body. I saw into myself and could see how these feelings caused so much harm to the workings of my subtle energies that support health, and I felt so sorry for constantly doing that to myself.
Computer/laptop battery: This connects more directly with accessing your talents, your memory, your links with others, and maybe your work more than a general battery. So it is important to define what part the battery is playing in the dream.
Flat battery: Suggests lack of motivation; a run-down condition regarding health or emotional energy; lack of resources or motivation. Sometimes it shows a lack of confidence in what you are doing, indicating the feeling that you are not capable or not sure enough of what you do.
Useful Questions and Hints:
What is the battery energising – a car a torch? Whatever it is look it up to see what is being influenced.
Am I feeling in any way like the energised or flat battery?
How do I recharge myself?