Posts Tagged ‘dreams’
Calf
(See: calf body) Because it is a baby animal it can represent your own childhood, and your dependent link with your mother. It might also suggest feelings about a baby or your feelings about babies. The calf might also be associated with food or money if you are a farmer or in the food industry. See: Animal.
In some dreams calf is used as a measurement to see how deep water or mud is when walking, or dress length.
The calf is new life striving to survive in the world.
There is also the fatted calf, which if dreamt of represents the return of ones will to the highest in you rather than giving your life to grabbing everything for oneself. If you do not know what the highest in you is, ask your dreams to show you and give you a taste of it.
Example: I dreamt I was a disembodied observer watching a young calf with its mother cow. There was a sheepdog with the calf. Because the calf was new-born the dog was stronger, but it was a friend of the calf. They were following the mother over the hill behind where I used to live. As they went over the top of the hill the calf became stronger. At the bottom of the hill, there was a stile. The cow tried to crawl under the stile, but got stuck. It appeared almost to be dying, lying flattened to the ground, looking no bigger than the calf. As it was lying there, the calf and the dog were lying together patiently waiting. They were curled up on the ground together, motionless. Then a change occurred, and the mother cow seemed to gain strength. The calf and the dog then leapt and danced together like two dogs playing.
The dream was explored by the dreamer and he said, “The hill behind the house I lived in was a huge barrier for me as a young boy. My house was on the edge of fields in which were cows and cart horses. I felt so small and scared by them; but gradually I found the courage to cross the hill to visit a friend. So the dream is about feeling vulnerable and yet with the dog, which is the life that supports and cares for me and gives me confidence, and the mother who was a powerful mother, I made a big change in my life by facing things I had been scared of. Also when I got to the stile – the other side of which was the place my loved grandmother had lived – it felt like I had to died to reach my dead grandmother. Then all the strength I had inherited from my mother rose up and I danced with the feeling of life in me – life that was at the same time death, for I was no longer afraid of death.”
Useful Questions and Hints:
Do my feelings suggest this is pointing to my own childhood – if so what is my dream showing me?
What has been recently born into my life?
Am I meeting dependent feelings in a relationship?
Try Being the Person or Thing; Easy Dream Interpretation.
Call Box
See: Telephone.
Camel
This often associates with the ability or personal qualities to face difficult experiences the dry places of life. Such dryness is when there is little satisfaction, no feelings, nothing growing in your experience maybe even sterility of one sort or another. A word that can be connected with this in some dreams is barrenness. So it is saying that you can survive such dryness of spirit or of body – you are a survivor.
The camel may also link with patience, long suffering, perseverance. Or having inner stores of energy or resourcefulness that will carry you through difficult situations. John the Baptist clothed himself in camels hair. This means his patient, persevering seeking of truth despite living in the wilderness of intellectual doubt.
The camel at times can also represent pregnancy because of it hump/bump.
Useful questions are:
Is there an aspect of my life that feels sterile or lacking growth at the moment?
Is the camel in the dream helping me to deal with a difficult environment, and if so how does that relate to my life at the moment?
What is the action with the camel, and how does that translate to my present life?
What are my personal qualities in regard to dealing with difficult times?
Try being camel and see what you get from it Being the Person or Thing – Easy Dream Interpretation
Camera
This usually shows some aspect of memory or taking notice. The dream may also show you something important that you have seen out of the ‘corner of your eye’ but not processed into waking awareness. It also links with wanting to carry the essence of people with you if you have to leave them or be away from them.
The camera can show your ability or inability to be really aware of what is going on around you. It can also be used in a dream to show different perspective of life than your usual views. Sometimes in dreams the camera is like a time machine in that it captures moments of life that can be looked back on or replayed. See: photos.
Example: dream about my camera. I was in a car full of people and remembered I had left my camera at home and asked if they wouldn’t mind if we went to fetch it. They did not mind and took me home. My father was curled up looking pitiful asleep on a chair. I got my camera and then lowered it through a square opening and threw it down to the level below. I was a first worried that that action might damage the lens but it rolled quietly and was fine. I decided not to follow the camera through the opening.
The camera links with memory, memory of your father. The level below suggests a move to the past, maybe to be with your father. You do not follow that feelings however.
Movie or video camera: Being filmed has elements in it of parts of your life being on display to other people, and shows how you feel about that.
Useful Questions and Hints:
What am I trying to capture or memorise here?
Am I trying to direct my attention to something – if so what?
What person am I trying to take with me through life?
See Being the Person or Thing; Avoid Being Victims and Secrets of Power Dreaming
Can Tin
Cans or tins are mentioned in so many ways in the dreams I have in my collection that it is impossible to give general meanings. You have canned soup, tin shed or tin roof, a tin of tobacco, tin toys, tin art work and so on. So it would be helpful to read Techniques for Exploring your Dreams
But if it is canned food or goods, it probably indicates something that has been kept in good condition for ages and can now be used or accessed. It might help if you used Being the Person or Thing. It could also be softness or protection. If a can it can suggest storage of memories or nourishing feelings and experiences.
Example: I dreamed that I was eating a tin of sardines in a house with friends, although none of the friends were people I actually know in real life, just made-up dream friends. As I was eating the sardines I noticed that they were quite large pieces of fish. There was a giant piece of tail I took a bite of, then I noticed that there was a large whole eel underneath the chopped fish.
The eel started to move and lift its head as I backed away from the tin, startled. Then I realized that to wasn’t an eel, but an otter. It was covered in slime from the sardine tin, but it crawled out and began running around the room. My friends and I looked on in disbelief and when it went for the screen door, I gave it a nudge to let the otter outside. My friends started yelling at me for letting it out, but I didn’t see why we should keep it captive.
The dream shows the man living out of a tin – artificially preserved lifestyle. But in eating the fish, something from his real life feelings he finds a living experience that he gives it freedom of expression.
Canal
The dream is probably a comment on the way you direct your emotions and energy, and what this control or decision making means in connection with your relationships and goals. There may be a link with relaxation or pleasure if you have holidayed on a canal. Or other associations if you live near one. See: River; Water.
Sometimes this refers to the birth canal.
Example: ‘I’m trapped in a long passageway or corridor. I can’t get out. I’m feeling my way along the wall – there is a small light at the end of the tunnel, I can’t get to it. I’m very frightened. I wake up before I get to the end. Then I feel afraid to go back to sleep.’ Margaret.
The above is an example of a typical birth dream, or of someone feeling really trapped.
The canal may also indicate what you have inherited from your family or the past in the way you direct or control your urges and emotions. So the morals you live by or the standards of behaviour you accept might be already formed from the past.
A canal also has the association of danger in that it often has steep banks and people drown or commit suicide in canals. So it might depict the depressed of gloomy side of your feelings.
If the canal is blocked or in ruins, then it suggests your controlled emotions need a bit more flow and freedom to clear away old feelings and experiences that are holding you back.
Example: The previous night I dreamt I was driving someone else’s car (borrowed) and wasn’t paying enough attention to the fact that I didn’t know the car and managed to scrape it. I just thought ‘I’ll have to get it fixed.’ Then I drove across the road in preparation for a three point turn and found myself at the edge of a canal. I put the gear in what I thought was reverse and pressed the accelerator but I hadn’t checked where the reverse was and put it into 4th instead – I flew over the edge and into the canal. As the car sank I(as in waking me) was rehearsing how I had to open the windows and get out but me in the dream had the thought, ‘Maybe I’m going to die now!’ I wasn’t doing anything to get out and woke up with a bit of a start.
I don’t think I’ve ever dreamt about dying before, so that struck me as significant.Example: I had a dream last night about my younger sister Ruth wanting to go to a certain place. I didn’t want to go because I had something important to do but she persisted and so I went. Then, we arrived at this dark underground with a wide canal filled with flowing murky water. She was so excited to jump in to the water and swims past a tunnel that stretches to a dark end. She said she wanted to have an adventure in her life and want to see a crocodile at the end of the tunnel.
Useful Questions and Hints:
Is my dream canal flowing well or is it blocked?
What are the surrounding events in the dream and what do they suggest?
If I imagine myself as the canal what do I feel and understand – how do I describe myself?
Try Stand in role; Being the Person or Thing
Canada
See: Abroad.
Cancer
There are two major links with dreaming of cancer. The first is that many people meet cancer in their dream because it represents death. So the dream is a way of experiencing their fears about death.
The second is that cancer depicts parts of ones emotional or thinking character that are sick and/or unhealthy. With these dreams you need to consider what part of the body you dream has cancer, then understand it psychological meaning. See: body – Body Dreams – Dream Body – Body Images.
Example: Before I knew I was ill with cancer I dreamt that an angel came to me and explained that before we are born we are all angels and are without limitations. When we are born we take on a life of limitations in order to learn something important to us. Then when we die at the end of that life we return to being an angel. All the limitations of life then disappear again.
The man who dreamt this died within a years of lung cancer – he had smoked heavily all his adult life.
Example: Dear Tony, My beloved sister passed away last week of brain cancer after 7 struggling years. I haven’t dreamt of her, however my cousin dreamt of her the morning after her funeral. He dreamt – There was a bright calm meadow, with a small white cottage at the far distant end. My sister then appeared at the foreground of the meadow – appearing as she did before she was ill, and very happy and giddy giggling shyly and smiling to my cousin. She was beautiful and her smile was calm and beautiful to my cousin. My cousin said he felt happiness with her just like the familiar feeling he had with her as when they were kids together growing up. She appeared very happy. Just as he was about to take a photo of her and she posed for him with her smile, his alarm went off in his bedroom and so he suddenly woke up from the dream.
The remarkable thing about the alarm is that he works at home and so never sets the alarm to go off, but it did go off suddenly in his room.
The time on the alarm clock he saw was 8:28am. August 28 was her birthday.
Example: I am “alive” in this underground chamber with thousands of other people (hell is other people). But the girl and I take the chance to escape. Actually I am chasing her on a motorcycle, then I join her. But it is too late, I am nearly dead with cancer when they catch up with me (and let me go walking down the road). (I am afraid that I have cancer.) The dreamer never developed cancer.
In some dreams we see someone else with cancer, but to start with they need to be considered as representing a facet of yourself – such as your worrying anxious self; your sexual self; your business or streetwise self, etc. Dreams accurately predicting the future are very rare. So it is unlikely though not impossible that the person you dream has cancer actually has it or will get it.
Occasionally the dream is an expression of how we feel about other people’s – especially our mother’s – emotional influence on us. This influence might be eating away at our own sense of well being. Or in some cases we sense it in the social attitudes we live amidst that is likewise eating away at our own health and wholeness.
Occasionally it is an awareness of illness in part of ones body. If this is suspected get a good health check. See Example under Death.
Useful Questions and Hints:
Does this feel like a ‘fear of death’ dream? If so see death and dreams.
Am I becoming aware of attitudes or inner problems that are being shown in the dream as cancer – if so can I put into words what they are?
If I describe myself as the cancer in the dream, what do I say, and what do I understand from this?
Candle
Usually is associated in dreams with dispelling difficult feelings, a darkness of soul being dispersed. Sometimes the candle is difficult to light, and this points to a lack of confidence about ones own ability to push back the depressed or morbid feelings in oneself. See Avoid Being Victims
Here is a typical dream of this sort.
Example: At the bottom right of a hill was a lodge house. I went in. It was very dark inside, and it was said to be the source of hauntings. I did not feel frightened, but felt the need for light. I found some matches, but they were very difficult to light. I tried to light candles, and eventually succeeded, but they were not very bright, and it was still dark. A cat moved about in the darkness. It did not frighten me. Using a candle I tried to light gas lamps seen by the candles. They were as difficult as the candles, but still not very bright. Then I noticed electric lights, found I had some sixpences and shillings, and put them in the meter, and switched on.
A candle can also represent the light that is the core of your existence – the light of Life that lives through consuming substance/food. As such it is sometimes seen as a great being of light that burns away the dross of your thoughts and turgid emotions. But a candle can also be seen as a timepiece showing the duration or shortness of your life. See: Fire; Light.
In this connection the seven candles indicate the seven centres of light or bridging in your being. These are the point within your body, the collections of cells that act as links between the local and limited life you experience in and as the body and body senses, and the larger life of unlimited awareness through your fundamental consciousness. These are the seven churches in the New Testament, the seven candles on the Jewish candlestick, the seven chakras in yoga. See: chakras; consciousness- the brain mind split.
A candle can sometimes represent the penis, and if one has ever been used for masturbation, then it has direct sexual connections.
Candles lit in a room can show a feeling of celebration or intimacy – occasionally something special to celebrate, or being in high company.
Lighting a candle: A birth; prayer for someone of something. Also a positive feeling of dispelling depression or fears. But often a way of remembering a person, feeling care and love for them, or asking help from the hugeness we are part of.
If lit amid darkness: Finding understanding or courage amid doubts, fears, depression.
Occasionally: Measurer of how much time we have left in life.
Idioms: Burn the candle at both ends; not fit to hold a candle.
Useful Questions and Hints:
Am I feeling anxious in this dream – if so what is my difficulty in dealing with the anxiety?
Is there a suggestion of time or length of life here – if so what do I feel about that?
Does my dream have any feeling of holiness of greater meaning, and can I put that into words?
See Easy Dream Interpretation – Secrets of Power Dreaming
Candy
See: Sweets.
Cane
This suggests the use of authority or aggression, either by you or toward you. Sometimes it links with memories and feelings about school or parents aggression, punishment, or sadistic sexuality. When being used it can depict anger or domination of the weak by the strong. In some cases it is an image of male control over women, and often linked punishment with sexual pleasure.
But the cane has associations with discipline also, and can at times represent the disciplining of oneself in a process of strengthening resolve or direction.
Example: My daughter was trying to escape me and leapt into the river tributary, putting her head under water. I pulled her out and gave her a thrashing with a cane. Once that was done we both felt very close and able to communicate easily, as if a great burden or impediment had gone. We hugged each other. Peter W.
This is about disciplining Peter’s own emotions that have been causing him great misery and difficulty in his relationships. The daughter representing his unruly emotions – a good example of how we see something in another person, and then use an image of them to represent it in ones own life. The discipline leads to greater harmony within himself.
The cane, perhaps not so much in present times, but in the past, was a symbol of the oppressions and authority of the ruling classes or the punitive minions of the state.
It can also depicts support, or the process of ageing or vulnerability, as in a walking stick.
Useful Questions and Hints:
What is the cane being used for, and does this give me a clue to whether this dream is about oppression or discipline?
Am I using the cane or is it being used against me – and what is my response? To understand about your possible response see – active/passive.
Does this link with feelings from childhood, or is this about my own anger?
See Acting on your dream; Characters and People in Dreams; Secrets of Power Dreaming
Cannibal
The part of us that lives off the lives or efforts of others, instead of producing for ourselves. This might occasionally depict a problem with your diet. People often dream of eating their own flesh if they are undernourished or starving. Eating our own flesh might also suggest we are absorbing a facet of ourselves that has not previously been fully a part of our waking life.
Being the victim of cannibalism might show that you feel “eaten alive” by work, a relationship, or a condition in your life. Like incest and murder cannibalism expresses the worst form of what is forbidden.
Eating another person suggests that you have felt anger and resentment to another person, or even aspects of yourself. See Talking As It would be good to see what was the character of the person being eaten, because it might point to you wishing to take on that person spirit or quality.
Example: I was once travelling a very long way and missing the directives I received from enquiries I made, I strayed into the town which was notorious because they were cannibals. and the worst thing was that I was alone. While going through this village section of the town I met one man on the way as I passed him. He turned and looked at me with curiosity obvious in his looks. As I was going I met another man talking with another beside the path, They also gave me curious looks which made me to perceive that I was actually in the midst of that dreaded town. Dream of an African.
Other possibilities might be suggested by the surrounding drama in the dream. For instance cannibalism was originally practiced for two reason. Firstly the flesh of others was eaten to take on their power and essence. It was also a critical act to survive extreme circumstances.
There is also a religious side to this in that the Mass in Christianity is a form of eating another being’s flesh and drinking their blood. The flesh is eaten to share in the spirit and power of the willing sacrifice, and thereby receive the spiritual influence. See: flesh.
Useful Questions and Hints:
Is my dream suggesting the cannibalism is an act or parasitism?
Is it my own flesh that is being eaten?
Am I experiencing a greater union with a higher power in my life?
See Being the Person or Thing; Secrets of Power Dreaming
Cannon
An explosive possibility or a defensive feeling or action.
It might therefore refer to old attitudes or ways that you defend yourself from attack or criticism. It can also refer to desires to attack others. So it could indicate that you were going to use explosive emotions because something drastic needs to be done, with the possibility of a big blow-up.
If the dream has a farcical side to it perhaps it is showing a silly side to your dream meaning – the clown shot out of a gun.
Example: I assured him that our passports were quite in order and that we had nothing to declare. He remained unconvinced, and when the cannon fired in a rather desultory way, he managed to land on top of it in a very undignified manner, and fell down onto the other side. My associations led to a childhood memory of a clown being fired out of the mouth of a cannon, indicating that at this particular moment in time, I saw my friend as a clown insisting on taking the most difficult course of action in spite of the fact that there were much easier ways of doing things. Quoted from Dream Power by Dr. Ann Faraday.
The male penis is sometimes referred to as a cannon, especially if sex is something of an attack or defense against difficult feelings.
Idioms: a loose cannon; cannon fodder; fired out of a cannon (circus).
Useful Questions and Hints:
What is my dream cannon being used for, and what does that indicate about me?
Is this about attack or defense?
Am I feeling aggressive about someone or something?
Do I feel there are issues about sex to sort out?
Try using Secrets of Power Dreaming; Energy Sex and Dreams; Easy Dream Interpretation
Canoe
See: Boat.
Canyon
See: Valley.
Cap
See: Hat.