Instinct Dream Interpretation

1- When animals appear in a dream they usually represent an aspect of the personality which cannot be properly understood except on an instinctive level. Animal with a cub This w...

1. Confinement and exhibition.2. Controlled instincts.3. Feel­ing unnoticed, abilities underappreciated. ...

1- The nest symbolises safety and perhaps home life. We may be emotionally dependent on the people around us and afraid of leaving the nest’.It is perhaps interesting to note tha...

The animalistic.A symbol of instincts to be used and guided by conscience.The dog may also appear as a guard to protect property and defend against attack. He may symbolize a true ...

The body represents the individual and is his outward physical manifestation of all that he is. In dreams, the body often represents the Ego (see Introduction). Since being ‘phys...

Developmental difficulties. Points at the same time to increased rigidity. You need to allow yourself to be more playful and happy. Leave room for the animal side of you (the ape i...

A phallic symbol—probably the reason why the long nose of the Fool is so popular.To have a good nose means to have rank and fame, intuition, and instinct.It is also a symbol for ...

The power of observation and perceptiveness.Quick response.Acting or reacting automatically or without conscious thought (such as a reflexive mental or emotional reaction).Instinct...

(see Animals)The grizzly or domineering side of our moods (e.g., acting “bearish”).The wildness within that wishes more expression.Heraldic: Among the medieval artisans, this c...

(1) The forest may be a sexual symbol, representing female pubic hair. (Arguably it could be male pubic hair, but there is a strong unconscious - mythological - connection between ...

One has a dangerous instinct buried deep in one’s soul. ...

(1) In a woman’s dream the animus may appear as a bull (for animus)-(6)).(2) The bull may refer to your masculinity (whether you are a man or a woman).If you are a woman, it may ...

(1) A wolf may symbolize all that you are afraid of in yourself, particularly what you see as ‘animal’, aggressive and destructive. Probably your fear is irrational and stems f...

also see Animals1- Reptiles in dreams link with our basic and instinctive reactions and responses. WTien there is a basic urge such as a need for food, sex, etc. - we sometimes can...

1. A need or desire to commune with nature.2. A desire for “wildness,” to lose some of the constraints of society.3. A mes­sage from baser instincts or intuition, usually abou...

Insects in dreams can reflect the feeling that something is irritating or bugging us. It may also indicate our feeling of insignificance and powerlessness. It will depend on the pa...

To dream that you see a gorilla indicates that you could be a bit rambunctious. You may be making up for your firm and unyielding demeanor in your waking life. This dream may also ...

1. If a single cow, maternal instinct.2. Herd of cows signifies paying too much attention to others.3. Victim. ...

(Instinct, Nature, Profits) In a dream, milk represents nature, instinct, or easy and lawful money. However, curdled milk in a dream represents unlawful money.If a man or a woman ...

The animal, compulsive nature of human beings. Instincts, according to Freud and most other dream interpreters, removed from awareness (animus); or awareness removed from instinct ...

The lion stands for majesty, strength and courage. It can also represent the ego and the passions associated with it.If we are struggling with the lion there should be a successful...

A dream of riding is considered unlucky. Sometimes associated with illness such as seasickness, the result of motion. All dreams of riding, flying, and climbing are rated as a desi...

(1) If the boar in vour dream strikes you as ferocious, perhaps it represents some part of you that is struggling for recognition, some buried instinct or desire that is defying yo...

Symbol: Like many other red-coated animals, the fox is a symbol of deception.Vision: Seeing a fox (or several): you are suspicious of your friends.A running fox: be careful, some...

Dreams of leather are symbolic of instinctive, primitive feelings and that you are bringing out your untamed inner animal.If you are wearing leather, then this represents connectio...

What Does It Mean to Dream About a Metal Baby?Dreaming about a metal baby can evoke a multitude of feelings and interpretations. At first glance, the image of a \"metal baby\" migh...

(see also Animal / Monster)A beast may symbolize your own ‘animal nature’.If so, it probably means that you take a low view of instinctive forces (‘the Beast’, after all, i...

(1) A riger mav be an anima figure (see Brother / Sister, sections (4)~(6)).(2) It may symbolize someone or something that has frightened you - perhaps some instinctive drive or ot...

(see Water)Free-flowing thoughts and actions.Time’s passage.The beginning of the river is the past, and where it goes represents the future. This is especially true if you dream ...

(1) A horse - particularly a stallion - may be a symbol of sexuality. Mounting a horse may symbolize the sexual act.(2) A horse may symbolize animality; instinctive dynamism that m...

(see Sports, Water)Water represents the intuitive nature and the subconscious.The movement through this liquid indicates either a willingness to traverse hidden portions of the sel...

Since a bam is usually a fairly large and open space that houses animals, it may signify your animal instincts.The idea of rolling in the hay may indicate that you had a distastefu...

To see your belly in your dream suggests that you are finally coming to terms with inner emotions or turmoil.The belly represents sentiments that aren’t being communicated. This ...

Dreaming of this pretend baby represents budding maternal instincts and desires. This could also be about idealizing someone or yourself. You are attempting to live up to an imposs...

Vision: Being a jockey on a horse: you are a person who takes great risks and loves nothing better than to win every “competition in life”—or you would like to have others d...

Dreams of a Veterinarian signify that you are caring and have compassion for the innocent, helpless, sweet and vulnerable parts of yourself. You are tending to and caring for your ...

A jungle symbolizes the subconscious. Its animals, your most primitive and indomitable instincts. You should pay attention to the elements that appear in the oneiric scene to obtai...

Depends on your feelings for the particular animal (for typical meaning see the specific type).A helpful animal normally represents the instinctive self. Look at your feelings and ...

A dream about your mother may be telling you something about your relationship with your mother. Mother-attachment may be so strong that the development of your own individuality h...

Innocence.Sensitivity, heightened awareness, or intuition.Gentleness.Instinct.A stag might represent masculinity, assertiveness, or aggression.Dreaming of this animal can represent...

1- As a rule, sacrifice has two meanings. Firstly, it is to give something up and secondly to make something sacred or holy. So when those two things are possible within a dream sc...

The left side suggests the less dominant, more passive side. Often it is taken to represent all that is dark and sinister and those parts of our personality that we try to suppress...

The mermaid and merman symbolize the ability to integrate the spiritual aspects of the personality with the emotional. In being part fish and part human, they also symbolize the ev...

(1) The eagle may be an animus figure (for animus, see Brother / Sister, sections (4)-(6)).(2) Eagles live in high places and have been associated in primitive societies with the S...

(1) Contrasted with the sky, earth may symbolize a need to ‘keep your feet on the ground5 or pay attention to ‘earthy5 or libidinal aspects of your being.(2) It may be ‘Mothe...

(1) Are your murdering someone? If the person is someone close, the dream may be expressing repressed hostility or resentment. There is often rivalry between siblings, or (unconsci...

A queen may represent mother; the unconscious; intuition; instinct; nature; personal growth.See also Mother; for king and queen, see Couple....

(1) A tree may symbolize the life principle or the power of growth.(2) It may symbolize the fulfilling of your destiny by surrendering to inner forces of growth and the guidance th...

Like bees and ants, wasps have an overall totem energy that connects with community regulation and interdependent structure. Wasps are predators by nature, and lower forms of insec...

If the victim of the sacrifice is you, the dream could be a reflection of your attitude in real life.It is possible that you make a martyr of yourself or that you have self-blaming...

In the spider three different symbolic meanings converge, and sometimes overlap: creative capacity (the spider weaving its web), aggressiveness (having a predatory instinct), and t...

You are looking to stimulate some sort of self-expression, from power to creativity or even sexuality. Any image that involves sexuality is going to be complex and is best interpre...

Silverware is a symbol of civilization and sophistication. Food is what sustains us and represents nurturing and self-care. By using an implement to connect to our food, we add yet...

The instinctive self.A guide....

1- Birds in dreams usually represent freedom, imagination, thoughts and ideas which, by nature, need freedom to be able to become evident. As far back as Pagan times, man has been ...

also see Authority Figures in People1- To dream of being arrested suggests the restraint of one’s natural self-expression by moral judgements or questions of right or wrong from ...

Snakes are archetypal symbols that have both negative and positive associations, being on one hand thought evil predators and on the other hand agents of healing and transformation...

1- To dream of a dragonfly is to appreciate the need for freedom, but equally to recognise that freedom can be short-lived.2- We may be pursuing a dream, but without anv real focus...

1- Any carved stone appearing in a dream suggests we arc considering how we have shaped our own basic nature.The simpler it is, the more room we have for improvement; the more orna...

see Animals and Fabulous Beasts1- Traditionally, the only people who were allowed to tend unicorns were virgins. When a unicorn appears in a dream, we are linking with the innocent...

1- Occasionally in dreams we become aware that we have ‘said’ vcs. This is an instinctive acceptance or acknowledgement of the validity of whatever has been happening.2- Often,...

Although the word archetype has a long history, Carl Jung used it to express something he observed in human dreams. He said the archetypes are a tendency or instinctive trend in th...

also see Tree1- In former times the yew tree symbolised mourning and sadness. While few people would necessarily recognise a yew tree, there is, on an unconscious level, awareness ...

Freedom, especially in regard to instinctive drives.Freudian: An emblem of the male penis, primarily when combined with tunnel imagery.Similar to other vehicles in terms of movemen...

Vision: Seeing a worm: you find a friend or acquaintance becoming increasingly unfriendly. Somebody might try to undermine your position. \bu have a strange premonition— but vou...

To dream of a yeti implies a need to learn to balance your rational and reasonable side with your more volatile, instinctive, and emotional side....

As with many other symbols of receptivity, a bowl represents ultimate feminine wisdom and instinctive feeling as well as fertility. It thus becomes a symbol of the great mother....

Material aspects: In previous times, the figure of the devil was one to be feared and hated. Our wilder, more instinctive side will often appear in dreams as the conventional figur...

This represents our basic motivation our instinctive drives and possibly the sexual impulse.If the engine is not working properly we are not able to summon up enough energy to go o...

Urine in a dream often indicates our feelings about emotional control. We may either yield to emotion or bottle it up.The way we deal with urine in dreams often also tells us a gre...

The primitive or basic instinctive nature, unconscious or intuitional side of self.A part of self that is foreign to you, not known or understood, that is coming into awareness....

A safari is a Western-culture attempt to expose an individual to the energy that the African plain has to offer. In this way, it is a symbol of an attempt to cross over into foreig...

1- Dreaming of fish connects with the emotional side of ourselves, but more our ability to be wise without being strategic. We can often simply respond instinctively to what is goi...

An imp appearing in a dream usually foretells disorder and difficulty.The imp often has the same significance as the Devil (See Devil) in its aspect of tormenting one, of creating ...

(1) If you dream of being abandoned or forsaken, the dream is almost certainly expressing your own (albeit unconscious) feelings. Perhaps you felt uncared for as a child.If so, you...

1. Longing to be free—and responsibility-free.2. Expression of secret thieving instincts. ...

(or lower body)(1) The abdomen may represent sexual feelings.(2) It may also represent die unconscious. Naturally, (2) may include (1), and a dream in which the abdomen or lower pa...

A cellar or basement may symbolize the deepest level of your mind.If you have not explored vour unconscious, the ‘cellars of your mind’ will be the whole of the unconscious min...

(1) Dancing may be a sexual symbol, representing sexual intercourse.(2) By virtue of its sexual associations, dancing may represent a coming together - courtship - of the masculine...

also see Horns1- The deer is a noble animal, so the interpretation differs if the antlers are mounted, as in a trophy, or are seen on the animal.If the latter then the interpretati...

The serpent is a universal symbol which can be male or female, or it can be self-created. It can signify death or destruction or conversely life and also rejuvenation.It is the ins...

1- If our attention is drawn to the base of an object we may need to go back to the starting point of a project in which we arc involved in waking life. We should consider how stab...

1- To dream of a seashore and be conscious of a bay or inlet shows we arc aware of a woman’s sexuality and receptivencss.2- To be keeping something at bay indicates a need to be ...

also see Limbs in Body1- Bones appearing in a dream usually indicate that we need to be aware that which we consider to be basic material. We need to ‘go back to basics’.To dre...

1- In dreams to win a prize is to have succecdcd in overcoming our own obstacles. We are also being acknowledged by other people for having made the effort to succeed.To be giving ...

(1) A room may represent the self, or some aspect of yourself.(2) It may be a symbol of the womb. Freud tells of a dream in which a girl (the dreamer) entered a room six or eight t...

We can say that in the most profound and ancestral aspect, the myth of the giant refers to the existence of an enormous living being, primordial, whose sacrifice originated creatio...

Vision: Dreaming about fasting is often a hint that you are going through a health crisis.The dream suggests that you be sexually moderate.Depth Psychology: Fasting can also indi...

Symbol: The tail is a phallic symbol.Vision: Seeing a curly tail: you love to tease other people and play practical jokes. Seeing an animal with a long tail: many difficulties li...

Vision: Seeing a vampire: unbridled passions are taking over and depleting you or another person.Depth Psychology: Fears, instincts, and primitive urges are producing a “cold�...

People who have been in a war situation may be plagued by dreams that recall their ordeals, but for those who have never seen war, such dreams usually refer to private battles ragi...

Also see Dream Dictionary: PrisonDreaming of a cage most often represents some form of trap or prison. However, if the dream incorporates the dreamer ensnaring a wild animal, impl...

lucky numbers: 05-15-16-28-43-48afraid of: commitment is a dirty word for your intense psychological ordeal. artificial, an: dries up water; excesses of your unconscious. ashes: la...

If you dreamed of spilling powder, or something being crushed into powder, it suggests that you are in a state of mental turmoil due to conflicting advice concerning an important d...

1- Abnormality in a dream usually represents something which we instinctively feel is wrong or not balanced properly.If it is abnormal in the sense of extraordinary, such as an abn...

1- To dream of scoring a goal may indicate that we have set ourselves external targets. In achieving those targets we may also recognise that the goals which we have set ourselves ...

To dream that you are naked, foretells scandal and unwise engagements.To see others naked, foretells that you will be tempted by designing persons to leave the path of duty. Sickne...

The house generally represents your psychological and emotional self. Each part of the house may deal with a different part of you.The basement is built first.It is often below gro...

The lunar, feminine, water aspect of the Universe.An influence that causes odd behavior, such as the full moon or a blue moon are purported to do.If being covered by a cloud, a typ...