Bring to consciousness; reveal to oneself or realise; become aware that you have buried feelings about a past love, old hurts, etc. ...

1- There are two ways in which a chrysalis can be interpreted within a dream. Firstly, as potential for action, which has not yet been realised, and secondly protection in a situat...

Example: ‘I am sleeping rough in a garden with a woman I do not love. I think I should try to make the best of the situation, but my feelings against it are too strong. Then I de...

Example: ‘I am given an animal to look after (usually somebody’s pet) while they are away on holiday. I then completely forget the animal, go away and when I return the animal ...

The male within the female, shown as a man in a woman’s dreams. Physically a woman is predominantly fe­male, but also has a clitoris and produces some male hor­mones. Psycholog...

Example: ‘I am in a strange town—usually where there are shops and lots of people. I don’t know where I am or how I got there, but I suddenly realise I have lost my handbag. ...

Example: ‘I sit on a bed. Near me, looking at a book I am holding is a woman I know, Jane. I realise as we talk that her foot is touching mine. As my wife is on my left across th...

Example: My son comes in and I see he is unwashed and seems preoccupied and as if he has not cared for himself for some days. I ask him what is wrong. He tells me his mother is dea...

The symbols of death or the fear of death can be: sunset; evening; a crossed river or falling in a river, a skeleton; snarling dogs; sleep; anaesthetic; gravestones; ceme­tery; bl...

Example: ‘She continues to attack him and, to my horror and feeling of helplessness, his head comes off. But the neck is made of some son of material with a string hanging off it...

Sigmund Freud was the founder of modern therapeutic analysis of dreams. Freud encouraged clients to relax on a couch and allow free associations to arise in con­nection with aspec...

One of Carl Jung s most interesting areas of thought is that of individuation. In a nutshell the word refers to the processes involved in becoming a self-aware human being.The area...

To realise something; to ‘wake up’ to one’s situa­tion; to come out of a period of withdrawal. Idioms: rude awakening; wake up to something; wide awake. ...

1- To experience some form of brutality in a dream can be frightening until we realise that we are connecting into the darker, more animal side of ourselves. We may- need to deal w...

1- To be aware of water in a dream and then realise that it has evaporated is to recognise the transformation which can take place once emotion is dealt with properly.2- By raising...

Usually we live on the surface of our mind. In sleep we dive down deeper but lose our sense of self.If we maintain some awareness in these deeps of the mind, it is somewhat like sn...

Example: ‘I went into a cellar. It was rather cavelike. I had to scramble to get into it.The entrance was difficult to find, but I had discovered it many years before and been in...

Example: ‘I was sitting in the living room at home and my mum was sitting there like we do when we’re relaxing in the evening. From nowhere in particular my dad was there. He h...

Things we repeat over and over, like habits; move­ment towards greater awareness or insight.Example: We walk around, go upstairs, and I notice a staircase leading to a room or roo...

1- “flic family is the first basic security image that a child has. Often, through circumstances not within that child’s control, that image becomes distorted, and dreams will ...

1- There is an obvious connection between Mummy and mother is a play on words. In many ways our mother must ‘die’, or rather, we must change our relationship with her, in order...

1- Parasites such as lice, fleas or bugs in a dream suggest that we may be aware that someone is attempting to live off our energy in some way. Our lifestyle may, to them, appear t...

Over the years many theories to ex­plain the ‘why’ of dreams have been put forward. These range from dreams being messages from spirits; being results of food eaten prior to s...

Being aware of, becoming conscious; meeting and becoming intimate; contacting. Touching also sometimes shows a linking up with something, as when a person touches a power line and ...

1- When we experience fear in a dream, the physical manifestation in the dream state itself such as rapid heartbeat and sweating can actually be absent.It is only on awakening that...

Another dream of contrary, since it shows that you realise your difficulties, and are likely to overcome them To the timid lover, it foretells success. ...

This dream depends upon the circumstances.If you see yourself among the dancers, some favourable news will reach you. But to watch other people dancing and enjoying themselves show...

The Scientific Literature of Dream-Problems I shall begin by giving a short account of the views of earlier writers on this subject and of the status of the dream-problem in conte...

Example: ‘I was in my mother s bedroom with my teenage boyfriend. We were laying in my parents’ double bed and he was kissing my breasts. I realised we were near to making love...

Sometimes in the practice of deep relaxation, meditation or sensory deprivation, our being enters into a state akin to sleep, yet we maintain a personal waking awareness. This is l...

If we keep a record of our dreams it will soon become obvious that some of our dream themes, charac­ters or places recur again and again. These recurrences are of various types.A ...

Having written a dream down, by using highlighting pens to make all matching words the same colour, one can immediately see the main issues in some dreams.Example: ‘We walk aroun...

Because the unconscious has a powerful faculty for synthesising our experience, it frequently arrives at a sense of what we most wish for or want to create through our life. Yet we...

Intimacy, being made aware of; what one feels con­nected with or has ties with; near to, in the sense of making a decision—near to leaving home; close to, as ‘close to finding...

also see Devour, Food and Nourishment1- To be eating in a dream shows that one is attempting to satisfy one’s needs or hunger. Hunger is a basic drive and we need to realise that...

1- Most of us are capable of creating an ideal person on whom to project our fantasies and wishes. We are not at this stage particularly in touch with reality. In dreams a film, po...

1- When dreaming, there is an hallucinatory quality about everything that we see. We usually accept what we experience as real and in the actual dream state do not question. Scenes...

also see Key and Prison1- It is very easy to lock away the emotions, supposedly to keep them safe.A lock appearing in a dream may alert us to the fact that we need to free up whate...

Thoughts and feelings constantly appear and then disappear, sometimes never to be seen or captured again. This is the magical world of mind and emotion, where things emerge out of ...

1- When we dream of trying to maintain our balance or of being balanced in a difficult position we are searching for equilibrium.To dream of searching for the balance in a financia...

1- I’o experience emptiness in a dream indicates there is a lack of pleasure and enthusiasm. We could be suffering from a sense of Isolation, or perhaps of not having anything to...

1- We all have within us the ability to attract or repel others, and often a magnet appearing in a dream will highlight that ability. Since of itself the magnet is inert, it is the...

1- Manna represents food and therefore has the same significance as bread.It is food for the soul and food which is in some wav miracu- lous.For this to appear in a dream usually r...

1- Everyone has a basic need to belong and often we arc conscious in dreams of finding our particular place. It manifests itself in dreams as a place where we are protected on all ...

also see Knife1- To be stabbed in a dream indicates our ability to be hurt.To stab someone is, conversely, to be prepared to hurt. Since a stab wound is penetrative it obviously ha...

Example: I was in a race riding a horse but couldn’t get to the staning gate in time.The others were way ahead of me jumping the fences. I couldn’t catch up, and one fence I ca...

1- The first symbolism connected with knitting is that of creating something new out of available material.A projcct or idea which is being worked on is beginning to come together....

If in season, disappointment; but to drenra of this flower in winter is a sign of tender hopes which will be realised....

Waiting in a station for a train that is Signalled, is a portent of long delayed wishes that will at last be realised....

This is a token of ambitions soon to be realised, while to dream of watching the sunset signifies the reverse....

To see one means good luck if the sea be smooth; to be in one, ambitions realised, unless the sea be rough, which means disappointment. ...

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- ‘Quintessence’ literally means ‘five beings’, but is taken to mean ‘supremely perfect’. ‘I’o dream of this is to link with man’s need to create, and to create ...

Below are described simple techniques which make it possible to gain information quickly from dreams. They have been put as a series of questions. What is the background to the dre...

Example:41 dreamt my sister was attacking me with a pair of scissors. She backed me against a wall and stabbed me. During the day after the dream my sister phoned me at work and sa...

Example: ‘Some three years ago I had constant dreams with my mother. We were nearly always in some son of argu­ment or fight’ (Maijorie B). Usually, as in the example, the dre...

There is a level of human experience which is typified by intense emotional and physical response to life. Such emotions and bodily drives may remain almost entirely unconscious un...

Example: ‘The group I followed on the underground got off. I followed them.An elderly woman friend told me they were going home, not to my destination’ (Debbie T).To follow is ...

Some dream researchers suggest falling is one of the main themes in dreams. In the sample used for this book, the words fall, falls, fell, falling occur 72 times in 1,000 dreams.Th...

Many dreams lead us to feel an intensity of emotion we may seldom if ever feel in waking life.If the emotions felt are frightening or disgusting we call the dream a nightmare. One ...

lives While there may be some evidence for reincarna­tion in the work of Dr Ian Stevenson, dreams which clearly state reincarnation in their theme most likely represent pres­ent ...

For a man the penis represents more than simply his sexual appetite. It depicts the whole drive of life through his glandular system which develops the body type he has, pre­dispo...

In attempting to put together the information gathered from viewing thousands of dreams—not simply at face value, but explored in depth through the emo­tions and direct associat...

Example: \ tried to turn but my legs were like lead.The man caught me and I fought. He tried to rape me but couldn’t do it. As I talked to him I began to feel sorry for him and n...

Adrian Morrison at the University of Pennsylvania, investigating narcolepsy, a condition producing sleep in the middle of activity, found that a small area of the brain, the pons, ...

Our conscious self or ego is only a tiny pan of our totality, as is obvious when we consider how much of our memory or experience we can hold in mind at any one time.The self, as d...

Codes of behaviour, belief systems, attitudes—often un­conscious—you live within, or are protected by; the bound­aries of behaviour or thought you keep within, are fearful of...

Emotions, moods and flow of feeling energy. Because of the nature of water it lends itself to depicting aspects of how we relate to emotions; for instance, one can drown’ in or f...

According to Freud, one of the major pro­cesses of the unconscious is condensation. This means that within one element in a dream, such as the strange room we dream we are in or t...

1- Liquid in dreams can have more than one meaning. Because it is always connected with 'flow’, it can represent the idea of allowing feelings to How properly.The colour of the l...

1- Often in waking life we will not recognisc our own creative ability; and to be painting in a dream may alert us to other talents we have not realised we possess. We may not actu...

Although the world of business and the world of dreams are often considered to be incompat­ible, this is not so. Once one realises that dreams may be the ‘printout’ of the mos...

Our name represents our sense of self, our essential T.If name is altered: suggests a sense of change in the way we see ourself. Other people’s names: our feelings for that perso...

1- The number of sides the shape has will be significant (See Numbers), as will the colours (See Colours). At a certain stage of development the geometric shapes which will give th...