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: Hundreds of real dreams
A BASIC INTRO to what dreams are about
BASIC
TECHNIQUES to interpret dreams
DREAM
DICTIONARY A to Z of symbols complete with essays on symbols in everyday real
uses
BASIC SYMBOLISM - DREAM
SYMBOLS : Basements
- Your boss
- Best friend
- Babies/pregnant
- Brothers
- Cafes
- Cars
- Castles
- Children
- Creative dreams
- Clothes
- Churches and cathedrals
- Deaths
- Demons,witches and goblins
- Dogs
- Drink and drugs
- Farms, gardens and plants
- Factories
- Fathers
- Faucets/taps/pipes
- Food
- Earthquakes and volcanos
- Foreign Countries
- Grandparents
- Guards
- Guns and knives
- Horses and animals
- Hauntings
- Hospitals
- Hotels + huge buildings
- Houses
- Locks
- Men(unknown)
- Military -
Money
- Mothers
- Monster
- Mountains
- Movies
- Music
- People
- Police
- Phone
- Politics
- Planes and flying
- Prison -
Rivers
- Rapists and intruders
- Railways
- Roads
- Schools
- Sea
- Sex
- Shops
- Sisters
- Skies in dreams
- Skyscrapers and tall buildings
- Snakes and spiders
- Space
- Sports
- Street
- Teeth
- Tidal waves
- Time
- Toilets in dreams
- Towns and streets
- Trees
- Water
- Weddings and engagements
- Windows
- Work
OTHER
SUBJECTS: external
causes of dreams : Music
in dreams :
Premonitions :
Telepathy : Specific
dreams :
Synonyms in dreams :
Children's
dreams and dreams about your child :
Recurring dreams CASE STUDIES :
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CASE STUDY 1
Our dreams symbolise our real emotions and often reflect the changes within
our life circumstances. Dreams really do reveal our real life thoughts and
sometimes its a little easier to see how dreams relate to reality by looking
at them as a series.
This page features a series of dreams from a lady who was facing family difficulties.
Her mother, her husband and her father had all had various ailments. Her mother
was facing surgery, her Husband was in the early stages of Parkinson's disease
and her father had just recovered from leukemia.
These dreams feature various points during recent times. They each symbolise
a particular emotional reaction to the situations as they unfold. One dream
captures her mothers changing situation. One dream captures the frustrations
of the dreamer as she just wants to hide from the world and all the pressing
demands. One dream captures her realization that she is facing a heavy burden.
The last dream links to her wish to delegate some responsibilities to other
family members but also her realization that this is a waste of time and she
has simply to get on with the tasks.
Dreams capture new thoughts emerging in our minds. Indeed in an extreme form
its possible to say that dreams really reveal your thought processes from
the day before the dream. They can link to your reactions to events from that
day but also to your thoughts swimming around your subconscious. They can
link to feelings of anticipation about the day ahead. They can also simply
reflect your own fantasies and paranoia's.
In this ladies case the dreams capture her feelings about having to care for
several family members without little help from any source. They may also
capture individual moments of frustration. The licorice and lollipop dream
may indeed capture a particular moment in real life. It may capture an incident
in which she simply withdrew into her shell. If you study your own dreams
then you can start to pick up on the kinds of issues that will generate dreams.
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THE DREAM I am in a hotel restaurant, the place keeps getting busier,
I am the only one there to act as waitress, bartender, hostess, manager etc.
I take a couple of orders, then I can't find the keys to open the bar or the
stock rooms, people are getting upset, I find a bunch of keys, 1 opens the
bar area but not the wine fridge, I go back to the restaurant area and it
is packed with people waiting, everyone is looking at me to do something,
I keep telling them I am the only one here but that doesn't help, finally
some staff arrive and take some orders, a little boy is feeling ill and I
tell him that I will take a look at him in a minute (now I'm a doctor too),
he has a stomach ache, nothing serious. I go back to the front of the restaurant
and a guest hands me a stack of bills to be paid, I look down at the first
one and realize that I can't read the handwriting, and I don't know this new
waiter to decipher it, I look around and see a waitress that I know and hand
her the bills and ask her to finish them for me. The guest walks away in disgust
saying is there anything she can do.
THE REALITY The dreamers mother had many responsibilities at that time. Her
mother had just undergone lung surgery for cancer, her father has was just
told he is in complete remission from chronic lymphocitic leukemia, and her
husband has just been diagnosed with early onset Parkinson's . She had been
researching all of those illnesses and helps people to ask the doctors exactly
the right question. She has earned the nickname "DR Annie". At the same time
the dreamer is aware that she can little practically.
THE DREAMS MEANING The dream captured the following feelings within the dreamer
"I seem to have a lot of responsibilities regarding the heath of my family.
I am helping with my husbands illness and my mothers. They also come to ask
me about the medical conditions. I search things out on the Internet. But
I really am not sure its with me looking such things up. Does it really help
as I am not really qualified"
THE INTERPRETATION The dreamer had many responsibilities helping relatives
at that time. There was nothing she could do about this as the family members
needed help. The dream depicts her as someone who virtually does not have
time to think. That is how she felt in reality.
Hotels in dreams are often symbols of the outside world. They show that other
people and their views are having an impact on you(or that you are trying
to influence them). For the dreamer its easy to spot the real life situations
which the hotel is depicting. It links to her many family responsibilities.
In this case the hotel may even be symbolic of a more conventional meaning.
Here she is simply kept busy making life a little easier for the guests. In
reality she is making life more comfortable for her relatives whom she is
helping. Its never easy to spot what the exact symbolic meaning is in a dream.
The doctor in the dream is a symbol of her newly found medical skills. She
was in reality researching many of the illnesses affecting her family. She
had got the nickname DR Annie. So that was a literal symbol. In the dream
she tries to get a new waitress to help her yet this fails. This probably
parallel's her real life situation in which she attempts to get the assistance
of family members yet this seems to fall on deaf ears.
If we help someone in life there is often a price to be paid. Nothing is for
free. If we help someone then we divert resources from elsewhere. In the dreamers
case she was having to put a lot of effort into helping various family members.
Perhaps the dream is pointing to the hidden costs of all the effort she is
putting in. That maybe this is stressing her out.
Symbolic Meanings
DOCTOR : "understanding her families real medical problems"
HOTEL : "looking after everyone's needs"
KEY : "solution to her problems"
WAITRESS : "doing to much for others"
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THE DREAM I walked my husband down this hall, he was waving for work
and ex friend of his was there and asked if I wanted a peanut, a piece of
licorice and a lollipops. I went back to a house my husband reappeared, I
asked what he was doing home he smiled and I noticed a small animal on the
floor. When I bent down to see it, it ran right into my hands (hedgehog) I
though it was going to bite but it didn't. Someone said he likes you, it was
the breeder. Then a chocolate Labrador puppy bounced in, I was disappointed
I like black Labradors. Next thing I know I am back at work in a Hotel I am
being asked to update and down load client files from an Insurance firm. I
tell the lady they are in the filing cabinet, she shows me that they are all
messed up. The puppy and the hedgehog run in. The door to the outside is broken
I try to fix it.
THE REALITY The dreamer is the person in her family they call for help on
any subject or problem. Right now she was dealing with more than was comfortable.
She feels that her siblings are relying on her far too much. Her mother just
had half her lung removed from cancer, she was still in hospital, and her
father is in remission from leukemia. Now my husband has been diagnosed with
Parkinson's disease.
THE DREAMS MEANING The dream captured the following feelings within the dreamer
"Looking after a sick relative can be really testing. Sometimes they
can be very strained. I have to guard against losing my own temper as it can
make things worse. Its difficult for my husband who is becoming defendant
on me."
THE INTERPRETATION The dreamer had more responsibilities than was comfortable
for her. That is the backdrop to the dream and must at least be considered
as important in the dream. In the dream the dreamer appears very busy at times
and this may easily reflect to her real life situation where she was kept
busy looking after relatives.
One thing to note is the licorice, and lollipops. These are little treats.
Yet maybe at times the dreamer gets a little stressed and these little treats
are rejected. Perhaps when she is a little exhausted having helped various
relatives with problems she wants to just crawl into a little ball and hide
from the world(just like a hedgehog).
Its difficult to know exactly what this dream was referring to. Many dreams
refer to specific moments. Thats actual real life moments and they maybe involve
little treats. Yet for the dreamer things are just not exactly as she likes
them. It maybe shows that someone made an effort for her yet it was not exactly
what she wanted.
So perhaps this dream captured an exact moment with an all too real moment
of real prickliness in which the dreamer retreated into her shell and wanted
to hide from the world. Many dreams like this will refer to very specific
events and emotions captured from the previous day. The previous day is crucial
in many dreams as we review the events and emotions that we have just faced.
Often animals symbolise our emotions. A puppy is a symbol of devotion - its
difficult to say exactly whose in this case - it maybe hers towards her family.
The hedgehog may symbolise her other equally strong feelings. In practice
in life we often feel a combination of feelings and have to mask some. Animals
can often symbolise emotions that we show openly. Humans tend to hide emotions
but animals will tend to symbolise emotions that spill out (extreme feelings
such as when we snap or become irritable).
Symbolic Meanings
ANIMAL : "moodiness and animalistic emotions - getting agitated and moody"
CHOCOLATE : "comforting thoughts - saying nice things and making people feel
good "
HEDGEHOG : "defensive and touchy - retreating inside your shell"
LABRADOR : "well disciplined loyal and faithful companion"
PUPPY : "total faithfulness - a relationship with someone who is devoted and
loyal"
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THE DREAM I am leaving on a cruise something happens not sure what
but we have to change cars, we get the docks and I can't leave all my stuff
is in the other car. My Mom is staying with the people that own the second
car, a lot of us end up in a large hotel,( This hotel has been in my dreams
numerous times) we are on the 16th floor this time. There is furniture and
bags everywhere, I am trying to cook some food but I have no potatoes I leave
on a bike to get some and decide I saw a place that makes French fries so
I head in that direction. I don't think I ever got the fries but then I'm
back in the hotel and having trouble getting on the elevator. I finally get
up stairs and realize that the baby has not been changed, people are everywhere,
the fridge door has been left open, I am very frustrated that no one seems
to be trying to help. The phone rings I have to find it to answer it, it is
my sister she says mom is moving, I look at the phone it has the same name
on it that owned the second car we were driving earlier.
THE DREAMS MEANING The dream captured the following feelings within the dreamer
"I feel a little isolated. I keep having to cope with things on my own.
I have maybe got to start making things easier. I have got to look for my
own convenience."
THE REALITY The dream features a bike. Often bikes symbolise how you are battling
on your own often in tough circumstances. So its often a good entry point
into the dream. The dreamer simply has to ask themselves where in life they
feel as if they have been battling hard often without much help(a bike is
a one person vehicle). In the dreamers case she was having to cope with several
family members suffering illnesses. Her mother in particular was undergoing
surgery. At the time of the dream the dreamer had plenty of responsibilities.
The cruise is another symbol that maybe seen as quite reliable. Boats and
ships tend to link to moments of real meaning. They can symbolise emotional
pleasures experienced with others. In this case its a cruise ship which maybe
means that she is wishing for some relaxation and enjoyment. Yet she cannot
leave so maybe shows that the need for relaxation has been disturbed. In her
case it probably is linked to her situation. She is rushed off feet caring
for others in her family. So she cannot sit back and enjoy life.
So already we have a quite distinct message that the dreamers ability to relax
has been affected by her mothers illness. Indeed other symbols also add to
this belief that the dreamer is rushed off her feet. The baby is a symbol
of caring for dependent relative. Its a responsibility for someone whom you
care about.
Sisters symbolise openness to new feelings. In this case the dreamer is maybe
having to come to terms with the fact that her views about her mother are
going to have to change. She is in need of help and attention. She is moving
in the dream because her life situation is moving. She is coming to a new
phase of her life that maybe permanent.
In the dream she clearly feels frustration that no one is helping. That clearly
translates into real life. French fries are a convenience food so maybe she
is attempting to cut corners and make life easier for herself during this
busy period. Instead of preparing the food herself she is getting a take away
showing a wish to make life easier.
Symbolic Meanings
BABY : "having a responsibility to care for dependent family members"
BIKE : "feeling isolated - having to struggle without much help from others"
CAR : "the general direction of your day to day real world existence"
CRUISE : "relaxing emotional journey"
HOTEL : "hotel service - having to look after her mothers every wishes"
PHONE : "wanting to know how someone is feeling and thinking "
POTATOES : "basic things in life"
SISTER : "opening your mind to new feelings"
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THE DREAM I am busy with cleaning and moving at a house, I am also
trying to feed and bathe the baby, My husband says the phone is for me, I
answer it is President Bush,he says I don't know how you do it, I tell him
it is what wives and mothers do, they just do it. I hang up and continue with
my work. Again the phone rings, it is Pres. Bush again, he again says I don't
know how you do it, this tome I tell him to ask his wife. I go back to getting
my work done all the time wondering why he is calling me, for a third time
the phone rings, it is him again, again he says I don't know how you do it,
this time I realize there is a business 2 doors down from me, I ask him what
exactly do you want me to do, he says something about the cash register at
the business, I am shocked and say You mean you want me to reprogram the register
back to before all that happened, he replies, that would be nice, I tell him
I will have to think about it. This is where I wake up.
THE REALITY The dreamer had many pressing family commitments at this time
due to various illnesses. These responsibilities were weighing her down. She
had tried to make some attempts to delegate matters to other family members
but these fell on deaf ears.
THE DREAMS MEANING The dream captured the following feelings within the dreamer
"I have been questioning my current situation. But at the end of the
day I know that certain things have to be done and if I do not do them its
likely that no one else will. So really I have to just get on with the job."
THE INTERPRETATION Babies can mean lots of things in dreams but in this dream
the baby is clearly associated with responsibilities and a need to care. In
this case its easy to work out that the baby symbolises the dependent relatives
whom the dreamer is having to care for.
Recently the dreamer had tried to delegate responsibilities yet this had failed
miserably. She was left with the choice of helping her relatives or simply
ignoring them. Yes! she had issues about needing help in fulfilling these
roles. Yet if people were not willing to help she realised that she had to
simply get on with the job.
So thats why the president seems to be interrupting her. There is a clear
issue of her trying to assume control of the situation and say who should
be responsible for doing which task(the power of the president). Yet this
was really a senseless task. She needed to just get on with the job and forget
wish to delegate.
Perhaps the reprogramming links to a feeling that if she is going to get help
she is going to have to reprogram people around her to think more in line
with the way she thinks. Just dropping hints will not do. Cash registers can
link to effort and other issues involving us valuing things. Money symbolises
effort because the more effort we put into something the more we value it.
Maybe that links to the dreamer needing to show how important and essential
it is help her and the other ill members of the family.
Symbolic Meanings
BABY : "protecting a vulnerable person - having to look after her sick relatives"
PHONE : "wishing to tell someone how you feel"
PRESIDENT : "questioning the rightness or wrongness of a situation"
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CONTACT : E-mail me at hairybobby2000@yahoo.co.uk - If you went to
sleep thinking of something that had dominated your entire day then I would
be highly interested in any dreams you had that night.