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...

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...

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 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. Psychologically,...

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...

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...

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...

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; blackness,...

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...

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 aspects of...

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...

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-...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 rooms.The...

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 either attempt...

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...

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...

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...

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 gets shocked....

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...

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 shows that some...

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 contemporary...

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...

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 like...

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...

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 around,...

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....

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...

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...

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....

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....

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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.To...

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