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 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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.

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.

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...

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...

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,...

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.

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 until touched...

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...

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...

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...

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 life situations.Example:...

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,...

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 associations of the dreamer—a...

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...

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, suppresses full...

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...

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...

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 extending beyond, or are trapped...

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’...

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...

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...

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...

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...