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A BASIC INTRO to what dreams are about
BASIC
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DREAM
DICTIONARY A to Z of symbols complete with essays on symbols in everyday real
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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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BABIES : Babies tend to link with new circumstances and few feelings.
They symbolise some fresh new mood of optimism. They can represent a new project
or opportunity. They may simply represent something that is 'new' in your
life.
KEY WORDS(Pick a quote which captures your feelings right now. Think especially
of the day before the dream) :
- "a new willingness"
- "something new"
- "a fresh start"
- "a new opportunity"
- "a new exciting project"
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BABY-SITTING : Looking after a baby is an important responsibility
and also very time consuming. It generally has two meanings. In a positive
sense it may refer to your wish to look after a vulnerable person who cannot
cope in some situation. In a negative sense it will link to other peoples
problems which have been dumped on you.
KEY WORDS(Pick a quote which captures your feelings right now. Think especially
of the day before the dream) :
- "it leaves her very vulnerable. I wonder if she can cope."
- "I feel the need to protect her"
- "its not my responsibility but its been dumped on me"
- "I know its what she wants"
- "I know its important to him"
ESSAYS
Babies
in dreams : A detailed essay on the symbolism of babies in real dreams
Baby-sitting
in dreams : What does baby-sitting mean in dreams
Dream
Dictionary : An A to Z of symbolic meanings with every meaning for each symbol
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DREAM STUDIES : Real Dreams about babies
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THE DREAM I dreamt that both my sister and I were pregnant. We had
just come from a doctor's visit and had our complementary diaper bags with
prenatal vitamins and formula samples inside. I was looking through her bag
and ooo-ing and aah-ing. Then I heard a noise like a small motor. I turned
to look at her and she had a small hand held device. I didn't know what it
was. But she inserted it and induced an abortion. There was quite a bit of
blood. She started crying and left. I assumed she went to the bathroom. I
started crying too. And I kept on crying as I was cleaning up the blood. I
was cleaning up the blood with a dirty rag. And I didn't actually clean any
of it up so much as I just kept moving in around and around. Some of it was
sopped up but most of it remained. While I was cleaning it up, I kept asking
myself questions. Like "why would she do that?" "why did she do it in front
of me?", "Why didn't she terminate the pregnancy while we were at the doctor's
appointment?", "should I take her to the hospital?" and a few others I can't
remember. I know I was cleaning up blood for quite a while.
THE REALITY The dreamer and her sister were both experiencing roughly the
same things. They had both experienced a breakdown in relationships. Her sister
was probably starting to do something about this. The dreamer on the other
hand has not filed for divorce and is still living in the same house as her
husband.
DREAM MEANING The dream captures the following feeling within the dreamer
- "Me and my sister have both split from our husbands. But now she seems
to be moving on in a much more positive way than me. I have not really made
much progress"
THE INTERPRETATION Often sisters are symbols of openness to new ideas and
emotions. Perhaps the sister represents the identical situations that they
are in. The dreamer has opened herself up to feeling the same experiences
as her sister. They are very much on an identical path. Yet in accepting the
end of her relationship then dreamer has now done nothing about it. That is
why in the dream the blood is not really been mopped up. It is simply been
moved around and around. The dreamer knows what is needed and that is a complete
break.
So it is unlikely that the dreamer harbors any animosity towards her sister.
It simply represents how she has opened herself up to all this hurt and done
nothing about it.
Babies in dreams represent new situations and feelings that have been born
into the dreamers life. In this case that would obviously symbolise her divorce.
That is a new project.
The dream is quite difficult. In some ways this dream is tricky as it may
have two equally plausible meanings. The dream could easily be about her own
sister. She was going through a messy divorce and does something to stress
her out every day. But the gut feeling here is that the dream is about the
dreamers own situation.
Overall the dream captures this feeling - "Both me and my sister both
experienced a break down in relationships at the same time. But she has made
much further progress in improving her situation".
Symbolic Meanings
ABORTION : "That fresh new course she was giving birth to in her life has
now been aborted. She is continuing on with an unhealthy marriage"
APPOINTMENT : "a deadline for something - a need to continue with her own
self improvement"
BLOOD : "injured feelings linked to her marriage"
CLEAN : "self improvement - cleaning up your life"
DOCTOR : "issues about her own well being linked to an unhealthy marriage"
FORMULA : "the course of action required / the best solution"
HOSPITAL : "taking some action to improve the health of her situation"
PREGNANT : "a new phase in her life - a wish to move on from a bad marriage"
VITAMINS : "attention to detail - a healthy lifestyle in all senses - a happy
marriage and life"
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DREAM TIP : Try to think of dream symbols as words. Think of babies
in dreams as representing the word 'new'. Then try to write down a few quotes
which capture all major issues and in particular things that took place the
day before. Think of quotes like "I have been trying to instill a new sense
of discipline on my coworkers", or "I am going to have to prepare for tomorrow's
meeting with my boss", or "My sister seems a little angry yesterday for no
reason". Now look through those quotes again and see where that word "new"
appears or could have some relevance. If there is a strong connection then
your dream could link to this issue.
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THE DREAM I dreamed my husband and I were on a long train that was
a like a city always on the move. We were in a hotel room on the train when
I gave birth to a girl and despite my husband not fully agreeing with my decision,
I gave my baby up for adoption because I felt we were too busy during the
day to take care of a baby. However, that night I regretted my decision so
I decided to try and revoke the adoption. On this city in a train, I had to
go up a elevator of a sky scraper to the city hall where the department of
child services was. There I asked for my baby back. After a consultation and
paper work, they gave me back my baby. I held my baby tightly and close to
me as my husband said "I told you we should not have given her up". This dream
really disturbed me.
THE REALITY The night before the dreamer had got into a bad mood with her
son and her husband. She walked out on them for a couple of hours. Eventually
she came back. But this was meant to be an emotional show to demand some respect.
She cared too much for her child and husband to walk away permanently.
DREAM MEANING The dream captures the following feeling within the dreamer
- "Things have been the same for ages. I simply had to make a stand.
My husband and son have been taking me for granted. So I demanded more respect
from them"
THE INTERPRETATION Dreams link to real life issues that are very much in our
thoughts. They are very likely to link to our feelings and intuitions. The
night before this dream the dreamer made a very bold stand with her son and
husband. This was obviously a very dominating issue on her mind at that very
time. So its best to go straight to the interpretation. The dream is almost
certainly about this one issue. An issue that is dominating our minds the
night before will almost certainly cause a major dream.
The dream takes place in a hotel room. Hotels and large buildings are very
symbolic in dreams. Smaller buildings and houses usually can be said to link
to your own feelings and thoughts. Hotels symbolise your own feelings been
affected by those around you. Your actions and emotions are shaped by those
around you. In this case this links to how her husbands and sons disrespect
was having a major impact on her mood.
The early part of this dream also features the train. Trains can be symbolic
of fixed ways of thinking. In this dream it may link to how the dreamer was
very focused on what she was trying to achieve. Trains can also symbolise
how you feel like you have been railroaded into some course of action. That
would obviously fit nicely here.
Giving birth symbolises of some fresh and new emotional feeling. That obviously
captured the dreamers real life. Something was truly born into her life that
night before.
But the babies are very difficult and tricky symbols here. Its easy to see
how the dream can link to reality. But its nice to get symbols which hold
together in some coherent way. Dreams can link to thoughts and thought processes
but the match must be consistent.
Perhaps at this stage its best to look at the situation of what happened here
and then try to find some logical way in which the symbols match. The dreamer
left home for a couple of hours to make a statement. But the dream will capture
some feeling of how her thoughts developed.
A city that is moving is possibly consistent with the dreamers situation.
Cities can link to complex and complicated decisions. That was certainly the
case here. The dreamer walked out. She wanted to make a statement but also
did not want to actually walk out at all. She deeply cared for her family.
But making a judgment about how far to go is a dangerous and tricky decision.
The city easily captured how this was a difficult decision with many conflicting
things to consider.
The baby is a complex symbol here. Above all it is linked to emotions here.
Sometimes its not the symbols but the emotions that are most important in
a dream. Babies are linked to family. The dream seems to revolve around the
moment when the dreamer hugs her baby. Its the emotions that are linked with
that the dream is perhaps trying to capture. And that does indeed correspond
to real life. Family is a very abstract concept in that its very much based
on emotions. A home is a home and its very easy to define that. But a happy
home is very much something that is more an emotional thing. The feelings
of respect and togetherness were what were missing during that night. The
dreamer felt as if she was not respected and also maybe as if the family was
drifting apart. They were living together but separately. Therefor the sense
of the family was lacking.
In walking out the dreamer had in a sense given up her child for adoption.
Two hours is just a minor time period. But dreams see things in such ways.
The dreamer indeed said that she had to go back because she had a baby to
nurse. That indeed captures the situation here. The dreamer did indeed have
conflicting demands in making her decision. She had to make a stand but she
was also extremely guilty. Its about balancing feelings in coming to a decision.
The city hall is is a very central place. It often links to extremely public
issues. In this sense it can link to the extremely public show the dreamer
made. A very public statement.
The hall is also a skyscraper. Skyscrapers link with issues involving respect.
That certainly applies here. Where you are in the skyscraper links to how
the world or particular people see you. It shows their belief or lack of belief
in you. The department deals with child services and that maybe specifically
deals with the need for her family to respect her efforts and energy in this
respect.
Symbolic Meanings
BABY : "The dreamers own child and her knowledge that she must look after
him. She therefor only makes a temporary stand"
CITY : "complex issues where you consider lots of factors and the opinions
of others - the dreamer wants her feelings to be known"
ELEVATOR : "wanting greater recognition"
HOTEL : "her husband and child treat her like a hotel service - they get everything
done for them and they show no appreciation"
PREGNANT : "new ideas being created in your mind - a new idea and feeling
being born into your life"
TOWN : "complex situations involving the feelings of others"
TRAIN : "been railroaded into something - having few options"
TRAIN : "her life is going only in one direction - a grinding daily routine
with little recognition"
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THE DREAM I had a dream that I had a baby and put the baby in my purse
by accident and it suffocated and died. I was crying after it died. (Interpreted
on www.Dreammoods.com)
THE REALITY The dreamer had banked on some money but realised that it had
not come through. She had not correctly filled in the forms though.
DREAM MEANING The dream captures the following feeling within the dreamer
- "I thought by now that I would have received my money from them but
something has happened. I think I should check up on things to see if a mistake
has been made"
THE INTERPRETATION This dream deals with a purse. Sometimes such issues can
actually deal with money related matters. So its worth looking through issues
of money for some connection. In this case there was such an issue. The dream
had banked on some money coming through from a particular source but she did
not fill in her forms correctly.
The dream is perfectly consistent with that issue. The baby represents new
things in your life. Something new that is filling you with enthusiasm. A
new source of money would certainly fit the bill.
The dreamer was now checking over why this new source of money had not filtered
through. The dream was part of that process. In fact it probably represented
how she was thinking about investigating this issue.
RELEVANT DREAM DICTIONARY REFERENCES
ACCIDENT : thinking over things that can go wrong
BABY : "something new - a new source of income that the dreamer was relying
on"
PURSE : "a link to money"
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THE DREAM I dreamt I could partially hear doctors and nurses performing
surgery on me - a double hip replacement. They injected some medication into
my arm, and before I could drift into sleep, I said "wait, I'm pregnant!"
They quickly tried to reverse the medication (in my mind) but then I woke
up and I had two new hips and I was in a lot of pain.
THE REALITY In real life the dreamer was pregnant but having some concerns.
Later on the dreamer really did have a miscarriage.
DREAM MEANING The dream captures the following feeling within the dreamer
- "I am pregnant. But I have been getting pain and I just wonder if their
are going to be problems and I shall lose the baby"
THE INTERPRETATION Many dreams simply reflect real life and concerns about
little problems. Later on the dreamer did have a miscarriage. Maybe this dream
was a premonition of that. However, its more likely that this dream reflected
the pain that the dreamer felt on waking up. The dream would have been about
that pain and the worry that this could link to something more serious. Pregnant
women are notorious for having bad dreams about the pregnancy but many go
on to have perfectly healthy babies.
Maybe the issue concerning medication linked to the dreamers wish for a pain
killer but then a realization that she was pregnant and that this may not
be a good idea. The surgery maybe links to a feeling that something deep inside
her was wrong. Surgery links to the insides. In life we are our own doctor.
We judge what is wrong with us and its only if something is serious that real
doctors take over.
Symbolic Meanings
DOCTOR : "understand your own medical problems - in this case the dreamer
is assessing her own pregnancy and is worried about the pain she has been
getting "
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THE DREAM I saw my son was pregnant. He is only 9 years old. I kept
telling him to calm down, stop playing and jumping because he needed to rest
as he was pregnant.
THE REALITY In reality I am worried about him at the moment. He tends to be
excitable.
DREAM MEANING The dream captures the following feeling within the dreamer
- "My son tends to be very excitable. He can injure himself. I think
he should take a lot more care of himself"
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DREAM TIP : Dreams are about pivotal moments in our emotions. They
represent change. For instance you may suddenly decide that someone you know
is not to be trusted. So on balance you have decided to alter your view.
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THE DREAM I am in some house which appears quite poor and run down.
I think of Scotland in the dream for some reason. Later I am later playing
with a baby. I pick up the baby but he appears to be very heavy.
THE REALITY The previous day the dreamer had got a laptop with wireless connections.
The aim had been to get this computer so she could use it in public places
such as cafes, libraries and community centers. But the dreamer was beginning
to think that this would not be as successful as she had hoped.
DREAM MEANING The dream captures the following feeling within the dreamer
- "I have just become interested in wireless Internet. But as things
stand I think I will be disappointed. I do not think its all that good"
THE INTERPRETATION The baby is a good link to this dream. Babies symbolise
new ideas and emotions. In this case the dreamer was just getting interested
in wireless computers. But unfortunately it was not working out very well.
That links to the negative feelings towards the baby in the dream.
Scotland in the dream probably refers to things associated with Scotland.
It is a remote and rather cold climate. That links to the new feelings forming
within the dreamer. The wireless networks in the mind of the dreamer were
not as prolific and numerous as she thought. In fact on the day of the dream
she did not manage to connect to any wireless Internet links.
Symbolic Meanings
BABY : "something new - in this case a new interest in wireless computers"
SCOTLAND : "a lack of momentum due to the cold climate - captures the
dreamers feelings about wireless"
SCOTLAND : "remote and rural - captures the feelings about her ability
to connect to other computers"
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DREAM TIP : Dreams will focus on things that are important to you right
now. In many cases they will be symbolic representations of the very issues
you wake up thinking about. Those issues maybe small conversations from the
previous day. It depends what your mind is focusing on. If you think a lot
about work then it could be about that. Try to isolate the issues you are
thinking about and interpret a dream in that way. Look for evidence in the
symbols of the things dominating your mind.
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THE DREAM I am with my sister. She is talking with me. I think its
just a general discussion but she then starts to point out times and dates.
There seems to be some connection with sex. She also seems to have a baby.
I then hold her baby and play with it. I point the baby at something across
the road.
THE REALITY The previous day the dreamer had got some good praise off a lady.
She was impressed by his ideas. But he had then pointed out something new.
The dreamer helped this lady sort out a problem.
DREAM MEANING The dream captures the following feeling within the dreamer
- "She was praising me so much. I think I helped her sort things out
in her mind. I pointed her in the right direction"
THE INTERPRETATION The baby represented the idea that the dreamers friend
had adopted - thanks to the dreamers original advice. When the dreamer plays
with the baby he then starts to develop the ideas he had suggested already.
The times and dates are references to specific data. This signifies how the
dreamer helped the lady understand an idea to the extent that she could apply
it specifically.
Sex often links to when you you overwhelmingly are praised on something or
if you come to an agreement.
Pointing the baby in a new direction - that signifies how the ideas where
developed by the dreamer. Looking across the road symbolises how you are pointing
out some alternative way of seeing something.
Symbolic Meanings
ACROSS : "a different way of thinking"
BABY : "exciting ideas and circumstances newly born into your life - taking
an opportunity enthusiastically"
PLAY : "play with some ideas and thoughts"
POINT ACROSS ROAD: "pointing something out - The dreamer is pointing the friend
in the right direction "
ROAD : "events in real life as they bump into you and impact on your thoughts"
SEX : "something very appealing - the dreamer quite liked the praise off this
woman in real life"
SISTER : "thinking freely and openly - the dreamer helped open the friends
mind to some new ideas"
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THE DREAM I am in a large building, multistory, with my neighbor friend.
Not sure what level we were on but it wasn't the first level. Anyway, we are
in there to steal and we do, a few large wads of cash and some papers, not
sure what the papers were. We start running to get out of there before we
get caught and two men start chasing us, one focusing on her and the other
focusing on me. We run outside and across the street, she's ahead of me, and
our car is in a parking lot. Not sure how to describe it, but to get into
the parking lot you have to jump down (there's concrete walls around the parking
lot, kind of like how a basement is made before the house is put on top).
I see my friend jump down into the parking lot and she gets hurt where she
can't get up but she's OK otherwise, the man chasing her does the same and
also gets hurt to where he can't get up. The man chasing me catches up to
me and grabs me right before I get to the edge to jump into the parking lot,
so we struggle and I get him in front of me closest to the edge and as hard
as I can push him over into the parking lot. I don't see him land but I hear
my friend gasp and yell..."Oh my God you killed him!!!" I look down and he
is laying on the ground with most of his head ripped off his body, it's only
hanging on by some skin on one side. I think to myself that it wasn't THAT
far to fall and am confused why he got that badly hurt, then figure when he
went over the edge he must have hit head first and that's why his head was
nearly tore off. His eyes are still moving and I'm suddenly worried he will
live long enough to tell the authorities I did that to him then he stops moving
and I feel relief but am still scared and trying to figure out what story
to give the police if they show up. I ask my friend if she's OK and she says
she is, then I go over to the guy who had been chasing her (he's still laying
on the ground hurt) and ask him if he's OK. I jump down into the parking lot
next to him and he asks me to come closer, I am afraid he will try to hurt
me but do it anyway. He pulls out a picture of his children, hands it to me,
and asks me to please go tuck them in bed for him. I think "I don't even know
where he lives!" then I look closer at him and realize he used to be my upstairs
neighbor at the old apartments I lived in last year. The apartments in my
dream exist in real life but the man doesn't. For some reason in my dream
I remembered him as a neighbor with a pregnant wife and kids though. I tell
him I will and go to his house, where his wife is pregnant with yet another
baby and lets me in to see the children. The man is there and I get scared
again, his face looks burnt on one side and he is pretty badly hurt, and I
think he will hurt me to get back at me for what I did to the other guy. He
puts on a mask, like a green alien mask that a kid would put on for Halloween
and makes me put on a mask too, mine is white and looks more like a human
face like the smile/frown faces you see in porcelain that some people hang
on their walls (forget what they're called). My mask is plastic though. I
tell him we don't need the masks and ask him to take his off because it's
scaring me, he does and I take mine off too.
THE REALITY A day or so before the dreamer had gone to marriage counseling
with her husband. During the session they talked about how the previous week
had gone. They had had four good days but then 2 days of fighting. The dreamer
told the therapist that the good days had been good but did not feel 'real'.
They had been living in a fantasy world and just avoided the issues pretending
that they did not exist. Her husband was hurt by what she said. He did not
say anything but remained distant afterwards. She asked him about it and he
said that he didn't want her to be fake or to pretend to enjoy his company.
DREAM MEANING The dream captures the following feeling within the dreamer
- "I told my husband at marriage counseling that I felt that the good
days during the previous week had been false. He took it in a bad way. He
misinterpreted what I felt. Its pointless trying to bury issues. I think he
was hurt because he felt that we had been doing so well."
THE INTERPRETATION The previous day the dreamer had spoken to her husband
about their marriage guidance session. Its often fair to assume that things
that happen the previous day are important and will trigger off our dreams.
In this case the dreamer had been looking at the situation in an intuitive
way. Such intuitions clearly can be traced in the dream.
So with that in mind we can see what the dream means. Masks are symbols of
false emotions. They show that you are concealing your true feelings. The
dreamer feels that her mask is plastic and thats quite clearly showing that
her own good days had clearly been false and that any good feelings had been
artificial(plastic often links to something artificial).
The other symbols also make sense. Babies can be symbols of fresh new hopes.
Perhaps the baby pictures symbolised how the dreamers husband had been viewing
the situation. He had been 'picturing' how well things had been going.
Burning flesh can link to hurt feelings and sensitivity. In this case the
burnt face shows that the husband had clearly been sensitive about his wife's
honesty.
Symbolic Meanings
BABY : "a fresh new start - in this case the dreamers husband had hoped things
had been good and that they had started afresh"
BURNT : "sensitive feelings - she had sensed that the things she had said
had hurt her husband"
MASK : "hiding your true feelings - here they had not been revealing
their true feelings and had been pretending to get along with each other.
Any progress was fake"
MULTI LEVEL : "looking at a problem on different levels. On the surface
the relationship seemed fine but deep down they had just been avoiding issues"
PARKING LOT : "The dreamer feels that she and her husband have come to
a standstill in the relationship and had not been making progress"
PICTURES : "you are picturing something in your mind - in this case the
dreamer has started to imagine how her husband was seeing things. He had been
picturing how well they had been doing"
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CONTACT : If you have got a dream which you think you partially understand
please feel free to send it to me at hairybobby2000@yahoo.co.uk (please try
to give as many details as possible about what it could connect too in real
life)