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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
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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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SKYSCRAPERS : Skyscrapers are quite difficult symbols to understand
in a simple way. They can refer to many things in dreams. In short they show
how good or bad you feel about something. But they can also link to issues
of confidence and the higher you are up a building then the more confident
or able you feel.
The main problem with skyscrapers is knowing what they are referring to. They
could be a symbol of confidence but could easily be symbolic of other peoples
confidence in us. They are two slightly different things. They could also
be symbolic of belief in yourself but may also be symbolic of your actual
measurable abilities. Its often difficult to pinpoint exactly what they mean.
KEY WORDS(Pick a quote which captures your feelings right now. Think especially
of the day before the dream) :
- "I have been feeling so good about it"
- "I need to show how able I am "
- "It is about confidence"
- "A chance to prove my abilities"
- "I demand respect"
- "I need to show how strong I am"
- "I feel lacking in confidence"
- "they made me fel so good about it"
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ESSAYS
SKYSCRAPERS
in dreams : An essay on the symbolism of tall buildings 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 with skyscrapers in them
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THE DREAM I was walking around an unfamiliar town, but in my dream
it was the town where I lived. I walked towards a square and I knew it was
very early in the morning, but I decided to have my hair cut. After talking
to the hairdresser, I found myself on top of a very high building, and I was
looking at the sea. The sea was very strange, big waves were curling and lifting
in the air, and I remember telling my mother "It's so good we're high up and
the water cannot drown us". As soon as I said these words, the sea rushed
into the town and the waves were getting huge, sometimes blue sometimes red,
and they would crash at my feet or all around me but no water was touching
me, so I felt safe. Then I was on an air-bed with my mother and a small baby,
the water surrounded us and the air-bed went as high up as the wave, and when
the wave was crushing down I told the baby: "Hold the air bed tight with your
hands and everything will be all right".
THE REALITY The dreamer had just become pregnant unexpectedly. This was causing
major mood swings. She was having to face having her first baby and did not
really know what was expected.
DREAM MEANING The dream captures the following feeling within the dreamer
- "I have just become pregnant. Everyone is showering me with praise
but deep down I am not sure if I will be a good mother. Being a mother is
a big responsibility and I do not know the first thing. It will also be very
hard work."
THE INTERPRETATION The secret to understanding dreams is to know what is likely
to trigger a dream. Here the dreamer had just become pregnant so the dream
is likely to link to some feelings linked to that very important issue. We
get a mixed set of feelings in such cases. One easy way to start understanding
the dream is the skyscraper. Skyscrapers are like gauges in that they test
how good we feel about something. In this case the skyscraper signifies how
she feels elated at her own pregnancy. It could also be symbolic of how others
feel about her - she feels more confident due to the respect she
The tidal wave is a symbol linked specifically to feelings. It often links
to moments when we have strong feelings and these are overcoming and dominating
our thoughts. It shows we are not perhaps thinking rationally but more with
our hearts. In talking this through the dreamer realised that having a baby
does make her feel good yet it also is a subject which she has absolute no
skills with. This is her first baby and people tend to naturally think that
women can look after babies but this is far from the case - many of the skills
are learnt. The dreamer was feeling nervous and apprehensive. In theory the
birth would be wonderful yet in practice she was worried she would not cope.
The dream ends with her mother saying that "everything will be all right".
So she knows that she can depend on her mother and other people for support.
Symbolic Meanings
BED : "something that affects the dreamer very much - in this case having
a baby will transform her life"
DROWN : "overwhelmed by issue"
WAVE : "thoughts which have no proper basis in reality - unsupported by any
facts - the dreamer is swept away by praise yet in reality its going to be
hard work"
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THE DREAM I am staying in a high-rise very luxurious and modern hotel
of glass and steel, but I am wandering around the lobby as I can not remember
my room number, nor, which floor the room is on. But I eventually choose a
floor - in the latest version of the dream it is the 17th floor (in the previous
version, it was the 5th), when I find myself at the elevators. There are always
several elevators and they are very large steel ones, but they do not all
stop on all the floors, and it is rather tricky for me to work out which lift
I would have to take to my floor. The doors of the elevators also open and
close so rapidly that one has to jump in and out, which causes me quite a
problem as I am carrying two very heavy shopping bags. The problem results
in me riding up and down for some time, but, finally, I am in the right elevator
and going up to my floor , but I have no time to get out when we reach the
17th, and so I have to go to the top floor which, when the elevator opens,
I see is actually the roof of the building. Again, I have no time to get out,
so down I go again, back to the lobby, to start wandering around again. And
then I wake up.
THE REALITY The dreamer made her own interpretation on this recurring dream.
She stated that she was not getting "where she wanted to be". She was rather
in limbo. She needed some encouragement.
DREAM MEANING The dream captures the following feeling within the dreamer
- "I do not feel like I am getting the support I wish for. I need some
encouragement from people around me to help build my confidence"
THE INTERPRETATION Top floors are symbols of confidence and achievement. So
this dream is quite clearly something to so with that. But this high-rise
building is a hotel. Hotels are symbolic of the impact of the outside world
on us. Houses (our own house ) usually symbolise constructions within our
minds. Hotels are public buildings though and so they symbolise us being the
GUEST of someone else's thoughts. They symbolise the impact the world has
on us.
One major feature is the shopping bags which the dreamer is carrying. We go
into shops to buy the things that we want that we presently do not have -
and so shopping represents the things that we wish for at the moment. Bags
represent emotional baggage. That she is wanting something and dragging it
around with her. It is a nuisance in a way and burdening her. But nevertheless
these are things that she feels are necessary.
In the hotel the dreamer is quite lost and wanders. She makes no connection
with people. That is significant as the hotel is a symbol of people and their
impact on her. So the lost feeling symbolises that feeling of limbo. She is
wanting to connect with people and maybe looking for encouragement. So the
significant part here is the lack of connection with people. The lobby is
the reception area. That is symbolic of her social side and welcoming nature.
That is where things happen. It is where things begin.
Symbolic
Meanings
ELEVATOR : "confidence rising and falling "
HOTEL : "the dreamer wants help from other people - she wants people to do
everything for her"
SHOPPING BAGS: "desperately wanting something - the dreamer is weighed down
by all her wishes. She wants too much"
TOP FLOOR : "your feelings about mixing with people you see as accomplished
and confident"
WANDER : "lacking any real direction in life"
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DREAM TIP : Try to think of dream symbols as words. Think of skyscrapers
in dreams as representing the phrases "feeling confident" or "feeling good".
Now write down several quotes which capture new feelings on important issues
in your life. Also write down quotes which capture your feelings about what
happened yesterday. Think of quotes such as "Its going to be a major test
of my abilities tomorrow at work", or "I think my girlfriend is cheating on
me", or "My foot seems to have recovered and so I could start to go jogging
again". Now look back at these quotes and carefully see where the phrases
"feeling confident" or "feeling good" could seem to have any relevance. If
there is a strong connection then look for other connections with other symbols.
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THE DREAM I was on the dream mood dream forums somehow chatting, wearing
a black T-shirt with a pirate printed on it in white. Somebody sent me a message
saying “who’s the girl in the pirate shirt” I replied with my silver elegant
phone by saying “that’s me.” I went on walking in the corridor, I found out
that two people a boy and a girl had committed suicide because they were under
pressure, no one told me but I knew. I got a message again; from the same
person saying “who’s the girl in the pirate shirt” I replied with my silver
elegant phone by saying “That’s me. Didn’t you see my users’ picture on MSN
messenger?” The boy and girl had taken an over dosage in some sort of drugs,
and jumped off the top floor of the building landing into an aquarium full
of water. Then I walked along, and the same person who had messaged me was
standing in the corridor leaning against the wall with his hands in his pocket.
THE REALITY The dreamer had had some quite frightening experiences with premonitions.
Very real and bad things had happened. This had had a major effect on the
dreamer who had become scared to go to sleep and taken to drink to avoid the
issues. Just recently she had talked on dream interpreting forums and many
people were trying to encourage her to have more positive views about dreams.
But really this was never going to work as the dreamer will always have the
bad experiences of dreams lurking at the back of her mind.
DREAM MEANING The dream captures the following feeling within the dreamer
- "I have had many frighteningly accurate premonitions. Recently people
have been trying to convince me that I should take a more positive view of
them. But these scare me. I hate premonitions and they are not fun."
THE INTERPRETATION This dream featured a dream forum and so its quite possible
that the dream links to the current state of her opinions on dreams. The elegant
phone was a symbol that had featured in her dreams before. It had always been
a symbol in dreams which were major premonitions. In this dream it may not
be a symbol of a premonition but rather a symbol linking to all those premonition
dreams which featured an elegant phone. So this is a big clue as the dream
is about the psychic dreams that the dreamer had previously had. It was about
her elegant phone dreams and her feelings about those.
Skyscrapers are symbols of human emotions and often symbolise how we feel
about something (either good or bad). But here the boy and girl jump off to
their deaths. But in hitting the ground they are doing something very symbolic.
The ground in dreams links to the facts and reality. So in hitting the ground
they are looking for a more realistic approach based on the facts. And this
indeed corresponded very much to the dreamers real life thoughts. She had
been influenced to think of dreams in a more positive way but now she was
coming to the conclusion that psychic dreams are facts and that they can be
linked to things that were not always positive. The boy and girl link to attempts
to get her to have a new opinion about dreams based on feelings. They are
linked to a more spiritual and positive view of dreams being good and such
views are quite dominant on dream interpreting forums.
Suicide in dreams can link to something where you have "given up" trying to
do something. In this case the dreamer had given up on trying to feel more
positively about dreams because at the back of her mind lurked the reality
as she sees it - that psychic dreams are real.
Drugs in dreams often linked to skewed vision and delusions. So perhaps the
dream captures the dreamers opinions about more spiritually minded people.
She feels that a positive view of dreams based on spiritual enlightenment
is just nonsense that is delusional. Dreams can reveal the future but their
message is not always going to be positive.
So in reality the dream captures the dreamer giving up on attempts to see
dreams in a new way and instead basing her opinions on the facts as she sees
them. The man in the dream does nothing. In the dream he is obviously associated
with the elegant phone and therefor links to the psychic dreams. Men often
link to issue involving intimidation and male emotions such as fear. So he
represents her fears about psychic dreams. In the dream he is doing nothing
and that links to the real life way in which bad dreams have not been bothering
the dreamer as much recently. But they do not have to anything and his simple
presence shows that her fears of psychic dreams still remain.
Aquariums link to dreams in many ways. Water is symbolic of the unconscious
mind and an aquarium links to the studying of particular thoughts coming from
our subconscious and how we are studying them. In some ways they are symbols
of former dreams that we have studied.
Its certainly not an easy dream to interpret especially the skyscraper but
this interpretation was symbolic of the thoughts that the dreamer was having.
She was now forming her own view on dreams based on the reality of dreams
as she saw it.
Symbolic Meanings
AQUARIUM(water): "water and fish link to life within our ever changing
and moving subconscious"
AQUARIUM : "studying the subconscious and dreams - "
DRUG : "many people are divorced from reality -their view on premonitions
is highly unreal"
SUICIDE : "give up on something - the dreamer wants to give up trying to feel
good or bad about premonitions and simply wants to address the facts"
TOP FLOOR : "feeling good or bad about something - the dreamer has been trying
to have a more positive attitude towards psychic powers"
T-SHIRT : "a casual image towards something"
WHITE : "clearness, clarity and understanding"
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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 the ruins of a tall building. There is some of the
cast from the TV comedy 'Friends' there. I make a judgment about Joey based
on his character. He is an immensely stupid character who is an actor in the
comedy. I then realise that actually he is the one with the most money. I
then go about scaling the walls of this skyscraper.
THE REALITY The previous night the dreamer had watched 'Friends' for a short
while and thought how pointless and worthless a night on TV it was. The dreamer
was a new convert to digital TV and this was the first nights watching that
he did not enjoy.
THE INTERPRETATION Dreams can feature strange subject matters. They often
capture things from the previous day. Sometimes those thoughts can be on quite
banal subjects. In dreams it is important to make associations and in this
case the dream featured 'Friends' - the TV Comedy. The only thing that came
to mind to the dreamer was the previous night. He had watched it and thought
- "Oh no its another of those endless repeats of Friends".
Dreams usually capture some thought forming in our minds. When the dreamer
watched a few seconds of 'Friends' it was the low point of a very dull evening
watching TV. Since he had converted to digital TV he had many new channels
to choose from. On this evening he could not find anything to watch at all.
In the dream there is evidence of those thoughts. Skyscrapers in dreams can
symbolise things that we feel good about. They can here capture the positive
thoughts the dreamer felt about TV in that the building is a skyscraper. Yet
it is a ruin showing that those previously good feelings have now been ruined
and fallen apart. Overall the dream did capture an important feeling within
the dreamer - "up until now digital TV has always provided something
worth watching. But today I was quite deflated. Watching the repeat of 'Friends'
was the final straw."
Symbolic Meanings
RUINS : "something is a total disaster"
SKYSCRAPER : "feeling good about TV"
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THE DREAM I am on some huge ramp like thing. Its a cross between a
hill and a skyscraper type thing. I am clawing my way to the top. Its a huge
effort. There is a guide rail which I can attach myself to which makes it
easier to ascend to the top. Yet for one section its missing. But I am climbing
up nevertheless. Its like climbing a mountain though
Then I am going down the stairs at great speed.
THE REALITY The dreamer had been trying to pay greater attention to his health.
He had been trying to improve his diet eating a much better balance of foods.
Yet the morning of that dream he woke up and decided to laze about in bed
for another couple of hours.
DREAM MEANING The dream captures the following feeling within the dreamer
- "I have been trying to pay greater attention to my own health. Now
I realise its a slow gradual approach I need. Its something you have got to
pay attention to each and every day. A few bad days can put you back a long
way. "
THE INTERPRETATION The main link to the health issue is the hospital. The
hospital links with often emotional issues but it can equally link to you
making efforts to improve your own health. This linked with reality as he
had made great efforts to improve his health. Yet in the dream it was much
easier to come down the stairs than to ascend the hill or skyscraper. That
maybe represents the idea that good health is a lot harder to gain than is
thought. Its something that takes constant dedication. If you decide to be
lazy it can have a major effect. Its more about getting a good balance to
your life. If you behave well three days out of four then thats not good.
You have to do this all the time. So the dream is about him realising that
his laziness is the main problem. Health is a state of mind. You cannot cram
in lots of good behavior to make up the bad behavior from yesterday. You have
to be consistently well behaved.
The guide rail maybe refers to the dreamers obsession with help guides. He
was trying to precisely keep to a strictly balanced diet.
And also despite his attempts he did not feel especially well after these
few days of real effort. So maybe the dream links to that. Because although
he had kept to a strict diet he had not been exercising well during that time.
Symbolic Meanings
CLIMB : "gaining greater health is more like a climb "
GUIDE : "a recommendation - the dreamer has been looking at recommendations
of diet"
HOSPITAL : "improving your own health - in this case improving diet"
RAIL : "forced down one line"
SKYSCRAPER : "attaining success - in this case succeeding at improving his
own health"
SLIDING DOWN : "The dreamer realises that a few bad days can put back
your cause a long way - you slide back down at great pace"
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DREAM TIP Some dreams are very emotional. Some dreams appear absent
of emotions. In such cases its likely that the dream symbolises some point
that your mind is trying to clarify. Dreams can be about strategies towards
various problems in your life. The following dream was somewhat complex but
there are string reasons to suggest why this dream linked to the dreamers
strategy towards her teaching. This had changed quite radically just recently.
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THE DREAM I am in a house. It has several stories. Dinner is being
made. Something goes wrong and I realise that lots of fish has simply gone
top waste. Thats the fault of my sister. Later there is a little girl who
is running around half naked whilst no one is doing anything. There is also
lots of knives. I have cleverly placed them so that they are available for
all to use on the walls.
Later I am in a skyscraper. At one point I move to the top floor. After a
short while I ask permission to go downstairs for a short while before coming
back up again.
The parent jokingly jumps over a barrier or balcony. Its a joke because the
child thinks its on the top floor and she will be jumping to her certain death.
Yet its revealed as a joke. But security is there telling them its wrong to
do that. They should not go near the balcony at all.
There are lots of children around and they are using their own ingenuity.
They set up a heating system by using the shower to create heat. I am trying
to set up a game of chess. I decide to get two boards - one is a full size
board with large pieces whilst the other is a small magnetic board which is
for easy viewing. Yet the children have not got magnetic chess pieces.
THE REALITY The dreamer was a teacher and had been trying to encourage her
students to think in certain ways. She wanted them to take control and use
their own ingenuity. She was thinking about strategies and how to teach them.
It was not just about showing them the answer.
DREAM MEANING The dream captures the following feeling within the dreamer
- "I have been trying to change my teaching methods. In many ways I want
my students to depend less on me. I want them to have confidence in their
own abilities. I tried this out and yesterday the results were very good.
I will try to develop this strategy"
THE INTERPRETATION The dreamer woke up and did not really know what this dream
was about. Often its worth trying to establish some simple links to real life
issues. One link here was with the dream symbol children. Children can symbolise
your enthusiasms or enthusiasms in some sense. The dreamer racked here brain
and felt that she had been trying to engage her students enthusiasms.
So she then tried to develop this line of thinking. The dream involved chess
and chess is definitely linked to strategy. That was very relevant here as
she had been engaged in a strategy towards her students.
There were other strong links to the dream and this real life issue. The dream
featured a skyscraper and that too could be seen as relevant with the issue.
She had been trying to get her students to have confidence in themselves.
The early part of the dream was also relevant. Perhaps the early part of the
dream represented the dreamers feelings about her own strategy. She felt she
had been wasting energy(wasting fish) in trying to just solve her students
problems. The house is more likely to be a symbol of herself yet the skyscraper
is more symbolic of other people. Large building can symbolise other people
and how we relate to them.
Its not an ideal solution to the dream but there are many strong links here.
Its a dream that deals with complex symbols.
Symbolic Meanings
CHESS : "strategies - in this case the dreamers strategy towards teaching
her students"
CHILDREN : "enthusiasms - trying to engage her students enthusiasms "
SKYSCRAPER : "appearing confident"
SUICIDE : "giving up - she does not want her students to give up"
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CONTACT : Please feel free to e-mail me dreams at hairybobby2000@yahoo.co.uk
- I would be especially interested if you can link the dream with any major
issue in your life or with something specific that happened the day before
the dream.