Defence Dream Meaning

Material aspects: Putting up a defence, perhaps a wall or barrier, signifies that we feel threatened in some way. We may have to justify our position over a situation in...

mechanisms Although the dream process attempts to release difficult emotions, trauma and past experience, most people have inbuilt mechanisms which prevent this spontane­ous healing activity.It is natural to pull our...

The Tve got a headache’ type of defence against an­other person’s approach to intimacy.See castle under house, buildings.

The defence we use to avoid being hun emotionally, or to defend the integrity of our identity.See fish, sea crea­tures.

As a heraldic device, the helmet denotes wisdom and security in defence, and will have this significance in dreams. It symbolizes both protection by, and of, the spiritual self.

To dream that you are wielding some weapon of offence or defence, signifies that you will oe summoned to give evidence in a case that will involve the life or...

Vulnerability, its shell depicting our defence against being hurt; feelings of repulsion for some people. Probably repulsion regarding ‘squirmy’ feelings regarding their body or sexuality.

Material aspects: In dreams, walls usually indicate the limits we have set ourselves. These may be created as defence mechanisms or support structures, and it is sometimes helpful in the...

Material aspects: In dreams, the defence mechanisms we put in place to prevent ourselves from deeply feeling the impact of such things as relationships, love, anxiety or pain can often...

1- Dreaming of locking a padlock suggests that we arc attempting to shut something (perhaps a feeling or emotion) away. This may either be through fear or possessiveness. Conversely, if...

Material aspects: We need to be aware of emotional and intellectual rigidity in either ourselves or others around us.If we are wearing armour we may be overprotecting ourselves, whereas if...

The young child’s first experience of control is as he or she gains control over bodily functions, particularly the anal muscles. In dreams, the mind returns to that experience as...

Material aspects: To fight back is a natural defence mechanism, so when we are feeling threatened in our everyday lives, we will often dream of taking that situation one stage...

Material aspects: Dreaming of glass indicates the invisible but very tangible barriers we may erect around ourselves in order to protect ourselves from meaningful relationship with other people. They may...

Receiving a threat in a dream means victory over one’s assailant, opponent, or adversary, or it could mean developing a defence mechanism against any danger from that side.If the threat...

For a young woman to dream that she is walking across muddy water on a rotten plank, denotes that she will feel keenly the indifference shown her by one she...

Penis, male sexuality; anger, confidence in defending oneself against criticism, etc.; fears or anxieties; attitudes we use as a defence against our own emotions or realisations—a man might feel depressed...

To be shot: a traumatic injury to feelings, often out of parental or other close relationship. It need not be something dramatic like being assaulted, but can be a quiet...

(see also Devil, Evil)Demons in dreams probably represent parts of your unconscious mind that have been repressed and neglected and arc now threatening to disrupt or mutilate the psyche. They...

(Coat of mail, Shield) An armor in a dream means protection and defence. It also means fasting.If weapons are mixed with the armor or shield in one’s dream, it means...

To dream of seeing the moon with the aspect of the heavens remaining normal, prognosticates success in love and business affairs.A weird and uncanny moon, denotes unpropitious lovemaking, domestic infelicities...

Guns, rockets, knives, spears, etc., depict our de­sire to hurt someone or, if we are being shot or hurt in the dream, how we have internalised our own aggression or...

In a dream, a lance represents a branch of wood, stability based on one’s strength, or stepping away from the wrong path.A lance in a dream also represents a woman,...

Example: ‘I was walking down the steps of a house, leading into the front area of the basement. I was with a man, perhaps a friend. At the bottom of...

(see also Fear)When anxiety features in a dream it may be just that - straightforward anxiety. On the other hand, it may be a disguise for some repressed aggression or...

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...

(1) A black hole or dark depths - for example, an unlit cellar or a deep well or oceanic depths - may represent the unconscious. This blackness mav be frightening,...

in dreams Although sex is symbolised in many dreams, where it appears directly it shows that the dreamer is able to accept their sexual urges and hurts more easily. What...

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,...

The body represents the individual and is his outward physical manifestation of all that he is. In dreams, the body often represents the Ego (see Introduction). Since being ‘physical’ is...