Although mind and body may be a total unity, and the separation in language merely a convenience, despite its unity, our being has a number of interacting systems. The action...

Self-control or regulation (such as monitoring or controlling your own behavior).Guilt.Ability or inability to release old or toxic issues (such as judgments, grudges, or outdated beliefs).See Buttocks, Digestion, Feces

Being overloaded with too much information or too many ideas, and consequently unable to integrate them effectively.Advice from your subconscious to take a break from the potent forces around you...

Depth Psychology: Dreaming about rules and regulations: your unconscious wants to give you advice. Can you “read” the regulations? What are they telling you? Check past experiences and what they...

A horse in a harness is a sign that someone has dominance and regulation over you, yet has your own betterment at heart.If you are putting a harness on a...

Survival instincts are the domain of this somewhat rare creature. Any reptile in a dream is connected to your deeply primitive responses to life and the basic functions such as...

For centuries, dreams have fascinated humans, with theories ranging from divine messages to psychological reflections of the subconscious mind. Today, thanks to advancements in neuroscience and psychology, the science of...

A secretion (such as from a gland) can represent: Being productive, or producing results somewhere in life.Producing something specific (such as a creative idea).Self-regulation, maintaining balance in your life, or...

(see Sports, Water)Water represents the intuitive nature and the subconscious.The movement through this liquid indicates either a willingness to traverse hidden portions of the self, or focusing on a defined...

Here are the important assumptions of Jungian theory that will help in applying our Top-Down approach to dream interpretation. Consciousness and Unconsciousness Consciousness refers to psychological contents that we are...

(see Animals, Cat, Lion)In India, an emblem of divine wrath being unleashed.China: The Lord of Animals, who embodies the attributes of authority, courage, passion, adventure, and prowess. Similar symbolism exists...

Permission, or control of a boundary (since a valve is what allows or disallows fluid to pass through).Regulation of a flow (such as of emotions or a process).Control of flow,...

Like bees and ants, wasps have an overall totem energy that connects with community regulation and interdependent structure. Wasps are predators by nature, and lower forms of insects are their...

(see Fire, Hammer)This cauldron of flame hones and refines your skills or characteristics.Because of the fiery element, an alternative type of or sun dream, but with more implied regulation.Smith at...

Working hard to dam up emotional self, stop emotional currents from opening and flowing. Hiding from resolving emotional problems.See Animal.

Emotional safety region. You may stay for awhile to rest and regroup, avoid the ups and downs of emotional turmoil.Also, you may survey emotional scene (waters) and gain perspective.See Harbor.

Powerful, imminent danger that threatens to take your emotional energy. Usually a caution: do not get in the emotional waters you are considering, or you will experience a substantial energy...

Your emotional self.If at the helm you are in control; if your boat is drifting, you are not in charge of your emotional life.If sinking you are allowing your emotions...

Water connects to emotional issues.A swimming pool is a humanmade construction that contains a small amount of water that is used for recreation and relaxation. In this way, a swimming...

Psychological / emotional perspective: Dreaming of marshy ground very often represents difficulty on an emotional level. Our emotions are clouded by practical concerns. Perhaps we are creating emotional difficulties for...

(see Eating, Fruit, Juice, Trees)Because of its high vitamin content, this symbolizes good health or things that are good for you.An emblem of the triune nature of humankind (body-mind-soul), because...

Psychological / emotional perspective: As it can be focused with pinpoint accuracy, from an emotional perspective this represents a kind of healing – that of cutting out emotional ‘demons’ and...

Jung, Hadfield and several other dream researchers believe the dream process is linked with homoeostasis or self regulation (see Man and His Sym­bols, Jung; Dreams and Nightmares, Hadfield; Mind and...

The weather conditions in a dream tend to reflect the emotional climate or the forces with which you are currently contending. Tornado dreams are particularly common in the United States,...

Psychological / emotional perspective: Depending on whether we are giving or receiving promissory bonds, we need to consider our emotional commitment to ourselves and our own concerns.To be aware of...

Psychological / emotional perspective: In an emotional context, gold seldom stands for material wealth.It is more the spiritual assets that we have, such as incorruptibility and wisdom, love, patience and...

(see Beet, Red)The energy and power of life, especially if taken internally somehow (see Vampire).If blood courses quickly, without regulation, this may indicate passion or other intense situations raging out...

Emotional energy. Whether clean, murky, still or choppy shows emotional state.

1. Concerns about prosperity, security.2. Current difficulties, often emotional, are temporary.3. Emotional state, well-being.

Narrow emotional direction; emotional path which may save you time and energy, but has little room for variation.

Emotional relaxation, or lack of energy, calming one’s emotional life.A poor financial situation.

Learning emotional lessons; how to maintain and understand self in the emotional waters of life. Staying on top of emotions.

1. Disagreeable feelings, lack of satisfaction, misery.2. An emotional drain, likely from an individual.3. Possible illness, perhaps emotional.

Change in emotional responses; forgiveness; melting of frigidity or emotional distancing through withdrawal of feelings.

(see Car, Circle, Seasons)Time’s cyclical movement, especially the seasons. In India, Kali ruled the Time Wheel that fixed life and death for all things. In ancient Greece, the 12 zodiacal...

Tires on your vehicle represent the emotional qualities you ride on.A flat tire may arrive as a response to a big emotional issue that deflated you and stopped your progress...

The availability of emotional sustenance from deep places is what this dream is expressing. Anytime water is featured in a dream, what is being expressed is the state of your...

Powerful, playful, emotional, beautiful, part of self.If we could learn to play in the emotional waters of life we’d never fear relationships and loving.

1. Need to extinguish some strong passions or emotional con­flict.2. Sexual satisfaction, completion.3. Emotional life needs cultivation and care (as in watering a garden).

1. Emotional “constipation” or repression, often regarding a specific situation.2. A need or desire for cleansing—often health related, possibly emotional.3. Difficult work in the offing.

Playful, joyful part of emotional self; learn to swim with ease and playfulness through the emotional seas of life rather than fearing and dreading your experiences.

Any image that relates to water is about your emotional experience. Hot water implies the addition of anger or other passionate sensibilities. Keep in mind that a water heater has...

1. Desire for balance in waking life, sometimes emotional.2. Fear of showing vulnerability or appearing weak.3. An old emotional injury is more profound than originally thought.

When an umbrella appears in your dream, you feel you need protection from emotional experiences or unwanted expression of emotion. Water relates to emotions, and of all the ways in...

The meaning varies according to context and sex of the dreamer.For a man, it signifies emotional security, but for a woman, it portends domestic disagreements.An objective dream of sibling unity...

Water represents emotions, and ice is frozen water. Symbolically, ice represents emotional content that has been dramatically altered.The resulting substance is cold and hard—adjectives that do not conjure pleasant sensations...

Noah’s ark represents a balance of masculine and feminine energies in the emotional waters of life; emotional balance in partnerships.See Boat.

1. Emotional protection.2. Emotional withdrawal.3. The body.4. Illness (if under siege).5. Strong sexual desire (if at­tacking a fortress).

Psychological / emotional perspective: Volunteering in dreams shows that we have made an emotional commitment to whatever is represented.

Psychological / emotional perspective: The need for partnership can sometimes be more intellectual than emotional. In connecting with the drive of the masculine we can become creative in many different...

Psychological / emotional perspective: To be trying to open a lid suggests that we may need some kind of emotional release.To be closing a lid indicates that we are repressing...

Psychological / emotional perspective: Our deepest emotional needs need to be cared for and looked after in a way that is different from normal.

An emotional conflict situation, fear of emotional conflict.Folklore: In almost all cases, a ship at sea is a bad omen.

Psychological / emotional perspective: The nun, as a woman who has dedicated her life to service of her god, signifies our emotional need to commit to something beyond ourselves.

1. The burdens of travel or journey of life, often emotional (as in “emotional baggage”).2. Humility, self-image (to be a porter).3. Misfortune.

Strong emotional support, protection; allows you to explore emotional waters and the unconscious with great protection and perspective.

Water is a common symbol for the emotions. Waves, being either smooth or violent, may therefore indicate either emotional calm or emotional turbulence.

Depth Psychology: Suffering from rheumatism: you are hiding emotional bitterness and disappointments from the outside world. Work through your anger and you will regain your emotional equilibrium.

Vision: Looking at honeycombs means good fortune in business matters. Eating honey means a lack of self-knowledge, the reason for your emotional complications, but recover)’ is in sight.See Bee.Depth Psychology:...

Psychological / emotional perspective: When in dreams we are nominated by someone we perhaps should look at the level of commitment we have to our various tasks. When we are...

Psychological / emotional perspective: Emotional difficulties can make our thought processes confused, symbolized in dreams by a fuzziness in the images we perceive.

Psychological / emotional perspective: Pleasure from pain, in the emotional sense in dreams, can alert us to our propensity to be a victim, albeit through a self-inflicted injury.

A physical or emotional wound.Your memory of a past emotional challenge.The results or consequences of hostility or ill will somewhere in your life.Healing, recovery, or renewal.See Healing, Scab

Physical, emotional, and mental deficiencies; wanting or being in need of Food in any form (usually emotional food).

To dream of a gall bladder in a specimen jar suggests an emotional situation that you have had difficulty processing.A gall bladder is a reminder that although this situation is...

Psychological / emotional perspective: We have developed the ability to recognize the need to deal with our own emotional make-up without the help of others. By and large such a...

The implication with a shipwreck is that some difficult experience has already happened.The event is likely to have been emotional in nature and has thrown you off in your daily...

1. If one can’t get into a place because of lack of money, this may mean some sort of obstruction, emotional or actual, is in place.2. One owes a loved...

lucky numbers: 03-09-26-27-43-47being a, person: your hanging on to your weight is not power. extra, and tall: you are emotional y invested in your view of yourself to the opposite...

Psychological / emotional perspective: When we find ourselves opposed to someone in dreams, we often have some kind of emotional difficulty, which prevents us from understanding a conflict within ourselves....

A symbol for secret. Something is being hidden— something is being portrayed falsely.See Virgin. Fearing down a veil symbolizes Defloration. But it also refers to protection in the sense of...

Indulgence, or feeling a need for an emotional or mental “treat” (such as feeling special or appreciated, or soothing emotional pain).“Sweet times” or a pleasant event.Richness or fullness.Actual hunger or...

For most people, dreaming about whales is a pleasant experience. These huge water dwelling mammals may be symbolic of the connection that exists between the unconscious and conscious mind. They...

Psychological / emotional perspective: Money can represent our own personal resources – whether material or spiritual – and our potential for success. In some circumstances a dream of money can...

To dream about starvation indicates that you are lacking in some mental or emotional area of your life. You may be ignoring or avoiding an important family/emotional issue. Starvation dreams...

Feeling bogged down, held back, losing ground, perhaps due to lack of self confidence or emotional support; may show the emotional dependence one gets stuck in between child and parent;...

To see a lake in your dream signifies your emotional state of mind.If the lake is clear and calm, it symbolizes your inner peace.If the lake is disturbed and wavy,...

A winter dreamscape could indicate the dreamer’s favorite time of the year for fun and frolic. However, winter is also a season in which many people experience depression.This dream could...

Psychological / emotional perspective: A handshake is a mark of appreciation and of acknowledgement. In dreams it suggests that an emotional bond has been forged, which cannot easily be broken.

Psychological / emotional perspective: Becoming aware of how quiet it is in a dream shows that we need to cease being active for a while, perhaps in order to restore...

Psychological / emotional perspective: In dreaming of instalments, from an emotional perspective we must accept that there is a degree of conditional acceptance, either in ourselves or others. We may...

Psychological / emotional perspective: In dreams, an emotional risk can make itself felt if we have not acknowledged such a possibility. Then we may dream of some kind of potential...

Psychological / emotional perspective: Since water is a symbol for emotion and the unconscious, washing stands for achieving a relationship with our emotional selves and dealing successfully with the results.

Psychological / emotional perspective: We may be trying to understand archetypal patterns that have not been recognizable in the past. There is information available to us which we can only...

Psychological / emotional perspective: An emotional hostage is that part of us that in dreams recognizes that it has had the ability to think and feel for ourselves taken away,...

Psychological / emotional perspective: A leak can indicate carelessness. We may not be paying attention to necessary repairs either on a physical, emotional or mental level.

Psychological / emotional perspective: In an emotional sense a hearse signifies a legitimate period of mourning for something that is dead and gone.A relationship may have come to an end,...

Psychological / emotional perspective: Emotional release in dreams can give rise to a number of images, such as rushing water, a raging fire or a mighty wind.

Psychological / emotional perspective: Emotional abuse in ordinary life can be experienced in dreams as violence and brutality.

Psychological / emotional perspective: The symbol of a bridge signifies the emotional connection between us and other people or aspects of our lives.

Psychological / emotional perspective: An exit is a way out, so for this to be highlighted suggests that we need to be aware of the ability to bring an end...