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Abandonment: Sense of being without support or aide, left to handle it all by yourself. 

Abdomen: Dreaming about any body part is a way to bring the dreamer’s conscious attention to it. When, in your dream, you are feeling pain or discomfort in this area or any other area of the body, consider how well that part of your body is functioning in real life. Being health-conscious is a positive thing and both psychological and physical factors need to be considered. At times our unconscious knows that something is wrong even before we have any symptoms. “Old wives’ tales” tell us that this is a dream of the contrary and that you will have lots of vigor and good health. 

Abortion: A woman that had this experience is most likely to have many dreams about it. Even though the dream may be disturbing or anxiety-provoking, it is a healing dream. It is possible that in your dream state you are working toward acceptance and are resolving any unconscious feelings. If a man is having this dream, it usually means that he is experiencing guilt feelings and may be anticipating failure of some kind. If a woman who has not had this experience is having this dream, it may be a warning about her health or may indicate that she is feeling significant anxiety about current endeavors.

Accident: Result of an error made, a sense of guilt. People involved and the manner of the accident is important for deeper interpretation. 

Acting: "Playing a part," not being real or truthful. Pretending, hiding true feelings about someone or something. Sense of "not being enough." 

Adrift: Sense of being without direction. Insecure, frustrated, "up a creek without a paddle."

Affair: Desire for attention, and a need for affection. Sense that emotional needs are not being met at home or in a present condition.

Age: If the age is given in terms of years, the number is to be interpreted. If it is a sense of being aged (older than one actually is), this denotes maturity, but it can also point to feelings of being overworked and tired. If it is a sense of being younger, it denotes a desire for fewer responsibilities, more fun. The key is the response to the age. 

Aging: Dreaming about old people or your own aging may have several different meanings. An old man may symbolize wisdom and forgiveness while an old woman may represent life and death. In general, aging may represent the wisdom that a person acquires through experience. The dream may also be giving you a message in regard to life’s lessons. This may be a good time for you to apply some of your experience and knowledge to a current situation. This dream may also be a reflection of your concerns about aging. If you are thinking about your mortality and do not welcome maturing and age, the dream may be bringing out some of your worries and/or vanities.

Airplane: See Transportation.

Airport: Arrival at an airport symbolizes birth, departure means a new plan, an indication that you are approaching a new departure in your life. Some new idea is taking off or is ready to take off. You may be experiencing a new relationship, new career path or new adventure. 

OR, A desire or need for a new departure or new adventure in your personal life; the desire for freedom and/or travel as this is the jumping off point for all those who travel the world and it
brings out your hidden desires to do the same.

OR, Since airports are hotspots for the unexpected in the waking world, they signify an important transitional state in dreams. In our high-tech era, the boarding gates are portals of infinite arrival and departure. Face these points of entry bravely, with light baggage and an open mind for adventure. If you dream of losing your ticket, you may need to resolve a minor personality crisis. 

The foreign country may represent your unconscious, in which the dream is telling you that you have not arrived at your desired destination.

A busy airport in your dream, signifies the desire for freedom, high ideals, ambition, and hopes. 

Alarm: A warning. Something is about to happen or begin. Where does it come from? Do you pay attention to it? 

Alcohol: The means to escape reality, to avoid responsibility, to dull pain. 

Also: Understanding the symbol of alcohol in your dreams depends on the relationship you have with it in daily life. If you drink regularly, you need to look at the other details of your dream more carefully. However, if you drink rarely or never, then this dream could represent a need for you to escape from your daily stress and your desire to get quick relief. The alcohol could be suggesting a need for healing and getting in balance. Your unconscious mind may be suggesting outrageous things in hopes that you get the message to “have fun, dream dreams, and get out of your own head!” Please keep in mind that the purpose of dreams is to raise our consciousness and to assist us in having better lives. The message in the dream about alcohol is most likely not encouraging you to drink but it may represent a need to feel better or get better. 

Also: An alien/foreign part of yourself, i.e., one you have failed to recognize and possibly projected onto others (see them as having it). Therefore, it may represent unconscious material about to emerge and be elevated (as in a UFO vision), or a negative or shadow aspect of yourself. For additional cues, consider how you interact with, or are treated by, the aliens; whether they are less evolved than humans (say, reptilian and, therefore, primitive emotions/urges), or more evolved (higher beings = an idealized inner goal or inner creativity?). What part of you is like the alien? How have you rejected or ignored that part? What would change if you accepted/acknowledged it?

Also: The dreamer might feel that his or her life is being invaded, or the dreamer is unsure of new surroundings. 

Also: To dream that you are an alien, symbolizes the undiscovered part of yourself. Your manifestation as an alien may be your way of 'escaping' from reality. Dreams of this nature also symbolizes your outlandish ideas and your wild imagination. 

To dream that you are being abducted by aliens, indicates your fears of your changing surroundings or your fear of losing your home and family. You feel that your space and/or privacy is being invaded. 

To see aliens in your dream , signifies that you are having difficulties adapting and adjusting to your new surroundings. You are feeling "alienated" and invaded. You are also having difficulties in how to handle or deal with a certain situation or person. On a psychological level, seeing aliens may represent an encounter with an unfamiliar or neglected aspect of your own self.

Alone: Sense of being without support, of loneliness and insecurity. 

Altar: Sacrifice 

Ambulance: Your unconscious mind may by attempting to convey information that you have been unwilling to deal with consciously. Pay attention to your physical body and see if your health is an issue. Otherwise, this dream may be pointing to some urgent situation in your life. Consider all of the details in your dream. Examine your daily life and make an attempt to see if there is something that requires your immediate attention.

Amnesia: Desire for escape. Sense of needing to wipe the slate clean, or to forget all that has transpired. A wish to walk away from it all. 

Amputation: Sense of loss of ability to function totally. The part of the body that is lost needs a further interpretation. 

Anger: Response to a condition or an issue that may not be expressed when awake. Emotional result of unresolved feelings or wants.

Any dream anger is always directed first at yourself or some part of you, and at your dream object second. When you are anyone or thing in your dream is angry, it is always, at the first level of meaning, showing you that some part of you is angry at some other part, even when the anger is directed at someone or something else. Anger represents your unexpressed emotions or frustrations, and experiencing them in a dream is creating a safe place to release these feelings that might otherwise damage you or the others around you. Since the sleeping brain believes what it sees and experiences whether it is awake or dreaming, dream anger can be one of the healthiest ways for you to release these suppressed emotions, especially the petty ones the awake you feels you should have grown beyond by now. Denying that you feel anger only intensifies it, and it then has a tendency to pop out at the most inappropriate and damaging times. 

Also: On a purely spiritual level, dream anger symbolizes the fear of your lower self-centered nature directed against your higher spiritual nature, which your human personality often does not understand and consequently fears. To hide that fear, this part of you chooses to get angry. The human part of you often subconsciously feels that your spiritual nature is its enemy, out to annihilate it, especially when you first begin to wake up and grow. This kind of anger often shows itself as some type of "divine" anger or wrath, symbolized by any strong authority figure, divine or secular. It also often manifests itself as some kind of monster or nameless dread.

Also: To dream that others are angry with you. signifies your struggle to regain their lasting favor and friendships. 

Also: Anger in a dream at someone you know is usually an expression of pent-up hostility toward that person. In waking you may not be able to express your anger, because you do not wish to hurt their feelings or they may be your employer. In sleep anger comes out because you have to vent it in some fashion. If you dream that someone is angry at you, then this means that you either suspect that the person in real life is angry at you, or you have that particular paranoia. 

Also: The feeling you have toward something/someone in waking life, but are unwilling or unable, because of circumstances, to recognize or express. If your dream anger results in aggressive action, consider whether that action is positive and self-protective, which may indicate growing strength/power (if this is new behavior), or hostility/destruction. How do you feel about expressing anger in the dream? With what ease/difficulty do you accept the dream experience as an aspect of yourself, both in the dream and in waking life? Anger can be a disguise for fear, so check for waking feelings of fear. Recurring anger dreams following a waking crisis suggest you may be having trouble resolving the situation. 

Also: Who is angry? Why? How does it feel in your dream? Does it remind you of anything going on in your life right now? What form does the anger take? What will happen if you express the same kind of anger when you are awake? Why? What actions could you have taken to disarm or transmute the anger? What actions are you able to take in your dream that you would not allow yourself to take otherwise? What is this telling you? 

Hostility: Direct expression of that feeling. It is worthwhile considering who or what the dream suggests you feel hostile towards. In general the most powerful hostile feelings are towards parents, having been generated in infancy. These need to be met if one is to become an adequate sexual person in relation to an adult of the opposite sex and social authority. Unconscious hostility causes one to remain at a mystic or idealistic level of relationship with the opposite sex, causing difficulty in meeting the real individual. Meeting anger, aggression and hostility does not mean suppressing it or expressing it socially. Many of us have become, in the words of W.V. Caldwell, the author of LSD Psychotherapy, "hostility cripples." As human animals, anger and aggression are natural, but growing in a society which, although it practices the most terrible aggression at a national level, suppresses individual aggression, it is difficult for us to lead these urges towards maturity. Maturity in love is often talked about, but not maturity in hate. It helps if we can recognize whether we are repressing aggressions or hostility in our dreams. If anger is felt but not expressed in a dream, then use the technique explained in dream processing, in which you carry the dream forward and express in imagination the emotions held back. This should begin the process of more expressive anger in one's dreams, allowing the maturing of the aggression to begin. 

Antiques or Artifacts: Old truths, talents, drawbacks, etc. of Self which you rehabilitate or discover anew. 

Archaeology: Searching for truths 

Argument: Arguments often represent some struggle you are experiencing at the subconscious level with your own feelings, behavior or habits. An argument can also symbolize the old you trying to hold back the new. Or, conversely, the new you convincing the older version of you of what it has to offer. Arguments can also represent your own unexpressed, even unrecognized, emotions and frustrations. Remember that dreams are a safe place to release any strong feelings, harming no one, including yourself. So any dream argument can be an effective way to work out conflicts in your feelings and actions by literally talking things over with yourself. Who is having an argument? Who is the stronger? Who will win? Why? How do you feel about the argument in your dream? What will be the outcome? How will tings be different when one side has convinced the other? What does this remind you of that is going on in your life at the time? 

Art gallery: Ideals.

Ascent: Any high climb—up steps, a mountain, rising in a balloon—may be the visualization of the achievement of a goal in your conscious life. (Empower Station)

Ascending: The rising feelings of passion or sexual pleasure. The transition from expressing our energy genitally to expressing it in self-awareness. Movement towards awakening or becoming more aware; the mental; or an escape from anxiety or being "down to earth."

Ashes: Things are ended, and it is time to move on.

Astronaut: Someone who dared, and has stepped out of the normal confines of life. Someone who has gone beyond others in reaching for the future. 

Automobiles or vehicles: see Transportation

Away: Going away indicates a desire to leave a present condition. Having been away indicates an awareness of having left behind a condition. Being away indicates an awareness of putting things behind, but without concluding them. 
 
 

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Baby: Your own Inner Child.  What the infant needs or feels in the dream symbolizes an inner need of your own. ~ Responsibility. Born developed or with sixth sense: Intuitive, Psychic.

Also: Many people from time to time will have babies or small children in their dreams. If these newborns are strangers to you, you can assume that they represent you. You are the baby and the dream is telling you something about your development in a particular area of your life. At times of great change and renewal, a baby may appear in a dream and represent your potential and a new beginning. Some of the meaning of the dream may be obtained by considering what the baby looked like and was doing. Generally, babies represent innocence and are symbols of the purest form of a human whose possibilities are endless. However, if the babies appearance is odd, and if your interactions with it are bizarre or unusual, you need to consider your own well-being (psychologically) and think about what personal experiences and psychological hang-ups have prevented you from growing.

Also: The meaning of this dream depends on what the baby looked like and was doing. Generally, babies represent innocence, great potential and new beginnings. If the baby in your dream is beautiful you may experience new  happiness and feelings of security. An ugly baby suggests that you may not be trusting your friends and that you may be concerned about their motives; sick babies indicate that you may have some very difficult times in your immediate future. If the baby is walking you may experience new independence (this is folklore), but if you loose the baby through the drain while bathing you may have a fear of not being able to live up to your expectations. Many times babies indicate great happiness and joy.

Also: One's own feelings and urges at that level of development such as possessiveness, joy, curiosity, innocent love, infant trauma; feelings of helplessness; vulnerability; lack of responsibility; being cared for. Also a new phase of life; a new idea; new activity.

Also: One's energy and sense of existence. Being hurt--such as hurtful remarks and being told we are not loved--can sap our motive to live and may be depicted as blood. Iinjury, often from past trauma, which is causing us to lose energy or motivation; our fundamental biological, evolutionary life, and thus a link with all life, so seen as a sacrament. This is portrayed not as injury but nourishment, wine or bloody meat. In sexual dreams: may refer to loss of virginity, menstruation or fertility; or hurt to sexual drive. 

Ball: Sometimes the symbol of either the sun or the moon, but also a mandala symbolizing psychological wholeness and strength. Your dream was probably a reassuring symbol suggesting that you are in a strong position.

Bath: Need or desire to cleanse the self of a condition or feelings of guilt. 

Bathroom: Personal issue or condition that needs to be cleansed. 

Battle: Sense of being in a fight for survival. Are you winning or losing?

Beach: Where conscious and unconscious meet.

Bear: Burden, unpredictable raw power, grouchiness, rugged, tough 

Bed: This could be a sexual symbol. Or maybe you are putting something to rest, or should be.

Bee: Honey Bee--the worker ("Busy as a bee"). Bumblebee, Wasp, etc. could represent pests or irritating circumstances. 

Bird: Thoughts and desires for personal freedom, or for others. In flight, it is positive. If caged or on the ground, freedom is being denied. ~ Spiritual freedom

Nest: The home base, the safe place for the eggs (the beginnings) of life's issues. A bird's nest points to freedom. An insect's nest points to annoyances. Check the number of eggs in the nest and their color. Or is the nest empty? 

Black: See Colors

Black Person: If you are white and dream of a black person it could symbolize one's own natural drives or your feelings about Black people. Or, if the person is known, what you feel about them.

Blood: Life supply, life force. That which sustains us. Energy. ~ An ambiguous symbol of passion and power, representing love or hatred, life or death.

Also: It is the life-giving, vital part of our physiology and it may symbolize our strengths and weaknesses and our physical and mental health. If you are currently experiencing a very difficult time in your life, you may have dreams with bloody and frightening images. Don't worry, you may be venting your fears! Some believe that when you see blood in your dream, the distressing situation in your life which is at the root of the dream has come to an end, and the worst is over. Consider the details and the relationships between of all the symbols in your dream before making an interpretation.

Boat or Ship: See Transportation.

Body Parts

Upper Body: The top half of the body is related to consciousness and awareness, to thinking (especially the head), and to feeling/emotion (heart). For this to be true, however, there must be specific emphasis on the upper body; or on a belt or other article around the midsection that makes a definite division. 

Chest: Can represent male confidence, conquest, virility and vitality ("hairy chest"), a sense of social confidence and positive social recognition, pride. To dream that you are beating your chest, indicates triumph and a great accomplishment. Like a wooden chest, it's also a place to store emotions. In a woman's dream it can be the ability to give of oneself; good feelings about womanhood. 

Is there some emotion you've been storing that you need to "get off your chest"? As the cavern surrounding the lungs, the chest is related to breathing, therefore, to basic life energy or instincts, and anxieties about them. It is the place where "inspiration" occurs. 

~ Alternatively, it represents feelings of being overwhelmed and being dangerously confronted by something. 

Business Card: Similar to wallet but relating to business identity. Fame or reknown. 

Brakes: Necessary if needed to change direction in life... related to security. See Transportation

Bread: "Staff of Life". Food for Mind, Body, Spirit. 

Bridge: Crossing to a new level of understanding and a new place in life. See Transportation

Briers: Painful and possibly confusing entanglements as occurs when perfection enters non-perfection. The Christ symbol of the crown of thorns. Entrapment. 

Bumps or Hills in the Road: Obstacles which you must ascend or become more to get through. See Transportation

Bus: Common carrier. Going with the flow. Someone else doing the driving. See Transportation
 
 

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Cabin: A refuge away from others, a quiet place. What is in the cabin is important. See Self.

Camp/Camper/Camping: Wanting to be more in touch with nature; being independent/self-sufficient; self-survival; recognition of basic needs; a quest/initiation. Camping vehicles/vans may symbolize a gypsy/adventurer attitude; holding open the option of moving on if a situation doesn't fit you. 

You may need to move on with regards to some aspect of your life. Perhaps you are dwelling on a situation and it is time to move forward. Also, it may suggest your need for relaxation and a long-deserved break. You may be looking to be more in touch with nature and for a simpler life. 

Alternatively, it refers to your social circle and support group. You need to have a sense of belonging, but at the same time be self-sufficient and independent.

Also, a camper is a covering for your vehicle. Are you covering up something within yourself or from someone else?

A "tent city" may symbolize a sense of homelessness/lack of belonging; loss of security.
 
 

Camping, Tent, Apartment, Hotel, Motel, Mobile Home: All indicate a temporary state of mind and life which you will move through. You are only there for the learning experience.  See Self.

Hotel: Involvement with others in a personal issue that is costing you. 

Cat: Cats have both positive and negative connotations. You need to consider all of the details in the dream in order to obtain accurate interpretation. 

Cats can represent the anima or feminine aspects of either a man or a woman’s personality; Instinctual energy that's been tamed and is relatively close to consciousness, feminine power/energy/mystery; the immature or coy feminine (kitten); female genitals (pussy), sexuality, prosperity and power. (Traditionally cats are the "familiars" of witches--the shadow or crone aspect--but in ancient times they were often associated with goddesses/divine powers.) 

They can represent speed, agility, grace, playfulness, stealth, patience, laziness, secret desires, jealousy, pleasure seeking, troublemaking, independence, magic and strength. 

If a cat is aggressive, scratches you, or jumps on you, it may indicate difficulty with your sexuality, or mixed feelings regarding your desire for children. Cats hold a particularly strong association to babies in women’s dreams--women often dream of giving birth to cats. 

Historically black cats have been symbols of evil and bad luck. 

A cat elevated to its most powerful expression of energy (possibly hostility/danger) is, of course, a lion or tiger.

Of course, if you're a cat owner and don't have children it could represent your responsibilities in the same way as the dog. 

Cattle: People as a society, the "herd" mentality. 

Chair: An issue or condition that supports you and makes you comfortable. 

Chest: Can represent male confidence, conquest, virility and vitality ("hairy chest"), a sense of social confidence and positive social recognition, pride. To dream that you are beating your chest, indicates triumph and a great accomplishment. Like a wooden chest, it's also a place to store emotions. In a woman's dream it can be the ability to give of oneself; good feelings about womanhood. 

Is there some emotion you've been storing that you need to "get off your chest"? As the cavern surrounding the lungs, the chest is related to breathing, therefore, to basic life energy or instincts, and anxieties about them. It is the place where "inspiration" occurs. 

~ Alternatively, it represents feelings of being overwhelmed and being dangerously confronted by something. 

Chicken: Chicken, afraid. 

Christ: See Spirit

Cigarette: Something being done that is an unhealthy means of relaxing. 

City, town: One's relationship with society; one's sense of community; the mental and emotional environment in which one lives; in some dreams work and opportunity. Hometown, town of birth; the familiar way of life; the way you usually go about things. Strange town: the new; different attitudes or way of life. Alone in a town: feeling isolated and out of touch. In a deserted town: outmoded social attitudes or way of life. Lost in a town: feeling uncertain regarding your place or direction in society. Idioms: go to town; ghost town; man about town; paint the town.

Also: Cities and neighborhoods frequently represent our relationship with our family (siblings, parents, etc.) If we stroll in comfort along familiar avenues or lanes or through villages, it shows we have a secure family connection, self-image and self-esteem. If we find ourselves in eerie or threatening street scenes, we feel alienated from our families, or that we are misunderstood, under appreciated, discounted or abused by them, depending on the degree of miscommunication or dysfunction of one or more of the family members.

Climbing: Conditions look positive. You are stepping up in life.

Clothing: When you get into different moods you tend to choose different clothing, so clothing, for this reason best symbolizes your mood or state of mind. They also signify attitude. We wear clothing for all sorts of different reasons including, work, dating, play and social occasions. Attitudes and moods are similar to clothing in this regard, they are the camouflage we hide behind, our face we put on for the world in various situations so we can better cope. Take a look at what you, or other people in your dream are wearing to get even more clues to the dream's meaning. Also, a commonly overlooked clue is sometimes you see clothes on a clothes line, or lying around. It would be a good idea to take note as to what style and condition the clothes you see are.

Also: Protection. The color and the body part it covers informs the interpretation. Old clothes indicate past protection. New clothes point to new protection. Long clothes indicate a traditional or conventional protection. ~ Any dream emphasis on clothing implies a concern about the dreamer’s Persona, the face one presents to the outside world. ~ The physical body, or the part of yourself that you show to the world.

Also: Attitudes and levels of consciousness; your persona or some aspect of it; a need for attention or to conceal your true self. Work clothes may refer to a persona/attitude with respect to work/business, or may identify a dream as related to your occupation. If you're changing your style of clothing, or buying new clothes, it may reflect a need to change your persona, or inner feelings. It could also signal that you're recovering from a crisis such as a death/divorce/depression. Dreams in which you're shopping for, or buying, clothes, or in which you/another appear inappropriately dressed, are common during times of crisis/transition. They may reflect anxiety about "trying to fit in" or being "well-suited" for your new/changing role (Siegel). In myths, homespun clothes symbolize a continuing connection or strong ties with home, mother; therefore, they can represent a kind of innocence/immaturity, naïveté. 

Shirt: To dream of a shirt, refers to your emotions or some emotional situation. The shirt you wear reveals your attitudes and level of consciousness about a particular situation. To dream that you are giving a shirt to someone, may be a metaphor or "giving the shirt off your back" and refers to your self-sacrifice and generosity. 

Also: As a cover for the upper torso, it relates to emotions or emotional situations. It may also refer to someone in your waking life who is a "stuffed shirt"; self-sacrifice or generosity ("give the shirt off your back"); a financial risk or anxiety ("lose your shirt").

Undressing: revealing one's real character, move towards intimacy

Also: To see fluffy white clouds in your dream, tells of a successful outlook in your endeavors. An issue in your waking life may be clearing up. To see gray and gloomy clouds in your dream denotes a rocky and turbulent road towards achieving your goals. It may also suggest depression or anger. Your decisions may be clouded in some way. 

Coat: Protection or hiding self from others, covering up. 

Cold: Associated with feelings of isolation or withdrawal or missing out on the warmth of life. See 'directions'-'north'. ~ Frozen emotion, a holding-back of feelings, resulting in cold numbness. Held back emotions, especially fear, feeling neglected or "left out in the cold': sometimes connected with feelings about death. Idioms: cold shoulder; cold storage; cold feet.

Columns: Support legs to hold up something. Two stone columns in the distance indicate a portal or doorway to the future. Single columns could represent strength or an object of worship or memorial. 

Containers: Something that can hold things in place in life.

Contract: To dream that you enter into a bad contract, or someone has duped you into signing a contract that will only bring you problems, you should think twice about committing to a relationship. Carefully examine what you are getting into, it may be time to examine your relationships with the opposite sex. 

Cosmetics/Makeup: Our ability to change the impression we make on others; cover up for our real feelings or situation. Desire to attract attention; our public traits; cover up.

Cow: See "Cattle" 

Criminal: Cheating, limiting self.

Crush: Symbol of our immediate love attraction. Common in teen dreams, usually is a literal representation of our current heart’s delight. See also, Love.

Cup or Glass: Entertaining or partaking of spiritual truths from superconscious to quench thirst for knowledge and truth. Refreshing Self.