ALPHABETICAL 
T - Z
 

We are such stuff as dreams are made on.

--William Shakespeare

T

Table: Confrontation. A meeting and decision to made concerning others. 

Target: Same as gun. 

Teachers, Librarians and Students: represent a search for knowledge that is telling the dreamer to find an answer to a problem.

Teeth: One's pride and ego. Are they white and clean, decaying or missing? Lost tooth denotes a sense of loss of self-respect or reputation. ~ Relating to speech

Television, Movie, Videotape: This is your conscious life. The superconscious sees it as a parody because it knows itself to be the true life. Indicates that the event portrayed will definitely come to pass in your conscious existence in the world. In other words precognitive information. The script has already been written for its projection into the material world. 

Thorns: Troubles. Incessant torments, annoyances, worries and difficulties that tear at the fabric of the dreamer's peace of mind.

Also: To see thorns in your dream, signifies dissatisfaction and forces at work that are hindering your advancement. You may be sacrificing your own well-being for others.

Tiger: A powerful creature. The stripes indicate mistrust or opposites. It could turn on you. Can also indicate a powerfully tortured soul because of the stripes. Black for the bad times, gold for the good. Relates to the third chakra. 

Toilet: Deprecated self image and need to improve it. 

Tornado: Extreme confusion and disruption. Fear of the uncertainty and danger behind a condition or situation. Emotional turmoil, as in a "whirlwind of emotions"; and/or rapid or sudden changes in your life. It is a sign to "get a grip" on what is possibly spinning out of control & deal more effectively with your emotions. Meditation and finding some private "think time" for yourself would be a good idea.

Tornado is a violent storm in nature, and it may represent violent emotional storms in your dreams. If you have reccurring tornado dreams consider the emotional changes in your life and also the amount of anger and rage that you may be currently experiencing. Tornados could also represent disruptions and upsets in your immediate environment and specific or current issues that may be overwhelming.

 

Also: Tornados are unpredictable and violent storms which often separate families and destroy property. Frequent dreams of tornados may reflect past family instability, or people who are prone to violent “outbursts” or unpredictable mood swings. Tornados frequently represent family members or relatives with drug, alcohol, mood disorders, and violent tempers. For people living in tornado areas, the dreams may reflect literal fears of an encounter.  

Destruction: Any form of destruction, including any dream object capable of generating mass destruction (like a bomb or tornado) symbolizes massive power. So destruction in your dream often symbolizes fear of a loss of control of your most powerful feelings and emotions, ones so forceful they almost seem beyond your control. Any type of destruction can also represent fear of your true personal power, itself symbolizing who and what you really are. It is this fear of your true power, in fact, that is the basis of many nightmares. 

This type of dream can also be a clear warning of the suppression of any of your emotions that are leading you at the time toward a potentially "lethal" explosion of energy. If you know this is your present interpretation, take immediate physical action to release the building pressure—talk to someone you can trust, beat the stuffing our pillows, throw rocks at the moon, go someplace where no one can hear you and scream and yell till you can't yell anymore—whatever it takes to release the buildup of the potentially destructive energy bottled up inside of you. 

Destruction dreams can also, however, be telling about the awakening of energy or power. Again, pay attention to your dream message and consciously work with this energy, preferably with someone who can how you how. 

What has caused, or will cause, the destruction: What has been destroyed? How will things be different after the destruction? Were people or animals injured or destroyed? How do you feel in your dream? Does this remind you of anything going on in your life right now?


Touching: Being aware of; becoming conscious; meeting and becoming intimate; contacting. Touching also sometimes shows a linking up with something, as when a person touches a power line and gets shocked. This suggests we have "touched" feelings or drives which are a shock to us.

Absence of touching in an otherwise intimate scene can suggest lack of ability to reach out or express one's needs for contact; a passive attitude in which you want the other person, or a more automatic aspect of oneself, to take responsibility and risks. 
Traffic: Frustration and delay. For more on vehicles see Transportation.

Train or Railroad Track: Circumstances in life over which you have no control. It must run on tracks in an established format. It is the relationship of yourself to the rest of humanity. An unconventional person will constantly be crossing the track at right angles. See Transportation.

Treasure: Inner treasures, qualities of the Self not fully realized by the Ego. Once claimed and fully possessed, wholeness will become possible. ~ May be a sign of wish-fulfillment. This could be telling you that you are about to stumble upon spiritual or emotional gains. Maybe you are looking at life in a different way, and it has become richer and more full of meaning to you.

Tree: The complete Self. 

Tricycle: The bicycle but with the added stability (3rd wheel) of the superconscious levels of the Self. See Transportation.

Truck: Relating to employment or job. See Transportation.

Tunnel: When interpreting this dream, consider all of the details and the quality of your experience. Did you see a light at the end of the tunnel, or were you trapped in a tunnel unable to determine your location? The tunnel could represent a variety of things. If it was not an unpleasant experience, it may symbolize a transitional period and a passage into new levels of understanding or ways of living. Freud thought that any tunnel-like object represented the vagina. A tunnel in a dream may also be a symbol representing the archetype of the feminine.

Also: The vagina/womb (depending on what's at the end of the tunnel); therefore, possibly a need for security/nurturing, or an opening to a new awareness. Hopkins suggests that a dream of going through a narrow tunnel, especially with a light at the end of it, may be a memory of the birth process; however, it can also refer to impending death if ill (von Franz). It may refer to a limited perspective ("tunnel vision"); hope ("light at the end of the tunnel"); endeavors ("tunneling your way through"); a need to escape ("tunnel out"). Consider how easy/difficult (life struggles?) it is for you to make your way through the tunnel. Are you getting too big for this?

Also: A symbol that might be interpreted as meaning that you are coming out of depression or a time of anxiety in your life. 
 
 

U

Umbrella: Protection or alternate plan. Protection against outside elements. 

Uniform: Conformity to society. 

Urinating: Cleansing of self by awareness and application of the pattern of the superconscious. If in the presence of others it shows that you cannot hide the condition of your essential self from the various aspects of Self. 

Vegetables: If you see a table loaded down with fresh and cooked vegetables and this makes you hungry it denotes you are lacking in some nutrient or vitamin that your body needs to maintain itself, the one vegetable that is featured in your dream will give you a clue as to which one it is. See also, fruit.

Vine: All things in the Self are connected and interralated. All of your past combines to make up your current Self.

Violence: Research shows that most dreams are unpleasant. Violent dreams are relatively common and may be a reflection of the confusion and conflict that the dreamer experiences in daily life. Dreams with violent themes suggest that the dreamer has unconscious negative emotions such as fear, anxiety, and anger.If you are not dealing with these feeling consciously, your dreams are compensating and bringing into awareness the need for honest reflection and emotional balance in daily life.

Volcano: Something both terrifying and magnificent fixing to erupt. It will create a new you if it doesn't destroy you. That is the carrot and the stick of growth and development of the Self. The creator and destroyer force as one force. It is essentially the cleansing/creating fire from within the "womb" of the Earth.

Vomit/Vomiting: Ridding oneself of hostile, sexual, or other repressed feelings (guilt?). If someone vomited on you, it may symbolize dumping unacceptable feelings. Then again, perhaps there's something in your waking life that you "can't stomach." What's your reaction during and following the dream (satisfied, scared, disgusted?)? What were other people in the dream doing and what authority figures might they represent (mother, father, boss?); or did this happen alone (vomiting up secrets?)?

 

Also: Vomiting in a dream may represent those things in life that cause you emotional stress, repulse you, and make you ill. This dream suggests that you are rejecting a thought, idea, feeling, or circumstance and that fast and, almost violent, cleansing is required. Examine your daily reality and try to identify matters that would cause such a strong physical reaction.
 
 

W

Waiting: An issue of patience. Are you restless, bored, or angry that you are being kept waiting? How you react to waiting indicates your amount of patience. 

To dream that you are waiting, is indicative of issues of power/control and feelings of dependence/independence, especially in a relationship. Consider how you feel in the dream while you were waiting. Alternatively, it may denote your expectations and anxieties about some unknown situation or result. You are ready to take action.

Waitress or Stewardess: Those who serve you spiritual truths from the superconscious. Possibly the aid of discarnate entities who aid those in body as in the 'guardian angel'. 

Walk: Many people see themselves walking along in a dream. It is very important to remember where you were walking to and if the walk was difficult or not. The way we move in dreams, or the means of transportation, may represent how efficiently we maneuver and progress on our own personal life journey. Also, is the means of transportation appropriate for the journey? For example, are you walking to your neighbor's house or across the desert? Jung thought that if in your dream you are walking to no specific destination, it may represent a personal search and a succession of changes that one experience in life. In order to understand the dream, consider if you were walking around aimlessly or were swiftly going to a particular destination?

Wall: A man-made obstacle in life. That which keeps out or away from what we seek or desire. Those barriers of the establishment or society. ~ Blockage, obstacle. ~ An Ego-imposed separation from Other. Is the wall keeping something out or holding something in? Can it be breached? Should it be? What boundary does it define?

Also: Our defensive attitudes; feelings of security; social barriers; boundaries created by anxiety or view of life—a nationalistic attitude might act as a barrier to seeing other viewpoints on history. Our dependence upon our physical senses gives a boundary to our awareness, and a wall may symbolize such a frontier of our awareness. Walls of favorite house: might be our feelings of security in our marriage or family which give us defense against the "storms of life. Wall of prison, trap: fear, pain; ignorance; prejudice; anger, sense of being an outsider. Idioms: drive somebody up the wall; head against a brick wall; fly on the wall. 
Wallet: Identity, authentication, authorization. ~ Status of present financial situation. The color of the wallet adds to the interpretation. Is the wallet full or empty? Can you tell how much it contains? 

Wants: Wanting is a primal drive which, through socialization, we may crush and thereby lose contact with that we want from our feelings and needs. In doing so we may also lose much of our decisiveness and creativity. Looking at dreams in this way helps us define what our desires are. ~ What one desires in a dream often corresponds with an actual Unconscious need. The dream brings this need to conscious awareness, so that balance may be restored.

Washing, Bathing, Showering: Cleansing Self (subconscious) with ideals of the spirit or superconscious. A need for cleansing. Something done or said now needs to be purified. A need to make a clean start. See Spirit.

Water: See Spirit.

Waves: Intensity of emotions and beliefs. High waves show that you are being overwhelmed. See Spirit.

Wedding/Marriage: One’s marriage or feelings about marriage; uniting two different aspects of the dreamer such as intellect and feelings, practical and intuitive self; the "marriage" between conscious and unconscious self.

Weapons: Representative possibly of a need to find an outlet for a strong emotion. Could also
symbolize a want for protection or security. See also guns

Well: Source of water or spirit indicating the flow of information from the superconscious.

Weather: Weather is a "general" symbol/element that colors all the other elements of the dream scene. Rainy, sunny, all reflect the dreamers moods. It is the internal landscape or background.

Raining or sunny tell of depression, grief, sadness or joy, jubilation, peace.

When the weather is windy it bespeaks agitation, talkativeness, excitement, restlessness.

Snow (see snow) can denote coldness in a person or purity, depending on every other dream element present in that scene.

Changing weather denotes mood swings, or changes in attitude. (Again, depending on the sum of the other elements in that dream scene.)

Whale: The spiritual Self. The superconscious mind. Master of the ocean (universal spirit). The master of emotions. The whale is an evolved denizen of the deep...not a fish but a mammal. So I think it represents an evolved emotional body.

Wheelbarrow: 3 legs indicate trinity of 3 levels of the Self used to transport a heavy load. 

Wind: Changes. The winds of change.

Window: See Self.

Windshield: Condition of it shows how you view your present & future related to the car symbol. See Transportation.

Winter:  See Seasons.

Wire/conduit/tubing/pipes: The lines of communication from spirit or superconscious levels. They bring the energy of life and the truths. What shape are they in? 

Witness: You are experiencing something in an objective sense, and your dream may be telling
you to do this in waking life as well. 

Wood or Lumber: Construction material made of the "Tree" and all past life "Trees"... of the Self, i.e., your talents, knowledge, skills, ideals, etc.