Hello everyone, Sorry I havn’t been around in awhile, I have going through alot.  Hope you are all having a great day, mine was good.  I have been working on updating my personsal dream dictionary. Today & tomorrow, I will be posting some more dream meanings for you. I hope that you find what you are looking for.

Birthday - There are two ways in which the birthday dream is experienced.

The first is that everybody knows it’s your birthday. There may be an actual party, or just a common affirmation and celebration

The second birthday experience is a darker image-you know it’s your birthday and everyone forgot. It’s an indication of the struggle for significance. Who you encounter, their apparent ignorance about your birthday, and their reaction to your news (or to your non-verbal, cloying attempt to clue them off) says a lot about the scenario. It may be that you feel overlooked in your relationships with others, or insignificant in general. If you are unwilling to tell, it may be that you are wanting more attention from the dream characters than they are providing. If, on the other hand, you tell them and they gush with apology, there may be a sense in which you feel they are operating at a relationship deficit with you over some matter. In the dream, did they give you a gift upon finding out it was your birthday? What was it?

Boats - Depending on your experience with them, boats can represent riches, travel, isolation, danger, romance, or complete and utter frustration. Rowboats and canoes are often found on fairly placid lakes and streams. In dreams, they may be way out of context on the high seas, therefore implying a kind of broken peace. Normally, the setting of the boat says much about its symbolic meaning. Different types of boats may vary in meaning, but possible options include isolation, danger, escape, and romance.

Sailboats often appear in similar environs as rowboats, but tend to mean either riches or frustration: sailboats can be very affluent and romantic to the dreamer, however, being dead in the water for lack of wind is another option.

Power boats often show a sense of power, control, wealth, competition, or travel. Danger is not often a problem, except in cases of failed motors.

Sinking boats can reveal a fear of water, drowning, or incompetence. More often, they are a metaphor for feelings about a particular aspect of life. To determine this, look at who is on the boat or conspicuously absent from it. Also, see if the reason it is sinking, which may seem nonsensical, is available in the dream.

Is the boat one that you recognize? Is the general feeling one of happiness and leisure or one of fear and anxiety?

Bridges - Bridges are interesting symbols in relationships. We often speak of crossing and burning bridges as representations of the opportunities and challenges of life. Does the bridge cost anything to cross? Is it a secure or precarious bridge to cross?

Is there a known destination, or is it a bridge to an uncertain future? Do you have particular feelings about yourself as you cross or upon completion of crossing the bridge?

Your answers to these questions may reveal a transition you perceive in your life and your feelings about it. The act of building a bridge is another way to encounter bridges in dreams. (Are you building the bridge to create an opportunity or to escape from trouble?)

The destruction of a bridge is yet another bridge encounter. (What are you becoming separated from and how do you feel about that separation? Are you participating in the bridge destruction or being victimized by it?)

Courtyard - For some reason, many people have buildings with courtyards or atriums in their dreams. This may just be so much scenery, as we tend to like such things architecturally. Often times, these dreams reflect a desire to return to a more renewing or living place.

The courtyard can also be a womb image. As such, it can represent you getting back to your life source. It may be a sense on your part of mother power coming into the situation that has brought you to the courtyard. In these cases, you may be looking at the courtyard as a place of nurture or interference.

Creatures - Did you watch Godzilla right before bedtime? A lot of our unknown creatures come from visual images out of horror films. However, they may possess power or destructive potential that hits at the core of our being. In these cases, we are confronted by a sense of angst or loss from unknown dangers through these creatures.

There are some mixed creatures that are more playful, however. These creatures may be combined characterization of favored friends or pets, or may come from favorite literature or mythology images. In this case, the images are positive for us.

Dancing - Dancing can be a powerful psychological or spiritual release for people. Many primitive cultures view dancing as a sacred, as well as recreational, event. Dancing before religious icons has been a symbol of praise and sacrifice to divinity for thirty centuries or longer. Often these dances were done to elicit favor or providence from the gods.

In contemporary culture, dancing is more recreational as an offshoot of mating ritual. All this is a fancy way to say we dance in hopes of getting lucky. As such, dancing has taken on more sexual connotations for many people. If you are dancing alone, this may be a regression to a more sacred understanding of dance. Some people use metaphors like, I’m dancing as fast as I can to illustrate their sense of relationship to the world. This may include dancing alone or dancing individually for an audience.

Dancing with others may include a sense of uncoordinated participation with the world around you, depending on the dance and nature of clothing. Do you fit in well? Another variation on dancing with others is moving through diversity in relationships. This may be especially true if you are considering beginning a romantic relationship among several choices of partner. Others dancing for you may indicate your perception of them, especially if the dance has flirtatious or overt sexual content. This may reflect either your feelings of desire for them or a sense of their desire for you. Dreams of this kind may strike the dreamer as crass or exhibitionist in nature.

If you are dancing alone, is the style of dance appropriate to solitary movement, or are you dancing in a waltz pose without a partner? Perhaps you feel as though the others are not following your lead or fulfilling their half of the deal in a relationship. If the dance and music seem incongruent, or if you are dancing without music, are you doubting the appropriateness of any facet of your life or relationships? If others are dancing for you, is it sexual, performance, or ceremonial-and why?

Dates - Many times in dreams, dates and numbers are used as a signal to identify something from the dream that will translate to waking life. In dreams, dates may be clues to guide you toward a time or event that is serving as the trigger for the dream.

Dining - The act of social eating is an interesting mixture of sensuality, personal interaction, and just plain survival. In dreaming, it is usually remarkable for the camaraderie that accompanies it or the method of preparing the meal.

The dinner table has always been central to the family myth. We see one another and communicate the most around the dinner table. Even in families where communication was vague or non-existent, the dinner table was the central, or only, place of meeting. In dreams, these eating events may include characters who have long since passed on, or who you may have only met through pictures. The people eating the meal together should always be examined to see if anyone is notable either for their presence or absence.

What is being eaten is also worth examination. In some families, particular dishes become associated with the family identity in general or particular members of the family. These may include foods no one particularly likes or good foods prepared by someone nobody particularly likes. The point is that food becomes a symbol for our lore and story as a family.

Of course, a nonsensical meal or method of preparing may also accompany the eating event. This may reflect either the absence or presence of particular characters or a lack of knowledge given a preparation that is outside the family’s traditional menu. The symbol content of the food (liver, who died of liver trouble?) or persons involved with particular foods should be associated through the memory. Is the dining situation a friendly one or even a celebration? Is the food very unusual or otherwise remarkable? Does the fact that you are dining with certain people in your dream merely provide a setting for those characters to address other issues?

Eagle - The eagle is an important Native American symbol, as well as having a place in the ancient literature of Greeks and Hebrews. All these images exist in our common-day lore on roughly equal terms.

The eagle is a symbol of great wisdom and vision in the lore of Navajo and Crow Native American legend. As such, it is often associated as a sacred emblem that sets the dreamer apart for special uses by the Great Spirit. In Hebrew and Greek literature, the eagle is a symbol of power. Given its great size and strength, eagles were able to remove even small livestock from the herds. This gave the eagle a persona of majesty, power, and fear. To dream of the eagle is to be spiritually validated as a person of great wisdom and insight concerning both this world and the spiritual realities beyond the comprehension of this world.

Food - Food, like eating, is a powerful image. Foods may be scenery, or may be central images in the dream. Who prepared the food can also be an important detail to understanding what it means. For example, if there is a bowl of potato salad like Aunt Sally used to make and she has been dead for two years, Aunt Sally, or her personal influence, may be important to dream insights.

Excessive amounts of food may herald fertility, gluttony, or wealth. (How did the excessive food get into the dream and how did people in the dream react to its presence?) It may be that you or others have divergent views of what constitutes excess or gluttony. Provision and fertility often go hand-in-hand: You may dream of needing more food than another because you believe you have additional responsibilities. It may be that the food was acquired simply because the means existed to acquire it-this can mean wealth or benevolence, depending on what becomes of the food.

Fresh food may be a sign of renewal. This can present itself as needing to get fresh food (take a sabbatical), having fresh food (feeling as though this is a renewing place you’re dreaming of), or harvesting (being in touch with nature or feeling proud of work ou’ve accomplished).  Spoiled food is a sign of waste, excess, gluttony, or mismanagement. These dreams often carry a sense of repulsion for the loss, order, or appearance of the food. Have you ever struggled with your weight, food as a comforter, or an eating disorder such as bulimia or anorexia?

Were you put in uncomfortable positions because of food and others forcing you to eat unwanted items or unsatisfactory quantities? Do the foods in the dream correspond to significant persons in any of these emotional transactions?

Luggage - Talk of emotional baggage has become very common nowadays. This contemporary term has given rise to a new way of experiencing relationships with yourself and with others. Dreams of cumbersome baggage often represent a life that is too cluttered, or one that lacks reasonable emotional boundaries.

To dream of a mysterious piece of luggage may indicate something that is hidden, such as a secret or an idea. Does the luggage in your dream seem to get in the way? Are you very nervous about losing a piece of luggage that you are carrying around for no apparent reason? This may mean that you should take stock of things that you are holding onto-maybe there is something that you can safely dispose of that will lighten the load.

Marbles - Childhood toys and stereotypical childhood games often illustrate the childlike approach you take to many relationships. To understand the marble dream, think about how well you play and how high the stakes are in the dream.

To dream of a game of marbles, or many other childhood pastimes, can mean an attempt to return to innocence. A key element is who is playing with you. Are you playing with childhood friends, or with someone you’ve only known as an adult? Does the game feel like a fun activity, or is it a competitive challenge?

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Hey everyone, hope you are all having a great day. Mine was good. I have recently added more to my personal dream dictionary and decided to post the newest meanings for you today.

Alarm Clock - Time is a precious commodity that seems impossible to acquire sufficiently. Alarm clocks in dreams are often a reminder of our limitations. These may be reflections of actual problems (such as running out of time), symbolic of poor time management, or completely conceptual (such as failing to complete a life-cycle task before that cycle ends). This alarm clock could appear in the dreams of someone who is perceiving their time on earth as growing short.

Is the clock a hopeful symbol (e.g. at last the time has come), or a fearful one (time is running out)?

Canyon - Being in a canyon, abyss, chasm, or pit shows the dreamer as being somewhat trapped. However, in some settings, this kind of experience may lead to a place of initiation and transition. It may just be a place of beauty and rest for others. The Grand Canyon is a favored spot for many people who dream about it long after visiting. In this regard, the canyon is just a staging ground for other relationship transactions in the dream (for example, the peace provided from vacations or from experiencing natural beauty).

Captivity - Dreaming about being imprisoned, locked in a room, or restrained against one’s will can be a powerful dream image. What is especially notable about this type of dream situation is how we react to the circumstances. At times we may try to escape, but other times we may just acquiesce to, or even cooperate with, our captors. Much of this depends on who is holding you captive and why. If you are cooperating with a familiar captor, it may be that you feel that person’s control over your life to the extent that you have no choice but to be a part of it. Freudians may be inclined to argue that the captivity, especially if in a small room, reflects the repercussions of a dominant mother, or a return-to-the-womb type of captivity. This is a nurture-versus-power conflict. You may even experience a captor who is not your mother, but who treats you with a mixture of power and sympathy.

Political captivity in a dream is a powerful image of the self against the world. Being held hostage in this way reflects the cosmic struggle of good against evil. The dreamer may see himself as a victim of circumstances beyond his or her control, or as a sacrificial offering for a conflict or cause. Many times the cause is less defined, but the dreamer may have companions or friends as co-prisoners-in this case, the relationship with the other(s) is the key element to interpret.

Choking - Choking is a physical event in sleep for many people who suffer from sleep apnea. The tongue relaxes against the airway in deep sleep, actually stopping normal breathing. However, people who suffer from apnea do not dream of choking more than others.

Choking may be a symbolic revulsion dream or a deprivation dream. Are you choking on food or being forcibly strangled? The source of the food or the food itself may be a symbol for a revulsion you feel in waking life. If you are choking on a hot dog, Dr. Freud will see you momentarily. If someone is choking you, why? It may be that either you threaten them or they are depriving you of what you need to be effective in the home, workplace, or other setting.

Circles and Rings - Circles and rings are archetypal symbols. They can manifest themselves as circular rooms, the magic circles of shaman or other soothsayers, circus rings, or even circular driveways. While circles are usually positive dream symbols, it is important to note the characters that accompany them and the emotions that surround them.

Did you experience the circular object yourself, or watch others doing so? Was the circle broken or complete?

Dead / Alive -Dead people who appear alive in dreams have three general categories of participation: cameo, resolution, and judgment. Cameo participation is a little eerie in recall, but not particularly noteworthy in the dream itself. In these cases, the dreamer simply sees a dead person intact and living, just hanging out in the dream scene.

Often there is little direct participation in the dream per se. The dream image probably is tied to an activity that the dreamer and dead person once participated in together. Most likely, there is a latent sense of missing the person that made the dream appearance possible. Resolution participation usually involves a specific action with the dead person. In this case, the dead person’s presence is central to the unfolding storyline. Either you lack something they need or they act in a way to provoke emotion (positive or negative) from you.

In either case, the transaction or inability to complete it revolves around some deficit that needs resolution in the relationship. These dreams may carry a sense of judgment or joy, depending on whether or not the relationship transaction is resolved. Judgment can often involve the dead person as a dead person or zombie. These dreams are particularly troubling as we often see ourselves as unable to reverse of complete the necessary actions to salvage a situation.

What traits did the deceased embody during their lives (i.e. Uncle John was a saint; Aunt Agnes was mean as a snake)?

Was their behavior in the dream consistent with or contrary to their general behavior in life? Perhaps you need to look more closely at the true personality of the deceased and how they were characterized by others.

Electrical Shock - Electrical shock and other energy emanations are often associated with trying to cross a taboo line or some other kind of punishment. Sometimes the energy is not from a traditional source (i.e., cattle prod, electric fence, stun gun), but is rather the projection of power against us from another dream figure. Probably because of the paralyzing power of electrical shock and the invisible nature of electricity, we feel invisibly restrained or unable to move. The taboo we are violating may be obvious, such as trying to enter a place that is forbidden or it may be more general, trying to assume too much personal power in the cosmos. Either way, being confronted by electrical or other energy metaphors can be a jolting dream event.

Did you notice where the shock came from, or did it surprise you? Did the shock hurt or disable you, or was it merely a nuisance?

Fire - Burning is a tremendous fear many people from many different cultures hold in common. However, it is often simultaneously associated with purification. To pass through fire intact is to see oneself as becoming purified. However, being burned may indicate that one perceives life as extraordinarily threatening and painful. If a particular object is on fire (house, car, etc.), this may symbolize over-commitment to it or fear of a world without it.

Freud found fire to be a symbol of male power. In this case, fire may indicate control over a circumstance or a struggle to feel that way, depending on whether the fire is controlled or not.

Do you question your own morality at times? Are you seeking cleansing from a bad experience?

Do you perceive your own life is about to go through a significant transition that requires spiritual preparation?

God: Judeo-Christian - God images in dreams are very diverse. Often, it is not God as a direct visual image that you encounter, but something that is known to contain a projection of God’s power and presence (religious icons, a bible); or it is simply a sensation that some high-powered entity is present. Many times, the object or presence will somehow illuminate us to a providential solution to a problem that is confronting us in the dream. Other times, the symbol may block progress as a warning. This may be especially true if we are being confronted with a choice that is luring us towards a taboo experience or relationship.

In these dreams, the content of the revelation should be of primary concern. The presence of God, even as a dream image, is not to be taken lightly. Many times, our waking egos prevent clear awareness of the full supernatural possibility of God. Yet, while sleeping, we may be more receptive to direct communication.

Discerning authentic spiritual content should be the concern of the dreamer. Does the Higher Power that appeared in your dream match up with your view of a Higher Power in waking life?

In military parlance, there are authentication codes for messages to insure that an impostor is not compromising official orders. You should probably employ this type of authentication process before accepting the possibility that you were, indeed, visited by your Supreme Being in a dream.

Checking the content of the revelation for consistency with the character, nature, and intentions of God should be thoroughly explored before acting on any dream revelation.

Hospitals - Hospitals really bother us a lot. We are exposed to them at many levels in our own lives and through media and entertainment. Whether you are the patient or the visitor, no one wants to be there. Yet to dream of a hospital is not uncommon. As often as not, hospital dreams have little to do with sickness. However, in many hospital dreams, we have good reason to be there. They break down into dreams involving the emergency room, general care, intensive care, being unable to leave, and receiving nonsensical treatment in them.

Emergency room dreams have more to do with the well-being of significant persons and relationships than the emergency room itself. Many times, people involved in emergency room dreams are worried (excessively) about the people coming to see them or the person they are going to see in the hospital.

General care dreams reflect our sense of needing or being needed by others. Differentiated from the above dream, general care dreams do not reflect a crisis-level anxiety, but more of a dependent lifestyle. The relationship in a hospital is a one-way flow from care-giver to patient. This is a picture of dependence.

Intensive care is a place of danger and, at times, release. We all understand that the really sick people are there. It may be that you are needing to let a person go, especially the chronically ill. It may also be a place that reminds you of someone who has already passed.

Being unwilling to leave the hospital may show that you are ambivalent about facing the world independently. For the nuisance that the hospital is, it is also a place of intense care and support. The nature of your illness may be a metaphor for the aspect of your life where extra care and support are needed.

Receiving nonsensical care in the hospital is often a way of working out or illuminating unbalanced needs or demands in life. Everybody is paying attention to something you feel is unworthy of notice. Or, conversely, nobody will treat you for what you perceive to be the true problem. This can be truly funny if, for example, you acquire a large growth that strikes you as perfectly normal, but concerns others. It may become an object of obsession for numerous doctors, some of whom you may recognize as a boss from work, a romantic partner, a peer from some sort of leisure pursuit, etc. The darker version of this is feeling genuinely ill and being unable to receive treatment for it.

Hotels - Hotels are great places. A cheap hotel is the epitome of tackiness and indecency, while a nice hotel is the picture of elegance, wealth, and romance. To dream of a hotel usually brings you to one of these two poles of awareness. Either you are hiding-out of guilt or adultery-or you are basking in the power of wealth or romance.

A third option may come from how connected you feel to the world. If the hotel is a residential or transient hotel, you may feel insecure about your economic condition or the relationships that govern your life.

Do you have or find a room, or is there No Vacancy? Your feelings of inclusion, separation, or identification with others may be connected to the hotel event in the dream.

Intimacy - Intimacy is one of the primary dream emotions. Many times our dreams include elements of intimacy with others whom we desire, or intimacy that escapes us. These dreams reflect our desires for connection to the others in our world. Intimacy with others is not always a synonym for sexual desire in this case. Rather, it can be the feeling of emotionally connecting with others, or, feeling unable to do so. The central interpretive questions are: Do others respond to your overtures for intimacy? Do you seem unable to connect as deeply as you would like? Do you not feel the urge to respond to another’s advance for intimacy?

If you dream of romantic intimacy without being able to fulfill it, there maybe unarticulated concerns about your self-esteem, since one’s sexual attraction is important to one’s sense of overall confidence. Are you feeling as though people care about you? Or is your love, platonic or otherwise, unrequited? Insight into this dream may become more apparent as you consider whether the object of your desire is a parent figure, child figure, or romantic interest.

Kidnaping - Kidnaping is a powerful image for us because it includes strong victimization and loss-of-power issues. Someone who is kidnaped goes from being in control of their own destiny to being completely in the hands of another.
If you are dreaming of being kidnaped, the obvious questions are: What is the condition of your captivity; and by whom are you held?

If you cooperate with your captors, you may be wanting someone to take control of an untidy section of your life. However, you may feel as though your autonomy has been so severely compromised that you lack the ability to manage the situation.

If your captors are somehow familiar, this may reflect a sense that life has entrapped you. Where did your abductors take you and how? Your subconscious may be showing you an area where your life has become excessively entangling to your autonomy.

It may be that somehow your kidnaping allows you to separate from your environment and start again. Perhaps you are wanting a second chance and do not have the courage to take one. By having yourself kidnaped, you have an excuse to act or behave unusually and blame you captors for it.

Come back tomorrow for L - Z. Have a great night.

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Hey everyone, hope you all have a good day. Mine has been alright, a little bummed out because a friend of mine is upset, but it’s all good. Anyway as promised here is the rest of my Extended Dream Dictionary. As I update my personal dream dictionary I will add it here.

Numbers - Numbers can be many things in dreams, the most common being objects. For example you are hold a certain numbers of rocks in your hand, pay attention to this number, it may mean something.

Another common way numbers can show up in dreams is through time. You may dream that you look at a digital watch/clock and remember the time,it could be an exact time or maybe even a nonsense one, but regardless it maybe have significant meaning.

Each number has a different meaning. I like to use Dream Moods for numbers, although there list does not have alot of numbers, I have found it helpful. It has the more common numbers. If you can’t find the exact number try adding or subtracting the numbers in your dream, you may find one that means something to you.

Old Man/Old Woman - Represent figures of wisdom or spiritual power in dreams. For many of us, the role of father or mother may have been lost through, divorce, death, or some other reason. Your psyche will tend to look for a way to create this roles anyway it can, usually through dreams. These characters may represent an internal source of widsom that your psyche has written off. Think about any problems you are having.

Another possibility could be that this character is trying to teach you wisdom in some aspect of your waking life. Do you fear or disdain you linage or the prospects of getting old? Do you feel that you life choices are contradictory of what you were taught by your elders? Are you missing or looking for some wisdom that could help you in life?

Pillow - Being the center feature of sleep the pillow sometimes works it’s way into your dreams. The pillow represents protection & security. If you dream that you see large amounts of pillows, this could mean that you desire to experience the world without war & violence. If you dream of rooms that are made entirely of pillows, this could be that you desire to return to the protcetion of the womb or that you lack motherly protection, according to Freud.

Poison - Dreams of poison, a powerful image that we were taught was dangerous, often represents power, suicide and revenge. Power dreams often involve you drinking poison without anything happening to you. Our dreams sometimes provided us with the ablility to act witout concern and to assert our choice of freewill over the constraints that society has over us in waking life. The poison dream can represent this constraint you are feeling, depending on what poison was consumed, under waht initiative, and who watched you.

If you dream that you commit suicide by poisoning yourself it could represent peer-pressure, difficult work reletionships, or a lack of personal power. It may be try to show you that part of your life path is destructive. It does NOT mean you are suicidal.

If you dream that you posion someone as an act of revenge, it may reveal latent or unexpressed feelings/anger towards the person that you are poisoning.

Rings (jewelry or magic) - Rings may be symbols of covenant or commitment, as in marriage. Often rings of this type reflect our deepest desires to make or receive commitment from others or in regard to a particular task. Rings with magical vibrations may be about acquiring supernatural powers.

Rings of magic drawn on the ground, such as medicine rings or crop circles, may have more to do with protection, as the ring is often the limits to which evil may approach. In dreams of this nature, you may be anxious that circumstances are pressing too hard upon you and feel that you need an intercessor.

Did you create or find the ring? Do you feel any sense of control over it? Is there a ring that someone else is using to gain power over you?

Sarcasm - Dreams are as open to humor as they are to any other part of your personality. Sarcasm is a particularly interesting facet of humor that emphasizes the shortcomings of a person. Consequently, whether you initiate or are the butt of the sarcasm shows something about your place in the dream.

Sometimes, the entire dream falls into this category. The dream is almost a cruel joke played upon you. This may be a dream that sheds light on your relationships or potential in the world. This dream may occur when you are in a situation that could potentially place you in circumstances that are way over your head.

Dream sarcasm often has metaphorical meaning related to waking events and vice-versa. For example, a phrase used by others to torment you may become a central object in the dream that you either worship or loathe.

Selling - Selling can be presented as your employment, as in selling to others in a retail environment; or it can be more personal, as in selling your possessions. Obviously, if your waking livelihood includes sales, dreams of selling will not be unusual. Unless you sell something particularly sentimental, most of the remarks here will not apply to you.If you are employed in selling in dreamland, the emotional transaction at work is persuasion. The object you are trying to sell may be ridiculous or an actual consumer item. Depending on which it is, this may reflect whether or not you feel you will ever be persuasive. Your clientele also is important to this dream. Do they have something in common?Do you see yourself as persuasive in waking life, or do you need to develop those skills more fully? If you are having a yard sale in your dream, you may be trying to creatively solve a financial problem or be feeling burdened by your possessions. If the yard sale has an element of emotional darkness, there may be financial anxiety involved that precipitated the need for downsizing the household. Dreams of this nature often try to show feelings of over extension. Heed them. If you are selling items of great sentimental value, you may be seeing yourself as divesting from a particular relationship. This can happen at times of transition into adulthood or (desire for) marital separation. Many times, you do not actually perceive the emotional content of the items in your dream the way you would in waking. They are simply extras that you no longer wish to carry through life.The act of selling in a dream, usually, is in the most general terms symbolic of some sort of emotional transaction that may be taking place in life.

Siblings - If you have brothers and/or sisters in waking life, it would be expected that in dreams of your family, they would be present. The important work of interpretation comes when either your sibling is missing, or if you suddenly acquire siblings in dreamland that do not ordinarily exist in the waking world.

If your real-life sibling is noticeably absent from a dream event, it may reflect your perceptions of your family at large. While either you or your sibling may be at odds with the family, a dream of an incomplete family is a picture of fracture in one or more of the possible relationships.

Sometimes, if you are experiencing particularly strong identification with a co-worker, they will show up in dreams as a newfound sibling. If the dream solution to the new sibling is a comfortable arrangement, this may herald a positive partnership. However, this event can be a little troubling.

In dreams of this nature, you may feel as though the new sibling is burrowing too far into your life and relationships.

Skeleton - The skeleton is a universal symbol of depletion, death, and secrets. Likewise, in dreams, it can appear in a variety of ways and reveal a variety of things. To discern an appropriate meaning requires examination of the context, and your reaction to the skeleton in the context it appeared.

The depletion scenario often occurs when skeletons are animated-their somewhat taunting presence will seem to exasperate you. Where are you when you find these animated skeletons? Combining the bones with the emotional image of the office, home, or a relative’s home will indicate a facet of life where you feel as though someone or something is sucking you dry. Interestingly, you may not be afraid of these skeletons and possibly may even enjoy them, intuitively realizing that you are related to them and don’t mind being their benefactor. (In spite of the fact that you do not want to end up like them!)

Death scenarios are contrasted to the above by the complete lack of animation. Often, there is more fear associated with the discovery of the bones as well.

Upon discovery, did you know whose bones they were and how they came to be there? These dream discoveries may offer insight into a person (or yourself) who is being symbolically killed by their circumstances. This death may be either emotional or physical.

Secrets, or skeletons in the closet, is the last scenario. Bones of this nature often appear in very inappropriate situations, but don’t often generate much reaction among the dream characters. People know there are bones around, but they are not discussed in the dream. By assessing who is in the dream when the bones are found, insights can be drawn about the relationships and loose ends surrounding the person(s). If you are hiding something in waking life, the skeleton bones may appear in your dream in plain sight of some significant other in your life. The fact that that dream character doesn’t seem to notice your skeletons is the handiwork of your unconscious protecting you. However, such a dream image may be a warning signal that you either need to be more careful about exposing a vice, or cut it out of your life completely.

Time Travel - Time travel is a common dream event. There is rarely a time machine involved. Rather, the dream story simply unfolds in another era of time, past or future. These dreams often represent either the romance or hopes we attribute to moments other than our present. You may find that the dream stems from your desire to identify with particular mores of a time period or to influence certain events.

If you spontaneously dream of going backwards in time, it is most likely a dream of romantic wish-fulfillment. The good old days seem to conjure images of heroism, nobility, morality, and social life that, while not altogether accurate, draw our admiration. Often there is a facet of your personality that you feel you could more easily tap into as a pioneer, statesman, damsel in distress, or some other stereotypical image of history.

Most times, the time travel is confluent with your particular image of an archetypal dream character. For example, if you are dreaming a warrior/hero archetype, you may personify yourself in the dream as a medieval knight.

Hope you are able to find what you need. As I get more added to my personal dream dictionary I will add it here. If you have any questions feel free to email my at lisa.page@comcast.net

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Hi everyone sorry I haven’t been around. I ended up getting Phenomena. I am finally starting to feel better. My friend came by yesterday, to see how I was feeling & she brought me a Dream Dictionary that she has been putting together for me. So today, I am going to share it with you.

Aloneness

There is a huge difference between aloneness and abandonment. Aloneness may signal an approaching transition or rites of passage. When we move from childhood to adulthood, we leave behind many habits, attitudes, and reletionships. The void we are feeling can create an image of aloneness. In dreams of aloneness, we are often travelling somewhere alone. Think about the people who you have seprated from in waking life? Was the seperation mutual? Did you initiate the seperation? Did someone else initiate the seperation?

Amusement Parks and Carnivals

These can be very obscure, since they often include elements of good times and bad. Many of us have had both good and bad experiences at amusement parks and carnivals. Carnivals also include a varity of wonderful and frightening people. We may find some of them intimidating. Sometimes we have a bad experience because of whoever we are with, maybe a parent isn’t enjoying themeselves, or you get into a fight. Spinning and fast rides may be related with sexual experiences.

Think about who you are there with. What rides are you on? How are these rides compared to things you may be experiencing in waking life? Maybe your favorite ride is missing? How does this relate to your waking life?

Boss

Dreaming about your boss may represent your reletionship with another significant person in waking life. Do you feel this person is exerting too much control over your life? It can be easy to allow a reletionship of any kind become controlling at times. The dream may take place at your place of work or some other setting. The place where the dream takes place says something about the area of influence in question.

If you dream that someone in your waking life, other then you boss, is your boss, this may mean that it is time to assess your work habits. If work is fulfiling roles that other people in your waking life should be filling, it could be time to assess the emotional investmnet you have in work. This dream may be a warning sign that your job is draining you.

Lastly, if you dream of your boss in the work-setting represnts the stress that your job is putting on you. Dreaming of you job in general usually feels that you are feeling overworked.

Children

To dream of befriending a child can be a complex event. If it is a child that you know in both waking & dreaming life, may represent a wish that you want fulfilled of projection. If you do not know the child from waking life, he/she may represent a relfection of you at a certain time in your past. What is you reletionship with the child?

If you dream that you are parenting a child, this could represnt a simple wish-fulfillment or something more complex. It may mean that you are trying to work out some issue you have wtih your own parents or another reletionship where you have responsibility.

Parenting may also mean that there may be a reletionship in waking life where you are feelin goout of control & you want ot regain that control.

Fox

To dream of a fox is to see yourself as either possessing or being victimized by someone who is cunning. Are you afraid of the fox? Whether you like of dislike the fox will determine the represention to waking llife & the reletionships that you have.

If the fox is an enemy, think about what the fox is trying to take from you. The fox should indicate the qualities that you associate with the fox are somewhere in your waking life, either by you or someone else. Is there a person a person with the fox that shares its’ qualities. Is there another person that you seem to be appraoching with caution?

Ironing

To dream that you are ironing, may mean that you are wondering if your life will ever be exciting. If you are ironing for someone else it can mean that that you are in conflict with someone or something.

Usually this meas that you are realizing how mundane you life has be come & encouraging you to try something new.

Journey

The longer one’s life, the more apparent it becomes that life is not a destination, but rather a journey of searching for meaning, understanding, and ultimately happiness. While we don’t necessarily characterize our dreams as journeys, there is a sense in which our waking journey is sometimes affected by our most powerful or memorable dreams.

Many dreams include needing to travel from A to B before progress is made in completing the dream task. Many times, this traveling is the challenge. The elements may be uncooperative or contrary. Traveling machines may be magically powerful or nonsensical and unreliable. Sometimes, we are simply walking across a field, down a road, up a hill, through the forest, or along the cliffs on our journey. The environment around us along the way can be familiar, strange, friendly, anxiety-ridden, and a host of other possibilities. The purpose of the traveling and the companions along the way can be significant.

The journey is often a symbol for trying to find what is needed to bring life into equilibrium. This is the task of finding one’s place in the universe. It could also be characterized as the archetypal search for the most authentic self. In either of these metaphors, there is the idea that our souls tend to be a little restless at times. The journey is the task of finding out what the soul needs to quiet that restlessness.

In waking life, this is played out by the I need a change feeling that crops up every now and then. The process of individuating yourself from the expectations and influences of others conjures feelings along these lines. In dreaming, we often travel alone, leaving others behind by choice or necessity, to find what our next task is.

Along the way, who we meet and what we partake in may reveal much about where our individual struggle is in the waking, conscious self. We may encounter strangers with whom there is an adversarial relationship or a romantic one. We may encounter mystical strangers who unlock unknown powers within us or withdraw particular powers from us. In either case, the journey is our personal goal, and how we experience others during the process says much about the relationships of our waking world.

Is your destination known to others, or held in confidence?

Do others invite you to accompany them, vice versa, or are you on a solitary trip?

Can others direct you, or are you traveling to an unknown place? Answers to these questions influence the meaning of the dream in your life.

Jury

If you dream of being on a jury, you may fell that an important decision to be made in your life ot that you need to help a friend or loved on make a decision.

If you dream that you are on trial before a jury, you are likely experiencing some sort of pressure or judgement from others in your waking life.

Movie

If you dream that you are attending a movie, you may be trying to initiate or resolve a relationship issue by watching other portray it. Think about who you wen to see the movie with & what the movie was about.

The movie plot will often provided the answers to go about the problem and how you should go about it. Even if the movie seems strange, there is a reason that your subconscious choose it.

If you dream that you are starring in a movie, may result in an out-of-body experience or a feeling of derealization of what is happen in the plot. This could be happening for several reasons. One being to lower the psychological pain of a dream. You think to yourself that it’s only a dream. Another is for you to look at the events from a neutral position.

Museum

If you are in a history museum, the objcects may point towards a branch on your family tree. The artifacts or who you are looking at them with will reflect you feelings about the situation or people in the dream. What pride or embarssment do you feel as a person or family member?

A wax museum may reveal that you are dehumanizing people in your relationships. This can be positive if you have given away too much power. However, it is often negative, you could be treating others as objects without regard for their humanity.

The art museum can represent a restful place or a place in which you are recounting your life experiences both good & bad. You may or paint not be in the paintings. Depending on how much you know about art, you may only view works from a particular artist or genre.

Regardless of where you are or what you are viewing, it is showing you the truth about yourself.

Hope this helps you out. Come back tomorrow for more of my extended dream dictionary. If you have any questions feel free to email at lisa.page@comcast.net

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Hey everyone, sorry I didn’t’ post for a few days. I was away with the girl’s for a few days, since we all work from home we make it a rule not to bring our laptops when we go away. We had a great time. Today, I am going to finish up the Dream Dictionary for you.

Teeth - Bared teeth often indicate hostility and defiance. An animal showing its teeth represents your fear. If you are chewing, you have a decision to make.

Telephone - May represent communications with the inner self. a dusty phonemeans you need to get in touch with others. An unplugged phone means you are not getting information.

Television - If the TV is on, it means you are tuned in annd receiving. If it is off, it means you are not using all of your abilities.

Tidal Wave - You may feel an overload of work and pressure.

Trains - You may are going through life on someone else’s schedule. Are you waiting for something?

Tunnel - This suggests you are working your way through a problem.

Vegetables - These symbols are linked to family, community, and ancestral.

War - These dreams signify serious internal conflict.

Water - This signifies being overwhelmed by emotions. People going through a crisis often dream of being caught in the rain or even drowning.

Wedding - A rite of passage. May signify a union between two parts of yourself, or the completion of a project.

Zipper - Represents sexuality and physical desire. Broken or stuck zippers imply sexual frustration or repression.

Zodiac - The zodiac wheel represents the various aspects of yourself. If you dream of one of the 12 zodiac signs, pay attention to the qualities associated with the given symbol.

Hope you all have a good night, I’m off to watch American Idol.

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