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, once again I am sorry for not being around, things have just been so crazy here. I promise that I will be posting more. Today’s post is about the scenes in your dreams. Are they representaions of your everyday life? Or are the bizzare? Do the characters, places & times frames morph into one another? Do you see people of inanimate objects? If you dream about people are they people you know, strangers, or famous people? Have ever woken up laughing or do you talk in your sleep? Do you watch your dream like you would be watching a movie or are you actually in the dream?

Do you see animals in your dreams? Animals are more dominat in children’s dreams. Some researchers believe that if adults have a high precentage of animals in thier dreams that it could be a leftover tie from our primative cave-dwelling past and that is expresses the basic concerns of our survival.

A lot of our dreams seem perfectly normal while we are dreaming, yet once we wake up & think abot them they seem totally off the wall. The more you think about your dreams , their themes & the way you feel in your dream, the fast your questions about their meanings will be answered.

Here is a mulitple choice quiz that my friend & I came up with to help you understand what you expect and the things that you want to learn from your dreams. I have taken this and so have some of my friends and it really helps out.

1. I would like to  know what my dreams mean because…

a) I have always been curious about my dreams & their meanings.

b) I think that there are special meanings to some images that appear in my dreams regularly, but I am not sure how to figure out the connections.

c) I think that dreams have special meanings, but mine don’t make  sense.

d) I think that it is possible that my dreams can help me to understand my subconscious, touch my inner soul, or to go beyond the limits of my physical body.

2. I remember my dreams…

a) Several times a week

b) Several times a month

c) Seldom or never

d) Only when the dream is especially vivid or is recurring.

3. I feel that explring my dreams could help me…

a) Help me to face and overcome my fears & worries so that my waking & dreaming life can be more peaceful and I am able to be more content.

b) Help me to find answers to a specific situation in my life.

c) Put the past behind me & move forward in my life towards happiness & success.

d) Have fun getting to know myself better.

4. My dreams seem the most vivid when…

a) When my waking life is more intense

b) When I am more relaxed in waking life & I have a chance to sleep in.

c) When I got to bed with a lot on my mind.

d) When I tell myself that I am going to remember my dream the next morning.

5. My dreams seem less frequent when…

a) I am overtired.

b) I ate within 2 hours before going to bed.

c) I have taken medication or had alcohol within 2 hours before going to bed.

d)I don’t know why sometimes I dream less then other times.

Hope this helps you to understand what you want from your dreams better. As always if you have any questions please feel free to email me at lisa.page@comcast.net. I wil be happy to answer them. Have a great night.

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Hello all, someone from my dream group shared a dream they had, in the dream the person was flying. Since I told her that I would help her understand the meaning, I decided to make that today’s post.

The best part about flying in your dreams, is that you seldom need an ID, have to wait in line or have to worry about your seat assignments. Your mode of transportation doesn’t even have to be an airplane. It could be a boat, car or train. Or you might just float through the air. Some people have even swam through the air.

How did you get into the air? Some people have reported that the flap their arms like birds, others have sprouted wings from their heels. Some people run down a runway, or sit in a train until it comes off the track & soars through the air. In your dreams nothing is too weird, extraordinary, or illogical.

A few common aids in flying dreams are as followed:

* Elevators

* Amusement Park Rides

* Rockets, Guns, or Cannons

* Slingshots and Catapults

* Coats, Capes, Hats, Shoes

* Our limbs or other parts of the body

Is your take off a smooth departure, where you launch straight into the air? Or is it challenging and/or difficult? Commonly, the easier your take off and you ability to stay in the air, the freer & more in control you will feel in your dream and maybe in waking life.

Are you the pilot/driver in your vehicle? Are you in the front or back, or clinging to part of the vehicle for dear life? Are you comfortable or scared out of your mind?

If you are the passenger, especially if you are in the back seat, you may be remind of your childhood, when you parents used to drive you everywhere. This may be an indicator that you want someone to take care of you. Is there someone in your life that isn’t as nurturing as you would like them to be? The dream may be your way of trying to come up with a way to confront them about it. Pay attention to any details that could help.

Riding in that backseat of the flying vehicle may also mean that you do not feel in control of your life. You could be feeling as powerless and bossed around as you did when you were a kid.

Are you the driver? What does it feel like being in charge? Are you feeling confident, trusted, proud? Do you feel that you are responsible for everyone in the vehicle with you? Think about how these questions could relating to your waking life?

Sometimes we are having so much fun flying that we don’t want to come back down. We want to take full advantage of the fact that we have wings. This seems to happen more often if your are flying with out any aids, just soaring through the are like a bird.

Usually there is a point in the dream that you become aware that someone for the ground is trying to get you to come down. Or maybe you are flying to school & hear the bell, but you don’t want to land. This may mean that you are wanting more freedom & less responsibility in your waking life. Another meaning could be that you are resisting some responsibility in waking life.

In most flying dreams we aim to experience the freedom and joy of flying. You may dream that you are doing flips in the air, or that you soar through outer space, or maybe you float to the ground like a leave. The feelings from flying dreams may stay with us for hours, sometimes even days. It is an expression of being able to move without restraints, a way to break free from our every day lives.

If you feel scared while flying this may leave you feeling out of control. This may indicate that there is something going on in your life that you may need to take a look at. Are you feeling overwhelmed by your duties at work or home? Maybe you are feeling powerless in some situation. Do you feel anxcious about flying too high? This may indicate your fear of success or maybe a new challenge that you are facing. By recognizing these factors in your dreams may help you to confront the situation and move past it.

Sometimes flying dreams may speak to our insecure or aggressive sides. Maybe you always fly alone & find yourself looking down at everyone, feeling somewhat superior. This may be a sign that you feel like you are better than everyone else. You might have a strong desire or need to be first, to be the best. This is symbolized in your dream.

On the other hand you solo flight may indicate that you are a show off. Do feel that you need to show off you accomplishments to be accepted?

Lastly try to remember where you were flying to & if you actually reached your destination? Are you enjoying you ride? Do you feel lie you will never get there, no matter how far you go? Is you flight pleasant & lazy? Or do you feel frustrated & unfulfilled?

Maybe in waking life you are feeling that no matter how hard you work you just don’t get anywhere. Do you sometimes feel like you have no direction in life? Or do you know where you want to go, but you just can’t get there? Does your dream follow your life or is it the total opposite? It will depend on what your dream is trying to tell you.

Well, that’s it for flying. Although this is only a tip of the iceberg. I hope that it helps you to understand a little bit about what your flying dreams may mean.

If you have any questions feel free to email me at lisa.page@comcast.net

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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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