Analyzing Dreams and Uncovering the Subconscious Mind : Analyzing Dreams and Uncovering the Subconsc

[tude]

Tammy, simply amazing. Tell me again how you learned to come up with this stuff? I'm slowly, very slowly learning.

I was thinking naked guy was how I felt- unprotected and vulnerable. The infrastructure was my emotions about those patients.

I think it was calming to write it down. So, you guys can expect to further be amused by my dream life.

tude

 

[Seeking_Nirvana]

Hi tude, For some reason I didn't think about the man being naked (I should have assumed that though LOL) But you are correct in the meaning about him being naked. There is a feeling of vulnerability when one is naked and that is an accurate call.

The process takes time to understand because it's not like you can read directions on how to put something together, and then follow the directions.

These are the things that helped me understand dreams.
First, I let others read my dreams for me until I got a basic understanding.
Second, I paid attention to other people's interpretations of a dream, and how they got that conclusion through feedback from the dreamer.
Then it started to come to me.

Learn what symbols mean. It helps to read the definition of a symbol or google it.
For instance, if I see a refrigerator in a dream I think to myself what do I use a refrigerator for? To store food, keep food cold, keep food protected. Then as the dream progresses I find other symbols that have the same connection and tie them all together.

I also use intuition, which is debatable among people. But after I read a dream in it's entirety I usually get an over all "feeling" what it means.

Then I back it up by taking each symbol and finding it's meaning.

Read for puns on words and read between the lines. Sometimes people answer their own dreams when they write them down.

Some symbols have both good and bad definitions/meanings so look for the emotion attached to that symbol to get the correct meaning.

There are a lot of symbols that show up a lot in dreams like houses, cars and water. These have very basic meanings and usually mean the same thing in every dream. The house is our psyche and water is emotions and the car is our body or our journey in life. However, this could vary in some cases but not likely.

The ocean has several meanings other than emotions.

The rest is experience in reading tons of dreams and reading "other people's interpretations". I have learned a lot from reading other dream readers insights on symbols.

There will be some symbols that are very difficult. What you need to do with those is to use your imagination. The first encounter I had with a difficult symbol was the Arch in St. Louis. I had no clue what that could mean.

Usually people who think very logical have a hard time learning this, but it can be done.

Here is an exercise for you and those who want to learn.
Tell me what an arch would mean to you?
Tell me what a purse would mean to you?
Tell me what coffee would mean to you?

I will post one of my easy dreams and see if you can read it. It takes practice to get good at it. So always feel free to answer anyone's dream here. You will find that some one will tell you that the interp you gave resonates with them more than the one I give LOL.

BTW - Thank you spirit.

Tammy

 

[Seeking_Nirvana]

tude and anyone who wants to learn. Here is a dream I had about 2 months ago that isn't too messy. I know what it means, but most dreams have more than one meaning.

DREAM:
I'm being held against my will at some one's home and my son is with me. He is about age 8 (He is 19 now).

We keep trying to sneak out, but I want to grab my cloths and other belongings and that is what gets me caught trying to sneak out.

My step-sister is very mean toward me and won't let me leave. So I try to sneak out again but I'm trying to get my cloths so that gets me caught.

Then I find a phone and call my doctor (not RL doctor) and ask him to help me and he hangs up on me.

Finally after about 5 attempts of calling, with the same results some one gives me my car keys. My son and I go outside and my car (which is now his) is in the snow and the snow is real deep. I'm concerned that we won't be able to get out because the car is a stick shift with little power.

We get into the car and he is sitting in the back seat all hunched over and sad. I push on the gas real hard and we get out of the snow and I go to my doctors house and he is overwhelmed with fear to see me, because he knew I was pissed about him hanging up on me and not trying to help me get out of that house.

He said he was so scared of the people holding me hostage that he didn't want to get involved. I understood his point, then he puts his arm around my shoulder to comfort me and we start walking. He says "I will get you all fixed up now, and get you some Darvocet"

Then some how I'm back at that damn house again. arrr!

****Interesting when I woke up it was snowing and my son's car is covered in it just like the dream.

 

[tude]

I can't believe how open-minded I have become regarding dreams. How I went from random synaptic firings to finding some value in dreams, amazes me.

Personal effects- I think of them as things we own. Our clothes define us, i.e. our attitudes, personality, style.

If the vehicle is your life or journey, then it's unfamiliar and lacking power or confidence.

If the doctor is you, then maybe you were afraid to help yourself and that made you angry? That changed because you began to help yourself- 'fixing it by taking a Darvocet'?

Returning to the same house- Having to learn the same lesson? Learning how to help yourself?

Tammy, this is my best guess. Thanks for the opportunity to learn to think outside of my usual way of thinking.

 

[Seeking_Nirvana]

hi tude, it takes an open mind to read and understand dreams LOL Most people don't think there is any meaning to them at all. But I have found it to be very informative.

You have it correct! But I want to add a few things because when children show up in dreams it has a message.

Cloths usually represent our identity so that is correct. The one thing that may be confusing is that my son is in the dream at a young age. When we see a child, that child is our "inner child" i.e. how we felt (usually some type of memory) back at that age. So I'm identifying something now with something at that age.

I was feeling trapped back then and feeling trapped now. Something (my critical self) is holding me back (step sister) who actually is a reflection of my own inner personality.

She was very critical of me at times back then, so I'm being critical of myself during the period of this dream. Her criticism hurt my self esteem so there are some self esteem issues with my personality (cloths) at the time of the dream.

The car is stuck in the snow and what you said is correct, but in addition I'm stuck in a cold attitude toward myself. But this was brief because I got out of the ditch and out of the house both, and went to the doctor who represents how I heal myself.

When he hangs up on me it means I'm not trying to hear myself say "fix this" He/myself was afraid to address the issue because I get so angry at times, and I didn't want to deal with the anger and it was easier to just take Darvocet.

Ahhh! bad bad bad me, I turn to drugs to cover the pain instead of another means (facing it). Because I turned to drugs to fix my problem, it's back to the house to learn the lesson over again.

BTW I was wanting to self medicate and I did a few times, and that is why I had this dream. It was telling me that self medicating was not the answer.

You did really good and I hope you will join in if you like doing this.

Take care
Tammy

 

[Awakening]

I'm really not enjoying my dreams at the moment because unfortunately they are consistently mainly of disturbing nightmares.

I can't go into detail, or I will just get all freaked out again.

But one dream was me being caught in a paedophile ring unable to escape and the other was me sexually abusing a small boy.

Both utterly sickened me. I wonder though, other people without sexual abuse trauma probably dream disturbing dreams like this too?

I wonder are my dreams about abuse because I was abused or are they just a symbol of something else?

 

[spiritofnow]

I have had a couple of nights of hardly being able to remeber my dreams - yay yay! This is a very new feeling to me and I like it!

Last night I dreamed about one of my frineds on here. I dreamed I met her.

She was in a wheelchair - she could not use her arms it was if they had wasted away. Her body was frail..She wore a wig. She spoke of being rejected by her love once he had found out she was in the wheelchair. She looked defeated. But, I could sense there was still inner strength.

There were other elements to the dream, but they are a bit blury!

Something to do with flooding - I had to remember a way out incase the floods came. I sensed people were displeased with me fro some reason.

Spirit x

 

[Seeking_Nirvana]

Hi awakening, I'm sorry this is happening to you. I went through it too, and it's called molestation panic. (From a book I read)

Most people that haven't been abused will not have these type of dreams unless they are a pedophile and trying to suppress the urges. I have never read a dream like that except for my own, and that could be because most people would be to scared to put a dream like that out here for some one else to read. Don't be afraid OK? It happens to a lot of us but we are too afraid to mention it.

When I was trying to heal my problems I have with sex, I read a book on sexual healing. It spoke a lot of molestation, and I started having dreams that my son was doing inappropriate things to me. I freaked! I thought, and wondered if it was me.

I thought I had a handle on my dreams and that they didn't bother me anymore. The dream itself didn't scare me as much as what I thought it could possibly mean. Thank goodness I did some research on this type of thing in dreams.

After reading more of the book it is explained that it is not that we want to molest anyone, it is because we are so frightened of it that we don't trust ourselves because that trust, was broken when it happened to us.

Unfortunately, I can't even hug my own son and I stopped hugging him when he was 8. I feel so bad for cutting him off from hugs, but I had anxiety about it back then, and didn't even figure it out until a year ago.

I've made efforts to hug him on special occasions, (like birthday etc) and it is very difficult for me to do, especially since he is 19 and is starting to look like a man. This could very easily produce one of those dreams. But I make a conscious effort to acknowledge that I am hugging my son who I love, and would never hurt, and I let myself deal with the anxiety after I hug him so I won't have a dream like that.

I just want you to know that you are OK. Your not a pedophile and your just scared because you were abused. It took me a month to get over this fear, but I had to do a lot of research and figure it all out.

Let yourself feel these feelings of fear while awake. Tell yourself the truth out loud that "you are not a pedophile", and you are just scared but will work on the fear. Also, it may help to get a book on "sexual healing"

To answer your question; These dreams are because you were abused and are not a symbol of something else. They are your own fear that you are creating about yourself that is NOT true.

Take care
Tammy

 

[Seeking_Nirvana]

Hi spirit, most likely this dream is about you and not her. Being in a wheel chair is like being confined and not being able to stand your ground.

Arms and hands are symbols of how we reach out for what we need. So maybe your feeling confined and unable to reach out for what you need at the moment.

The wig most likely represents that you feel she is not who you think she is. Maybe you feel she is fake, and thinking about rejecting her. Or you could be feeling that you have been fake toward her.

On the flip side, hair is about free flowing ideas, strength and instinct. But since this is a wig I feel it's about being fake.

Water represents emotions and your about to have an over load of them. Also, you feel displeased with yourself.

Hope this was helpful
Tammy

 

[Cecilia]

I had a very strange dream involving my religious-fanatic mother. I dreamed that she called me and told me to come pick up some of my things that were left at her house. When I arrived, she was sitting in her front yard watching television. I asked about my belongings and she said they were at the lost-and-found at her church which is only a block from her house. I walked to the church and she stayed on her lawn.

When I got to the church I was shocked to find that it was packed full of people. I was wondering why my mother was not there if they were having a service. My belongings were strung through out the building. They were strange things like a garbage can, some lids to jars and just odds-and-ends.

Then a young man about 25 years old wearing a white alb and carrying a blue candle entered the building. I asked him if he was Catholic (I converted to Catholicism mom is fundamentalist) he said no that he was a member of mom's church. I asked why he was dressed like that. He said he was going to give his life to Christ today. That he was going to die.

I pleaded "no you can't do that! That is suicide!" He said he was not committing suicide that he had lived with Christ and he was now going to die with Christ. I kept pleading, got upset, dropped my belongings and ran out a side door.

A man was there that I knew from my youth and I begged him to stop the young man and he said somebody has to die and he volunteered. Then I heard 3 gunshots and someone walked out with the man's clothes and said "he is dead". Everyone was cheering and clapping.

I said when this hits the newspapers nobody is going to come here anymore. I was assured the press would never find out. I ran as fast as I could to my mom's house and drove away.

I woke up quite disturbed.

 

[Seeking_Nirvana]

Hi Cecilia, Death is not literal in dreams it represents a thought/feeling/emotion that is changing or needs to change.

Cloths represent our identity in how we perceive ourselves. You feel religious beliefs should be left out of your conversations between the two of you. When you confront her she is upfront about your religion in how she feels about it. She feels you are lost and need to find yourself in her religion, because yours is garbage. (and vice versa)

The man is your animus and he is wearing clothing that represents your religion, yet he is in your mother’s church. There is inner conflict within yourself and you want to kill the conflict with regard to religious beliefs.

You or your mom feels that giving up your religious beliefs are associated to committing suicide, which is a sin. You would rather give up your identity as a person for the sake of your own religion. In reality you don’t see yourself separate from your religion.


There is a youth still inside of you that is begging your mom to let that strong hold on religion go. It’s ok to let it be a part of her life, but should be a separate element and not define who she is. When you are able to accept that your mother is attached to her religion (which is her choice) you will be free of your own issues with it.

It appears that there is a need to discredit your mother’s religion because you don’t agree with it. There is a fear deep rooted in you from your childhood about straying from your religion. You run from other opinions, back into your own mind and perceptions about how religion should be defined.

I'm going to look at this again tomorrow because I feel there is more to it that I'm not picking up on.

Take care
Tammy

 

[Cecilia]

Wow! Seeking Nirvana, you are awesome! I have not seen my mother since I changed religions. Only 2 siblings know that I left their church and they said not to tell her. My family is full of secrets, we all have to protect mother; I'm not sure why. If she did know, I would be disowned and she would believe I was going to hell. My siblings all still go to my mother's church and they are hurt that I left the group, but I cannot go back. I definitely do not believe they are hell-bound, but I don't want to raise my children in such a critical environment.

Thanks for your input. You are awesome!