These symbols and meanings are taken from a variety of sources but primarily from my own dreams and the dreams of associates. You must take into account the probability that some of these might be my own personal symbols which have been substituted for the universal or cultural symbols. This is caused by having a life experience with something which becomes more powerful in your subconscious memory banks than the universal symbol being given it by the superconscious. I have tried my best to sort my symbols into universal and personal symbols and hope that I have made at least a good start on it. But you must test them on your own dreams to see if they make natural common sense in the context of the dream. My advice is to never accept an interpretation...even from yourself...until you are sure that you have arrived at the correct meaning.

Therefore you should use this symbol dictionary only as a guide to help get you started.

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

Archaeology = searching for truths, digging up the past memories

Bathing or Showering = Cleansing the body or mind with pure/clean emotions. Also see "Urinating".

Business Card = similar to wallet but relating to business identity. Fame or reknown.

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

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

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

Cartoon = the subconscious mind sees our waking life as a cartoon with us being the characters. Just as when awake the conscious mind sees our dream as "not real", when asleep the subconscious mind is dominant and sees our waking life as "not real"...a cartoon, soap opera or movie, which is a facsimile of reality.

Children = creative ideas/expressions/manifestations of yourself.

The Child = the "new" you because of some development

Coat = comfort, protection related to self identity

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

Cops, Police and Deputies = guards who keep order in the subconscious. Their job is to function as an inhibitor or resistance to change. They usually cooperate with you though. You only see them as authority figures who might prevent you from going forward but once you persist with your intention they seem to help.

Crashing a plane = loss of faith or confidence

Cup or Drinking Glass = entertaining or partaking of spiritual truths from superconscious to quench thirst for knowledge and truth. Refreshing Self.

Death = similar to fire. Death of the old programming brings room for the new program.

Diamonds = illumination of superconscious truths. Transmits pure light of awareness.

Directions = There are six basic directions...north, south, east, west, up and down. North is the difficult place. South is the easy place. East is going back to where we've been...retardation. West is moving forward...progress. Up is ascending in awareness and is usually more difficult. Down is descending in awareness and is usually easy to slide into. But the upward climb could also simply mean difficulty...and the downward slide could mean ease. Forward, like West, is progress. Backward, like East, is retardation. In some cases backward and forward can represent time flow from the past to the future. Left and right can also mean this. In Western culture things move from left to right, so left would be the past and right, the future. This should all be considered in the context of the dream.

Earthquake = your foundation shaken.

Empty Fields = the subconscious ready for planting ideas and programming. When you return later and it is all grown up with flowers, trees or weeds, it represents your set of memory complexes or karma. What is produced in the field relates to growth...depending on the state of it or what it is.

Falling = loss of faith or confidence

Festival = celebration

Fire = the cleanser or purifier. Relates to "getting something started or going". Can sometimes relate to romance. Means activation or setting something into motion.

Firetruck = Indicates something is already happening. Something exciting and activating. Something cleansing. Possibly something painful also that needs to be stopped...the fire put out. Could relate to romance or any newly activated idea.

Flashlight and Headlights = focused illumination of your path or goal.

Flowers = friends and personal relationships

Flying = confidence

Fruit = the results of an action. Karma. Cause and effect.

Garbage or Trash = That is the un-truths and complexes found in the subconscious which are being culled out or need to be.

Gateways & Doorways = crossing into new territory having completed the traversing of the old territory.

Gift = surprise unveiling of something unknown.

Grass = pertaining to foundation and circumstances of material life, trappings, possessions. Needs cultivating/trimming/care.

Gun = taking aim. Attempting to score a hit.

Hair = pertaining to mental

Hat = mental identification of attainment

Injury = self punishment. Could also be a health warning since the subconscious knows the condition of every cell in your body.

Island = very similar to mountain, if not identical. Isolated but surrounded by emotion (water). Being in a state of emotional isolation with little "firm" or "reality" ground to stand on.

Jeans = informal and being individual rather than conforming.

Knife = cutting the cord or apron strings. This is used to indicate a change which entails reprogramming of the subconscious by severing the old program, feeling or belief and inputting a new one. Cutting the old self away from the new one. Not being tied to old beliefs.

Ladder = to evolve upward. Your path of ascent through understanding the various levels of a situation. If it is a metal ladder, it is based on spiritual or superconscious information or truths. Ladder of success. Wood probably relates more to success in the conscious world.

Lamp or Light Fixture = illumination. Able to see what formerly was in darkness. Understanding.

Light = same as "Lamp"

Logs = those past Selves which are being cut down or eliminated by new growths. This indicates a clearing of karma or the soul's memory. The information (wood, lumber) can be used to construct the new you.

Lumber = see "Wood" Meat /+/= strong sustenance relating to concepts or truths. The main course. Milk /+/= watered down truth or immature understanding.

Magazine = Your life as a lot of different stories. Since it is printed material it also is precognitive and not just something mental or spiritual.

Metal = based on spiritual or superconscious information or truths.

Moon = ever changing, reflective of the "true" light of superconscious. Represents the feminine, subconscious mind. Also the force of love....emotion. "She" is our "light" of awareness when we are in dreaming and other creative states. Relates to the Mother. The receptive/passive force.

Movie = Same as television

Mountain = isolation, retiring from the fray of active live to contemplate.

Naked = looking at the essential self and if concerned or embarrassed means you are searching for an identity in life. If in the presence of others it shows that you cannot hide the condition of your essential self from the various aspects of Self. ("The Naked Truth") Need for clothes (identity). This is about self awareness...your own belief about who you are.

Newspaper = Daily life.

No Pants or Looking for Pants = Not in control.

Nudity = whatever is represented by the nude person is devoid of an identity.

Nurse = the healer and comforter in Self

Pachinko Game Machine = an endeavor where no skill will help and you are at the mercy of destiny because there are no flippers. Purely chance. A draw of the cards would indicate the same.

Pants = being in control of your life and destiny. "Wearing the pants". Possibly a male symbol only.

Parachute = protection or alternate plan

Pinball Game Machine = an endeavor which looks like a gamble but over which you have some control and can use skill to succeed.

Pipes = Similar to wire in that they are conduits for superconscious truths and energy.

Photos, Photographers, Cameras = indicate the process of development ongoing to bring superconscious truths into conscious awareness.

Pregnancy = new idea or situation. Could be precognitive of new developments.

Plastic = not genuine, false Prison = trapped or confined by circumstances. Only understanding and reprogramming of the subconscious can free you.

Radio, Stereo or Music = the background of the superconscious constantly being shown in your dreams. All you have to do is tune in. Divine influences of superconscious information.

Rain = cleansing by the spiritual self. Indicates some form of debasement such as financial hardship or loss of something or someone which results in sorrow.

Rocks = obstacles in the life or to understanding

Rose = troubles turned into beauty. Overcoming trials and pain. Love with it's beauty and its thorns.

Sand = poor foundation to build on.

Soap Opera = the subconscious mind sees our waking life as a soap opera with us being the characters.

Nurse = the healer and comforter in Self

Scissors = similar to knife

Severe storm = similar to tornado but representing extremely difficult time period. Your spirit is dampened. Emotions put to the test

Shoes = on the move, moving from or to something. Type of shoes indicate how.

Shotgun or Machine Gun = Not taking aim but trying multiple approaches to hopefully score a hit.

Shooting or Bullet Holes = warnings

Sliding = out of control and possibly dangerous

Skin = the facade or outer shell of the Self. Shedding skin indicates growth.

Slippers = passive movement. In the mind (house) only. Snow, Ice,

Cold = associated with feelings of isolation or withdrawal or missing out on the warmth of life. See 'directions'-'north'.

Soap = cleansing or purification of Self

Sponge = that which absorbs or soaks up things.

Stone = symbol of everlasting and unchanging quality of the subconscious if not reprogrammed. Only metal, symbol of the superconscious, is strong enough to reshape it. White stones or cleaning stones represent the purified subconscious which is harmonized with the superconscious. Can be "stepping" stone or "stumbling" stone.

Strong Winds = strong changes

Sun = strength, life, waking consciousness. Conscious mind. Also life-giving and light giving force of superconscious awareness. Relates to the Father or active force.

Target = same as gun.

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

Teeth = relating to speech

Thorns = troubles

Toilet = deprecated self image and need to improve it.

Tornado = extreme confusion and disruption.

Tree = the complete Self in one incarnation.

Trees = past lives or memories past Selves in past incarnations and earlier models of yourself in this one.

Umbrella = protection or alternate plan

Uniform = conformity to society

Urinating = cleansing of self internally of emotional waste—by gaining awareness and application of the pattern of the superconscious. If in the presence of others it shows that you cannot hide the condition of your essential self from the various aspects of Self.

Video = see television

Vine = all things in the Self are connected and interelated. All of your past, including past lives, combine to make up your current Self.

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

Waitress or Stewardess = those who serve you spiritual truths from the superconscious as you travel through life experience. Possibly the aid of discarnate entities who aid those in body as in the 'guardian angel'.

Wallet = identity, authentication, authorization

Well = source of water or spirit indicating the flow of information from the superconscious

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

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

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

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