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.
Personal
Symbols
Specific
People as Dream Symbols
This subject will not
be displayed in a word equals situation, like the other symbol pages,
because the only personal symbols I know of are my own and they would
not be instructive to another reader.
Instead I will attempt
to describe how one arrives at what a specific person means as a symbol
in their dreams.
First understand that the subconscious mind always tells us not what something
is, but what it is like. In other words, the subconscious
has an association or correlation within its database of memory that ties
the outer "thing" to the inner "thought". To it, they
are equivilant issues....thing and thought.
For instance, if Uncle Bob was a lumberjack, and your principle memory...or
one that is different enough from other uncles to differentiate him specifically
from them...then you know that Uncle Bob used to "cut down trees".
Cutting down trees, to the subconscious mind means involving oneself with
karma....with the results of growths in previous experiences.
So one possibility
is that Uncle Bob, because his gender is male, already represents your
waking, physical life...on one symbolic level, but also represents taking
care of karmic issues in that physical life. This should be considered.
But there might be other things that Uncle Bob meant to your subconscious
mind that you've almost forgotten consciously.
For instance, Uncle Bob might
have always given you money...or ice cream.....when you visited him. In
this sense he would be your "benefactor" to the subconscious
mind. Or maybe you helped him as an apprentice when you were on vacation
during the summer, so he could have been your "employer". In
each instance, the gender aspect of Uncle Bob relating to your "outer"
reality would not change, so that part of symbolic representation is pretty
much set, I think. It only remains to narrow down the specific thing in
your own life now that the dream is indicating to you by showing you yourself
in the form of "Uncle Bob".
This is the method whereby we can study and test our symbols. Whatever
we come up with must have a reason to exist within the dream scenario.
There must be an essential "correctness" felt or sensed. I call
this the Eureka factor. When we get it, we usually know it by our feelings.
There is a kind of tingle of "okayness" that seems to occur.
Why? Because the subconscious mind....creator of dreams....is also the
creator of emotion and it is perfectly capable of sending us "signals"
of emotion that no one else can feel, if and when we get something right.
Plus the symbol interpretation must stand up to logical scrutiny within
the context of the rest of the dream symbols.
When both the conscious mind and the subconscious mind agree on anything
("where two or more are gathered together"...) without conflict
there is created a type of harmony within the Self which cannot be
fully cognized or described but can certainly felt by the individual.
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