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DREAMS SYMBOLS

ABANDONMENT A necessary preliminary to being independent; may occur in the dreams of young people about to go out on their own.

ACCIDENT (Misfortune) Happening to the dreamer: = He is punishing himself, in a token way, to appease his conscience. - The lengths to which the unconscious is at present prepared to go in order to avoid responsibilities, difficulties, or decisions; it may later find a more effective means.
Happening to somebody else in the dream: = Aggression toward that person, though the dreamer has superficially avoided responsibility.

The ACTION of the Dream Nothing appears in the dream that the dreamer didn't put there. However much the 'I' of the dream is sorry, tries to rescue the other figures, or alter the action, he nevertheless remains responsible for everything else that takes place as well.

AGGRESSION = Aggressive impulses that have been stifled in waking life but are still breeding resentment in the depths of the unconscious.
Somebody else may seem to be the aggressor, while the dreamer appears to be the victim or innocent bystander, isolated from the violence or even appalled by it. Yet the dream may still be revealing something about the dreamer's underlying aggression, how he proposes to handle these impulses and the possible consequences. As long as the conscious mind recognises this basic impulse of survival, it can usually come to terms with it.
Aggression suffered by the dreamer: = Some aspect of the dreamer's life is being menaced by the aggressor, who, once he is identified, may turn out to be the last person the dreamer would have recognised as a threat in waking life.
Aggressor, victim, enclosure: = The parents, formerly protective and helpful, have now become destructive to the growth of the individual. This theme recurs in the dreams of young people due to leave home and the family circle, the enclosure.
Sexual passion. - Aggression and passion are often not differentiated in dreams. - Thus, being hit with a stick or otherwise assaulted, especially in women's dreams. Sexual assault. - Being sexually assaulted by someone of the same sex: = Passive homosexuality.
Being exaggeratedly aggressive and violent, in a man's dreams: = Determination to conceal the feminine side of his nature even from himself.

ANIMALS = The animal vitality of the dreamer: either the body with it's instinctive sexual cravings, or the subhuman and "bestial" impulses of the unconscious.
Trying to find some refuge from animals, whether by building fences or shoring up inadequate buildings, etc,: = The dreamer's struggle with his animal instincts. The dream may indicate whether the precautions being taken are adequate or if more is required. These instincts may be threatening or damaging other aspects of the individual's life.
Taming or harnessing the animals: = The dreamer's efforts to control his instincts and if possible render them constructive, useful.
Killing the animal: = Managing to restrain the animal is bettter than killing it, which may at the same time destroy the vital energy derived from the instincts.
Eating the animal: = Reassimilating the energy.

Other people, especially the parents. - If the sex of the animals is not indicated, then the larger may represent the father and the smaller the mother: = The dream could be about repressed wishes and fears centering on infantile sexuality, which is often incestuous.

Aspects of the unconscious that are superior in certain respects to ordinary human attitudes. - Talking animals, wise, awe-inspiring, or god-like animals: = Animals are superior to man because they have not yet blundered into consciousness or pitted their self-will against the power from which they derive life. It is always important to pay attention to this aspect of animal life in fairy tales and dreams. = The Self.
Helpful animals: = Helpful stirrings of the unconscious, probably rendered cooperative because the conscious attitude is positive and 'right'.

Baby animals: = Children (especially, 'kid', 'lamb', etc).
Animals that never grow up (the runt pig etc.): = Infantilism. The dreamer's inability to mature or to face life.
Animal with a cub: = Motherliness, and therefore the mother.

Bear. = The Mother; the Great Mother; 'bearing' children, and caring for them.
Hugging to death: = The possessive devouring mother. - An 'overbearing' person, a 'bear' of a man; possibly the father. - To 'bare', to expose.

Bull. = Sexual passion, as creative power or, more often in it's negative aspect, blind rage, destructive brute compulsions.
Slaying the bull. = Initiation into the world of the mature adult, who masters his instincts in order not to be at their mercy.

Cat. = The feline, the catlike in human beings, usually in women; the elegant but also the uncanny of witches' familiars and Egyptian gods.

Chameleon. = Adaptability.

Cold-blooded animals. = The cold, unrelated, inhuman aspect of the instincts.

Composite animals. = The various qualities of the different animals of which they are made up. Two potentials of development in one figure.
Half animal, half man. = The animal instincts are beginning to be humanised.

Cow. = Providing milk, nourishment. The eternal femine, especially the mother or mother figure.

Deformed animals. = The dreamer thinks of his impulses as repugnant, revolting.

Dog. = The 'dogged' or doglike in people. The faithful and devoted companion, or somebody the dreamer can't shake off and who might make trouble (depending on the rest of the dream but also on the dreamer's waking attitude to dogs).
A dog belonging to someone: = That person.
A dog that the dreamer used owned or knew at some period of his life: = That period of his life.
A huntress with dogs: = The Amazon/Huntress Self or Anima.
A dog guarding some gates, near a cemetary, etc: = The fact that dogs devour corpses may account for their being the guardians of the underworld (Cerberus); "the hounds of Hell"; creatures that must be pacified and put to sleep before the dreamer can pass through the underworld.

Domesticated animals (Tame animals). = Passions under control; also suggests that those passions were never very formidable.

Elephant. = Earth. The Self, radiant and glowing.

Frog. = Transforms from a tadpole and moves onto the land. - A period of transformation (frog into prince?). (+ SNAKE, as all reptiles may have the same significance.)

Goat. = Lasciviousness, procreation (Pan, Satan). Those who will be sorted from the sheep. The dark side of human nature.
Riding a goat: = The dreamer's relationship with the dark side of his nature.

Hare. = Swift, curious, fearful, and leaps. - Intuition, spiritual insight; intuitive 'leaps.' In it's warped, negative aspect intuition may be degraded by fear or ignorance into madness; 'mad as a March hare.'
- The Priestess/Witch or the Trickster/Black Magician.
Radiant hare, holding it's baby in a cave: = The Mother of God.

Horns. = The orgiastic experience of natural instinctive life. Horns belong to Pan and the Devil. But also (if the animals or demigod horned creatures are radiant) the positive aspect of phallic power, which is fertility and creation. Or the positive and negative aspects of a conflict. Or problem: 'the horns of a dilemma.' Or adultery: making the cuckold 'wear horns.'

Horse. = The energy at a man's disposal.
The horse under strain or dying: = A severe weakening of this dynamic power that carries a man forward ('horsepower'); it is important to not the forces or circumstances that are weakening or killing it.
A winged horse. = The poetic imagination; being harnessed to a cart indicates that it is being abused for thoroughly utilitarian purposes.
- A ruling passion, an instinct that carries the dreamer away.
In a man's dream: = A woman; or the Anima, the realm of the feminine.
In a woman's dream, being kicked-especially in the stomach by the hind leg of the horse-or otherwise attacked: = The desire to be taken sexually by an ardent lover.
A black horse: = The unruliness of the passions (+ COLORS).
Someone on a pale horse: = Death.
A horse that can get through any door and batter down all obstacles: = The collective Shadow.
The horse as beast of burden: = The Mother, or Mother Archetype. In modern dreams the car has largely taken over from the horse as a symbol with many of the same associations.
- Unconscious energy, which the individual may be preparing to use in his service by giving it the neccessary attention.

Lion: = 'Devouring' appetite, 'raging' desire, brute force, unredeemed instinct.
The struggle with the lion: = This should mark a successful stage in maturing as long as the dreamer is not overpowered or the lion killed.
A man-eating lion can roam free in the jungle but not in the villages: = The image of the dream is much clearer and more vivid than any explanation about how everything has it's proper place.
A lion lying with a lamb: = A union, or compatibility of opposites; instinct and spirit going hand in hand.
- Pride or courage.

Lizard. = One-track thinking.

Monkey. = The infantile, childish, and arrested side of the dreamer's character; in the womb the fetus goes through a reenactment of the phases of evolution, and at one stage has something in common with the monkey, which always sits in the embryo position. No wonder it has become the image of regressive tendencies, whether toward the primitive and subhuman or the specifically childish. - Ape of God, and therefore the Devil.

Monster, Dragon, etc. = A remote monstrous fear, beyond understanding, usually threatening from within rather than from the outside world.
The devouring monster: = The 'jaws' of death. The dream may deal with man's continual quest for immortality.
If the dreamer gets the better of the monster: = His triumph over his own fear of death, if the monster is an image of that fear.
The most basic and primitive quality of life-the 'prima materia' of alchemy-from which the individual must first free himself by conscious effort; though later he may be able to harness this force for specifically human purposes.
Cutting out the monster's heart or other vital organ, or lighting a fire inside it: = The struggle against the dark forces of the underworld.
Winged dragon/dragon without wings: = Spirit v. Earthly.
Man-eating monsters: = The insatiable hunger of the infant, and therefore exaggerated demands.
"All monsters and impossibilities are vain hopes of things which will not turn out' (Artemidorus).

Mouse. = Mousey, diffident.

Otter. = Has some of the same significance as fishing but in a primitive form: the unconscious content (the fish) are likely to be digested without ever being brought to dry land and the light of consciousness.

Parts of animals = (the limbs, eyes, mouth, etc): These usually have the same significance as parts of the human body. If the four legs of an animal are particularly emphasized, possibly in contrast with a three-legged animal; = quaternity; or a whole rounded personality with all four functions of the mind fully developed. Tail: = Penis.

Pig or Wild Boar. = Ignorance, stupidity, selfishness, gluttony. It may be that the dreamer's better self is beginning to recognise these unattractive qualities in himself; without such recognition there can be no transformation or mastery of them.
Pigs and jewels: = Pearls before swine, and the failure to appreciate spiritual values.
Swineherd. = The Prodical Son, and a period of licentiousness and degradation which is drawing to a close.
Big litter of piglets = Fruitfulness:
Sow: = The Terrible Mother.
Wild Boar: = Elemental and destructive phallic power. The archetypal masculine principle, and therefore the negative Animus in a woman's dream; more superficial, the dreamer may be confronted by her repressed incestuous desires. The rest of the dream should indicate whether the dreamer is evading an issue that should be confronted and dealt with more courageously, or whether the best that can be hoped for in the circumstances is to find adequate protection for the time being.

Prehistoric animals. = Something from the remote past, and therefore from childhood, which is emphasized by the dreamer's size in relation to these monsters, which depict the giantlike proportions of adults seen through the eyes of a child.
- Primal darkness and chaos. The gross dinosaur flesh that has been refined into human form and flesh be the slow process of evolution and elimination.

Preoccupied animals. - If the animals are too preoccupied to take much notice of the dreamer: = Narcissism, autoeroticism.

Rabbits. = Fertility: breeding like rabbits. - Intuition, because modern town-dwellers fail to differentiate between rabbits and hares int heir dreams.
A white rabbit: = May show the dreamer the gateway to an inner world as in 'Alice in Wonderland'.

Rat. = The diseased, not only because rats carry plague, but also because they infest a house, which is an image of the body. They may depict something else that is physically repulsive or sexually obscene to the dreamer, or be images of his morbid outlook. - Somebody whom the dreamer unconsciously thinks of as a 'rat'-likely to be disloyal and leave the sinking ship first. - Devouring and therefore the Terrible Mother.

Sheep.