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DREAMS SYMBOLS

BAG = A woman: 'the old bag.'

BALL = Testicles: 'balls'
Playing with the ball, ball games = Playing with the testicles, therefore erection.
Kicking the ball: = Erection, as above, or fear of castration.
If the ball goes off at an angle: = Misdirected sexual excitement, perhaps not inspired by the dreamer's wife.
- Breast or pregnant belly.
- Circle, and therefore wholeness.
A golden ball in the dark, in the depths: = The glimmering of inner light to illuminate the unconscious.

BANK = Emotional, rather than financial, capital and security.
Vaults = The womb, or the store of semen.

BEHEADING = Losing one's head, therefore losing one's mind, possibly as the result of failing to cultivate it's potential at the right time, or at least the fear of this. - One part of the body may stand for another, and therefore fear of castration or impotence.

BELLS. - Alarm bells especially: = Conscience, warning the dreamer.

BIRDS = Imagination: 'flights of fancy', or thoughts, ideas, which also 'fly' about the room, or back and forth.
In a cage or with broken wings: = The imagination hemmed in or mutilated by circumstances, drudgery, and so on.
Clipping the wings: = Restraint, mortification, possibility of wild or fanciful but obsolete notions and values, in which case the clipping will be a necessary preliminary to the next phases.
- Aspirations, especially the spirit soaring toward the celestial, the Divine.
Birds with wings/An unfledged or plucked bird, or an earthbound creature: = Spiritual aspirations v. corporeal or material considerations. In alchemy the monster, the earthbound dragon (signifying the 'prima materia') is transformed into the eagle, the goose of Hermes, or the Peacock.
- Women: 'birds'.
In a man's dream: = The Anima.
In a woman's dream: = The Self.
White/black birds: = The two aspects of the Anima or Self, the black bird signifying the dark, neglected and shadowy side.
- Liberty: 'free as a bird'.
If the bird was a pet: = The general idea may be modified by personal considerations, emotions. The dreamer's childhood aspirations, for example, and what become of them.
A display of plummage: = Social refinements, or the individual's persona, facade.
Golden-winged bird: = May have the same significance as fire.
A high-flying bird or possibly a bird living in the upper storeys of a building: = Soaring to the heights through awareness; a creature that can tell of the kingdom of heaven.

Chicken. = A bird that cannot fly , and therefore the imagination made to serve a utilitarian function. If the chickens are being kept for their eggs, there will be more hope of future potential growth than if they are being kept for meat.
Even when the dream isn't explicit on such subjects, the individual on waking may be able to discover the possible fate of the creatures simply by trying to visualise it.
Cock: = Lust: the 'cock'.

Somebody turning into a chicken: = The dreamer's unconscious believes that person, possibly himself, to be a coward.

Crow. = Priest, who also wears black (+ COLOURS) and buries the dead, therefore death.

Dove. = The Anima.

Eagle. = Perceptiveness: 'eagle-eyed'. Awareness. A lofty flight of the mind or spirit. The male spirit of enthusiasm. - Domination.
If the dreamer identitfies with the eagle:His own wish to dominate. But if the dream is accompanied by anguish or dread, then this will-to-dominate may be threatening some other, more sensitive side of the dreamer's nature.
If the dreamer feels threatened: = Somebody else's will to dominate him.

Owl. = The departed soul of somebody who is dead, represented by the bird's ghostly nighttime appearances and eerie cry. - Also wisdom; or the Anima.

Peacock. = The unfolding realisation of wholeness, because of the appearance of all the colours in it's feathers and the circular shape of it's fanned-out tail. Also rebirth and resurrection, dying in order to live; in alchemy the peacock has much the same significance as the phoenix, rising renewed from the ashes. It also plays an important role in Gnosticism; and the Pope used to be crowned with peacock feathers.

Phoenix. = Rebirth, resurrection.
Raven. = = The Devil, who is also black and winged. A sinister aspect of the father image. The Shadow: the first dark confused phase of knowing the inner realm.

Wild Goose - Can move on land, water and in the air. = The soul. Geese are the outlawed pagan divinities of nature, and traditionally the companions of witches.

BIRTH. = It is conceivable that the experience, and often shock, of being born registers in the unconscious and features in dreams, in symbolic form, whenever some similar confrontation with life stirs up memories in the depths of the mind which have never been conciously apprehended.
The images for being born may or may not be reversed; the dreamer may thus crawl out of small holes or into small holes, come out of or go into the sea, go along narrow canals in a small boat, into or out of tunnels, etc. Such dreams are apt to add considerable needless anxiety to the present situation, which in reality has very little to do with an event that was over and done with ages ago. Therefore, it is quiet an advantage to be able to recognize such dreams and comtemplate them, bearing firmly in mind that it happened then: however painful the experience, it is of the past.

A Birth. - Happening or about to happen in the dream: = Rebirth, regeneration. The wish to elevate one's life or repeat it without the same mistakes. this theme of enlightenment and renewal- the truth remaining valid through change-becomes particualrly meaningful toward the end of the dreamer's life, and is more likely to crop up in dreams then: youth grows old, beauty fades, heat cools, brightness dims, but the original spark of life that generated them is infinite and eternal.
An embryo: = A life that as yet lacks scope or is being stifled in some way.

BITING - Even when it looks like a frightening attack: = An act of love. The teeth (the active male component) enter the flesh (the female). Similtaneouslt the attacked enters the mouth of the attacker. There may of course be a sadistic undercurrent to the love.
- 'Getting one's teeth into something;

BODY. = The individual, whether the dreamer or somebody else, as a whole: his personality and mind as well as his body, just as the body is in fact an outward manifestation of the inner person, but especially his ego. As the basic frame of reverence for all experiences, the body is the original source and fund of symbols.
The child's first conscious realisation of the world is through the body and it's functions, which recur later in dreams as symbols of this encounter. For the child the body is also a cipher for the fathomable, which is why much unconscious material expresses itself in body symbolism.
The upper part of the body: = The mind; the spiritual and platonic aspects of the character.
The lower part of the body: = The instincts.
An adult's head on a child's body: = Somebody, probably the dreamer, who is mentally but not sexually mature.
Upper part/lower part. = Mind v. instincts.
The right side of the body: = The upright moral side of the person concerned.
The left side, including left hand, left foot etc: = The immoral, inferior, undeveloped aaspects of the character. The Shadow.
One part of the body may represent another: = But as is usual in dreams, one significant or embarrassing part is represented by something less embarrassing.
Anything pointed, such as finger, arm, tooth: = The penis.
Any normal opening in the body, such as the mouth, but also a hole in the body: = The anus or the vagina.
A hole in the back or in the back of the hand etc: = The anus; A hole in the front: = The vagina.
There is a tendency in dreams for displacement to occur from below upward; therefore it is important to see if anything that happens to the chest, the head, etc., would make more sense if applied to the genital region.Similarly, the functions of the body are interchangeable, so that secretions such as mucus, tears, urine: = Stool retention.

Abdomen (stomach, belly). = The place of repressed feelings, emotions, especially angst.

Becoming fat: = Pregnancy. Fear of pregnancy may be transferred into fear of becoming fat.

Anus (excrement). = The first infantile experiences of self-expression and self-assertion; it has become a symbol in dreams of ego power. This may be positive and indicate self-reliance-a legitimate reaction against held conformism-when the community has become the destructive depersonalised mother; the combative and marital qualities of the ego, which may in the circumstances be necessarily for survival. More likely the dream will refer to an arrested egotism, self-will, and defiance.
Excrement: = Something dirty: dirty behaviour, egotistical pleasure. Also dirty fighting, egotistical strife. The dream may be trying to indicate to the individual in striking imagery how egotistical, childish, rebellious, and anticocial his demands are.

If the excrement is transformed into (or replaced by) living animals, possibly rats: = The individual is beginning to master his regressive impulses.
- Money.
Playing with it: = Anxiety about money, as well as the fear of responsibility.
Constipation - (In life as well as in dreams): = Reluctance to part with this symbol of money: avarice.
The original raw material from which the world and man was created. Matter in contrast with Spirit. the earth, the realm of the feminine, and therefore the Great Mother. The realm of feeling.
Everything has a positive side to which the dreamer can turn. In order to development emotionally and overcome repressed feelings (which are probably the cause of his arrestedness), the dreamer can relate to the realm of feeling. In order to overcome the Terrible Mother (who may be warping and stunting his growth), he can relate to the Great Mother.

Evacuation: = Being delivered of worries and responsibilities, being purged of guilt and repressions, or being liberated from inhibitions. - The sexual act. - 'Verbal diarrhea'.
Not only was excrement supposed to contain the basic raw material from which the alchemists were to make gold, but de Becker points out the tenous but possible relationship between Luther's anal fixation and the capital exploitation for which the Protestants were mainly responsible.

Blood. = Rebirth, Menstruation - The blood of Christ, and therefore the life of the spirit as well as the body. especially lamb's or hare's blood or blood mixed with water: communion. - 'Blood brothers': the spirit of unity.
Bath of blood: = Baptism into maturity and manhood. - A vital substance, therefore semen.'Bloodsucking': = Sucking out semen; causing an emission.

Eye: = The observing and discriminating eye of consciousness; the mind. The 'eye of God' and the 'eye of eternity'. The realm of the masculine: the man's Self and the woman's Animus. It is the prototype of the mandala.
Loss of eyesight. = Loss of insight and enlightenment; loss of one eye will indicate partial loss. Also loss of sexual potency.
Regaining eyesight: = Regaining the innate wisdom of the child; rebirth.
That which receives light: the open, the receptive, and therefore the feminine.
Something stuck in the eye: = Coitus.

Hair. = Pubic hair: virility.
Baldness, hair being cut, etc,: = Loss of virility, strength: impotence. An unreasonable fear, and therefore a fear arising from the unconscious, often has a symbolic significance. hence fears of going bald and so on could have more to do with anxiety about one's virility.
Hands. = The phallus. Also the ability to make things with one's hands; creativity.
The two hands contrasted with each other, a different object in each hand, etc:. = On the one hand, and on the other-and the conflict between the two. The less acceptable of the alternatives will be in the left hand.
A huge hand, especially from the sky, etc: = 'The hand of God'.

Head. = The dreamer's conscious intentions.
A blow to the head: = Those intentions receiving a blow.

Limbs. - any limbs: = The male member, the phallus.
In a man's dreams, lose of a limb: = Castration.
In a woman's dream, lose of any part of the body that is irreplaceable, an eyelid, for example: = Loss of virginity.
In the dream of a Jewish person, loss of some part of the body: = Circumcision, and being Jewish.
Being dismembered: = The individual's life is breaking up or is in pieces, falling apart at the seams. This may be necessary preparation for recentering in a new reality.
Two limbs: = Brother and sister.

Mouth. = The receptive, but also the the demanding. The grasping, in the sense of grapping or understanding and absorbing. The dream may point to the needs of the individual. - The feminine: yielding, kissing female genitalia.

Nose. = Intuition. 'I smell something fishy, wrong'.