Dream Symbols

Above: consciousness, divinity

Aisle: pathway, walking down the aisle, spiritual bonding, vows, commitment, dedication or purpose

Alien: deceased being, feeling alienated, seeing another as strange and unpredictable

Alley:  related to life’s path, can be dark and tunnel-like, or a shortcut

Animal: religious or spiritual symbol, instincts, primal forces within, lower brain activity
Arch, Archway: rite of passage, new chapter in life, change in thinking, change for the better

Architectural structures: body parts, parts of the self, being inside = being inside the self

Arms: protection, embracing love, tools for mobilization and creation

Ash:  raw material of spiritual rebirth, phoenix rising from the ashes, triumph

At sea: not on solid ground, without understanding, unstable, free

Automobile: the ego, look for details like what the car looks like (self esteem), if it is lost, traveling fast, etc.

Axe:  as weapon, represents war and violence; liberating power of spiritual light, sky god powers

Awakening: recognition, revelation, illumination

Baby: achievement, body of work, creation, creative process

Background: past life, past experiences, childhood

Back seat: not in control, being driven, letting self relax and let life take over the work

Ball: sphere, world, self-concept, as point around which everything revolves

Barefoot: baring one’s soul, getting in touch with the earth, instinctual nature, freedom

Basement: the unconscious, parts of the self not yet examined, something spooky or ugly

Bathroom: relief, cleansing, self care

Beach: solitude, peace, inner movement across unknown areas in psyche

Bear:  resurrection, initiation into life’s passage, darkness before rebirth, raw power

Beast: animal instincts

Bee:  industriousness, being too busy and over-committed, individual submerged in the group

Behind: past

Below: the unconscious

Bench: permanence, inactivity, rest, peace, stagnation

Black dog: symbol of foreboding, omen of future unpleasant event, death

Blanket: security, comfort, protection

Blind: lack of vision, foresight or faith, unable to make a decision, fear

Blood:  emotions, the soul, vital life-force, matters of the heart, symbolic of sacrifice

Blue: truth, spirituality, sadness, peace

Boat: conveyance, rite of passage, method of moving across abyss within the self

Bog:   charting uncertain territory, putrefication that precedes rebirth

Book: self-discovery, absorbing inner information, unread pages of self

Bridges: connections to another world, to others, and to self, crossing into another way of being

Briefcase: a collection of ideas, secret or important information, status symbol

Bright lights: fame, exposure, not hiding unsavory parts of the self anymore, or showing the beautiful parts of self.

Broken window: self-destruction, emotional upheaval, inner turmoil

Bugs: little things bothering you, uncleanliness, fear of filth

Building: the self, creative impulses, constructive outlook

Bunk: unification, steadfastness

Bushes: subterfuge, concealment, submerged sexual urges, genitalia

Calling card: sense of identity, networking

Camel: beast of burden, responsibility

Camp: staying entrenched, an adventure, self-sufficiency

Candles: magic, optimism, illumination

Car: driving self, in control, inside a small or specific world, car can represent body, mobilization

Cartoon: unreal aspects of self, caricatures of self, the silly parts of self or the parts that don’t seem steady in reality

Cashier, check-out person: adding things up, taking stock of self, giving energy to stranger
Castle: the body, lofty, mature sense of self, fortress of self, manifestation of self

Caverns: dark parts of the psyche, female genitalia, void within

Ceiling: limiting factor

Chair: permanence, solidity, place of rest, interrogation

Chased: sense of being pursued, self chasing self, monster

Circle: concept of self, totality, wholeness, timelessness, continuance, mandala, coming full circle

Cities: symbolic of dreamer, beautiful cities-love of self and life, ugly cities- hate of self and life

College course: the course of life, learning, introspection

Columns: body, phallic symbol, standing tall, supportive, upholding ideals, order

Conductor: energizer, conduit, one who runs things or regulates things

Corners: the four points of reference in the world, totality, wholeness

Costume: disguise, deception, roles we assume

Coverings: layers of memory, layers of undiscovered self

Crib: safety zone, protection

Dancing: joy, happiness, creativity, sexual activity, celebration of life or self

Darkness: ambivalence, apathy, surrender, fear, devoid of knowledge

Datebook: passage of time, agenda, schedule, self-identity

Deep water: trouble, unknown parts of the self that are feared, spirituality

Demons: primitive instincts, repressed sexuality, concentrations of fear within self, ugly parts of the self

Descending: quest for self-knowledge, self-discovery, the unconscious

Devils: protagonists, tempters, seducers, negativity, hopelessness, falling out of favor

Diagnosis: ongoing analysis in dream

Digging: self-discovery, searching the unconscious, looking for something

Dinner: emotional nourishment or protection, satisfaction of needs

Dog: Dionysian animal spirit, instincts, making friends with yourself, friend

Dolls: babies

Door: entrance to illumination, imagination, opening up or closing off, forbidden

Driving wheel: wheel of life, symbol of control, responsibility

Drowning: suffocation by system, being engulfed or overwhelmed, loss of identity, immersing oneself in spirituality

Drum roll: performance

Dust: layers of memory, veil, past

Edge: looking into the unknown, borderline, hesitation to enter unknown

Egg:  beginnings, new project, phase of life, sense of self, the womb of Mother Goddess, hope

Empty hole: unconscious

Envelope: deliverance, announcement, sealed off, enveloped

Excrement: death, decay, defilement

Explosions: sexual activity, ejaculation or orgasm, climax, falling apart of life or self in abrupt way, breakthroughs in consciousness

Extended objects: full growth potential

Falling: surrender to, loss of control, letting go, flying, end of the line

Fertile ground: womb, great idea, incubation of project

Film: distortion, veiled layer, projection of fantasy, identity issues, watching others

Fire: frenzied activity, intellect, sexual energy, desire, passion, excitement

Firearms: fear of death, control of life and death, anger

Floating: superficial, without depth, on top of a situation, above all human affairs, freedom

Flying: freedom, renunciation, independence, detachment, objectivity, defiance of rules, elevation, establishing individuality, ascendance

Flying a plane: control, making all attainable, responsibility

Food: emotional nourishment

Foreground: present life, future life, what is in front of you

Forgetting: repression, frustration, fear of loss or inefficiency, power of selection

Frog: evil spirit or good spirit historically linked to superstition, something bewitched that was transformed for the worse

Front: the future

Front seat: co-navigation, privilege

Frozen: stubbornness, resistance, rigidity, reluctance, inhibitions, fears

Garage: cemetery, graveyard, underworld, unconscious, storage of information or things

Garden: cultivation of creative side, unrepressed nature, passion, spirit, origins

Glass: perception, clarity, transparency

Glass hall: perception of viewing or being viewed or watched over

God: the father, creator, eternal being within self, divinity, wisdom

Going outside: independence, beyond confines of self or life

Green: unripe, unseasoned, birth and fruition, healing energy, growth

Green pasture: affirmative view

Hair: strength, power, if cut=castration or weakness

Handbag: self-identity, security

Harsh light: harsh realization

Hives: anger, physical eruption

Holding back breath: not accepting a situation, fear, anticipation

Home, house: the body, personality, being, self, state of mind, the mother, security, refuge, the more palatial, the grander the sense of self

Ice: the opposite of an erection, something that becomes hard in the cold, without emotion, linked to death, stiffness

Incline: struggle, maturation process

Interiors: the mind, introspection

Invisibility: unborn, protection, forgetting or being forgotten

Island: isolation, independence, inaccessibility, autonomy, the individual self

Jesus: father, paternal figure, savior, the good, spiritual experience, forgiveness

Journey: departure, death, adventure

Jungle: the unconscious

Key: unlocking of higher truth, understanding, opening up

King: father, in control, boss, authority

Lake: reflection, giving surface view

Large audience: the eternal being, judgment, desire to be heard

Leaves: something fallen, dead, or something alive and green, healthful

Left: the past

Light: consciousness, awareness, clarity, of spiritual matter

Lighthouse: empowerment, scope, self-illumination, finding one’s path home

Little dog: helplessness, children, the underdog, compassion

Losing a pocketbook: loss of identity, sense of violation

Losing a tooth: a gap or void, fear, consequences for inability to make the right decision

Lynx: animal instincts

Makeup: covering reality, covering up ugly parts of the self, making beautiful parts more visible

Magazine: the self, storehouse of information, gossip

Male hostility: fear of castration, negative animus, trying to take control of situation

Mask: disguise, persona

Medicine: corrective measures, guidance, problem solvers

Mermaid: magic, goddess figure, sexual attractiveness

Mirror: self-reflection, looking for truth, imitation

Mist: blurred reality, inability to make a decision, lostness

Moon: wholeness, luminous enlightenment, magic, feminine presence, purity, ascendancy

Mother: one who births, rescues, creates, nostalgia for the womb, nourishment

Motorcycle: sexual prowess, aggressive tendencies, freedom, mobility

Mountains: obstacles, insurmountable problems, dominating presence, immortality, place of sanctuary

Mouse: meddler, mischievous

Multistoried structure: multifaceted personality

Music: passions, being transported, rhythmic activity, beauty, emotions

Nakedness: truth, purity, birth, innocence exposure, origins, shame, fear

Name: recognition, self-identity

Nature: essence, giver and taker, hostile or docile forces, unpredictability

Nature trail: road of self-discovery

Ocean: psyche, soul, unconscious depths, mother, death, danger, largeness

Ostrich: repression, hiding

Ovation: approval

Parked car: deceased individual or dead part of personality

Party: celebration of life, contentment

Passenger terminal: transportation between worlds within self

Pelican: scavenger, hunter

Picture: the whole truth

Pimple: the wish to break out or leave, recognition of repressed anger, blemish in personality

Playing: motivation, free expression

Playing the game: life’s challenges

Pool: body’s internal fluids, amniotic, pregnancy, spiritual experiences

Precipice: on the brink of disaster, on the edge of the unknown

Pregnancy: filling a void, creative process, body of work, death of baby is death of one’s youth, fear of responsibility

Profile: not the whole picture

Puppy: baby, child or new friend

Queen: mother, grace, wisdom, beauty, success, authority, feminine of king

Radio: the mind, transmitted thought

Rain: birth, nourishment, purification, growth, tears, emotional outpouring

Remedies: corrective measures

Repairs: emotional or physical imperfections

Restaurant: emotional nourishment, socialization

Road: quest for knowledge, freedom of expression, direction

Rooms: the body, the personality, self

Sand: restrictive side of reason, sterile, barren, abrasive, with ocean is combination of vastness and restriction

Scenes: memories, facades, visions

Script: part one plays in life, meaning, ideology, philosophy, destiny, lack of free will

Sea: unconscious, immersion in spiritual matters

See-through: truthfulness

Shoes: watching your step, seeing where you’re going, observing

Shrinking: fear

Silhouette: outline, only part of the picture

Skating: avoiding issues

Sky: without limit, open-minded-ness, independence

Snake: temptation, fear, transcendence, letting go of old and bringing in new

Soul: psyche, eternal self, God

Space: void, freedom, the unknown

Spear: phallus, murder, power, authority

Spheres: the world, consciousness

Spiderwebs: entrapment, stuckness, beauty, something to stay away from

Stadium: magic circle, mandala, wholeness, totality, harmony

Stage: set-up, platform for ideas, maturational phase of development, spiritual elevation

Stage manager: God, parental figure, guide, someone you admire

Stairwell: stasis, moderation, ascent or descent in consciousness.

Storm: stressful time, emotional release

Striking: lashing out, not accepting, fear

Summer: youth, blooming, fun, love

Sun: God, new beginning, realization

Surfaces: relating to sense of touch and feelings, superficial, to rise into view

Taxi: being transported, inside vehicle under someone else’s control, specific world

Telephones: communication with the deceased, calling someone telepathically

Tests: preparations, self-expectations

Text search: looking for answers, looking for a way out

Ticket: gaining admittance, approval, acceptance

Tiered seats: developmental stages of life, levels of consciousness

Tomb: death, silence, sanctuary, powerlessness, womb

Swan: soul symbol, solitude and peace

Sword: phallic, masculine symbol, authority, justice, dividing right from wrong, good/bad,
etc.
Tower: aloofness, independence, spiritual or mental elevation, fortress, impenetrable

Tree: of life, creativity, fortitude, happiness, nurture

Trapped: being trapped by people, a job, or life circumstances

Tree branches: offshoots, thoughts, evolution

Tunnel: accessing unconscious realm, emerging- symbol of rebirth, going in- introspection

Twilight: neither here nor there, noncommittal, transition, beautiful ending or closure of a
situation

Underneath: the unconscious

Valley: unconscious, mother, nurturing wholeness, depression, a low point in life

Video games: at the controls of life, maneuvered or maneuvering

Warm water: tears, nourishment, return to origins, rest

Waves: being swallowed up, washed over, waving, welcoming or dismissive

Weather: driving, changeable force, physical or emotional condition

Wheel: the sun, divinity, forces beyond one’s control

White: purity, religions devotion, cleansing truth

White House: the presidency, leadership, authority, protection, success

Windows: the self, the soul, opportunities

Winter: death or dying, what is forgotten or covered over, old age, deceased, loneliness

Wires: wired-in, connected, networking

Wise old man: guardian, God, spirit guide

Witch: magic, sorcery, manipulation, beauty, ugliness, negative feminine side of psyche