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Dream meanings - enabling you to interpret your own dreams

Tony Crisp

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ACID The dream image of acid suggests there is something that has the power to eat away at your positive feelings. The image may point to fears, cynicism, or criticism as in an acid tongue. If you are the one using the acid, be aware of the power to hurt or damage that you hold. If the acid is in a particular setting, such as work or relationship, then it refers to difficult feelings in your everyday life. If possible trace the feeling in your dream to where it is occurring in your waking life.

Acid test means the test of real value, as gold will not corrode, but lesser metals will. Therefore corrosion denotes material, easily destroyed things. Something may be burning away at your feelings or confidence, perhaps guilt or anxiety; your own vitriolic attack on someone else; fear of getting 'burnt' or hurt.

Throwing acid on someone: Purposely hurting someone; putting them to the test by being hurtful.

Where acid refers to LSD, See: drugs; mind bomb; LSD hypnosis meditation

Idioms: Acid tongue; come the old acid (try to deceive); the acid test.

Useful questions are:

Is something eating away at my confidence, resolve or sense of well being?

Do I feel a difficult but cleansing action taking place?

Have I been deeply critical of someone else or even myself?

Do you feel something corrosive inside you?

ACNE This may suggest you feel unclean, or that you feel others see you as unattractive or unlikable. There is a likelihood that you feel shy about social contacts and expressing yourself, or that you feel there are blemishes on your character as others see you.

Useful questions are:

Do you have acne - if so what comments does this dream make about it?

Can you shift the dream images in any way to arrive at a more satisfying feeling?

What does this suggest about the image you have of yourself?

ACORN Considering that our being has emerged from the tiny combination of sperm and ovum, a huge growth has arisen from a tiny beginning. This potential is frequently represented by the acorn or a seed. Even when adult, there is still enormous potential remaining unexpressed. The acorn can also suggest synthesised experience, and because of its link with potential, depict opportunities.

Because the oak tree is often used as a symbol of strength or endurance the dream acorn might point to reserves of such strength. Other cultural associations are age, long lasting, eternity and mystery, as with the Druid connection with the oak tree.

Shakespeare writes "the oak not to be wind-shaken" suggesting strength in difficulties.

Seeing or picking up acorns: Suggests you are in a positive life situation in which you can make things happen successfully.

Unripe acorns: Warning against acting prematurely. Wait until your plans, ideas or abilities are mature, or the situation 'ripe'.

See: oak under tree; tree; seed.

Useful questions are:

What potential or opportunity am I meeting at the moment?

Have I a seed, in the form of an idea or an opportunity, that I need to plant now?

Is there an inner strength I have but am not letting grow?

ACOUSTICS An inner condition allowing you to either be clearly aware of delicate inner feelings, or disrupting your awareness, depending on dream circumstances.

Useful questions are:

Can I define what it is I am aware of and what that suggests about me?

Is there an element of great awareness here?

If so what am I sensing?

How am I responding in the situation and can I connect that with waking life?

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ACROBAT/ACROBATICS Depending upon the context in your dream, this suggests the ability to deal with challenging events skilfully. It may also suggest psychological agility or balance - or the opposite if the acrobat falls.

Useful questions are:

Am I attempting something that requires a lot of skill or risk at the moment?

Are there life situations in which I need to carefully balance my activities?

What did I feel in the dream that is relevant to my present life situation?

ACROPHOBIA This may represent an actual conscious fear, or symbolise the fear of falling. That is, you can fall from grace, fall from social favour, fall in other peoples opinions. Such fear often has a base of anxiety about losing control, or having control taken away.

Useful questions are:

Am I frightened that if I am not in control of my life things will go haywire?

In what way might I lose my balance in life?

Am I dealing with the fear of death here?

How can I change the imagery and feelings in this dream?

ACTION OR ACTIVITIESWhat you are doing in your dream gives a good indication of what the central message of the dream is. If you are building for instance, then it suggest creating a new environment of life situation. Also, being active in your dream shows you doing something about what you are meeting in life. The opposite is a sort of passivity. So look up the keywords for what your action is - i.e. swimming, run

The energy you express during each day is an expression of life itself. It is the stuff of creation or destruction. So it can be a way you move toward satisfaction and well being, or toward self destruction and illness. therefore it is incredibly important to know how to use your energy in a way that brings satisfaction to yourself and others. This is not always easy, because some self-destructive urges or dispositions have been deeply etched into us by early childhood events and examples.

But as you lie sleeping, your dream actions reveal whether you are using your potential toward self-destructive behaviour, toward illness, or toward unfolding your possibilities and connection with others.

As an extreme example of this, a man dreamt he was watching someone who insisted on living in a small stable like room that was foul with his own faeces and urine. He wouldn't go out or clean the room, and his clothes too were filthy. He wouldn't be helped, but blamed his condition on anything and anyone but himself.

This dream was a turning point for the dreamer because it showed so clearly how he was making excuses for the attitudes of despair, of helplessness, of being disadvantaged, that he lived in all the time. Realising this he had a big internal clean-up of the feelings and thoughts he accepted as true.

Other common actions such as standing, running sitting, can have profound meaning in your dreams. For instance are you really standing in your life and expressing the positive and confident potential that you have? Are you running away from yourself in some way? Are you sitting waiting for life to happen, or are you up on the stage of your life expressing what is in you? And remember that there is always creative action. If you fought the establishment head on you might get knocked down - but a singer can do the same and be acclaimed.

The meaning depends entirely on what the action is, so it is helpful to get at the root of the action. For instance are you active or passive; are you creative or destructive; are you going somewhere or coming from somewhere? After defining the action go to the entry describing this. Suggestions are: active/passive; movements; positions; postures movements and body language; running; struggle.

Useful questions are:

What am I trying to achieve through my action?

Am I involved with someone else in this, and in what way?

What does this action express?

How does this involve me with anybody else?

Am I active or passive?

What feelings are involved in this?

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ACTOR/ACTRESS/ACTING If you are the actor/actress, you may be acting a role, not being your true self. This might also express a desire for public acclaim or notice. But if you have strong feelings/ideas about the character of the person, then your dream image may be using them to represent those feelings or ideas.

Depending on context, can represent yourself wanting public acclaim, or not expressing real self - acting a role. Just as someone's life may be 'acted out' on stage or in a film, so actors may represent a showing of facets of your own life, especially inner life; the false image we may be expressing; our attempt to impress others, or act a part; ones inflated opinion of oneself. In some dreams when we see ourselves on the stage, or are watching a film or show, it denotes the examination or contemplating of some special situation in ones life. See: Examples below.

Idioms: Act a part; act on impulse or information; acting up; caught in the act; as the actress said to the bishop; get in on the act. See: theatre.

Example: Dark man on stage holding a reclining woman in the air. Woman dressed in long dress with a low neck line. Large silver cross round her neck. Man in evening dress, streams of blood coming from his arms like jets. Places woman down on stage. Woman gets into a cab outside hotel, man at the wheel but doesn't see his face. She sits in the back of the cab, suddenly the sides of the seats close in around her. The cab driver takes off a rubber mask and it is the man of the stage scene, but the woman in the cab is me? Mrs. L L.

This dream of Mrs L. L. very clearly shows how the dreamer is watching on stage something relating to herself.

Example: When I looked at the film it was a carnival going on in the street, people with gay clothing and crowds watching. Two girls were going to sit in an old model type car, but someone said it would be better if they sat on the back of the car as they could been seen in the parade. Then I was looking into the crowd to find me and it was like looking at a snapshot, it felt very important that I find me, I saw my green slacks just showing, right at the back of the crowd. H. K.

Here the main feature in the dream is the effort to 'find me'. So the dreamer is watching the film in order to clarify their own self image, or find out who they are and how they relate to other people - the crowd. See: Stage; Roles.

Useful questions are:

What is being acted or dramatised and how does that reflect what I am meeting in life?

Am I acting something - if so what?

What do I feel about the actor/actress and what is being dramatised, and where do those feelings arise in my life?

ACUPUNCTURE/ACUPUNCTURIST Giving or receiving some form of healing, or redirection of energies. This may also represent the barbs some people stick into you through their words or deeds.

This might also refer to an awareness of where your emotional and physical energy is blocked or being released - or how to release.

The acupuncturist as a person may represent the self-healing process in yourself, or even introverted anger or pain. But this depends on your personal feelings about acupuncture, and your relationship with an acupuncturist.

Useful questions are:

What is the main theme of this dream - is it resistance to healing; being healed; awareness of needs, etc?

Is a form of tension, energy block or sickness being revealed?

What is my relationship with the healer or healing, and is that a reflection of my conscious attitudes?

AD-ADVERT - A desire to have others know something about yourself, or a way of bringing something to your attention; recognition of a need or opportunity.

Advertisement for a job: Desire for change; hope of something new; desire to find more satisfaction; recognition of opportunity. There may also be questions of desire, needs or choices connected with this. Considering what the rest of the dream portrays, and any feelings involved, will define this.

Example: I was fed up. I said to my husband, ?Let's take a holiday, just the two of us, get away from it all.µ I saw an advert in a newspaper for a log cabin, very secluded. We took it. On our arrival I was overjoyed. It was so neat and tidy, but very plain. The large bedroom had a double bed and a single by the wall. the sun was shining really brightly through the window. J. M.

Here the advert appears to represent the recognition of a personal need - to have time alone with her husband - and the opportunity to do so.

Useful questions are:

Is this bringing something to my awareness or that I need to pay attention to?

What new opportunities or situations am I seeking or hoping for?

Am I feeling my way to a new direction or activity?

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