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Dream meanings - enabling you to interpret your own dreams

Tony Crisp

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AUNT To some extent an aunt is a role model. We gather from their success or failure strategies for our own life. Whatever feelings we have about them, whatever we think of them, the dream will use this to illustrate something for you. So consider how you would describe your aunt, what sort of person she is, and how you feel about her. The dream will be using her image to illustrate the role you see her in. If she is a success, ask yourself what in yourself you are facing regarding success. If you feel she is a failure, ask yourself what of your own feelings about failure you are facing. See: Family.

Useful questions are:

What is my relationship with and feelings about this aunt, and how does that relate to my life now?

What is the central theme of this dream, and what does that indicate as the feature to consider? See: themes.

Is this really about my mother?

AURA An expression of the level of your mind or awareness that extends beyond the narrow confines of your sensory perceptions or intellectual understanding. What this means is that some parts of what you are aware of, such as the memory of your address, or feelings about your dog, will have many interconnections with other ideas and related feelings. You can associate the idea of address with home; room; family; food; rent; bed - and each of those with other connected ideas and feelings. Sometimes we touch a concept or feeling that has massive connections, so vast they begin to build up beyond usual levels of realisation. We might call it a mega-concept, which goes on building and generating realisations we have never had before - that is, we have never made those connections before. When your mind is functioning in that way you become a different type of human being, an individual, but connected much more fully with your inner and outer reality. An aura around an object, person or animal depicts this mental function, i.e. that in the dream you are aware of more than you usually are, or more of your potential is being expressed. As such the aura show how much of your potential is shining out of you. The first example below illustrates this. See: the self under archetypes.

The aura in dreams is also often associated with death, or the spirit of the person whose aura is seen - spirit being here used in the same way as 'she had a fighting spirit'. Therefore it might suggest we are aware of wondrous or awful qualities of soul of the person or ourselves. It can also suggest power of some sort - internal energy.

Seeing an aura can link with intuitions or feelings you have about the person you see it around. Occasionally the aura indicates a health problem. In such cases the dream would include some feeling or realisation that the colours or marks in the aura showed an illness or upset in the system.

Example: I was following a woman up a hill. As I did this I experienced a very wonderful feeling. It felt as if light were beginning to shine out of me as if I had a glowing aura. When we reached the top of the hill we were arms about each other, and I had the glorious sense of being wholly myself - wholly a man. I sensed that I had reached a new level of manhood by more fully accepting myself, by more fully giving and allowing more of myself to be available to others. It felt to me as if manhood is a glory, a shining out of life itself through a particular person.

Example: When we came to my sister, I had the feeling she was ill. I can't fathom why, but I was just about to ask him to look after her, when he stretched out his right hand and gently stroked her cheek. He said to her, "You're dead aren't you?" I was absolutely stunned and it was then that I was aware of how cold and white he was. I realised then that he was dead, and so he could see she was dying - due to some aura as her spirit was leaving her body. He then disappeared, and I was frantic trying to find him, to ask him how long before she would die. I was crying and almost hysterical to find him, and that is how I awoke. L. W.

Example I had a dream that I was talking to about 5 or 6 people and I was reading each person's aura. Suddenly one of them came to me and asked if I could I tell him the colour of his aura. All at once I heard celestial songs and his aura was all white. I awoke feeling like the person had been Jesus. As a result of this dream, I had a pain in my head for several days afterward. ARE dream.

The last example is interesting because the woman dreamer begins to experience something beyond her usual awareness. The pain in the head is a common result of this as parts of the brain that were dormant or inactive begin to operate or develop. See: fifth example in yoga and dreams.

Useful questions are:

What am I feeling or realising about the aura?

Does this extend my awareness of something or someone?

If I imagine myself as that aura what do I feel?

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AUSTRALIA Opportunity, hard-headedness, practicality, dubiousness about the irrational. See: Abroad; australian aboriginal dream beliefs.

AUTHOR This may depict a part of yourself that is creative, especially to do with telling the story of your real self, your real inner passions and dreams, your life story. See: Roles.

Useful questions are:

What is it you/the author has written or is writing about, and how does that relate to your waking life?

How would I describe the character of the author or her/his abilities - and does that describe facets of myself?

Is the author ambitious or something - if so what?

AUTHORITY - Might depict what has arisen in your life out of relationship with father; ones relationship with authority; a view of how one uses power of authority. The authority figure and the way we relate to them often gives clues to the underlying dynamics of our paternal relationship. The dream might also show our general ways of meeting authority or being in that role.

Useful questions are:

Does this character have any signs of being like your father - if so what does it illustrate?

What is the way you are relating to the authority, and is that how you usually respond?

If you are the authority, what is your stance and manner?

AUTISM - Virtually all of us have areas of our feelings, or responses to particular situations such as learning or a relationship with the opposite sex, in which we have been hurt or traumatised. These areas or responses may be represented by an autistic child or adult. These withdrawn or hurt parts of self can sometimes express great shrewdness or insight when met in the right way. This may be because within such experience we hold awareness of how pain or difficulty influences life, and what pains other people carry. See: idiot under roles.

Useful questions are:

How am I relating to the autistic person, or the autism in myself?

Can I accept that I can learn something from this person or situation?

What are the events of this dream suggesting? See: themes.

AUTOBAHN - See: motorway.

AUTOGRAPH A symbol of what you have put your name to, what you will to do or say. A mark of your own determination or existence. If it is not your signature, then it suggests the essence or even power of the person whose signature it is. Trying to get someone else's autograph suggests trying to get some of their influence or power. See: signature; writing.

Useful questions are:

If this is your signature, what are you giving your essence to?

If someone else's autograph, what am I needing or wanting their influence or power for?

What do the events of the dream suggest the autograph is in connection with? See: Name.

AUTOMATON - A habitual and unthinking or unconscious reaction; some aspect of the body's automatic working, or a view of the body as mechanical instead of alive and intelligent; an unfeeling and automatic relationship with someone or something. If the automaton is like a created figure such as Frankenstein or a golem, then it suggests something that you are now facing that you created out of our own actions and feelings, or is active as an independent force. See: Lurch; monster; robot.

Useful questions are:

Is the automaton creative or destructive - and can you see that action in your life?

What is the automaton doing - in my life?

If I imagine myself as this thing, what do I feel or realise? (For help doing this see Stand in Role under peer dream work.)

AUTOMOBILE See: Car, or parts of car, such as engine, etc.

AUTOPSY A search within oneself or ones life experiences for what has caused something in you to die or to stop functioning; examining the past for clues - perhaps for what has brought about present loss of motivation or sense of loss.

Useful questions are:

What am I examining in myself or another?

Am I tearing myself open about some issue, or being torn open trying to understand it?

Can I bury this body now it has been examined?

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AUTUMN 'The autumn of one's life'; mellow feelings; gradual but often pleasant decline; maturity; middle age; past the prime; a period of change when the old order of things is fading away, and the new has not shown itself.

This might suggest a time of harvesting what has grown or been developed in previous years or months. Autumn in your dream may also suggest a time which is not good for active creativity, but more suited to 'being' rather than 'doing'. The falling leaves of autumn may therefore remind you that many attitudes or outworn - no longer necessary ways of living and working - are falling away and not to be held on to.

Autumn leaves: Old memories, skills, attitudes, things you have developed in life that are no longer performing a useful function due to the changes happening. They can therefore be dropped.

If the dreamer is in middle age: Represents these years of your life. The details of the dream show what you intuitively feel about these years and what can arise from them. It is therefore helpful to see if you can understand this season of your life and what it brings. It may be a time to rest and let go some of the outer activities of the past.

Mrs C. had the following dream at a time when she started her own business against her husband's wishes, and one week before he walked out on her. Autumn here depicts the sense of something coming to an end.

Example: ' My husband was in a wheelchair, I was pushing him along a promenade. At the end of the promenade was a path which we took. The path went along the top of a cliff. The sea below was pretty rough, a typical Autumn day at the seaside. All of a sudden the path came to an end and there was a steep slope to the right which led down to the beach, I decided to turn right and go down the slope. When we got half way down the slope the path started to give way on the left and I found myself without enough room for the four wheels of the wheelchair. I was desperately holding on, tilting the wheelchair to the right to keep it balanced on the two right wheels when my husband got panicky in the chair and moved. The chair tilted to the left and fell down the rocks. I started running down the path towards the beach, towards my husband and the wheelchair. I never reached the wheelchair or my husband because I awoke and that was the end of the dream. ' Mrs C.

See: First Example under trees.

Useful questions are:

What is the autumn of my dream offering or revealing?

Is this autumn a time of loss or of fresh opportunity?

What are the fruits of my summer that exist in this autumn?

AVALANCHE The power of frozen emotions. We can freeze sexuality by anger or jealousy, etc., and the build up of tension might then release in a dangerous way. A possible build up of tension or circumstances that can be or has been triggered into release.

Associations with an avalanche also suggest that there is something which is delicately poised which if triggered can cause a disaster. The image might involve fear of being overwhelmed by the release of emotions that had previously been held at bay - frozen or denied - and have been or might be released. There is also the possibility of anxiety about surviving a major upheaval or change in ones circumstances.

Threat of avalanche: Anxiety about withheld emotions being released or triggered into expression by events.

Dreamt by person who has been involved in an avalanche: Emotions connected with trauma of past event; anxiety about ones survival.

Useful questions are:

What has built up in my life that is now released or threatening to release?

Have I been 'freezing' feelings that I now have to face?

What can I do about dealing with this in a way to avoid danger or damage?

AVENUE - See: Road.

AWAKE/AWAKENED/AWAKENING To become aware of something. Not able to let go of conscious thoughts and involvements.

Useful questions are:

What woke me or involved my interest?

Is there something I am frightened of that keeps me from sleeping?

Have I got a habit of not sleeping?

AWARD See: Prize.

AXE Power, authority of material nature. Desire to hurt or destroy, or fear of these things. See: Arms; weapons.

Idioms: Axe to grind; to be axed lose one's job.

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