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FOR FEATURES ON DREAMS SEE DREAM ENCYCLOPEDIA

BAROMETER Showing the state of your inner pressure or emotional climate.

BARRICADE The defence you use against others, or events - of defence used against you. May be in the form of an excuse I’m too ill to go to work, or I’ll never get anywhere, so what’s the use of trying. See: Armour; Fence.

BARTENDER This depends whether male or female. Also depends on your relationship with alcohol. If you drink frequently, then it possibly relates to the feelings that lead to drinking. Other possibilities are sociability; loneliness. See: Woman; Man; Roles.

BASEMENT This part of the house is often used in dreams, and represents hidden motives, unconscious, unknown feelings, memories or past experiences, your biological past, and the place where your conscious mind contacts hidden powers, universal wisdom, and even other minds. Sometimes it means base deeds, low morals, underlying dislikes. It is from the basement, below, or within, that libido or life force arises. Fears and terrors sometimes come from downstairs. This is because it is the place we hide our old memories and hurts - in the unconscious. But it also holds the understanding of your wholeness.

A snake in the cellar or cave: Our psychobiological drive; the energy behind our growth and motivation which includes sex drive. Often experienced as our emotional or feeling drive or zest for life. This connects us with awareness of our evolution as a person. See Snake.

Bad smell: Negative emotions which could cause depression or illness. See: house.

BAT The flying bat is usually associated with the devil, night or death. It is a creature that can see in the dark, lives in caves, and so is an aspect of unconscious inner workings, that go on in the darkness, or the part below our conscious awareness.

A bat used in a game: This usually suggests use of your will and skill, or defensiveness. Perhaps even aggression. It may even link with feelings such as sportsmanship, perseverance, competition and self-image. See: Rod.

BATH/BATHING The bath may remind you of feelings of relaxation, of feeling more presentable and acceptable. It may also be a process of healing and change. See: Baptism; Water.

Bathing in a river: Being open to flowing feelings and urges within oneself; allowing oneself to be influenced from within by urges toward change or growth or expansion of awareness.

Bathing in the sea: Being open to a more universal - less self centred - awareness of ones relationship with life.

BATHROOM - See: toilet.

BATTERY Energy, life force. If the battery is low or damaged it may indicate health problems.

BATTLE/BATTLEFIELD This suggests either an internal conflict such as caused by struggles with ones own emotions or sexuality, or an emotional battle going on with someone else. It may be something you are fighting for; feeling under attack about. The struggle may be between unconscious drives, such as an urge to have a baby, and ones conscious decisions. Sometimes an internal 'civil war' takes place between ones head and ones heart or intuitions. Conflict can exist between emotions involved in making a decision or the carnage going on in one through childhood trauma or painful birth experience. One can also fight against the awful effect of fears and doubts; memories. Especially if you have been in a battle scene in waking life.

BAY This has a similar meaning to Beach, but the crescent shape of a bay is more sheltered and may also relate to a woman's sexuality and openness to mating; receptiveness.

Boat sailing into bay: Something coming into your life; a new event or relationship.

Sailing across the bay: The passage of time or events; distance to travel, in the sense of covering ground in ones life.

Sailing into bay: Arriving at a calmer situation in life, feeling easier because you are no longer 'at sea' about something.

Whales or other creatures in bay: Something important and deeply felt being realised or confronted. Usually this is about emotions or drives. See: Beach.

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BAYONET See: Arms.

BAZAAR Something you are hoping to find, or are looking for. You may be making decisions about what you want - or the ways or difficulties you get what you want. It also suggests an unusual or exotic side to your desires. See: Shop.

BEACH The borderline between unconscious and conscious self. To find something on the beach is to find something that has come from deep within. See: Sea.

BEAD/BEADS A single bead might suggest isolation. While a string of beads could refer to your connection with other people. See: Ball.

BEAR Sometimes said to represent a possessive mother, and the feelings this has aroused. But in many cases the bear will represent a meeting with dangerous emotions such as anger or being easily aroused. There might also be associations with independence, or strength. See: Animal.

BEARD Feelings about maleness. It is also often used to represent great wisdom, authority or even saintliness, as when the person has a white beard. If the beard is very long, it can symbolise great age, eternal life, wisdom of the ages. Some people use a beard to hide their youth or bad skin, so the beard might represent some sort of mask, or desire not to be seen. See: Hair.

BEAST An animal of extraordinary power or a creature causing great terror is a feature of many dreams or nightmares. The figure may be partly human, or an animal which has strange characteristics, or perhaps it is a figure which never quite declares itself, remaining unseen but causing or projecting great fear. In some dreams the beast takes the form of a prehistoric creature.

Overall the beast represents the natural unsocialised responses in us, out of which we gradually mould our social and intellectual self. Unless we make friends with our beast there may always be conflict in us between the rational and non-rational. We existed as a beast for millions of years before the sort of consciousness which led to personal awareness emerged. Self-awareness is still very new and vulnerable. It needs the greater depth and innate wisdom of the beast to survive. See: Animal.

The theme of the beast is very important in women's dreams, but may hold a slightly different theme than in men's. This difference is illustrated by the story of Beauty and the Beast, in which a young girl meets and lives with a powerful beast. The story emphasises the girl's relationship with her father as a counterpoint to that with the beast. It suggests that a young woman meets a different kind of love when she leaves the affection from and for her father. To become fully a woman and mother, she must discover the deeply animal urges which underlie the personality and social traits she has developed so far. These urges are not at all uncouth, but are certainly primitive. They open her to experience deep sexual longing, and the power to give herself with passion to her children and to her man. Thus she allows in herself something forbidden in her relationship with her father - an erotic and procreational love.

BED There are many associations you might have with bed - rest, sleep, unconsciousness, sexual pleasure, relationship, dreams, escape from the world into sleep. Try to define what feelings or attitudes are involved with the bed, and ask yourself where they apply to your waking life.

A bed is the place you sleep, so in a spiritual sense might be depicting your sleeping self, the parts of you still unconscious and not awake to who you really are and the issues needing attention in your life.

Other associations we might make are to do with sickness as when confined to bed, or the torture of insomnia and worries.

High Bed: Possibly relates to feeling either secure from things like mice on the floor, or anxiety about being high up. Height often links with either of these, or depicts a commanding position.

Bunk Bed: May link with childhood or sharing ones space. I guess if you slept in a bunk bed you will have many personal associations too.

BEES Work, social life, order. Mass power, individual weakness. Unity of effort.

BEER See: Alcohol.

BEETLE Sometimes used a symbol of eternal life, of fate, or cause and effect.

BEGGAR The negative side of yourself. The parts of your nature that are not usually allowed into everyday affairs because you are ashamed of them. Or it may be a sense of inadequacy, of being an outcast. In a few cases, a wise man lies hidden under the rough exterior who can tell you the secrets of your life and destiny. See: Roles.

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BEHIND If left behind: Feelings of not being as good as other people; feeling burdened with things that prevent you from being accepted by others; feeling you can't keep up with what is needed.

Someone behind you: Something or someone - you may not be aware of; you are turning your back on; the past; something or someone who is supporting you, backing you up, or that you gain strength from. See: Back.

BELL Ask yourself what you are being warned of, or told to be aware of.

BELLY Very often has to do with vulnerability, but also sensual feelings, passions, hungers, the physical side of self. Or in body dream may refer to an internal organ.

Being hit in the belly: This might be related to criticisms you have received, or some kind of felt hurt. See: Abdomen.

BELOW If something or someone is below you in a dream you might be feeling superior, or you are looking back on something, like looking back on the past. If you have climbed to somewhere, then what you are looking back on is a more inclusive viewpoint.

BELT If clothing belt: Often tightly restrained sexuality or emotions; protectiveness.

If it is a belt such as on a car engine or machine: This may depicts how your power or energy is being directed or used. So problems with the belt would suggest that your powerful drives such as ambition, sexuality, desire for acclaim, are meeting with conflicts or obstructions etc.

Seat belt: This has to do with restraint and feelings of safety in emergencies. So not fixing it could be to do with feelings that you are not taking enough care in situations or relationships.

Useful questions are:

What function is this belt playing, and can I identify with or understand that?

What is the condition of this belt and what is it driving or linked with?

Can I feel this energy or drive in myself?

BERRIES The meaning very much depends on what the dreams portrays. If they are poisonous for instance, then it suggests the realisation of possible contact with something that might poison your mind or feelings with fears or disturbing thoughts. If healthy, then the contact with possibly useful or nourishing experiences. See: Food.

BIBLE Moral feelings, collective social wisdom. Your feelings or ideas about orthodox religion.

BICEPS Your confidence and ability to do things. See: Body.

BICYCLE Personal effort or motivation which gets you somewhere. For many people a bicycle was their first experience of mastering a body skill and gaining greater freedom. It might therefore refer to youthful freedom or enthusiasm without responsibilities; the perseverance and confidence to master a skill; mental balance - confidence - which enables you to achieve your goals; facing dangers in learning a skill or confidence; adolescent sexuality.

Bicycle race or riding with many other people: Dreams often use this scenario to represent an overall view of ones situation in life. It shows how you feel about your place in the human race, whether life is a struggle or pleasure, etc. See: Race.

Falling off bike: Losing balance - confidence; awkwardness; vulnerability. Flying on bike: The magic of believing in oneself.

Riding a bicycle downhill: Taking or facing a risk; being daring; need for care.

Stolen bicycle: If you are using the stolen bicycle, it suggests a feeling of needing someone else's skills or confidence. If you have had your bicycle stolen, then it is a feeling of losing ones ability to get on through ones own efforts; loss of enthusiasm or confidence.

BIG/BIGNESS If something is very large in a dream, it usually denotes the emotional and mental impact of the thing, as ‘It was a big thing in my life. It was bigger than both of us.’

BILL To receive a bill often symbolises a bill of reckoning. In other words, something you have done or thought, is now producing consequences that have to be paid for. For USA Bill, See: Money; cheque.

BILLIARDS Most games, in their winning and losing, their tactics, skill, luck, represent the game of life, with its difficulties, triumphs and despairs. May also represent sexual intercourse. See: Games.

BINOCULARS Seeing something or someone more clearly; the ability to pry into someone else's life; taking in ones environment and possibilities.

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