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Dream meanings - enabling you to interpret your own dreams

Tony Crisp

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BOAT/SHIP This often depicts how you are dealing with the ups and downs of life, with its tides, currents and changing weather. Or perhaps the ship/boat is showing how life is dealing with you, rather than you with it.

In many boat dreams the drama is actually about a relationship, what you face, what your involvement is with one or more other people. Therefore in some dreams it would represent sexual adventures.

Sometimes the boat portrays the journey of your own self-discovery as you begin to investigate the contents of your unconscious. The voyage you take on it then stands for your adventure into the unknown, and your means of coping with what is experienced. In some Myths the boat is used to carry the soul to the underworld or land of the dead, and here denotes contact with spiritual realms.

Anchored boat: Security.

Boat without oars: Not well equipped to direct your progress.

Bows: Strength to face challenges.

Disembarking: Leaving a relationship or something connecting you with other people..

Dry dock: Making changes, and being inactive while changes are made.

Embarking alone: Being Independence or leaving something, someone behind.

Ferry boat: If across a river, death; end of a relationship; transition from one phase of life to another; the emotional connections in a relationship.

Missing a boat: Missed opportunity or relationship.

BODY Because your body so potently depicts the image you have of yourself, any changes, distortions or collapse of the body image in your dreams suggests similar effects in your personality or the way you feel about yourself.

Any part of your body you dream about has two possible associations. One is a link with the actual body organ or part, and the other is its psychological meaning. Usually it refers to the psyche rather than the body. So, for instance, your sexual organs reflect all the deep feelings or uncertainties you link with that part of you. Your legs with everything involved in 'standing up'.

The condition you see your body in often represents what you fear or feel about yourself, maybe unconsciously. For instance you may be frightened of illness, so dream of a sick body.

In brief, your body, or another person's body, can represent:

Existence. Physical existence. The process of life as it acts in and throughout your body systems, as can be seen in maturing and ageing. The potential out of which your growth occurs.
An aspect of your personality, of your experience, or memories.
A body of the opposite sex depicts your non-dominant side, the parts of yourself that exist but are not given as much expression.
Your body is an expression of your total history, not only of your own personal life, but also the countless generations and stages of history and evolution of which it is the latest outcrop.
Your body in a dream can be a graphic illustration of your hidden feelings or worries, your pains and strengths.
Dreaming of a body that has been killed or buried usually refers to events of your own past, especially deeply felt emotions or struggles.
Dreaming you have no body might mean you feel you are a 'nobody'.

See: Arm; Legs; Head; Adbomen; Feet.

BOG Feelings that undermine confidence and well being; might depict feelings about a relationship, perhaps with mother. Feeling stuck in a situation or relationship.

BOIL If this refers to water or things boiling, then it suggests semthing very powerful happening or coming to a head. Perhaps there are 'boiling' emotions about soemthing. If it is about a boil on a body, See: Abscess.

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BOMB Some explosive emotions or fears that terrify. Your anger may explode and do you and others damage. Anxiety about sudden attack. See: Mines.

BONE We may associate several things with a bone, strength for instance, or death. So a broken bone can be a loss of strength and ability. Also something giving structure and support.

Burying a bone: Hiding something from someone. Or storing something for the future.

Digging up bones: Remembering something from the long past.

Backbone: Strength; moral power; support. brain Intellect; thinking; insight; creativity; what someone really thinks.

BOOK Memories, ideas, a record or expression of yourself, or others.

BOOT See: Shoes.

BOOT of CAR The memories, the karma, or influences from past actions and expereinces, we still cary with us. The 'baggage' of anxieties and thoughts that might not be necessary. Tools for dealing with difficult life situations.

BORDER You are probably meeting some sort of barrier or hesitation. A point in your growth where you may have to prove yourself or make changes. If you cross the border you may be facing a different way of life, or a different experience of life. Hesitations and uncertainties may prevent you making the crossing. See: Frontier.

BOSS The prevailing major driving force in your life, as ambition, desire, love.

BOTTLE This is often associated in dreams with the vagina. It might also connect with having resources, or whatever you associate with what is in the bottle, such as alcohol.

BOTTOM This is sometimes used in England to suggest the posterior, the behind. So it might be word play for that; if about the bottom of a garden, hill or hole, it can suggest something at the back of your mind - known but pushed to the back; If you are at the bottom it suggest difficulties, or a long climb, effort ot get to the top, or even back to where you were; being at the bottom can also be despair. The bottom of some sort of container depicts the holding power, the power to contain and support.

BOWEL See: Anus.

BOX Things you store inside you, such as memories or emotions. A closed box can represent the womb, or things you hide from the view of others or even yourself. Depending on the size of the box, it can represent memories, or treasured experiences. See: Chest.

BOY If known: Your feelings about that boy. Define how you see or feel about him.

Male dream: What you felt and faced at that age.

Female dream: Your growing ability to express yourself creatively in the world. What you feel about having a boyfriend. Feelings about a son if you have one.

BOYFRIEND This shows what feelings or fears you are facing about your boyfriend. In dreams you explore not only all your anxious feelings, but all your longings and dreams too.

Ex-lover/boyfriend: You have certainly carried feeling with you from the relationship, and your dreams about your ex will try to work out some way of feeling at ease within yourself about the break. This is especially so if difficult or painful emotions were involved. Unless these emotions are freed from your past, they are not available for the present.

BRAIN Your thoughts, and intellectual faculty. Also your potential and perhaps creative ideas. See: brain-hemishperes.

BRAKES These suggest your ability to be in control of a situation. This might be control of your anxiety or sexuality or emotions. They also depict the ability to control or stop.

Brakes not working: Sometimes this dream occurs if you are anxious about losing control of a situation or events. It may therefore indicate a fear of taking chances or initiating things in case they get 'out of hand'. It may also show a difficulty in controlling sexual desire or emotions. See: Car.

BREAD Bread symbolises the physical needs or sustenance of your body. As it was often used in rituals to represent sharing of life and experience, it can also depict your link with others in a subtle way, the collective life.

Occasionally a loaf of bread represents an unborn baby. See: Food.

BREAK Breaking something in your dream suggests broken promises, a break in a relationship, or a shattered hope or ideal. There may be feelings of loss or hurt attached to this. So see if you can identify these in your everyday life.

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BREASTS In general the breast represents a giving of oneself, or of ones sexual pleasure.

The breast is an expression of female love and nurture, and an expression of female sexuality. To go to a woman’s breast in a dream may represent an expression of the baby’s desire to be fed, loved and made feel secure. That is, a regression, or reliving of infant desires. A woman expresses male sexuality through her breasts, in that she fulfils the body of the infant. May also represent emotional security.

BREATH Breathing equates to being alive. The condition or speed of your breathing in the dream may also depict your pace of life, its stress or relaxation.

Holding your breath: This shows you holding on through the use of your will. It may also suggest fear or stress.

Fast breathing: This suggests some form of excitement or stimulation, or an experience of fear.

Under water and not breathing: This reproduces the condition of the womb, in which we exist without breathing. It is also connected with a different level of awareness, in which there is no sexual or biological drives, and without opposites. It is usually deeply peaceful but might be an escape from waking reality. See: Air.

BRIDE This usually connects with feelings about or desire for marriage. It also expresses love, receptivity and fertility. Also symbolises the desire for physical marriage, love, children; to leave home, experience marital pleasures and responsibilities.

Female dream: More directly about marriage and what it means to you.

If getting married: Often a way of exploring anxieties or intuitions about your coming wedding. It can also symbolise integration of your conscious personality with your unconscious, especially if bride/groom is oriental or coloured. See: Marriage.

Male dream: Frequently depicts one's relationship with your own feelings and non rational nature.

BRIDEGROOM In many dreams this expresses the desire to be married, or to find a loving partner.

Female dream: Feelings about the sort of man you would like to marry. Also integration with intellect and exterior capability.

Male Dream: Feelings about marriage; attempt to integrate conscious and unconscious.

BRIDGE A link between opposing or different emotions, desires, directions. A way to deal with difficulties. The bridge Often signifies changing from one phase of life to another. So it can mean leaving something behind, like youth. Another meaning is that of a link between people, such as someone you love, or work. A link between yourself and opportunity.

If there is a change for the better in the dream, then the bridge might have a similar meaning to the song 'Bridge Over Troubled Water' .

Fallen bridge: This may relate to lost opportunity; broken bonds and connections; parting in relationship; or a way of dealing with obstacles lost.

Building a bridge: Making a link with someone, or with a change or opportunity.

Broken bridge: A break in a relationship or connection. To drive off into space suggests a totally unexpected and emotional difficult situation. This is also a warning to watch out for difficulties ahead.

BRIGHT See: Glowing; Light.

BROOCH See: Badge.

BROKEN - The word or image of something broken enters into many areas of our life. It can be about a relationship, something in a house that might indicate a physical situation, a piece of equipment, a plant or object. Being broken indicates something is no longer working, that it has been clumsily used, worn out, or old and no longer something that can meet the demands of active life.

Something broken can also relate to oneself, as when we feel broken and hopeless or a failure, broken by events and people.

Look up the object or equipment elsewhere. For instance a broken water pipe could show either a physical weakness or that your way of channelling your emotions is no working well. See: damaged.

Useful questions are:

What is it that is broken, and what does that indicate in me and my life?

Can this be mended or changed in any way?

Is this information I need to take seriously in regard to my health or my relationship?

BROOK See: River.

BROOM Cleansing, clearing away unneeded or harmful ideas and feelings. Broom can also represent the male penis.

BROTHER Probably represents your feelings in connection with your brother. These may include rivalry, anger, feelings of persecution, love and admiration, authority, or an outgoing ability to deal with the world.

If you don't have a brother, it most likely depicts either an aspect of your personality illustrated by the dream character, or your male characteristics.

BROW Intellectual capacities, thoughts and mental attitudes to life. A gem or eye in the brow symbolises insight into life and people of an intuitive and unusual nature. In many myths, the inner character is said to be marked upon the brow, as with Cain, marked for murdering Abel.

BRUTE/BRUTAL/BRUTALITY This may hide experiences of pain during your youth or childhood. Sometimes it replays scenes of violence witnessed or felt.

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