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Dream meanings - enabling you to interpret your own dreams

Tony Crisp

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CLIMB/CLIMBED/CLIMBING Trying to, or rising above, difficulties. Trying to achieve a new viewpoint, or to learn or develop a new understanding.

Sometimes we climb in a dream to avoid something; to get away; to climb out of some mess we are in.

We also climb to reach something, and in doing so make take a risk.

If you are approaching middle age, climbing a hill can represent the first half of your life, and going downhill middle or old age.

CLOCK This may refer to your sense of connection with other people, duties, or the restrictions or disciplines you place upon yourself. The clock can sometimes represent your span of life, and the ticking, your heart - how much time have you left? What time of your life is it?

CLOSE To shut out, divide, not wish to know, feel or experience. Fear of being entered, fear of sex. But also protection and privacy, or even decision making if you close a door against someone or something.

CLOSET See: Wardrobe.

CLOTHES Clothes can mean many things depending upon dream context, their colour, style, what period of time they depict, and their condition - i.e. clean or dirty, ragged or smart, etc.

We often associate ideas and feelings about how others see us, or how we would like to be seen, with clothes - sexy, smart, casual, formal, etc.

Clothes also allow us to change how people relate to us, so can represent the different ways you can present yourself. Clothes might also represent disguising what you really feel, or covering up something.

Occasionally clothes represent the attitudes you use to protect yourself, or to fend off other people.

Underclothes:Such as vest, petticoat, refer to your inner feelings and attitudes, usually those you are probably unconscious of. But underclothes frequently depict your sexual feelings and how you relate to them.

Armour and protective clothing: Defences against internal anxieties, past hurts, and external intimacy.

Changing clothes: Altering your way of behaving, or changing your role or mood.

Children's or teenage clothes in adult's dream: Youthful feelings or ways of thinking and doing things.

Clothing inappropriate to dream surroundings: You may be behaving in ways that do not fit your situation.

Dirty or untidy clothes - if the dreamer's:These show you things you are not proud of in yourself, usually feelings, attitudes or urges.

Man in woman's clothes: There is some question here about the male role, with its old standards of bread winning, aggression, being cannon fodder in war. It might also point to some level of homosexual feelings, or hidden feelings of desire for mother's approval.

New clothes: In some way you are making a change , or have arrived at a new feeling about yourself.

Old but comfortable clothes: These are displaying your well worn habits and ways of doing things in life.

Other people's clothes worn by dreamer: all of us take on ideas and ways of living from other people. This dream suggests you have taken on a lot from a particular person.

Ragged or inappropriate clothes: This suggests a loss of confidence and your positive self image. It might also show a desire to avoid conformity.

Tight clothes: You are living within attitudes and moral codes that are too limiting for you, and you are not comfortable with them.

Undressing: For some reason you are willing to reveal more of what your really feel, and who you really are, than usual.

Woman in male clothes: Unacceptability of female role, such as motherhood, housewife. There may be some lesbian tendency here also.

Work clothes: This suggest you are either working at something, perhaps a scheme or on yourself, or that you are concerned about work in some way.

CLOUDS Very often clouds are in dreams where feelings of upliftment or religion occur. If the clouds are dull, then it suggests worry or depression of some kind that is obscuring your best feelings.

CLOWN Feelings of being a fool, or made a fool of. Feeling that others are treating you like an idiot or of not account. Readiness to be a fool for the sake of love or beliefs. Feeling foolish in ones present situation, or even hiding pain under surface clowning. Wisdom arising from not having preconceptions of thought.

The clown can also represent the irrational side of yourself. The drives that burst out without any apparent reason, leading us to do things that are not to our advantage.

COAL Money, good luck, energy. Ancient unconscious knowledge you have brought to the surface. Such wisdom needs to be unfolded from the symbol by exploring the feelings and ideas connected with the image.

COAT We all have different modes of behaviour, and the coat, unless it is very special represents your everyday self, the responses and attitudes you commonly use. See: Clothes.

COBRA See: Snake.

COCKEREL Warning, aggressiveness, masculinity, male sex organ. See: Birds.

COFFEE Many drinks represent a stimulus similar to alcohol, with its property of changing the way you feel and how you act. They release energy, emotions, change feelings, and can thus be associated with spirit. an invisible power, or the power behind human growth, that changes our experience of things. Coffee may also represent sociability, friendship, the giving of affection. See: Alcohol.

COFFIN This is nearly always a reminder of one's own mortality. So it often points to your thoughts and feelings about death, as these are often in the background of our mind, and dreaming of a coffin suggests you may be exploring how you relate to death. (i.e. are you at ease with it, do you understand it as an integral part of life, or are you still feeling fear or a belief it is the final end of everything?) The coffin might also be showing you the death of a part of yourself - a hope, feelings about a relationship, things lost and buried in your earlier years.

Seeing your own coffin in a dream has several possible meaning. The first is obviously to do with feelings and thoughts about death as described above. The second is to do with a reminder that there is an end to your life, so live fully and daringly now. Do and be now with those you love what is in you to do. The third is that you have a presentiment of your own death and the dream is preparing you. See: death.

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COIN Sometimes a coin has similar symbolism to circle. This may represent something you value, so can have a very wide significance. For instance two gold coins, in one person's dream represented his twin sons, who were of great value to him.

Anything to do with money may suggest worries about finance, or an intuition of good fortune.

If the money is dirty, it may be a suggestion that you are living beneath your best motives, earning money in a grubby way. Because we call loose money change in English, sometimes the coins might represent change in your life - small changes.

Old valuable coins: These could depict deeply important memories held within yourself about inherited wisdom from your family, maybe even past lives. See: Bank; Money.

COLD/COLDNESS Repressed or withheld emotions, desires, and probably your sexuality. Sometimes it means you are feeling neglected or 'left out in the cold'. It is occasionally connected with feelings about death.

COLLISION This may be telling you that a conflict of opinions with another person or careless behaviour leading to problems in relationship is happening. See: Car.

COLOURS Colours in your dream usually show shades of feeling, or attitudes of mind. Many people seldom dream in colour, so when colour appears, it is often to do with strong emotions in the dream.

It is therefore worthwhile defining what feelings accompany the colour in your dream.

Dreaming in colour has a special significance. It shows intensity or importance. It is almost like underling or highlighting things to attract your attention. This is especially so when red appears in your dreams. Then the intensity is doubly underlined. When you see red in your dreams there are very important feelings being dealt with.

COMA If you are in a coma it could suggest that events or hurts in your life have caused you to withdraw or be largely incapable of interacting with other people and events. It can also portray a situation in which you have become unconscious or unaware of what is going on around you and have turned inwards.

But in most cases this is probably depicting a part of you hurt at some time and it closed down. For instance if you have been deeply hurt emotionally in a relationship, you may still go on being capable of relating at a certain level, but the part of you that enters deeply into sexual and emotional relationships may have closed down, as in a coma.

Dreaming about this usually means you have become more aware of the situation and there is an opportunity to heal and awaken that facet of yourself.

If somebody else is in a coma, this might still be about what is described above, but it can also show you relating to the person in a non-verbal, heart to heart manner. Sometimes this is shown in dreams where you feel out of contact with someone you love or care for. In such cases the dream is showing that it is only the surface level of communication that is missing.

COMB It may be describing something you do to get your thoughts in order, or to think more clearly. It might also be about changing your appearance, or some connection with your appearance. See: Hair.

COMET Sign of coming changes, new influences from within, birth of a new self.

COMIC Sense of humour; to be taken lightly, not serious.

COMPASS Your sense of direction or decision making. This may relate to expressing what is your 'true' direction in life. The ability to continue in the face of opposition and confusing outer events.

COMPANY/CORPORATION How you relate to a massive company or corporation in a dream may show how you deal with your feelings of being a small part of the billions of life forms on this planet. It might also be about your relationship with work, and your place in the scheme of things. You need to consider how you relate to the company, and this may be a clue to how you face life.

COMPETITION This is often about winning or losing, and frequently involves a love interest as in the example below. Depending on the dream, it can also be about a test of your skill, uncertainty about your abilities, or even a stimulus to achievement. There may also be an element of self grading, a way you measure yourself against others and what you feel you will achieve or be able to claim.

Example: I am in a high school classroom. There is a boy I like a lot sitting on the other side of the room. He notices me and comes over to talk about something I've written. I sense that I'm very smart and he's attracted to me. There are other girls who want him but they are no competition. He wants to be with me. We chat for a while. I sense that our conversation had something to do with him deciding if we should go out together. He doesn't come to a decision but I'm happy because I know he will ask me out.

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COMPLEXION Feelings connected with how you appear to others. Perhaps worries about how you believe you look to other people.

COMPOST The irritating useless, outgrown parts of yourself, the energies of which can be re-used once the habitual methods of expressing them have broken down. The extraction of fertile ideas and insight from digesting old experience.

COMPUTER This might be suggesting you are working with your mind in some way, perhaps extending mental skills. It also associates with powers of the mind, rational unemotional thought, and your personal potential or abilities.

The hard disk: This is mostly to do with memory, but especially your extended memory and unconscious. See: Email; Internet; Modem/router; CD.

COMRADE See: Friend.

CONCEPTION - Many women dream of having conceived, and sometimes this is an intuitive sense of what has actually happened. But otherwise it might be dealing with your feelings or insights into your relationship with conception.

However, conception extends far wider than that which leads to the development of a child. The female principle, whether of the earth or in us humans, is extraordinarily creative.

Sex equals living your optimum. Living the greatest good - sex is about acknowledging that life or relationship is a creative act. It might not be creative in the sense of a child developing. It might not be creative in the sense of conception. But it is a creative act between two people. And as a part of the creative act it is about acknowledging what part we each play in it - and what part life itself plays in the creative act. It is about recognising that every conception, whether towards a physical baby, or towards a relationship, towards love, towards developing an idea - needs to be nourished and cared for. It needs an environment that will respect it and help it to develop.

So the dreamt conception can be about a new part of your potential emerging, a new way of life being made real at a fundamental level, a start to the budding forces of life in you moving toward expression. Whatever it is it is vulnerable and needs your loving care and nourishment. See: immaculate conception; pregnancy.

Useful questions are:

What feelings do I have about this conception, and what can I gather from that about what is growing in me?

Do I feel this is the conception of a baby in me - if this proves wrong, what am I going to give birth to?

Can I care for and nurture this new life in me?

CONDOM See: Contraceptive.

CONDUCTOR As a man, similar to admniral. . As electrical conductor, receptive side of self directing energy. Nervous system. See: Admiral

CONFESS/CONFESSING/CONFESSION Sometimes a confession in a dream comes from a very deep place. It may have a great deal of truth or passionate feelings involved. So it is worth while trying to make contact with the feelings and insights involved.

Where the confession is the Catholic rite, then it will probably link with beliefs connected with Catholicism.

CONFORM/CONFORMING/CONFORMITY One of the most powerful, and largely unconscious urges we have, is to conform to the way of life, beliefs, clothing and styles lived by the people around us. Even is we are an unconformist, there are still huge areas of our mind, beliefs and view of the world, that conform to well established patterns. So if there are elements of your dream in which you do not conform, or you are aware of yourself conforming, it marks great change. This is because you are becoming aware of your conformity, and might thus change it if you wished.

CONGRESS - See: parliament.

CONJURER This may be referring to self deceptions, or deception of others. But it might also point to the magical abilities your unconscious has. The mind too can shift and change amazingly. It can create apparent realities out of thin air, as it does in imagination or dreams. See: Roles.

CONSTIPATION Inner tension, withholding of feelings, lack of self expression or self esteem. It might also be actually referring to a physical problem.

CONTEST See Competition.

CONTORTION/CONTORTIONIST Mental and emotional fluidity, wide compass. If the dream has some darker feelings in it however, the contortionist might be saying that you are twisting yourself in knots to solve a problem. Are you succeeding?

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CONTRACEPTIVE/CONDOM/RUBBER There could be a number of possible associated feelings with this. In recent times the condom has been seen as a means of preventing AIDs, so if the contraceptive is a condom it could reflect worries about sexual contacts. It might also represent feelings or attitudes regarding responsibility. Certainly it connects in some way with sexual decisions and feelings. With the pill, there might be a connection with decisions about motherhood.

CONTROL/CONTROLLED/CONTROLLING There is a huge area of ones conscious skills given over to various sorts of control. This starts from a very young age when we gradually learn not to mess our pants, and later to ride a bike and drive a car. Being out of control can open us to a great deal of fear, or even terror. Yet relating to being our of control is also tremendously important. Many of the things we meet in life we are unable to control - even our own heartbeat and life processes. But many external things such as a relationship, confront us with areas that we cannot control.

Therefore it is important to define what your dream is describing if question of control or lack of control are portrayed. See if you can discover what you are meeting, and what a wise stance to it might be.

CONVENT This might suggest introspection, or some measure of retirement or withdrawal from external activities. It is important to see if such withdrawal arises from anxiety or decisiveness. The convent may of course relate to your past experience and feelings connected with it, or your religious beliefs. See: Church.

CONVICT This may be depicting anti-social urges, or feelings of being trapped, perhaps by your own undirected emotions and reactions to events. It may also show how you are holding back some of your own feelings and urges. See: Prison.

COOK/COOKING The cook might be illustrating practical life skills to make your life experience palatable, such as the means of dealing with life. or caring for yourself, in the sense of adjusting life situations. This might also link with motherhood or responsibility - of feeding ones family. It can also portray reproduction.

If you are cooking for someone: This may show you giving of yourself to someone. See: Oven.

COOKIE Pleasure, perhaps connected with childhood. If you are making the cookies, it might suggest caring for your own needs or those of other people.

If cooking: Nourishing yourself; satisfying a hunger; creativity. It may also be your ability to make something new out of the varied opportunities or experiences you have. Depending on the dream, it may also indicate giving of yourself. See: Cook.

COPPER (Metal) Warmth; firmness with warmth; something durable yet soft and impressionable. It is sometimes linked with love through its astrological connection with Venus. Because it is so often used as an alternative aid with arthritis as a bracelet, there may be some link with this.

CORAL Beautiful inner experience, ideas, inspirations, or intuitions. Something that develops naturally out of sight, or in the unconscious.

CORD Like chain, but sometimes suggests the weaving together of many smaller interests to one purpose, for strength. There is also a link with restriction, being tied, or even internal knots through tension or the ties that are painful. Therefore there may be some indication of a relationship being involved in the feelings of the dream.

Breaking or cutting the cord: Breaking with relationships that bind you, or cutting ties that you have been held by.

CORE See: Centre.

CORK If floating: Confidence, perseverance, high spiritedness, the ability to rise above circumstances, or win through troubles.

If in bottle: Feeling compressed, or perhaps in a bottle neck situation where your progress is impeded. Keeping something preserved or unavailable.

CORMORANT Intellectual ideas that have the power to dig deep and bring up unconscious wisdom. Because the cormorant is used to dive and catch fish, it suggests you are practising some form of introspection or self examination.

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