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Dream meanings - enabling you to interpret your own dreams

Tony Crisp

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CORN Whether this is corn on the cob or wheat, it probably links with a harvest, a reward from work done. It also suggests fertility, nourishment and a sense of fullness. In some dreams it may represent sustenance or strength in times of need or trial.

CORNER If you are in a corner: Depending on the dream, this may show you with little room to manoeuvre in your life, or in a relationship. You may be feeling trapped or with no way out of the situation. Change of direction, meeting place, turning point in your attitudes, or approach to something.

If you are turning a corner: A new phase, or making changes. Perhaps doing something that opens a new opportunity or view of things - helpful or difficult - depending on the dream.

CORPSE Feelings or actions you have denied. For instance you might kill your love for someone if they hurt you. This could be shown as a dead body in your dreams. Some feeling, such as sympathy, forgiveness, that we have deadened. We may say, Why should I forgive them, they don’t deserve it, and this attitude can prevent parts of our inner feelings living or expressing consciously. Fear of death; desire to see someone dead, or out of the way. See: death

In a few dreams the corpse represents feelings about disease, human vulnerability and mortality.

CORRIDOR This suggests you are feeling in some sort of 'no man's land'; a limbo; or an in between state; perhaps the process of going from one thing to another. Occasionally the corridor even suggests the experience of birth. If the corridor provokes difficult feelings, it might be depicting your sense of not being able to get out of a dissatisfactory situation.

It may also suggest a direction in life produced by circumstances, or even the female genitals. See: White

CORRUPTION Many things that we do or fail to do are not an expression of our best. We may not stand up for something we believe in deeply, or because we are hiding something, we become involved with people who abuse or manipulate us. This leads to a sense of something rotten and corrupting within us. For instance you may not have the strength to say no to someone who is manipulating you through your sexual desires or fears. This means you also become involved in that person's deviousness and corruption too. A basic reason for this might be that there is something about yourself you do not have the courage or strength to admit. This passive lie opens you to being influenced in ways you later regret, or leaves you open to responses to others that disturb you. For instance you may feel inadequate as a man or woman for some reason. Hiding such an inadequacy leaves you weak and open to corruption or manipulation. Dreams often illustrate this situation by something rotten or down at heel. See Maggot.

CORSET Restrictions, holding yourself back in some way. Or even presenting yourself as you think others want to see you. See: Armour.

COSMETIC The mask we wear in hiding our true feelings, thoughts, from others. Our attempts not to see ourselves as we are, or not to face facts. Femininity. Perhaps an attempt to improve oneself.

COUGH/COUGHING In many cases this links with emotions that have got trapped and are trying to be expressed. Sometimes, if you are coughing up lumps of something, then it is probably past experience, and the feelings attached to it, that is irritating you and seeking release. Talk the dream and the feelings over with a sympathetic friend to see if you can touch your feelings more fully.

Occasionally the word is used as a suggestion of coffin. This would be indicated by the tone of the dream.

COUNTRY See: Abroad; Countryside.

COUNTRYSIDE Your feelings of relaxation, and what you are without trying. Therefore your natural or spontaneous state. It can also depict natural forces of life active in you.

If the countryside is wild and rugged, or stormy, it could suggest you are meeting a difficult time in your growth.

The countryside often depicts moods. So a rainy day would suggest a quiet or slightly withdrawn mood. A sunny environment would be higher feelings of pleasure and hopefulness.

In country lanes in dreams you often meet what is unbidden and spontaneous in you. This might be disturbing, perhaps being in the form of a wolf or animal that you feel you cannot control. It is important to find some sort of working relationship with such an animal.

COUPLE This depends a great deal on the dream. It can suggest your parents, a marriage relationship. It is certainly about relationship or partnership of some kind. The positive or negative depends on the couple in the dream.

COUSIN Probably represents your opinions or feelings about that person. See: Family.

COVER This has many possibilities, but the most frequent are to do with protection, concealment or inclusiveness - i.e. including something, as when two people cover themselves with a sheet, suggesting togetherness. It might also be used to mean a creation of an atmosphere. Another possibility is that it means some sort of situation, when someone is covered by flies, suggesting an impressive and perhaps unnerving experience.

COW Femininity, motherhood, female sexual feelings. See other enry on cow.

COYOTE Coyote is usually seen as a trickster and delights in all sorts of pranks, mischief and jokes. James Lewis, in his book The Dream Encyclopaedia, says that Trickster/Coyote is not by nature evil, even though the results of his activities are often unpleasant. These activities centre around bringing attention to our own often hidden stupidity or shams or lies. He is also the unexpected spontaneous 'idiot' aspect of life which for no reason at all emerges into our carefully arranged life to upset it. Trickster is a shape shifter and so has the possibility of transformation. The undeveloped, idiot, side of this symbol may have a type of clear-sightedness due to lacking the complications and contradictions of thinking and values. It also may be creative in a serendipitous sort of way. Because it doesn't seriously hold onto a purpose or idea, this side of our nature may lead us to something new, a change of direction. In some dreams the fool is a figure who is sacrificed. See: larger entry on coyote

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CRAB Fear or strong emotion causing tension within, especially abdominally. This may be due to fear or guilt of sensual pleasure. It may also represent outer hardness or cynicism covering inner softness; or outer hardness and graspingness in life. If the crab is threatening someone it points to a desire to cause pain to others.

Being nipped by a crab might indicate some sort of psychosomatic pain or illness.

CRACK/CRACKING Female sex organs. Broken resolves; chink in your armour; fear of breaking under stress; a weakness. Or beginning of recognition of a way to deal with something, to crack the problem.

CRANE The bird: Inner feelings about wholeness; good luck. The ability to deal harmoniously with the libido or energy within.

Mechanical crane: You might be undergoing powerful changes, or making major decisions.

CRAP See: Faeces.

CRATER Memory of old hurt, old emotion or pain, or frightening situation. If it is volcanic, a crack in the outer self through which inner repressed passions might pour out.

CRAZY See: Idiot.

CREAM Best of life, luxury, special treatment, affection.

CREATURES Sometimes we dream about creatures which are not like any animal we know - perhaps ancient, or mixtures of plants and animals. These can represent our fear of things like bacteria, or illness due to micro-organisms. Occasionally they may even represent what such an illness is doing in the body. But frequently the point to the wonderful cellular activity and processes on your body, or the unconscious activities of mind.

CREEPER Doubts, insinuations, stagnancy, vegetating.

CRESCENT Symbol of femininity. intuition, female sex organs, receptiveness. A crescent moon suggests the beginning or ending of something, perhaps something new.

CREDIT CARD The feelings you have about money; the opportunities power and pleasures it brings, or the stress and uncertainty involved with it; ability to get what you want, or to feel secure.

Having or getting a credit card: A sense of gaining greater ease and opportunity with money; finding an easier feeling about relating to the world and having the power to move around in it.

Loss or destruction of credit card: Uncertainty about your financial future; feeling of stress or struggle to get your needs in life; loss of power. See: Money.

CRICKET See: Games

CRIPPLE Difficulty in fulfilling ones potential. The parts of your body usually represent the psychological functions they play. So a leg would represent your ability to stand up for yourself, to be independent, etc. Therefore being crippled suggests psychological hurt to whatever limb or part of body is crippled. See: Body; Legs; Right; Left.

CROCODILE See: Alligator.

CROSS Starting with its most popular uses, it can represent a difficulty or problem we have, the cross we have to bear. In the sense of a problem, having a tick is right, a cross is wrong. The cross in common use also signifies completion or finality, even death; for we cross something off a list when checked or finished.

In Christianity the cross also has many meanings. It represents the religion as a whole; Christ’s suffering; man’s suffering in the name of his religious beliefs; the strength of his beliefs; a sign of spiritual goodness and power to ward off evil. It also means the agony faced in surrendering individual will to the will of the community/communion.

Lastly, it can symbolise perfect union, balance, equality and atonement of the different parts of your being.

CROSSING - as with a road or river. This usually depicts change, but sometimes with difficulties, depending on the dream. For instance if the river or bridge is difficult to cross, then it suggest you have fears or other problems to contend with in the change.

Sometimes the change is a major one, such as leaving childhood and entering adolescence, or the entering into old age. Marriage or parenthood could be such a change. Obviously, death also is frequently depicted as the crossing of a river or a threshold.

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CROSSROAD Decision; convergence of different desires, and the need to choose a direction. A turning point in life. Or it may represent a sense of indecision, a fear of not doing the right thing. See: Decision; North; East; South; West.

CROW Fear of death, bad luck, or failure. Sometimes interpreted as warning of death, marriage, or important and difficult events.

CROWD A crowd in a drama usually means it is an important dream, for all the many parts of self are involved in its subject.

CROWN This can mean success, experiencing new levels of your mind, enlightenment, or refer to your father if on the head of a man.

CRUCIBLE The centre of our turmoil, tension or spiritual life. In it our nature is changed.

CRUCIFIXION Depending on the context in the dream, this can indicate either that you are facing a life situation in which you feel nailed to the physical needs of life, or that you are surrendering or sacrificing your physical and ego needs to what you sense as the essential or spiritual you. The symbolism in the New Testament shows the crucifixion taking place on a hill, and this represents the top of the head and the sexual, emotional, mental nature being opened to a wider and less object and self centred life. See: Cross; archetype of crucifixion.

CRUTCH Substitute, sense of incapacity. Something you use or do because the real thing is not functioning. For instance alcohol or cigarettes might be a crutch.

CRIED/CRY/CRYING The release of sorrow, grief, guilt, misery, memories that have been held back, knowingly or unknowingly, during the day or even over years. It may be the release of any type of emotion, from enormous pain to wonderful joy - they all produce tears. The way we struggle to grow or attain, the effort we put into life and perhaps feel we get no reward, the love we have for someone, are all springs from which tears can flow.

Sometimes we cry out of an intuitive knowledge of another person leaving, or dying, or sorrow over something we have done. Or else they might be crocodile tears in an attempt to convince yourself that you feel badly over an attitude, desire or action, or in order to manipulate someone.

CRYPT This often depicts your unconscious memories or feelings. But it is often connected more with repressed parts of self, or family influences from the long past. It may also ling with feelings about the unconscious, or fear of death. See: Cave; Basement.

CRYSTAL The human sense of the eternal; the self; rigid views or emotions; crystallised opinions, thus habits. See: Jewels.

CUBE Matter, physical existence. It is symbolic of the number 4, and thus stands for stability, strength, material expression, the body. The square or cube is an enclosure in three dimensions, like our body, that in its centre hides a fourth dimension, the soul. Can also represent orthodoxy, the establishment. See: Numbers.

CUCKOO Sexual promiscuity, the egg laid in another nest or woman. See other entry on cuckoo.

CUDDLE Unity, sharing of feelings.

CUDDLY TOY You might be desiring the sort of non-threatening relationship you had with parents, or just plain seeking a relaxed feeling and love.

CUL-DE-SAC This has definite sexual implications, usually representing the inside of a woman’s legs. In this dream, one knocks at the door at the far end. But this might represent a no way through sexual experience or desire. There is no way out of it. It also represents, on a more general level, a direction leading to barriers, no way of further expression, a pointless effort.

CUP Receptivity, openness, or in some way offering yourself or being offered something. For instance a woman offering a cup could suggest offering herself sexually.

CURRENT The outer flow of circumstances or events as they act upon us and influence or pull us along. The inner pressure of desires, the direction of the inner life, or influence of inner tendencies.

CURSE/CURSED/CURSING Autosuggestion. That is, inner results of fears entertained. Also symbolises the inheritance of past actions, past lives, or hereditary traits or taints. It sometimes refers to the power of material values to influence decisions and life, the power of hate.

CUTTING To sever connections, to become independent, to cut off sympathy or affections. Also to injure, or desire to injure. It may represent our sexual desires, that through the pain associated with experiences of being let down, scorned, ill treated, the feelings of love only express as the desire to hurt, to cut, to enter through pain. Can also mean reducing in importance or impact.

CYCLONE Emotions and urges against which you feel powerless, and which may become obsessive.

CYST A morbid collection of memories, emotions, energies, that are not harmonising or adding to your life in general.

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