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Dream meanings - enabling you to interpret your own dreams

Tony Crisp

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FOR FEATURES ON DREAMS SEE DREAM ENCYCLOPEDIA

DAGGER Aggressive urges, hatred, expression of force whether intellectual, moral or physical. Can denote penis.

DALAI LAMA See: Guru.

DAM Repression of emotions, damming up of feelings. Or even the controlled release of such emotional energy.

DAMAGED - The suggestion here is of a hurt or stress that has done some sort of harm. What the harm is depends very much on the dream and surrounding events and people. Often the damage does not break or completely ruin what is shown. But it is information about what is being hurt or stressed.

For instance you can damage a relationship, your health, your work prospects, your respect for someone. So it is helpful to define what is being indicated in the dream. Is it bad diet, uncontrolled habits or anger? Is it lack of care or attention to detail? You can damage yourself or others by things you do or say. In this way your mouth can be a deadly weapon.

Look up the thing that is damaged for more information. See: hurt; broken.

Useful questions are:

What is it that is damaged and what in my life, body or relationships is that pointing to?

Is there any indication of how I or someone else is creating the damage?

Is stress or carelessness damaging my life, prospects or people I care about?

DANCE/DANCING Spontaneous expression of inner feelings. Also can express contact with the divine. If you are dancing with someone it usually shows a loving relationship, or even the prelude to a sexual relationship.

If the dance is awkward: This shows a lack of harmony with whoever you are dancing with.

Animals dancing: Feelings of health and well-being. Being at ease with your natural drives.

Skeletons or dark 'things' dancing: Developing a relationship with what we fear - meeting it; dancing with death - in life we always dance with death, meaning we have an intimate relationship with it, but might not be ready to recognise who our partner is.

DANGER/DANGEROUS There are many things we might feel are dangerous, such as falling in love, changing employment, moving house. Your dream of felt danger might be showing you what you do not acknowledge as causing anxiety. If the danger involves someone you know, it is most likely revealing your anxieties about that person, fears of losing them, fear of their death, fear of them hurting you. You therefore need to define just what the dream is portraying as dangerous. Such dreams are seldom precognitive.

DARK Lack of understanding; difficult to grasp, obscure. Dark can also mean ancient, worn dark with age, and it can relate to sombre, or depressing feelings.

A woman with dark hair sometimes represents the intuition. Similarly, a dark skinned person in a dream can represent parts of yourself that are difficult to understand, and the way in which they influence your life are obscure.

Dark water: Emotions that are felt and powerful but have not been defined or their source understood.

Dark colours: Feelings emanating from unconscious sources; depressed or unhappy feelings. See: Aboriginal; Black.

DARN Healing of parts of your nature symbolised by the object being darned. Also a careful, saving attitude.

DART Hurtful thought, hatefulness, aggressive sexuality.

DATE Calendar date: This needs to be considered in connection with the other parts of the dream. It can relate to something that happened on that date in the past, and is still important to you in some way. If not that try looking for what you associate with the month, year and numbers in the date.

Romantic 'date': Hopes about a relationship. Release of pleasurable feelings about yourself.

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DAUGHTER Dreaming about your child often relates to how you feel about her. Is she an adventurous creative person? If so then it will usually be depicting your own feelings of creativity and risk taking. Is she an introverted person, or anxious. Are you worried about her? If so then the dream is either about your own urges to withdraw, or your feelings of concern for her.

Any child is a fruit, an expression of the marriage or relationship from which she sprang. So she can represent what is happening, or what is being felt, about the relationship. So a sick child could represent problems in the relationship.

In a mother's dream: Your daughter could represent the support you get from her; any ties you feel through being her parent; or even your own feelings and difficulties at her age, that might be surfacing at the time of the dream. You might even be feeling her as a competitor because of her youth.

In a father's dream: Your daughter usually represent your feelings, your more feminine or receptive side. So problems in the dream could suggest you are having difficult allowing your feelings to mature. She could also depict whatever difficult feelings you have about mistake you have made in the relationship, or self recriminations you experience. When she starts courting, dreaming of her might also point out the struggle you have to let go.

DAWN/DAWNING Beginning of understanding, illumination, a new beginning.

DAY Being aware and active; a new beginning. The time of day is often important, so See: Morning; Afternoon; Evening, where relevant.

Daylight in a dream usually depicts a particular mood. So a bright day would suggest positive feelings, and a dull day some level of despondency. A day is also a period of life that can begin and end. See: Night.

DEAF There may be a desire not to know what is happening to you, or something you are feeling.. Or you might be frightened of hearing something that could hurt you, or to learn things about yourself you do not wish to face.

DEAD Seeing something dead in your dream suggests you are realising that some part of yourself, or your feelings, are no longer expressing fully. In fact you may have killed that part of you by denying it, repressing, or freezing it from normal life. The 'death' may even have been caused by a painful experience. But even so, it still means you have made a decision - perhaps unconscious - to shut out that part of your life. This can also relate to a lost opportunity or potential.

A dead person: Dreaming of someone who is dead, a relative or loved one, is quite common. After all, the person may have played a big part in your life, as for instance a husband or wife. Therefore the influence of their existence is still very much a live in you.

As an example of this, you will probably be able to realise that some of your traits, some of the ways that you think or respond to things, have arisen because of the way you related to the person you dreamt about. So in many cases the dead person indicates the feelings you have about the, the traits you still have alive in you from them. When someone close to you dies you go through a period of change from relating to them as an external reality, to meeting and accepting them as alive in your memories and inner life.

Some dreams of dead people are expressive of attempts to deal with feelings, guilt or anger in connection with the person who died; or your own feelings about death.

Dead husband or wife: Many dreams of dead people come from women who have lost their husband. It is common to have disturbing dreams for some period afterwards; or not be able to dream about the husband or wife at all; or to see the partner in the distance but not get near. In accepting the death, meeting any feelings of loss, grief, anger and continuing love, the dream may become as in the third example. See: Death.

DEAD-END See: Cul-de-sac.

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DEATH Death is an everyday part of life. So dreams often use it to illustrate leaving something behind, such as childhood or a relationship. Also parts of ones feelings sometimes die. Our love for someone might die for instance, and so our dream illustrates this with a death, perhaps of that person. Some teenagers dream of their parents dying as they start to become independent. This is a form of killing of dependent feelings about their parents as a means of growth. This happens in some relationships too, where we want to break with the person.

Death is also something we sometimes create into a frightening spectre. It is something we all face. So some dreams in which we actually die, are a means of experimenting with meeting death. If we do not do this, if we are frightened of death and have not worked out a relationship with it, then we will not live fully and daringly. But in our dream life, death usually holds in it the promise of change or regeneration-rebirth is some way.

What is dead may also depict what is past. It therefore carries traditional experience and wisdom. For instance the farmer today unconsciously uses the collective experience of humanity in farming. What innovation he does today his children or others will learn and carry into the future, even though he is dead. See: Dead; Illness

DEBT You may be feeling you owe something to someone, or to society. We are all, in fact, in debt for our life. Do you have a feeling that you have not given to others what they, in their life, have given to you? Have you promised something that you have not taken care of?

DECAY/DECAYED/DECAYING This suggest a sense of something in your life not being alive and expressive. Possibly it is something you are not proud of, or you feel 'rotten' about. Occasionally this could indicate something not working well in your body or feelings. See: Cesspool

DECISION Whatever decision you make in your dream, it is wise to look at the drama and details of the dream to understand why the decisions was made, or out of what influences or needs. The dream process often brings to your awareness insights that help you to choose your way or direction, and these should be consdered. But dreams should not be seen as totally saying what you must do, only as wise advisors.

But many decisions arise out of old angers, hurts or fears, so make sure you are not acting out of those. Unconditional and detached love and insight are the best attitudes to act from.

There are also life decisions we make that are not always made by clear thinking or as an adult. Even as a baby we can experience enormous feeling reaction to some situations we are confronted by. These reactions constitute a decision, even though not made consciously. From that point onwards we, as the baby or child, will respond to a similar situation in a given way. For instance a baby may have found so little love and warmth from it mother, and so much care from someone else, it alters its responses to its mother, and transfers it bonding and warmth to someone else. Such decisions have enormous influence on adult life, and are often not recognised for what they are, and so are not re-evaluated.

DECOY Means you employ to lead others to believe something you really do not feel, or think. A self deception of what you feel. For instance a man, because a job offers a high wage, may lead himself to believe he likes the work, but inwardly hates it.

This could also be the warning, either of a trap you have created to trick someone, or else you sense is put out to catch you.

DEEP/DEEPER Most of the processes of our body and mind take place without our having any awareness of them. Going deep underground or into water usually shows you becoming more aware of what is taking place in these usually unconscious parts of yourself. I can also mean you are becoming more aware of the past strands of influence from family and culture, out of which your present personality was or is woven.

Another meaning is that it can link with experience of life in the womb.

DEER The gentle harmless aspects of your involuntary or instinctive urges and functions. It might also refer to the softer side of your feelings that can be hurt or wounded by your aggressiveness and cynicism; or by other people’s criticism;. love-sickness.

In a man's dream the deer may represent a woman he is in pursuit of.

DEFECATE See: Faeces.

DEFENCE/DEFEND/DEFENDED/DEFENDING This usually suggests you are being, or have been, defensive in the way you live or in relationships. There may be an underlying hurt or fear creating this defensiveness.

DEFORMITY Part of your nature, that due to fear, repression or ignorance has not been able to grow in its natural beauty. This often happens from traumatic childhood experience. Something you do not like about yourself.

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