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Dream meanings - enabling you to interpret your own dreams

Tony Crisp

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FACADE In some house dreams, great stress is given to the front or facade of the house. Sometimes it crumbles away revealing what is within; sometimes it is painted or changed, and so on. The facade thus represents your front shown to the world, your social self that may hide quite a different interior. See: house.

FACE Similar to facade, but in dreams it often symbolises an outer expression of inner feelings, sometimes unconscious. But it usually represents the part seen by others, whether you are aware of it or not. It can also mean that you are faced with something. or some problem, are in confrontation with It

FACTORY Work, for some people. The habitual, mass produced reactions to life lacking individuality. Conformity or cooperation with the group or society. Productiveness, industry; inner physical activities such as digestion.

FAECES Sometimes this indicates something you have produced and created; something visible that has come out of you. Apart from the meaning mentioned under Cesspool, that is, the corruptible parts of human nature that become manure for new growth, faeces can also represent money or riches, fertility.

In another sense, to pass faeces with feelings of relief means to be rid of worrying burdensome feelings, of tension, or sexual repression. While to be covered in faeces may suggest a fear of being outwardly repulsive, or to harbour self destructive thoughts and feelings. To play with faeces is a return to infantile behaviour; but it may develop in the dream into a question of what to do with them, or how to use them. This is the beginning of using our basic, earthly nature, to creative ends and the shaping of self.

Also in connection with the above meaning, some dreams about faeces link with the body being clogged with toxins. This might show in dreams where faeces are everywhere and interfering with normal activities. Toxins might arise in the body through poor food, or through an allergy to something like wheat. So these dreams might be suggesting the physical need to have a healthy bowel.

FAILURE Very often a sense of failure arises in a dream because you have been comparing yourself in some way. Therefore it is helpful to consider exactly what comparisons mean or provide. You may also have been feeling some level of competitiveness.

Another thing to consider is whether the failure in the dream was 'because' of something. In other words, did it happen because you took a wrong direction, because you went along with a particular person. In this case try to define what the 'because' factor is in your everyday life.

FAINT See: Dizzy.

FAIR (Hair) Your conscious thoughts, awareness, light headed. See: Hair.

FAIRGROUND What is happening to you at the fairground often shows your feelings about the enormous range of differences and activities you observe in human society. It therefore depicts the range of human fate - rich to poor, midgets to giants; the 'swings and roundabouts' of life. See: Carnival; Market.

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FAIRY Natural forces or processes, such as electricity, gravity, cohesion, magnetism. The unconscious tends to express such forces pictorially as ideas are portrayed in most dreams.

FAKIR The irrational rather than reasonable self. The part of you that does things for no logical reason. See: Guru.

FALL/FALLEN/FALLING/FELL Most often this illustrates some threat that has arisen in your life from such things as uncertainty or loss of a relationship, money, work or death of a close contact. What happens in the dream illustrates you drop in confidence, or your feelings of falling from power, grace, love. Maybe you have lost certainty, and so get the sinking feeling of the fall. It could even suggest falling in love, or the fear of not being in control. See: Stairs.

FALL Season See: Autumn.

FAMILY The values, attitudes and emotional or social responses you have absorbed from your family; the acceptance or tensions you feel in relationship with family contact; the support or pain you feel from parents and siblings. Because there is such variety here, you will need to define just what your relationship was, and feelings still are, about the member of the family in the dream. See: Brother; Father; Mother; Sister.

FAMOUS PEOPLE We often project many of our own unlived or unacknowledged weaknesses and strength on to famous people. So the person in your dream might represent a particular quality or weakness; your own potential; the desire to be noticed or given attention.

If you think of the person in a particular role or scene, this will probably be the major clue to what they represent - such as the lover who leaves - the father who sacrifices, etc.

FARE What happens in the dream shows the price you are willing to pay, or avoid, to reach your goal. So the fare often involves getting the right attitude or stance. See: Ticket.

FARM - FARMYARDThis usually has to do with your relationship with your natural urges, the basic drives, such as sex, survival, social hierarchy, parenthood, the down to earth side of yourself; the area of your animal propensities where - territorial fighting, fighting over mate, etc. - are expressed. Being in a farmyard usually represents efforts to deal with the sensual, aggressive, or animalistic urges.

FARMER - Feeling easy with sexuality and material world; practical down to earth feelings; care of 'animal' side of self; earthy wisdom; the easy reversion to earthy or instinctive behaviour, such as hunting to kill or unrefined sex. See: farm and farmyard.

FASTING Withdrawal or turning away from natural urges. Not taking in what society, the world is offering.

FAT PERSON Too much emphasis on material values. Weighted down by cares. Or jollity, sensuality. It could also mean defences used against anxiety or feelings of inadequacy; healthy.

Becoming fat: Pregnancy; carrying 'more weight'.

FATHER Either represents the feelings you have about your father, or the characteristics in your nature that have arisen from this relationship; or can represent an authority figure. Can also stand for a teacher, or person by whom you are much influenced. Or else your own positive, protective qualities. How you relate to the 'doer' in you; physical strength and protectiveness; the will to be.

General negative: Introverted aggression; dominance by fear of other peoples authority; uncaring sexual drive; feelings of not being loved.

FAUCET See: Tap.

FAUN See: Fairy.

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FAX/FAX MACHINE To do with communication, as with telephone, but may represent things, ideas, message, imagery, emerging out of the unconscious; the previously unexpected arising out of one's unconscious contact with other people and society.

FEAR To feel fear in a dream means that you have not yet developed abilities to cope with what is symbolised as causing the fear. One of the wonderful things about dreams if you work with them, is that they gradually show you how to deal with the parts of your nature that need to grow or to be healed. They show how to meet the parts of yourself that need release, or to be understood or healed. If it takes courage to meet these buried or painful parts of yourself, then your dreams will gradually take you on a journey that helps you to unfold your resources of courage. You will be enabled to face your fears, and in fact gain power and instruction from them.

FEAST See: Food.

FEATHER This may associate with the bird from which it came. It would therefore be different if it were a chicken feather or an eagle feather. In which case look up the bird of origin. In general however, a feather suggests a thought, an aspiration or ideal. Or an incrimination, white feather. Sometimes it is a symbol of achievement as a feather in your cap, or as used by Indian chiefs to represent courageous deeds or help given to the tribe. But a feather may also suggest something that is moved by every tiny puff of wind, every passing change - a feather blowing in the wind.

Some of the ways feathers are used in the English language might suggest slightly different meanings. For instance 'feathers were flying' means a fight situation or argument. 'Growing new feathers' means a change, a loss of the old way of life and new growth or skills.

FEE The price to be paid. For instance. the price of maturity is greater responsibility. Or the price we have to pay for not living in-harmony with our innate nature is sickness or unhappiness. There is a Spanish saying, Take what you want in life, and pay for it. The fee can therefore symbolise what you will have to pay for your desires, aims and activities. See: Fare; Ticket.

FEET Feet suggest your contact with reality, your foundations and having 'one's feet on the ground'; to be well or badly 'grounded'; fundamental issue in our life.

The Oneirocriticon, c.AD 350, one of the oldest dream books on earth, it says that to lose ones feet points to a barrier in regard to a planned journey.

Walking with bare feet could suggest either that your going in life is more difficult at the moment, or that you are more in contact with reality. Of course, in some cultures it could suggest poverty.

FELLOWSHIP Unity between varying parts of yourself such as intellect, emotions. senses, sex. For often our reason does not agree with our passions, and our emotions lead us differently to our spirit.

FEMALE A female in dreams often represents the more feeling, intuitive, irrational part of self. If it is someone you know, she probably symbolises your opinion and feelings about her, or what she has led you to feel. See: Girl; Woman.

FENCE A barrier. Difficulty in yourself. It is either something which bars your progress or expression, or is used as a protection from things outside yourself, or from things getting at you. If you are sitting on the fence, it shows you attempting to avoid decision or action.

In many dreams a fence or wall also suggests social barriers, the attitudes and feelings people express to keep others at a distance, to keep a separation between those of different social, religious or economic class. This sort of fence may also depict tension or conflict, as was expressed by the Berlin wall between two opposing powers.

FERRET Inquisitiveness, sexual forcefulness that can injure another person’s feelings. The ability to ferret out things from the unconscious, but usually through force or fear or by denying other feelings. See other entry on ferret.

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