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I Wherever the word 'I' appears in your dreams, there may be an important description attached to it. For instance you may be saying 'I wanted to climb the tree'. Or 'I felt frightened'. Any such statements give direct information about what the underlying feelings or themes of the dream are, and should be noted. See: Want.

ICE Being cold emotionally or sexually. It depicts what is meant by the term cold shoulder, where we shut off any display of warmth or compassion. It also therefore shows the dreamer as having 'frozen assets' in a personal sense. Icicle: Frozen male sexual feelings. See: Cold; Glacier.

ICEBERG Usually the same as cold, or ice, namely that you may be holding back, freezing, your feelings about something. Or else you may have shut down on much of your sensitivity in life, perhaps to deal with loss, pain or disappointment. Such a huge block of ice may mean that an enormous amount of your energy and creativity is frozen along with your feelings.

The iceberg is often used in literature, and sometimes in dreams, as a symbol of consciousness. A little of your being you are aware of, like the ice above the surface. But the enormous bulk of self is invisible to view; beneath consciousness. See: Glacier

ICICLE Repressed sexuality.

IDIOT Lacking control of reason. Without development of logical mind. It may mean you are doing something stupid. Sometimes it represent intuitive knowledge or insight. If this is so you will probably feel the wisdom of the person in the dream. See: Madness.

IDOL Some material thing. money, women, work, pleasure, that directs your energy and actions. Something, or somebody you worship. False basis from which to direct life.

IGLOO This may suggest a cold and unloving home environment, or because of its shape, refer to a woman's uterus, perhaps suggesting frozen sexual function or feelings. See: Cold

ILL/ILLNESS Dreaming of illness is often a way of showing you that you have painful feelings that need to be attended to. Often these feelings were experienced and not fully felt at an earlier period of your life, and now need to be healed or released. At the very least they need understanding. Do ask yourself though, if this is the way you get love, by being ill.

ARE MY DREAMS DENOTING ILLNESS?

In considering your own dreams to look for signs of illness, it must be remembered that most people at some time experience awful dreams in which they are stabbed or bitten or are near to fire or war. Many of us dream of a part of our body being deformed or sick. In most cases these refer in some way to your own emotions, fears, personal growth or social life. Only when there is a very persistent and pervading quality about such dreams should they be taken to indicate the possibility of illness. At such time seek medical help to confirm or deny the message of the dreams.

In the early nineties a friend, Ken S., came to consult me in my capacity as a dream therapist. He had experienced a dream that troubled him and wanted to understand it. In the dream Ken was walking along the upstairs passageway of a large old house. He was in his dressing gown on the way to the bathroom. About halfway along the passage he felt a fine spray of water on his body. This drew his attention to a small leak in a large water pipe running along the passageway. At that very moment the pipe burst and a torrent of water poured out. Ken was then rushing around trying to deal with the burst pipe, but fire also started elsewhere in the house.

Ken and I approached the dream using a traditional psychotherapeutic approach in which each aspect of the dream represents an emotion or psychological state in Ken. We didn?t get any satisfaction with this and so ended with the view that we hadn?t discovered the associations and powerful feelings that would uncover the hidden parts of Ken?s psyche. Three days later Ken was rushed into hospital with a burst colon. Ken was near to death, but with surgical and medical help recovered. When I next saw him, still in hospital, our eyes met and we both said at the same moment, ?The dream? - meaning the dream had been a warning of the burst colon. Despite having been involved in dreamwork with groups and individuals, and having read about how some dreams express physical conditions, I had never previously been so directly confronted by such a dream. Now I am much more alerted to this possibility. Dream dictionaries may have their limitations, but if this dream had been looked at in the basic way such dictionaries define, Ken would have sought medical attention sooner. For instance House can represent yourself or your body - Water-Pipe can depict your intestines or arteries - Fire means consuming passions, an emergency or illness. Because of the context of the different dream images, Ken?s dream points to physical breakdown.

Although Ken?s body dream is about illness, such dreams are not limited to showing what is going wrong inside us. They often show positive health changes, or may be about what foods best suit us or cause us harm.

Sometimes however, dreams about illness show the early signs of breakdown in your body. If you are having worrying dreams, have a checkup with your doctor. Tests have shown that men with serious illness have often dreamt about death, and women with such illnesses have dreamt about breakup and separation.

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ILLUSION Wrong idea, false opinion, deception, wrong conclusion.

IMMACULATE CONCEPTION - The dream of becoming pregnant from a light, a glowing bolt, or a spirit, often occurs. This shows you being in a state of mind in which you have dropped rigid ideas, or 'preconceptions' and been open to the mystery of life. This is in fact your potential, and the pregnancy is the process of giving birth to a new type of awareness or approach to life. Sometimes we deny or neglect the new child and it miscarries or passes away. But such a child is often miraculously tenacious.

The conception is immaculate, or virginal, because your state of mind is without pre-conceptions. See: conception; pregnancy.

IMMERSED/IMMERSION See: Baptism, or Earth, depending upon what you are immersed in.

IMPOTENCE Often an expression of anxiety of some sort. In which case it will help to clearly define what triggers the anxious feelings. It could be fear of sexual incapacity. A sense of lost of manhood or womanhood, masculinity or femininity. Feeling of being weak, unable to express yourself, or to impress others with feelings or ideas.

IMPRISONED You can be imprisoned by an idea, or a fear, or even a moral code. See if you can discover what it is you are doing to hold yourself back.

In attempting to develop a relationship, we may be trapped by feelings of dependence upon what our parents want, or wanted, us to do or be. If you fear failure, you may not be meeting the challenge of the new, so be imprisoned by the fear. Such feelings as being an outsider, unwanted, resentful, can also imprison us in particular situations.

INARTICULATE Feeling a lack of power or authority when confronted by others. Inability to express yourself, or inability to define ideas. Fear of saying something stupid, or being thought a fool for your opinions. Indecision, conflicting ideas, perhaps arising from criticism or punishment during your early years.

INCENSE Prayer, aspiration due to positive feelings. The cleansing or purifying of self. Atmosphere.

INCEST Usually reappearance of infantile urges which have not yet developed, due to a fear or guilt, into more expansive expressions of sexuality. If these urges can be accepted in the dream, they usually begin to mature into adult sexuality.

INCRUST See: Encrust.

INDIGESTION An accepted idea or attitude that does not agree with you. The inability to stomach something. Or may be actual indigestion. Something you have taken in, perhaps something said to you, that you did not see at the time was a poisonous remark.

INDUSTRIES Creative or constructive energies.

INFANCY Parts of yourself that still reflect childhood experiences, perhaps patterns of behaviour you have not grown out of, or being controlled by mother’s will. Or else the feeling of being a baby, or desire to be a baby to escape adult responsibilities.

INFECT/INFECTED/INFECTION The influence of other people’s fears, worries, or cynicism upon you. Influence of your own thoughts acting negatively. Fear of being pregnant.

INFLATE To fill up or be carried away by a sense of your own cleverness, superior abilities, knowledge and power.

INHALE To take into your thoughts or experience, to consider, to accept mentally.

INITIATION Discovery of new levels of consciousness, opening at the unconscious level, of new power, wisdom or love.

INJECT/INJECTION Feeling other people's's opinions and will forced on you. There is often sexual meaning involved, so it could be simple sex, forced sex, or influences taken in during sexual relationship.

INK Something that may leave a mark upon you, such as a blot on your character. Sometimes represents some unconscious content you are dealing with.

lNQUEST An attempt to understand; very often an examination of past experiences that killed some part of you, or caused feelings to die or be injured.

INSECT This may imply that something is irritating you, or you are feeling something 'bugging' you. It might also suggest you are feeling insignificant, like an ant in the mass of other ants.

The insect can also depict the automatic unfeeling processes of your life; cold unfeeling urges; sexual urges, especially with cock-roaches - insects may also represent the sperm swarming toward the ovum, and therefore may deal with pregnancy.

As Jiminy Cricket suggests, insects can represent our conscience and guilt which reminds us of feelings we might sooner forget - perhaps insects represent these areas because they live their life in our house and garden largely unseen - so depict thoughts and feelings occurring on the edge of consciousness. The little niggles of guilt or worry. See: Bee; Spider.

If flying off: Perhaps your children leaving home.

Lice or parasites: Thoughts or sexual habits which are purely selfish or carry a health risk; feeling someone is parasitic.

Dead insects: Has been used to represent an unwanted baby in some dreams. As such it shows the death of the foetus, or abortion of the foetus.

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INSIDE An inside pocket, inside a house, tree, car, most often represents your own inner feelings or desires, perhaps usually unacknowledged. Inside a house, or other environment, means you are feeling, or involved in what that environment represents.

INSIGNIA Ideas of special importance to you. They usually synthesise a great deal of knowledge or information in the symbol.

INSPIRE/INSPIRED/INSPIRATION Intuitive knowledge. See: Breath.

INTERCOURSE See: Sex.

INTERNET Your connection with other people and the world, possibly at an unconscious level until you give it attention. Life's unbounded possibilities, with all its variety and conflicting opposites; your unconscious, with its huge resources of experience and information; intuition; Life - in the sense of the infinite possibilities of interaction and meeting with all the people, animals and natural processes that are a part of our everyday life; the exploring of the possibilities of interaction.

INTUITION Information that rises to consciousness either from a summary of our complete memory or experience, possibly including past lives; or is an unconscious contact with the mind of another person, living or dead, or arises from a contact with the universal mind, or memory of nature, which summarises all experience and knowledge, all peoples’ and creatures’ aims, and the way we can best relate to them, and all future possibilities.

INVENT/INVENTION Probably refers to the inventive or creative side of yourself. IT may present you with a new idea.

INVISIBLE Becoming invisible, or appearing out of nowhere suggests something emerging from the unconscious, being forgotten, or relating to the unconscious; hidden influences - as when touching dimensions of experience states of consciousness usually unknown.

INVOICE See: Bill.

IRON Strength; material power or force. Strength of will, perhaps unbending emotions. Brutality. Will that does not allow any partnership with the emotions. Hardness and unfeelingness.

IRONING Smoothing out some situation regarding ones feelings or attitudes. Trying to get the difficulties or problems out of ones feelings or social life.

IRRIGATE To allow emotions, or feeling values to come into your life. A healing process that will promote growth and a new sense of yourself.

ISLAND Something that has come from the depths of your unconscious, but is now established in everyday life. A part of yourself cut off by emotions. Feelings of isolation or loneliness, or your attempt to cut yourself off from others due to your feelings about them.

The island can also suggest the way you feel safe from the world, or feelings about being trapped.

IVORY Something precious or beautiful, such as an insight or personal quality, which has grown out of the push and shove of life experience. Black ivory is the unconscious aspects of the soul or personality.