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MELT To change hardness of nature giving way to feelings of softness.

MENSTRUATE/MENSTRUATION The possible association depends very much upon what age you are, and what gender. But if you are female, it can suggest (in order of age) emerging sexuality and child bearing, and any joys or worries you have about this. Dreams of young women often experiment with the whole process of menstruation and pregnancy long before there is any inclination to experience sex as an external fact.

It might refer to your acceptance or conflict with this powerful and spontaneous process of life working in you. In a sense it takes over your body as distinct from your personal desires. This calls for some adjustment, so the dreams might illustrate this.

The dream might reflect concerns about pregnancy, or in a few cases, directly shows that you are pregnant.

Lastly the dream might be showing actual physiological conditions needing attention. If you are worried about any such dream, check it out with your doctor.

MERCHANT The business, commercial side of self. Desires for profit in some area of your life.

MERCURY Intuition; changeability. Difficulty to grasp.

MERMAID/MERMAN Love arising from the unconscious. The unconscious drive toward reproduction, or seduction toward reproduction. In some cases it can show your love of your image of someone rather than the reality of them as a human being. If mermaid: The inner image of womanhood, still held in the waters of the unconscious.

MESSAGE/MESSAGES/MESSENGER This is a way your unconscious manages to give you information, or suggest that something is important to think about. It can also suggest intuitive insight into whatever the message is about.

METAL See: Iron.

METRO See: Underground.

MEW Loneliness, a call from the soul, a longing for comfort, friendship or love.

MICROBE See: Germ.

MICROSCOPE The ability to perceive the subliminal and usually imperceptible parts of your nature, and sensations. Possibly an insight into the cellular processes of your body; the intricate workings of your mind, or your usually hidden feeling responses - depending upon what you are looking at through the microscope.

MIDGET See: Dwarf.

MILK Due to it being a product of a mother, it usually represents your feelings about how your related to your mother. It might also suggest the giving of sustenance, self sacrifice, nurturing the young or needy parts of yourself or others. Also motherhood, infantile sustenance, sympathy. It can be the symbol of something bland, harmless, mild, lacking the stimulus of alcohol, tea, coffee. Thus one can be called a milksop, which is another name for childlike, unmanly, cowardly. See: Food; Drink.

MILL Trying times or feelings. Suggests the breaking down of old attitudes and beliefs.

MINES/MINING The seven dwarfs of Snow White worked in a mine. It represents the unconscious physical and mental activities. The mine might be showing these activities, or at least your digging within your experiences, memories, deeper levels of consciousness, to bring up the treasure and valuable resources buried within.

Land mine: These represent reactions in you that have been set in place in the past, and can be triggered by present events. For instance, A person may have sustained an eye injury in the distant past, causing some loss of sight. In the present, if anyone puts things near his face, or hits his face, an automatic violent response occurs. This type of response can be symbolised by a mine, or mines. They can represent anything put in place in the past that now is released as powerful emotions or emotional explosions.

MINK Status, material values. animal or sexual desires. Because of the present ban on animal skins, it may link with feelings you have about that, or something you desire that is banned.

MINOTAUR The intellect dominated by sexual desires.

MIRAGE The illusions we sometimes chase out of our thirst or hunger for something, perhaps love or wealth. See: Desert.

MIRROR This has a great many levels of meaning. Basically it is a looking at yourself, a self examination; and the face in the mirror may not match your own. It may be better or worse. That is, in self examination you may come across, or see, parts of our nature that are the worst side or the best side of yourself. These re the things you do not usually see about yourself. You may, for instance, see innate possibilities as they would be in full bloom. But the mirror might only reflect your negative worries about yourself, or how you think you appear to others. Worries about ageing might be one of these. Nevertheless, the dream process usually tries to lead through worry to growth.

The mirror appears in many religious symbols and in much folklore. Water was probably the first mirror, and as such represents human consciousness, soul, or self awareness. This looking at oneself can therefore be a way of depicting self awareness, your ‘I’, as a distinct individual.

Alice goes through the mirror to enter Wonderland, which is again symbolical of looking within self, and exploring unconscious contents.

Indian and Buddhist philosophy use it in a slightly different way, as also Yoga teachings. It is explained that when we look at a mirror we do not see its actual surface. We do not see the actual mirror, only the images reflected on its surface, which appear as reality. Likewise, mind or consciousness is like a mirror. In it we see the images of physical existence and life experience, which we take to be the only reality. But the Yogi asks himself, what is this that is conscious of all these images? What is this mirror we call consciousness? Who am I?

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MISCARRIAGE See: Abortion.

MISER As money can symbolise power, authority, sexual potency, material security, a miser would represent the fear of losing or using abilities, security, potency, or of spending or giving feelings to others. Scrooge is an excellent example of this, miserly with worldly effectiveness, affection, sympathy and so on, thus the constant counting of money for reassurance in face of insecurity and fear.

MIST See: Fog.

MISTRESS In the Jungian sense it would represent an anima projection. That is, being dominated or influenced by the projection of all our fantastic longings, imaginings, desires, hopes and hungerings for ideal love, on to a physical and ordinary woman who is not such a wonderful creature. But as we long for her to be such, we project these qualities on to her. It may in fact be that the woman wishes to be regarded in this light, as a goddess, and so encourages these feelings. In legend, before Eve, a being called Lilith was created by Adam’s longings. But she was really only a phantom. Nevertheless, when Eve arrived, Adam’s attention was still much turned to Lilith. The same problem still haunts men and women.

MOAT An emotional defence used against others. The sort of 'I feel ill' defence against relationship.

MODEM This, like telephone, is about communication with others. But it is probably less personal. It is more about contact in general, how you manage to keep in contact with the world, with business activities, and especially with your intuition and wider awareness. See: Telephone.

MOHAMMED Human expression of contact with God. The voice of the spirit.

MOLE See other entry on mole.

MONEY The things you value, and perhaps your feelings of self worth. It also reflects what you feel about your potential, your energy or personal resources ; occasionally connects with struggle or misery. That is, the misery of continually struggling to exist, to pay ones way.

In many dreams money depicts your power to change things or do things; or having power, even over someone else; personal potency, therefore links with sexuality and self-giving; what you pay for your desires or actions.

Finding money: Realising something valuable; gaining power; release from stress or 'down' feelings - in that we feel excited and uplift on finding money.

Holding on to money: Feeling insecure, or being 'tight' emotionally or sexually; not using ones power to get what you want.

Losing money: Losing power or opportunity; pain of loss.

Not enough money: Sense of being inadequate or failing potency.

Stolen money: Feelings of guilt about gaining power; feeling you do not deserve what you get, or what you want that is of value; feeling cheated; loss of power if money stolen; feeling others are taking us for granted; giving oneself cheaply in sex or relationship.

MONGOOSE Attacks we make on our sexual feelings, or on the strivings towards growth of inner energies; defence against anxiety.

MONK Spiritual wisdom. Desires to leave the world. Influences of religious teachings in the unconscious. Some people may have been taught a dread of hell and perpetual burning, and similar terrors. So the monk or priest may therefore represent the influences of the church's teachings. The monk may then depict the struggles you have with your sexual drive, feelings of guilt, and your personal wants in life. See: archetype of monk.

MONKEY Sometimes a monkey has the face of a man, or talks. In these dreams tremendous power seems to accompany the monkey. This is probably emblematic of the union of our instincts and intellect, which releases tremendous energies due to the removal of conflict in our being. The monkey can also represent the flitting of interest from one thing to another, having no real intelligence, or being made a fool of. See: Ape; also larger entry on monkey..

MONOGRAM Usually a symbol of the whole self, direction of inner possibilities.

MONSTER Most monsters are the graphic expression of the effects of past traumas. Some such traumas may have arisen from things like having your tonsils out when young, being separated from your mother at an early age, being involved in a war. In general the monster depicts your personal fear, dread, terror of death, failure, impotence or weakness in the face of outer circumstances or inner urges. It may at times epitomise attitudes, hates, fears, that have become monstrous, and turned against you.

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MOON Another symbol with many levels of meaning. The most obvious being love, romance, the sentimental balmy experiences of life. Youthful love and affection, the welling up of sentiments and longing for the beloved. The moon also symbolises the irrational, the deep inner movements and urges within us, the tides of feeling, desire, madness; the pull and attraction of mysterious, dark, impelling desires, of women’s strange, sensual, magical and overpowering attraction, or vice versa. All the unseen influence represented by the moon’s effect on the tides. The new or old moon also symbolises the woman’s sexual organs, due to its shape. It thus represents femininity, irrational feelings, intuition, lunacy. The moon is also the heavenly companion of the earth, and reflects the light of the sun at night. This has enabled it to be used as a symbol of intuition as a reflector of spiritual consciousness. Or as a man’s daemon, or genius, reflecting the inner light.

Flying to the moon: Trying to escape reality or responsibility; attempting to break free of limitations.

Moonlight: Romantic view of the world; not seeing things too clearly; looking within self. The half seen processes of the unconscious.

Two moons: Decisions or indecision about something, possible relationship; conflicting sides of yourself; choices or changes occurring.

Explosion of moon: Possibly depicts the break up of hopes or fantasies which do not connect with external reality. For instance we might dream of having a romance with our favourite film star, and with some people the fantasy takes on a feeling of possibly becoming reality.

MORGUE See: Mortuary.

MORNING This may suggest a new beginning, your youth, or, if mornings are difficult for you, the struggle of yet another day?

MORTUARY This may depict parts of yourself that have died through being denied or not used. It may also reflect feelings about death, or people who have died. It can be concerned with parts of your experience you need to let go of and bury - or perhaps have an inquest on to properly understand.

MOSAIC The countless fragments of experience and thought, seemingly meaningless, but when seen from wider awareness or perspective, become a pattern or design of beauty that represents life as a whole.

MOSQUE Surrender to the divine. See: Church.

MOTH A compulsive urge toward something, perhaps the search for the light of understanding. The self we assume in our dreams or fantasy; the unconscious urge your being has to survive personal death; the hidden side of your mind. See: Insects.

MOTHER To dream of your mother usually signifies the feelings or pains you still feel in connection with her. Mother can represent all we want in a caring and loving relationship, or perhaps all we didn't get.

Each of us have a fundamental, perhaps instinctive, drive to bond with a woman at birth. This has generated from millions of years of survival strategy. If that bonding does not take place, much of what would have been natural unfoldment and growth, cannot, or does not, take place. So mother sometimes represents this whole difficult issue of survival and what happened in those early years of trying to become independent of such extraordinary needs.

MOTORBIKE Youthful drive and motivation; physical energy; restlessness, sexual drive; daring; independence.

MOTORWAY A major direction and quick route to where you want to go in life. For some dreamers it will represent facing more power or threat than they feel relaxed about.

MOUNTAIN Climbing a mountain achieves a view of great expanse, but we keep our feet on the ground. This means a real personal achievement of a wider perspective of who you are, what you are doing, and what the world is about. It also shows you facing problems and overcoming them with courage and skills.

This wider perspective is not gained easily, But it may confront you with such a shift in perspective that you might feel you will lose much of your way of life you now know. You touch something that is beyond the opposites, and that appears to mean the loss of yourself as you are. But this apparent threat is only based on fears, not reality. You gain, you do not lose anything that is valuable.

MOUSE Small irritations or anxieties. The activities within yourself, or unconscious, seldom seen, and if noticed, thought to be too small or insignificant to matter. Feelings that gnaw away at you. The sexual organs. Timidity or fear, depending on your reactions to mice. See other entry on mouse.

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