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Dream meanings - enabling you to understand your own dreams

Tony Crisp

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PACK/PACKED/PACKING It would be worthwhile wondering when you last packed your bags or house, and what you felt. The dream probably looks back at those feelings.

Packing can connect with leaving home, becoming independent or being rejected, It can associate with holiday feelings, and so a sense of ease. It can also link with making changes or wanting to change. Packing somebody elses bags might therefore either mean you want to get rid of them, or you want them to go away with you.

PADDLE See: Oar.

PADLOCK See: Lock.

PAINT/PAINTING There are many sayings that illustrate how paint can be used in dreams. We can paint the town red, paint too rosy a picture, whitewash everything, paint too clear a picture.

These suggest letting loose pent up high spirits; being too optimistic; trying to cover up mistakes; being too honest. Painting can also symbolise self expression, realisation of inner contents, hiding the real condition of things with a veneer of paint, or to put a new appearance on things.

A painting: An expression of subtle realisations or intuitions.

PALACE A sense of importance, or privilege. In some dreams about a palace, there are evident feelings of something special happening. This probably links with the way palaces re used in fairy stories, as for instance the palace in which the Sleeping beauty lives. Such a palace represents the wonders of yourself, your amazing mind and qualities, that might be sleeping or overcome by enemies - i.e. disuse or ignoring them. The palace is also the storehouse of your culture and past, the treasure house of your family, social and racial inheritance.

PALMIST Intuition; or inner feelings about how you want to live your life, or where you wish to go.

PAN/POT - for cooking This may link with the care you give to yourself or your family, with everyday life and its needs, or represent some sort of receptive situation. Chamber pot: This refers to what you need to discharge from you, either emotionally or physically. It also might refer to the female genitals.

PANTHER See other entry for panther.

PANTIES Your hidden feelings. Your sexual feelings and desires. See: Clothes.

PANTS See: Trousers; Clothes.

PAPER Possibilities, communication, ideas, self expression. If written on; Connections with the past, with other people's ideas and wants, if written by them. Memories. Paper can also suggest something valueless. Sometimes the word 'paper' is used when referring to a project or essay, so might link with college, exams or work. Paper might be used as a container, so could suggest contents, something you have wrapped up inside you.

Special paper such as Christmas wrapping paper, or paper with a black edge, obviously connects with the special events it is used for. See: Newspaper.

PARACHUTE A symbol the unconscious would use to represent overcoming the fear of falling. It therefore suggests a feeling, thought or technique you use to deal with anxieties. If you are descending with a parachute, it could mean you are coming to a more practical stance after flying high. See: Fall.

PARADISE This might be that you are feeling in harmony with yourself. It could also suggest you have been practising some form of meditation, and you have felt the timeless state within yourself. The experience of being in the womb is often felt to be paradise.

PARALYSED/PARALYSIS An expression of how fear paralyses you. Sometimes we become paralysed because unconscious fears attempt to become expressed; or urges we fear attempt expression. We Can also be paralysed by sense of guilt, sense of inadequacy, or ignorance. When Jesus healed the paralysed man he said Thy sins are forgiven thee. This suggests the paralysis arose from a sense of guilt.

Sometimes while dreaming a person experiences a profound physical paralysis. This occurs because while you dream your brain switches off the voluntary muscles. If you then become partly awake and attempt to move, it feels as if you are paralysed. The resulting fear causes deeper paralysis. If this happens to you it is important to remember what the cause is - temporary loss of ability to control the voluntary muscles - this enables you to wake slowly without the anxiety. See: sleep paralysis.

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PARASITE Fears, thoughts and feelings that diminish a sense of well being.

A case is known to the author, where while relaxing, a man saw a dark and frightening shape leave the region of his heart. The man had suffered an illness, and now felt a fear of weakness concerning the heart. The dark shape was an embodiment of this fear, which sapped his energies as a parasite might. These can appear in dreams as a demon or incubus, and represent our own terrors, fears, thoughts and desires out of harmony with our spiritual energy. We unconsciously give a shape to such subjective feelings as anxiety to make it more understandable to our conscious reasoning faculties. Most often we might not believe what effect anxiety, often barely sensed consciously, is doing.

PARCEL/PACKAGE Usually a memory, idea or experience you have not explored, investigated or cared to open to consciousness. Talents you have not used, ideas you have not applied, loving words we have not uttered.

Also the gifts of love and support received from others that you may not have fully been aware of or appreciated.

PARK Relaxed feelings, depending upon whether the park is light or in darkness, etc. Your more public self or responses. Space and opportunity to expand your view of yourself.

National park: Meeting your own natural self as opposed to the self you may have to live to survive socially or economically.

PARKING LOT/PARKED/CARPARK A socially acceptable place to rest, to meet, to make some sort of change or exchange. The parked car might also mean you have stopped 'going anywhere' in life, or that you have changed to walking - getting somewhere through personal effort. Or even that you have stopped 'driving yourself' - relaxing.

Can't find parking place: Perhaps you are finding it difficult to relax, to get out of the demands of the 'traffic' of your life.

PARLIAMENT/CONGRESS Your sense of social unity, or social pressure. The point of decision, of whether the issue is needed by enough aspects of yourself to make it necessary or rightful. Decision making. See: Government.

PARROT Copying, without judgement, what others do or say. See: Birds.

PARTY Light heartedness; celebration; social relationship and how you deal with it; sexual or business opportunity. A desire for recognition or warmth.

PASSAGE A way of making a change, or the restrictions you accept to arrive soemwhere. The difficulties you face in growing or changing. The passage, like a tunnel, can sometimes depict what you met in being born. It can also be associated with the rectum - the back passage, and the vagina - the front passage.

PASSENGER If in a car, it suggests you are following someone elses lead or direction.. Dependence on other people’s decisions, energy or drive. Or a mutual or cooperative direction being taken, as in a business venture or relationship. See: Car.

PASSPORT Symbol of travel, of change, of your integrity or identity. It also relates to feelings of confidence about acceptance, or facing authority.

PATH Your direction in life; the ideas or aspirations that govern direction. If we love caring for others, these feelings may direct us along the path of healing, nursing, medical practice. The path therefore symbolises the direction indicated by your predominant feelings. To lose the way, or go off the path, is to lose contact with, become confused over, or ignore your inner tendency, or to miss seeing the cues or signs in your environment that suggest a change in direction. A well worn path suggests a well established or habitual way of doing something; the way other people do it, so following the norm.

The path has been used as a religious symbol for thousands of years, and here means the direction in which your personal growth toward wholeness takes you. It is the path of experience you tread from unconsciousness, or pre-consciousness, lost in the forces of nature and instinct, to liberation and individualisation of self in a conscious realisation of your innate being, at all its levels. So the path can simply say - your life journey.

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PAVEMENT/SIDEWALK A safe place to be in the activities - traffic - of life. Your public activities, open to the influence of other people or social influences. Your present direction, and so an indication of what you are meeting in your life at present. Your relationship with strangers, with unsought experience.

PAY In nearly all the dreams studied that refer to pay, the action is to pay for something like a fare or goods. None of them are about being paid. This suggests that pay and paying depict concerns about wanting to, or having to, give something of value, either to get something, or to feel a situation is dealt with. The payment can therefore refer to what you have to bring to a situation to make it work, or get positive results.

Being paid: Results of previous effort or experience. Reward for what you have done or been. See: Money.

PEACOCK Pride, outer show, attempt to impress, beauty. Sometimes the same as phoenix. In some cultures the peacock represent the soul or psyche - ones sense of self with all ones individual memories and characteristics. Because the peacock could shed all its beautiful feathers and then grow them again, early Christians saw it as a symbol of resurrection and immortality. As the peacock is a male bird displaying for the sake of a mate, it can also obviously represent male sexuality in its proud, ostentatious or displaying mode.

PEARL A beautiful personal quality that has developed through trials or irritations. Pearls are sometimes associated with tears, so might represent loss or pain. See: Jewels.

PEDESTAL To place apart, to separate, to place above other things, to idolise, value or worship.

PEGASUS Shows how our life or drive is not limited to sexuality or survival, but can lift into wider activities. For instance a woman turning her love of her children into social caring suggests a way of expressing that goes beyond drives - i.e. the instinctive urges connected with the genitals, 'fly up' into a wider social context. See: Horse.

PELVIS The sexual function as a whole. So not simply sex, but reproduction and how you handle this power of life and death. The pelvis may also link with the way you merge into another person, or if you can allow that merging and emerging. Some dreams show the pelvis as connected with lizards or snakes, and this shows the powerful instinctive drives and energy that can either flow out in sexual activity, or flow up the spine as expanding consciousness.

In woman's dream: Ability to have a child. See: Body.

PENDANT See: Necklace.

PENGUIN The penguin hardly ever appears in dreams, or in fact in literature generally. so I have not been able to gather from people's dreams how they use this symbol. From common associations however, it is likely to represent foolishness; a difficult life situation; coldness in relationships.

However, with the recent films about penguins you might have associations to do with great love and endurance. See: Birds.

PENIS In a man's dream: The sexual urge. The male sense of identity. All of the male polarity, including the glandular and emotional disposition. What is happening to the penis in the dream depicts what is occurring in this realm of the male identity.

It is therefore often depicting a sense of a man's own power of self expression, his potency in expressing himself and capability in the world. The genitals predispose his body toward male sexual characteristics; brings a certain creative explosiveness to his personality; creates urges toward fatherhood and loving his woman, with connected desires to supply the needs of family if he is emotionally healthy. The positive aspect of the penis/masculinity is for him to demand his woman meets his maleness, his caring aggression, his sexual desire, with her own fiery energy and strength.

The femaleness or maleness must not be confused with personality. The conscious personality is a very flexible and shapeshifting thing. It can be male or female in quality no matter what the body gender. But in dreams, the female is the receptive, creative aspect of this shapeshifting personality.

In a woman's dream: Your relationship with desire for a mate; relationship with your own male characteristics, such as ambition, work capability, aggression, intellect; depicts the relationship with genital sexuality with your partner.

PENTACLE Often represents the human body, or the subtle spiritual life of the person. See: Five.

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