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Dream meanings - enabling you to understand your own dreams

Tony Crisp

FOR FEATURES ON DREAMS SEE DREAM ENCYCLOPEDIA

RED INDIAN The psychic, inner life. The part of us that is at home in the irrational or unconscious, and relates to the spirit through this. See: American Indian.

REED Humility, flexibility, In religion and mythology the reed represents the human will that has been surrendered to God or the spirit, and is thus directed by your wholeness. It does not represent weakness, for it takes a strong will not to be moved by passing sense impressions and flitting ideas, but to surrender to the subtle impressions beyond thinking and senses.

REFLECT/REFLECTING/REFLECTION Reflections from a mirror or water usually represent, especially if they show your face or body, what image you have of yourself, what you feel about yourself. Sometimes what you see is an unconscious image from the past that needs re-evaluating. To do that you need to ask yourself where those feelings or that image arose from. In understanding it you can re-appraise it.

REFRIGERATE/REFRIGERATOR To cool off emotionally. To be cold emotionally or sexually. Feelings, or a relationship, you have put into cold storage.

REGENERATION See: Death.

RELATIONSHIP Relationship in dreams is a fundamental theme. But the men and women you meet, love and fight with, are most frequently showing how you relate to the many and varied attitudes and abilities you have. The great love affair is therefore the drama in which you meet your own masculine or feminine self.

RELATIVES A great deal of who you are was absorbed or learned from the close or difficult relationships you experienced while a child. Extremely powerful feeling responses developed to deal with what you needed and what actually happened to you. For instance a man who was placed in an orphanage while young, to top from sinking into deep depression, had to learn to get love from whatever females he could make contact with. As an adult he still experienced a drive to have several women he could turn to when in need.

Relatives in dreams, therefore usually depict family values, a way of life, or particular feelings or responses. In some way they show aspects of what you are doing now in your relationships and activities. So look for such issues as security; attraction or repulsion to males, females; introversion or extroversion as a way of life; dependence or independence and their many levels of growth or action; sickness or anger as a means of getting love, and so on.

Seeing parents dead: Sometimes dreamt at a time you are learning to become independent, so you are letting their influence or power in your life die. See: Brother; Sister; Father; Mother.

REMEMBER/REMEMBERED/REMEMBERING A huge percentage of your experience remains forgotten in a general sense. You cannot easily bring it to consciousness. But occasionally a smell, a scene, triggers powerful remembering. In dreams such remembering can happen also. It is then usually about parts of your experience that are important in their connection to the present.

RENT The demands life makes upon us in particular situations. If we want a big garden the rent is the work it takes to look after it.

Collecting rent: What we want from others, or what we are getting from them in the way of feelings, influences.

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REPTILE Any reptile in your dreams may depict your surface feeling reactions to that creature, such as like or dislike, attraction or repulsion. But in many cases reptiles such as a snake or lizards are used to portray your very basic instinctive responses to life, such as the fear reaction, flight or fight response, the sexual drive toward reproduction, territorial display, and ritualistic social behaviour - shaking hands, bowing, etc.

The reptile also frequently shows how you are dealing with such enormous flows of emotional or nervous energy. For instance fear is a great protector, but in human life, because we can keep stimulating the response by imagination, by words, it can become overactive to the point of illness. A gazelle may be chased by a lion. If it escapes it doesn't spend days shaking or drinking alcohol to cover its fear. In a few minutes it is quietly grazing. A human in such an encounter can replay it over and over.

The point is that you cannot become a fully mature human being until you learn to meet these ancient drives and integrate them into your everyday life. So it is important to develop a working relationship with the snakes, lizards and frogs in your dreams. See: Snake, Alligator, Frog.

RESCUE/RESCUED/RESCUING An intervention or action that has brought about a radical change in yourself, possibly from real psychological or even physical difficulty. It is worth defining what brought about the change, so you can use it in the future.

Rescuing someone else, or an animal: This is an action you take to preserve something important inside yourself from being destroyed by common held attitudes or ways of life. For instance a sense of wonder and creativity can be destroyed or 'drowned' by materialistic or cynical viewpoints.

RESTAURANT Sociability, relaxation, friendship. Search for sustenance or strength, or ways of directing your life. Perhaps also a search for company or sexual partner, the nourishment of companionship. See: Food.

REST ROOM See: toilet.

REVOLUTION Major changes in yourself, in viewpoint, understanding, activities, in governing desires. It can also show conflict between major parts of your personality. For instance some people dominate their behaviour with rational thinking, suppressing their feelings. This is akin to the Russian and French aristocracy dominating the working class. The result can be revolution.

RHINOCEROS Throwing your weight about. Using your influence. The same thing applies sexually. The old business of I’ll get you in films if....?

RICH See: Bank; Money.

RIDE/RIDING If you are riding a horse or animal, it shows your relationship with your own spontaneous drives such as fears, feelings, reproduction. Also it can show how you relate to your body and its needs and processes - whether you are in harmony or driving it too hard.

Riding in a car or train - See: Car; Railway.

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RIFLE Penis; male sexuality; anger; confidence in defending oneself against criticism, etc.; fears or anxieties; attitudes we use as a defence against our own emotions or realisations - a man might feel depressed about growing old, and defend himself against these with positive thoughts; also the bulldozer emotions we sometimes use against others, like a pistol held to their head.

RIGHT If you are right handed, the right foot, arm, leg, eye, ear, all symbolise conscious attributes as opposed to unconscious. May also suggest right as opposed to wrong. For those who are right handed, the right hand is the active, creative, dynamic hand. The left is the passive, supporting, or female helping hand. When we knock a nail in, the right hand does the work while the left holds the nail, and so on. So it suggests, in the right side of our body, the active, conscious, extroverted and male aspect of self. See: Left.

RIGID Strength, maleness; unbending emotions, dogmatism.

RING This may represents your relationship with the person who gave it to us, or the feelings that drove you to buy it. Or perhaps the reason it was given. Thus it can symbolise marriage, engagement, or can represent wholeness if it is not one which has been given you. The feelings we associate with the ring. See: Circle.

RIOT See: Revolution.

RITUAL See: Ceremony.

RIVER We are all a sort of river, in that air water continually flow through us. If that flow dries up we die. Therefore the river depicts the richness or poverty of your life energy, flow of feeling responses and creativity. Your life processes, expressed as feelings, can carry you along, sustain you, or sweep you away. You might even feel overwhelmed by the torrent of what you feel, and this would be shown as drowning.

The river is also similar to a snake in its curving and so can be associated with this. Sometimes it represents the passage of time. Going against the current is to go against your inner flow or may be an effort to find the source, or get back to the womb.

Crossing a river: Making great changes. If one is in the water to cross, it means meeting a lot of emotions in the process of change.

Seeing someone cross a river: Feelings about death, as does falling in the river.

Going against the current: Resisting ones own feelings; going against prevailing influences or attitudes; going back to the womb.

Directing a river: Channelling ones emotional or sexual energy.

Stagnant river: Restrained feelings or sexuality; holding oneself back.

RIVET Binding connections or relationships. Sexual organ.

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