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SNACK/SNACK BAR Urges wanting satisfaction. A hunger for something. It might also link with sociability or need for contact if you use the snack bar for meeting people or escaping from somewhere else..

SNAlL A snail withdraws quickly into its shell, and sometimes represents great sensitivity that makes us withdraw from life. So it can suggest such a vulnerability , or that you are hiding in a protective shell of feelings.

SNAKE The snake can represent many different things, but usually the energy that expresses as our life processes. If we think of a person's life from conception to death, we see a flowing moving event, similar in many ways to the speeded-up films of a seed growing into a plant, flowering and dying. The snake depicts the force, purpose or energy behind that movement. It is the force of life, the latent energy or potential within us - that leads us both to growth and death, along with the passionate emotions and urges that drive us so powerfully. That energy - like electricity in a house, that can be heat, power, sound and vision - lies behind all our functions. So in some dreams the snake represents our sexuality; in others the rising of that energy up our body to express as digestion - the intestinal snake; or as the creative or poisonous energy of our emotions and thoughts, even disease; in the throat as destructive or constructive speech and language; in the head as thinking, perception and higher cognition.

In the destructive aspect the snake represents the poisonous thoughts and emotions that can destroy us. We tend to depict this snake biting or attacking us, even though we have ourselves given rise to such poisonous emotions as hate and guilt. Because our life energy flows into thinking and emotions, we are in this way directing the creative force of life. Directing it negatively has the power to bring illness and death, for we are dealing with the power of life and death itself. But the snake can also depict the intestines, and their health.

The opposite is also true. The power of life and death can be directed creatively. Then the snake is seen in its healing role in dreams, and in ancient times was shown in the form of the staff with two snakes coiling up it - caduceus - still used today as a symbol of the medical profession. See: energy sex dreams.

The snake can shed its skin, and so symbolises self transcendence, rebirth.

The the alchemists put a gold crown on its head, symbolising expanded or spiritual consciousness arising from the same energy as sexuality. Often a diadem, gem, or light is at its brow symbolising the possibility of expanded consciousness, or awareness of the eternal nature, and life in eternity. Christ is sometimes depicted as a crucified serpent. See: Reptile.

SNARE Seemingly appealing idea or plan that is basically wrong. A situation you can get trapped in.

SNEEZE Spontaneous cleansing of self, caused by the inner self rather than conscious intention.

SNOW Usually frozen or repressed feelings or emotions. Sometimes purity, dormancy, the stilling of the outer life as in winter, when the seeds and roots rest in the earth, or unconscious, till the new spring. Ideas, morals, or intellect that have frozen your feelings.

SOAP Cleansing. An attempt to come clean, to be rid of guilt or conscience or something that makes you feel grubby. See: Washing.

SOCK These are often used in dreams to represent the personal quality, cleanness or untidyness of the person. They therefore depict some sort of judgement about what sort of person you are, or how you see someone. Socks also can represent particular roles, such as a footballers socks, or special quality socks for business or social ritual. The strange idioms surrounding socks also show other associations, like 'pull your socks up' - knocked my socks off (suggesting a powerful experience.) Socks can also be associated with warmth or protection from a difficult situation.

SOFT TOY As a child our toys can be extremely important. A soft toy might be the only non-threatening relationship we have, and so depict security, love, and the ability to control instead of be controlled. It could therefore represent the ability to create, with the aid of an external object, an internal source of love and assurance. As an adult it might suggest a desire for a non-threatening emotional or sexual relationship. It can also be a means of venting anger or pain. See: Doll; Toy.

SOLAR PLEXUS Sensitivity to hurt or pleasure. See: Abdomen.

SOLDER/SOLDERED/SOLDERING Friendship, unity, strong bonds.

SOLDIER This usually suggest some sort of conflict. You may be scuttling with urges within yourself, or decisions. There can be a drive due to personal growth, to face old hurts, but you are shying away from pain, and thus the conflict.

If in opposition with the soldier: Things you feel in conflict with; your internal conflicts and involvement with the 'wars' or trauma you have experienced in the past.

If you are a soldier or are united with soldiers: Your willingness or ability to face internal conflicts and hurts; daring to confront the difficulties of life.

In a woman's dream: Inner conflicts; feeling threatened regarding relationship with a male.

Military service: Feeling bound by social or personal disciplines or restrictions; learning strengths and self discipline to meet internal conflicts.

SOLICITOR See: Lawyer.

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SON Feelings or worries concerning a son. Growing part of self. Hopes or worries about the future. Your extroverted self; desires connected with self expression; parental responsibility.

Mothers dream: Your ambitions; potential; hopes. It can also represent your marriage. The child is the fruit of the relationship, so can represent the state of the relationship.

Father's dream: Yourself at that age; what qualities you see in your son; your own possibilities; envy of youth and opportunities; rivalry. As above, can represent your marriage-relationship.

Someone else's son: Feelings about your own son; feelings about younger men.

SOUND/SOUNDS/NOISE Sound in dreams are similar in impact to sounds we hear in waking. They carry information to you very directly. So you feel fear or pleasure depending on the sound. Therefore the important thing its to define what feeling reaction you have to the sound, and what information you gather from it. Take this as the thing to consider in understanding your dream. Ask yourself, is the sound a warning? Does it carry information? Is it producing pleasure?

Sounds are sometimes a power in dreams. They reach out and cause something to happen at a distance. This suggests a use of positive will, a confident expression of yourself in a way that you expect a result to follow.

SOUP This might be sustenance, sustaining or strengthening emotions. But it depends what is happening to the soup. If spilt it can suggests making a mess of things, or feeling insecure about a social event. Offering soup depicts a giving of yourself, of your care and affection. The soup in a saucepan might be showing how you have gathered many things together to nourish yourself or someone else. See: Food.

SOUTH The genital area of self; warmth, lightness, feelings. In the southern hemisphere: Coldness, darkness; death. In some countries, as in South America, southern USA, the south may symbolise different attitudes, as to the coloured population, or different ways of life.

SPACE Opportunity or potential, also amount of freedom, depending upon space.

Cosmic space: Beyond thinking or limited concepts and ego boundaries; beyond what is established already; being out of touch with reality.

Awareness of space: Awareness of experience going beyond the present view of the world one has created. The realisation ones personal experience is not all there is.

Someone or yourself in space: Depending on dream, it may suggest feeling out of touch with other people; introverted because of feeling ill at ease with yourself; awareness of spiritual life beyond the boundaries of the physical senses; expanded awareness.

SPACESHIP Your means of exploring reaches of inner experience beyond the limited awareness given by the senses. Therefore might mean exploring ones inner resources through intuition, or opening new aspects of mental function or experience, such as happens in altered states of consciousness, or unusual mental functioning. See: Rocket.

SPEAK/SPEAKING/SPOKE This depicts some form of communication, often between your unconscious view of life and your waking self, or between an aspect of yourself that does not dominate your behaviour, and your mainstream self.

Difficulty in speaking: This can mean that you have something you want to express, but it is still largely unconscious, or is held back through uncertainty. You therefore need to imagine yourself speaking it clearly, allowing it to come out, perhaps first in private.

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SPEAR This has many meanings depending upon how it is used in the dream. It can depict male sexuality, but usually in the form of confidence or self affirmation. Such power can of course wound, oneself or others, but it can also protect and penetrate what is guarded or hidden. The spear therefore can represent a penetrating intellect or inquisitiveness. In some cultures the spear represented manhood in the sense of the skill to be independent and provide for or protect others - to be a warrior.

SPECTACLES Glasses represent attempts to understand things; the attitudes which colour your view of life; the ability to see or understand. Therefore broken or lost glasses might show you not understanding a situation that confronts you.

SPECTRUM Something showing many possibilities. The range of your own personal experience, view or emotions. See: Colour.

SPEECH To make a long speech suggests a desire to express yourself, to make yourself understood, to see your inner feelings at work in the world, to be acknowledged.

SPEED Progress, or lack of it. A state of tension, patience, desire to get somewhere. Also the intensity, or lack of it, of your feelings or the experience. Perhaps, if the speed is terrible, it shows difficulty in meeting demands.

SPELL Having a spell put on you, or casting a spell, can indicate an event that has caused a powerful association between an event, a situation or a person, and strong emotions, either positive or negative. For instance a spell could be that you go to hospital, are anaesthetized, and so in a suggestible state, are held by a nurse, but 'attacked' by the surgeon. This might link physical contact with a woman with terror of attack.

SPERM This indicates not only the power of cooperation in pregnancy, but also all the immense influence and background that lies behind a human birth. Thousands of generations of experience lie latent in the sperm and ovum. It is also eternal in that although the body carrying it dies, the sperm, if it passes on in reproduction, carries on living. It therefore has an unbroken life back to the beginning of life. It can therefore represent your whole long history, all your forebears in the male line, all your potential for the future. See: Germ; Seed.

SPHERE See: Circle.

SPHINX The riddle of your existence. Why are we here? Where are we going? The process of individualisation or development of consciousness. It shows humanness emerging from the instinctive drives, so is therefore the human struggle to become. Can also stand for the whole being.

SPICE Sex; pleasure; variety or change.

SPIDER Any emotion or desire that devours the strength or purpose of your life. The spider is also used as a symbol of sexual orgasm, but only if we are terrified, disgusted or guilty about such feelings. Sometimes symbolises a mother’s power, as in the way we are caught in the web of her desires and emotions. Inability to become independent of the mother.

The spider can also depict any emotions you don't want to 'handle', such as those surrounding a spouse leaving; wanting to ensnare, or feeling trapped by someone; the basic survival instincts in us such as a spider might have - can I eat, or will I be eaten in this meeting/relationship? This level of our sensory and feeling perception is important. Like a spider it keeps one of your feet/fingers on the web or influences that connect you with other people and the world. Like the spider, if you are wise, you thereby know something of what is coming your way - do you advance or run? See: Web.

The following waking fantasy by a man undergoing depth therapy shows an aspect of the spider.

I realise there is something I am looking for, and I don’t find it in my wife, or at least I don’t sense it in her. It is a frightening thing and partly exciting. This leads me on to fantasising a struggle with a young woman. It is about wanting to have sex, but seems to be some sort of power struggle. The image was of a smart very confident and aggressive young woman. She was attractive and attracted, but her approach was one of attack, so to have a relationship I needed to fight her. What I appear to be meeting is that I have the sex drive, but what I am facing is a monster. In fact I have the image of a huge spider that comes out from hiding and drags me helpless into its lair, its many eyes shining. I’m afraid. It’s not that my sex drive abates, but within this fantasy you have to time it just right. One must wait for the ‘beast’ to become passive then dash in and plunge into the wonderful hairy cavity. Otherwise the ‘beast’ will rip you apart. It is exactly like the horror films one sees of the monster that drags men or women back to its lair. It is actually all about my fear of women based on past pain. I want sex, but to get it I have to confront memories of being torn apart emotionally by a woman.

SPIRIT/SPIRITS To see a spirit, a disembodied personality, in a dream may symbolise thoughts or feelings on death, but very often it shows a past memory or experience that still haunts you, perhaps because it has never been fully felt. This full experience of it is a sort of exorcism, banishing the ghost.

The spirit in your dream may be a contact with the dead, or those about to be born. In some cases, the spirit comes to the parents and asks them to form a body for it as it wishes to incarnate, and they could provide a suitable body and family environment.

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