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FOR FEATURES ON DREAMS SEE DREAM ENCYCLOPEDIA

SPLINTER Ideas or opinions that are irritating to your feelings.

SPRING The season: A new beginning in some area of your life. Growing. Time of unfoldment and renewal.

Spring of water: Free flowing feelings; rejuvenating energy; can sometimes refer to ones source of life and consciousness in a spiritual sense, especially if the spring is in a cave or underground. It then suggests ones personality is becoming more aware of the collective unconscious and its contents. See: Water.

SPY/SPYING Suspicion; underhandedness; secrecy; something you could be in trouble about if you were found out.

SQUARE See: Cube; Four.

SQUINT/SQUINTING Difficulty in understanding. See: Eye.

SQUIRREL See Squirrel in larger entry.

STAB/STABBED/STABBING Either refers to aggressive activities, hurtful words, feeling hurt, or aggressive sexuality.

If we are stabbing someone, especially if it is a parent or someone we have linked with emotionally or sexually, there may sometimes exist behind the action the need to sever or kill any dependence upon or bonding with, that person. Any anger being felt in this case is about the depth of our need or dependence, and the pain at having to sever the connection. Such severance and angry killing of our feelings for someone else, usually gives rise to guilt. See: weapons.

STAG Male aspect of the personality. See other entry on stag.

STAGE This can refer to your life in general; your stage of development; the inner self and what drama is being enacted therein; a desire to be in the limelight; or the centre of present interest or activity. Conscious activities. The play of your own dramatic passions and drives within yourself. The theme being dramatised is often important to understand, as it reflects concerns in your own life that are of concern to you. See: Actor.

STAGNANT Blocked emotions or energies. See: River.

STAIRCASE/STAIRS As a baby, stairs presented a huge challenge. To deal with them we had to develop several major abilities, such as steady balance, confidence, control of fear of falling, strength of purpose. Therefore, stairs represent many feelings in connection with achievement, failure, climbing and falling. When these feelings also connect with work, relationship, social standing or sex, then we use stairs as a symbol of what we are feeling.

Running up: We sometimes use this in our dreams when we are trying to escape from urges arising from lower down in the body - so it is a movement of attention towards the abstract or mental, away from fears arising from the unconscious or sexuality. So lack of confidence, a fear of failing or not being capable is also a common feeling in connection with stairs. If you are running up with pleasure, then it suggests exuberance producing a change in your feelings and situation.

Skimming down: This is a dream often experienced by children. It is almost like flying down the stairs, the feet just touching the edge of the stairs every so often, creating an exhilarating sense of pleasure. The reason for the dream is most likely that going down stairs as a young child is a difficult and dangerous skill. Most of us have fallen at some point. As we gain greater physical control and can run down stairs, a sense of greater achievement arises. Not only stairs, but other areas of our environment that were dangerous, are now a source of pleasure. The dream translates this feeling into the image of skimming the stairs.

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STAMMER Internal struggle or conflict of some sort. Perhaps a subvocalisation is going on at the same time. See: Speak.

STAR A hope, a wish, an ambition. An intuition or subtle sense of the cosmos and your relationship with it. Subtle influences that shape and direct you.

STARVATION Hungering for something such as love, self expression, recognition, self realisation. See: Fasting.

STATION See: Railway.

STATUE Unfeeling, like a stone. Unresponsiveness.

STEAM Emotions expressed under pressure, as words spoken in anger; or things done after a shock or fright.

STEAL/STEALING/STOLEN Feeling that something is taken from you, or you are taking something, without agreement. Feelings of being unloved might enter into this, as you will feel you are stealing what is not willingly given.

STEEL See: Iron.

STEPS Usually the different steps taken in any undertaking. The first step towards marriage is courtship, the next engagement, and so on. See: Walking.

STERILISE May express a fear of illness, of germs. Or an attempt to cleanse self. See: Bathing.

STEW We may be in a stew, or in a muddle or confusion. A stew can also represent different parts of self being unified into a homogenous whole, a sustaining power instead of a confusing one. See: Soup; Food.

STIFF Formality, rigidity, extreme morality.

STING Hurt by what has been said or done by someone. To be stung to action, means pain has stimulated you to do something about it.

STINK A fuss or argument. Unpleasant emotions.

STOMACH Acceptance. It symbolises your ability to deal with events, situations, ideas and people.

STONE To be unfeeling, heart like a stone, frigid instead of loving. To throw stones is to give nothing but hate and coldness, to be unsympathetic or aggressive.

STOOL Similar to chair but less secure. A feeling of resting. See Chair

STORE See: Shop.

STORK The soul; symbol of birth or babyhood, and perhaps parenthood; the beauty of the wider awareness of the unconscious.

STORM Violent emotions, fears and thoughts. Anger, terror, or release of pent up feelings in a dramatic manner.

STOVE See: Oven.

STRANGLE Life or energy is being cut off by an attitude, fear or repression. Emotions can be held back in the neck, so it might be feelings about someone living or dead that you are holding back.

STREAM See: River.

STREET See: Road.

STRING Usually the connections you have with other people or situations. Also your attempts to secure something or keep something together, such as a business or relationship.

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STROLLER Relating to babyhood, being dependent, or even pregnancy. It could also suggest having responsibility if you are pushing it.

SUBMARINE In some dreams may take the place of the symbol of the whale, so represent powerful feelings and urges emerging from the unconscious. But the submarine is also a way to explore your own inner content and wisdom. See: Ship.

SUBWAY See: Underground.

SUCK May refer to infantile feelings, as in sucking at the breast. Or may symbolise being a sucker or fool.

SUFFOCATE/SUFFOCATED/SUFFOCATING This often reflects the way you relate to your environment, either in a relationship or work or family. It depicts feeling you have no personal space or opportunity to express.

Some types of sleep problem, such as apnea, may also cause this type of dream.

SUGAR Enjoyable things in life, or pleasant things in self or others. Desire to cover up unpleasant things in your experience, or in others.

SUIT See: Clothes.

SUITCASE See: Luggage.

SUMMER Maturing process, warmth of emotions. energy expressed outwardly, an outgoing personality. The height of your success or mid-life.

SUN Symbol of life, energy and spirit. Represents the whole of your being, or source of life and consciousness. To sunbathe means to expose yourself to life-giving energies from within. To drop away morals, opinions, attitudes, as represented by clothes, and allow your energies natural expression. All energy and health, happiness and success.

Or you can have sunburn, or sunstroke, symbolising an exposure to your inner energies before knowing how to cope with them.

SUNDAY Relaxation, rest, religious observance.

SURF/SURFING Waves of feeling, inspiration, experience. Meeting challenges in the swift changes in your life. Sex and its pleasures or difficulties.

SURGERY A surgery: Ones health, emotional or physical.

Having surgery: Feeling 'got at' by someone; having someone 'get under ones skin'; difficult but healing changes in yourself; feelings about surgery if imminent.

SURRENDER To hand over your will. To become open to influence.

SWALLOW/SWALLOWED/SWALLOWING This suggests you are either taking something in, or if you are swallowing without putting something in your mouth, then you are holding something back, pushing down feelings or a healing process.

SWAMP See: Bog, Marsh.

SWAN In folklore and mythology people turn into a swan, or God takes the form of a swan. The swan represents the soul, or sometimes the spirit. It may represent the parts of your inner life that are not understood, or are hurt by your environment or others; the loving parts of the self that are killed or unloved, and turn into a swan leaving us with a sense of terrible loss.

SWEEP/SWEEPING/SWEPT Clearing away outmoded attitudes, anxieties or emotions; getting feelings about someone out of ones life.

SWEETS Childhood pleasures or rewards. So sweets may relate to something you want desperately or hunger for in a childlike or dependent way.

SWIMMING Water represents your feelings, a river the flow of our feelings and energies, and the sea the whole personality from outer surface to the depths of the unconscious, so swimming becomes an ability to cope with your inner feelings and energies. Inability to swim in a dream means you have not learned the skill of keeping afloat in the depth of your own feelings and mental life. To swim easily is to have confidence in yourself, and a trust in life to support your activities and efforts. To be at home in the waters is to feel at ease with your sexual urges, ambitions, desires and instincts. To be threatened by the waves or water, is to be afraid of yourself, of your own feelings, to doubt your ability to face life and its experiences. To feel threatened by your desires and energies.

SWIMMING POOL The way you share experience with other people or are involved with other people. It therefore often refers to relationships with others, especially the aspect of relationship where feelings or influence permeates you from the people you are mixing with. For instance you might be part of a social group that starts using drugs and be influenced to join in drug usage.

The swimming pool may also represent the magical inner world of your own mind, fantasy and imagination, especially in relationship with other people.

Being under water in the pool: Something that is 'submerged' such as feelings about a past relationship that still exist, but are not 'on the surface' of ones mind. Or perhaps an aspect of ones personality that has not yet been recognised consciously. Also it suggest seeing what is going on unconsciously or under the surface in a group.

SWING Rocking is a way to calm oneself used by children and traumatised people. It probably has this same significance in dreams. May also have sexual significance.

SWORD Many meanings. May be your discrimination and search for truth; protective instincts or strength of character, with which you can also help and protect others. Also, like any weapon, may depict aggressiveness, or male sexuality.

SYRINGE Most often a phallic symbol. But may represent energy, emotions, ideas, injected into you, such as schooling, that may be foreign to your real nature, or of only temporary effect. See: Injection.

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