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Dream meanings - enabling you to understand your own dreams

Tony Crisp

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T The symbol of T is sometimes used to represent the cross. But where it does so, it stands for the evolutionary forces within, rebelling against the inertia of physical life, traditions, the past, our habits, resentments to change.

TABLE Your connection or relationship with others. Communal or family relationships. Everyday certainties that support your activities, such as confidence you will get paid at the end of the week; your attitude toward the inner and exterior community. The table can also be a work area or an altar depicting self giving - if table is bare, perhaps not giving much of yourself.

Quality of table: The quality of your relationship with others.

Your place at table: How you see your status or the status of someone else.

Dressing table: Your attempts to change your image, or to create a good social image.

TABLET See: Pill

TADPOLE Sperm, a baby, perhaps in the womb - i.e. pregnancy. Possible feelings arising from pre-natal life. See: Frog.

TAIL May have phallic meaning. Or may denote your past or background, or even backbone, in the sense of strength and purpose. Instinctive urges.

TAILOR The ability to alter attitudes or opinions. The power to alter your contact with others, or public image.

TALISMAN Some idea, belief or emotion that helps to ward off fear, or the dominating influence of others. It can also be a link or doorway to your own resources of courage, insight or strength. Occasionally it can represent a healing influence.

TALK/TALKED/TALKING An attempt to be in contact with whatever you are talking to. A sense of communication; an attempt at expressing something important, or at justifying yourself.

Difficulty in speaking, or not speaking: Restrained anger or difficult feelings; anxiety or lack of confidence; absence of real contact or communication. See: Paralysed

Speaking and not being understood: Feeling of not being listened to; frustration.

No one talking to you: Feeling isolated or judged. See: Speech.

Talking in your sleep: Most of us do this at some time, and it is simple an expression of the dream activity breaking through into speech someone else can hear. But some dreamers carry on long conversations a partner sleeping with them can hear. This is probably a form of release of tension or feelings while in the dream state.

TAME If something like a wild animal or person is tamed in a dream it means a changed relationship with the part of you symbolised. In the book The Little Prince by Antoine de St. Exupery, he says that to tame is to establish ties.

TANGLE An inner confusion. Mixed up desires, ideas, anxieties. Perhaps even conflict.

TANK Battle tank: Aggressiveness; defensiveness through the use of anger or aggression.

Water tank: Stored emotions, perhaps restrained emotions. It might also at times represent your bladder or that you are retaining too much water in your body. Also occasionally the womb, especially if something is swimming about in it.

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TAP To turn on the tap refers to tears, or the emotions that produce tears, but a tap may also refer to how you control your emotions, or what you can get from within yourself..

TAPESTRY What you have woven with your actions in life; what you have created of your own inner life; perhaps an indication of your spiritual life. See: Carpet.

TAR The unconscious. The inner self in its negative aspect. If we have a fear of heights yet have not the slightest idea why, the feelings of fear are emerging from the unconscious. Such fears could be represented by tar or soot sticking to the body, clothes or belongings. Tar on a road will also represent the unconscious, but in a slightly different way. To dig into it, is to attempt to get below the surface of self to find the hidden sources of behaviour and feelings.

TARGET Ambitions, hopes, your aims, even your goal in personal growth. Sometimes the vagina.

TARNISH See: Rust.

TASTE Usually refers to like and dislikes, conscious or unconscious standards; taste in friends and relationships, even work. Taste often depicts feeling reactions, as a feeling of bitterness or pleasure.

TATTOO An experience that has left an indelible memory or mark. Being bitten by a dog may leave a permanent fear of dogs. Being hurt emotionally by someone may have a similar effect. A tattoo could also represent the effect on self of personal habits or efforts. It might occasionally refer to how you gain identity, or what group you identify with.

TAVERN See: Bar-room; Public House.

TAX Feeling 'taxed'; what we owe to Life and society for our existence; how much of self we want to give. See: Bill.

TAXI Desire for help; other people's influence in your life; help you have to pay for. See: Car.

TEA Often represents some stimulating idea, hope, person, or contact experienced. As with alcohol, it represents the change that can be made on behaviour by inner energies or spirit. Can also represent sociability, encouragement, sympathy, or relaxation. See: Coffee.

TEACHER How you relate to an authority figure; feelings developed in school and still active; something you are learning or want to learn. An important lesson you are meeting in life and need to learn. If it is a teacher you know, then it would depict what you feel about that teacher, what feelings they provoke.

TEAR An emotion, feeling, sympathy or unhappiness.

Tearing something: Attempting to, or unwittingly destroying feelings, a relationship, or something you have created. This might be purposefully or accidentally. Look to what it is you are tearing to understand what it is you are shown to be doing.

TEAR-GAS-BOMB An experience that causes unexpected but copious emotion.

TEDDY BEAR Desire for comfort, sympathy and love, of a nature that cannot hurt or answer back. Childhood traits and emotions. See: Doll; Soft toys.

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TEENAGER Dead teenager: Hurt feelings of love or wanting to be loved; damaged self esteem or feelings of value in the world.

Female teenager in a female's dream: Possibly feelings to do with the process of sexually maturing; competitive feelings in relationship to men; some aspect of your own feelings as a teenager.

Female teenager in dream of female teenager: If this is a known friend, it most likely represents the attitudes and qualities, or lack of them, seen in the friend. In which case the other aspects of the dream describe the part these qualities play in the dreamers life. If it is an imagined female, it usually depicts the dreamer, perhaps in a way she might not usually see herself. Possibly she is enacting the issues of most importance in the dreamers life.

Female teenager: The feeling or emotional side of dreamer rather than the thinking assertive; uncertainty or inexperience in relationships; powerful sexual/romantic attraction or feelings.

Holy youth: The eternal side of your nature, forever young. If a particular/known teenager: Define how you see the character of the teenager and take it to represent those characteristics. If dreamt by a child: Depicts their feelings or assessment of their own future, or ways of meeting future relationships.

If dreamt by adult: Whether the young person is your own child, someone you know, or a stranger, it is often an expression of yourself at that age. Therefore define, perhaps by writing down, what attitudes and feelings were predominant in your own teenage years. Common themes are uncertainty/shyness, inexperience, immaturity; high sexuality, idealism, ambitious hopes and plans for the future; depression; the confidence or strength of youth. You can decide which, if any, of these your dream deals with by defining what feelings are expressed in the dream. For help with this see processing dreams.

Male teenager in dream of male teenager: Possibly represents feelings of competition or aggression with other males, depending on dream content; the qualities depicted by the dream male, and their place in the dreamers life.

Male teenager: Sexual inexperience, social aggressiveness or uncertainty. Oneself at that age if the dreamer is a male. Aspects of relationship not lived out in dreamers teenage if the dreamer is a woman.

Teenager of opposite sex: Feelings of sexual attraction coloured by adolescent vulnerability, idealism or uncertainty; uncertainty or inexperience in relationship; or what you feel about that particular teenager.

TEETH Teeth can represent your bite, effectiveness or power in life. They may represent biting remarks, hurtful words. They are your ability to 'chew' over things, meaning to consider and think about, almost to get a taste or try to experience what you are considering.

Woman swallowing teeth: The throat and Eustachian tubes are like uterus and fallopian tubes, so can depict conception or fear of it. In ancient cultures, a tooth was extracted and swallowed as part of a death and rebirth symbol. This may have arisen from the observation of losing ones child teeth and the growth of new teeth, suggesting the power of renewal.

Bad tooth: A painful or rotten part of your feelings, life or relationships; angry or regretful words.

False teeth: Lies told; false face; not keeping spoken promises; the ageing process and loss of good looks.

Spitting out lots of teeth: Something you want to 'spit out' in the sense of admitting, saying, or expressing emotionally.

Teeth falling out: Often a sense of loss, such as death of family member or loved one; the ageing process as it relates to maturity, so worries about getting older and one's changing image. When our first teeth fall out at around seven, it is probably our initial experience of losing something from our body, something weird happening - we might even fear other bits of us could drop off or out.

If single tooth: This may suggest loss, change, or death of someone.

Tooth being pulled out: Jung felt this dream represents giving birth if dreamt by a woman. In general it probably has associations with loss or painful loss.

Toothless: Loss of effectiveness; feelings about ageing.

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