Dream Interpreter U 1

DREAM INTERPRETER

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Tony Crisp

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UFO This is probably a meeting with your wholeness. As this awareness of infinity is an enormous experience, and unusual, our image forming dream self tends to express it as alien contact, or a UFO, or other round light. This also suggests a new area of experience, or new way of experiencing yourself, is emerging. So the UFO experience often comes before life changes. So consider what changes are occurring in the way you relate to people and events.

ULCER See: Abscess.

UMBILICAL Ties based on dependence rather than love or mutual interests. It can also refer to a strong tie to your mother, or to life in the womb.

There is another aspect of the umbilical cord though. It shows how we connect in a relationship. Pains in the area suggest anxieties about our connection with someone we love or depend on in some way. But the umbilical is also a symbol of flowing connection in love. It is the very life-line or survival cord.

UMBRELLA The strategies you use to deal with difficult emotions, or things you want to avoid.

UNCLE To some extent an uncle is a role model. We gather from their success or failure strategies for our own life. Whatever feelings we have about them, whatever we think of them, the dream will use this to illustrate something for you. So consider how you would describe your uncle, what sort of person he is, and how you feel about him. The dream will be using his image to illustrate the role you see him in. If he is a success, ask yourself what in yourself you are facing regarding success. If you feel he is a failure, ask yourself what of your own feelings about failure you are facing. See: Family.

UNDER/UNDERNEATH This can imply a wide range of this depending on the dream context. It can suggest protection, when you are under a roof or a tree. It can imply being ruled or dominated by someone, or feeling them as superior, if you are in some way underneath them - as suggested by the idiom 'under the thumb'. It can point to your own feelings of superiority if something or someone is underneath you in some way. The idiom 'under a cloud' also shows how we use this word to describe being depressed or down in spirits.

UNDERGROUND Under the ground: Usually symbolises inner feelings, unconscious direction and tendencies, things that influence you that act below the level of your everyday awareness. This could include childhood feelings or painful memories that are suppressed; instinctive or intuitive responses; family or personal attitudes that are deeply habitual.

Underground-Metro-Subway: Your exploration or realisation of your own usually unconscious tendencies and influences. Or perhaps what you are doing that is not accepted in general society - an 'underground' activity.

UNDRESS Revealing your true feelings; casting off restraining or inhibiting attitudes, fears or morals. A desire to display or express yourself more openly. See: Naked.

UNEARTH To discover things you have forgotten or not been aware of previously. This could be things like feelings about a past love, or things usually unconscious.

UNHARNESS To remove the restrictions or moral restraints from energies and desires. See: Horse.

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UNICORN Because it blends the image of the horse with that of the virgin, and the outstanding single horn, it suggests purity with animal or basic sexuality. The message is therefore that sexuality can be directed in a new way with single mindedness. The mythology of the unicorn suggests it can only be tamed by a pure woman. The image of the woman suggests that if a man can meet his own femininity, or if he can be with a woman without letting the energy of desire flow into physical sex or ejaculation, then the energy of sexuality transforms into something else, a wider awareness for instance.

The following dream illustrates something of this. Nicolas dream seems to depict powerful opposites in her nature. The tiger is her powerful possibilities of aggression and desire, and the unicorn depicts the possibility of transforming these. The opposites are often shown in such a confrontation.

I am in a house with a girl in a wheelchair. Bored I go for a walk. The girl said it would be dangerous. I am on a shoreline. The ocean is in front of me like a wall. To my right is a calm sea and a tiger. To my left is a rough sea with a unicorn. As the tiger runs at me the unicorn charges and butts it. Nicola

In another dream Anthony meets a similar situation. He describes his dream as follows:

A massive force underlying the basement of my house was threatening to emerge. It had already torn down part of the ceiling of the basement. This force was in the shape of a woman and a serpent. But when it did emerge the figure of Christ also came into the room and the two seemed to change each other. When I explored the dream I felt the woman represented my own natural and unrestrained desires and needs, and Christ was the power of social pressure to conform. In releasing them, both my natural urges and social needs could be expressed in creative acts - such as a singer might do in performances. They might therefore be acceptable, though still containing the socially dangerous natural impulses.

Carl Jung writes of this saying:

Christ himself symbolically appears as the Lamb of God or the Fish, but he is also the serpent exalted on the cross, the lion, and in rarer cases the unicorn. These animal attributes of Christ indicate that even the Son of God (the supreme personification of man) can no more dispense with his animal nature than with his higher, spiritual nature.

So the unicorn and the pure female represent this transformation or raw animal urges into creative human action and awareness.

UNIFORM Conformity, orthodoxy. Also, authority, power, an expression of a universal activity. A priest has the power of the church behind him; a policeman has the power of the law. So the uniform may imply these influences acting on you. The uniform might also depict your identification with a social role, such as that of a nurse or teacher. In this case it might be about how much you need that role for your own sense of confidence, or maybe how you are changing in the role.

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UNION/UNITY/UNITED Conformity due to outer pressure rather than inner direction. The power of united emotions, energies, ideas.

United or merged with someone or something: This is like love, in which you absorb qualities from the other person. In some dreams you might even become them as you make big life changes and allow new aspects of yourself to emerge.

UNIVERSITY Learning lessons about life; the ambition to improve your life skills or status. Or it can link with your own experiences of university life. In which case it is worth defining what your overall impression of university was - loneliness, pleasure, intense friendships? See: School.

UNRAVEL To understand; to untangle the confusion of anxieties. To heal fears and tensions.

UP/UPWARDS/UPPER In many dreams this points directly to the strategies you use to deal with emotions or situations that undermine confidence or positive feelings. For instance we may take our attention away from something that depresses by switching the television on, visiting a friend, drinking alcohol or smoking. Wherever possible it is worth meeting the feelings you are trying to escape from in the dream. So this by imagining yourself in the dream again and turning to face whatever you are escaping from. Notice what feelings or memories arise. See: Ascend.

URINE To urinate is to release tensions, whether they are sexual, emotional, business, or educational. Urine can also symbolise sexual feelings, or experiences in the womb.

UTERUS For many women the uterus represents their sense of being a full woman and their adequacy, just as testes do for men. Of course it also links with the ability to have children, so could represent fears or feelings about this. If you dream of problems in regard to the uterus, it is always worth having a physical check.

The way we develop as a personality emerges from very fundamental biological and psychological levels, of which the reproductive/sexual is deeply important. Because of this the uterus may represent for women the source of their emotional and creative energy. This at its primal level is linked with procreation, but it can flow from there into other directions.

If you are a woman, this is your potential. You developed in this way because you are a creature of evolution. If you deny that part of you - the urge to procreate - you deny yourself. Do not cut yourself off from your roots otherwise you will die. To become free it is not necessary to repress that part of you. In fact that basic, primeval drive is your source of power. It is a great river of energy. Out of that your power arises. You do not have to become childbearing to have that creativity. Take hold of that primitive part of you, that ancient river of desire and longing, flow with it. Of course it will try to go in the old channels, the old pathways. This may lead you to start looking for a mate. That is okay. Feel it. Own it as yours. Now create your own male inside yourself. Build him out of your ideals, your longing, and your need. Then form your inner male from the many parts of their own nature. Your pleasures your pains, your power and your weakness. Take the love you have and breathe in to the man the breath of life. Take that male and blend it into your female. Then take off and fly.

If your dream is directly about your ovaries, it may be about feelings, fears or hopes you have about your fertility and your ability to procreate. But it might also link with the deep drives or urges you have as a woman to guard and care for your 'eggs'. This is the big difference between yourself and a male. A male can lay his eggs - sperm - and leave them. A woman holds onto her eggs, guards them, and nurtures them into growth. See: Vagina.

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