| Tuesday, April 06, 2004 |
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DREAM SYMBOLS AND METAPHORICAL LANGUAGE
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(from the works of Eugene Gendlin, PhD/Univ of Chicago)
i had a dream last night--- well of course it is no longer night cuz i alwasy sleep at 4am and wake up at 2pm. at any rate, i had a dream and i got so scared. i dreamt that i died all by myself inside my bedroom. i was soaking with sweat when i woke up. when i retire and sleep at 4am, my wife wakes up at 430am and prepares herself to go to work. we dont sleep in the same bedroom cuz by the time i come home--she is the one sleeping and i dont want to wake her up. by the time she wakes up ---- i am the one sleeping and i dont want to be waken up. so both of us decided to sleep ins eparate bedroom. she sleeps at the masters bedroom--- i sleep at the guest room.
so practically, by the time i go to bed and sleep, i am really on my own and all by myself inside the house. my two boys have already moved out and rented their own apartments closer to their university , plus kids in america wants their freedom and independence after reaching the age of 18.
i went to the library and looked for some materials about dream. i need to know why dreams are such real at times and very scary. so i came across somebooks about dreams and came upon this book:
"let your body interpret your dreams"
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OBJECT .............. SUGGESTIVE SYMBOLIC MEANING
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1. animal .................. instinctual aspect of person; natural life-energy.
2. animals, higher ..... wise, healthy part of an organism, accepts its guidance
3. animals, other .........what is the usual character of that animal? eg. lions are
............................................................... and kingly.
4. beach ...................... edge of conscious and unconscious; where the earth goes under water, where things emerge from the ocean.
5. car ........................... takes you somewhere; person moving, changing, going
.............................................. ahead; perhaps sexuality (who is driving? in what ways
.............................................. are you in process these days?)
6. child ......................... vulnerable part, new self, growth process (if in your dream
.............................................. the child is 4 yrs old, ask yourself what began for you
............................................... four years ago, or what happened when you were four?)
7. child, retarded ........... undeveloped part of you; in what way hae you been too
................................................... afraid to live as you would have liked to live?
8. clothes ....................... outer aspects; front; a person's public identity.
9. clothes, specific .......... that part of the body (sense tension in it?) ties--throat,
.................................................... crying, bonds to certain people; what does one do
...................................................with that part of the body?
10. clothes, whether they fit or not way of presenting yourself to others; your roles,
................................................ body feel, body image; when you get fat or different,
................................................ your old clothes don't fit, owning your body.
11. contraption, intricate machine, device........person's functioning, perhaps body sexual.
12. corset .......................... holding things in; rigid; female.
13. darkness ....................... unconscious; unseeen; unaware.
14. doors, walls, windows ... something can or cannot come in, or out; defenses;
..................................................... you can look through the window, yet you aren't there.
15. eating ............................ taking in, making part of yourself.
17. female stereotype .......... receptive, emotional, moody, creative.
18. guard, gatekeeper .......... keeps you or something out (or in); you may
................................................. have to ask why or what.
19. hits from the back or while you're asleep ...........something catches you unawares.
20. ice .................................... no feelings, anesthetic, cold.
21. indians ............................. primitive, close to nature, probably sounds.
22. kitchen .............................. where you eat, gets nourished and taken cared of.
23. light .................................. lets you see what might have been in the dark;
.............................................. spiritual light.
24. male or female, unknown .... ancient stereotypic "male or "female" sides of you,
..................................................... everyone has and needs both; if the opposite sex
.............................................. figure is in bad shape, negative, or attacking,
................................... check your inward realtions to your own way of
.................................... being the opposite sex's dimensions.
25. ocean .................................... vastness; unconcious.
26. old man, unknown ............... wise guidance; an elder - listen to him;
............................................ how do you treat him in the dream?
27. old woman, unknown ............ female wisdom; how to be a woman;
........................................... what men don't grasp.
28. plane. flying. birds ................. not being on the ground, skipping over obstacles
........................................................ may mean being undgroudned; may have to be
................................................... dealth with; being in one's head; perhaps also
............................................. higher dimensions of a person.
29. plants, green ....................................... living life, life coming in the spot.
30. roaches ................................... the rejected instinctual body side of a person.
31. shoes ...................................... reality contact.
32. telephone, radio ...................... messages from unseen place.
33. tiger, shark .............................. aggressive instincts.
34. train .................................... process going on with you, in you, beyond
.................................................. your deliberate control. |
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