First, THERE ARE 3 BASIC TYPES OF DREAMS: #1 is when you dream of something because it really happened in your life, ie your family went to the ocean and you dream about crabs, or a random stranger you saw on the beach, etc, or you have a date with your big crush next weekend and you dream of something related to that, and so on and so forth. These kinds of dreams aren't always as easy to identify as you may think. The brain can work super fast, and can bounce around in your head like a ping-pong ball - one thought leads to another, which leads to another, and your eventual dream may be so many degrees away from the original event, or thought, or fear, or hope, etc (anything REAL, whether its a concrete person place or thing, or not). As an example, oh, let's say you dream you're riding in an airplane, but cannot think of any reason for that. Perhaps you have a plan to go to the lake with that hot date. The local beach reminds you of the ocean, and the ocean reminds you of it's size, and this makes you think how flying across it is the fastest and best way to go, and ta-da, you're dreaming of planes because you're going to the lake. Boy I took a lot to explain that, huh.
The 2nd type of dream is mental ramblings. This is just nonsense, no real reason behind it. It can be something like our lake leads to airplane scenario above, but carried way too far, so far there's no possible way to recognize it. Or it can just come out of nowhere, swirling tie-dyed dreams, that mean nothing at all.
The 3rd type is what we're dealing with here - the "psychic" dream, which seems to foretell the future, or even some aspect of the present or the past that you have no way of knowing, perhaps its personal and about someone else. Or maybe its telling you something you did not know about a past or present event or person. And so on and so forth.
At first thought, the scientific or skeptical minded want to dismiss this sort of dream as silly and impossible, or very rare at best. But we all do it, and it's not silly, and it is scientific. Its psychological. Psychiatrists have been interpreting dream symbols for decades. The subconscious, or unconscious, part of the brain has a way of knowing what our conscious, awake minds do not know. And our dreams are the perfect way for our subconscious minds to relate that info to us.
The thing is, except in the case where brain cells are damaged, our brains store EVERYTHING - they do not forget anything. That includes every single thing you ever saw, smelled, tasted, heard, felt physically, felt emotionally, thought, every idea; everything your brain has ever done, it has kept a record of - except, as I said, in the case of brain damage, big or small, where cells were destroyed. There are neural pathways connecting each of these memories, and the pathways are the reason we remember or forget. When we jar our minds to try to remember a thing,and eventually do recall something you'd forgotten, this is because your brain has managed to forge a neural path thru the brain and connect enough of those stored ideas and sensory impressions to be a memory. Its fascinating really - the whole subject of the brain.
So, somehow, in our dreams, our brains are able to open up suppressed memories, and make temporary "dream connections", and to NOTICE THINGS we did not notice with our waking minds. You've probably heard of the whole left brain right brain thing - the dream part of your brain, the part that can do all this, is totally separate from the logical part of the brain - the part that deals in cold hard facts and figures, and in WORDS. And the dreamy part of the brain communicates with us the only way it can - which sometimes, with some dreams, is nice, or scary, or plain crazy. This part of the brain also deals in SYMBOLS, SYMBOLISM. IN actuality, what is a word, and letters, except symbols that let us know what sounds to make to say a word, and relate to the meaning of the letters in the word when put together in specific ways. ANYWAY, symbols. And that is what this is all about.
One more thing, about dream symbols. It's clear when looking back thru man's history that certain symbols seem to be universal. IN GENERAL. But due to certain different experiences or ideas, that cannot apply to everyone. A snake will mean 2 widely different things to one person who loves snakes and keeps them as pets, and another who has a phobia. Most people, if told to picture a night with a full moon and stars shining out over a big, deep, still lake will think peaceful thoughts. But I had a horrible boat wreck in a similar scene (it started out partly cloudy, then a storm blew up, and we crashed into a tiny island sticking up in middle of this big lake), and I went thru a LOT of pain, surgery, trouble with pain meds - all sorts of vicious things - and wound up crippled for life and unable to even bend my left knee. SO, I won't get the same peaceful feelings from that picture as most people will. Nor will someone who is phobic of water (hydrophobic).
So, we can use books and such about dream symbols and what they mean AS A STARTING SPOT. You can think about whether that seems to apply to you or not, and if not, to figure out why it does not, and what sort of connections YOUR brain makes with that and every other particular symbol.
SO, 1st we figure out what kind of dream it was; 2nd think about certain things events or ideas that stand out in the dream; 3rd look up these symbols, then think about whether the general meaning seems to fit you or not, and if needed #4 where you must figure out for yourself what the symbols mean - but the prior steps will make this easier to do. BUT, you certainly CAN figure out the symbolism of your dreams - even help another person interpret their dreams by guiding their thought and letting them answer their own, and your, questions. You do not need a book. Besides, no book can possibly list every symbol you may see, and you're apt to find that what you're looking for isn't in the book a good percentage of the time.
Here are a very few to get you started. I've lost over half my list - probably over 3/4 of it. It'll turn up sooner or later, and when it does, I'll eventually post it - I'll be sure to connect it to this one so it's easy to use them all at once. And, keep in mind, your brain cannot REALLY see the future; at best (as with all prophecy) it can sense the energies of the present and see where they're headed in the future if nothing changes it. This means "prophecies", of every kind, often won't come true, even if they're 100% legitimate. The whole purpose in issuing a warning for the future is so it can be changed when one does not like that version of one's future. So, if you see jail in a prophecy, you're very apt to follow the law more carefully, thus breaking the predictions and making them APPEAR to have been wrong; but if you did not take it seriously at all, and did not change your ways at all, it would come true. So in truth, the most successful prophecy is one that was prevented from happening. By the same token , there IS such a thing as self-fulfilling prophecy, when, for some reason or another, hearing a prediction for your future, even if a scam from a complete fake, comes true, because you start acting in a way that causes the prediction to come true, where it never would've happended had you not heard the prediction in the first place.
OK - its just like me to go on and on, I can't help it even when I know I'm doing it. So, without further delay, the small dream symbol list i have today. Sorta ironic, that my intro to the list is quite a bit longer than the actual list itself. Oh, well. It's text, not like a movie - you can skip thru parts you're not interested in:
SNAKES - If you see one, lone snake AND feel threatened, this shows you have a bad enemy actively working against you, in some way or another trying to cause you harm, and is a warning of BODILY HARM from an enem
y. (If you believe in the mystical and omens from supernatural sources, you need no further explaination; but if you have a scientifically leaning mind, as I do, this merely means your subconscius mind - the "R" layer of the brain possibly - has recognized an enemy, whether your conscious mind realizes it or not. Your subconscious has also recognized this enemy as the type prone to violence, or sensed extreme anger, or both, or similar. The same basic rules apply to every dream symbol, as far as where they originate, and how you know something in your dreams you may not know awake.)Many snakes in a pit bodes much bad luck in love or business. If you overcome and kill a threatenin snake you'll overcome your adversary and you will win out. If you are afraid of snakes you can be sure your subconscius mind is using snakes as a negative symbol.
If you are not particularly afraid of snakes, or even like them or keep them as pets, you can be fairly sure these are not the meanings of the snake symbol to you. WITH ALL DREAM SYMBOLS, if the general meaning doesn't fit, think of what that symbol means to you and work from there - it's liable to come quickly and easily.
Throughout the history of humans, snakes have stood for a few things, and one of these may apply to you personally better than the meanings above. Snakes have stood for wisdom; for rebellion; for women and the Feminine: anything related to the serpent, Adam and Eve or the Garden of Eden, as each of the previous have been - it was the fruit of the KNOWLEDGE of good and evil the doomed pair partook of-; think of the cadecus (think I'm spelling it wrong but I'm in too big a hurry to look it up and I just cannot think of it) used for centuries as a symbol for physicians (medical doctors), so the snake can symbolize medicine or healing. Carry on in this vein until you find your answer, or give up, in any case and with any symbol you need to figure out.
MONKEY: (They'd mean something negative for me; I used to think they were cute, but not now, partly because I've learned more and more about how they act. I think the last straw was recently when I saw an Orangutan standing on its head and pissing in its own mouth, I think it was on YouTube. But that doesn't completely explain it, not as strongly as I feel about all types of monkies and apes, and I don't know why, but I despise them now. They freak me right out. Monkeys are to me what clowns are to some people - I'm not real crazy about clowns either but they're better than monkeys, and ventriloquist dummies...though Jeff Dunham's don't bother me, guess cuz they just too funny.)Sorry. MONKEY:
Dreaming of a monkey usually, in general, means you have deceitful friends who will flatter you to advance their own interests, but are liable to stab you in the back if they decide you're no longer of use to them. As always, if this sounds wrong, or even if you know you have some friends of this type, but you don't feel that is what the dream was about, then think of other meanings monkies have had, and so on and on.
NECK: Dreams featuring necks (dreams with people will, usually, also have necks; but he or she is evidently talking about necks being a main feature of your dream. Can't say as I've ever dreamed about necks - maybe I'm a weirdo) mean approaching money, unless neck is broken, which warns against mismanangement of your affairs (whether by you yourself, or by an employee, or a family member or friend who helps you manage such things). That's all it says, but I'd think the whole vampire thing is too obvious to omit, with whatever connotations vampires have to you. Or it could be a sex thang, I'd think.
NECKLACE: If your loved one puts a necklace around your neck, or you are wearing one, it shows an early marrriage and a happy domestic life. Or, consider whether you think the symbol was the necklace itself, or did it have a clearly visible charm or pendant that seemed to be the main focus? Then look up or think about what that may mean.
RACCOON : is a warning to be on your highest guard. Peple are presenting false faces to you in everyday life. To be chased by one shows that a person you thought was a friend has now turned their back on you, and now works behind your back for your downfall. Besides all that, the raccoon is thought of as a bandit, and so it can relate to anything about bandits, or thieves, or even prisoners or jail. Also, its a pest, scrounging around in garbage and makin a mess, and so on; in this way it can represent a scavenger, or scavenging, and so on. People who don't know how nasty and how very fierce they are think they're cute and cuddly, so there's that. Or back up one sentence, and it could be a symbol of ferocity - If you're unfamiliar with the sport of 'coon hunting, you may not have seen what a 15 to 30 lb raccoon, alone, can do to a pack of hound dogs. Only a well trained dog, or a stupid one, will even try once the coon turns to fight after giving up on being able to run and lose the dogs up a tree. Blood everywhere, and it was not the raccoon's blood. I'm talking 4 or 5 dogs, too, all on it at once. Now, if you never knew any of this about a raccoon it probably won't apply, but if you do know, it opens up a world of symbolism - and none of them really positive, unless YOU are represented by the racoon,that is. ; )
RAPE: Whether you put much stock in this whole thing or not, this is a horrible nightmare to have, and its SO horrible, don't risk dismissing it. Take this dream as a warning. Take all precautions to prevent such a thing happening to you in real life. Don't go anywhere alone for a while, and never in dark empty spaces - you should always be safe and protect yourself against this, dream or not. Don't drink so much that you lose control of yourself, don't leave with someone you don't know well (and if most of your relationship has been over MySpace, IMs, and text messages, YOU DO NOT KNOW HIM. Deep down women, especially younger women and teen girls, never REALLY believe this will happen - "not to ME". It is a thing so horrible its unimaginable, and if you literally cannot imagine it, its hard to believe completely in it. But it does happen, it happens regularly - someone is being raped violently somewhere right now as you read this. And it happens to young women and teen girls more than any other age group. You probably know someone who has been raped, though they may not have told it. Well I was all set to go off on a tangent, but I stopped myself. Nuf's nuf.
OCEAN: If you dream you are standing on a shore watching waves foam up as they break over the beach, it foretells you will narrowly excape an accidental injury. (NO IDEA how he/she connected an ocean to that?!) If you're far out on the ocean and hear the waves as they lap up against the hull of a ship, (perhaps as if you are on the ship, but are seeing as you would in the 1st person and cannot see that ship under you) you'll have setbacks in business and a troubled domestic scene (BOTH! not either/or and MAYBE both, but definitely both? Geez.) To sail on a calm ocean is always (NOTHING is ALWAYS) a good omen for all concerned.
ROSE: If a woman receives one rose and puts it in her hair (whether its you or another person) it means she will be deceived by someone she thought of as a friend. (Whoever wrote these seems obsessed by that subject - getting a bit Fraudian oops I mean Freudian {I think in most cases, like 99.5 % of the time, Freud WAS a fraud. Love the brain, love psychology, think Freud projected his own issues onto the entire human race in order to make himself feel normal. But that's another subject altogether-) perhaps the person who wrote this article or book about dream symbols recently had a friend deceive and hurt him or her, and so is reading this into many symbols, whether it really belongs there or not. Think about your own ideas for these symbols - I think you'll have more success) {He or she continues with this (not my input yet):} If a woman dreams she receives a bouquet of roses in the Springtime, she will find true love. But if it's winter her search will be fruitless. To see a rose bush in full foliage denotes a wedding in the family.
RUNNING: This is a sign of big changes in your life. Or, now this is just me, but could it be a sign that you are running away from issues in your life that you need to face? OR maybe you are running from some monster, with the monster being your new stressful job, or your demanding mother in law, etc etc.
NEEDLE: To find a needle in a dream means you have friends (UH OH) who APPRECIATE YOU! (YAY!) To look for one foretells useless worries - no need in worrying yourself sick.
SPIDER: Believe it or not, all spiders except the tarantula are GOOD luck. (Tho if it feels scary or negative, I doubt that is what your mind is trying to say.) The bigger the spider, the bigger the rewards. If one is climbing a wall your dearest wish will come true. A spider spinning a web means an increase in income due to your hard work.
OWL: Very bad omen. This book has one and only one short meaning with no alternatives and no differing circumstances such as breed, color, number of, or activity of the owl in question. I think all of this should be taken into account. Yes, owls have long been known as harbingers of death. But they're also known for being wise - the owl is the symbol of Athene after all- and also knowledge and books (there is a difference in knowledge and wisdom; someone completely illiterate can be very very wise, while someone with an amazing amount of knowledge - one who can answer every question on Jeopardy and do complicated math equations in his head - may be very foolish as well.). Owls are also great hunters. Still, in this and all situations, consider how you felt emotionally in the dream in general, as well as about the specific symbol. And if it feels bad, it certainly won't hurt to be extra careful with your life, health, your body, for a few weeks or so. Even if death is averted, there are things that can happen to you almost as bad, even worse, expecially after years, to have to live with.
TEETH: Having false teeth means you'll have an unexpected help with a problem. Rotten teeth shows you've been telling someone a lie or using smooth words to get your way. If your teeth are rotten, crooked, and/or falling out, your lies are hurting someone badly and you will soon be found out. If you dreamed you swallowed a tooth, you will soon have to eat your words.
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