In your dreams, buildings, castles and houses are symbols of yourself. The upstairs represents your conscious mind and the lower floors and cellar your hidden self.
The cramped feeling of the cellar indicates frustration and a need to expand your activities or thinking. Decayed dirty or crumbling buildings indicate that your self-image has suffered. Get your […]
Insects symbolise the irritating minor nagging of the unconscious or daily life. You may have many irritating small problems that need to be dealt with.
Here are a few of the symbolic meanings of common insects:
Ants: your life may be too orderly. Ants can represent social conformity.
Bees: industry and work.
Butterflies: the soul, spiritual transcendence.
Flies: breakdown, putrefaction […]
Peacock
Peacocks are beautiful creatures with their colorful plumage of which they appear to be quite proud. In dreams the peacock can represent feelings of pride over a job well done, or satisfaction with oneself. However peacocks may also symbolize pretentious arrogance–we’ve all heard the phrase ‘proud as a peacock.’ This false pride can be a […]
Birds in flight may symbolize freedom from limitation in much the same manner as flying dreams. This ability to fly also makes birds symbolic of the soul set free from the body.
Birds are also creatures who nurture and protect their young most diligently. Look and see if there is a baby bird in your dream or […]
Birds are another common dream symbol. The Birds sometimes appearing soaring high in the sky, sometimes trapped in a cage. Birds have several different dream meanings and specific birds also have their own specific function in dreams. First we’ll look at birds as a general dream symbol then we’ll consider some different types of birds […]
It also acts negatively because it thinks it is protecting you. If power is evil, if having power is bad, if taking action is destructive, then it sees empowerment as an act of self-destruction!
The way out of the negative animus is to learn to differentiate the male principle from the male gender. Or better yet, […]
But one cannot cut off a part of one’s psyche. The male principle still exists, only now it exists and sees itself as the women sees it: as something bad, something unwanted, something worthy of exile. At the same time, it wants to belong and if it can’t belong by being loved, it will attempt […]
Both men and women have an unconscious that is the opposite of their gender–these are called the anima and animus. Both the anima and animus have positive and negative qualities. And for both men and women, a major step toward individuation is that of integrating, or accepting the anima/animus.
We can see where we are in […]
Do any of these dreams sound familiar?
“I’m dreaming that there is a man chasing me. I can’t see his face, but he is right behind me and I am desperately trying to get away from him.”
“I’m dreaming that I’m in my house and there is a group of men trying to get inside the house. […]
Chase dreams often stem from feelings of anxiety in your walking life. The way we respond to anxiety and pressure in real life is typically manifested as a chase dream. Running is an instinctive response to physical threats in our environment. Often in these dream scenarios, you are being pursued by some attacker, who wants […]