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CONTENTS
Introduction
The Dream Dictionary
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NTRODUCTION
Dreams have been an important part of the human race since the beginning of
civilization. When our predecessors sat around the fire and talked about the
dream world, there emerged another dimension of reality, one that was peopled
with animals and ancestors, evidence of what was later to be understood as the
collective unconscious through which all humankind is connected. Even as
science reveals more of the technical aspects of what happens in the brain during
REM sleep, the sensation of the power of dreams to reveal more of the soul to
the dreamer is unmistakable.
Though we are more disconnected from this soulful realm than ever before,
through the dream world we find a profound connection to the self and therefore
to all of humanity. On a personal level, anyone who has gazed into the mystery
of a dream with a bit of reverence knows the value of such exploration. By
understanding your dreams better, you gain a deeper understanding of yourself
and the world around you.
Dreams are stories told in a language of symbols. To understand that language,
you must go to the heart of the image itself. The universal meaning of any
symbol is held within its use, its essence, its purpose, or its inherent qualities.
Once you understand this relatively simple concept, every dream interpretation
is simply a story about the story that the dream is telling. This dream dictionary
is a comprehensive tool to assist you in this process. It can deepen your
experience of knowledge and self-awareness by helping you understand what
your dreams are trying to tell you.
I was first drawn to dreams as a very young boy. In fact, I can still remember a
dream I had when I was just three years old. In a strange and empty landscape, I
was aware that above me there was a realm that seemed impossibly large while I
was simultaneously able to perceive a place that was infinitesimally smaller than
the middle ground I inhabited. The greater part was the size of the universe itself
and the smaller part was at the molecular level, though my very young mind
could not really conceive of such constructs. As an adult, I now recognize this as
a dream of infinity and have actually heard this exact same dream described by
others. At the time, however, it was simply a captivating image that both
exhilarated and terrified me. But more than that, I was acutely aware that this
fantastically terrible place existed inside me, within the bounds of my own
imagination.
As a teenager and by complete happenstance, I came upon a copy of Freud’s
seminal work The Interpretation of Dreams. Though it was a bit beyond my
fifteen-year-old sensibilities, I was able to glean from his writing that dreams
could indeed offer insights and hidden perspectives if they were explored. Social
gatherings as a teenager gave me my first opportunities to give this notion a try.
When friends would gleefully exclaim that they’d had a crazy dream, I would
simply ask to hear the dream and then offer my intuitive response. Wide eyes
and exclamations of fascination would follow. I kept doing this—thousands of
times, in fact—over many years and developed what was ultimately an innate
gift, which eventually led me to formal study and a doctorate in psychology.
The gift, however, is not what it seems, even if you ever have the chance to
witness me interpreting a dream and you declare it to be something of note.
Anyone can do what I do, and this book can assist you greatly in realizing your
own abilities. My gift is not that I know such things, for we all have access to
this knowledge through our humanity and the connection to the collective
unconscious. My gift is that I can do this very, very fast.
My first book, Dream Sight: A Dictionary and Guide for Interpreting Any
Dream, outlines this process in great detail and is more of a teaching tool
designed to familiarize you with how to connect to the hidden knowledge of
universal meaning. You may be interested in referencing this book for a more
comprehensive dream interpretation experience, but all of the detailed terms
from that book can be found in a simpler format within these pages as well, in
addition to many more! Llewellyn’s Complete Dictionary of Dreams contains
more than 1,000 interpretations for various symbols that you are likely to
encounter in your dreams. It is your go-to reference guide to help you decipher
any dream by virtue of working with the symbols that it contains.
There are a few tenets of dream interpretation that you will need to know in
order to use this dictionary effectively. The primary one is that there is no wrong
way to interpret a dream. The meaning of a dream is deeply personal, and much
depends on the dreamer and the sensation of the dream. Over time, the insight
that a dream has to offer can even change and evolve. Most important to
remember is that the dream itself has a consciousness of its own. Like an excited
child discovering a new activity, it just wants to be seen and acknowledged.
Simply thinking about a dream is enough to stimulate the unconscious mind to
offer you more information to help you understand yourself better. The true
value behind interpreting a dream for yourself is not in the final meaning you
give to it but in the process of investigating it.
The second principle to be considered is embodied in how to approach the
landscape of the dream world itself. Although dreams can mirror many aspects
of your waking life, the most powerful way of working with them is to consider
every element of the dream as a reflection of your own consciousness. In this
way, every setting and activity that appears in a dream is a part of you, the
dreamer. You can consider that your own consciousness is made up of many
facets, and a dream is a symbolic glimpse into your inner world.
This approach comes right out of the work done in the late nineteenth century
by noted psychologist Carl Jung, who is considered the father of modern dream
work. It was Jung, a contemporary of Freud, who postulated the existence of the
collective unconscious, a realm that connects all human beings to the same
archetypal information no matter what culture or geography might separate
them. In his travels, Jung discovered that his upper-class patients in Switzerland
were having the same exact dreams as the natives in Africa he visited. Of course,
the Swiss businessmen were more likely to be chased by bankers than tigers, but
the themes were the same.
According to Jungian philosophy, the people in your dreams represent various
aspects of yourself. I refer to these as “character aspects,” where the waking-life
qualities exhibited by the people represent those qualities as they live in you, the
dreamer. This is reflected in many of the terms that you will find within these
pages when the object of the term in question relates to a person or individual.
This is referred to in different ways in various disciplines of dream work, but
here you will find the term “character aspect.” Every person who shows up in
the dream world represents an aspect of your character and should be interpreted
as such. As complex human beings, we often understand ourselves in this
fractured way, as evidenced by the common phrase “part of me feels this way or
that way.” It is much like this in dreams, where distilled elements of your
essential nature are best represented on a symbolic level by a particular person
who may be known or unknown to you in your waking life.
You can practice this technique immediately by simply considering people you
know and assigning them three adjectives that describe their personality. Perhaps
your best friend is “warm,” “gregarious,” and “funny,” or your boss is
“controlling,” “demanding,” and “rigid.” This is best done in a spontaneous
manner, without thinking too much. The same approach would be applied to a
dream. If your dream includes someone you know, use this three-adjective
technique to describe the person and you will immediately have a sense of what
this individual is representing as part of your dream landscape.
Here is an example of how this might work from an actual dream. A woman
had a dream that her high school English teacher was floating above her in some
strange setting; it was a disturbing experience and so the dream demanded her
attention. When asked for three adjectives to describe the English teacher, the
dreamer said “negative,” “harsh,” and “demanding.” When asked about current
stresses in her life, this dreamer told of an upcoming presentation she was
required to do as part of her work, and given that she is uncomfortable with
public speaking, she was quite worried about the upcoming task. It was easy for
her to understand and even express to me how nervous she was, but it was by
examining her teacher as a character aspect of herself that she was able to relieve
some of her anxiety by understanding that she is her own worst critic.
The better you know someone from your life, the harder it may be to envision
the person as operating as a part of your own personality. In these cases, it’s best
to attempt to stay very detached in your thinking. You might consider how
someone else might describe such a person in order to reach a more objective
sense of the individual as a character aspect of yourself.
Of course, the dream world is populated with many people you have never met
before. When this is the case, use whatever information you have from the
dream and any details you can remember about the person in it. The less stuff
offered by the dream, the more work you will have to do to discover what
