To walk through a park, health and happiness (Raphael). The difference in the symbolism of the park and that of groves and forests is due to the difference in the ages to which the...
A dream of temptation and of evil (Gypsy). Obviously the dream interpreters of modern times have accepted the Christian and Jewish symbolism, rather than that of more remote antiqu...
A symbol of life, particularly a burning candle. May also point to specific festivities.See Light.Already, in antiquity, the candle was a male sexual symbol. Also, according to Fre...
Important here is how you categorize this object: Mug, Goblet, Glass, or even Grail. Different terms refer to different moods and points of view and lead to different interpretatio...
When people of antiquity had dreams of strange cosmic events, like fire raining down from heaven, comets, etc., they would report them to the Areopagus in Athens or to the Senate i...
A young girl, as in Daisy. Stupid goose, stupidity. In ancient Egyptian creation mythology, the goose represented—together with the universal egg—a symbol of origin.The Ur god ...
An ancient symbol for rebirth. Wealth, food, and, from antiquity to modern times, it has had a special sexual implication.(Mick Jagger’s “I Am a Honey Bee,” for example. Hone...
Physicality, heaviness (clumsiness), but also relative softness; it is durable, but melts and mutates easily. Lead is poisonous and has been associated with a curse as early as ant...
Emotions and thoughts the dreamer has.The condition of the leaves is important—what time of year is it? Green leaves mean joy, fun, and growth; dead leaves mean disappointment an...
In mythology, the marksman / hunter is often depicted as a centaur, the wild rider. Today he would be seen as the cowboy in Western movies. In antiquity, the feminine equivalent wa...
A symbol that points to unmet sexual desire or fear of unwanted pregnancy. In antiquity it was a symbol for foolish gambling.According to Freud, it often points to children or sibl...
Boats represent our attitude to death and ‘the final journey’. They can also represent fertility and adventure and in antiquity were seen as the bearers of gods and kings....
In antiquity the griffin was a mythical beast with the body of a lion and the head and wings of an eagle. In dreams it is an archetypal symbol and guardian of divine power....
A guardian is one who watches over us and spiritually this usually means a guardian angel. This belief in guardian angels can be traced throughout all antiquity and as we become mo...
The king of the animal kingdom was often used as a symbol in the Coat of Arms: the British lion, the lion of Judea, Christ as a lion, the red lion of Wales. It stands for spirit, c...
A symbol of Venus—love and devotion.The contradiction of blossom and thorn.The rose plays the same role in the West that the lotus plays in the Orient. Both blossom, producing ma...
Psychological / emotional perspective: Old people in dreams tend to suggest traditional thought or wisdom arising from experience. We may also need to consider our attitude to deat...
The Scientific Literature of Dream-Problems I shall begin by giving a short account of the views of earlier writers on this subject and of the status of the dream-problem in conte...
The Scientific Literature of Dream-Problems I shall begin by giving a short account of the views of earlier writers on this subject and of the status of the dream-problem in conte...
See Poisonous Snake. More than anything else, this is a symbol of fear.It is also often a sexual symbol, and a symbol of wholeness, transformation, and rebirth, as in Ouroboros.A s...
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