Responses to the Dreams of the Children

Response to Tia's dream:

Dear Tia,

Use the Method described in our first step in order to discipher the meaning of this dream: 1. Name it. 2. Identify the feeling. 3. Underline the key elements. 4. Do associations (at least five) with each of the key elements. 5. Retell the dream substituting your associations for the key elements. 6. Think about the story in the context of your life.

Your associations really control this dream.

Some comments: When we want something to "pierce" us, we want more understanding, something new to come in our psyche. Here you want it in the deepest part of your structure, your bones. However, the piercing or understanding is painful. "going to the bathroom" is symbolic of self-expression. You are not shy about expressing yourself. But when you don't cover yourself the way the world wants you to, you feel rejected. Is this happening in your real life?

This dream is about growth and understanding and the pain and sometimes the penalty for self expression. You are dealing with important issues. Hang in there!

Response to Quinnton's dream:

Dear Quinnton,

It is important that you pay attention to your experience of how "close" your dream experiences are...they are too close...your unconscious is painfully overwhelming right now. Please get some help to strengthen your ego so that you can carry the large energies which life has thrust upon you. One of the problems with the Internet is that I cannot tell which city you live in so that I can give you a referral. However, yhou and your parents should seek professional help for you...If there is a Jungian analyst in your city, I would trust that referral because I have some sense of what the orientation would be. But any Clinical Psychologist who works with young people will know how to help you. There are also licensed Marriage and Child therapists in California who are trained to help people with problems like yours.

It is important that you connect with someone soon so that you can become all that you are intended to become...able to contain this wonderful imagination and creativity that shows in your dreams as well as the anger in your waking states.

Good luck

Response to Lisa's dream:

Dear Lisa,

What a lovely dream! It is truly a big dream. It brings much wisdom to you from the unconscious.

It seems to me that you have a deep understanding of the wisdom in this dream. It is one of the few times that I really don't think a dreamer needs help with the analysis. I will simply comment that each change of "scenery" takes you to a deeper, then deeper place within your psyche.

I would suggest that you read the dream several times a year so that as you are traveling your life journey you remember and live the wisdom of this dream. You might do some artwork with some parts of it to incarnate them.

Response to Roger's dream:

Dear Roger,

When the setting of a dream is our "child home," this indicates that the dream is "taking place" or talking about the child part of our psyche. In this dream as you approach something "childlike," you are threatened by a dangerous adult. The child is "troll-like." What do you associate with "trolls"? Your associations will help you see how you view the child part of yourself. The threatening adult may be the answer to why this part of yourself has not developed or the reason for its trollness. How does the adult in yourself threaten the child? You might try to get in touch with this child in yourself by talking to it or drawing it or by doing some "childlike" fun things that will give that child some good, non-threatening adult attention.

Response to Aaron's dream:

Dear Aaron,

I really can't help explain the phenomenon you described. I have heard and read about many similar incidents, and there are as many explanations as there are people talking about them. Certainly, the explanation lies inthe realm of the "paranormal." It might be fun for you to read some of the paranormal material about the relation between mental and physical phenomenon so that you can see the range of explanations.

Good luck in finding something that "feels" right to you in explaining your experience.

Response to Mike's dream:

Dear Mike,

Dreams speak in symbolic language. Children's dreams are particularly interesting because the symbols seem to be more "univeral" or archetypal in nature because their living experience is more limited. You will be interested in reading the article currently posted in the DreamWeaver's Circle about the levels of dreams.

A toilet dream archetypally, culturally usually refers to self-experience. It is one of the first experiences in our culture where an "expression" is limited or monitored by the adult world. In your dream, it it the mother's attempt at expression that results in her being "blended." The mother may refer to your actual mother or to the mother part of that young child who was dreaming. Around that time was your real mother feeling that any attempt to really be herself resulted in being "cut up and blended" in the rest of the world. You could well have psychically picked this up and symbolized it in a dream. Or you might have experienced this mother, feminine part of yourself being stunted about this age by moving into school or peer relations that were were making you into a "liitle man" and attempting to "blend" the mother stuff.

It is amazing how perceptive the dreams of children can be!

Response to Mae-Anne's dream:

Dear Mae-Anne,

There are two ways of understanding the peole we dream about, as the real people or as parts of ourself that are merely represented by the real people. Read the article currently posted in DreamWeavers' Circle about the levels of dreams.

When we dream of a person and in our dream he looks different (your "chubby" exboyfriend), the message may be that in your real life you have "inflated" this person...that means you have a better view of him than he really is. Or that the part of yourself that he represent, you need to "slim down." Do associations with these masculine figures so that you can understand the masculine part of yourself better.

Response to Haven's dream:

Dear Haven,

A building on fire might indicate some structure in your real life that is "burning'"....with feeling or with passion or that is being consumed in some way. the locomotive is a "one-track" vehicle, and it is bumping into or destroying cars...which usually symbolize our energy or motivation. This dream indicates you should be aware of something burning in your life which is resulting in a "one-track" attitude that is having a destructive effect on your energy and self-motivation.

Response to Ra's dream:

Dear Ra,

Do associations with this friend you are with in your dream. Describe him (five associations at least)...When I think of him, I think of 1)________ 2)________ 3)________ 4)________ 5)________.

Now you have described a masculine part of your own psyche. This part may become like a vampire and bite you. Talk to this part of yourself. Ask what he wants. See what his interests are (orally or in writing). Many times if we pay attention to these potentially destructive parts of ourself we are able to prevent damage in our real life. There is something you need to learn from this figure. The "bite" image shows that he wishes to get something "in" you.

Response to Singoalla's dream:

Dear Singaolla,

"Walking into the water" is symbolic of going into the unconscious. The warning in this dream is that going into deep is not desirable for you right now. It is destructive to both the young ego and to the shadow part of the young ego. This indicates the need for some ego strengthening before you do too much work with the unconscious. Draw some pictures of dream images or do some other kinds of active imagination that incarnates parts of the unconscious. Keep the pictures or written dialogues or sculptures around in your real life so that you integrate them. This is the work you need to do now.

Response to David's dream:

Dear David,

Death in dreams means a such a dramatic change in our ego position that it is like a death. Your dreams indicate that you are about to experience some real changes. They are really not to be feared, like you might fear physical death, but our ego likes to hold on to its present configuration just like our body does so death becomes a good symbol for this change. Actually, such changes represent growth. Therefore, such dreams are GOOD dreams!

Response to MacKenzie's dream:

Dear MacKenzie,

Dreams involving hugging and sexual embraces usually represent some part of the psyche that wants to be in a more intimate relationship with us, or one that we are in too intimate a relationship with. Do associations with this teacher so that you can know what part of the psyche is being represented here. When you have this picture (from the associations), think about this part of yourself. Is there a way you need to be closer to it? Or is it so close that it is hampering you in some way?

Response to Lucy's dream:

Dear Lucy,

The two little girls, one brunette and one blond probably represent you (ego) and your shadow (unrealized self). First, they go "up," which probably has to do with thinking and the head stuff (especially since you are meeting a male...uncle...there). You get rewards and gifts for this masculine, thinking stuff, but your dream says that isn't enough. A part of you falls into the unconscious (the basement), and you need to retrieve this part so you descend into the unconscious to do that. In real life, how do you find this unrealized part of yourself which has fallen into the unconscious?

Do some active imagination. Draw the little girl who is "down there." Think about her, talk to her, make her real. This will feel good to you and carry you forward into more growth. It is an important issue because it reoccurs.

Response to Ingrid's dream:

Dear Ingrid,

You are wearing your friend's old grey shirt. What we wear in dreams represents our persona, the face we present to the world. How does this shirt describe the face you are presenting to the world.

Through this "shirt" or persona, your sexuality starts to emerge. Then through a male touching you, you discover wounds on your back (this usually means unconscious wounding because they are onthe back where you can't see them). It is the male part of yourself represented by Andy that allows you to see them. Can you do associations with Andy so that you understand the part of yourself he represents? Then let this part of yourself see and understand the wounding so that something which is now unconscious and needs to be understood doesn't control you. By understanding, WE control.

Response to Bobby's dream:

Dear Bobby,

Do five associations with flour 1)________ 2)________ 3)________ 4)________ 5)________. There are some kind of "fireworks" in your life which have or will result in whatever it is you associate with flour falling down. By working symbolicaly, you will translate the language of this dream!

Response to Conor's dream:

Dear Connor,

This dream is set at school. This means that the dream message relates to that part of your life.

You are running through "bees." What do bees represent to you? You commented that you hate bees. Do five associations with bees.

In what way are you encountering these bee-associations at school? The dream shows you "running through" them. Then they disappear. Persevering seems to be the message.

Good luck! Take encouragement from the unconscious which knows more than our ego-self does!

Response to Zane's dream:

Dear Zane,

In this dream you are with your best friend, who is an opposite. In dream language, the dream shows your ego self and your shadow together on a bus, a carrier of collective values. When this "whole" self starts being carried by collective values (the values around you) you "see" your eyes in Hitler's face. This is an image of being aware of the qualities you associate with Hitler being part of you. This dream warns you about the dangers of allowing yourself in its totality to be carried by values that are not your own. Be careful...and think about what values are carrying you.

Response to Amber's dream:

Dear Amber,

Does this dream reflect a situation in your real life where you having tremendous difficulty communicating, "talking to or connecting" with some one? You can't quite seem to get it right (dialling the wrong numbers?). The dream shows your dad as one of the people you're having trouble getting to.

Response to Taylor's dream:

Dear Taylor,

Do associations with the main elements of your dream: being in space, a space ship, a red flash. Write down each one and write five things that each makes you think about. Then substitute these associations in the story.

If this were my dream, it would mean something like: When I am "spaced out," there is the danger of my ship (my self, the journey I am on) getting swallowed up by someone else. When this happens, the key to "getting out" is the red flash, the light that feelings can bring (red means emotion, feeling).

So if your associations are anything like mine, it means that you need to stay in touch with your feelings! That will keep you from being swallowed up when you tend to "space out."

Response to Steve's dream:

Dear Steve,

The key to the meaning of this dream is your associations with killer whales...and also the "feeling" of the dream.

You are sitting on a cliff overlooking the ocean...archetypically, this means you are observing the great unconscious. Out of this jumps "killer whales" smiling at you. If you associate good things with the whales and if the dream gives you a good feeling, the dream may indicate a "blessing" from the unconscious. But if you associate "killer" kind of stuff with these animals and if you have an anxious feeling from the dream, this may indicate a fear or anxiety that you feel about the power of the unconscious.

I would suggest that you do some active imagination with the whales. Talk to them, and speak for them to you. Ask them what they want you to know, then put words in their mouth and listen to what they have to say. Sometimes it is easier to write the dialogue, like a play.

This is a dramatic dream image. So be sure to do something with it (dialogue, paint or draw the whales and keep it around for a while until you feel you have brought them into your waking life).

Response to Lexie's dream:

Dear Lexie,

This dream shows you in a good relationship with a masculine aspect of yourself. Do associations with the boy in your dream (describe him). This will show you that masculine part of yourself that is friendly and companionable to your ego.

The unconscious is affirming good stuff!

Response to Alex's dream:

Dear Alex,

Dreams speak in symbolic, not literal language. Read the article currently posted in the Circle about the different levels of dreams.

You are clearly carrying a lot of anger. Can you write about it? Or draw some pictures which show what angers you so much? Are you really, literally angry at the people in the old work place? If so, you should talk to someone (a friend, counselor, etc.) and "get it out" so it doesn't stay inside and eat at you.

Good luck!

Response to K's dream:

Dear K,

What would it mean to you if you truly missed taping the show? The dream is posing this question for you to look at. For it to be coming from your unconscious, you need to answer this question seriously and then think about your answer in terms of how you live your life.

Response to Tim's dream:

Dear Tim,

Does this dream reflect an unconscious fear you have whenever you are in a "teaching position"? It seems to say that whenever you are the "teacher" you are ridiculed and shamed. Many times our dreams show us our true, but unconscious feelings about a situation.

Response to Julian's dream:

Do associations with "rat." To me rat means 1)________ 2)________ 3)________ 4)________ 5)________. Now, what is "chasing" you? Your associations hold the answer. I can tell it is not something pleasant. You have probably repressed some memory or some experience that needs to be dealt with in your conscious, waking life. Look to your associations. If nothing comes, draw a picture and look at the "rat" and see what images float into your mind. Good luck!

Response to jason's dream:

Dear Jason,

This dream means that you are looking for the feminine part of yourself; you are really trying to connect with that part of yourself, but she keeps disappearing. Draw a picture of the girl you dream of. Or find a picture in a magazine of one that is similar. Write down a description of her. Talk to her. Ask her why she disappears. Ask her about herself. If you can make her "real" in your waking life, she will feel honored and acknowledged and your dreams will change.

Response to Anonymous's dream:

Dear Anonymous,

Read the article in our Circle about the difference between the objective and subjective levels of dreams.

You clearly need to look at your dream symbolically. Having a baby in a dream means brining something forth out of yourself. Are you working on a project or trying to do something that is meaningful to you? This is being "pregnant." Being a virgin in the dream means that what you are getting ready to give birth to is solely yours...you are the only parent. It is not a joint effort with anyone. The dream shows a situation where you believe what you "give birth to" is dead. But it is not. You need to persevere in finding your own because it is living and well.

Response to pedro's dream:

Dear Pedro,

What a lovely dream! Do associations with flowers: When I think of flowers, i think of 1)____________ 2)__________ 3)________ 4)_________ 5)____________.

These associations show what the unconscious is bringing to your conscious mind. This dream sounds like a lovely gift.

Response to Pete's dream:

Dear Pete,

When we dream of being "threatened" or "abducted" or "hurt" in a dream, we need to look at what complex is acting in a hostile way to our ego position. Here, your abductor is a male. I had the impression that he was older than you. This would indicate that an older masculine part of yourself (values represented in your culture by the older masculine) feel threatening and hostile to you. The gun and the gunshot probably represent the effort of this masculine part to "penetrate" your consciousness (the head).

You need to do some active imagination with this fellow. Dialogue with him, orally or in writing. Ask him, "What do you want to tell me?" "What do you want me to do?" "Why are you so angry with me?" Really get into this and listen carefully to what he has to say. Maybe, write your questions with the right hand and his answers with the left. Or pretend you are talking back and forth.

These shadow figures many times have information that we desperately need. That is why our dream is so dramatic.

Response to Jeffory's dream:

Dear Jeffory,

I do not know if your dreams of flying are out of body experiences, the way I think you mean out of body experiences. In some ways, ALL of our dreams are "out of body" experiences: they are experiences in our psyche, in our conscious that we are able to remember. What I do know is that they very often carry messages that are truly valuable in our conscious life.

I would like for you to do five associations to "flying." When I think of flying, I think of 1)________ 2)________ 3)________ 4)________ 5)________. Then think of flying symbolically. When you are flying, you are________.

The danger I see from many "flying" dreams that people have is that they are "too high up"...they are not coming to grips with the reality of having their feet on the ground in some way. Sometimes these pleasant, peaceful experiences in the unconscious compensate for a rocky, unpleasant real life. Is this the case for you? Do your dreams give you a peaceful, pleasantness that is missing in your real life? If so, is there a way to bring some of this unconscious pleasure into your waking life? Try drawing some pictures of flying and keep them around to look at when you are awake and re-capture that beautiful flying feeling when you look at the pictures wide awake. I will be curious to know what doing this does for you.

Response to Taryn's dream:

Dear Taryn:

The best way to approach such a complicated dream is to divide it into segments and do associations with the key elements in each segment. Then substitute the associations back into the segment and put the segments together. Your own personal associations with the key elements control the meaning of the dream for you.

Look at the setting to determine what part of your life the dream message may be related to. You are in a "leisure" place (sunny California) waiting in line for a concert (leisure activity). In this leisure part of your life, you get "hungry" for something more. When you embark on your life journey to find the something more, you are first accompanied by your "brother" (a young male part of yourself about your own age). But when you are being chased and find the money, this male part becomes the "father" (our establishment, authoritarian values).

What occurs to me here is that you may be thinking about career paths or meaningful activities after high school (leisure?). You start out the right way, complete with an appropriate male part, but when you feel "chased" and come to financial considerations, you don't stay with this "wholeness" represented by you and your brother. He becomes establishment values which your dream says are caught in a cage.

If this were my dream, the message would be "Be careful when you trade your young "whole" values for the values of the establishment because you could find yourself in a cage (symbolically). There is something about the "mountain bikes" being what you are really looking for. What do they mean to you? Do associations.

What a helpful dream!

Response to Danielle's dream:

Dear Danielle,

Do five associations with

1. Psychology

2. Kids

3. Getting kicked out of school

Then substitute these associations back into the dream sequence. Your personal associations will control the message the unconscious is bringing to your conscious mind through this dream.

If this were my dream, the substitutions I would make would be something like this:

I pass the test when I am working with people (listening to them, counseling them, etc.) However, when it comes to children "kids", there is something I am very uneasy about. It's like I'm cheating in some way...and the mother part of my psyche says watch out, you'll be discovered. I'm really worried about being caught and trying to correct the situation by being sneaky.

That's the method you should use to retell the dream story with your own associations.

Good luck! Your dream should be helpful in identifying something you are uneasy about and maybe not admitting in your conscious life.

Response to Pamela's dream:

Dear Pamela,

Do associations with Danny DeVito and morning sickness.

Pregnancy usually means a project or endeavor of some kind that you are trying to "give birth to." What did you start about eight months ago?

This "baby" is in some way associated with a masculine aspect of yourself that is symbolized by DeVito. Substitute what you associate with him as the description of this masculine part of yourself.

When the "water breaks," it is only a drop. Not as much emotional charge as you expected with this project? Instead of the water coming from the "birthing" it is coming from your mouth, your head. Your head is more involved than the usual process regarding the unconscious?

Your associations control this. A very interesting comment from your unconscious!

Response to Chris's dream:

Dear Chris,

Think about all the people in the dream as parts of yourself: An older male part, an older female part, and a young masculine part. What do you associate with "going up an elevator"? Maybe going up into your thought processes, higher and higher?

The "fall" of the elevator happened when these other parts of yourself left. The dream seems to warn that as you "go up" you need to pay attention to keeping these parts of yourself together. Don't let them split off by ignoring them or pretending they're not really with you.

This seems like a pretty important message because of the dramatic "falling" which left you physically and emotionally disturbed on waking.

Response to Janet's dream:

Dear Janet,

You should start by doing associations with "Benji", Annie, dogs in general, and with helicopter. Do five associations with each of these elements. Then substitute the association that feels right for each back in the dream story. These are the associations that control the meaning of the dream for you.

I will pretend the dream is my dream and give you some thoughts. Mine will reflect "cultural" or "archetypal" associations with the elements...so they are secondary in importance to your personal associations.

There is a young orphaned girl in the helicopter. Is this a young part of yourself that felt/feels parentless? She needs you to pick out a very specific, personal dog. Dogs in general represent some basic, instinctual part of ourselves (you will benefit from the past article in DreamWeavers' Circle about the meaning of animals in our dreams). A dog usually represents basic instincts that pretty accessible to us rather than ones that are deeper in the psyche. You are unable to pick out "Benji" because of the hundreds of dogs (instincts) that come at you. The helicopter goes into the air...does it represent some spiritual or mental journey you need/want to take? But you need "Benji".

You should think about the specific, personal instinct this orphaned part of yourself need for this journey. This is how "you" can help. Bring your reasonable, ego mind to bear on the problem of discriminating this one "dog" from the others so that "you" can support this little girl part of yourself.

Good luck!

Response to jojo's dream:

Dear jojo,

First, you should read the article currently posted in the DreamWeavers' Circle about the different levels of dreams.

You should definitely think about this dream on the subjective level.

This dream appears to be about two masculine centers of your psyche and shows you how they are interacting right now. The way to identify these parts of yourself is to do associations with each of the boys. Describe each of them. Now look at these as parts of yourself. There is one part that you want to be with, but the other part is jealous and is trying to keep you from "being with" or developing that part of yourself. The dream tells you what to do: say no to the one part...and go with the other part.

In your real life, what can you do (activities, thoughts, etc.) to pay attention to the part of yourself represented by this ex-boyfriend? That is what the dream is telling you to do.

Response to Jon's dream:

Dear Jon,

Look at the elements in this dream symbolically. What do you associate with "farm house"? List five things. This is the area of your life in which the dream is set.

There is something you want from this "farmhouse" (think about your associations), but you fear you will be "caught" if you try to get to it.

This dream reflects a desire and a fear that you may not be acknowledging in your real life. The "farmhouse" gives the clue of what it is.

Many times our dreams tell us about areas of our life that we consciously haven't figured out yet. This one seems to be that kind of dream.

Response to SoLeiL's dream:

Dear SoLeiL,

Let's look at his on the subjective rather than the objective level (see article in Circle).

Instead of being about your body, the dream is probably talking about some part of your psyche. What part of your heart or soul or mind is not being nourished properly? Some part of your heart or soul or psyche is being starved to death. I can't tell which part from your dream...but you will know when you think about the dream in this way.

You need to nourish that part of you. Think of ways that you can nourish this part...activities that you can do to pay attention to this area of your life that is starving.

Response to Stacey's dream:

Dear Stacey,

Look at the people in this dream symbolically instead of literally. Read the article in our DreamWeaver's Circle about the difference between the objective and subjective levels of dreams.

If these "people" represent parts of you rather than "real" people, what is your dream saying? First of all, do associations with this ex-boyfriend to see what masculine part of yourself is identified (sexual intimacy...she is pregnant) with a feminine part of yourself you don't like. This dream is describing a complex that has been unconscious up to this point: a masculine part of yourself that is not your partner, but who is acting in a way that is disturbing to "you." What part of yourself is this? The associations have the answer.

When you are able to identify this part and to see that "he" encourages the "trashy" part of yourself, you will be able to understand yourself better. I suspect that if you really work hard to understand this that not only will your dreams change but you will feel more integrated in your real life.

Response to Zelig's dream:

Dear Zelig,

When you dream of something like your "teeth," the dream is not talking about your teeth literally. The dream uses symbolic language to get its message across. Read the article in the DreamWeaver's Circle about the difference between the objective and subjective levels of dreams.

What do your teeth mean to you? List five things that you associate with teeth. Now look at these associations as the subject of your dream. What are you worried about "breaking" in real life? Your associations answer this questions. Archetypically, one can look at "teeth" as the way to understand something..."to get our teeth in it." When we get our teeth in something, we can digest it or integrate it. If your teeth "break," you don't have a way of understanding things. Are you concerned about some difficulty you might have in understanding or digesting something? If so, this dream is telling you to look at this, acknowledge it, and then you can take some steps to solve it.

Now, your personal associations with teeth may lead you in a different direction. I am asking our webmaster to give you a cite to another dreamer who wanted information about teeth in dreams.

The important thing about dreams is to do the associations so that the symbolic material from the unconscious enters the conscious. Then the dream stops because you get it!

Webmasters Note: Here is the other dream about teeth you may find interesting.

Response to Celine's dream:

Dear Celine,

Your dream shows you in a "van." What does a van mean to you?

What it means to you shows where you may be out of control. Is it a family car? If so, it may say that you feel the energy of your family is carrying you and that you have no control of this.

Your Dad is following you. Does he make you feel safe? Or do you feel that he can't do anything to affect the movement of the van?

This dream shows a fear and it says something about the role of your dad in this fear.

Dreams tell us important things about ourselves and about our families.

Response to Joy's dream:

Dear Joy,

Your dream is set in a "market place." How old are you? Does this relate to your career...your being in life's marketplace? If so, your dream is indicating that none of the people can hold on to their "balloons." What are your associations with balloons? Your personal associations control this meaning because it is your dream. If it were my dream, the balloons would mean some kind of childlike hope or expectation of fun. These are impossible to hold on to in the "marketplace" in which you find yourself in life.

There is movement in your dream when you try to help someone else hold on to this but can't...the balloon flies away. This effort on your part (have you done something like this in real life?) results in the "shot." Usually, a shot represent something that enters us...something that penetrates our skin...a message that needs to get into us. There is something you need to recognize and understand about being in this real "marketplace." It has to do with the impossibility of holding on to what the balloons represent to you.

This is a dramatic message. The fact of the fear (ego attitude fear) and the body response simply means that the unconscious is trying hard to get this across to you.

Response to Igor's dream:

Dear Igor,

Read the article in our DreamWeaver's Circle about the difference between the objective and subjective levels of dreams.

After reading this article, do at least five associations with this girl you dream about. That means describing her in short phrases or saying in short phrases what you think about when you think about her. What kind of person is she? Now, think about these descriptions as describing the feminine part of yourself. Every man has a woman as a part of him, and every woman has a man part of herself. We are all made of X and Y chromosomes that carry the genetic material of both sexes. In a male, the Y is dominant, but the X is there in order for the person to be complete and whole.

Your dream is probably "talking" about your feminine part, represented by this girlfriend. This gives you a way to know a part of yourself that heretofore has been unconscious. The dream shows that you are close to this part of yourself. "Kissing" usually indicates a friendly integration. There is not hostility or alienation with this part of yourself. This is the dream's way of showing you something very positive about yourself.

What a gift!

Response to Diva's dream:

Dear Diva,

I do not know if these dead people REALLY came to you. There are many theories and ideas about this in different philosophies and in different religions.

What you do know is that you carry genetic traces from these grandparents and that these can powerfully affect our unconscious processes. If people have had a living emotional impact on us, their "visitation" in a dream is the effort of our unconscious to deal with the current parts of ourselves that these people represent.

Read the article that is currently in our DreamWeaver's Circle that describes the difference between the subjective and objective levels of our dreams. Then think about these visitations on the subjective level. Do your associations with the particular people so that you can discover the part of yourself they represent. I suspect that you will be able to find some profound messages from your unconscious in this manner.

It is important for you to acknowledge the tremendous wisdom that such dreams can bring to you. They are big dreams, whatever the truth about actual visitation.

Response to Norm's dream:

Dear Norm,

Do associations (about five) with each of the key elements in your dream: locker, combination, electrical lab class.

Then substitute those associations in your dream. For example, if "locker" means to you somewhere where you keep personal items at school (does it?) and if combination means the way to get to those things, your dream might be saying that you feel you don't know how to get to the personal meanings or relationships or ??? at school. This missing way to access this personal stuff relates in your being late to "electrical lab." What do you associate with this lab? Are you feeling the loss of or inability to connect with something personal at school? And does this cause you to be "late" in getting to whatever it is that you associate with this lab?

The meaning of this dream to you really depends on your personal associations because there are so few archetypal or cultural meanings of the particular elements.

If you patiently work with this process of associating, you will discover much wisdom in your dreams.

Response to Neil's dream:

Dear Neil,

You need to do associations with your Dad, Jelena, and Carpet (magic or moving carpet).

List about five things that you think of when you think of the person or thing.

Then substitute these associations back in the dream story.

Something about the "Dad" part of yourself, when it is in front of the Jelena part of yourself results in a "crushing" when you are on the "carpet". Look at Jelena as a feminine part of yourself. Is the establishment, father, domineering part of yourself crushing the feminine or causing it to take a back seat? Or perhaps your personal associations take you a different direction with these figures in your psyche. I would be interested in hearing your conclusions after you do your personal associations.

Good luck!

Response to Melissa's dream:

Dear Melissa,

Do associations with Bugs Bunny:

1.___________ 2.___________ 3.___________ 4.___________ 5.___________

Now do associations with space ship:

1.___________ 2.___________ 3.___________ 4.___________ 5.___________

Now, substitute these associations in your dream story. First of all, where are you? What part of your life is represented by a spaceship? Your associations will tell you that. Is it the energy that carries you away from the real world, out into "space"? Or is it "spiritual"? Your own associations have to answer that. In this part of your life, the things that you associate with Bug Bunny are being destructive to you. In your real life can you see this? Sometimes, "fangs" biting us means that there are ideas or attitudes that need to "bite" into us or penetrate our conscious. What messages might your Bugs Bunny associations be trying to tell you? Either of these two directions may be valid. I can't tell which without knowing your associations, but I hope you will be able to after you do the associations and substitute them into the sequence.

Good luck!

Response to Brittany's dream:

Dear Brittany,

Read our article in the DreamWeaver's Circle on the objective and subjective levels of dreams. It is on this site. You are frightened of your mother's dream because you are looking at it on the objective level, that is, that she may really be getting a message that she will have twins. Usually, dreams carry messages on the subjective level, but they use people and things in our real life as symbols to get across these messages. In other words, they use symbols. Usually, "doubles" of some kind like twins are a signal from the unconscious that something is splitting in the unconscious so that it can become conscious. Is there some project or dream or idea that your mother is "giving birth" to as well as a real baby? You might ask her about that. It is likely that this is what the dream is about.

Let me know!

Response to Raul's dream:

In this dark place where you can't see there is a hummingbird! What does a hummingbird mean to you? Name four or five things you associate with hummingbirds. Now, substitute this in the dream story. When you are in a dark place, you can find these things by reaching out your hand. What a lovely message from your psyche!

Response to Lisa's dream:

Dear Lisa,

Read our article in DreamWeavers Circle in this site to understand the difference between the subjective and objective levels of dreams. This dream is frightening to you because you are thinking about it only on the objective level.

Now, go to the subjective level, looking at the figure in the dream as a part of your own psyche. Do some associations with your boy friend. When I think of him, i think about_______________, _______________,________________. Some qualities he has are _______________,_____________,_____________. Describe him in three or four words. Now, take these as describing a part of yourself. This dream tells you that this part of yourself is hostile to "you." In what way is this part of yourself pushing you over the rail? In your real life, how are you being pushed around by this destructive male part? That is what the dream is trying to make conscious.

You might do some thinking about the boyfriend in real life. In the event the dream has a real life message about this person, is he destructive to you in some way that you haven't owned up to? Most dreams relate to the subjective rather than the objective, but we should always do a real life check when we have a dream like this.

Good luck! DreamWeavers