Dream Dictionary Part 2

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What does your dreams tell you? (Part2)

Here are some of the meanings of your Dreams,

From the Book Dream Dictionary for Dummies

baby:

Physical: You’re looking at a new idea, potential,

or phase of life that’s just beginning. You’re concerned

about an actual pregnancy, or a desire for a child.

Emotional: You’re clearing your dependent behavior

or infantile desires to be babied or pampered. 

Mental-Spiritual: You’re in touch with innocence, unconditional

love, vulnerability, and fresh perspective. You

are focusing on new information about life purpose.

back/behind:

Physical: The back of the body symbolizes

your strength to handle life’s difficulties. There

may be literal back problems, or issues concerning

physical support or finances.

Emotional: Being behind someone else shows your comfort about 

following and not receiving recognition. 

The back also indicates stubbornness. 

Mental-Spiritual: Anything in back of

something else, like a backyard, indicates a private,

personal area, something not revealed to the public.

You’re focusing on something that is just about to

become conscious.

avalanche — back/behind ball/circle: 

Physical: You are focusing on cells or

atoms, your energy field, or a specific reality.

Throwing a ball indicates communication. Ball sports

depict cooperation within a group. 

Emotional: You’re experiencing oneness, peace, and wholeness. 

Standing inside a circle is protection from evil. You are going in

circles, or have come full circle. 

Mental-Spiritual: Any spherical shape represents the whole world, or the

well-rounded self. You are aware of the soul, your destiny,

or what exists in the present moment. A ball represents

a specific mental focus or state.

balloon: 

Physical: You’re releasing old ideas or toxins from the body.

 Emotional: You need to celebrate, feel

free, or release pent-up feelings. If you’re holding the

strings, you are afraid to let go. A deflated balloon

indicates energy drain or disappointment. 

Mental-Spiritual: You’re contemplating and forming creative

ideas, hopes, wishes, fantasies, and prayers.

bank/bankrupt: 

Physical: You’re concerned with

physical stability and security. Something you have

needs safekeeping. You have great resources at hand.

Emotional: You are afraid or rigid. A bank robbery

means that what’s valuable about you is not respected

or safe with others. Bankruptcy indicates emotional exhaustion. 

Mental-Spiritual: You have a wealth of

ideas and talent. There is abundance in the universe

to draw from.

basement: 

Physical: Since a basement contains equipment,

like the furnace and water heater, its condition

hints at your physical condition. You’re exploring

issues concerning sexuality. 

Emotional: You’re focusing on your subconscious where repressed ideas,

memories, fears, and dangers lurk. 

ball/circle — basement 

You’re examining the foundations of your life, where

you keep what needs to be worked on. Here you

access the inner resources you need to maintain your

world or handle emergencies.

basket/bowl: 

Physical: You are focusing on how much

you have and need, particularly concerning nutrition

and energy. A full basket or bowl represents the harvest

of your labors. 

Emotional: An empty bowl means

you feel depleted and need love and nurturance, as

these symbols represent the womb. 

Mental-Spiritual: Bowls and baskets hold abundance and the essence of

soul. You may be offering your gifts to others. A begging

bowl shows your faith in being provided for.

bathroom/bathing: 

Physical: You need to purify,  renew, or cleanse yourself,

 care for your body, or eliminate toxins or tension. 

Emotional: Here you are allowed to focus privately and totally on

 nurturing and tending to yourself. You are cleansing harmful emotions.

An overflowing tub shows emotional flooding

and feeling overwhelmed. 

Mental-Spiritual: Toilets indicate the elimination of old ideas. 

You are entering a period of spiritual rebirth.

battle/fight: 

Physical: You are remembering actual

past conflicts, or forces and energies in your body are

not working harmoniously. It could indicate an attacking

illness like cancer. 

Emotional: You feel threatened

and defensive about your ideas and rights. Another

person triggers a denied part of yourself. 

Mental-Spiritual: You are in conflict with yourself, trying to

balance personality traits, or your mind is divided.

beach: 

Physical: You are telling yourself to relax and

play, to take a vacation from what’s difficult. A life

change is imminent. 

Emotional: You are nurturing yourself, connecting with 

the rhythms of life and deeper, more universal feelings. 

You need more space and freedom. 

Mental-Spiritual: The shore is the boundary

between the ego and unconsciousness. You are

looking for inspiration; your goals are far-reaching and

visionary.

bear: 

Physical: You’re focusing on strength, instinct, a

strong mother figure, or the feminine aspect of nature.

Emotional: You are dealing with someone who is overbearing,

ill-tempered, unpredictable, or playful. You

want to withdraw from life. 

Mental-Spiritual: You need more introspection and patience, to center inside

yourself. You are working with a spiritual teacher of

great wisdom.

beard/mustache: 

Physical: You are hiding part of your

self-expression. Beards represent male courage,

energy, and the power to manifest goals, especially if

the beard is pointy or long. You are focusing on the

father archetype. 

Emotional: Specially shaped facial

hair shows how you portray yourself to others; a

goatee is intellectual or artistic expression, while a

beard with no mustache accentuates verbal communication

or sensuality. Shaving indicates a willingness to

be seen and vulnerable, or fear of losing power.

Mental-Spiritual: You are releasing habitual behavior,

prejudices, or an old identity.

beaver: 

Physical: You are focusing on productivity,

efficiency, hard work, and staying busy. 

Emotional: You are damming up the flow of your emotions to feel

secure, or avoiding feelings by overworking. 

Mental-Spiritual: You have a busy social life, easily overcome

challenges, have a good design sense, and care for

family.

bed/bedroom: 

Physical: You are focusing on regeneration,

love, death, or birth. You need more sleep.

Emotional: You need a womblike retreat, more space,

or nurturing in your inner life. You want romance, marriage,

sex, and a healthy intimate relationship. The

bed represents your emotional condition and innermost secrets. 

Mental-Spiritual: You are trying to connect

with your inner realms. Anything under the bed

shows what subconsciously threatens your peace.

bees: 

Physical: You’re focusing on fertility, industriousness,

creativity, and how you organize your life. As

makers of honey, bees symbolize a sweet outcome to

projects. You have to cooperate with others to get a

job done, or be content with the work you have.

Emotional: You’ve been hurt or have hurt others with

gossip or stinging words. Swarming bees reflect feelings

of annoyance and bother. Fear of being stung

shows you feel you might be injured emotionally.

Mental-Spiritual: You’re focusing on the harmonious

functioning of an organization in which each individual

is happy performing its job for the collective good.

below/descend: 

Physical: You’re experiencing a

decline in energy or status or a return to what’s

fundamental. You are dropping into your body fully.

Emotional: If you are below someone, it indicates

humility, service, yearning, and growth potential as

well as feelings of inadequacy or depression. You feel

compassion or disdain for what is below you. 

Mental-Spiritual: You are moving through your subconscious

mind on a journey of self-discovery.

bill: 

Physical: You need to put forth effort to create

balance for what you’ve received, or you need to

collect what is owed you.

 Emotional: You need to be

more responsible, generous, and keep your promises.

You feel stressed about your image or resources.

Mental-Spiritual: Life is handing you the bill for past

mistakes, karma, and bad decisions so you can face up

to the lessons you need to learn.

birds: 

Look to the species of bird for meaning nuances. 

Physical: You want greater lightness and freedom

in your body. Singing birds bring good news.

Emotional: Birds represent the way you love. Caged

birds mean you aren’t expressing yourself joyfully or

freely enough. Migrating birds are about homesickness.

Mental-Spiritual: Birds represent the ability to

reach higher realms of awareness. Like angels, birds

serve as messengers of the divine, and are symbols of

the soul. Look for the messages birds bring.

birth/birthday: 

Physical: Giving birth symbolizes the

beginning of a new project, ability, or stage of life. It

relates to the desire for a child or anxiety over pregnancy.

Your birthday focuses attention on how you are

living your life. 

Emotional: You feel reborn. You are

focusing on feminine, nurturing energy. Birthdays

remembered or forgotten by others show how significant

you feel as an individual. 

Mental-Spiritual: You are receiving new ideas, attitudes, plans, wishes, or parts

of your destiny, and emerging into new levels of

wisdom. Your birthday centers you in your sense of

soul and life purpose.

black: 

Physical: Your body may be unhealthy, blocked,

or feeling somewhat comatose. Black portends death or

the end of something, as well as gestation. 

Emotional:You’re focusing on your unconscious, the underworld,

evil, fear, grief, or negative feelings. You might also feel

elegant, formal, strong, and authoritative. 

Mental-Spiritual: You are aware of the death of old ideas, the

mystery, deep space, the void, receptivity, or protection

by or absorption into the divine feminine.

blanket: 

Physical: You need more heat or “fire element”

in your body. 

Emotional: You need to feel protected

and safe, hidden, or loved. 

Mental-Spiritual: You want a period of introspection and self-discovery,

where greater self-love can develop.

blind/blindfold: 

Physical: Open your eyes and use

them, connect with reality. 

Emotional: You aren’t aware of something important or don’t want to see

something. Someone is deceiving you or you are

deceiving yourself. 

Mental-Spiritual: You need to direct

attention deeply within to experience a more spiritual

or sacred connection with life. Don’t be distracted by

the superficial.

blood: 

Physical: You’re looking at your vitality and life

force as well as danger. Bleeding to death means something

is draining your creativity and energy. Menstrual

blood symbolizes fertility or cleansing.

Emotional: You are focusing on a denied emotional wound, anger,

hatred, or fear a loss of part of your life. Bloody violence

indicates emotional upheaval. 

Mental-Spiritual: You are aware of the source of all life, what makes you

strong.

blue: 

Physical: You are too cold, or have a sluggish

appetite, metabolism, and circulation. Or you are too

keyed up and need calmness. 

Emotional: You feel sad

or depressed. Or you feel clean, precise, serious, masculine,

or corporate. 

Mental-Spiritual: You have, or

need, clarity, insight, truth, loyalty, justice, or neutrality.

You are detached from an emotion, or overview,

a soothing action, or communication based on faith

and hope.

boat: 

Physical: You are focusing on your life’s journey,

wanting to make a change, or to reach the other side.

Emotional: Boats show how you traverse an emotional

experience, or help protect you from being overwhelmed

by one. Whether a power boat, canoe, or

tugboat, you’re receiving insight about how you deal

with emotional situations. Sinking boats indicate fear

of water or an overwhelming emotional encounter

you are afraid to experience. 

Mental-Spiritual: You’re

embarking on a new spiritual journey. Being becalmed

or drifting aimlessly with no paddle shows apathy or

lack of purpose.

bones/skeleton/spine: 

Physical: You are focusing on

your stability, courage to take a stand, inner strength,

and the structures you live by. Broken bones represent

disrupted energy flow in a particular area of the body. 

Emotional: You are too hard or emotionally fossilized.

You need to release rigidity and resistance.

You feel unsupported and weak. 

Mental-Spiritual: You

are getting to the essence of something. Skeletons pertain

to death, either literal or metaphorical. You are

examining how you receive from your unconscious

and transmit energy from your lower self to higher

self and vice versa.

book:

Physical: You are ready to receive news, or are

integrating your life experiences. 

Emotional: Opening or closing a book symbolizes opening or closing a

stage in your life. 

Mental-Spiritual: You are learning or

reviewing your knowledge and wisdom; you are looking

for guidance about life issues. Old books represent

neglected or forgotten knowledge, an earlier chapter

of your life, or even ancient wisdom. You are examining

the book of your life — your destiny throughout time.

boss: (see authority in Part 1)

box: 

Physical: You are focusing on your body, a particular

commitment task, or goal. You need order, definition,

and less or more structure. 

Emotional: You are

offering a gift to others, or receiving one. An empty

box means you have lost something, had something

stolen by others, or can’t see your own resources.

Mental-Spiritual: You are unlocking secrets and mysteries

or forming ideas into strategies and goals.

brain: 

Physical: Pay attention to your head.

Emotional: Don’t make all your decisions with your

head alone, or don’t be too hotheaded and impulsive.

Mental-Spiritual: You’re looking at how you process

information and perceive concepts. Make better use of

your intellect, pay more attention to facts and details.

brakes: 

Physical: Using brakes to stop a vehicle

implies you should immediately stop or withdraw

from a situation before there are disastrous consequences.

You are going too fast, not taking care of

your body’s needs. 

Emotional: When the brakes don’t

work, you feel out of control about a situation, too

much ahead of yourself, and helpless. 

Mental-Spiritual:

You are focusing on how to regulate the flow of your

self-expression.

bread: 

Physical: You are focusing on nutrition and a

need for greater simplicity. 

Emotional: Bread is basic

nurturing and sustenance. Bread crumbs show lack of

abundance, or a process leading to greater abundance.

Burned toast shows nurturing that was unappreciated

and wasted. 

Mental-Spiritual: Bread is sacred, the “food

of life,” representing patience, humility, and other

godly qualities. Fresh-baked bread shows luck coming.

Offering bread to others demonstrates compassion

and an open heart.

break: 

Physical: Breaking things means you need to

change an area of your life, like breaking away from a

relationship or job. 

Emotional: You need to break

through a barrier into an area of yourself that’s been

repressed, or release an emotional attachment.

Mental-Spiritual: Broken objects signify shattered

ideas, hopes, or goals. It can also mean you have

broken through limiting thought structures to a higher

dimension.

breasts: (see heart in later part)

bridge: 

Physical: Bridges indicate literal travel and life

transitions. The condition of the bridge shows the type

of journey it will be and your way of entering new territory.

Bridges also represent relationships. 

Emotional: You’re making an emotional transition and looking at

ways to avoid feeling overwhelmed by emotion or the

unknown. You are finding helpful connections between

yourself and things you fear. 

Mental-Spiritual: You are

linking life experiences or realms ,like conscious and

unconscious, and dealing with unresolved contradictions

and paradoxes.

brown: 

Physical: You’re focusing on toxins, waste, or

excrement, indicating you need better elimination.

Emotional: You feel depressed, negative, or sluggish,

or you want more comfort. 

Mental-Spiritual: Brown

suggests thought processes involving greater stability,

and the animalistic nature. Or, your mind is muddied

with distorted thinking and other people’s ideas.

bubble: 

Physical: You are releasing something from

your physical system, or are experiencing indigestion

with gas or bloating. 

Emotional: You want to feel

lighter, more childlike, effervescent, celebratory, fun,

and spontaneous. You are releasing worries, difficulties,

or negative emotions. 

Mental-Spiritual: Bubbles

symbolize wishes or unrealistic expectations, as in

“bursting one’s bubble.” They also show true hopes

and ascendant thoughts.

buffalo: 

Physical: You are focusing on abundance and

plenty, or survival. New opportunities are coming your way. 

Emotional: You’re being too obstinate. A buffalo

herd symbolizes peace and increase, as well as family

loyalty and safety in groups. 

Mental-Spiritual: You are

focusing on how much you honor what you’ve been

given, and whether you show gratitude for your life.

buildings: (see architecture in Part 1)

bull’s-eye: (see arrow in Part 1)

burning: 

Physical: You are purifying, or something is

disintegrating so you can move on unencumbered.

Emotional: You are releasing anger, criticalness, or

intense emotions. You feel passionate. You are living

through a trial by fire or a loss beyond your control.

Mental-Spiritual: You are focusing on bright new ideas

and spiritual purity.

butterfly/caterpillar: 

Physical: You are transforming

yourself in a fundamental way, growing in stages. You

need more freedom. 

Emotional: You are reminding

yourself to lighten up, be more tender and gentle. A

flitting butterfly suggests social or romantic activity,

possible infidelity or superficial involvement with

others, yet with a happy attitude.

 Mental-Spiritual: You

are focusing on becoming your most beautiful self.

Butterflies represent the soul’s essence.

buy/bargain: 

Physical: You are expanding and fortifying

yourself with the tools and opportunities you need in life. 

Emotional: You feel you don’t have enough love

or support and are easing anxiety with new possessions.

Finding a bargain means you feel lucky, or you

are not valuing yourself enough. 

Mental-Spiritual:

Buying indicates the acceptance of an idea or situation.

You’re focusing on a fair exchange of value, or

that you need to receive as much as you give.

GOODNIGHT AND SWEET DREAMS!