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Baboon - A need to express your inner feelings. Inapproperiate behavior by you or someone you know that affects you.

Baby - Vulnerability. A need for love.If you are really pregnant, no symbolism is needed. In a woman's dreams a baby may express a desire for a baby. A feeling of helplessness. A dependency on others, perhaps an undeveloped sense of love or acceptance.

Babysitter - Cultivating the 'inner' child. Protecting 'inner' emotions, a slow evolution to letting them mature and reach consciousness.

Bachelor - Your masculine aspect in search of balance. Going it alone. Not enough time being devoted to the other aspects of oneself.

Back - May symbolize hidden parts or aspects of your personality. The human back may symbolize moral uprightness and physical or moral growth. A bent back is a sign you may be overburdened or downcast.

Backpack - Carrying a heavy load. Decisions, emotions that weight you down.

Backwards - Getting farther away from your true goal. A need to retreat and analyze situations or events before moving ahead.

Backyard - Those parts of the personality hidden from view. Unconscious contents that have been ignored, repressed or never brought to consciousness.

Bacon - The essentials needed to substain life. Those parts of oneself that are left to 'hang out to dry' with an eventual realization by your conscious mind that will give nourishment to life.

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Badge - A desire for recognizition and stature. Regarding {or perhaps not} oneself to highly. Your status in social circumstances and peer groups.

Badger - Trying to pursuade oneself of something by constant reminders. Unconscious contents needing to be made conscious. Until they are the unconscious will 'badger' you through dreams.

Badminton - Playing games. Carefree existence.

Bag - May represent the womb (sexual). Things in life you carry around with you. Storing information for later use.

Bagel - The outer shell with the true self residing within {circle}.

Baggage - Heavy burdens that you unconsciously or consciously carry with you.

Modern Dream Philosophies

Probably the most well-known of the modern dream philosophers was Sigmund Freud. Freud first developed the theory about the role of the unconscious on the individual. Freud believed the dream worked on two levels. A straightforward level showed events in dreams as remembered. However in the latent level objects and actions in the dreams symbolize sexual and aggressive feelings and ideas that are repressed. So in dreams it protects the sleeper from the effects of a realization of these wishes. The dream taps into the desire for wish fulfilment when the controlling ego is relaxed during sleep. Freud wrote "All dreams are in a sense dreams of convenience, they help to prolong sleep instead of waking up. Dreams are the guardians of sleep and not its disturbers.
Carl Jung believed a dreams content uses symbolic language. He proposed that a dream expresses collective racial unconscious memories and instincts shared by all people. These are basic ideas that are themselves symbols. These include the hero, monster, mother, father, mandala, sacrifice and the mask. Dreams also indicate the way to self actualization Jungian therapy in fact deals extensively with dreams and fantasies.
Today, most psychologists agree with Jung's theory, and it is this theory that makes dream interpretation something that we can use in our everyday lives. If Freud were alive today he would disagree with every theory that says you are able to interpret your own dreams. Jung believed that, although it was difficult, dreams were meant to be understood.

Bail - A need to be free of something or someone. Substituting vaulable aspects of oneself for lesser values. Help is needed in a present situation.

Bait - Something 'luring' within the unconscious waiting for you to tkae the bait. Those things that entince you. Teasing or harrassing aspects in life.

Baking - Baking a loaf of brad may symbolize pregnancy. The opening of a new phase in your life; personal development, a new idea, new attitude. Baking up new ideas.

Balcony - Accessing parts of oneself that have been hidden and now are available. A need or desire to be noticed.

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Bald - A need to expose one's true self. A lack of esteem or fears of growing older. May symbolize humility and purity. Lacking hair may suggest you are not thinking logically.

Ball - Balls are circles and circles most often symbolize wholeness. You haved reached the part of yourself that has integarted all aspects of your being; physical, psychological, spiritual. Playing ball may represent doing those things that are required of you. Dreaming that you are watching a ball game may indicate that you need to take more of an initiative.

Ballerina - Feeling or moving unrestricted. The creative self. Innocence, vulnerabilities.

Ballet - Balance and co-ordination.

Balloon - A desire for freedom from daily problems. Colored balloons may represent rejoicing and happiness. An inflated opinion of oneself. The dream may be a metaphor indicating that you are losing your ground or your foothold on some situation/problem. Alternatively, it represents the process of individuation and your quest to fulfill some spiritual needs. You feel the need to be elevated in someone's eyes.

Bamboo - Strength and resilience. You easily bounce back from setbacks and disappointments in your life.

Banana - May be a sexual symbol representing the penis

Band - A sense of community and belonging. Banding together, co-operation.

Bandage - Covering up wounds inflicted upon yourself {may be inner wounds, emotions}. A need for healing of some aspect in your life.

Bank - Store-up but not yet used potential of your psyche. A desire for financial security. Dreaming that you are robbing a bank means that you are expending too much energy and are in danger of depleting your inner resources.

Bankrupt - You have exhausted your emotional energy. Feelings of insecurity.

Banquet - You are emotionally malnourished.

Baptism - The ending with a new begiining of one stage of your life to another. Self-realization; realizing the true nature of who you are.

Bar Mitzvah - A transformational period in your life. Moving from one phase to another. A need for mature thinking.

Barbarian - Your instinctial aspects. Your unrefined self.

Barbed Wire - Restricted access to someone or something, or some aspect in your life. Feelings of being trapped or confined.

Barbeque - Covering up one's true emotions. A need to express one's true self.

Barbie Doll - Conforming to social rules. Meeting the expectations of others. Escaping from reality.

Breasts

Dreaming about breasts can have obvious sexual meaning. However, consider all of the details in your dream in order to obtain the most appropriate meaning. Breasts also represent tenderness, love, and other matters of the heart. Breast-feeding is symbolic of giving or receiving, nurturing, and sustenance. It represents motherly love as well as physical and emotional support and well being. Old dream interpretation books say that breast-feeding is a symbol of great things to come following an extended period of hard work.

Barefoot - A lack of firm grounding or mobility. Relaxed, playful attitudes.

Bargain - Feelings of being undervalued by others. Not putting enough effort into an idea or event. Lacking confidence.

Bark - The outer self, ego, persona. Covering up with is underneath. Barking, as in a dog barking, may indicate you are overly emphasising something that should be cultivated.

Barn - The subconscious linking instinctial aspects to the conscious self.

Barricade/Barrier - Barriers in your life. An inability to access other possibilities in your life. An obstacle to emotional and/or personal growth.

Baseball - Playing games. Setting goals and achieving goals. Sexual innuendos where the masculine aspects is depicted by the bat and the feminine aspects is depicted in the form of the ball or the ballpark.

Basement - Basement, or what is in it are those unconscious aspects in your life {basement symbolizes the deepest part of your unconscious mind}. Explore this area first. They are also frightening places. What in your life seems dark and damp and in the depths? Most of the time they seem that way because of our fear to confront them. They ususally turn out to be harmless.

Basket - A symbol of the feminine characteristics of your psyche. A basket full of fruit may represent well-being. An empty basket may represent personal feelings of emptiness. It may also represent things you are holding onto.

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Bat - Some repressed content in your unconscious that may be associated with some early traumatic experience. May symbolize intuitive wisdom. A baseball bat may symbolize male sexuality or aggressiveness. Dreaming of a vampire bat may represent someone or something in your life that is draining your energy.

Bath - Confronting feelings of guilt; cleansing. Getting rid of negative attitudes.

Bathrobe - Covering up feelings of guilt, negative attitudes.

Bathroom - A need to eliminate certain burdens or attitudes. Alternatively, it may symbolize purification and self-renewal. You need to cleanse yourself, both emotionally and psychologically. Dreaming that you are in a public restroom with no stalls means your frustrations about getting enough privacy. It may also indicate that you are having difficulties letting go of old emotions.

Battery - Batteries symbolize energy. Dead batteries would mean a lack of energy or emotional exhaustion. Components of a battery would be those aspects that make up your life.

Battle - Conflict in your life, perhaps between rational thinking and your irrational impulses. Look to stressful situations to detremine what the battle is about.

Battlefield - Major conflicts in your life. Could be emotional or part of your everyday routine.

Bay - Having to do shorelines it may indicate an openning up to unconscious information. May represnet new understanding about events or istuations in your life. Are you keeping someone or something at bay, at a distance?

Beach - The beach is the meeting place of two worlds, land and sea, which may symbolize the conscious and unconscious realms of the human psyche. Perhaps there is something within your unconscious that the conscious mind needs to ackowledge. Dreaming that you are looking toward the beach, suggests that you are returning to what is familiar to you. Alternatively, you may be adapting or accepting to the changes and circumstances in your life.

Being Orphaned

This is often a dream of neglect, fitting in, or seeking to act with benevolent power in the world. Much of the meaning to be derived from this sort of dream depends on how you locate yourself within the orphan scenario of the dream.
If you find yourself working in an orphanage, seeking to adopt a child from an orphanage, or just visiting an orphanage, you may be seeing yourself as an agent of justice in the world-this is worthy of consideration. You may be trying to fight against injustice, or trying to compensate for acts of unfairness you have committed in your waking life.
If you appear as a child in an orphanage, the connectivity of your waking relationships is worth examining. Do you have a sense of belonging and rootedness in the world or a sense of trying to find your place?

Beads - Beads are round and may symbolize those things in life that can bring balance and harmony. Laying groundwork for success and balance.

Beans - Those things obtained in life that provide emotional nutrition. Fertility.

Bear - May symbolize the feminine side of a man's psyche. May represent your mother, or the wisdom that is available to you in your unconscious. May represent aggressive attitudes or threatening situations. Perhaps you need to bare your soul and let everything out into the open.

Beard - Often symbolize virility and male sexuality. In a woman's dream it would symbolize the dreamer's own libido or primitive psyche energy. A bearded man may represent practical wisdom within the psyche.

Beast - Your animal nature. Those things in life that threatening and need to be confronted. If Beauty and the Beast scenario it may represent your hidden aspects.

Beating - May suggest that some part of your life is out of balance. Are you beating up on yourself, or do you feel someone is beating up on you, physically or psychologically?

Beaver - May symbolize indicate certain behavior or attitudes that are gnawing at your core. Seeing a beaver building a dam may symbolize ambition and that hard work is necessary to achieve your own goals. Are you daming up emotions that need to be let out?

The spiritual path....is a psychological journey

Bed - A bridge bewteen your conscious and unconscious self. May symbolize a need to investigate, or acknowledge those aspects that have not be perviously attended to. An unkept bed may symbolize an urgent need to address such aspects.

Bedroom - Dreaming that you are in the bedroom may symbolize a need to contact those inner feelings and emotions that will lead to a better understanding of who you really are. May symbolize the inner self, unconscious contents that can beaccessed through your dreams.

Bedspread - May represent covering up unconscious attitudes or emotions. May represent your open sexuality and outward beauty.

Bee - May symbolize a need for hardwork to bring about fruitful results in your life. Are you 'busy as a bee', perhaps too much so that you are neglecting other aspects of your life?

Beehive - May symbolize hard work and the importance of teamwork. May represent those aspects of the total psyche that work well together and bring about growth and progress in your personal life.

Beer - May symbolize unclear thinking or attitudes. Do you indulge too much in social life and not enough in other aspects of your life, spirituality or creativity?

Beetle - May symbolize destructive aspects in your life, possibly the little things often ignored untill they have become too destructive.

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Beggar - May represent a sense of insecurity. and/or a lack of self worth or self esteem.

Beheading - Beheading may symbolize punishment, punishing ourselves, unconsciously, as a result of guilt feelings or emotions. The dream may be showing you a negative pattern in your life that needs to be death with. It could also symbolize a need to get free of a too dominating head-you rely too much on your intellect and neglect your instincts.

Behind - May represent those unconscious aspects that support the principles you should live by. Unconscious contents, possible hidden, neglected or repressed.

Bell - Bells sound an alert, often awakening you to insights you may overlook in your waking consciousness. May be a signal from your unconscious to prepare you for whatever is happening next.

Belly - The belly symbolically holds repressed emotions and unexpressed feelings. Your dream may also be telling you to trust your gut feeling and intuition. Dreaming that you are stroking or touching a belly indicates that you are coming to terms with certain feelings. You are slowly confronting and acknowledging your repressed emotions. Dreaming of your belly may indicate that your are processing and integrating your ideas and feelings from the unconscious to the conscious level.

Belt - Holding things together; when around waist may represent stress and tension. May symbolize punishment and discipline.

Bench - May indicate a tendency to procrastinate and put things aside. May also suggest that you often take on a passive role instead taking initiative.

Bending - Adapting to new situations. Compromising certain principles to comform to thye realities in life. Bending backwards may indicate a need or reddiness to please others. Bending forward may imply an eagerness to do something, rightly or wrongly.

Betrayal - Unconsciously giving up information to the conscious mind that was previously repressed. Having been betrayed may represent your suspicions about a particular person, relationship or situation.

Bewilderment - Two opposing forces within you that is not clear, confused. It may represent your indecision and your inability to make up your mind.

Bible - Seeking spiritual englightenment. Seeking some form of comfort. May also refer to your fundamental belief system. May be referring to a higher source of knowledge within yourself.

Bicycle - Search for balance. Difficulties in riding a bicycle may suggest that you are experiencing anxieties about making it on your own. You may need to devote more time to leisurely pursuits and recreation, providing a balance in your life.

Big - Dreaming that someone or something is bigger than normal may indicate that you either have an inflated opinion of yourself or of someone. May represent authority and power.

Bikini - Feelings of being exposed. Innocence, as in youthful exposures of being free to express yourself. Superficial desires.

Billboard - A message from your unconscious that you need to take note of in your path toward your goals. Playing games. Are you or is someone else palying games in your life?

Billiards - May represent your competitiveness. Too much attention to winning.

Binoculars - Focusing on certain aspects within, perhaps unconscious attitudes or emotions. May suggest that you need to take a long and close look at a situation. A need to carefully evaluate your choices and decisions.

Bird - The simplicity of nature and the need to get in touch with nature. An invitation to enter into the spiritual realm. May symbolize energies that can bring you healing or balance in life. A bird taking wing may represent the need for you to take wing, encombered by circumstances that prevents you from the freedom you require. A black bird may represent your unconscious, or may symbolize the feminine aspect in a negative way.

Birdcage - An inability to access the simple nature within you. Feelings of being caged like a bird, a loss of freedom. Feelings of being locked up and unable to fully express yourself. An inability of the unconscious to express itself.

Birdhouse - Your spiritual/creative self.

Birdseed - Nourishment for the spiritual/creative self. May indicate insufficient rewards for your efforts.

Birth - If you are a woman it may represent the unfilled desire for a child. If the birth is a negative emotion it may symbolize an unwanted pregnancy. May represent the possibility of new experiences and personal growth. May symbolize a new phase of personal growth as in Jung's 'Individuation Process' .

Birth Control - Limiting ones personal growth. Those things in your life that prevent you from growing and progressing.

Birthday - Acceptance of yourself. Celebrating who you are.

Birthmark - Identifying your true self.

Bisexuality

Sigmund Freud was a great advocate of the bisexuality of all persons. It was no surprise to him when he studied dreams in which romantic content existed that was contrary to the dreamer's usual sexual preference. Many times, this romance is a form of "mirroring."
Mirroring is the desire to find affirmation of a particular aspect of yourself {not a real bi-sexual experience or desire} in a particular sort of relationship. The romance contrary to your usual preference should be set aside initially in order to discern what sort of affirmation you may be seeking from this liaison.
Another possible reason for a dream that involves bisexuality for a typically heterosexual person is that the anima/animus is flexing itself.

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Biting - A symbol of aggressiveness. If being biten, 'what is biting at you' or bothering you? Biting someone may mean the pressure you are putting on some other person.

Black - Hidden things. Your shadow (an aspect of your personality that is hidden, unknown and/or repressed within your unconscious mind.Black may represent dispair or depression. Do you feel depress in your real life? The negative.

Black Widow - May symbolize a fear of hidden unconsciuous aspects. A fear or uncertainty of a relationship. Hostility toward your feminine aspects or your significant other.

Blackberries - Hidden sexual desires.

Blackbird - Fear of unconscious contents.

Blackboard - The unconscious trying to communicate to your conscious mind. Pay attention to the message.

Blackmail - The unconscious seeking to dominate your conscious actions. A feeling weakness and helplessness. Dreaming that you are blackmailing someone may indicate your issues with power and domination.

Blacksmith - The foundation that provides inner strength and endurance.

Blade - The cutting edge of something in your life that can be threatening. Walking a thin line, a precarious position that you are in.

Blanket - Covering up some aspect or emotion. A desire for warmth and attention from others. Wrapped in a blanket may suggest a fear of the unknown, aspects within the unconscious or events in your waking life.

Bleach - A desire or need to cleanse oneself of unwanted aspects, emotions, events.

Bleachers - Reflecting on past experiences. The gathering of the different aspects of your psyche with the intent to view the whole of who you are.

Blender - A desire or need to blend certain aspects about yourself so to balance your life.

Blind - A lack of awareness or understanding within yourself. Turning a blind eye to something. May mean not knowing where you are going and/or a feeling of helplessness.

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Blinking - A refusal or fear to see or recognize the obvious.

Blister - An injured ego. Blisters from manual labor may indicate the hard labor that is needed to be put forth to acheive a goal in your life. A blister on the hand may suggest an inability to achieve something. A blister on the face may suggest problems with ego identity or persona.

Blizzard - Cold and frigid emotions. Feelings of exclusion. An absence of warmth in a relationship.

Blond - A desire for a glamorous life {could be positive or negative}. Blond may represent the fair side of the psyche, a harmoneous, balanced self {or a desire for this aspect}.

Blood - Life's energy source. Love, passion, life itself. Losing blood may suggest you are losing energy because of inner conflicts or waking conflicts. Feelings of being emotionally drained. Dreaming that you are drinking blood may indicate that you have a thurst for vitality and power. Women often dream of blood or of someone bleeding shortly before or during their periods and when they are pregnant.

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Blood may be a symbol of life or physical, emotional, and/or spiritual energy. It may also symbolize passion, love or even anger. Dreaming that you are bleeding or losing blood may mean that you are feeling emotionally drained. Shedding blood may also represent guilt. Dreaming that something is written in blood may represent the energy you have put into a project. Drinking blood means receiving new life or new strength. 'Displaced' blood may be menstrual blood which for a woman may represent a sexually related anxiety, and for a man may represent a fear of sex and/or of women.

Blossom - You are in a period of productivity or prosperity. Maturity, or a need to mature. The beauty within yourself. Your great potential needing to blossom.

Blue - the unconscious mind as related to the universal mind (nature). Depression,"the blues".

Blueprint - Intellectual thinking. The basic makeup of your psyche/ego/persona. A need to pay close attention to details.

Blur - An inability to recognize unconscious contents or obvious situations in your life. Confusion. Secrets that are nor recognizable.

Blush - A need to be more expressive. A sign of healthy aspects in your life. Embarassment.

Boar - An uncontrollable masculine aspect. A need to castrate certain masculine aspects that can be controlling {i.e. being overly aggressive, over bearing, combative, too competitive}.

Boats - May symbolize some aspect of the feminine, either with a plainly sexual reference or with reference to the unconscious. May symbolize transition if the boat is crossing a narrow stretch of water. If in a dream you miss the boat, you have failed to take advantage of an opportunity that offered itself to you.

Body - If the body is your own and is clothed, it may represent your ego. If uncolthed it may represent exposing your ego as it really is; controlling and out of balance with your total psyche. If it is some else's body, it may represent some hidden part of yourself. If of the opposite sex it may represent your soul or the anima/animus.A dead body may signify some part of you that is as good as dead because you have surpressed or ignored it.

Bog - Your are bogged down with some personal problem. If bogged down to your waist in the dream, you may need to activate or express some instinct or unconscious desire, some part of your lower nature.

Boiling - Things that are planned and are out of control {boiling over}. Unconscious contents that are 'boiling over' into consciousness often causing distress. Emotional turmoil.

Bolt - Fleeing from a situation in your life. Dreaming of a bolt may symbolize the threads that unite the different aspects of your psyche. Or it may suggest that you are protecting yourself from difficult emotions and experiences.

Bomb - An unconscious emotional force. The bomb could represent repressed desires and unexpressed emotions that are likely to explode or burst if not dealt with soon. A bomb threat may suggeststhat you are experiencing some inner anger and/or pressures which are on the verge of exploding into violence or erupting into your conscious life and causing pain and possible destruction.

Bondage - Emotions that are repressed or you are unable to express. In a sexual sense, dreams of bondage represents your desires to be more sexually submissive or that you have unacknowledged sexual passions.

Bone - The underlying structure of your personality/pysche. Underlying strengths and principles that sustain your life. Broken bones may represent weaken principles, or suggest weakness in plans or ideas in your waking life.

Bonfire - Fire aften symbolizes passion, anger, libido. A bonfire may represent a fire out of control or on the verge of being out of control.

Bonnet - Sheldered ideas, old fashioned beliefs. Prehaps you are closed minded to new possibilities due to outdated beliefs.

Book - Could represent a positive meaning - wisdom or valuable knowledge, or negative- mere opinions, therories or superficial learning. May also symbolize knowledge, intellect, information and wisdom. Dreaming of children's books may represent a collection of personal memories from your own childhood. It may also suggest your desire to escape from reality and retreat into some fantasy world.

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Bookkeeper - {Accountant}. May represent those things you need to be held accountable for in yours, and others people's lives. Taking account of a situation.

Bookshelf - Storing information that may provide valuable insights later on. Are you taking heed of such wisdom? May represent the various levels of your mind where ideas, concepts, and memories are kept.

Boomerang - May symbolize that things that return to haunt you later in life {possible unconsciously}. 'What goes around, comes around.' Also may represent schemes in your life that go awry.

Boot - Wearing of boots may symbolize taking a bold position. Power foundations that when properly used will result in strong positions of strength. If used inapproperiately {worn out boots} may result in disaster. Protecting ones principles and beliefs.

Border - Where unconscious and conscious meet, offering vital info about some 'foreign' or unknown aspects about yourself. May represent a transition to a new phase in your life. The conversion of two states of mind or attitudes that may have been in conflict but are now coming together.

Boss - An authority figure. Or, an attitude on your part of being 'too bossy'. Authoritative {masculine} side of your own personality {see anima/animus}. Dreaming that you are afraid of your boss indicates your fear of authority. Mya represent actual work related issues that need to be resolved.

Bottle - If bottle is empty, it could symbolize emptiness in your life. The contents of the bottle indicate the nature of the emotions. For Freud, it represents the vagina. Also, bottled up emotions.

Boulder - May represent major onstacles in your life. But may also symbolize strength.

Boundary - May symbolize limitations. Perhaps you are limiting yourself beyond the boundaries of what is possible.

Bouquet - Symbol of approval, respect and/or affection. Healing or spiritual healing.

Bow - Dreaming of a archer's bow may represent pursuit and accomplishing goals. Bowing symbolizes resepct, perhaps for one's own ability or oneself.

Bow and Arrow - Merging of masculine and feminine enegeries to create a balance. May also symbolize a desire for perfection. Look at your love relationships for answers.

Bowel Movement - Eliminating unwanted or unneeded aspects in your life. Getting rid of your old habits/ways and thinking patterns.

Bowl - May symbolize the womb in which case you need to look to new possibilities in your life. May represent areas of your life that provide sescurity.

Bowling - May refer to the strikes, hits, and misses in your life. Alternatively, bowling and bowling alleys may also be a metaphor for sexual conquest. The pin deck is symbolic of the womb or vagina (as is with with any dark receptacle like caves, bowls, containers, etc.) The pins and bowling balls, can be viewed as masculine symbols.

Box - Freud saw anything hollow as a sexual representation of the womb of the vagina. May represent yourself, or your psyche. Openning the box would them be extremely important for you. May symbolize the unconscious, the fear of the powers within the unconscious (as in Pandora's box). May represent limitations or feelings of being boxed in. If opening the box fills you will fear, you may be uncovering aspects of yourself that make you feel anxious.

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Boxcar - Those parts of yourself that are limiting your ability to be your true self. Those parts that you feel are inadequate.

Boxing - External conflicts that require you to defend yourself. May also represent internal conflict that is boxing you in and preventing an adequate balance in your life.

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If you are female and dream that you see or are a boy, then it indicates that you are developing the masculine aspects of character. Alternatively, it may represent your feelings about a real-life boy who is important and significant to you. You may have a crush on this boy and your waking thoughts of him has carried over into the dream world. Your motherly instincts may be taking over.
If you are an adult male and dream that you see or are a boy, then it suggests your playful, innocent, childlike nature. Alternatively, it can symbolize the immature aspects of yourself that still needs to grow. Your inner child may be trying to draw your attention to parts of yourself that you need to recognize and acknowledge.

Boy Scout - May symbolize commitments and/or disciplines. May represent a sense of community, belonging, and/or helpfulness. May symbolize naivity, giving in to prescribed ideas that are naive.

Boyfriend - May symbolize an actual relationship to a male figure in your life. For a woman it may symbolize the relationship to her masculine side. Incorporating masculine aspects without letting them rule creates balance. Those masculine aspects that can be trusted.

Bra - Dreaming that you are wearing a bra means support and protection. Perhaps you need to have your spirits uplifted. Alternatively, it may represent your nurturing side and maternal feelings. Dreaming that you are not wearing a bra indicates that you have no discipline or control. Alternative, it may reflect your sexual nature. {from hyperdictionary

Bracelet - Those things that strengthen your abilities in life. Dreaming of or wear a bracelet may refer to an expression of deep passion and fire.

Braces - Braces for the teeth may symbolize talking too much and doing too little. Perhaps you are too quick to criticize others, or yourself. Braces for the legs may suggest you are relying too much on others for support. The dream may also be a pun on "brace yourself".

Bragging - Feelings of insecurity by overcompensating actions of your shortcomings.

Braids - Over-emphasising your ego-persona. Hair braids may represent an orderly way of thinking.

Brain - Your intellectual abilities, perhaps relying too much on intellectual thinking and too little on intuitive feelings. Your problem solving abilities, or lack of. Being an organ of the body, it may symbolize an aspect that is thought to be the highest self but in reality is subordinate to the heart chakra. Too much thinking and not enough giving.

Brakes - A need or desire to slow down in some aspect in your life. Failing brakes may suggest and inability to slow down, possibly creating disasterous collisions {conflicts}.

Branch - Parts of yourself that have the ability to expand and grow. Broken branches may symbolize an inability to branch out, or grow in your personal life. May also represent your relationship with family or close friends.

Brass - May symbolize deception, falsehood and deceitfulness. Also aggressive attitudes.

Bread - Life's basic needs. Something that is placed between two slices of bread may indicate those things that are fulfilling and helps you meet your required needs for survival. Communion with your higher self {a need to communicate with your unconscious self}.

Break - Breaking something may indicate needed changes in your life. Or it may indicate a need to break away from those things that bind or limit you.

Breakdown - Anything that breaks down is probably an indication something in your life is breaking down.

Breakfast - Beginning of a new stage in your life that provides needed nourishment. May be a straightforward symbol of thinking ahead to the next morning's meal.

Breasts - could be reference to a desire on your part for sex or love. May symbolize your mother (mother's breasts), indicating an attachment to your mother or the lack of love from the mother. A symbol for your relationship to 'Mother Earth'. This is the metaphysical aspect of dream. This is the source of all life. What is your relationship with the 'inner child?' See also Breasts

Breast Feeding - Symbolizes tenderness, love, nurture, and motherly love. Perhaps there is still a need for required loved that has been missed in your life.

Breathe - Dreaming that you are breathing rapidly indicates that you are experiencing some anxiety, tension, or fear concerning a new situation in your waking life. Dreaming that you are breathing underwater, represents a retreat back into the womb. You want to return to a state where you were dependent and free from responsibilities. Perhaps you are feeling helpless, unable to fulfill your own needs and caring for yourself. Alternatively, you may be submerged in your emotions. Dreaming that you are holding your breath indicates your stubborn state of mind. Your views may be one-sided and the dream is telling you to be open to the opinions of others. Dreaming that you cannot breathe indicates that you are feeling exhausted. Dreaming that you have bad breath, suggests that you are misleading others. {from hyperdictionary}

Breeze - Minor changes in your life. Those tasks that seem hard at first are really quite easy.

Bribery - You are easily influenced by others. Bribing someone may suggest you want your way and will do what it takes to have it. Or you may be too demanding, you expect too much for too little effort.

Bride - Integration of neglected {feminine} aspect of the Self. What part {feminine aspect} of you has been neglected and now wants to be known to you consciously?

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Bridegroom - May symbolize the animus in a woman's dream, representing the masculine side of her personality. Perhaps you ned to integrate the masculine aspect into your life.

Bridge - A transition. Are there changes occuring in your life? This could be physical, psychological or spritual. Dreaming of a bridge collapse indicates that you have let a great opportunity pass you by. May symbolize birth, a transition from one phase in your life to another. Freud saw the bridge as a symbol of the sexual organ.

Briefcase - Carrying your responsibilities and stresses around with you.

Bronze - Concerns about your beauty and health. Trying to cover up the inner self with artifical beauty. {as in a tan}

Brook - May symbolize healing or reinvigoration; a relaxed flow of energy.

Broom - A need to clean up those things in your life. You may need to 'sweep' clean unconscious aspects making them visible to the 'accompany' conscious mind. Domestic aspects. May refer to the female shadow aspect of yourself.

Brothel - A need or desire to incorporate those aspects you once considered unwanted or undesirable but are in reality part of the human self. May indicate dissatisfaction and deprivation in your emotional or sexual relationship. A neglected feminine side because it is considered undesirable.

Brother - The masculine part of yourself (psyche). Projection of those qualities you find in your brother onto someone else or yourself. May symbolize some aspect of your relationship with your real brother. If you do not have a brother and dream that you have one, then he may symbolize masculine characteristics that you need to acknowledge within yourself.

Bruise - May symbolize a bruised ego. An injury to your ego.

Brush - A desire to 'brush' away something in your life, perhaps simple things that are annoying or not needed or they could be serious things needing further consideration. Searching your intelligent self for answers.

Bubble - An impracticable and illusory idea. Transparent attitudes or emotions that are capable of bursting.

Bubble Bath - Trying to cleansing yourself with artifical ideas. Total relaxation in a world of stress.

Bucket - An open impression of oneself. An empty bucket may represent a false impression of oneself, or feelings of an empty life.

Buddha - A symbol of your spiritual Self. Symbolizes wisdom, insight, compassion, discipline and inner spirituality.

Buffalo - May symbolize those human animal aspects that survive through difficult situations. May represent fertile opportunities that are offered to you in your path to self awareness.

Bug - Little things that you worry about. What's bugging you? Bugs are insects which ay symbolize either your attitudes toward your instinctive drives or unconscious forces that seem to constitute a threat to the rule of reason. If a solitary insect, it may be bringing a message from your inner self (the unconscious). Remember the cricket in Pinocchio's adventure?

Building - A symbol for the body and self. A damages building may represent some part of you that has been emotionally damaged. Dreaming that you or someone fall off a building may suggest that you are descending into the realm of unconscious. The lower parts of a building symbolize the unconscious aspects, the higher parts the conscious or intellectual aspects.

Bulb - May symbolize the inner light, those inner resources that provide the energies you need for a balanced, harmoneous life. Dreaming of a plant bulb may represent your spiritual, physical, and intellectual potential.

Bull - In a woman's dream it may represent the animus. The bull may refer to your masculinity (whether you are male or female).The taming of a bull may signify the harmonious integration of your animality, especially your sexuality, or th whole of the hidden, unconscious part of your psyche.The bull may symbolize fertility, as in mythology. Your unconscious has the power to bring about new life if you allow it to penetrate your conscious mind. May represent your true nature - as seen when one practices self exploration of the psyche. May symbolize stubbornness, strong will, strength, and power. Bulls are also symbolic of repressed sexual energies, fertility and virility. Dreaming of an untamed, raging bull represents that your passions may be out of control.

Bulldozer - May symbolize a desire or need to less utilize those masculine aspects that are often damaging to you or others . Dreaming of a bulldozer may suggess that you are feeling pushed away from what you want. Or you are being diverted away from the path to your goals.

Bullet - A symbol for anger and/or aggression. Dreaming of being hit by a bullet may represent those things thrown at you in life that require perseverance. Freud saw bullets as a sexual symbol, fired from a gun would represent the sexual act.

Bullfight - Struggle between the inner self and outer ego. Using the masculine aspects to destroy other vital aspects of the psyche.

Bully - May symbolize your dominating ego. Or it may represent a dominating unconscious that unknowing controls your conscious life. The bully may be seen as your shadow Self which you have rejected.

Bunjee Jumping - Dreaming that you are bunjee jumping may represent your ability to bounce back from adversities and setbacks in your life. The important thing is you took the initial risk.

Bunk Bed - Dreaming of bunk beds may represent childhood and innocence. Alternatively, it may refer to diverging and conflicting views of sexuality.

Buoy - The ability to hold your head above the emotional stesses in your life. It may suggest that some of your repressed thoughts or unconscious material has come to the surface and made itself known.

Burden - carrying a heavy load in your life. Someone is 'on your back' and needs to be told to get off.

Burglar - May symbolize something in your psyche that is trying to break into your consciousness. Those things that you feel are stolen away from you. Feelings of being emotionally or physically drained.

Burial - A death to old attitudes and/or habits. Putting to rest a part of yourself. You are finally letting go of something.

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Burning - Feelings of anger or frustration. There is some situation or issue in your life that you can no longer avoid and ignore. Emotions or attitudes that tend to consume you.

Burst - Things that put you under a lot of stress and are capable of bursting or overcoming you.

Bus - The many aspects that make up your total self. {Everyone on a bus is usually a symbol for some aspect of yourself}. Dreaming that you are at the bus station may suggest that you have reached some new level or stage in your emotional or physical life. Waiting for a bus may symbolize an unconscious realization about yourself that is coming to conscious awareness.

Bus Driver - Suggests the person or internal aspect that control you or your destiny. A school bus driver may mean that through knowledge and learning you will advance rapidly in life, or will learn more about yourself through personal discovery.

Bush - Dreaming that you are hiding behind a bush may suggests that you are seeking protection from an outer or inner problem. A bush has spreading branches. Are you spreading yourself out too much, or not enough? May symbolize stunted personal growth.

Butcher - Aggressive part of self that tends to cut away at you. Raw emotions are inapproperiate behavior.

Butter - Overindulging in the pleasures of life.

Butterfly - Transformation to a higher level of Self. New realizations of who you truly are.

Buttocks - Sitting on valuable and unused assets. May represent your instincts and urges.

Buttons - Dreaming of button may indicate a dsire for wealth and security. Dreaming that you are unbuttoning your clothes indicates that you are opening yourself to others. Perhaps you need to 'button up' in some aspect of your life.

Buying - Accepting or searching to obtain certain aspects about yourself. An attachment to material things.

Buzzard - May symbolize an end of some aspect in your life, perhaps taking a long time to completely dissolve. It may represent an ugly aspect of yourself.

Butterfly

Some say that the butterfly represents the spirit or the essence of the individual: the soul. Butterflies are generally symbols of transformation because they go through a metamorphosis. They are beautiful, evasive, and, at times, inspiring. Your unconscious mind may be pointing out the most positive part of yourself or another.
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Dream Dictionary A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Colors Numbers
The spiritual path....is a psychological journey
Common Dream Symbols & Motifs
Autos Boats Bridge Buddha Bugs Chains Chase/Chased Child Cliff Clothes Conflict Colors
Dancing Death Devil Demons Drowning Dying Eagle Earth Earthquake Father Fighting
Fish Frog God Goddess Guilt Gun Hair Hands Head Horse House Insects Jesus
Ladders Monsters Moon Mother Nightmares Nudity Numbers People Rape Relationships
Rooms Sex Snake Sun Teeth Tornado Tree Urinating Violence Water Whale
Famous People
Dreams & Childhood Recollections
Dreams & Repression
Personal & Collective Unconscious
Do Dreams Predict the Future
SPOTLITE.... JUNG'S PERSONALITY TYPES
introvert-extravert-thinking/feeling-sensing-intuitive-judging....Jung's Model of the Psyche


11/15/03




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