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: Hundreds of real dreams
A BASIC INTRO to what dreams are about
BASIC
TECHNIQUES to interpret dreams
DREAM
DICTIONARY A to Z of symbols complete with essays on symbols in everyday real
uses
BASIC SYMBOLISM - DREAM
SYMBOLS : Basements
- Your boss
- Best friend
- Babies/pregnant
- Brothers
- Cafes
- Cars
- Castles
- Children
- Creative dreams
- Clothes
- Churches and cathedrals
- Deaths
- Demons,witches and goblins
- Dogs
- Drink and drugs
- Farms, gardens and plants
- Factories
- Fathers
- Faucets/taps/pipes
- Food
- Earthquakes and volcanos
- Foreign Countries
- Grandparents
- Guards
- Guns and knives
- Horses and animals
- Hauntings
- Hospitals
- Hotels + huge buildings
- Houses
- Locks
- Men(unknown)
- Military -
Money
- Mothers
- Monster
- Mountains
- Movies
- Music
- People
- Police
- Phone
- Politics
- Planes and flying
- Prison -
Rivers
- Rapists and intruders
- Railways
- Roads
- Schools
- Sea
- Sex
- Shops
- Sisters
- Skies in dreams
- Skyscrapers and tall buildings
- Snakes and spiders
- Space
- Sports
- Street
- Teeth
- Tidal waves
- Time
- Toilets in dreams
- Towns and streets
- Trees
- Water
- Weddings and engagements
- Windows
- Work
OTHER
SUBJECTS: external
causes of dreams : Music
in dreams :
Premonitions :
Telepathy : Specific
dreams :
Synonyms in dreams :
Children's
dreams and dreams about your child :
Recurring dreams CASE STUDIES :
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FACTORIES : Factories can symbolise the mind and how we produce and
make thoughts. It can therefor be a symbol of pyschology and the understanding
of the mind. In effect the dream may relate to some issue where we are looking
deeply at why do we think the way we think?''.
KEY WORDS(Pick a quote which captures your feelings right now. Think especially
of the day before the dream) :
- "my workplace"
- "understand the mind and how it works"
- "why do we think the way that we think"
- "the pyschology of the brain"
- "producing something quickly and consistently"
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ESSAYS
FACTORIES
in dreams : A detailed essay on the symbolism of factories using real dream
interpretations
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DREAM STUDIES : Real dreams with factories in them
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THE DREAM - In the first dream, there were two mailboxes in front
of my house ( it's the THIRD dream I have this month where there are more
than one mailbox! ). I opened one of them, it wasn't locked so anybody could
open it. It was full of money! I went to the living room and put the money
on the table, I wasn't believing that so I realized that should be fake bills.
I started to separate it, to my surprise, half the money wasn't fake so I
tried to figure where that money could have come from? Somebody mentioned
sometimes people steal it, then hide it inside mailboxes and forget completely
about it. For some reason, I looked really carefully at the fake notes. Some
of them where obviously fake, some of them I had to ask my mother's help to
identify ( my mother works in a bank ).
I barely woke up and went to the second dream
I was visiting the Mint ( I mean the place where they make money ). There
were lots of people working there, and a constant machinery noise. I don't
know why, but I was helping a guy at one of the printers, holding special
paper and adjusting it to the cutter. Somebody told him to go and see the
boss, and I kept cutting the new bills. I realized he was going to be fired....
After a while, I went to see the rest of the place. There were lots of machinery
and people who worked there looked happy. Above my head, there were TONS of
mold for making coins. I looked at them fascinated, there were molds for new
coins, like the ones we use nowadays, and molds from coins used in the beginning
of past century, coins from every decade ( Brazil changed its coins and bills
almost every decade, so you may realize how many molds were there ). Then
I heard rumors I was going to be employed there, replacing the fired guy.
I wanted to go back to the machine I was very quickly, but I was lost. I went
running everywhere, all machines looked the same and I tried to find the one
with my purse. People started to prepare to go out, because work hours were
ending, there were even people playing games. A woman came and handed my purse,
I got a bit disappointed realizing I couldn't find ''my'' cutting machine
anymore. ( In waking life, I'm desperate for a job... ).
My college professor and colleagues appeared out of nowhere and I noticed
that all was a college visit. The professor said we were going to be back
next day and that gave me new hope. We got out of the mint, and as I walked
though the streets ( familiar streets next to my former college - though that
place should actually be in another city ) I was suddenly browsing through
magazine stores. There were some rings at sale there ( in waking life, I'm
actually looking for a ring to fit my pinky finger ) so I started to browse
trying to find a ring. They were all hanging above my head and were ridiculously
expensive so I bought none. I woke up.
THE REALITY The previous few days the dreamer had been talking about why she
could not find a job when there were lots of people with not much real ability.
The dreamer had also been complaining about CV's and how they do not really
show the true person. They often contain lies. People have personal qualities
that cannot be judged by paper qualifications. The dreamer also touched on
the economic situation in her country (Brazil) which was rather bad at that
time. Her long term wish for a job that she would find rewarding. Above all
the dreamer was working through her mind ideas about value - about who decides
how valuable a person is. She was feeling undervalued and thought that she
deserved a permanent job(she was working on a freelance basis).
DREAM MEANING The dream captures the following feeling within the dreamer
- "Yesterday I was thinking a lot about jobs and how its unfair how some
people get jobs easily by using contacts. Its so annoying that people lie
on CV's. I am unemployed and cannot get a job. Its all so unfair. People reject
me and they do not even know me"
THE INTERPRETATION Dreams do truly symbolise our thoughts. Contained within
our thoughts are concepts and ideas which are forming within us. On the night
before this dream the dreamer was frustrated because she had been unable to
find a job. Also she was annoyed that other people tend to get jobs easily
because of contacts they hold. How exactly could this dream link those thoughts?
The main symbol here is the money factory. The dream also contains fake money.
What exactly could this symbolise? Money is symbolic of value. In this case
it symbolises the way someones value is judged by the CV that they have. The
fake money in the dream is an exact parallel with the dreamers belief that
many people get jobs with fake references and with fake CV's. The factory
though is a deeper symbol. A money factory is the dreams way of asking the
question - "who decides how valuable one person is? How does one person come
to be more valuable than someone else in the job market?". So the money factory
is in fact a symbol of the mind - it symbolises how the mind creates value.
The magazine stores also link with the thoughts going through the dreamers
mind before she went to bed. Magazines shops show that we are grasping for
some ideas which capture our exact thoughts. They show us 'shopping' for words
and phrases which capture our thinking. That was the case here as the dreamer
was coming to her own considered opinion on this topic.
Symbolic
Meanings
COLLEGE : "the dreamers own educated opinion on the subject of jobs"
FACTORY : "why do we think the way we think - how does the brain manufacture
thoughts and feelings"
FAKE : "false character - people lie on CV's and application forms"
LOCKED : "CV's are not secure - people lie and falsify them"
MAIL : "symbolic of application forms sent through the post"
MINT(money factory) : "how is the value of one person decided - who decides
who is valuable"
MONEY : "the value of something - in this case the value of any one person
applying for jobs"
RUMOR : "you do not really what happened - so rumour takes over - the dreamer
does not know why she did not get a certain job"
STEAL : "done without little effort - the dreamer feels people get jobs without
deserving them"
STORE : "the choices available to you at present"
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DREAM TIP : Think about the actual day of the dream. Have you been
thinking about some important event that is happening then? Have you been
thinking about how you are going to put some plans into action? Dreams may
focus on the day to come and how you are relating to problems you wish to
solve.
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THE DREAM The dream used to begin as a cartoon. The dream is of a factory,
an evil factory where a supernatural force is plotting to kill a prisoner.
The Prisoner is very scared, because he knows how he will die. It has always
contained two people who are discussing his death. The prisoner tries to escape,
but he is captured and tortured by either a conveyer belt crusher or a suffocation
style execution.
THE REALITY When the dreamer was nine he developed an evil perspective on
life. He would always think that people had problems that could only be solved
with another problem.
As a background to the dream the dreamer was very direct as a child but people
claimed that there was something more to this - that the devil was hiding
within him. He was always dramatized as a child, beaten, abandoned, and medicated
more than a child should be. He was taught by his mother that the only thing
that kept him in check was the devil(this coming from a woman who’s whole
life is to smoke, drink and shoot up).
DREAM MEANING The dream captures the following feeling within the dreamer
- "I have grown up in an abusive household and have always had some strange
ideas on evil. I believe that if some problem is solved then life will present
us with another problem"
THE INTERPRETATION Dreams show the inner workings of the mind. This dream
seems at least seems consistent with the way this dreamer saw the world. Perhaps
the dream captured a moment when he felt as though one evil problem is to
be replaced by another one.
Factories are usually symbols connected with the inner workings of the mind.
They show us wondering why we think the way we think. So if this child is
brought up against a backdrop of religion and a major emphasis on the devil
then this will show up in his dreams. So the factory symbolises how he was
viewing his own mind and looking deeply at how the circumstances within our
life are constructed. Maybe the boy was having to look deep inside himself
and see if he was possessed by the devil.
Notice that the dream is a cartoon. Cartoons are often linked to a simplified
view of the world. That would certainly link to this view about evil. It is
a highly deterministic view of the world - things happen in a set order.
The conveyor belt could symbolise the continuous nature of life's problems
- one problem would be overcome but merely replaced by another one. Its easy
to see how he started to believe this if he suffers a deprived upbringing.
The prisoner is symbolic of how the dreamer feels trapped in this world -
he will not escape problems and if he does some new problem will be encountered.
In fact this dreams probably links to a mild form of mental illness as a child.
He was unable to free himself of the mindset that had been forced upon him.
Symbolic Meanings
CARTOON : "some way of thinking that is oversimplified"
DEATH : "the end of one phase and start of some new one - in this case if
some problem is solved the dreamer expects another problem to emerge"
FACTORY : "understanding why we think the way we do - how we manufacture thoughts
- in this case understanding the way evil is manufactered"
TWO : "mixed feelings about something "
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DREAM TIP : The link between dreams and the day before is really quite
strong. Try to write down some quotes that capture your feelings from the
previous day. For instance "I have got to start picking up on errors
much quicker. My secretary has been sending out letters which have been listing
out of date information". Its likely that many dreams are linked to such
conceptual thoughts and emotions forming in your mind.
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of real dreams that are correctly interpreted. If you feel you can link a
dream with something in your life then please e-mail me at hairybobby2000@yahoo.co.uk
(please try to give as many details as possible. Explain each person in the
dream and your feelings about them. Give background details about major issues
affecting your life right now and especially any strong feelings you felt
on the day before the dream).