Dream Dictionary

Sometimes the subconscious is very literal; if you are acting a part it could be that you are living your life behind a mask. If others are acting and you are a spectator; it could represent a feeling of not being able to participate with others around you, or you are thinking too highly of others and putting yourself down.

According to Jung, Adam and Eve symbolize intellectual independence.

If you dream about Adam and Eve, the interpretation of the dream will depend upon your religious beliefs.

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A dream about an addict may be a message that you need to confront an addiction in your waking life. An addict can symbolize the absence of self control and a struggle to regain will power.

If you dream that you adopt or foster a child, it can mean that you are approaching life in a new way or taking on a new responsibility. You are helping something to grow.

Your dream may be a sign that you need to love and nurture someone else.

If you are thinking about adopting or fostering a child in waking life, your dream may reflect your hopes and anxieties.

For women, an adventure can often be a symbol of trying to get in touch with your masculine side; perhaps something adventurous is about to happen in your life? You have to look at the adventure and decide whether it is dangerous or exciting; whether you masculine side’s influence is a negative or positive thing for you at this time. If it is a positive feeling you get in your adventure; you may expect creativity and balance to enter your life.

For men, the dream may uncover a secret part of yourself that you have kept hidden for a long time. This is very likely if you’ve been in a position where you’ve had to repress your extrovert side of your personality. If you have been introverted and afraid to live life to the full, your adventurer has been locked away inside you and waits to be set free. This dream also highlights what you are now, and what you could be.

An advertizement in a dream can be a reminder of a goal that you have. Is the advertizement clear and convincing? That's a sign that you are focusing on your goal. If it's unclear, your goal may not be clear.

People often dream about being in a plane crash, witnessing a crash, or being bombed or shot at from planes. Aeroplanes, like all other vehicles, symbolise a portion of your life's journey. The part of your life that is represented is usually a memory, material from your unconscious mind, or something that is physically far away from you. Since we use planes to travel to places that are far away, the logical progression of this interpretation is that the aeroplane is symbolic of an event, individuals, or emotions that are either in the past, physically apart from you, or deep in the unconscious and far from conscious thought. Disturbing dreams in which you are being bombed or where you see a bloody crash scene may be trying to bring up issues and feelings that have been buried in the unconscious mind (from the past or the present) but are still powerful and disturbing to the dreamer. The more powerful, vivid, and disturbing this dream is, the greater the necessity to interpret and obtain a satisfactory meaning.

Dreaming about old people or your own aging may have several different meanings. An old man may symbolise wisdom and forgiveness while an old woman may represent life and death. In general, aging may represent the wisdom that a person acquires through experience. The dream may also be giving you a message in regard to life's lessons. This may be a good time for you to apply some of your experience and knowledge to a current situation. This dream may also be a reflection of your concerns about aging. If you are thinking about your mortality and do not welcome maturing and age, the dream may be bringing out some of your worries and/or vanities.

Understanding the symbol of alcohol in your dreams depends on the relationship you have with it in daily life. If you drink regularly, you need to look at the other details of your dream more carefully. However, if you drink rarely or never, then this dream could represent a need for you to escape from your daily stress and your desire to get quick relief. The alcohol could be suggesting a need for healing and getting in balance. Your unconscious mind may be suggesting outrageous things in hopes that you get the message to "have fun, dream dreams, and get out of your own head!" The message in the dream about alcohol is most likely not encouraging you to drink but it may represent a need to feel better or get better.

Occasionally, people will have dreams about UFO's and aliens. What these dreams symbolise, collectively or individually is difficult to explain and understand. Meeting and talking to aliens may suggests that significant changes are coming into your life and, at the moment, things feel strange and foreign to you. If you dream that you are the alien, it suggests that you may feel detached from some parts of yourself and from others. You may be a stranger in your immediate surroundings, and some self-evaluation and familiarisation is suggested.

This cold-blooded animal could hold several different meanings in your dream. It could symbolically represent something from your memory, emotions, or a current situation or individual in your life. Some think that the alligator represents verbal power used in a destructive way (angry and hurtful words). Others believe that it represents an enemy. Consider the details in your dream and your level of fear. This dream symbol should encourage you to look at some of your more "dangerous" emotions, memories, and experiences. The alligators in your dreams will begin to lose the power to frighten you as your understanding increases.

In old dream dictionaries, dreaming about an ambulance could be labelled as a dream of warning. In more modern terms, your unconscious mind may by attempting to convey information that you have been unwilling to deal with consciously. Pay attention to your physical body and see if your health is an issue. Otherwise, this dream may be pointing to some urgent situation in your life. Consider all of the details in your dream. Examine your daily life and make an attempt to see if there is something that requires your immediate attention.

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