Dream Dictionary

This dream symbol suggests that you may be experiencing inhibition and powerlessness in some areas of your life. Additionally, you may be feeling restricted and have concerns about your personal freedom. (Who holds the key to the cage in your dream?) Consider all of the details in the dream and look for its possible source (i.e. family life, relationships, thoughts and/or feelings, or work life).

It may symbolise the sweet and pleasurable parts of life. The dream may be interpreted according to your interaction with the cake in the dream.

Calf (Animal) - See Cow

Calf (Body Part) - See Leg

A camel can represent your ability to handle adverse conditions. It can be a sign of strength and perseverance. A camel's hump can symbolize pregnancy or a desire to become pregnant.

A canary symbolizes how you are feeling. A healthy canary means that you are happy. A canary that is sick or that has been injured signifies that you are feeling pain yourself.

Dreams are symbolic and not literal -- most of the time. Cancer tumours in dreams represent a variety of unprocessed psychological and emotional materials that the dreamer may be obsessing on. They represent all of those things that bother, disturb, anger, or hurt us and that we never directly deal with or let go of. The dreamer's mental, psychic or emotional problems may be proliferating and infecting many areas of thought and function. You may be experiencing anxiety and fear as a result of a bad habit or a certain situation in your daily life. However, if you are very worried and cannot get it out of your mind, go for a physical. When is the last time you did that anyway? In more superstitious interpretations, dreaming of cancer may be considered a dream of the contrary, but also of warning!

They symbolise light and where there is light, there is hope. A lit candle suggests that you are unconsciously seeking comfort and some sort of spiritual enlightenment. An unlit candle suggests that you may be feeling rejection and disappointment or can't see anything positive or "light" in a situation or in yourself. If in your dream you watch the candle burn down to nothing, it suggests that you may have fears of getting older and dying. For men it may signify a fear of waning sexual abilities.

This dream may reflect dark, destructive and forbidden desires or obsessions. Cannibals literally consume other people's lives and, along with it, their energy. When interpreting this dream, consider those things that consistently drain you and take away from your enthusiasm and the general quality of your life. It may be any number of things, such as career or a relationship. However, realize that you are not a victim of life, but rather its creator. Thus, make changes that will increase your energies, but not take away from others. Some believe that dreaming about cannibalism is a dream warning the dreamer to stay away from things that are destructive and less than honourable.

The car in your dream may symbolise the physical self or ego development and ego function. In that, it represents the way that you travel through your life's journey. Consider all of the details in the dream, including its emotional content (e.g. difficulty of the road, identity of the driver, direction of the incline). Recurring car dreams usually deal with life's major themes that may include issues of control and sensibility. By carefully examining this dream, you may gain insight into important areas of life, including to how well you are navigating from one stage of your life to another, if you are assertive and take charge or are passive. Dreaming about travelling in a car is a very, very common dream theme that provides valuable information in regard to a specific part of or long-standing theme in your life's journey.

If you dream about a car crash, you may be worried about reaching your goals. You may be pushing yourself too hard. If your car suddenly spins out of control, you may be anxious about how you have been living your life. You could be in danger of losing control. Pay attention to who is affected by the accident. A dream about a car crash may be a warning that you need to check the condition of your car in waking life.

Travelling is very common theme for our dreams. Travelling in a car is the most common form of this type of dream. Travelling in a vehicle generally can represent our journey through life, or a portion of it. If you find yourself in a garage or car park, two different inferences can be made. Consider the dream's content and mood in it as well as your current dilemma or situation in life. The parked car could represent a period of inactivity and indecision. The dream could be pointing out that you have been idle for a period of time and that it may be good time to get out and do something. The more positive interpretation of this dream might be that the parked car is symbolic of a reflective period or mood.

Cardinal (Clergy) - See Priest

Cardinal (Bird) -

Seeing a cartoon world in your dreams or seeing cartoon-like people suggests that your unconscious is sending up messages which are telling you something about the way you perceive the world. The cartoon people, or cartoon characters, suggest that you may perceive yourself and those around you as comical or as not having much validity or seriousness. Your perceptions may be somewhat off due to your inability to look at the way things really are. Your mind's eye distorts things so that you are more comfortable with what is going on around you. If your world is full of stress and this dream made you laugh, consider the compensatory nature of it. In your dream you may be able to obtain moments of light heartedness and fun.

A castle in a dream may be symbolic of the "cavern of the heart." It represents the home of the human spirit (yours) and the natural self. Dreams with castles in them may come from deeper levels of the unconscious, or the collective unconscious. They may represent spiritual transcendence and the mysterious and intangible force that seems to quietly, but firmly, direct our lives. A castle in a dream may also represent feelings of security, protection, isolation or remoteness. You may have a castle dream when you have realised a desire or accomplished a goal. Darkened castles may be symbolic of unconscious or unfocused desires, at times, black castles represent our failures and white, or lighted castles, symbolise achievement and awareness.

Whether you are a man or a woman, dreaming of castration can represent a fear that you are losing power or that someone is trying to take power away from you. If you are man, castration can also represent anxiety over sexual performance. If you are a woman, castration can also mean you are repressing angry feelings toward a man in your waking life or that you are trying to repress the masculine parts of your personality. If you are castrated, the nature of the person who castrates you can provide a clue to the meaning of the dream.

There are many symbols for castration in dreams, such as destroying a tall building or cutting off a necktie.