I dreamt last night that my 4 year old son was vomiting into a blue plate (could have been a saucer) with a window (bight day with puffy clouds) behind him. I was holding the plate under his chin to catch the vomit.

I am sure there were more details to that dream, but those were the significant ones that I still remember. I read the interpretation of vomiting and I can see how that would fit into my and my son's life, but what about the blue plate and the window and the bright beautiful day?

Since you have an idea of what the vomiting could mean, then try to figure out what the blue plate and beautiful scene out the window could mean.

Do they contrast each other? If so, then you could hold those two thoughts together and come up with a whole meaning. For example, if the sunny day means to you joy and bliss, and the vomiting means expelling unpleasant thoughts, then blending of the two images could mean that you need to seek more harmoney and stress free activities in your life.

Jendom

The first name of your son may be significant, I don't think dream is about your son, but rather you. Were you in your house or someone elses?

God bless,
Lightsleeper

If we regard your son as literally representing your son, then the dream would indicate that you can see your son rejecting some food for thought – some idea – that was meant to provide him with emotional satisfaction. There is an idea that he cannot digest or accept.

A plate refers to the backing or support that is given to the ideas humans are expected to accept. Thus holding a plate under your son’s chin to catch the vomit would imply that the True Self sees support for the rejected idea(s). The blue colour would indicate that this backing for the idea being rejected might be seen with some sadness but it also implies the backing has spiritual approval.

The window behind your son can imply being in a situation or of a point of view in which you could “look out” or watch out – when your son cannot accept an idea. The bright day outside can provide a positive atmosphere or context in which your son is rejecting some idea. Sunlight also indicates that in reality (outside) the Lord’s intelligence is being used – when your son rejects an idea.

I don't see why Jendom4u's son's name would be important. If it were important, she would have thought to mention it in her post. (Although I have to admit, I am now curious.)

Sorry, I don't understand this. What do you mean by True Self? What rejected ideas are you talking about. Why does the colur blue stand for spiritual approval? Whatever the reason that some people might associate blue with spiritual approval, it would only stand for spiritual approval in the dream if Jendom4u herself associates blue with spiritual approval.


This doesn't really make sense to me either. Why is the outside more real than indoors? If anything a sunny day with bright blue sky and fluffy clouds resembles more of a fantasy world (a child's drawing), while cleaning up a child's vomit is pretty much as close to reality as you can get.

By True Self I mean the Inner Self or the Spiritual aspect of oneself which is represented by a dreamer’s own image.

All the dream indicates is that there is an idea being rejected (the vomiting). The dreamer should know what idea it is (as she knows her son). The dreamer more or less acknowledged this fact by her statement, “I read the interpretation of vomiting and I can see how that would fit into my and my son's life.”

Blue is the colour of the sky and by association relates to the heavens and God making blue a spiritual colour. The sky or heavens and thus God could be seen as covering or justifiying what lies below. This suggests that blue can indicate having spiritual approval. The most meaningful interpretations of colour are found based on their use in Nature.

The outside is the real world because it is what God designed and created. The house is a mental image. The mind of humans contains much fantasy and delusion which dreams are designed to correct.

I do agree with you, however, on the fact that the son’s name is not really too important – unless the name had a particular meaning. But, in this dream, as the name was not mentioned, it probably has little to contribute. Lightsleeper was correct though in saying that the dream was really about the dreamer as all dreams are. I did not interpret using the psychological route simply for simplicity here – as the dreamer saw meaning in relating literally with her son.

I checked, and you are right that blue is sometimes used to symbolise religious feeling. Whether that is the meaning of the dream depends on how the dreamer thinks of the colour blue. For example, I don't associate blue with religion, so if I dreamed about the colour blue, it wouldn't have to do with relation. Also, you can't make the intellectual leap to assume that because blue represents religion, therefore God approves of anything that is covered by the colour blue. It could just as well be that the thing the blue (sky) is covering is evil, and the blue is trying to cover it (the evil thing) up.

Your statement abou the use of colour in Nature does not make sense, though. In Nature, colour might be used for camouflauge, or to let potential predators believe that a plant or animal is poisonous and leave it alone, or for a plant to attract insects to help it become fertilized. In the case of the sky, the sky appears blue (sometimes) because of the way sunlight refracts through the atmosphere. The colour of the sky doesn't have a use. It's just the way our human brains interpret the light rays from the sun as the pass through the atmosphere and hit our retinas. In this intance the colour blue doesn't have a use, it's just a byproduct of a physical process, similar to the way that oceans appear green due to the photosynthesis of algae.

It's possible that you have a different meaning of "use", that is, the use of the colour to the individual. For example, the colour of the sky could be useful to a painter who paints a picture with a blue sky, sells it, and makes a lot of money. But once again, that would depend on the individual.