shivanova,
The first part of your dream seemed like dreams I've worked with before. The last part seemed to turn into something else, drama and maybe some fantasy. Are you a female? The girl could be a child aspect of you.Do you practice magic?
A few symbols:
antique store- Old stores or storage.
historic- Has a history or age to it.
parallel street- Parallel paths or journey.
intersection-A crossroad, a decision
left- past
sunny- bright
right-future
shady- Unknown or not clear, bad vibes.
dusty-memories
autumn/winter-Changing seasons, later and death. Winter makes me think I'm wrong about the drama and fantasy part.
*I want to clarify what I mean by death. Death in dreams (like Winter scenes) doesn't mean death in the physical sense, more like an ending of something...and always followed by something new.
Hej wisp,
That's really interesting you'r telling about.
I think Shivanova likes your reply :-)
Anyway, can you give me more information or (better) links to information about these symbols?
Thanku
Adkaha,
When I get a chance I'll try finding some good dream sights on the net.It might be a few days until I get back.
I find that dream books that do a lot of talking about dreams but don't spend a lot of time with symbols have the best "to the point" meaning of a symbol.
I haven't had a lot of luck finding general meanings of symbols at a web site. If I run across a good one I'll post it. There are some good sites somewhere. [:)]
Here's a few general ideas about symbols I've come to understand in my own dreaming. There were many more but I wanted to just list the ones that I thought could be general enough to apply to others.
above - consciouness
angel - important - intervention - news
aisle - path - hallway
animal - instinct or agression
antique - old
apartment - thinking method
back - past - hidden
backyard - something involving your area (the dreamer)
bag - holding on to something - something contained
balloon - aspirations - auras
bees - vibrational level - signal - warning
bell - vibrational level - news - signal - communication
belly - health - health matters
behind - past
below - unconscious
bird - news - communication from a higher source (flock of birds - telepathy)
bones - physical structure - supporting structure
box - ground issue
branch - new growth - cutting old off
bridge - connection
bright light - transporting
ceiling - limiting (like a wall) - a factor in the physical
clothes - perceptions of appearances
coffee - social contact
corner - point of reference - two adjoining
couch - social gathering
coverings - layers (memory?)
cross - choices - decision - direction - in the road
crumbling - extreme change
cup - receptivity - chalice - making potions
curtains - veil - something is going to come through or open up
darkness - ambivalence
diagnosis - ongoing analysis of dream
digging - searching or discovery
door - entry way - opening up or closing
elevator - elevating levels of awareness or exposure to something
email - communication
doorknob - ability to get a handle on something
farm - form
front door - something coming
fog - future - unknown now - confusion
hole - unconscious - unseen - hidden - going into
fingers - signals - sign language
foreground - present - upfront details - future - front
garage - transition - a death matter - important
gate - same as a door - on the outside
glass - perception - vision through
going outside or inside - changing dimension or viewpoint
hillside - yin yang
hours - time element
incline - struggle - coasting - energy toward level changes
insects - malice - negativity - parasites
interior - mind - introspection
invisible - unborn - spirit form
jail - blocked - cell - judgment
left - past
letter - communication
library - akashic records
lighted area - the part you are wanting to see
liquid - solution
looking down - condesension
medicine - good or bad?
money - energy - exchange of energy
motel - temporary situation - passing through - thinking
music - harmony - vibration - progress
neck - important connection
nose - a smell for
perfume - angelic presence
plumbing - channeling emotion
police - restrictions - imposed laws (self or by others)
rocket - astral travel
sand - how the aura relates to the physical
scratch - on the surface - superficial
skeleton - connected to death - spirit - spirit help - deceased returned - it has structure
shaded area - the part that is not highlighted in the dream -not yet understood or brought up - not as easily seen
shrinking - culmination - end result
stairs - steps - stages - increments
store - in store - storage - shopping for something
surgery - recovery from a sickness that would manifest in the physical otherwise
table - meeting - present issue - sharing - communication - important
telephone - message by listening - vibration - telepathic
tree - existence
underneath - unconscious
voices - depends on character of voices and circumstances in dream
wind - influential power
wood - conditional - existence in physical
I was walking along a suburban street window shopping. I stop in a store and I'm looking around. It's an antique store or it has the feel of one. It's a historic looking neighborhood. I exit the store and want to go further down the street to the left, but it's blocked for some reason. I have to go back up to the right and take a parallel street around it. I reach an intersection and I look to the left. There's a sunny bright looking street down that way. I look to the right. There's a shaded murky looking street that way. I know the left street would be the better one to take, but I'm drawn to the shady street for one reason or another.
I turn right and then turn right again down the shaded street. This is a neiborhood with a lot of old victorian houses in it. I come to an expanse of land that is withered and dusty looking. It's been caught in an autumn/winter for a long time. I begin to feel like I'm in a Steven King novel because the land and the house on it seems to have it's own sentience. It's evil, but needy.
I wander the grounds and meet a few caretakers of the property and home. They seem nervous and aware of it's presence. They talk about two girls that mysteriously dissapeared here when they think I can't hear them. The man says, "You know what it did to those two girls." He looks very scared and hesitant. "It didn't care about them why would it care about her?" He seems to be making a case against them helping me do whatever I'm there to do.
I wonder around and a metal sheet with victorian embellishments catches my eye. I don't know what it is. It's laying on the ground and part of it is bent. It somehow is pushed towards me. A ring is upon it and catches my eye. I pick it up and see an inscription. (This is 3rd point of view so I couldn't see what it looked like.) My hair is blonde and in ringlets. I have half my hair caught back in a ribbon and a striped dress on. I don't look like me at all. I read what is written and a dramatic change begins to take place. The land begins to quicken with spring. Things become brighter. I needed to say the secret word to let spring come to the land again.
After this the caretakers seem very cheerful and ask my help in preparing things cleaning etc. I let down some blinds and on the third one bugs fall all over me. The house is still evil, but it needed spring to come because it was so sick. I guess that's why it didn't kill me.