Common Dreams
Some dreams are so common that virtually everyone has experienced them and can relate. They are interesting and raise questions on why we dream about these particular subjects. Here are some of the most common dream themes you may have had and ideas about why you may have had them.
Sex
We are the outcome of sex. Many dreams show how we gain much of our identity out of our sexual relationship or lack of it….
Celebrity or Famous People
One’s own potential, often unacknowledged, and projected onto dream character; a parent; depending on how you relate to the famous person – your own ability…
Late
Being late shows passage of time often links with particular areas of your life, your age, or your sense of ease or pressure. There are…
Cheating
Dream of cheating on a partner is quite common. Engaging in sexual or affectionate activities with someone other than our partner while biologically natural, is…
Marriage
General: Uniting two different aspects of dreamer such as intellect and feelings, practical and intuitive self; the ‘marriage’ between conscious and unconscious self – any…
Teeth
Aggression; ability to ‘chew things over’; our ‘bite’ on life; words we say or swallow. Bad tooth: A painful or rotten part of one’s feelings,…
Birth
Woman’s dream: Desire to have a baby. Man’s dream: Envy of the creative ability of women. General: When we were born, one world of experience…
Death
Some aspect of our outer or inner life is fading, or being superseded by a changed approach, so may be shown as dying. Our drive…
Ring
General: Ones wholeness; ones essential self. Wedding or engagement ring: The state of the relationship, as in example below, where Mary is ‘choking’ on or…
Car
Cars/automobiles are such an enormously important and frequent part of modern life they represent all manner of things. But they particularly depict ability and opportunity….
School
The learning process; what we learnt at school – not lessons but interrelationships, class structure, competitiveness, authority, mortification, group preferences, etc.; habits of behaviour or…
Falling
Some dream researchers suggest falling is one of the main themes in dreams. In the sample used for this book, the words fall; falls; fell;…
Spider
Spider dreams are often the dependent emotions and conflicts you might feel ‘caught in’ connected with mother or family. It can also be any emotions…
Flying
The example below illustrates how much will, effort and learning can be involved in flying in dreams. This aspect of flying connects with the gaining…
Being Chased
The example shows how we can be pursued by fears or emotions, and can either continue to avoid them or face them. We are, in…
Naked in Public
Basically this is about feeling exposed. This may be desirable or undesirable depending upon what you feel in your dream. It can indicate a desire…