Body
The way in which our bodies function in our dreams can help us to acknowledge how we feel about ourselves in relation to how our life is turning out. Our physical body can be overwhelmed by the daily grind of life and this often manifests in our dreams as obstacles that we need to overcome. Body parts can be used as symbols because they help to get a message across. For example a dream where one’s legs are stuck in hard cement will happen because there is a feeling of not being able to move forward, the dreamer can identify the cement as providing a symbol for the obstacle that you are dealing with but you must also interpret legs for a complete translation. When the inner feeling has been acknowledged the dreamer can start to identify ways in which to free themselves of the cement and work towards freedom. Indecently legs are obviously symbolic for your ability to move forward or to make progress.
Abdomen
The abdomen is seen as the source of your energy store, the solar plexus is where energy is filtered and delivered to where it is needed. If there is something wrong with your abdomen then the dream is reacting to changes in your own energy availability.
Something in the tummy would suggest there is an issue that you are keeping to yourself and it will cause an imbalance or upset if you don’t deal with it.
If there is a baby growing in your tummy then you are nurturing something that has the potential for growth but only if it is nurtured and cared for.
Prospects will start off small and then grow and mature if given attention!
Pregnancy can be shown in this way!
Arms
Our arms can show our personal strength and abilities, arms are also used to show passion or welcoming.
Being armed is to be prepared for any such eventuality!
Back/Backbone
A backbone represents your strength or your vulnerabilities, it keeps you upright and provides the help you are able to give to other people or the support you need for yourself.
Support and structure!
Blood
Blood is our internal life force therefore if you lose blood in a dream it can symbolise losing vital energy when there is a need to preserve it. It can symbolise the hurt and afflictions we feel and how they drain us and make us feel below par.
Blood can be used in dreams to help you understand the need to put blood and guts into a project to ensure it can survive.
Bones
Bones provide a symbol for our support system, our skeleton keeps us upright and moving as we should be and therefore may symbolise your ability to stay upright when times are difficult.
Any problems with your bones in a dream will highlight your own weaknesses and ability to keep on going under great pressure.
Broken bones remind you that wounds will heal given time, perhaps you feel broken by an issue you have or a relationship has broken you down!
Bones of contention!
The past and how it sculpts the present day!
Breasts
Breasts symbolise nurture or the need to care for others in order to help their progression.
Excrement
The expelling of things that we do not need anymore.
If it is someone else’s excrement you have to deal with in a dream then it is their negative behavior that affects you.
Getting rid of negativity!
Getting rid of waste!
Eyes
Sometimes in dreams windows are used as a substitute for your eyes and for your seeing abilities, not in the physical sense but more in the way that you see things logically. Windows are used because it is easier to translate sublime messages this way; broken windows for example explain how you are not seeing the reality of a situation or that your way of thinking is broken or obscured by other problems.
These types of dreams are more about your outlook and the way you feel about the world around you.
There are many sayings that link with eyes and you should consider if any are appropriate for the type of dream you have had.
An eye for an eye!
To catch someone’s eye!
See eye to eye!
Have a keen eye for!
In the public eye!
Face
This image is used to demonstrate the face that we show to other people or the face they show to us. When we look at someone’s face we do not always see what is going on behind the mask. Dream images connected to the face can give you an insight as to what is really going on.
If a face is distorted in some way in the dream then you have a distorted view of yourself. Disfigurements in dreams symbolise a disfigured idea of what we look like, our insecurities etc.
Face your problems head on!
Face your fears!
Face reality!
Feet
Our feet link with our stability and ability to get along by our own merit. The feet are also used in journey dreams to represent progress, the type of shoes you wear in a dream highlight the comfort and ease in which you move forward at your own pace.
Put your best foot forward!
Hair
The symbol of hair can be interpreted in a few different ways in dream translation and it is for you to decide on the appropriate meaning. Feelings about your looks are often portrayed by your hair and losing your hair in a dream can highlight your insecurities and fears about your own attractiveness.
Hair is viewed as a symbol of vitality and strength and is also used as a symbol of intelligence.
Combing the hair can symbolise untangling a mental dilemma or getting your thoughts in order, but you could also be straightening out your affairs or anything that needs bringing back to order.
Cutting your hair can symbolise making cut-backs which will help to bring order and reestablish a refined approach to finances or financial stresses.
Cutting or shaving all your hair off in a dream is a way to show your disapproval or anger at a situation or person who has wronged you or treated you unfairly, it is seen as a protest.
If there are insects in your hair in a dream then most likely they will represent minor aggravations that are small but annoying and difficult to eradicate.
Washing your hair is a way to get rid of negativity that builds up and mentally de-stress
Hands
Hands represent your ability to create and what you can achieve using the attributes you already possess.
Washing your hands symbolises the washing away of negativity that prevents you from using your talents.You could also be washing your hands of somebody or of a situation that you can do nothing more to help.
The right hand is the giver and the left hand is the receiver!
To shake hands is to forgive!
Lend a hand!
Head
The thinking part of us!
Use your head!
Intelligence and problem solving!
Heart
The heart has obvious connotations of compassion understanding and love and to dream of the heart in any way will often link with these things. Any problems with the heart in your dream brings your attention to problems relating to the heart and its capabilities to love and be loved, wounds and afflictions that have caused hurt and damage either past or present which need to be acknowledged and dealt with.
The heart of a problem!
Kidneys
The kidneys are used occasionally in dreams to show a filtering system, for example filtering the negative from the positive and therefore cleansing.
Cleanse yourself either spiritually or mentally!
Legs
The means at your disposal of getting along or making progress!
Lips
In dreams your lips will link with personal fulfillment and expressing the sensual side of yourself towards others. Wearing lipstick is a way of having your sensual side noticed.
Communication and expressing what you need in order to get it.
Lungs
The lungs are another symbol used in dream language to help you understand the process of cleansing and of getting rid of negativity.Therefore any problems with breathing in a dream simply implies that there are difficulties with taking in positive energy and letting the negative things go. The lungs can also be used to express the feeling of suffocation by your circumstance or being trapped by responsibility and that you do not have freedom or your own breathing space.
Take in the good and release the bad!
Mouth
If you have problems with talking in your dream it helps you to acknowledge that you are not communicating what it is that you want to say in the right way, other people do not really understand you.
We also use our mouth for eating and this links with how fulfilled we feel.
Any dream symbol that involves the mouth will be linked to communication and self fulfillment.
Communication!
Neck
Being strangled is to have your voice suppressed or your energy cut off, being overcome by someone else's personality.
Keep your head on your shoulders and be savvy!
Stick your neck out to get noticed.
Nose
Poking your nose in or using your intuition to sniff out what is going on around you, you might need to find the cause of a problem or discover new ideas to help you make progress.
A nose can also be used as a symbol for the things that you ‘know’.
A nose for business!
Intuition!
Scalp
The scalp connects with the mind and any problems with the scalp can show how you are being affected mentally by outside circumstances.
In Native American culture to take a scalp means quite simply to overcome your opposition.
Sex
Sexual dreams often highlight our needs, wants and desires. If you are having sex with someone you know, who you wouldn't in the waking state it is because in dreams we can try out different partners to see if they have some qualities that we desire. If you do not know the person at all it is because you do not understand what you require from a relationship or from the type of person that you think you need to be with.
Sex dreams are more prominent when there are things that you need to learn about relationships, love and their connections to sex, they are also experienced more often when there is a lacking of sex and of sharing yourself with another person in your waking life.
Our own perception of sex can be challenged through our dreams and any hang-ups or unreasonable ideas can be worked through safely while in the dream environment.
Sometimes sex and love dreams persist and recur because an expression of love is unable to be made in the waking life.
Skin
The skin provides a shield and defense against the outside world but it is also our receptor for being touched;
Allowing others to touch us signifies that we allow them into our personal space.
Hard skin symbolises the way we have been hardened by circumstances. Rough skin can symbolise feeling rough.
Teeth
Making life changes and transitions!
Loss and Fear!
Lack of Communication!
Lack of Nourishment and Fulfillment!
Decay and Growth!
Throat
If something gets stuck in your throat in a dream then perhaps you have information that you cannot give out; you feel gagged or suppressed.
Choking symbolises a blockage in communication, you cannot live with something that is bothering you.
Tongue
If your tongue is too big for your mouth then you can be tactless with words or you are not speaking up when you should.
Use it or curb it, whichever is more appropriate!
Womb/Pregnancy
The womb usually represents a woman’s ability to give and sustain life, looking after and nurturing the best in others as well as herself.
New beginnings and exciting ventures!
Responsibility that requires care and attention from the dreamer