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All About Dreams – A Martha Jette Column

May 29, 2007

Martha Jette, friend and author will now be taking over the dreams column formerly presented by Parthena Black of Bella Online.  Many of you know Martha and will agree that her columns are always fresh and exciting.  Martha explains the unexplainable with style and grace.

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Some dreams are “hard to swallow”

The other night I had a dream that I had a mouth full of pills and was having a terrible time trying to swallow them. When I looked up the meaning of this dream, I found that it meant that there is an idea that I find “hard to swallow.”

Hmm… could it be? Actually, this idea could refer to a couple of things that are going on in my life right now. Firstly, I’ve completed the second draft of my new novel, which is co-authored with a screenwriter in the United States. He had suggested that I needed to again revamp it and I certainly bulked at that idea since I’ve put so many hours (days, months) into it already.

It could also refer to my love life, if it can be said that I actually have one! Lol Anyway, I had a date the other night with a fellow who had been seeing a neighbor of mine. It was actually my first date in about a year and a half and I though it went rather well. NOT! I got a call a couple of days later from this fellow telling me that for the sake of being honest (thank you very much!), he still cared for my neighbor and was not ready to jump into anything new. Since he is significantly younger than my neighbor, whereas he is slightly older than me, I find this very “hard to swallow.” Yes, he is a fool and needs to get over it.

Since I’ve talked about pills and medication, the dream symbols this week focus on health related words. However, you will see that they can mean a wide variety of things.

a)      Illness: Unless you are me and suffer from respiratory problems, dreaming of them suggest suppressed expression or a general condition of anxiety about work, marriage or some other matter. If you dream of having a childhood illness, it suggests a desire for the unconditional love of your parents.

b)      Skin Disorders: Dreaming that you have boils, which were the six of ten plagues in the Bible, you are likely feeling guilty about how you treated someone. A skin rash may express your inability to face the world with confidence.

c)      Cripple: Jung saw a crippled woman as a death symbol of the devouring mother, but offering the potential of rebirth. To Freud, a crippled man represented a fear of male impotence.

d)      Limp: This type of dream is a warning of over-ambition that could be humiliating, rather than successful.

e)      Wounds: Deep flesh wounds inflicted by a knife symbolize the female genitalia. For both sexes, this type of dream expresses a fear of sexual aggression.

f)        Blindness: Dream blindness suggests an inability to find spiritual enlightenment or reluctance to face reality.

g)      Fainting: Jung believed dreams of fainting related to a sudden vision of a divine personage or the realization of a great insight.

h)      Hospital: If you find yourself lying in a hospital, it may indicate a desire to hand control over to someone else for a while. Endless lines of beds in a ward suggest anxiety over abandonment during some kind of crisis.

i)        Operation: A dream operation signals your willingness to cut out old attitudes, prejudices and modes of thought that may be hindering your psychological health.

j)        Medicine: If a doctor or other authority figure dispenses the medicine, it represents a reliance on others to find solutions to your problems. If you took pills, it suggests an idea that you find hard to swallow.

k)      Injection: If you get an injection with a needle, it may be a warning against people who want to thrust unwanted attention or urges on you. Dreaming of an anesthetic suggests a desire to deaden some powerful emotional pain.

l)        Headache: A dream headache suggests an unresolved issue in your relationship with someone who plays a vital role in your life.

m)    Scars: In a figurative sense, scars carry hurtful or traumatic memories. To dream you have scars is an indication that you need to take time to fully examine the roots of your continuing emotional pain.

n)      Fractured limbs: Broken bones reveal our insecurities, so dreaming of a fractured limb covered by a thick cast that prevents movement suggests a reluctance to face up to your problems that may be hindering your development.

o)      Working in a hospital: If you see yourself as a doctor or nurse, this may express a desire to take chare of a particular area of your life where you have failed up until now to do so.

p)      Weight loss or gain: Weight loss may be a warning of the detrimental effects of overly demanding family or friends. Weight gain, on the other hand, may show an excessive need for approval.

Reference: 100l Dreams by Jack Altman