A death to old attitudes and/or habits. Putting to rest a part of yourself. You are finally letting go of something.

A symbol of decline or a fear of going "downhill". What in your life is declining? It also could mean letting go, relaxing, leaving stress behind.

A need to eliminate certain burdens or attitudes. Alternatively, it may symbolize purification and self-renewal. You need to cleanse yourself, both emotionally and psychologically. Dreaming that you are in a public restroom with no stalls means your frustrations about getting enough privacy. It may also indicate that you are having difficulties letting go of old emotions.

A need to reject or discard an aspect of your life that is revolting. Those emotions or concepts that you need to confront and then let go.

Jesus often represents what in you is really your true self, as opposed to the ego self that you perceive yourself as being.

If the Jesus in your dream is the crucified Christ, it may be a symbol of martyrdom. If you identify with this figure, so that you are the wronged sufferer, ask yourself what purpose is being served by adopting this role> Does it make you happy? Well, pain may give you pleasure if it helps us to feel "different" and superior. (And that is often the other side of a martyrdom complex: an inflated view of self - inflated by fantasy.) But to get happiness by making yourself unhappy is self-contradictory.

Your dream is probably telling you to look at yourself objectively, to get rid of the fantasy that has taken possession of you.

If the Jesus is healing someone - the figures in a dream represent you - the figure probably represents Nature's power of healing that lies within yourself.. The fact that the healing Christ has appeared in your dream is a very good sign. It means that your unconscious is offering you its healing power. Don't refuse it.

If the Jesus figure is pronouncing forgiveness it may mean either you have been suffering from guilt-feelings and you have identified these as symptoms of an inner conflict and are now ready to let go of the guilt and the tensions; or that your unconscious is now offering you the means by which those guilt-feelings and the associated paralyzing anxiety can be laid to rest once and for all.

If the Jesus (Christ) figure is suggesting submission and self-surrender it may be showing you a pattern in your life that you need to change - a negative pattern of submitting to "fate" or "circumstances outside your control".

If the "risen" - resurrected - Jesus appears in your dream it may be taken as an auspicious sign of potential self-renewal: the possibility of rising to a new and fuller selfhood, leaving behind all deep internal conflict, anxiety and discontent.

Red

May symbolize passion, anger, sexuality, revolution, danger. As the colour of blood, red is the symbol of life (which is why Hindu and Chinese brides wear red); but blood, or course may also mean death (see meaning od death).

Orange

(1) May symbolize aggressiveness.

(2) Because it is the colour of the sun, it may symbolize life, or consciousness.

(3) If you are depressed, orange may symbolize the dawn of a new attitude of optimism and proper self-love.

Yellow

Yellow may symbolize cowardice ("yellow streak"); consciousness, awareness or intelligence; or Dream Symbols:

particularily if golden Dream Symbols:

a promise of something good and life-enhancing, or an intimation of your true self.

Green

Green commonly symbolizes the fertility of Nature (as in the Green Man, the spirit of fecundity). In your dreams, therefore, it may indicate personal growth, some new development in your personality.

Grey

(1) The colour may represent old age, death (see meaning of death), depression.

(2) As intermediate between black and white, and as the colour of mist, grey may symbolize an unclear state of mind where distinctions are blurred, or where you have difficulty in seeing where you are going or have lost all sense of direction.

Blue

(1) Blue may sometimes symbolize the universal or collective unconscious (as distinct from the individual unconscious). Perhaps the dream is asking you to base your life on intuitions that come from a deep source within your psyche.

(2) Alternatively, blue may represent the power of the conscious mind, particularly if it is the blue of the sky.

(3) Darm blue may be associated with depression Dream Symbols:

'the blues".

(4) Blue clothing may symbolize masculinity. Tony Crisp (in his Dream Dictionary) observes that women sometimes dream of threatening men dressed in blue Dream Symbols:

dark blue or navy. Such a dream should motivate the dreamer to get in touch with her animus (the masculine side of her own psyche). and enter into a dialog with it, with a view to establishing a more positive relationship both with the masculine in herself and also with real men in the extrenal world. Perhaps examining her relationship with her father wil be the key to understanding her negative attitude towards men and masculinity.

(5) The blue sea may symbolize the unconscious or the feminine (anima, mother, or Great Mother, the wise self).

(6) At an advanced level of mystical awareness, blue may represent the primal energy from which the universal life-force comes. (In mythology the primevil ocean is not itself a thing: it is without form or shape but contains the potential for all forms and shapes Dream Symbols:

a description that fits God).

Purple

May symbolize mystery and therefore represent, in psychological terms, deep intuition or awareness of some type as yet unexplored dimension of the self.

Black

(1)A black hole or dark depths Dream Symbols:

for example, an unlit cellar or a deep well or oceanic deoths Dream Symbols:

may represent the unconscious. This blackness may be frightening, so long as the unconscious remains alien and unfamiliar. However, black can also be warm and comforting Dream Symbols:

which is hwy insomniacs are sometimes advised to close their eyes and imagine themselves wrapped round in black velvet. If you begin to trust your unconscious (which means trusting Nature, your human Nature), each previously horrifying or disgusting part of your unconscious will show itself in a new light, as something you need for personal fulfillment. Putting your consciousness into the unconscious Dream Symbols:

becoming aware of it Dream Symbols:

means putting more and more light into the darkness. If a star or other bright light appears in the blackness, this may be seen as a "light at the end of the tunnel", that is, as a symbol of the "illumination" Dream Symbols:

new wisdom or insight Dream Symbols:

that may be achieved by dwelling a while in the unconscious and making its better acquaintance.

(2) Black (particularly for white people) may symbolize evil. If so, bear in mind that, as a general rule, what appears in your dreams is always some part of you, and that the so-called "evil" (and therefore repressed) parts of you are really evil only if, because of neglect, they become rebellious, or if you let them take control away from your conscious self. These " evil" things are transformed into good things Dream Symbols:

creative, and bringing fuller life, happiness and wholeness Dream Symbols:

when conscious and unconscious interact and establish a harmonious working relationship.

(3) A person dressed in black may represent your shadow .

(4) A black-skinned person (if you are white-skinned) may represent either the shadow or closeness to Nature.

(5) A black animal probably represents some unconscious repressed drive or emotion. If the animal is fierce, this possibly means that something you have repressed is now urgently pressing you to give it your conscious attention and let it have some expression in your waking life.

(6) Blackness (as in black night, etc.) may simply signify diminished visibility, in which case the meaning of the dream may have something to do with a loss of orientation in your life. Do you feel you don't know which way to go; or that you don't have the energy or will to go in any direction? If so, make a pact with your unconscious to the effect that, it will tell you where you have the potential Dream Symbols:

and the need Dream Symbols:

togo, you will respond accordingly in your life. Then pay close attention to the dreams that follow. (If you go the next few nights without dreaming Dream Symbols:

or, more precisely, without recalling your dreams Dream Symbols:

this probably means that you are backing out of the pact and setting up a defence against what you fear your unconscious might have to tell you).

(7) Black may symbolize dispair or deep depression. If so, follow the advice given in (6) above.

(8) In many parts of the world black is associated with death. It is possible, therefore, that this what the colour signifies in your dream. Bear in mind, however, that death in a dream may refer to something internal: the "death" Dream Symbols:

or the giving up Dream Symbols:

of something within you (for example, some irrational fear, or other negative attitude or emotion).

Brown

(1) Brown is an earthly colour and may, therefore, symbolize the instinctive or the sensuous.

(2) Brown is also an autumnal colour and as such may signify a (feeling of ) decline; low spirits or depression.

White

White may signify pure and innocence, peace happines, joy; but in the East it is associated with death and mourning. (See meaning of death)

Gold

(1) Symbolically, the colour gold has connections with the sun and may represent new life, self-renewal; some new development in your psyche.

(2) Gold, as something valuable, may symbolize either your true self, as distinct from your conscious ego, or some faculity in your psyche which, if accepted and activated, could bring you closer to your real self.

(3) Gold fruit (like the golden fleece) features in mythology as a hero's prize for overcoming monster or other evils. This symbolizes the rewards of facing up to the contents of the unconscious, taming those that Dream Symbols:

through neglect Dream Symbols:

have become wild or aggressive, and intergrating them into your conscious life.

Silver

(1) Silver may symbolize something of value with regard to your personal development.

(2) Silver has associations with the moon, and may therefore symbolize the feminine; intuition; or the unconscious.

Reference: Eric Ackroyd

(1) Personal relationships in dreams are always important. They fall into two categories: first, those that refer to actual awakening life relationships; secondly, those that depict relations between the conscious ego and other parts of the psyche. Meetings with strangers will nearly always belong to the second category: the strangers will parts of your psyche that you have not yet got to know very well. And even where there is no doubt that the dream is asking you to take a serious look at an actual real life relationship, you should bear in mind that the quality of your extrenal relationships may be determined by the way your conscious ego relates - or fails to relate - to the other parts of your psyche. For example, a man who does not acknowledge the feminine side of his own nature may have a very unsatisfactory - perhaps very superficial - relationships with women. In other words, when a dream shows you in a relationship with an actual real-life person, it may be inviting you to look at the relationship with a view to understanding yourself better: How you relate to other people reveals yourself (e.g. are you proecting on to the other person some unacknowldged characteristic of your own?)

Patterns in dreams correspond to patterns in your conscious life, or else - occasionally - a dream may present a pattern for you to follow in your life instead of old patterns. For example, a man may relate in dreams to very feminine women. This may represent an established pattern in his waking life, in which case he is being asked to reassess that pattern in his waking life. Perhaps he is attracted only to very feminine women because he is proecting on to women his own repressed femininity and needs to integrate his anima. On the other hand, a dream of relating to a woman in a very bold and assertive manner may be the unconscious way of telling a man he needs to display his masculinity more.

An antagonistic or belligerent relationship in a dream probably indicates a need to be reconciled with the other, whether the other person is another person or another part of yourself.

In the dream do you control, or want to control, the relationship? Perhaps the dream is a descriptive one simply describing how, in fact, you do behave; in which case, your unconscious is probably asking you to review your situation. Perhaps you need to learn to let go, and trust people more. On the other hand, the dream may be a prescriptive one, telling you what you ought to be doing: perhaps you have been too weak and unassertive in the past. Do you tend to be, in your dreams, a mere observer, watching other people relate? Well, it is a good thing to observe, whether what you are observing is external relationships or internal relations between parts of yourself. But the process of self-discovery may be accelerated if you resolve to participate more in future dreams. Try it. Relating with your shadow may be much more revealing than just looking at it.

(2) There may be an impersonal or spatio-temporal relationships between dream items or between one epsiode of the dream and the next. For example, an earlier dream episode may symbolize whatever is the cause of what is symbolized in the following dream episode. (But do not assume this casual relationship always exists between different parts of a dream). If a person is taller than you (in a dream), this may mean you see that person as superior to yourself. If the person in the dream represents some part of your psche, the meaning would then be that your conscious ego tends to submit to this other psychic component.

Reference: Eric Ackroyd