Interpretation for Renda's April 27th Dream

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Renda's Dream

My shift had been horrendous.  I was working in a place like a detention center or  mental ward because the building was surrounded by guards, gates, fence.  The building is very large and the “standard” off white.  The gate is very tall.  It is like a privacy fence in some areas and the basic prison type with coiled razor wire in other sections.

I was on my way out when a woman in basic solid blue scrubs (do not know this person) runs out and tells me I can’t leave because a patient (another person I do not know) has collapsed and the staff thinks he has suffered a heart attack.

I spin around from my car and rush back into the building while shoving my keys in my scrub pocket.  I rush to retrieve a cart (not your average crash cart but reminded me of those housekeeping carts at most hotels). 

The patient must have tried to escape (or this is the talk running through the building) because he is away from the main building in a place that had been designated off limits to the patients.

I push the cart around a corner and the walkway is very long.  To my right is a body of water (lake? Large pond?)  The building is on my left and lined with doorways.  About mid way, a door opens as I pass and a doctor I previously worked for walks out.  He is dressed in jeans and a golfing shirt, not the scrubs that all the other staff have on.

He and I talk as we walk toward the location of the patient.  I can not make out all the words and do not know what all was said.

After a while, I glance up.  To our back is the sun setting, in front of us is the moon.  Though it is unlike any other moon I’ve ever seen.  It is huge and full…almost a clear sphere, with a hint of iridescent colorations to it; reminding me of a marble.  I remark how beautiful it is reflecting on the smooth glass of water.

It takes a long time, or so it seems to make that walk but finally we approach a bluff.  Looking down there are rocks jutting this way and that way.  Loose pebbles and dirt slide as others make their way down to where a body lays.  I look into the doctor’s eyes and he sadly smiles.  He says, “I can not go there with you.”  Then I turn and make my way clumsily down the bluff’s side.  I don’t know how I managed to get down the bluff, especially with the cart but I stand at the bottom and look back upward.  The strange moon is illuminating the doctor, he cups his mouth and says “Renda, remember you can not save them all.”

I nod and turn back to the crumpled patient laying on the packed red clay of the ground. (I wake at this point)

I asked Renda some specific questions and made a few specific comments:

1. You stated you were working at this place. Do you remember in what capacity? Were you a doctor, an emergency room nurse, or ????  I was working as a nurse.

2. Do you remember how you felt immediately upon waking, before the logical, analytical mind started functioning and taking over?  I felt confused....not in a bad way, just confused.

3. Re: Knowing the doctor ― Was this in real life, or just 'known' as a part of the dream sequence?  I really worked with the doctor that was in the dream. He and I are still friends and correspond occasionally via email and phone. He had to close the office (which was a general practice) in Florida and he (his wife and 2 children) had to relocate to another state because he had to be closer to his parents (both are feeble and need more attention now). This was several years ago.

3a. If it was in your real life that you worked with this man, what specialty or field did this doctor work in?   general practice
3b. Was he uniquely pertinent in your life in some specific way during the time you worked with him, or was he pretty much an ordinary individual like others you've worked with? (If uniquely pertinent, go ahead and give me a short description of why he was.) --- He is a unique person in my life only because of our friendship. We worked well together and had the type of relationship where he could be thinking something (like I need this or that) and I'd have it in my hand before he could ask for it. Or we would say the same things at the same time. Does that make sense?

PREFACE

Symbols usually hold a multitude of meanings, depending on the perspective used, an individual’s personal symbology, and the over-all essence of the individual dream itself. The symbols and definitions I’ve used here are mostly those that I feel are pertinent to this dream, or that you and those you might share this with might find interesting. These and any personal notations that I made for myself while developing the interpretation are at the end of this interpretation. I always include them with any interpretation I do.

With all dreams, the dreamer should always consider that the characters in the dream may be portraying aspects of themselves that they need to take notice of. Look to the traits and actions of the characters in the dream and reflect on whether or not these are reflecting back upon yourself. Are they reflecting traits and/or actions that strongly draw or repel you? Are these areas you need to work on within yourself? Even if the dream is also communicating other things, the possibility is always there that there is a personal, underlying meaning found within the traits of the dream’s characters.

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INTERPRETATION

I believe this dream is speaking mostly to your inner state of being at the time (perhaps spilling into your ‘current’ state now, as well). Three of your characters (self, doctor and patient), I believe, are representing certain aspects about yourself. The doctor, however, plays dual roles…..certain characteristics and/or aspects about his current life (in real life) are representing things about yourself that you are having to deal with or coming into the understanding of, but I believe there is also a soul-connection between the two of you and that he really did, on an esoteric/spirit level, reach out and communicate with you. (This is felt most strongly in the eye contact the two of you made in the dream. This seems to go beyond symbolic, to a soul-communication.) Based upon the nature of the dream, I would assume the conversation the two of you had (that you are unable to remember) had to do with the dualism/polarities (see symbology in notes section) that keep showing itself in the dream, and how that relates to inner struggles you are going through.

What leads me most strongly to believe that the patient is also representing a part of yourself is the fact that your focus was not really directly on him and the only time you represented yourself as feeling “clumsy” was when you finally began the climb down the bluff to reach him, and yet your first action at the bottom of the bluff was to look up at the doctor, rather than rush to tend to the patient. Had this been someone other than yourself, your primary focus would probably have been on the patient himself, acting with speed because of the emergency need.

I’m seeing two parallel situations going on within this dream, and of which are intertwined with one another.

First, I believe that the dream is reflecting some of your innermost feelings about some aspect of work (job-related) you are doing presently. This dream leads me to think that you are feeling trapped, unhappy and/or unfulfilled in your work-life at this time. This is shown through the description of the medical facility and you being unsure if it was more prison-like than nurturing. I believe the woman who came out to tell you that you can’t leave, because a patient became ill, is representing an element of people in your work-life who make you feel like you can’t move on, that you are obligated, perhaps guilt-bound, to stay where you are. I think in a lesser way, that is what the guards, the fence and closed gates are representing, as well. (Those gates also reflect potential openings or opportunities that you don’t feel like you can explore, or there would have been greater emphasis on them and they might have been shown as ‘open’. The same shows itself later on, more strongly, with the line of closed doorways.) The side statement you wrote, “(or this is the talk running through the building)” also leads me to think that there are people within your work environment who carry more influence on you than perhaps is wise or healthy. Since you didn’t overly focus on this line of energy (rumor-type of energy), I feel like this element won’t be hard to recognize and break through when you decide you’re ready to. However, the woman who called you back….the element of people she represents (perhaps management/bosses??)…..I think has a stronger hold on you. I see this possibility because it was to her that you responded to directly and immediately, in spite of the fact that you had already reached your car, with keys out, after a “horrendous” shift. You would not have been at the top of your game to handle this emergency, being physically and mentally worn out. There were other staff there who, presumably, would have been equipped to handle this emergency. Yet you shoved aside the thought of leaving at her call. (Take a look at the symbology of automobile/car/vehicle and keys.)

Everything in the dream that actually represented a medical facility and the nature of an emergency has a ‘ho-hum’ feel to it; a lack of lustre. The color of the building as a standard off-white, the basic solid blue scrubs, the lack of focus on the patient, more walking/talking than rushing to the patient, the service cart, instead of a crash cart……all kind of ‘blah’; nothing outstanding or of any real interest to you. (Now, from a direct perspective on the actual walking and talking….outside of the comparison to no consistent rush to and focus on the patient….the dream becomes more animated.) This also leads me back to the belief that you are feeling trapped, unhappy and/or unfulfilled with you work situation.

Then there is the added element of symbology that leads me to believe that you’ve been exploring ideas about changing your work/life element. Take another look at the symbology/notes under Vehicle/any mode of transportation. When you showed yourself, in the dream, having actually left the building, actually at your car with your keys out, you show yourself about to take control and make a change in your life; almost there, so very close. But when you turned from the car, stuffing the keys back into your scrubs’ pocket, you chose not to make that change, or take whatever freedom and opportunity that may have represented to you. You chose to go back to what you were trying to leave. The actions are almost by rote. Also notice that you think the patient must have tried to escape. If I am correct in my interpretation, and the patient is directly referencing aspects of you within job/work-related areas, then you show yourself as trying to escape, but unable to, which might be what led up to the heart trouble. A dedication is certainly shown here, in that you initially went back for the needs of a patient, but the interest is not there. This reflects on the interest, or feelings, of your spirit and mind. You’ll eventually handle the emergency, but your ‘heart’ is having ‘trouble’ being in it. (Also see reference to Heart Trouble.) An additional sign to the lack of interest, lack of fulfillment, is reflected in your focus being on your walk and talk with the doctor, on the outside of the medical facility (rather than the inside), and your lack of focus on the patient and the immediate emergency.

Secondly, I’m seeing a neglect of certain aspects of yourself, the masculine energies or physical aspects of yourself, and also certain spiritual aspects of yourself; a withholding from yourself areas of self-growth and self-fulfillment. (We all carry feminine and masculine energies, and the hope/goal for us while in these physical expressions of life is to find a balance between the two, thus finding a greater, more balanced inner strength. We also all carry the hope/goal to find a perfect balance between the spiritual and physical expressions of ourselves.) This actually reflects back into the first section of this interpretation, and what is shown about your job or work-life. I see this through the symbols of the closed gates, and more strongly the closed doors all along the building (‘building’ representing varied states of consciousness and belief systems) and the gates and doorways representing opportunities for new things ― both on a spiritual level and physical level of awareness. (The spiritual being represented by many of your symbols, such of the description of your moon bringing in crystalline/iridescent effects, the calm water of a lake/pond, your many contrasts in the dream, such as things on the left and right, the east and west being represented by the sun and moon, the fact that you discovered yourself to be at a high place [once you realized you had to walk down a bluff]….well, there are many of these symbols and I’ll let you see the notes and notations for more…..And the physical [or third dimensional world] being represented by the bluff you had to walk down to reach your end goal (to help the patient) and the notice of the red clay of the ground, etc.)

There is an emphasis on ‘service/job’ in this dream, and an imbalance within this area. (Reference the symbols like the cart being a more utilitarian type of service cart rather than a crash cart, the fact that the walkway is very long and the person you have the greatest focus on is the doctor [doctor representing service, as does your character as  ‘nurse’], and of course the medical facility and so on.) Both imbalances that I see in this dream, physical and spiritual, seems to revolve around the ‘service/job’ aspect. This is the area to bring your focus into in your actual life to review what needs to be done to bring balance. Ask yourself questions that regard what areas of yourself that you are “stuffing” away, while you deal with the mundane routine of your job. What aspects of yourself are you feeling highly uncomfortable with or “clumsy” about (reference symbols/notations re: your clumsiness in climbing down the bluff to the patient/you). Then, as those answers come to you, find a way to hold that focus and seek what you can do to correct or heal that aspect, that perspective of yourself. What areas of service/job have you been exploring that you keep putting on a back burner while you plod away at what no longer is holding your interests? Do you need to look further into these areas, stop shoving them aside and look at real possibilities of interest and growth for yourself? Do you need to give more focus and care to yourself, the patient, and quit trying to save everyone else?

You are walking a middle ground between your job-related activities and those areas you might want to explore, but you are ignoring all the doors of opportunity and possibilities that are still alongside and before you. Even the door the doctor comes out if represents a “middle ground” and you are not the one approaching and opening the door, but rather he comes out of it on his own, to approach and walk with you. This shows me that the doctor is holding some of the keys, or answers, to help you in finding a better balance and sense of fulfillment for yourself. This is further emphasized, from a more spiritual or God-related aspect by how the moon illuminates the doctor when you turn and look back up on him after you reach the floor of the bluff. The middle ground is referenced again by the sun setting and the moon rising. It doesn’t appear to be a middle ground referencing balance, but rather a middle ground of non-action. You are observing all that is around you, but not choosing to explore anything beyond that of observation. You appear to me to have been doing this for quite some time. This seen by the fact that, although you’re walking to the east, which typically symbolizes new beginnings, the sun is setting behind you and the moon rising before you. (Now that symbology actually seems to hold a two-fold meaning for you: one relating to time, as just mentioned, but another relating to the feminine energies or more spirit/psychic/intuitive-related. You are walking toward that sort of energy, which I believe additionally holds clues for you as to what type of ‘service’ you might be wishing for that would bring more balance, growth and fulfillment within you. The noted difference between the clothing worn holds additional clues for you. Your clothing is ‘strictly’ work-related, but the doctor’s dress is casual and relaxed.  ― In regards to this middle ground, I take note that your dream takes place more ‘outside’ than it does ‘inside’, and that you turn a corner while pushing the cart. It seems to be that you are still inside when you turn that corner, and the turn brings you to the ‘outside’ where your prime focus of the dream remains. There are some pretty strong plays on words here, turning the corner indicating that you have taken some action, at least in thought, about how you can step outside the box (the box represented by the building). You also walk a long way before ever reaching the bluff (of which you’re not aware of until you are close to reaching it. The actual act of walking shows that you are making progress, but the fact that “It takes a long time, or so it seems to make that walk” tells me that you feel like you have a long way to go (a bit of a rough path, at that) before you can decide to make decisions of change. ― An additional note along this line of thought: All the doorways were along the outer wall of the medical building. This would represent, to me, that these are multiple possibilities of change specifically within the medical profession.

So, where does the information in the above paragraph lead you? I believe it is leading you to look closely at the doctor (as he is in the dream, as well as how you perceive him to be right now in his real life). What differences are you seeing in this doctor now, as perhaps when you once worked with him? Or…What was different about where you worked with him in real life and where you work now (what worked and didn’t work for you during that time period)? What appealed to you and/or repelled you? Since in the dream he was presented as more relaxed, more casual, is this an area you need to find within the context of your own life? Are these aspects missing in your area of ‘service’ now? The doctor’s statement “Renda, remember you can not save them all.” is very telling. (Also see symbology of “Voice”.) Who are ‘they’ and why are you trying to save them all? Since you, the patient, are not being “saved” until potentially (note, only ‘potentially’) the end of the dream, why aren’t you treating yourself equally to how you, presumably, would treat “them all”, why aren’t you as important? ― An aspect possibly being hinted at here is toward your family life and whether or not the work aspect of you is taking needed time away from your family/relationships. I say that because of your answer to me regarding the doctor. You stated that he relocated to be nearer his parents, who were needing more of his time and energy. Is this reflecting back on an area lacking and needed in your own life?

You woke feeling confused, which directly reflected the confusions within you that are symbolized in the dream through the use of dualities/polarities.

Well, Renda, this is my interpretation of your dream. I hope you find it helpful in your life. I wish only the best for you!

Tanya Phillips

SYMBOLS & PERSONAL NOTATIONS

Characters ―

(Note to Renda ― Sometimes it helps to list the characters in this fashion, because it helps focus on who are the most prominent characters. The first inclination in a dream of this nature would be to list the patient among the most prominent, simply because of the nature of the dream, yet he really isn’t and the fact that he isn’t then becomes significant to the dream’s meaning.)

Foreground (or prominent): Self, doctor

Middle ground: Patient, woman who runs out to tell her she can’t leave

Background: Guards, staff, unknown “others” who make their way down the bluff to the patient.

Notations―

1.) In second paragraph, there is a play on out/in, finish/begin, endings/beginnings (this seen in her leaving at end of shift, but going back in for emergency, as well as the scenario changing from inside to outside, in building, outside of building) ― See Duality/Polarity symbols.

2.) Her primary focuses in the dream appear to be walking and talking with the doctor, with secondary focus being on the surreal surroundings and the patient comes in last.

2a.) She is walking toward the East, or ‘new beginnings’, but also toward ‘evening’, as depicted with the rising moon. ― See Duality/Polarity symbols.

3.) She views her walk down the bluff as “clumsy”; a change from the feeling of confident, purposeful walking in the rest of the dream.

4.) Note the eye contact with the doctor; holds significance, as do his statements to her.

5.) Only at the very end of the dream is her focus brought more to the patient, where he is and how he lies, which is when she wakes feeling confused.

Colors―

White: Spirit, perfection, purity, transcending power of spirit, holiness.

Off-White: Fresh, clean, almost pure, close to perfection but tinged with some worldliness.

Blue:Emotional, mental & spiritual peace. Truth, wisdom, heaven, spiritual feelings, aspirations, devotion, tranquility.

Note: Her reference to the white and blue is rather ‘blah’; standard stuff.

Blue Gray: Religious feelings tinged with fear.

Light Blue: Struggling religious aspirations, a beginner on the path of righteousness.

Deep, Rich Blue: Awakened spiritual forces, one who has found his/her life’s work and is immersed in it. Attainment of spiritual goals, serenity.

Crystalline (Because of her description of the moon) ―

Crystal: Symbol of the spirit & of the intellect associated with the spirit. The 'state of transparency' is defined as one of the most effective & beautiful conjunctions of opposites: matter 'exists' but it is as if it did not exist, because one can see through it. Symbolic of the truth received in the mind and operating through the personality.

Iridescent: (from dictionary) adj. displaying a play of lustrous changing colors like those of the rainbow.

Rainbow: Symbolic of God’s grace, forgiveness, protection, a sign of blessing, goodness, heavenly stamp of approval.

Red: Can represent that which is of earth, or the physical plane (shades of red could bring out more detail). Could also represent angers.

Red/clear red: Raw energy, force, vigor aggressiveness, action, power to love, hate conquer, go, do be…

Patient:Can be a pun on having patience, or refer to your need or ability to care for and possibly heal others.

Nurse: Healing process. (Also see ‘Doctor’)

Medical Facility ―

Hospital: Area of sickness and healing, courage, compassion, loving service given to others, renewal, time and place to re-evaluate life in its deepest sense. Research in the night in the precincts of healing. Can be prophetic symbol that one needs to care for the body.

Mental Institution: Area of mental disturbance.

Inside: May indicate a need for rest or some kind of help.

Outside: Can represent feeling left out, out of it, set apart, unwanted, ignored, excluded.

DetentionCenter―

Prison/Jail: Consciousness of being boxed in, limited, restricted, unable to follow your heart’s desires, longing for freedom and need to break out of whatever kind of fear, belief or thinking that is holding or limiting you. A state of confinement or captivity.

Prisoners or Captives:Symbolic of the spiritual egos confined to the lower planes, and held in fetters of the lower desires.

Buildings: Can represent varied states of consciousness, awareness, associations and general belief systems. The type of building would define that particular state of consciousness. The yard around the building would depict the outer extensions of that particular influence.

Main Floor: Symbolizes the conscious level of mind or may allude to the main event or main center of attraction.

Guards: Security, authority; prepared or need to be on guard.

Gates: Way through or around obstacles; opportunity.

Fence: Protection, support, insulation; can signify one’s limitation within a confinement area.

Clothing: Represents your idea of how you look to others. A symbol of limitations of thought which envelop the ego on the mental plane informs of truth or error. They consist of ideas, opinions, prejudices, conventions, habits, theories, etc.

Heart: Center of things, heart of the matter, concerns, desires, faith, hope. Seat of the Soul. Symbolic of the Soul-Mind. Symbolic of the causal-body as a center of being on the higher mental plane, and the receptacle of the atma-buddhi, the spirit within. Can also represent the love principle and the higher affections.

Heart Trouble: Caused by withheld, unreleased, unexpressed love, pent up emotions, feeling unloved. Strong need or warning here to let love flow freely to you as well as from you. Can also represent warning of impending trouble.

Vehicle, any mode of transportation (i.e.—automobile….but also “crash cart”): Higher etheric body

Automobile, your own: Can depict your body and its condition. Can symbolize your self-image, self-esteem, personality, the way you see yourself, your freedom to come and go.

Keys: Access, dominion, opportunity, control, key to success, ownership and responsibility.

Many keys: Multiple responsibilities

Cart (should have been a “crash cart”, used as a vehicle to transport a patient from one place to another) ---

Cart/Basket: A means of getting a group of many miscellaneous ideas together and out in the open in an easy-to-handle manner.

Pushing (the act of pushing the cart): Exerting one’s will, or the effort of will.

Doctor: Can represent the healing aspect of yourself, your healing talents, ability to help and serve others, compassion, knowledge, authority, capability, respectability, wise counsel. Can depict your High Self, God-self or your guardian angel.

Friend: An aspect of yourself that you have accepted to a certain degree.

Walkway ―

Sidewalk: Hard path, hard way to go; or, can represent solid footing, sure, convenient, or public way to go.

Aisle (similarities to "Hall" or "Hallway"): Area of changes, going from one state of consciousness to another, moving through different areas of thought or belief. Can depict a channel, process of channeling or the Hall of Learning.

Doorways ―

Door: Can represent open or shut mind, freedom to come and go, entrance, exit, escape, accessibility or opportunity.

Closed: Unreceptive attitude, unwillingness to enter or need to knock, ask, try, let your wishes be known.

Open: Available, ready for you, wide open opportunity, way to go, or can represent openness to receive.

Door (higher aspect): Symbol of an entrance to the mind for the vibrations from above, that is, access through the higher mind for the spiritual life to flow in from the atma-buddhic planes.

Door (lower aspect): Symbol of an entrance to the mind for vibrations from below, enabling the consciousness to perceive phenomena of the astral & physical planes.

Many Doors: Multiple choices, many opportunities.

Midway/Halfway (doctor came out of a door midway down line of doors): Indecision, faltering, motivation, sometimes between opposites (see Duality/Polarity) or outside one’s everyday experience.

Left/Right (The building and doors were on the left, the water on the right)―

Left: Symbolic of femininity and passivity or incoming energy; receiving; the past; motherhood; justice & progress, freedom; innovation & risk. Can symbolize an unwise decision or direction; a wrong turn. Can imply being left out. Can indicate the lunar; psychic energy. The left can be equated with the unconscious. Can represent the past.

Right:Symbolic of masculinity & strength; the will; the future; of giving. Indicates the stirring of the outgoing principle of action. Can indicate right decision, good direction to travel; giving, point of control; or can imply being “right”. The right can be equated with consciousness. Can represent the future.

Duality & Polarity(as is shown in In/Out, East/West, Right/Left, back/front [setting sun/rising moon], inside/outside [of building]) ―

Duality: A basic quality of all natural processes in so far as they comprise two opposite phases or aspects (i.e. - left/right).

Polarity: The quality or condition inherent in a body that exhibits opposite properties, or powers, in opposite parts or directions, or that exhibits contrasted properties or powers in contrasted parts or directions.

Voice: Expression of oneself (not simply ideas, but subtle feelings or realizations). Can represent one’s intuition, expression of unconscious but not integrated parts of self; fears, the High Self being met in the dream.

Walking: An act of the will; vertical (or upright) thinking & discipline. Symbolic of progress or advance in development.

Pun on walking: To “walk off with [answers]”.

Moving forward: Taking the necessary steps to achieve a goal.

Sun: Represents source of light, dynamo of radiant energy, enlightenment, spiritual blessings poured upon you. Symbolic of the Higher Self – God manifest – central source of Light and Life within the Soul.

Setting: Symbolizes end of day, end of a cycle, an era or condition. Time of receiving special blessings, thanksgiving, completion, period of rest and renewal, evaluation.

West: Can imply an area of great freedom of body and mind, new ideas, places, plenty of space and liberty to do your own thing.

Moon: Ancient symbol of the subconscious mind, cycles, feelings, sympathy, domesticity, natural instincts, receptivity, feminine nature, past memories, dreams, sensitivity.

Crystalline Level (moon as almost a clear sphere): A superior degree in the angel hierarchy encasing the soul-mind in a purified consciousness; earned by a long evolvement of sincerity, righteousness and singleness of purpose, in the soul-mind’s thoughts, deeds and acts during both earth incarnations and etheric world incarnations.

East:Symbolizes birth, new beginnings, sunrise. Illumination and the fount of life. To turn to the east is to turn in spirit toward this spiritual focal point of light. Emblem of the direction in which the Self (higher aspect of) appears in the soul. The source of life and the light of knowledge is the Self (sun) rising in the mind.

Water: Spiritual refreshment. Symbol of emotional initiation and astral initiation. Symbol of truth or the eternal Reality and source of all manifestation. Water suggests unity, absence of parts, comprehensiveness, purity, motion, moods and flow of “feeling”. Can represent the preserver of life; limitless and immortal, beginning and end of all things on earth. Intuitive wisdom; feminine aspect. Mediator between life and death, beginnings and endings.

Water (Higher Aspect): Great symbol of truth or the eternal Reality and source of all manifestation. Water suggests unity, absence of parts, comprehensiveness, purity, motion.

Water (Lower Aspect): Symbolic of the astral plane in which are errors and illusions; the inverted or distorted reflections of the truth.

Clear Water: Purification.

Lake: Blending emotions, Can portray peace, quiet, tranquility and spiritual refreshment (unless muddied or sind-whipped).

Moonlight: Can represent the reflection of God’s light (sun). Can indicate how much light we are reflecting. Might also symbolize astral light, which conveys, but can distort truth.

Bluff/Cliff: May represent fear of falling or failure, the edge of danger, the end of the line, or a warning that you may be headed for a fall.

Mountain (from which came the bluff): 1) Indicates a spiritual dream. 2) Potential spiritual power to be manifested; also indicating a climb or rise or effort to be made in attaining spiritual powers. 3) Represent barriers and obstacles to be overcome.

To climb a mountain: Represents effort made in attaining spiritual powers.

Crest of a Hill/High Place: Represents a high point in our lives, place where we can see and be seen, higher viewpoint, higher state of consciousness, feeling close to God.

Rocks/Stones: Latent strength as to small matters. Can represent that one is in danger of stumbling against a stone or some issue that is painful.

Eyes: Can represent the windows to the soul. Implies awareness, sight, perception, understanding. How we see the world and ourselves.

Eye-language: To speak with emotions of love and understanding through one’s eyes, without verbalizing; to be so full of love that the eyes express this emotion; a way of communicating between angels (and between spirits/souls).

Clay:Ability to be molded, shaped, formed.

Earth: (Clay being of earth.) Symbolic of Earth Mother or Nature, an aspect of the Divine Mother. Can represent the basis for growth, fertility, fecundity (prolific, fruitful); starting place, foundations, material level, practical concerns.

Red clay: Power charged with cosmic dynamism.

Outdoors: Greater sense of openness and a more spiritual quality of mind.

Indoors:Often represents being shown a state of consciousness, ideas, ideals, mental and intellectual concepts.

References:

Mystical, Magical, Marvelous World of Dreams, by Wilda B. Tanner.
Watch Your Dreams, by Ann Ree Colter.
Your Days Are Numbered, by Florence Campbell
A Dictionary of Symbols, by J. E. Cirlot (translated from Spanish by Jack Sage)
Dictionary of All Scriptures & Myths, by G. A. Gaskell
The Donning International Encyclopedic Psychic Dictionary, by June G. Bletzer, Ph.D.
Dream Dictionary, by Tony Crisp