If the one who wrote it in the dream is alive and if he erases it or if a bird steals it from him in the dream, it means the nearing of his death and exhaustion of his sustenance in this world. If a deceased person writes it in one’s dream, it means that such a person dwells encompassed with God’s mercy. If one writes down such a call ‘In the Name of God’ with a beautiful handwriting in his dream, it means that he will receive wealth and recognition in his field of knowledge. Basmala in a dream also means placing the intention to get married, tidings of a good progeny, and receiving guidance after heedlessness. Reciting the formula ‘Bismillahi Rahmani Raheem’ (In the Name ofAllah, the Merciful, the Compassionate) in a dream also means living to see one’s children and grand children. Basmalah in a dream also represents attainment, knowledge, guidance and wealth. (arb.) Calling the Name of God Almighty in a dream means blessed tidings. The myth of the Flood shows baptismal symbolism on a cosmic scale: water and fire arc the great purifiers, making new life-forms possible by destroying the old.) See also Baby, Drowning, Flood and Introduction, page 44. (In the religious ritual of baptism the immersion in water represents death and the emergence from the water represents resurrection, new life. Through the death of the old and false (because partial) self-image, a new self- the true self- is achieved. Whatever the particular form of the baptism, the principal symbolism is that of death and resurrection / rebirth, the ending of one stage of life and the beginning of another, or the letting go of something in order to take hold of something new and (for you, now) better.īaptism may be a symbol of self-realization. In either case, though, the meaning refers to you. In the dream it may be the baptism of another person, child or adult, or you may be the one baptized. If, on the contrary, your loneliness is enclosed by four walls (perhaps with a window looking out on to anonymous people in the street), the dream is probably forcing you to take stock of your unhappy situation and to look for causes and cures. For instance, if you are alone in a landscape of mountains and valleys and far horizons, your aloneness is probably a positive factor that you need to cultivate in order to find (new) direction in your life. Perhaps the physical setting of the dream will give the crucial clue. (2) If the aloneness feels good, the meaning is probably either that you need to ‘go it alone’ or that you need to be alone (from time to time, at least) in order to achieve greater personal equilibrium. (1) If your aloneness in the dream is painful, your dream is probably expressing your fear of being alone, or resentment at being shut out from warm human relationships or being out on a limb at work. If you are trying to attract your parents’ attention but they cannot hear you, such a dream may be saying that you feel neglected emotionally and you need to express your feelings and be understood by others. On another level it may be pointing to your need to find guidance or help from others many people have dreams of childhood abandonment after the death of a loved one. This may not actually have been the case, but you may feel that way.Īlternatively, such a dream might also suggest that you are searching in waking life for the emotional freedom to be yourself and to be independent. To be abandoned by a parent or carer in a dream-or to be separated from them so you feel lost and vulnerable-may represent a sense of not being wanted when you were young. You may have a dream in which you are a child again and are being left at school, in a shop, in the street or park by your mother and running after her, perhaps not being able to reach her or not being heard. We often feel abandoned while we are trying to become more independent.īeing abandoned in the sense of allowing sexual and emotional liberty: finding a new freedom, dropping usual social codes and unashamedly expressing ourselves.Īlso: it can be an example of one of the functions of dreams, which is to release held back sexuality and emotion. Lorraine’s dream illustrates not only her feelings of being left out of family life, but also the chain on her leg shows her not fully independent. I wave and call and they drive right past me, going over the chain I am wearing on my leg’ (Lorraine). I look down the road and see my mum, dad and my four brothers in the back of a car. It may not be true that we are not wanted, but our feelings are saying it is.Įxample: My mother asked me to go and buy some butter for her.Ī chain on my left leg prevented me from going very far. This feeling of not being wanted may have become habitual. A sense of how others, particularly our parents, felt about us while we were a child.