Exhibit Fifty-Five: 1st February 2003. Photo by Michael Collins
Tap
Feeling The Picture
Your feeling reactions to a dream are keys to its interpretation. These are my feelings. If this were a scene in your dream or life, how would you feel about being there?
I feel a need to touch the metal part of the tap to feel its temperature and texture. I hope it's cold and zinging, sharp and refreshing. After that, I feel the water should flow more. I want to turn the tap on fully and hold my hands under the water simply for the pleasure of the experience.
The Symbols
Symbols in your dreams often relate to your personal memories and associations, so always consider those first. Then let your mind play with other, more general possibilities. They will not all apply! Just open your mind and notice where the symbol seems to fit and make sense of the rest of your dream.
A tap (or faucet, depending on your version of English) regulates the supply and flow of water. Water in dreams often symbolises your emotions and feelings. The tap may symbolise the supply or flow of emotions in your life - how you control them or how others seem to control their flow to you.
Since dreams frequently use wordplay, perhaps a tap symbolises tapping into something - a talent, an idea or your intuition, for example. Or could a faucet be about something you are forcing ("force it") or that needs pushing along a bit? We also talk about supplies being "on tap". Could your dream image be about something (an emotion, money) that you supply "on tap" or that is available to you to suit your needs? (Think: supply and demand.)
Is your dream tap dripping annoyingly? Is it there to symbolise a kind of dripping tap torture or annoyance in your life? Perhaps there is an inner voice nagging away at you - drip, drip, drip.
How would you describe the way the water falls from the tap? Gushing? Spitting? How would you describe the feel of the water? Cold? Refreshing? Burning? Ask yourself how these descriptions apply to you or to your life. Are you, or is someone else, gushing? Are you feeling emotionally burned (in "hot water") or cold? Do you need refreshment?
The Questions
Here are some questions the dreamer of such a dream picture might ask to work towards a complete understanding of the dream.
Try these yourself: just give your 'gut reaction' answers to the questions - your answers will surprise you in the insights they deliver. The key thing to remember is, "Don't THINK about your answers - give quick gut reaction replies". Your unconscious will deliver.
If this process can work powerfully for this image, consider how infinitely more powerful the insights are when the image comes from one of your own dreams - direct from your unconscious!
- How would you describe the flow of water coming from this tap?
- Imagine putting your hands under the tap - how does the water feel?
- How fully is the tap turned on? (Full on, half, turned off but leaking?)
- Does the tap need fixing?
- Why is the water running?
- What is this tap usually used for?
- What or who usually benefits from the water supplied from this tap? In what way do they benefit?
- What or who suffers from the water supplied from this tap? In what way do they suffer?
- How would you describe the supply of water from this tap - abundant, blocked, slow ..?
- How clean is this water?
- Look at your answer to Q1. Which part of your life could also be described in this way?
- Look at your answer to Q2. Which situation in your life makes you feel this way?
- Again look at your answer to Q2. Which situation in your life gives you an opposite feeling to this?
- Look at your answer to Q4. If you answered 'yes', what drip or flow in your waking life makes you feel uncomfortable?
- Look at your answer to Q9. Which situation in your waking life feels like this?
- Look at your answer to Q10. If the water was not clean, what do you feel is contaminating the waking life situation you have just stated in your answer to Q15?
- Look at your answers to Q7 and Q8. What situation in your life benefits or suffers in these ways?
- Look at your answer to Q17. What skills can you tap into to improve this situation?
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