Tony Crisp Interpretation:
brother Oneself, or the denied part of self, meeting whatever is met in the dream; feelings of kinship; sense of rivalry; the anger or pleasure from memories. In woman’s dream, younger brother: outgoing but vulnerable self; rivalry. Older brother: authority; one’s capable, outgoing self; feelings of persecution. In man’s dream, younger brother: vulnerable feelings; oneself at that age. See . Idioms: big brother; brothers-in-arms; blood brother. daughter One’s relationship with the daughter; the daughter, or son, can represent what happens in the marriage of the parents. The child is what has arisen from the bonding, however momentary, of two people. In dreams the child therefore is sometimes used to depict how the relationship is faring. So a sick daughter might show the feelings in the relationship being “ill.” In a mother’s dream: often feelings of support or companionship; feelings of not being alone in the area of emotional bonds; or one’s feeling area; responsibility; the ties of parenthood; oneself at that age; one’s own urges, difficulties, hurts, that may still be operative; a comparison. The mother might see the daughter’s youth, opportunity, and have feelings about that. So the daughter may represent her sense of lost opportunity and youth, even envy; competition in getting the desire of a man. In a father’s dream: one’s feeling self; the feelings or difficulties about the relationship with daughter; the emotional struggles you go through to mature; how sexual feelings are dealt with in a family situation—occurs especially when she starts courting; sister; parental responsibility; one’s wife when younger. Someone else’s daughter: feelings about one’s own daughter; feelings about younger women. grandparents Personal feelings connected with the grandparent; family traditions, such as established values or unconscious attitudes; transcendent values; old age; death. husband Depicts how you see the relationship with your husband; your relationship with your sexuality; sexual and emotional desire and pleasure; how you relate to intimacy in body, mind, and spirit; habits of relationship developed with one’s father. Cannot find husband: many middle-aged women dream of “losing” their husband while out with him, perhaps shopping, or walking in a town somewhere. Sometimes the dream portrays him actually killed. The greatest shocks occur when we have never even considered the event—such as a young child losing it’s mother—an event it has never practiced, not even in fantasy, so has no built-in shock absorbers. As most of us know, men tend to die before women, and this information is in the mind of middle-aged married women and can lead to “losing” dreams in which the wife practices losing her husband. Dead husband: your memories and remaining emotions about your husband; the psychic bond you have with him. Other woman’s husband: one’s own husband; feelings about that man; desire for a noncommitted relationship with less responsibility. Sex with husband: the sexual dream is at best a wonderful indicator of how you, the dreamer, are feeling about your sexual and emotional relationship, or what you long for at the time of the dream. At worst it depicts all you fear might happen or be happening. relatives Including uncle, aunt, cousin, nephew, niece, etc. Usually an aspect of yourself relevant to the character of the person dreamt about. Sometimes represents your family traditions, unconscious attitudes, conventions, or even talents, that are part of the unique psychological and social environment a family provides.