Dreams and Your Health

The Reproductive System

When I first started putting this website together I used to check my position regularly in each of the search engines and how the site looked in each of the browsers. On one such check I discovered that my site was blocked by cyber patrol for having sexual content! The offending section was the dictionary because it listed symbols that indicated the reproductive system. I removed the offending entries and they are still missing from that section today. I'm now writing this page knowing well that it will be blocked in some browser configurations for being 'offensive'. That in itself is relevant because it is one of the issues that dreams about the reproductive system often raise.

Have you ever left the children with their grandparents and gone off for a dirty weekend? Even those of us who consider ourselves liberated would still use that expression. Is sex dirty then? As obvious descendants of a line of people who have had sex are we all unclean? It is rare to come across anyone who can talk openly about sex without either feeling embarrassed or scrutinized. For this very reason dreams refer to the reproductive system for one of two main reasons; to give us a health warning or to ask us to improve our view of sex or our sexuality.

Sexual Discrimination

In Ireland it is fair to say that many workplaces do not have equal status for women. When I was younger women had to leave their job when they got married! Thinking about that now it seems so outrageous. My own children will grow up oblivious to that ever being part of Irish society. We have moved on but have not let it go fully¹. Many women feel that they have to work twice as hard in business just to be given the same breaks as a man doing the same job. During a radio interview Mary called in with a dream that revealed that very problem. You can listen to that part of the interview here if you are interested. In her dream she found herself doing up a new bedroom she had just designed. The bedroom had two small bedrooms (the ovaries) off a large communal area (the uterus). In her own words, 'There was nothing exquisite about it'. The dream was asking Mary to improve her view of her femininity and to accept the design of the body she had. While there may be truth to having difficulty competing in a 'man's world' that is never a reason for blaming your gender. The problem is with society and not with reproductive organs. Left unchecked this negative view of her femininity could lead to health problems in the area being targeted by all the negative thoughts. This would become a self fulfilling prophecy since having a uterus has caused her nothing but problems in the first place!

The Doorway from the Spirit World

Far from being nothing exquisite it is the most remarkable gift we have. Women are the doorway between the spirit world and the physical world. There is only one way for a soul to get onto this planet and that is through a woman's body. As a society we clearly don't give pregnancy and childbirth the respect they deserve. If bringing a soul onto the planet is worthy of respect then so too is the act which starts the process off. If you have been brought up to believe that sex is dirty you might find yourself in your dreams with your partner cleaning a black stain off the carpet in the bedroom. Things underfoot in dreams often represent what we must overcome. The black stain is asking the dreamer to overcome their feelings of guilt with regard to the sexual act (in a bedroom with your partner).

Sex being regarded as dirty can also lead to the parts of the body that distinguish gender being regarded as unclean. Dreams which show an unclean vessel such as a dirty bathtub, dirty bottles or a barrel of unclean water would indicate this. We can also adopt a negative view of our gender if our parents were unhappy with our gender at birth. A woman holding up young boy's black briefs in the bedroom would indicate that she picked up a negative attitude (black clothing) towards her gender (boys briefs) at the time of her birth (indicated in a dream by holding up an object and inspecting it) because her parents were disappointed with her gender. While her parents may quickly move on from their disappointment it is not so easy for the young child. She will shun the part of herself that her parents found fault with and in later life may develop a problem (psychological or physical) in this area unless something is done to correct the imbalance.

Sexual Communication

John, who has difficulty with sexual communication, dreamt of trying to talk to his partner on a telephone that was connected to a photocopier in the bedroom of a hotel. He discovered the lead connecting the phone to the copier was broken. A maid is busy cleaning. The communication problem is clearly indicated by the phone connection while the bedroom links the problem with sexuality. The photocopier is a little trickier to figure out but when you think of the function of this device it becomes clear. Essentially a photocopier reproduces images so is therefore a reproductive system and it symbolizes this in a dream. 

Dreams don't just point out problems. They also show their cause and the solution. The hotel in John's dream above tells him that the problem goes back to his reception at birth. He needs to eliminate this negative influence (the maid cleaning) in order to improve his communication problem. Cutting the ties that bind with his mother would be appropriate.

Dreams do not have to take place in the bedroom to be about the reproductive system. The most common symbol which can appear in any location and still be about reproduction is a mirror. A mirror reproduces an image of you so is therefore a reproductive device. Other common devices which show up in dreams are cameras, fax machines and photocopiers as already seen. 

Problems Conceiving

Sharon dreamt of a problem with the wing mirror of her Morris Minor car. The mirror alone tells us the dream is about the reproductive system and a close examination backs this up. First the word Minor is a pun on child and secondly the car in question is out of production. All this warns Sharon about problems with having children (she can't reproduce minors). 

Our sexual energy is the most creative energy we have. We can clearly see its ability to create life. Its creative ability, however, is not limited and is used in any creative act. Writing, art, music, poetry, sculpture, etc. are all acts of creation and take on a life of their own once created. As such difficulties working in your creative area can be linked back to the reproductive system in your dreams. Mary's dream above is a good example. Her business venture will run more smoothly if she removes the artificial limitations she has placed on her creative center (her negative view of her reproductive system). 

Red is linked to the reproductive system and used to heal it in dreams. It is the color of passion and also revitalizes the body. To dream of a thin red border on your partner's dress would indicate your passion is borderline in the relationship. In such dreams you will also be shown why and how to resolve the problem. This brings me to an important point. While future relationships are guaranteed to improve when you remove blocks indicated by your dreams, your existing relationship may suffer! This will be covered in a future article about relationships.

Jane dreamed she was mixing two packets of tomato soup. The red color of the passion fruit links this to the reproductive system. I have seen this a number of times in dreams and it has always been from women who were having problems conceiving or carrying a pregnancy past a few weeks. In Jane's case the problem with conception is linked to a mucous (soup) being created in the uterus. This mucous attaches to the egg that is released and hinders conception and subsequent attachment of the embryo to the uterus. The mucous can also get into the ovaries affecting the corpus luteum and its part in preventing the normal menstrual cycle.   In Jane's case the link is made to eating and the elimination system (bowl). This means that toxins getting into the blood stream from the colon are targeting the uterus.  Improving diet and elimination will help resolve the problem. 

Red is also the color of anger (red with anger) but this is only the case when the energy is coming from the wrong center. When you move anger down to the base chakra it is no longer negative. Energy simply is and how and from where it is expressed determines its properties. Anger (red energy) moved to the base chakra is at the correct location to be used creatively.

Symbols

The following symbols indicate the reproductive system for the reasons given.