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Dream
Colors
Do
you dream in color? Most people
who pay attention to their dreams DO dream in color, which can
definitely lend valuable meaning to the dream message.
When I was in the ninth grade, my biology teacher taught us about ROY
G. BIV as a way to remember the
colors of
the rainbow (Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo and Violet).
These seven colors, plus black, white and brown and their various
shades make up the spectrum of colors that we see in waking life, that
will also carry over into our dreams.
When a prominent color jumps out at you in a dream, first consider
the feeling that comes across.
If the dream seems particularly symbolic, you might also match it up
with the associated chakra. I know that some of you reading this work
with chakras, so I will include these associations as well.
(For those of you who don’t know what a chakra is, go to
Sacred Centers to learn more
about them)
Dream
Color Meanings
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RED
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anger,
passion, sexual, stop, alert, excitement, aggression, danger,
fast paced, blood, heart |
Root
Chakra
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survival,
earth, grounding, drives |
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ORANGE
|
physical
or mental energy, adventure, creative, friendly, playful, satisfaction,
warmth, happiness |
Sacral
Chakra
|
creativity,
emotion, sexuality |
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YELLOW
|
happiness,
cheerful, friendly, joy, hope, vitality, nurturing, content, warmth,
sickly, cowardice |
Solar
Chakra
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personal
power, will |
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GREEN
|
abundance,
growth, peaceful, stability, healthy, wealthy, prestige, sickly,
envious |
Heart
Chakra
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love,
healing, compassion, duality |
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BLUE
|
spirituality,
healing, calmness, tranquility, sadness
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Throat
Chakra
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communication,
self expression, vibration of sound |
INDIGO and
VIOLET
|
high
spirituality, intuitive, erotic, high ranking, magical, classy,
romantic,
mysterious. |
Brow
Chakra
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(Indigo):
3rd eye, psychic, self reflection |
Crown
Chakra
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(Violet):
awareness, self knowledge, divinity, wisdom, spiritual connection,
the universe |
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WHITE
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purity,
a beginning, goodness, innocence, positive, truthful, divine, clean
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GRAY
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a
‘gray area’, fuzzy thinking, lacking in emotion,
unknown
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BROWN
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nature,
earthy, richness, grounded, security, home, dirty, dullness
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BLACK
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the
night, obscurity, death, negative, dark feelings, the unconscious, evil
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The associations listed above are some of the common ones, but as with
any other symbol, YOU are the best judge of what that color brings up
for you.
Again, bring to mind the emotion
or feeling that the color
invokes within the dream and it should help to decipher the message
behind it.
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As
you go about writing out and interpreting your dreams, remember to
record dream symbols and characters along with their meanings
(including colors) in your own personal symbol dictionary.
Here is a link to a free symbol index page that you can download and
copy.
Put it at the back of your dream binder, or make a separate booklet for
your own reference.
Symbol Index
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