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Salesman

A salesman is a guide in a dream. Guides are often silent in dreams and indicate their message by what they are doing, wearing, or have with them. For example, if the salesman is ignoring you it means you are ignoring your guides in reality. When a guide speaks in a dream they are infallible. Always take their message as it is.

Sand

Sand is on a beach and so represents your spiritual approach or your approach to life itself. The sea represents life since that is where life on earth began. The beach is the approach to the sea so symbolically represents your approach to life.

Sandcastle

A sandcastle asks you to be more creative with your approach to life / spirituality. A beach represents your approach to life / spirituality and a sandcastle is created on the beach.

Satellite

A satellite, being used for communication, symbolizes that you have an ability to communicate with spirits.

Scaffolding

Scaffolding, when high up, indicates the dream is about your spiritual side (higher side). Other symbols in the dream give the specific subject matter. This will most likely be given by the building in question. Scaffolding around the education centre of a church is about your spiritual education. Scaffolding at a post office is about channeling and so on. To be afraid when up high on scaffolding indicates a fear of persecution with regard to the spiritual issues you are delving into. This is common when getting into channeling, for instance.

School

School, being a place of learning, symbolizes learning about yourself with a view to improving yourself. A medical school symbolizes learning about yourself with a view to improving your health. A school bus symbolizes your life journey. Indeed life is all about learning about yourself while living your journey.

Science Room

Being in a science room indicates your approach to life is restricted to what science has already proven.

Screen

A projection screen indicates a strong intellect and the ability to project your mind onto others. Along with that comes the ability to perform absent healing and hypnosis – both of which work through mind projection. A screen can also indicate medical screening for health problems.

Scroll

A scroll is associated with ancient writing and wisdom and in dreams indicates that you have a creative writing ability. As with any other spiritual ability you are being shown you have it to encourage you to develop and use it.

Sea

The sea symbolizes life and spirituality in dreams, except when dirty or polluted, in which case it symbolizes your circulatory system. Drowning at sea indicates that you feel completely overwhelmed with life right now. There is so much going on that you feel like you are going under. The rest of the dream has symbols for why this is how you feel, and this should give clues as to what you need to do to overcome it. Rescuing someone lost at sea indicates you have a special spiritual ability. When people die, we often assume that the transition to the spirit world is a straight forward process that happens automatically. This is not always the case. Souls have to traverse the astral plane to get to where they need to be. However, the astral plane is vast and souls often get lost in a state of confusion there. When you sleep, and your soul leaves your body, you also visit the astral plane. Your special ability is to find souls lost on this plane and help them to the other side. How you have this ability is irrelevant. It is important that you do not refuse to rescue people in your dreams as this indicates reluctance on your part to using your gift. While you are not immediately rewarded physically for doing this, your actions do lead to positive karma.

Seaside

The seaside symbolizes your approach to life or spirituality. The sea represents life since that is where life on earth began. The seaside is the approach to the sea so symbolically represents your approach to life.

Security

In dreams security is always negative and indicates you are protective in some way and the dream is asking you to let go of this security. The specific security mechanism is usually referred to in the same dream. For example, if a security guard is trying to impress a group, it means that your security blanket is to impress others with your gift. This is not the way to approach the subject matter of the dream – be comfortable within yourself regardless of how you think others perceive you.

Seedlings

Seedlings represent new growth, your reproductive system, children and pregnancy. A seedling in a plant pot always indicates your reproductive system.

Sewer

Sewers always indicate your colon. In particular it indicates that toxins are building up in your colon and from there they get into your blood stream. Your dream is asking you to detoxify.

Sex

Sexual activity in a dream is asking you to get intimately in touch with your male side, if you are having sex with a man; your female side, if with a woman. We all have male and female aspects to ourselves and each have unique traits. For example, compassion, listening, leadership, feelings and your philosophy of life work through your female side. Confidence, belief in yourself, feeling worthy of the space you occupy, career and spiritual healing work through your male side. The dream may be triggered due to an imbalance which is affecting your ability to develop or move forward in an aspect of your life related to a particular energy. The dream tries to heal this by representing your male or female side as something desirable. The dream wants both male and female sides of yourself to share closeness in an uninhibited way. This sharing restores balance, so dreams can draw on the strength inherent in the aspect of your nature that is repressed. Many people are shocked to find themselves having sex in a dream with a person of the same sex. This still has the same meaning. A woman having sex with another woman in a dream is still a healing device intended to put the dreamer in close contact with her heart / feelings. Dreams can also include members of the family in sexual roles with the dreamer. Here the intent is to use an existing loving relationship as a pull to seduce the dreamer into having sex, and therefore accept the healing the dream is offering. Where you are able to be honest to yourself in private but put on ‘an air’ or repress your feelings in public, you can dream about having sex in public. Again the purpose of the dream is the same, but here it is also asking the dreamer to not be afraid of being honest with themselves in front of others. Another reason for dreaming about having sex is to heal the dreamer of the fact that they are currently not having sex with their partner. In this case the dream attempts to heal stress or whatever impact abstinence is having on the relationship.