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| EARS | Needing to listen more carefully or turn your attention to something; being attentive / Giving time to someone (lending an ear); keeping updated on events, trends or opinions (ear to the ground); learning to improvise (doing it by ear); feeling overwhelmed (up to your ears); an inability or refusal to take something in (in one ear, out the other), etc. |
| EARTH | Your true essence; being down to earth / Maternal or survival instincts / Needing to deal with or face reality (grounding yourself) |
| EAST | The dawning of a new phase or cycle in your life; recapitulating / The Far East is often associated with spirituality and may therefore indicate a need to focus on your spiritual development |
| EATING | Satisfying your needs or ‘hunger’ in any area of life (sexual, emotional, spiritual, intellectual, etc.) / Taking in new ideas or concepts; digesting information; nourishing your soul / Something that is bothering or slowly destroying you (eating away at you); retracting or recanting (eating your words); an outcome that surprises you (eating your hat); mulling over an idea (chewing on something) / If eating repulsive food: Trying to ‘stomach’ something that makes you ‘sick’ / (see FOOD) |
| ECHO | Cause and effect / Something that evokes memories; reinforcement of an idea / Imitating somebody or something |
| EDGE | Being on the brink of change; crossing personal boundaries / Feeling irritated or anxious / Wanting to have, or having, an advantage / (see CLIFF) |
| EGG | Fertile ideas or emotions; something that will grow (good or bad) if nurtured; motherhood |
| EIGHT | Infinity; cosmic consciousness; DNA / Balance and stability; justice; experiential learning; patience; sensitivity; reliability / Possibly a homonym for ‘ate’ |
| ELASTIC | Flexibility, adaptability / Needing to stretch your resources further; stretching yourself too thin |
| ELECTROCUTION | A big shock / The end of a certain sensibility / Indulging in something that represents total self-destruction; using your energy or power in a destructive way |
| ELEPHANT | Strength, intellect, memory, reverence / Needing to develop a thicker skin; being nosy; facing disappointment after learning all that you can about something / If white: Something rare or valuable but costly to maintain; acquiring something you do not want; a failed endeavor |
| ELEVATOR | Mood shifts (emotional highs and lows); the ups and downs of life / Sex (possibly concerned that it is boring and mechanical) / Making a potentially difficult task easier |
| ELEVEN | The beginning of a repeated cycle; a last-minute effort / Two components that are in conflict with one another; fostering separation rather than unity |
| Communication; distant connections | |
| EMPTY | Lack of pleasure, enthusiasm, or good feelings / Loneliness; a sense of isolation; experiencing a lack of options |
| ENCLOSURE | The defenses you use to protect yourself from deeply feeling the impact of the world, relationships, love, anxiety or pain (what encloses or traps you in the dream gives a clue to what constrains you in waking life) |
| ENEMY | Self-sabotage; an internal conflict / Betrayal; opposition |
| ENGINE | What motivates you; a driving force in your life / The heart |
| ENTRANCE | A new area of experience / If a secret entrance: Opening up to a hidden or previously unknown aspect of self / (see DOOR, ARCH) |
| EQUIPMENT | Preparing yourself for a project or venture; having the necessary tools to solve a problem or complete a task / May refer to male genitalia |
| ERECTION | (see PENIS) |
| ESCAPE | Avoiding difficult experiences, thoughts, or feelings; avoiding responsibility; a fear that needs to be confronted / Breaking free; releasing yourself from a restrictive or harmful situation |
| EUROPE | Preservation of the past; wanting to save something that is of value; journeying through foreign or deeply rooted parts of yourself / Culture; history / (see COUNTRIES) |
| EVENING | Relaxation; a peaceful time; the more subtle feeling areas of relationship or experience / Unrealized hopes; aging; nearness to your ‘shadow’ side (the parts of self you do not like but are conscious of) |
| EX-MATE | Working out old issues or feelings experienced in a former relationship; reliving memories that you have not outgrown; fear of committing to a current partner / If someone else’s ex: How you deal with yourself as being wanted; anxiety about not being lovable or attractive |
| EXAM | (see TEST) |
| EXPERIMENT | Learning through trial and error; testing a new theory, idea or emotion |
| EXPLOSION | Anger or rage; repressed desires or drives that are likely to explode; volatile situations / Releasing long-term negativity; feeling under great pressure; exhibiting self-destructive tendencies; being out of control / Social upheaval; events that are happening rapidly |
| EYES | Your perceptions or point of view; how you see the world and yourself / Needing to take a good look at something or observe something closely / Awareness; curiosity; having vision or focus / Attracting attention to yourself; being watched or barely watching / If eyes are closed: Ignoring something deliberately; not paying attention; having a hidden agenda |