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| NAIL | Somebody or something that has holding power or provides a bond; trying to get a clear picture or ‘nail down’ something; being inflexible; completing a plan or finalizing something; perfect timing; calling someone’s bluff; sexual conquest; fighting hard, giving it all you’ve got; becoming enraged / If biting nails: Excitement; suspense; nervousness; something eating away at you |
| NAKED | Feeling exposed or vulnerable; fear that others will see what you really feel, think or desire; sexuality, sensuality; desire to be attractive or noticed; not feeling socially adequate / Revealing your true personality; total honesty; baring your soul / (see NUDITY) |
| NAMES | Your feelings for the person, place or thing associated with the name. Also, wordplay in the name could suggest something else / Making a statement or declaration; something that fits you perfectly; being judgmental, disloyal or abusive; acting on behalf of a greater cause (in the name of); riding on someone else’s reputation (name dropping); making a name for yourself |
| NARROW | Being narrow-minded; having a limited view of things; feeling confined or restricted; being strongly focused on a goal |
| NATURE | Your true nature or personality / Feeling connected to earth / Your environment / Something that comes naturally to you / (see EARTH, PLANTS, FOREST, JUNGLE, TREE, LEAF, FLOWER, etc.) |
| NAVEL | Contemplating something; giving birth to new ideas or experiences / Maternal ties; developing independence or remaining dependent |
| NEAR | Imminent concerns; something that is attainable or reaching consciousness; a feeling of closeness; being too close to a situation |
| NECK | Communication; seeking relationship between your feelings (body) and thoughts (head); a general area of concern (neck of the woods) / If stiff: Being stubborn or inflexible; feeling annoyed / If supple: Being relaxed or easy-going; intimacy / If covered: Suppressing your thoughts or feelings; holding back the truth |
| NEEDLE | Enduring temporary but acute pain in order to mend a psychic wound / Worrying or waiting anxiously; piercing thoughts or emotions; something that nags at you; engaging in a seemingly hopeless task / (see SYRINGE) |
| NEIGHBOR | Doing a good deed; considering the needs of others; your sense of community; something going on ‘close to home’ that you need to pay attention to / Dominant feelings or opinions you have about an actual neighbor or your neighborhood |
| NEWSPAPER | Information that you have just become, or need to be, aware of / Something publicly known about yourself; gossip |
| NIGHT | Your unconscious; turning inward to discover fears, insights, memories or mysteries that were previously unknown to you / Unwillingness to see things clearly / Loneliness; depression |
| NIGHTMARE | Holding on to very strong conflicts that need to be addressed and released; ongoing trauma caused by your deepest fears |
| NINE | The end of a cycle; childbirth; humanitarianism; courage, determination, forgiveness / The ability to express concern; something that happens frequently |
| NO | Your ability to make decisions in the face of disagreement (note what you are saying ‘no’ to) / Refusing to accept something; negativity / Wordplay on 'know' |
| NORTH | Things that are going well or headed in the right direction |
| NOSE | Curiosity; intuition; recognizing what lies immediately before you / Feeling disgruntled; refusing to budge; prying into somebody else’s business; feeling superior; accepting something despite not liking it (holding your nose); dishonesty; controlling behavior (being led by the nose); snobbishness (nose in the air); self-sabotage (cutting the nose to spite the face) / Wordplay on ‘knows’ |
| NUDITY | Dropping a facade; revealing your true nature / Expression of natural feelings or a desire to be intimate; the bare essentials / If anxious: Fear of exposing your true feelings; feeling vulnerable; fear that people may not accept you as you are |
| NUMBERS | Numbers have either personal or symbolic significance depending on how they relate to surrounding aspects in a dream. Very big numbers suggest much of yourself is involved in whatever symbol appears in quantity (for all other numbers, see specific entries in the dictionary) / If generic: A sense that time is running out; needing to make a calculated move / (see MATHEMATICS) |
| NURSE | Self-diagnosis; trying to bring something back to health (e.g. revitalize a relationship, belief, goal, etc.) / Wanting to be nurtured or taken care of; being dedicated to something or someone / A medical issue that needs attention |
| NUT | Crazy, funny, or foolish behavior / Feeling passionate about something / Self-protection; stubbornness |
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