Universal Landscape: The collective consciousness. Manufactured truth.
Dreaming Lens: Was the TV on or off? Was it broken? Were you watching TV? Was someone else? Who else was present in the dream? Did you know what show you were watching? Was it on, but in the background? Were you part of the television programming itself?
Personal Focus: The television media has completely shaped modern life. Through it, the entire Western world is united in a common thread of corporately controlled information that we as a culture accept as truth. In the same way that the collective unconscious contains the shared, but hidden, elements of the human mind, the collective consciousness contains the shared knowledge of which people are actually aware.
Television represents this collective thought in action. Through programming, especially the news, there is an almost hypnotic experience that makes the general population accept what is seen on TV as the truth about life, whether or not that is actually so. The line between what is truth and what is fiction is continually blurred and this has increased with the advent of so-called “reality television.”
Whatever the proximity between yourself and the television in your dream should be considered to represent your current relationship to the impact that television and its content is having on your life. Some people never watch TV while others are addicted. Where you fit on this continuum will affect how you view this symbol in a dream. First examine the Dreaming Lens for an accurate, contextual theme of what messages the dream may be offering you. Then filter this perspective through the Universal Landscape of manufactured truth and race mind thoughts. Ask yourself how you might be being manipulated by what other people think as opposed to your own authentic notions about life. It may be time to turn the television off and start living life in real time.
[1]To dream that you are watching television suggests that you are watching life pass you by. Perhaps you are living vicariously through the actions of others.
If you dream that you are playing a role in the TV show (or appearing on the TV news), something from your unconscious is about to be revealed. It can also mean you are getting ready to play a new role in your life and go down a new path. Seeing things on a television in dreams may also represent memories or scenes from your past.
To dream of seeing static or “snow” on a TV screen represents your refusal to see the truth in a situation. You might believe in someone who is deliberately trying to deceive you.Finally, the show on television may represent worried or troubled feelings you are having in a real-life situation. Also see “Game Show” and “Reality Show”
[2]The television could represent your mind with its flow of thoughts.
It is possible that you are observing yourself in an objective manner. In this case, what appears on the screen will tell you a lot about your subconscious. On the other hand, dreaming that the television is on while you are sleeping signifies that you do not control your energy in an appropriate manner. You have a lot of information, but you do not manage to process what is truly important. (See Also: THEATER)
Modern oneiric superstition says that if you enjoy watching television in dreams, you will achieve success. If, on the contrary, the feeling is unpleasant or it bores you considerably, there will be people who will lead you astray.
[3]If you dream of watching television, then this is about the wisdom that comes from being able to look at life objectively. Consider the television show, the characters, and the scenario that you are watching. This dream could be a message for you to stop being content to live vicariously through other people and to engage more fully in your own life.
If you dream of being on television, then this signifies prominence, success and recognition. Perhaps you are preparing to become more public with your work, mission or life’s purpose.
[4]Material aspects: Dream images connected with television drama series and ‘soaps’ where we are able to follow a story are much to do with our ability to recognize archetypes that we can relate to, or situations that have resonance with us in our work or personal life. Consult the entries for celebrity, fame, famous people and media as well as the information on archetypes in the introduction for further information.
[5]Psychological / emotional perspective: Television, with its many repeats and ‘reality’ programmes, gives a rich source of dream images, from celebrities to fantasy scenarios. Many such images can, with a little thought, be identified as archetypal; football stars, for instance, representing both the hero and the tramp as freedom lover.
[6]Watching television in a dream may point to a need tp view something that is important for the conscious mind to comptthend. It may also represent leisure time and concerns over what’s new and what’s news.
A television may indicate that it is time to “tell a vision” for the future that you have been carrying around in your mind.
[7]Openness, enjoying contact, or lack of contact; mindlessness, superficiality, and diversion. Possibly a mirror of the dream.
Searching for orientation. Are you appearing on TV yourself? Or what are you watching? It is important to know what kind of program is running—the program mirrors your mood.
[8]The meaning depends on what you saw.
If you were pleased or impressed, the dream suggests that you are proceeding along the right lines; otherwise, it carries a warning that you need to resist a tendency to be too easily influenced by others.
Make your own judgments.
[9]There are some aspects of spiritual learning that require an element of practicality about them. Often this will appear in dreams as a medium such as television.
It is as though the dreaming mind requires a recognizable intermediary in order to accept the information.
[10]Vision: Watching TVision: you are easily misled or are entertaining illusions about the future.
Depth Psychology: The TV indicates callous and impersonal coldness, negative emotions that will only spoil your day.
[11]TV set: the function of seeing what is going on, or what is the news from within oneself. Watching TV: watching one’s activity, values, politics. Television personality: see famous people.
[12]Medium to get a better look at your own life, how you are dealing with situations. Communication with self.
[13]1. Looking to the world;
2. Message; (3) News/ Letting the world in; Prophetic dreams and visions; Isa. 31:1; Num. 24:4.
[14]1. A distinct view of reality, not necessarily real or accurate.
2. Intellectual movement; thoughts and concepts.
[15]1. Information,(evil and good);
2. Prophetic dreams and visions.
Dan. 2:19; 1 Chron. 13:7,9-10.
[16]Keeping up with what is going on without being present
[17]Symbolic of idleness or being unproductive
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completely involved in the: an unconscious choice between your reality and another’s.
surfing channels: unable to focus on the major thrust of your life.
and finding nothing: have a low level of confidence that you are entertaining.
flipping though them again: involvement in a potential y adverse state of affairs.
talking back to the: live a balanced life; making sensible decisions and brute judgments.
watching: time to make some positive changes in your personal life.
laying on a couch: too lazy to pay attention to real life and your lack of a financial future.
while doing housework: missing out because you are preoccupied with irrelevancies.
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