Dreams of flying and other symbols

Here are some of my own dream interpretations of a few dream symbols. Much of my understanding of the subject is both through reading, research and personal dreams that I've written down.

Hair - It means time. The hair being cut in dreams is nothing until hair suddenly grows long so quickly. It often indicates time itself as hair growth from short to long is about two years.

Teeth - Also it means loss of time, or missing time. It means missing things, lost hours for work and no pay time. It also means money, loss of teeth means loss of money or things.

Blood - Dreams about blood depends on how, what, ect. Most of all the colour red. Blood is often bright red so a vibrant colour will point to a colour dream.

Falling - Loss of control, sense of helplessness, losing the plot.

Flying - Feeling free and wanting to escape hard work, life and problems.

Pregnancy/birth - New things coming your way.

Monsters - Your inner fears, phobias and irrational sense of dread. Maybe you dream of monsters because you can’t focus on what’s happening.

Ghosts/dead people (who you know have gone) - Memory dreams, reminders of those people and past issues you’re thinking of and sort out.

Someone trying to kill you - If it’s someone you know, then ask yourself the following questions: Does that person done something that annoyed you, have you ever felt hurt by them, do they do things that remind you of something. If the person isn’t anyone you know, the dream is letting you know that you’ve got to be cautious about what you’re doing. It doesn’t mean someone will kill you, but that you have to be careful and avoid situations that are trouble.

Pulling string and worms out of your eyes -

What stands out is the worms and string being pulled out of your eyes in the dream. What makes worms and string connected is that they’re of a similar shape, and can be pulled in waking real life. String is found inside the stitching of clothes and if pulled, the fabric will come apart. The same with worms, who are living underground and they’re “pulled out” by birds and other creatures that want to eat them. Pulling them out of your eyes indicate that your eyes are more than just mirrors to the soul. Your eyes are closed and keeps in things that you pull out in your dream. In a way you’re treating your eyes like dirt. That isn’t to say you’re doing this at all in life, but it’s symbolic.String symbolises joining and binding, laces, ties, connections, network, and worms symbolise creepy crawly things and uncovered things, sneaky wormy people and buried negativity. Pulling that out of your eyes means you’re probably very critical, not careful, seeing the worst, and acting on your emotions a lot will be your undoing. Dream is basically telling you to think careful and not judge by what you’re looking at.

Rayne

(The above are  from some of my posts on Quora)

Smilax

The climbing thorny vine plant with flowers and berries is Smilax. This plant is also called greenbrier. It can grown and invade other plants. They can grow quickly during Winter as the seeds are robust and animals tend to feed on them. Their flowers are greenish white and their berries are either black or red. Greenbriers have rhe ability to grow tightly as thorny walls and shelters for animals, small creatures and birds.
Food from Smilax is used in medicine and beer. Despite the herbal qualities of breenbrier, it's considered a weed and cut away by many gardeners. The thorns of a greenbrier will be sharp and unpleasant. The smilax plant would treat a number of issues with the stomach including nausea and period pains.

Such a ferocious weed with climbing abilities is a provider also of food and medicine. It features in stories of legend too. The princess Briar Rose, falls in a sleeping spell and only the curse cab ever be lifted when a prince kisses her. She's been alseep for so long that the entire castle is overgrown in dense greenbrier thorns.
Also a story of tagic love. A mortal man named Crocus falls in love with a beautiful wood nymph called Smilax. He's turned into a saffron flower and his love, Smilax becomes the thorny greenbrier weed.

Nettles

The most widespread plant is the native European nettle. Rugged in appearance, with shaggy leaves, they give an itchy sting. It's true that wherever humans go, nettles follow. This is because nettles are created in soil with phosphate and nitrogen by waste. A variety of creatures including butterflies eat them. Also nettles are part of human diet too, such as soups and tea.
Nettles are considered one of the nine plants in the 10th Century English poem "Nine Herbs Charm". This is about medicine plants that treat all manner of horrible pains and infections. The nine herbs are:

Mucgƿyrt 
Attorlaðe
Stune
Ƿegbrade
Mægðe
Stiðe
Ƿergulu
Fille
Finule

The Stiðe mentioned on the list means Nettle. The prose that comes with the "Nine Herbs Charm" is:

A snake came crawling, it bit a man.
Then Woden took nine glory-twigs,
Smote the serpent so that it flew into nine parts.
There apple brought this pass against poison,
That she nevermore would enter her house.

Nettles are full of nutrients and mostly water. They can be cooked and mixed with vegetables, used as a puree and paste, added to stock and as a condiment.
Getting a sting from nettles is unpleasant. Natural treatments for stinging nettle pain and itchiness are dock leaves, that are often but not always found near nettles. As a kid, I suffered painful stings from nettles and my grandmother rubbed the area with a dock leaf, which healed instantly.

Mint the cold spice

Mint or Mentha is a sweet healing plant full of medicinal properties. Often described as cool tasting, these plants tend to grow in shady dark places by damp, pools and in rain. Fragrant and flowering, blueish green in colour, the leaves are often used to make as food ingrediants, in tea and even in bath essentials, shampoos, soap and perfume.

Mint is full of menthol, often used in medicines to treat pain. Mint also helps to ease feelings of nausea. Farmers that prefer organic treatments of crops use mint insecticide. Mint is known to grow anytime of the year.

Minthe from Gods School

In Greek myth, a beautiful naiad called Minthe from the mountain by Elis was looked upon by the god of the underworld, Hades. The wife of Hades, goddess Persephone was offended and out of jealousy, the goddess of the underworld transformed Minthe into a plant. She became the mint plant who was most cherished by Hades that Minthe was his sacred plant.

More on Mentha family
 
"Mint leaves, without a qualifier like 'peppermint' or 'apple mint', generally refers to spearmint leaves. ... The taxonomic family Lamiaceae is known as the mint family. It includes many other aromatic herbs, including most of the more common cooking herbs, such as basil, rosemary, sage, oregano, and catnip."

Quote from Mentha Wikipedia 
 

Tea

There are people who absolutely love drinking tea, and I'm one. There are so many kinds of teas to chose from and not all of them are my favourites, but a few are. I happen to love spicy chai. 
Herbal tea is one such type. Also called Tisanes, herbal tea is made from plants with no caffeine.

There are four actual teas in groups belonging to Green, White, Black and Oolong. All of those teas come from one evergreen plant called the Camellia Sinensis.

Some like to make fruit tea by brewing leaves from raspberries, strawberries, ect.

In ancient times, tea was only drunk as a form of medicine. It became a popular beverage drink in quite recent history.

A strange nickname for the process of making a cup of tea is "the agony of the leaves" when tea leaves unfold when hot water is poured.

Although I've said all of this, herbal tea isn't regarded as a normal tea because it doesn't come from the tea plant Camellia Sinensis. Herbal teas come from other sources like roots, fruit, flowers, rice, seeds and other leaves. In Tibet there is tea made from butter. In Italy there is tea from olive trees. The hibiscus flower produces a tea called karkade.

In the 17th and 18th centuries  European tea lovers found it so expensive that tea was locked away in caddies.

Links:

The Magic of Tea

Welcome to the New Year

It's been a very long time since I posted on this blog. Storm Valkyrie will continue from where I last posted, and also shall be my new home from now on.
My first blog She Wolf Night is now run by a friend. You can still find my older posts over there. I've added links to my fiction on here. I will add future posts on Storm Valkyrie with essays and fiction again, if that is what others want.
So let us drink to 2019 and Happy New Year.