Symbol

You, thank you for the shape you took in my dream and for this healing conversation.

As you can see, I chose an obvious dream symbol to make the point, but a dream dialogue works brilliantly with the most bizarre and seemingly obscure symbols from a dream.

Try this with your next dream or just for fun, pretend the dog poo icing dream was yours and imagine the dog poo giving you a conversation starter and see where it leads.

Our next episode of The Dream Show, episode 309, will be out in two weeks on the 1st of October, 2026.

What matters is the wider context and whether you're seeing a pattern of changes in their behavior, language, and interests.

But there are useful symbol guides that you can find that can help you interpret those potential signs should you start to see repeated patterns that are not easily explainable.

And we'll link to those in the show notes below.

Nicholas told me you can learn a lot from a young person's bedroom.

I'm Jen, artist, gardener, lifelong lover of stories, and your guide into a world where art, folklore, mystery, and history intertwine.

Today we're learning how to look at the secret language of symbols in art, because once you learn what to look for, you may never look at a painting quite the same way again.

We use symbols constantly.

A heart can suggest love, a skull can suggest death, a dove can suggest peace, a wedding ring can suggest commitment.

We understand these things almost instinctively because we've learned what they represent.

Sometimes artists don't need a reflection at all.

They simply needed to remind us that life itself was temporary, and for that, they often reached for a skull.

The skull is probably one of the most recognizable symbols in art.

That was good。

然后我们的孩子还可以就是他们有一张纸，然后你在这个纸上他们就会告诉你你要找什么样的 symbol 什么图案，然后他们就会给你一些问题，然后你就要自己想。比如说它们好像是 like animal forest thing。

嗯。

对不对？比如说你想要什么样，你的森林里面你想要什么样的树，然后它就会给你选择。

Young Argentines Victor Hugo Romero and Luis Fernando Bastida went to The Strongest and became important figures in the restored side.

The transition team was called Strongest Simbolo, Strongest the Symbol, and it was exactly right.

At that moment, every match was partly about proving the institution still existed.

In 1970, only months after the disaster, The Strongest won the La Paz championship, and then they repeated in 1971.

This LibriVox recording is in the public domain, read by Ben Tucker.

Realism and Symbol I have tried to point out in the Academy that art is not a trick, not in any way analogous to the performances of the celebrated pony who took port wine with the clown, not in any way related to the shows of dancing dogs or learned elephants.

It is not in the nature of horses to drink with clowns, nor have dogs danced ab initio.

The elephant of the wilds does not ring a bell for his dinner.

Within are to be found the great secrets of the nature of man, the symbols of our true and essential being.

And so all fine literature is profoundly and truly realistic.

End of section 19, Realism and Symbol.

Section 20 of The Shining Pyramid, The Definitive Edition by Arthur Machen.

This LibriVox recording is in the public domain, read by Ben Tucker.

Realism and Symbol I have tried to point out in the Academy that art is not a trick, not in any way analogous to the performances of the celebrated pony who took port wine with the clown, not in any way related to the shows of dancing dogs or learned elephants.

It is not in the nature of horses to drink with clowns, nor have dogs danced ab initio.

The elephant of the wilds does not ring a bell for his dinner.

Within are to be found the great secrets of the nature of man, the symbols of our true and essential being.

And so all fine literature is profoundly and truly realistic.

End of section nineteen, Realism and Symbol.

Section twenty of The Shining Pyramid, The Definitive Edition by Arthur Machan.