web02.fireside.fm Fri, 17 Apr 2026 06:20:25 -0500 Fireside (https://fireside.fm) The Stuff of Dreams - Episodes Tagged with “Masculine” https://stuffofdreams.fireside.fm/tags/masculine Sun, 16 Aug 2020 13:00:00 -0700 Have you ever woken up from a dream totally sure it's important but without a clue what it means? Learn dream interpretation with me, Amy Lawson, depth psychologist (and pediatrician...but they didn't teach me about dreams in med school) as we examine real dreams from reddit, my guests, and my own unconscious. This is no dry internet tutorial--it’s a lively conversation that aims to convince you of the importance and wisdom of dreams. en-us episodic Dream interpretation for regular people. Amy Lawson Have you ever woken up from a dream totally sure it's important but without a clue what it means? Learn dream interpretation with me, Amy Lawson, depth psychologist (and pediatrician...but they didn't teach me about dreams in med school) as we examine real dreams from reddit, my guests, and my own unconscious. This is no dry internet tutorial--it’s a lively conversation that aims to convince you of the importance and wisdom of dreams. no dreams, dream interpretation, unconscious, depth psychology, Jung, Jungian psychology, symbols, images, archetypes Amy Lawson dnachick113@gmail.com 14: Male and Female Dream Characters Often Describe Inner Conflict https://stuffofdreams.fireside.fm/masculine-feminine-2 0d3ec226-7797-42d3-9877-b24bc45d762b Sun, 16 Aug 2020 13:00:00 -0700 Amy Lawson full Amy Lawson Because we all have some feminine and some masculine parts of our psyches, of our personalities, our dreams often use male and female characters or images to describe our inner dynamics and whether these parts of our psyche are working together or working against each other. From dreams of dead deer to snakes in the sand, crystal wishbones to bus journeys, I’ll show you how to make sense of the language of dreams. 56:40 no Dreams from this episode: * Finding dead deer parts while urbexing * Green dye in the ocean reveals sandy caves and a snake * Fire and water gods shape people into a crystal wishbone * A car and bus journey in drag Themes from this episode: * The unconscious uses masculine and feminine characters and imagery to communicate with us about different parts of our personality. * Everyone, regardless of gender, has masculine and feminine aspects of their psyche that they can use at different times when needed. * The unconscious constantly uses the masculine/feminine dichotomy to symbolize opposite forces inside us, because it’s such a well-known pair of opposites that we see in external relationships where people balance and complete each other. Feminine/yin/lunar characteristics: Feeling, sensing Appreciating beauty Connection and relatedness Soul, imagination, interiority Slower pace, time for reflection, being (rather than doing) Masculine/yang/solar characteristics: Thinking and organizing, order and reason Action and doing Analyzing Differentiating, classifying, making boundaries Competing Aggression and power Important Links: Recommended dream interpretation books (https://bookshop.org/shop/stuffofdreams) Dream interpretation subreddit (https://www.reddit.com/r/DreamInterpretation/) Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/stuffofdreamspodcast/) Send me a dream! stuffofdreamspodcast@gmail.com or use Send a Dream! tab in upper right corner Dream, dreams, dream interpretation, Jung, Jungian psychology, symbols, images, archetypes, psyche, conscious, unconscious, depth psychology, male, female, masculine, feminine, inner dynamics, deer, ocean, wishbone, car, bus Dreams from this episode:

  • Finding dead deer parts while urbexing
  • Green dye in the ocean reveals sandy caves and a snake
  • Fire and water gods shape people into a crystal wishbone
  • A car and bus journey in drag

Themes from this episode:

  • The unconscious uses masculine and feminine characters and imagery to communicate with us about different parts of our personality.
  • Everyone, regardless of gender, has masculine and feminine aspects of their psyche that they can use at different times when needed.

  • The unconscious constantly uses the masculine/feminine dichotomy to symbolize opposite forces inside us, because it’s such a well-known pair of opposites that we see in external relationships where people balance and complete each other.

  • Feminine/yin/lunar characteristics:

    • Feeling, sensing
    • Appreciating beauty
    • Connection and relatedness
    • Soul, imagination, interiority
    • Slower pace, time for reflection, being (rather than doing)

  • Masculine/yang/solar characteristics:

    • Thinking and organizing, order and reason
    • Action and doing
    • Analyzing
    • Differentiating, classifying, making boundaries
    • Competing
    • Aggression and power

Important Links:

Recommended dream interpretation books

Dream interpretation subreddit

Instagram

Send me a dream!
stuffofdreamspodcast@gmail.com
or
use Send a Dream! tab in upper right corner

]]> Dreams from this episode:

  • Finding dead deer parts while urbexing
  • Green dye in the ocean reveals sandy caves and a snake
  • Fire and water gods shape people into a crystal wishbone
  • A car and bus journey in drag

Themes from this episode:

  • The unconscious uses masculine and feminine characters and imagery to communicate with us about different parts of our personality.
  • Everyone, regardless of gender, has masculine and feminine aspects of their psyche that they can use at different times when needed.

  • The unconscious constantly uses the masculine/feminine dichotomy to symbolize opposite forces inside us, because it’s such a well-known pair of opposites that we see in external relationships where people balance and complete each other.

  • Feminine/yin/lunar characteristics:

    • Feeling, sensing
    • Appreciating beauty
    • Connection and relatedness
    • Soul, imagination, interiority
    • Slower pace, time for reflection, being (rather than doing)

  • Masculine/yang/solar characteristics:

    • Thinking and organizing, order and reason
    • Action and doing
    • Analyzing
    • Differentiating, classifying, making boundaries
    • Competing
    • Aggression and power

Important Links:

Recommended dream interpretation books

Dream interpretation subreddit

Instagram

Send me a dream!
stuffofdreamspodcast@gmail.com
or
use Send a Dream! tab in upper right corner

]]> 11: Let’s Talk About Sex…In Dreams https://stuffofdreams.fireside.fm/lets-talk-about-sex-in-dreams 0efe4d28-677e-4516-b083-adbea63c2a34 Fri, 10 Jul 2020 01:00:00 -0700 Amy Lawson full Amy Lawson Warning: This week’s episode contains images of a graphic nature, including sex, rape, and sex toys. Listener discretion is advised if that’s not your thing. Why do we dream about sex? Is it just wish-fulfillment of our current desires? Does it mean we secretly have a crush on someone? How horrified should you be if you rape someone in a dream? This week’s episode illustrates how sex in dreams is rarely to be taken literally. From dreams of sex with obese women to rape, a leaking vibrator to sex with someone new, I’ll show you how to make sense of the language of dreams. 43:41 yes Dreams from this episode: * Sex with obese women * Same-gender sex * Dreams of rape and violence * A dream of a vibrator leaking fluid that causes a fish to change * A dream of sex to celebrate the reboot of the world** Themes from this episode: * Ancient fertility goddess statues were often in the shape of women with large breasts and hips, so sex with obese women could symbolize a particularly fertile time in your life. In dreams, rape can be about control or domination. It can also be a symbol that you are injuring the feminine aspects of yourself somehow. Sex in dreams can symbolize many things: Romantic connection Balance between masculine and feminine parts of yourself Power dynamics Ritual or celebratory times Fertility Important Links: Recommended dream interpretation books (https://bookshop.org/shop/stuffofdreams) Dream interpretation subreddit (https://www.reddit.com/r/DreamInterpretation/) Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/stuffofdreamspodcast/) Send me a dream! stuffofdreamspodcast@gmail.com or use Send a Dream! tab in upper right corner Dream, dreams, dream interpretation, Jung, Jungian psychology, symbols, images, archetypes, psyche, conscious, unconscious, depth psychology, sex, rape, masculine, feminine Dreams from this episode:

  • Sex with obese women
  • Same-gender sex
  • Dreams of rape and violence
  • A dream of a vibrator leaking fluid that causes a fish to change
  • A dream of sex to celebrate the reboot of the world**

Themes from this episode:

  • Ancient fertility goddess statues were often in the shape of women with large breasts and hips, so sex with obese women could symbolize a particularly fertile time in your life.

  • In dreams, rape can be about control or domination. It can also be a symbol that you are injuring the feminine aspects of yourself somehow.

  • Sex in dreams can symbolize many things:

    • Romantic connection
    • Balance between masculine and feminine parts of yourself
    • Power dynamics
    • Ritual or celebratory times
    • Fertility

Important Links:

Recommended dream interpretation books

Dream interpretation subreddit

Instagram

Send me a dream!
stuffofdreamspodcast@gmail.com
or
use Send a Dream! tab in upper right corner

]]> Dreams from this episode:

  • Sex with obese women
  • Same-gender sex
  • Dreams of rape and violence
  • A dream of a vibrator leaking fluid that causes a fish to change
  • A dream of sex to celebrate the reboot of the world**

Themes from this episode:

  • Ancient fertility goddess statues were often in the shape of women with large breasts and hips, so sex with obese women could symbolize a particularly fertile time in your life.

  • In dreams, rape can be about control or domination. It can also be a symbol that you are injuring the feminine aspects of yourself somehow.

  • Sex in dreams can symbolize many things:

    • Romantic connection
    • Balance between masculine and feminine parts of yourself
    • Power dynamics
    • Ritual or celebratory times
    • Fertility

Important Links:

Recommended dream interpretation books

Dream interpretation subreddit

Instagram

Send me a dream!
stuffofdreamspodcast@gmail.com
or
use Send a Dream! tab in upper right corner

]]> 4: Masculine and Feminine Imagery in Dreams https://stuffofdreams.fireside.fm/masculine-and-feminine-imagery-in-dreams 20f76a6d-b755-4c09-96ab-d16dd8a4bf1a Fri, 22 May 2020 16:00:00 -0700 Amy Lawson full Amy Lawson Dreams often use images of opposites, and one of the most basic pairs of opposites is masculine and feminine. In this episode we will look at how male and female imagery adds meaning to the messages from our unconscious. From dreams of protective swords to menacing deer, elephant jewelry to stealing gold, I’ll show you how to make sense of the language of dreams. 47:24 no Dreams from this episode: * A pair of swords can bring protection, but one is stolen * A menacing deer by the river * Stealing back our gold and setting a fire to destroy pursuers * Offering jewelry to a child Themes from this episode: * The unconscious uses masculine and feminine characters and imagery to communicate with us about different parts of our personality. * Everyone, regardless of gender, has masculine and feminine aspects of their psyche that they can use at different times when needed. * The unconscious constantly uses the masculine/feminine dichotomy to symbolize opposite forces inside us, because it’s such a well-known pair of opposites that we see in external relationships where people balance and complete each other. Feminine/yin/lunar characteristics: Feeling, sensing Appreciating beauty Connection and relatedness Soul, imagination, interiority Slower pace, time for reflection, being (rather than doing) Masculine/yang/solar characteristics: Thinking and organizing, order and reason Action and doing Analyzing Differentiating, classifying, making boundaries Competing Aggression and power When a dream detail seems particularly strange or unexpected (like a deer in the forest seeming menacing, or expensive family heirloom jewelry that turns out to be superglued together), it is often a really important part of the dream to examine for hidden meanings, since the unconscious has gone out of its way to offer an image that seems wrong somehow in order to draw your attention to it. Gold in dreams can symbolize: Inner treasure or resources The Self, the deeper wholeness in your psyche Perfection or wholeness Elephants in dreams can symbolize the maternal, matriarchy, or feminine wisdom. Important Links: Recommended dream interpretation books (https://bookshop.org/shop/stuffofdreams) Dream interpretation subreddit (https://www.reddit.com/r/DreamInterpretation/) Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/stuffofdreamspodcast/) Send me a dream! stuffofdreamspodcast@gmail.com or use Send a Dream! tab in upper right corner Dream, dreams, dream interpretation, Jung, Jungian psychology, symbols, images, archetypes, psyche, conscious, unconscious, depth psychology, masculine, feminine, male, female, gold, silver, deer, jewelry, elephant, elephants Dreams from this episode:

  • A pair of swords can bring protection, but one is stolen
  • A menacing deer by the river
  • Stealing back our gold and setting a fire to destroy pursuers
  • Offering jewelry to a child

Themes from this episode:

  • The unconscious uses masculine and feminine characters and imagery to communicate with us about different parts of our personality.
  • Everyone, regardless of gender, has masculine and feminine aspects of their psyche that they can use at different times when needed.

  • The unconscious constantly uses the masculine/feminine dichotomy to symbolize opposite forces inside us, because it’s such a well-known pair of opposites that we see in external relationships where people balance and complete each other.

  • Feminine/yin/lunar characteristics:

    • Feeling, sensing
    • Appreciating beauty
    • Connection and relatedness
    • Soul, imagination, interiority
    • Slower pace, time for reflection, being (rather than doing)

  • Masculine/yang/solar characteristics:

    • Thinking and organizing, order and reason
    • Action and doing
    • Analyzing
    • Differentiating, classifying, making boundaries
    • Competing
    • Aggression and power

  • When a dream detail seems particularly strange or unexpected (like a deer in the forest seeming menacing, or expensive family heirloom jewelry that turns out to be superglued together), it is often a really important part of the dream to examine for hidden meanings, since the unconscious has gone out of its way to offer an image that seems wrong somehow in order to draw your attention to it.

  • Gold in dreams can symbolize:

    • Inner treasure or resources
    • The Self, the deeper wholeness in your psyche
    • Perfection or wholeness

  • Elephants in dreams can symbolize the maternal, matriarchy, or feminine wisdom.

Important Links:

Recommended dream interpretation books

Dream interpretation subreddit

Instagram

Send me a dream!
stuffofdreamspodcast@gmail.com
or
use Send a Dream! tab in upper right corner

]]> Dreams from this episode:

  • A pair of swords can bring protection, but one is stolen
  • A menacing deer by the river
  • Stealing back our gold and setting a fire to destroy pursuers
  • Offering jewelry to a child

Themes from this episode:

  • The unconscious uses masculine and feminine characters and imagery to communicate with us about different parts of our personality.
  • Everyone, regardless of gender, has masculine and feminine aspects of their psyche that they can use at different times when needed.

  • The unconscious constantly uses the masculine/feminine dichotomy to symbolize opposite forces inside us, because it’s such a well-known pair of opposites that we see in external relationships where people balance and complete each other.

  • Feminine/yin/lunar characteristics:

    • Feeling, sensing
    • Appreciating beauty
    • Connection and relatedness
    • Soul, imagination, interiority
    • Slower pace, time for reflection, being (rather than doing)

  • Masculine/yang/solar characteristics:

    • Thinking and organizing, order and reason
    • Action and doing
    • Analyzing
    • Differentiating, classifying, making boundaries
    • Competing
    • Aggression and power

  • When a dream detail seems particularly strange or unexpected (like a deer in the forest seeming menacing, or expensive family heirloom jewelry that turns out to be superglued together), it is often a really important part of the dream to examine for hidden meanings, since the unconscious has gone out of its way to offer an image that seems wrong somehow in order to draw your attention to it.

  • Gold in dreams can symbolize:

    • Inner treasure or resources
    • The Self, the deeper wholeness in your psyche
    • Perfection or wholeness

  • Elephants in dreams can symbolize the maternal, matriarchy, or feminine wisdom.

Important Links:

Recommended dream interpretation books

Dream interpretation subreddit

Instagram

Send me a dream!
stuffofdreamspodcast@gmail.com
or
use Send a Dream! tab in upper right corner

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