Ten Thousand Dream Dictionary

by Pamela Ball
1- To be absorbed in what we are doing in dreams indicates our ability to be totally focused on our action. We are capable of taking in ideas, concepts or beliefs which then become part of us and the way we function.

To absorb something into ourselves is to consume it, in the sense of making it our own.

A great deal of the process of understanding takes place through absorption of information.

2- As we mature and grow we perceive the necessity to belong to social groups.

To be absorbed into something represents the need to belong to a greater whole, or to make efforts to integrate various parts of our lives.

3- We have the ability to integrate the various parts of our lives. Spiritually our yearning is to go back to Source.

A Guide to Dreams and Sleep Experiences

by Tony Crisp
Dreams often represent learning as an organic pro­cess. Ideas are taken in, digested, then form pan of an organic whole in an integrated system. Seeing something absorbed in a dream may represent the taking in of ideas, or even poison­ous feelings, depending upon what the dream images are.

abyss If feared, fear of losing control, failure; loss of iden­tity; death. Without fear going beyond the boundaries of one’s own limitations, concepts, present experience. Literally it is an entrance into enormous potential, the as yet unformed.

The ability to do this gives tremendous liberation to the dreamer, freeing them from restricting rigid concepts or habits of thinking, responding and relating.

See falling.

The Dream Books Symbols

by Betty Bethards
Merger or blending of separate elements; stronger force, or aspect of self, taking over a less developed aspect. Giving up free will, becoming absorbed, in cult, group or something other than your own life path.