Hockey: All sporting events are symbolic of the way in which life itself is like a game. With hockey, the distinctions are its fast pace and the tendency toward violence. If hockey features in a dream, you may be giving yourself permission to be freer with your aggressive nature than you might normally be. Conversely, you may be noticing this tendency in others. The fact that hockey takes place on ice may indicate the agility needed to stay in the game in some chaotic and unpredictable experience that is currently unfolding for you. Ice is frozen water and water is a symbol of emotions. Hockey in a dream may reflect being graceful despite feelings that may have gone cold.

Hole: A hole implies that something is missing. Whether this is a literal hole in an object, a hole that has been dug in the ground, or the metaphorical hole that people describe having in their heart or gut, the basic symbolic meaning behind a hole is that a piece of something has been taken from where it belongs and there is an acute sense of something missing as a result. Allow the dream context to reveal the area of your life in which you are having this experience and the severity of the wound.

Hologram: Once a product of science fiction, the notion of a hologram has emerged as a possible explanation for the very structure of our universe. As such, in a dream, a hologram may be in the realm of what is known as sacred geometry and could be connecting you to higher wisdom in a spiritual experience. Allow the context of the dream to inform your interpretation. A hologram allows for something to be considered from all angles, so there is an element of objectivity present when it appears in a dream.

Holy Grail: The Holy Grail is a sacred object from the Christian tradition that is thought to have been the goblet used by Christ at the Last Supper. The metaphysical emphasis on this as a symbol connects to the feminine shape of any goblet as a container for the energy of the Divine. If this appears in your dream, you may be experiencing a connection to powerful spiritual impulses. If your personal religious affiliations are in this direction, such an image may have more meaning for you. At the heart of this symbol is the idea that a human being is a vessel for God’s infinite love.

Homosexuality: At the heart of this aspect of the human condition from a symbolic perspective is the joining up of either the feminine principle or the masculine principle in greater force and emphasis. This is not sexual at all; the masculine principle is related to doing and the feminine principle is related to being. From an archetypal perspective, the individual who is homosexually oriented has the gift of being able to vibrate with both of these principles as a natural part of his or her energetic birthright, so a dream featuring some reference to homosexuality may be expressing this higher nature associated with such an orientation. Of course, sexuality is a complicated issue for many people, and a dream that expresses such themes may be operating on many levels. You will need to examine your own sexual mores and prejudices if you are not homosexual and such a dream should occur for you. If characters within your dream are known to be homosexual, you must interpret them as aspects of your own personality that are aligning you in either the direction of a need to be more or to do more, or to bridge the gap between the two with a higher level of intuitive grace. If you are made uncomfortable by the content of the dream, you may want to consider ways in which you are having anxiety about your own masculinity or femininity in a way that may or may not be sexual in nature.

Honeycomb: This complex feat of engineering is ultimately a storage unit. In this way, as a symbol a honeycomb relates to the capacity to keep on hand something that is valued or desired. Since what is generally kept in such a structure is honey, there is the added dimension of the thing that is desired being the sweet elements of life.

Hood: Since a hood is worn on the head, the first element of how to interpret it as a symbol connects to thoughts and mentality, either your own if you are wearing an outfit that includes a hood, or a part of you as represented by someone in your dream. A hood is ultimately about hiding something, so you might want to consider what thoughts or ideas you are trying to keep hidden or secret. There can be some menace associated with hoods, between historical references to hooded people engaging in secret acts of mystery or violence to the modern-day association of the hoodie and criminal behavior. What are you trying to hide?

Hoodie: The media has created a modern-day association between the hoodie and criminal behavior. If you see someone wearing a hoodie in your dream, you may want to consider the person as a character aspect of your own personality that you suspect is up to no good. If you are wearing a hoodie, the same may be true of you. This symbol, however, begs you to ask whether your suspicion is based on something authentic or on fear and prejudice. Check your motives closely in some area of your life.

Hooks: A hook is a tool used to keep something hanging in one place. As such, hooks represent anything inside your consciousness that an outside idea can be hung on. In order for you to accept something that someone else presents to you, it must first have a hook on which it can be hung. This is true whether that idea is positive or negative, helpful or destructive. Anything that is hung on a hook, or the presence of hooks in a dream, indicates a readiness for something to be hung there.

Horizon: The horizon is expansive and limitless as well as finite and constricted. It is the fixed point that is not fixed at all but ever changing, even as it seems to remain the same. The horizon is a symbol of the experience of nature as infinite and limited at the same time, which is why in life it inspires such awe and wonder. As a symbol in a dream, it reminds you of this part of your existential nature. A dream that features the horizon is asking you to consider the higher elements of your nature.

Horse: The horse is the ultimate symbol of power. We even use the horse as a measurement of an engine with the term “horsepower.” When harnessed, this mighty beast can take you to extremes of speed and strength. As a totem animal, the horse will visit in a dream when you need to be in touch with this visceral energy to move.

Horseshoe: St. Dunstan is said to have put a shoe on the hoof of the devil, and in this way the horseshoe as a talisman with the power to keep the devil away was created. A more modern consideration of the power of the horseshoe relates to grounding and harnessing the power of the horse through the symbol of the shoe that protects the horse’s ability to move. No matter how you relate to this symbol, if it appears in a dream, you are connecting with the idea of good fortune and the providence of luck.

Hose: A hose directs water in a specific direction for various constructive purposes. Water is always a symbol of emotions and feelings, and in this case, the hose represents your ability to take whatever is going on with you in this way and utilize it to your best advantage.

Hospital: You are dreaming of the need for healing and a restoration of health, whether that health is literal or symbolic. Hospitals tend to evoke powerful reactions. The discomfort that colors most people’s associations tends to overshadow the benevolence connected to them as places of healing. A common reaction around hospitals is to fear them, adding a touch of irony to our relationship with the healing process. Healing is transformation, and the first step to any major change is the breakdown that precedes the breakthrough. Since the breakdown is the scary part, we avoid it, just as some people avoid hospitals in waking life. It is easy to forget that in order for surgeons to heal a patient, they must first cut the person’s body open, creating a wound. And since not everyone who checks into a hospital is fortunate enough to check out, these places are indelibly connected to the fear of death and dying. However, remember that death is always followed by rebirth. In this way, being in or near a hospital in a dream is always going to indicate that some healing is either underway or necessary. If you are the patient, then consider that your sense of self is undergoing a significant shift. If you are a visitor, then the healing transformation is connected to a character aspect or particular way of being as embodied by the person you are going to see. If you are playing the part of healer, the dream may be helping you step into that role in some area of life that is undergoing a transformation. The fear or repulsion that is present in the dream will give you an idea of how much resistance you may be unconsciously engaged in. If you are experiencing a health issue in life, the image of a hospital may be literal, in which case your dream relationship to the hospital will inform you of any underlying resistance to surrendering to your body and its functioning (or the lack thereof).

Hot Spring: A natural hot spring is an opening in the earth that connects to an aquifer below that is being heated by the geothermal system that exists below the surface. In this way, a hot spring first and foremost relates symbolically to emotional expressions that are of a more passionate nature and that bubble up from below the surface of consciousness. For the most part, since a hot spring is associated with relaxation and health, this is a very positive symbol relating to the benefits that can be gained when you allow feelings from below the surface of your consciousness to slowly and methodically surface and be expressed.

Hot Tub: All water in dreams connects to your emotional experience. A hot tub is warm and relaxing and as a symbol connects to the powerful and beneficial experience of allowing yourself the luxury of leaning into feelings of passion and intensity.

Hotel: Any home-like dwelling in a dream is representative of the self. A space of transitional living such as a hotel or motel room connects to the self in a temporary state of being. This symbol usually appears when there is change afoot, indicating that the sense of self is in transition and not yet fully “home.” Given this transitory nature, such a dream may indicate the need for a temporary respite in order to consider being more authentic with regard to your identity. If the dwelling is dilapidated, as in an inexpensive motel, then you may be experiencing downward movement in the area of abundance. If the hotel is grand and lavish, you may be preparing yourself for an increase in abundance. Hotel rooms can also be connected to both sexuality and mortality, as they are often used in life for sexual encounters and suicides. Hotel-room sex could indicate a self-investigation that involves looking at an area of your sexual expression. If the latter image is present, ask yourself what part of you may need to commit suicide (be sacrificed) so that the rest of you can move forward with your life.

House: Anything that is a home in a dream connects to your sense of self. A house is a clear reflection of identity at the time of the dream. The sense of identity that the dream is trying to express relates directly to the qualities of the house as it appears in the dream. A house from your past and/or childhood relates to your identity as it was generated at the time you lived there. A house from your imagination also relates to your sense of self, and you must use the context of the dream to inform you of the meaning to associate with it. A mansion is an expanded sense of self, while something small or more rundown is asking you to look at issues of self-worth. A house under construction is the self being built up, whereas one that is being destroyed takes on the view of deconstruction or reinvention. The same ideas should be applied to any living space, from an apartment to a hotel room, a great big house or a hovel.

Humming: The act of singing represents the expression of passion and excitement. Humming is the less intense version of this that is often done in the background, just below the level of conscious awareness or when the desire to express is present but slightly inhibited. Humming often indicates that joy is present.

Hummingbird: All birds are messengers of some sort, but the hummingbird’s primary medicine is related to your ability to connect with joy. The hummingbird can easily maneuver into any sort of space in order to obtain the nectar of a flower, a symbol of the sweetest that life has to offer. When the hummingbird appears in a dream, joy is available to you with grace and ease.

Hurricane: A hurricane is a wild and potentially terrifying combination of wind and rain. Wind symbolically relates to thoughts and ideas that are being whipped up to proportions of frenzy. The presence of rain indicates that such an experience is also emotional in nature. If there is a hurricane in your dream, look to where in your life some person or circumstance is causing you an enormous amount of pain, sadness, and rage. Such a dream may be a response to significant and stressful changes in your life.