Foot Dreaming

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According to authoritative sources we all dream and that includes our patients. Some dreams are more vivid than others and some more memorable. However a common theme involves the foot and the significance is wide and varied. To dream of callous on hands or feet predicts a new and unusual kind of work ahead. To dream of corns on your feet is a sign that scandal mongers are seeking to ruin your reputation. Pain felt from a bunion in a dream is a sign of definite comfort in old age. To dream of having a podiatrist attend to a bunion is to look forward to improved financial circumstances. If you dream you are a podiatrist then look out you may receive news that may disgust and at the same time amuse you. Dreaming about cutting your own corns with a razor or knife is the sign of the loss of money or friends. If you dream about seeing your own feet, it means that your position is insecure. Looking at your own bare foot in a dream is a sign that you will laugh before you cry and suggests that you should cultivate the habit of looking on the bright side of life. Seeing the barefoot of another signifies a new acquaintance who will prove to be an excellent friend. If the foot is deformed, you will hear disturbing news. When a person suffering from physical affliction features in the dream this is a forecast of good health. Gout foretells postponement of a long anticipated visit of old friends. It is also a warning to cut down on consumption of alcohol. Rheumatism is a warning not to fall down on any promises you have made. Genu varum mean you should look to your own comfort. Dreaming of disease may be a regarded as a warning but not necessary an unpleasant prophecy. A broken or injured ankle is an omen of a loss of money. A sprained ankle foretells an approach by a committee who will ask you to run for office. A dream of a Sagittarius (the Patron Saint of Surgical Shoe makers) means you will be shocked by news of one of your acquaintances. To dream about playing footie in front of spectators means you are in for a large sum of money. If the dream is about witnessing a game of football you are warned against making friends too easily. If you dream of athletes foot you should guard against conspiracies and against competitors.

More dreams are posted at foot talk blog at <http://foottalk.blogspot.com/>

Cameron

 

That is IT. From now on I am abandoning that troublesome area of biomechanics/orthotic therapy and going with the dream interpretative approach. It is significantly more revealing, and looks to be far more accurate. Now if only we could get a bit of feng shui advice in there as well, then we would be set for life!

cheers,

Felicity

 

>Now if only we could get a bit of feng shui advice in there as well, then we would be set for life!


My darling Felicity, no sooner said than done.

The custom of removing shoes before entering a home is a mark of respect for the household in Japan but is also traditionally practiced elsewhere for Scandinavia to Hawaii. The habit is now catching on in the western world and it has been scientifically shown this reduces the number of allergens in the house. According to tradional Feng Shui no shoes or slippers should be left lying outside the main door of the house. The chi (energy) rides with the wind and collects all the smells from discarded footwear and carries them into the house causing sickness. In Japanese houses there is a raised border to prevent this from happening. We are particularly vulnerable in the bedroom which is the inner sanctum and where we recharge our chi when sleeping. The yin (quiet and peaceful) of the bedroom should outmatch the yen, or presence of powerful chi if we do not wish to sleep peacefully. The position of the bed in the room is critical and there needs to be a good circulation of chi with plenty of fresh air available for recharging. The farther we sleep from the door and the more of the room you can see while in bed, the more we appear to control our environment and, therefore, our life. Seeing the door to our bedroom symbolizes we are in control and prepared to deal with many areas of your life. It is very unlucky for our feet to be pointing directly outward toward a door. This is considered the death position in Chinese, Italian and other cultures. When a person dies at home, the body is removed feet first from the room and the house.

Forever yours

Cameron

 

Hey Cameron,

It also according to my daughter stops the new carpet wearing out!

Cheers,

Colin.

PS. In this country to remove the corpse feet first means the staircase is to narrow!

 

Colin

I sympathise and can confirm archiologists used the same principle to work out that Romans removed their sandals before entering a dwelling. The wear on the outside steps was greater that that inside the house.

Nothing is new.

Cheers
Cameron

 

Barefoot Romans?

Hi Cameron,

I was going to leave it at that but I wonder whether that last remark had anything to do with Roman shoes with hobnails in them. That wouldn't do tessellae,(tessellated pavement), much good. The hob nails being all that was left of the body with bones after burial and left in the ground for the odd two thousand years or so over here?

Cheers,

Colin.

 

Colin

It is difficult to say with any certainty as they was a plethera of sandal designs in the Roman period <http://www.podiatry.curtin.edu.au/sandal.html>

One would have to assume hobnailed sandals did contribute. However it was common for returning vicorious legions to exchange the iron tacks in their sandals for silver and gold. Softer metals would do less damage. The trait became of major concern to several Caesars who banned the practice. This usually coincided with low treasurary stocks and had more to do with greedy Caesars but concerns were also expressed at the effeminacy of the habit of fighting men wearing sumptous footwear. As the empire progressesed more shoes and boots were worn.

>The hob nails being all that was left of the body with bones after burial and left in the ground for the odd two thousand years or so over here?

Sure, shoes from early periods are rare finds mostly because leather degrades. Cashes of Roman shoes when located reveal much of the time and technology. There is a find from the Leeds area and very revealing it is too. A biomechanical analysis of wearmarks and repairs have been reported in the archeiological literature and apparently the biomechnics of the foot in Roman Britain is no different to today. The cahe includes adult and children's footwear. This and similar to findings elsewhere in the US. All of which supports human feet have not changed in at least two millenium.

Cheers
Cameron

 

Roman Footwear!

Hi Cameron,

Now that last one was a GEM! Always interested in practical archeology, got my daughter to university on self same subject! I always wondered whether that was because that is what I always wanted to be??? Daughter got an Hons. in archeology the same year I got a Comb. Hons. in Mod. Hist. and Prac. Prin. in Rel.! You see the faculty head couldn't even keep that one simple either, but he reminds me of you? He might just come back and haunt me now after that?

Cameron, out of little acorns, I wonder whether CHIROPODY has been in existence long enough for you to 'mother' a separate Sub-forum on 'The History and the Archeology of the Foot and Shoe', or something like that!!!

Cheers,

Colin.

PS. Cameron, I haven't had time to read that pointer in your last one but has anyone actually used Roman footwear designs in modern footwear? Excuse my ignorance on this matter!

PSS. Quote: "Exchanging their iron tacts for silver and gold?" Possibly it got right up Caesar's nose when he was lying on the couch eating and doing other things whilst been confronted with silver and gold going to waste out of his treasury at the end of his soldiers feet, perhaps? Your reason is also good, however, their morals and norms are most certainly not our morals and norms!
Then again? Today the servant girl followed by the serving boy by the slave-owner, the master of the house, would most certainly get us on a sex-offenders register for just suggesting it here! How times have changed for the better I'm very glad to add, if someone is wondering! You know you have to be so careful these days of free speech where I am at!

 

Colin

>Daughter got an Hons. in archeology the same year I got a Comb. Hons. in Mod. Hist. and Prac. Prin. in Rel.!

Well done.

>I wonder whether CHIROPODY has been in existence long enough for you to 'mother' a separate Sub-forum on 'The History and the Archeology of the Foot and Shoe', or something like that!!!

I have a website at <http://www.podiatry.curtin.edu.au/history.html> and this is a collection of my research notes. It is not intended to be a finished publication but contains about 30 chapters on the historical aspects of footwear and feet. There is a section on the history of corn cutting and as far as I could find out foot care was known to exist in Egyptian times and appears in hieroglyphics in the Tomb of the Physician. In my Foot Talk Blog I publish two papers per day (I should really get a life) on foot related stuff. More adult material I combine my other area of academic interest which is sexology and its history.

>PS. Cameron, I haven't had time to read that pointer in your last one but has anyone actually used Roman footwear designs in modern footwear? Excuse my ignorance on this matter!

Sandal making as a craft was almost lost after the Fall of the Roman Empire. In Victorian times there was an effort to rediscover the clothing of previous ages simply to improve theatre stage productions. There is a famous set of illustrations published which became the bible for all theatre dressers. The authenticity has subsequently been questioned but the publication did more or less define footwear of the classic period. It took until Hollywood and the silent epics before classical design of sandals crossed over into modern fashion. A young Italian shoe maker by the name of Salvatore Ferrigamo started making period footwear for the studios including Cecil B DeMill and his biblical epics. As cinema photography improved to include long shots, then footwear became very important for authenticity. The stars liked wearing the sandals and took to sporting them in public. By the 30s the glamour sandal was a mark of sophistication. I have a specific chapter on the subject at the Curtin website. Interestingly enough the (Louis) heeled pump (and round toe) were in vogue at the time, as they are today. So too were shoe accessories such a jewellery. Fashion pundits would associate this 30s revival with the success of The Aviator movie, last year. I have been interested to locate the origins of the sensible heel and it appears to have come from the end of the thirties when raw materials started to become used for the War effort. Ladies shoes with less heel lifts were considered necessary fashion for patriots and in Germany fashionable heeled shoes were branded as Jewish. Year later (with the origins well forgotten) we speak of sensible shoes.

>,,, silver and gold going to waste out of his treasury at the end of his soldiers feet, perhaps?


That is about right Nero was particularly frugal and as a spend thrift bankrupted Rome. He introduced alloy coins and an edict all precious metal coins were by order to be returned to the treasury. His subjects to avoid this tax melted down their gold and silver and started to wear it about their shoes. Sandal makers were ostracised and often traded only at night. Many early converts to Christianity were disinherited and chose sandal making to earn a living leaving them free to spread the gospel during the day. When I was researching the Bible chapter, I found more references to feet and shoes in the New Testament that the old. Spreading the gospel was done by walking and often barefoot.

Interesting we condemn going barefoot, now.


Chers
Cameron