Reading Dream Meaning
Reading in dreams is about intake and the interpreted text. When this symbol appears, the dreamer's relationship with these themes is being activated. The specific details of the encounter, the emotional tone, and what happens before and after provide the most important interpretive clues. Consider what this symbol represents in your own life and how the dream's version differs from your waking experience. From a Jungian perspective, Jung would see this as a symbol of the psyche attempting to integrate unconscious material into consciousness. Freud read it as For Freud, this symbol embodies the eternal conflict between desire and the prohibitions of the superego. In folklore worldwide, this symbol bridges the mundane and the transcendent realms. It most often appears The emotional tone of the encounter is the most important interpretive clue.