The Dream Book of Self-Knowledge
- illustrates the eternal struggles between a contrived personality and the genuine individuality (for more on this struggle see the Persona and Individuality archetypes); unlike other clothing, sexual meaning is enhanced with trousers.
- as with other clothing, trousers are a barometer of the dreamer's attempt to build or suppress his own ego.
- color of trousers (seen and worn): shows which personality the dreamer prefers (e.g. red shades prioritize an emotional personality).
- finding someone else's trousers: the dreamer has managed to unveil the sexual intentions of others.
- carefully masked desires and egotistical wishes are concealed in the pockets.
- money sticking out of the pockets of trousers: the owner of the trousers is elevating his battered confidence by doing this.
- worrying that we will lose our trousers: fear that our carefully concealed sexually motivated desires will be revealed.
- sewing: sex and the longing for sexual intercourse is becoming a central motive and is typical of the one who is sewing the trousers (this person can be someone the dreamer knows or his dream personification – e.g. instinctual anima).
- elastic: see elastic clothing.
- tearing, destroying: the dreamer's personality is suffering greatly in the material world; a frequent dream image that precedes a crumbling partner relationship; once the trousers look more like rags, then see Rag.
- seeing or wearing dirty trousers, with stains: a tarnished character and moral failings.
- trying on trousers: dissatisfaction with the state of one's personality and the attempt to change will lead to greater disillusionment with yourself.
- wearing nice, elegant trousers: significant external success is attributed to the dreamer's personality by admirers.
- seeing new trousers: the dreamer has the chance to change the sexual assessment of himself in the eyes of others.
- giving or buying someone trousers: flattering others or the desire to establish a relationship between the giver and the recipient, although such a relationship does not last long since it is based on the admiration of one person for another.
- leather: see Leather.
- shorts: diminished power of this symbol over the dreamer's consciousness.
- taking off, seeing others take off trousers: if the dreamer does not succumb to a sensual and erotic experience or lustful thoughts and views the removal of trousers dispassionately as a liberation from the shackles of the personality, then he is becoming an emotional person.
- washing, wringing out, drying, ironing: an important dream that directs the dreamer's experience towards the emotional level.
