The Dream Book of Self-Knowledge
- oblong: a phallic symbol.
- a bone covered with meat, a bone with ham: a phallus in connection with female genitalia.
- feeding animals with it: the sexual nature of the symbol enables the dreamer to destroy those traits linked to the animal that eats the bone; in this way the dreamer easily distances himself from sexuality.
- broken: if the injured individual (applies for the dreamer and his dream personifications) is able to overcome the pain of the break, then he frees himself from the dominant role of sexuality in his life.
- giving to others, throwing out, destroying (only if the dreamer did not eat the meat in the same or previous dream): the dreamer changes his own life and abandons the dominant role of sexuality.
- soft bones, unnaturally flexible: while for a person living a sexual life this image means dwindling sexual power and for men it means erectile dysfunction (a woman encounters this problem with her counterpart after such a dream), for a person living in celibacy this image indicates that he is ridding himself of the controlling phallic power of subconscious impulses.
- chicken bones: if they are oblong, they are always, despite their small size, among the phallic symbols.
- fish bones: since fish are among the Christian spiritual symbols, the flexibility of fish bones means controlling the phallic power of subconscious impulses over oneself.
- extracting bones from a fish (deboning a fish): removing controlled phallic symbols from the spiritual consciousness.
- for a similar symbol see Skeleton.
