The Dream Book of Self-Knowledge

Flowers

  • a barometer of emotional living; the more flower, the more genuine the emotional experiences; yet the mere mention of material gain, sexually tinged thoughts and sex itself in dreams kills the flowers; such content of the conscious mind does not give them room to grow or the conditions for survival.
  • if the dreamer notices in the shapes of flowers and their parts the male or female genitalia (e.g. orchids), the emotional experience is immediately reduced to the instinctual level.
  • broken: a violent interruption of emotional living: this images is often a foretelling or the consequence of rape, loss of virginity or a cruel disenchantment from emotional oblivion.
  • dried: emotional immaturity and unclear emotional relationships; a person prefers to preserve his feelings, love and sex for memories than to fully experience them.
  • plastic: hypocrisy and the futile attempt in others to create the impression of a full emotional life.
  • giving withering flowers: emotional sincerity is uncontrollably disappearing from a relationship, replaced by mere habit.
  • animals destroying flowers, trampling flowers: instincts (animals) in the dreamer's consciousness are winning over feelings (flowers).
  • putting flowers by a grave: a futile desire to return to the past; the dreamer should realize that he will find solace in his heart.
  • thirsty, parched flowers: a lack of feeling in the dreamer's mind.
  • a person destroying flowers, trampling flowers: clearly the instinctual animus (instinctual anima).
  • flowers that won't blossom: symbolizes a person that, despite living an emotional life is still unable to complete his emotional development.
  • on the water's surface: joy from the process of understanding the divide between the unconscious and conscious world.
  • planting: the dreamer is seeking real feelings; a person's return to the emotional level of experience.
  • picking: if the dreamer does not throw them away, then it is the longing for the fulfillment of an emotional life, indicated most of all by the type, shape and color of the flower; if he throws them away then it represents a squandering of the current state and a degradation of the mind's emotional content.
  • picking a single flower and keeping it: represents the meaning of the dreamer's life and therefore it is important to realize its shape, color and possibly fragrance since these will be an allegory of his fate in years to come.
  • mountain flower: emotions leading upwards towards the spiritual level.
  • this often depends on the color of the flowers since color can determine the nature of the emotional experience and the direction of further development of the emotional experience (see Color).
  • if in a dream we refuse sex, sinful thoughts or material advantages, then we will find flowers or their parts and we will have the chance to replant them and return to the arms of emotional living.
  • on the table: confirms the present living of an emotional life.
  • in a bedroom: the dreamer prefers emotional experiences to the instinctual gratifying of the senses.
  • growing on a tree or placed in a tree top: feelings woven into the tree of life.
  • flowers in a boiler or power plant: this unusual image confirms the correct path and hard work with inner content.
  • spring flowers: awakening of emotion.
  • a bee in a flower: love.
  • nature full of beautiful flowers, often linked with feelings of enthusiasm and bliss: clearly the dreamer's pre-birth memory in the mother's womb and a foretelling of the drama of birth with which everyone's consciousness is psychologically imprinted; the only question is when this content will emerge from within; the Basic Perinatal Matrix archetype describes the entire process.
  • a woman working in a flower shop: usually always the emotional anima, which works to fulfill the lives of others through one's warm-hearted feelings.
  • a flower (love – feelings) is an intermediate developmental stage on the path to perfection in which the predecessor to the flower is the seed (sex – instincts) and the culmination is the scent (compassion – spirituality), just as Osho*76 said: "Sex is the seed, love is the flower, compassion is the fragrance."
  • wreath of flowers: pure pleasure.
  • fragrance of flowers: the culmination of an emotional life and illustration of the compassion of the spiritual level.
  • snowdrops: a symbol of a return from the spiritual level (the kingdom of ice and snow) back to the emotional level (water).
  • a woman, girl or little girl among a mass of flowers: spiritual anima; such an image was always accompanied by images of unification (see Anima – Animus archetype and possibly even Coniunctio archetype).
  • flowers mysteriously disappearing from the dreamer: if the ensuing dream images are accompanied by spiritual symbols, then the dreamer's consciousness has passed to the spiritual level of perception, otherwise it is a loss of the emotional content of the mind and a fall back to the instinctual level of living.
  • shining flowers in an arbor: this is a very clear allegory of the concluding birth process when the painful pressures on the newborn's body have already passed and sexual images linked to the greatest suffering in the birth canal have disappeared (see Basic Perinatal Matrix); these scenes are often accompanied by visions of a light that also permeates the dreamer's body.
  • otherworldly beauty, flowers unparalleled on earth, magical flowers: a celebration of the spiritual state which is why their appearance, color and fragrance surpass everything we know from daily consciousness; the divine mana also appears like this in dreams; unfortunately, even these beautiful experiences*73 can be contaminated by the mind's instinctual content since the dreamer links the feeling of ecstasy that he experiences on a spiritual level with, above all, sexual climax and with his body, and thus inevitably leaves the spiritual level and awakes disillusioned.
  • see Blossoming, Flower and see Bouquet.