The Dream Book of Self-Knowledge

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painting: a person does not use his hand to paint in a dream, but his soul; he thereby depicts his inner state and creates without apparent effort, completely relaxed, in perfect harmony of his being; painting in this way represents the search for the inner spiritual picture.
seeing images of beautiful, enchanted nature, paradise: symbolizes unity and realization*⁶⁸, these images are often a prenatal memory of being in the mother's womb (see Basic Perinatal Matrix archetype).
pictures of saints: if they are revered by the dreamer as a symbol of divine reality then this is a deep mystical act, but if such images are an object of a collector's interest, then the dreamer is reduced to mere "profiteering in the temple," which Jesus Christ*⁶⁰ once sharply rejected as a heinous act.
in the heart: symbolizes that which we are closest to and which we have the most sincere relationship to.
the dreamer is able to wilfully control and manage dream images: see Imagination.
full of absurdities and nonsense: see Absurdity, absurd.
of an artistic nude: seeking an image of instinctual anima (see Anima – Animus archetype), or desire to free the female part of the soul from the imposing personality (ego).
allegorical: see Allegory.
sexual and pornographic pictures: an attack of animality; the subconscious longing for the fulfillment of sensual desires; if they are not images transferred from your waking consciousness, then it consists of an emotional result of part of the prenatal experience (see Basic Perinatal Matrix archetype).
alluring dream pictures: replay countless repressed past desires so that they end their existence in the form of temptation, but only if the dreamer does not succumb to temptation (once he succumbs to temptation, he creates karmic tension that will someday have to be discharged precisely according to the Law of Karma*³⁴ via experiences).
ritual: can be a gateway to higher states of consciousness (see Apocalypse archetype).
of a figure: another dimension is usually added to drawings when a flat two-dimensional image is given a holographic perception and becomes a three-dimensional sculpture, which is also enhanced by a holographic perception (see Hologram).
with an artistic depiction of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ: see Calvary.