The Dream Book of Self-Knowledge
- hardened: refers to an obstinate and inflexible mind.
- working with plaster (e.g. spackling): symbolizes the building of a personality on a new – healthier – foundation; the dreamer can determine from this work how successful this construction will be.
- a plaster figurine of a person: represents the possibility to see the insignificance and transience of a human being; this symbol is intensified by an easily malleable and easily destructible material (the fragility of hardened plaster).
- a plaster figurine of an animal: symbolizes as an idol subordination and dependency; otherwise they are instincts related to the animal depicted by the figurine are perfectly controlled.
- plaster casting: the forming of a natural principle in itself for an image whose essence is captured by the shape and character of the casting; a spiritual person should be careful since every work, no matter how beautiful, bears with it the hallmark of personality.
