The Dream Book of Self-Knowledge
- the dreamer: in the act of beheading the personality is briefly deprived of its most important support – reason – so that the dreamer tries at a moment of "non-existence" to find the true essence of his being, his true individuality; preparation for a mystical death, in which the ego definitively dies (for more on the phenomenon of death by beheading see the Attentiveness archetype).
- beheading others, usually only in thought (very similar to the Bohemian legend about Bruncvík*43): reason is definitively defeated and the intuitive process of understanding one's divine essence begins.
- beheading a multi-headed monster (usually a dragon or hydra): a rare dream in which the dreamer eliminates the forceful family relations in his consciousness (see Hero archetype).
