The Dream Book of Self-Knowledge
- brings to mind in a unique instant stopped water – the moment in which creative power has materialized an idea, conjured a shaped and determined a purpose, which is why many glass objects (especially artistic) symbolize emotions.
- glass vessels: as hollow objects they symbolize a woman; the content, appearance or possible purity of the vessel specify sexual relations; glass, unlike an ordinary vessel, brings transparency to sexual relations.
- the use of glass vessels: typical of those trying to view the contents of their own mind and prevent the acceptance of inappropriate contents of the mind based on the categorical imperative*53 that comes from within.
- filling a glass vessel with water: symbolizes the desire for a clean emotional relationship and also the attempt to constantly check this purity.
- refraction of light in glass: see Refraction.
- glass and transparent doors: a very positive symbol – it provides the chance, even without opening, to discern what awaits us behind the door; a well known way of overcoming the barriers between two levels (usually between the instinctual and the emotional).
- glass refuge: different from an ordinary refuge since the dreamer wants to see the threat.
- glass bottle see Bottle.
- glass jug: brings the ability to explore one's feelings.
- glass sphere: has the abilities to show not only inner realities arising from within, but also to show visions of the future or past (see Past and Future Visions archetype); see Sphere.
- glass roof: indicates a pure and sincere mind.
- glass table: symbolizes the pure content of the mind that does not have to be hidden from anyone.
- magnifying: see Magnifying glass.
- cutting: symbolizes patient work with emotions.
- buying glass (especially beautiful, cut or artistic): expresses the longing to discover beautiful, though fragile emotional relationships within oneself.
- giving as a gift: if we know the person we are giving the gift to, then that is the person with whom the dreamer is trying to establish emotional relations; if the person is not known, then the dreamer is trying to relinquish these relations to the benefit of others.
- broken: a foretelling of the end of a relationship or end of hope that the dreamer had put into a relationship; it is much better for the dreamer's psyche if he isn't the cause of the broken glass objects since then he is not accused of ending the relationship.
- systematically or emotionally distinct breaking of glass objects: expresses the dreamer's subconscious desire not to reveal one's emotional content; sometimes this image can be the result of frustration from unplanned ideals and lost faith.
- breaking glasses (e.g. after a toast): see Drinking glass.
- glassworks with red-hot furnaces: the continuous transformation of the mind's content via the inner fire ignited by concentration; the resulting glass product characterizes the mind's content or a symbolic unification process that can also be depicted by the melting itself.
- melting: symbolizes the process in which concentration and acts (fire) transform the solid materials (rigid relations) into liquid, thereby allowing for emotions to enter the process of forming new relations.
- crystal: see Crystal.
