The Dream Book of Self-Knowledge
- as the opposite of good fortune: not only in dreams is there a need to realize that the terms misfortune and good fortune are only relative; that which we consider at one moment to be immense fortune can from a different perspective seem to be incredible misfortune, which is why everyone should try to merge these antitheses into a single whole since they will then find a source of wisdom.
- symbolizes the blood of vegetative nature and therefore can have in some interpretations the meaning of blood.
