The Dream Book of Self-Knowledge

Fear

  • not only in the realm of dreams is it a distinct psychological factor that keeps a person's personality in uncertainty and ignorance.
  • comes from the dreamer's disturbed moral model.
  • feeling fear in dreams is completely normal, but it is important to fight your fear, never to fear the same thing twice and always to find a response in mobilizing bravery and courage.
  • fear usually reflects unease and worries that accompany the dreamer in waking consciousness (personality, employment, relationships); such fears stem from the contradiction between real life and the subconscious desire for an ideal life.
  • the dreamer records a deeper level of fear after descending into his soul since here he encounters unknown, secret and threatening symbols and personifications that arise from his own negativity.
  • since fear comes from the dreamer's moral transgressions (even if only in the mind), we can find in the causes of fear suppressed sexual desires and clear inner guilt that come from illicit, immoral and forbidden content.
  • brings stagnation in life or even a step backwards; it's time to mobilize all your inner strength and, by understanding the illusoriness of your fear, to overcome the barrier beyond which in the inner world different archetypes will spread out before the dreamer in all their beauty (description of all archetypes in the book Secrets of the Unconscious Order).
  • typical of instinctual personifications, under increasing pressure of courage he abandons emotional personifications; not at all typical of spiritual personifications.
  • of himself: often a hidden aggression by which a person subconsciously covers real traits and, above all, carefully concealed feelings of inferiority.
  • trying to induce fear in others: symbolizes the longing for power and control of others.
  • seeing others experiencing fear: it is best to learn from the examples of others how fear is a bad counselor, how it forces a person to undertake illogical and ineffective steps and how easy it holds a person in ignorance.
  • accompanied by depression: see Depression.
  • great fear: see Horror.
  • in the vicinity of a threshold: if we fear crossing the threshold, then the image symbolizes moral inhibitions.
  • of emotions (of rain, of water): they have instinctual personifications (as from a higher phenomenon) but also spiritual personifications (as from a lower phenomenon); see Rain.
  • of the unknown: see Unknown.
  • of snakes: see Snake.
  • of cemeteries: see Cemetery.
  • of a morgue: see Morgue.
  • of terror: see Tyranny.
  • of hair falling out (in the dreams of men): represents a pathological fear of a loss of manhood, sexual power and ensuing impotence.
  • of high military ranks: represents an unprepared state to control your instincts.
  • of a puddle: usually comes in negative dreams since the dreamer is subconsciously understanding the ability of the puddle symbol to change the dream's action and fears even greater deterioration of the negative content.
  • of light: a morbid fear of one's egotistical plans being revealed.
  • of sharp objects, of amputation, of broken objects and extremities, of pulling out fingernails: characterizes so-called castration dreams (see Castration) in which fear and desire combine, indicating a serious conflict between the male and female sides (See Anima – Animus archetype)
  • of an enclosed space: this almost always relates to the birth experience and to the second phase of the birth process in which the harmony of the fetus's existence is disrupted by the mechanical contractions of the womb; the birth canals are closed and any future contractions of the womb restricts the supply of blood to the fetus (see Basic Perinatal Matrix archetype).
  • of a cave where the dreamer is afraid: symbolizes the mother's womb and the dreamer's subconscious memory of the antenatal state (see Basic Perinatal Matrix archetype).
  • an animal fears a person: coming from instinctual ignorance that is unable to imagine the emotional and therefore fear makes it attack the higher – the emotional.
  • a person's fear of extraterrestrials: stemming from the ignorance of a human state (instinctual and emotional) that is unable to imagine the spiritual, which is why the fear provokes them to attack the higher – spiritual.
  • of an alien: a person is always afraid of what is unknown and incomprehensible to him, even though the essence of this fear emanates from his own soul; see Alien.
  • on the swing: the result of a "bad womb"*57 (see Basic Perinatal Matrix archetype).
  • getting rid of anything metal out of fear: a negative image that stops for the time being a highly effective transformation of the mind's content (the allegorical melting of metals or other transformation of metals is not possible).
  • of a sea, lake, pond or other water: fear of inner contents of own psyche; fear of own feelings.
  • of sharks: the result of a fear to sacrifice old deadened emotions, ingrained negative traits and dependencies and lifeless spiritual ideals; symbolizes the dreamer's subconscious attempt to remain in the same life pattern even though this state does not offer him any alternative for positive development.
  • of the absence of a mother or father: this is not typical of many independent and emotionally dependent people; if this image appears the dreamer should try to take independent steps, even though they could be the wrong ones.
  • experiencing enthusiasm followed by fear: a person desirous of positive intensive emotional experiences is similar to a stormy sea in which high waves provide such a person with frequent emotional excitement when the top of the wave offers him a slightly larger view of the world; yet he then falls into depression between two other high waves and suffers incredible fear of his existence.
  • a scene that is frightening to the dreamer turns into child's play, lightness and playfulness. this act is a guaranteed path to one's liberation from fear.
  • not being afraid, losing fear: this state of mind brings wonderful experiences of the emotional and spiritual level.
  • of the greater and incomprehensible (e.g. of God): can force a person to forget himself and, in a state of humility, at least momentarily "taste" the freedom of being unbound to and forgetting the permanent domination of the ego.