The Dream Book of Self-Knowledge
- from a fight: dreamer's reluctance to undergo a moral struggle or spiritual conflict; see Fight, battlefield, fighting.
- tactical: see Tactics (strategy).
- from undesirable images and dream personifications: the dreamer subconsciously understands that he is currently unable to openly face these images or personifications.
- animals and dream personifications from the dreamer: symbolizes the predominance of the emotional and spiritual consciousness over instincts.
- people and objects preventing a retreat: relate to traits and dependencies that the dreamer will have to overcome in waking consciousness.
- impossibility to retreat from an enclosed object (usually with a threat from outside as well): a prenatal memory of the second phase of the birth process in which the fetus is threatened by the outside world and still does not see a chance to escape (closed cervix); see Basic Perinatal Matrix archetype.
- only path of retreat (usually from enclosed spaces): an allegorical comparison of the birth canal at the moment the cervix opens; see Basic Perinatal Matrix archetype.
