Body & self
Explore Body & self in dreams, with reflection prompts and historical sources.
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Symbols
Teeth falling out
A familiar part of you becomes unstable, visible, or ready to change.
Being chased
What keeps you running, and what would let the chase end?
Being pregnant
Something is taking shape before you know what life with it will be.
Bald
A familiar feature can be absent while recognition continues.
Beard
A facial feature can change the encounter without defining the person.
Beauty
Appreciation can be a personal encounter rather than a ranking.
Being naked in public
Exposure changes with the audience, purpose and room to choose.
Being unable to move
Wanting to act, meeting resistance, and noticing what remains possible.
Blindness
How you orient yourself when sight changes.
Childbed
The room around an arrival has its own story.
Dying
Your own imagined ending within the dream
Ears
Receiving a sound and making room for a message are different experiences.
Eyes
Being looked at and being understood can feel different.
Face
Recognition and expression need the rest of the encounter.
Feet
A route can be possible while its pace or surface needs adjustment.
Hair
An appearance can be familiar and still need room to change.
Hair falling out
Notice what changes in how you recognize yourself.
Hand
Doing, reaching and making contact.
Nakedness
Begin with the setting and what being unclothed actually changes.
Pregnancy
A developing situation has more than one participant.
Shower
Washing can depend on more than turning on the water.
Tattoo
A chosen mark can keep its place while its meaning changes.
Undress
Leaving one arrangement needs room for the next step.
Wound
What matters can be the hurt, the response or the room to acknowledge it.
A fever dream
Dreams remembered during fever may feel unusually strange or uncomfortable; imagery alone cannot tell you whether you have a fever.
A pregnancy test with an unclear result
Wanting an answer and knowing what to do with it are different questions.
A prosthetic limb behaving differently
A prosthetic limb that feels unfamiliar can focus attention on fit, bodily familiarity, practical support, and who controls adjustments.
A toilet with no privacy
An ordinary need can require usable space without a public explanation.
A waking sound entering a dream
A real alarm or nearby voice may become part of a dream scene. Compare the dream sound with what you actually heard after waking.
An unexpected menstrual period
Unexpected menstrual bleeding in a dream can involve timing, privacy, preparation, or relief. A dream does not establish a bodily diagnosis.
Being unable to find a usable toilet
An urgent search for a usable toilet may involve physical need, access, or privacy. Record the waking bodily context as well as the scene.
Being unable to scream
An urgent message, a missing voice, and another way for the exchange to reach someone.
Birth
An arrival can change what the next moment asks of you.
Birthmark
A familiar mark can become a question of recognition and continuity.
Blood
What happened around the blood, and what did you do next?
Body swap
Two people exchange places in a way that separates experience from outward recognition.
Dreams about teeth, hair, health, pregnancy, and appearance can bring questions about vulnerability and change. Notice what your dream body could do, how it felt, and who was present. These pages separate personal reflection from historical beliefs about the body.
Guides for these dream experiences
- What are lucid dreams? Awareness, control, and the evidence
A lucid dream means recognizing that you are dreaming while the dream continues. Explore how awareness differs from control and what laboratory research shows.
- Dreaming about teeth falling out: what can you learn from it?
Compare teeth-loss dream scenes with research and worked reflections. Keep dream details, body observations, and later associations distinct.
- Dreaming about being chased: follow the scene beyond the fear
Explore chase scenes through pursuers, escape, and your response, with worked reflection examples and questions for recording the experience.
- Recurring dreams: how to notice what repeats
Keep a useful record of recurring dreams, compare what changes, and explore personal associations without treating repetition as a fixed message.
Every symbol in Body & self, A to Z
A complete index of all 243 entries, including those on later card pages.
- A fever dreamModern life
- A pregnancy test with an unclear resultModern life
- A prosthetic limb behaving differentlyModern life
- A toilet with no privacyModern life
- A waking sound entering a dreamModern life
- AbdomenHistorical archive
- AbortionHistorical archive
- AbscessHistorical archive
- Abscess, Boil, Ulcer, Running Sore, etcHistorical archive
- AchesHistorical archive
- AgeHistorical archive
- AgueHistorical archive
- AmputationHistorical archive
- An unexpected menstrual periodModern life
- ArmHistorical archive
- BackHistorical archive
- BackboneHistorical archive
- BaldCore reflection
- BarefootHistorical archive
- BathHistorical archive
- BeardCore reflection
- BeautyCore reflection
- BeheadingHistorical archive
- Being BeheadedHistorical archive
- Being chasedCore reflection
- Being naked in publicCore reflection
- Being pregnantCore reflection
- Being unable to find a usable toiletModern life
- Being unable to moveCore reflection
- Being unable to screamModern life
- BellyHistorical archive
- BirthModern life
- BirthmarkModern life
- BladderHistorical archive
- BleedingHistorical archive
- BlindnessCore reflection
- BloodModern life
- BodyHistorical archive
- Body swapModern life
- BoilsHistorical archive
- BonesHistorical archive
- BosomHistorical archive
- BracesModern life
- BrainHistorical archive
- BreastHistorical archive
- Breast and the DugsHistorical archive
- BreathHistorical archive
- BronchitisHistorical archive
- BurnedHistorical archive
- BurnsHistorical archive
- CancerHistorical archive
- CankerHistorical archive
- CheekesHistorical archive
- ChilblainHistorical archive
- ChildbedCore reflection
- CholeraHistorical archive
- CleaningModern life
- Cloven FootHistorical archive
- ColdHistorical archive
- CombingHistorical archive
- ComplexionHistorical archive
- ConsumptionHistorical archive
- Contact lensesModern life
- CornsHistorical archive
- CorpseHistorical archive
- CorpulenceHistorical archive
- CoughHistorical archive
- CountenanceHistorical archive
- CrippledHistorical archive
- CutHistorical archive
- DenturesModern life
- Dreaming in black and whiteModern life
- DropsyHistorical archive
- DumbHistorical archive
- DyingCore reflection
- EarsCore reflection
- ElbowsHistorical archive
- EntrailsHistorical archive
- EpidemicHistorical archive
- EyebrowsHistorical archive
- EyesCore reflection
- FaceCore reflection
- FaintingHistorical archive
- False awakeningModern life
- FamishHistorical archive
- FatHistorical archive
- FeebleHistorical archive
- FeetCore reflection
- FesterHistorical archive
- FeverHistorical archive
- FingersHistorical archive
- FitsHistorical archive
- FleshHistorical archive
- FluxHistorical archive
- ForeheadHistorical archive
- FrecklesHistorical archive
- GangreneHistorical archive
- GoreHistorical archive
- GoutHistorical archive
- Grip, or GrippeHistorical archive
- Groin and the ThighesHistorical archive
- HaggardHistorical archive
- HairCore reflection
- Hair falling outCore reflection
- Hairy HandsHistorical archive
- HandCore reflection
- HandsomeHistorical archive
- HeadHistorical archive
- HeadacheHistorical archive
- HealHistorical archive
- HealthHistorical archive
- Hearing aidModern life
- HeartHistorical archive
- HipsHistorical archive
- HivesHistorical archive
- Hogs’ BristlesHistorical archive
- HungerHistorical archive
- HydrophobiaHistorical archive
- IndigestionHistorical archive
- InfirmHistorical archive
- InfirmitiesHistorical archive
- IntestineHistorical archive
- Inward partsHistorical archive
- ItchHistorical archive
- JaundiceHistorical archive
- JawsHistorical archive
- KidneysHistorical archive
- KneeHistorical archive
- LameHistorical archive
- LapHistorical archive
- LeanHistorical archive
- LegsHistorical archive
- LeprosyHistorical archive
- LimpHistorical archive
- LimpingHistorical archive
- LipsHistorical archive
- LiverHistorical archive
- LockjawHistorical archive
- Losing hearingModern life
- Lucid dreamingModern life
- MakeupModern life
- MeaslesHistorical archive
- Medical scansModern life
- MeditationModern life
- MembersHistorical archive
- MiscarriageModern life
- MouthHistorical archive
- MuscleHistorical archive
- MustacheHistorical archive
- NailsHistorical archive
- NakednessCore reflection
- NavelHistorical archive
- NearsightedHistorical archive
- NeckHistorical archive
- Neck, and of having many headsHistorical archive
- NoseHistorical archive
- NumbnessHistorical archive
- PainHistorical archive
- PalsyHistorical archive
- ParalysisHistorical archive
- PaunchHistorical archive
- PerspirationHistorical archive
- PiercingModern life
- PimpleHistorical archive
- PlagueHistorical archive
- Plants and Trees comming out of the BodyHistorical archive
- PregnancyCore reflection
- PrickHistorical archive
- PulseHistorical archive
- QuartanHistorical archive
- QuinsyHistorical archive
- ResuscitateHistorical archive
- RheumatismHistorical archive
- RibHistorical archive
- Ribs and the NavillHistorical archive
- RingwormsHistorical archive
- RuptureHistorical archive
- Scab, Leprosie▪ and ItchHistorical archive
- ScabsHistorical archive
- ScaldedHistorical archive
- ScaldheadHistorical archive
- ScarModern life
- Scarlet FeverHistorical archive
- Scratch HeadHistorical archive
- ScratchedHistorical archive
- ShaveHistorical archive
- ShavingHistorical archive
- ShoulderHistorical archive
- ShowerCore reflection
- SkeletonHistorical archive
- SkinModern life
- SkullHistorical archive
- Small of the Leg, the Feet, and the HeelHistorical archive
- SmallpoxHistorical archive
- SneezeHistorical archive
- SoresHistorical archive
- SpittingHistorical archive
- SpleenHistorical archive
- SquintingHistorical archive
- StammerHistorical archive
- SuckleHistorical archive
- SuffocatingHistorical archive
- SurgeryModern life
- Sweet TasteHistorical archive
- SwellingHistorical archive
- SwoonHistorical archive
- TallHistorical archive
- TattooCore reflection
- TeethHistorical archive
- Teeth falling outCore reflection
- ThighHistorical archive
- ThirstHistorical archive
- ThroatHistorical archive
- ThumbHistorical archive
- To have a wry NeckeHistorical archive
- To have his head between his handsHistorical archive
- To have HornesHistorical archive
- To have the head of any BeastHistorical archive
- To have Wooll instead of HairsHistorical archive
- TongueHistorical archive
- ToothlessHistorical archive
- Transmutation of the personHistorical archive
- TyphoidHistorical archive
- UglyHistorical archive
- UlcerHistorical archive
- UndressCore reflection
- UrineHistorical archive
- Using an unfamiliar virtual avatarModern life
- VaccinatedHistorical archive
- VeinHistorical archive
- VertigoHistorical archive
- VoiceHistorical archive
- VomitHistorical archive
- Vomiting of Bloud, and of cholerick and melancholy humoursHistorical archive
- WartsHistorical archive
- WashingHistorical archive
- Watching yourself in a dreamModern life
- WetHistorical archive
- WhiskersHistorical archive
- WoundCore reflection
- WrinklesHistorical archive
- WristHistorical archive
- YawningHistorical archive
Reflection drafts and historical sources are clearly labeled. Explore the sources and download the datasets.