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Dreaming of Child
Two traditional perspectives
These are symbolic interpretations from different traditions, not facts about your life or forecasts. Your associations may be different.
Artemidorus · Oneirocritica
Children at play foretell ease returning to a troubled house, and small ventures that will grow beyond their size.
A child lost or weeping warns of a promising thing neglected, and calls the dreamer home to obligations quietly slipping.
Jungian · the collective unconscious
The child is the self before the armor, wonder and unguarded want, and to walk with a child in a dream is to be reunited with the part of you that still plays. It often arrives when life has gone too gray and orderly.
A lost, crying, or endangered child is the young self in you gone untended, needs from long ago still unanswered. It is not asking you to fix the past, only to stop leaving the room.
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