Dreaming of illness

Artemidorus · Oneirocritica

Drawn up, it speaks of For the sick to dream of illness was read as the crisis passing, the fever spoken and thereby spent. For the imprisoned and the grieving it sometimes foretold release from the harder thing.

Drawn down, it warns of For the well to dream of sickness warned of idle days, business suspended, or care approaching the household. The prudent dreamer set their affairs in order and lost nothing by it.

Jungian · the collective unconscious

Drawn up, it speaks of Illness in a dream is often symbolic before it is bodily, one attitude of the psyche sickening so another can be tended. What ails you in the dream names, with strange accuracy, where the life stopped flowing.

Drawn down, it warns of Recurring illness dreams can mean the sick role has become a home, a way of being cared for that costs the whole self. The dream is not accusing, it is pointing at the door.