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Dreaming of Laughing
Two traditional perspectives
These are symbolic interpretations from different traditions, not facts about your life or forecasts. Your associations may be different.
Artemidorus · Oneirocritica
Quiet laughter among family, at table, in daylight, was read kindly, ease returning to the house after a hard season.
But loud laughing in dreams Artemidorus read by the rule of opposites, mirth foretelling tears. To laugh in a public place was counted worst of all.
Jungian · the collective unconscious
Laughter in a dream is tension discharging, the psyche loosening a knot the day pulled tight. The thing you can finally laugh about is a thing you have begun to own.
Laughter at the wrong moment, at a funeral, at someone's pain, is feeling inverted, grief or fear wearing the only mask that would get it into the room. Ask what in you needed the disguise.
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