the dreamer's condition
Dreaming of light
Read two ways. Let them disagree, the truth often sits between.
Artemidorus · Oneirocritica
Drawn up, it speaks of A steady light, a lamp, a lit window, the dawn, promised good fortune, honest dealings, health returning. Dawn light was best, the day's business favored.
Drawn down, it warns of A flickering or dying light warned of a fortune or a friendship guttering. Refill the lamp in waking life, the ancients said, tend what still burns.
Jungian · the collective unconscious
Drawn up, it speaks of Light in a dream is consciousness arriving, an insight with its own source. Where the light falls is where the psyche wants you to look next.
Drawn down, it warns of Light too bright to see by is insight forced, awareness turned harsh, the inner critic holding the lamp. Not everything in you is ready to be interrogated.
Did you dream this?
Keep it before it fades
Write the dream down in your journal and the cards will name its symbols for you, or have the whole dream read in full.