the dreamer's condition
Dreaming of lost
Read two ways. Let them disagree, the truth often sits between.
Artemidorus · Oneirocritica
Drawn up, it speaks of To find your way after being lost foretells the conclusion of a long perplexity.
Drawn down, it warns of To remain lost in the dream warns of an ongoing confusion in waking life, ask for guidance.
Jungian · the collective unconscious
Drawn up, it speaks of Being lost can be the necessary prelude to finding a new orientation, the via negativa toward the Self.
Drawn down, it warns of Chronic lost-dreams are the psyche reporting that the conscious life-direction has misaligned with the deeper one.
When it appears with another
Lost in company
lost + house
Disorientation inside the self. The dreamer has lost track of which faculty of psyche is in charge, sit with the dream-house and ask which room you keep returning to.
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.