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Dreaming of Mask
Two traditional perspectives
These are symbolic interpretations from different traditions, not facts about your life or forecasts. Your associations may be different.
Artemidorus · Oneirocritica
To wear a mask at a feast denotes a secret kept to your advantage, and dealings best conducted quietly for now.
To meet another in a mask warns of deception near you, a friend not as they present. A mask that will not come off foretells a pretense that has begun to cost more than it protects.
Jungian · the collective unconscious
The mask is the face you show the world made visible, and to hold one in your hands rather than wear it is a rare grace: you have caught sight of the difference between the face you show and the face you have.
A mask that will not come off is a role grown into the skin. Others in masks mark a season where you can't tell who around you is performing, including, possibly, you.
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