creatures, instincts
Dreaming of Mouse
Two traditional perspectives
These are symbolic interpretations from different traditions, not facts about your life or forecasts. Your associations may be different.
Artemidorus · Oneirocritica
The mouse signifies a household servant, for it lives under your roof and eats your bread, and many mice foretell a prosperous, well-fed house.
Mice gnawing at cloth or grain predict small persistent losses inside the household, look to what is being carried off crumb by crumb.
Jungian · the collective unconscious
The mouse is the small neglected thing living in the walls of the psyche, the detail, the minor feeling, the quiet need. Noticing it kindly in a dream means you are finally attending what the grand narratives of your life kept stepping over.
Mice gnawing unseen are the small anxieties working at night, none big enough to name, all of them together hollowing the beam. It is never the one worry, it is the not-looking.
a few quiet questions
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