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Dreaming of Weeping
Two traditional perspectives
These are symbolic interpretations from different traditions, not facts about your life or forecasts. Your associations may be different.
Artemidorus · Oneirocritica
By the rule of opposites, to weep in a dream often foretold joy, tears in the night, laughter in the day, burdens lifted. Weeping that ended within the dream was best.
But to weep at a wedding or a feast warned that a joy in waking life had sorrow folded into it. Examine the celebration you are planning.
Jungian · the collective unconscious
Weeping in a dream is the release the waking self never scheduled, feeling that finally found a room with the door shut. Dreamers often wake lighter, the water did its work.
Weeping without knowing why, or tears that will not come though the grief is there, is mourning that lost its object, an old loss still filed under unfinished. The dream is offering the appointment, keep it.
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