Dreams about being naked in public: a Jungian reading

You are standing among people with no clothes on and nobody looks surprised — or the opposite, everyone is staring. It tends to be about exposure: something you keep to yourself is suddenly visible. It is not always bad; often it is a relief that arrives disguised as shame.

It depends on how it looked

• shame, and you want to hidethe fear that nobody could take the real thing
• nobody pays attentionwhat you are afraid of does not interest anyone else
• naked among strangersexposed somewhere you have no ground of your own
• you do not mindsomething in you has stopped hiding

A question for you

What do people not know about you — and what would actually happen if they did?

And yours is read symbol by symbol

This is what a dream dictionary cannot do: it reads the dream you actually had. You write it in your own words — a house you had never lived in, a small door under the stairs, a key that did not fit — and each of those images is taken separately, with what it may be carrying for you.

Then comes the archetype the dream is standing in — the Threshold, say — a reflection that ties it to your own chart, and at the end a question to sit with. Not an answer. A question.

A dream reading needs an account, because the dream is stored — that is the point: the meaning shows up when the same image comes back a third time. The account is free and the first readings are free too.