Dreams about exams: a Jungian reading

You are sitting over a problem you cannot solve, or looking for the room where the exam is being held. It comes back to people who finished school long ago — and then it is no longer about school, but about someone still grading you. The question is who.

It depends on how it looked

• unprepared for the examthe sense that what you know will not be enough
• you cannot find the roomdemands you cannot even name precisely
• an exam in a subject you do not knowyou are being measured by something you did not choose
• you hand in a blank pagethe decision to stop working for someone else's approval

A question for you

Who is still grading you inside your own head — and do you agree with them?

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.