Dreams about your ex: a Jungian reading

A dream about someone you are no longer with is rarely about that person. It is more often about the part of you that came out around them and has had nowhere to be since.

It depends on how it looked

• they come back and it is goodyou miss what was possible back then
• the two of you arguesomething unsaid is still open
• they are there but do not notice youa chapter that has no sequel
• it comes back again and againit is not about them — something in you is waiting

A question for you

Which part of you was alive in that relationship — and where has it gone?

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.