Analyzing Dragon Dreams

I had a dream . . . it was about a dragon. It wasn’t scary, but it wasn’t nice. The being certainly wasn’t Puff, the Magic Dragon. What could be the significance of it?

Throughout history, dragons have symbolized power and depending on the culture, good or bad. Dragons from Eastern cultures have traditionally been the incarnation of truth and virtue, prosperity, and spiritual or personal quest. Conversely, Western culture has typically viewed dragons as evil, harmful, guardians of treasure and representations of selfishness. So does this indicate if you are from Eastern culture, you dream of benevolent dragons and if you are from Western tradition, evil ones?

What does the Bible reveal about dragons? In Revelations 12, we are told of a dream in which Satan takes on the form of a red dragon. So are dragons fiends?

Not necessarily, but in most dream analysis traditions, the dragon is a representation of a conflict, one which you must handle. Being chased by a dragon is an anxiety dream, similar to those in which you are standing in front of the classroom in your underwear. Maybe you even find yourself being chased by a dragon in your underwear if something is really weighing on your mind.

Dream dragons with wings denote insight and virtue. For example, if you are dreaming of riding a dragon, you might be in for some kind of spiritual alteration.

Is the dragon in your dream watching over an entrance to a cave? Many sources decipher that the cave is your subconscious and inside that cave is treasure, which in turn is your true self. And consequently if you fight your dream dragon, what you are really fighting is your own fear of discovering your inner self.Dragons in dreams are also associated with power, fire, and passion. Some people believe that these creatures are signs of your sexual and emotional domains. However, it is also cautioned that these dreams are there to remind you to exercise self control, which when not utilized, can lead to all types of destruction.

Still another explanation comes from Freud and Jung, who, as you may have figured out, attribute dragon dreams to a person’s “devouring” features of his or her mother or if you are male, your inability out of fear or misunderstanding to incorporate your feminine part into your personality.

So the next time you wake surprised from a dream about a dragon, don’t turn on all the lights and disappear under the blankets. Instead, take a keen look at the things that are occurring in your life—the conflicts and concerns. A large amount of the times these are more difficult to deal with than fire-breathing creatures. That said, just keep in mind that your dream is giving you a message and that is that you can do it—you can handle and eliminate your dragon.

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