Dream Dictionary Creative

May be a symbol for the Self, one's higher self, positive, spiritual, creative.

A much younger person of the same sex may represent your original and innocent self. If it is of the opposite sex it may represent your anima/animus

(2) A young person in a dream may offer you rejuvenation (whether you are middle-aged or depressed) or a creative transformation or re-orientation of your personality and/or your life.

Spiritual aspect of the self. Perfection. Are you asking too much of yourself? A healing part of your human psyche. The higher self - creative, positive.

Jesus often represents what in you is really your true self, as opposed to the ego self that you perceive yourself as being.

If the Jesus in your dream is the crucified Christ, it may be a symbol of martyrdom. If you identify with this figure, so that you are the wronged sufferer, ask yourself what purpose is being served by adopting this role> Does it make you happy? Well, pain may give you pleasure if it helps us to feel "different" and superior. (And that is often the other side of a martyrdom complex: an inflated view of self - inflated by fantasy.) But to get happiness by making yourself unhappy is self-contradictory.

Your dream is probably telling you to look at yourself objectively, to get rid of the fantasy that has taken possession of you.

If the Jesus is healing someone - the figures in a dream represent you - the figure probably represents Nature's power of healing that lies within yourself.. The fact that the healing Christ has appeared in your dream is a very good sign. It means that your unconscious is offering you its healing power. Don't refuse it.

If the Jesus figure is pronouncing forgiveness it may mean either you have been suffering from guilt-feelings and you have identified these as symptoms of an inner conflict and are now ready to let go of the guilt and the tensions; or that your unconscious is now offering you the means by which those guilt-feelings and the associated paralyzing anxiety can be laid to rest once and for all.

If the Jesus (Christ) figure is suggesting submission and self-surrender it may be showing you a pattern in your life that you need to change - a negative pattern of submitting to "fate" or "circumstances outside your control".

If the "risen" - resurrected - Jesus appears in your dream it may be taken as an auspicious sign of potential self-renewal: the possibility of rising to a new and fuller selfhood, leaving behind all deep internal conflict, anxiety and discontent.

May represent the unfulfilled creative and/or intuitive side of your nature.

The creative aspect. Skill and creativity. Planning ahead to achieve an objective.

Transforming unconscious energy into conscious awareness. Your creative abilities. Carving an animal may suggest you are cutting up parts of yourself.