Selenarium · Dreams
What it means to dream about blood
Blood in a dream is the image of what drains you: your own running means you feel worn thin, giving out more than you have, while someone else's is a close person's pain you have taken on. It warns of no harm to your body. No dream carries tomorrow written down, it hands back the day you just lived - so start here: who or what has been pulling your strength?
First layer · what tradition says
What the traditional dream book says
Blood in the tradition speaks of family, of blood ties, and of strong feeling. Your own blood was read as illness or a loss of strength. Someone else's was read as a quarrel with a person close to you, one that leaves a mark.
Second layer · the honest read
What the dream really reflects
Blood comes when something is draining you awake. If it is your own running, you feel yourself wearing thin, giving out more than you have got. If it is someone else's, it is a close person's pain that you have taken on as your own. The dream is about what wounds you and leaves nothing over.
What changes the reading
Change the detail and you change the reading: “your own blood” and “a lot of blood” sit further apart than they look.
- Your own blood
- You feel yourself running low, giving more than you have got. Something awake is taking your strength faster than you can replace it.
- Someone else's blood
- The pain of someone close that you carry as though it were yours. Sometimes it is guilt about the harm you did to another person.
- A lot of blood
- Loss of strength at the far edge of it. Something big has left you completely spent, and the dream is showing you the size of it.
FAQ
Good omen or bad omen for dreaming about blood, and does the meaning shift if the blood is your own?
Hunting for a fixed sign will get you nowhere: your own blood shows you giving out more than you have got, and someone else's shows a close person's pain carried as though it were yours. It shows today, not tomorrow.
The old dream books read dreaming about blood as family ties and strong feeling, so where does that reading come from?
Dream books are ready-made lists of image and meaning, and next to this one the entry reads family ties and strong feeling. I read it as a mirror of your state, and for a woman or for a man the meaning grows out of your own today, because the real question is this: who or what has been pulling your strength?
The dream reflected you for one night. The chart of the sky holds your whole reflection.
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