Selenarium · Dreams
What it means to dream about illness
Illness in a dream is the body raising its voice for something that aches elsewhere: tiredness, worry, a matter wearing you down. It predicts no real sickness. Taking to bed, you long to lie down at last and be cared for. Scary omens deserve little of your trust, and the real thing this dream sets in front of you is a question: when did you last ask yourself how you are?
First layer · what tradition says
What the traditional dream book says
In the dream books, illness means cares and trouble, and sometimes, by the old habit of reading things inside out, health and a long life. When someone close was ill in the dream, the old books read it as news about that person.
Second layer · the honest read
What the dream really reflects
Really, illness comes when you're worn out and haven't asked yourself how you are in a long time. In the dream, the body raises its voice for something that aches somewhere other than the body: tiredness, worry, a matter that's wearing you down. Taking to your bed in the dream, you long to lie down at last and be cared for. It's about being overloaded, and that load is long overdue a rest.
FAQ
Good omen or bad omen for dreaming about illness, and does the meaning shift if you take to your bed?
Neither a promise nor a threat: taking to bed speaks of longing to lie down at last and be cared for, and somebody close falling ill speaks of the worry you carry for them. A mirror, and no crystal ball.
Why do the old dream books read dreaming about illness as cares and trouble, and now and then health read inside out?
Folk tradition stamped this image as cares and trouble, and now and then health read inside out, and the lists themselves were compiled in different centuries, each one arguing with its neighbor. 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: when did you last ask yourself how you are?
The dream reflected you for one night. The chart of the sky holds your whole reflection.
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