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| Hair
Hair
has wide-ranging symbolic significance. In popular belief, the white
hair of old men and women is seen as a sign of wisdom. Black hair
is connected with great passion, while blond hair is seen as a sigh on
inconstancy. Red-haired people are considered dangerous. |
| Hare
In
the middle Ages, the hare was a symbol for God. Three hares in a
picture symbolize the Trinity, which continuously keeps watch and sees
and hears everything. It is only recently that the hare has degenerated
from being a symbol of fertility to being exclusively a sexual symbol. |
| Hearth,
kitchen-range (stove)
The
domestic hearth is a symbol of marriage; it is the focus for family activity.
Its significance is, however, wider ranging. In the hearth, the energy
of the fire transforms, so to speak, foodstuffs into all-important food
for the family. (Of course nowadays its cooking function has been
taken over by the electric or gas stove). The hearth thus has the
significance of a symbol of transformation and of life itself. It
is a serious sigh if the fire in the hearth goes out in a dream.
Similar dream images appear in presentiments of death in the family. |
| Horse
The
horse is a dream symbol of great significance. Dream research has
to some extent confirmed the popular superstition that the horse is a messenger
of death. |
| Hospital
The
hospital appears as an image of spiritual illness and impoverishment. The
specific departments in a hospital or clinic refer to corresponding psychic
functions. Heart disease, for example, refers to emotional disorders,
eye trouble refers to the failure to see a problem or a relationship with
someone in its true light, a stomach ailment indicates that a situation
of conflict has become 'indigestible' and is thus causing illness, etc. |
| Hotel
The
dream image of a hotel refers to areas or situations which bring transition
or changes with them. The hotel is not a place where people live
permanently; new people are encountered there. Translated into dream
language, this would mean that the people whom the dreamer meets in the
hotel embody unconscious or unknown psychic influences. |
| House
There
are medieval pictorial representations of man in the form of a house.
What is meant here is the house of the soul. In a dream, the house
also assumes this symbolic meaning, and the individual rooms can be interpreted
correspondingly. The cellar is the realm of the unconscious.
The kitchen, in which psychic nourishment is prepared, is the province
of female and motherly aspects. The living room and study have exactly
this significance for the psyche's area of experience. The bedroom
is the marital sexual domain and the attic has, in a dream, the meaning
of an area of forgotten or suppressed memories.
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