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Domestic animals, petsUntil about a hundred years ago, domestic animals like horses, pigs, cows, poultry, dogs and cats were a part of human everyday life. They were productive and useful animals. In dreams they remain helpful animals, i.e. they symbolize helpful psychic functions. In modern industrial society, man has lost his personal relationship to domestic animals. The pets kept in a big city nowadays are a substitute for lack of affection. This should be taken into account when interpreting the dream. The owners frequently identify themselves with their animal favorites. The attention and affection which they show to their pets is of a covertly erotic nature. Recently Added- Frogs
Men rarely dream of frogs, but more often of toads. In women's or girls' dreams, the frog has a similar significance to that in the well-known fairytale of the frog king by the Brothers Grimm. In this fairytale, the frog turns into a radiant prince. But this only happens after the princess, on her father the king's orders, has given the frog food from her plate and warmed him in her bed. The frog is an animal which lives partly on land and partly in water. It indicates a transitionary phase in the process of evolution of living things, and is in this respect a symbol of change or transformation. The frog's life in water refers to cold and still impersonal elemental nature. The fairytale tells us allegorically that this impersonal side of nature, which also plays a role in sexuality, can only be elevated into the sphere of an acceptable human relationship by spiritual nourishment and by being firmly embedded in human emotions. The toad is the symbol of the fertile, devouring mother-goddess, who is also the mother of death. A toad in a man's dream can, therefore, be seen as a warning signal. In Animals - 498 days ago - Fountain, spring
In myths and fairytales, fountains and springs symbolize the origin of life. Stemming from the belief that it is womankind which continually renews life by childbirth, the fountain has acquired the symbolic meaning of the fountain of life. In Seasons - 498 days ago
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