Affliction
Dreams of affliction, whether physical, emotional, or spiritual, symbolize hardships, burdens, and challenges that are weighing heavily on you. They often reveal areas in your life where you feel wounded or trapped by difficult circumstances.
- Waking Life Struggles: Afflictions in dreams can directly mirror waking life troubles such as illness, emotional pain, financial burdens, or challenging relationships.
- Emotional Pain and Inner Conflict: Dreams of affliction often symbolize deep-seated emotional wounds, unresolved traumas, or internal turmoil that is affecting your well-being.
- Feeling Trapped and Burdened: Affliction can represent a feeling of being trapped in a difficult situation, weighed down by responsibilities, or feeling powerless to change your circumstances.
Specific considerations
- Type of Affliction: Was it an illness, injury, emotional distress, or something more abstract? The nature of the affliction points to the specific area of life causing you pain.
- Location of Affliction: If focused on your body, where was the affliction located? Each part of the body has symbolic meaning and can provide further insights into the struggle.
- Emotions: How did the affliction make you feel? Powerless, angry, resigned, or was there a sense of determination to overcome? Your emotions reveal your current coping mechanisms and outlook.
Waking life
- Are you facing external challenges? Examine your life for sources of stress, illness, financial burdens, or difficult relationships that could be mirrored in the dream.
- Is there unresolved emotional pain? Consider whether past traumas, ongoing emotional struggles, or suppressed feelings are manifesting symbolically as an affliction.
- Do you feel trapped or burdened? The dream could symbolize feeling restricted, weighed down by responsibility, or stuck in a situation that feels out of your control.
