Dream symbols · Weather · Introspection

Ice

Feeling held in place. Ice is water that has stopped moving, and the tradition reads it as emotion that is present, intact and currently unavailable, which is a different state from absence. The recurring question in the material is whether the ice was safe to walk on.

Where the reading comes from

The frozen lake is a standing image for the surface of the unconscious in the analytic literature, with the specific detail that what is under it is visible and unreachable. That combination is what makes it distinct from the fog and the flood.

Versions of the dream

Walking on it

The risk form, and the dreamer usually knows exactly what they were crossing toward.

Something visible underneath

This is the version that most often becomes recurring, and the thing underneath is the dream.

Thawing

Read alongside melting snow: a held period ending.