Dream symbols · What happened · The Innocent

Public Nudity

Exposure and the fear of judgement, and on the other side of the same image the stripping away of a social mask, which is why the dream is so often humiliating and a relief at once.

Where the reading comes from

The pairing is old: the innocent unclothed state before the fall, and the recurring anxiety dream in which only the dreamer has noticed. Both are in the record from the earliest collections.