Cactus

The cactus is a negative sign because, like its spines, it reflects the painful moments that the subject is going through. This may be because someone constantly pricks you with her comments or because you need to protect yourself somehow.

Dreaming of a cactus also evidences hardship in the professional setting.

If it is in bloom, however, it announces that finally the value of the sleeper will be recognized at the workplace.

For Mexicans, the cactus is an aphrodisiac, therefore it portends good times in the sentimental field.

Cage

analysis of a dream

Eva dreamed: “I was in a beautiful golden cage, on the edge of a terrace. I had a pretty landscape before my eyes: a green valley full of flowers of every color and very tall mountains on the horizon. The sky was intensely blue and bright. I felt good, safe, and happy in my cage and I sang constantly. From my mouth came beautiful melodies in strange languages.” To see yourself caged in a dream is a sign that the unconscious feels repressed and wants more freedom and freedom of expression. Eva is a very timid person who has a hard time with social interaction. Her dream is reflecting—with the golden cage—her comfortable world closed up in herself, in which she feels safe and sound. This is a calming dream that encouraged her to let her emotions flow freely, like a gentle melody. The idyllic landscape she contemplated through the bars represented the desires Eva could not reach due to her own inhibition. The fact that she sang in unknown languages reveal her inability to communicate with others, and to understand herself.

Vision: Looking at a cactus: you are isolating too much from people around you; you have become very “prickly.” Getting punctured by a cactus: thoughtless actions on your part will cause you harm. Watering a cactus: you are much too nice to people who don’t deserve it—they are “false friends.” Looking at a small cactus on a windowsill: you are too stingy—with yourself and others.

Depth Psychology: The cactus stands for the injuries that others have inflicted on you or for disappointments caused by false friends. It might also be symbolic of your own “prickliness.” See Porcupine.

Defense, brusqueness, distance, hate-love and, in general, contradictory emotions. This image often comes up in dreams when you are in a situation in which you fear you have been injured. It points to the need for new boundaries and distance. This need for boundaries is often an expression of your sensitivity. Are you often acting irritably toward the world around you.7 Or, are you feeling overwhelmed by the intensity of your emotions.7 Take your emotions seriously and look for an appropriate way to express them.