MUMMY (EGYPTIAN)

1- There is an obvious connection between Mummy and mother is a play on words. In many ways our mother must ‘die’, or rather, we must change our relationship with her, in order for us to survive.

The Egyptian mummy in dreams can also symbolise our feelings about someone who has died.

2- The Egyptian mummy symbolises death, but also preservation after death and therefore the afterlife. We may be trying to understand such a concept in real life, or we may realise that life has got to continue on a more mundane level.

3- The Self, the unbending Mother and self-preservation are all symbolised in the mummy.

Material aspects: The egyptian mummy in dreams can symbolize our feelings about someone who has died. There is also an obvious connection between ‘mummy’ and ‘mother’ as a play on words. As a mummy preserves the body for life in the hereafter, its appearance in dreams indicates that we should honour the best of what our mother is or was.

The dead, feelings we have buried about a dead person; our mother, a pan of self which might be reborn, attempt to preserve a way of life which is dead— mummification—instead of facing change and the new.