skeleton

Universal Landscape: Hidden structure, old or outdated foundations.

Dreaming Lens: Is the skeleton complete or fractured? Is it a medical skeleton that is clean and pristine, or is it buried and partially decayed? Is the skeleton recognizable as having once supported someone known to you? Does it frighten you, or intrigue you?

Personal Focus: Skeletons support the physical body and are not readily visible to the outside world. They are the foundation on which everything else is built. In the dream world, they represent this same underlying structure of our bodies, ourselves, and our lives. A skeleton is the invisible underpinning of any physical, conceptual, emotional, or spiritual construct in your waking life.

The skeleton of our lives is the structure of ideas, beliefs, and myths around which we superimpose our sense of self. When you can see the skeleton of something, you have a better idea of what is supporting it or holding it upright. If you dream of this image, you might be getting a message that something in the structure needs to be examined.

Discovering a skeleton in a closet may suggest that some of your thought structures may be outdated and need to be taken out and contemplated. If a skeleton is being studied in a laboratory, it may be time to explore the underlying structure of something—ask what’s underneath so you may better discover ways of managing an area of your life.

Consider in what context the skeleton appears in the dream and how you respond to it emotionally. A sense of fear, of feeling “shaken to the bones,” means you may fear confronting some underlying structure that you have perhaps taken for granted. Do you need to reconsider your beliefs about something or someone? If so, you may dream of a skeleton appearing as a result of such an investigation. Your familiarity or comfort level with seeing the skeleton will match the insight you are having as the essence of that area of your life is exposed to your inner view.

You are looking under the surface of things, at the hidden structure of an idea. Skeletons support the physical body and are not readily visible to the outside world. They are the foundation on which everything else is built. In the dream world, they represent this same underlying structure of our bodies and our lives.

A skeleton is the invisible underpinning of any physical, conceptual, emotional, or spiritual construct in our waking lives.

The skeleton of our lives is the structure of ideas, beliefs, and myths around which we superimpose our sense of self. When you can see the skeleton of something, you have a better idea of what is supporting it or holding it upright.

If you dream of this image, you might be getting a message that something in the structure needs to be examined.

A skeleton in a dream suggests the ‘bare bones’ of something, perhaps an idea or concept.

A skeleton in a cupboard represents a past action or shame we wish to hide.

A dancing skeleton is an awareness of the life we have lived or arc living.

To dig up a skeleton is to resurrect something we have buried.

Psychologically, we sometimes need to be aware of our feelings about death. Such an obvious image in dreams forces us to be aware of this.

A skeleton can also suggest feelings or talents which we have forgotten and which therefore have ‘died’.

A skeleton alerts us to our own feelings about death. We arc aware that the physical must ‘die’, but that there is a framework which is left.