Getting dirty, stuck, or simply finding oneself in dirt in a dream — a bodily image of contact with something untidy, shameful, or uncontrollable.
Getting dirty in mud or excrement in a dream is, according to one of the most persistent folk superstitions, a sign of money: that which causes disgust in waking life promises profit in a dream. Dirt in a dream is an image of contact with psychological material that consciousness keeps at a distance as 'untidy': suppressed desires, shameful feelings, forgotten parts of oneself. Unlike a clean, structured form, dirt is that which has not yet acquired order, raw material that frightens with its unformed state, but in which something living and real often hides if one takes the trouble to sort through it rather than simply wash it off and forget it.
disgust, shame, sometimes unexpected relief
Often arrives during periods when one has to deal with an unpleasant, unstructured side of a situation or oneself that one would like to bypass. Perhaps this dirt is not about untidiness, but about a part of experience that is shameful to show, but which still needs to be dealt with.
Name one 'untidy', uncomfortable part of the current situation that you usually try not to notice — and think about what useful thing might be hiding inside it.
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