Sunday, September 30, 2001		Dream theme

Dreaming of mutilated body parts
Vinaya Katoch Manhas

TO often dream about having a part or the whole of your body mutilated or amputed is horrible but quite common. You could also dream of another person with mutilated body parts following you or trying to harm you or maybe even asking for help from you. Such dreams generally tend to provoke fear within the mind of the dreamer.

As per Indian thought, to see your leg mutilated foretells obstructions in a journey you had probably set your heart on. Should a man dream that his head is mutilated then he shall be defeated in any competition he cares to take part in. To see your private parts mutilated means that you shall face immense difficulty and problems in future. To see your hands mutilated and then amputed foretells problems for your parents. To see your eyes mutilated means you shall face health problems.

Should you see your nose mutilated or amputed then beware of some disrespectful action on your part for it foretells loss of respect.

As per westerners thought, if you dream that your hands are mutilated others shall gain what you have been striving for. To see your feet as mutilated foretells scandal and sensation. To see your legs mutilated foretells unprofitable occupations and ill-tempered friends. A dream of a disfigured face foretells trouble.

To see bones protruding from the mutilated body part denotes treachery around you. To dream of amputation or mutilation of a particular part of our body means that we fear losing or cutting off, by repressing a part of ourselves. It could portray the total destruction of what is really your true self in order to please someone or appear favourable in their eyes. To see the other person as mutilated could be a desire to see the person hurt or suffer for some wrong he has done to you. At the same time it can also portray hidden aggression within you if you have been the cause of the mutilation.

Many a time a person sees his hand or feet disfigured or mutilated after a wrong he has done to someone with that particular part of the body. The answer to this dream lies in guilt and self-punishment.

A man of 32 would often dream that his genitals have got mutilated and fallen off. The reason for the dreams was his constant habit of masturbation which his parents had punished him for several times when he was young, and had implanted the thought in his mind that it was wrong. This has produced massive guilt thoughts in him which were the cause of the dream.