What is being removed from you? Wounds, injury, disappointments. This is a frightening dream which may be due to anxiety and fear. It suggests feelings of frustration, anger, and powerlessness on the part of the dreamer. This dream may also be related to a radical removal of something from one’s life. Some believe that you are trying to get rid of something that is no longer desirable or necessary or that the limb or the part being amputated has lost its power. According to New Age thinking, the right side of the body is usually associated with the ability to give emotionally, psychologically and physically to you and others, while the left is linked with the ability to receive. Carl Jung said that the left side represents the unconscious while right indicates the conscious.
[1]Vision: Dreaming about a hand or leg being amputated always indicates emotional loss in the near future. Undergoing an amputation means separation from a loved one. Amputation of a hand means your actions are restricted; or that you are not “sharing” enough with others. Amputation of a leg: you can’t (or should) stop running away, you’re heading in the wrong direction. Men dreaming about amputation means fear of “castration,” or fear of impotence.
Depth Psychology: Dreaming about amputation means that your life has been torn apart and your peace of mind is under attack.
The part being amputated usually refers to parts of ourselves that haven’t been functioning properly.
See Also: Arm, Leg, Left, Right.
[2]Amputation has different connotations depending on the tone of the dream. When amputations do not refer to actual removal of limbs, they refer to the radical removal of something from one’s life. Positively, a dream about an amputation may refer to the removal of something that, although formerly quite close to the individual, is no longer necessary or desirable. Negatively, it may mean the abandonment of talents and powers represented by the amputated limb. Sometimes amputation may also represent a situation that one has been ignoring but which has finally reached a crisis point.
[3]1- When we dream of amputation of one of our own limbs we risk or fear losing or cutting off, by repressing, a part of ourselves. There is loss of a facility or something we value.
To dream of amputating someone else’s limb indicates our ability to deny others their right to self- expression.
2- We have cut short an experience in some way. We are suffering from a loss of power or ability.
3- Spiritually we may be disfiguring the perfect.
[4]To give up power, abilities, represented by removed limb or part. Cutting off unnecessary parts of self, which should be integrated, not rejected. For example, loss of right arm means you no longer are giving to self or others; left arm means no longer receiving energy needed to renew and rebuild.
See Also: individual body parts, Body.
[5]Gives gender-specific: Arising from the patterning laid down in the womb, dreams of amputation of a limb can often have a sexual or gender specific meaning. In a man’s dream there is an aspect of emasculation occurring, whereas in a woman’s dream, she may be experiencing problems with aspects of her animus.
[6]Psychological / emotional perspective: We are suffering from a loss of power or ability and may, in the process, find that we have cut short an experience. Since pain is often a consequence of an amputation, we are trying to come to terms with pain or unpleasantness which has occurred in waking life.
[7]Spiritually any amputation signifies a loss of some sort – we may be attempting to disfigure the perfect. Often dreams show by their symbolism what is not right or good and a dream of amputation suggests that we need to take action to rectify the situation.
[8]Losing something of oneself. Always restricted and needs are ignored (See Also: Abortion, Funeral, Divorce, Death). Expression of fear of loss and an invitation to discard nonessentials. Important: Which limb is being amputated?
[9]Ordinary amputation of limbs, denotes small offices lost; the loss of entire legs or arms, unusual depression in trade.
To seamen, storm and loss of property. Afflicted persons should be warned to watchfulness after this dream.
[10]To dream of an amputation symbolizes a need for integration because you’ve been feeling scattered or cut off from your source. This dream can also be showing you where you give your power away.
See Also: Body, Integration Dreams.
[11]Dreaming that you have a limb amputated represents the inability to perform some of the activities that you usually perform with it. Behind this situation, there is a fear you should try to overcome.
[12]1. Need to eliminate part of one’s personality, like aggression.
2. Need to work on eliminating part of someone else’s personality.
[13]If you dream of having a leg or arm amputated, you should beware of taking any trip in either an automobile or railroad train for some time.
[14]To lose whatever the limb represents; loss of adequacy, sexual or otherwise.
See Also: body.
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