(.1) Physical hurt in a dream may symbolize hurt feelings. But dreams will often be specific - if, for example, the dream wants to draw’ your attention to humiliation, humiliation will be felt in the dream.
(2) Try to identify with and ‘converse’ with both the person / animal that is hurt and the one who inflicts the hurt, and also with the hurt itself or the hurt part of the person / animal. In this way you w’ill eventually unpack the meaning of the dream.
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