(1) A sea shell, owing to its resemblance to the vagina and its association with the-sea, is a feminine symbol. As such it may represent your mother or your mother-attachment; and, for a man, it may represent the anıma or be a straightforward sexual symbol. (For anima, see Brother / Sister, sections (4)-(6).) See also Mother.
(2) Because of its association with the sea, it may, like the sea, symbolize the unconscious.
(3) A tortoise- or snail-shell may symbolize protection, or a hiding- place; withdrawal from reality, or from social or sensual contacts; or a ‘defence mechanism’.
(4) An eggshell may symbolize fragility, vulnerability.
See Also: Egg.
(5) An artillery shell may have the same sexual symbolism as Rocket.
See Also: Bomb.
[1]The shell symbolizes fertility and eroticism. Do not forget that on the one hand, two female characters of great mythological importance, such as Venus and Aphrodite, were born into a shell; and, second, in Argentina, it represents the genitals of a woman. Consequently, this dream can have a clear erotic reading. In another sense, the heavy shell of a turtle can express your desire for protection. Something similar happens with the eggshell, whose fragility indicates that your feelings are too vulnerable.
Shells that appear in dreams predict that something very strange will happen.
[2](Husk, Peel, Rind, Shuck, Skin) Almond, walnuts or the like nutshell in a dream signify clothing or sustenance. Ifa pregnant woman sees nutshells in her dream, they mean a miscarriage.
A shell or a husk in a dream represents hypocrisy, affectation, ostentatiousness and a swelled head.
(See Also: Skin)
[3]Seashells are an omen of unusual experi- ences and/or events; nut- shells are a symbol of success If they were full, disappointment, if empty.
Strange news from a distant place is the forecast if you dreamed of listening to the roar in a conch shell.
[4]Holding feelings inside, pulling into your shell; closed off emotionally. Growth impossible due to non-activity.
If an open shell, emotional nurturing. Cover, protection.
[5]The defence we use to avoid being hun emotionally, or to defend the integrity of our identity.
See Also: fish, sea creatures.
[6]Shells may represent the womb and the desire to be once again sheltered, nourished, and protected from life’s problems.
[7]To dream of a Shell with the fish alive in it predicts prosperity, but an empty sea-shell is a bad omen.
[8]1. One wants to hide away.
2. One wants someone to protect him/her.
[9]The evidence of that which once was and is no more
[10]See Also: Sea Shell.
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