The Dream Book of Self-Knowledge

Leaven

  • supplements another three elements in creating the basic human food – bread: flour (earth), water (water), leaven as aeration (air), the fire that makes bread edible (fire) shows the dreamer that a person = bread; this process symbolizes self-improvement.
  • represents an "evil" person in the dreamer's surrounding that is this very "leaven," which gives rise to the "dough" (traits), and then the fire performs the final step to the creation of "delicious bread" (a new person).