The Dream Book of Self-Knowledge

Burning oneself

  • on a stove: a painful experience from overly close emotional relations with other people (usually concerns partner or family relations).
  • by a flame: see Fire.
  • burns on the body: the result of inappropriate emotional relationships in the unconscious.
  • being burned: this painful image foretells of rising from the ashes which symbolizes rebirth after the death of the ego and does not only have to be the mythical Phoenix*52, whose old form dies in the fire only to rise from the ashes and fly freely toward the sun.