The Dream Book of Self-Knowledge

Mending

  • clothes: a futile attempt at rectifying a tarnished reputation; the futile attempt to conceal from others one's moral failings.
  • see Repairing.
  • pants, a skirt: sex and the longing for sexual intercourse is becoming a central motive and is typical of the one who is sewing the trousers (this person can be someone the dreamer knows or his dream personification – e.g. instinctual anima).
  • other clothes: a futile attempt at rectifying a tarnished reputation; the futile attempt to conceal from others one's moral failings.
  • on a sewing machine: see sewing machine.
  • see Sewing.