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Doctor

A figure of knowing what is wrong

What it often means

Doctors in dreams represent the part of life that diagnoses — sometimes literally, often emotionally. They appear when you sense something is not well and your psyche is asking for honest assessment.

When it tends to appear

  • When health — emotional or physical — needs attention
  • During unaddressed anxieties
  • When honest self-assessment has been postponed

Sit with these questions

  1. 1

    What is asking to be honestly looked at?

  2. 2

    What do you suspect that you have not let yourself name?

  3. 3

    Where could you ask for help without feeling weak?

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