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Body

Wounds or scars

A history that lives in the body

What it often means

Wounds in dreams reflect emotional or psychological injury still being carried. Old scars often point to healing already underway; fresh wounds to recent or surfacing pain.

When it tends to appear

  • During inner healing
  • When old hurts are being touched again
  • When acknowledgment of pain has been delayed

Sit with these questions

  1. 1

    Was the wound fresh or old?

  2. 2

    What hurt in you is asking to be properly tended?

  3. 3

    What might "healed" actually look like for you?

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