Shadows
To see you own shadow in your dream, signifies an aspect of yourself which you have not acknowledged or recognized.
It may be a quality about yourself or a part of you that you are rejecting or want to keep hidden. These qualities may not necessary be negative, but can be creative ones.
To see a shadowy figure in your dream, represents aspects of this figure which you have not acknowledged or incorporated into your own personality.
Alternatively, it symbolizes the young, the helpless or the under-developed.
Dictionary definition
- n. 1: shade within clear boundaries
- 2: an unilluminated area; "he moved off into the darkness" [syn: darkness, dark, shadow]
- 3: something existing in perception only; "a ghostly apparition at midnight" [syn: apparition, phantom, phantasm, phantasma, fantasm, shadow]
- 4: a premonition of something adverse; "a shadow over his happiness"
- 5: an indication that something has been present; "there wasn't a trace of evidence for the claim"; "a tincture of condescension" [syn: trace, vestige, tincture, shadow]
- 6: refuge from danger or observation; "he felt secure in his father's shadow"
- 7: a dominating and pervasive presence; "he received little recognition working in the shadow of his father"
- 8: a spy employed to follow someone and report their movements [syn: tail, shadow, shadower]
- 9: an inseparable companion; "the poor child was his mother's shadow"
- v. 1: follow, usually without the person's knowledge; "The police are shadowing her"
- 2: cast a shadow over [syn: shadow, shade, shade off]
- 3: make appear small by comparison; "This year's debt dwarfs that of last year" [syn: shadow, overshadow, dwarf]