Left

If you are right handed, left is nearly always used to denote the unconscious, habitual or supportive parts of yourself; things outside your conscious ego, darkness, ignorance, devolution, the forces of destruction, the earth. For instance your left hand supports the action of the right in most activities, such as writing, hammering a nail, etc. So the left can relate to your confidence, all the subtle feelings and skills that together support the actions you do in the world. This might be reversed if you are left handed.

The left may also represent those parts of yourself that are not predominant. The desires and urges that are not allowed the major role in your life. In some dreams there is a play on what is right (correct), and what is left (wrong).

A few people might also find that in some dreams one side of their body represent the feelings and attitudes they absorbed from their mother, and the other side what they absorbed from their father.

The play between left and right is sometimes used in dreams to illustrate the dynamic action between opposites in our own nature. For instance the play between what we consider, from our cultural upbringing, to be right and wrong, good and bad, constructive and destructive. Although the terms good and constructive may help us make useful decisions, sometimes the way to real growth is a balance between the opposites.

- Your internal world of feelings, memories and values – the left; your external world of activity and environment – the right. A secondary choice – left; the ‘right’ choice at the time – right. Parts of self unconscious or shadowy – left; your conscious known self – right. The immoral, selfish, wrong action – left; the moral, right action – right. See: Right; Arm; Leg.