Unicorn
Because it blends the image of the horse with that of the virgin, and the outstanding single horn, it suggests purity with animal or basic sexuality. The message is therefore that sexuality can be directed in a new way with single mindedness. The mythology of the unicorn suggests it can only be tamed by a pure woman. The image of the woman suggests that if a man can meet his own femininity, or if he can be with a woman without letting the energy of desire flow into physical sex or ejaculation, then the energy of sexuality transforms into something else, a wider awareness for instance.
The following dream illustrates something of this. Nicola’s dream seems to depict powerful opposites in her nature. The tiger is her powerful possibilities of aggression and desire, and the unicorn depicts the possibility of transforming these. The opposites are often shown in such a confrontation.
I am in a house with a girl in a wheelchair. Bored I go for a walk. The girl said it would be dangerous. I am on a shoreline. The ocean is in front of me like a wall. To my right is a calm sea and a tiger. To my left is a rough sea with a unicorn. As the tiger runs at me the unicorn charges and butts it. Nicola
In another dream Anthony meets a similar situation. He describes his dream as follows:
A massive force underlying the basement of my house was threatening to emerge. It had already torn down part of the ceiling of the basement. This force was in the shape of a woman and a serpent. But when it did emerge the figure of Christ also came into the room and the two seemed to change each other. When I explored the dream I felt the woman represented my own natural and unrestrained desires and needs, and Christ was the power of social pressure to conform. In releasing them, both my natural urges and social needs could be expressed in creative acts – such as a singer might do in performances. They might therefore be acceptable, though still containing the socially dangerous natural impulses.
Carl Jung writes of this saying:
Christ himself symbolically appears as the Lamb of God or the Fish, but he is also the serpent exalted on the cross, the lion, and in rarer cases the unicorn. These animal attributes of Christ indicate that even the Son of God (the supreme personification of man) can no more dispense with his animal nature than with his higher, spiritual nature.
So the unicorn and the pure female represent this transformation or raw animal urges into creative human action and awareness. The virgin represents the virginal mind or heart that doesn’t hold any preconceptions. Even men can do this, and women and men can then give birth to a holy child – the realisation of their own wonderful potential, known as the Christ.
But as this photo suggests, that young teenage girls can become unconsciously sexually aroused, it shows also the horse holding the girl to it, so it is not a one way experience. I believe that young girls can allow such feelings saying they love the horse. So a magical erotic relationship exists. The painting has a very similar theme to the photo.
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Hi.I dreamt about waking up in a meadow.I was searching for my bag and walked through a path that lead to a hillside. I saw 2 unicorns, white and black.I was afraid of them so I walked through the edge,I fell but the white one lifted me up. It was mine.
I have a question. This is a really weird dream just to warn you. I turned into a dragon in my dream and had sex with a unicorn. Does anyone know what that could possibly mean? Thank you so much.
Dear Kay – A beautiful and interesting dream you sent us. Thank you!
In your dream you “turned into a dragon” which is also expressed as “shape-shifting”.
So you are a shape-shifter in dreams, and can be any of the characters in your dream. That is how you get their power and wisdom.
The source of the shape-shifter power is not in its ability to move between different guises. That is only the external expression of something very profound. Form is only one polarity of our existence. At the other pole is formlessness, the spirit without physical shape, the void of Buddhism that is nothing but holds all possibility within it. At this level the paradox of sexual difference is resolved. We are male and female and more, so the idea of soul mates does not seem possible, for we are a whole being.
As we mature and realise these paradoxical opposites of our nature, and as we identify less with the form we have as a body, the power of shapeshifter comes more fully into our experience.
See http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/archetype-of-the-shapeshifter/
A dragon is a symbol of the untamed or unsocialised sexual drive which can overpower or trap a girl emerging into womanhood, or threatens a youth facing manhood. The overcoming of it means facing one’s fears of the vast power of such natural drives, and finding satisfying expression. See http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/integration-meeting-oneself/
In your dream you were exploring how you can express your sexual energy and so it is worthwhile questioning if you perceived this sexual encounter as satisfying.
Our psychological and sexual nature, like our physical, never stand still in development unless a pain or problem freeze them at a particular level of maturity. Therefore, our sexual dreams, even if our sex life is satisfactory, show us what growth, what new challenge, is being met.
The Unicorn, because it blends the image of the horse with that of the virgin, and the outstanding single horn, suggests purity with animal or basic sexuality.
The energy behind the sexual drive is enormously important. It can flow in many different ways. It not only expresses as genital sex, but also in caring for others. If it is blocked illness can result. Your dreams show in detail just how you are dealing with this most important area of your life, and what is standing in the way of satisfaction and health. Do not accept the ready made formulas of popular sexual norms. Your dreams will show your own intimate and unique needs. Remember your dreams and be enriched by them.
Please also read http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/energy-sex-and-dreams/
Anna 🙂
I dreamt that it was evening sunset time. Sky wss reddish orange and a big magnificent beautiful red bird was flying in the sky. After few minutes two beautiful and bright unicorns came and were flying together. Please tell me what does this mean.
Unicorns were White.
I dreamt that when I came out of my part time job because of a frustrating old man, I was then looking for a unicorn in the snow. I found a snow rabbit that seemed like a statue but it became alive, then it led me to a unicorn which was a snow statue too, but it became alive when I was in range. The unicorn walked towards me and the rabbit was gone. What does this mean?
Interesting stories. Early this morning, right before I opened my eyes, I dreamt of two while unicorns (with wings) galloping happily in the white clouds above my house. Seemed like mommy and baby unicorns. I looked at them in disbelieve and called attention to my husband to look in the sky but he didn’t look up as he didn’t believe me. My eyes opened then. It was a beautiful dream and I have never dreamt anything like that before..
(Please help me with this dream meaning)
I am driving an SUV up a familiar small and surmountable hill leading to my home town. I am travelling in the opposite direction from my (ex) boyfriend’s house. I am on the right & correct side of the road. When over the hill some a flow of traffic ( in the wrong direction) putting me in danger. I quickly pull over to the side of the road where there is a field. int he field to the right is a giant ancient tree with two or three “servants of the tree like druids. attached to the tree -like grown into it or something- and now being released upon my arrival (once i took notice of it ) was a giant white male unicorn powerful and strong forceful and directly toward me a giant unicorn white with a broken horn just at the very tip and worn although it was mashed against something and an old wound.
charging toward me. I was not scared I knew he was coning to me not sure why. not as a pet but as a familiar or a companion who may cause me blunt trauma or pain but not that would maim me…
it would transform me somehow.
As he picked up speed and came toward upon being released by the servants ( a woman on his right a man on his left and a child in back, they were dressed like druids or wizards or something in flowing robes of dark and subtle colouring) he came toward me in a steady gallop. I awoke just as the mashed tip of his horn reached, but before impacting, my left eye.
I am driving an SUV up a familiar small and surmountable hill leading to my home town. I am travelling in the opposite direction from my (ex) boyfriend’s house. I am on the right & correct side of the road. When over the hill some a flow of traffic ( in the wrong direction) putting me in danger. I quickly pull over to the side of the road where there is a field. int he field to the right is a giant ancient tree with two or three “servants of the tree like druids. attached to the tree -like grown into it or something- and now being released upon my arrival (once i took notice of it ) was a giant white male unicorn powerful and strong forceful and directly toward me a giant unicorn white with a broken horn just at the very tip and worn although it was mashed against something and an old wound.
charging toward me. I was not scared I knew he was coning to me not sure why. not as a pet but as a familiar or a companion who may cause me blunt trauma or pain but not that would maim me…
it would transform me somehow.
As he picked up speed and came toward upon being released by the servants ( a woman on his right a man on his left and a child in back, they were dressed like druids or wizards or something in flowing robes of dark and subtle colouring) he came toward me in a steady gallop. I awoke just as the mashed tip of his horn reached, but before impacting, my left eye.
I recently had a dream in which a small pink unicorn was in front of my boyfriend’s house. It was probably only a little bit bigger than a mini horse, but sure enough still a unicorn. I tried to take a picture of it but instead it came at me and tried to hug me. I felt weird so I stood still and my boyfriend picked the unicorn up and we started walking into his house, and then I woke up.
My dream started with me outside, I had a brush in my hand to brush the horses. Then all of a sudden the brush disappeared from my hands. I was confused and looking for it. I finally gave up and started walking home when I saw a unicorn escape out of the horse gates. I picked her up and kissed her head. Then it kissed me back and I dropped her! All of a sudden I was staring at myself but then I noticed a child was petting my arm so I looked down and I was now the unicorn…we had switched bodies!!!! What does this mean????
11-02-2013
My brother and I was sitting in the car and all of a sudden this huge white unicorn swooped down from the sky and he landed right beside the car…..I rode down my window and began rubbing on the face of the unicorn….I then preceded to get out the car and then I began rubbing the unicorn again and the unicorn put his head on my chest and all I can feel was love…..I was smiling the whole time. Then I woke up from the dream……I was wondering what this dream meant?
Thanks for this. I dreamt that a lamb turned into a goat then a Unicorn. Looking it up in early times Unicorns were goat like and sat on women’s laps. This Unicorn sat on my lap. Then a Christ like man told me I need to get some sleep. It was a vivid, colourful dream that was more than this reality. I want to go back there – all rainbows and the cute Unicorn with a bouncy flowing golden mane. I felt that it was Christ. I am going through a hard divorce after years of abuse and not dating but wearing a cross ring. Maybe that sexual energy is helping me connect with the spiritual realms. I hope you all experience what I did 😉
thanks for this.
dreamt last night of a unicorn (accompanying a young girl on a grassy hillside), so surfing around today for some thoughts.
thank you for yours.
Bob – Because it blends the image of the horse with that of the virgin, and the outstanding single horn, it suggests purity with animal or basic sexuality. The message is therefore that sexuality can be directed in a new way with single mindedness. The mythology of the unicorn suggests it can only be tamed by a pure woman. The image of the woman suggests that if a man can meet his own femininity, or if he can be with a woman without letting the energy of desire flow into physical sex or ejaculation, then the energy of sexuality transforms into something else, a wider awareness for instance.
So the unicorn and the pure female represent this transformation or raw animal urges into creative human action and awareness. Or at least the possibility of doing it.
Tony
what a funny thing life is.its so wonderfull to be apart of it
Sophia – Yes, funny and wonderful – and sometimes even magnificent.
If you have any feelings about writing something about it I would love to hear more.
Tony
I went there with my mother.
Last night I dreamt about going to an open air exhibition where I saw unicorn running down from the sky. They were angry. There were dinosaurs too. We saw a dinosaur approach us to attack. We ran and took shelter in a room which had a glass wall and huge machines were place in it. The dinosaur tried breaking the glass wall to get in. Then next I saw few people coming to our rescue. 2 men come in the room. The younger one holding a gun and the older had an axe. They came in and broke the machine..first they shot it and then axed it and all the dinosaur and unicorn disappeared.. They were just robotic attractions of the exhibition.. What does this dream unfurl as????