Vanish

Thoughts and feelings constantly appear and then disappear, sometimes never to be seen or captured again. This is the magical world of mind and emotion, where things emerge out of the vast world of the unconscious and vanish again. Therefore, vanishing suggests you are losing awareness of something. In this case it indicates something that is manipulated by or emerges from the unconscious. Unconscious – What Is It 

Person or animal that vanishes: Love for someone which has gone, or something we realised or learned which we have lost sight of. It could also be an independent part of you that you cannot yet direct.

In Jung’s book Man and His Symbols, Marie von Franz says, ‘Thus our dream life creates a meandering pattern in which individual strands or tendencies become visible, then vanish, then return again. If one watches this meandering design over a long period of time, one can observe a sort of hidden regulating or directing tendency at work, one can watch this at work by noting many dreams from the same individual over a period of time. When one does this ‘tendencies become visible, then vanish, then return again. …… one can observe a sort of hidden regulating or directing tendency at work, creating a slow, imperceptible process of psychic growth-the process of individuation.’ See Self-regulation

Example: ‘I have been a widower since Jan. 1979, having married in Oct. 1941. I continually dream I am in London where my business was. I am walking the streets with my wife and suddenly I see her ahead of me in a yellow raincoat and hat. I call her and try to catch up, but suddenly she vanishes. In spite of calling and searching I cannot find her.’ Douglas G.

This is a common theme dreamt by widowers or widows – disappearance of spouse. Douglas has ‘lost’ his wife. His dream shows the paradox of love after death of partner. He is struggling with his realisation that his partner might die. See Inner People

At a certain time of life women start unconsciously worrying about ‘losing their husband’. That is probably either because they know women live longer, or that you are unconsciously worried about your man. Women know men often die before them as women are longer lived, so they dream of a husband’s death as a way of getting used to the loss.

Person or animal who vanishes: Love for someone that has gone; something we realised or learned which we have lost sight of; an autonomous part of self which we cannot yet direct. See: autonomous complex.