Wool
May represent the soft, indulgent things of life, gentle thoughts, and pleasure, as in wool-gathering. Warmth; gentleness; motherhood; protective fuzziness of thoughts and feelings. Wool of course links with a lamb or sheep. So might link with the childlike, dependent, vulnerable part of you. There are other possible meanings though, such as new life. This might link with your own child or childhood, and with innocence, especially if the wool is white. The lamb has always been linked with Christ. As innocence and purity the weakness of the lamb has enormous power, and can defeat evil. In ancient societies who bred sheep, the spring lambs were a sign of survival of the often harsh and hungry winter. At last there was food. So the sacrifice of the lamb was linked with the feeling of being given life and redemption.
In many dreams which reference wool, the colour of the garment is mentioned – “…it has beautiful colourful wool lining, as if woven on a loom” – “the same brown wool.” – “nice wool sweater, camel color as well. I suggest looking in Colours – Colors for help.
Clothed in wool: It depends on the colour of the garment, for example a ‘coat of many colours’ show that the dreamer has achieve a many sided maturity – perhaps even wisdom because of the many aspects developed. White can also suggest having access to the ancient or bigger self within you.
Considering that every living thing from viruses, plants, all animals and of course us humans, all started from a single cell, which is a seed from which all life forms evolved from. But such cells never become old or die because they are immortal, for they keep dividing and do not die. In dividing they constantly creates copies of themselves, but as they do so they gather new experience, and so change what is copied, so becomes the ‘seeds’ for multi-cellular organism. We all started from the original one cell, and we, you and I, are the result of that gathered experience.
Contacting the Big or Ancient You
A single cell, which is a seed from which all life forms evolved from, doesn’t become old or die because it is immortal, for it keeps dividing and doesn’t die. In dividing it constantly creates copies of itself, but as it does so it gathers new experience, it changes what is copied, so becomes the ‘seed’ for multi-cellular organism. We all started from the original one cell, and we, you and I, are the result of gathered experience. But in this life you developed a new brain, and the memories, education and programming you gathered this time are what you built your personality from, but beneath that is a very ancient self. To explore it see Opening to Life
Knitting wool: Creativity; ideas or thoughts you knit together.
Tangled wool: Tangled in relationship problems or your thinking or decision making are a mess.
Wrapped in wool or cotton wool: Protection for someone, or a part of you that is vulnerable, badly hurt or recovering from a mental injury.
Idioms: Dyed in the wool; Wild and wooly; Wool-gathering; Woolly thinking; Pull the wool over someone’s eyes.