Fear in a dream shows what you avoid, protect or have not yet accepted. Facing it in the dream is often a step towards healing.
When the dream feels light
Overcoming a fear speaks of courage and growth.
When the dream feels dark
Fear that paralyses points to anxiety, trauma or a threat you sense.
Ask yourself
What would I do if I were not afraid?
Correspondences
- Archetype
- The Shadow — What you have refused to see in yourself, dark but full of force.
- Element
- Water — feeling, dream and the unconscious
- Planet
- Saturn
- Tarot card
- Nine of Swords
- Alchemical stage
- Nigredo, the Blackening
Fear shows where the treasure is guarded. Go carefully, but go.
Words that call this sign
afraid, anxiety, anxious, scared, worried, worry
Related signs
The Wolf · The Rat · The Bat · The Goat · The Storm · The Forest · Night · The Shadow
The card of this dream
Nine of Swords. The hour of the wolf: anxiety and sleepless nights. A woman sits up in bed, her face in her hands, with nine swords hanging on the dark wall behind her. It is anxiety, nightmares and worry: fear that is greater in the night than in reality.