Skin

Skin in our dreams actually tells us more about hidden aspects about our personality that can be seen as weak or venerable. How you react to the outside world will reflect from your skin peeling off, infections, burns, pulling things out of your body. Though once you are able to find out what it means you will be a stronger less thin skinned person.

The parts of the body appear commonly in dreams because we are so 'body conscious' in daily life. Some parts grow and fall away, like the skin, teeth, fingernails and hair. They represent growth and where you stand in relationship to your sense of time or the need to let go of the past. Skin represents the most obvious aspect of who you are, and can symbolize the self from a sense of surface awareness, as in 'only skin deep.' Focusing on something on the skin can represent an issue that is bugging you. The skin can also symbolize what is blocking your feelings or the need to express yourself. Seeing skin peeling off in a dream can symbolize personal transformation. See Anatomy and Body Parts.

One’s skin in a dream represents the element that cloaks the human being, veils his wealth and what he wills for his heirs. Skin in a dream also represents the elements of father, might, wealth, garment, farm, state of worship, faith, polytheism, or it could mean one’s enemy, friend, wife, house, beloved, son, or what protects the human being from harm. A healthy skin in a dream represents a healthy life, and a diseased skin means weakness. A discolored skin in a dream means sickness. If a deceased person is seen wearing a healthy and a beautiful skin in a dream, it represents his good state or condition in the life after death. If a sick person sees himself being skinned like a goat in a dream, it means his death. Being skinned in a dream also represents a robbery in one’s house, or it may represent a tyrant, or an unjust ruler. If he is healthy, it means that he will become poor and his ill qualities will be exposed. Fat which is collected under the skin represents the strength of one’s faith and religious adherence. If one sees himself wearing the skin of a snake in a dream, it means that he will 394 IBN SEERIN’S unmask his animosity toward others. In general, wearing animals skin in a dream means receiving an inheritance. If one sees himself having a fat tail like that of a sheep in a dream, it means that his livelihood will depend on the revenues of his offspring. If he sees his body grown, it means that he will prosper accordingly. Being fat in a dream means prosperity and knowledge, and being emaciated means poverty and ignorance.