Dreaming of My Mother Shooting Me with a Gun

In my dream, I was shot in the chest by my mother with a gun. I fell unconscious and was taken to a crematorium. I could hear the crematorium worker talking, and in the dream, the worker sprayed oil on my face, and I could feel the pain. It was terrifying. When I woke up, it felt like I had been reborn from the ashes, with a sensation of being acupuncture throughout my body.

(Dream interpretation from Zhou Gong's Dream Dictionary) According to the interpretation, this dream signifies a conflict regarding emotional independence. Being shot in the chest by your mother represents the emotional center associated with maternal relationships in our early developmental environment. During the formation of our emotional patterns, our feelings towards our mother become part of our emotional patterns towards the opposite sex, accompanied by a sense of dependence. The dream suggests that your emotional patterns are evolving towards a more mature stage, and this evolution involves conflicting emotions as you let go of the previous pattern related to your mother. It may feel like a part of you is dying within this soon-to-be-abandoned emotional relationship, creating a sense of loss. The dream also symbolizes your reluctance to fully let go of the combination of dependency on your mother and romantic feelings towards the opposite sex, as indicated by entering the crematorium without dying. The crematorium can be understood as a regression to a state before birth, representing a thorough retrospective process aimed at being reborn. It involves dismantling the old, early-formed emotional patterns and establishing new, more mature ones. The reference to oil being sprayed on the face suggests a transformation or change in outward appearance, reflecting your attention to the inner changes you are undergoing.