Egg

The egg is potential in its purest form. Vedic cosmology opens with the Hiraṇyagarbha, the golden egg from which the universe hatches. Orphic Greek myth tells of a silver egg laid by Nyx, the night. Jungian analysis treats the dream-egg as a symbol of the Self in its earliest form — everything contained, nothing yet differentiated. Eggs in dreams often appear at the beginning of creative projects or pregnancies (literal or figurative). A cracked egg suggests something emerging; a whole egg, something still to come. Notice whether you are holding, breaking, or hatching the egg, and what (if anything) is inside.