Kissing

A kiss in a dream is a union between parts of the self. Alchemical imagery treats the mystical kiss (the coniunctio) as the integration of opposites — king and queen, sun and moon, ego and unconscious. Sufi poetry uses the kiss as the closest image of the soul’s meeting with the Beloved. Jungian dream analysis reads kiss-dreams as integrations underway: some are the psyche announcing a tenderness between inner figures that have long been at odds. Notice who the kiss is with — it is usually an aspect of yourself, regardless of any resemblance to a waking person. A forbidden kiss often marks a quality the dreamer has considered off-limits; a reluctant kiss, an integration the ego is resisting.