Hi Martina—
It’s an extraordinary dream, and I’m glad you wrote in to understand its meaning.
The symbolism of being naked in a fetal position with your vagina sewn is that you feel unable to express your essential nature. Translation? Your relationship with your boyfriend is making you feel like a child—exposed and vulnerable—and also shut down and repressed as a woman.
Dreams often use graphic metaphors to express our feelings. Accordingly, I encourage you to understand your dream as a symbolic representation of your boyfriend’s consistent attempts to “close off your womanhood” rather than as a sign that he would physically hurt you, or allow someone else to hurt you. At an emotional level, however, your dream shows that you feel you are unable to develop (give birth to) the person inside yourself whom you are becoming.
Your dream reveals that you feel peer pressure to accept your boyfriend’s behavior as normal, but that you also feel publicly humiliated by his repeated failures to nurture your development. When you voice your feelings to your boyfriend, he complains you are being too emotional (a common argument). Help finally arrives at the end of this dream when one of the women in the group voices her support for you. Her support is a welcome validation of your feelings, and you soon learn that the other woman in the group supports you as well.
Cutting the threads in your vagina symbolizes reclaiming your personal privacy and space—which you feel your boyfriend routinely violates by denying the validity of your emotions—and it symbolizes taking control over your personal growth and development. Cutting the threads also carries with it another powerful symbolic meaning. You are willing to “cut the threads” that you keep you “tied” into this relationship. And when you do, you feel much better.
At the end of your dream you break up with your boyfriend and you write that it feels empowering—it feels very good. When you remove the threads, you are surprised that there is no blood or scarring. What is the meaning? It will be easier to end this relationship with your boyfriend than you currently imagine.
Your dream shows that you have outgrown your relationship with your boyfriend, and that you are ready to reclaim, and give birth to, a new period of personal growth and development. Your dream shows that you need to take your feelings and emotions seriously, and care for them, and that you need a partner who respects, protects, and nurtures your emotional development.
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