Birthmark
A mark carried from birth on the skin — a sign that was never chosen and is part of the body's first record.
A birthmark in a dream is the dream's image of a sign the body has carried since its first day, not earned and not removable. The birthmark is not a wound; it is a given. The dream brings the birthmark when something in your life — an inheritance, a temperament, a thing that has been about you for as long as you can remember — is currently visible on the surface and is being read by others as part of who you are. A birthmark looked at without shame is the dream affirming that the unchosen given has been taken as part of the self. A birthmark covered insistently, hidden from every mirror, is the dream noting that a first fact about you is being treated as something to hide, and the work of hiding it is now itself a feature of the life.