Actions

Conceding

Acknowledging that the other party is right, or that you have lost — the explicit act of giving ground.

Conceding in a dream is the dream's image of the explicit act of giving ground. The concession is not weakness; in many contests it is the act that ends the fight and allows the next thing to happen. The dream brings conceding when something in your life — an argument that has gone on too long, a position you have been defending past the evidence, a competition that is over — has reached the point where the honest move is to name the loss out loud. A concession given cleanly is the dream affirming the honest finish. A concession refused, with the position defended past the moment anyone is still listening, is the dream noting that the contest has structurally ended and the participant has not agreed to let it end.

Related symbols

Apologising

Naming a fault you committed and taking responsibility for it — the action of putting yourself, in language, under the harm you did.

Baptising

Marking a beginning through immersion in water — a ritual that names a person into a new identity.

Bargaining

Negotiating an exchange of value — the act of trying to alter the price of something that has been set.

Being chased

Running with a pursuer behind you — energy spent on distance from something you have not turned to face.

Being chased

Avoidance — something you have been refusing to turn around and look at.

Being naked

Exposure — the fear of being seen unprepared.

Disclaimer: For entertainment and self-reflection only. Not a substitute for professional advice.