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Symbolic Significance of Bears in Dreams

We intuit these attributes by the commitment bear mothers make to their offspring. Whether your offspring is in children or ideals, the bear will lend you the determination required for rearing up strong results.
 * Nurturing and Protection**

In //**hibernation**//, the bear is associated with In this work, the bear appears not only to be inactive, but stuffed, like a toy. Yellow appears to carry both positive (sunshine, happiness) and negative (cowardice, illness) connotations. This may be why we use yellow as a sign of caution between red (danger! stop!) and green (safe! go!). Yellow seems to be a compromise, a middle way, between positive and negative. Indeed, the yellow chakra is right in the core, in the middle, of the body.
 * Darkness
 * Introspection
 * Subconscious

In analyzing //Yellow Bear,// I began to explore the idea that the piece was a childhood-related dream of the female character in the center of the picture. The title, //Yellow Bear//steers attention toward the limp figure of a bear in the arms of the female character. For me, the color and state of the bear conveys what the artist's goal was in this painting. First, bears aren't yellow or compact. The size and color of the bear tells me that the bear is stuffed, like a toy. The color yellow has both negative and positive connotations, being associated with both joy and decay. The tinge of yellow used to give color to the bear in this instance is more the color of decay, like plaque in rotting teeth. I then began to explore the concept of a comfort blanket and other transitional objects that children use to seek solace in early childhood. Transitional objects, like stuffed bears, serve to seperate an infant from dependency on their mother, therefore making a transition from dependency to a more independent stage. The "dream" aspect of this piece explains the many unreal, possibly subconscious images portrayed by Zed. Freud put forth the concept of symbolization in dreams, where the dreamer subjects their mind to urges otherwise not expressed in the conscious mind. In this piece, the female character is running from a literal and most likely purposefully symbolic demon. I believe that the painting portrays a female character who, in reality, wants to run from her problems. This desire is projected in her dream, where she clings to a galloping horse, holding tight to her childhood bear. The childhood bear would be explained by Freud as a transitional object that the grown woman is clinging to in a longing for a parental, motherly figure.
 * Sean's Explication**