Originally Posted by
CFTraveler
First of all, scars are not emotions, they are evocative of emotions.
Agreed. I think of scars as a kind of "memory". If it's a physical scar, it's your body's "memory" of some trauma. You can also have emotional and mental scars (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, just as one example). These things are just memories, echoes, of some trauma that was significant enough to leave a lasting and permanent reminder.
In this dream, the scars weren't even actual scars, only tattoos, which are, unless you're blisteringly drunk when you get them, intentional. In other words, a tattoo is something you wear by choice.
Also, and this may have no bearing because I don't know the belief system of anyone involved in the dream, but Jesus Christ is famously said to heal people "by his stripes", that is, on account of the whip marks from the beating he endured prior to his execution. I only mention this because the idea that scars and/or wounds MUST be associated with evil or darkness is not correct. There are other myths and archetypes that have miraculously healing wounds, or who endure wounds for the sake of others, etc.
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