Pamela Ball Interpretation: also see .\uclear Explosion
1- Where anxiety regarding the external world is experienced, the dreamer may need to be aware that the end of a particular way of life is imminent in an especially dramatic fashion. Often there is a sense of an explosion of destructive energy before everything must be rebuilt.
2- There is a fear of irrationality and of power which could be used wrongly.
An atom bomb is a deliberately engineered explosion designed to be destructive.
The dreamer may feel that someone else may destroy and nullify his carefully constructed life.
3- We have become aware of the uncontrollable forces of life and the unconscious.
The end of a particular world for the dreamer, i.e. the end of school life, divorce, loss of spouse. Also: fear of the irrational forces of life and the unconscious which may destroy all we have built—our conscious self.
An atom bomb is a deliberately engineered explosion designed to be destructive. We may feel that someone else may destroy and nullify our carefully constructed life.
Material aspects: Where anxiety regarding the external world is experienced, we need to be aware that the end of a particular way of life is imminent in an especially dramatic fashion. Often there is a sense of an explosion of destructive energy before everything must be rebuilt.
Bomb, Explosion. Worry about humankind or at least about the immediate surroundings. Fear of death and war as in Shot. Recommends taking greater responsibility for the larger questions of life and asserting greater influence upon things affecting society and the community.
We have become aware of the uncontrollable forces of life and the unconscious.
Ability to safely contain the potential energy needed for enormous individual transformation so I can choose how I use it
exemplifies lack of compassion and a disregard for life
Anxiety regarding external world, political forces, etc., that the dreamer feels at the mercy of—often coupled with dreamer’s survival strategies; the end of a particular world or way of life for the dreamer—i.e., the end of school life; divorce; loss of spouse; tremendous potential energy, but related to in a way that threatens the dreamer, and is therefore not harnessed; fear of the irrational forces of life and the unconscious that may destroy all we have built in our conscious self. See end-of-world dreams and fantasies; explosion.