Martha Clarke Interpretation: In addition to masculine sexuality, the phallus represents life’s creative force.
It is a symbol of energy and power. A phallus in dreams indicates a time of high creativity.
If a woman sees herself with a phallus, the dream indicates that she wants to develop her masculine side. Similarly, if a man dreams of an unknown woman with a phallus, he may feel like highlighting his feminine side.
The phallus is the representation of all things masculine, bright, and Yang. Symbol of fertility, regeneration, power, and immortality, to many ethnic groups and tribes the phallus is the most commonly worshipped symbol. The ancient cave paintings found in Australia, Senegal, Niger, France, China, Japan, and India contain drawings of human reproductive systems. They prove the power of this symbol. Similarly, the Romans used phallic charms to ward off evil spirits. Furthermore, the god Priapus was represented as a large phallus with human face. Other Mexican peoples worshiped a winged serpent and the Hindus still pay homage to Shiva, a phallic emblem. On the other hand, the favorite deity in China is Shoulao, the god of longevity. This god has an enormous and elongated bald head like a phallus. For some traditions, dreaming of your own phallus predicts transient wealth, because it grows and shrinks. It can also denote secret projects, poverty, and captivity.
It is vitality and creativity in both its simplest and most complex form.
It is resurrection and the renewal of life.
For people of so-called primitive tribes, the phallus is a symbol for masculinity. According to Freud, the phallus appears in dreams in many different guises, such as piercing weapons and rigid objects, like tree trunks and walking sticks. In contrast, he said that things like closets, boxes, wagons, and ovens are symbols of the female genitals. In India, the phallus is a symbol for fertility, and in dreams it represents productive work and the intellect. According to Jung, the phallus is the source of all life or the great, magic creator who is worshiped everywhere. People in ancient Babylon believed that dreaming about an oversized penis meant that the dreamer had no rivals; they also believed that if the dreamer was eating his own penis in the dream, one of the dreamer’s sons would die. (See also “Vagina.”)
Essential ability to display my natural creativity and firmly assert my power by standing up for my beliefs
If so many objects are phallic and represent the penis in dreams, does the phallus itself never represent anything else? It seems on the whole unlikely; it is such a strong image that it usually seems simply to be itself, though it may not always be peculiar to the dreamer — that is, it may not represent the phallus of the dreamer, but the general capacity of man to create; and there is no reason therefore why in principle it should not represent other means of creation, the creation of art, for instance. However, a dream of an actual phallus in action (as it were) is so specifically sexual that it is almost always to be regarded simply as an expression of sleeping sensuality.