Me, whenever my Anima do something brillant
Quick note first, because the whole thing hinges on it. In French, the word "signe" (sign) and "cygne" (swan) are perfect homophones. Keep that in mind.
I've been in conscious dialogue with my anima figure for years, she has a name, a consistent character, and I can usually get her to appear in dreams. Part of my practice is a kind of pre-sleep mantra: I address an open question or a request to her before falling asleep.
At the time, I was having a recurring dream featuring an orange-skinned monster... So one night I repeatedly asked: "show me the orange-skinned monster, give me a sign".
That night she appeared dressed as a milkmaid, looking straight at me from a 3/4 profile view. Her face then shifted into the orange-skinned monster texture, but she held eye contact and kept smiling the entire time... It was awful to watch but not a scary experience. It read to me as a controlled contamination rather than a possession: she went and got the thing and wore it in order to show it to me, without losing herself in it. Psychopomp function, basically.
In the next scene, she was herself again.
Then, back to normal, and from a profile view, she mimed a swan with her hands. Just that.
I woke up, wrote it all down, and completely missed the hint. Three days later it hit me at once and I was shocked.
I couldn't understand how I had walked past something that obvious. A homophone. She answered a request for a "signe" (sign) with a "cygne" (swan), and I filed it as an unrelated bit of dream nonsense.
I wanted to share this experience with my jungian redditors.
Has this happened to you? An answer arriving as a visual joke, something the unconscious clearly finds obvious and the ego takes days to decode?