Egg in a dream: meaning in Ibn Sirin, al-Nabulsi and Ibn Shahin

79 passages from 4 sources, quoted as written, every one linked to its page.

Freud and Jung, a separate view

Thus Chnum, the “moulder,” the “potter,” the “architect,” moulds his egg upon the potter’s wheel, for he is “the immortal growth,” “the reproduction of himself and his own rebirth, the creator of the egg, which emerged from the primitive waters.”

Carl Jung, Psychology of the Unconscious (1916) / Collected Papers (1917), Psychology of the Unconscious, ch. V Symbolism of the Mother and of Rebirth

Kinds and conditions of Egg

eggs

Abd al-Ghani al-Nabulsi, Ta'tir al-Anam fi Ta'bir al-Manam

In a place or in a vessel: women or slave-girls.

Ta'tir al-Anam fi Ta'bir al-Manam, p. 26

So whoever sees that his hen has laid eggs, then a child will be born to him.

Ta'tir al-Anam fi Ta'bir al-Manam, p. 26

Boiled food (bird, meat, eggs, and the like)

Abd al-Ghani al-Nabulsi, Ta'tir al-Anam fi Ta'bir al-Manam

It in a dream signifies swift provisions and profitable merchandise.

Ta'tir al-Anam fi Ta'bir al-Manam, p. 335

Boiled vegetables indicate the settling of debt, the hastening of what was deferred, joys and delights, or else worries, sorrows, and destitution.

Ta'tir al-Anam fi Ta'bir al-Manam, p. 335

egg dishes

Ibn Shahin al-Zahiri, al-Isharat fi Ilm al-Ibarat

As for the dishes that are made from eggs, they are interpreted in four aspects: good, benefit, marriage, and a change of temperament. And it is said that whatever is eaten of prepared eggs, if it is with something sweet, then it is praiseworthy, and if it is with something sour, then it is blameworthy. And among them are those who disliked eating it because of its yellowness.

al-Isharat fi Ilm al-Ibarat, p. 240

brooding eggs

attributed to Ibn Sirin, Muntakhab al-Kalam fi Tafsir al-Ahlam

So whoever sees that he is brooding over eggs, then he will obtain women and remain with them.

Muntakhab al-Kalam fi Tafsir al-Ahlam, pp. 759–762

72 more passages on this symbol are in the database and used by the interpreter.