Hardly a pleasant realization. I concluded that the Nazi represented what is known as the Shadow, that part of my personality that I deny. Certainly, it was and is humbling to admit that I can be rigid, dictatorial, and manipulative. Yet the denial of such potential makes it that much more dangerous. I needed to find the Nazi within me and, as the dream stated at the end, needed to redeem him.
Dreams can make statements about physical health as well.
My friend Maureen Potts writes in her book The Three-edged Sword of a dream she had while she was in a period of remission from lupus. The dream was of her skiing with wolves running in the forest nearby. Only after recalling that the Latin word for wolf is lupus did she recognize that her unconscious was warning her to not become blind to the fact that the lupus was still a part of her. Study your dreams. Keep a dream journal.