The ego in a dream — bruised, inflated or on display — stands for your sense of self and how it wants to be seen. Dream books ask what it is defending.
Where in your waking life have you met something like this lately?
My Cosmic Code has a private dream journal. Write a dream down and the app picks out the symbols in it, shows what dream books say about them and, over time, which words recur across your entries. The journal is stored on your device only.