Looking at the gorgon turns the onlooker to stone, so dream books read it as a truth or emotion too intense to face head-on. Tradition notes that the hero only succeeds by looking at it indirectly — through reflection.
When this appeared in your dream, what were you feeling?
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.