Last night in my dream I was in a hospital, and my left leg was gone from a few inches above the knee. I was holding a prosthesis and having trouble putting it on. I was also concerned about whether the end of my leg was healed, since I couldn't see it. A doctor came to help me, and after I had the prosthetic leg attached I saw something metal on the floor. With difficulty, I bent down and picked up a large padlock about the size of a tissue box. I also found a normal-sized padlock that might be found on a shed. The doctor quickly took both. Then, writing directly on a wall, the doctor drew a rectangle, and inside he or she wrote, "Occidental Lost & Found," and began a list starting with the items I'd found.

Some other details: there was some feeling in the left leg, but parts of my toes had none. The attaching end of the prosthesis was black and had an indentation in the center to accept a screw or dowel. That caused me to imagine what the end of my leg looked like, and I imagined a metal rod anchored in the bone somehow to be inserted into the prosthesis. When I woke up, I still had a sensation of pressure in my real leg where the prosthesis would have been attached.

Your legs support you and take you where you want to go, so dreaming about a false leg can mean that you feel that there is something you are using for support is not real or substantial (it's become a "crutch") or you are taking a direction in life that isn't really "you".

Not being able to see the end of your leg and not having feeling in your toes (at the end of your leg) - possibly worry about where or how you are going to "end up".

The padlocks can represent aspects of yourself that you have had to lock away - maybe to conform to others expectations of you or to your own expectations of yourself.

"Occidental" sounds like accidental - so could have to refer to parts of yourself that you have lost accidently and now want to recover, but it could also have to do with occidental (the west) as opposed to oriental (the east) - the east being associated more with intuitiveness and spirituality, and the west more associated with reason and order. So it could also be about the need to conform vs. the need to be an individual and listen to your instincts and your intuition.