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Dream Symbol: Bridge




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Dream meaning: Bridge

Bridge Going under a bridge suggests delving into unconscious material; a need or fear of dealing with instinctual material. Crossing a bridge over water may be a way to avoid unconscious material or may symbolize using the intellect to arrive at a decision or behavior; sexual intercourse. A bridge can symbolize a need or willingness to: overcome obstacles; make a connection between one point or idea and another; make a transition between two conditions in your life (unite the past and present).

 

It can symbolize a crossroads or a decision you need to make. A collapsing bridge may represent repressed feelings, or can indicate that your psyche took some incident more seriously than you did consciously.

 

Consider how easy or difficult it is to cross the bridge and its condition (rocky or stable, small or narrow). Are you closing off alternatives you may need in the future (burning bridges behind you). Or are you avoiding a decision, waiting to cross a bridge.

 

A rainbow is a common symbol for bridging heaven and earth. Since a dream itself is a bridge between the conscious and unconscious, a bridge, or activity on the bridge, may symbolize your dreaming or dreamwork process.

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Tower
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Death/Dead


15 Personal Dreams and Interpretations so far ↓

  • kim // Jan 16, 2012 at 8:42 am

    I dreamed it was snowing and I went over a familiar bridge to get something from the other side (happened to be liquor :p) and it started to snow. It was pretty covered on the way back and I was driving in my Dad’s truck. I hit a dip or a bump on the bridge and the bridge broke. I got to the other side but everyone else who wanted to cross basically couldn’t. There was one guy who figured out how to do it and he made it across. What does this dream mean?

  • Meredith // Jan 8, 2012 at 9:13 pm

    I have these repetetive dreams…..I’m in a car, always the passenger, and we always come to a bridge that’s submerged in water. I’m always afraid to go across, knowing we won’t make it, but in every circumstance, the driver attempts to cross anyway. HOWEVER…the dreams always end there. I don’t know if I make it across or not…..
    The only time this dream was a little different from the others, was one where I was a passenger, and we were driving on mountain roads (my brother was driving, in others, it’s my mom), and it was stormy, and I knew we were driving to a bridge….and in the dream, I remembered my other dreams, and started screaming for him to turn around, because I knew what was ahead. This dream ended before I got to the bridge.

  • Brian // Dec 28, 2011 at 3:13 am

    We are on a trip and I am riding an elephant into the jungle along with many other tourists. I am given the largest of the elephants to ride and as we take off, this elephant I’m on walks under two bridges (no water just walking on a path under them) and he is so tall I think I’ll be knocked off from hitting the bottom of the bridge so I lean all the way back and just barely make it under but not a scrape. I think I might fall off this elephant he is so large but he keeps kind of looking back at me to grab the correct opening in the “harness” he is wearing and once I do I feel more steady and secure.

  • Justin // Aug 21, 2011 at 5:13 am

    I am driving down a two lane road in this dream. I am about to come up on Castle Bridge and know I have a fear of them. Before the bridge there is a very sharp curve so you practically run up on it all of a sudden. My car crosses the bridge but only because of the high rate of speed I was going. I saw that there were many cars in this muddy sea from the land on the other side. There I stood, watching this event in which I saw the cop pull my body from the water, as well as the severed head of a drowned woman. I was a ghost, just watching. And then I awoke.

  • Robert // Aug 9, 2011 at 12:01 pm

    I was walking across a very long rope bridge, and wrapped in the rope are dead people, some decapitated. Then this guy comes running towards me. I think he was a murderer. I ran back to the side of the bridge I came from. The guy’s name was Malachi and he chased me with a chainsaw and the dream continued as a chase dream.

  • John // Jul 30, 2011 at 12:24 pm

    There’s a big rain storm. Muddy roads and such from all the rain. I see other cars struggling with avoiding the flooding waters over the roads. I’m out with two others but suddenly I realize it’s time to go to work. We find ourselves on a small wooden bridge, in my car. The bridge is made of just two planks (for each wheel) but of course I know I must drive across. The car nearly falls off. The others are standing on the other side watching as I navigate this very narrow bridge. This is a recurring dream.

  • Ahlam // Jun 20, 2011 at 5:42 pm

    I dreamed about crossing stiff bridge over water. I think its a wide pond. The water is unclear green. My uncle told me not to cross the bridge because maybe I will fall, but I didn’t heed his advice. Instead I intend cross the bridge by myself.

  • Ahne // May 13, 2011 at 3:10 pm

    I dreamt about a bridge. My sister and I were walking and talking but when my head turned back there was NO one behind me and in my dream I thought my sister fell into the river. Then I jumped in the river too. Then I woke up it and realized it was just a dream. In my dream, I dreamt that I was dreaming.

  • DBB // Dec 2, 2010 at 4:24 pm

    In this dream I was crossing a bridge in my car and was being really careful not the ran over the dead bodies that were lying on the bridge. I remember swerving and driving slow, trying to to see who were the people that where laying on the bridge.

  • Lauren // May 11, 2010 at 4:56 am

    My lover and I stop the car, get out and stand with our arms around each other under a arched brick bridge - not large and very old, like something that you see in the European countryside but not Australia. We think we see his wife at the top of the bridge to the right trying to spot us but pull back under so she can’t see us. Then there are 3 people watching us. My lover turns his back on them and pretends he can’t see them.

  • Vanessa // Mar 31, 2010 at 12:38 pm

    Driving Backwards.
    In my dream I am giving my boyfriend’s sister a ride in a nice car. It was at night I got on the expressway, it started to rain. The express way was packed with cars and I tried to get off but there were too many cars and construction. My boyfriend’s sister took the wheel while sitting on the passenger’s side and started to drive us backwards. As we were driving backwards we passed under a bridge made of ice with cracks in it - it looked as if it were about to break. It was also shaped like a dome. She drove backwards into a parking space and the dream ended.

  • Patrick // Mar 14, 2010 at 10:17 am

    I dream that I cross a tall arched bridge by foot. The bridge is very narrow (about 10 feet wide), the climb is 45 degrees, the bridge is about 400 feet high, and swaying a lot. Then when i arrive at the top, I always fall off, the only time I didn’t fall was when I lay flat on my stomach in a star shape. It freaks me out every time. Anyone else have this dream?

  • Discovery Coffin // Oct 4, 2009 at 8:36 am

    I am watching a person that’s discovered an ornate coffin. They dug up coffin and a wide area that reveals 3-D sculptural figures that were buried around the coffin. The person is very excited about their discovery and is some how communicating without talking and I know they are telling me there are others buried in what looks like my yard. The idea that this space could be a cemetery scared me and I woke up from this dream. Why did I wake up? Why wasn’t I able to see what else was in the yard?

  • Forest Fire Bridge // Oct 4, 2009 at 8:27 am

    On a dark, clear night I am driving my car on an deserted road when I see a forest fire burning ahead …I turn my car around to avoid the fire ..and end up outside my car trying to walk across a foot bridge ..its covered with snow and I’m holding on to a top railing and start walking, half way across I see an icy patch, its very narrow..one slip means going into the icy water below..I stop and can not continue because I’m scared to cross over the ice fearing that I may fall into the icy river below..I am aware I am alone, I don’t want to fall, I know I can not turn around, I feel unable to move. I wake up. My dream felt real..like I was there stranded on the bridge with no one to rescue me. I don’t know my fate..I’d like to know why I woke up..did I make it across the bridge? did I fall? why couldn’t I see the ending?

  • Marnis // Feb 27, 2008 at 2:28 pm

    I cross a bridge but a car behind me blows up and crashes into the bridge. The bridge collapsesand I start falling and land in dark water. The water is thick and deep black and I start to drown. I get pulled out by a talking bear who calls me a lucky survivor. I then start swimming easily in the water.

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