Dreaming of grandparents has meaning of heritage, ancient or outdated characteristics or behaviors. Your personal grandfather, or any elder person may symbolize the Wise Old Man archetype, your inner spirit. Interpretation of grandparents in dream points to the message that provides needed insight or wisdom. A grandmother or elder female may represent the Great Mother […]
Dream symbols matching: 'being attacked and pulled '
Grandparent, Grandma, Grandpa
Dream symbol categories: People, Characters · Dream Dictionary
Sugar, Candy, Sweets, Chocolate
Dream symbol categories: Objects · Dream Dictionary
Sweets can represent sensual or sexual pleasure. Joys or special treats in life and sometimes a lover. They can represent indulgence, or forbidden pleasure; Goals or ambitions of various kinds.
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Sand
Dream symbol categories: Nature · Dream Dictionary
Infinity; the passing of life, sands of time, shiftlessness or instability or unreliability; avoiding or ignoring an issue bury your head in the sand.
See beach, desert.
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Quicksand
Dream symbol categories: Places · Nature · Dream Dictionary
Being stuck, overwhelmed, drawn into something dangerous; feelings of inadequacy. Deceptive because it looks like ordinary sand, quicksand can symbolize being caught unawares in an unstable situation. It can symbolize the negative aspect of the mother image devouring; sucking your life or creative energy.
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Palm, Palms (hand)
Dream symbol categories: Body Parts · Dream Dictionary
To hold something in the palm of your hand is to possess it if only temporarily. Thus, one of the symbolism of the palm of the hand refers to ownership or power or control (have someone in the palm of your hand). However, the magician palms cards to create illusion, while the gambler does it […]
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Hand or Hands
Dream symbol categories: Body Parts · Dream Dictionary
Hands connect us with people, with the world, and are used in creative projects. If emphasized in a dream, consider their position, potential action, and any special decoration for additional clues. In Jungian theory left hands symbolize feminine or receptive attributes, right hands symbolize masculine or active attributes. They are the agency of consciousness and […]
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Candle
Dream symbol categories: Objects · Dream Dictionary
Earlier times; individual light of your personality; your personal awareness; life energy; insight; spiritual awareness or knowledge; the soul; the relationship between God and man; reverence; ritual; mystery.
Candles are often used at ceremonies and may, therefore, symbolize relationships; cycles; the passage of time; creating the mood for romance; and past or present romance. Ritually used, […]
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Amusement Parks/Carnival/Disneyland
Dream symbol categories: Places · Dream Dictionary
An amusement park with people, lights, rides and games may be a call to distraction, or a signal that you need to consider adding enjoyment, expansion, and variety to your life. It may represent a current challenge yourself a little more. Consider everything in the park as expression some aspect of yourself, and have some […]
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Abandoned
Dream symbol categories: Actions, Feelings, Conditions · Dream Dictionary
If you were the one abandoned, how old were you? Check for feelings of being lost/overwhelmed regarding a current situation, possibly rooted in the past at the age you were in the dream, or a situation that began that many years ago. Otherwise, it can suggest feelings of being misguided/misled, possibly reflecting present or old […]
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Nightmare
Dream symbol categories: Actions, Feelings, Conditions · Dream Dictionary
To dream of being attacked with this hideous sensation, denotes wrangling and failure in business. For a young woman, this is a dream prophetic of disappointment and unmerited slights. It may also warn the dreamer to be careful of her health, and food.
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Canal
Dream symbol categories: Places · Dream Dictionary
Feminine symbol; the birth canal; passageway; direction; access to inner emotions or goals. How are you progressing along the canal? With ease or difficulty, guided or pulled by someone?
Some believe that dreams in which you are having difficulty traversing a canal reflect memories of your birth experience. Is your creativity momentarily stuck in its birthing?
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Snake
Dream symbol categories: Animals · Dream Dictionary
Snakes have quite complicated and varied symbolism, depending on personal experience. How is it moving, is it threatening? How many snakes? Snakes like on the medical emblem, can signal an especially healing dream. Since snakes are found in dark places and water, dream about snakes can represent magical forces, our own primal energies or instincts, […]
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Xenophobia
Dream symbol categories: People, Characters · Dream Dictionary
The appearance and particularly the fear of a person from a foreign country or culture often represents something that you fear in your own subconcious mind. Usually this is something that you have repressed, so the qualities of the foreign person may provide clues about a repressed fear that is affecting you.
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X (the letter x)
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Knife
Dream symbol categories: Objects · Dream Dictionary
Depending on how it appears in the dream, a knife can represent insight orunderstanding. Or it may symbolize destructive thoughts that have been buried inthe subconcious. Another possiblity is that the knife represents aggression,particularly male sexual aggression.