Longtime symbolism include death; spiritual darkness. Related activities of the night sexual or otherwise, it therefore shares some of the same symbolism as night or moon.
It is the symbol of Athena (goddess of learning), it can relate to Wise Old Man archetypes. Some of our idioms suggest its relationship to wisdom or balancing intellect or […]
Dream symbols matching: 'butterfly,humming bird, owl'
Owl
Dream symbol categories: Animals · Dream Dictionary
Eagle
Dream symbol categories: Animals · Dream Dictionary
Soaring; free; majestic; grandeur; independence; height; one’s inner spirit or spirituality. Are you flying high? The eagle is a bird of light, messages made clear as opposed to birds of the night or shadow. As a solar bird, is symbolizes self-renewal. In the Middle Ages and in alchemy, it was equated with the phoenix, also […]
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Death/Dead
Dream symbol categories: Actions, Feelings, Conditions · Dream Dictionary
Transformation; there is now room in the psyche for a new way of life; a need to revise your self-image; the end of one type of inner personification. When we are turly about to die, our dreams contain symbols or images other than those of our death. However, as we age, we may explore death […]
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book
Dream symbol categories: Objects · Dream Dictionary
A book can represent knowledge or things you have learned. If the books is old, it can refer to wisdom, or learnings passed down from previous generations.
If the book is associated with negative feelings in your dream, it may possibly be a symbol for the opinions of others, or superficial knowledge.
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Nest
Dream symbol categories: Places · Nature · Dream Dictionary
To dream of seeing birds’ nests, denotes that you will be interested in an enterprise which will be prosperous. For a young woman, this dream foretells change of abode.
To see an empty nest, indicates sorrow through the absence of a friend.
Hens’ nests, foretells that you will be interested in domesticities, and children will be cheerful […]
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Nails
Dream symbol categories: Objects · Dream Dictionary
To see nails in your dreams, indicates much toil and small recompense.
To deal in nails, shows that you will engage in honorable work, even if it be lowly.
To see rusty or broken nails, indicates sickness and failure in business.
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Academy
Dream symbol categories: Buildings · Dream Dictionary
To visit an academy in your dreams, denotes that you will regret opportunities that you have let pass through sheer idleness and indifference.
To think you own, or are an inmate of one, you will find that you are to meet easy defeat of aspirations. You will take on knowledge, but be unable to rightly […]
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Deer
Dream symbol categories: Animals · Dream Dictionary
To dream of a deer suggests some aspect of yourself that you keep private or someone in your life very dear to you. If deer is chased or under attack it suggests some situation in your life where you are threatened and must defend your self, but feeling helpless. A deer in dream can also […]
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Water
Dream symbol categories: Nature · Dream Dictionary
Water in a dream most often symbolizes emotion, mood, or feelings of vitality. The feeling or action of the water as well as how we relate to it in the dream can also represent how we relate to the emotion that has triggered the dream. For example one can have the feeling of drowning in […]
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Tomb
Dream symbol categories: Places · Dream Dictionary
A need to bury old ideas or attitudes. Connection to or need to acknowledge your ancestors or heritage, attitudes about death.
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Storm
Dream symbol categories: Nature · Dream Dictionary
Negatively, a storm can represent unexpressed fears or seething emotions, especially anger or rage. Depression or turmoil or attack (take them by storm). Knowledge or awareness possibly suppressed in waking, that suggests a devastation shock or loss. In its positive aspects, it can represent the rising of spirit within.
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Rescue, Rescuing
Dream symbol categories: Actions, Feelings, Conditions · Dream Dictionary
Coping; successfully combating or acknowledging certain emotions symbolized by the person rescused; feeling lost or overwhelmed or inadequate and wishing to be rescued; feelings of needing to rescue a particular situation or relationship. If current, persistent fears; a comulsive need to always be rescuing or enabling someone.
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Pursued, Chased, Pursuer. Pursuing, Followed, Follow
Dream symbol categories: Actions, Feelings, Conditions · Dream Dictionary
Pursuit dreams are a fairly common type of anxiety dream. Consider what is pursuing you for clues as to whether it relates to alien aspects of yourself, primary or sexual urges, or perhaps to an inner battle with societal values. Although quite frightening, from Jungian and Gestalt points of view, the pursuer may actually be […]
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Pool, pond, lake, water
Dream symbol categories: Places · Nature · Dream Dictionary
Pools and lakes, as common places of purification or initiation, can represent a change in your way of life; emerging unconscious material that will promote growth. Like all bodies of water, it can represent the womb; pregnancy; a desire or need to return to mothering waters and be nourished or escape responsibility; knowledge that is […]
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Pearls
Dream symbol categories: Nature · Objects · Dream Dictionary
As a treasure from the sea, the pearl often represents the Self for women. Associated with water (unconscious), pearls often represent inner knowledge, insight from out depths.
When Aphrodite, Greek goddess of love, rose from the sea, she carried a pearl in her hand, so pearls can represent feminine wisdom, especially about love and relationships. Dream […]