Dream symbols beginning with letter C

As an instrument for recoding and keeping track of past experiences and memories, the camera can symbolize the process that lets you relive or review experiences. It may be keeping track of your self growth or identity if appearing in several dreams. The eye of the camera never lies, so it can symbolize truth; […]

Camp/Camper/Camping

People, Characters · Places · Dream Dictionary

Wanting to be more in touch with nature; being independent or self-sufficient; self-survival; recognition of basic needs; a quest initiation. Camping vehicles may symbolize a gypsy adventure attitude; holding open the option of moving on if a situation, doesn’t fit you. A tent city may symbolize a sense of homelessness lack of belonging, loss of […]

Canal

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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Cancer

As a malignant growth, it may be a disguise for some terrifying event or memory that you’ve incorporated into your unconscious, possibly repressed, that’s eating away at you; some aspect of your life that is out of control; anxiety about the disease.
Consider the symbolism for the body area where the cancer occurs. Persons with cancer […]

Candle

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, […]

Canyon

Places · Nature · Dream Dictionary

Fertility; female genitals; the depth of the unconscious, especially if there is a stream flowing in the canyon; the passage of time; inner nature or history revealed. Negatively it can convey being walled in, stuck. Grand Canyon is an archetypal expression of Mother Earth, and the aspect of mothering that can be overwhelming.

Car, Automobile

Vehicles · Dream Dictionary

Often your body, or your way of moving through life approaching situations, although it can also represent someone else. It may be a message to shift gears. It you are in the backseat of the car, are you being backseat driver, or are you taking a backseat to someone else? Are you directing your life […]

Cards/Playing Card Tarot

As with all games, card games can symbolize camaraderie; team or partner cooperation; competition. It may give you clues about your strategy or behavior in a waking situation. Your opponents, or partners, are aspects of yourself whom you will need to deal with to be more successful in the game of life.

Depending on […]

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Castle

With its moat and towers, a castle can symbolize an aspect of yourself that’s walled off or on the watch for attack; your psychological defenses (is it strong or crumbling?). How limited is your psychological or emotional movement, your choice of direction? How powerful or vulnerable do you feel; are you secure or under […]

Castrate/Castration

If you are male, most likely you won’t dream of your actual castration, but will dream of other images, possibly double images, that face damage. Consider especially any games where balls are used, nuts and eggs are eaten, rotted, or destroyed. These, or animal castration, dreams deal with issues of your basic identity; your […]

Cat/Kitten

Animals · Dream Dictionary

Instinctual energy that is been tamed and is relatively close to consciousness; feminine power or energy; the feminine archetype; the immature or coy feminine (kitten); female genitals. Other characteristics or aspects of yourself or another that cats may symbolize include: devouring or playful:snugly or independent; graceful; lazy or pouncing; stalking; patient; snide. Traditionally cats […]

Catacomb

Places · Dream Dictionary

Your path to the inner world; finding the way through your psyche and or the fear that you will get lost therein; buried or ancient attitudes or training.

See labyrinth and tomb.

Caught

Psychically immobilized; limited choices; guilt issues (fear of being caught); sexual issues caught in act; trapped by your innocence or lack of knowledge from your past.
See trapped.

Cave

In Jungian terms, a cave symbolizes the unconscious (dark secret). To enter and explore is to gain the process of awareness or transformation or individuation. As a dark place to enter or leave, cave is also a symbol of the womb, and can represent mother; the feminine the vagina; sex; the birth process. In […]

Cellar

House · Buildings · Dream Dictionary

To dream of being in a cold, damp cellar, you will be oppressed by doubts. You will lose confidence in all things and suffer gloomy forebodings from which you will fail to escape unless you control your will. It also indicates loss of property.
To see a cellar stored with wines and table stores, you will […]

Cemetery

To dream of being in a beautiful and well-kept cemetery, you will have unexpected news of the recovery of one whom you had mourned as dead, and you will have your title good to lands occupied by usurpers.
To see an old bramble grown and forgotten cemetery, you will live to see all your loved ones […]

Chased/Chasing

One of the most frequent types of recurrent nightmare or anxiety dream, being chased sometimes can be traced back to waking situations in which you felt caught or vulnerable, acted passively, or in which you gave in.

Some researches connect it to a stressful situation dating from childhood or adolescence, the memory of which […]

Cheat, cheating, cheated

To dream of a spouse or partner cheating on you may simply indicate that you are feeling insecure about the relations ship (consciously or unconsciously) . Or it could reflect suspicions you have about your partner’s possible infidelity. Of course this doesn’t necessarily mean that your suspicions are justified.
In some cases it could also be […]

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Chess

Mastery; achievement; the need or ability to tackle demanding intellectual activities or to think through your actions before moving toward your goals; black and white thinking; the confrontation of opposites.

See games.

Chicken

Animals · Dream Dictionary

Historically chickens have been favorite sacrificial tokens, so your dream could symbolize a request for a message, or for propitiation.
Could there be something you are being cowardly or chicken about? Are you being warned not to count your chickens until they are hatched. Perhaps you are feeling anxious about the consequences of some action. […]

Child/ Children

People, Characters · Dream Dictionary

If not your own child, it may represent your inner child; unfinished growth processes within you; a childish part of you that is reacting to a waking situation. It can represent your own child and wishes for that child; perceptions about your child; your own childhood needs awakened by actions of your real child.

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Choke/Choking

If choking on something, what is hard to swallow? Is someone trying to stuff something down your throat? You may be trying to cut off the expression of emotions, especially anger or sadness (all choked up). Choking someone else suggests feelings of aggression or, more benevolently, perhaps you are just trying to stop a […]

Christmas Tree

If your dream occurs in December, it may refer to expected pleasures or responsibilities or anxieties you have about the upcoming holiday. If not in December, it may symbolize family celebration; connectedness; demands; anxiety about family relationships; the passage of time; cycles. Do you need to be more of a Santa to yourself, supplying those […]

Church

Buildings · Dream Dictionary

To dream of seeing a church in the distance, denotes disappointment in pleasures long anticipated.
To enter one wrapt in gloom, you will participate in a funeral. Dull prospects of better times are portended.

Circle

A â€œmagicâ€ circle, or circular action, may relate to a developing secret. If you are in the center, it may indicate that you are beginning to acknowledge what is holy or sacred within yourself. It can represent a safe place, one that wards off danger when you are inside; a place that is uniquely […]

Cliff

Nature · Dream Dictionary

Have you come to the edge or boundary of a situation and need to consider a change of direction? Perhaps a waking situation suggests danger or unfinished business or that you would made it to the heights. Do you now have, or is it, the time to consider a wider perspective? If you are […]

Clock

The passage of time cycles. If it has a circular face, which is emphasized, it may represent a form of the mandala (Self). A huge, heavy clock suggest the stability or burdens of time; possibly a looking deadline. Consider the symbolism of particular number or time if emphasized. Are you out of time with […]

Clothes/Clothing

Attitudes and levels of consciousness; your persona or some aspect of it; a need for attention or to conceal your true self. Work clothes may refer to a persona or attitude with respect to work or business, or may identify a dream as related to your occupation. If you are changing your style of clothing, […]

Coffin, Casket

Coffin or Casket as a object that goes into the earth symbolizes the Earth Mother and womb symbol. Consequently putting someone to rest represents need to end a situation or relationship. Symbolically speaking coffin or casket represent end of one life and opening of another. Coffin is sometimes reminder of a desire to get rid […]

Colors

More than half of our dream are in color, and the longer the dream, the greater are its changes of being in color. However, our recall of dream colors fades even more rapidly than memory of their content. Colors can symbolize moods or emotional processes; but specific color symbolism exists, and has been used, […]

Compass

A need for direction or guidance; a signal that it is time to check your direction or goals, which could be associated with a sense of wandering or drifting in your life, or of following another’s plan for you.

See direction

Court/Courtroom

If you are in court, consider, first, what role you play: judge, attorney, the accused, a witness, a jury members; spectator. It could be related to your ability to make judgments or decisions; aspects of your behavior attitudes you think need defending; some person or situation you need to defend. If you are the […]

Crash, Crashing

Dreaming of a crash or a vehicle that is about to crash can be interpreted as that some aspect of your life (emotions and desires) is out of control, and losing control. Maybe you need to crash, take a rest. Is there something in your life where you feel like you crashed the party? Is […]

Crocodile

Nature · Animals · Dream Dictionary

Crocodiles in your dream can represent danger or aggresiveness. If the crocodiles are concealed beneath the water they might also symbolize hidden animal instincts. Some psychologists say that crocodiles can represent the “devouring” aspect of one’s mother.

Cross

Spiritual beliefs or feelings; connection with the divine; the developing spiritual aspects of your life; connection with your inner Christ/love consciousness. More generally, it is a symbol of the tree of life, or world tree, and may represent a stabilizing influence in your life, or a need to find one. It also can symbolize emotional […]

Crying