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Breaking Things Dream Meaning

To dream that you break something, like a window or a chair, indicates that changes lie ahead and that you want to change the direction in which your life is heading. Alternatively, it suggests that you need to take things more slowly.

If you drop or smash things in your dreams, this indicates that you are letting go of—or need to let go of— some project, relationship, person or idea. Be sure to analyze the significance of what is being dropped or smashed. Another explanation for dreams of breaking things is that you are expressing some dismay or regret at how you let something slip through fingers. [1]

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  1. The Element Encyclopedia by Theresa Cheung [Back to dream]

What does Breaking things mean in a dream?


To dream that you break something, like a window or a chair, indicates that changes lie ahead and that you want to change the direction in which your life is...

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If you dream that you break an object or sentimental link, it means that you are leaving a stage of your life behind. Something is coming to an end and...

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An ending (such as of a process, relationship, or team effort).A transition, or a feeling that something will never be the same again.Accidentally breaking an object can represent a feeling...

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To dream of someone breaking into a house or other building is actually lucky! It foretells an increase of wealth or worldly goods.If you dreamed of breaking into someplace, you...

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To dream that you are breaking up with someone is a signal that there are feelings or situations in your life that you want to be rid of. Or, it...

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Organizing things (such as into categories, stacks, containers, or folders) can represent: Control or organization.A logical mental process.Trying to make sense of or understand something.Prejudging or labelling people or things.Breaking...

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Someone breaking a commitment, agreement, or promise can represent feeling or fearing: Someone being dishonest in real life.Breaking a promise to yourself.God or “life” breaking a promise or not “delivering”...

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Very important things are made out of glass. Amongst them are windows that allow sunshine into our homes, drinking glasses, seeing glasses, etc. Glass makes our lives more comfortable and...

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Breaking away from a situation or relationship, a way of doing things. Seeking independence by “leaving home.”

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A perceived physical, emotional, or mental threat in your life.The idea of an intrusion into your personal boundaries or space.The idea of piercing or breaking through (such as breaking through...

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Breaking loose of frozen emotions with a mighty jolt; opportunity to make changes before the freeze sets in again. Rejected parts of emotional self temporarily breaking free.See Disaster.

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The need to get something on the sly. Greed (you are “breaking into” yourself). You can’t trust people around you. Somebody is violating the dreamer’s boundaries—emotionally or physically (another person...

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To dream that you break something (except for breaking a bone), indicates that changes are ahead for you. You want to change the direction that your life is headed, or...

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Seeing an intruder breaking into your house or hurting you or someone else can be a very frightening dream. Depending on the level of fear this dream is, at times,...

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If you dream of getting a ticket for doing something wrong or breaking the law, then this signifies your inner critic or judge punishing you for breaking your own moral...

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To dream about a church steeple suggests that you need you need to get more involved in things around you. You may need to give more of yourself in personal...

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lucky numbers: 05-12-16-18-26-28breaking, a: wil be interrupted by obstacles until you get out of the situation. rowing in a scull: wil soon meet a new love interest. with one oar:...

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also see Animals1- Historically, a wax seal confirmed authority and power. It was also a symbol of identity.Nowadays in dreams, it is much more likely to signify legality or correct...

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If you wake up before being caught, eaten or beaten, you need to ask yourself what you need to wake up to. What are you missing or avoiding in waking...

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The fear of a family breaking up, or a romantic attachment being severed, is sometimes warned of by the dream of dismemberment, which means a breaking up.If you sometimes feel...

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A piece, sliver, or other fragment can represent: Part of a whole (such as one member of a group, or one event in a series).The idea of small.The idea of...

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Vision: Looking at something broken or breaking something: your present pleasant situation will take a turn for the worse due to your own actions. Breaking porcelain: the “old” is swept...

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A saw (or the act of sawing) could represent: Division, separation, or destruction.The process of dividing something into smaller pieces or sections (such as deconstructing a problem in order to...

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(arb. Eid-ul Fitr, Lesser Bairam, Ramadan, 1st of Shawwal) Witnessing the feast of breaking the fast of Ramadan in a dream means overcoming depression, dispelling stress, regaining joy, ease in...

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To put ice into a drink indicates that perhaps the dreamer is spending too much time indulging in pleasures and not enough on practical matters. However, to be surrounded by...

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(see Animal by type, Burial, Carcass, Cemeteiy, Death)Breaking something down into the most simple, forthright form (e.g., the “bare bones”).A large pile of bones indicates contaminating circumstances that threaten to...

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An issue of trust, integrity, support, or self-support.A feeling or fear of abandonment on some level in your life, including physical (such as your best friend relocating to another state),...

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(Fruit) In season, seeing an apricot in a dream means money. Seeing apricot out of season in a dream means illness.A fruitbearing apricot tree in a dream represents a rich...

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In dreams, dams (the kind that hold back water) represent the dreamer’s pent-up emotions.If you dream of visiting a dam, you have very strong emotions (possibly sexual) that are raging...

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Being in an accident (such as in a car or airplane) can represent feeling or fearing: a surprise, a threat, something catastrophic that’s out of your control, or things not...

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lucky numbers: 12-22-28-34-36-40foodstuff being: loss in business through your misrepresentation of yourself. other’s things: wil have hard times if you take on more burdens than your own. things: future disgrace....

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Vision: Single people seeing china in a dream means they are soon to be married. Breaking dishes: expect family quarrels or unhappiness. Buying new china: your family or household will...

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Symbol: The lamp is related to light.Vision: If a bright light is burning in the lamp: a happy event is waiting for you—a project is proceeding without a hitch. Turning...

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A piercing is a form of adornment through what appears to be painful means.The fact that the adornment itself is a reminder of the breaking of the flesh that it...

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(1) What is quaking, or in danger of falling apart, may be you or your life. Is your marriage breaking up, or your business? Or do you need to look...

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lucky numbers: 10-19-26-34-48-49back of your home, at the: disputes between sisters turns malicious. blocked, a: a determined denial of sight. breaking a glass: trouble is ahead; form your response. broken,...

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also see Drugs1- When we dream of ‘making a hash’ of things, we arc making things difficult for ourselves, and are perhaps creating a problem where there isn’t one. We...

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Emotional isolation and separation is breaking up.

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lucky numbers: 02-05-17-24-32-53buying in: are blessed with good friends. of articles: avoid squandering money, when a dol ar wil do. selling things in: profit becomes greater when multiplied. sending or...

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Guard your secrets which are in danger, especially should you dream of breaking it.

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Not a good sign; if you dream of breaking it, misfortune is portended.

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1- When a machine of any sort appears in a dream, it is often highlighting the body’s automatic functions such as breathing, heart beating, elimination - those mechanical drives towards...

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Tool for new growth preparation; used for breaking up limits, weeding out the negative.

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Used to spiritually groom by breaking away the undesirable from one’s life; see “grooming”

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To dream of breaking any of your limbs suggests you are not managing a situation as well as you could.

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Accumulating, saving, or stocking up on things can represent an actual, desired, or feared: Situation of having plenty or too much of something (such as money, possessions, or love).Shortage of...

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1. The potential for total destruction; Matt. 3:3;2. Ground-breaking ministry; Acts 8:5-6,

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Vehicles are so much a part of modern life that as a symbol in a dream they can represent the ways in which your outer or social experience in the...

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String connecting or binding things together can represent: Relationships, bonds, or communication.Feeling constricted or restrained (as in “feeling tied down”).String coming unwound can represent: a situation you perceive to be...

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Crashing actually suggests breaking up and signifies, therefore, a difficulty in remaining whole or complete in a spiritual sense.

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If you dream of someone breaking up with you, you may have low self-esteem or feel alienated from others. This could also be a straight-forward fear of rejection.

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Freedom, breaking with rigid convention. This dream usually appears in times of social pressure.

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General Meaning: Your ability to sustain and strengthen yourself through your own will.Positive: Before the days of airplanes and cars, your best bet was to find yourself a healthy horse...

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Being squeezed to the breaking point. Check out pressurized situations in your life and loosen up. Force, holding.

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The purpose of a shelf is to hold things. Consider the various reasons one might do so. Most objects put on a shelf are for display or to have ready...

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Clean up your mess. Shoveling dirt can mean planting new seeds for growth.If snow, breaking up frozen emotions.

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(see Knife, Weapons)Jung felt that this represented the conscious ego seeking freedom and singularity, separate from one’s place of origin or core group.A tool that can help or harm. Just...

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Beware of false friends when you dream of a snake or a serpent. In some districts, it is held to mean the breaking off of a valued friendship, perhaps by...

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These nasty crea- tures in your dream sig- nify a significant time for breaking off an unreward- ing relationship which is retarding your progress.

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Changing external situations, or internal response to situations; our moods and emotions.The following idioms give indications of the meaning. Idioms: sunny disposition; things don’t look so bnght; things will brighten...

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Almost everything in our world that is organic in nature emits dust as a natural part of its aging or breakdown process. We consider that all things come to dust...

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The ability to accomplish things or figure things out.Connection.You or your mind, brain, or mental ability.Communicating with others by computer can represent actual or imagined communications with those people.Your computer...

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1. Tendency to magnify or distort things, making problems worse than they are—or less than they are.2. Look at something closer.3. Don’t make things bigger than they are.

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To see or hang an ornament in your dream, represents the things in your life and the things you do to make you feel good about yourself.It is also symbolic...

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The unconscious mind may be hinting to you that the time for “throwing out” unnecessary things is at hand.The garbage in your dream could also represent those things from your...

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Any dream about appointments - whether making, breaking, changing, running late, etc - is a warning to alter some secret plan you have been scheming about, because it won’t work...

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1. Unceasing work or business;2. Large Church; And they continued steadfastly in the apostles’ doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers (Acts 2:42)

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1. A solution to problems, often domestic.2. Use caution in af­fairs to avoid carelessly breaking vows or promises.3. Reverse: unswerving integrity and fidelity (to break a vow).

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Closing things in or opening things up.

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lucky numbers: 07-29-41-40-44-49breaking a: disappointment in some cherished hope. drinking from a: do not react, proceed with calm; there are serious flaws in your fun. holding, with both hands: your...

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When this dream occurs review what are the truly “precious” and “important” things that you want to take with you and decide what you can safely let go of to...

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Pimples are an omen of illness.To dream of picking them prophesies breaking a leg.

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Dreams of an astronaut symbolize that you are breaking through barriers, shooting for the stars, and realizing that even the sky is not the limit.

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The eyes are the windows of the soul, so the saying goes. They are also the dominant sense with which human beings navigate their existence. There are many things that...

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Provision for spiritual livelihood, words that give life, i.E. Breaking bread together in friendship and unity

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(See ‘Ashilrii, Feast of Breaking the fast, Feast of Immolation)

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(See Feast of Breaking the Fast, Feast of Immolation)

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(See Feast of Breaking the Fast, Feast of Immolation)

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lucky numbers: 19-22-31-32-43-46communicating orders: wil be grateful for a service rendered to you. obeying: wil receive a grave injustice. taking: cannot accept that which others think needs to be listened...

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Any dream involvement with appointments, whether making, breaking, changing, discussing, or what have you, is a warning to alter, or better still, give up, some secret plan you have been...

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Dreams of a body bag represent a cover up for a death, ending or releasing process. Perhaps breaking up is hard to do, so you’d rather not face it.

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A modest but encouraging advance in either— or both—your love and business affairs is the message in a dream of the surf breaking on the shore.

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lucky numbers: 02-13-15-26-29-35ballpoint, a: are intent on sending your message at the best possible cost to you. blunt, writing with a: are unaware of the negative impression you give. breaking...

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(See Feast of Breaking the Fast, Feast of Immolation)

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