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Breathing Difficulty Dream Meaning

(Asthma) Experiencing breathing difficulties in a dream means boredom, annoyance, weariness or disgust. [1]

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  1. Islamic Dream Interpretation by Ibn Seerin [Back to dream]

What does Breathing difficulty mean in a dream?


(Asthma) Experiencing breathing difficulties in a dream means boredom, annoyance, weariness or disgust.

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Life or life force.The ability to survive or thrive.For more clues, pay attention to the quality of the breathing.Fast, shallow breathing could represent fear or stress, and a pause in...

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Breath is the most precise indication of your emotional and physical state. It could reflect a situation in which the dreamer, in real life, has trouble breathing. The cause could...

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Breathing or flowing.Life, or being alive.Survival.A cycle.Ebb and flow.An activity or process that happens automatically or subconsciously.See Breathing, Rib, Chest, Surviving

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Many people have problems breathing during sleep, even if they do not have full-blown apnea, and this can be reflected in one’s dream life.If not an apnea symptom, holding one’s...

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A person breathing fire out of their mouth symbolizes a verbal attack, Ps. 57:4

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Breathing or sustenance.Survival (physical, emotional, mental, or otherwise).Life energy.Lightness or airiness.Fluid motion, flexibility, or adaptability.Seeing only air where you expected something else could represent nothingness, emptiness, lack, or surprise somewhere...

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An obstacle dream of contrary.The bigger and more worrisome was your dreamed difficulty the smaller will be your real one.

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The ribs or ribcage might represent: Breathing or something you associate with it (life, cycles, or ebb-and-flow).Vulnerability or protection.An enclosure or something that maintains your integrity (physical, emotional, or mental).A...

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Universal Landscape: Diminished life force. Panic.Dreaming Lens: Were you breathless or gasping? Was someone else having difficulty breathing? What was the cause of the breathlessness? Was it connected to anxiety...

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May be an expression of anger towards one’s spouse; fear of or hope for breakup of marriage. Male dream: difficulty with one’s feelings. Female dream: difficulty with social extroversion and...

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Damage from a spiritual perspective can be very subtle, so to dream of an article, which is damaged, suggests some kind of difficulty or misperception.A chipped vase, for instance, might...

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A warning to avoid an involvement with inferiors which could cause you serious embarrassment, especially if the height affected your breathing.

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Experiencing breathing difficulties in a dream means boredom, annoyance, weariness or disgust.

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To dream that you are trespassing, suggests that you are forcing your beliefs on others. It may also mean that you are being a bit smothering, and need to give...

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1- A zip appearing in a dream may indicate our ability - or difficulty in maintaining relationships with other people.A stuck zip suggests a difficulty in keeping our dignity in...

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Psychological / emotional perspective: We may have been made sick or uncomfortable by a difficulty within our lives and need to pay attention to our ability to be healed.If the...

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They symbolise his method of earning his livelihood.If they are sound his livelihood will be earned without difficulty.If they are defective then it will be earned with much difficulty.

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Material aspects: An imp appearing in a dream usually foretells disorder and difficulty.The imp often has the same significance as the devil in its aspect of tormenting us, of creating...

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Psychological / emotional perspective: Many people have difficulty in expressing their emotions, so a gag in dreams may symbolize the underlying emotional difficulty that prevents us from doing so. This...

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In this nightmare with a happy ending, a child may dream that they are drowning and unable to reach the surface to breathe. Then, incredibly, just as they realize they...

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(See Adding Machine Ledger), Bookkeeping dreams may augur difficulty in love affairs, but they usuaHy point to eventual success. Difficulty in adding figures or in balancing accounts is an indication...

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The steenng wheel of a vehicle is used to change directions. Difficulty steering a vehicle down a road may reflect difficulty in changing the direction of your life or staying...

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A feeling or fear of overwhelming circumstances, helplessness, hopelessness, or loss of control, or of an important need being denied.The idea of “too much,” “going overboard” or “getting in over...

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Dreaming that you are having difficulty breathing and are in danger of dying as a result may carry important messages for the dreamer. This type of a dream experience is...

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Difficulty, indecision and doubt are the three main blocks we will come up against in any spiritual journey or quest. We will have to overcome each of these blocks at...

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Any type of fin in your dream signifies a factor in your life that is a motivational or directional force.GillIn dreams, gills may suggest highly developed spirituality; the intake of...

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1. Extreme passion, carried away.2. Expression of extreme anger (breathing fire).3. Good fortune, great riches.4. An ex­tremely annoying, destructive individual.5. Symbol of evil.

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The deeply unconscious psychobiological life processes which transformed us from a tadpole/sperm into an air- breathing frog/adult.The enormous information such sym­bols hold if we explore them gives them their power.

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If one’s uvula is swollen to the extent of blocking his mouth, or impeding his breathing in a dream, it means covetousness.Iove to hoard money, frugality, miserliness, or the nearing...

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Dreams of Lamaze symbolize that you are breathing your way through the birth of a new project or creation; finding grace as you move through the final pushes of this...

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lucky numbers: 06-08-12-13-25-32at the very edge of a: any business risks wil cause a radical change. climbing up a: wil venture into unexplored territory for the conclusion of your affairs....

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1. Overcome by life, unable to fight back.2. One needs to learn how to navigate one’s life better.3. In “over one’s head.” 4. If breathing underwater, one has returned—temporarily and...

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Dreams of resuscitation represent that you are breathing new life into an old relationship or project that you thought was dead. This might denote an unhealthy attachment, an unwillingness to...

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Psychological / emotional perspective: When facing uncertainty in waking life we very often need reassurance that we have both the courage and the daring to go ahead with a particular...

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also see Buildings1- Dreaming of a castle links us right back to the feminine principle of the enclosed and defended private space. It can represent the fantastic or perhaps difficulty...

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Dreams of a cloud symbolize a block in a relationship or business venture. This setback is temporary, keep breathing, and find your sense of well being. Consider the feeling tone....

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A defense mechanism, or an overactive defense mechanism.Vigilance.A desire or tendency to distance yourself in real life from some person, situation, or experience.See Protecting, Protected, Being, Inflammation, Breathing, Itch, Indigestion,...

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Coughing a lot can represent: A feeling or fear of having trouble expressing yourself or speaking up for yourself.Something that’s bothering you or that you refuse to accept (as in...

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First determine if you had a real breathing problem while you slept—a cold, for example. Were you feeling constricted? Were you bothered by unspoken and ambiguous thoughts that took your...

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Psychological / emotional perspective: When in waking life we need medication and either cannot take it, or have difficulty in obtaining it, our dreams will often present a way –...

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The idea of self or expressing yourself.Vulnerability (as the throat is critical for breathing, circulation, and eating).Throat problems can represent a feeling or fear of: being unable or hindered in...

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The dreamer is standing in her own way, either consciously or unconsciously keeping herself from attaining her own dreams due to fear, which can manifest as extreme caution. Look to...

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Psychological / emotional perspective: When in waking life we feel isolated, this may translate itself in dream language into being in quarantine. We are aware that we have been cut...

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People who experience nightmares may find themselves jolting awake in the middle of the night, often able to recall the terrifying dream that disrupted their sleep. Nightmares are common during...

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Deflation (such as a deflating balloon, tire, or ball) could represent: The idea of “less than before.” The ending of a process or phase.A challenge or obstacle.A downturn in mood...

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Survival instincts are the domain of this somewhat rare creature. Any reptile in a dream is connected to your deeply primitive responses to life and the basic functions such as...

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1- An ulcer is a sore that is only cured with great difficulty. Thus, to dream of one makes us aware of work which needs to be clone to heal...

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(Mill) A sugar mill in a dream represents success in the world, sufferings, burial, money, usury, the release of prisoners, a bathhouse, a lavatory, discarding what is shameful, waters, spinning,...

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To dream of seeing an adder strike, and a friend, who is dead but seems to be lying down and breathing, rises partly to a sitting position when the adder...

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Psychological / emotional perspective: From a psychological perspective the angel is the personification of the relationship with mother or mother figure and needs to be looked at as a separate...

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The reptilian brain is something that all animals on the planet share; it governs the most basic functions, such as breathing and survival instincts.If a reptile features in your dreams,...

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While we sleep, our brain constantly remains active, passing through different phases or steps. Sleepiness This first step occurs just before we fall asleep, as we transition from wakefulness into...

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1- An orgy relates to a tremendous release of energy which can take place when we give ourselves permission to access our own sexuality.This permission will often be given subconsciously...

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Unexpected difficulty has suddenly appeared.

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Unexpected difficulty has suddenly appeared.

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Travels by water; on the hands, difficulty (Gypsy).

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A difficulty taken seriously out of proportion (as in “tem­pest in a teacup”).

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The potential for chaos and difficulty is being emphasized.

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You will be given assistance in a great difficulty.

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An omen of difficulty; your love affairs will not prosper.

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Its reader will find himself in some difficulty while he will be rewarded for it.

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1- Thread in dreams represents a line of thought or enquiry. In terms of our ordinary everyday lives we perhaps need to follow that line to its end. Threading a...

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If you put on your Cap or Hat, in your dream, it signifies difficulty in your love affairs.If a Cap or Hat is given to you, then you will marry...

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Well-known symbol for fighting.Folklore: Difficulty, disappointments.

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1. A trial or difficulty in your life;2. Mountain;3. Throne of God; Mt Zion. Ps. 68:16; 95:4; 98:8; Gen. 7:19.

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This is an unlucky dream. Denotes much difficulty and trouble. You will be unhappy.

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A dream auguring difficulty in the attainment of your desire (Gypsy).

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An obstacle of great difficulty, i.E. Financial debt, sickness, etc.

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