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Candles Dream Meaning

Dream interpretation from 8 unique sources about Candles

Candles represent protection, spirituality and guidance.

To see a burning candle in your dream signifies that good luck and hope will be coming your way in small and steady amounts. You are in a comfortable stage in your life and may be seeking spiritual enlightenment.

A dream about lighting candles symbolizes your intellect, enlightenment, awareness or the search for truth.

To dream of putting out candles means you have solved a real life problem.

To see an unlit candle, denotes that you have feelings or rejection or disappointments. You are not utilizing your fullest potential.

To see a candle blow out in your dream, indicates that you are surrendering a significant aspect of yourself. You are letting go of something that used to be important to you.

To watch a candle burn down to nothing in your dream represents fears of aging, sickness or dying.

To see a red colored candle in your dream symbolizes some intimate or romantic relationship. You may not be giving the relationship a fair chance and are dismissing it before you invested time to learn more about the other person. On the other hand, you may just not be feeling any chemistry or passion.

To see candle wax in your dream indicates that there is too much activity going on in your life. You may need to slow down and take a break. [1]

To see them burning with a clear and steady flame, denotes the constancy of those about you and a well-grounded fortune.

For a maiden to dream that she is molding candles, denotes that she will have an unexpected offer of marriage and a pleasant visit to distant relatives.

If she is lighting a candle, she will meet her lover clandestinely because of parental objections.

To see a candle wasting in a draught, enemies are circulating detrimental reports about you.

To snuff a candle, portends sorowful{sic} news. Friends are dead or in distressful straits. [2]

They symbolize light and where there is light, there is hope.

A lit candle suggests that you are unconsciously seeking comfort and some sort of spiritual enlightenment.

An unlit candle suggests that you may be feeling rejection and disappointment or can’t see anything positive or “light” in a situation or in yourself.

If in your dream you watch the candle burn down to nothing, it suggests that you may have fears of getting older and dying.

For men it may connote a fear about waning sexual abilities. [3]

To see a lighted candle is a harbinger of comfortable circumstances both in love and other fortunes.

An especially bright light denotes a sudden change for the better.

An extinguished candle portends the death of someone you hold dear.

A short, guttering candle about to die out means that your lover will deccive you.

An unmarried woman who dreams of molding candles will have a surprising offer of marriage.

If she lights a candle, she will have a secret meeting with her lover. [4]

Because of their association with light in the darkness, candles can indicate something of spiritual significance—protection from the unseen, and guidance through the unknown (the light in the window to welcome you safely home). Many candles together unify a purpose or a cause (e.g., a mass, a march, a wake, a celebration). Extinguishing candles portends the passing of a problem, or perhaps a wish to cease overindulgence from “burning one’s candle at both ends.” [5]
A burning candle is a sign of unexpected events. Snuff out a candle and you’re in for a romantic disappointment. Buying candles is an indication of dissatisfaction with your life.

If you see candles being carried by others in your dream, your social life is about to pick up.

Dreaming of lit candles can also indicate a need for constancy in your life. [6]

Candles that burn steadily, in a dream, denote constancy, true love. In an old established family, the lighted candles mean that the dreamer inherits all the attributes of heredity.

For a girl, it foretells a proposal of marriage.

If she lights the candle, the love is clandestine. [7]

lucky numbers: 02-07-17-18-21-33

being burned by a: the search for wisdom is not without nodes of distress.

blowing out: competition and rivalry at the end of a period of your life.

burning brightly: expect an invitation to a feast and accept it.

at both ends: your indulgences are depleting your physical resources.

quietly: your peace is within your innermost self.

businessperson dreaming of: attain prosperity with good business ethics.

sick: wil recover, if you fol ow the good of the whole body.

unmarried: are craving for freedom from being married.

buying: are inclined to believe enemies.

candelabra, of a: your salvation is clearly guided through the unseen.

candlestick, of a: your spirit wil be enlightened.

carrying lighted: a smal effort produces remarkable results.

clear steady flame, with: wil have a splendid marriage ful of adventure.

colored, having: wil become a widow or a widower prematurely.

corpse: let those who have died, go!

flickering: are being guided through the unknown of detrimental gossip.

going out: a measure of the time left in your life.

putting: your quarrel with a friend has passed, start anew.

lighting a: be more reflective and reverent with friends, start anew.

maiden, a: wil have an affair against parent’s wishes.

making: are seeking guidance in a time of spiritual darkness.

maiden, a: a marriage offer introduced by a distant relative.

of a small wax: wisdom comes in smal doses.

carrying a lighted taper: good fortune wil protect your course in life.

unlighted: it is the only burden you wil ever carry.

having a small: indecisiveness with regard to proposal.

smoking: period of uncertainty, doubt and indecision. [8]

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