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Choke / Choking Dream Meaning

To dream that you are choking on an object, suggests that you may find it difficult to believe some advice, or accept what someone is telling you.

If you are choking on food, then it may be an expression of your guilt about something.

To dream that someone is choking you, means you are suppressing your feelings - you have difficulties in showing your fear, anger, or love. Alternatively, you may feel that you are being prevented or restricted from freely expressing yourself.

If you dream that you are choking a person, you have feelings of aggression towards someone. You may also be trying to prevent something from being said or revealed. Also see “Heimlich Maneuver.” [1]

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What does Choke / Choking mean in a dream?


If not a direct reflection of something happening to one’s body during sleep, a dream about choking can indicate indecision or conflict. Choking is also related to emotion, as when...

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To dream that you are choking on an object, suggests that you may find it difficult to believe some advice, or accept what someone is telling you.If you are choking...

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One’s wholeness; one’s essential self. Wedding, en­gagement ring: the state of the relationship, as in example below, where Mary is ‘choking’ on or ‘can’t swallow’ her rela­tionship. Example: ‘If I...

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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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Worldly pleasures that, like weeds, choke out the flowers in our lives; see “flowers”

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Dreaming about a growing vine can relate to our fruitfulness as individuals, or to our family lineage. Vines can also be plants that grow up and choke us.The dream might...

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The rebellious, choking out the flowers in one’s life; see “flowers”

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Universal Landscape: Deliberate constriction of communication and/or life force.Dreaming Lens: Were you being strangled in your dream? Were you strangling someone else? Who else was involved? Were you witnessing something...

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If you watch a murder, this refers to aspects of yourself that have been denied expression.If you are running from a murder in your dream, it depicts something you feel...

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The inability to express yourself as freely or honestly as you might wish (see Choking).Being unsatisfied and unfulfilled by your present situation to the point where this slowly “kills” creativity...

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General symbol of connection and attachment, like the chain.If the rope is choking you the dream reveals fear of dealing with problems. Similarly, tying objects or people is a sign...

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A hanging has two symbolic connotations.The first is that it is a death and so it relates to the sacrifice that comes along with great change and transformation.The person dying...

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