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Digging Up The Past Dream Meaning

(Affront; Attract attention; Criticize, Excavate, Probe, Sideswipe, Stir up) Digging up the past in a dream means an argument or exposing one’s dirty laundry, blocking the road, earning unlawful money, or it could mean excavating hidden valuables, reviving past knowledge or discovering a treasure. Digging up the past and not confrontinganyone with it in a dream means relief from distress or receiving glad tidings.

(See also: Court) [1]

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

What does Digging up the past mean in a dream?


(Affront; Attract attention; Criticize, Excavate, Probe, Sideswipe, Stir up) Digging up the past in a dream means an argument or exposing one’s dirty laundry, blocking the road, earning unlawful money,...

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Digging in a dream may indicate a struggle to unearth one’s reputation or integrity, a search for something lost or buried, or an effort to bury some unpleasant aspect of...

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The interpretation of this behavior in a dream depends on your circumstances and on the details This is true for all dreams. Digging is generally considered to be difficult work...

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A dream about shoveling often represents selfreflection and digging into our own past. Alternatively, maybe we want to bury something. (See also Digging).

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If you dream of archaeology, this symbolizes digging up something from your past.A current situation or person in your life may be bringing up old feelings for you. Or, it...

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Hunting for something that seems elusive or hidden from direct view. Due to the soil involved, this may have something to do with personal foundations.Metaphorically digging up the dirt on...

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Spiritually we need to have access to the characteristics of the unconscious. It will always take effort to uncover such aspects and this is symbolized by digging. Excavating, perhaps in...

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1- Dreaming of a quarry means quarrying the depths of one’s personality; ‘digging out’ the positive knowledge and perceptions we may have. Often dream symbols are crcated which link with...

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(See Court, Digging up the past)

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Just as the physical earth is made up of past events—the trees and leaves, the plants and creatures that have lived and crumbled into the dust of the soil—so the...

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(See Digging up the past, Slapping on the cheek)

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Introspection, the work of digging into our memories; uncovering our past experience.

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The past in a dream could be: A memory of something from your past, or your current thoughts and feelings about it.An attempt by the subconscious mind to review, remember,...

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In a dream, digging a grave means getting married. Digging a grave and talking with the deceased person about one’s needs in a dream means solving one’s problem.A grave digger...

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Ifone is investigated or probed in a court by people he does not know in a dream, it means that he has strayed into innovation and will remain accountable for...

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If someone sees himself digging the earth and eating the soil, it means he will acquire wealth by cheating and deceiving people.

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If a person sees himself breaking into the mountain (just as a thief breaks into a house) or digging into the mountain, it means he is guilty of deceiving someone.

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Example: I entered a neglected garden adjoining a house I had formerly lived in. I was astonished that I had never noticed this garden before. I took a spade and...

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Seeing oneself digging one’s own grave means one will build for oneself a house in that town or place.

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Looking for something (help, understanding, information, etc.) or someone (someone for whom you’re responsible, someone you’ve lost, someone you love and therefore fear losing, etc.).A desire to regain something physically,...

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If a person sees himself digging the grave of a dead person who is known to him it means he will follow in his footsteps in worldly as well as...

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Dreams of a tractor signify that you are upleveling your life, unearthing your foundation, and undergoing major transformation. Perhaps you are feeling disheveled in the midst of this life make-over...

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Material aspects: Many people talk about the pit of despair and of feeling trapped within a situation.A pit in a dream makes us more conscious of this particular feeling. We...

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A dream in which the blackness of the coal, coal mine, or coal pit was a feature is a warning to retrench and prepare for a period of financial embarrassment...

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Vision: Digging for treasure; you are pursuing a totally useless matter; your motto right now should be “hands off,” because you are being hoodwinked. Burying a treasure: your behavior is...

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(see Bones, Cemetery, Death, Din, Holy Ground, Tomb)Some type of cover-up, or a hidden matter. Look closely at what’s being buried here for more interpretive value.Putting something totally to rest...

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Vision: If you are being buried: don’t worry, the dream is dealing with your spiritual growth, not telling you your life is in danger.The dream might also indicate changes, and...

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Vision: Standing in front of a hole in the ground: think again carefully about your plans—it might prevent you from making mistakes. Trying to jump over a ditch or falling...

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A mineral is a non-living crystal solid found in nature that is not made from plants or animals. Minerals are the most common non-manmade materials on Earth. There are many...

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(Element of earth, Dirt) In a dream, earth represents people, for they are created from the same element. Earth in a dream also means cattle, animals or the world. Dirt...

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To look back into the past can sometimes be detrimental, and at other times helpful. In dreams, to be looking or moving backwards may suggest that answers to our present...

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The past.Things from your past that are preserved or still lingering (memories, emotions, judgments, etc.).The importance of whatever is represented by the museum’s contents.The idea of being unused, untouched, untouchable,...

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Images of people from your past not your present can link you with that period in your life, as well as with specific memories and experiences. A first boyfriend in...

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To dream about a scab means you are thinking of something that has hurt you in the past.If the scab was healing or dry, you are moving on from your...

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1- When we dream of looking at photographs we are often looking at an aspcct of ourselves, perhaps our younger self or a part of ourselves that we no longer...

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Finding money in a dream, or digging or searching for treasure or riches can suggest power, independence and security. It may have a literal interpretation, telling you that now is...

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Digging a rut for yourself. Usually means stuck in a rut.

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(Boring) Piercing a hole in a dream means deception. Piercing a hole in a stone in a dream means investigating someone in authority. Piercing a hole in the wall of...

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In some dreams we find ourselves in the past, with the feeling of those times. This nearly always depicts, not a past life, but our own feelings. So a cowboy...

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(Blow, Criticize, Smack) To lightly slap someone in a dream means to reprimand him, or to oblige him to recognize a favor, boasting about one’s generosity, or constantly reminding the...

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Symbolic of digging into a matter or hunting for hidden knowledge

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A large or overwhelming presence.Basic or primitive, or the idea of “back to basics.” Something or someone from the past (perhaps gone now).Something that’s outdated.Finding value in the past or...

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(Blacksmith, Digging) Ajailer in a dream represents a grave digger.

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To dream of digging them, success, profit; if, however, they be few or small, failure (Gypsy).

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If a person dreams that he wants to dig a well but is unable to do so it means he will need to toil very hard for his livelihood but...

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The past; the different lives we have lived—baby, youth, lover, parent, provider, what is es­tablished and well worn; tradition and wisdom of folklore.Example: I am standing in a bookshop.It is...

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How you are seeing things at this time; a picture to awaken a past memory because the lesson you are going through now is one you did not learn in...

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Digging something out of the ground - particularly a body - may be a symbol of bringing into consciousness what has been buried in the unconscious.If so, the dream is...

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1. Past fears, often from a traumatic event, require atten­tion.2. Regrets from the past need to be resolved or “laid to rest.”

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1. A need or desire to draw on the past.2. Repressed feel­ings or memories are trying to surface.3. An attempt to connect a current situation to one in the past.

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Throughout his life, Jung admitted his strong fascination with the theory of reincarnation but never declared himself for or against the idea. We simply don’t know whether he believed in...

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To dream of digging for them is a good omen, denoting thrift (Gypsy); evidently a laudable desire to symbolize labor.

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(see Excavation, Gems, Metals)Something valuable within for which you should continue digging. This may be a characteristic, memory, ideal, talent, or a sense of the truth.

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An actual coworker, past or present.Your work or workplace.Teamwork, or your typical dynamics with that person (such as cooperation, competition, or animosity).A coworker from a past job could represent that...

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To dream of a vulture typically represents your past. Everything you have experienced, learned, and seen can assist with the issues that are facing you in your waking life. Take...

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If you find yourself going back in time to a previous job in your dream, this suggests you need to look back into the past in order to move forwards....

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