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Doctor / Dentist / Nurse Dream Meaning

Many people feel anxious about visiting a doctor or a dentist, so when these symbols emerge in your dreams they may be urging you to overcome your fears and bravely face what is coming to you. As is the case with many dreams that feature health and sickness, they may be signaling the onset of illness so it might be worth your while to have a dental or medical check-up. As archetypal authority figures, if dentists, doctors, surgeons and nurses offer you advice in your dreams, it might be wise to listen to it. Seeing yourself working as a hospital nurse or doctor is perhaps an expression of a desire to take charge of an area of your life in which you feel you do not have much control. To see a nurse or doctor leaving your house suggests good health, but to see yourself being cared for by a doctor or nurse suggests that you are feeling vulnerable and in need of support.

If an alternative practitioner or quack doctor appears in your dream, this may suggest that you are employing desperate measures in waking life and are in danger of becoming an obsessive. [1]

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Sources and Authors

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

What does DOCTOR / DENTIST / NURSE mean in a dream?


Many people feel anxious about visiting a doctor or a dentist, so when these symbols emerge in your dreams they may be urging you to overcome your fears and bravely...

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To dream of being a nurse reveals a compassionate nature, maternal instincts, sacrifice and generosity.To see a nurse in a dream means you have a desire to be taken care...

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A doctor, therapist, or other healing professional can represent healing, fixing, or a type of assistance.Visiting a doctor for help for a health problem can represent a desire for help...

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Psychological / emotional perspective: Because of its association with pain, a visit to the dentist in dreams may highlight fears or hurt that we have hidden.A dentist may signify that...

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To dream that you are a wet nurse, denotes that you will be widowed or have the care of the aged, or little children.For a woman to dream that she...

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1. Possible illness or injury—often emotional, some­times physical, possibly material.2. Being instrumental or playing a role in healing of another (doctor or nurse).3. View of self or state of being;...

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Material aspects: Dreams of any healing environment, such as a hospital or doctor’s surgery, can start a process of healing, as can a character such as a nurse or therapist...

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A workplace, environment, or organization where problems are fixed or solutions are found (such as your workplace, a customer service department, etc.).Consider also your motivation for and feelings about visiting...

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This is a very fortunate omen—It is always a good sign to see or speak to a Doctor in your dream.

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Addressing a physical, emotional, mental, or spiritual problem (or a desire to do so).A desire to find an answer, solution, or source of help (perhaps due to feeling overwhelmed, helpless,...

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See Destruction. Dentist See Teeth.

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