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Emotion(s) Dream Meaning

Dream interpretation from 2 unique sources about Emotion(s)

(See also: Feelings)

Emotions in dreams are not symbolic; they are just themselves. However, you need to be aware that emotions come from the unconscious, from what Jung calls ‘the Shadow5 - the ‘inferior5, undeveloped functions of your psyche. They may therefore be very disturbing, and often you will not acknowledge them as your own: instead, you may project them on to someone else. Therefore you need to be open to the possibility - or even the probability - that other people (or animals) in dreams represent parts of yourself, and that any emotion that is driving them in the dream is driving you in real life. (For inferior functions, shadow and projection). [1]

The expression or release of emotions are very typical and healthy in dreams. Often, because of the lack of inhibitions in the dream state, you might experience extremes that your ego does not allow you to explore in your waking state. Emotions release psychological pressure and allows you to awaken in the morning feeling refreshed, invigorated, with a clean clear slate.

See also: Angry, Afraid, Sad, Happy, Ecstasy, Jealousy, Emotions of Shadow, Light(Introduction). [2]

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Sources and Authors

  1. A Dictionary of Dream Symbols by Eric Ackroyd [Back to dream]
  2. Strangest Dream Explanations by Dream Explanations - Anonymous [Back to dream]

What does Emotion(s) mean in a dream?


(see also Feelings)Emotions in dreams are not symbolic; they are just themselves. However, you need to be aware that emotions come from the unconscious, from what Jung calls ‘the Shadow5...

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Courage, bravado, or resiliency.Love, passion, or compassion.Emotion, the ability to feel emotion, or a specific emotion that was expressed in the dream.See Breast, Lung, Heart, Furniture

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(see also Cold)(1) As water may symbolize emotion, so ice may symbolize ‘frozen’ emotion, emotion paralysed by fear or guilt.(2) Ice may be a symbol of sexual frigidity.In either case,...

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Psychological / emotional perspective: Water is considered to be a symbol of emotion, so a tap is representative of our ability to use or misuse emotion in some way.To be...

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Psychological / emotional perspective: Sound produced by musical instruments is evocative of emotion.The symbolism of the instrument itself appearing may allow us to come to terms with that emotion in...

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1- Fireworks are generally accepted as belonging to a happy occasion or celebration, though they may also be frightening. When we dream of fireworks we are hoping to be able...

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The expression or release of emotions are very typical and healthy in dreams. Often, because of the lack of inhibitions in the dream state, you might experience extremes that your...

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Psychological / emotional perspective: When emotion is not allowed proper expression it is ‘dead’ and, therefore, has solidified. Often in dreams this will take the form of a statue.If the...

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Psychological / emotional perspective: Weeping suggests uncontrollable emotion or grief, so to experience either ourselves or someone else weeping in dreams is to show that there needs to be a...

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1- A waterfall at its basic level of interpretation can be taken to represent an orgasm. It can also signify any display of emotion that is forceful and yet somewhat...

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Psychological / emotional perspective: A forceful explosion of an emotion – anger, fear or sexual release for instance – can accomplish a cleansing.A dream may be a safe space in...

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1- As a symbol, the fire bucket indicates that we may have a situation around us which is out of control.It is only by a display of ‘dampening’ emotion that...

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The strength or depth of emotion, expression, or commitment.Swear words can indicate something you wanted or needed to express at the time of the dream (emotion, thoughts, excitement, etc.).Swearing to...

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A marsh being a mixture of earth and water suggests spiritual and emotional conflict. Water symbolizes emotion and earth symbolizes security, so an excess of emotion is not allowing us...

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Material aspects: Quivering indicates a state of extreme emotion. Such a reaction in a dream would signify that we need to consider the emotion and deal with it in everyday...

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Someone who seems unfeeling or lacking compassion could represent: A feeling or fear of emotional pain.Perceived lack of compassion, humanity, or understanding somewhere in your life (or perhaps within yourself).A...

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1- A well is a way of assessing the deepest resources of feeling and emotion that we have. Unless we have such access we are not going eventually to be...

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Dreams about animals in water are symbols of our emotions. Water is a symbol of emotion because water, like emotion, constantly moves and flows. How the animal moves within the...

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1- Anger in a dream can often represent other passionate emotions. We arc struggling with the right to express that which is distressing us. We probably are unable to express...

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(1) A river may symbolize a flow of (emotional) energy (e.g. sexuality).(2) Crossing a river in a boat may symbolize either death (see Dead / Death); or a more or...

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(1) Sinking may symbolize death.See also Dead / Death.(2) It may be a symbol of depression or despair.(3) It may symbolize being ‘swallowed’ by vour mother (or your mother-attachment) who...

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An oyster may be a sexual symbol, representing the vagina.PainPain felt in a dream may have a physical cause (though to what extent any pain is purely physical in origin...

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An inability or unwillingness to communicate or express yourself.Consider the reason you couldn’t speak.A throat problem could represent an unwillingness or inability to express yourself or speak for yourself.Laryngitis could...

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It is important to note that the feelings you experience in dreams are not symbols of something else but are reflections of your real feelings.The emotion may be symbolically represented...

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To have knowledge of by touch or emotion

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A dam in your dreams probably means there is some pent-up (repressed) emotion that needs to be unblocked.

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(see also Fire)This may symbolize libido: some consuming emotion.

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1. The need to be more precise in one’s life.2. Don’t make decisions based only on emotion.

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Clear thinking, lack of emotion, asceticism, and death.

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Suddenly being overcome or struck by emotion, whether good or bad news

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(see also Prison)The likely meaning is that what is (being) imprisoned is some repressed emotion or instinctive drive.

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To dream that you are hot, signifies passion and emotion. You may “have the hots” for someone. It may also reflect a situation that is potentially dangerous.

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Indicates a need for relief from pent-up emotion or pressure; a warning to check it out, if literal

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1. Investing too much emotion in a relationship with some­ one.2. Worry about gambling habits.3. Concern over a business proposition.

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Passion and emotion. It often has a sexual meaning, as in Violin (female body).A playful self-por- trait.

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1. Overemphasizing the importance or complexity of a situa­tion or emotion.2. Frustration and/or fear of the future.

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Feeling numb probably means you have repressed some strong emotion because it was too shocking for you to entertain it in your conscious mind.

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1. + BLOOD ATONEMENT2. + FORGIVENESS3. + JESUS4. + PASSION5. + STRONG EMOTION6. + SACRIFICE7. – DEATH8. – SIN9. – ANGER10. – WAR11. – RAGE.

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1. Situation is being viewed objectively.2. The need to put order in one’s life.3. One is responsible for one’s actions.4. Take care not to project too much emotion into the...

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To see pus in your dream suggests that something needs to be expressed. You may be harboring some prejudices, attitudes, or some other negative emotion that you need to deal...

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Balance your life, as you are swinging from one extreme to the other in emotion and thought. Get out of the action-reaction pattern through meditation; observe self and others without...

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Essence of masculinity; the sense of one’s personal identity, but also the potential one has as an individual. Thus the withholding of sperm in the dream might be the non-...

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Dream oceans and seas represent the unconscious emotions, instincts or urges that are influencing your attitude, approach and reactions in waking life. Perhaps their most symbolic associations are with the...

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To dream of cave men or women represents the primitive and instinctual aspect of your character. You may have experienced a primal emotion lately, such as jealousy, fear or anger.

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Anger or other urgent emotion.Energy or power.A by-product of a process or event.Fogginess or lack of mental clarity.See Water, Cooking, Hot, Engine

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To dream of being an artist represents having a creative nature. It can also mean a strong emotion that needs to be expressed.

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Using cutlery that is inappropriate (such as eating soup with a fork), may indicate one is behaving wrongly when it comes to emotion.

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A sewer may represent the flow of unconscious energy or emotion that you have tried to suppress.

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(see also Ice)As well as symbolizing frozen emotion, snow may symbolize a new’, clean start.

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The waves of the ocean represent emotional ups and downs.The bigger the wave, the greater the emotion.

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1. Fear and/or anger.2. Inability to scream in the face of threatening situation indicates a suppression of thought or emotion.

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Conflict; indecision—as when we choke on our words; repression of emotion.

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1. Danger lurks.2. False emotion (“crocodile tears”).

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1. Obstacles require an alternate route to established destinations—possibly in business, usually in personal goals.2. A new path is necessary to the usual place—likely emotion­ally, often in relationships.

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The potential for emotional clarity is present, particularly if the beach is deserted.The sea signifies emotion and the land security or the everyday.

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Material aspects: Often it is the emotion associated with financial transactions that is important and we would be wise to consider whether we want or need whatever is represented in...

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Psychological / emotional perspective: We may need to accept that gentle, and not forceful or overpowering, emotion can cleanse us of whatever is troubling us.

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Psychological / emotional perspective: When emotion becomes too rigid and reflective of the past, we may dream of fossils.

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To see a geyser in your dream, symbolizes an outburst of emotion. You need to acknowledge and express your repressed anger and feelings before they explode.

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Eating ice-cream may symbolize enjoyment of the free flow of previously ‘frozen’ psychic energy or emotion.

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Psychological / emotional perspective: Water symbolizes our emotions under all sorts of different circumstances so images associated with it are very evocative. Below are some such representations: bathing suggests purification....

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Spiritually within the cycle of nature, spring is a time of rebirth and rejuvenation. We can now afford to make a new beginning, particularly insofar as emotion is concerned.

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Depth Psychology: This symbol might point to a new emotion or a new idea that is slowly developing inside you. Sometimes you might also yearn to return to a pre-born...

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Expressing yourself, listening to yourself, or being heard (or a need or desire for such).Tuning into your inner wisdom.An inner flow or process (such as creativity or expressing emotion).See Writing,...

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The lighthouse is a strong symbol of emotion and spirituality.A dream of finding one in a storm means you should trust your feelings in an emotional matter.

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1. The cause and effect or plot of a situation, playing a role.2. Deepest desires are achieved.3. The playing out of a deep-seated memory or emotion.

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Something that has really got into us, like hunful words or actions; or being pierced by a powerful emotion such as love; turning our attention inwards in a wounding way;...

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Material aspects: You may need to learn to trust your own instincts and intuition. Equally you may be coming to terms with repressed emotion and pain.

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Material aspects: When we are bolting a door we may be trying to shut something in or out – often a feeling or emotion. When a plant has bolted or...

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(age)A dream in which a wreck occurs is probably expressing anxiety. Is there some uncontrolled (perhaps unconscious) emotion that is driving you towards the rocks? Get to know it; accept...

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Material aspects: To be aware of water in a dream and then realize that it has evaporated is to recognize the transformation that can take place, once emotion is dealt...

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Taming a wild animal may symbolize bringing some aspect of the unconscious - for example, an unruly instinct, or a repressed and therefore mutinous emotion - under conscious control.

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(1) Perhaps there is some part of you that needs to be expressed.(2) Soreness or tension in the throat may indicate conflict between head and heart, intellect and emotion or...

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Extreme fear, trauma, or other emotion.A desire to escape a particular experience.The idea that there’s something you’re unwilling to see, admit, or deal with in your life.For more clues, consider...

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A backhoe is a heavy piece of construction equipment that digs a deep hole. It may stand for needing to unearth something from within the subconscious, perhaps a deeply embedded...

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Psychological / emotional perspective: To be freezing something – for instance food – suggests that we are attempting to preserve an emotion or feeling, perhaps to keep a memory pure....

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1. Use caution regarding projects or situations (as in to “stick one’s neck out”).2. Possible illness.3. Some friends may not be what they appear or all they say they are.4....

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The heart is a common symbol for love and emotion.To dream of your heart gives you access to hidden feelings, worries, or fears.

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Anything underground may symbolize the unconscious.See also Underworld. Anything emerging from (the) underground - reptiles or rodents, for instance - may represent (repressed, troublesome) emotion.

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A cougar in your dream represents wild beauty, power and raw emotion. It often refers to feminine powerand aggression.A female you know may represent some danger to your social position...

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A place for cleansing, as in Bath.An erotic place where clothes are taken off (see Physician). Often refers to the psychoanalyst’s office, particularly during sessions.A place of emotion.

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A dream where the overarching emotion is fear can be caused by anxieties in life, drug use, or demonic activity, 2 Tim. 1:7. Many warning dreams from God can contain...

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Right slant indicates a more extrovert kind of person. Upright handwriting suggests independence. A left slant tendency shows emotion and reserve.

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Material aspects: There may be a need to reject a feeling, emotion, belief or concept that could be troublesome in some way.A risk has been taken which has not worked...

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Material aspects: When we dream of being devoured we are facing our fear of losing our sense of identity; of being consumed by something such as an obsession, an overwhelming...

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To see a furnace in your dream symbolizes power and energy.If you dreamed of you or someone else turning up the heat on a furnace, this signifies passion and emotion....

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