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Emptiness / Empty Dream Meaning

(1) An empty container may be a sexual symbol, representing the womb, or woman.

(2) What is empty in the dream may be something that symbolizes the self - a room, for example, or house. In that case, it may represent your own (feeling of) emptiness. According to Freud, when a person suppresses or represses something, it often happens that nothing else comes to take the place of what has been suppressed / repressed, and the consequence is that the person’s life becomes empty. (For suppression / repression)

(3) Emptiness, an empty landscape or an empty container, may be a symbol of potentiality: where there is nothing, there is room for anything. The unconscious is sometimes visualized as an empty container, but — again — as containing the potential for all future personal growth. [1]

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Sources and Authors

  1. A Dictionary of Dream Symbols by Eric Ackroyd [Back to dream]

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1- I’o experience emptiness in a dream indicates there is a lack of pleasure and enthusiasm. We could be suffering from a sense of Isolation, or perhaps of not having...

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A space that has a reduced internal pressure (such as a depressurized room or a black hole) can represent: Real or perceived lack.The desire for less of something or to...

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(1) Like other receptacles and hollow things, a basket may be a symbol of the feminine.See also Woman.(2) A basket full of fruit or other provisions may symbolize well-being. An...

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Book. Something you are aware of, which is long overdue, needs to be resolved.A clean, white sheet of paper also symbolizes innocence as well as “empty consciousness.” In a positive...

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Dreams of a pot symbolize that you are being held or contained as you grow and change. In India the pot is a symbol of feminine energy, and the water...

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(Empty, Forlorn, Wretched) A deserted and empty place in a dream signifies poverty or lack of food or sustenance for one’s household.An empty place in a dream also could signify...

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The idea of “nothing.” Empty or void.Depletion (such as of energy, ideas, or self-esteem).Coldness (as in a temperature of zero) or harshness.Infinite, omnipotent, magical, or otherwise special (like the number...

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Personal emptiness where there once was fullness of life; see “shell”

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Boomerang effect; self meeting self. What you send out comes back to you. Karma. Also, emptiness.

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A safe, when used to protect valuables, is a good omen signifying security in your life.An empty safe in your dreams may mean loss if it has been broken into,...

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See Jewelry. Emptiness, vanity, and often a suggestion of the treasures that reside inside you. Temptation, because of the glitter.

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An obstacle.If the Sack is full and you empty it, then all will go well. But an empty Sack shows some difficulty that will probably cause loss.

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A symbol of wealth that one would love to possess.It is a wish dream, representing the popular belief that emotional emptiness can be filled with possessions.

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A shopping can represents retrieving nourishment or the rewards from the world.A shopping can with a loose wheel may point to instability’.An empty shopping can may point to coming up...

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1. Searching for things missing in one’s life.2. Security in finding abundance of necessities.3. If needed items are not available, sign of emptiness, despair and lack of hope.

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Feeling of emptiness in one’s life; womb feeling or memories, feelings about the vagina.See hole.

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A mentally or emotionally harsh environment.A characteristic you associate with deserts or with a particular desert (hot, dry, lifeless, empty, interesting, exotic, etc.).Something with a desert-like characteristic (such as an...

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Breathing or sustenance.Survival (physical, emotional, mental, or otherwise).Life energy.Lightness or airiness.Fluid motion, flexibility, or adaptability.Seeing only air where you expected something else could represent nothingness, emptiness, lack, or surprise somewhere...

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To dream that you are wearing lingerie, represents your sexual identity, body image and your self-esteem. You may finally be recognizing and acknowledging an aspect of yourself that was not...

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A spider web can represent: A desire to “catch,” keep, or remember something (an opportunity, experience, etc.).A perceived trap, or a feeling or fear of being trapped or manipulated.A business...

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A feeling of abundance (physical, emotional, mental, or spiritual), or a desire for such.A feeling or fear of emptiness, lack, or not having enough.Feeling deprived of the good things in...

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Peacefulness.Emptiness.Anticipation.Stealth.The silence after noise stops can represent the completion of a phase, or the end of activity, chaos, or stress.When a person is silent while interacting with you, their silence...

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Hard times, if empty, but better days to come if full.

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