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Excavation Dream Meaning

Dream interpretation from 2 unique sources about Excavation

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 someone or a situation.

Uncovering treasures that are just waiting for your persistent efforts to discover them.

Digging through your own past to discover the worth of experiences, and how they have made you what and who you are today. [1]

Old emotions (submerged / buried) need to be brought to consciousness; psychological work on self. Similar to Taking Apart. Self-determination is asked for.

It is important to note what it is that is being excavated (a submerged potential?).

Freud looked on the process of psychoanalysis as an act of excavation. [2]

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Sources and Authors

  1. The Language of Dreams by Patrica Telesco [Back to dream]
  2. Little Giant Encyclopedia by Klaus Vollmar [Back to dream]

What does EXCAVATION mean in a dream?


Old emotions (submerged / buried) need to be brought to consciousness; psychological work on self. Similar to Taking Apart. Self-determination is asked for.It is important to note what it is...

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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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Excavation. Looking inward, understanding, and analyzing. Often appears as a dream image when living without much thought. Pay attention to what is being taken apart. What do the individual parts...

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Psychological / emotional perspective: On a creative level we may have realizations that are hard to access and must be dug out. Excavating objects can also imply that there is...

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Digging in the ground in a dream may ask you to dig up old memories from childhood in order to transform emotional patterns that interfere with your happiness. It may...

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Material aspects: Dreaming of mines signifies bringing the resources of the unconscious into the light of day. We are able to use the potential we have available. Interestingly in dreams...

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(see Dirt, Cave) An alternative type of death dream, in which being underground equates to burial.What exactly appears underground? This can be symbolic of something that you’ve covered up so...

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Material aspects: Sand can represent impermanence. Because they will inevitably be washed away by the tide, building sand castles in dreams suggests that there is some doubt about the validity...

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(see Antiques, Excavation, Gold, Aline, Silver)Gifts, talents, and abilities within you that are just waiting for discover)’. Friends, loved ones, and other precious things in life.Unexpected prosperity that conies through...

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A mine is a place beneath the surface of the earth where raw materials are found and cultivated.The shaft is the portal through which you get to the place below....

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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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(see Crystals, Excavation, Gems, Jewelry, Mine, Minerals)The central self; the core of your being.Being hard-hearted or having a stony disposition.A place of origin; beginnings with foundation. Ancient beliefs contended that...

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