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Guillotine Dream Meaning

Dream interpretation from 12 unique sources about Guillotine

1- A guillotine in a dream indicates something irrational in our personality. We may be afraid of losing self-control, or of having part of our personality amputated. We could be aware of an injury to our person or to our dignity.

2- There is the potential for us to lose contact with someone we love, or with the part of ourselves which is capable of love.

3- By way of its physical action, a guillotine represents a severance of some kind. We may have become severed from our spiritual yearnings. [1]

Material aspects: A guillotine in a dream indicates an irrational aspect in our personality, which is trying to queer our pitch. We may be afraid of losing self-control in an everyday situation, or of having part of our personality amputated. We could be aware of an injury to our person or to our dignity. [2]
Psychological / emotional perspective: From an emotional perspective, a guillotine indicates that there is the potential for us to lose contact with the part of ourselves that is capable of love, or, in reality, with someone we love.

A short, sharp shock in our lives may cause severe disruption. [3]

Dreaming about having one’s head cut off in a guillotine could indicate a loss of one’s rational perspective on something. Perhaps the dream is a literalizing of the expression “to lose one’s head.” (See also: Beheading, Decapitation). [4]
A guillotine highlights the many difficulties that the dreamer will find in real life because of their enemies. However, if you manage to escape, you will be able to solve all the problems and succeed in life. (See also: HEAD, DECAPITATION) [5]
Dreams of a guillotine represent severe criticism and rejection of yourself or someone in your life. Perhaps you are disowning your mental process and are in an unhealthy imbalance between your thoughts and feelings. [6]
To see a guillotine in your dream, symbolizes anger, hostility and the eruption of strong emotions. It may suggest that you are not using good judgement and that you need to think things through before you act. [7]
A guillotine represents a severance of some kind in dreams. Since it severs the head from the body, it suggests that we may have become severed from our spiritual sources. [8]
Get out of your head; intellectualizing, rationalizing, analyzing. Headless person means same. Intuition helps resolve problem. [9]
1. One is planning to dispense with or cut off something.

2. Fear of punishment for something one has done in life. [10]

Losing one’s head, or threat of it; killing one’s ability to think and reason, so perhaps becoming irrational. [11]

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Sources and Authors

  1. Ten Thousand Dream Dictionary by Pamela Ball [Back to dream]
  2. Dream Meanings of Versatile by Versatile - Anonymous [Back to dream]
  3. Dream Meanings of Versatile by Versatile - Anonymous [Back to dream]
  4. Dream Symbols in The Dream Encyclopedia by James R. Lewis and Evelyn Dorothy Oliver [Back to dream]
  5. The Big Dictionary of Dreams by Martha Clarke [Back to dream]
  6. Strangest Dream Explanations by Dream Explanations - Anonymous [Back to dream]
  7. My Dream Interpretation by myjellybean [Back to dream]
  8. Dream Meanings of Versatile by Versatile - Anonymous [Back to dream]
  9. The Dream Books Symbols by Betty Bethards [Back to dream]
  10. New American Dream Dictionary by Joan Seaman - Tom Philbin [Back to dream]
  11. A Guide to Dreams and Sleep Experiences by Tony Crisp [Back to dream]
  12. A Dictionary of Dream Symbols by Eric Ackroyd [Back to dream]

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