It is a symbol of life, passion, and a kind of intelligence that moves slowly and powerfully in the direction of true happiness. Any dream that features the heart, either literally or symbolically through a shape or depiction of the heart, is expressing something about your current relationship with this intelligence and how it is operating in your experience.
The shape of the heart has become a powerful symbol, especially through the celebration of Valentine’s Day, where the sharing of such a shape is an expression of love and devotion to another person.
If this is the heart in your dream, you may be feeling the impulse to make your feelings known.
A broken heart indicates that some process is being undertaken in order to heal some past hurt. Pain, illness, or injury in the heart indicates that some very difficult change is occurring that may be causing a sense of grief and loss in your life.
A heart transplant means that the change has been so great that you need to start over again in the arena of love. [1]
It is no coincidence, therefore, that it was the only organ that the Egyptians left inside mummies. Symbolically, in this organ, life, emotion, and wisdom are concentrated. Furthermore, it is an ancient archetype of love. The dream is probably describing your emotional side and how you approach it with your feelings.
If the heart is damaged, has been operated on, or has a bullet wound, it means that you are going through a bad time. In these cases, the other elements of the dream usually contain advice and recommendations you should to follow. Finally, if the heart is in perfect condition, it reflects you feel very good in emotional matters.
In India, the heart is the symbol of divine love. It also represents your most intimate motivations. [2]
Vision: Looking at a heart in a dream means that someone loves you deeply.
A bleeding heart means making a great sacrifice for someone else—and getting insulted in return.
The condition of the heart is a symbol of your actual emotional state. Dreaming about a heart in pain or a heart beating fast: anxiety and depression. Dreaming about having heart trouble: might be a signal of actual physical problems.
Depth Psychology: The heart is a symbol of tenderness, affection, and love, and sometimes also of fear. “Is your heart burning with passion” for someone? Have you taken something “too much to heart”? [3]
The heart has been identified as the place where emotions reside for many thousands of years. Are you doing something with your whole heart? In fairy tales and dreams the Wise Women and Wise Men pose this question to a person, animal, or other worldly being in trouble, “Are you coming to me with an open heart?” If the hero or the dream-self reacts with compassion and a good heart, the test has been passed. [4]
To see the heart of an animal, you will overcome enemies and merit the respect of all.
To eat the heart of a chicken, denotes strange desires will cause you to carry out very difficult projects for your advancement. [5]
If your heart is broken, then you are grieving attachments from a previous relationship, and dealing with issues of betrayal, thwarted intentions, and unfulfilled desires.
If cutting out a heart, means need to open feelings, love; have a heart.
If being stabbed, you are losing energy through empathizing with others, getting caught in their trips; being drained emotionally. Rather than staying in your own or another’s pain, always ask: what is the positive lesson for growth? See how you set up the lesson or situation. [8]
Connection with a loved one, God, or the Divine in other people.
Life.
Soul.
Human essence, or the humanity within a person.
Passion or enthusiasm.
Personal strength.
Desire or emotional attachment to someone or something (as in “the heart wants what it wants”).
A broken heart may be a response to the loss of a relationship. [10]
2. The inner part of person;
3. The spirit;
4. God’s measure of a person;
5. Innermost thoughts and issues of life;
6. The mind;
7. The emotions;
8. The deep;
9. The real altar of God. Ps. 19:14; 24:4; 28:3; 55:21 [11]
2. Opposite of intellect (head).
3. Truth, courage (lionheart).
4. Central part of a situation (as in “heart of the matter”).
5. Lack of tolerance. [12]
An upside down heart is symbolic of distress and anxiety over troubles in life, Lam. 1:20 [13]
It is also representative of compassion and understanding. [15]
To dream of your heart gives you access to hidden feelings, worries, or fears. [17]
being out of breath with, trouble: wil surpass friends if you stop empathizing with them.
big, having a: sickness within the very life force that centers your energy.
disease: are being disarmed emotional y by others’ high drama trips.
happy: good business, happy and productive living, positive lessons of growth.
wounded: better times through release from unnecessary annoyances.
bleeding, a: your sacrifice was rebuffed, rightly so, as an insult to another’s abilities.
blood passing to, slowly: have failed to compliment your best friend.
burn, an attack of: return to the blander simplicities of a contented life.
eating: happy love affairs as you meet a new, eligible lover.
heartless, being: triumph in business cannot be attained without truth and love.
losing your: the death of your courage is near; suffocate your pain.
man, of a: wil love another woman, which wil lose you your true love if not quel ed.
woman: wil leave your husband if you al ow your energy to be drained by another.
unmarried person: elopement and a particularly insensitive marriage.
pains in your, having: long sickness from the breakage of romantic bonds.
palpitating, feeling your: fear losing your temper when reprimanded by boss.
pulse, checking your: push yourself to your limit, no further.
suffering from, palpitations: are likely to outlive your children. [22]