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Hole / Tunnel Dream Meaning

Some dream researchers believe that birth dreams lead us back to life in the womb and the traumas associated with our own experience of birth. The psychoanalyst Nandor Fodor has written extensively about the subject of birth dreams, and gives the example of a woman who was born with the umbilical cord wrapped around her neck and who, in adult life, frequently dreamt of being strangled. She also gives an example of a person who received a head injury during birth, and in adult life frequently dreamt of being scalped. For example, dream attempts to escape from a tunnel, especially if small and dark, may refer either to memories of birth or to strategies you need to develop to reach inner resources. Seeing or going into a hole in your dreams may refer to a place, such as the womb, into which you might fall to feel protected. [1]

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Sources and Authors

  1. The Element Encyclopedia by Theresa Cheung [Back to dream]

What does HOLE / TUNNEL mean in a dream?


(Burrow, Hole, Underground passage) In a dream, a tunnel represents trickery and deception. Ifone sees himselfdigging a tunnel or a hole for someone else in a dream, it means tricking...

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(Boring) Piercing a hole in a dream means deception. Piercing a hole in a stone in a dream means investigating someone in authority. Piercing a hole in the wall of...

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(Deception, Plot, Profits, Fall) Digging a hole, a water well, or an irrigation and planning to water the plants with them in a dream means attending one’s needs and serving...

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Some dream researchers believe that birth dreams lead us back to life in the womb and the traumas associated with our own experience of birth. The psychoanalyst Nandor Fodor has...

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(See Piercing a hole, Pursuit, Tunnel)

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If you dreamed of seeing a rabbit hole in the ground, this symbolizes hidden aspects of your waking activities. You are keeping something secret, from yourself or others.To dream of...

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Searching for or trying to recover something.Delving into matters from the past.Trying to understand or discover the truth about something.Trying to hide or escape.See Discovering, Searching, Rescuing, Shovel, Quarry, Underground,...

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(Den, Lair, Hole, Burrow) In a dream, any hole or den of such mammals means pursuing innovations in one’s religious practices, or being attached to following leaders of such ideas...

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Material aspects: Experiencing a black hole in dreams can be a little like alice in wonderland’s rabbit hole – an entry into the bizarre world of dream images.

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Vision: Standing in front of a hole in the ground: think again carefully about your plans—it might prevent you from making mistakes. Trying to jump over a ditch or falling...

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If you dream of being underground, this may suggest a desire for personal transformation—the death of the old to make way for the new.If you experience the nightmare of being...

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Dreams of tunnel vision are giving you the message to focus on the accomplishment of the task at hand. Alternatively, this dream could also be giving you the message that...

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Ifone sees himselfpiercing a hole in a pearl in a dream, it means that he will give a valuable commentary on Qur’anic interpretations.(See Daniel, Nose ring)

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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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Material aspects: When we dream of a chasm or large hole, we are usually being made conscious of situations that contain an element of the unknown, or are in some...

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Sexuality, due to human associations with its rapid breeding; softness and non-aggression, sometimes to the point of depicting a victim or foolish passivity—may thus represent unworldly idealism. Perhaps because of...

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The state of existence or consciousness from which we have grown; the state or condition prior to our develop­ment of personality—this can be personal, but it also relates to all...

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An enclosed or self-contained environment.Isolation or ignorance, as in “he’s living in a bubble and doesn’t know what’s going on.” Protection.A void or hole (such as an air bubble in...

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Vision: In a man’s dream, a train is often a sign of fear—fear of having missed something.The train you have missed in the dream is the equivalent of a missed...

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That which is unconscious and from which inner treasures need to be brought to light. According to Freud, symbol of the vagina.

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A dream that takes place underground or under the ocean can be a symbol of the journey into the unconscious and lead to the discovery of unknown parts of yourself....

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Can refer to one’s goals or simply to the end of some situation, as in such expressions as “the end of the road” and “the light at the end of...

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A quick fix, i.E. Plugging the hole in a dam; patching a broken relationship

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A restraint to protect and regulate one’s life; a hole is a spiritual flaw

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