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Images Dream Meaning

Images or small statues are a harbinger of the termination of a Love affair.

A broken image portends a broken vow and is a very unlucky dream. [1]

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Sources and Authors

  1. The Complete Dream Book by Gillian Holloway [Back to dream]

What does IMAGES mean in a dream?


Images or small statues are a harbinger of the termination of a Love affair. A broken image portends a broken vow and is a very unlucky dream.

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You are unlikely to have dreams about riding a horse instead of using a car. Today our dreams are filled with cars, televisions, plastic surgery, airplane crashes and the most...

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Gives gender-specific: As the use of alcohol becomes more prevalent in the everyday, it can have the effect of changing the quality of dreams, bringing more frightening or incomprehensible images...

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Unacceptable or rejected parts of yourself; desires or images you do not understand in their symbolic form. No images are obscene once you look at the message behind them.

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Material aspects: When in waking life we are on trial, such as on probation at the beginning of a job, images of legality such as justice, judges and so on...

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Artemis is the virgin huntress who is proud and wild, mirroring the beasts she hunts. For men, images of powerful women in dreams may represent the dominating, devouring mother archetype....

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Material aspects: The images that appear in dreams will reflect how we are feeling, what obstacles there are, possible courses of action and what our ultimate goal should or may...

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If you dream that you see images, you will have poor success in business or love.To set up an image in your home, portends that you will be weak minded...

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Psychological / emotional perspective: Television, with its many repeats and ‘reality’ programmes, gives a rich source of dream images, from celebrities to fantasy scenarios. Many such images can, with a...

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Material aspects: As we become more aware of the consequences of pollution in waking life, dream images will take on a relevance that has not been evident before. On a...

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Hallucinations can occur quite naturally without the use of psychotropic drugs such as peyote or LSD. We all have the innate ability to suffer from hallucinations and, according to Freud,...

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People who are blind do dream. The dreams of people who have been blind from a very early age (called ’congenital blindness’) tend to be different to those who are...

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Symbols of personal recognition—such as being awarded the highest honor, or stepping on stage to rapturous applause—feature in dreams as reflections of your aspirations. The images you see within your...

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1- For many people the pantomime is a happy childhood memory, and often appears in dreams as a reminder of happier times. It can also suggest the more spontaneous, humorous...

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Sometimes your dreaming mind will use visual, verbal or colloquial puns to get a point across. For example, if your dream contained images of hands, this could indicate that you...

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Now and again your dreaming mind may conjure up powerful images of notoriously evil people to warn you against the destructive effects of negative forces in yourself, or in some...

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Brazil covers nearly half of South America and is the continent’s largest country. Brazil may be divided into the Brazilian Highlands, or plateau, in the south and the Amazon River...

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1- Sowing in the sense of planting seed - is a symbol which has certain basic images attached to it. It can signify the sexual act, and well as suggesting...

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A beggar: Expecting to experience a loss, and anxiety that comes from this expectation. Alternatively, bad management and the need for improved frugality.Starvation: An aspect of your personality or talents...

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1- The mind, once it is free of conscious restraint, appears to work on several different levels. Thus, it is possible to be aware of three separate parts of a...

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While the notion of archetypes is at least as old as Plato, it is most familiar to the modern world through the work of Carl Jung, the prominent Swiss psychotherapist....

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1- One of the most annoying things about dreams is that images will vanish unexpectedly. There is also the tendency for us to forget various parts of the dream on...

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Here, it usually means the so-called “spirit of life,” which makes up a distinctly human life. In addition, it might possibly point to unused or wrongly applied intellectual activities or...

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The Significance of Recurring Symbols in Dreams You may find that certain symbols keep cropping up in your dreams. Perhaps your mother always appears carrying a first-aid kit, or you...

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1- To suffer from amnesia in a dream indicates our attempts to blot out the disliked. It also indicates a fear of change. Losing one’s memory in real life can...

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Dream images hold symbolic messages, and among them, the most striking are often the ones that evoke fear. Throughout our lives, we harbor many suppressed fears that can surface in...

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also see Dinosaur1- Being aware in a dream that something is prehistoric is lo recognise that feelings and emotions we have arise lilerallv from before the time we were able...

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Figs and fig trees are associated with sex and eroticism.This is partially because of our culture’s images of Adam and Eve, who are often pictured in fig leaves following their...

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If you have ever wondered why dreams often appear so difficult to make sense of, it is because the information they contain is presented in a different language; the language...

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Self-images, for boon or bane, as with the story of Snow White (see Fun House).The mirror of truth that reflects genuine motivations, feelings, and fears. In ancient times, the mirror...

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Movie Theater, TV. Here the emphasis is on “emotional stories.” Possibly the mirror image of the dreamer. Attempt to get away from internal images.

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Material aspects: Communication occurs on so many levels that images of modern technology can now accurately mimic in dreams the way we communicate.A stored document suggests that we are making...

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If the dream does not reflect waking reality, but in­cludes images such as trees that are purple or a dog that purrs, then one is struggling to come up with...

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(see Mirror)Distorted images of reality.Having inaccurate perceptions based on superficials, especially in regard to self-image.An expression of your inner child who is seeking some attention.

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Images of grenades, as well as bombs and accidents, according to Jung, appear only where the dream represents an actual experience.It is the attempt of the unconscious to integrate the...

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There are two key approaches to dream interpretation: the Subjective-Objective Assumption and the Rule of Known and Unknown Images. These approaches help determine whether a dream reflects the dreamer's inner...

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All dream images have a symbolic message. The ones that are the most startling are the fear images. We have many fears we have suppressed from childhood on, and these...

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Dreams of being in heaven or other states of bliss and perfection such as Nirvana or Samadhi reveal either your current state of mind or—as with all wishfulfillment dreams—your hopes...

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Dreams that focus on happy family gettogethers, celebrations, anniversaries, meals or meetings could be explained as wish-fulfillment, nostalgia or even anticipation. Perhaps your dreaming mind is recalling a happy event...

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To have a dream featuring blurry images, indicates that there is something you are not confronting or refusing to see. It also represents secrets and confusion. Perhaps you think that...

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Breastfeeding a baby or to see someone else doing so predicts material prosperity. In the case such images are produced by a woman, it may reveal pregnancy.

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To dream that you are a photographer symbolizes a preoccupation with cherishing and clinging tightly to memorable images and events from the past.

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To dream of seeing any of your people dead, warns you of coming dissolution or sorrow. Disappointments always follow dreams of this nature.To hear of any friend or relative being...

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If you are writing letters in a dream, it indicates the need to clarify certain situations; this images can suggest the need to give explanations. (See WRITING and READING) 

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It is a typical dream of frustration.It is often experienced by people who are not satisfied with their material, intellectual, or emotional possessions. The message from these images is that...

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On a spiritual level, melting suggests losing form and has sometimes had connections with the overcoming of negativity and evil. This is pictured most successfully in horror movies and dream...

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Most dreams have an element of fantasy or the surreal in them, but when the events or images in your dream are so fantastic or have absolutely nothing to do...

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Such images have a reverse meaning. So, if you dream of accumulating money you must be careful—economic losses are approaching.If it is about collecting objects, the episode might predict scarcity.

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(see Signage)What does the billboard have on it? Words and images here are often messages from the subconscious or Higher Self.Make sure you take time to notice and read the...

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Images of the country or countryside suggest time for growth, creativity, relaxation; reattunement to childlike awareness of nature. Many creative choices or options.

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Difficulties one is going through; images in hellish environment suggests nature of problems. Fears to be faced and moved beyond. You create your own heaven or hell in the now...

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These images are symbols of the vortex, a representation of life and natural energy. Harnessed, this energy gives rise to a whirl of creativity. Unharnessed, it can be destructive.

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also see Hall / Passage in Dream Dictionary: BuildingsDreams incorporating images of corridors are generally associated with change and shifting between places in our waking lives. These locations are not usually geographical but...

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Dreams are an overwhelmingly visual experience and Freud generally treated dream images as signs. Signs are images that point to something else. Freud believed the unconscious was purposely hiding the...

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Your dreams can provide you with deep and powerful insights into your moods, and can be used to help you manage feelings of joy as well as sadness.Perhaps you have...

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Your dreaming mind may often conjure up images of strangers, unknown people or people whose faces are hidden by masks as representations of the shadow, private and sometimes shocking side...

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Uniforms are symbols of depersonalized authority in dreams, so if your dream featured images such as soldiers in uniform or policemen on duty and you were the only one not...

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A dream of these short and seemingly random cacophonous video images is your subconscious deprogramming, cleansing and releasing the data it received during the day. Consider the content and feeling...

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Images of a drink usually appear when the dreamer is actually thirsty. It can also relate to taking pleasure in love What did you drink?See Thirst, Cup, Glass, Water, Wine,...

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Psychological / emotional perspective: Disasters such as crashing aeroplanes, falling buildings or other such images are presented to highlight extreme emotions such as fear, anger and anxiety.

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An harlequin may represent the grotesque dimension of your personality.If the dream is pleasant, the unconscious is suggesting you to laugh at concerns because their impact is relative. But if...

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Material aspects: Often in teamwork or family life one or more individual has to be ‘carried’ for a time to ensure success. This might give rise to images of carrying...

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Confusion of ideas and feelings; conflicting urges and opinions; the difficulty in finding our way through the mass of apparently irrational emotions and images arising from within. Sometimes we need...

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If your dream takes place on a stage it indicates that you are living some experiences without having the feeling that they are real.If in these oneiric images you are...

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Psychological / emotional perspective: To be damaging an object in dreams suggests a strong sense of perhaps misplaced aggression. Other images in your dream should help to clarify the interpretation.

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Many dreams will hold images of climbing and of reaching a plateau. Spiritually this offers us choices. We can rest on our laurels and take time out to assess our...

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Psychological / emotional perspective: Psychologically the struggle for individuality should take place within the safety of the family unit. This, however, does not always happen. In dreams we are able...

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The jumble of images in dreams are spiritually a little like tasters at a meal, and sometimes not easily interpreted. As we become more proficient in understanding we begin to...

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Gives gender-specific: In both men’s and women’s dreams, love and passion can give a luminous quality to images.It is as though the energy has taken on a different quality.

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Psychological / emotional perspective: Sometimes bodily changes can be reflected in the images that we produce in dreams. Wadding can represent a fear of getting fat or becoming ungainly.

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Weaving is one of the strongest spiritual images there is. In most cultures there is an image of our fate being woven in a particular pattern. We are not supposed...

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Breaking out of rigidity, necessitating change.See Adventure and Hero, who is dissatisfied with the social situation or who is a social outcast. When images of rebellion and protest appear repeatedly,...

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An autopsy is a sincere desire for personal introspection. Such images are an invitation to better know yourself, taking full advantage of all experiences. Whether the autopsy is performed on...

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Power and spiritual authority often act as a goad so we can improve our knowledge.The trident depicted in images of the god neptune is a goad and represents illusion, intuition...

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Dream celebrations tend to reflect feelings of satisfaction you may have about yourself in waking life.If images of Christmas, Easter, New Year or Thanksgiving appear in your dream, your dreaming...

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Ultimately, chaos must give way to order. One school of thought is that form arose out of churning the chaos. In dreams such an idea has some merit, since many...

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Material aspects: Most dreams containing images of corn or wheat symbolize fertility or fruitfulness. They may also represent new life – either pregnancy or new developments in other ways.

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Psychological / emotional perspective: Emotional difficulties can make our thought processes confused, symbolized in dreams by a fuzziness in the images we perceive.

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Most often, dreams of the vagina are to do with self-image. In a woman’s dream it highlights her receptivity. In a man’s dream it suggests his need to be penetrative,...

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If your dreaming mind conjured up an image of a fairground, it may have been commenting on your response to waking life. For example, if you dreamed of taking a...

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An island in the Atlantic about 300 miles north of Venezuela, Barbados is circled by fine beaches and narrow coastal plains. In dreams it conjures up images of sunshine, sand...

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Depth Psychology: Evemng in a dream might refer to the twilight years of your life, which, depending on other dream images, might be comfortable or full of fear. Or it...

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Material aspects: When in our working or personal life we choose a particular course of action, yet are aware that we are unsure, this can present itself in dreams as...

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Due to its characteristic weakness, reeds represent docility, immaturity, and fickleness.If you dream of this element, the oneiric images are reminding you that—even if you are not acting out of...

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Material aspects: When animals appear in a dream they tend to represent an aspect of the personality that cannot be properly understood except on an instinctive level. Below are some...

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Bubbles can represent anything from a womb (especially if one dreams of emerging from a bubble), to merriment (a glass of “bubbly”) to disenchantment (bursting one’s bubble). Any one of...

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Gives gender-specific: Symbols and images relating to earthiness and the nurturing of others will be more likely to appear in a woman’s dream than in a man’s. Equally, as the...

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If dreams have something important to convey, why do they often communicate indirectly, through symbols and metaphors? A straightforward approach, it seems, may not suffice for the complexities involved. Consider...

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Turkey is at the north-east end of the Mediterranean Sea in southeast Europe and south-west Asia. Should images of Turkey or of Turkish visitors feature in your dream, this may...

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You can expect to achieve rare contentment and peace of mind through intelligent adjustment to circumstances and acceptance of your lot in life if you had the rare experience of...

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An army means that you are trying to evade your responsibility to your community. Such images can also represent your employees or friends. Depending on the army’s condition, you will...

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