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Mythological Place Dream Meaning

A location from myth or legend (such as Camelot or the Land of Oz) can represent: Something that comes to mind when you think of that place (consider the characteristics, mood, context, characters, and events you tend to associate with it).

The traditional symbolism associated with that location (such as an event, story, character, characteristic, or mood).

Something that stood out about your particular dream version of the place, perhaps something different than the traditional version.

See also: Mythological Character, Location [1]

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Sources and Authors

  1. The Curious Dreamer’s Dream Dictionary by Nancy Wagaman [Back to dream]

What does Mythological Place mean in a dream?


A location from myth or legend (such as Camelot or the Land of Oz) can represent: Something that comes to mind when you think of that place (consider the characteristics,...

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A mythological character or creature (such as Hercules or a unicorn) can represent: Whatever comes to mind when you think of that character or creature in real life.The traditional symbolism...

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Greenhouse. Protection, as in Glass Wall.A message to be more open and transparent. Similar to the Container in which transformation and growth takes place, in people as well as plants.The...

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The succubus is a mythological creature that is itself a feature of dreams.The succubus is the female version of this mythological creature, and it is thought to be a phantom...

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Often your own center, especially if the place is round or square. Or, in a public place, becoming aware of something.

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The world (or another world) can represent: The Earth.The people in the world, or people in general.A particular environment.Your personal world with which you interact regularly (people you know, places...

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1. Place of refreshment2. Temporary place;3. Passing through;4. A place to pause on the way;5. In Scripture, staying overnight at an inn can be a place of revelation;6. Public place...

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See Underground. Mythological symbol of the unconscious—the dark or shadowy gods of the deep.

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If mythological characters appear in your dreams (a rare event), you should ascribe the same meaning they were given in their time period.

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One amazing aspect of dreaming is that it can introduce you to ancient mythological figures of whom you thought you knew nothing. Jung put this well when he said that...

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A mood or personality shift (or frequent ones).A feeling or fear of losing control, aggression, or attack.Wildness or chaos.See Monster, Mythological Character

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A real or imagined region (state, continent, etc.) can represent: An actual physical place.A real or imagined environment or situation.A nonphysical place (such as a mental or emotional “place” within...

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1. Storage;2. Adjunct ministry;3. Place where work on cars (what you operate in.4. Place where you refuel spiritually;5. Place of restoration;

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1. Heart or spirit;2. Foundation;3. Place of conception;4. The place of faith;5. The place from which one is sent out;6. Fruit (offspring); Jer. 1:5; Matt. 1:18; 13:23; John 18:37;

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A place for cleansing, as in Bath.An erotic place where clothes are taken off (see Physician). Often refers to the psychoanalyst’s office, particularly during sessions.A place of emotion.

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See Monster / Mythological Creature, Bat. Guilt feelings, and the sense of being sucked dry. These dreams often appear during depression.The vampire image points to insufficient boundaries toward the world...

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1. Word play--ready to step into something powerful place of training;2. Place to get back on track!3. Place of waiting; Isa. 40 31; Luke 2:25; Acts 15:35-37

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“The dark force is with you” may be the message of Darth Vader’s guest appearance in a dream as a shadow character. He may also come to comment on the...

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Making use of your own abilities. Success and well-being, but also a place of adolescent sexuality.According to Jung, the barn is a place where demons and ghosts reside, but also...

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Well-known holy place; a place of power, spirituality, personal growth, and development. Ideals that are held dear are addressed and should be either elevated or sacrificed.The altar is the place...

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1. Place of cleansing;2. Place where you process your issues;3. Place where soak in the spirit.4. Old issue (old bathroom). Eph. 5:26; James 1:23-26; Isa. 1:16;

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Rarity, or a rare experience.Purity or innocence.Integrity or high personal standards.A magical feeling, or a wish for a magical or enchanting experience.Consider also what unicorns bring to mind for you...

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A place to rest (mentally, emotionally, physically, or spiritually).Your place in the world, a community, group, family, workplace, or otherwise (since a seat can represent your place in a room).Not...

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1. A place where resources are deposited, withdrawn and exchanged.2. A place to deposit resources for the future;3. Heaven (God’s treasury);4. Jesus;5. Reserve;6. Sure thing;7. Wealth/money;8. Storehouse;9. Interest;10. Your place...

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Winning something other than first place (such as second or third) can represent excelling or doing well (or a desire to do so).Being unhappy about winning something other than first...

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Yoda. the Master Jedi in Star Wars, may bring special powers to the creamer. He represents a spiritual guide or teacher in your mythological quest as a hero. His message...

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Dreams of a bed represent comfort, relaxation, rejuvenation, sexuality, intimacy and privacy.The bed is considered the safest place in the world, the place where you allow yourself to be the...

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1- For most people, the kitchen represents the ‘heart’ of the house.It is the place from which we go out into the world and to which we return. In dreams,...

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Sea monsters are mythical in nature and were created by seafarers of old telling tall tales. Any creature that lives in the deep ocean is a product of the unconscious...

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An angel or other spiritual helper can represent the idea of receiving guidance, support, or comfort (whether from a human or a spiritual source).Perhaps you’d like help or you feel...

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Material aspects: Many fairy stories and mythological tales have as their main theme the search for something rare or magical (e.G. Jason and the argonauts). Such themes can be translated...

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Visiting a place or a person can represent an actual, desired, or imagined experience with that place or person (or with something the place or person represents).For more clues, consider...

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1- Most people see an oasis as a place of refuge in a desert. Because of its association with water, in dreams it becomes a place where we can receive...

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In almost all the mythological stories, petrification is the gods’ punishment for a gaze that has crossed the permissible limit. In this case, the dream is indicative of a guilty...

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The zone of the root chakra, where the Kundalini resides. This image may point to the relief of undigested leftovers, problems one has worked with.The suggestion here is to “let...

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See Field.The garden is the place where our soul joins nature. It symbolizes longing, fertility, and a satisfying love life.A place of harmony and relaxation (as well as sin, as...

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Power, or power that seems magical or “bigger than life” (or a wish for such).A challenge, problem, quest, or goal.Consider the type of dragon, its actions, what stood out about...

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1. Place of captivity; Rev. 14:8;2. Place of fornication;3. The world system and false church; Rev. 18:10;

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Place for hiding; concealing part of self, identity from others. Something you carry around you think you need; place for safekeeping.

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1. Place of spiritual activity or place of ministry; 1Corth 9:27

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1. The Word of God; 1 Kings 2:37;2. Resting place3. Place of trees; Deut. 8:7; Job 20:17.

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1. Reveals the vision of a place;2. Place where shown “the big picture”

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1. Stopover;2. Place of refreshment and rest;3. Speaks of a journey4. Place of encounter; Luke 10 34-35.

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The incubus is a mythological creature that is itself a feature of dreams.The incubus is the male version of this type of creature, and it is thought to be a...

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1. Refers to what’s going on now in your life;2. Place of gathering &entertaining others;3. Public place; 2 Kings 9:2-3, Esther 2:11; Jer. 26:2; Ps. 92:13;

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Obvious symbol for a place of rest, relaxation, and enjoyment. Meeting place, intellectual stimulation. What did you choose to eat?

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Constructively, a place for protection and healing; destructively, a place to hide and wall off from people. You have a choice of moving in or out.

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Sudden journeyings or changes from place to place (Gypsy).

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Material aspects: Depending on our attitude to hospitals, when one appears in a dream it can either represent a place of safety, or a place where our very being is...

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It symbolizes assistance and blessings.The same applies to seeing clouds, But if rain or clouds are seen confined to a particular place, house or vicinity, it symbolizes famine and sickness...

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Material aspects: Everyone has a basic need to belong and often we are conscious in dreams of finding our particular place. It manifests itself in dreams as a place where...

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A place of quiet and contemplation. Particularly in times of stress it points to reflection. Romantic place.According to Freud, a symbol for women, as in Church.

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Place of rest from emotional seas of life; safe place for evaluating past and setting future course of action.See Harbor.

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1. Bondage;2. Captivity3. Stronghold;4. Place of confinement;5. Satan’s kingdom;6. Place of judgement and punishment;7. Bound by your own thoughts/words.

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Is the person or place in your dream someone you know in waking life? Is the setting of your dream familiar? If the person or place is familiar, this may...

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A subconscious fear or imagining.A real-life situation in which you felt threatened or pursued.A person or thing with whom you associate a certain characteristic of the monster (such as a...

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The shell symbolizes fertility and eroticism. Do not forget that on the one hand, two female characters of great mythological importance, such as Venus and Aphrodite, were born into a...

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1. Church/altar (as the communal place where we drink of the Spirit);2. The world;3. Haunt of the workers of the flesh;4. Gathering place for lovers of darkness.

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See Laboratory. On one hand, a place for the unnatural and artificial; on the other, the receptacle for intellect, or the place where connections are made. In alchemy, a reference...

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Hopping from place to place. Looking for growth.

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The cow is rich with mythological symbolism in many cultures. However, at the heart of a modern interpretation, the power of the cow connects to basic sustenance and nurturance. Between...

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This legendary mythological creature has the head of an eagle on the body of a lion.The lion is the king of the beasts and the eagle is the king of...

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1. Lost/darkness;2. Not out of the woods;3. Harvest crop;4. Church;5. Multitude of people;6. Army of mighty men;7. Hiding place for predators;8. Place of idolatry and works. 2 Sam. 18:6-9; Isa....

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In dreams, from a spiritual perspective the gym is a place where we face ourselves and our own foibles; its original meaning was a place where one trained naked. Today...

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Desire for family life, relationships, home base; safe place within the self. Need for own space. Incubation period, resting place, before new creative ideas emerge.

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A chimera is a ghost, something unreachable. Its symbol—a mythological animal with the head of a lion, the body of a goat, and the tail of a dragon—represents perversion, as...

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Eagles fall under the larger meaning of birds, especially as spiritual symbols. Eagles are also associated with the sun, and thus have solar symbolism.A common mythological motif is an eagle...

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1. People’s attempts to make a name for themselves;2. Pride;3. Christ;4. The Church/Kingdom of God;5. Salvation;6. Refuge; (Strength against the enemy)7. Watchtower (a prophet’s place of prayer);8. Place of the...

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(see by type, Forest, Fruit, Rods, Stick, Wand) Familial lines (e.g., “the family tree”).Free will and the ability to choose (note the Garden of Eden).Life, knowledge, and wisdom. Many cultures...

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You may be expressing a desire to escape your current stressful experiences if you have a dream that takes place in a bar.The primary focus of a bar is to...

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1. Meeting place with God;2. Great power and strength;3. Refuge/hideaway;4. Obstacle;5. A difficulty time;6. Transfiguration;7. Place of prophecy;Luke 4:5; Ezek. 28:16; Ps. 103:11; 1 Sam. 9:12-14; Matt 5; 1 Kings...

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1. Jesus Christ;2. Place of departure (leaving);3. Place of arrival;4. Looking for a rest in a storm;5. Haven. Acts 27:6-7; Acts 28:12.

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A spiritual retreat is a place that allows us an environment and ambience in which to meditate and contemplate.To dream of such a place suggests we have need of peace...

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1. The world;2. Densely populated;3. Preaching place;4. Pride;5. Each city to be judged;6. Place of persecution;7. Spiritual authorities and strongholds;

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The drugstore is a place where so many needs can get met, and it is in those needs that the meaning of such a location can be found. Pharmaceuticals may...

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lucky numbers: 01-07-15-22-32-43having an: a safe haven from the passionate forces. of an: beneficial and important events to come. sacred place, in a: a long-comfortable, old-fashioned place with emotional balance....

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A cemetery is the place of the dead but also of spiritual regeneration. As a place where we put aside the physical but can allow ourselves to mourn, it becomes...

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A mermaid or merman can represent: A sense of magical, mystical, fantasy, or other-worldly.The combination of two “ways of being” (such as both feminine and masculine), or being “of two...

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Material aspects: To be walking around a building or a particular spot in a dream is to be creating a ‘universe’ in which action can take place.It is to be...

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Dismemberment of the body, or indeed any dream where some type of fragmentation takes place, is largely to do with being rendered powerless.It is the death, or rather dissolution, of...

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To dream you fall from a high place, or from a tree, denotes loss of place and goods; if you are in love, it surely indicates that you will never...

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The place where forgotten goals and expectations are hidden. According to Jung, the place of the first sexual experience, as in the fairy tale “Sleeping Beauty,” where the princess is...

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A place devoted to the presentation of created stories, a theater in a dream is a place where people gather to share a common experience. Any building in a dream...

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Material aspects: Lightning in a dream denotes unexpected changes, which are taking place or are about to take place. This may be the sudden realization of a personal truth, or...

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1. Place where one can go to reenergize oneself, per­haps symbolizing a vacation spa.2. Place where one thinks others can reenergize themselves.

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Universal Landscape: Rebirth, resurrection.Dreaming Lens: Were you reborn in the dream? Was someone else? Was it a literal birth, or more figurative? Did your dream include images of resurrection? Was...

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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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Putting a place mat on the table may signify that you are welcoming someone new into your space. It may also mean that you are welcomed at someone else’s table

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1. If one can’t get into a place because of lack of money, this may mean some sort of obstruction, emotional or actual, is in place.2. One owes a loved...

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To dream of being in a strange place, denotes a good legacy from a relation whilst in prison; to the lover, it shows inconstancy and want of affection in the...

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1- Dreaming of a restaurant or cafe suggests a need for company. We may be fearful of being alone, but equally be afraid of allowing someone to delve too far...

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If a person sees himself as nude in the masjid or market place or in any other place, provided non had seen his aurah nor had anyone taunted him it...

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(See Basket, Chicken, Eating)Cracking open: Coming out of a shell and enjoying a more social existence. Alternatively, the hirth of new ideals or abilities.Potential and fertility just waiting to be...

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