Dreaming Lens: Was there a nun or nuns present in your dream? Were they known to you? Was the setting connected to a church or parochial school? Was this from your past? Was the scenario humorous or religious?
Personal Focus: While the Catholic religion only represents about twenty-five percent of Americans that claim a religious affiliation, the proliferation of this image in the media makes it a universal symbol for spiritual devotion. Also because of the media, this symbol carries with it a great number of potential shades of meaning that range from intense levels of respect to humorous irreverence. Additionally, for those who grew up in parochial school, as well as through the media, there is a powerful connection between nuns and strict discipline that often connected to corporal punishment. Your personal associations with nuns will, therefore, play a prominent role in how you interpret a dream with nuns in it.
On the serious end of the spectrum, the nun is the symbolic bride of Christ and represents a level of dedication that is unparalleled in our modern culture. In this light, the Character Aspect of a nun in a dream connects to a deeply committed spiritual side of your nature that is willing to sacrifice much for the sake of your beliefs. For those individuals with experience in the Catholic school system, nuns can also connect to a level of strictness that represents obstacles to spiritual connection because of distaste for the authoritative severity they can be known for. Lastly, the figure of the nun in their habits have been incorporated into the world of comedy and, for many people, this image sparks feelings of amusement and parody.
With this image, perhaps more than with others, the Personal Lens of your waking life relationship to nuns both currently and from your past will figure greatly in how you interpret a dream in which one appears. [1]
If you are going through a difficult situation, the dream indicates that you should reflect at length before making decisions. When a man dreams of a monk, it may deal with the spiritual side of his personality.
Dreaming of a monk announces unpleasant travel and disagreements in the family.
If you dream that you are a nun, you will be disappointed in love. But to meet her predicts emotional happiness. [2]
The dream is a call for more self-knowledge.
For others, dreaming about a nun is a warning of impending danger, perhaps even a death.
Depth Psychology: The nun is a symbol of spirituality or having spiritual experiences. Sometimes, the nun is a warning about your own insincerity or that of others. [3]
Benevolence.
Religion or religious practice.
Dedication to a certain lifestyle, cause, or set of beliefs.
Femininity.
Strictness or discipline (with others or yourself).
Repression, abstinence, denial of self or a certain aspect of self.
See also: Religious Figure, Religion, Church, Monk [5]
2. Repressed sexual desire (male dreamer).
3. Seeking purity, chastity and obedience.
4. A teacher of harsh lessons, a lesson to be learned (teaching nun). [7]
For others, nuns will symbolize the devoted caring of which they are capable. [8]
If dressed in black implies being closed off from material world; also, walled off from people. Black cuts energy and closes down chakras. [10]
2. Purity; Psalm 119:9:1John 4:1. [19]
abbot, with an: are smart, proud and ambitious, hiding behind a cloak of secrecy.
children, tending: jealous people cause your separation from a lover.
enemies, with your: peril of a contagious il ness.
helped by, being: are unable to enact your desires.
leaving your home: keep your many enemies close.
man dreaming of a: his material desires take over his spirituality.
school, a convent: great tranquility as you solve your own problems.
several, with your friends: wil attend a funeral.
sick people, helping: a tragedy wil reveal your nursing skil s.
singing: your high intel igence has picked a compatible partner. [23]