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Trouble Breathing Dream Meaning

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What does Trouble breathing mean in a dream?


If you’re out of breath in your dream, or having trouble breathing, it means you’re suffering from a guilty conscience about something you’ve done in the past.If you’re breathing slowly...

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Breathing indicates the presence of life, so in your dream the condition or speed of your breathing may depict your pace of life.If you are holding your breath, this suggests...

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(Asthma) Experiencing breathing difficulties in a dream means boredom, annoyance, weariness or disgust.

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Breathing or flowing.Life, or being alive.Survival.A cycle.Ebb and flow.An activity or process that happens automatically or subconsciously.See Breathing, Rib, Chest, Surviving

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Many people have problems breathing during sleep, even if they do not have full-blown apnea, and this can be reflected in one’s dream life.If not an apnea symptom, holding one’s...

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A person breathing fire out of their mouth symbolizes a verbal attack, Ps. 57:4

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If you dream of getting in trouble, you’re having trouble making an important decision. You need to speak to someone more experienced about it.

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Breathing or sustenance.Survival (physical, emotional, mental, or otherwise).Life energy.Lightness or airiness.Fluid motion, flexibility, or adaptability.Seeing only air where you expected something else could represent nothingness, emptiness, lack, or surprise somewhere...

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The ribs or ribcage might represent: Breathing or something you associate with it (life, cycles, or ebb-and-flow).Vulnerability or protection.An enclosure or something that maintains your integrity (physical, emotional, or mental).A...

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Coughing a lot can represent: A feeling or fear of having trouble expressing yourself or speaking up for yourself.Something that’s bothering you or that you refuse to accept (as in...

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The dreamer is standing in her own way, either consciously or unconsciously keeping herself from attaining her own dreams due to fear, which can manifest as extreme caution. Look to...

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To dream of seeing an adder strike, and a friend, who is dead but seems to be lying down and breathing, rises partly to a sitting position when the adder...

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Obviously, there is not much difference between this and ABUSE, except that the nature of the trouble is more clearly defined.It is a sign of approaching trouble in business, but...

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A warning to avoid an involvement with inferiors which could cause you serious embarrassment, especially if the height affected your breathing.

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Experiencing breathing difficulties in a dream means boredom, annoyance, weariness or disgust.

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To dream that you are trespassing, suggests that you are forcing your beliefs on others. It may also mean that you are being a bit smothering, and need to give...

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A field of cabbage seen in a dream is a portent of the acquisition of property that will give you trouble. To eat cabbage m a dream predicts trouble with...

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In this nightmare with a happy ending, a child may dream that they are drowning and unable to reach the surface to breathe. Then, incredibly, just as they realize they...

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A feeling or fear of overwhelming circumstances, helplessness, hopelessness, or loss of control, or of an important need being denied.The idea of “too much,” “going overboard” or “getting in over...

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This suggestive omen depends, for its correct interpretation, upon the circumstances of the dream.If you remain outside the building, you should take every chance of helping those in trouble, when...

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These nuts in a dream predict a troublesome trip, or perhaps it should be designated as trouble-shooting travel; in any case, the trouble concerning which you will travel will be...

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Any sort of officer, whether of the law or of one of the armed services, indicates trouble. You will have a brush with the law, or experience trouble through some...

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Any type of fin in your dream signifies a factor in your life that is a motivational or directional force.GillIn dreams, gills may suggest highly developed spirituality; the intake of...

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A dream of difficulty, the result depending upon what happens.If someone Insults you and you do not resent it, beware of trouble ahead. There may be a change of residence...

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1. Extreme passion, carried away.2. Expression of extreme anger (breathing fire).3. Good fortune, great riches.4. An ex­tremely annoying, destructive individual.5. Symbol of evil.

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The deeply unconscious psychobiological life processes which transformed us from a tadpole/sperm into an air- breathing frog/adult.The enormous information such sym­bols hold if we explore them gives them their power.

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If one’s uvula is swollen to the extent of blocking his mouth, or impeding his breathing in a dream, it means covetousness.Iove to hoard money, frugality, miserliness, or the nearing...

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Dreams of Lamaze symbolize that you are breathing your way through the birth of a new project or creation; finding grace as you move through the final pushes of this...

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To dream of any trouble with your Ears is a bad sign—it shows trouble from some unexpected source.

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To dream that you are sighing over any trouble or sad event, denotes that you will have unexpected sadness, but some redeeming brightness in your season of trouble.To hear the...

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1. Overcome by life, unable to fight back.2. One needs to learn how to navigate one’s life better.3. In “over one’s head.” 4. If breathing underwater, one has returned—temporarily and...

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A disappointment is in front of you—work hard or you will have to face trouble.The bigger the Packet that comes to you, the greater the trouble.It is a good sign...

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Dreams of resuscitation represent that you are breathing new life into an old relationship or project that you thought was dead. This might denote an unhealthy attachment, an unwillingness to...

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To dream of your own heart, signifies trouble in love. To see the heart of another, denotes that, as they seem to you, their charaéters really are. Bleeding hearts foretell...

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To dream you wade in mire and stubble,Foretelleth surely toil and trouble, Yet perseverance will not fail O'er toil and trouble to prevail. 

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Dreams of a cloud symbolize a block in a relationship or business venture. This setback is temporary, keep breathing, and find your sense of well being. Consider the feeling tone....

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A plasterer in a dream represents a hypocrite and a trouble maker or an agitator. His presence in a dream also could mean the smoothing of one’s affairs, or dispelling...

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A defense mechanism, or an overactive defense mechanism.Vigilance.A desire or tendency to distance yourself in real life from some person, situation, or experience.See Protecting, Protected, Being, Inflammation, Breathing, Itch, Indigestion,...

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First determine if you had a real breathing problem while you slept—a cold, for example. Were you feeling constricted? Were you bothered by unspoken and ambiguous thoughts that took your...

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Universal Landscape: Diminished life force. Panic.Dreaming Lens: Were you breathless or gasping? Was someone else having difficulty breathing? What was the cause of the breathlessness? Was it connected to anxiety...

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The idea of self or expressing yourself.Vulnerability (as the throat is critical for breathing, circulation, and eating).Throat problems can represent a feeling or fear of: being unable or hindered in...

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If you dream of seeing people idling about this denotes that you are not using your time and energies to accomplish your best work.A woman who is idle in her...

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This is another example of a bad news-good news dream.The bad news is that if you lost or broke the oar, you are in for trouble; and the good news...

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Psychological / emotional perspective: When in waking life we feel isolated, this may translate itself in dream language into being in quarantine. We are aware that we have been cut...

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People who experience nightmares may find themselves jolting awake in the middle of the night, often able to recall the terrifying dream that disrupted their sleep. Nightmares are common during...

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Deflation (such as a deflating balloon, tire, or ball) could represent: The idea of “less than before.” The ending of a process or phase.A challenge or obstacle.A downturn in mood...

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Survival instincts are the domain of this somewhat rare creature. Any reptile in a dream is connected to your deeply primitive responses to life and the basic functions such as...

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(Mill) A sugar mill in a dream represents success in the world, sufferings, burial, money, usury, the release of prisoners, a bathhouse, a lavatory, discarding what is shameful, waters, spinning,...

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If you use a thimble in your dreams, you will have many others to please besides yourself.If a woman, you will have your own position to make.To lose one, foretells...

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To dream that you are dancing with the prettiest woman in the room, is an omen of contrary—you may expect trouble in your family affairs, or from some woman acquaintance.If...

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Psychological / emotional perspective: From a psychological perspective the angel is the personification of the relationship with mother or mother figure and needs to be looked at as a separate...

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If you abandon something bad in your dream you could quite possibly receive some favorable financial news. But if someone abandons you, close to you in your dreams it may...

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To dream that you have received a present of some article of clothing, such as a frock or a hat, is a dream of contrary. Expect some misfortune shortly.The more...

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Vision: Dreaming about clean laundry is a sign of good health and a prosperous future. Dim* laundry: your relationship is in doubt—you are acting carelessly. Seeing laundry on a line...

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The reptilian brain is something that all animals on the planet share; it governs the most basic functions, such as breathing and survival instincts.If a reptile features in your dreams,...

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While we sleep, our brain constantly remains active, passing through different phases or steps. Sleepiness This first step occurs just before we fall asleep, as we transition from wakefulness into...

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Bright, fluffy clouds in a clear sky indicate aspirations that you can attain if you work at them.A lot of such clouds imply success and happiness in romance.Dark, stormy clouds...

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This symbol needs to be considered in view of the dreamer’s situation at the time.If your life circumstances are calm and pleasant at the moment, dreaming that you are afraid...

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To dream of the sky, signifies distinguished honors and interesting travel with cultured companions, if the sky is clear. Otherwise, it portends blasted expectations, and trouble with women.To dream of...

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Vision: Dreaming about having stomach trouble: slow down, you need to “digest” old emotional problems. Don’t overreact to a certain situation. Having a stomachache is a warning: you are too...

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Being abandoned is a contradictory dream. It means that you will reconcile with a lover, or quickly recover from trouble. Abandoning someone close means trouble is coming towards you, but...

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To dream of bees is good and bed: good, if they sting not; but bod, if they sting the party dreaming, for then they signify enemies. And therefore to dream...

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To dream of seeing an eye, warns you that watchful enemies are seeking the slightest chance to work injury to your business. This dream indicates to a lover, that a...

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For some reason this seems to work with opposite meaning. Slow and laborious progress before final acceptance (in a dream) indicates quick success to come, while easy acceptance indicates trouble...

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”A dream both good and bad. Good if the bees sting not, bad if they sting. Bees flying about the ears signify harassment by enemies, but to beat them off...

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Dreaming of drinking beer, wine, etc., in moderation, under happy circumstances - with friends, at a party, etc. - indicates that success lies ahead. However, in any dream of alcohol,...

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A person’s brain can represent their mind or something in it (such as their ability to think or their beliefs, thoughts, judgments, perceptions, or imagination).Problems with the brain can represent...

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To dream of coming into the possession of your income, denotes that you may deceive some one and cause trouble to your family and friends.To dream that some of your...

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To dream of carrying an umbrella, denotes that trouble and annoyances will beset you.To see others carrying them, foretells that you will be appealed to for aid by charity.To borrow...

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Material aspects: When a machine of any sort – particularly one that operates automatically like a robot – appears in a dream, it is often highlighting the body’s automatic functions....

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