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Weights / Weight Lifting Dream Meaning

If you dream of lifting weights, you are feeling over-burdened by too many responsibilities in your life.

To dream about a body builder suggests you are frustrated about your lack of progress in your social ambitions. [1]

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What does Weights / Weight Lifting mean in a dream?


If you dream of lifting weights, you are feeling over-burdened by too many responsibilities in your life.To dream about a body builder suggests you are frustrated about your lack of...

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If you dream of lifting weights, then you are building up your emotional and psychological strength to handle the challenges you face or to carry the burden that have been...

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Weights are used to counterbalance the muscles in the body in order to help them expand and grow. Weights connect to the principle that controlled effort is a part of...

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A dream in which you were keeping fit by working out—whether it was in the gym with weights or on an exercise machine, or following an exercise video at home—may...

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lucky numbers: 12-17-30-43-44-46aerobic: there is something in raising your heart rate, exercise. enjoying vigorous: wil eventual y rise to the occasion. feeling tired from: beware of monetary losses. lifting weights...

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1. If doing exercises, raises the question as to whether more real-life exercise is needed.2. Indicates more mental exercising is required.3. Be more cautious, tactful.4. If exercis­ing with weights, indicates...

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(Measure, Weight) In a dream, a unit of weight may signify distress or it could mean relief.A unit of weight in a dream also represents the elements that are measured...

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lucky numbers: 12-14-17-37-38-47bulldozer, driving a: destruction of that limiting your reconstruction. crane, operating a: take responsibility for the advice you drop. lifting weights with a: wil lose personal property in...

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(Weight) In a dream, a measured weight represents guidance, knowledge, wisdom, a wife, profits, distress, trouble, or poverty.(Also see Weight)

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Seeing yourself weigh something in dreams to determine its weight in kilos suggests you evaluate a situation to determine if it is really serious (heavy) or insignificant (light). To gain...

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The symbolism is similar to CLARIFICATION, given its allusion to purification, discarding all that is waste or negative. Also, depending on the particular case, it represents the desire to lose...

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A dream about dieting may be referring to some kind of restriction upon you in waking life. In your dream, you may be carefully measuring out food and drink portions,...

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(Balancer, Evenness, Weight stabilizer) A weight stabilizer in a dream represents equilibrium, justice, truthfulness and beneficial knowledge.

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Weight in a dream indicates gravitas and seriousness. We may wish to make clear in our conscious minds our own spiritual worth. Anubis, the egyptian god, assumed the role of...

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Standing on a scale in your dreams may express concerns about your weight. It may mention the need to lose or gain weight.A broken scale may point to your reluctance...

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Finishing a cycle or completing something before you begin anew.Lightness or taking the “weight” out of a situation (as a dryer removes the water weight from clothing), like using humor...

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That which gives hope, lifting one’s spirit

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1. Longevity.2. Magic.3. One may be facing the lifting of a heavy burden.

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Any figure that is not ‘of this world’ alerts us to the possibilities of other dimensions of being, spiritually lifting us away from the mundane into other areas of consciousness.

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If you dream of losing weight, it symbolizes that you are no longer being weighed down.A burden has been lifted off your shoulders.If you get too skinny in your dream...

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To dream that you carry a heavy burden, signifies that you will be tied down by oppressive weights of care and injustice, caused from favoritism shown your enemies by those...

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Our emotional requirement, particularly responsiveness to the more subtle energy of spirituality, allows us to begin the process of self-development.A ‘lifting of the spirits’ is indeed a change in consciousness...

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1. Burden;2. Burden lifting or lifted;3. Made easy;

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If a person sees himself as being helpless in lifting a necklace and wearing it, it means he is a man of great Islamic learning but unable to act upon...

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(weights)Scales symbolize justice, but also weighing something, which can symbolize making a decision. Scales in a dream can also be drawing on the expression “to tip the scales.”

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Dreams of a prop denotes that you are lifting someone else’s spirits, and taking a secondary, supportive role as you help someone realize their vision.If you’re feeling like you’re just...

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This is a peculiarly good dream if one is so fortunate as to see these trees lifting their branches loaded with rich purple fruit and dainty foliage; one may expect...

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A symbol of peace, the olive branch is associated with the dove bringing God’s message of hope for a peaceful new world to Noah. It represents resoox lution of conflicts...

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See measure and weighing / weight

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We have very powerful associations with fat in our culture, but at the heart of this symbol, fat relates to increasing your level of protection and number of provisions for...

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Destructive weight which symbolically belittles

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(arb. Tashahhud) A sitting posture during one’s prayers which includes the proclamation of God’s oneness ti.e., I bear witness that God is one, no associate has He, and I bear...

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(Burdens, Forbearance, Porter, Serving others)

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Symbolic of being self-conscious or the desire to lose weight

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You will be likely to gain weight through overeating if you dream of using a pitchiork.

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lucky numbers: 08-19-22-31-44-53bars of: have grievous weights on your shoulders. boxes out of, making: accord among friends wil turn to suspicion of what you are hiding. buying: wil receive news...

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Emotional and physical weight; power through heaviness; lighten up.

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Underweight is desolation revealed in order to bring help; see “weight”

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1. Weight;2. Wickedness;3. Sin;4. Burden;5. Judgment; Exodus 15:10, Proverbs 27:3, Hebrews 12:1.

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A veil obscures the object it covers, and in a dream, it connects to anything that is partially hidden.A veil as connected to a marriage ceremony has the added connotation...

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1. One is concerned with overeating, weight.2. Something in one’s life looms large, but not necessarily fearsome.

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lucky numbers: 02-03-08-22-27-34farmer using a: are in the grip of a deceitful person. yourself: control of your life sometimes has to be artificial y manipulated. lifting a heavy load: wil...

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As one of the world’s largest birds it can represent a burden or dead weight, but also self-sufficiency and tenacity.

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lucky numbers: 13-14-19-21-35-43being crushed under a, load: do al ow yourself to be dominated by friends. carrying something: children wil be born into the family; your burden is to raise...

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(see Dieting, Weight)How does this tool appear? Is it lopsided? If so, consider if you have been stressing certain things too much in your life, resulting in throwing everything else...

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Capable of carrying more than own weight; industrious, busy. Depending upon context, may be an annoyance, as letting little things bug you. Also, loss of individuality to a cause.

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Bogs, denotes burdens under whose weight you feel that endeavors to rise are useless. Illness and other worries may oppress you.See Swamp.

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1. Descendants of someone;2. The Lord’s thoughts about you;3. Weak and faulty foundation;4. Obstacle or weight down;5. Multitudes of people; Gen. 41:49; Job 29:18; Prov. 27:3; Heb. 12:1; Rom. 9:27.

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Something is losing importance, power; deflated image of self. To eliminate the weight of fears, concerns, by shrinking them down to size.

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The end of the world as we know it is such a potent image that it is part and parcel of almost every religion’s belief system. In dreams the apocalypse...

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1. Weight, a burden or obligation, usually emotional.2. A feeling that positive change is in the offing, often in profes­sional or business affairs.

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1. Problems with commitment, possible fear.2. Fast success comes with focus.3. Small thoughts and concerns are actually very powerful, carry a lot of weight.

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(see Air, Music, Wind)A signal from within that asks for attention to specifics, just as you might whistle up a taxi, or whistle to stop someone with whom you wish...

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Whether you are dreaming or awake, light is a very positive symbol. It represents enlightenment, lifting of shadow, gaining of understanding and knowledge, and a positive force. Hope.A light shining...

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If a person sees his hand severed and while lifting such a hand, it remains attached to his body it means he will derive some benefit from his brother or...

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Have you had that feeling of zooming through the air, feeling free and unhindered? Flying is one of the most popular dreams because such images can inspire the dreamer, lifting...

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Everything is coming down on you; feeling caved in. Pull back; you are trying to carry too much weight and responsibility. You are risking emotional overload. Stop and nurture yourself.See...

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Those who want to lose weight probably dream about the waist more often than those who don’t.See Belt, Stomach.

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Defences used against anxiety or feelings of in­adequacy; healthy, jolly feelings; sensuality. Becoming fat: pregnancy; carrying ‘more weight’.

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Carrying too much weight, assumed responsibilities; unnecessary burden. Everyone could lift a lot of the load he or she thinks is important to carry7 around.

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A tapeworm can be a manifestation of anxieties associated with not being able to gain weight

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Orientation in the world. He who carries the weight of the world on his shoulders: troubles and burdens. Longing to travel to foreign lands and have new experiences.

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A boxcar on a train, a car in an amusement park ride, a lift car on a ski tram, or an elevator car may symbolize the self, and many car...

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If pulling a trailer you are lugging unnecessary weight.If riding in one, you are not in control of your life direction.See Passenger.If living in a mobile home, see House.

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(Balance, Corn measurer, Measuring controller, Quantity surveyor, Scale) In a dream, one who metes out or dispenses measures and weights represents a ruler, a leader or ajudge. Ifhis measurement is...

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Swimming or floating in a pool can represent: Freedom from your usual limitations (or a desire for it).Taking a break, or a desire to escape from your responsibilities for a...

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Focus on outward appearances, specifically your weight, size, and proportions.How does everything “measure up” in the dream, and what’s being measured? Equate this to a prevalent situation in your life.Check...

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If a person sees his sword painted it means his words will hold no weight.

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lucky numbers: 06-15-23-25-39-43breaking a: wil have an unexpected visitor of equal weight and prominence. children playing on a: many delightful ups and downs in your future. being hurt when: your...

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Dreams of a wagon signify that you are caring for people, carrying the concerns or burdens of others, with empathy, compassion, and a desire to be of service. Because there...

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