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Wheelchair Dream Meaning

Dream interpretation from 8 unique sources about Wheelchair

Being in a wheelchair (when you don’t use one in real life) can represent: Support or help moving through a period of your life, especially assistance getting through challenges or “making the road smoother.” Feeling challenged or “disabled” in making progress somewhere in your life.

Using tips, tricks, technology, or other means of making life or a certain process easier.

Feeling a need for things to be easier for a while.

See also: Crutch, Disabled, Can’t Move, Walking, Leg [1]

The wheelchair eradicates a level of disability by providing movement where movement is challenged. In this way, it is a symbol of triumph over adversity. Additionally, a wheelchair may appear in a dream when you feel a need or desire to continue moving through your life while expending less effort. [2]
Dreams of a wheel chair represent the need for support during a challenging time. You are grappling with a real or imagined handicap, perhaps physical, emotional or spiritual. This dream is a message that there is an aspect of your life that is in need of attention, healing and nurturing. [3]
To dream that you are in a wheelchair, suggests that you need to stand on your own two feet and stop depending on others. You also need to stand up for yourself.

If someone is able-bodied in real life, but you dream that they are in a wheelchair, that person needs your help in some way. [4]

On one hand, restriction, suffering and the inability to escape from problems. On the other hand, in spite of a psychological handicap, moving forward. Often such dreams are a challenge, in a sense, to learn how to walk again. [5]
1. If in a wheelchair, one’s life has been difficult to manage.

2. If one is pushing someone else in a wheelchair, that person is dependent on the dreamer. [6]

Symbolic of recovery from injury or needing help [7]
Feebleness [8]

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Sources and Authors

  1. The Curious Dreamer’s Dream Dictionary by Nancy Wagaman [Back to dream]
  2. Complete Dictionary of Dreams by Dr. Mıchael Lennox [Back to dream]
  3. Strangest Dream Explanations by Dream Explanations - Anonymous [Back to dream]
  4. My Dream Interpretation by myjellybean [Back to dream]
  5. Little Giant Encyclopedia by Klaus Vollmar [Back to dream]
  6. New American Dream Dictionary by Joan Seaman - Tom Philbin [Back to dream]
  7. Christian Dream Symbols by Tyler Wolfe [Back to dream]
  8. Dream Dictionary Unlimited by Margaret Hamilton [Back to dream]

What does Wheelchair mean in a dream?

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1. If in a wheelchair, one’s life has been difficult to manage.2. If one is pushing someone else in a wheelchair, that person is dependent on the dreamer.

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