Avoiding Dream Meaning

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Trying to avoid something undesirable or unpleasant can represent avoiding (or wanting to avoid) something in real life.

For example, avoiding a friend could represent anger at them or fear of them asking you for something you don’t want to give.

Consider also the meaning of whatever you’re avoiding in the dream.

Avoiding someone with ill intent toward you could represent a feeling or fear of being manipulated, taken advantage of, or threatened (physically, emotionally, or mentally).

Someone trying to avoid you may represent a feeling or fear of that person avoiding or abandoning you in real life (for more clues, consider why they’re avoiding you in the dream).

See Also: Hiding, Escaping, Warning

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

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Finding a way out of one’s problems, i.E. Avoiding undesirable persons or situations

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Death, avoiding painful emotions; entering the unconscious; feeling overpowered.

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Protection, as in wearing rubber gloves; keeping one’s hands clean’, as in the sense of avoiding ‘dirty busi­ness”; being out of touch. Can also represent someone’s hand —holding their glove...

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In a dream, a fountain placed in a suitable place or as a decorative item in the middle of a yard or a park represents honor, dignity, dispelling worries or...

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1- To dream of climbing is to dream of getting away from something, possibly to escape. We may be avoiding trouble.2- We arc trying to reach new heights in our...

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1- The image of a journey is a very- potent one in dream work. Anytime the idea of a journey becomes apparent, it is to do with the way that...

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Dreams of a camera symbolize your desire to capture time, and that you are holding tightly to your past memories.If you are the one handling the camera, then you are...

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Dreams of an ostrich’s neck that is in the sand represents embarrassment, shame, avoiding confrontation or dealing with awkward moments in life.If the ostrich’s head is raised high, then this...

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Exuberance; flowing life energy; strong and easy motiva­tion, Running away; avoiding one’s own emotions or sexual­ity; not meeting problems in a way that will resolve them; anxiety about what you...

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Rain in a dream connects to emotional expression, as it is the weather system that replicates the falling of tears and water is always a symbolic expression of emotion. As...

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A scar is evidence of a previous transformation or change that you have already experienced, the pain of which may not yet be healed or forgotten. When a scar is...

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Protection, cover. Avoiding contact with others; blocking both sending and receiving physical and emotional energy.

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Video games are symbolic of total and utter escapism and mindless thought. They are a modern phenomenon that will have very different symbolic meaning based on your personal relationship to...

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The way we respond to anxiety and pressure in real life is typically manifested as a chase dream. Often in these dream scenarios, you are being pursued by some attacker...

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To dream of the future, is a prognostic of careful reckoning and avoiding of detrimental extravagance.

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Intentionally avoiding acknowledgement, i.E. Pretending not to see a need in order to avoid filling it

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Warning one to be pliable, avoiding controversial and arbitrary issues

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Having to hurry from one thing to another while avoiding obstacles; see “hopping”

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1. Desire to return to childhood.2. Beware, what looks worthwhile and solid may be a come-on.3. If one has the op­portunity to go to a carnival and misses it, one...

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1. Risk-taking adventures, often emotional.2. Questionable judgment in love affairs.3. Avoiding danger or frightening situ­ations.

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1. A need or desire for restructuring, enhance­ment of self-image, often after emotional injury, devastation.2. Avoiding “deeper issues,” inner problems.

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(Beverage) Drinking an unknown sweet drink or a glass of a cold and fresh water in a dream means guidance, knowledge, having good taste, and the diligence of the people...

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In a dream, truthfulness represents one’s faith and certitude. Being truthful in a dream means avoiding adversities.

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(Cleaner) A washer in a dream represents an educator or a teacher who attends to ignorant people though they care little about his advice. Seeing a washer in a dream...

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The male within the female, shown as a man in a woman’s dreams. Physically a woman is predominantly fe­male, but also has a clitoris and produces some male hor­mones. Psychologically,...

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Often indicates how we relate to groups; our feelings about society, can be difficulties regarding alcohol; one’s technique for avoiding confrontation with loneliness, anxiety, sense of failure, etc.

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In most ancient cultures, consider­ation and even veneration of dreams played a great pan. Some groups felt that dream life was more real and imponant than waking life. Not only...

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Desire or attempt to communicate; attempt to make contact with an aspect of oneself or someone else. Dreamer not answering phone: avoiding contact or communi­cation; someone is trying to get...

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(Awareness, Deafness, Hearing, Stability) One’s ear in a dream represents his hearing, the point of his awareness, his rank, child, property or his status.The ear in a dream...

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(Banishment; Chasing away; Dismissal, Driving away, Eviction, Exile, Expel) Expulsion in a dream means imprisonment. It also means establishing the superiority of the one who gives the...

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(Banner, Woman) In general, flags in a dream represent leaders, governors, judges and scholars. Carrying a flag in a dream means signing a marriage contract.A flag in a dream also...

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Being the victim: feeling victimised; often depicts the chip on our shoulder. We may have been hurt at some time and go on bemoaning our fate.The ‘chip’ may be useful...

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Approval. Vanity based on fear of rejection or success. Often a sign of avoiding criticism.One is surrounded by envy and jealousy.A warning not to be so vain. Also an expression...

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Danger! You are not seeing something or you’re avoiding taking responsibility for something or reflecting on something. You are unaware. Appearance gives no clues. Are you looking for new insights?

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(Sea life, Human being) In a dream, if their number is known, fish represent women, but if their number is not known, then they represent money from a doubtful source....

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1- Usually a level surface suggests ease and comfort.Dreaming of a road being level would indicate our way ahead is fairly straightforward.A level crossing suggests that we are approaching a...

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A glass bottle in a dream represents a servant, a housekeeper, a son or a woman.A glass bottle in a dream also represents a woman who does not keep a...

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(Linguist, Philologist) Agrammarian in a dream represents preventive medicine, drug prescriptions, avoiding evil pranks, or it could mean a cover for one’s head.A grammarian in a dream also means embellishment...

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(arb. Junub. Astate ofritual impurity that inhibits performance of one’s prayers. Feces, Semen, Urine) In a dream, to be in a state of ritual impurity means that one is...

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(Bed, Sleeping pad) In a dream, a mattress represents comfort or a woman. Selling one’s mattress in a dream means divorcing one’s wife.If one’s wife is sick, then selling one’s...

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(see Telephone) Avoiding direct communication with others. Screening or carefully recording the input you’re getting from various sources.

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(see Paralyzation)A situational dream that comes from sleeping awkwardly on a body part. Avoiding emotions by turning them off.Experiencing so great a shock that the reality of a situation doesn’t...

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(see Cage, Plagues) Wishing to be removed from, or being forcefully removed from, a situation. Avoiding some perceived health risk, sometimes by drastic means.

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To dream of skidding in an automobile and avoiding accident means that you will be able to avert threatening danger.

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Vision: If you are escaping: you are avoiding danger at the last moment. Helping another person escape: a Good-Samaritan act will be the cause of future problems.Depth Psychology: ...

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