Failure Dream Interpretation
Failure themes can occur in dreams about missing trains, muddling words, losing a race or game, or failing an examination. Very often a sense of failure arises in a dream because you have been comparing yourself with someone or something else in some way. It is therefore helpful to consider exactly what comparisons mean or provide. You may also have been feeling some level of competitiveness. Alternatively, failure in dreams might not be interpreted as a lack of energy or power, if, for example, cars fail to start or lights fail to work. Fear of failure often originates in childhood and stems from fear of punishment by parents or carers or the withdrawal of love and this fear can linger into adulthood.
If your dreams often feature themes of failure or missed opportunities, instead of focusing on what is wrong with your life, try to lay more emphasis on what is right whilst ridding yourself of the negative ‘glass half empty’ perspective on life. Losing a race in your dream, especially if you were pipped at the post, indicates the frustration and sometimes humiliation of realizing the limits of your potential.
[1]Failure Dream Interpretation
Dreams of failing are common recurring dreams: failing an examination, getting your words wrong when making a speech in public, missing a train, etc.
Such dreams may stem from childhood fears of punishment / withdrawal of love and reflect a continuing self-programming for failure-anxiety.
If so, you need to distinguish two kinds of perfectionism: first, the sort that causes constant striving for unrealistic goals - this is a neurotic form of perfectionism; and secondly, aiming at being true to yourself, with a readiness to respond positively to inner promptings towards a fuller embodiment of your ideal self, but also with a readiness to accept and love yourself as you are. Your standards, like your clothes, should fit you.
Above all, do not allow yourself to be overwhelmed and crippled by past failures. Instead, stay in the present, and don’t accept a continual reiteration of ‘can’t5 from yourself: ‘can’t5 usually means ‘won’t5, and Svon’t5 comes from something in your unconscious that needs to be brought into your consciousness (See Also: Childhood Recollections, sections(1) and (2)).
[2]Failure Dream Interpretation
Example: I was in a race riding a horse but couldn’t get to the staning gate in time.
The others were way ahead of me jumping the fences. I couldn’t catch up, and one fence I came to grew to a huge height and was like a steel barrier. I couldn’t get over it and felt a failure’ (Ron S). Ron had not done well at school, had not taken any particular training, had no steady relationship or children. In his late 20s, Ron looked at his friends, married with families and steady jobs, and felt a failure. From the dream he realised he was viewing life as a competitive race to succeed. This was stopping him from following his real interest, psychotherapy, which his family viewed as playing games. He could ride his horse into the fields and explore. He did, by going to Amenca, training, raising a family.
In general, failure indicates comparison; competitiveness; it sometimes depicts alternatives—failure is the alternative to success. So the failure might be ‘because’.
See Also: Is there a because factor in the dream? in dream processing; falling.
[3]Failure Dream Interpretation
For a lover, this is sometimes of contrary significance.
To dream that he fails in his suit, signifies that he only needs more masterfulness and energy in his daring, as he has already the love and esteem of his sweetheart.
(Contrary dreams are those in which the dreamer suffers fear, and not injury.) For a young woman to dream that her life is going to be a failure, denotes that she is not applying her opportunities to good advantage.
For a business man to dream that he has made a failure, forebodes loss and bad management, which should be corrected, or failure threatens to materialize in earnest.
[4]Failure Dream Interpretation
1- Failure in a dream may not necessarily be personal. If, for instance, lights fail or refuse to work, we may need to be aware of a lack of energy or power. Personal failure can indicate a degree of competitiveness or can offer alternatives in the way we need to act.
2- The fear of failure is an almost universal fear, and to dream of failure may give us the opportunity to face that fear in an acceptable way.
3- Depression or spiritual frustration.
The failure we may feel at the hands of a greater power.
[5]Failure Dream Interpretation
Fear of failure can derive from your childhood, when you used to get scared of punishment or of being unloved by someone. In general, failure is a recurring theme in dreams and has different oneiric expressions. Sometimes we get stuck in what we do wrong instead of directing our life towards what we are capable of doing.
In the past, this dream had opposite meaning: it predicted success. Similarly, success in dreams predicted failure.
[6]Failure Dream Interpretation
To dream of failure is a dream associated with fear of being inadequate and a fear of not having a winning personality.
To dream of failure in a business means you are letting fear cloud all your dealings and must change this or suffer a real loss in revenue.
A woman who dreams of failing in love will if she does not change some of the things she has been doing and become more self reliable.
[7]Failure Dream Interpretation
Dreaming about failing, in school or in some task, may simply be an expression of anxiety (i.e., it is not a sign predicting that someone will fail). People who regularly dream of failing are often perfectionists.
[8]Failure Dream Interpretation
A lover who dreams that he fails to win the consent of a girl to be his wife wili do well to pursue his suit with much more energy than heretofore, for if he does he will win her love and esteem.
[9]Failure Dream Interpretation
1. Reverse: success is at hand.
2. Anxiety over project or dilemma.
3. Review plans and activities for potential problems.
4. Feelings of inadequacy and low self-esteem.
[10]Failure Dream Meaning
This is a dream of contrary, since if you Fail in any attempt in your dream, you will succeed in real life.
[11]Failure Dream Meaning
To fail in a dream is a sign that you will accomplish the end for which you are working.
[12]Failure Dream Meaning
To dream about failure actually means that an upcoming project will go well.
[13]Failure Dream Meaning
A dream of contrary.
Stick to it, you’ll succeed.
[14]Failure Dream Meaning
[15]Failure Dream Meaning
lucky numbers: 09-19-31-32-38-41
being a: wil realize high ambitions with common sense, not over-perfectionism.
enemies: wil be stricken with muscular affliction.
husband: your lack of good judgment makes you unfitted to fil your position.
others: postponement of success through present discouraging news.
relatives: reverses with speedy recovery and lessons to be learned.
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