Night Dream Interpretation

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Night Dream Interpretation

(Darkness, Heedlessness, Ignorance) In a dream, a moonless night represents lack of work, stagnation, or losing one’s job.

If one sees the whole world in the dark and the moon is still radiant in the skies in a dream, it means that the governor will temporarily relinquish his entire duties to his chief minister or secretary, and that thieves and robbers will cluster around them for business.

If one then sees the daylight in his dream, it means that such an adversity will pass.

If people are under siege in the dream and the daylight dawns after a long dark night in a dream, it means that their siege will be lifted.

If people are suffering from high prices and someone sees that dream, it means that prices will go back to normal.

If they are suffering from tyranny, it too will pass.

The night in a dream also means marital relations, while the day means separation between them. In a dream, the darkness of night also represents heedlessness and particularly if one witnesses thunder and lightning in his dream. Seeing a complete darkness inside one’s house in a dream means taking a long journey.

The night and the day in a dream represent two adverse rulers, or two competitors or adversaries.

The night in a dream also represents an atheist, while the day in a dream represents a believer.

The night in a dream also signifies comfort and rest, while the day means toiling and hardships. In a dream, the night also means sexual pleasures, while the day means divorce or separation.

The night in a dream signifies economic stagnation, while the day means business, travels and hypocrisy.

If the night in a dream is interpreted to represent the ocean, then the day means land.

The night in a dream also means death, while the day represents life and resurrection.

The night and the day together may represent the two guardian angels who record each person’s deeds and who are God’s witnesses.

If a sick person sees the dawn in a dream, it means that he will recover from his illness, or die from it. Ifhe is imprisoned, it means that he will be released.

If he is a sinner, it means that he will repent for his sins.

If he is a merchant and his business is not moving, it means that his merchandise will be finally sold.

The nightfall at the end of the day in a dream also could mean the opposite. Seeing the night in a dream also denotes constant changes in one’s life, poverty, hunger, starvation, or death.

The night and the day in a dream also represent wisdom and protocols, or indulging in something one will regret.

The nightfall in a dream also may denote changing times, or changing trends.

The night in a dream also could represent an African woman, while the day may represent a Caucasian woman, or a pregnant woman.

The night in a dream also represents the evening gown, while the day represents work.

The night in a dream also means veiling one’s difficulties and taking refuge in a safe place, except if the one seeing the dream is a traveller, then the night in his dream means injustice and ignorance.

The night in a dream also denotes devotion, holding a night vigil, attaining one’s goal, or meeting with one’s beloveds.

(See Also: Darkness, Evening, Moon, Night ofpower)

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Night Dream Interpretation

Example: Three of us were on our way to a lively night out and I suggested a short cut through Richmond Park’ (Jasmine C). In Jasmine’s dream the night depicts her feelings of relaxation, pleasure and sexual encounter. This aspect of night also suggests feeling the absence of the workaday world; time for reflection and being by oneself; intimacy with others; introspection.

Example: ‘It was a very dark night with thunder and light­ning, heavy rain and high winds. I am in a waiting room at Heathrow airport’ (Mrs W). Night in this dream shows a pe­riod of difficult change in the dreamer’s life. It represents a period of darkness or depression, loneliness; difficulties; sometimes negative feelings about old age and death.

Example: ‘I was creeping through a field at night. In dark­ness I and others were trying to accomplish some secret act, rather as spies or underground agents might. I also remember another where I was near a house at night. There was some special reason for getting to the house. Again an “agent” son of feeling’ (Sam K). Sam is experiencing areas of his uncon­scious or unknown self, thus the secrecy, as he probably has hidden something from himself. This aspect of night suggests turning our attention inwards to an extent where we discover insights, memories or mysteries which were previously un­known to us. These can be painful areas of our experience, or very positive and life enhancing realisations. It depicts the times in life when feelings arise from within when we are alone, or in a receptive mood—or go in search of who we are.

Idioms: it’s about time; all in good lime; at one time; do time, for the time being; half the time, gain time, have no time for someone; lean times; time after time, time flies; behind the times; big time.

See Also: dark; light; sun.

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Night Dream Interpretation

See Also: Time

1- Night signifies a period of rest and relaxation. It can, however, also suggest a time of chaos and difficulty.

It is a time for ‘ghosties, ghoulics and things that go bump in the night. More positively, it is a period which allows us to create a new beginning with the dawning of the new day. Used constructively, night is therefore the fallow period before fresh growth.

2- Physiologically night is a time when the body is supposed to be renewing itself. In Chinese medicine, certain hours of the night correspond with the renewal of certain organs in the body. Madness would eventually ensue if the body were not able to repair itself properly (See Also: Sleep Deprivation in Introduction).

3- Night symbolises the darkness that occurs before rebirth or initiation. There is a disintegration which has to occur before there can be enlightenment. Night can also signify death or drastic change.

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Night Dream Interpretation

According to the Greeks, the night was the mother of the gods because they believed that the darkness preceded the formation of all things. As a result, like water, the night also has a meaning of fertility, of seed. In our culture, tradition has linked night with the unconscious. Moreover, it is also often linked to the color black, death, ignorance, evil, and despair. To dream about it thus portends misleading, artificial, unclear, and sordid situations, especially as related to economic and sentimental matters. As with death, the night may say that something is coming to an end, or that some limitations will emerge that you should follow.

An old superstition says that you can avoid nightmares by hanging your

stockings or socks on the edge of the bed. According to gypsy tradition, unless the sky is starry, night dream announces despair.

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Night Dream Interpretation

If it is very dark in many of your dreams, it suggests that you are hiding something or are not willing to see things clearly. You may the the type who likes to ignore, minimize or hide your problems.

To dream of night shows that you will encounter obstacles in reaching your goals or some serious setbacks. This can be offset by other aspects in the dream such as: Clear and bright moonlight, stars and celestial bodies seen clearly, and your feelings while in the dream.

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Night Dream Interpretation

If you dream of nighttime, then your unconscious desires and the shadow aspects of your life are being allowed to express and reveal themselves. In terms of the stages of life, nighttime represents the end of life, wisdom and old age.

If this is a dark night of the soul, this is a time when the light/solutions/hope/God feels distant, and clarity is waning. This period is usually followed by an extreme breakthrough.

See Also: Breakdown/ Breakthrough and Dark.

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Night Dream Interpretation

A nighttime setting is common to many dreams. However, extreme darkness suggests that you are hiding something or are unwilling to see things clearly. You may be the type who likes to ignore, minimize, or hide problems.

The darkness represents a lack of awareness and illumination.

If you honestly look at the content of your dream, you may be able to identify some areas of your life or personal experience that need warmth, light, and airing.

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Night Dream Interpretation

Material aspects: Night signifies a period of rest and relaxation, both in dreams and in ordinary life. It can, however, also suggest a time of chaos and difficulty. More positively, it is a period that allows us to create a new beginning with the dawning of the new day. Used constructively, night is, therefore, the fallow period before fresh growth. Also consult also the entries for dawn / day and night and time.

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Night Dream Interpretation

Vision: Wandering around in the night: a warning about “invisible” dangers.

The night might also represent an uncertain future.

A starlit night means you’re on the right path.

See Also: Darkness.

Depth Psychology: Night is always a period of transition, with the promise that morning will always follow. It also symbolizes dangers lurking in our unconscious.

See Also: Evening, Morning, Noon.

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Night Dream Interpretation

To be suddenly overtaken by night, a sudden adversary.

To walk on a dark night denotes grief, disappointment, loss.

It is ominous to dream of night-birds, with the exception of the nightingale, which denotes joyful news to the dreamer, if a married woman, she will have children who will be great singers (Artemidorus). It is said that Jenny Lind’s mother dreamed of a nightingale.

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Night Dream Meaning

A dream of a clear, starry night, with a full moon, is an omen of positive things to come.

A dark, cloudy night with no moon represents the dreamer’s fears. Look to other symbols in the dream to discern what the fears are.

If in the dream the night is hindering the dreamer, he should expect obstacles and delays in something dear to him. Astrological and Tarot parallel: The Moon.

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Night Dream Meaning

To dream of night shows that you will encounter obstacles in reaching your goals or some serious setbacks. This kind of prognostication must be tempered by all the aspects in the dream and other things used to offset the adverse effects such as: Clear and bright moonlight, stars and celestial bodies seen clearly, and , of course, the dreamers feelings.

See Also: dark for more.

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Night Dream Meaning

(1) Night is a common symbol of the unconscious; the ‘dark’ other side of your personality; the primitive or negative (‘evil’) aspects of yourself.

See Also: Evil.

(2) A night journey, and especially a sea journey, may symbolize a ‘journey5 into the unconscious, or the process of individuation, or its second phase.

(3) If moonlight is in evidence, see Moon.

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Night Dream Meaning

If you are surrounded by night in your dreams, you may expect unusual oppression and hardships in business.

If the night seems to be vanishing, conditions which hitherto seemed unfavorable will now grow bright, and affairs will assume prosperous phases.

See Also: Darkness.

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Night Dream Meaning

Dreaming about the darkness of the night often indicates that situations are not clear or need to be put to rest before accurate decisions can be made.

If nighttime indicates pleasure to the dreamer, then recreation and entertainment may be in order.

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Night Dream Meaning

Obstacles and delays are the keynote of this dream, but the interpretation should be modified by the prevailing conditions.

The clearness of the night, any moonlight, stars or sign of dawn reduces the adverse aspect See also Darkness.

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Night Dream Meaning

Psychological / emotional perspective: Physiologically, night is a time when the body is supposed to be renewing itself. Dreams at different times of the night may highlight emotions formerly associated with various organs.

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Night Dream Meaning

Night symbolizes the intense darkness that occurs before rebirth or initiation. There is a disintegration, which has to occur before there can be any possibility of enlightenment. Night can also signify death or drastic change.

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Night Dream Meaning

To dream of night time, signifies obstacles to achieving your goals. You may find that some issues you are facing are still unclear. Take more time to think before making a decision. Also see “Darkness.”

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Night Dream Meaning

1. Doubts.

2. Feelings of ignorance, inferiority.

3. A feeling of misfortune, serious obstacles in the offing.

4. Feelings of family contentment (at home at night).

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Night Dream Interpretation

1. Evil;

2. Absence of God;

3. Trial;

4. Time of partying and doing evil deeds; time when evil spirits may gain entrance; Gen. 1:2, 5; 1 Thess. 5:5; John 13:30.

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Night Dream Interpretation

The unconscious and unknown—the other world. Often also that which is frightening. End-of-the- workday, Darkness, Evening, Moon.

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Night Dream Interpretation

Symbolic of danger or an enemy, Job 24:14, Ps. 55:10. Night can also symbolize worldly living, Jn. 8:12

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Night Dream Meaning

Not seeing things clearly; cut off from inner light of guidance. Moving into unknown parts of self.

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Night Dream Interpretation

See Also: day, night; time of day; dark.

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Night Dream Interpretation

A state of obscurity

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Night Dream Meaning

lucky numbers: 01-07-12-14-17-24

being in the dark: are under heavy influence of harmful personality.

home, at: unexpected hardships in immediate intimate life.

entering a dark place at: wil lose at gambling to one who has hurt you in the past.

friends on a dark, with: a fascinating event leads to a discovery about yourself.

children: great satisfaction that your ambitions are fulfil ed by your children.

enemies: your lack of clarity al ows others to control your thoughts.

of the nighttime: period of crises, secrets are being exposed.

starlit, a: your direction is determined; decisions must be far reaching and accurate.

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40 Symbols and Dream Interpretations about night related.

Nightmare

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Nightingale

To dream that you are listening to the harmonious notes of the nightingale, foretells a pleasing existence, and prosperous and healthy surroundings. This is a most favorable dream ...

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Nightclub

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Nightmares

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Nightgown

1. Revealing a very personal, vulnerable side of self.2. A feeling of not being prepared for life, activities or business affairs (to be in a nightgown in public). ...

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Nightcap

There is amusement in store for you after a dream of wearing a nightcap to bed....

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Night Birds

To dream of any sort of night birds, as the owlet, the great owlt bittern, and bat, is ominous; and Anselmus Julian us advises those who have such dreams to undertake Do business o...

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Nightshade

To dream you eat the fruits of thii deadly plant is a favourable dream, meaning new interests and surroundings....

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Dawn / Day And Night

A form of spiritual illumination is quite often felt within this type of dream. There is a gradual awareness rather than a blinding flash of illumination.A new dawn can bring a gre...

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Night-gown

To dream of wearing one denotes an honorable career; to dream of tearing it, hasty action (Gypsy). ...

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Day And Night

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Nighttime

If a scene in a dream takes place at night, it signifies exploring what is hidden or shadowed in the subconscious. Nighttime may reflect your unconscious concerns versus your consc...

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Night-walks

To dream of walking in the Night signifies trouble....

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Night Guard

Standing as a night guard in a dream means obeying God’s commands and following the avenues of righteousness.If a sick person sees himself returning from his night guard shift in...

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Night Of Power

(The night in which the Holy Qur’an was revealed.) Seeing and experiencing the night of power in a dream means that one’s wish will come true, even if one desired a kingdom or ...

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Nightfall

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The Moon Of The First Night Of The Lunar Month

If a person sees the crescent of the first night of the lunar month, but in reality it is not the first day of the lunar month, one of the following interpretations could be given ...

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Night (especially Midnight)

Magical hour. Greatest strength of the super-consciousness....

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Nightingale (singing)

Messenger of joy, success, faithfulness....

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As A Nightmare

Feeling overburdened, fear of the difficulties ahead. Descending into an abyss means paying attention to the unconscious, because that is where the reason for the present difficult...

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Negligee / Nightgown

For a woman to dream that she is dressed in nothing but her negligee means that she has a secret that she is fearful of having discovered....

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Night Watchman

Vision: Seeing a night watchman: take better care of your property; if you lend something to someone you will never see it again.If you are the night watchman: your domestic tranq...

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Nightshirt, Nightgown

Vision: Seeing someone in a nightshirt: you insist on trying to hide your true character. Is the nightshirt clean or dirty, beautiful or torn? See Clothes.Depth Psychology: The n...

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Night Club

To dream that you are enjoying yourself in a night club signifies a future event in your social life.To dream that you are in a dimly-lit and gloomy night club denotes an end to a ...

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Night Or Darkness

To dream that you arc suddenly overtaken by Night, or by an unexplained Darkness is a bad sign; misfortune will be your lot. But if you persevere, in your dream, and once more see ...

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Night And Day

whoever sees that he has left from the darkness into the light, and is from the people of righteousness then he will leave from neediness [and go] into wealth / sufficiency. As for...

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Pyjamas / Nightclothes

Pyjamas or any type of nightclothes suggest relaxation and hence openness....

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Night Light

If you dream about a night light, you have understanding and insight about a situation that was once confusing to you. You have the answers within you....

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Game Night

A social gathering to enjoy the spirit of competition in a fun atmosphere is at the heart of game night. As a symbol, it represents the need to express the fundamental drive to com...

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Bar/nightclub

1. Church/altar (as the communal place where we drink of the Spirit);2. The world;3. Haunt of the workers of the flesh;4. Gathering place for lovers of darkness....

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One-night Stand

If your dream finds you having a brief fling with a complete stranger, then this suggests you’re tempted to throw caution to the wind. This could be a good thing, if you’re the...

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The History And Science Of Nightmares

In ancient times, nightmares were thought to be caused by evil spirits. The word, in fact, derives from a Scandinavian legend in which a ‘nacht-mara’—the ‘mara’ being a f...

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Night Terrors

Night terrors are not nightmares. In fact they are not even dreams. Also known as sleep terrors, night terrors occur during non-REM sleep, not during REM sleep when the majority of...

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Night-hag

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Post-traumatic Stress Nightmare

If you have experienced a traumatic event, for example an attack, accident or disaster, such as an earthquake, you may find that your dreaming mind recalls the horror of that event...

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Recurring Nightmare

Nightmares often depict issues that threaten your emotional safety and wellbeing and you may find yourself dreaming of the same event, person, situation or setting over and over an...

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Understanding Nightmares And Night Terrors

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Nightmares In General

Generally, nightmares come from a range of emotions, including anxiety, guilt, confusion and stress. If you are going through a tough time in your life, then you’re more suscepti...

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Nightmares And Scary Dreams: Frightening Dreams Are Your Friend

Nightmares are easy to recognize: you wake up feeling anything from mild fright to complete terror. Despite the fear they evoke, even the scariest dreams come to help you. The comm...

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