Often, an abyss is seen as a hurdle or something to overcome. Trying to avoid slipping into an abyss means you will overpower a current situation or problem. Tumbling into an abyss, on the other hand, can be viewed as a signal to use extreme care as trouble could arise in current business situations.... Dream Symbols and Analysis

To dream that you’re an adventurer, you’ve become so obsessed with your own behavior to notice that you have or you are slipping from good moral ground.... Dream Symbols and Analysis

Symbol: Animals represent, as Archetypes, the depths of our unconscious or our instincts. Animals in dreams are always repressed symbols of our urges—a dream language of the forbidden.

Bear: a symbol of vitality, power, and endurance (particularly in women’s dreams). See Bear.

Fish: a fear of losing love; your partner is “slipping” through your fingers, but when the fish is alive, it is a sign of successful planning. See Fish.

Dog: extremely repressed sexual urges. See Dog.

Insects: repressed anger, emotional stress, family problems. See Flies, Insects.

Cat: a symbol of female eroticism, and sometimes a repressed desire for independence. See Cat.

Cow: female sexual urges—but always combined with patience and calm. See Cow.

Lion: glorified and powerful physical contact between men and women.

Mouse: a symbol of the female; the fear of mice is an expression of the dreamer’s fear of a vet-to-be-acknowledged femininity. See Mouse, Rat.

Horse: aroused, but unrealized physical energies, or controlled vitality. See Horse, Horseback Riding.

Serpent: a phallic symbol; women who dream about serpents suffer from unfulfilled sexuality; a serpent crawling up your legs means sexual desires have been awakened. See Dragon, Serpent.

Small animals often symbolize a small sibling; large animals usually stand for the dreamer’s own character traits and repressed cravings. Animals with human voices: a warning not to let other people hurt or take advantage of you. Dead animals are a sign of changes in your personal situation.

Depth Psychology: Animals are a symbol of primitive character traits, like greed, passion, or anger.

The other symbols in the dream are very important.... Dreamers Dictionary

A blouse for a woman bnngs attention to the chest and breasts. Thus, it reflects how much cf her heart she wants to express to the world.

A woman wearing a bright orange blouse might indicate a bold, solid, and authoritative outlook. Slipping on a pink blouse may express the desire for a more loving and innocent image.... Ariadne's Book of Dream

Our motivating drives—sex drive, ambition, sense of failure, whatever is driving us in life; desire to get somewhere’ in life; independence; feelings about the particular car in dream.

If dreamer driving: being independent; self confi­dence; being responsible for one’s own life direction. With one other person: relationship with that person. Alone in ve­hicle: independence; making decisions alone; feeling alone. Crashing vehicle: self-desired failure, perhaps to avoid stress of responsibility and change; fear of failure; failure in relation­ship; argument—you may be on collision course with boss or panner, occasionally psychological breakdown threatened. Another driver: being passive; being influenced by the opin­ions or emotions of someone else, or one’s own secondary characteristics, i.e. anxiety or emotional pain may lead us to make many decisions and so may be the dnving force in our life, rather than what might be more satisfying. Driving care­lessly: lack of responsibility, socially or sexually, need for more awareness. Reversing: sense of not getting anywhere; feeling that one is slipping backward; reversing a decision; change of direction. Overtaking: getting ahead. Overtaken: feeling of being left behind or not competing. Car body: dreamer’s body. Car torn apart, dismantled: stress; failure to care for one’s body; self destructive attitudes. Fuel: feeling drives, motivation; whatever has ‘fuelled one’s drive’. Old car, scrapped car: sense of old age, feelings about death. Car en­gine: energy; heart; central drive. Running over someone: killing’ some part of self through misplaced drive or ambi­tion; aggression. ... A Guide to Dreams and Sleep Experiences

also see Journey

1- The car is very often representative of our own personal space, an extension of our being.

To dream of being in a car usually alerts us to our own motivation, thus driving the car can indicate our need to achieve a goal, while being a passenger could indicate that we have handed over responsibility for our lives to someone else.

2- Dream scenarios involving cars are often more to do with what we are doing to ourselves on a psychological or emotional level. Being alone in a vehicle indicates independence, while dreaming of the brakes of a car shows one’s ability to be in control of a situation.

The car engine indicates the essential drives with which we have to deal.

A crashing vehicle suggests fear of failure in life, while a car on fire denotes stress of some sort, either physically or emotionally.

To be in a car which is driven carelessly, either by the dreamer or someone else, marks a lack of responsibility, while a feeling of being left behind would be shown by your car being overtaken.

To dream of reversing a car registers a feeling that one is slipping backwards or having to reverse a decision.

3- A car stands for spiritual direction and motivation.... Ten Thousand Dream Dictionary

Psychological / emotional perspective: Dream scenarios involving cars are often much to do with what we are doing to ourselves on a psychological or emotional level. Being alone in a vehicle indicates independence, while dreaming of the brakes shows our ability to be in control.

The car engine indicates the essential drives with which we have to deal.

A crashing vehicle suggests fear of failure in life, while a car on fire denotes stress of some sort, either physically or emotionally.

To be in a car which is driven carelessly, either by us or someone else, marks a lack of responsibility, while a feeling of being left behind would be shown by your car being overtaken.

To dream of reversing a car registers a feeling that we are slipping backwards into old patterns of behaviour or are having to reverse a decision.... Dream Meanings of Versatile

Sliding down, meaning closing in on the unconscious. Devotion, enjoyment of life, but also insecurity. See Slipping, Falling.... Little Giant Encyclopedia

Symbol: A door, a portal, or a gate—all three are always a symbol of transformation, a threshold between two places.

Vision: Stepping through a door: a matter is resolving itself without the interference of others. Standing in front of a closed door: you still have not made contact with your neighbors.

If a man dreams about opening a door by force: he either wants to possess a woman completely or he is harboring violent tendencies.

A man slipping through a door is a sure sign of wanting to have an affair. See Gate, House.... Dreamers Dictionary

1. Letting go of unnecessary things, possibly past experi­ences or unhelpful attitudes.

2. Clumsiness, perhaps in relation­ships.

3. Projects or responsibilities are slipping away (as in “to drop the ball”). ... New American Dream Dictionary

Spiritual fear or forgetfulness is symbolized here, particularly the fall from grace, from a state of innocent bliss to a state of sinful understanding, with its attendant consequences we may feel we are slipping away from a situation, essentially we are losing our place. This can be because of others’ negative influence.... Dream Meanings of Versatile

1- To dream of falling shows a lack of confidence in our own ability. We may feel threatened by a lack of security, whether real or imagined. We fear being chopped by friends or colleagues.

2- Falling has come to be interpreted as surrender (particularly sexual) and with moral failure, of not being as one should.

3- We may feci we are slipping away from a situation, essentially we are losing our place. This can be because of others’ negative influence.... Ten Thousand Dream Dictionary

To dream that you are stricken with this malady, signifies that you are worrying over trifling affairs while the best of life is slipping past you, and you should pull yourself into shape and engage in profitable work.

To dream of seeing some of your family sick with fever, denotes temporary illness for some of them. See Illness. ... Ten Thousand Dream Interpretation

A dream of joy and pleasure; out of season, grief; to eat, loss of fortune; dry figs signify the slipping away of wealth, but success in married life (Gypsy). In sacred symbolism they denote prosperity (Smith). They were held as sacred by the Romans, a symbol of fruitfulness and life, also an erotic symbol.... The Fabric of Dream

To dream about your grandparents indicates affection, comfort, intelligence, and safety.

To dream that you are looking for your grandparents suggests that you seek out affection and security in your life. You could be slipping back into childhood desires.... Dream Symbols and Analysis

1- Dreams can often have a very peculiar quality in that our image may only be half there or we perhaps only experience half an action. This usually indicates an incompleteness in us, being a sort of in-between state which means that we have to make decisions. Often it is about either going forward into the future or back into the past: completion or non- completion.

For instance, we may have half-completed a task and be aware of this, but do not know how to finish it. Often the dream images that appear can show us how to do this. Conversely, if in a dream we have only partially completed a task and are left feeling dissatisfied with what has happened, we perhaps need to consider in waking life what needs to be done to enable us to complete the action in the dream. What would we have done had we been able to complete it?

2- To have only half of what we feel we should have - for instance in quantity perhaps only to have half of the food or drink we had expected, indicates that we are possibly selling ourselves short. We are not allowing ourselves to have what we need.

To dream of being half way up a hill or a mountain or halfway down a river would indicate that there is some indecision. We are not as motivated as we should, or could, be to continue with the task we have in hand. We have made an initial effort but greater effort is needed in order to be where we want to be. This type of dream is very often to do with either motivating ourselves or others.

To continually dream of slipping back, until we are only halfway through our task, to be repeating it over and over again, would indicate that we do not have the ability to complete it. There is perhaps an extra skill that we need to enable us to achieve success.

3- A degree of spiritual indecision is also indicated here.

The dreamer should look at where he wants to be spiritually... Ten Thousand Dream Dictionary

Psychological / emotional perspective: To have only half of what we feel we should have – for instance, perhaps only to have half of the food or drink we had expected – indicates that we are selling ourselves short. We are not allowing ourselves to have what we need.

To dream of being half way up a hill or a mountain or halfway down a river would indicate that there is some lack of motivation. We have made an initial effort but more is needed in order for us to be where we want to be.

To continually dream of slipping back, until we are only halfway through our task, to be repeating it over and over again, would indicate that we do not have the ability to complete it. There is perhaps an extra skill that we need to enable us to achieve success.... Dream Meanings of Versatile

(see Clock)

Time management. Is rime slipping quickly away from you, or are you seizing the day? Alternatively, consider if you’re pacing yourself well.

The sands of time in a more universal context express the nearness of beginnings and endings.

For this dream, how much sand is left in the timer is important to interpretational value.... The Language of Dreams

To put ice into a drink indicates that perhaps the dreamer is spending too much time indulging in pleasures and not enough on practical matters. However, to be surrounded by ice, or to sit on it, implies comfortable living ahead that has been well earned.

Slipping on ice or falling through thin ice implies difficulties and obstacles ahead, while deliberately breaking through ice indicates new friendships. Remember the metaphor, “breaking the ice”?

Skating on ice alone indicates success ahead, but skating with a partner COULD mean that someone is sabotaging your efforts. Or it could mean a successful partnership.

To judge which it is, look to other symbols in the dream.... Dream Explanations of Astro Center

If you find yourself slipping on an icy path it symbolizes the path of the arrogant and wicked, Ps. 73:18, Jer. 23:12... Christian Dream Symbols

(see Connecting Devices, Rope, Ties)

Feeling bound or obligated to something or someone.

Security in relationships (e.g., “tying the knot”).

Nervousness (e.g., a stomach “tied in knots”).

Being tied up with: A type of bondage fantasy or cage dream.

Problems and delays that have to be untangled (see Red: Red tape).

Slip knot: Something that’s transitory and offers little security. Alternatively, wrangling your way out of a tight situation, akin to slipping out the back door.

The return of health. In ancient times, knot magic was used as a kind of folk medicine wherein a person’s ailment was bound in a knot, then tossed away.

Being untied: Restrictions and tensions easing. Liberty.... The Language of Dreams

The ladder is a symbol of the step-by-step method of achieving success.

To dream that you ascend the ladder denotes some fulfillment of an ambition, depending upon the number of rungs that have been climbed. Falling or slipping from the ladder, reverses.

A broken ladder threatens failure. See Falling.... Psycho Dream Interpretation

(see Animals)

Anthropologically, a less evolved state. Slipping backward into more animalistic tendencies.

Darwinian: An ancestral dream in which the monkey, ape, or gorilla symbolizes your ancient roots.

Foolish behavior (acting like a “monkey’s uncle”).

The mischievous and playful aspects of self (e.g., “monkey shines”).

Being deceived by flattery or amusing actions that hide other motivations.

Sagacious justice. Four apes attended the judgment hall of Osiris, and apes were also sacred to Thoth, the Egyptian god of wisdom.

Prudent speech, accurate vision, and good listening skills (the three monkeys who represent seeing, hearing, and saying no to evil).

Hindu: Bravery and swift action, being associated with the god of wind.... The Language of Dreams

To hear a pulse (whether it was yours or someone else’s) in your dream, generally means that you are not confronting or recognizing your feelings. You need to approach things more head-on. Alternatively, hearing a pulse may suggest that you are feeling threatened in some way.

If you dream of someone not having a pulse (but being alive), you may feel that a real-life relationship is slipping away from you.... My Dream Interpretation

Symbol: The ring represents a bond or vow to share your destiny with another person or a community—a beginning without end.

Vision: In a woman’s dream, a ring on a finger or slipping a ring on a finger is a sign that she can’t let go of an old relationship. Dreaming about a ring that won’t come off: letting go of a relationship is even more difficult than you had anticipated. Finding a ring: things in your love relationship are going well.

A broken ring: a separation is unavoidable. Losing a ring: your lover or spouse is unfaithful or you are temporarily separated. Seeing two rings: either a budding love relationship or marriage. Pulling a ring off your finger: your affair will have nasty consequences.

Depth Psychology: The ring represents the relationship you have with the person who gave you the ring or to whom you gave the ring. See Circle.... Dreamers Dictionary

1- A saddle appearing in a dream will often indicate a need to exercise control over someone. Obviously this can suggest sexual control, particularly in a woman’s dream. In a man’s dream it is more likely to signify his need to control his own life in some way perhaps the direction in which he is going or the circumstances of his own life. It will be more the sense of his own masculinity and drive which is highlighted.

2- To some extent it will depend on what we arc doing with the saddle, and also what kind of saddle it is.

A motorcycle saddle - in that it is an integral part of the machine will suggest a more rigid type of control than a horse’s saddle, which is flexible and removable.

If the saddle is slipping we are about to lose authority in a situation in our lives.

If a saddle does not fit in some way remembering that it is also designed for the comfort of the rider - we may be being made uncomfortable by external circumstances rather than by our own volition.

3- We have an opportunity to take control of our own lives from a spiritual perspective and should use that opportunity wisely.... Ten Thousand Dream Dictionary

The use of soap in a dream, whether on your body or your clothing, is an indication thai you will meet with some minor triumph.

Slipping on a cake of soap, either in the bathtub or elsewhere, portends a family row.... The Complete Dream Book

(Debts; Slipping; Step lightly; Stumble) To stumble by catching one’s foot orhurting one’s toe in a dream means accumulatingdebts.lfone’s toe bleeds from tripping out in the dream, it means acquiring unlawful or tainted money to pay other debts, or it could mean suffering a great financial loss. (Also see Walking)... Islamic Dream Interpretation