To see your own stomach in your dream refers to the beginning of new changes in your life. The dream may highlight the difficulties you have with accepting these changes. It is also indicative of how you can no longer tolerate or put up with a particular situation, relationship, or person, as in being able to "stomach" something. Alternatively, the stomach is often seen as the center of emotions. Thus the dream may be about how you process or handle your emotions.
To see or touch someone's stomach in your dream indicates that this person is trying to reach out to you. He or she is trying to connect o you on an emotional level.
To dream that you have sticks stuck through your stomach is a pun on sticking to your guts. If you pull out the sticks, then it means that you are going against your gut instincts.
To dream of your stomach or abdomen represents your level of sensitivity. It symbolizes how well you can "stomach" or accept something. How vulnerable you are to having your feelings hurt or allowing something to upset you.
To dream of a perfect stomach or perfect abs represents a carefree attitude. It may also point to insensitivity. Negatively, it may reflect emotional conflict with an issue that embarasses you or outsmarts you.
If your stomach or abdomen is attacked, injured, or sick in a dream it's pointing a sensitive issue or problems with acceptance.
To dream of having a dog attack your stomach may reflect your heightened sensitivity about issues you feel other people aren't listening to you about. It may also reflect how you are ignoring your own safety or well-being to keep yourself from failing or getting behind in life. The dream may be a sign that you need to seek expert advice. Alternatively, the dream may represent something else's continued vicious personal attacks on issues that make you very sensitive. Fear that something is wrong with you.
Example: A woman had recurring dreams of a vicious dog attacking her stomach. In waking life she felt her family and work life was more important that checking a doctors check up she suspected she needed. When she finally did get a check up she was diagnosed with stomach cancer and died three months later.
To dream of your stomach or abdomen represents your level of sensitivity. It symbolizes how well you can "stomach" or accept something. How vulnerable you are to having your feelings hurt or allowing something to upset you.
To dream of a perfect stomach or perfect abs represents a carefree attitude. It may also point to insensitivity. Negatively, it may reflect emotional conflict with an issue that embarrasses you or outsmarts you.
If your stomach or abdomen is attacked, injured, or sick in a dream it's pointing a sensitive issue or problems with acceptance.
To dream of having a dog attack your stomach may reflect your heightened sensitivity about issues you feel other people aren't listening to you about. It may also reflect how you are ignoring your own safety or well-being to keep yourself from failing or getting behind in life. The dream may be a sign that you need to seek expert advice. Alternatively, the dream may represent something else's continued vicious personal attacks on issues that make you very sensitive. Fear that something is wrong with you.
Example: A woman had recurring dreams of a vicious dog attacking her stomach. In waking life she felt her family and work life was more important that checking a doctors check up she suspected she needed. When she finally did get a check up she was diagnosed with stomach cancer and died three months later.
In a dream, the stomach represents the elements of property, family, secrets, one’s mate, prison, grave, health, sickness, friend, wayfarer, one’s religious life and nature of one’s devotion. If in a dream one sees his stomach open, it means that his business may be temporarily put out of commission, or that he may lose any benefits he used to derive from it up to then. The other aforementioned elements also may apply. If the person in question is a pregnant woman, and if she sees her baby or any part of it comes out of her open stomach, this may mean that a jailed person in her family will be set free, or that the family graves will be desecrated, or that the body of someone in her family will be exhumed, thus uncovering its diseases and infestations, or it could mean that one’s personal life will become public knowledge. If one is actually complaining of such an illness, his dream means that he will find a cure for it. If one sees that he has no stomach in a dream, it means that he may lose a friend, or that his guardian may die shortly, or that he may become a religious, ascetic and devoted worshiper. If one sees fire coming out of his stomach in a dream, it means that he will repent for stealing the properties of orphans. If one sees himself crawling on his stomach in a dream, it shows him being needy and striving to barely feed himself, or it may denote his materialistic character. The stomach in a dream also represents the plains of a valley. It also can be interpreted as one’s tribal belonging or a branch of his lineage. Entering a stomach in a dream means travels, imprisonment, or returning home from one of the two. If one sees himself inside the womb of his mother while he is traveling in a foreign land in a dream, it means that he will return to his motherland to die and be buried there.
To dream that you are making out with someone suggests that you have an subconscious desire to pursue a relationship, but fear that it will jeopardize the friendship. If you don't like this person in this way, then the dream suggests that you need to acknowledge and incorporate aspects of this person into your own character. Consider specific traits that this person possess.
To dream that your clothes are worn inside out represents your non-conformist attitude. You like to go against what everybody else says or does.
To turn your clothes inside out in your dream suggests that you are trying to protect yourself against something. You don't want to get hurt.
To dream of feeling left out represents feelings of being deprived, misunderstood, or threatened. You may also have feelings of abandonment or not being included.
Expecting fathers very commonly dream of being left out. This most likely reflects their feelings about their partner being more focused on the baby than them. A sign that you may need to try to be more patient with your wife's condition or be more open about your feelings to your wife.
To dream of an out of body experience represents an objective awareness of yourself or who you are as a person. A situation that causes you to see yourself in a new way or be critical of yourself as person. It may also reflect self-criticism or noticing what's wrong with yourself.
Alternatively, an out of body experience may simply be a symbol for awareness of yourself doing nothing or not progressing in some area. Negatively, it may reflect your concern that "every other thing" being done and not the most important issues.
Famous celebrities or people with a public life may dream of standing outside their bodies to reflect their awareness of their public image being different from their private life. The body is then a representation of their awareness of their cultivated famous persona.
Athletes may have out of body experience dreams to reflect their professional concerns with their body being an effective tool to compete.
Example: A man dreamed of seeing himself while he clung to the ceiling. In waking life he was having problems going any further with his personal development spiritually. He was "noticing himself" having reached the limits of personal growth. He felt he couldn't go any further.
Example 2: A man dreamed of seeing himself sitting in bed having hallucinations. In waking life he was aware of himself having hallucinations and choosing to not tell anyone about them or seek treatment.
Spitting over something in a dream, or blowing over a knot and spitting on it with an imprecation in a dream means witchcraft.
If one speaks or spells out something that is supposed to remain a secret in a dream, it may mean reaching an elevated position, gaining respect for one’s words and opinions, or it could mean speaking publicly about one’s charities.
Setting out to command what is good and to forbid what is evil in a dream means benefiting others and comforting them. If a sick person sees himself standing up to defend proper moral values, to explain what is true and to refute what is false in a dream, it means that he will enjoy a quick recovery from his illness. If one sees someone’s infant setting out to walk in a dream, it means that it will take him a longer time to walk.
If a rich person sees himself plucking out his facial hair in a dream, it means losing money, while if a poor person sees that, it means that he will repay his debts.
Grinding or pressing nuts or seeds to extract their oils or butter in a dream means money and prosperity. Pressing ripe olives in a dream represents one’s homeland. Pressing olives for their oil in a dream means relief from burdens or overcoming adversities, or it could represent true scholars, satisfying one’s carnal desires, engaging in wrongdoing, receiving guidance, seeing the light, walking away from darkness into light, or it could represent one’s earnings or benefits. Pressing sesame seeds or walnuts in a dream means prosperity and financial growth. Sesame oil in a dream represents a pious person who admonishes people and entices them to break their attachments to the world or to its temporary pleasures. Pressing sesame seeds in a dream also represents a successful businessman. Extracting hazelnut compound in a dream means money which is earned with hardship or it could mean money that keeps growing.
If one finds himself incapable of carrying a conversation out of exhaustion from speaking, or if he refrains from talking either about good or bad, and if this happens inside a courthouse in a dream, it means that he will give up his alibi and loses his case to his adversary, or it could mean that he will become poor and dependent on people’s generosity or that he will become childless.
Escaping from danger or surviving a would be fatal accident in a dream denotes one’s devotion, religious awareness, fasting, charities and good deeds.
In a dream, rumbling of one’s stomach means a family dispute, an argument, or an antagonistic competition between relatives.
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