Bleeding

To dream of bleeding represents some area of your life that is losing strength, vigor, and vitality. The body part that bleeds represents the area of your life that is losing strength.

To dream of bleeding that won't stop may reflect a traumatic experience that you have difficulty getting over.

To dream of bleeding from your leg represents awareness of your independence being lost. Your ability to do things for yourself is slowly being weakened.

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Blind

To dream of being blind represents you or someone else that lacks the ability to notice something directly. A total inability to easily size up a situation or see the truth. A limited or handicapped ability to directly understand a situation.

Blindness in a dream may reflect a heightened need to use body language, gestures, or trickery to test people's reactions to feel their real intentions out.

Negatively, blindness in a dream may be a sign that you are aware of yourself being too deep into a difficult or important situation with no real way to understand it. It may also be a sign that you are uncomfortable lacking direct information.

Example: A man dreamed of walking with a blind person. In waking life he was trying to talk to people he thought were liars and had to speak to them carefully in order to feel out their real intentions.

Blood

To dream of blood represents energy or vitality. It reflects how healthy or strong some aspect of your life is. Blood outside the body is generally symbolic of a loss of strength in some area of your life, while blood inside the body symbolizes strength and energy.

Negatively, blood reflects some aspect of yourself or area of your life that is losing energy or vitality. Either emotional pain, upsets, or situation caused by excessive drives or behavior. This usually appears in dreams as bleeding, seeing pools of blood, or being covered in blood. Feeling like a loser for having lost something. Negative remarks made that cause others pain. Feeling that you don't matter. Illness or the painful loss of a relationship. Serious damage to your confidence.

Positively, blood reflects vitality, strength, and success. You are confronting problems, getting ahead, or feeling strong. This may appear in dreams as the blood of enemies, blood pumping through your veins, or wounds that don't bleed.

To dream of bleeding represents some area of your life that is losing strength, vigor, and vitality. The body part that bleeds represents the area of your life that is losing strength. To dream of bleeding that won't stop may reflect a traumatic experience that you have difficulty getting over.

To dream of being covered in blood may represent conflict in a relationship or social setting. The blood on you reflecting the results of fighting, viciousness, or attacks on others as you attempt to assert yourself. Being covered in blood may also represent your sense of loss, either your own of someone else's.

To dream of feet bleeding represents some issue in your life that is effecting your moral foundation, or principles.

To dream of having blood on your hands reflects feelings of guilt or responsibility for your actions.

To dream of blood being totally drained from the body represents some issue in your life that is totally draining you of power, strength, or confidence.

To dream of blood on the walls represents lingering feeling about a loss or failure. You may be be unable to stop thinking about a difficulty that you overcame or a traumatic experience you've endured. Negatively, you may be unable to get your mind of your involvement in a bad situation.

Alternatively, dreams about blood may reflect issues with women's menstrual periods. It's not uncommon for women to dream of messy blood scenario's when they have accidental bleeding. Women may also dream of bloody rivers while having their periods.

Example: A young woman dreamed of winning a sports competition against another woman who seemed afraid of blood. In waking life she had overcome her fear of telling her parents that she had failed her second year of university. The fear of blood in the dream may have reflected her fear of making her parents angry about her failure at school.

Example 2: A woman dreamed of being annoyed to see blood coming out of a garbage bag with a dead body she just chopped up. In waking life she bothered by having having to care about her ex-boyfriend's feelings after having broken up with him.

Example 3: A young man dreamed of seeing two sharks fighting and one of them made the other bleed. In waking life he manipulated two friends into attacking each other verbally and noticed one friend got his feelings hurt.

Example 4: A woman dreamed of seeing herself bleeding. In waking life she had just broken up with her boyfriend. The bleeding may have reflected her feelings of pain of losing someone she loved. Feeling like a loser for having lost her boyfriend.

Example 5: A woman dreamed of being covered in blood. In waking life she had cancer and felt that her life was doomed.

Example 6: A woman dreamed of blood splattered all over a road. In waking life she was frustrated about losing a friend at work who was originally very nice to her, but then stopped being nice. The blood splattered on the road may reflect the dreamer's feelings about how dangerous losing a friend at work felt as they tried to get ahead in the world.

Example 7: A woman dreamed of seeing a baby with no blood. In waking life she felt that her plans were dashed because she had no money and no job. The bloodless baby in this case may have reflected her feelings about her life and plans lacking vitality because she lacked money and a job.

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Blood Pressure

To dream of blood pressure represents how well you are able to cope with current life situations. How exciting, thrilling, or challenging your life is.

High blood pressure reflects too much stress, anxiety, or responsibility. A situation may be emotionally overwhelming. You may need to seek help or slow down.

Low blood pressure represents boredom or a slow paced lifestyle. You may be lacking excitement or need a change.

Blood Tests

To dream of a blood test represents feelings of evaluation, scrutiny, or assessment regarding your vitality, strength, or ability to safely do things with issues that don't easily communicate your status. A thorough self-examination or evaluation of your status for health, behaviors, or decisions. Concerns about discovering problems or issues that require attention. Anxiety about the outcome of a situation where you are being tested on your vitality, strength, or ability to safely do things. A desire for validation or confirmation that everything is okay or that you are on the right path. Concerns about being found lacking in some way.

Positively, dreaming about a blood test may represent a proactive approach to monitoring your vitality, strength, or ability to safely do things with potential problems before they escalate. Preventative measures to maintain a balanced life or lifestyle. A willingness to confront and address any underlying issues or challenges affecting your overall well-being.

Negatively, dreaming about a blood test may represent fears of discovering something wrong with you or your life. Feelings of vulnerability, uncertainty, or insecurity about your vitality, strength, or ability to safely do things with issues that don't easily communicate your status. You may feel exposed or under pressure to address health concerns or make necessary lifestyle changes. Anxieties about potential illnesses, hidden flaws, or personal shortcomings being exposed.

Alternatively, dreaming about a blood test may represent anxiety about illness, disease, or potential health problems that need attention.

Example: A woman dreamed of getting a blood test to determine if she was pregnant and found out that she had AIDS. In waking life, she felt stuck in an abusive relationship that prevented her from moving away to a better life. In this case, the blood test may have reflected her thoughts about assessing her own vitality, financial strength, and ability to safely move away as a person who is capable of living independently from her husband. The pregnancy test revealing she had AIDS instead of being pregnant may reflect her feelings about being stuck with or having sex with her abusive partner that could only ruin her life staying the way she was instead of having a viable future with him.

Example 2: A woman dreamed of a man getting a blood test that discovered he was on drugs. In waking life, she didn't like that the father of one of her children wasn't capable of paying any child support. In this case, the blood test may have reflected her her thoughts about evaluating the father's ability to support his child financially and discovering his unreliability or incapacity to contribute due to irresponsible behaviors or choices.

Blood Transfusion

To dream of a blood transfusion represents feelings about attempting to reinvigorate the energy in a situation, relationship, or your own efforts into a problem. A need for renewal of energy. A need to renew vitality in some manner.

Negatively, a blood transfusion may reflect honest feelings about yourself not feeling as passionate about a situation or relationship as you want to. Feeling that you need a miracle to make a relationship work.

Example: A woman dreamed of needing a blood transfusion. In waking life he was planning to get married to a man she wasn't fully in love with. She was trying to force herself to fall more deeply in love with the man for the sake of her kids.

Body Builder

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Body Parts

See the themes section for body parts for a more in depth look at body part symbolism.

Bodyguard

To dream of a bodyguard represents you or someone else that is actively shielding others from failure or emotional pain. A person or situation that is "getting in the way" or making itself an obstacle. It may also reflect behavior that is risking itself to ensure stability or a desired outcome. A bodyguard may reflect insecurity to act alone. It may also reflect confidence that you nothing can get in your way.

To dream that you are a bodyguard may represent your protective nature toward a person or situation. Making sure someone else never fails. Risking yourself to put someone or something else first at all times.

Boy Scouts

To dream of a boy scout represents a constant sense of responsibility. Insensitivity, assertiveness, dangerous intentions, or domination while being concerned about a need for responsible conduct.

Boyfriends

To dream of a boyfriend represents personality traits or qualities we feel as consistently supportive of your success or well-being. Something you think that supports you emotionally, or regularly helps you cope with life situations. It may also reflect something in your life that makes you feel safe, or lucky. A consistently helpful situation, behavior, or coping mechanism.

Alternatively, boyfriends may symbolize our current projections of your partner or their beliefs or goals.

To dream of a boyfriend leaving you represents the departure of helpful situations, feelings, or beliefs from your life. Habits or situations that are no longer supportive of you. Feeling something helpful turning on you or no longer working.

To dream of a boyfriend who you've never seen in real life leaving you represents new situations, habits, or beliefs that were supportive of you and no longer are.

To dream of cheating on your partner represents impulsive choices, or doing something that you can't resist. Cheating on a partner can also represent a change of current beliefs.

To dream of a partner cheating on you represents bad choices that have consequences or dire repercussions. Turning your back on principles, integrity, or sacrifices you are making. A partner cheating on you may also symbolize your feelings about your partner having different beliefs or goals from your own.

To see a boyfriend die or murdered in a dream represents the end of a thinking pattern, habit, or life situation that made you feel good or helped you cope with life situations. It may also reflect certain beliefs, feelings, or situations associated with your boyfriend ending.

To dream of intimacy or feelings of love with a boyfriend that you don't recognize represents a new personality style, habit, or situation that is emotionally helpful for you.

To dream of a boyfriend that you recognize, but aren't actually involved with represents an aspect of your personality that you find emotionally supportive that is based on your feelings or memories of that person. This applies to celebrities, friends, or anyone appearing as a boyfriend that isn't a real partner.

To dream of having sex with your boyfriend represents positive waking life experiences where you are enjoying feeling that you can't lose. Enjoyable experiences feeling helped, successfully using your skills, or liking noticing yourself having an advantage that never stops working for you. Liking an experience where certain skills, behavior, or other people are consistently supportive of your success. Alternatively, having sex with your boyfriend may reflect enjoyable waking life situations you are experiencing with him. It could also (less likely) reflect your sex life.

Braces

To dream of a having braces on your teeth represents a situation that forces perfection on you that is unpleasant to adjust to. It may point to perfect behavior demanded of you or preparation for something important that demands total compliance to guarantee good results. You may feel that something in your best interest is unfair, terrible, or embarrassing.

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Brad Pitt

To dream of Brad Pitt represents an aspect of yourself that is more incredible than someone else about being more attractive than someone else without saying anything about it.

Positively, dreaming about Brad Pitt may reflect your awareness of yourself being more attractive than someone else without saying anything about it to be respectful or not embarrass anyone. Exuding confidence about better appearances than someone else without appearing arrogant. Behavior that is a perfect example of staying the way he is if it helps to not hurt someone or someone wanted it that way.

Negatively, dreaming of Brad Pitt may represent feelings of being annoyed that you or someone is more attractive than you are comfortable with. Feeling uncomfortable experiencing someone being attracted to you physically without having to speak about it. Confidence about being more attractive that doesn't say anything about it so that nobody will attack you.

Example: A man dreamed of seeing Brad Pitt sitting on a black leather couch inside a red dome made of triangles. In waking life, he was inside the hospital recovering from appendicitis and was uncomfortable with how much a student nurse liked seeing his penis while inserting the catheter. In this case, Brad Pitt may have reflected his feelings about himself being uncomfortably attractive to someone without any verbal acknowledgment or interaction about it.

Bradley Cooper

To dream of Bradley Cooper represents an aspect of your personality that is more incredible than other people about confidence about getting ahead or moving on that never has to say it. Confidently never thinking it matters to be a jerk saying something to someone else in order to get ahead that never embarrasses itself being disrespectful yet. Behavior that makes you think it will say something mean about noticing someone else's problem needing to move on, but never does. Behavior that seems to be a "fantastic jerk" about seeing itself as having to get ahead by saying something insensitive about other people not mattering, but never has yet. Feelings about someone in your life who appears to not mind being a jerk, but never does without a good reason. Behavior where nothing scares it about being mean about moving on, but never talks about it. A part of you might seem like it's ready to say something harsh about needing to move on, but often refrains from actually doing so.

Negatively, dreaming about Bradley Cooper may represent a sense of inadequacy or a fear that you cannot live up to the expectations you or others have set due to anxieties that someone might say something mean to you about needing to move on. A fear that someone could call you out, criticize you, or ask you to 'move on,' questioning your methods or intentions.

Breast Cancer

To dream of breast cancer represents feelings about the slow deterioration of your ability to respect yourself with passive authority or assumed power to control people without asserting yourself. The slow deterioration of passive assumed power to make people care about you or listen to you. The gradual decay of passive assumed power that feels it can only get worse or threaten to ruin your ability to matter or be important without asserting yourself. The ability to respect yourself with passive power or assumed authority being eroded by negative influences. Feeling that caring about people doesn't make people respect you with assumed authority anymore because people are ruining your life by never listening to you ever again.

Positively, dreaming about breast cancer may represent your awareness and proactive attitude towards identifying and addressing issues that are slowly affecting your passive assumed power or influence.

Negatively, dreaming about breast cancer could represent feelings of hopelessness, fear, or anxiety about the gradual loss of something essential to your sense of assumed power to make people listen to you without asking. A pervasive sense of decay or deterioration of passive authority in your life that feels unstoppable. An insidious depletion of passive assumed power and capability in your life. Situational decay that is affecting aspects of your life that once felt secure or unquestionable. Deep-seated fears or anxieties about losing your passive power, influence, and identity. Feeling that people don't have to respect your sense of assumed power and that it will only get worse. The gradual erosion of your confidence, happiness, and assumed authority to make people listen to you about unresolved issues or ongoing struggles. A perceived attack on your passive identity or ability to simply speak to make things happen. Feeling that nobody talks to you about doing anything for you ever again. Feeling that if people stop respecting your passive authority that it will begin to influence other people to do the same until it ruins you.

Alternatively, dreams of breast cancer may reflect your anxiety about breast cancer.

Example: A woman dreamed of a nurse telling her that she might have breast cancer. In waking life, she was experiencing migraines and nausea that would not go away after months. Prescription medicine didn't work and she didn't think there was any point in returning to the doctor. In this case, the breast cancer may have reflected hopelessness about the persistent health issues eroding her confidence that any medical professionals would ever listen to her health complaints ever again by simply asking for additional testing and that going back to the doctor would only make doctors lose more respect for her.

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