Contortionist

To dream of a contortionist represents an unusual amount of flexibility being displayed in a relationship or situation. Positively, a contortionist may reflect your or someone else that is "bending over backwards" for a friend or doing a very difficult favor. Proving how far you will go for someone.

Negatively, a contortionist may be a sign that you are going way too far trying to help or impress someone. It may also mean that too much is being asked of someone or that you are not being appreciated. Proving one's self gone awry.

The dream may also be a metaphor for someone noticeably twisting the truth or facts of a situation.

Convict

To dream of a convict may reflect guilt, embarrassment, or regret for your past actions. It may also represent your distrust of someone who has done something wrong in their life.

*Please See Prisoner

Cops

*Please See Police

Corpse

*Please See Dead Body

Correctional Officers

*Please See Prison Guards

Counselor

To dream of a Counselor represents a need for support and direction. You or someone else in your life may be inexperienced or looking for reassurance. Wanting or giving actionable answers. Wanting to feel that everything will be alright. Positively, a counselor may be a good sign that you are finally willing to seek help with a difficult problem you have been hiding.

Negatively, a counselor may be a sign that you are uncomfortable talking about your problems. Experiencing anxiety or hesitance about having to confront a problem. Not liking the advice you are being given.

Cousins

To dream of a cousin represents a quality in yourself based on your most honest feelings about them. Ask yourself what memories or feelings stand out the most about them and see how that quality may apply to your own life.

To dream of someone being your cousin who isn't really your cousin represents situations, realities, or problems that are difficult to detach yourself from. Feeling that you can't do anything about something having to be acknowledged or accepted.

Positively, cousins you aren't really related to may reflect mandatory respect, acknowledgment, or acceptance being given to you. Having your "foot in the door" or a minimum requirement met that gives you the right to deserve something or be listened to at all.

Example: A man dreamed of seeing his cousin. The quality that stood out the most about this cousin was her courage to confront problems. In waking life he finally built up the courage to yell at a greedy family member who was not returning a favor when he needed it the most.

Example 2: A woman dreamed of taking a pregnancy test with her cousin. In waking life she was fearing being judged for taking a pregnancy test. Her cousin was someone she felt was judgmental.

Example 3: A young woman dreamed of dating her cousin. In waking life she was a lesbian. The cousin symbolism may have reflected her feelings about feeling required to acknowledge being gay as though it were normal in a waking life situation.

Covid

To dream of the covid-19 virus represents feelings of contagious collective imprisonment, isolation, and restriction from engaging in normal activities. Feeling that everything is ruined and that nobody else seems to do anything except put up with it as well. An experience that nobody wants to have ever again and can never stop experiencing. A sense of loss of freedom and control. An unpleasant or unbearable need to protect yourself.

From a positive perspective, the metaphor could suggest a heightened awareness of the need for caution and precautions to be taken in order to protect oneself and others. It could also symbolize the collective effort of a community to work together to overcome a common challenge.

From a negative perspective, the metaphor could represent feelings of frustration, anger, and resentment towards the restrictions imposed by the virus. It could also reflect feelings of isolation, boredom, and depression that result from the limitations placed on daily life. Annoyance with people that are overly concerned with being safe that limits or restricts you.

Alternatively, dreams about covid may reflect your waking life fears or frustrations with putting up with the virus. Fears or anxieties about being infected. Mask wearing frustrations. Feelings about yourself or other people catching multiple infections.

To dream of going to school while dealing with covid may reflect your feelings about having to learn to deal with covid. Caring about every detail about covid in order to fight it.

Most dreams about Covid-19 reflect the real life problems of dealing with covid and are less likely to be symbolic.

Consider the number 19 as additional meaning for "confronting the end" that never happens or confronting the end of the world.

Example: A woman dream of being at church and being surprised people weren't noticing restrictions for covid-19. In waking life she was dealing with a funeral for a church minister and restrictions were being talked about being lifted.

Example 2: A man dreamed of a phone conversation where he was told his brother caught covid-19 for the third time. In waking life the dreamer's brother had already caught covid twice. He felt that his brother had become hate filled so the dreamer limited contact.

Cowboy

To dream of a cowboy represents an aspect of yourself that is adventurous, and involved in risks, or taking chances.

Example: A man dreamed of seeing a cowboy. In waking life he was about to try a new medication that came with big risks.

*Please See Lasso

Coworker

To dream of a coworker that you actually know in real life represents an aspect of yourself based on your most honest feelings about that person. Ask yourself what quality, feeling, or memory stands out the most about that person and how that quality may apply to your life.

To dream of a coworker that doesn't actually work with you may reflect people in waking life with similar goals or interests as you. Someone that is always doing the same thing that you are doing.

Example: A woman dreamed of helping her coworker move. In waking life she was trying to help her fiancee make an important decision. The coworker in this case may have reflected the dreamer's feelings about fiancee having similar goals with family fiances.

CPR

To dream of performing CPR represents an urgent or last ditch attempt to resolve something. Eagerness to not lose something. A friendship, job, or situation may be close to failing and you are doing what you can to keep it going. Desperation to revive something in your life. Taking urgent action or listening to everything thing you are told in order to restore stability to a situation.

Positively, dreaming about performing CPR may reflect experience with crisis or urgent situations. Feelings about yourself or someone else being adept at mitigating loss. Last minute attempts to preserve your will power while struggling with addictions.

Negatively, CPR in a dream reflect waking life situations where you there is a risk of panicking. Panicking about inevitable losses. Alternatively, it may reflect taking risks or making unusual efforts to keep a problem alive. Desperation to never let go of something negative or dangerous. Allowing your concern for other people's problems to distract you. If a relationship has failed in waking life you may have tried apologizing, telling the truth, or a bribe in a final attempt to restore the relationship.

To dream of giving CPR to a dog may reflect your fear of losing something that gives you a lot of confidence. Desperation to keep others believing in themselves.

To dream of not wanting to perform CPR on someone may reflect feelings about a waking life choice where you are choosing someone else's failure. Feeling that person deserves to fail or that something you don't like deserves to lost. Alternatively, it may reflect a concerns about being noticed by others caring about something that socially unacceptable or embarrassing. A fear or discomfort of being supportive of something.

To dream of CPR training represents learning to mitigate loss. Negatively, it may be a sign that you are worry to much about dangerous possibilities.

To dream of giving yourself CPR represents the need for self-rescue or the willingness to take extraordinary measures to save yourself from a negative situation. A situation in waking life where you are relying on yourself to solve a crisis or urgent matter because you don't believe anyone else can help you. Self-reliance or self-motivation in difficult situations. It may reflect a desire to revive or energize yourself in the face of a challenging problem or obstacle. Terrifying yourself that you don't count in a situation and trying to fix it. Feeling that you were perceived as an uncaring person by others and making a last minute attempt to correct it. Alternatively, it may indicate a need to take control of your own health or well-being, both physically and emotionally.

Example: A man dreamed of seeing his grandfather collapsing and then having to perform CPR. In waking life the man was struggling to keep his will power strong while trying to quit smoking. He was having a hard time resisting his cravings and desperately trying to stop himself from giving up trying to quit. In this case the CPR may have reflected his last-ditch effort to restore his willpower and resist giving in to his addiction. It may also represent the urgency he feels to revive his resolve to quit smoking.

Example 2: A woman dreamed of performing CPR on someone else's baby. In waking life she was having an assortment of problems and felt it was more urgent to deal with someone else's problem to her own detriment. In this case the CPR may have reflected her desperate efforts to help others even at the expense of her own well-being.

Cramped

To dream of feeling cramped in a small room represents feelings of lacking choices or having mental room to be yourself. You may also be using a coping strategy in a situation that you are trying to fit into that is not working. Poor circumstances that feel intolerable. Feeling limited.

To dream of having cramps in your body represents significant feelings of discomfort that doesn't allow you to do what you really want. Unpleasant feelings about having to wait for a problem to pass before you can make progress. Feeling frustrated by the consequences of being overworked or doing something too much. Feeling that someone is "cramping your style."

Consider the body part that is cramping for additional meaning.

Crime Scene Investigator

To dream of a crime scene investigator represents you or someone else that is trying to seize up how stupid or negative someone else's actions were. Knowing someone is guilty or did something wrong and trying to decide how bad it really is.

Example: A woman dreamed of being a crime scene investigator. In waking life she was trying to decide if her boyfriends behavior was bad enough to leave him.

Criminal

To dream of a criminal represents an aspect of your personality that's aware of it's own dishonesty. You or someone else that knows what they are doing is wrong. Feelings about bad influences in your life. Too much lying, cheating, or breaking the rules in some area of your life. Perhaps, there is someone in your life that you find of questionable character?

Negatively, a criminal may reflect your awareness of your own dishonest behavior or attempts to take a risky "short cut" that could hurt you in the long term.

*Please See Mugging

Crowds

To dream of being in a large crowd of people represents a need for space, privacy, or, solitude. You may feel that you can't think clearly or be honest about you real feelings. Feeling forced to conform with others or unable to be yourself. Your own opinions not counting or mattering. Anxiety about being embarrassed in front of a large group of people in a waking life social situation.

Alternatively, being in large crowd may represent a overwhelming sense of consensus or social support. Being on the "same page" as everyone you know on an issue. Overwhelming agreement. Feelings about having a lot of people being interested in your ideas or goals.

To dream of seeing a large crowd of people that you are not apart of may represent feelings of being left out. Feeling that everyone else has a view that you don't agree with. It may also reflect feelings of others not thinking for themselves. A reflection of individuality on some issue.

To dream of an unruly crowd may represent the potential for a "boiling point" to be reached on some issue that is getting out of hand. Pressing concerns or problems that are starting to go a bit overboard. Someone may be too insensitive to your feelings or too neglectful of your needs.

To dream of a happy crowd may represent a strong social support system.

Dreams about crowds are also common to people who experience social anxiety about larger groups of people.

Example: A man dreamed of seeing a large crowd of people walking away from him. In waking life he was beginning to feel that he was being abandoned by a number of people close to him. He felt that the initial overwhelming support he was getting from people interested in investing in his was waning as he failed produce evidence of progress they needed.

Example 2: A woman dreamed of standing in a very crowded place with all the people staring at her. In waking life her bossed had embarrassed her in front of all her co-workers.