Spots
To dream of animals having spots that are unusual for that specific animal to have may reflect a comfortable attitude with non-stop dangerous behavior. Repetitive dangerous threats. Feeling good being dangerous or enjoying threatening people. Enjoying the power to freely embarrass whoever you want. Fear of something that repeatedly draws attention to itself.
To dream of having spots on your skin represents awareness of yourself never feeling perfect. Excepting yourself as feeling flawed. A reflection of your feelings in situations that you can't do anything to change.
To dream of seeing unsightly dirt spots on fabric represents feelings of embarrassment of your flaws. Unpleasant feelings that something wrong with you or that you look stupid in some manner. Feeling unprofessional. Embarrassment or insecurity about not being perfect in a way that is important to you. Excepting yourself in a less attractive role than you would like. Spots may also reflect feelings about a problem being dangerous to be noticed by others.
To dream of a snake with spots may reflect repetitive threats of total failure. Feeling that an enemy or serious problem is overly casual with repeat threats. Consider the type of snake and color of the spots for additional meaning.
Example: A woman dreamed of cleaning her house and then getting black spots on her clothes that needed to be cleaned out. In waking life she was trying to fix her resume to get a job, made a change that was too successful sounding, and was overly concerned with tweaking the change to make it as perfectly honest as possible to avoid looking stupid exaggerating her skills.
Example 2: A young man dreamed of seeing a dark green fish with black spots flying around his bedroom. In waking life he was threatening to kill himself wherever someone threatened him with serious losses if he didn't comply with their blackmail. The black spots may have reflected his repetitive tendency to feel good threatening to kill himself because it was an easy escape from the illegal threats and humiliate the person threatening him.
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Spray
To dream of a spray can represents feelings a high level of ease or convenience to alter a situation to your liking. Feelings about your usage of a convenient tool to make a unpleasant or undesirable situation change.
To dream of bug spray represents feelings about a convenient tool or resource used to make an annoying situation go away. Negatively, it may reflect an insensitive or mean opinion about how easy it is to make an annoying person stop bothering you.
To dream of spray paint represents feelings about a convenient tool or resource used to change the mood or theme of a situation. A quick way to change moods, intentions, feelings, or themes.
To dream of spraying water on a person represents feelings about intentional embarrassment. Intentionally making someone insecure, uncertain, or feeling bad about themselves. Intentionally embarrassing someone with unpleasant facts they don't want to hear.
To dream of spraying water on a fire represents a wish to reverse or stop a dangerous situation that is getting out of control. A wish to reverse overly emotional situations that are getting out of control.
To dream spraying rubbing alcohol on something may reflect your wish to easily sanitize a problem situation. Ease of convenience of making a situation problem-free or guilt-free.
To dream of being sprayed with urine represents feelings about being easily embarrassed by people who are quickly relieving themselves of a problem. Embarrassing other people by reliving yourself of your problems by offloading it on them in an insulting manner.
Example: A woman dreamed of using bug spray on bugs. In waking life she was attempting to discourage her ex-boyfriend from contacting her by insulting him and blocking his phone number.
Spray Paint
To dream of spray painting a picture represents feelings about making a rapid and immediate change or transformation of how a situation feels. The ability to quickly alter the appearance or mood of a situation. A bold statement or taking unconventional and sudden actions to bring about change. A noticeable or dramatic change in a situation or your life with ease and speed. A quick and bold expression of your thoughts, feelings, or decisions, often in a way that is very visible to others. A desire for swift action, the need for a rapid transformation, or a willingness to make a bold statement. A desire to quickly cover up the old and bring forth the new.
Positively, dreaming about spray paint may represent your ability to adapt and make swift adjustments in how a situation feels when necessary. A proactive approach to improving or modifying how your life circumstances feel, even if it means taking unconventional paths.
Negatively, dreaming about spray painting may represent feelings of impulsiveness, rash decisions, and a lack of consideration for other people's feelings when quickly changing how a situation feels. A desire to cover up or hastily change something without fully addressing underlying issues. A rebellious attitude, a disregard for norms, or a lack of respect for others' property or feelings. A hasty or impulsive decision to cover up or change something without proper preparation or consideration. A desire to cover up or hide something by making quick changes to how a situation feels in order to divert attention from underlying issues.
Example: A woman dreamed of her ex-boyfriend spray painting his car windows red, getting in his car, becoming uncomfortable at how fast the vehicle was driving before eventually feeling lost and confused while crying. In waking life, she was in a custody battle with his ex-boyfriend and felt that she might lose. In this case, the red spray-painted car windows may have reflected her feelings about her ex-boyfriend making quick and sudden bold changes in the custody battle court case to make taking the child away from him feel more dangerous to the judge than she had expected.
Example 2: A woman dreamed of seeing demonic symbols in the sky that looked as though they had been spray painted. In waking life, she was disgusted by all men after breaking up with her ex-boyfriend while fearing being unable to support her child without assistance. In this case, the feelings about the demonic symbols in the sky being spray painted may have reflected her perception of her ex-boyfriend's dishonest behavior causing a sudden and negative change in her view of men, leading to feelings of fear, disgust, and the feeling that men are evil.
Example 3: A woman dreamed of her husband with no shirt on as though he had been spray painted with gold color. In waking life, she was on long-term disability for stress after her daughter went missing. Her husband adapted to the situation and paid all the living expenses. In this case, her husband looking as though he had been spray painted with gold may have reflected her positive feelings about her husband's ability to quickly transform what she felt about him by effectively taking on the financial responsibilities while never allowing expenses or her reduced income to interrupt their lives despite the financial difficulties. The gold color reflects her feelings about her husband being valuable as a husband when times are tough.
Spy
To dream of a spy represents an aspect of your personality that is secretly sabotaging other people. Pretending you care about someone while having ulterior motives. You or someone else that is trying to stop others plans by acting as their friend. It may also reflect an attempt to study other people so that you can stop them or make them less successful at something.
Example: A single father dreamed of Russian spies. In real life he feared his son would leave home so he tried to look for things wrong with his son's new home so that he wouldn't leave. The spies reflected the father's attempt to secretly sabotage his son's plans with any problems he could find.
Square
To dream of a square represents an issue or situation that is balanced or stable no matter what you do about it. A situation feels or looks as though it will stay the same no matter how hard you try to change it.
A square often appears in a dream to symbolize the removal of a negative situation that you can't change.
Example: A man dreamed of seeing a square. In waking life he was experiencing an enormously difficult financial situation requiring starting a new business that wouldn't change no matter what he did to avoid total bankruptcy.
Squash
To dream of squash represents feelings about situations being intentionally boring or unattractive. Choices that are good for you, but don't feel good. Social situations where you feel people are being kinder to you on purpose. Parenting.
Negatively, dreaming about a squash represents feelings about having to care about people when you don't like to. Love, family, or a giving friendship that doesn't feel good for you. Putting up with someone else's problem because you have no choice.
Example: A woman dreamed of being offered a squash. In waking life she had talked to a guy whom she had an argument with and felt that he was being kinder to her on purpose to avoid angering her again.
Example 2: A woman dreamed of having squash in her vegetable garden that was covered in bugs and rotting. In waking life she was having feelings about herself being an inadequate parent.
Squeeze
To dream of something being squeezed represents feelings about a lot of pressure being applied. Feeling forced into a situation or problem. Feeling "squeezed in" or a "tight squeeze." Financial cuts or financial pressure. Pressuring someone or something to stop.
To dream of being squeezed to death represents feelings about unbearable pressure that may cause serious embarrassment or failure.
To dream of "squeezing past" someone may reflect a wish to avoid an issue to a bare minimum. Feeling that you have to run into a person or issue and want to do so as little as possible. Feeling good that nothing is a disaster because you can avoid something. Issue with not being able to make time.
To dream of squeezing something too hard may reflect thoughts about placing too much pressure on something. Too much pressure being placed on you for results or to conform. Feeling that someone is trying to hard to get something out of you. Your own attempts to get something out of someone that may be excessive. Getting every last little thing you can out of a person or sitaution.
To dream of squeezing something into a tight space represents thoughts about a "tight squeeze" to make a situation work with the bare minimum. Forcing something to happen or financial cuts. Feelings about physical contact.
Example: A man dreamed of squeezing past someone. In waking life he felt he had a fear of confrontation with a friend he had a fight with. He may have wanted to keep any potential run ins with this friend to a bare minimum.
Example 2: A woman dreamed of squeezing through a room quickly. In waking life she was concerned with making time or "squeezing in time" for prayer.
Example 3: A woman dreamed of squeezing a worm out of her nose, but a piece of it was left in her nose. In waking life she felt her husband was only with her to avoid getting a job. In this case the squeezing may have reflected her attempts to cut her husband off from using her, but not being able to do it completely.
Example 4: A woman dreamed of squeezing into an room past a plywood door. In waking life she was very busy and barely had time for herself. Squeezing into a room in this case may have reflected her feelings about making time for some area of her life with a bare minimum.
Example 5: A woman dreamed of "squeezing the life out" of a snake saying she would never allow it to get to her son. In waking life she was very concerned about her son's drug habit. In this case the symbolism of squeezing the life out of a snake may have reflected her attempts to apply pressure to her son's drug problem to stop it from killing him.
Example 6: A woman dreamed of squeezed her way through a room. In waking life she had hours reduced at work and was barely paying all her bills.
Example 7: A man dreamed of squeezing into the room of a vacant building. In waking life he felt that he was barely able to make time for his father who had Alzhiemer's.
Example 8: A woman dreamed of trying to squeeze a snake to death. In waking life she was trying to pressure her son to avoid evil while praying to God for help him avoid the devil.
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Squid
To dream of a squid represents clinginess, possessiveness, or total control that is intentional and hidden. Purposely wanting to take control of every little thing someone else has without it noticed. Selfish control on multiple areas that is covert and assertive.
Alternatively, a squid may reflect acceptance of yourself having to control something big or sophisticated when you don't want to. Disliking power that makes you the center of attention.
Negatively, dreaming about a squid may reflect feelings about yourself or other people that are getting away with a lot of bad behavior. A strong dislike or powerful jealousy of having your activities noticed at all. Aggressively wanting your negative activities to remain private. Organized criminal behavior that wishes to remain private or discrete.
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Squirrels
To dream of a squirrel represents an aspect of your personality that is faster than everyone else and keeps everything to themself. Reflexive avoidance. Hoarding or keeps everything to itself.
Positively, a squirrel represents reflexive self-preservation or hoarding resources for an important goal.
Negatively, a squirrel reflects selfishness or not wanting to share. Desperate or anxiety based avoidance. Behavior that quickly scares if you bring a topic up. Fearful people who owe money or want to avoid responsibility. Dealing with people who seem to instantly react in an scared or selfish avoidant manner.
Example: A woman dreamed of a man saying his house was filled with squirrels. In waking life she got pregnant with a man's baby and 5 months into it he didn't want to have a serious relationship with her because he moved on to another girl. The squirrel in this case may have reflected her feelings about the father of her unborn child being quick to avoid her and keep all his money to himself with his life with his new girlfriend.
Example 2: A woman dreamed of squirrels fighting a big bird. In waking life she was having stress about finances related to buying a house or going to school. The squirrels fighting the bird in this case may have reflected her feelings about hoarding money for a home in conflict with her wish to afford studying at school represented by the bird.
Example 3: A woman dreamed of a dog killing a squirrel. In waking life she had a very annoying avoidant sister who tested her patience to the limit forcing her to get very angry at her sister to the point of cutting her out of her life.
Stabbed
To dream of being stabbed represents feelings of being hurt, attacked, betrayed, or that something is getting back at you. Feeling wounded by someone else's actions or remarks. Feeling attacked with separation conflict or jealousy. Feelings about others retaliating against you. Conflict or jealousy over an issue that makes you feel that doing something a second time is a mistake. Feeling attacked for not listening. Feelings of being intentionally hurt or witnessing someone trying to cause you pain or loss. Feelings about people turning on you. You may be experiencing feelings of inadequacy. Feelings about someone taking out their anger, resentment, or frustration on you. Feelings about ignorant people or situations that want you to separate yourself from involvement in something that makes them jealous. Unresolved issues that need attention. Your emotional response to a perceived threat or act of aggression in your life.
Positively, dreaming of being stabbed may represent your awareness of a situation where you need to defend yourself or take action to protect your interests. It can serve as a warning signal to address conflicts or threats in your waking life before they escalate.
Negatively, dreaming of being stabbed could represent feelings of vulnerability, fear, or emotional trauma. Feelings of injustice, being backstabbed by friends, or suffering from deceitful actions of others. Unresolved conflicts, lingering mistrust, or emotional scars from past experiences. It could also highlight your own feelings of guilt or regret over actions you've taken against others. Feelings of fear, powerlessness, or victimization in the face of real or perceived betrayal.
To dream of stabbing someone else represents your defensiveness, anger, resentment, or frustration towards someone. Taking out your anger on someone. You're own betrayal of someone else. A wish to restore your independence in a relationship or situation. Your own separation jealousy or getting back at someone. Wanting to feel others pain or to know that you are hurting them in some way. Attacking someone for why you never want them to repeat a certain behavior ever again. Telling someone you don't like them or don't want them near you again. Your attempt to retaliate against someone who has wronged you or prevent them from continuing a certain behavior.
Alternatively, stabbing may reflect feelings about threats of physical harm or botched surgical procedures.
Consider the area of the body being stabbed for additional meaning.
To dream of being stabbed in the neck represents a conflict with commitments that have been made. You may feel that someone or something is challenging your ability to stay committed or attacking your dedication. Feeling attacked for your commitments. Feeling that someone doesn't want you to like something ever again or wants to you give up in some way. If you are trying to stab someone else in the neck it may be a sign that you are very jealous or angry about someone else's commitment to something.
To dream of being stabbed in the leg may reflect conflict with independent choices. Feeling attacked for wanting to do something on your own. If you stab someone else in the leg it may reflect your wish to stop a person or situation from becoming independent.
To dream of being stabbed in the hand represents feelings about conflict with capability. Feeling attacked for your abilities or skills. Feeling jealousy from someone that you are capable or good at something. Feeling that someone or something is trying to turn you into a loser who can't perform well on your own. To dream that you are trying to stab someone else in their hands may reflect your attempt to attack a person or problem that is performing at a competent level that is uncomfortable for you. Jealousy that someone is doing something better than you.
To dream of being stabbed in the foot represents feelings about your principles, moral foundation, or things you stand for being wounded by someone else's actions or words. Jealousy or conflict is negatively affecting "what you stand for." A situation or person that never wants you to stand your ground ever again.
To dream of being stabbed in the chest represents feelings about personal power (assertive or passive) being wounded by someone else's actions or words. Feeling attacked for your ability to assert yourself without question. Power that assumes it's an authoritative role or listened to easily feels under attack by jealousy or conflict. A situation or person who never wants you to exact personal power ever again.
To dream of being stabbed in the eye represents feelings about observation, judgment, or consciousness being wounded by someone else's words or actions. Feeling that how you see a situation is under attack by jealousy or conflict. A situation or person who never wants you to observe or cast judgment in the same way ever again.
To dream of being stabbed in the head represents feelings about intellect or decision-making being under attack by someone else's words or actions. Jealousy or conflict negatively affecting control. A situation or person that never wants you to control yourself or make conscious decisions.
Example: A woman dreamed of experiencing herself stabbing her sister all over her body. In waking life, she was very angry at God for the death of her sister and went into her bedroom while alone and cursed God for killing her sister. In this case, stabbing her sister may have reflected her feelings of intense anger, frustration, and emotional turmoil directed towards God for the loss of her sister. The sister's image in the dream could symbolize God's responsibility for the tragic event itself, rather than the sister as an individual, reflecting the dreamer's struggle to cope with the loss and make sense of the situation.
Example 2: A young woman dreamed of being stabbed with a butcher knife. In waking life, she regularly had to undergo surgeries. In this case, being stabbed with a butcher knife may have reflected her feelings that the surgeries were invasive," abrupt, and harsh, feeling almost like a violent assault on her body with scars that made her remember each operation. She may have felt that the surgeries were not being conducted with care for appearances and were more focused on medical necessity. She may have also felt that the surgeries get back at her each time she gets one done by creating unattractive scars making her feel less motivated to have more surgeries.
Example 3: A woman dreamed of almost being stabbed, but avoiding it. In waking life, she was avoiding being helpful to people she thought were ungrateful and didn't want to offer them further assistance. In this case, the almost being stabbed may have reflected her feelings of avoiding the negative experience of being cheated with losing money or wasting time on people who didn't appreciate or deserve her help.
Example 4: A woman had recurring dreams of being stabbed by people. In waking life, she was having recurring issues with jealousy of being betrayed by these people. She felt that whenever she allowed people into her life they turned on her.
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Stable
To dream of a stable represents responsible control over your drives, urges, or instincts. Managing or control your drives or urges for an mature adult purpose.
Negatively, a stable in a dream may be a sign that you feel that you can't enjoy yourself, pursue goals as aggressively as you want to, or that you don't like slowing down sexual activity.
To dream of a horse stable represents self-control over your drives or ambition. Keeping your aspirations at bay until it's more appropriate. Taking a responsible break from your goals. Fine tuning or doubling your efforts before you get serious about your goals again.
Alternatively, a horse stable may reflect self-control over sexual urges. Taking time off during a highly sexual period of your life. Sexual activity that is only focused on pregnancy and not pleasure.
Example: A man dreamed of seeing pigs in a stable rolling around in the mud. In waking life he was trying to stay abstinent for a religious test and was finding it too difficult to control his sexual urges. He felt very selfish about it.
Example 2: A woman dreamed of horses having sex inside a stable. In waking life she was trying to get pregnant with her husband.
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Stadium
To dream of sitting in a stadium represents your spectator perspective on a problem that is being confronted. Noticing what you are trying to achieve or noticing what someone else is trying to overcome. It may also reflect your supportive nature towards a problem or conflict. Negatively, you may feel like an outsider who is only watching.
To dream of playing in a stadium may reflect other people who you know are aware of you confronting a problem. It may also reflect how supportive you feel other people are being towards you as you face a problem.
Example: A man dreamed of sitting in a stadium. In waking life the man's wife was pregnant and making a lot of preparations to give birth.
Stairs
To dream of stairs represents slow or incremental progress in a situation. It may also reflect an increase or decrease in your confidence, awareness, or intelligence. Making progress in some way.
Negatively, stairs in a dream may reflect unpleasant feelings about the need for responsible growth or having to wait to grow up before you can do something more serious or adult, or a slow hard learning process.
Going upstairs often represents improvement, achievement, or reaching higher levels of awareness and understanding. You are making progress emotionally, spiritually, or materially. If you have problems going up stairs it may symbolize trouble being unable to make progress in your life. Going upstairs may also symbolize a struggle or challenge you must endure to reach a higher level of understanding, success, or power. Improving "one step at a time. Slow learning process.
Going downstairs often represents emotional regression or a situation that is getting worse. For example, walking into your basement may symbolize regressing into darker aspects of your unconscious thoughts. Possibly a waking life situation is becoming more stressful or unpleasant to deal with. Walking down stairs may also symbolize the easing of conditions as a challenge or struggle ends. You may be slowly dealing with challenges to reach a bigger problem.
To dream that you walk up or down the stairs of your home towards another floor symbolizes a new mindset or emotional state. Deciding to do something different. The stairs themselves in this case may not be as relevant as where it is you are going. For example, moving from your bedroom down the stairs to the kitchen may reflect your readiness to do something different about a very private issue you have been keeping to yourself.
To dream of very long stairs in the front of a house may reflect feelings about a lot of effort required to experience something. A lot of work, effort, or improvements are required in order to achieve stability with a goal.
Example: A woman dreamed of seeing children going up and down stairs. In waking life, he was blind and experiencing recurring cycles of her eyesight getting better and then worse.
Example 2: A man dreamed of moving from his bedroom, downstairs, and then going into the kitchen. In waking life, he was preparing to face his biggest fear which was revealing a very dark personal secret.
Example 3: A young girl dreamed of her mother turning into an angry octopus while standing on stairs that were behind her. In waking life, he felt that her mother was aggressively trying to stop her from dating boys. The stairs behind her in the dream may have reflected her feelings about her mother's view of her not being grown up enough and having to return to a slower process of growing up before she should date boys while she felt she was "past that growing up phase."
Example 4: A woman dreamed of beautiful oak stairs. In waking life, she was pregnant and aware of herself being very close to giving birth.
Example 5: A man dreamed of being led upstairs by a girl with a perfect body. In waking life, he was slowly improving a situation.
Example 6: A man dreamed of walking downstairs and at the end the stairs have water on them and begin to crumble. In waking life, he had a 22-year-old daughter whom he felt needed a lot of growing up to do. Walking down the stairs with water and crumbling at the end may have reflected his feelings about his parental role slowly becoming easier with age and then suddenly feeling like he's accomplished nothing when he discovered how childish his 22-year-old daughter still is.
Example 7: A woman dreamed of trying to walk up a new never before used staircase and was having trouble doing so. In waking life, she was diagnosed with diabetes and was having trouble improving her health by maintaining an exercise regime.
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Stalking
To dream of being stalked by someone represents persisting troubles, reminders of bad memories, or unwanted relationships you can't avoid. Something negative in your life that feels like it notices every single little thing you're doing. Recurring invasion of your personal boundaries. Feeling that something is coming after you in a threatening way. A
Alternatively, being stalked in a dream may reflect feelings of being carefully watched or copied. Feeling others jealousy that any opportunity will allow you to be a winner.
To dream of a stalking killer may represent fears about persistent troubles, negative events from your past, or soured relationships causing you total humiliation or failure. Terrifying reminders of negative things that won't go away. Blackmail you fear being open about or feeling your personal life being played with.
To dream of yourself stalking someone else may represent your insecurity about missing out or not watching a situation closely enough. Carefully watching every single thing someone does. Jealousy of everything single thing allowing someone else to be a winner.
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