Steer

To dream of a steer represents controlled or restricted power. You or someone else that has power without the ability to use it for themselves. Being powerful, but also being completely controlled by someone else.

Negatively, you may feel purposely or unfairly held back.

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Steering Wheel

To dream of a steering wheel represents the ability to control the direction you are headed in life. Whoever sits at the wheel represents an aspect of your personality that is guiding your decisions.

To dream of the steering wheel braking off represents feelings of being at the mercy of fate. Feeling forced to wait for a situation or end or go badly in order to be able to change your situation. A decreased ability to direct a waking life situation.

To dream of the steering wheel being on the passenger side of the car may reflect your passive control of a situation. Advice, guidance, or suggestions that are steering the direction of a situation. It may also reflect how unusual or lucky it feels to have control when you usually don't.

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Stepfather

To dream of a stepfather represents a substitute conscience or decision-making ability that you have no control over needing to accept, adjust to, integrate with, or adapt to. Fathers in dreams typically reflect the conscience or our ability to make a decision. A stepfather is then symbolically a substitute form of conscience or choice that we feel forced to accept with current conditions. You may feel a choice has been made for you or that you've been pressured into a decision. The respect or challenges associated with adapting to new rules, guidance, or support from someone who doesn't make decisions in a way you are accustomed to. Adaptability to unconventional decision-making.

Negatively, a stepfather may reflect a decision that you can't stand putting up with. Struggling to come to terms with a change that you don't like. Feeling that you have to accept someone else's decisions controlling you with no say in the matter when it isn't what you wanted. Not liking putting up with someone else's substitute choices that were made for you.

Alternatively, a stepfather may reflect tension or disappointment with your real father.

Example: A woman dreamed of seeing her deceased stepfather standing up from a coffin with bullet holes in him. She told him to rest and he didn't listen. In waking life, she got into a big fight with her sister over an issue which she had no control over. She had accepted losing the argument so that she could move on with her life and stopped talking to her sister. She started talking to her sister at a later time which brought up the old arguments. In this case, the stepfather may have reflected her feelings about needing to accept her sister's decision-making with no say in the matter.

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Stepmother

To dream of a stepmother represents a substitute intuitive choice that you have no control over needing to accept, adjust to, integrate with, or adapt to. Mothers in dreams typically reflect the intuition about safety for the future, internal guidance based on your feelings about past experiences, or how lucky you feel about coincidences or good foresight. A stepmother is then symbolically a substitute form of intuition that we feel forced to accept with current conditions. Adaptability to unconventional decisions for safety for the future.

Negatively, a stepmother may reflect an intuitive choice about safety for the future that you can't stand putting up with. Intuitive choices that don't let you feel good in the manner that you are used to. Putting up with someone else's sense of safety that you don't respect. You may feel smothered, neglected, or held back. Feeling pressured into having to be careful in a way that you are not used to.

Alternatively, a stepmother may reflect tension or disappointment with your real mother.

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Stepson

To dream of a stepson represents a substitute emotional investment or hope for the future in a situation where you are dominant, assertive, or insensitive which you have no control over needing to accept, adjust to, integrate with, or adapt to. Feelings about encountering or engaging with responsibilities, relationships, or roles that are not originally yours but have become part of your life. The adaptation to new duties.

Negatively, dreaming about a stepson could represent feelings of conflict, resistance, or complications associated with responsibilities, relationships, or roles that are not originally yours but have become part of your life.

Example: A woman dreamed of her stepson being in her living room and then being hit by her stepson in another dream scene. In waking life, she had recently legally separated from her husband and didn't want to get a divorce because she didn't believe in it. In this case, the stepson may have reflected feelings about the unwanted and complicated emotional responsibilities that came with the separation and working to reconcile. Her stepson's presence in the dream might symbolize her struggle to adapt to her husband's new attitude about the changes in their marital status while hoping it didn't get worse because she wanted her marriage to work without angering him and pushing further into divorce.

Stereo

To dream of a stereo represents feelings about control over when and how you experience enjoyment or feel good in life. Your ability to emotionally balance yourself with your choices. Your feelings about managing your life feeling good like it isn't a problem. Your perception of being able to manage positive emotions, harmonious experiences, or pleasurable activities, like it's something you can always engage in if you want to. Thoughts about the importance of balance, rhythm, and personal freedom in managing your life's soundtrack.

Positively, dreaming about a stereo might symbolize empowerment, personal agency, or a sense of control over your emotional landscape. A conscious choice to cultivate joy, relaxation, or harmony in your life when you need it. Your ability to tap into positive emotions or experiences, even when life gets challenging, mirroring an attitude that is comfortable taking a chance on happiness, like a risk-taking hero. Your power to create a positive and uplifting environment for yourself.

Negatively, dreaming about a stereo could represent feelings of dependency on external sources for happiness or being overly controlled by the desire to feel good. An inability to find inner joy or balance without the aid of specific activities, objects, or relationships. Perhaps you feel too reliant on certain pleasures or distractions to create a sense of well-being, or you might be struggling with addiction, compulsion, or an unhealthy attachment to something that you use to control your emotions.

To dream of having your stereo stolen represents a feeling of loss, insecurity, or vulnerability in your ability to control your happiness and enjoyment in life. You might be experiencing a situation where the things that once made you feel good or in control have been taken away from you, leaving you feeling powerless to create joy or pleasure on your own terms. The theft of the stereo could symbolize a betrayal, unexpected loss, or a sudden change that has disrupted your ability to maintain emotional balance. This dream might reflect your fear of losing your personal autonomy, your connection to what makes life enjoyable, or your ability to choose your path toward happiness and fulfillment.

Alternatively, dreaming of a stereo being stolen suggests that there are external factors or circumstances that are constantly interfering with your ability to feel good and find peace of mind. It implies that there may be distractions or challenges in your life that hinder your control over your emotions.

Example: A woman dreamed of driving her car with her car stereo not connected with loose wiring showing. In waking life, she was experiencing a divorce, financial frustrations, and feeling that people didn't respect her wishes for raising her children. In this case, the car stereo may have reflected her feelings about losing control over the aspects of her life that used to bring her joy and harmony due to her divorce and her husband not helping with bills. She may have lost the ability to take the day off or relax about a stable home life because she had to focus on her future without her husband.

Example: A woman dreamed of driving her car with her car stereo not connected with loose wiring showing. In waking life, she was experiencing a divorce, financial frustrations, and feeling that people didn't respect her wishes for raising her children. In this case, the car stereo may have reflected her feelings about losing control over the aspects of her life that used to bring her joy and harmony due to her divorce and her husband not helping with bills. She may have lost the ability to take the day off or relax about a stable home life because she had to focus on her future without her husband.

Stew

To dream of stew represents feelings about an experience that was carefully prepared over time in order to enjoy. An experience that requires patience, nurturance, and the gradual development of something meaningful in your life. Patiently preparing something in order to make people like you.

Negatively, dreaming about stew could represent feelings of stagnation, waiting too long for something to happen, or being stuck in a situation that is slow to develop.

Stilettos

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Stillborn

To dream of a baby being stillborn represents last minute disruptions or failures. Feeling close to achieving something and losing it at the very end. Experiencing a loss at a final pivotal moment. A sudden or unexpected end to something.

Alternatively, a stillborn baby may reflect a sudden or last minute loss of trust in someone.

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Sting

To dream of being stung represents your feelings about a hurtful action or remark. Feeling hurt by a disappointment. Feeling stupid for having gotten too close to someone rude or insensitive.

To dream of being stung by a bee represents feelings of being stuck with hard work or obligations that you feel are unbearable. Feeling stupid for having gotten involved in something.

Alternatively, being stung could reflect feelings about having to endure something unpleasant. Respecting the seriousness of a matter. Something very annoying in your life. Brutal honesty.

Example: A woman dreamed of being stung by a fish on her foot. In waking life she was avoiding a pregnancy treatment by a specialist as she couldn't get pregnant by natural means. The sting on the foot in the dream may have reflected her feelings about how unpleasant it felt to think about getting pregnant by unnatural means. It may have also reflected her unpleasant feelings about having a person who wasn't her husband help her to get pregnant and see her genitals in order to get the pregnancy treatment. She may have felt that people would laugh at her or think of her being immoral if she didn't get pregnant through natural means.

Stingrays

To dream of a stingray represents an aspect of yourself that passively accepts itself as dangerous. Feeling that something could be dangerous at any time, but isn't right now. Feeling that a passive situation or person has the potential to be lethal.

Alternatively, a stingray could reflect feeling about "sting" operation. Passivity that could strike at any time.

Example: A young woman once dreamed about a stingray. In real life she felt intense regret for having cheated on her ex-boyfriend that she believed hated her. The stingray in this case may have reflected her feelings about talking to her ex being an emotionally dangerous because he might remind her of her cheating at any time.

Example 2: A woman dreamed of seeing a stingray. In waking life she was concerned that her boyfriend writing letters to his ex-girlfriend over a child could potentially lead to cheating possibly ending her relationship. The stingray in this case may have reflected her feelings about the potential cheating being passively dangerous to her relationship.

Stinks

To dream that something stinks represents your feeling that a situation doesn't feel right. Distaste or bad feelings.

To dream of other people noticing something stinking that you can't represents indifference to others perception of right and wrong. You don't think anything is wrong when others do.

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Stitches

To dream of medical stitches represents an area of your life that is responsible for keeping a situation or relationship intact. Habits or factors that maintain balance or civility.

To dream of medical stitches that come loose represents a reconciliation that has failed. Old habits and conflict are returning. Progress has been lost.

Consider where on the body that the stitches are for additional significance.

To dream of stitches on clothing represents choices, beliefs, or moods that are being keep intact by some other factor.

Stomach

To dream of a stomach or abdomen represents your ability to process and digest the experiences or situations in your waking life without anything bothering you. A reflection of how well you can accept and deal with emotions, situations, or information that you are confronted with. Your level of sensitivity or insensitivity about accepting criticism or difficult situations. How vulnerable you are to having your feelings hurt or allowing something to upset you. The state of the stomach in your dream can reflect your level of comfort or discomfort with the way life is taking you.

Positively, dreaming about a stomach may represent a good ability to cope with or accept new situations. Confidence with your ability to accept criticism or what life throws at you in a healthy manner. Resilience and the strength to face challenges without being overwhelmed. Confidence about your abilities or appearances that isn't afraid to talk back to other people about having less confidence than you do. Confidence about yourself not being a lazy undeserving person.

Negatively, dreaming about a stomach problem may represent difficulties in dealing with life's challenges. Emotional issues that are hard to digest or accept, feelings of unease or unrest with a particular situation, or the inability to process and move past negative emotions. This dream could also highlight fears, insecurities, or a sense of vulnerability in facing what life throws at you.

To dream of a perfect stomach or perfect abs represents a confident carefree attitude about accepting and dealing with various situations in life without anything bothering you. Perfect confidence about never being a loser no matter what anyone said about you. Imperviousness to criticism or insensitive comments you receive.

To dream of a potbelly represents feelings about excess, overindulgence, a lack of self-discipline, laziness, or unhealthy habits while not minding what it looks like. Problems with believing in yourself being perfectly confident. Sensitivity about criticism or insensitive comments you receive.

To dream of your stomach or abdomen being attacked, injured, or sick may represent feelings about experiencing difficulties in processing and dealing with certain situations, leading to feelings of discomfort or unease. Vulnerability, insecurity, or distress related to your currently accepted choices and beliefs.

To dream of having a dog attack your stomach may reflect your heightened sensitivity about issues you feel other people are criticizing you about. Feelings of insecurity or vulnerability regarding your beliefs or choices, especially if they are being challenged or criticized by others. Feelings about someone protective attacking you for your comfortably accepted beliefs or choices because they don't believe that you are safe. Vicious personal attacks on issues that make you very sensitive. Fear that something is wrong with you.

Example: A man dreamed of seeing an enemy with a disgustingly obese potbelly. In waking life, he experienced his enemy being caught committing a crime and telling disgustingly obscene lies to explain the situation as though nothing was wrong with it that looked stupid being confident. In this case, the potbelly may have reflected the dreamer's perception of his enemy as morally corrupt who was grotesque with excess and dishonesty.

Example 2: A woman had recurring dreams of a vicious dog attacking her stomach (belly, not organ). In waking life, she felt her family and work life were more important than a medical check-up which she suspected she needed. When she finally did get a checkup she was diagnosed with stomach cancer (organ, not belly) and died three months later. In this case, the dog attacking her stomach may have reflected her feelings about someone protective (family, medical reminders) emotionally attacking her decision to comfortably accept her job and family as more important than her health.

Example 3: A teenager dreamed of seeing himself and his friend with their shirts off revealing their perfect abs. In waking life, he was having issues comparing himself to his friend about who was better looking and didn't mind insensitive comments about comparisons. In this case, the perfect abs may have reflected his feelings about the confidence and carefree attitude about his and his friend's physical appearance despite the comparisons.

Stonehenge

To dream of Stonehenge represents disbelief or awe at how powerful an achievement was in your past. Wondering "How the heck did I do that?" or "How did someone else achieve that?"

Stonehenge may also reflect the perception that you or someone else did something amazing in the past that they are impotent to repeat.

Example: A man dreamed of visiting Stonehenge. In waking life he visited a gorgeous girlfriend from his past and wondered how the heck it was even possible to have had her liking him at all back then since she showed no interest in him at all anymore.