Seahorse
To dream of a seahorse represents feelings about behavior that impresses you that it doesn't have to do anything except do what you don't expect. Unusual unexpected functioning situations. A seahorse may also reflect situations where you are overwhelmed by uncertainty and still find your life unexpectedly functioning in a way that impresses or surprises you.
Example: A woman dreamed of seeing a turtle that looked more like a seahorse. In waking life she lost her apartment, was forced to live in client's home, and couldn't believe her life was working at all while always insecure about irritating her client to prevent getting kicked out. The seahorse symbolism in this case may have reflected the unusual and unexpected functioning homelife she had.
Searching
To dream of searching something represents a need to find something missing or needed in your life. A reflection of your waking life search for love, spiritual enlightenment, peace, or a solution to a problem. Looking for a hidden meaning to something or trying to find a quality you want in your life that is not currently present.
To dream of being searched may reflect your concern about someone else discovering a secret or personal information about you. Feeling that you can't hide anything from someone.
To dream of performing a search on someone may reflect your interest in discovering a secret or finding the truth. Examining a person or situation. Having high standards.
To dream of searching yourself may represent your feelings of being on the spot or looking to do whatever you can for the moment. Alternatively, it may reflect your attempt to prove yourself to someone.
To dream of searching for someone may represent waking life feelings about an aspect of your personality that no longer works socially. Trying to find out why certain behaviors or social skills aren't helping you anymore. Trying to find out why someone is mad at you or you are unexpectedly experiencing bad luck. Wondering why you can't do something anymore that you are used to or confident about.
Example: A woman dreamed of being nervous that she might be searched. In waking life she was nervous about her boyfriend finding out that she was going to a concert on her own.
Example 2: A man dreamed of searching through the clothes in his closet for the perfect outfit. In waking life he was trying to discover how he could appear more intelligent to others.
Example 3: A man dreamed of searching out all the exits of a building. In waking life he was trying his hardest to be prepared for any criticism he may get. The searching reflected his wish to discover handy excuses for criticism he got or to avoid the people who were giving it to him.
Example 4: A man dreamed of searching for underwater treasure. In waking life he was in therapy trying to understand why he was so anti-social. He felt that if he learned about himself more that he might find a way to improve his social skills.
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Searchlight
To dream of a searchlight represents an attempt to understand or notice something that isn't doing what it's supposed to. A person or situation may be acting suspicious or out of character and you may want to investigate it for yourself.
Alternatively, a search light may reflect a person or situation that is suspicious of you. It may also reflect investigations into complaints about you.
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Seashells
To dream of sea shells represents positive feelings about becoming aware of people you don't like losing power or protection from trouble. Feeling good noticing people you don't like being totally uncared about or desperate.
Negatively, seashells may reflect an excessive amount of hope or enjoyment in believing someone else is weaker without confirmation. Naively believing someone else has lost power or protection. Enjoying seeing someone innocent lose their guard or become desperate.
Alternatively, a seashell may reflect feeling good noticing dangerous problems no longer having a way to shield themselves from being overcome.
To dream of listening to a seashell may reflect your enjoyment of remembering, thinking about, or discussing how terrifyingly jealous someone you don't like became. Enjoying remembering how an enemy or someone you don't like lost all their power or confronted the worst moment of their lives.
Seat belt
To dream of a seat belt represents precautions you are taking with your decisions. A need for insurance in case you make a mistake. Something you do or tell yourself "just in case" as you take on new challenges or explore new things. Being safe or intelligent with your decisions. An unwillingness to take any risks while you are in control of a situation.
Example: A woman dreamed of wearing a seat belt. In waking life she was having serious financial problems and felt the need to be overly cautious with the remaining money she did have to protect her family.
Secretary
To dream of a secretary represents feelings about a social proxy. Using friends, family, or technology to deal with people for you. Feeling that you need to go through someone in order to get to the person you really want to speak to. Socially delegating to others.
Negatively, a secretary may reflect feelings about using friends, family, or technology to avoid people you don't like. Putting up some kind of social proxy between yourself and others. Using answering machines to breakup with people or avoid people. A wish to avoid direct social contact. Feelings about yourself being too important to deal with people directly. A lack of confidence in yourself speaking to people directly. A lack of confidence in yourself asserting yourself in a relationship to the point of being the social manager for someone else. Feelings about yourself being a social manger for your family while the other spouse delegates.
Example: A woman dreamed of wanting to use a secretary to call 911. In waking life she was unhappy with a man she began to date so she left a fake message on his answering machine to make having a relationship appear impossible to continue with.
Example 2: A woman dreamed of being a secretary and sitting around a table with other secretaries when her boss walked passed her. In waking life she was discussing her uncertainty about her relationship to her friends while they all felt like the men in the lives delegated responsibilities in the family to them.
Secrets
To dream of secrets represents feelings about hidden or undisclosed information, suppressed emotions, or unresolved issues. Inner fears, guilt, or aspects of your personality that you are not ready to confront or reveal to others. Elements of your own identity that you're keeping concealed. Personal mysteries, uncertainties, or aspects of your life that are not yet fully understood or revealed.
Positively, dreaming about secrets might symbolize a part of you that you keep guarded or undisclosed due to its special or sacred nature. It may also suggest the thrill of mystery, discovery, or personal exploration. Secrets can represent intimate knowledge or a deep understanding that's not readily shared with others.
Negatively, dreaming about secrets could represent feelings of fear, guilt, shame, or regret linked to something hidden or suppressed. Denial, avoidance, or fear of confrontation. Fear or anxiety about something hidden "coming to light." Perhaps you're keeping a secret that's causing you stress, or you're hiding something about yourself due to fear of judgment or rejection. Secrets in a negative context can also symbolize deception or manipulation.
Alternatively, a secret in a dream may reflect a fear of angering someone if you are honest with them. A fear of arguing with someone about what you really think. Keeping to yourself or being introverted. Having a wilder side that you feel you can't express.
To dream of having a secret represents hidden power or insight. Knowledge or information that you are intentionally keeping hidden from others. Feelings of guilt, shame, or a sense of responsibility regarding this concealed information. Struggling with the weight of your hidden truths and the impact they might have if revealed. Wanting to prevent others from knowing something or getting any leverage over you. Feeling it's important to keep others excluded or unaware. Feelings about the importance of having quality time with a person or personal interest.
Negatively, having a secret may reflect a fear of your weakness being revealed to others. It may also be a sign that you are withholding something in order to give yourself an advantage. Problems or weaknesses you are keeping to yourself. Feeling suspicious of someone.
To dream of having your secret revealed against your wishes may represent feelings of vulnerability, betrayal, or exposure. You may feel that your trust has been broken. It could indicate that you feel you have lost control over information or aspects of your identity that you wanted to keep private. There may be fears or anxieties related to the consequences of this exposure, such as damaged reputation, loss of relationships, or other negative outcomes. Unpleasant feelings about something special in your life being intruded on. A fear of having private issues or weaknesses revealed or exposed to others. Feeling embarrassed into discussing something uncomfortable. Feelings of isolation, embarrassment, or humiliation. Alternatively, it may reflect feelings about being caught being dishonest or losing an exclusive advantage.
To dream of hearing secret information represents feelings of gaining privileged insight or becoming aware of something that is not commonly known. This could relate to insider information, confidential matters, or hidden aspects of situations or relationships. It may suggest that you feel you've been granted access to valuable knowledge or have been made a confidant in some area of your life. Feelings of exclusivity, being "special", or discovering something that gives you an advantage. You may have encountered something unexpected or that you were not intended to encounter. It may also reflect the pressure you feel to keep something to yourself.
Example: A woman dreamed of people having a secret that they didn't want to share. In waking life, she believed that doctors had misdiagnosed her broken arm and was keeping her feelings to herself because she didn't want to upset the doctors or argue with them. In this case, the secret may have reflected the belief that the doctors were keeping information from her to allow a proper diagnosis of her arm.
Example 2: A woman dreamed of her boyfriend keeping a secret from her. In waking life, she was suspicious of her boyfriend not telling her the whole truth of a matter.
Example 3: A woman dreamed of being unable to find a secret hidden room in her house. In waking life, she felt she was unable to have private quality time with her boyfriend anymore. In this case, the secret room may have reflected the secret room may have reflected her feelings about a private and special aspect of her relationship that she felt was increasingly elusive or inaccessible.
Example 4: A young woman dreamed of being in a secret room. In waking life, she felt that her family and culture were subversive to everything she believed in. In this case, the secret room may have reflected her personal thoughts and experiences as secretive or hidden, due to their stark contrast with her surrounding societal and familial norms.
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Sedate
To dream of being sedating represents your wish to put a situation or relationship temporarily on hold. Avoiding responsibility, getting involved, or taking action for the moment. Not doing something you wanted just for interim. It may also reflect your wish to temporarily spare yourself or someone else of pain.
Seduction
To dream of seduction represents enticement or captivation. Feeling that someone is trying to make you feel that changing your mind is a good idea. Opening your mind to a tempting idea.
Negatively, seduction may reflect feelings that a situation is too tempting or difficult to resist because it feels perfect. Feeling lured into something that you don't want to do. Feeling that you are risking giving up your power of choice. Feelings about being lured into an embarrassment with attractive lies.
To dream about yourself seducing someone else may represent your attempt to lure someone else or convince them to take a risk. Trying to persuade others to like your ideas. Corrupting others with attractive lies.
Seduction may be a sign that you are struggling with an addiction or your sexual desire for someone.
Example: A woman dreamed of seeing her ex-fiancee seducing a small child. In waking life she was having trust issues with her new relationship believing that her new man was abusing her vulnerable state after being humiliated by her ex-fiancee who called off her wedding and broke up her.
Example 2: A man dreamed of a beautiful woman trying to seduce him. In waking life he was having issues staying celibate.
Seesaw
To dream of a seesaw represents feelings about enjoying mutual sharing or caring. Give and take. Enjoying equality.
To dream of someone on a seesaw weighing too much to use the seesaw equally represents feelings about someone in a relationship getting too much and not giving back enough. Feelings about yourself or someone else being too important to share equally. Sensitivity about not being shared with equally.
To dream of someone falling off a seesaw represents feelings of embarrassment that you are no longer equal in a relationship. Feeling unable to enjoy a mutual arrangement anymore. Feeling that you are loser that doesn't matter as much.
To dream of objects, places, or structures acting like seesaws may reflect feelings about a situation you are experiencing being imbalanced or unstable. Feeling that a situation could "go either way." Power struggles. Fear of being unable to make a decision. Having trouble "picking a side."
Example: A woman dreamed of her husband outweighing a little girl on a seesaw and bumping the little girl off. In waking life she was heavily pregnant and was having issues accepting having to stop sharing financial responsibilities with her husband as she became too pregnant to work. Being bumped off the seesaw may have reflected her feelings of embarrassment that she was no longer equal financially in the relationship as her husband eventually had to take on the full financial load.
Seizures
To dream of having an epileptic seizure represents extreme emotional sensitivity or anxiety. Possibly a sign that you are too emotionally invested in situation or dependent on an attachment.
To dream of seeing someone else having an epileptic seizure may represent surprise or shock with someone else's emotional sensitivity or anxiety.
To dream of property being seized by police or the government represents intervention. Feeling powerless to stop someone with more power than you. Waking life situations where you or someone else has to be stopped because they may be going overboard with unhealthy or negative behavior. Feeling that someone with more power than you doesn't want you to do something ever again.
Selling
To dream of selling something to someone represents your attempt to convince or sell someone on an idea. It may also reflect your attempt to convince yourself of something. Considering making a change. Offering others ideas.
To dream of someone trying to sell something to you may reflect your attempt to convince yourself of an idea or possibility. It may also reflect a situation or person that is interesting you
in making a choice.
Negatively, selling in a dream may reflect feelings of forceful convincing or pressuring someone to accept an idea. Manipulative attempts to convince or persuade others. Alternatively, it may reflect feelings of being pressured into making a decision that you don't want to make.
Example: A man dreamed of selling an object for which he had only one of and then looking for another. In waking life he was talking to a professional who was giving him free advice as long as the reason was serious and legit. He lied to the professional about a special need in order to continue to get the free advice, but then felt that he had run out of lies to tell in order to keep getting the free advice.
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Semen
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Senior Citizens
To dream of a senior citizen (classification not physically elderly) represents feelings about behavior that is deserving to respect itself taking it easy after experiencing the hardest part of life being overwith without needing an explanation. Respect for a lifestyle that prioritizes safety, routine, or a slower, more deliberate pace. Feelings about a way of living or approaching life that is shaped by experience, limitations, and thoughtful conservatism. Feelings about the importance of slowing down. Feelings about having earned the right to avoid unnecessary stress or exertion because you have already worked too hard for too long. Feelings about being passed the hard-working phase of your life and that people should respect you not needing to do anything difficult. Deserving to like your life without more children because you have already raised your children. Deserving to prioritize your life not being hectic because you have already endured a lot.
Negatively, dreaming about a senior citizen could represent behavior that has issues with taking on too much stress or work when it deserves to respect itself taking life easier. Feelings of being stuck in a mindset of overworking or ignoring your own need for rest when you deserve to take life easier.
Example: A 49-year-old woman dreamed of 3 of her aunts who were all senior citizens knocking on her door. In waking life, she had 2 adult sons she wanted to move out while considering adopting 2 young girls and needing a better job. In this case, the senior citizen aunts knocking on her door may have reflected her intuitive feelings about ignoring herself deserving to make her life easier because she was considering taking on too much by adopting more kids and getting a better job when her own adult sons wouldn't move out on their own.
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Separation
To dream of separation represents feelings about your life direction or relationship going in a different direction than other people. Focus is being drawn to the need for differences to be acknowledged. Conflict in your life. Experiencing anxiety about having to change. Anxiety about becoming unneeded or abandoned. Problems asserting yourself to avert an unwanted change.
Alternatively, a separation may reflect feelings about independence being gained. Two people usually working together moving in more independent directions in life. Business partners choosing to work separately. Feelings about being given the opportunity to prove yourself on your own.
To dream of a marriage separation represents unpleasant feelings about having to potentially never repeat or experience something ever again. Consideration of permanently discontinuing behavior or some area of your life. Negatively, a marriage separation may reflect unpleasant feelings about having to change your life in ways you don't like. Stopping something you've grown accustom to. Feeling embarrassed that old habits or predictable relationships aren't supportive of you anymore.
Example: A man dreamed of seeing people walking and separating into two groups for one last final moment before never seeing each other again. In waking life he was experiencing difficulties with changing his life in a more moral direction. He felt it was very difficult to experience himself having to completely separate from old bad habits.