Expense

To dream of having expenses represents sacrifices that have to be made in order to achieve a goal or outcome. Your personal cost to get what you want.

Alternatively, expenses may reflect responsibilities or obligations you have.

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Experiment

To dream of an experiment represents new ideas you are trying. You are taking a chance or seeing what happens. You may be merging different areas of your life or doing something you've never done before.

An experiment may reflect your curiosity or adventurous attitude.

Example: A man dreamed of seeing lab filled with experimental beakers. In real life he was having serious problems with his website business and was trying a number of different scripts to see if they would improve his website's performance.

Expiration

To dream that there is an expiration on something represents your feeling that time may be running out. You may feel that an opportunity is at risk or that you'll miss your chance. You may feel a need for expediency. You may fear that you'll never complete a project or task.

Consider the numbers of the expiration date for additional meaning.

Explore

To dream of exploring represents thoughts of taking the time to understand a situation. Thoughfully understanding a new situation. A new situation in your life that needs to be understood because it's never happened before. Learning about something happening in your life. Discovering possibilities without knowing what is going to happen next in life. You might be "exploring" other options. Job hunting, changing jobs, or researching employment options. Learning about new things to do when your life changes. Believing that something else might happen. Looking into things happening that you never thought could happen. Attempting to think and act in new ways. Understanding yourself in new ways.

Negatively, dreaming exploring may represent wasting time looking at all your options without taking any of them. Wasting time understanding a situation without ever beign concerned with doing anything serious.

Example: A woman dreamed of exploring a new stone house that was flying in a sky. In waking life she quit her job and began her new retired life with some doubts about how to afford it financially. The exploring in this case may have reflected her trying to understand retirement or finding out what happens with retirement every day after beginning retirement.

Example 2: A woman dreamed of being in a hotel and decided to explore an open room. In waking life she wasn't happy with her current job and was looking into getting a job at a library that she loved. In this case the exploring of an open room may have reflected her attempt to look into the possibility of getting a new job.

Example 3: A young man still in highschool dreamed of exploring the basement of a building and feeling fear. The more he explored the scarier it got. In waking life he was close to graduation and beginning to experience anxiety about what his future would be. The exploring of the basement that scared him may have reflected his attempts to research career options seriously and feeling that he might screw his life up if he didn't choose well.

Example 4: A woman dreamed of exploring a house. In waking life she recently found out that she was Jewish and was researching a family tree.

Example 5: A man dreamed of exploring a bedroom. In waking life he was trying to understand his private feelings for a female friend whom he had romantic feelings for.

Example 6: A woman dreamed of exploring an area. In waking life she was in the process of changing her job. The exploring in this case may have reflected her attempt to look into and understand new employment possibilities.

Explosion

To dream of an explosion represents waking life situations that have intensified. Situations that are explosive, dramatic, sudden, or intense. Negatively, an explosion may be a sign that a situation has gotten a lot worse. Financial problems, situations getting out of hand, or experiencing a crisis. A release of tension erupting in an argument.

Alternatively, dreams about explosions could represent your fear of problem worsening or causing you an enormous embarrassment.

Example: A young girl had recurring nightmares for ever a year about explosions going off. In waking life had suffered a very serious seizure. Although she was properly medicated and hadn't had a seizure in over a year she was still fearing another one.

Example 2: A woman dreamed of an explosion going off. In waking life a huge fight had erupted in her home with her family.

Example 3: A woman dreamed of a plane exploding. In waking life she had heard news about the 2008 financial crisis that devastated her confidence in the economy and her future plans.

Example 4: A woman dreamed of seeing buildings exploding. In waking life her mother had suffered a serious heart attack.

Example 5: A woman dreamed of seeing planes exploding. In waking life she had gotten into a huge argument with her brother over wedding details which he was managing and now didn't know what to do to keep the wedding planning process going.

Example 6: A man dreamed of running away from explosions. In waking life he was trying desperately to escape serious financial problems that were erupting in his life.

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Express

To dream of something being express represents feelings about a situation or option being a quicker. Quick fixes, fast track choices, easier co-operation. An ability to rush something.

Negatively, dreaming of something being express represents fears of doing something too quickly. A quicker way to solve a problem that is a lot more dangerous or risky. Alternatively, it may reflect a person in your life that is arrogantly rushing something or cheating to save time.

Example: A man dreamed of riding sweating horses up a hill to avoid having to deal with a express train that was coming up behind him. In waking life he was having heart issues and was highly motivated to do whatever he could through natural means to avoid an operation. The express train reflected his fear of a "quick fix" operation that he felt may kill him.

Expressway

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Extension Cord

To dream of an extension cord represents efforts to make sure something works in a situation where it won't work on it's own. Extra steps to ensure that something has to happen or has to work. Power, resources, or effort given a situation where progress is impossible on it's own.

Negatively, a extension cord may reflect coercion, bribery, or going behind someone's back.

Exterminator

To dream of an exterminator represents you or someone else that is fed up with an annoyance. You've put up with a person or situation that has been annoying you for long enough. Feeling that a problem has finally go too far.

An exterminator reflects an option or opportunity to totally clear out a problem.

Negatively, an exterminator reflects feelings that a problem is getting out of hand or that you must do something as a last resort.

Extraterrestrial

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Eye Drops

To dream of eye drops represents a need for instantaneous clarity or objectivity. Doing whatever you need to in order to quickly get to the bottom of a matter. Quickly putting aside distractions, ordering changes, or pushing people aside so that the truth can be quickly observed.

Negatively, eye drops may represents a hasty change or insensitive interruption of others so that you can get to the bottom of a matter quickly. Doing whatever it takes to see the truth of a situation without considering other people's feelings.

Eye of Providence

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Eye Shadow

To dream of eye shadow represents issues you want others to view as being more important or special. It may also reflect a desire for attention. Being aware of others paying attention to you.

Negatively, eye shadow may reflect conceit, arrogance, or excessive self-interest.

To dream that your eye shadow is overdone or that the colors are unusual may be a sign that you are being too dramatic about a situation. Too focused on getting attention or making others notice you. It may also reflect a narcissistic attitude.

Example: A girl dreamed of putting on eye shadow. In real life she was trying hard to convince her uninterested parents to view her problems seriously. The eye shadow reflected her wish to notice herself being viewed as special or important by her parents who she felt weren't caring about her enough.

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Eyebrows

To dream of eyebrows represents feelings of dignity and self-respect about appearances of being intelligent with your decision-making. Dignity and self-respect about appearances of being wise.

Positively, dreaming about eyebrows might symbolize the self-respect you have for your appearance with the ability to make wise choices. A conscious understanding of your actions and decisions and their impacts. Your awareness of how others perceive you based on your choices.

Negatively, dreaming about eyebrows could represent feelings of losing dignity or self-respect in your decision-making. You may be struggling with a perceived need to exaggerate or embellish your actions or experiences, which conflicts with your principles. It might symbolize fear of appearing foolish or unwise in the eyes of others or the feeling of being misunderstood or undervalued for your decisions.

To dream of losing eyebrows represents a loss of dignity or self-respect about appearing intelligent about your decision-making. A situation that feels terrible about not being able to appear wise to anyone.

To dream of shaving an eyebrow off represents the choice to temporarily put your dignity or self-respect about appearances aside. Making strange or embarrassing choices that others don't understand or respect you for. Consciously losing others' respect for your decision-making ability or wiseness.

To dream of plucking an eyebrow represents feelings about carefully adjusting how dignified or wise you appear in your decision-making. The precision and detail you apply to maintain or improve the perception of your intelligence and wisdom in the eyes of others. The fine-tuning of personal identity. Shaping or controlling how you are perceived by others intellectually, especially in social situations.

Positively, dreaming of plucking eyebrows may represent a proactive approach to refining your self-image or presentation to showcase your intelligence and wisdom. A conscious effort to present oneself in the best light, eliminating anything that could hinder or distort the perception of your wise choices.

Negatively, plucking an eyebrow in a dream may represent an obsession with perfection or the fear that any minor flaw in your presentation or decisions could diminish your perceived dignity or wisdom. Feelings of vulnerability, where you believe every small imperfection is under scrutiny, or the fear of being perceived as less intelligent or less capable than you truly are.

To dream of over-plucking or accidentally removing an eyebrow suggests feelings of having gone too far in trying to refine or adjust your image. Feeling that you might not be able to respect yourself with dignity or look intelligent to other people for a long time.

Example: A man dreamed of seeing people with eyebrows that looked fake and overly hairy. In waking life, he felt he was unfairly fired from his job due to an issue with a superior and felt that he may need to start lying about what happened at his old job in order to make getting a new job easier. In this case, the fake overly hairy eyebrows may have reflected his feelings about the perceived need to embellish or exaggerate his story in order to maintain dignity and self-respect of being intelligent about the decisions he had made at his old job that got him fired.

Example 2: A man dreamed of seeing someone with a unibrow. In waking life, he had chosen to be single for a very long period of time and he began to sense that the people around him thought he was a loser because of it. In this case, the unibrow may have reflected the man's self-perception of maintaining dignity and self-respect in his decision to remain single, despite it being viewed as unusual or strange by others.

Example 3: A man dreamed of his mother telling him to pluck his eyebrows. In waking life, he felt that his mother still treated him like a child. In this case, plucking the eyebrows may have reflected his feelings of discomfort and irritation about his mother's attempts to adjust or criticize his appearance and decisions, making him feel like he needed to refine or improve himself to meet her standards of maturity or wiseness.

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Eyeglasses

To dream of eyeglasses represents feelings about yourself or others having to be more intelligent, responsible, or careful than others. Self-awareness of trying hard to be serious about something. A heightened sense of clarity or needing to pay attention. You or someone else is concerned with paying closer attention to a situation. Trying to be intelligent about something.

Negatively, eyeglasses may reflect a tendency to be too focused on how serious something is. Anxiety or fear that drives you to be serious about a problem. An excessive need to focus on being serious or careful.

Example: A man dreamed of seeing a woman with glasses being threatened by a large blade. In waking life he was aware of the possibility of losing everything he had in a business deal if he walked away from an untrustworthy business partner. The glasses on the woman reflected his intelligent awareness or sense of clarity about how seriously focused on his corrupt business partner he needed to be in order to outsmart him and get his money back.

Example 2: A man dreamed of eyeglasses that were loose and flopping around in his hands. In waking life he was deeply religious and felt that God was something that need to be paid attention to at all times in life when other people in his life didn't. The loose floppy eyeglasses in his hand may have reflected his feelings about paying serious attention to God not working well in his social interactions.

Eyelashes

To dream of eyelashes represents allure or appeal. It may reflect how attractive or interesting you naturally feel. It may also indicate how appealing an outlook on a situation is. Feelings about much more or less of an interesting person you are.

Having long lashes represents you or someone else that is exceptionally alluring.

In a negative context eyelashes may reflect conceit, narcissism, or that everything you do is exceptionally more attractive than other people. Showing off with how much more interesting or appealing you are. Feeling "cooler" or more intelligent about easily being with the in crowd than other people. You or someone else that is noticing they are they are never jealous about being "awesomer" than other people are.

Eyelashes that fall out symbolize feeling less attractive or a loss of appeal. Feelings about the loss of power to be appealing with ease.

To dream of fake eyelashes represents feelings about using something to make yourself or your views more appealing. Needing or depending on something else to be more interesting to other people than you genuinely are. Awareness of yourself making yourself more interesting or appealing with professional rhetoric or "lingo." Knowing you are just a fake while you show off being more interesting or appealing.

To dream of ice form on your eyelashes may reflect feelings about a situation so terrible that nobody wants to do anything with you in the current moment no matter how interesting or appealing you are.

Example: A woman dreamed of a scary wolf whistling at her for being attractive and complimenting her on her long curly eyelashes. In waking life she was trying to find a new job and didn't believe she'd ever interest a new employer in her skills with police services. The scary wolf complimenting her on her eyelashes may have represented her anxiety about never getting a job that pays the same if she left police services opening her to be someone else's appealing option to exploit.

Example 2: A young man dreamed of seeing his girlfriend with eyelashes accidentally burned off. In waking life he had exhausted all efforts to convince someone important to go along with a business idea leaving his no choice but to try covert attempts to force the transaction. The eyelashes burned off in this case may have reflected his feelings about being unable to impress a person with how interesting or appealing the business idea was.

Example 3: A young man dreamed of seeing people's eyelashes in lucid hyper-detail. In waking life he was very stressed out about performing well on a test he was studying for. The lucid hyper-detailed eyelashes in this case may have the dreamer's feelings about noticing how "interestingly intelligent" or not other students in the class were based on class performance. His perceptions of each student's "bragging rights" to look good be called intelligent.

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Eyepatch

To dream of an eyepatch represents full awareness of yourself thinking negatively and not wanting to be noticed for it. Not wanting to think that something you're doing or thinking is wrong. It may also reflect your wish to exploit others and get away with it.

Example: A young man dreamed of seeing someone wearing an eyepatch. In waking life he was considering using a girl for sex and thought there was nothing wrong with it.

Eyes

To dream of eyes represents perception, clarity, and awareness. It could indicate an increased understanding of your surroundings or a situation. It may also suggest the need to pay closer attention to something important in your life. Observation, judgments, and consciousness. The way you or some aspect of your personality sees a situation.

To dream of closed eyes represents a lack of insight, denial, or ignorance. Avoidance of truth or intimacy. A lack of awareness or naivety. It could suggest a hidden truth or information that one is not ready or willing to face. Not wanting to consider or accept truth.

To dream about red eyes may represent a negative outlook on a situation or bad intentions. Feelings about being aware that someone is angry at you or thinking of getting back at you. Perception or motivations that negative and doesn't like to perceive itself that way. You or some aspect of your personality that is afraid, angry, destructive, or dishonest. Thinking patterns or areas of your life that are dangerous, passionate, or upset with needing to get their way Feelings about evil being aware.

To dream of light blue eyes may represent a positive outlook on a situation, good intentions, or thoughtfulness. A reflection of positive thinking patterns or good choices. You or some aspect of your personality is confident, sympathetic, constructive, or honest. Thinking patterns or areas of your life that are helpful.

To dream of dark blue eyes represents an insensitive outlook or view of a situation. Seeing a situation with a brutally honest perspective. Perception that is very focused on hard truth, reality, all business minded.

To dream of dark green eyes represents a selfish outlook. Selfish observations and judgments. Perception that is totally arrogant, immoral with greed, or jealous. Perception that is suicidal and cares about nobody else's feelings to achieve it.

To dream of light green eyes may reflect an outlook or perception regarding to fixing problems. An area of your life where you are very focused on healing. Awareness of yourself want to improve a situation. A progressive attitude because you feel something is not good enough.

Negatively, light green eyes can reflect jealousy, greed, or arrogance. Observing a situation from a perspective of not liking being jealous. Being very focused on not wanting to be a loser.

To dream of black eyes represents an outlook or observation on a situation based on fear or excessive behavior. An issue that consumes you with fear or that you believe is totally overboard.

To dream of yellow eyes represents an outlook, observation, or a sense of clarity on a situation that notices what is happening. Clarity of a situation by getting attention drawn to it. Observation of yourself or someone that is self-aware of getting attention.

To dream of bloodshot eyes represents feelings of perception of a situation through the lense of exhaustion, stress, or emotional turmoil. It may indicate that you are overwhelmed by a situation, struggling to cope with the pressure, or experiencing emotional distress in your waking life that might scare you that you can't do anything about it. Feeling stressed to the edge. Your view of a difficult or stressful situation with the hope that it doesn't get any worse or didn't do anything permanent.

Dreaming of being poked or injured in the eye can signify conflict or jealousy of acknowledging a certain reality.

To dream of sad eyes may represent an outlook that is disappointed. Feelings of empathy, sympathy, or emotional pain. It may indicate that you are experiencing a challenging situation, struggling with your own emotions, or sensing the emotional struggles of others in your waking life.

To dream of bleeding eyes representing feelings of awareness or observation that hurts you suggests that you are facing a situation where being aware of a particular issue or observing a certain aspect of your life is causing you emotional pain or discomfort. This could indicate that you are forced to confront a harsh reality or acknowledge a difficult truth that you would rather avoid or remain unaware of. An emotional toll that comes with being a witness to someone else's pain or suffering. The consequences of being too observant. Observing a failed relationship or a personal setback and experiencing the emotional pain you from being aware of the situation's negative aspects. A reminder to focus on healing and growth, rather than dwelling on the hurtful aspects of the experience.

To dream of rolling your eyes represents feelings of annoyance, dismissiveness, or skepticism towards a situation or person in your waking life. It may indicate that you are encountering a situation that you find trivial or unimportant, and you are expressing your disinterest or lack of concern. Rolling your eyes in a dream could also symbolize a lack of patience or tolerance for a particular behavior, attitude, or opinion that you disagree with or find unreasonable. Awareness of yourself pretending to agree with someone who you think is stupid or a loser.

To dream of two different colored eyes may reflect a dual perspective or noticing a situation in two different ways. Left is intelligent, logical, good. Right is unintelligent, crazy, or bad. Consider the color mixed with the left or right side for additional symbolism.

To dream of eye contact represents feelings of mutual understanding, mutual acknowledgement, agreement, or shared awareness between you and another person. Feeling that someone, something, or a habit likes you. Alternatively, it may reflect feelings about realizing the important to listen to or acknowledge some aspect of yourself. Realizing how serious or important something is. If the eye contact in your dream is uncomfortable or intense, it could represent feelings of unease, distrust, or confrontation with someone. You may feel like you are being scrutinized or judged, or that someone is trying to challenge your beliefs or opinions. Feeling like evil has it's eye on you.

Example: A woman dreamed of looking in the mirror and seeing that her eyes were blue, when in reality they were brown. In waking life she had been making a lot of changes in her behavior to make herself a more honest person. The blue eyes in the mirror may have reflected her feelings about being aware of her outlook on life being more positive.

Example 2: A woman dreamed of seeing her mother roll her eyes. In waking life she felt that her daughter's choice for a husband was terrible while pretend she approved of the relationship.

Example 3: A man dreamed of eye contact by looking into the eyes of an unattractive girl he knew from high school where both of them had similar facial gestures of respect. In waking life he was coming to terms with accepting his life being married to his wife.

Example 4: A woman dreamed of seeing her husband having two different eye colors, one brown and one blue. In waking she was shutting down her company and helping her husband build his company. In this case her husband having two different eye colors, brown and blue, may have reflected her feelings about her husband's view of the situation being very intelligent about noticing her business being shut down (brown is purging) and building his business up (blue is positive feeling).

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Eyesight

To dream of eyesight represents one's ability to understand or analyze a situation. It could represent the clarity of one's perceptions or the lack thereof. It may also reflect the need to have a clear vision or direction in life.

To dream of noticing you have good eyesight or being told you do represents feelings of clear understanding, enhanced perception, or heightened awareness in your waking life. It might be an indication of confidence in your ability to assess situations accurately, make good decisions, and understand complex matters. This could also symbolize an optimistic outlook, foresight, and ability to see the 'bigger picture' or long-term consequences of your actions.

To dream of your eyesight being blurred or impaired represents feelings about your perception, clarity, or awareness not being the best. Feelings about yourself not being good enough to understand a situation clearly. Difficulties or problems with your judgment. You may feel unable to properly understand a situation or confused about how to respond to a problem. A feeling of being lost or unsure of the path forward, and may indicate a need to reassess one's current situation in order to gain clarity and move forward with purpose. A feeling of uncertainty or confusion about a situation. This could mean that the dreamer lacks clarity and is having difficulty making a solid decision or forming a clear opinion. It could also suggest a need for more information before being able to fully understand a situation.

Example: A man dreamed of talking about himself as having poor eyesight. In waking life, he had recently quit his job, was recently rejected for a new job he applied for, and was draining his bank account. He was very depressed about his life and spending a lot of time alone away from friends. In this case, the dreamer talking about himself having poor eyesight may have reflected his feelings of lacking clarity and direction in his life.

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