Conductor
To dream of a music or orchestra conductor represents controlling how other people feel. You or someone else that is managing people or trying to keep them in a specific mindset. Controlling the mood of a situation or always adjusting yourself to keep others feeling good about something. Keeping a situation feeling perfect or just right.
Using all your knowledge and skill in a harmonious way.
Conjoined Twins
To dreamed of conjoined twins represents some area of your life where you or someone else is stuck with someone. Being alone or independent is not possible in some way. You may feel like you can't get away from someone or that someone always has to be with you. You may feel that every decision you make effects another or that all of someone else's decisions effect you.
Construction Workers
To dream of a construction worker represents feelings about yourself or someone else that is very focused on working towards goal. Preoccupation with completing, improving yourself, or rebuilding some area of your life.
Negatively, construction workers may reflect an inability to rest or take time off from your goals. Anxiety about getting behind on a project or exhausting yourself.
Example: A man dreamed of seeing construction workers beginning to collapse on a job site. In waking life he caught the flu and was beginning to feel that working on an important project was too difficult. He needed time off to rest.
Contortionist
To dream of a contortionist represents an unusual amount of flexibility being displayed in a relationship or situation. Positively, a contortionist may reflect your or someone else that is "bending over backwards" for a friend or doing a very difficult favor. Proving how far you will go for someone.
Negatively, a contortionist may be a sign that you are going way too far trying to help or impress someone. It may also mean that too much is being asked of someone or that you are not being appreciated. Proving one's self gone awry.
The dream may also be a metaphor for someone noticeably twisting the truth or facts of a situation.
Convict
To dream of a convict may reflect guilt, embarrassment, or regret for your past actions. It may also represent your distrust of someone who has done something wrong in their life.
*Please See Prisoner
Cops
*Please See Police
Correctional Officers
*Please See Prison Guards
Counselor
To dream of a Counselor represents a need for support and direction. You or someone else in your life may be inexperienced or looking for reassurance. Wanting or giving actionable answers. Wanting to feel that everything will be alright. Positively, a counselor may be a good sign that you are finally willing to seek help with a difficult problem you have been hiding.
Negatively, a counselor may be a sign that you are uncomfortable talking about your problems. Experiencing anxiety or hesitance about having to confront a problem. Not liking the advice you are being given.
Cousins
To dream of a cousin represents a quality in yourself based on your most honest feelings about them. Ask yourself what memories or feelings stand out the most about them and see how that quality may apply to your own life.
To dream of someone being your cousin who isn't really your cousin represents situations, realities, or problems that are difficult to detach yourself from. Feeling that you can't do anything about something having to be acknowledged or accepted.
Positively, cousins you aren't really related to may reflect mandatory respect, acknowledgment, or acceptance being given to you. Having your "foot in the door" or a minimum requirement met that gives you the right to deserve something or be listened to at all.
Example: A man dreamed of seeing his cousin. The quality that stood out the most about this cousin was her courage to confront problems. In waking life he finally built up the courage to yell at a greedy family member who was not returning a favor when he needed it the most.
Example 2: A woman dreamed of taking a pregnancy test with her cousin. In waking life she was fearing being judged for taking a pregnancy test. Her cousin was someone she felt was judgmental.
Example 3: A young woman dreamed of dating her cousin. In waking life she was a lesbian. The cousin symbolism may have reflected her feelings about feeling required to acknowledge being gay as though it were normal in a waking life situation.
Cowboy
To dream of a cowboy represents an aspect of yourself that is adventurous, and involved in risks, or taking chances.
Example: A man dreamed of seeing a cowboy. In waking life he was about to try a new medication that came with big risks.
*Please See Lasso
Coworker
To dream of a coworker that you actually know in real life represents an aspect of yourself based on your most honest feelings about that person. Ask yourself what quality, feeling, or memory stands out the most about that person and how that quality may apply to your life.
To dream of a coworker that doesn't actually work with you may reflect people in waking life with similar goals or interests as you. Someone that is always doing the same thing that you are doing.
Example: A woman dreamed of helping her coworker move. In waking life she was trying to help her fiancee make an important decision. The coworker in this case may have reflected the dreamer's feelings about fiancee having similar goals with family fiances.
Crime Scene Investigator
To dream of a crime scene investigator represents you or someone else that is trying to seize up how stupid or negative someone else's actions were. Knowing someone is guilty or did something wrong and trying to decide how bad it really is.
Example: A woman dreamed of being a crime scene investigator. In waking life she was trying to decide if her boyfriends behavior was bad enough to leave him.
Criminal
To dream of a criminal represents an aspect of your personality that's aware of it's own dishonesty. You or someone else that knows what they are doing is wrong. Feelings about bad influences in your life. Too much lying, cheating, or breaking the rules in some area of your life. Perhaps, there is someone in your life that you find of questionable character?
Negatively, a criminal may reflect your awareness of your own dishonest behavior or attempts to take a risky "short cut" that could hurt you in the long term.
*Please See Mugging
Crowds
To dream of being in a large crowd of people represents a need for space, privacy, or, solitude. You may feel that you can't think clearly or be honest about you real feelings. Feeling forced to conform with others or unable to be yourself. Your own opinions not counting or mattering. Anxiety about being embarrassed in front of a large group of people in a waking life social situation.
Alternatively, being in large crowd may represent a overwhelming sense of consensus or social support. Being on the "same page" as everyone you know on an issue. Overwhelming agreement. Feelings about having a lot of people being interested in your ideas or goals.
To dream of seeing a large crowd of people that you are not apart of may represent feelings of being left out. Feeling that everyone else has a view that you don't agree with. It may also reflect feelings of others not thinking for themselves. A reflection of individuality on some issue.
To dream of an unruly crowd may represent the potential for a "boiling point" to be reached on some issue that is getting out of hand. Pressing concerns or problems that are starting to go a bit overboard. Someone may be too insensitive to your feelings or too neglectful of your needs.
To dream of a happy crowd may represent a strong social support system.
Dreams about crowds are also common to people who experience social anxiety about larger groups of people.
Example: A man dreamed of seeing a large crowd of people walking away from him. In waking life he was beginning to feel that he was being abandoned by a number of people close to him. He felt that the initial overwhelming support he was getting from people interested in investing in his was waning as he failed produce evidence of progress they needed.
Example 2: A woman dreamed of standing in a very crowded place with all the people staring at her. In waking life her bossed had embarrassed her in front of all her co-workers.
Customers
To dream of a customer represents feeling about your concerns with not keeping people happy who turn to you whenever they need to. Feelings about yourself being the originalest best and that people won't stop using you for it. Feeling good always being there for someone. Noticing that nobody is a loser if they need you all the time. Civil treatment that happens consistently. Your own attitude of just being professional about helping someone out all the time.
Negatively, dreaming of a customer may reflect the emptiness of not being able to do anything accept keep people you interact with regularly happy. Feeling that all you get to do is tell someone all their needs matter because you lose if you don't. Feeling good having to be the best when it's not really your problem. Feeling that it's just your life to never really get to know people who use you. Not liking having to help or keep someone happy all the time in order to keep your own life stable. Not liking never getting to be a jerk because it would risk all you have. Too much concern with helping someone like it's all you need to do to keep them happy. Emptiness of a relationship that is only helpful and civil.
Alternatively, dreaming about a customer may reflect feelings about your job if you have to interact with customers regularly. Not liking dealing with customers in your waking life when you have other problems. Awareness of your real life customers not thinking that anything is wrong when you may secretly know the business is having problems.
To dream of being a customer represents feelings of needing someone else to keep you happy. Feeling someone doesn't care anything anything except being older or more experienced than you and always helps you out. Feeling that someone is just professional about helping you out all the time.
Negatively, dreaming about being a customer represents awareness that someone else treats you the same as everyone else. Feeling that someone doesn't have to keep loving you or treating you special if there isn't any benefit to them. Feeling the emptiness of nothing is special about you to someone. Feeling that someone will always save your time or your life, but never love you. Feeling that nobody needs to like you the way you want every time you interact with them.
Example: A woman who worked in a retail clothing store dreamed of a customer asking her nicely if she was allowed to work in the store with blood on her face and checking the mirror to see circles of blood on her face. In this case the customer may have reflected her waking life feelings about not liking interacting with customers in the clothing store with asking them if they need help. She may have thought customers were critical of her ability to be good enough at her job or not respecting her after witnessing other customers not getting the help they needed either because she couldn't perfectly please every customer.
Example 2: A man dreamed of being in the hospital for heart problems when one of his customers whom he is close to appeared smiling at him. In waking life the man feared losing his job. The smiling customer at the end may have reflected his awareness about the customer whom he was close to helping him look good at his job when he was fearing being fired. He may have had concerns with not looking good caring about people enough at his job.
Example 3: A woman dreamed of going to a restaurant her ex-boyfriend owned after they broke up. He was civil and treated her like every other customer. In waking life she wished she could have he ex-boyfriend back and that she couldn't replace him. In this case being a customer to her ex-boyfriend may have reflected how interacting with he ex-boyfriend felt civil after the breakup as just a friend like everyone else when she needed to talk to him.