Heartbeat

To dream of hearing a heartbeat may represent awareness of yourself being afraid or threatened. You may be avoiding confronting a problem head-on or are choosing to put up with fear.

Alternatively, hearing a heartbeat may reflect recognition of feelings. Acknowledgment of how much you care or love.

A heartbeat may also symbolize evidence of life or interest. The vitality of a relationship or situation. The essence of a matter.

Heimlich Maneuver

To dream of the Heimlich maneuver represents reversing a bad or embarrassing choice. Helping yourself or someone else speak up for themselves or reverse a bad decision. Changing a choice that would have resulted in a unstoppable failure.

Hemorrhage

*Please See Bleeding

Herpes

To dream of herpes represents a pleasant situation that has turned bad and permanently requires constant care. Having to keep managing the consequences of a disappointment. Alternatively, herpes may reflect a tragedy that never goes away.

Herpes in a dream may be a sign that you need to let go of something or move in a new direction. You may be managing a failure because you can't except that it's over.

Example: A man dreamed that his best friend caught herpes. In waking life his attempt to improve his business with a new opportunity turned into a giant failure. He felt trapped into having to manage the increasing costs in order to stay in business.

*Please See Cold Sores

Hospital

To dream of a hospital represents a mindset that is serious about fixing problems or confronting emotional ills. It reflects attempts to do all you can to confront or improve a problem. A crisis point. A situation that forces needed change. Feeling a strong need to fix a bad relationship after fight. Urgently sorting out problems.

Choosing to go to a hospital a dream is a sign that you are making changes that promote psychological, emotional, or physical well-being and a more balanced lifestyle.

Failed medical procedures or operations symbolize mistakes or failures at properly addressing issues. You may be trying to find a quick fixes that doesn't address the real problem. Bad advice or impatient careless attempts to solve problems on your own.

To dream of getting refused entry to a hospital may reflect feelings about being unable to fix urgent problems. Feeling stuck with a problem. Feeling stranded in a crisis.

To dream of an abandoned hospital represents feelings about a lost sense of urgency to deal with problems anymore. Feeling desensitized to problems.

Example: A man dreamed of going to the hospital. In real life he was trying his hardest to quick smoking marijuana.

Example 2: A woman dreamed of being refused entry into a hospital because she had bad credit. In waking life she was having anxiety about being able to financially support her coming baby.

Example 3: A woman dreamed of being in an abandoned hospital. In waking life she was feeling herself getting annoyed at having to care for her son every single time he cried for her. The abandoned hospital represented the woman's lost sense of urgency to deal with her child's problems.

Example 4: A young man dreamed of being in a hospital. In waking life he had just had a bug fight with a friend and was eager to repair the friendship.

Example 5: A man dreamed of being in a hospital dressed in a hospital gown. In waking life he was getting ready for an important interview and felt that his interview skills and case needed urgent last minute fixing.

Example 6: A man dreamed of being in a hospital and seeing the mother and father of his ex-girlfriend. In waking life he was trying very hard to get over his ex, but it was too difficult as he loved her too much.

Hospital Bed

To dream of a hospital bed represents total dedication or focus on healing. You are experiencing emotional, psychological, or physical healing that requires your full attention. Powerful issues or situations that easily distract you or take up a lot of your time as they're being overcome.

To dream of being strapped to a hospital bed represents a sense of powerlessness to control or avoid fixing problems. Healing or balancing of some sort is unavoidable.

Hospital Parking Lot

To dream of a hospital parking lot represents issues with healing or progress that you are "stuck with" or struggling to move forward with. You may simply be thinking about changing something. Any cars in the hospital parking lot reflect areas of your life that are motivating you to change.

Example: A man dreamed of being walking through a hospital parking lot. In waking life he was struggling to quit smoking weed. The hospital parking lot reflected the smoker's constant struggle with giving up weed before making more serious changes.

Hunchback

To dream of seeing a hunchback represents overwhelming feelings of being burdened by problems or responsibilities.

To dream of the Hunchback Of Notre Dame represents feelings about how difficult it is to have something ugly or different overlooked. You or someone else that is always being noticed for something ugly or disgusting before all else. It may also reflect feelings of always being treated ugly or unspecial.

*Please See Hump

Hypothermia

To dream of hypothermia represents feelings about insensitive, "cold", or uncaring behavior that is dangerous. A desperate or dangerous need to be cared about, shown sympathy, or be given love. A risk of yourself or someone else failing hard at something if terrible treatment isn't reversed with caring treatment. A terrifying experience where someone didn't care about your feelings at all.

The danger of being ignored or mistreated for too long.

Hysterectomy

To dream of a hysterectomy represents an intentional choice or need to insure that "more of something" can never happen again. Making sure that some area of your life will never repeat itself or be supported again. Dreaming of a hysterectomy may also reflect a choice to cut yourself off from supporting or caring about others needs.

Alternatively, noticing others getting a hysterectomy may reflect your observation of other people in waking life being permanently cut off from their support systems. Financial or social support being cut off for good.

Negatively, a hysterectomy may reflect feelings of being permanently unable to do something you care about. No longer being able to provide financial or social support to someone.

Illness

To dream of having an illness represents preoccupation with problems or unpleasant changes. A loss in confidence in yourself. Despair, emotional breakdown, or difficulty coping. An uneasy feeling about a situation. Feeling that a current situation is not worth living or ruining your happiness.

To dream of a disease or terminal illness represents feelings of living on borrowed time or that decay in some area of your life is imminent. Hopelessness, grief, regret, guilt, or self-pity.

Example: A woman dreamed of having an illness. In waking life she was beginning to feel that her work life was taking away all her happiness and suffocate her relationships. Her job was something she felt she couldn't get away from while it drained other areas of her life.

*Please See Cancer

*Please See AIDS

*Please See Patient

*Please See Seasickness

Incontinent

To dream of being incontinent may represent feelings of embarrassment of being unable to control your problems or how problems are dealt with. Heightened feelings of sensitivity about having to deal with your problems all the time. A constant sense of anxiety about problems embarrassing you without warning. A problem in life that is uncontrollable and embarrassing.

A constant feeling of being embarrassed by your guilt.

Incurable

To dream of an incurable illness represents feelings about being stuck with a permanent problem. Feelings about problem behavior in others never changing. Obsessions that can't be stopped. A sense of hopelessness. Feeling that you can never change a person or life situation. Feeling that negatively behavior people are unashamed of their behavior. Frustrations or obsession with trying to change something that never does.

Infection

To dream of an infection represents a negative influence or some area of your life that has feels dangerously compromised. The potential for bigger problems if you don't act quickly or intelligently to address a problem. Alternatively, an infection may reflect the spreading of bad ideas or influences across groups of people.

Consider where on the body the infection is for additional meaning.

Allowing an infection or get worse or spread in a dream may be a sign that you are allowing a problem to make your life worse. Willfully not addressing a problem until it become serious.

To dream of spreading an infection to others on purpose may reflect your wish to bring others down with you. Spreading feelings of danger, hopelessness, or bad ideas. Powerful jealousy or bitterness at not getting to do something you liked.

To dream of healing an infection represents responsible action taken, taking advice, new ideas, or reaching out for help. Doing what was necessary in order to get rid of a problem situation.

Infertility

To dream of infertility represents feelings of impotence to achieve a goal. Feelings that you can never do something ever again. It may also reflect a lack of creativity.

Alternatively, infertility in a dream may reflect your struggle to have a baby.