Band-Aid

To dream of a Band-Aid represents something you're doing to feel better about a problem. Not wanting to notice something negative again. A temporary solution that frees you from caring all the time.

To dream of a Band-Aid falling off represents a temporary solution that didn't work. You may have believed you could stop caring about a problem that has come back.

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Bandages

To dream of a bandage represents a need to heal, growing pains, or learning to cope with a problem. An unpleasant time of change or healing. You may be emotionally wounded and trying to protect yourself.

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Bleeding

To dream of bleeding represents some area of your life that is losing strength, vigor, and vitality. The body part that bleeds represents the area of your life that is losing strength.

To dream of bleeding that won't stop may reflect a traumatic experience that you have difficulty getting over.

To dream of bleeding from your leg represents awareness of your independence being lost. Your ability to do things for yourself is slowly being weakened.

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Blind

To dream of being blind represents you or someone else that lacks the ability to notice something directly. A total inability to easily size up a situation or see the truth. A limited or handicapped ability to directly understand a situation.

Blindness in a dream may reflect a heightened need to use body language, gestures, or trickery to test people's reactions to feel their real intentions out.

Negatively, blindness in a dream may be a sign that you are aware of yourself being too deep into a difficult or important situation with no real way to understand it. It may also be a sign that you are uncomfortable lacking direct information.

Example: A man dreamed of walking with a blind person. In waking life he was trying to talk to people he thought were liars and had to speak to them carefully in order to feel out their real intentions.

Blood

To dream of blood represents energy or vitality. It reflects how healthy or strong some aspect of your life is. Blood outside the body is generally symbolic of a loss of strength in some area of your life, while blood inside the body symbolizes strength and energy.

Negatively, blood reflects some aspect of yourself or area of your life that is losing energy or vitality. Either emotional pain, upsets, or situation caused by excessive drives or behavior. This usually appears in dreams as bleeding, seeing pools of blood, or being covered in blood. Feeling like a loser for having lost something. Negative remarks made that cause others pain. Feeling that you don't matter. Illness or the painful loss of a relationship. Serious damage to your confidence.

Positively, blood reflects vitality, strength, and success. You are confronting problems, getting ahead, or feeling strong. This may appear in dreams as the blood of enemies, blood pumping through your veins, or wounds that don't bleed.

To dream of bleeding represents some area of your life that is losing strength, vigor, and vitality. The body part that bleeds represents the area of your life that is losing strength. To dream of bleeding that won't stop may reflect a traumatic experience that you have difficulty getting over.

To dream of being covered in blood may represent conflict in a relationship or social setting. The blood on you reflecting the results of fighting, viciousness, or attacks on others as you attempt to assert yourself. Being covered in blood may also represent your sense of loss, either your own of someone else's.

To dream of feet bleeding represents some issue in your life that is effecting your moral foundation, or principles.

To dream of having blood on your hands reflects feelings of guilt or responsibility for your actions.

To dream of blood being totally drained from the body represents some issue in your life that is totally draining you of power, strength, or confidence.

To dream of blood on the walls represents lingering feeling about a loss or failure. You may be be unable to stop thinking about a difficulty that you overcame or a traumatic experience you've endured. Negatively, you may be unable to get your mind of your involvement in a bad situation.

Alternatively, dreams about blood may reflect issues with women's menstrual periods. It's not uncommon for women to dream of messy blood scenario's when they have accidental bleeding. Women may also dream of bloody rivers while having their periods.

Example: A young woman dreamed of winning a sports competition against another woman who seemed afraid of blood. In waking life she had overcome her fear of telling her parents that she had failed her second year of university. The fear of blood in the dream may have reflected her fear of making her parents angry about her failure at school.

Example 2: A woman dreamed of being annoyed to see blood coming out of a garbage bag with a dead body she just chopped up. In waking life she bothered by having having to care about her ex-boyfriend's feelings after having broken up with him.

Example 3: A young man dreamed of seeing two sharks fighting and one of them made the other bleed. In waking life he manipulated two friends into attacking each other verbally and noticed one friend got his feelings hurt.

Example 4: A woman dreamed of seeing herself bleeding. In waking life she had just broken up with her boyfriend. The bleeding may have reflected her feelings of pain of losing someone she loved. Feeling like a loser for having lost her boyfriend.

Example 5: A woman dreamed of being covered in blood. In waking life she had cancer and felt that her life was doomed.

Example 6: A woman dreamed of blood splattered all over a road. In waking life she was frustrated about losing a friend at work who was originally very nice to her, but then stopped being nice. The blood splattered on the road may reflect the dreamer's feelings about how dangerous losing a friend at work felt as they tried to get ahead in the world.

Example 7: A woman dreamed of seeing a baby with no blood. In waking life she felt that her plans were dashed because she had no money and no job. The bloodless baby in this case may have reflected her feelings about her life and plans lacking vitality because she lacked money and a job.

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Blood Pressure

To dream of blood pressure represents how well you are able to cope with current life situations. How exciting, thrilling, or challenging your life is.

High blood pressure reflects too much stress, anxiety, or responsibility. A situation may be emotionally overwhelming. You may need to seek help or slow down.

Low blood pressure represents boredom or a slow paced lifestyle. You may be lacking excitement or need a change.

Blood Tests

To dream of a blood test represents feelings of evaluation, scrutiny, or assessment regarding your vitality, strength, or ability to safely do things with issues that don't easily communicate your status. A thorough self-examination or evaluation of your status for health, behaviors, or decisions. Concerns about discovering problems or issues that require attention. Anxiety about the outcome of a situation where you are being tested on your vitality, strength, or ability to safely do things. A desire for validation or confirmation that everything is okay or that you are on the right path. Concerns about being found lacking in some way.

Positively, dreaming about a blood test may represent a proactive approach to monitoring your vitality, strength, or ability to safely do things with potential problems before they escalate. Preventative measures to maintain a balanced life or lifestyle. A willingness to confront and address any underlying issues or challenges affecting your overall well-being.

Negatively, dreaming about a blood test may represent fears of discovering something wrong with you or your life. Feelings of vulnerability, uncertainty, or insecurity about your vitality, strength, or ability to safely do things with issues that don't easily communicate your status. You may feel exposed or under pressure to address health concerns or make necessary lifestyle changes. Anxieties about potential illnesses, hidden flaws, or personal shortcomings being exposed.

Alternatively, dreaming about a blood test may represent anxiety about illness, disease, or potential health problems that need attention.

Example: A woman dreamed of getting a blood test to determine if she was pregnant and found out that she had AIDS. In waking life, she felt stuck in an abusive relationship that prevented her from moving away to a better life. In this case, the blood test may have reflected her thoughts about assessing her own vitality, financial strength, and ability to safely move away as a person who is capable of living independently from her husband. The pregnancy test revealing she had AIDS instead of being pregnant may reflect her feelings about being stuck with or having sex with her abusive partner that could only ruin her life staying the way she was instead of having a viable future with him.

Example 2: A woman dreamed of a man getting a blood test that discovered he was on drugs. In waking life, she didn't like that the father of one of her children wasn't capable of paying any child support. In this case, the blood test may have reflected her her thoughts about evaluating the father's ability to support his child financially and discovering his unreliability or incapacity to contribute due to irresponsible behaviors or choices.

Blood Transfusion

To dream of a blood transfusion represents feelings about attempting to reinvigorate the energy in a situation, relationship, or your own efforts into a problem. A need for renewal of energy. A need to renew vitality in some manner.

Negatively, a blood transfusion may reflect honest feelings about yourself not feeling as passionate about a situation or relationship as you want to. Feeling that you need a miracle to make a relationship work.

Example: A woman dreamed of needing a blood transfusion. In waking life he was planning to get married to a man she wasn't fully in love with. She was trying to force herself to fall more deeply in love with the man for the sake of her kids.

Body Parts

See the themes section for body parts for a more in depth look at body part symbolism.

Boy

To dream of a boy represents a masculine aspect of yourself that is developing or inexperienced. Assertiveness, anger, dominance, or insensitivity. A part of your personality or a situation that hasn't reached its full potential yet.

For a young girl to dream of a boy that she's attracted to may represent a desire for something to happen in your life. A goal or experience you want to happen.

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Braces

To dream of a having braces on your teeth represents a situation that forces perfection on you that is unpleasant to adjust to. It may point to perfect behavior demanded of you or preparation for something important that demands total compliance to guarantee good results. You may feel that something in your best interest is unfair, terrible, or embarrassing.

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Breast Cancer

To dream of breast cancer represents feelings about the slow deterioration of your ability to respect yourself with passive authority or assumed power to control people without asserting yourself. The slow deterioration of passive assumed power to make people care about you or listen to you. The gradual decay of passive assumed power that feels it can only get worse or threaten to ruin your ability to matter or be important without asserting yourself. The ability to respect yourself with passive power or assumed authority being eroded by negative influences. Feeling that caring about people doesn't make people respect you with assumed authority anymore because people are ruining your life by never listening to you ever again.

Positively, dreaming about breast cancer may represent your awareness and proactive attitude towards identifying and addressing issues that are slowly affecting your passive assumed power or influence.

Negatively, dreaming about breast cancer could represent feelings of hopelessness, fear, or anxiety about the gradual loss of something essential to your sense of assumed power to make people listen to you without asking. A pervasive sense of decay or deterioration of passive authority in your life that feels unstoppable. An insidious depletion of passive assumed power and capability in your life. Situational decay that is affecting aspects of your life that once felt secure or unquestionable. Deep-seated fears or anxieties about losing your passive power, influence, and identity. Feeling that people don't have to respect your sense of assumed power and that it will only get worse. The gradual erosion of your confidence, happiness, and assumed authority to make people listen to you about unresolved issues or ongoing struggles. A perceived attack on your passive identity or ability to simply speak to make things happen. Feeling that nobody talks to you about doing anything for you ever again. Feeling that if people stop respecting your passive authority that it will begin to influence other people to do the same until it ruins you.

Alternatively, dreams of breast cancer may reflect your anxiety about breast cancer.

Example: A woman dreamed of a nurse telling her that she might have breast cancer. In waking life, she was experiencing migraines and nausea that would not go away after months. Prescription medicine didn't work and she didn't think there was any point in returning to the doctor. In this case, the breast cancer may have reflected hopelessness about the persistent health issues eroding her confidence that any medical professionals would ever listen to her health complaints ever again by simply asking for additional testing and that going back to the doctor would only make doctors lose more respect for her.

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Burgundy

The color burgundy represents situations that have the potential to become negative. Something you are thinking, feeling, or doing that has the potential to become a problem or go overboard.

The reason why burgundy represents potential negativity is because it's close to red, but not quite. So it's symbolically almost negative.

Example: A man dreamed of being inside a burgundy construction garbage bin. In real life he was planning on killing himself. The burgundy garbage bin reflected the potential he had to actually carrying out his suicide.

Example 2: A man dreamed of seeing his cousin in all burgundy. In waking life his cousin has agreed to buy the dreamers broken BMW SUV if certain repairs were possible and the dreamer found that the BMW dealership was making the likelihood of those repairs impossible. In this case the dreamer's cousin in all burgundy color may have reflect his feelings about a potential problem with selling the vehicle that he perceived with his cousins conditions.

Caduceus

To dream of a caduceus represents healing or a concern for health. Preoccupation with healing or improving your life somehow. The caduceus may be a sign that you need to take better care of yourself.

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Cancer

To dream of the disease cancer represents emotional or situational decay. An area of your life that slowly eats away at your well-being, happiness, or power. It can also reflect feelings of hopelessness, restrictions, or fundamental flaws. Feeling that a situation can only get worse or will spread to other areas of your life if you don't start taking action. Feeling that a situation is hopeless or can only get worse. Feeling that something eating away are you.

Example situations that could encourage a dream about cancer may be a difficult illness, financial problems, or a relationship that stifles you.

Alternatively, cancer can also reflect real life situations were cancer is a real possibility or someone you know is living with it.

Example: A man dreamed of having cancer. In waking life he was very depressed about his life and felt that life couldn't only get worse for him.

Example 2: A man dreamed of having lung cancer. In waking life he was experiencing anxiety about his habit of smoking cigarettes giving him cancer if he didn't quit.

Example 3: A man dreamed of seeing cancerous smoke. In waking life he was worried about the economic crisis.

Example 4: A man dreamed about a cancer club for children where the children were beginning to feel hopeless. In waking life he felt that his life was only getting worse and people who had previously inspired him couldn't inspire him any more.

Example 5: A woman dreamed of seeing someone with cancer. In waking life she felt that her marriage was slowly deteriorating.

Example 6: A woman dreamed of having cancer. In waking life she was experiencing her mental health slowly deteriorating.