Television
To dream of watching television represents an experience that you can easily choose to engage or disengage from any time you want to. Watching television may also reflect some level of control about immersing yourself in an experience or how a situation will turn out. Your reception of or exposure to different ideas, perspectives, or experiences. This dream might reflect your thoughts about current events of your life, social dynamics with people close to you, or cultural narratives, as well as your level of engagement with them. A sense of empowerment to casually change or reject having experience if you want to.
To dream of a TV turned off represents a conscious decision to disengage from certain experiences or narratives. A situation or experience that you can have if you want to, but aren't interested in. It could symbolize your choice to disconnect or take a break from certain influences, situations, or people. It might reflect feelings of being disconnected, choosing not to engage, or avoiding exposure to certain perspectives or experiences. Options or choices that are available but have been chosen to ignore or avoid. This could also symbolize a feeling of quiet, solitude, or introspection, a time for self-reflection without outside influences. Choosing to not experience what someone else is saying or offering to you. Feeling that it's safer to not engage in having a particular experience at all.
Example: A teenage boy dreamed of a television that was turned off sitting on top of a clothing dresser. The TV began to speak in a deep male voice like a ghost saying "I am here for you" while saying the dreamer's name backwards. In waking life, he was experiencing his parents getting a divorce and chose to leave his mother's home. Although his mother had extended an offer for him to move back in with her anytime, he declined. In this case, the television turned off may have reflected the option to experience living with the mother that the teen chose not to have. The teen had a choice to not engage in experiencing what the mother was offering to him.
Example 2: A young man dreamed of watching television where the program was talking about the end of time and how the world was ending. The TV show mentioned how hopeless life on the earth was. In waking life, the man was considering committing suicide because his life wasn't working out. In this case, the television may have reflected the ease with which he could discontinue suicidal thinking if he chose to.
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