Author: Eva Sylwester

Dreaming of a helicopter can be just another flying dream. It might also, however, have symbolic meaning related to the use of helicopters in surveillance and rescue missions.

Picking out jewelry may be a fun part of dressing yourself, but it also can communicate messages to others about your social standing. Your dream of jewelry may similarly have a lot to say!

While we often focus on symbols and intricate stories in our dreams, colors rarely get noticed or easily slip from our minds. Some people really dream in black and white; however, for most of us, our dream colors fade away from our memories.

Whether your dream of war portrays you as an angry crusader for some righteous cause or as a victim cowering in fear of an unwarranted attack, dreaming of war may show that things in your life have broken down beyond what rational communication is able to address.

A dream of creepy, crawly maggots can be disturbing. As maggots are generally drawn to icky things, seeing them raises the larger question of what in the area is attracting them. However, a maggot dream may serve a useful role in alerting you to what is decaying in your life and needs to go.

Monsters are generally understood to not be real, but your dreams are not held to the standard of including only things that are strictly real. When a monster appears in your dream, though, it might be symbolic of some person in your waking life whom you, rightly or wrongly, see as a threat.

A cemetery can be creepy, contemplative, or calm, depending on the circumstances. While any of those emotional atmospheres could be present in your dream of a cemetery, at bottom might be a question about how you handle endings in your life.

A dream of being chased can be scary, especially from the anticipatory anxiety of what will happen if you get caught. As long as you keep running – or driving, in the case of a car chase – you are trapped in the drama of the chase.

Dreaming of your home being invaded can really get your heart pounding. Home is a place where you are supposed to be safe, so to have that challenged, even in a dream, can be terrifying. If you can calm down enough to look at your home invasion dream symbolically, though, it may alert you to a less obvious threat lurking in your waking life.  

Though medicine is now more capable of treating snake bites than it used to be, the idea of being bitten by a snake can still evoke deep fear. Snakes, some of which have poisonous venom, are a historic enemy of humans in this regard.

Being naked is a common dream symbol. Whether you were disturbed by your dream of being naked or found it enjoyable, you have come to the right place for learning to understand its symbolism.