Anaesthetic Dream Interpretation: Insights from 4 Unique Sources

1- To be anaesthetised in a dream highlights the fact that we are trying to avoid painful emotions, and feeling overpowered by- external circumstances. It also indicates that we are trying, or being forced, to avoid something.

2- We arc numbing - or avoiding something we don’t want to face. We may be creating a situation which requires external management. We perhaps need to be quiescent and let events unfold around us.

3- As with amnesia, an anaesthetic can be a possible indication of death, but usually of part of ourselves.

(1) An anaesthetic may symbolize some kind of death-wish or some longed-for escape from painful circumstances.

See Dead/ Death, section (4).

(2) Alternatively, the* dream may be telling you that you need to get into the habit of letting vour consciousness go to sleep occasionally so as to allow the unconscious to have its saw

Dreaming of being “put under” means the dreamer is ready to let go of a painful experience.

Death, avoiding painful emotions; entering the unconscious; feeling overpowered.