Universal Landscape: The need for healing.
Dreaming Lens: Were you in the hospital? Was someone else? Was there surgery involved? Illness? Was it an emergency that led you to the hospital? Were you being helped or hindered in the hospital? Was it an empty place?
Personal Focus: Hospitals tend to evoke powerful reactions. The discomfort that color associations tend to overshadow the benevolence connected to hospitals as places of healing. It is common for people to fear hospitals, adding a touch of irony to our relationship with the healing process. Healing is transformation and the first step to any major change is the breakdown that precedes the breakthrough.
Since the breakdown is the scary part, we avoid it, just as some people avoid hospitals in waking life. It is easy to forget that in order for surgeons to heal an illness they must first cut the body open, creating a wound. And since not everyone who checks into a hospital is fortunate enough to check out, they are indelibly connected to the fear of death and dying. However, remember that death is always followed by rebirth.
In this way, being in or near a hospital in a dream is always going to indicate that some healing is either underway or necessary. If you are the patient, then consider that your sense of self is undergoing a significant shift. If you are a visitor, then the healing transformation is connected to a Character Aspect or particular way of being as embodied by the person you are going to see. If you are playing the part of healer, the dream may be helping you step into that role in some area of life that is undergoing a transformation.
The fear or repulsion that is present in the dream will give you an idea of how much resistance you may be unconsciously engaged in. If you are experiencing a health issue in life, the image of a hospital may be literal, in which case your dream relationship to the hospital will inform you of underlying resistance to surrender to your body and its functioning (or lack thereof).
[1]See Also: Operation
1- Depending on our attitude to hospitals, when one appears in a dream it can cither represent a place of safety, or a place where ones very being is threatened and we become vulnerable. Taken as a place of healing, it represents that aspect within ourselves that knows when respite is necessary from cares and troubles when we can allow ourselves to be cared for and nurtured and put back into one piece.
If we find hospitals threatening, it may be that we are conscious of the fact that we have to ‘let go’, to put ourselves at the mercy of others and allow things to happen for us, in order that a situation can be improved.
2- Dreaming of being in a hospital may be mentally creating a transition period between something that has not gone well, and an improved attitude where things can get better. ‘I’o be visiting someone in hospital indicates that we are aware that a part of ourselves is perhaps not well, is ‘dis-cased’ and needs attending to in order to give us clarity.
3- A healing environment where things can be brought into a state of balance is signified by a hospital.
[2]In dreams, hospitals can either mean a place of safety and healing if you have had a positive experience of hospitals, or vulnerability and disease if the experience was negative. Generally though, hospitals are symbols of healing, representing an aspect of yourself that longs to be pampered and cared for, relieved of the burdens of responsibilities in the waking world.
If you find hospitals threatening in your dream, this may suggest that you feel apprehensive about putting control of yourself out of your own hands and into those of others in your waking life.
If you are a hospital patient in your dream, this suggests a period of transition after something has not gone well, or a time of rest when you can learn from the experience and find new ways to get back on track.
If you are visiting someone in hospital, is a part of you diseased, not well or in need of special attention? Either way, if you have a dream that focuses in some way on a hospital, this suggests that you are in need of some tender loving care, both physically and emotionally.
See Also: SICKNESS AND HEALTH.
[3]Many people reported having dreams about hospitals and surgery. This appears to be a relatively common dream setting. Most of us are in some need of healing.
The healing may be physical, psychological, emotional or spiritual. By paying attention to this dream you may be able to identify the source of your pain, and where and how the healing needs to take place. Think about why you or someone else was in the hospital in the dream. You may ask yourself, “What is going on in the dream? What is the prognosis, and what is the cure?” Answering these questions in light of a situation or issue from your daily life could be very helpful and, at times, enlightening. Therefore, try not to get upset by your dream, but rather pay attention to its message. Superstition based dream interpretations suggest that if you are visiting a patient you will be receiving surprising news (good or bad), but if you are the patient, you may be currently overwhelmed by life and should ask others for help.
See Also: Pain
[4]A dream of lying ill in a hospital bed may simply be promoted by fear of getting ill but it could also indicate your desire to hand control of some aspect of your life to someone else. Being hospitalized in a dream may indicate that you feel under intolerable pressure in real life and need to unburden your load.
If you are lying in a ward that has endless lines of beds, perhaps you feel abandoned
In some way, / or perhaps you are at a time of turmoil such as divorce, bereavement or job loss.
If you are healthy and dream of getting better, this indicates well-being, but if you are ill and dream that you are ill, it may suggest a delay in recovery. Rather than simply expecting to get better without any effort on your part, you should pay greater attention to your mental attitude, fitness levels and diet to boost the recovery process.
[5]If a hospital features in your dream, your unconscious may be sending you a message about some part of your life that deserves care, attention or is even in need of healing. The elements in the hospital that support or dismiss your needs reflect things in your life that are affecting your well-being.
If the nurses, doctors and receptionists are rude and dismissive, this may represent your own refusal to acknowledge your needs. Operations and procedures that fail can suggest attempts to solve problems with quick fixes.
If you can think about what would improve your situation in your dream, this may give you some indication of a possible way forward.
See Also: HEALTH AND SICKNESS.
[6]Vision: Seeing a hospital means good news, or visiting a sick friend. Lying in the hospital: a good friend is getting you out of a difficult situation. You are very sick: take a moment and rethink plans you made—they won’t work! Leaving a hospital: you are going to start a business; you are emotionally independent.
Depth Psychology: The Illness in a dream is a sign of your anxiety.
If you are not actually sick, the dream may refer to a conflict between your feelings, thoughts, and actions.
The hospital represents the help you receive in solving problems and overcoming obstacles.
See Also: Sanatorium.
[7]To dream of a hospital can be, to a certain point, alarming, since it manifests the fear of being sick.
If in the dream you visit someone who is sick, you should take special care of your health, since your body is crying for help.
In Ancient Greece, it was believed that dreams not only diagnosed the dreamer’s state of health, but also had a curative ability. This was claimed by Hippocrates, considered the father of medicine. Tibetan medicine also takes note of patients’ dreams to discover the spiritual cause of the physical illness.
[8]You feel in need of help in times of emotional trouble. In rare cases, also a sign that you resent the type of help you get because it could be harmful.
The hospital also stands for the dreamer himself.
If you are the sick person, the type of illness will give insight about the problems you face.
If you are the physician, your role as helper is addressed.
According to Jung, the hospital is the place where people are being taken care of, a symbol of mother.
[9]Example: ‘I was a prisoner in a hospital, although there were no locked doors or bars. It was a psychiatric hospital, but we were allowed to believe we had a physical illness. I had been very ill, but was trying to escape* (Joan P). At the time of her dream Joan was feeling trapped in depression and also attending a therapy group. Hospital represents needing or being involved in a healing process of body or mind; worries about one’s health.
[10]Dreams of a hospital are logical to employees and the medical staff connected with this marvelous institution. They are also common to sick people, but to those who are apparently not ill, a dream of a hospital indicates a fear of confinement, perhaps death itself.
If the dreamer is in a hospital bed with the attendance of nurses, the dream is significant of a type of helplessness with a wish to have people wait upon him (or her).
[11]Psychological / emotional perspective: Dreaming of being in a hospital as a patient may be mentally creating a transition period between something that has not gone well, and an improved attitude where things can get better.
To dream of visiting someone in hospital indicates that there is an imbalance or depletion in us, is ‘dis-eased’ and needs attending to in order to give us clarity.
[12]To dream that you are a patient in a hospital shows that you may soon be exposed to some contagious disease and there is the possibility that you will contract it.
If you are only visiting a hospital then you will be able to avoid the illness.
To see a friend in a hospital shows that you will soon here some distressing news about that person.
[13]If you dreamed that you were taken to a hospital or were a patient in one, the dream is telling you that you are in imminent danger of being overwhelmed by some load you are trying to carry alone; don’t be a proud fool—ask for help.
A dream of visiting a hospital or helping in one predicts surprising news.
See Also: Nurse.
[14]Entering a hospital may represent concerns about your health and even suggest that you need to recover from a serious illness. It may bnng attention to the powers of the subconscious to heal and bnng balance back into the body. It may also signify the need to surrender to being cared for.
[15]1. Possible illness or injury—often emotional, sometimes physical, possibly material.
2. Being instrumental or playing a role in healing of another (doctor or nurse).
3. View of self or state of being; in need of healing (feeling miserable).
[16]If you dream that you are a patient in a hospital. you will have a contagious disease in your community, and will narrowly escape affliction.
If you visit patients there, you will hear distressing news of the absent.
[17]A healing environment where things can be brought into a state of balance is signified by a hospital. Spiritually it symbolizes a safe environment, where the energy that we need is available to us.
[18]Beware of schemes of the opposite sex if you dream of being in a hospital, either as a patient or visitor.
If you dream of being a nurse or doctor, you may look forward to happiness.
[19]Dreams that take place in a hospital represent that you are healing, repairing, or nursing back to health a sick or wounded aspect of yourself; hospicing the old and midwifing the new.
[20]The hospital is a place to heal and get back to health and back into the flow of life.
The hospital also suggests the need to pay attention to one’s health.
[21]If you dream of a hospital, you are worried that you didn’t do a thorough job on a recent project. Also see “Ambulance” and “Gurney”.
[22]To dream of a hospital implies a need to be taken care of physically and/or mentally. It indicates a need to restore order in your life.
[23]1. Restoration church;
2. Healing ministry;
3. Sick church;
4. Place of healing, Is 61:1-3; 1 Cor. 12:28.
[24]A warning to alter ways of living, which lead to ill-health, or a serious misfortune may befall you.
[25]A place of help and restoration, not necessarily a hospital; see “vacation”
[26]An unfortunate dream (Raphael). A dream of sensory origin.
[27]Healing center; emotional, mental, physical rejuvenation.
[28]Symbolic of a place of healing
[29]lucky numbers: 03-15-24-26-38-41
being in a: solution wil be found to a longstanding problem.
another’s: misfortune to the entire community.
children’s: starvation of love in one’s future must be fed.
enemies’: misery without the push to the competitive edge.
mental: conflict between intuition and actions must be mended.
oxygen tent, in an: are being nurtured by those standing by.
relatives’: someone wil be highly considerate of you.
religious: your imperfections need attentive prayer.
to visit a friend: must explain misdeed to one outside the family.
very ill: news wil be difficult to bear; project as now planned wil fail.
cafeteria, eating in a: it isn’t the food but the atmosphere that causes indigestion.
confined in an MRI: are being exceptional y decisive with your improving health.
an iron lung: are stricken with worries only gargantuan efforts can solve.
lead object on your chest in the: situation weighs you down, confining your rejuvenation.
leaving a, completely recovered: a good friend is relieving you of a difficult task.
nursing someone in a: are expressing an imprisoned part of yourself to another.
back to health: and succeeding.
of a: misery is yours right now.
patient in a, being a: the obstacles are too high to hurdle alone.
strapped to a, bed: strong family relationships, but they are not listening to you.
stretcher, being carried on a: argument over important matters in own ambition.
carrying a: your need their talent and they need your management skil s.
surgeon operating: a profession is always messy; a work of art takes time.
using a lance: friends avoid you for unexplained reasons.
surgery being performed: your misdeeds are known to everyone, though not spoken.
on another: loss of a friend through tragedy.
trapped in a: get a second opinion and you wil be better off.
treated by religious person at a: wil be helped by God.
wandering in circles in a: are missing someone lost to depressed melancholia.
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