Understanding Your Dream: Kissing at a Venue

Dreams about kissing, especially in various settings or venues, encapsulate a range of emotions tied to intimacy, relationships, and personal desires. Kissing, a universal symbol of affection and connection, can take on different meanings depending on the context in which it occurs within a dream. The venue plays a pivotal role; whether it’s a romantic setting like a restaurant or a lively venue like a festival, each location can denote particular feelings or situations in your waking life.

Exploring the subconscious through these dreams can reveal hidden desires and emotional states, prompting introspection and understanding of your relationships. As you navigate these dreams, it is essential to reflect on your personal experiences and feelings associated with the specific venue in your dreams, as well as your relationship with the person you are kissing, if applicable. Each element holds significance and can guide you toward a deeper understanding of your innermost thoughts and emotions.

• Dreams of kissing often signify deep emotional connections or desires.
• The venue plays a crucial role, highlighting specific feelings associated with that place.
• Interpreting dreams requires understanding personal circumstances and feelings.

Symbols

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  • Diversion:

    Diversion or amusement in a dream is a sign of glad tidings, recovery | for the sick, prosperity for the poor, honor after humiliation, scientific ad¬ vancement, higher position, or it could mean travel.

  • Inspection of troops:

    (Display; Hearing; Honor guards; Inspection of troops; Military re¬ view; Portrayal; Presentation; Review officer; Show) If one sees himself standing before a high-ranking officer during a ceremony of reviewing the guards of honor or in a military barrack in a dream, and if the officer is displeased with him in the dream, it means that he will commit a major sin. If one thinks that the officer is pleased with him in the dream, then it implies God’s blessings. The high- ranking officer or the review officer in such a dream also represents a com¬ passionate person who cares, and who frequently asks about his friends, helps them solve their problems, and assists them in every possible way.

  • Military review:

    (Display; Hearing; Honor guards; Inspection of troops; Military re¬ view; Portrayal; Presentation; Review officer; Show) If one sees himself standing before a high-ranking officer during a ceremony of reviewing the guards of honor or in a military barrack in a dream, and if the officer is displeased with him in the dream, it means that he will commit a major sin. If one thinks that the officer is pleased with him in the dream, then it implies God’s blessings. The high- ranking officer or the review officer in such a dream also represents a com¬ passionate person who cares, and who frequently asks about his friends, helps them solve their problems, and assists them in every possible way.

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  • Cudgel:

    (Cudgel) In a dream, a club means scolding and rebuking someone. If used as a baton in a dream, then it means subjugating and humiliating someone, or it could mean having the upper hand or having the wealth and power to do good or evil.

  • Flower garden:

    (Flower garden) A garden in a dream means repentance, and repentance from sin in a dream means a garden. Watering one’s garden in a dream means having marital relations. If one sees his garden dry in a dream, it means that his wife has commenced her menstrual period during which he is not permitted to have sexual intercourse with her.

    If he sees someone else watering his garden in a dream, it means that such a person will betray him with his wife. If one sees himself entering an unknown garden with its trees unattended and its pasture unkempt in a dream, it means distress and worries. A garden in a dream also represents a woman.

    They both need water and they both bear fruits or children. In this case, if the garden is interpreted to represent a woman, then its trees and fruits represent her tribe, family and children. An unknown garden in a dream also represents the Holy Qur’an.

    A garden in a dream also represents a marketplace, a new bride’s house, a property, an animal domesticated for service, a shop, a business, a tavern, a bathhouse, generosity, an army made of slaves, cattle or personal assets. If one sees himself inside a garden in a dream, it means comfort and growth in his life. If the house to which this garden belongs is God’s house, then the man seeing it is in paradise.

    If he is sick, it means that he will die from his illness and enter that paradise. If the garden is unknown in the dream, it means martyrdom and particularly if he finds inside the garden a woman calling him to herself, or to drink milk or honey from the garden’s rivers and the same is true if the garden does not look like the ones he is accustomed to see in the world. Otherwise, If one sees himself looking at a garden, and if he is unmarried, it means that he will meet a suitable woman and get married.

    If he is married, it means that he will receive joy from his wife equal to that which he received from the garden in his dream. If one finds within such a garden a group of associates or colleagues, the garden then represents a marketplace. If one sees a servant or a worker of his urinating inside a well or a stream inside such a garden in the dream, it means that a relative will betray the interests of the family.

    A garden whose owner is known in a dream represents a mosque, a park, people of knowledge, ignorant people, the generous ones or the stingy ones. It also represents a meeting place where the rich and the poor, the righteous and the insolent gather. A garden in a dream also may indicate a religious center, a school, a center for scientific research and studies, a place of worship, etcetera.

    If one enters a garden at the season of plucking its fruits in a dream, it means glad tidings, money and increase in one’s good deeds, marriage or children. On the other hand, if he enters a garden in the fall in a dream, it means defamation, indebtedness, divorce, or it could mean loss of a child. Seeing a deceased person in a garden means that he is in paradise.

    A 184 IBN SEERIN’S garden in a dream also represents a source of nourishment. Its fruits are colorful and their taste ranges from sweet to salty and from sour to bitter. (Also see House garden; Qur’an)

  • Burial ground:

    (Burial ground; Grave; Graveyard) Seeing a cemetery or a graveyard in a dream means appeasement and comfort for a terrified person, and dismay to a comfortable and a relaxed person. A graveyard represents the elements of fear, hope and return to guidance after heedlessness. A cemetery represents the hereafter, because it is its vehicle.

    A cemetery in a dream also represents the prison of the body, but in a dream, it also means seclusion, devotion, abstinence, asceticism or admonition. A cemetery also can be interpreted as the dead looking drunkard in a bar, a man laying flat in a prostitution house, the home of a heedless person who often sleeps rather than pray or a hypocrite whose deeds are not subject to receiving a heavenly reward, etcetera. If a sick person walks into a funeral procession in a dream, it means that his illness will culminate in his death.

    If he is not sick and then during that procession he weeps or prays for the deceased person in the dream, it means that he will repent of his sins, join spiritual study circles and serves the people of knowledge. Such a person also may attain a blessed spiritual station and benefit from what he hears and sees. If one sees himself walking in a funeral procession and neglecting respect and contemplation, and instead laughs and jokes, it means that he will befriend evildoers and accept their evil conduct as a standard norm of behavior.

    If one sees himself visiting a graveyard for seclusion, self-awakening and self-re¬ straint, then if he reflects about words of truth, wisdom and repentance in his dream, it means that he will be asked to judge between two people, and that he DICTIONARY OF DREAMS 75 will rule with justice. If one does not contemplate thus in the dream, it means that he will forget about something important or dear to his heart. If one enters the graveyard calling to prayers in a dream, it means that he will admonish people, commands what is good and forbids what is evil.

    If one sees himself entering a graveyard and walking over the scattered bones of the dead people in a dream, it means that he will die and be buried there. A cemetery in a dream also represents admonition, reading the Qur’an, crying, reminiscence, piety, surrender to one’s destiny and discarding worldly gains. A cemetery in a dream also may represent the scholars, ascetics, governors, leaders, camps or a brothel.

    The graves of saints or shrines in a dream signify innovation, heedlessness, intoxication, adultery, corruption and fear. A stone tomb or a sarcophagus in a dream signifies profits, war prisoners, a booty or exposing one’s personal secrets.

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  • Kiss:

    (Love; Passion; Rose; Tenderness) A kiss in a dream means satisfying one’s need, want or desire, or it could mean subordinating one’s enemy. Kissing a man or embracing him lustfully in a dream means getting hold of what one intends to acquire from him. If it is a lustful kiss, then it means accomplishing one’s pursuit of benefits, knowledge, or guidance.

    If it is an amicable kiss, it means that the one who received the kiss will receive benefits from the one who kissed him, or learn something from him, or reap a new understanding of things through him. Kissing a child in a dream means love, care and tenderness toward that child. Kissing a servant in a dream means soliciting the friendship of her master or employer.

    Kissing a married woman in a dream means seeking friendship with her husband. Kissing someone in authority in a dream means replacing him in his function. Kissing a judge in a dream means that one’s testimony will be accepted by the court.

    If a judge kisses someone in a dream, it means that the latter will win a court case, or benefit from such a judge, and the same interpretation applies if a leader or a boss kisses someone in a dream. Kissing one’s father in a dream also means benefiting from one another. Kissing one’s son with passion in a dream means saving money for him, or building a business for him.

    Giving one’s son a tender kiss in a dream means receiving joy or money from him or from his mother. Kissing someone between the eyes in a dream means marriage. Kissing someone’s eyes in a dream means pursuing both heterosexual and homosexual life and such a dream carries a warning to cease such loathsome and unlawful practices before contracting unknwon illness.

    Kissing one’s beloved from the mouth in a dream means money. Kissing DICTIONARY OF DREAMS 243 a woman in a dream means desiring her, or receiving news from one’s beloved. Kissing an old woman in a dream indicates an excuse or regret for a slip of the mouth.

    Kissing a young girl in a dream means drinking a glass of wine. If a scholar kisses a beautiful woman in a dream, it could mean reciting the Qur’an, or speaking words of wisdom. If such a scholar is known to love the world and its pleasures, then what he has kissed in his dream is the world itself.

    Kissing God’s right Hand in a dream means attending a pilgrimage to Mecca and kissing the black stone. Kissing God Almighty in a dream means kissing the holy Qur’an, or kissing God’s holy Name. If one sees God Almighty kissing him in a dream, it means that his deeds are accepted.

    Kissing an adorned woman or sleeping with her in a dream means marrying a wealthy widow. Kissing a known deceased person in a dream means benefiting from his knowledge or inheriting his money. Kissing an unknown dead person in a dream means that one will receive money from an unexpected source, or perhaps do business with his heirs.

    If a deceased person kisses someone in a dream, it means that the latter will receive unanticipated benefits. Lustfully kissing a deceased person in a dream means satisfying one’s needs, lust, or completing a project. If a sick person sees himself kissing a deceased person in a dream, it means his own death.

    Finally, if a healthy person kisses a deceased person in a dream, it means that his words are not true.

  • Blow 1:

    (Blow; Criticize; Smack) To lightly slap someone in a dream means to reprimand him, or to oblige him to recognize a favor, boasting about one’s generosity, or constantly reminding the other person of some shabby assistance. If one playfully slaps someone lightly on his cheek in a dream, it also means that the latter owes him something or a favor and the opposite is interpreted accordingly. Slapping someone’s face with anger in a dream means that the victim will triumph over the assailant.

    To slap someone in a dream also means recognition of his seniority or superiority. Threatening someone in a dream also maybe a recognition of his superiority.

  • Smack:

    (Blow; Criticize; Smack) To lightly slap someone in a dream means to reprimand him, or to oblige him to recognize a favor, boasting about one’s generosity, or constantly reminding the other person of some shabby assistance. If one playfully slaps someone lightly on his cheek in a dream, it also means that the latter owes him something or a favor and the opposite is interpreted accordingly. Slapping someone’s face with anger in a dream means that the victim will triumph over the assailant.

    To slap someone in a dream also means recognition of his seniority or superiority. Threatening someone in a dream also maybe a recognition of his superiority.

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  • World 2:

    (Dwellings; Hotel; House; Inn; Rug; Temporary abode; Traveller’s resting place)

  • State 1:

    (Abode; Changing condition vs. station; Dwellings; Transient)

  • Luck:

    (Dwellings)

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  • Blow 1:

    (Blow; Criticize; Smack) To lightly slap someone in a dream means to reprimand him, or to oblige him to recognize a favor, boasting about one’s generosity, or constantly reminding the other person of some shabby assistance. If one playfully slaps someone lightly on his cheek in a dream, it also means that the latter owes him something or a favor and the opposite is interpreted accordingly. Slapping someone’s face with anger in a dream means that the victim will triumph over the assailant.

    To slap someone in a dream also means recognition of his seniority or superiority. Threatening someone in a dream also maybe a recognition of his superiority.

  • Smack:

    (Blow; Criticize; Smack) To lightly slap someone in a dream means to reprimand him, or to oblige him to recognize a favor, boasting about one’s generosity, or constantly reminding the other person of some shabby assistance. If one playfully slaps someone lightly on his cheek in a dream, it also means that the latter owes him something or a favor and the opposite is interpreted accordingly. Slapping someone’s face with anger in a dream means that the victim will triumph over the assailant.

    To slap someone in a dream also means recognition of his seniority or superiority. Threatening someone in a dream also maybe a recognition of his superiority.

  • Criticize:
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  • Nasal speech:

    (Nasal speech) If one sees himself speaking with a twang in a dream, it means difficulties, or it could mean that he will be mocked for his opinions.

  • Bill:

    (Bill) In a dream, a beak represents wealth, prosperity, honor and power.

  • Striking:

Practical Strategies to Understand Your Dream

• Reflect on Your Relationships

  Take a moment to consider the relationships in your waking life. Who you are kissing in your dream may represent someone you have feelings for or a desire to connect with. Reflecting on your personal relationships and feelings toward them can provide context to your dream.

  Ask yourself what emotions arise when you think about this person. Are you in need of more intimacy or connection in that relationship? Alternatively, if you dream of kissing someone unexpected, it might symbolize unresolved feelings or a longing for companionship.

  Keep a dream journal to document these dreams, noting feelings, environments, and interactions. Over time, patterns may emerge, helping you better understand your emotional landscape and interpersonal dynamics.

• Consider the Venue's Significance

  The venue where the dream takes place is just as important as the act of kissing itself. Think about why this location appeared in your dream and what it symbolizes to you. Different venues evoke different emotions and memories.

  For example, a wedding venue might represent commitment and hope, while a party setting might signify joy or social anxiety. Analyzing your feelings associated with that venue can unlock deeper meanings. You may find that a recent event or memory tied to that location influences your emotions in the dream.

  Engage in meditation or quiet reflection about this venue to clarify its significance; understanding its role can shine light on what your subconscious is trying to communicate.

FAQs

• What does it mean to dream of kissing at a wedding venue?

  Dreaming of kissing at a wedding venue often signifies a desire for commitment or a strong emotional bond. It may reflect your thoughts about future relationships or the importance you place on love and partnership. Such dreams can inspire personal reflections on the nature of your current relationships and your hopes for the future.

• Why do I dream of kissing someone I don't know?

  Kissing someone unknown in your dream may represent unexplored aspects of yourself or hidden desires. This encounter could symbolize new opportunities or feelings you have yet to acknowledge. It’s essential to examine your emotions during the dream, as they can provide insight into newly emerged possibilities in your waking life.

• How do feelings about the kissing partner influence the dream?

  Your feelings about the individual you are kissing in your dream can dramatically shape the interpretation. Positive feelings may indicate a desire for deeper intimacy with that person or a longing for similar associations in others. Negative feelings could point towards unresolved conflicts, fears of intimacy, or caution regarding the relationship.

• What is the significance of location in my dream?

  The location in your dream is crucial as it reflects the context of the emotions being expressed. Different settings, like a romantic dinner versus a public festival, evoke different feelings and associations. Understanding the emotional weight of the venue can provide clarity about the actual feelings you may be suppressing or grappling with in your waking life.

• Can dreaming of kissing signify anything negative?

  While many interpret kissing dreams as positive, they can also highlight underlying anxieties or conflicts. For instance, feeling compelled to kiss someone you don't want to may signify pressure, discomfort, or fear within real-life relationships. Examine the emotions during the dream to decipher their underlying meanings fully.

References

• https://www.dreamsymbolism.com/dream-of-kissing
• https://www.ibnisirin.com/dream-interpretation
• https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/dreaming-in-color