Understanding the Dream of Accepting the Nature of Time
Dreams often serve as glimpses into the deeper recesses of our psyche and spirit, illuminating our thoughts, fears, and aspirations. One particularly profound theme that can occur in our night visions is the acceptance of the nature of time. These dreams invite reflection on our perceptions of time, whether it be the passage of hours, the memories of past moments, or the anticipation of future events.
They can signify a harmonious relationship with the present and a realization of life's fleeting moments, prompting us to cherish each second. As we navigate these dreams, we may find ourselves confronted with various symbols and scenarios that resonate with our life experiences. Notably, the teachings of Ibni Sirin guide us in uncovering the wisdom embedded within these nocturnal narratives.
Understanding these dreams does not merely reveal their meanings; it also offers a pathway to inner peace and personal growth as we learn to embrace time's relentless march.
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- Dreams of accepting the nature of time can symbolize personal growth and acceptance of life’s transient nature.
- These dreams often reflect our current struggles with time management and change in our waking lives.
- Understanding such dreams can lead to increased peace and mindfulness in one's daily activities.
Symbols
- duration
- Transient:
(Dwellings; House; Interim; Loan; Temporary)
- Watch:
(Timepiece; Wristwatch. See Clock)
- Calendar year:
(Age; Period; Time) In a dream, ayear represents drought, doubt, difficulties, threats, scientific advancement, trials, temptations. If one identifies a year in a dream, during a drought season, it means a good harvest. As for a pregnant woman, identifying ayear in a dream means delivering her child.
Seeing a year in a dream means experiencing an adversity, or witnessing someone else’s trials and learning a lesson from it, or to repent of one’s own sins. Yearning for one’s homeland:
- Transient:
- receiving
- Receiving:
(Allot; Distribute; Gift; Offer) Giving something in a dream indicates the value or worth of the giver. If one gives his workers or a needy person little money when they merit more, it denotes his disobedience to the commands of God Almighty, or straying away from the prophetic traditions. If one is denied what he is asking for in a dream, it means failure in his religious practices, suffering from the consequences of challenging others and arguing about religious laws, or it could represent one’s perilous pursuit of heedless thoughts.
If a sick person sees himself paying his debts in a dream, it means his death or the spoiling of his wealth. If he is healthy, then it denotes a case of mental derangement, anger, lack of self-control or raising one’s voice unnecessarily. If a poor person sees himself paying someone’s debt in a dream, it means that he will receive benefits.
Receiving monetary compensation by a court order in a dream denotes lawful earnings.
- Cargo:
(Load; Shipment) Receiving a shipment in a dream means a burden, impediments, an illness, affliction, uneasiness or anxiety.
- Gift:
Receiving a gift in a dream is a sign of happiness, joy, love and friendship. A gift in a dream also means reconciliation between adversaries, promoting unity, or it could mean betrothal of one’s daughter to a good man.
- Receiving:
- environment
- Landscaping:
- Land:
- 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)
- period
- Zucchini:
£uhur: (arb. See Five time prayers)
- Calendar year:
(Age; Period; Time) In a dream, ayear represents drought, doubt, difficulties, threats, scientific advancement, trials, temptations. If one identifies a year in a dream, during a drought season, it means a good harvest. As for a pregnant woman, identifying ayear in a dream means delivering her child.
Seeing a year in a dream means experiencing an adversity, or witnessing someone else’s trials and learning a lesson from it, or to repent of one’s own sins. Yearning for one’s homeland:
- Watch:
(Timepiece; Wristwatch. See Clock)
- Zucchini:
- nature
- Hiking:
(Hiker; Mountain person) A naturalist in a dream represents travels, a graveyard, or he could represent a wedding.
- Belligerence:
In a dream, it means belligerence and injustice.
- Manifest character:
(Character; Hidden; Forest; Wild plants; Woods)
- Hiking:
- embracing
- Accolade:
(Accolade; Hug) Embracing someone in a dream means longevity. Embracing a deceased person also means longevity. If a deceased person embraces the person seeing the dream and does not let go of him in a dream, it DICTIONARY OF DREAMS 141 means his death.
Embracinga known person in a dream means associating with him. Embracing one’s enemy in a dream means making peace with him. It is also said that an embrace in a dream signifies exchanging praises.
An embrace in a dream also signifies kindness, liking for one another, travels, arriving from a journey and dispelling distress or anxiety. An embrace in a dream is also interpreted to mean having sexual intercourse. Embracing a woman in a dream means love for the world, and despair from receiving any reward in the hereafter.
Embracing a man in a dream signifies lending him support and helping him. Embracing the trunk of a tree in a dream means indulging in hypocrisy. Embracing someone and laying one’s head in his lap in a dream means entrusting him with one’s capital, or working for him.
- Embrace:
(Accolade; Hug) Embracing someone in a dream means longevity. Embracing a deceased person also means longevity. If a deceased person embraces the person seeing the dream and does not let go of him in a dream, it DICTIONARY OF DREAMS 141 means his death.
Embracinga known person in a dream means associating with him. Embracing one’s enemy in a dream means making peace with him. It is also said that an embrace in a dream signifies exchanging praises.
An embrace in a dream also signifies kindness, liking for one another, travels, arriving from a journey and dispelling distress or anxiety. An embrace in a dream is also interpreted to mean having sexual intercourse. Embracing a woman in a dream means love for the world, and despair from receiving any reward in the hereafter.
Embracing a man in a dream signifies lending him support and helping him. Embracing the trunk of a tree in a dream means indulging in hypocrisy. Embracing someone and laying one’s head in his lap in a dream means entrusting him with one’s capital, or working for him.
- Hug:
(Cuddle; Embrace; Hold) To embrace a living person in a dream means to associate with him and to love him. To give a deceased person a short hug in a dream means longevity. To give a deceased person a long and a continuous embrace in a dream means one’s own death.
To embrace a woman in a dream means embracing the pleasures and attractions of this world and to despair of any reward in the hereafter. To hold tight to a piece of fruit, or to endear certain food one loves in a dream means easy profits or lawful earnings. If an unmarried person holds tight or embraces a garment in a dream, it means that he will get married.
If one hugs a pair of shoes in a dream, it means that he will hold a new position or a job that will make him extremely happy.
- Accolade:
- wilderness
- Character:
(Hidden; Manifest; Wild plants; Forest; Woods)
- Manifest character:
(Character; Hidden; Forest; Wild plants; Woods)
- Wild plants:
(Forest; Hidden; Manifest; Woods) Eating wild plants in the wilder¬ ness in a dream represents hard earned money. Wild plants are also interpreted as a person whose goodness is hidden and whose heart is better than what his appearance may suggest.
- Character:
- time
- Watch:
(Timepiece; Wristwatch. See Clock)
- Zucchini:
£uhur: (arb. See Five time prayers)
- Celerity:
(Celerity; Haste; Hastiness; Quick pace) Walking with dispatch, or with a quick pace in Mecca or in any town in a dream means victory over one’s enemy. Celerity in a dream also represents haste, or the dispatch through which one leaves this world. Moving with a quick pace in a dream also means loss of one’s position, or it could mean attending the pilgrimage season in Mecca.
- Watch:
- accepting
- Confess:
If one sees himself acknowledging devotion or worship of another human being in a dream, it means enmity with that person. But, if one sees himself confessing his wrongdoing in a dream, it means regaining honor, dignity and true repentance. To confess a murder in a dream means that one will attain peace, leadership or advancement to a supervisory job.
- Devotion:
If one sees himself acknowledging devotion or worship of another human being in a dream, it means enmity with that person. But, if one sees himself confessing his wrongdoing in a dream, it means regaining honor, dignity and true repentance. To confess a murder in a dream means that one will attain peace, leadership or advancement to a supervisory job.
- Receiving:
(Allot; Distribute; Gift; Offer) Giving something in a dream indicates the value or worth of the giver. If one gives his workers or a needy person little money when they merit more, it denotes his disobedience to the commands of God Almighty, or straying away from the prophetic traditions. If one is denied what he is asking for in a dream, it means failure in his religious practices, suffering from the consequences of challenging others and arguing about religious laws, or it could represent one’s perilous pursuit of heedless thoughts.
If a sick person sees himself paying his debts in a dream, it means his death or the spoiling of his wealth. If he is healthy, then it denotes a case of mental derangement, anger, lack of self-control or raising one’s voice unnecessarily. If a poor person sees himself paying someone’s debt in a dream, it means that he will receive benefits.
Receiving monetary compensation by a court order in a dream denotes lawful earnings.
- Confess:
Embracing the Lessons of Time in Your Daily Life
- Reflect on Your Relationship with Time
Take a moment to ponder how you perceive time in your daily life. Do you often feel rushed, or do you savor each moment? Consider journaling about your feelings regarding time.
Are there past experiences you wish you could relive, or future events you are anxious about? Reflecting helps create awareness of your time management and allows you to cultivate a more mindful approach. Recognize the beauty of the present moment and strive to balance planning for the future with enjoying the now.
This balance can enhance your mental well-being and transform your perception of time into a more nurturing one.
- Practice Mindfulness and Presence
Engage in mindfulness exercises that anchor you in the present. Techniques such as deep breathing, meditation, or simply sitting quietly and observing your surroundings can help ground you. Mindfulness fosters acceptance of time's passage and the experiences we accumulate.
It allows us to become more aware of our thoughts and feelings instead of getting lost in regrets about the past or worries for the future. You can also incorporate mindfulness into daily tasks—like eating or walking—by focusing fully on the sensations and experiences of these activities.
- Set Meaningful Goals and Prioritize
Use the insights gained from your dreams about time to set meaningful goals that align with your values. Determine what truly matters to you and prioritize those aspects of your life. Whether it’s spending more quality time with loved ones, engaging in a passion project, or simply allowing yourself downtime, put practical steps in place to reach these goals.
By doing so, you're not just accepting time but rather utilizing it in accordance with your values.
FAQs
- What does it mean to dream about time flying?
Dreams of time flying often indicate a feeling of life's transience. You may be feeling overwhelmed or missing precious moments in your waking life. This could be a call to slow down and appreciate the present, ensuring you do not rush through vital experiences.
- Can dreaming of the past have a deeper meaning?
Yes, dreaming of the past often reflects unresolved emotions or memories needing attention. It can symbolize a desire for closure, or acknowledgment of previous experiences that still influence your current state. Embrace these dreams as opportunities for reflection and healing.
- How can I interpret recurring dreams about time?
Recurring dreams often highlight unresolved issues. If they revolve around time, they may signal your subconscious urging you to address how you value and manage your time. Consider what aspect of time feels stressful or unresolved in your life, and explore ways to bring balance.
- What might symbolize acceptance of time in a dream?
Symbols such as a flowing river, an open book, or a clock can depict the passage of time and acceptance thereof. Observing how you interact with these symbols in your dream can provide insights into your relationship with time and whether you are embracing or resisting its nature.
- Is there a spiritual perspective on dreams about time?
From a spiritual perspective, dreams about time encouraging acceptance can suggest alignment with divine timing and life’s cycles. They remind us of the inherent wisdom in knowing when to act and when to allow things to unfold naturally. Such dreams can encourage surrender and trust in the journey.
