Unveiling Emotional Depths: The Meaning Behind Crying in Dreams
Dreaming of crying while watching children play can evoke deep emotions and reflections. This poignant dream can be symbolic of various inner feelings, from nostalgia for childhood innocence to a yearning to reconnect with simpler times. In various cultures, tears in dreams symbolize emotional release, suggesting that there are unresolved feelings yearning for attention.
The juxtaposition of joy and tears within the dream may also point to a complex array of emotions—perhaps reflecting on life's fleeting moments or a desire to embrace the carefree spirit embodied by children. Such dreams might arise when you are feeling overwhelmed by life's responsibilities or longing for joy that seems out of reach.
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- Crying in dreams can signal a release of pent-up emotions.
- Watching children play may represent innocence, joy, and longing.
- This dream can reflect personal feelings of nostalgia or parental instincts.
- It may also indicate unaddressed emotional needs or healing processes.
- Always seek deeper understanding through reflection and spiritual guidance.
Symbols
- play
- Cynicism:
(Amusement; Cynicism; Playing games; Playing) To play games or to act sprightly in a dream means pride, arrogance, being cynical, profanity or defiling what is sacred in one’s religion and lacking reverence for it. Playing backgam¬ mon in a dream means exaltation, gaining power, honor and rank, or it could denote one’s pride, arrogance and cynicism. Playing with a wedding ring in a dream means concealing secrets, except if someone else appears in one’s dream, then it could mean looking for a missing person.
Sitting and playing with one’s heels in a dream means governing. Playing football in a dream means recon¬ ciliation or making peace with one’s enemy. If a sick person sees himself playing a game in a dream, it means recovering from his illness and returning to a normal healthy life.
Playing cricket ball in a dream means a fight followed by reconciliation andpeace.
- Playing games:
(Amusement; Cynicism; Playing games; Playing) To play games or to act sprightly in a dream means pride, arrogance, being cynical, profanity or defiling what is sacred in one’s religion and lacking reverence for it. Playing backgam¬ mon in a dream means exaltation, gaining power, honor and rank, or it could denote one’s pride, arrogance and cynicism. Playing with a wedding ring in a dream means concealing secrets, except if someone else appears in one’s dream, then it could mean looking for a missing person.
Sitting and playing with one’s heels in a dream means governing. Playing football in a dream means recon¬ ciliation or making peace with one’s enemy. If a sick person sees himself playing a game in a dream, it means recovering from his illness and returning to a normal healthy life.
Playing cricket ball in a dream means a fight followed by reconciliation andpeace.
- Playing:
(Amusement; Cynicism; Playing games; Playing) To play games or to act sprightly in a dream means pride, arrogance, being cynical, profanity or defiling what is sacred in one’s religion and lacking reverence for it. Playing backgam¬ mon in a dream means exaltation, gaining power, honor and rank, or it could denote one’s pride, arrogance and cynicism. Playing with a wedding ring in a dream means concealing secrets, except if someone else appears in one’s dream, then it could mean looking for a missing person.
Sitting and playing with one’s heels in a dream means governing. Playing football in a dream means recon¬ ciliation or making peace with one’s enemy. If a sick person sees himself playing a game in a dream, it means recovering from his illness and returning to a normal healthy life.
Playing cricket ball in a dream means a fight followed by reconciliation andpeace.
- Cynicism:
- game
- Cynicism:
(Amusement; Cynicism; Playing games; Playing) To play games or to act sprightly in a dream means pride, arrogance, being cynical, profanity or defiling what is sacred in one’s religion and lacking reverence for it. Playing backgam¬ mon in a dream means exaltation, gaining power, honor and rank, or it could denote one’s pride, arrogance and cynicism. Playing with a wedding ring in a dream means concealing secrets, except if someone else appears in one’s dream, then it could mean looking for a missing person.
Sitting and playing with one’s heels in a dream means governing. Playing football in a dream means recon¬ ciliation or making peace with one’s enemy. If a sick person sees himself playing a game in a dream, it means recovering from his illness and returning to a normal healthy life.
Playing cricket ball in a dream means a fight followed by reconciliation andpeace.
- Playing games:
(Amusement; Cynicism; Playing games; Playing) To play games or to act sprightly in a dream means pride, arrogance, being cynical, profanity or defiling what is sacred in one’s religion and lacking reverence for it. Playing backgam¬ mon in a dream means exaltation, gaining power, honor and rank, or it could denote one’s pride, arrogance and cynicism. Playing with a wedding ring in a dream means concealing secrets, except if someone else appears in one’s dream, then it could mean looking for a missing person.
Sitting and playing with one’s heels in a dream means governing. Playing football in a dream means recon¬ ciliation or making peace with one’s enemy. If a sick person sees himself playing a game in a dream, it means recovering from his illness and returning to a normal healthy life.
Playing cricket ball in a dream means a fight followed by reconciliation andpeace.
- Playing:
(Amusement; Cynicism; Playing games; Playing) To play games or to act sprightly in a dream means pride, arrogance, being cynical, profanity or defiling what is sacred in one’s religion and lacking reverence for it. Playing backgam¬ mon in a dream means exaltation, gaining power, honor and rank, or it could denote one’s pride, arrogance and cynicism. Playing with a wedding ring in a dream means concealing secrets, except if someone else appears in one’s dream, then it could mean looking for a missing person.
Sitting and playing with one’s heels in a dream means governing. Playing football in a dream means recon¬ ciliation or making peace with one’s enemy. If a sick person sees himself playing a game in a dream, it means recovering from his illness and returning to a normal healthy life.
Playing cricket ball in a dream means a fight followed by reconciliation andpeace.
- Cynicism:
- performance
- 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.
- Officer:
(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.
- Inspection of troops:
- children
- Gems of the eyes:
(Children)
- Little boy:
(Little boy) In a dream, a child carried in one’s arms means responsibility, distress and difficulties. A teenage child represents glad tidings or dispelling one’s worries. If one sees a beautiful looking teenage child entering a town or descending from the skies or appearing from beneath the ground in a dream, it means that the glad tidings will take effect shortly.
Seeing a mature child in a dream means power and superiority. If one sees himself as a child learning in school in a dream, it means that he will repent of a common sin he is used to commit. If one sees one of the renowned people of knowledge sitting in a kindergarten and learning along with other children in a dream, it means that he will shift to ignorance, lose his rank, or that financial changes will affect his living conditions.
If one sees himself receiving instructions like a child in a dream, it means that he will receive an inheritance from his mother. If one sees himself as a newborn child in a dream, it means that he will become wealthy and prosper. If a young boy sees himself in a dream as a child, it has a negative meaning.
If a sick person sees himself as a child in a dream, it means his death. If one sees himself as a child being reprimanded in a dream, it means that he will be conquered. In a dream, if one looks in a mirror and sees his face to be that of a child, and if his wife is pregnant, it means that she will beget a son who will look like his father.
Carrying a baby child in a dream means distress and burdens. A child in a dream represents a weak enemy who sometime shows friendliness and at other times demonstrates his enmity. If one sees that his wife has just delivered children who are playing around him in a dream, it means distress or misfortune and the consequences could be either good or bad.
Carrying a child in a dream means managing an inheritance or a financial investment. If an elderly person sees himself roaming as a little child in a dream, it means that he will commit an act of ignorance or lose his dignity, ideals or sense of honor. On the other hand, if such an elderly person who sees himself in a dream as a little child is suffering from depression or financial difficulties or health problems, then it means relief from distress and good health and that he will become free from his sins, like the day his mother gave birth to him.
If one sees that he has a little child who disdains from coming near his father in the dream, it means financial promotion and enjoyment of one’s life. If one sees a little child screaming in his lap in a dream, it means that he plays a string instrument. Children in a dream also could mean either sorrow and pain or happiness and joy.
If they are one’s own children in the dream, then they mean temptation with money. Children in a dream also could mean contentment with little or loss of one’s means to earn his livelihood or they could mean money or marriage or a flourishing business. Bereavement of a child in a dream means the opposite in real life.
It also means rejoicing, reunions, pleasures and earning respect. Bereavement of a child in a dream is sometimes interpreted to portray an intention of one’s children or wife to separate from the family. A little male child in a dream represents worries, responsibilities, hard work, catering to ignorant people or dealing with trivial and time wasting people.
If a prisoner sees himself carrying a little girl in his dream, it means that he will be released from his prison. If one who is going through hard times sees himself holding a little girl in a dream, it means that his adversities will be lifted. If he is poor, it means that he will thrive for success and the little girl then represents his glad tidings.
- Pubescence:
- Gems of the eyes:
- crying
- Crying:
Lamenting or crying in a dream means distress, sorrow and stress. If such lamenting or crying is done out of fearing God Almighty, it means that salvation and joy will follow.
- Mourning the dead:
(Mourning; Wailing; Yowling) Lamenting and desiring something in a dream connotes evil. Lamentation in a dream also represents a preacher or it could represent a putrid odor that comes from opening the door of a filthy lavatory. Lamentation in a dream also represents dogs’yowling, drum beating, the ringing sound of cymbals, or it could mean a wedding.
Sitting in a place where people are lamenting and mourning their dead in a dream means that an ominous evil may take place in that locality, or perhaps it could mean separation between families and friends. If one sees himself mourning a deceased person in a dream, it means that harm will come to him from the descendents or family of the departed person. Lamenting with great pain and sorrow and mourning over a deceased person in a dream also means waking up to a great joy and happiness.
Lamenting in a dream also means adversities which are driven by the person who is lamenting. It also means going astray, or it could denote a flute, as the flute denotes lamenting in a dream. Lamenting in a dream also represents the work of ignorance.
- Wailing:
(Mourning; Wailing; Yowling) Lamenting and desiring something in a dream connotes evil. Lamentation in a dream also represents a preacher or it could represent a putrid odor that comes from opening the door of a filthy lavatory. Lamentation in a dream also represents dogs’yowling, drum beating, the ringing sound of cymbals, or it could mean a wedding.
Sitting in a place where people are lamenting and mourning their dead in a dream means that an ominous evil may take place in that locality, or perhaps it could mean separation between families and friends. If one sees himself mourning a deceased person in a dream, it means that harm will come to him from the descendents or family of the departed person. Lamenting with great pain and sorrow and mourning over a deceased person in a dream also means waking up to a great joy and happiness.
Lamenting in a dream also means adversities which are driven by the person who is lamenting. It also means going astray, or it could denote a flute, as the flute denotes lamenting in a dream. Lamenting in a dream also represents the work of ignorance.
- Crying:
- observing
- Examine:
(Touch) In a dream, examining means spying, eavesdropping or paying attention to a conversation one should not listen to.
- Eyewitness:
(Eyewitness; Legitimacy; Testify; Truth) An eyewitness in a dream means triumphing over one’s enemy, testifying to the truth and refuting falsehood. If one sees himself as a true signing witness to an agreement in a dream, it means that he will triumph over his enemies. If one sees himself witnessing a contract or putting his seal on a testimony in a dream, it means that he will loan money to the second party in the contract.
If one sees himself bearing a true testimony before someone and against the other in a dream, it means that he will attend the pilgrimage in Mecca.
- Concern:
- Examine:
- youngsters
- Pubescence:
- Teenage boy:
(Teenage boy) An unknown young man in a dream represents an enemy. If the young man is known in the dream, then whatever strength, harshness, weaknesses, deceit, perfidy, or character he displays, they denote the same character in wakefulness. Walking behind an unknown young man in a dream means pursuing one’s enemy and conquering him.
If one meets an unknown young man whom he dislikes in a dream, it means that such an enemy will surface and people will abhor him. If one happens to like him in the dream, then it means that he will face an enemy whom most people like and sympathize with. If a young man sees himself turned into an old person in a dream, it means that he will suffer major losses in his life.
Ayoung man or a teenager in a dream mostly represents an enemy, for a teenager rarely respects or heeds the advice of his peers. A young man in a dream also represents deceit, betrayal, energy, or stubbornness, though he also could represent blessings and gratitude.
- Gems of the eyes:
(Children)
- weeping
- Cleaning:
(Cleaning; Sanitation) Sweeping the floor, or caring for the floor matt or carpet in a dream means to care for one’s community or family. Sweeping dirt or cleaning a floor in a dream means financial benefits for people who do that professionally. Sweeping someone else’s house in a dream means receiving money from him.
If a rich person sees himself sweeping a floor in a dream, it means poverty, or loss of a business.
- Sweeping the floor:
(Cleaning; Sanitation) Sweeping the floor, or caring for the floor matt or carpet in a dream means to care for one’s community or family. Sweeping dirt or cleaning a floor in a dream means financial benefits for people who do that professionally. Sweeping someone else’s house in a dream means receiving money from him.
If a rich person sees himself sweeping a floor in a dream, it means poverty, or loss of a business.
- Broom:
(Boy; Employee) A broom in a dream represents one’s family or household. Seeing it in a dream does not indicate a favorable sign. A broom in a dream also represents an employee, a housekeeper, or a servant.
Sweeping the floors of one’s house with a broom in a dream means becoming poor, or it could mean the death of a sick person in that house, or the distribution of one’s property and possessions after his death. Sweeping a floor and collecting the trash in a dustpan in a dream means profiting from a project. A broom in a dream also may mean recovering from depression, overcoming difficulties, or satisfying one’s debts.
- Cleaning:
- watching
- Concern:
- Conscious:
- Cupola:
(Cupola; Minaret; Observatory) In a dream, a watchtower repre¬ sents a notable person. Seeing a watchtower from a distance in a dream means victory over one’s adversary, attainment of one’s goals, rising in rank, or it could mean happiness. If a merchant sees a watchtower in a dream, it means prosperity, presiding over his fellow merchants and gaining power.
Building a watchtower in a dream has the same interpretation as building an edifice or a house.
- viewing
- 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.
- Officer:
(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.
- Inspection of troops:
- kids
- Gems of the eyes:
(Children)
- Little boy:
(Little boy) In a dream, a child carried in one’s arms means responsibility, distress and difficulties. A teenage child represents glad tidings or dispelling one’s worries. If one sees a beautiful looking teenage child entering a town or descending from the skies or appearing from beneath the ground in a dream, it means that the glad tidings will take effect shortly.
Seeing a mature child in a dream means power and superiority. If one sees himself as a child learning in school in a dream, it means that he will repent of a common sin he is used to commit. If one sees one of the renowned people of knowledge sitting in a kindergarten and learning along with other children in a dream, it means that he will shift to ignorance, lose his rank, or that financial changes will affect his living conditions.
If one sees himself receiving instructions like a child in a dream, it means that he will receive an inheritance from his mother. If one sees himself as a newborn child in a dream, it means that he will become wealthy and prosper. If a young boy sees himself in a dream as a child, it has a negative meaning.
If a sick person sees himself as a child in a dream, it means his death. If one sees himself as a child being reprimanded in a dream, it means that he will be conquered. In a dream, if one looks in a mirror and sees his face to be that of a child, and if his wife is pregnant, it means that she will beget a son who will look like his father.
Carrying a baby child in a dream means distress and burdens. A child in a dream represents a weak enemy who sometime shows friendliness and at other times demonstrates his enmity. If one sees that his wife has just delivered children who are playing around him in a dream, it means distress or misfortune and the consequences could be either good or bad.
Carrying a child in a dream means managing an inheritance or a financial investment. If an elderly person sees himself roaming as a little child in a dream, it means that he will commit an act of ignorance or lose his dignity, ideals or sense of honor. On the other hand, if such an elderly person who sees himself in a dream as a little child is suffering from depression or financial difficulties or health problems, then it means relief from distress and good health and that he will become free from his sins, like the day his mother gave birth to him.
If one sees that he has a little child who disdains from coming near his father in the dream, it means financial promotion and enjoyment of one’s life. If one sees a little child screaming in his lap in a dream, it means that he plays a string instrument. Children in a dream also could mean either sorrow and pain or happiness and joy.
If they are one’s own children in the dream, then they mean temptation with money. Children in a dream also could mean contentment with little or loss of one’s means to earn his livelihood or they could mean money or marriage or a flourishing business. Bereavement of a child in a dream means the opposite in real life.
It also means rejoicing, reunions, pleasures and earning respect. Bereavement of a child in a dream is sometimes interpreted to portray an intention of one’s children or wife to separate from the family. A little male child in a dream represents worries, responsibilities, hard work, catering to ignorant people or dealing with trivial and time wasting people.
If a prisoner sees himself carrying a little girl in his dream, it means that he will be released from his prison. If one who is going through hard times sees himself holding a little girl in a dream, it means that his adversities will be lifted. If he is poor, it means that he will thrive for success and the little girl then represents his glad tidings.
- Pubescence:
- Gems of the eyes:
- sobbing
- Mourning the dead:
(Mourning; Wailing; Yowling) Lamenting and desiring something in a dream connotes evil. Lamentation in a dream also represents a preacher or it could represent a putrid odor that comes from opening the door of a filthy lavatory. Lamentation in a dream also represents dogs’yowling, drum beating, the ringing sound of cymbals, or it could mean a wedding.
Sitting in a place where people are lamenting and mourning their dead in a dream means that an ominous evil may take place in that locality, or perhaps it could mean separation between families and friends. If one sees himself mourning a deceased person in a dream, it means that harm will come to him from the descendents or family of the departed person. Lamenting with great pain and sorrow and mourning over a deceased person in a dream also means waking up to a great joy and happiness.
Lamenting in a dream also means adversities which are driven by the person who is lamenting. It also means going astray, or it could denote a flute, as the flute denotes lamenting in a dream. Lamenting in a dream also represents the work of ignorance.
- Wailing:
(Mourning; Wailing; Yowling) Lamenting and desiring something in a dream connotes evil. Lamentation in a dream also represents a preacher or it could represent a putrid odor that comes from opening the door of a filthy lavatory. Lamentation in a dream also represents dogs’yowling, drum beating, the ringing sound of cymbals, or it could mean a wedding.
Sitting in a place where people are lamenting and mourning their dead in a dream means that an ominous evil may take place in that locality, or perhaps it could mean separation between families and friends. If one sees himself mourning a deceased person in a dream, it means that harm will come to him from the descendents or family of the departed person. Lamenting with great pain and sorrow and mourning over a deceased person in a dream also means waking up to a great joy and happiness.
Lamenting in a dream also means adversities which are driven by the person who is lamenting. It also means going astray, or it could denote a flute, as the flute denotes lamenting in a dream. Lamenting in a dream also represents the work of ignorance.
- Yowling:
- Mourning the dead:
Practical Steps for Understanding Your Dream
- Reflect on Your Current Emotional State
Take some time to sit quietly and think about what emotions have been prominent in your life recently. Are you feeling overwhelmed, nostalgic, or perhaps a bit lost? Journaling about your feelings can be helpful in connecting your waking life with the imagery seen in your dreams.
Consider how the innocence and joy of children relate to your current state. Are there aspects of your life where you wish you could feel that same lightness? Understanding your emotions can help guide you towards healing.
- Reconnect with Joyful Memories
Since the dream involves children playing, it may be beneficial to recall your own childhood experiences that brought you joy. Perhaps there are activities or hobbies you enjoyed as a child that you have not engaged with recently. Making time for playful activities—such as drawing, playing games, or spending time in nature—can help you rejuvenate your spirit.
This reconnection with joyful memories can provide clarity on the sorrow reflected in your dream and help balance your emotional state.
- Seek Guidance from Trusted Sources
Consider discussing your dream with someone you trust—a friend, family member, or even a spiritual guide. They may provide insights that help you see things from a different perspective. Sometimes, sharing your thoughts aloud can reveal patterns or emotions that you might not have recognized alone.
Engaging with others can help illuminate your feelings and provide comfort.
- Practice Mindfulness and Meditative Techniques
Incorporating mindfulness practices into your daily routine can help you process emotions that may surface from your dreams. Breathwork, meditation, or even simple grounding exercises can assist in calming your mind and allowing deeper emotional exploration. By regularly checking in with yourself and practicing being present, you can better handle the emotional weight that such dreams may bring and promote overall well-being.
- Study the Symbolism of Children
Delve into the meaning of children in dreams, as they often symbolize new beginnings, hope, and innocence. Understanding the broader context of the dream can aid in clarifying its significance in your life. Look for connections between your current life circumstances and the roles that children play within your dream narrative.
This exploration can help you uncover themes of growth, unresolved issues, or even aspirations for nurturing aspects of yourself or others.
FAQs
- What does it mean to cry while watching children play in a dream?
This dream can symbolize a mix of emotions. Crying often represents emotional release, while watching children indicates innocence or joy. Together, they may reveal feelings of longing for simpler, happier times or an acknowledgment of current emotional struggles.
- Are crying dreams common?
Yes, crying dreams are quite common and can happen for various reasons. They often occur during periods of stress or when one is feeling overwhelmed. Such dreams may serve as a reminder to address unresolved feelings in waking life.
- How can I interpret my own dreams better?
To interpret your dreams, consider keeping a dream journal to note your feelings, symbols, and recurring themes. Reflecting on these can provide insights into your emotional landscape and help you draw connections between your dreams and waking life.
- What should I do if my dreams cause me distress?
If your dreams leave you feeling distressed, consider speaking with a mental health professional who can help you understand and navigate these emotions. It's also beneficial to engage in grounding techniques and find supportive expressions of your feelings.
- Do dreams like crying while watching children play have any spiritual significance?
In many cultures, dreams are seen as a reflection of the soul's needs. Crying while witnessing joy can symbolize a call to address unfulfilled aspects of your life or internal conflicts. Engaging with your spiritual side may help you find clarity and peace.
