Understanding the Symbolism of Curtains in Dreams
Dreams can often hold mysterious meanings, reflecting our innermost thoughts, feelings, and experiences. One particularly intriguing symbol in our dreams is that of curtains, especially when they are draped over a figure. These dreams can evoke feelings of concealment, privacy, and the complexity of human emotions.
This dream may lead us to consider what aspects of ourselves we are hiding or which secrets we are shielding from the view of others. The curtains may also represent barriers we have set up either consciously or subconsciously in our lives. By exploring the context and emotions tied to a dream featuring curtains draped over a figure, we can gain deeper insights into our personal journey and the factors influencing our interactions with others.
Understanding the spiritual and emotional symbolism behind such imagery can illuminate paths for personal growth and healing.
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- Curtains in dreams may symbolize concealment or a barrier in personal life.
- A figure draped in curtains can represent hidden emotions or secrets.
- Considering personal context is vital for accurate interpretation of such dreams.
Symbols
- blinds
- Spy glass:
(Spy glass; Telescope) In a dream, binoculars represents a notable person or the person who is looking through them. Looking with binoculars from a distance in a dream means victory over one’s adversary, attainment of one’s goals, rising in rank, spying, or happiness. If a merchant looks through binoculars in a dream, it means sovereignty, prosperity, presiding over his fellow merchants and gaining power.
Bird’s nest:
- Telescope:
(Spy glass; Telescope) In a dream, binoculars represents a notable person or the person who is looking through them. Looking with binoculars from a distance in a dream means victory over one’s adversary, attainment of one’s goals, rising in rank, spying, or happiness. If a merchant looks through binoculars in a dream, it means sovereignty, prosperity, presiding over his fellow merchants and gaining power.
Bird’s nest:
- Askance:
Eyes in a dream represent one’s religion or wealth. If one sees grass growing all over him but does not cover his ears or eyes in a dream, it means prosperity. One’s eyes in a dream also represent his faith and the road to victory in this life and in the next.
One’s eyes in a dream also could represent his guidance or his heedlessness. Having many eyes throughout one’s body in a dream represents one’s piety, vigilance and excellence of character. If one sees the eyes of his heart in a dream, it means that he sees with the light of clarity.
If one sees a man looking at him with a side glance in a dream, it means that he will suffer from an adversity, mistrust, disapproval, suspicion and disdain at the hand of such a man. If such a man opens his eyes and looks at him straight forward in the dream, it means that he will help him in his business or support his interests. If one’s eyes turn into iron in a dream, it means distress, a scandal or serious suffering from one’s community.
If one sees himself looking at women in his dream, it means that he commits adultery with his eyes by looking and desiring what is unlawful. If one looks at someone’s eyes in a dream and likes them, it means that he will suffer from an adversity, religious corruption or jealousy. If one sees himself having an extra eye inside his body in a dream, it means that he is an atheist.
If one sees himself having an extra eye over his shoulder in a dream, it means that he will be named to receive money in absentia. If one sees his eyes transfixed in a dream, it means that he looks suspiciously at a relative or someone else’s wife. Black eyes in a dream represent a religious person.
A bluish-black eyes in a dream denote opposing one’s religion. Blue eyes in a dream mean religious innovations. Green eyes in a dream mean a religion which is different from all religions.
Sharp sight in a dream means blessings, while weak sight means joblessness and living from the generosity of others. If a father sees weakness in his sight in a dream, it means that a sickness will inflict his children. If one loses his eyes in a dream, it means the death of his children.
If a poor person or a prisoner sees that in a dream, it means that he will never become free again, or see any light for the rest of his life. If an oppressed person sees weakness in his eyes in a dream, it means that someone will help him overcome his adversities. If a traveller sees that dream, it means that he will DICTIONARY OF DREAMS 149 never return to his homeland.
If one sees that his eyes belong to an unknown person in a dream, it means that he will become blind. If he recognizes that person in the dream, it means that he will be married to his daughter. If one’s eyes fall into his lap in a dream, it means the death of his brother or son.
The eyes of a human being in a dream also represent his beloved, his son or his faith. Any defect in them in the dream may reflect in such people. Having one hundred eyes in a dream means money.
The eyes of a ruler represent his spies. Eyes in a dream also represent a controller, a man or a spring. Treating one’s eyes with medicinal ointment in a dream means correcting one’s religious life or begetting a son who will become the jewel light of his father’s eyes or if one’s brother is exiled or deported from his homeland, it means that he will solicit him and entrust him with duties toward his family.
If one sees his sight better than what people think in the dream, it means that his inner character is better than what people think, or if he sees his sight weakened though people do not know about it in the dream, it means that he keeps his faith to himself. If one’s eyes become white in a dream, they represent sorrow, or loss of a beloved. If one sees his eyes white, and if the white veil is lifted in the dream, it means that he will be reunited with his beloved and his distress will be dispelled.
The right eye in a dream represents one’s son and the left eye represents one’s daughter. If a father sees one of his eyes being transposed to mix with the other eye in a dream, and if he has a son and a daughter, he should separate their bedrooms. Eating someone’s eye in a dream means steeling his money.
Seeing one’s eyes without eyelashes in a dream means defying God’s laws. If one unplugs his eyelashes in a dream, it means that he will expose himself to his enemy. Seeing beautiful eyes in a dream could denote, sorcery, black magic, life or death.
Eyes in a dream also represent one’s family, relatives, children or workers. Eyes in a dream also signify mourning someone or they could denote a sickness. Smearing one’s eyes in a dream means calamities, sufferings and punishment for one’s sins.
To guard one’s eyes from looking at what is unlawful in a dream means heeding God’s commands.
- Spy glass:
- figure
- Frame of a person:
(Build; Contour; Frame; Profile) Having a tall figure in a dream signifies pride, arrogance, stinginess, ostentatiousness or pretending to be tall. . If one sees his figure shorter than his normal size in a dream, then it denotes losing respect or nearing the end of one’s life.
Seeing oneself beyond the common human size in a dream also denotes the near end of one’s life, or it could mean falling in rank. If someone in authority sees himself shorter in size in a dream, it means that he will lose his post, or fail to render a just verdict, or it could mean a political fight. Being smaller than usual in a dream means 158 lUii uujjim t u defeat in a war or losing a fight.
If a politician sees himself tall in a dream, it means that he will win his political battle. (Also see Body')
- Contour of a person:
(Build; Contour; Frame; Profile) Having a tall figure in a dream signifies pride, arrogance, stinginess, ostentatiousness or pretending to be tall. . If one sees his figure shorter than his normal size in a dream, then it denotes losing respect or nearing the end of one’s life.
Seeing oneself beyond the common human size in a dream also denotes the near end of one’s life, or it could mean falling in rank. If someone in authority sees himself shorter in size in a dream, it means that he will lose his post, or fail to render a just verdict, or it could mean a political fight. Being smaller than usual in a dream means 158 lUii uujjim t u defeat in a war or losing a fight.
If a politician sees himself tall in a dream, it means that he will win his political battle. (Also see Body')
- Profile of a person:
(Build; Contour; Frame; Profile) Having a tall figure in a dream signifies pride, arrogance, stinginess, ostentatiousness or pretending to be tall. . If one sees his figure shorter than his normal size in a dream, then it denotes losing respect or nearing the end of one’s life.
Seeing oneself beyond the common human size in a dream also denotes the near end of one’s life, or it could mean falling in rank. If someone in authority sees himself shorter in size in a dream, it means that he will lose his post, or fail to render a just verdict, or it could mean a political fight. Being smaller than usual in a dream means 158 lUii uujjim t u defeat in a war or losing a fight.
If a politician sees himself tall in a dream, it means that he will win his political battle. (Also see Body')
- Frame of a person:
- drapes
- Drapes:
(Cover; Happiness; Fears; Veil) In a dream, drapes means veiling one’s private life. Drapes in a dream also represent a confidant or a trustworthy friend or a wife who covers the pitfalls of her husband, protects his business and guards him from looking at other women. If a man of knowledge sees such a dream, then drapes represent his integrity, his honorable wife and children.
Unidentified drapes in a dream represent worries or distress. If the drapes are hanging over one’s front door in the dream, it means that such difficulties will come from the world. Old drapes in a dream represent adversities which will not last.
Torn drapes in a dream mean happiness and joy. If they are torn vertically in the dream, they represent a quick joy. If they are torn horizontally in the dream, they mean slander against one’s family.
Black drapes in a dream mean worries because of money, a child, or the authorities. White or green drapes mean good results. Drapes hanging over the door of a mosque in a dream represent spiritual problems or religious failure.
Seeing drapes out of their place in a dream mean adversities, and seeing them hanging over one’s windows has no interpretation. In a dream, seeing drapes hanging over a strange environment means fears which will culminate in satisfaction. Drapes adorned with gold means hallu¬ cination or dispelling one’s worries.
If an unmarried person sees drapes in his dream, it means that he will get married and protect his chastity, or it could mean a business that will shelter him from poverty. If a fugitive or a scared person sees himself covered with drapes in a dream, it means a shelter from what scares him. Falling through a hole while hanging to a drape in a dream means taking a long, frustrating, toiling and a distant journey.
The bigger the drapes are in a dream, the more difficult is one’s adversity.
- Canopy 1:
(A canopy with drapes covering one’s bed; Mosquito net; Transparent hood) In a dream, the canopy that drapes over one’s bed represents a good woman or a well mannered man. In a dream, a canopy also may represent one’s wife, or it could mean affliction, grief, distress or darkness.
- Attire:
- Drapes:
- draped
- Drapes:
(Cover; Happiness; Fears; Veil) In a dream, drapes means veiling one’s private life. Drapes in a dream also represent a confidant or a trustworthy friend or a wife who covers the pitfalls of her husband, protects his business and guards him from looking at other women. If a man of knowledge sees such a dream, then drapes represent his integrity, his honorable wife and children.
Unidentified drapes in a dream represent worries or distress. If the drapes are hanging over one’s front door in the dream, it means that such difficulties will come from the world. Old drapes in a dream represent adversities which will not last.
Torn drapes in a dream mean happiness and joy. If they are torn vertically in the dream, they represent a quick joy. If they are torn horizontally in the dream, they mean slander against one’s family.
Black drapes in a dream mean worries because of money, a child, or the authorities. White or green drapes mean good results. Drapes hanging over the door of a mosque in a dream represent spiritual problems or religious failure.
Seeing drapes out of their place in a dream mean adversities, and seeing them hanging over one’s windows has no interpretation. In a dream, seeing drapes hanging over a strange environment means fears which will culminate in satisfaction. Drapes adorned with gold means hallu¬ cination or dispelling one’s worries.
If an unmarried person sees drapes in his dream, it means that he will get married and protect his chastity, or it could mean a business that will shelter him from poverty. If a fugitive or a scared person sees himself covered with drapes in a dream, it means a shelter from what scares him. Falling through a hole while hanging to a drape in a dream means taking a long, frustrating, toiling and a distant journey.
The bigger the drapes are in a dream, the more difficult is one’s adversity.
- Robe:
- Attire:
- Drapes:
- form
- Build:
- Outer:
(Manifest)
- Frame of a person:
(Build; Contour; Frame; Profile) Having a tall figure in a dream signifies pride, arrogance, stinginess, ostentatiousness or pretending to be tall. . If one sees his figure shorter than his normal size in a dream, then it denotes losing respect or nearing the end of one’s life.
Seeing oneself beyond the common human size in a dream also denotes the near end of one’s life, or it could mean falling in rank. If someone in authority sees himself shorter in size in a dream, it means that he will lose his post, or fail to render a just verdict, or it could mean a political fight. Being smaller than usual in a dream means 158 lUii uujjim t u defeat in a war or losing a fight.
If a politician sees himself tall in a dream, it means that he will win his political battle. (Also see Body')
- shape
- Manifestation:
(Emergence; Manifestation; Visibility) In a dream, if one sees something that is kept away from him as a secret, it means experiencing comfort after suffering from trials, receiving compensation after suffering from injus¬ tice, conceiving a child after having given up hope or the like examples. A revealed secret on time in a dream means fulfillment of a promise, satisfying one’s needs, repayment of one’s debts, arriving of a long awaited person from a journey, release of a prisoner from his jail, and for a woman, it could mean becoming pregnant. If something emerges at the wrong time in a dream, it means debts.
- Emergence:
(Emergence; Manifestation; Visibility) In a dream, if one sees something that is kept away from him as a secret, it means experiencing comfort after suffering from trials, receiving compensation after suffering from injus¬ tice, conceiving a child after having given up hope or the like examples. A revealed secret on time in a dream means fulfillment of a promise, satisfying one’s needs, repayment of one’s debts, arriving of a long awaited person from a journey, release of a prisoner from his jail, and for a woman, it could mean becoming pregnant. If something emerges at the wrong time in a dream, it means debts.
- Tall person:
- Manifestation:
- covered
- Capote:
- Scarf:
(Headdress; Scarf) If a religious Muslim woman sees herself without a head cover in a dream, it means that her husband has left her with the intention not to return to her again. If she is not married, it means that she may never marry.
- Headdress:
- curtains
- Philander:
(Flirting; Love poems; Philander) Courting a woman or singing love songs to her or displaying amorous behavior for her in public in a dream represents someone who divulges people’s secrets.
- Armistice:
(Armistice; Cease fire; Cessation) Negotiating a truce, or witnessing one between two armies in a dream means cessation of fear, relaxing, recovering of a sick person from his illness, caring for the wounded, extending the chances of one’s survival, profits, business, marriage, rebuilding, doing good, or perform¬ ing one’s prayers. 4DU id's oniiiin.ii's o
- Cease fire:
(Armistice; Cease fire; Cessation) Negotiating a truce, or witnessing one between two armies in a dream means cessation of fear, relaxing, recovering of a sick person from his illness, caring for the wounded, extending the chances of one’s survival, profits, business, marriage, rebuilding, doing good, or perform¬ ing one’s prayers. 4DU id's oniiiin.ii's o
- Philander:
- hung
- Spread 3:
(Spread; Unfold) To hang a garment in the sun to dry in a dream may indicate that someone will shortly arrive from a long journey.
- Unfold:
(Spread; Unfold) To hang a garment in the sun to dry in a dream may indicate that someone will shortly arrive from a long journey.
- Hanging loosely:
If one sees himself hanging down loosely from a high place in a dream, it means that he will turn pious and for the sake of his faith, he will give preference to his life in the hereafter over that of this world. One’s fall in the dream connotes despair or disappointment. Hanging loosely to reach a lion, a serpent, a scorpion, or the like creatures in a dream means hanging around with evil companions, soliciting marriage from a corrupt family, or seeking the friendship of the wrong people.
Hanging loosely to reach some cattle or a herd of sheep in a dream means delivering charities or spending money in a good way.
- Spread 3:
Practical Insights for Understanding Your Dream
- Reflect on Your Current Life Situation
Take a moment to reflect on the current events in your life. What issues are you facing that may relate to feelings of concealment or hiding? Understanding your current emotional state can offer clues to why such imagery appeared in your dream.
Consider whether you are keeping parts of yourself hidden from others or feeling pressured to maintain a façade. Journaling these thoughts can be a beneficial practice. Write freely about your feelings and situations; often, this can lead to discoveries about what the curtains in your dream truly symbolize and how they connect to your waking life.
- Explore Your Relationships
Your relationships might reveal important insights about the hidden aspects represented by the curtains. Are there secrets or unspoken feelings among friends, family, or within a romantic partnership? Engage in open communication where possible, as this can help diminish the barriers you feel in your relationships.
Understanding how others perceive you might illuminate insights into your own fears or reservations. Participating in discussions about boundaries is crucial, as it strengthens trust and connection while lessening feelings of being hidden behind curtains in your interpersonal dynamics.
- Meditate on the Symbolism of Curtains
Meditation can be a powerful tool for understanding the deeper emotions tied to your dream. Find a quiet space and focus on the symbol of curtains. What do they mean to you?
Visualize the curtains and the figure beneath them; ask yourself questions about what you wish to peel back the layers of. Silently reflecting on the emotions that arise during this process can help you connect with the spiritual meaning behind this dream. The symbolism may be linked to personal insecurities, aspirations, or desires that you haven't fully confronted yet.
- Seek Wisdom from Trusted Sources
If the dream continues to resonate with you, consider discussing it with individuals you trust, such as wise friends or spiritual advisors. Their insights may match your feelings and offer potential interpretations you had not considered. Visit books or resources that focus on personal development and dream analysis, particularly those that resonate with you spiritually.
This collective reflection can be valuable for drawing understanding from shared experiences and finding clarity regarding the representation of the figure and curtains within your dream world.
- Consider Keeping a Dream Journal
Keeping a dream journal can serve as a powerful tool to track recurring themes or symbols in your dreams, like curtains. Write down your dreams as soon as you wake up, noting emotions and any significant events surrounding the dream. Over time, you might uncover patterns related to your subconscious fears or hopes; thus, understanding the meaning of dreams involving curtains can be aided greatly by the accumulated insights from consistent recording of your dreams.
FAQs
- What does it mean to dream of curtains draped over a figure?
Dreaming of curtains draped over a figure often symbolizes hidden aspects of oneself or feelings of concealment. This figure might represent a part of you that you feel ought to be shielded from others, indicating personal barriers or secrets. It's essential to consider the context of the dream and your current life circumstances to interpret its meaning fully.
- Are dreams of curtains common?
Yes, dreams involving curtains are relatively common, especially for those experiencing significant transitions or emotional turmoil. Curtains in dreams frequently symbolize privacy, boundaries, and even protection. As dreams reflect our subconscious thoughts, they often reveal our fears, desires, or social anxieties regarding exposure.
- How can I improve my dream recall?
To improve your dream recall, consider establishing a nightly routine where you reflect on your dreams as soon as you wake. Keep a dream journal by your bedside to jot down dreams before rising for the day. This practice trains your mind to be more attuned to your dreams and encourages you to pay closer attention to their themes and symbols.
- Do curtains have a specific meaning in Islamic dream interpretation?
In Islamic dream interpretation, curtains are often seen as symbols of privacy, boundaries, and modesty. They can represent a person's respect for personal space and their need to shield themselves from the eyes of others. When interpreting dreams with curtains, it’s also advised to consider the respected scholar’s teachings and reflect on one's intentions and current life situations.
- Should I be concerned if I frequently dream of curtains?
Frequent dreams about curtains may signal that your subconscious is urging you to address issues of privacy or concealment in your life. It may be beneficial to reflect deeply on your feelings, relationships, and current circumstances. While it is not necessarily a cause for concern, it can be an invitation for introspection and personal growth.
