Delving into Dreams: The Choice of Curtains

Dreams often serve as windows into our subconscious, reflecting our innermost thoughts, emotions, and choices. One particularly intriguing dream scenario is that of picking out curtains in a store. In this dream, the act of selecting curtains can underscore our desires to define or redefine the environments we inhabit, both in the physical and metaphorical sense.

Curtains have long been symbolic of what we choose to reveal or conceal, much like our own personalities. When dreaming of curtains, one may subconsciously explore themes of choice, aesthetics, and transformation within their life. The colors and patterns of the fabrics can also reveal deeper emotional states or aspirations.

As you envision yourself navigating the myriad options in a store, consider what aspects of life you wish to accentuate or hide away. In essence, this dream can serve as a reflection of your personal journeys and the emotions tied to your backgrounds, values, and relationships.

• Dreaming of picking curtains can symbolize personal choices and emotional decisions.
• Curtains may represent perspectives or barriers in one’s life.
• The color and design of the curtains in the dream can reveal underlying feelings.
• Shopping for curtains suggests a desire for change or new beginnings.
• These dreams may reflect how one wishes to unveil or conceal aspects of themselves.

Symbols

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  • 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.

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  • 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:
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  • Amenities:
  • Extravagance:

    (Amenity; Extravagance) Luxuries salesman in a dream means enriching oneself at people’s expense. Luxuries shop owner in a dream means enslaving others, or he could represent a cattle merchant, or celebrating happy or sad anniversaries.

  • Supermarket:

    Going to the marketplace in a dream means seeking knowledge, or looking for work. A marketplace in a dream also represents a mosque, or winning a war. In fact, the merchants and the customers bargain with one another, some win and some lose.

    If a knowledge seeking student sees himself in a marketplace that he does not recognize, then if he walks away from it in the dream, it means that he will cease schooling or interrupt his studies and fail to acquire his degree, or it could mean that he has missed his Friday congregational prayers. It also could mean that the knowledge he is seeking is not intended to please God Almighty. If one sees himself shoplifting in a dream, it means that he steals, or holds contempt and conceit in his heart, or if he is a man of knowledge, it means that he will foster falsehood or become affected.

    If one sees a common marketplace on fire, or filled with people, or with a stream of fresh water running in the middle of it, or if it is fragrant with perfumes in the dream, then it represents good business for everyone and increase in their profits, though hypocrisy will later on spread among the people. Otherwise, if one finds the shops closed, the merchants drowsing and spiders webs spreading in every corner and covering the merchandise in the dream, it means stagnation of business or suffering major losses. Seeing the marketplace in a dream is also interpreted to represent the world.

    Whatever affects it will show in people’s lives, in their mosques, churches, or temples including their profits, losses, clothing, recovering from illness, lies, stress, sorrows or adversities. If the market is quiet in the dream, then it represents the laziness of its salespeople.

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  • Book dealer:

    (Book dealer) In a dream, a bookseller represents someone who has vast knowledge or someone who gathers amazing stories. Seeing a bookseller in a dream also could mean overcoming one’s trouble, solving one’s problems, marriage, or the repentance of a sinner.

  • Ragman:

    (Ragman) In a dream, a junk dealer represents a hoax, a liar, a fortuneteller, or a superstition and fable teller. A junk dealer in a dream also represents one who sells fake jewelry.

  • Merchandise:
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  • 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

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  • Trusting someone:

    (Mortgage; Security; Trust) Depositing something with someone in a dream means trusting him with a secret. Entrusting something to a deceased person in a dream means entrusting someone who can keep a secret, or it could mean that he will entrust someone with an object or money that will be lost, or DICTIONARY OF DREAMS _ 1TJ it could mean confiding to someone who cannot be trusted. Entrusting one’s wife with something in a dream means conceivings child.

    If she gives him back what he gave her in the dream, it means that her pregnancy will not reach fruition.

  • Trust:

    (Mortgage; Security; Trust) Depositing something with someone in a dream means trusting him with a secret. Entrusting something to a deceased person in a dream means entrusting someone who can keep a secret, or it could mean that he will entrust someone with an object or money that will be lost, or DICTIONARY OF DREAMS _ 1TJ it could mean confiding to someone who cannot be trusted. Entrusting one’s wife with something in a dream means conceivings child.

    If she gives him back what he gave her in the dream, it means that her pregnancy will not reach fruition.

  • Selling:

    If one sees himself as a prisoner being sold in a slave market in a dream, it means honor if the buyer is a woman, and difficulties if the buyer is a man. The higher the price he is auctioned for, the better or worse is his luck. In a dream, the more loss the buyer incurs, the better it is for the traded subject and vice- versa.

    There is also a difference between seeing oneself being auctioned and being sold. Being auctioned in a dream means evil. To sell means to part with.

    In a dream, the buyer is the seller and the seller is a buyer. Selling means giving preference and value to the merchandise. If what is being sold is worldly, the preference is then given to one’s benefits in the hereafter.

    Selling in a dream also means exchanging one condition with another. However, bartering in a dream means to exchange the benefit of things, or to share them. If for example one sees himself in a dream trading something of no value for something precious, and if he is a warrior, it means that he will die as a martyr.

    Selling a free man in a dream means rotation of power and reaching a praiseworthy end. As it happened in the story of Joseph son of Jacob, upon both of them be peace.

Practical Insights for Dreaming of Curtains

• Reflect on Your Personal Choices

  Upon waking, take a moment to recall the types of curtains you were drawn to in your dream. Were they bright and inviting, or muted and reserved? This reflection can provide insight into your current state of mind regarding choices in your life.

  Ask yourself what decisions may be clouding your clarity or inspiring your creativity at this time. Journaling about the dream can also help articulate any underlying feelings and desires for change.

• Consider the Colors and Patterns

  Examine the colors of the curtains in your dream. Different colors can symbolize various moods and emotions; for instance, red may signify passion, while blue can represent tranquility. Recognizing these nuances can guide you toward understanding your emotional landscape.

  You might even want to bring these colors into your daily life or home decor to harmonize with the feelings they evoke.

• Explore Your Surroundings

  Think about what your home represents to you. Is it a sanctuary or a place of stress? Dreaming of selecting curtains could indicate a desire to enhance your living space, suggesting the importance of your surroundings in affecting your well-being.

  You may feel inspired to change aspects of your home, such as redecorating or decluttering, to better reflect who you are at this moment.

• Embrace Change

  The act of shopping for new curtains can embody a desire for change or renewal in your life. Embrace this potential for transformation with an open heart and mind. Take proactive steps towards the areas in your life that need a fresh perspective or an uplift.

  It could mean pursuing a new hobby, making new friends, or even tackling projects you've postponed. Consider the new beginnings that lie ahead as you make choices that genuinely resonate with your true self.

FAQs

• What does it mean to dream about choosing different colors of curtains?

  Choosing various colors of curtains in a dream may symbolize the emotional states you are currently experiencing or wish to express. Colors often resonate with certain feelings; for example, vibrant colors may represent joy and creativity, while darker hues might reflect sadness or anxiety. By recognizing the colors present in your dream, you can gain deeper insight into your current emotional landscape and what changes you might seek in your life.

• How do dreams about curtains relate to my personal life choices?

  Curtains in dreams often mirror the feelings of control and boundaries we establish in our lives. If you dream of selecting curtains, it might indicate that you're evaluating your personal choices or the aspects of your life that you wish to conceal or display. This could relate to relationships, career decisions, or personal goals, hinting that you desire to take more charge of the narrative in your life.

• Can the act of shopping in my dream indicate anything more profound?

  Absolutely! Dreaming of shopping, such as for curtains, frequently signifies exploration and discovery. This can reflect your search for new experiences, whether in your relationships, career, or self-identity. It symbolizes a quest to define what you truly want and need in your life, suggesting openness to new possibilities and the willingness to enhance your personal surroundings.

• Is there a cultural significance associated with curtains in dreams?

  Yes, in many cultures, curtains symbolize privacy, boundaries, and protection. They separate the public from the private, similar to how individuals manage their emotions and the facets of their identity they share with the world. When dreamers select curtains, it may indicate a reflection on how one presents themselves or how they protect their innermost thoughts and feelings.

• Are there negative interpretations of dreaming about curtains?

  While typically, dreaming of curtains has a more positive or neutral interpretation, there can be negative implications, depending on the context. For example, if the dream invokes feelings of anxiety or frustration while choosing curtains, it may suggest feelings of being overwhelmed by choices in your waking life or feelings of inadequacy in your surroundings. In such cases, exploring these feelings can lead to greater clarity and understanding.

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