The Symbolism of Curtains in Dreams: Barriers to Communication

Dreaming of curtains can often hold significant meaning in our waking lives. They are not merely decorative elements; they can symbolize barriers, whether emotional or communicative. In many instances, closed curtains in dreams may reflect feelings of isolation, misunderstandings, or an unwillingness to connect with others.

The act of viewing a scene through curtains can signify a longing for clarity about our interactions. This feeling could stem from recent experiences, such as a misunderstanding with a friend or family member, leading to subconscious fears manifested in the dream state. Understanding these dreams requires insight into our emotional states and relationships, guiding us toward healthier communication.

By exploring the various interpretations of curtains within a dream context, we can uncover deeper truths about our personal connections and how we navigate our social environments.

• Curtains in dreams often symbolize barriers in communication.
• They can represent feelings of isolation or the need for privacy.
• Different variations of dreaming about curtains can reflect emotional states.

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.

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  • 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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  • Infertile:

    (Infertile; Sterile) Impotence in a dream means protection from sin, asceticism, abstinence and renouncing the pleasures of this world. If one sees himself castrated in a dream, it means that he will gain power and fame. If one marries a woman and finds himself incapable of performing sexual intercourse Z'ZZ XA J1X kVAJXJiKiA V with her in a dream, it means that he will engage in a commerce without a capital.

  • Sterile:

    (Infertile; Sterile) Impotence in a dream means protection from sin, asceticism, abstinence and renouncing the pleasures of this world. If one sees himself castrated in a dream, it means that he will gain power and fame. If one marries a woman and finds himself incapable of performing sexual intercourse Z'ZZ XA J1X kVAJXJiKiA V with her in a dream, it means that he will engage in a commerce without a capital.

  • Encroachment:

    (Encroachment; Transgression) To infringe upon someone’s rights, or to slander him, or to insult him in a dream means losing to him, unless if there is a legitimate reason, or a legal point for trespassing. If someone infringes upon your rights in any way in a dream, it means that your ultimate victory over him is sure. Infringement in a dream also means prosperity and success in this world, though the end results may not be as positive as the beginning.

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  • Carrying weight:

    (Burdens; Forbearance; Porter; Serving others)

  • Fencer:

    (Controversy; Fence; Politicking) Seeing a fence builder in a dream means moving forward, fulfilling one’s goals, or he could represent a salesman of specialty outfits.

  • Door lintel:
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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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  • Affinity:
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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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  • Obtrusive person:

    (Demanding person; Ignorant person; Obstinate) It is common among the people of knowledge to describe an obtrusive person as a stone.

  • Obstinacy:

    (Obtrusive; Stubbornness) Obstinacy in a dream means witnessing or committing evil in wakefulness. To be obstinate, demanding and persistent in a dream also means running away from something, or turning one’s back to a fight, a dispute, an argument or a business. Obstinacy in a dream also may denote a presumptuous and an arrogant person who is disliked by people.

    Being obtrusive and obstinate in a dream also may mean being exasperated or annoyed about something, or that people dislike to be in his company and have serious reser¬ vations about him.

  • Carrying weight:

    (Burdens; Forbearance; Porter; Serving others)

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  • Explosion:

    Man’s agitation or explosion toward inanimate objects in a dream means either business losses, or seizing of one’s property by the authority. Agitation in a dream also means a calamity of an unknown disease or a worrisome illness.

  • Interlacing:

    Interlocking one’s hands: (Intertwine) In a dream, interlocking one’s hands means a partnership, a contract, marriage, stagnation, stillness of business, 226 1D1N OXLiHiiVIi-N O delinquency in one’s prayers, negligence of one’s duties, difficulties with one’s family, or a meeting that purports evil.

  • Affiliation:

    (Affiliation; Alliance; Business association) In a dream, business partnership means happiness, or it could mean exaggeration in one’s devotion toward God Almighty, or it could mean going to extremes to attain business success and prosperity in the world. If a poor person sees himself involved in a business partnership with a rich person in a dream, it means that he will become wealthy. If he is hoping for an inheritance, then seeing this dream means that it will come through, and that he will find a business partner.

    If one sees himself in a business partnership with a known person in a dream, it means that they deal justly and equitably with one another. If one’s partner in the dream is an unknown old person, then he represents his grandfather and such a year will be a prosperous business year for him. If one’s partner in the dream is a young man, then he represents an enemy, or it could mean that his opponent will be fair in dealing with him, though the person in the dream will remain suspicious but cannot legally dissolve his partnership.

    Partnership in a dream also means sincerity, loyalty, truthfulness and fulfilling one’s agreement.

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Practical Insights for Interpreting Curtain Dreams

• Reflect on Your Current Relationships

  Begin by considering your current relationships and emotional states. Are there individuals with whom you feel distant or misunderstood? Imagine how the curtains in your dream could symbolize the barriers you perceive between you and them.

  Engage in honest communication with those affected; expressing your feelings may help lift the metaphorical curtains and foster deeper connections. Acknowledging these sentiments can alleviate the weight of isolation, promoting honesty and openness. Journaling about your relationships can also clarify which connections need attention and care.

  This awareness can guide your words and actions once you’re awake, encouraging you to dismantle barriers actively, rather than leaving them in place.

• Create a Comfortable Communication Space

  Designate a space in your home, free from distractions, where you can converse openly with loved ones. Often, physical barriers can reinforce emotional ones. By drawing back actual curtains or designing a comfortable environment for dialogue, you symbolize the willingness to open up.

  Make it inviting: consider soft lighting, comfortable seating, and a peaceful atmosphere where everyone feels safe sharing their thoughts and feelings. Approach conversations with kindness, fostering an environment that encourages openness. This approach allows you to gradually break down communication barriers mirrored in your dreams, cultivating deeper relationships in both your waking life and subconscious.

• Seek Guidance Through Meditation

  Meditation can help illuminate unconscious fears and emotional barriers reflected in your dreams. Taking time daily to sit quietly and reflect on your feelings allows you to unearth any hidden worries causing you to dream about barriers like curtains. As you meditate, focus on the idea of curtains—what they represent in your life.

  Visualize drawing them away, revealing bright light and welcoming spaces. This visualization can reinforce your intent to foster openness and understanding. Regular meditation will strengthen your insight into your relationships while creating a clearer path to communication, not just for yourself but for those around you.

FAQs

• What does it mean if I dream about closed curtains?

  Dreaming of closed curtains typically signifies barriers in communication. It may suggest that there are feelings of isolation, misunderstandings, or secrets in your relationships. It invites you to reflect on what might be hindering open dialogue with those around you.

• Can curtains in dreams represent something positive?

  Yes, curtains can sometimes symbolize protection and privacy, indicating a need for solitude or personal reflection. They can serve as reminders to create safe spaces for contemplation while also suggesting that not every communication needs to be open at all times.

• What if I see myself opening curtains in a dream?

  Opening curtains in dreams often symbolizes a desire for clarity and understanding in your relationships. It indicates readiness to confront issues with honesty and to enhance communication, allowing light to enter, which represents enlightenment and truth.

• How can I interpret a dream with colorful curtains?

  Colorful curtains can suggest various emotional states and aspects of your personality. Bright colors may indicate enthusiasm and openness, while darker tones could reflect uncertainties or hidden emotions. Interpret the colors based on your feelings toward them in the dream.

• Do curtains in dreams reflect my interactions with others?

  Absolutely. Curtains often mirror how you perceive your interactions with those around you. They can represent the feelings that you hold towards certain relationships, including fears of vulnerability or the desire for connection, making them vital in understanding your emotional landscape.

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