The Veil of Fear: Understanding Dreams of Curtains and Monsters

Dreams of curtains hiding monsters can evoke unease, stirring feelings of fear, uncertainty, and trepidation. In many cultures, including within Islamic traditions, dreams hold profound meanings that connect us to our inner selves and spirituality. When curtains appear in our dreams, they often symbolize concealment, representing things we might be hiding from ourselves or others.

Monsters, on the other hand, typically embody fears or anxieties looming within our psyche. A dream where curtains conceal a monster suggests that there could be a troubling issue you are reluctant to face. This could be a fear of the unknown, an emotional struggle, or a hidden truth that demands attention.

In interpreting such dreams, one engages in a journey of self-reflection, seeking to uncover emotional truths cloaked in the allure of mystery. The hidden monster could be an opportunity for healing if recognized and understood.

• Curtains symbolize concealment and hidden emotions.
• Monsters often represent fears or anxieties we face in life.
• This dream may suggest an inner conflict or unresolved issue.
• It's essential to address what the monster represents in your life.
• Reflecting on personal fears can lead to healing and understanding.

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.

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  • Concealment:

    (Hiding) If one sees himself entering a house to hide in a dream, it means that he will receive condolences, or that he will beget a daughter. Concealment in a dream also means dependence on what one stands behind. If one hides behind a mountain in a dream, it means placing his trust in a revered or a religious person.

  • Protection:
  • Hide:
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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:
• secrecy
  • Concealing knowledge:
  • Keeping a secret:

    (Secretary) In a dream, hiding a secret means concealing knowledge from those who need it, or it could mean having good nature, or having good qualities.

  • Confiding:

    (Secret; Trust) If one sees someone confiding into someone else or telling him a secret in a dream, it means the death of the second person.

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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

• concealment
  • Hide:
  • Concealment:

    (Hiding) If one sees himself entering a house to hide in a dream, it means that he will receive condolences, or that he will beget a daughter. Concealment in a dream also means dependence on what one stands behind. If one hides behind a mountain in a dream, it means placing his trust in a revered or a religious person.

  • Protection:
• beast
  • Monster:

    (Monster; Wild beast) In a dream, a beast represents mountain people or people living in the wilderness, or an innovator who breaks from the community and introduces his own religious ideas.

  • Wild beast:

    (Monster; Wild beast) In a dream, a beast represents mountain people or people living in the wilderness, or an innovator who breaks from the community and introduces his own religious ideas.

  • Beast:

    (Monster; Wild beast) In a dream, a beast represents mountain people or people living in the wilderness, or an innovator who breaks from the community and introduces his own religious ideas.

• creature
  • Beast:

    (Monster; Wild beast) In a dream, a beast represents mountain people or people living in the wilderness, or an innovator who breaks from the community and introduces his own religious ideas.

  • Monster:

    (Monster; Wild beast) In a dream, a beast represents mountain people or people living in the wilderness, or an innovator who breaks from the community and introduces his own religious ideas.

  • Wild beast:

    (Monster; Wild beast) In a dream, a beast represents mountain people or people living in the wilderness, or an innovator who breaks from the community and introduces his own religious ideas.

• monster
  • Beast:

    (Monster; Wild beast) In a dream, a beast represents mountain people or people living in the wilderness, or an innovator who breaks from the community and introduces his own religious ideas.

  • Monster:

    (Monster; Wild beast) In a dream, a beast represents mountain people or people living in the wilderness, or an innovator who breaks from the community and introduces his own religious ideas.

  • Wild beast:

    (Monster; Wild beast) In a dream, a beast represents mountain people or people living in the wilderness, or an innovator who breaks from the community and introduces his own religious ideas.

Practical Steps to Address Dream Messages

• Self-Reflection

  Begin by taking a quiet moment to journaling your feelings after waking from the dream. Explore the emotions you felt when you saw the curtains and the monster—were they fear, anxiety, or even curiosity? Writing down your thoughts allows you to understand what the hidden monster may represent in your life.

  Are there unaddressed fears or traumatic memories lingering behind those curtains? Allowing yourself to feel and define these emotions is the first step towards understanding your inner world.

• Speak with Someone You Trust

  Sometimes, sharing your dreams can provide clarity. Discuss your dream with a trusted friend or family member who can offer a fresh perspective. Often, they may see aspects of the situation that you do not, helping to illuminate your inner fears.

  This community support is also a pillar of healing, reinforcing that our struggles do not have to be faced alone. Consider seeking professional help if your fears are prolonged, as mental health professionals can provide guided approaches to tackling these inner monsters.

• Confront Your Fears

  Whether it's tackling a project at work, addressing a difficult conversation, or overcoming personal doubts, actively confronting your fears in waking life can diminish their power. Plan small steps that enable you to take control of what the 'monster' in your dream represents. As you face these fears, visualize the curtains parting, revealing light instead of darkness.

  This empowering approach can transform an ominous dream into a motivating reminder of your strength.

• Mindfulness and Meditation

  Practicing mindfulness can cultivate awareness of your fears without judging them. Meditative exercises focusing on breathing can help you center yourself and confront fears head-on. Envision the curtains in your mind's eye, and through meditation, imagine pulling them aside and observing, rather than fearing, the monster.

  This practice helps normalize difficult emotions, revealing the importance of acceptance over avoidance.

• Seek Spiritual Guidance

  In many spiritual traditions, including Islam, dreams are seen as one form of communication from the divine. If you feel particularly troubled by the symbolism in your dreams, consult with someone knowledgeable in Islamic teachings, who can provide deeper insights into the spiritual implications of your situation. This path to understanding can illuminate the route towards healing, emphasizing that faith often helps in addressing our nightmares.

FAQs

• What do curtains symbolize in dreams?

  In dreams, curtains often symbolize concealment, secrets, or hidden emotions. They can represent aspects of your life or feelings that you are not ready to face or reveal to the world. Curtains can also reflect the boundaries you set around your feelings or experiences.

• Why do I dream of monsters?

  Monsters in dreams typically signify our fears, anxieties, or unresolved tensions. They may represent inner struggles or threats we perceive in our lives. The nature of the monster can reveal the kind of fears you need to confront, whether they are related to personal issues or external circumstances.

• What does it mean to have recurring dreams of curtains and monsters?

  Recurring dreams often highlight unresolved issues in our lives, signaling that there's something we need to address. If you find yourself dreaming of curtains hiding monsters repeatedly, it may indicate that you are repeatedly avoiding confronting your fears. This could serve as a wake-up call to take action and seek resolution.

• Can dreams provide guidance for waking life?

  Yes, dreams can serve as reflections of our thoughts, emotions, and worries. They often act as a mirror to our inner selves, guiding us toward areas in our lives that need attention or healing. By analyzing your dreams, you can uncover insights that help you navigate your waking experience more effectively.

• How can I interpret my dreams personally?

  To interpret your dreams personally, start by reflecting on your emotions and circumstances, both in the dream and in your waking life. Keep a dream journal to track patterns or recurring symbols. Engagement with these symbols can enhance your understanding and uncover insights into your subconscious.

References

• Ibni Sirin's Treatise on Dreams
• The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud
• Cultural Symbolism in Dreams