Understanding the Dream of Curtains and Merry-Go-Round
Dreams often serve as windows into our subconscious, weaving together threads of our hopes, fears, and experiences. The symbolism of curtains and a merry-go-round in a dream can encapsulate a rich tapestry of meaning. Curtains traditionally symbolize concealment, presenting a division between the known and unknown, or representing societal roles and expectations.
Meanwhile, a merry-go-round evokes feelings of joy, nostalgia, and the cyclic nature of life. In many Western cultures, it mirrors childhood innocence and the desire for freedom amidst the routine of daily life. Together, these symbols may suggest a deeper reflection on how personal aspirations interact with external pressures.
As you explore the intricate layers behind such dreams, consider the emotions and events tied to them, for they can offer invaluable insights into your waking life.
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- Curtains in dreams often symbolize concealment or revelation.
- A merry-go-round may represent life cycles, joy, and the repetition of experiences.
- The combination invites contemplation of personal aspirations versus societal expectations.
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:
- 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:
- merry-go-round
- Diversion:
Diversion or amusement in a dream is a sign of glad tidings, recovery | for the sick, prosperity for the poor, honor after humiliation, scientific ad¬ vancement, higher position, or it could mean travel.
- Popular trend:
(Drum; Musical instruments) In a dream, a tambourine means adversities, pain and sufferings. It also means fame for the one carrying it. If a girl dancer carries it in the dream, it means that she may win a lottery, or acquire a publicly known fortune.
The sound of a tambourine in a dream represents a recognized and a baseless fallacy. Seeing a man carrying a tambourine means fame for him and for whoever accompanies him in the dream. A woman carrying the tambourine in a dream also means that she will become famous, or it could indicates a new social trend.
In general, when musical instruments are used in one’s dream, playing them in a festival, a wedding, or in any type of celebration means trials.
- Toy:
(Swing)
- Diversion:
- 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:
- carousel
- Helper:
- Corset:
(Corset; Jerkin; Knee brace; Support) In a dream, a brace signifies tight circumstances, difficulties, adversities, pain, sufferings, weakness and need for someone’s support. A brace in a dream also may denote resoluteness and determination. If one sees himself using a brace with a support device in a dream, it means fulfilling one’s purpose, wantonness, containing one’s needs or satisfying them.
- Jerkin:
(Corset; Jerkin; Knee brace; Support) In a dream, a brace signifies tight circumstances, difficulties, adversities, pain, sufferings, weakness and need for someone’s support. A brace in a dream also may denote resoluteness and determination. If one sees himself using a brace with a support device in a dream, it means fulfilling one’s purpose, wantonness, containing one’s needs or satisfying them.
- roundabout
- Direction:
(See Road; Wending one’s way)
- Ambulate:
(Ambulate; Ka'aba; Mecca; Walk around) If a sinner sees himself circumambulating God’s House in Mecca in a dream, it means that he will be freed from suffering in hell-fire. If one is unmarried, it means that he will get married. If one qualifies for promotion, it means that he will receive it.
Seeingoneself performing a pilgrimage in a dream also means circumambulating God’s house in Mecca, developing a good character, living a straight and a worthy life, safety from fear, repayment of one’s debts, delivering entrusted merchandise to their rightful owners or money to its people on demand, being trustworthy, living an ascetic life, fulfilling a promise, atonement for one’s sins, distributing expiatory gifts or interceding on behalf of a trustworthy and a noble Imam. Seeing oneself circumambulating God’s house while riding on a mare in a dream means that one will commit the abominable sin of adultery with a member of his own family or with a consanguineous blood relative with whom it is not permissible to have sexual relationship. (Also see Ka'aba; Rituals of the pilgrimage; Sa‘i)
- Walk around:
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- Direction:
Practical Insights for Interpretation
- Reflect on Personal Feelings
When you dream of curtains and merry-go-rounds, begin by reflecting on your emotions in the dream. Did you feel joyful, anxious, or confused? These emotional cues can provide clarity on personal struggles or joys.
For instance, if the dream evokes happiness, consider areas in your life where you feel free to express yourself. Conversely, if the curtains feel ominous, it might indicate feelings of being trapped or hidden from your true self. Creating a dream journal to note such feelings can enhance your understanding over time.
- Desire for Change or Stability
Dreaming of a merry-go-round alongside curtains could signify a desire for change or stability in your life. The merry-go-round symbolizes the cycles of life—sometimes we long for excitement and variety, while at other times we crave the consistency that curtains imply. Assess your current life circumstances: Are there aspects you wish to shake up, or do you find comfort in the routine?
Embrace these contrasts as they provide a clearer picture of where you stand concerning personal goals.
- Seek Guidance from Trusted Sources
While personal reflection is essential, consulting someone with deeper knowledge, or ‘ilim,’ can be invaluable in interpreting dreams. This can be a loved one, mentor, or spiritual advisor who understands the traditional interpretations of dreams. Share your dream with them and discuss your thoughts.
Sometimes, an outside perspective sheds light on meanings you might have overlooked, particularly within the communal or spiritual context.
FAQs
- What do curtains represent in dreams?
Curtains often symbolize concealment, indicating aspects of your life or emotions that you may be hiding from yourself or others. They represent boundaries, and depending on their nature (open or closed), they can symbolize your willingness to reveal or hide certain truths.
- What is the significance of a merry-go-round in a dream?
A merry-go-round typically symbolizes joy, nostalgia, and the cyclical nature of life. It reflects a sense of playfulness and can indicate that you are currently enjoying life’s simple pleasures or may need to reconnect with your inner child.
- How should I interpret combining both symbols in a dream?
When curtains are combined with a merry-go-round, it can reflect a tension between joy and concealment. This may suggest that while you desire happiness and spontaneity, there are barriers or fears preventing you from fully embracing these emotions.
- Can this dream relate to societal pressures?
Absolutely. Such dreams can highlight the conflict between societal roles and personal desires. Curtains may represent the expectations placed upon you, while the merry-go-round signifies the desire to break free from these restraints and seek joy.
- What practical steps can I take after having this dream?
Begin by reflecting on your personal feelings within the dream. Consider journaling about your thoughts and emotions, expressing them artistically, or discussing them with trusted friends or mentors. These actions can help clarify the messages your dreams may be conveying.
