The Profound Meaning of Curtains in Your Dreams

Curtains are more than mere decor in our waking life; they serve as fascinating symbols in the realm of dreams. When we dream of curtains, they often reflect our inner emotions—what we wish to hide and what we wish to reveal. They can symbolize barriers, privacy, and the delicate balance between what we share and what we keep for ourselves.

In many ways, curtains serve as a metaphorical lens through which we can examine our own emotional landscapes. Are you feeling vulnerable? Is there something you wish to expose, or alternatively, something you wish to conceal?

This dream might signal important truths about your feelings, relationships, and overall emotional state. By analyzing the type and color of curtains in your dreams, we can decipher messages from within that guide us in our waking lives, illuminating paths for healing and understanding.

• Curtains in dreams often symbolize the emotions we hide or reveal.
• Different colors and types of curtains represent various emotional states.
• Understanding the meaning of curtains can provide insights into personal relationships.

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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  • Portrait:
  • 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')

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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.

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  • Indignation:

    (Fury; Indignation; Rage) Leaving one’s home angry in a dream means entering a prison. If one gets angry for material gains in a dream, it means that he has disdain and contempt toward God’s religion. However, should he get angry in his dream to defend God’s rights, then it means gaining strength and power.

    Becoming angry for someone else’s sake in a dream signifies a corrupt contract, a tainted agreement, a marriage consent with a hidden intent of a divorce to follow, fighting for unlawful earnings, or it could mean accumulating money from usury. In a dream, usury and anger mean falsehood in wakefulness. (See Foam; Frothing at the mouth; Sneezing; Suppressing one’s anger)

  • Fury:

    (Fury; Indignation; Rage) Leaving one’s home angry in a dream means entering a prison. If one gets angry for material gains in a dream, it means that he has disdain and contempt toward God’s religion. However, should he get angry in his dream to defend God’s rights, then it means gaining strength and power.

    Becoming angry for someone else’s sake in a dream signifies a corrupt contract, a tainted agreement, a marriage consent with a hidden intent of a divorce to follow, fighting for unlawful earnings, or it could mean accumulating money from usury. In a dream, usury and anger mean falsehood in wakefulness. (See Foam; Frothing at the mouth; Sneezing; Suppressing one’s anger)

  • Rage:

    (Fury; Indignation; Rage) Leaving one’s home angry in a dream means entering a prison. If one gets angry for material gains in a dream, it means that he has disdain and contempt toward God’s religion. However, should he get angry in his dream to defend God’s rights, then it means gaining strength and power.

    Becoming angry for someone else’s sake in a dream signifies a corrupt contract, a tainted agreement, a marriage consent with a hidden intent of a divorce to follow, fighting for unlawful earnings, or it could mean accumulating money from usury. In a dream, usury and anger mean falsehood in wakefulness. (See Foam; Frothing at the mouth; Sneezing; Suppressing one’s anger)

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  • Portrait:
  • Illustrator:

    (Artist; Illustrator) In a dream, a painter represents knowledge, archi¬ tecture, wisdom, writing poems, writing love songs or telling lies. A painter in a dream also represents someone who conceals his acts, or hides his true face. He also could represent alcoholism, falling in love, marriage, or having children.

    Some of the painter’s works are beneficial while others are harmful. All depending on the quality of his work, its objectives, balance, resemblance to the object painted and authenticity. The characteristics of such a person in the dream may be that of a hypocrite in wakefulness, or an ostentatious person, a toadying person, a hypocrite, a panegyrist, or a lauding person, though he mostly looks as a good, sincere and a hard working person.

    The value of his paintings varies depending on the subject treated. A painter in a dream also represents a person who loves flattery, self-adulation, an eloquently speaking person, a liar, one who fails his promises, or he could represent strength and authority.

  • Paintings:

    (Art; Picture; Portrait) In a dream, paintings represent memories, guidance, or advice. Paintings in a dream also denote the passing of time, advancing of years, or the days of one’s life. As for an immigrant, paintings in his dream mean reunion with his family, beloved, or commanding good and forbidding evil.

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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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  • Portrait:
  • Politician:
  • 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')

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  • Sympathy:

    Expressing one’s sympathy or condolences to a well-to-do person in a dream means adversities, while it means a blessing to a person in dire need. Expressing one’s sympathy to a person who is experiencing difficulties in a dream means glad tidings.

  • Compliments:

    (Compliments; Congratulations) Felicitations in a dream signify condolences. They also mean relief from difficulties or building financial security against poverty.

  • Congratulations:

    (Compliments; Congratulations) Felicitations in a dream signify condolences. They also mean relief from difficulties or building financial security against poverty.

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  • Pulsate:
  • Feltmaker:

    (Felt) In a dream, a feltmaker represents patience, endurance, or a most needed tradesman. Seeing a feltmaker in a dream represents one’s livelihood, earnings and profits.

  • Heart palpitation:

    (Heart; Pulsate; Throbbing) In a dream, palpitation means neglecting something, or abandoning it. If one sees his heart pulsating rapidly in a dream, it means changing his travel plans, or denying a marriage promise, or putting off a fight.

Practical Insights for Understanding Your Dream

• Reflect on Your Emotions

  When you wake up from a dream involving curtains, take a moment to reflect on your emotions. Consider what aspect of your life might be represented by the curtains. Are they drawn closed, signaling feelings of isolation or protection?

  Or are they flung wide open, perhaps symbolizing a desire for openness and connection? Journaling about your feelings can help uncover the core messages behind these dreams.

• Consider Color Symbolism

  The color of the curtains may hold significant meaning. For example, dark curtains may indicate hidden fears or suppressed emotions, while bright and light curtains could suggest hope and clarity. Investigate how the colors resonate with your current life circumstances.

  Connecting color symbolism to your feelings can help bridge the gap between your subconscious and conscious mind.

• Discuss with Trusted Friends

  Sharing your dream with trusted friends or family can provide new perspectives. They might pick up on feelings or connections that you didn’t see. Often, dialogue around dreams leads to deeper understanding.

  Just ensure you share it with someone who respects your innermost feelings and can provide insight without judgment.

• Meditation and Mindfulness

  Engage in meditation or mindfulness exercises to explore your feelings more deeply. Visualize the curtains from your dream—what do they look like? Feel like?

  These simple practices could help you understand and integrate the emotional responses they're evoking, nurturing a greater awareness of your desires and fears.

• Seek Professional Guidance if Needed

  If you find that the dream of curtains stirs deep emotional responses, consider seeking guidance from a professional. They can provide tools and understanding that may enhance your journey toward emotional clarity. Remember, it’s often beneficial to seek professional help when navigating complex emotional landscapes.

FAQs

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

  Dreaming of heavy curtains often symbolizes feelings of being overwhelmed or the weight of hiding one's emotions. It can reflect a desire to retreat from social situations or provoke introspection about what you are concealing from yourself and others.

• Why do I often dream of curtains being closed?

  Closed curtains in dreams usually indicate emotional barriers or feelings of withdrawal. They may suggest that you are keeping aspects of yourself hidden, whether due to fear of judgment or a need for safety. It’s a call to explore what you’re protecting and why.

• Are colorful curtains significant in dreams?

  Yes, the colors of curtains in your dreams can provide clues to your emotional state. For instance, bright colors may reflect optimism and openness, while darker shades might indicate sadness or anxiety. Exploring the color can yield deeper insights about your feelings.

• How can I interpret dreams of curtains differently each time?

  Each dream can hold different meanings based on your current emotional landscape, experiences, and context. Reflect on what is happening in your life at the time of the dream to aid in interpretation. Your feelings and experiences can vary, thus affecting the dreams differently.

• What if I dream about curtains being drawn apart?

  Dreaming of curtains being drawn apart is often a positive sign, symbolizing revelations, showing vulnerability, or opening up previously hidden aspects of yourself. It can indicate a readiness to embrace change and face emotional truths.

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