What are lock dreams about?
This symbol is identified by words like lock.
Locks in dreams is a relatively common dream symbol, occuring in about 2.9% of dreams. That's about 1 out of every 35 dreams.
What are the major highlights of lock dreams?
Locks is a normal dream symbol. Having locks in a dream changes the dream in the same way as most other dream symbols.
Lock dreams are friendly
Dreams of locks have greater increase of friendly interactions within the dream than most other dream symbols. While not all dreams of locks will be friendly and they can also contain aggressive interactions, dreams of locks are more likely to have friendly interactions than most other dream symbols. Other symbols that are like this include walking, fists, doors, wrestling, body parts, shoulder, unemployment, teleporting and vanishing, elves, and disguises.
Dreams of locks are aggressive
Lock dreams have more aggressive interactions than a lot of other dream symbols. This doesn't mean that all locks have aggressive interactions or only aggressive interactions. It simply means that having locks in a dream increases the probability this dream contains aggression. Other symbols that are like this include hairdressers, saving, bobcats, servants, molesting, anger, librarians, crime, hearts, and breaking.
Dreams with locks might be a nightmare
Dreams of locks are frequently associated with nightmares. Of course dreams that contain locks might not be a nightmare. Plenty of dreams with locks are not nightmares. But, dreams of locks are more related to nightmares than 80% of all other dream symbols. Other symbols that are like this include trying to scream, skin, opening, losing an eye, black eyes, ears, attacking, red eyes, closed my eyes, and back doors.
Lock dreams are scary
Dreams containing locks are more related to fear than 90% of all other dream symbols. Of course each dream is unique and this does not mean that all dreams of locks are about fear. It simply means that if you dream of locks, this dream has a great chance of being scarier than most other dream symbols. Other symbols that are like this include opening, descending, general senses, cursing, slowness, general body parts, characters, weakness, movement, and couldn't open eyes.
What symbols more present in dreams of locks?
Lock dreams are notable because they have substantially more back doors, verbs, arresting, keys, janitors, El Salvador, Somalia, doors, intruders, escaping, cages, family homes, accomplices, places, wrestling, hallways, basements, laundry rooms, parts of buildings, attics, burglary, zombies, undressing, trapping, tackling, movement, bathroom stalls, hunger, police, closets, tools, Lebanon, general movement, balconies, safety, white eyes, prisoners, opening, guest rooms, knives, revenge, garages, characters, bandits, wallets, entrances, pushing, green eyes, ducks, windows, kidnapping, noises, brown eyes, bankruptcy, bird cages, lodging, alleys, devouring, living rooms, and torturing than 95% of other dream symbols.
What symbols less present in dreams of locks?
Lock dreams are notable because they have substantially less seeing a dead friend, things, seeing a dead relative, miscarriages, cancer, objects in space, love, soil, crushes, oceans, giving birth, sadness, egos, youtube, pregnancy, car crashes, relationship events, former partners, infidelity, pythons, bodies of water, surgery, seeing a dead pet, beaches, weddings, romantic partners, Donald Trump, swimming, Australia, fish, end of the word, boyfriends, locks, precognitive dreams, cartoons, seeing a dead mother, the night, the earth, subconscious, roaches, tsunamis, flying, lucid dreams, pregnancy tests, and praising than 95% of other dream symbols.
How does the dream symbol of locks affect the different aspects of a dream?
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Who is in locks dreams?
Overall, dreams with locks are aren't really related to characters in dreams. Specifically, dreams of locks are more related to different roles, more related to fantastic beings, and more related to distant people than dreams in general. They are less related to insects.
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Who is in locks dreams?
Overall, dreams with locks are more related to places in dreams. Specifically, dreams of locks are much more related to home and more related to transportation than dreams in general. They are less related to natural places.
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What happens in locks dreams?
Overall, dreams with locks are more related to events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of locks are more related to aggressive interactions and more related to friendly interactions than dreams in general.
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How do locks in dreams related to other dream phenomenon?
Overall, dreams with locks are much more related to dream events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of locks are much more related to nightmares, more related to recurring dreams, and more related to recurring nightmares than dreams in general.
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How can you make sense of locks in dreams?
Lock dreams are relatively common. Among other things lock dreams are normally interconnect, friendly, aggressive, nightmare, and scary.
Do you think this is true for your dream of locks? How might your dream of locks be different?
All dreams have meaning
You can gain insight from thinking about any dream, no matter how strange. Only you, as the dreamer, have final say on what your dream may or may not mean. Each dream is unique.
Look for the differences
The DreamWell dictionary provides information on how each dream symbol appears in dreams in general. Finding how experience locks in dreams can be a key to understanding its meaning.
Return to the feelings
Our emotions in dreams can help us understand its meaning. Pay attention to how you felt in the dream. Pay attention to how you feel about locks in dreams. See how you feel about locks now, in your waking life.
What are possible meanings for dreams of locks?
Dreams create symbolism by making comparisons, and a lock is comparable to anything you want to lock away, keep secret, or keep out. Think in terms of what you want to keep out of your life, what you don’t want to know, what you don’t want to remember, what’s too difficult to think about, and what you want to keep to yourself. See: Hiding
The symbolism of a lock is often connected with its use and function, and with analogies related to locks and keeping things secure.
Locking a door can mean you want to keep someone out of your life. Or you don’t want to acknowledge something difficult or painful. Or you want to shut yourself away. See: Doors
Being locked in can mean you can’t escape a situation. Facts are facts. You refuse to “open up” emotionally or personally. You have something about yourself that you don’t want people to know, as in when a person is “in the closet.” See: Jails
A common theme in the dreams of people who feel insecure is that they can’t lock their doors and windows, or can’t keep them locked. For example, you dream that you find the front door of your home unlocked and think that anyone could have just walked right in, and you connect the symbolism with the feeling that you can’t set or enforce boundaries with people.
Example: A woman dreams that she realizes a stranger is outside her front door and she wants to lock it to keep the stranger out. The stranger symbolizes her father, an estranged figure in her life, and wanting to lock the front door to keep him out means she wants to keep him out of her life. He’d recently made contact with her and asked to be part of her life again. Part of her wants to let him in, but experience tells her it’s a bad idea.
An unlocked door can symbolize feeling vulnerable. You worry that you forgot to take care of something important. You haven’t thought of every angle.
Locked can mean “inaccessible.” Something locked—a door, a window, a safe, a treasure chest—can mean that you are denied an opportunity, or can’t get access to something you need or want.
For example, you think you can have a career as a singer if only you could be heard by the right producer, but that door of opportunity is locked. Or a romantic interest won’t let you in emotionally or personally. You’ve been dating someone and the person is not ready to be more physical, such as in the dream a high school guy had about his girlfriend locking him out of his own bedroom. He asks her to let him in, and from the other side of the door she says, “It’s not safe.” It’s a way of saying she doesn’t feel that it’s safe to have sex with him, and locking the door to his bedroom—a room associated with sex—symbolizes denying him access to herself sexually.
The symbolism of accessibility also extends to your psyche. Parts of yourself and potential that you have are inaccessible until you lay the groundwork. The psyche has mechanisms for restricting access to certain areas until you are ready, sometimes symbolized in dreams as locked doors. A common theme in these sorts of dreams is that you explore a house and find locked rooms. The house is your psyche, the place where your mind lives, and the locked room is a locked aspect of it. See: Home
Dreaming about finding a door unlocked can mean “the door is open to you.” You have an opportunity. For example, you talk with your ex and the person leaves the door open to getting back together.
Finding something unlocked can mean that you are able to gain access. You can gain access to a person, to resources and knowledge, and to parts of yourself. For example, a woman has recurring dreams about exploring a mansion. One particular door is always locked, till one time she finds it unlocked and walks inside. That symbolizes her personal growth. An area of her psyche that was inaccessible is now open to her. New rooms in your mind are already there before the doors to them open. The same imagery of finding an unlocked door can symbolize entering a new phase of life.
Unlocking a safe can symbolize getting past a person’s defenses, or finding a way around safeguards. See: Safety
A locksmith can symbolize trying to open up someone who is emotionally closed off. Or it can mean trying to find out something that’s concealed from you. For example, picking the lock on your supervisor’s desk might symbolize trying to figure out what he or she really thinks of you.
Dreaming about being locked out of your car or home and needing a locksmith can mean you need help with an area of life symbolized by the car or home. Perhaps your career is stalled (car symbolism) or you’re cut off from your emotions (home symbolism).
See also: Burglary, Cars, Doors, Home, Keys, Lockers, Safety, Strangers, Thieves
This interpretation is from ""The Dream Interpretation Dictionary: Symbols, Signs, and Meanings" and is provided by J.M. DeBord aka "RadOwl". He is the author of several acclaimed books about dreaming, the host of The Dreams That Shape Us podcast, and is a moderator of r/Dreams, one of the largest dream sharing communities on the internet.
Examples of dreams of locks
Read some real dream reports of lock dreams.. These real life dream reports come from the moderated dream sharing communities of Reddit including r/Dreams, r/Nightmares, r/DreamInterpretation, or r/thisdreamihad. Please note that some of these may contain graphic, sexual, or violent images and text. Use the source link for each dream to view and join the discussion of each one.
Prada, Perfume, Flirting, Beatnik, Rapey deja vu and Car won't start
I had this dream a while back, I still think of it, so I was wondering if anyone would care to offer an interpretation?
It's a bit long, so if you need tldr...
- too large for gorgeous dresses
- perfume that transforms my shoulders and arms to paper scales
- flirt with British beatnik in an alley who turns me down cold
- get deja vu of being raped
- car won't start, see bad man behind me.
Still interested? Details below. :-)
I'm in a clothing store browsing for clothes with my friends. There is a new Prada dress that has been released and a steady stream of thin gorgeous girls are literally grabbing the dresses off the rack. I have spiteful fun telling a girl she is a size 10 and watching her get upset she's not a size 8. The dress only comes in a size 8, so I am obviously too large for it. This continues for a while.
There is a glorious shining perfume wall with many beautiful perfumes and I delight in trying them. Then the store is closing and the lights dim. But there's time for just one last perfume.
I quickly find one with little bits of glitter in the bottle, and swiftly sprinkle it over my shoulders and arms. It doesn't really smell much; it's a bit disappointing.
As I exit the shop, I notice that my arms and shoulders are completely covered with a scale-like covering of little squares of silver paper. I laugh to myself.
I see a somewhat scruffy beatnik looking man smoking a cigarette watching me. I grin and ask him, 'Do YOU fancy being covered in glitter?'
He replies with a British accent, 'No... Why would I want that?'
'Oh, you never know,' I reply, flirting.
I walk around a secluded corner, casually picking and rolling off bits of glitter and pieces flutter to the ground.
I'm suddenly on high alert and aware I am dreaming. I remember that in a previous dream, I was viciously raped here. I have forgotten the dream but know it in my body. I don't remember by whom or exactly where, it is a bit like de ja vu- this has all happened before.
I think if I can get to my car, I can drive away fast. There doesn't seem to be anyone close by, so I hop into the car and press the central locking button. But as I look in the rearview mirror, I see that a different man had already hopped into the backseat. The car won't start. I am filled with dread. I try to get out of the car and wake up.
I had this dream a while back, I still think of it, so I was wondering if anyone would care to offer an interpretation?
It's a bit long, so if you need...
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i need help
hey so I am wondering if anyone else has this or if anyone has advice for this so whenever I have a dream like 90% of the time it comes true I know right that sounds crazy but ill give you a few times this has happened.
1) if anyone remembers that tragic shooting in Florida back on February 14 2018 well I'm British and one night I had a horrible nightmare about a school shooting but not the shooting part I was sat under a desk in lock down position then I was pulled awake by a notification on my phone I was sleepy as well as terrified I looked at my phone the notification was from that news app about the Florida shooting.
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2) one that strikes closer to home and one that im still trying to rationalise to myself is the Manchester attack no matter where you live you probably know about this and what a fucking horrible situation this is anyway the very night before I had a dream about a terrorist attack at a Katy perry concert I know this isn't the same artist but here is the bit that sticks with me in my dream I was watching the news and the death count in my dream was exact and the death toll wasn't released for another 3 days.
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3) another less scary yet still strange dream was the death of Steven Hawkins I had this dream then the next day I asked my brother if Hawkins was dead we looked it up and nothing came up so we just continued on with our lives then it couldn't have been more than three days and the tragic death of Steven Hawkins was on the news
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these are just three examples that are the first that came to my head there are more like the little ones where I have a dream conversation with someone and then have that exact conversation a few days later or once I had a dream that my neighbours had a party with loud music and it pissed my mum off then what do you know that happened.
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obviously this isn't the worst thing on this page but its still scary and if anyone knows what this is or just can relate as everyone who ive told either thought Im mental or lying thank you for reading this thank you
hey so I am wondering if anyone else has this or if anyone has advice for this so whenever I have a dream like 90% of the time it comes true I know right that...
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Someone hot smack murdered when I let them out the door
Not exactly sure how the dream came to be but
I was in a random house with someone that I know and used to talk to like nearly 2 years ago
Then someone it came to us doing the nasty, and in my dream it was really good. But then I said he had to leave and I felt guilty and stuff
Cause irl I have a boyfriend so maybe in my dream I was still with him?
I'm pretty sure it read 10am
But it was still pitch black outside
He went downstairs to leave in a sad slighty angry way, but more disappointed
He didnt know which key it was so for some reason I went down and found the key instantly
To which he left without a work and I closed the door
And theough the door window
Which were blurry
A man appeared pretty sure he had red eyes that I could see the most through the blurry window
And then the guy that I was started telling me to open the door to which I was still locking the door quickly scared
And then bam
A truck zoomed past and I'm pretty sure killed him
I'm lowkey scared atm aaaa
And so then the weird red eyed man looked at me through the glass
And I sprinted upstairs with the keys
Laid down in the bed
And woke up (this was like 10 mins ago)
The second I woke up I felt for keys cause I had my sleep mask on and was confused and scared
Hope someone can tell me what this mean or like just, talk about this weird ass dream
Not exactly sure how the dream came to be but
I was in a random house with someone that I know and used to talk to like nearly 2 years ago
Then someone it came...
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Figures staring directly at me
So I had this dream just a few days ago.
A little backstory: Me and my wife are living right next to her parents house, both our houses are ground leveled, no stories or whatever. Usually when I need something from her parents house I just jump by, it takes two seconds.
So back to the dream - I’m dreaming that I’ve woken up midnight, in my bed, and for some reason I feel like I’ve forgotten to take something from their house, I just can’t remember what it was. So I get up quickly, open the door, and make my way to their house in the dark. As I approach the door, I figured that it’s probably locked because it’s late at night, but I tried to pull the handle anyways, and nothing, it’s locked. Usually when the door’s locked I just knock to check if there’s anyone inside the house that might open up, but since no one answered, I moved over to their backyard to gaze through the side window and into the (lit) house to see if there’s anyone there.
And then it happened - as I take a look through the window and into the kitchen, I spot three figures staring directly at me, with a freezing look. I couldn’t even see their faces properly, because their eyes were all staring directly at me, fixed, as if they waited for me to come over and check the window. For a few seconds it felt like forever and I just stood there, grounded on the spot, staring at them, completely stunned and taken off-guard. It was scary, I genuinely felt like I can’t move a bone in my body. After what seemed like forever (even though it did last just a couple of seconds) the dream slowly crumbled and I woke up, sweating like i ran a freaking 60 mile marathon or something.
That’s about it. It was a weird dream and a really weird experience. I have no idea what those figures resemble, if they do at all. I don’t remember reading or watching anything that could lead to a dream like this. And that’s pretty much it...
So I had this dream just a few days ago.
A little backstory: Me and my wife are living right next to her parents house, both our houses are ground leveled, no...
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Witches, demonic dogs, syringe full of blue liquid.
I had a dream last night, it was a mix of lucid and nightmare.
In the dream I was dating this girl who was into witchcraft. We were at her house sitting on the couch. Her front door had a glass door along with a regular door and she didn't close the regular door. I saw these scary large dogs with yellow glowing eyes standing in the doorway, looking at me through the glass. Then some people walked up and I somehow knew they were a part of the coven she was in or something. I said to her, "Why did you just leave your door open, now they see us."
We ran over to the door and pushed it shut as they were trying to push back against us.
I noticed the back door was just a glass sliding door. I thought "I hope she locked that one at least".
The people then came around and we crouched down behind the kitchen island.
They immediately walked in. It was 3 bald dudes in a mix of robes and street clothes.
They pulled out these syringes full of glowing blue liquid. I was very scared they were about to hold me down and inject me with them. But they didn't suddenly my fear was gone and I woke up shortly after.
I had a dream last night, it was a mix of lucid and nightmare.
In the dream I was dating this girl who was into witchcraft. We were at her house sitting on the...
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