Dream About Back
Seeing a person from behind points to that person's negativity — or to a rejection received from them.
Back in a dream
Seeing a person from behind points to that person's negativity — or to a rejection received from them. The latter applies when the person otherwise appears to be a significant figure.
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What does back mean in a dream?
In scientific dream interpretation, the back is a clinically significant symbol. Seeing a person from behind points to that person's negativity — or to a rejection received from them; the latter applies when the person otherwise appears to be a significant figure. When this image appears in a dream, the surrounding symbols and the emotional tone deserve careful analysis — it may be pointing to a specific area of life that calls for awareness and work.
More symbols in dream dictionary
Sun
As the center of our planetary system, it embodies the principle by which an energy system takes shape.
Salt
Stands for a suffocating, rigid situation that cannot be resolved — one where the best way out is simply flight or retreat.
Vessel
(a container) Expresses two-sided forms and stereotypes.
Matches
Functional if they actually produce fire.
Sport
Points to empty eroticism. GYM, SPORTS GROUND: a place or behavior that carries social or bureaucratic weight but no vital or spiritual value.
Descent
The interpretation depends heavily on the context of the action.
Machine Tool
Closely related to the dream image of the Apparatus.
Station
Closely related to the dream image of the Stop.
Old Woman
Represents extreme decline and immediate proximity to death, serving as a mask-matrix behind many other images (mother, infant, child, dog, eagle, monk, nun, and others).
Old Man
Associated with an integral knowledge of past experience, of nature and of life — an awareness of the presence of Being that gives rise to wisdom toward everything that comes into being, toward all "being-here".
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