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Dream of mom, tortoise

I was at my parent's house where I grew up. I went to my bedroom where I found two old turtle shells. Then I noticed a very large tortoise in my bedroom. He was trying to find a way out of the room. The large tortoise also had a smaller tortoise on his back which also had an even smaller tortoise on his back. My mom and I were trying to figure out a way to get the tortoise out of the bedroom, because he would die in there. We decided to lure him out with grapes.

This dream was added to the dreams database first time 12 years ago on January 25, 2013

Dream Interpretation Analysis

Meaning of mom in a dream

Mother Dream Meaning sychological Meaning: The mother may symbolise the unconscious intuitive side of yourself. However, the mother symbol can take both positive or negative forms. She may appear as a kindly mother, grandmother or aunt or as a place such as a cave, church or garden. These images may represent the qualities of solicitude, growth, nourishment and fertility. The negative mother symbol may appear as a witch or a dragon and represents dark destructive tendencies that devours, seduces or poisons. Some people have problems freeing themselves from mother-attachment. This prevents the development of their individuality and inner self-dependence. Mystical Meaning: Most mystical traditions have the symbol of the Mother written into their legends and myths. At her most exalted she is the divine Great Mother at her most frightening she is the gorgon Medusa or the Sumerian goddess Lilith. Freud believed that the Greek myths of Oedipus and Electra symbolised psychological conditions. In the story Oedipus killed his farther and married his mother. Freud claimed that this represented a boy’s incestuous desire for his mother and jealousy towards his father. Similarly Electra desired her father and was jealous of her mother. A girl may therefore unconsciously believe that she has been castrated by her mother and is now an incomplete male. According to Freud this gives rise to ‘penis-envy’, which is one of the root causes of women’s feelings of inferiority.


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Meaning of tortoise in a dream

A tortoise in your dream symbolise that something is your life is going slower than you expected. Maybe your boyfriend should have proposed you already. Maybe you should have finished your studying by now. The tortoise is here to tell us that time never stops.


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