Universal Landscape: Hidden agenda. Avoidance.
Dreaming Lens: Were you inside a closet? Were you locked in the closet? Were you contemplating going into the closet? Were you looking for something inside a closet? Was the closet empty or filled to the brim with stuff?
Personal Focus: A closet is a place used for storage. The items found in a closet usually fall into one of three categories: frequently used items kept out of sight for the sake of organization, things stored for later use, and forgotten objects that we continue to hold on to even though they have lost their purpose. A dream that features a closet as a primary image or location may need to be considered through one of these themes.
Many objects found in a dream closet connect to shame. The level of this will correspond to how hidden something is and/or how much fear there is around it. Keep in mind, however, that a closet is also a storage space where we file away things we no longer need on a regular basis. There may be old thoughts, feelings, or ways of being that need to be recognized and discarded in order to make room for new growth that is on the horizon.
The phrase “in the closet” has come to be linked almost exclusively to an individual who is hiding their homosexuality. However, in a dream, this can refer to any hidden sides of the Self. What you discover in a closet should be viewed through the focus of something you are hiding from or not wanting to face. If it is a person you find, use the Character Aspect technique to explore what part of your personality you have been neglecting. If what you find in there is an object, the same meaning applies based on the interpretation you give it.
The type of closet has meaning. A linen closet may connect to feelings of comfort or protection whereas a janitorial closet might relate to the need for a major mental cleanup. An empty closet may be indicating the need to abandon a current course of action or situation in your life—there may be things you need to store away for the time being and return to at a future date. A full or overstuffed closet may point to avoidance issues that need attention.
[1]A closet represents the individual’s place for keeping true feelings. This dream shows the need to hide something. Possibly you are not addressing issues as you should.
If it is hidden, its location reflects difficulties when dealing with others. And if it’s messy it means the subject suffers emotional problems. On the contrary, if it is clean, organized, and full of beautiful items, it certifies the health of spirit and possession of a great inner wealth.
The oneiric superstition says that dreaming of a full closet portends good luck; the opposite if it is empty.
[2]In children, often a reflection of their fears. What exacdy is the closet hiding?
If the door is ajar, perhaps you are thinking of coming out of the closet with some controversial aspect of your life or beliefs.
If a skeleton is in the closet, consider what you might be hiding from others, or even from yourself (See Also: Bones).
How does the closet appear? Is it orderly or messy? This organization, or lack thereof, can be a reflection of your own thought processes, or the orderliness of your lifestyle in general.
[3]Vision: Seeing a closet: it’s time to bring order into your personal and work affairs.
An open closet is a warning: be more careful around people in your surroundings.
A closed closet: be more accommodating and friendlier toward others.
Depth Psychology: The closet represents your body and its needs. Is your closet full and organized or empty? In case of the latter, you are either in need of more “emotional sustenance,” or you need a rest so you can replenish your energies.
See Also: Furniture.
[4](Safe) In a dream, a closet represents one’s wife, a hide-out, protection or a veil. Ifone sees his closet destroyed in a dream, it may mean the death of his wife. Acloset in a dream also represents a made, keeping secrets, confidentiality or intimacy between husband and wife, protecting the reputation of chaste women, beautiful garments or it could represent the day and the night.
If one puts something in a closet in a dream, it means that he will find it there when he needs it.
[5]The closet in your dream may have emotional, psychological, or physical connotations. Closets are used to store good things that we need as well as useless stuff. Emotionally they hold memories, secrets, precious emotions and valuable thoughts. Consider all of the details in your dream and try to see the message clearly. Do you need to clean out the closet, come out of the closet, or share the things that you have stored in that closet?
[6]Dreams of a closet symbolize a place where your secret life, shadow and clothes/costumes hang behind closed doors. This dream may be revealing your unintegrated aspects of self that yearn to be exposed proudly in the light of day.
If your closet is cluttered, then it’s time to take an inventory of what to keep, what to release and what to wear.
See Also: Clothes, Integration Dreams.
[7]A closet may represent a place to store or hide people or things. Movies and other narratives often show people hiding in a closet. People with an unsavory past are said to have “skeletons in the closet.” In more modern times, the closet has also come to signify the unveiling of previously hidden aspects of the self, as in “coming out of the closet.”
[8]Your attitudes, symbolized as clothing, are often hung in the closet.
The clothing may also represent a new self-image you may want to embrace.
The closet may indicate something that you have hidden from yourself or something that was hidden from you.
A walk-in closet may invite seclusion or hiding.
[9]An empty clothes closet is a warning against getting into debt; a full closet signifies unusually large business profits; a well-stocked linen closet is a sign of a happy family future, but an empty linen closet is a forerunner of family quarrels or rifts.
[10]An empty closet is warning not to go into debt.
A full closet means you’ll experience excellent business profits.
A linen closet means that good times are ahead at home.
[11]A storage place for attitudes, ideas and memories. You probably need to clean out a few. Also, hiding or closing yourself off from the mainstream of living.
[12]Symbolic of private prayer, Matt. 6:6.
A closet may also symbolize a place where people bury things from their life that they do not wish to deal with
[13]1. Private Personal; prayer; secret sin (as in skeletons in the closet); something hidden; Matthew 6:6, Luke 8:17, Luke 12:2.
[14]A closet in a dream often represents hidden aspects of the self or a feeling of being threatened.
[15]Possessions. Hiding something. According to Freud, a symbol for the woman’s body.
[16]1. Secret;
2. Place of prayer;
3. Hidden sins from past. Matt. 6:6; Luke 12:3.
[17]Hiding; keeping ideas buried.
[18]Hiding place for secrets
[19]lucky numbers: 06-10-23-25-36-48
casually dressed: listen to strangers, but confirm their al egations from a trusted source.
casual for formal occasions, wearing: your lack of inhibition damages your reputation.
formal for casual: you act too stiffly, with ideas above your station.
changing: wil receive a large damage assessment.
closed, a: only you can order your personal life.
clothes hanging in a: they don’t help you there; get out and wear them.
cypress, buying a dress made of: advancement in financial position.
dressed in white: loss of friendship.
forget to put on: feel il -equipped to cope.
giving, to charity: people are laughing at you.
halter, of a: a former playmate wil become your marriage partner.
halter straps worn by women: wil overcome obstacles.
taking away your, someone: an admirer wil haggle with you.
hamper, an empty: wil have a jealous quarrel with sweetheart.
hang up own: must control your project, every step of the way.
children’s: avoid rivals.
visitors’: change in your own environment.
hem, taking up a: wil attain respect for completion of a credible job.
impeccably clothed: sense of inferiority blinds you.
linens in a: share the happiness in your home.
money in a, having: have squandered your talent by keeping it for your own pleasure.
open, an: your life is too exposed to envy.
scarlet-colored: wil have sorrow.
evening gown: dignity and distinction.
silver-colored: happiness is assured.
white: happiness in love.
yellow: warning of troubles.
black: unhappy events in near future.
skeletons, in the: are scaring people by unveiling previously hidden aspects of self.
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