Universal Landscape: Anticipation of communication.
Dreaming Lens: Were you waiting for the mail to arrive? Were you sending mail? Was the mail in question delivered properly? Was the address known or unknown? Was the mail a surprise or something expected? Was the mail delivered to your home, or did you have to pick it up in a post office?
Personal Focus: Our relationship to postal mail has changed greatly since the advent of e-mail. It is now considered so slow that it is routinely referred to as “snail mail.” While our current perceptions have changed, the essence of this symbol connects to the origins of mail and its impact on the world. Sending messages by way of traders who traveled between communities was the beginning of the spread of knowledge. The mark of a great civilization would have been a construct devoted solely to this purpose. In America, this was epitomized by the Pony Express and what we know today as the United States Postal Service.
Communication between two parties is symbolic of intellect and the inner process of deduction and decision-making. The slow speed and back and forth nature of mail adds the texture of anticipation. Putting a thought in writing connects to the permanence of a thought expressed.
Mail in a dream could connect to communication that is slower than desired. Junk mail is akin to anxiety and the background chatter in the mind, where information like an important letter can get lost in a pile of unwanted catalogs. A dream could connect to the need to ferret through the unimportant to find clarity. Since the majority of mail is comprised of bills to be paid, this might symbolize being put on notice for the price you will have to pay for some choice in life.
[1]Dreams of letters or packages represent hopes about receiving a desirable communication, unexpected surprises, unexpressed feelings and emotions. Take note of the feeling tone of this dream.
If you feel energized and delighted at the mail or package, this means you are hopeful about news of fortuitous events.
If you are disappointed or anxious, then you are apprehensive about a decision.
See Also: Letter or E-mail.
[2]To dream about receiving mail suggests that you need to communicate or re-establish contact with someone from your present/past.
The mail may also be a coded way of referring to issues with a “male” in your life.
If the mail is from someone you don’t know, then it suggests that your unconscious mind is trying to tell you something important.
[3]Dreams of e-mail represent communication, and a desire to reach out and touch the people. Dreams of e-mail also represent efficiency and expeditious interactions from a distance. E-mail can also represent a kind of aloof intimacy and/or unwanted communication.
See Also: Letter.
[4]Psychological / emotional perspective: Emotion is one of the most difficult things to communicate, so ‘wrapping it up’ in letters or emails is a strong dream image. Trying to send mail may be trying to communicate how we feel.
[5]Mail in a dream means activities or travels. Mail in a dream also means being led by one’s evil actions and sins into the road of destruction or consequent death.
[6]Beyond receiving a literal message from a friend, e-mail appearing in a dream may point to a message sent through the psychic airwaves. It may indicate that you need to get your message across quickly.
[7]Material aspects: Mail in the sense of armour suggests defences that we put up, but may also signify the masculine gender. Retrieving lost mail suggests that we need to increase our motivation.
[8]Gives gender-specific: In a woman’s dream mail may represent her more assertive side, whereas in a man’s dream he may wish to reveal his true self.
[9]1. Hope or dreams of the future.
2. Message from the unconscious.
3. In female dreamers, a male object of affection.
[10]1. Need to communicate quickly with someone about some thing.
2. One is spending too much time using the computer.
[11]Determined by contents, colors; i.E. Financial support may come in the form of a support garment; research accordingly
[12]Mail in dreams is communication from the spiritual realms.
[13][14]Messages.
See Also: Letter.
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