(See Also: Animals)
Being entangled by a very possessive personality.
Many hands make light work. Have you sought out assistance from those you know are capable of helping you right now?
An alternative figure for the number eight, a wheel, and a circle.
Inconsistency of words or actions, especially when you feel pressured.
The octopus, like the chameleon, changes color under stress.
Deceiving others through appearance. Both Pliny and Aristotle hypothesized that the octopus changed its colors to fool its prey.
Creativity gone awry. In oceanic cultures, the octopus holds a place in creation myths, but often those that don’t come out quite right.
[1]1- Because the octopus has eight legs, it picks up on the symbolism of the mandala (See Also: M, ala). Often the tentacles can have particular significance, indicating that we can be drawn into something that we find frightening and from which we cannot escapc.
2- Creatures that are unusual and are not familiar to us appear in dreams to alert us to certain qualities within ourselves.
The octopus is capable of moving in anv direction and it is this svmbolism we need to be aware of.
3- An octopus can represent the unrestricted movement of the Spirit.
[2]An octopus in a dream may signify that a situation or a personal relationship has completely entangled the dreamer. Alternatively, the dreamer may be too possessive and clinging in a relationship.
If the dreamer is leaving home or a job in real life, this dream symbol may indicate the dreamer is clinging to a family member (e.g., the person’s mother or spouse) or to the employer or fellow employees.
If the dream has a positive emotional tone, it may show someone involved in many different things.
[3]A scavenger of the ocean depths, this creature comes to take you to the bottom of your subconscious feelings to clear the debns from the sandy floor.
An octopus, with its eight legs and tentacles, may be revealing the psychic hold one may have over another that may hold you back Psychic connections to family or loved ones may be debilitating unconscious agreements that imprison you much like being in the arms of an octopus.
[4]The octopus is the ultimate symbol of flexibility and adaptability. We must add to this the ability to maneuver in the realm of the unconscious, as an octopus’s habitat is the ocean, the symbolic environment that connects us to that which is below the surface of awareness.
The octopus brings powerful medicine in the experience of exploring the depths of your hidden nature when it appears in a dream.
[5]You may say, “Who dreams of an octopus?” But people do, and a friend of mine did so just the other night.
If the dream make you happy, it implies that you may be involved in many different activities or adventures.
If there is a negative emotional reaction to the dream, it suggests that unhealthy attachments and entanglements are present in daily life.
See Also: Animals
[6]Feeling trapped by one’s mother, dependence upon mother, one’s own possessiveness. Hadfield, in Dreams and Nightmares, says that a baby often seizes upon its mother’s breast with this feeling.
The octopus can also symbolise any unconscious fear which may drag us into its realm of irrational terror.
[7]If swimming suggests perfect balance and harmony in emotional life, cosmic sense of self-propulsion as octopus has eight legs; if grasping at different things means going in too many directions without control; if emerging from the depths of the sea and appearing scary, means fear of unknown emotional depths.
[8]Dreams of an octopus represent that you are multi-tasking and attempting to fulfill your various needs, wants and desires.
The Octopus can also symbolize that you have been needy, clingy, desperate, and forgetting the truth, that all that you need is within you.
See Also: Eight.
[9]This dream is rather negative because the presence of an octopus in your unconscious indicates that you experience strong temptations that can harm you. This situation can lead to the absolute decline. (See Also: ABYSS, HELL)
[10]To dream of an octopus implies a sense of being trapped in an unfavorable circumstance. It may also represent your overt possessiveness and overdependence in your present relationship.
[11]Dreaming about an octopus means you are hanging on to something in your life that is holding you back from achieving success.
[12]An octopus may symbolize a possessive mother or mother-attachment, preventing you from being your own person.
[13]1. Controlling;
2. Manipulative;
3. Jezebel spirit; 1 Kings 21:7-10; 2 Cor. 10:4-5.
[14]One with invisible cords that bind and control others, like a puppet on strings
[15]1. Entangled in a problem.
2. The dreamer is trying to control someone.
[16]See Also: fish, sea creatures, odour See perfume.
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