If you dream of trying but failing to complete a puzzle or crossword, this suggests an intellectual approach to problems in your waking life. Such dreams may be urging you to allow emotion to play a greater part in your decision making. On the other hand, if you complete the puzzle or crossword and are satisfied with the result, your dreaming mind may be suggesting that you should use an intellectual rather than an emotional approach to solving your problems. Dreaming of being unable to find a word in a Thesaurus or dictionary may be suggesting that you should listen to your instincts or your emotions.
If you find the word you are looking for, however, this may suggest that you should adopt a more objective approach.
If you are puzzled by a mathematical equation or can’t understand someone who is speaking another language in your dream, this suggests an inability to understand a certain person or situation in your waking life. How you reacted in your dream may help you find a new approach to the situation.
If a code that is hard to understand or decipher appears in your dream and you are the one who found it, this suggests some problem or person or aspect of your personality that is puzzling you.
If you awoke from a dream with a riddle running through your mind, are you feeling confounded by someone or something in your waking life? Your dream may have contained clues to both the meaning of your dream and a reallife riddle, but if it continued to mystify you perhaps you need to use an intuitive, rather than an intellectual, approach to solving problems in your waking life.
In Greek mythology, the Sphinx posed the famous question to Oedipus: ‘what goes on four feet, two feet and then three, but the more feet it goes on the weaker it will be?’ Oedipus replied ‘man’; it is man who crawls as a baby, walks as a man and then uses a cane in old age. Oedipus’ answer shows the importance of using your gut instinct or intuition rather than a rational, logical approach to seemingly impossible questions. The same applies for any dream situation which leaves you flummoxed. Your dreaming mind may be urging you to use the powers of your intuition and to channel your instincts into that place where the answer lies.
[1]If you dream about a puzzle, the meaning relates to whether (or how easily) you solved it.
If you found it difficult to solve, or you failed to solve it, you are stuck in a troubling real-life situation and you don’t know how to proceed.
If you solved the puzzle in your dream, you will be able to conquer your real-life problems.
[2]Putting together a jigsaw puzzle may point to fitting the pieces of some big problem together, a problem in which there are numerous issues to resolve.
A puzzle may indicate that the big picture may not come together without some patience and persistence.
[3]Dreams of a puzzle represent your attempts at solving life’s mystery. You are recognizing the order in the midst of the seeming randomness of the people, places and events of your life. Things are beginning to make sense to you.
See Also: Processing Dreams.
[4]1. Revealing the interrelationships of things, connectedness of events—often emotional, usually intellectual.
2. A mystery, not having all the facts; use caution regarding decisions (missing pieces).
3. Intellectual challenges.
[5]Not seeing the whole picture, only pieces of your life puzzle. Thinking of life as a puzzle; lacking clarity. Center energies, focus, concentrate on the problem and the answer will be there.
[6]Trying to do a puzzle in a dream is a sign that you will be likely to have many irritating experiences, both big and little.
[7]An obstacle dream.
If you cannot solve the Puzzle, then expect heavy losses in business, for tromble is ahead.
[8]An obstacle dream, and its meaning will relate to whether (or how easily) you solved it
[9]Confusion and separation caused by irregular circumstances
[10][11]lf you have a dream that you are puzzled with some intricate matter, and cannot unravel the mystery, be sure that some one is about to confer a great favor on you.
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