Psychological / emotional perspective: Childhood is a time when smell is very significant. Many smells that are associated with that time, e.G. Baking bread, burning oil, flowers, school dinners, can still be very evocative for us as adults.
A pleasant smell could represent happy times or memories, whereas a bad smell can hold memories of particularly traumatic times.
[1]Depth Psychology: Seeing yourself as small is a sign of your inferiority feelings.
If other things or people appear small: you did not make a great impression on them.
See Also: Tall, Big. Are you making yourself smaller than you really are? And if so, why? Are you trying to make problems smaller than they are in reality? See Midget, Shrinking.
[2]To dream that someone or something is smaller than usual, represents the dreamer’s feelings of unworthiness or helplessness.
If it’s a person who seems smaller than in life, you believe that person is too full of themselves. Unless it is you - then you are feeling unworthy.
[3]Material aspects: To be conscious of a smell in a dream usually means that we are trying to identify an object or its source. Most other senses are sharpened in dreams, but the sense of smell is made available only if a specific interpretation is needed.
[4]If something looks small and distant in a dream, it may be something related to an experience way back in the dreamer’s past.
This was an interpretation put forward by Sigmund Freud. (See Also: Little, Shrink).
[5]Freud points out that what is distant in time may be represented in a dream by something that is spatially distant. Thus, something that looks small may stand for something in your remote past.
[6]1. One’s sense of self-esteem is low.
2. If one perceives someone else as small, that person is not regarded highly.
[7]Having nothing to do with one’s literal size; figuratively limited only; see “last”
[8]See Also: size
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