Nancy Wagaman Interpretation: An inability or unwillingness to communicate or express yourself.
Consider the reason you couldn’t speak.
A throat problem could represent an unwillingness or inability to express yourself or speak for yourself.
Laryngitis could represent the idea of talking too much or expressing a lot (or not enough).
Being overcome by emotion might represent actual emotion you feel about something in your real life, or an in-the-moment reaction to an event in the dream.
Someone else stopping you from speaking might represent a feeling or fear of a challenge, victimization, or oppression.
Being “tongue tied” might represent an issue of overwhelm, pride, nervousness, or self-sabotage.
For more clues, consider your feelings, the context, what you were trying to say, and to whom.
See also: Voice; Paralysis; Problem; Helpless; Illness; Help, Calling for; Quiet