Dream About Cave

Seeing a cave in a dream is an indication of the unconscious and unknown in your life, a portent for feelings of vulnerability or a fragile state in your life. The cave often also represents a shelter from the outside world and a place of retreat, indicates your frigid emotions.

If you have dreamed that you were in a cave, it mean that you are in a difficult situation and alone have to fight, an end or a termi to your old ways and habits. The cave serves as a place of refuge where you feel safe and think about your problems, an indication for an elevated sense of awareness or sudden clarity.

If in a dream you are stranded in an underground cave, it mean that you are feeling in a situation where you have no control and feel helpless, an indication for new beginnings and growth. Despair and hopelessness present in your life, sadly a warning for your negative attitude about someone.

Dreaming about entering a cave mean that you are searching for spiritual enlightenment, denotes the rhythm of life. Alternatively, it mean that you are searching for answers to questions that have bothered you for a long time, a hint for the importance of learning from past generations.

It is important to note that dreams interpreted differently by each person, a premonition for competition and triumph. To get a more accurate interpretation of your dream, you need to consider your individual life situation and personal experiences, represents self-love, self-acceptance and compassion.

It represent the subconscious mind and the hidden emotions or fears that need to be explored, a message for forgiveness and grace. It also signify new beginnings or a journey into the unknown, virginity, pureness and secrecy.

A cave represent the need for introspection and exploration of one's inner self, also this dream about denial or some misunderstanding. It a call to escape from the hustle and bustle of daily life and seek some solitude, refers to your desire to sanitize a situation. The dream indicate a need to face one's fears and confront the challenges in life by going deeper into oneself, an evidence for loss of companionship. The cave also represent a place of refuge or safety, where one seeks shelter or hides from danger, represents your negative aspects of yourself.

Entering a cave symbolize a new beginning or a journey into the unknown, a premonition for you own sense of worthiness and esteem. Stalactites and stalagmites in a cave represent inner growth or obstacles to overcome, a hint for rejection. A dark or damp cave indicate depression or negative emotions, sadly a warning signal for the that you are hauling around. A cave with hidden treasures, such as crystals or gold, represent discovering hidden talents or strengths, a signal for deceit, underhandedness and lies.

In Christianity, a cave represent the darkness of sin or the tomb of Christ before his resurrection, symbolises your ability to move forward in life with confidence. In Hinduism, caves a place of worship and meditation, where one connects with the divine, indicates financial worry, monetary lost or risky endeavor. In Buddhism, caves a symbol of enlightenment or a place of retreat for monks seeking spiritual awakening, also this dream about your no real significance.

In Native American culture, caves represent the womb of Mother Earth or a place of spiritual power, hints love, death, destiny or fate. In Chinese folklore, caves inhabited by dragons, which symbolize strength and good luck, signifies knowledge, prosperity.

A cave represent the unconscious mind and the need to explore deeper into one's psyche, you may be getting to the truth of something. The dream indicate that the dreamer needs to face and overcome repressed emotions or fears, a harbinger for your ability to assert your guidance to others. The cave also represent a feeling of being stuck in one's current situation and the need to break free, signifies repressed emotional needs for love.

If the dreamer feels a sense of fear or uneasiness while in the cave, it helpful to explore what is causing those emotions in waking life and work towards resolving them, your drive, determination and ambition. If the dreamer feels a sense of peace or clarity while in the cave, it a sign that they need to take some time for introspection and self-discovery, sadly a warning signal for failure. In either case, the dream an invitation to embrace change and explore new possibilities, a clue for your subconscious feelings.

If you dream of a cave, it represent your innermost thoughts, emotions, and subconscious mind, sadly your feelings of of being unable to handle a particular situation. It indicate that you are exploring the deeper aspects of your own psyche, and that you are searching for meaning and understanding in your daily life, a metaphor for your passive aggressive nature.

Alternatively, dreaming of a cave represent a feeling of being trapped or isolated, indicates unresolved conflict. It indicate that you are struggling with a difficult situation in your daily life and you feel like you are unable to escape from it, signals resurrection.

In some cases, dreaming of a cave also be a sign of introspection and personal growth, you are harboring some ill feelings. It represent your need for solitude and reflection, or it indicate that you are on a spiritual journey to discover your true self, denotes a solid foundation for life.

It represent a desire for introspection and personal growth, a feeling of being trapped or isolated, or a spiritual journey to discover your true self, a message for your self-importance.

What does it mean Cave in a dream?

  • If you have seen a cave in a dream, You may have a desire to completely remove some things from your life, you value the life of people who know you little more than your own life. Seeing a cave in a dream indicates that the dreamer will go to a place where he will rest his head in order to get rid of his fears and worries, and that the dreamer will go to a place where he is safer for himself because of his delusions. The person who sees a cave in his dream indicates that he feels defenseless against evil no matter how old he is, and therefore he takes shelter in his parents. To see a cave in a dream indicates that the person who sees the dream will achieve great success in his business life in a short time thanks to his works, he will have the property he desires for a long time, and he will have the opportunity to buy it.
  • If you dreamed about a cave on a mountain, Take care to keep the balance within yourself, don't let some frictions at work bring you down. To see a cave on a mountain in your dream indicates that you will take responsibility and look at life well, will progress in line with your goals and desires, will enter a period where you will not experience any obstacles or disappointments, and your success will increase. For a childless person, this dream is a sign of relieving the father's distress by holding his hand in his tight moment, and the reproductive organ of the woman who has no children. As a different interpretation, it indicates that there is a dangerous person, the one who has a say in the family will gradually be put in the background and he will fall into a bad situation due to his wrong decisions.
  • Seeing a cave in a dream indicates that the dreamer is trying to escape from his fears. The dreamer's life is constantly filled with worry, delusion and doubt, and the dreamer flees to places where he will be sure to defend and protect himself. Seeing a cave in a dream is also called a parent's side, that is, a house for the dreamer. No matter how old the person who sees a cave in his dream is, he sees himself as a small and defenseless child against life and bad people, but he feels safe with his parents and is only fully happy with them.
  • It indicates that a person who makes fine plans to harm the dream owner and proceeds cautiously will overturn all his plans and disable him, thus protecting him from the harm that will come to him.
  • The dreamer gets tired that his business life will achieve great success in a very short time and he will achieve the real estate he has dreamed for a long time without any problems.

Eric Ackroyd Interpretation

A cave, being womb-likc, may carry feminine symbolism.

(1) For Freudians, a cave represents the female genitals.

(2) It may also represent your mother; or your anima, if you are a man (for anima, see Brother / Sister sections (4)-(6)).

(3) A cave may represent a womb, a place of conception or birth. (It is a hollow place in Mother Earth. A Renaissance painting depicts the conception of Jesus in a cave, with a flash of lightning as the fertilizing agent. Here we see the almost universal symbolism of sky = father, earth = mother.)

The conception or birth represented in your dream may not be a physical one. Metaphorically, a ‘pregnant5 situation is one that may ‘give birth1 to something new, a new order of things. So it may be that something new is coming to birth - or trving to come to birth, if onlv the conscious ego will let it.

(4) A cave may symbolize the unconscious. Wordsworth (‘Prelude1, Book III, lines 246—7) speaks of‘Caverns... within my mind which sun / Could never penetrate1. The unconscious lies beyond consciousness (of which the sun is a symbol) and is therefore ‘dark1 and possibly frightening. But we can allow the light of consciousness to penetrate the unconscious. Rock suggests permanence and antiquin’. Similarly, the unconscious is a much more ancient part of the human psvchc than intellect, much closer to the source of things.

(5) If, in your dream, there is someone in the cave, it may be that he or she is a Wise Old Man / Woman figure see Wise Old Man / Woman), a personification of the wisdom contained in the unconscious. Perhaps he or she will let you into the secret of your ‘destiny5, or uncover for you the causes of whatever is troubling you or spoiling your life.

(6) There mav be a fierce-looking monster, snake or dragon in the cave. There may be treasure there, too, guarded by the monster.

If so, the treasure is voursclf - your true self - or the key that will unlock the secret of life for you. First of all, though, you must overcome your fear of the unconscious (the frightening monster). The terrifying thing in your unconscious may be some traumatic childhood experience that, being unbearable, was repressed - banished from consciousness. Like St George, vou have to slay the dragon, overcome your fear of the unconscious, learn to trust it and let it sene you (which is what it is there for).

See also Monster, Treasure

(7) It may be that the cave in your dream represents a hiding-place, a refuge from life’s problems.

If so, there will be other features of your dream(s) pointing towards this interpretation.

Colette Toach Interpretation

General Meaning: A season of obscurity but also of intimacy with the Lord. In a negative sense, a cave is a picture of trying to escape the pressures of life.

• Positive: Although it might not seem that a cave can be a positive place, it does speak of a place of being protected and hidden away. I remember the Lord giving me a vision once where he drew me to a cave.

• The cave was empty except for me and Him. He said that here He would teach me everything that I needed for the next phase of my spiritual walk.

For a season things would quiet down and I would not be involved with a lot of people, but that this was of Him.

• It was indeed one of the most precious times of my life where I came to know the Lord Jesus face to face at a new level. It was a time where He brought the Scriptures to life for me and gave me a new impartation of his love.

• So if you have a vision or dream of the Lord drawing you aside, this is a good thing. It speaks of a time of seclusion that is temporary. However it will be a time of much growth for you. Even Elijah experienced the still voice of the Lord in the cave.

• 1 Kings 19:9 And he came there to a cave, and lodged there; and, behold, the word of the LORD [Yahweh] [came] to him, and he said to him, What are you doing here, Elijah?

Negative:

It has been our experience in personal ministry to often see someone we pray for tied to a cave wall. This indicates that they have hidden themselves away from the real world, usually because of hurts in the past. I speak more of this under the symbol “Bars” • It also speaks of a place of hiding away from the stress and the pressures that are surrounding you.

The only way to overcome is to step out in the name of Jesus and to overcome..

Martha Clarke Interpretation

It provides the basis for certain identifications, such as the medieval one: the cave referred to the human heart as the spiritual “center.” The cave, in this case, represents the unconscious, your subjective world, the experiences and knowledge accumulated over the years. All this allows you to reach maturity.

It is very common dream during adolescence. The events happening inside the cave will reveal which aspects of the Self you are working on. In other interpretations, the cave represents the womb or female sexuality. What you find in it will be those elements the unconscious wants to cultivate in your: virtues, ideas, attitudes, etc.

Many dragons and monsters from mythology lived in caves guarding a great treasure. This symbolizes that before winning the spiritual reward, you must fight the unconscious’ fears. The cavern may also represent memories about a traumatic childhood that have been banished from conscious memory.

Silvana Amar Interpretation

Caves are rich and thought-provoking dream symbols. At times, a woman with reproductive issues may have a cave dream, in which case it represents the womb.

The cave, as the womb, can represent new life, creativity, warmth and safety.

The cave can be a general symbol of a safe place, a sanctuary or a refuge.

If you are experiencing much anxiety in daily life, in your dream state you may retreat to a warm cave where you cannot be disturbed by worldly demands.

The cave could also represent the mysterious and unexplored parts of ourselves. It could be symbolic of the unconscious mind, which could be a pleasant or a frightening experience. Your personal associations and experiences with caves, as well as the details and the emotional content of this dream, need to be carefully considered before making an interpretation. Retreat, refuge, meditation 

Theresa Cheung Interpretation

Dreams of camping, resting or seeking shelter in a cave are common in dreamland, although few of us have explored caves in waking life. In dreams, the cave, as an image of the womb, may represent sanctuary and protection from outside forces; it is a place to which you can retreat and regain your strength.

Emerging from a cave into daylight may symbolize a new beginning, whilst descending into a cave or catacomb may represent a desire to explore your unconscious. Passing through a cave signifies a change of state and a deeper understanding of negative impulses within you.

See also Cave, Chasm and Valley entries in NATURE AND THE SEASONS.

Tony Crisp Interpretation

Example: ‘I am in a large, airy cave-like room. I am pregnant and wearing a white gown. I am lying on my back on a flat slablike surface with my legs drawn up’ (Joan D). Prenatal life; the vagina; the process of reproduction and birth. Also an entrance to our unconscious; in some dreams a real contact with the forces of our evolutionary journey. We may find in the cave a fear of madness or being lost; a sense of meeting the divine; our own traumas or destiny; a meeting with death and rebirth.

See catacomb, crypt; unconscious.

Dream Explanations - Anonymous Interpretation

Dreaming of this prehistoric hiding place can represent a respite, a place of a rich inner life, hidden treasures, and your need for safety. Perhaps this dream is suggesting that you take time away from your busy life to process your feelings and plan your strategy for your next venture. Or this dream may be telling you to give other people in your life the dignity of their own space when they need it. This also represents a desire to go back to the womb.

See Dugout or Hermit.

Theresa Cheung Interpretation

Like a womb, a cave protects and conceals. It is associated with mystery, danger and the unconscious. While the cave may appear frightening, an exploration may reveal exciting things.

If you enter the cave in your dream, this suggests change and a deeper understanding of yourself.

If you are too afraid to enter, there may be aspects of yourself that you don’t want to acknowledge. Or do you feel that you are about to cave in or give way to someone else?

Garuda Interpretation

Vision: Crawling into a cave: being overwhelmed by a present situation. Living in a cave: you have become unpopular. Digging a cave: a death in your family or circle of friends. Coming out of a dark cave back into the light: a long period of deprivation (unemployment, etc.) is slowly coming to an end; your economic situation is improving.

Depth Psychology: See Grotto, Ditch, Tomb.

Pamela Ball Interpretation

1- As with the catacombs, the cave represents a doorway into the unconscious. While initially the cave may be frightening an exploration can reveal strong contact with our own inner selves.

2- Passing through the cave signifies a change of state, and a deeper understanding of our own negative impulses.

3- Spiritual shelter and initiation and rebirth.

Klaus Vollmar Interpretation

See Grotto, Barn. Womb of the mother, uterus, and security, as in Family and Dam.

According to Freud, a symbol for vagina; protection and femininity.

The original dwellings in which human beings lived, with their animal drives. According to Jung, a reminder that human beings developed from animals.

Pagan - Anonymous Interpretation

Seeing a dark, underground cave generally spells danger. However, a cave on a hill or mountain indicates that you’ll soon have new opportunities.

If you dream you’re inside a cave, you’ll experience frustration.

See the cave from the outside, and your situation will gradually improve.

Versatile - Anonymous Interpretation

Gives gender-specific: In both men’s and women’s dreams a cave will represent exploring the subconscious, but in a woman’s dream she is more likely to sense something greater than herself whereas initially a man will begin to appreciate his own intuitive senses.

James R. Lewis and Evelyn Dorothy Oliver Interpretation

Caves often represent a place to hide or seek refuge. Coming out of a cave may mean the emergence of the self.

A cave may also symbolize the womb, childbearing, new life, contemplation, or creativity. (See also Hole, Pit).

Versatile - Anonymous Interpretation

Material aspects: As with the catacombs, the cave represents a doorway into the unconscious. While initially the cave may be frightening, an exploration can reveal strong contact with our own inner selves.

Versatile - Anonymous Interpretation

In common with many underground symbols, the cave represents spiritual shelter or sanctuary, initiation and rebirth. Meditating on the image of an inner cave gives insight into how we tackle life events.

DreamForth Interpretation

To dream that you are walking in a dark cave represents your subconscious mind or the attempt to seek out shelter. It signifies that you are enduring bad fortune or an argument that wasn’t foreseen.

Ella Freeman Sharpe Interpretation

To see a cave indicates that the dreamer is faced with many dilemmas.

If the dreamer is in a cave, indifference may alienate friends or family.

The cave is a dream symbol of sexual implications.

Internet Archive - Anonymous Interpretation

An obstacle dream.

If you escape from the Cave, all will go well, though you must expect trouble at first. But if you fall into a Cave, or fail to get out, then expect business worries.

Dream Meanings Anonymous Interpretation

Dreams incorporating caves are metaphoric of getting in touch with the inner self. These gateways at first are scary but in due course, after exploration, can become safe havens.

Versatile - Anonymous Interpretation

Psychological / emotional perspective: Passing through a cave signifies a change of state, transition and a deeper understanding of our own negative impulses.

myjellybean Interpretation

Dreams of caves signify self-awareness and creativity.

If there is a cave-in, you will experience some unexpected misfortune or disagreement.

Betty Bethards Interpretation

Unconscious mind; unexplored parts of self. Great treasures lie within as you continue the adventure of self- discovery.

Tyler Wolfe Interpretation

This can be a secret and difficult area to get to in life.

A cave can also be symbolic of being trapped, Isa. 42:22

Gillian Holloway Interpretation

You will be forgotten by someone you care for if you dream of entering a cave.

Margaret Hamilton Interpretation

A depressed situation under unwise submission

Martha Clarke Interpretation

See CAVERN

Zolar Interpretation

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being in a: change and probable separation from loved ones.

with others: abundant means if you seek refuge with friends.

being in a cavern: wil remain poor and unknown in your expanding universe.

of a: desire to relinquish responsibility and to become total y dependent on another.

very deep: death of a friend makes you contemplate the beginning of your life.

coming out of a, into the light: your depression is over; your self can emerge safely.

crawling into a: avoiding an overwhelming situation wil not solve it.

digging a: feel the energy receding from you, leaving muscular aches from a wet chil .

escaping from: your deep stronger self is trying to locate you.

falling into a: returning to levels of consciousness where fear was founded.

grotto, having a big party in a: are happily absorbed in and engulfed by your lover.

dining in a: your lover cannot replace your inability to deal with your world.

living in a: your insecurities are revealed in egotism.

taken by force into a, being: perilous journey ahead to the ancient level of being.

Ibn Seerin Interpretation

(Cavern; Woman) Entering a cave in one’s dream means reaching safety and trust in God Almighty, or it could mean being saved from one’s enemy.

A cave in a dream also represents a woman,jealousy, swerving, dodging, or a good luck with one’s friends.

A cave in a dream also represents one’s shelter, guardian, mother, father, teacher, Imam, wife, business or trade.

A cave in a dream also means hiding one’s secrets and for a person looking for work, it means finding ajob or working for people in authority and ending of one’s trouble, or it could mean recovering from an illness, release from jailor longevity.

Towers, Jacqueline Interpretation

This is an obstacle dream. If you see yourself in a cave that you are unable to get out of, prepare yourself for an extended period of increased problems and worry. If you manage to find your way out, you can look forward to triumphing over your difficulties. Cave dwellers predict a happy marriage.

Jean Boushahla Interpretation

Great Mother symbol; hidden aspects of self; deeper levels of the mind; exploring the depths of the unconscious; storage place, living quarters, area of protection of more primitive lives; site of mystery and healing; loneliness, desolation, secrecy; hiding place when troubled; a major experience which neither light nor sun can penetrate; a state of consciousness devoid of light and truth. Cave-in —body, mind and spirit being undermined; descending into a cave— a necessary descent from too exalted conscious position; dread of not finding the way out again— fear of lunacy.

Marsha Trimble Dunstan Interpretation

shelter (see Exodus 33:21-23; Judges 6:2; Isaiah 2:21); protection (see Judges 15:8; 1 Samuel 22:1; Isaiah 2:21; Ezekiel 33:27; Revelation 6:15); introspection (char); to be hard on oneself (char); depression (char).

Georg Fink Interpretation

A cave in a dream has to do with a dark place from which life comes into being, or a promise of maternal things, new beginnings, or renewal. Dreaming about stepping out of a cave indicates that you have successfully come through difficult times. Dreaming of taking refuge in a cave overnight means that you are at a loss about what to do in a doomed situation. Dreaming of living in a cave refers to your sense of isolation. According to the Indian dream book fearfully stepping out of a cave is a sign of impending good fortune. But if the dreamer is running into a cave, a sad future’is foretold. (See also “Grotto.”)

Ian Wallace Interpretation

Situation where I can step into a more fundamental understanding of my character so I can explore the roots of my deepest self

Cathleen Connor Interpretation

A cave represents the hidden you — the person you truly are. How did you feel inside the cave? Were you frightened? Was it cozy? Caves also refer to rebirth and changing old ideas.

Mary Summer Interpretation

signifies natural defenses; inherent knowledge

Julia and Derek Parker Interpretation

On the whole, a dream of a cave is likely to be somewhat daunting. In most world myths a cave symbolises a place of initiation, the underworld, the place of the dead - though also a shelter (the womb of the earth). The Hindus saw caves as 'places of the heart', and it is certainly likely to represent something profound about yourself or your situation. If you were taking refuge, from what? If you were exploring, maybe this represents your need to explore your own psyche, either by private meditation or in analysis. A cave is always feminine, so perhaps there is a reference to someone (your mother?) whose personality in some way offers reassurance or shelter. If the cave holds a monster, what does it represent? Was the cave totally dark, or was there a light towards which you were making progress? - this may represent your ultimate aim. If you are carrying a light, what waking situation should you illuminate? Are you sure the cave was not a tunnel?

Strong, Gerard Interpretation

If the dreamer is hiding in a cave, it is a sign that someone is spreading vicious rumors about him and wishes to cause him harm.

Tony Crisp Interpretation

Prenatal life; the vagina; the process of reproduction and birth. Also, an entrance to our unconscious; the void we face at the end of individuation. We may find in the cave: a fear of the irrational or being lost; a sense of meeting the divine; our traumas or destiny; a meeting with death and rebirth. See catacomb, crypt; unconscious. Example: “I am in a large, airy cavelike room. I am pregnant and wearing a white gown. I am lying on my back on a flat slablike surface with my legs drawn up.” (Barbara A.)