It is important to pay attention to your emotions in the dream and try to understand their meaning, an indication for prestige.
General Interpretation: Dreaming of surgery represent a great change, transformation, or transition in your daily life, a harbinger for someone or something is evil. It signal an upcoming physical or emotional operation, healing or recovery process, or an attempt to cut away negative aspects of yourself, signifies your over-involvement or obsession with your work. It also signify a need for assistance, support, or guidance from others to overcome challenges or obstacles that you are facing, hints failure in some work that you are attempting.
Interpretation by Symbols: The type of surgery and its purpose provide more information about the dream's interpretation, an omen for freedom, tranquility and renewal. If the surgery is related to cosmetic reasons, it indicates that you are focused on the superficial aspects of yourself and feeling insecure about your personal appearance, represents your pursuit for literary fine arts. If the surgery is related to removing an organ or body part, it suggests that you need to release something in your life that has been hindering your progress, refers to an escape from your own personal issues and stresses. If the surgery is unsuccessful or botched, it a warning to avoid taking risks or to seek a second opinion before making significant decisions, your issues with intimacy, power, control and effectiveness.
Interpretation by Religions/Beliefs: In Christianity, dreaming of surgery indicate the need for spiritual or emotional healing, whereas in Hinduism, surgery mean detachment or separation from the physical world, a premonition for frustrations, of guilt. In Islam, having surgery signify cleansing or purifying oneself of sins or impurities, denotes feelings that have burned out or that you are feeling burnt out and exhausted. In other faiths and beliefs, surgery seen as a necessary procedure to overcome or prevent harm, a symbol for hope in times.
Interpretation by Cultures: Different cultures consider surgery differently, a signal for your ability to mesh various aspects of your life together. In Western societies, surgery is often regarded as a remedy for health issues, while in some African and Asian cultures, it is used for ritual purposes, such as circumcision or female genital mutilation, a message for the roles you play in your various you put on. In Mexican culture, dreaming of surgery indicates a need for vigilance or caution in one's daily life, while in Japanese culture, it represents a need for purification or cleansing, points at the body.
Psychological Interpretation: Dreaming of surgery a reflection of the fears and anxieties related to undergoing medical procedures, an indication for honor, celebration, continuity or completeness. It also signify the desire to remove an undesirable aspect of oneself that you feel is holding you back, such as negative thoughts or bad habits, points to unity, balance, harmony, calmness and self-discipline. It also be an indication of your subconscious mind processing previous experiences related to illness, surgery, or medical procedures, represents your daily challenges.
Suggestions: If you've had recurring dreams about surgery, it beneficial to talk with a therapist to explore the underlying emotions, thoughts, and fears that are associated with it, a symbol for your untamed, animalistic emotions. Writing down your dreams in a dream journal will help you identify any patterns or recurring themes that provide insights into your subconscious desires and needs, a harbinger for difficulty in breaking through or getting your point across to someone. Practicing mindfulness, meditation, or relaxation techniques help alleviate the stress and anxiety associated with these dreams, states your expensive tastes.
Dreaming about surgery a sign of transformation and renewal, expresses a lack of self esteem or self-worth. It signify that you are ready to make changes in your life and that you are willing to take the necessary steps to do so, unfortunately a warning signal for on other people. The type of surgery in the dream offer clues as to what kind of changes you are looking to make, signals something that is beneath you. For example, if the surgery is cosmetic, it a sign that you are looking to make changes to your physical appearance or outward persona, you are creating your own opportunities. If the surgery is more serious, it mean that you are looking to make more significant changes in your life, a clue for innocence, playfulness, festivities, frivolity and girliness.
The emotions associated with the dream also offer insight into what kind of transformation you are seeking, expresses the influence of evil around you. If the dream is frightening or anxiety-inducing, it mean that you are feeling overwhelmed by the changes that need to be made, a signal for from the primal developed parts of your subconscious. On the other hand, if the dream is peaceful or calming, it mean that you are feeling confident and ready to take on whatever challenges come your way, you have let go of your thoughts of hate and revenge.
It signify that you have the courage and strength to make necessary adjustments and that you have faith in yourself and your ability to do so, means your desire for a loyal relationship.
Dreaming Lens: Were you having surgery in the dream? Had you, or someone else, already had a surgery? What type of surgery was it? Were you performing the surgery? If so, on whom? Was it excessively violent or scary? How was your recovery?
Personal Focus: Surgery is usually thought of as a painful and invasive procedure undertaken when some form of healing needs to take place. In its essence, it is a process that fundamentally alters the structure of some part of the body. Whether it is to remove something harmful, assist in recovery from trauma or enhance one’s appearance, the surgeon never leaves things as they were found. This makes the symbolic meaning connect to the alteration as the primary result of the surgery, and healing as secondary.
All surgeries can be categorized as either removing or adding something to the body. If something is being removed, begin your investigation in areas of your life where you are facing loss or release. If you are being surgically enhanced with new material such as replaced joints or a pacemaker, look to ways in which you are taking on new paths or ways of being that are currently foreign to you.
The area of the body involved will be prominent in your interpretation. If your organs and intestinal area are the site of a surgery, you are likely dreaming about issues around emotional expression. If bones and/or joints are involved, then what is being altered connects to the foundational structures that underlie your sense of self or belief systems. Brain surgery points to intellectual or thought-based changes, whereas heart surgery would imply shifting around the expression of love or passion. Plastic surgery deals with the more superficial elements of change.
No matter what the surgery is, there is an implication that some area in your consciousness requires dramatic healing. The healing that is taking place is big enough to warrant this image to express itself, which is a further indication that an alteration will be required if the healing is to be successful. As with all change, there may be pain and suffering. Most importantly, there will be a recovery period before the new way of being will be fully accessible to you.
If something is being removed, begin your investigation in areas of your life where you are facing loss or release.
If you are being surgically enhanced with new material, such as replacement joints or a pacemaker, look to ways in which you are currently taking on new paths or ways of being that are foreign to you. No matter what the surgery is, there is an implication that some area in your consciousness requires dramatic healing.
1- To find ourselves in a surgery in dreams would indicate that we should be looking at our health and health matters.
2- Surgery indicates a fairly violent intrusion in our lives which may be necessary.
Dreaming of having surgery performed on us shows we need to accustom ourselves to changes which may initially be difficult, but ultimately arc healing.
3- Spiritually, the dreamer may feci that he has too much to deal with or that something needs altering.
A dream about surgery can often indicate this.
A feeling or fear of something being “off” physically, emotionally, or mentally.
Assistance from a source outside yourself (or a desire for it).
The idea of someone crossing your personal boundaries with or without your permission.
A feeling or fear of someone taking advantage of you, forcing their opinion on you, or “getting into your business.” Surgery without your permission can indicate a Toxic Dream.
See also: Illness; Doctor; Hospital
It is influencing you negatively. Perhaps someone in power is trying to persuade you to do something you are uncomfortable with. Alternatively, you are feeling the influence of some authority figure. This dream may also be incorporating your anxieties regarding a scheduled operation or your general well-being.
See Hospital, Illness.
Depth Psychology: Surgery indicates the need to remove something from your emotional life. While the dream sometimes reveals a fear of illness, most of the time it means drastic changes because of something you did.
Dreaming of having surgery performed on us shows we need to accustom ourselves to changes that may initially be difficult, but ultimately are healing and to our benefit.
If a young man or a young woman see themselves having an operation where their chest is opened, or having an open heart surgery for example in a dream, it means that they are in love. As for elderly people, it means distress. Having a minor surgery on the thumb in a dream means signing a loan.
(Also see Body’; Chest)