These are dreams which express the theme of something blocking your progress through life. Dreams of locked or forbidden rooms fall into this category, as do bridges that are impossible to cross.
If you often have dreams in which barriers prevent you from progressing or escaping, your dreaming mind is urging you to dissolve limiting factors In your life and in your mind. This doesn’t mean all of your problems are down to negative thinking; but if you can think of problems as challenges and rejection as setbacks, your chances of success are far greater.
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Martha Clarke
The Big Dictionary of Dreams
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Like walls and fences, it is symbolizing the inaccessibility of something. The repetition of this image points to the inability to move forward on the path undertaken. The area you cannot reach because of the barrier is the higher reality you want to achieve. Something is interfering with your path, preventing you from getting what you really want in life.
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Klaus Vollmar
Little Giant Encyclopedia
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Restriction, limitation, or establishing boundaries.
A frequently occurring dream symbol when feeling confined and unable to move forward. Also see Amputation, Cage. Balking at something, holding back. Sign of social force. Taboo.
Difficulty in making social or business contacts.
To have hit a brick wall. Usually points to a challenge.
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Versatile - Anonymous
Dream Meanings of Versatile
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Psychological / emotional perspective: As a barrier signifies an obstacle to be overcome, or a difficulty to be recognized, the nature of the barrier and our reactions will clarify any action that needs to be taken. In our most vulnerable emotional states we may need some sort of buffer between us and the rest of the world.
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Dream Explanations - Anonymous
Strangest Dream Explanations
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Dreams of a barrier symbolize resistance to your circumstances or that there is a challenge to overcome. You are grappling with a growth opportunity that once overcome will make you stronger, clearer, wiser, and better.
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Joan Seaman - Tom Philbin
New American Dream Dictionary
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1. Severely limiting obstacles, often in life or circumstances.
2. Feelings of territory or a need or desire for boundaries, usually protective.
3. Possible emotional block, usually for protective reasons.
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Stearn Robinson - Tom Corbett
The Complete Guide to Interpreting Your Dreams
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Anything closed, such as a window, door, gate, fence, wall, etc., constitutes an obstacle dream, and its significance will follow on how you dealt with it.
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Pagan - Anonymous
Tryskelion Dream Interpretation
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Dreaming of walls, closed doors, fences and any other type of barriers predicts the frustration of plans, as a general rule.
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James R. Lewis and Evelyn Dorothy Oliver
Dream Symbols in The Dream Encyclopedia
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A barrier may signify that the dreamer is experiencing some obstacle in an arena of his or her life.
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Eric Ackroyd
A Dictionary of Dream Symbols
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see Obstacle
About These Interpretations
This page presents 10 different perspectives on this dream symbol from various expert sources. Each interpretation considers context, emotion, and personal meaning rather than providing fixed definitions.
