Barrier

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.

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.

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.