Bomb

Possible meanings
A dream about a bomb can sometimes be triggered by a deeply disturbing experience in your waking life. Otherwise, your dream is trying to alert you to a potentially explosive situation. You may need to face up to feelings you have been suppressing before they overpower you and create havoc. If there is ongoing conflict in some area of your life, you could be toying with the idea of dropping a bombshell in an attempt to resolve it, once and for all.

Questions to ask yourself - and what to do when the answer is ‘yes’

Have I been thrown off balance by a traumatic event?

• Under these circumstances, healing ultimately comes with the passage of time. If you do your best to adjust to the new circumstances, you will emerge from your experience with wisdom you might not otherwise have gained.

Am I repressing some powerful feelings?

• Your dream is urging you to try and resolve the situation before you blow a fuse. If you don’t know how to go about it, consider confiding in a friend or a member of your family. If this is impossible, then it would be best to seek professional help.

Would I secretly like to say or do something explosive?

• While you may have good reason to feel as you do, cultivating a sense of being hard done by can only make matters worse. If you want your circumstances to change, you must be first willing to change your attitude. Can you see how you have actually helped to create this situation? This means that you are actually more powerful than you think you are. Claiming that power and using it more wisely is the key to success.

(1) A bomb may be a symbol of some unconscious emotional force — for example, sexuality’, or aggression. Repressed desires or drives are likely to explode eventually, causing perhaps a lot of hurt to yourself and others. Deal with them now by giving them your conscious attention and allotting them some place in your daily life. Don’t wait for the explosion - except in the dream itself: in all nightmarish dreams it is a good idea to stay with the dream to the very end, instead of waking up before the frightening conclusion (the explosion; hitting the ground after falling from a height; or whatever it might be).

If you wake up from such a dream before it is finished, you are probably shirking some issue in your personality or in your external life.

(2) If the bomb is an atom bomb, the dream mav represent your anxiety about the way things are going in the world. On the other hand.

even anxiety about the atom bomb may be a symbolic representation of deep anxiety about yourself. Some dreams allow both an objective- external interpretation and a subjective-internal interpretation.

Being a victim of a bomb in a dream is a clear warning that a situation out of your control could explode if necessary measures are not taken. Therefore, you must rectify some aspects of your behavior.

If the one who places the bomb is you it means you are losing control and refuse to accept responsibility. On the other hand, this dream also indicates your internal condition. Perhaps, something is affecting you that you may want to explode in rage. The same goes for all those feelings and emotions that you repress.

If you avoid expressing them, they will end up exploding sooner or later.

The oneiric superstition says that a discussion that besets you will end happily.