Cigar / Cigarette

(1) Much depends on your reaction to the cigar / cigarette in the dream. For example, if in the dream you feel admonished, the message may be that you ought to give up smoking.

(2) Smoking may be a symptom of anxiety, and this may be the point of the dream. Smoking may also be a substitute form of selfgratification - in which case you need to ask which of your basic needs (e.g. love, sex, recognition or fulfilment in work) is not being satisfied, and why.

(3) A cigar or cigarette may be a sexual (penis) symbol. (Freud acknowledged that his voracious cigar-smoking was possibly a substitute for masturbation.) (On compensation)

A psychoanalytic symbol for the male organ, though when Freud was once asked about his cigar, he famously responded that “sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.” Smokers tend to associate anxiety and / or relaxation with cigarettes.

A pacifier, much like a thumb for a child. Something worthless except for the value you give it, such as, relaxation or calming nervous energy.

A harmful influence that is not necessary.

A worthless tool.