Dream Sight: A Dictionary and Guide for Interpreting Any Dream
by Dr. Michael LennoxDreaming Lens: What size and style piano was in your dream: upright, grand, concert grand, or spinet? Was it being played? Were you the player? Was it in tune? Were you part of an orchestra, group, or solo? What style of music resulted: classical, jazz, blues, etc.?
Personal Focus: The piano is a feminine image of creative receptivity and potential. It must receive the attentions of someone to play it in order to achieve this potential, aligning it with the concept of receptivity. As the music that emerges from it can vary from Chopsticks to Chopin, its symbolic meaning also connects to mastery. Anyone can cause a piano to sing by striking a key, but only a master can make it truly soar. The essence of music is the magic of joy, and a piano represents this potential lying dormant, waiting patiently to be unleashed.
To see a piano and want to play it reveals a desire to tap into your inner creative expression. Actually playing one in your dream may indicate a period of blossoming joy. If you actually play the piano in life, this may be more literal than symbolic. Playing above your skill level could point to issues around and desire to excel, and whether or not you are living up to your creative potential. Playing poorly could indicate feelings of inadequacy or a need for humility. If someone else is playing the piano, their Character Aspect represents the part of you that has access to creative mastery and expression, or its lack.
Where the music is being made and with whom also bears investigation. Playing alone could mean your creative expression requires some level of focus and concentration. Collaborating with others means that several qualities or skills within you need to work together for you to reach your potential. The magnitude of your connection to creative passion might be reflected in the size of your musical grouping, from trio to orchestra. The quality of the music produced reflects how in or out of harmony you are in some part of your life. A piano out of tune indicates that you may not be acting upon the relationship to your inner creativity often enough.
Dreamers Dictionary
by GarudaFor all others it means emotional issues are making their appearances.
The kind of melody coming from the piano is important: is it heavy, sad, or a lighter tune? A fully open rose means love is blossoming.
If you have no particular person right now, music or dance may become your “great new love*!
Depth Psychology: The piano is a sign that feelings denied thus far are about to break through. Try to determine what kind of music you are hearing and if you or someone else is playing the piano.
Ten Thousand Dream Interpretation
by Gustavus Hindman MillerTo hear sweet and voluptuous harmony from a piano, signals success and health.
If discordant music is being played, you will have many exasperating matters to consider. Sad and plaintive music, foretells sorrowful tidings.
To find your piano broken and out of tune, portends dissatisfaction with your own accomplishments and disappointment in the failure of your friends or children to win honors.
To see an old-fashioned piano, denotes that you have, in trying moments, neglected the advices and opportunities of the past, and are warned not to do so again.
For a young woman to dream that she is executing difficult, but entrancing music, she will succeed in winning an indifferent friend to be a most devoted and loyal lover.