tongue

Universal Landscape: The ability to articulate. The sense of taste.

Dreaming Lens: How was the tongue featured in the dream? Was it your tongue or the tongue of another person? Was the tongue human or animal? Was kissing part of the dream? Was the tongue attached to a person or detached from a mouth? Was the tissue living or dead? What was your visceral reaction to the tongue in the dream?

Personal Focus: The tongue’s ability to form different shapes inside the mouth endows human beings with an enormous catalog of sounds. This has allowed us to create one of our greatest assets—language. The tongue is symbolic of our innate human desire to be understood and relates to issues around communication. This can reflect everything from being soft spoken to possessing a sharp tongue. If communication is too passive, the speaker may be rendered ineffective. If it’s too pointed or overly direct, wounding can occur, often in opposition to the communicator’s intention.

A damaged tongue could indicate a need for you to examine how effective you are in this area. If your tongue is paralyzed, you may not be speaking powerfully enough to achieve your intentions in your waking life. In the world of crime, whether fictional or real, to have a tongue removed is a punishment for speaking out of turn, or revealing secret information. Dreaming of losing your tongue can relate to consequences of things you have said or wish to say in some situation.

The other primary meaning associated with the tongue relates to the physical sensations of taste and sensual pleasure. Consider that tasting food is erotic in nature and falls into the same category as do sexual acts. If eating is involved in your dream, the tongue relates to pleasure associated with self-care and abundant living. The ability to taste delicious food is a luxury, and if this interpretation feels right, the Dreaming Lens will inform you of your current relationship to this in your waking life.

The act of kissing with the tongue is extremely personal. If this is the focus of the dream, your interpretation must examine where in your life you are allowing or avoiding intimacy. Joining through the mouth is symbolic of two people exchanging and integrating communication skills. If you are kissing someone in a dream, use their Character Aspects to inform you of what traits you need to incorporate into your communication.

A dream of actually holding onto your tongue with your hand, or with your teeth, is an admonition that you could be tempted to reveal too much, and it’s time to “hold your tongue.”

To see someone sticking their tongue out at you means that you are more highly respected than you think.

To dream of licking or tasting food depends on the nature of the food involved.

See Taste.

If the dreamer sees a snake with its tongue flickering in and out, someone in his aura “speaks with a forked tongue,” or, in other words, isn’t being totally up front with him.

To see an animal panting with its tongue hanging out indicates that the dreamer has been moving too fast, working “hot and heavy,” and needs to stop and take time out.

Dreaming of the tongue of a shoe implies that there are issues going on with you now that you don’t really understand, and thus you should reserve any comments about them until you do.

(Interpreter, Pen, Speech writer, Stinger, Translator) In a dream, one’s tongue represents his translator or his business manager. One’s tongue in a dream also represents the chief cause of sin. Moving one’s tongue without speaking in a dream means committing a sin. Seeing an increase in size, width, or length of one’s tongue in a dream means strength and overcoming one’s enemy. Ifone’s tongue becomes elongated with no cause for dispute or argument in a dream, it means having a bad tongue, or backbiting others, speaking ill about others, or using base and despicable language. Having a long tongue in a dream also could mean clarity in one’s speech and eloquence in one’s expressions. Having two tongues in a dream means acquiring a second language or a second trade, using a proof other than one’s own in a court of justice, or winning victory over one’s enemy.

If one finds his tongue tied in a dream, it means stagnation of his business, or it could mean poverty.

If black hair grows over one’s tongue in a dream, it means a fast coming evil.

If gray hair grows over one’s tongue in a dream, then it means a slow coming adversity. Hair growing over one’s tongue in a dream also means writing or reciting a poem. One’s tongue in a dream also represents the perfect alibi, the beauty and eloquence of one’s presentation, a professional presentation, good fame and good conduct.

If a governor’s tongue is cut off in a dream, it means the death of his interpreter or his speech writer.

The human tongue in a dream also represents his pen and his signing authority.

If one’s tongue becomes long and reaches the skies in a dream, it means that he will be impeached or deposed from his leadership position following his tyranny and injustices.

If the tongue of a leader or a ruler becomes long in a dream, it also signifies the expansion of his power and the infallibility and effectiveness of his commands. One’s tongue in a dream also symbolizes a milk suckling baby, a lion in his den, or an intelligent warrior. Thus, if one lets a lion out of a lair in a dream, it denotes his tongue, or hurting people’s feeling or reputation with one’s tongue. Ifone sees himself without a tongue in a dream, it may mean the death of an infant.

If one has to appear in court and sees his tongue cut off in a dream, it means that his proof will be rejected by the judge.

If only the side of one’s tongue is cut off in a dream, it means that he has doubts about the testimony of his witness.

If he is a merchant, it means that he will lose an important business deal.

If he is a student, it means that he will not complete his schooling.

It is also said that when one’s tongue is cut off in a dream, it means that he is a forbearing person.

If the wife’s tongue is cut off in a dream it means that she is a chaste and a pious woman.

If a wife cuts off the tongue of her husband in a dream, it means that she will flirt with him and show him tenderness and love. Cutting off the tongue of a poor person in a dream means giving something to an impudent person to shun offhis evil. Ifa poor person cuts off the tongue of another poor person in a dream, it means a fight between them. Ifone’s tongue sticks to his palate in a dream, it means that he will deny or reject someone’s right, refute the truth, or lie about a trust he received to keep for a time. Eating one’s tongue or biting on it in a dream represents an act one will regret.

If a governor sees that in a dream, it means that he swindles people’s money and receives bribes. Biting on one’s tongue in a dream also means remaining mostly silent, withholding one’s advice, or controlling one’s fury and anger. Biting one’s tongue in a dream also could denote gluttony. Cutting off one’s tongue in a dream means invalidating one’s argument or proof, or preventing him from asking for anything.

The cutting off of a poet’s tongue in a dream means giving him money for his recitation. Seeing one’s tongue black in a dream means that one may preside over his own people. Ifhe is a wretched person, it means that he is a liar.

If someone who is scared of something sees his tongue in a dream, it means that he will lose his battle and become subject to defamation and humiliation.

If a wretched person sees himself having many tongues in a dream, it means that he will have a large family. Having many tongues in a dream also means speakingmany foreign languages. Ifone’s tongue is split in half in a dream, it means that he is a liar. Having many tongues and of many colors in a dream means telling different and contradictory stories, or it could represent a music writer.

If people touch one’s tongue or suck it in a dream, it means that they are acquiringhis knowledge. It also represents people toadying or lobbying in official business. One’s tongue in a dream also represents a hidden treasure, a hidden knowledge, a toadying servant, an employee, one’s house, a vehicle, a skilled enemy, a seedling of a fruit bearing tree, a bad wife, a barren woman, one’s spoken and irretrievable words, earnings, collecting garbage, following someone’s traces, a policeman, or a prisoner.

An animal’s tongue in a dream represents one’s life or death, because for an animal, his tongue is like a hand through which he takes things.

If a scholar’s tongue is cut offin a dream, it means that he will lose his argument, or it could mean the death of his assistant, student or son. Losing one’s tongue in a dream represents the malicious joy of one’s enemy, family, or neighbors for one’s losses, or it could mean the death of a beloved, severing a relationship, or a plant disease that will affect one’s fruit bearing trees. Perhaps losing one’s tongue in a dream could mean separation between husband and wife, divorce, losingone’sjob, or moving to a new town. Having two tongues in a dream also means backbiting others, or having two faces with people, for people say that so-and so has two tongues or two faces.

If the second tongue does not impede the person from speaking in the dream, then it denotes his truthfulness, love and affection toward others. One’s tongue in a dream also may represent something one fears, such as the collapsing of a roof over his head, or it could represent an enemy. It also means isolating oneself from people of knowledge and wisdom, or it could mean remaining mostly silent, minding one’s own business, or offering devotion and being grateful to God Almighty for His gifts and blessings. One’s tongue in a dream also represents a captured prisoner of war, or a snake hiding in its pit. Looking at one’s tongue in a dream means controlling what comes out of it.

(Also see Body’, Exhaustion from speaking, Language, Spell out)