Dream dictionary symbol - schools in dreams analysis

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DREAM DICTIONARY : This dream dictionary is based upon hundreds of real dreams and has been meticulously researched. However, the only person who can truly identify the cause of a dream is the dreamer. Use the questions and quotes on this page to help you find out what has triggered your dream.

SCHOOLS : Schools are often quite negative symbols. They show you realising that something is going drastically wrong or that you have made a mistake in behaving a particular way. But they can also be symbolic of harsh and difficult situations. They show you not really knowing what to do. Often we get caught in situations where we really are not sure how to react. They are about self control and the need to act appropriately.

QUESTIONS to help you make associations(pick the one that makes most sense to you)
- Did you learn a harsh lesson in life yesterday?
- Did you simply not know how to react yesterday?
- Are you starting to realise that something is failing?

KEY WORDS : Failing, harsh lesson, learning, complex situation

KEY PHRASES(Pick a quote which captures your feelings right now. Think especially of the day before the dream) :
- "realising something is failing"
- "I learnt the hard way"
- "I cannot do it"
- "Its a harsh lesson to learn"
- "I did not know how to react"
- "I have got to learn what is best for me"

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SEE ALSO : Teachers : Colleges and Universities : Bookshops : Prisons : Shops : Hospitals : Hotels : Churches : Factories : Towns : Houses : Mansions
DREAM STUDIES : Schools: Churches: Hospitals : Prisons Hotels Shops factories Towns Houses
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Below you will see a series of quotes. Each quote represents the meaning of a particular dream(these are all dreams where the meaning is understood totally). For instance one dream may have meant that the dreamer was having trouble at work. In that case the quote may simply be "There is a bad atmosphere at work". Some information is included about which dream symbols were included in the dream(within the squares brackets). Often a sample dream is included which shows you how the dream interpretation was reached.
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ESSAY : What is the symbolic meaning of schools in dreams?
Schools are generally a negative symbol. They show that we are in some way lacking in knowledge about how to behave.

Schools often link to some issue where we are starting to realise that we are failing or on the way to failure. E.g.

"I realise now that ITS OVER. My marriage is finished"[Dream symbol - school dream]

"I have LEARNT the HARD WAY. I feel victimized and isolated."[Dream symbol - School dream]

"I realise now that I have got to set down rules. But right now the relationship is FAILING"[Dream symbol - school dream]

Often school dreams represent awkward or difficult situations in which we do not know how to react. E.g.

"Its frustrating that I CANNOT DO what I want. I would like to be friends with him but its difficult whilst I have a boyfriend"[Dream symbol - school dream]

"I think I just wanted to act wildly in front of my friends but soon it became public knowledge. It was a LESSON I HAD TO LEARN IN LIFE"[Dream symbol - schools dream]

Sometimes schools represent us needing to control our selves in difficult situations. In such cases we maybe right but will have to learn to calm the situation down. E.g.

"Its always important to LEARN to stay clear of being drawn into petty behavior. He was so rude I wanted to really humiliate him yet you only get dragged down to his level and it will only GET WORSE if I did respond"[Dream symbol - school dream]

"Its a HARSH LESSON IN LIFE but I simply have to take it. She is spreading gossip about me but if I start back at her I know she has lots of influence and will make life difficult"[Dream symbol - school dream]

"I have GOT TO LEARN thats its pointless getting into an argument with people like that . Its only just going to upset me. People like that live on another planet"[Dream symbol - school dream]
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DREAM TIP : We constantly learn in life. We may leave school at 16 yet we never stop learning. We constantly meet new people and new situations and we often come across moments when we do not know exactly how to react. But life is about a constant need to adapt. School dreams may link to situations where we simply have not learn the lesson or where we have learnt it the hard way.
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SAMPLE DREAM
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THE DREAM I am in a school. I get up to leave the class and suddenly something very embarrassing happens. I act in a way that I tend to when nervous. When I woke up I thought of a guy who had been irritating me the previous day.

THE REALITY At work the dreamer occasionally sees a man whom really annoys him. He is rude and the day before he acted in an especially obnoxious way. The dreamer kept thinking all day about what he would like to do to this man. How he would like to humiliate him with some clever "put down" or to tell him exactly what he thought of him.

THE INTERPRETATION Often people "get to us" in real life. They act in a very obnoxious way and we cannot get them out of our minds. Often we may dream about the incident. The dream will help to calm our minds down. Certainly we often go to sleep and wake up to find some issue we cannot get out of our minds has magically disappeared.

The dream then could be about a real life "lesson" in life. A situation where we have to learn not to take things too far. Where we possibly want to do something and feel justified in that. Yet the lesson we learn is that such actions are futile and only provoke the situation. The lesson we perhaps learn is to rise above the situation and behave like a grown up.

This dreamer wanted to humiliate the person who had been rude to him. He wanted to draw attention to the persons weaknesses and embarrassing faults. This dream drew attention to his own embarrassing faults. So perhaps the message is that he needs to cool down and not resort to such extreme tactics. The dreamer knew this all along but sometimes we get carried away by the feelings of the moment. Behaving in a childish way by trying to humiliate others and exploit their weaknesses will only result in the same being done back to ourselves.

The dreamer knew very well that this man he disliked had a tendency to behave in an obnoxious way to many people. Then fault was clearly his and getting drawn into his world would only result in being dragged down to his petty level.

Symbolic Meanings
SCHOOL : "A lesson in life that we have learnt usually from the day before we have to learn how to behave in trying circumstances"

DREAM MEANING The dream captures the following feeling within the dreamer - "I got really annoyed by this guy who really irritates me yesterday. I want to really humiliate him because he is basically a petty individual. But I have got to resist the temptation. It may backfire"

See how the Symbolic Meanings above weave together to form a key insight in the DREAM MEANING

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