Places

Cave

An inner space you can enter — the part of you that is dark, contained, and yours.

A cave in a dream is the dictionary's image of an inner space you can enter. The cave in folklore is often where treasure or monsters live; in dreams it is usually the part of you that is dark, contained, and known only to you.

Going into the cave in the dream is the dream's image of choosing to do inner work. Coming out with something from the cave is the dictionary's image of bringing a piece of inner knowledge back into your daily life.

Where you often see it. A cave in a familiar hillside. A cave entered by torchlight. The dream uses the cave for an inner space you can enter — the part of you that is dark, contained, and yours.

What it is not. A cave is not always hiding. The dictionary reads it as the dreamer's chosen inner shelter.

Related in the dictionary. Read cave with darkness, mountain, and any scene where retreat is owned rather than imposed.

Variations of Cave

State Dead Sleeping Trapped

Related symbols

Attic

What you have stored above daily awareness — ideals, ambitions, sometimes ghosts.

Balcony

A vantage point — close to your life but with a step back.

Basement

What you have stored below daily awareness — old memory, old strength, sometimes both.

Beach

The edge between conscious life and emotional life — where you walk along feeling.

Bedroom

The most private room of the self — rest, intimacy, the inner sanctum.

Bridge

Transition — the place between what you are leaving and what you are crossing into.

Disclaimer: For entertainment and self-reflection only. Not a substitute for professional advice.