State · Dead

Dead Clock in dreams

Time. The awareness of it, the pressure of it, or the running out of it.

How dead changes the reading

Dead in the dream means the symbol's energy is no longer in active circulation in your life. The reading is not necessarily grim — most often it is the dream noting that something you had been carrying has run its full course and you can stop carrying it.

The base reading of Clock

A clock in a dream is the dictionary's image of time-awareness. A clock with hands moving normally is a healthy relationship with time. A clock running fast is pressure that has slipped past sustainable. A stopped clock is a phase that has paused, sometimes by choice, sometimes by stalling.

Looking at the time and seeing a meaningful number is the dictionary's smaller image of intuition — the dream pointing at something it wants you to notice in waking life.

Where you often see it. A clock you cannot read. A clock whose hands move too fast. A clock at the edge of the dream-room. The dream uses the clock for time — the awareness of it, the pressure of it, the running out of it.

What it is not. A clock is not always anxiety. The dictionary often reads it as the dreamer's relationship to schedule.

Related in the dictionary. Read clock with clock-broken (its dysfunctional cousin), waiting, and any scene where time is the labour.

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