Age · Old

Old Octopus in dreams

Many-handed thinking — a situation reaching you from too many directions at once.

How old changes the reading

In its old form, the symbol carries long history — accumulated knowledge, accumulated weight, and the kind of presence that does not need to assert itself. Old versions of symbols in dreams are often offering you a sentence you needed to hear from someone who has seen many cycles.

The base reading of Octopus

An octopus in a dream is the dictionary's image of a situation that has many arms at once. Sometimes it is a relationship that has too many simultaneous demands; sometimes it is a project that has expanded faster than your capacity to track it; sometimes it is the part of you that is, in fact, capable of doing several things at once.

Where you often see it. An octopus in a tank. An octopus with arms moving in multiple directions. The dream uses the octopus for many-handed thinking — a situation reaching you from too many directions at once.

What it is not. An octopus is not always grasping. The dictionary often reads it as the dreamer's plural attention pulled in many directions.

Related in the dictionary. Read octopus with sea, jellyfish, and any scene of multi-directional demand.

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