Smooth Knot in dreams
A complication tied into your situation — sometimes deliberate, often hard to undo.
How smooth changes the reading
The base reading of Knot
A knot in a dream is the dictionary's image of complication tied into a situation. The dream often appears around problems that started small and have, through repetition, become harder to undo than the original problem was. Working at the knot in the dream is the dictionary's image of slow patient untangling.
Where you often see it. A knot in a rope that cannot be untied. A knot you tied yourself. The dream uses the knot for a complication tied into your situation — sometimes deliberate, often hard to undo.
What it is not. A knot is not always failure. The dictionary often reads it as the dreamer's accidental tightening of an existing rope.
Related in the dictionary. Read rope-knot with rope, chain, and any scene where an existing connection has been complicated.