State · Dead

Dead Turtle in dreams

Slow steady progress — and a home you can carry with you.

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.

A turtle in a dream is the dictionary's image of slow, steady progress and the comfort of a home that travels with you. The turtle moves slowly but does not stop; the dream often appears when you have been pacing yourself in a way that looks slow from the outside and is working from the inside.

Where you often see it. A turtle on a log. A turtle slowly crossing a path. The dream uses the turtle for slow steady progress — and a home you can carry with you.

What it is not. A turtle is not always slow-as-failure. The dictionary reads it as the dreamer's sustainable pace.

Related in the dictionary. Read turtle with snail (the smaller cousin), walking, and any scene of carried-with-you-shelter at sustainable pace.

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