Some medical symbols and meanings in dream


  • Medical symbolism in dream often reflects issues with emotional, situational, or even physical healing.  You may have a problem that you are living with or trying to confront.
  • Abortion
  • To dream of an abortion represents developing situations in your life that have been rejected or abandoned. You or someone else has changed their mind.
  • An abortion may be a sign that you are hesitant about pursuing a new direction in your life due to fear, pressure, personal conflict or moral obligations.
  • To dream of an abortion represents developing situations in your life that have been rejected or abandoned. You or someone else has changed their mind. A wish to reverse a developing situation that you feel may insult or offend someone else.
  • An abortion may be a sign that you are hesitant about pursuing a new direction in your life due to fear, pressure, personal conflict or moral obligations.
  • Example: A woman dreamed of being in an abortion clinic. In waking life she was unhappy with her marriage and wanted to find a way to end it to avoid future plans with her husband.
  • Ambulance
  • To dream of an ambulance represents urgent decisions, or doing whatever it takes to deal with a problem. An ambulance reflects an emotional or situational crisis, or a problem that requires a quick response. A need to act quickly. Feeling that there is need for quick or urgent action.
  • Example: A woman dreamed of her mother calling an ambulance. In waking life she was seriously depressed and thought it was important to start seeing a therapist.
  • Amnesia
  • To dream of amnesia represents you or someone has a poor memory of something. You may not remember something that other people do.  Alternatively, amnesia may represent you or someone else that has blocked out or rejected a negative aspect of yourself.  You may also be experiencing a recurring problematic person or situation that seems oblivious to what has already happened.
  • Amnesia may be a sign that you or someone else doesn't believe that they did anything wrong or finds it difficult to accept responsibility.
  • Alternatively, amnesia may also represent a complete loss of direction. Original goals or intentions were abandoned.
  • Negatively, amnesia may reflect an arrogant intentional attempt to pretend that something important was forgotten.
  • Amputation
  • To dream of amputation represents a loss of a part of yourself. Giving up power or abilities. You may feel "robbed" or unable to achieve goals. It may also reflect serious losses or dramatic changes that leave you feeling vulnerable. You may feel frustrated, limited, powerless, or helpless. It may also represent restrictions placed on you.
  • Amputated hands reflect feelings of being unable to do as you please or losing a capability.
  • Amputated legs represent a loss of independence.
  • Amputated arms represents a loss of function, reach, or an extension of yourself.
  • Example: A woman who aspired to be a writer once dreamed of being in love with a legless man. In real life she knew that writing was a field that was unsupportive of newcomers. The legless man reflected her desire to write being a difficult achievement without doing everything on her own first. A goal with "no legs" of it's own. A goal that would have to be supported by others forms of income.
  • Example 2: A man once dreamed of seeing a man who was missing his hand. In real life he was dealing with an illness that had destroyed his life and limited his ability to do things that he wanted.
  • Anaphylactic Shock
  • To dream of anaphylactic shock may reflect feelings about a situation being too stressful. Feelings of powerful uncontrollable stress and anxiety that dangerously pushes one "over the edge." Over-dramatic stress or anxiety that can cause you embarrassing failure or loss. Embarrassingly shocking failure that you feel you are powerless to do anything about without assistance. Embarrassing potential failure caused by an over-sensitivity. An over-sensitivity or unexpected problem requiring urgent attention.
  • Anesthesia
  • To dream of anesthesia represents a situation that helps to reduce the severity of a problem, or makes facing consequences more tolerable. It may also symbolize a compromise or concession that reduces a burden or unpleasant situation that can't be avoided.
  • Anesthesia may also represent a wish to avoid the full emotional impact of something that hurts you.
  • To dream of having no anesthesia may reflect a difficult situation where you are required to feel the full emotional impact of fixing a problem. Painfully or uncomfortably being denied the ability to hide anything. Feeling that you can't avoid how painful or unfair a correction is. Feeling that someone is being inconsiderate to your pain.
  • Example: A man dreamed of asking a doctor for anesthesia for a broken toe. In real life he was unhappy with a purchase he couldn't return. He asked the store for an exchange to settle the problem. The anesthesia reflected the reduced feelings of loss he felt on the purchase due to the exchange being better than no compromise at all.
  • Example 2: A man dreamed of having to endure a surgical operation without anesthesia. In waking life he felt that he had to speak to a psychiatrist about very personal issues and had to be perfectly honest about embarrassing details.
  • Antibiotics
  • To dream of antibiotics represents a solution to a problem that requires persistance or dedication. Something you know helps you if it's done regularly. You may have negativity that you are trying to protect yourself against. You might trying to prevent a problem from getting out of control.
  • Band-Aid
  • To dream of a Band-Aid represents something you're doing to feel better about a problem.  Not wanting to notice something negative again.  A temporary solution that frees you from caring all the time.
  • To dream of a Band-Aid falling off represents a temporary solution that didn't work.  You may have believed you could stop caring about a problem that has subsidied
  • Bandages
  • To dream of a bandage represents a need to heal, growing pains, or learning to cope with a problem.  An unpleasant time of change or healing.  You may be emotionally wounded and trying to protect yourself.
  • Blood
  • To dream of blood represents energy or vitality. It reflects how healthy or strong some aspect of your life is. Blood outside the body is generally symbolic of a loss of strength in some area of your life, while blood inside the body symbolizes strength and energy.
  • Negatively, blood reflects some aspect of yourself or area of your life that is losing energy or vitality. Either emotional pain, upsets, or situation caused by excessive drives or behavior. This usually appears in dreams as bleeding, seeing pools of blood, or being covered in blood. Feeling like a loser for having lost something. Negative remarks made that cause others pain. Feeling that you don't matter. Illness or the painful loss of a relationship. Serious damage to your confidence.
  • Positively, blood reflects vitality, strength, and success. You are confronting problems, getting ahead, or feeling strong. This may appear in dreams as the blood of enemies, blood pumping through your veins, or wounds that don't bleed.
  • To dream of bleeding represents some area of your life that is losing strength, vigor, and vitality. The body part that bleeds represents the area of your life that is losing strength. To dream of bleeding that won't stop may reflect a traumatic experience that you have difficulty getting over.
  • To dream of being covered in blood may represent conflict in a relationship or social setting. The blood on you reflecting the results of fighting, viciousness, or attacks on others as you attempt to assert yourself. Being covered in blood may also represent your sense of loss, either your own of someone else's.
  • To dream of feet bleeding represents some issue in your life that is effecting your moral foundation, or principles.
  • To dream of having blood on your hands reflects feelings of guilt or responsibility for your actions.
  • To dream of blood being totally drained from the body represents some issue in your life that is totally draining you of power, strength, or confidence.
  • To dream of blood on the walls represents lingering feeling about a loss or failure. You may be be unable to stop thinking about a difficulty that you overcame or a traumatic experience you've endured. Negatively, you may be unable to get your mind of your involvement in a bad situation.
  • Alternatively, dreams about blood may reflect issues with women's menstrual periods. It's not uncommon for women to dream of messy blood scenario's when they have accidental bleeding. Women may also dream of bloody rivers while having their periods.
  • Example: A young woman dreamed of winning a sports competition against another woman who seemed afraid of blood. In waking life she had overcome her fear of telling her parents that she had failed her second year of university. The fear of blood in the dream may have reflected her fear of making her parents angry about her failure at school.
  • Example 2: A woman dreamed of being annoyed to see blood coming out of a garbage bag with a dead body she just chopped up. In waking life she bothered by having having to care about her ex-boyfriend's feelings after having broken up with him.
  • Example 3: A young man dreamed of seeing two sharks fighting and one of them made the other bleed. In waking life he manipulated two friends into attacking each other verbally and noticed one friend got his feelings hurt.
  • Example 4: A woman dreamed of seeing herself bleeding. In waking life she had just broken up with her boyfriend. The bleeding may have reflected her feelings of pain of losing someone she loved. Feeling like a loser for having lost her boyfriend.
  • Example 5: A woman dreamed of being covered in blood. In waking life she had cancer and felt that her life was doomed.
  • Example 6: A woman dreamed of blood splattered all over a road. In waking life she was frustrated about losing a friend at work who was originally very nice to her, but then stopped being nice. The blood splattered on the road may reflect the dreamer's feelings about how dangerous losing a friend at work felt as they tried to get ahead in the world.

  • Blood Pressure
  • To dream of blood pressure represents how well you are able to cope with current life situations.  How exciting, thrilling, or challenging your life is.
  • High blood pressure reflects too much stress, anxiety, or responsibility.  A situation may be emotionally overwhelming.  You may need to seek help or slow down.
  • Low blood pressure represents boredom or a slow paced lifestyle.  You may be lacking excitement or need a change.
  • Blood Transfusion
  • To dream of a blood transfusion represents feelings about attempting to reinvigorate the energy in a situation, relationship, or your own efforts into a problem. A need for renewal of energy. A need to renew vitality in some manner.
  • Negatively, a blood transfusion may reflect honest feelings about yourself not feeling as passionate about a situation or relationship as you want to. Feeling that you need a miracle to make a relationship work.
  • Example: A woman dreamed of needing a blood transfusion. In waking life he was planning to get married to a man she wasn't fully in love with. She was trying to force herself to fall more deeply in love with the man for the sake of her kids.
  • Body Parts
  • See the themes section for body parts for a more in depth look at body part symbolism.
  • Cancer
  • To dream of the disease cancer represents emotional or situational decay. An area of your life that slowly eats away at your well-being, happiness, or power. It can also reflect feelings of hopelessness, restrictions, or fundamental flaws. Feeling that a situation can only get worse or will spread to other areas of your life if you don't start taking action. Feeling that a situation is hopeless or can only get worse. Feeling that something eating away are you.
  • Example situations that could encourage a dream about cancer may be a difficult illness, financial problems, or a relationship that stifles you.
  • Alternatively, cancer can also reflect real life situations were cancer is a real possibility or someone you know is living with it.
  • Example: A man dreamed of having cancer. In waking life he was very depressed about his life and felt that life couldn't only get worse for him.
  • Example 2: A man dreamed of having lung cancer. In waking life he was experiencing anxiety about his habit of smoking cigarettes giving him cancer if he didn't quit.
  • Example 3: A man dreamed of seeing cancerous smoke. In waking life he was worried about the economic crisis.
  • Example 4: A man dreamed about a cancer club for children where the children were beginning to feel hopeless. In waking life he felt that his life was only getting worse and people who had previously inspired him couldn't inspire him any more.
  • Example 5: A woman dreamed of seeing someone with cancer. In waking life she felt that her marriage was slowly deteriorating.
  • Example 6: A woman dreamed of having cancer. In waking life she was experiencing her mental health slowly deteriorating.
  • Cryogenics
  • To dream of being preserved with cryogenics represents being stuck in the past, or forced to live with a problem until a solution is found. Cryogenics may also symbolize issues that can't be fixed with current beliefs. Putting your problems on hold until a more intelligent solution is found.
  • Alternatively, cryogenics may reflect punishment or crippling consequences that can't be escaped until a very positive new mindset is excepted. Karma that can't be escaped until you change your ways or mature. "Freezing" someone until they want to grow up.
  • Cryogenics in a dream emphasizes the importance of trying new ideas or changing current belief systems.
  • Negatively, Cryogenics may reflect feelings about intentionally preventing people from making progress or fixing their problems until it's too late. Intentionally wasting people's time believing that the future will be better while you hold them back.
  • Crutches
  • To dream of crutches represents emotional or psychological dependency.  Something you need to help you function or cope with a problem.  Crutches reflect an inability to fully draw upon your own resources to achieve goals or function normally.
  • DNA
  • To dream of DNA represents your core being.  Everything about you that makes you who you are.
  • To dream of white DNA strands represents fundamental changes to core areas of you personality.  A situation is encouraging discipline or total removal of negative personality traits.
  • To dream of rainbow DNA strands represents harmonization or balancing of core areas of your personality.  You may doing a lot of self-reflection or gaining powerful insights about yourself.
  • Example:  A man dreamed of seeing a white strand of DNA.  In waking life he was starting bootcamp in the army.  The white DNA reflected the enormous change bootcamp had on him as his had to get rid of old habits and beliefs.
  • Doctors
  • To dream of a doctor represents an aspect of your personality that heals or purifies of something negative in your life. Whether physical, mental, emotional, or spiritual a doctor in a dream means there is something wrong that is being fixed, or that you need to care more about correcting.
  • Spiritually, doctors in a dream can represent guidance and a sense of intuition about your health. It is not unheard of for people to dream of doctors that provide advice or reassurance about ailments one is experiencing.
  • Doctors will usually appear in dreams when there an imbalance of some sort that needs to corrected, or shortly before you experience one in waking life.
  • *Please See Nurse.
  • *Please See Hospital.
  • Doctor's Uniform
  • To dream of seeing someone wearing a doctor's uniform represents an aspect of yourself that's focused on healing or improving your life in some manner.
  • To dream of a friend or family member wearing a doctor's uniform represents an aspect of your personality that is healing you or encouraging positive change based on you most honest feelings about that person.  It may also represent your projection of that person helping you to heal or solve a problem.
  • *Please See Doctors.
  • Drugs
  • To dream of illegal drugs represents unhealthy emotional needs that you feel have to be fulfilled. Excessive amounts of pleasure or enjoyment behaving a certain way. You may be emotionally addicted to certain feelings or bad habits. Masturbation, pornography, power over others, gambling, making money, and preoccupation with being physically attractive are all possible issues symbolized by drugs. Enjoying abusing power. Enjoying hypocritical advantages. Feeling good before all else. A dangerous need to feel good.
  • To dream of being high on drugs represents dangerous excessive behavior. You may be aware of yourself going way overboard and enjoying it. Short-term feelings of ecstasy. It may also reflect an addiction to pleasure or power.
  • Alternatively, being high on drugs may reflect how you are embracing bad habits thinking that there will never be consequences for it. Embarrassing yourself going overboard getting angry.
  • To dream of overdosing on drugs represents excessive enjoyment, pleasure, or abuse of power that has caused self-harm. Excessive anger that causes serious problems in your life. Destroying yourself or embarrassing yourself going overboard in some way. A sign that there is a problem with self-control, will power, or practicing moderation. Exceeding or abusing limits. Enjoyment or a need to feel good that is destructive to your happiness. Self-destructive behavior. Wasting your life. Overdoing some area of your life. Low willpower. A sign that you need to make significant positive changes.
  • To dream of other people being high on drugs may reflect feelings about other people whom you are feel not choosing to behave excessive in a dangerous manner. Feeling that someone is irresponsibly enjoying themselves while not listening to common sense or responsible advice. Feeling that someone is irresponsibility making bad or dangerous choices. Feelings about yourself or someone else being a loser who ruins their lives.
  • The type of drug is also important. Marijuana, crack, cocaine, heroin, or ecstasy all have different meanings.
  • Prescription drugs may point to certain types of thoughts, feelings, or habits you need to maintain in order to emotionally heal or recover from a negative situation. Taking time off or controlling yourself to force change. Intentionally avoiding dangerous habits.
  • Example: A man dreamed of being accused of using drugs. In waking life he was being accused of unlawful containment by a man he caught breaking into his home to rob him. The accusation of drug use may have reflected his feelings about being unfairly accused of excessive behavior by the criminal he had caught robbing his home.
  • *Please See Marijuana.
  • *Please See Crack .
  • *Please See Cocaine.
  • *Please See Heroin.
  • *Please See Ecstasy.
  • *Please See Addiction.
  • *Please See Prescription.
  • Endoscopy
  • To dream of an endoscopy represents feelings about being tested or scrutinized in your ability to perfectly handle situations or regularly complete certain responsibilities. Feeling tested or scrutinized on your ability to be perfectly honest over a prolonged period of time.
  • Example: A man dreamed of getting an endoscopy and having difficulty breathing. In waking life he was nervous about failing a background check on his skills, credentials, and certifications for a job application to make sure he was qualified enough to manage the job's responsibilities.
  • Gynecologist
  • To dream of a gynecologist represents feelings about investigating or addressing problems with caring about others people's feelings.
  • Negatively, a gynecologist may reflect awareness of yourself having problems being sensitive to other people's feelings. Problems with compliance or doing what you are told when it's important to.
  • Alternatively, a gynecologist in a dream may reflect anxiety or concerns with being pregnant. Wondering if you are pregnant or if you will be a good mother.
  • Example: A young girl dreamed of having a gynecologist measure her stomach. In waking life she was unsure if she was pregnant and thinking about whether or not she would ever be able to afford to raise the baby on her own.
  • Heart Medicine
  • To dream of heart medication may represent thoughts or habits that effect your ability to stay calm. To dream of having different options of heart medicine may reflect conflicting choices about how to approach a stressful situation, or respond to other people.
  • Alternatively, dreaming of heart medication may represent habits or situations that effect your ability to care for others. Something that helps to open up your heart, care more about a person, or be more sympathetic.
  • Hospital
  • To dream of a hospital represents a mindset that is serious about fixing problems or confronting emotional ills. It reflects attempts to do all you can to confront or improve a problem. A crisis point. A situation that forces needed change. Feeling a strong need to fix a bad relationship after fight. Urgently sorting out problems.
  • Choosing to go to a hospital a dream is a sign that you are making changes that promote psychological, emotional, or physical well-being and a more balanced lifestyle.
  • Failed medical procedures or operations symbolize mistakes or failures at properly addressing issues. You may be trying to find a quick fixes that doesn't address the real problem. Bad advice or impatient careless attempts to solve problems on your own.
  • To dream of getting refused entry to a hospital may reflect feelings about being unable to fix urgent problems. Feeling stuck with a problem. Feeling stranded in a crisis.
  • To dream of an abandoned hospital represents feelings about a lost sense of urgency to deal with problems anymore. Feeling desensitized to problems.
  • Example: A man dreamed of going to the hospital. In real life he was trying his hardest to quick smoking marijuana.
  • Example 2: A woman dreamed of being refused entry into a hospital because she had bad credit. In waking life she was having anxiety about being able to financially support her coming baby.
  • Example 3: A woman dreamed of being in an abandoned hospital. In waking life she was feeling herself getting annoyed at having to care for her son every single time he cried for her. The abandoned hospital represented the woman's lost sense of urgency to deal with her child's problems.
  • Example 4: A young man dreamed of being in a hospital. In waking life he had just had a bug fight with a friend and was eager to repair the friendship.
  • Example 5: A man dreamed of being in a hospital dressed in a hospital gown. In waking life he was getting ready for an important interview and felt that his interview skills and case needed urgent last minute fixing.
  • Hospital Bed
  • To dream of a hospital bed represents total dedication or focus on healing.  You are experiencing emotional, psychological, or physical healing that requires your full attention.  Powerful issues or situations that easily distract you or take up a lot of your time as they're being overcome.
  • To dream of being strapped to a hospital bed represents a sense of powerlessness to control or avoid fixing problems.  Healing or balancing of some sort is unavoidable.