If the dreamer has his vacation in his dream, this refers that the dreamer needs to have a rest and to satisfy own needs, without having to worry about others. Vacation often requests to the rest because this leads to exhaustion of nervous system. Sometimes this dream may show that the dreamer will miss favorable opportunities and positive chances through inaction and “vacation”.

Psychological Meanings:

The vacation in the dream represents always a symbol for relaxation, leisure and freedom. Often, the desire connected with ability to enjoy life with his partner or his family. Especially in situations of high work stress this images occur more frequently. They should be also taken as a warning, because if you do not ” slower “, mistakes and in extreme cases this result accidents or psychosomatic disorders. The vacation is the time of the rest and relaxation, and you or just the biggest workaholic needs rest. Farther symbols from this semantic field also always appear when you are dissatisfied with your work or your individual position. So, the dream symbol vacation can be viewed as the escape symbol. Perhaps, however, as an important indication that there is a repressed desire for you to live differently. The vacation is also a mirror or a projection screen for individual longings to be someone or somewhere else – a kaleidoscope of illusory longings, but also a magnifying glass of essential needs and realistic alternatives. For some, for example, the compulsive of bending people, the vacation also represents a time where tensions are experienced. This experience of tension can be viewed as a cleaning process, which is absolutely necessary to keep healthy and fit. More holiday memories are processed in the dream. This includes the fact that dreams take place in countries where you have been on vacation, or take situations that you have experienced on holiday. Even if you see in a dream vacation acquaintances, you can interpret it under the aspect of the holiday if also the properties of this vacation acquaintances are of yourself  (subject function of the dream symbol). A holiday season – this are for most people nearly “holy” days. The dream symbol warns the dreamer about overwhelm its system. A few free days help to create space for new development.

Spiritual Meanings:

At this level vacation equals to spiritual “filling up” and means relaxation and rest.

Traditional Meanings:

European (Judeo-Christian)

• - The wishful dream which appears from nervous over stimulation because the organism is overloaded;
• - You are dreaming that you get a vacation: in spite of big strains you will not find a rest; you will not be able to participate in a pleasure which you look forward;
• - In the dream you are in the vacation: interesting strangers will soon take up your hospitality claims;
• - If a young woman thinks that she does not like a vacation, she does not keep herself for attractively enough to win back a friend.

Hindu (Hinduism)

• - The dream about vacations: you get into a nasty gossip;
• - In the dream you do not get vacation: you will soon annoy about something.

– Instinct & Appetite; Threat & Loyalty.

Question:

– What instincts are a threat to me? Who or what is my instinctive loyalty?

In general:

Wolf symbolizes aggressive impulses, instincts and desires, which can be dangerous, if dreamer has not mastered it better. Commonly it is understood as a reference to an external threat or a hostile people.

Psychologically:

The wolf is a very dangerous animal. In the dream, he appears as a sign of recklessness, aggressiveness and impulsiveness. The wolf in the dream points to the irrepressible point in us, the second self, with which we are in constant struggle, on the stress state of the soul. Dreaming of wolves should induce us to come with ourselves to the pure self. Personified this animal could be a man that benefits ourselves only if we do not become enemies with him.

Traditionally:

European
– In general: with the internal drives is a difficult fight in progress, have a thieving employees, also divulges trade secrets;
– To hear the howl: your conspiracy will be investigated;
– To look into wolf or to see one: applies to false, hypocritical friends. Dreamer should not to make enemies, since it would be a very uncomfortable opponent;
– To be followed by a wolf: means danger;
– To be attacked by one: friend will cause many difficulties to you;
– To track, follow, trace or pursue a wolf: you will overcome all threats;
– Try to kill wolf or to see killed wolf: you turn off treacherous opponents, who want to embarrass you.

Arabian
– The wolf means a greedy rulers.
– Dream of fighting with a wolf: you will have a dispute;
– If the dreamer kills wolf: he is a powerful person & he will destroy his opponents;
– If the wolf grabbed or bitten him: he will have to endure violence and pain of an unjust and greedy enemy;
– To see wolves in a pack: you will be influenced by evil, greedy people;
– Also dreaming of pack of wolves: you has to deal with sneaky friends, which are preparing to attack you;
– To listen how wolf or wolves howl: your enemies will take you to the event;
– To see very large pack or many packs of wolves: you have more enemies than friends.

Hindu
– To see: you’re in danger and you will have to endure severe anger;
– To be pursued by wolf or pack of wolves: you’re not well-disposed & you have a mortal enemy;
– To listen howling wolves: you shall not listen to the gossip of the neighbors, you will be under pressure from all sides;
– To beat wolf in dream: you will overcome your enemies.

Denise Lynn (short):

Short interpretation of wolf in dreams by Denise Lynn

Wolf symbolizes society and public duty; Also, it shows concern about the family or suggests care for the family.
Wolf can indicate the need for more care and support.
Wolf also shows fear, especially – the fear of being squeezed into a corner.
Wolf in sexual aspect stands for inappropriate coquettish behavior.

Denise Lynn (detailed):

Detailed interpretation of wolf in dreams by Denise Lynn

Wolves have very strong sense of family (pack). They are together all the time – they hunt together, they raise their young puppies together and they have a very strong sense of hierarchy.
In North America isn’t known any single case of death of a human in an attack by a wild wolf (although in Europe and Asia it sometimes happened). As a rule, the wolves are not aggressive at all and clashes between members of the pack are extremely rare.
You should ask yourself: do I feel support of my family? Maybe I need to balance my personal needs and interests of my family? In this case, wolf is a clear sign that shows your relationship with family and your feelings for family. This sign maybe tells you that you need more love and emotional support. And sometimes for some people the wolf in the dream can be a symbol of fear.

Maya civilization:

Mayan dream interpretations about Wolf

Good omen
If the wolf’s mouth or jaws is in blood, then very soon you will have a loyal and reliable friend.
To make this happen, draw on the wall with yellow paint circle and draw triangle in it.

Bad omen
If the wolf is asleep, then soon your enemies will start to act and none of your friends will be able to help and to protect you.
To protect yourself, draw on each nail a thin red stripe. And before you go out from your home, throw over your right shoulder one coffee bean for one week.

Russian dreambook:

Wolf interpretation from russian dream book

To dream wolf symbolizes very strong enemy. To dream pack of wolves symbolizes many strong enemies.

Nobleman dreambook:

Wolf interpretation from Noblemen’s dreambook by N. Grishin

• Wolf can be interpreted as:
  • The enemy, which will join the fight;
  • Suicidal soul;
  • Your greed, avarice, lust for acquisitiveness; The damage might be induced by these personality qualities;
  • Enemies and fights.
• To hear the howling wolves – the loneliness and the need of someone.
• To see wolfpack – a clash with the enemy.
• To be in a pack of wolves – a threat.
• To dream rapidly running wolfpack – the damage from enemies.
• To hunt wolves – you will access the conspiracy against you and you will crack it.
• To kill the wolf – you will reach a victory over the enemy.
• To eat wolf’s meat in dream – is a good omen, a favorable circumstances.
• To catch a wolf or to have one or to tame a wolf – there is a chance to become the object of ridicule or to get in a ridiculous position.
• Wolf – may symbolize business with greedy man.

Shereminskaya dreambook

Wolf dream interpretation by L. G. Shereminskaya

Wolf in dream definitely indicates the enemy. But if you dream that you kill a wolf – in reality you will overcome your enemies.

Gypsy dreambook

Wolf meaning in dreams by Romani people

Dreaming of wolf symbolizes strength and independence.

The New Family dreambook

• If you had a wolf, then this dream shows that among your staff is careless and irresponsible person.
• To kill a wolf in a dream – in reality you will cope with some tricky enemies.
• To hear the howl of a wolf – you need to expose someone’s plot and defeat it in the face of fierce competition.

Chinese dreambook

Chinese dream interpretation by Zhou Gong

• Ferocious wolf is stationary – presages a happy meeting with the official person;
• Jackals, wolves and fierce dogs – indicates thieves and robbers;
• If wolf devours meat on the foot  – suggests unfavorable position.

Antique French dreambook

Wolf interpretations comes from old French dreambook

• Dreaming of wolf in general – means a quick deal with a cruel and treacherous person;
• If wolf bites you in the dream – this  is a warning and it means illness and loss.
• To defeat wolf in dream – a sign of great success and wealth.
• To dream a pack of wolves -foretells long year of suffering.

Hasse dreambook

Meanings of wolf in dreams by Hasse

• To see wolf in dream – foretells the transfer of a strong burst of anger;
• To hear the howl of a wolf in dream – suggests that you will be warned of the danger;
• To be pursued by wolf or wolves in dream – shows a mortal enemy.

Azara dreambook

Interpretations of wolf in dreams by Azara

• The bite of the wolf – indicates risk;
• The hunting of the wolf – shows opening of the conspiracy;
• The kill of the wolf – means the death of an enemy.

Medicine Wheel:

Meanings and interpretations by Indian people (indigenous North American culture and religion)

Keywords
Kindness, power, smart, evasive, protective, distinctive, compassionate, loyal, loyalty, perseverance, care, pathfinding, love, southern soul path.

Description
The wolf is associated with the medicine wheel in the inner position of the southern path and soul of love. Wolves are very social animals that live in packs with firmly established traditions and limitations. Wolves look for is usually a partner or a partner for life. It has long been the wolf is an integral part of the human imagination, where he appears as the lone wolf or a symbol of the wilderness and the wild portions of the people. Wolves were once widespread throughout the world, would stand close to extinction and are now returning slowly. Earthy tribes had great respect for wolves, because they have such a strong sense of family and hunt only old and sick members of a species.

General meaning
Your relationship with your family and community, and the loving side of your nature, your feelings of intimacy.

Association
An aggressive man who persistently pursues its objectives at the expense of others; werewolf, a name.

Transcendent meaning
A protective animal that you can teach something about love and family.

Please, see also meaning of predator, carnivore and animals…

European (Judeo-Christian)

• Need of holidays if vacancy – The vacancy in the dream stands as a sign that the dreamer needs to have some holidays, because he deserved this.

Hindu (Hinduism)

• Need of relax if have vacancy – In the dream you have vacancy at last you should rest, because you worked so much and your conscious says the you must relax;
• Happy days if be on vacation – You are on vacation in the dream, then this means that you will experience cheerful days, you deserve this.

Arabian (Islamic)

• Need to rest if have vacancy – The dream of vacancy is a sign that you are tired and need of rest.

* Please, see meaning of vacuum.

• Old address – When you dream of the address you used to live, this symbolizes your past. Make sure you look at your past and if there were any inaccurate decisions you made, do not hesitate, but learn from them.
• New address – If you dream of the new address, this is a sign that you have to make new alterations in your life. Maybe the change could be a new job, or new partner, or new lifestyle.
• Writing on envelope (letter) – If you writing an address on an envelope and sending it, it means that there are more opportunities you need to discover. When you make an important changes in your life, make sure you think twice before you will make the ultimate solution.

General Meanings:

• Dreaming about an address means that certain matters require your attention  – perhaps the current way in the life of the dreamer.
• Dreaming of an address as a destination, such as a letter or a package, indicates the new activity, or can mean the exploration of possibilities for new activity.
• To dream that something is addressed to a group means that you must share your knowledge with others.
• Dreaming that you are searching for the post to send your letters with own address means high selfishness, egoism. The bigger the letter with the dreamer’s name is, the more inflated sense of his own importance is.
• Those who repeatedly have dreamed the address of the partner (on door signs, business cards, in the phone book, etc.) – wish to share his life and request marriage “I want to be with you together and forever!”

Psychological Meanings:

To dream a known address may indicate a place of safety where the dreamer feels comfortable and safe.
Dreaming of an old address indicates that the dreamer have to look back and to think about old behaviors and attitudes.

Spiritual Meanings:

On spiritual level dreams about an address shows that the dreamer’s spirituality got an identity.

Traditional Meanings:

European (Judeo-Christian)

• Warning if write an address in dream – The dream is a sign that you have to pay attention to your financial affairs and don’t let yourself to engage in risky speculation.

* Please, see meaning of letter, package.

The need of changes and the fear to take responsibilities You are getting to go from a known situation – perhaps leaving your home – so this points out that you break away from old and familiar patterns of behavior. Perhaps you feel the need to grant yourself with freedom and independence. Departure generally stands for the constant change of life, towards which direction to move we decide ourselves. A hasty departure may indicate that you want to shrink a duty or responsibility. It describes a certain fear that you need to take over responsibility for anything in particular. The departure by car, plane or train announces that you will avoid a hazard and danger. To interpret the dream you must always consider the accompanying circumstances, for example, the aim of the departure.

Psychological Meanings:

The wish to avoid responsibility or difficulties and run away from daily routine You pack your bags in a dream, rushes to the train station, airport or gets in the car. Your suitcase can not be closed or you missed the train, the way to the airport is blocked by a traffic jam, the car couldn’t start. It is certainly not a warning before dangers of your travel! You prefer simply “to go away” – from the dreary daily routine, an extreme stress situation, the marital quarrel or flee from the responsibility. But we also know that you have no chance to do like this! Behind the vision stands the wish to avoid responsibility or difficulties. Here caution is announced in any case!

Spiritual Meanings:

The deliberate rejection of the past can be represented in dreams by a departure.

Traditional Meanings:

European (Judeo-Christian)

• Improvement of present situation if ready to leave – You are dreaming that you are ready to departure from somewhere, this indicates changes with an improvement in conditions or situation;
• Important decision if prepare – In the dream you are preparing to leave, announces that soon you will be faced with an important decision which will change your life;
• Positive changes if expect a joyful journey – This dream signifies that the current situation soon will change into something positive;
• Pressure from other if sudden departure – A sudden departure and hasty packing of your bags in the dream, means that somebody tries to push you to take more responsibility;
• Avoiding tribulations and mischief if departure – This dream means that you will go out of the way with adversity and calamity;
• Running from responsibility if see yourself leaving – In the dream you are leaving yourself means that you want to avoid and run away from responsibility;
• Fear to miss the opportunity if miss any kind of transport – In the dream you miss the train, the car, the bus etc.  at the last moment, shows your fear that you can miss an opportunity.

* Please, see meaning of farewell, railways, travel.

Fire is mostly seen as a symbol of anger. Also, it represents some combination of difficult circumstances in waking life that is mentally painful and very hard to accept. Do you feel intense bitterness currently in your life? Or maybe there is a situation that goes far away from what you have expected.

Anything what is being on fire could represent the complete loss of something. Fire stands for destruction. And that destruction occurs because of some problem in life has gotten out of control. In other hand, dream of fire may indicate your personal fear of possible knowledge about losing something very precious to you. The more fire you see – the more control you have lost in relation to the control of a loss. Alternatively, fire dream mean destructive impulses, ground breaking jealousy or hard reaching emotionally intense reactions that is taking over a logical mind.

To dream of a house on fire symbolizes a loss of solid clear thinking. Maybe your mind-set has changed recently due to personal experience that was not expected. Additionally, fire in a house might show that security and safety being lost because of not giving careful attention and doing some mistakes. In your waking life might be some huge problems that are destructive and consume everything in its way until all become lost. Alternatively, house fire means enormously strong feelings which control you more than it should be. That makes you weaker and eventually those emotions totally overrun your clear thinking. But if a house in the fire dream becomes rebuilt after all devastating fire, it may represent you will rise like the Phoenix from the ashes. You will recover from serious troubles or unavoidable crisis.

Dreaming of starting fire on various things denotes your deep desire for doing damage to something. Maybe you have a wish for complete destruction in some aspects of your life. It could be a situation or a person, which you want to get rid of. Alternatively, it could represent lack of success in your dealings. Maybe you had a failure and it shows up in dream of setting fire.  In other hand, you might be in a situation which puts you in position where you have to start a problem. Anyway, it shows that you might be doing intentionally some troubles. Also, setting fire dream could mean your burning desire to start something new.

Dream of city on fire could symbolize social connections that are being damaged or completely destroyed because of strong enough emotions to be out of your control. Some relationship might look like being eliminated from your waking life forever.

To dream of an evil alive fire, it could be a monster or a demon, feeling like nightmare, means something very horrible has been experienced physically or mentally. It shows that some troubled situations gives for you very terrible feeling and seems like to be intentionally out here to destroy you.

Fire dreams also can be a reflection of our agitation that something is going to burn. It shows our anxieties about fire safety. Dreaming about fire is very common to people who have been touched by fire, have some burnings or have experienced trauma from a fire just seeing something burning. Mostly after seeing serious fire in waking life, the dream of the fire will visit you soon.

To rescue people from burning buildings in a dream means our ability to solve problems and to help others. Also, it represent that we are able to receive good outcomes of any bad situation. Something is going to change and will give a lot of joy.

As prognostication, fire dream might be very helpful to keep in order with requirements of fire safety. Try to install smoke detectors and other devices, like fire extinguisher in your home.

Sometimes we dream what is going around us in waking life while we are asleep, so the fire could be induced by external and internal stimulus. Smell of the smokes, the sounds of burning fire or a memory about forgetting to turn some electrical device of also can be the reasons of dream about fire. Those can be seen as external stimulus. For internal stimulus, increased body temperature or some issues with health of the heart can be the reasons of fire dream.

Children may have nightmares about fire if they have anxiety of fire or fire safety drills. Also, for those kids who witnessed a serious fire, the fire dream might rise in sleep.

Spiritually dreams of fire could reflect constant anxiety of eternal after death punishment. It also might show that the dreamer is feeling guilty and has powerful tendency to be very punishable personally with moral issues. Alternatively, fire dream can mean spiritual re-birth since it is devastating natural power after which something new must come.

The mourning time The dream of a burial is an indication that the dreamer has come with feelings about death. It is not necessarily about your own death, it may be of another man. The dream may be a sign for the fact that there is a need to mourn because of an event or a person in the past. This time of mourning will give you an ability to forge plans for the future and to bury the pain and the past.

Wish to forget sad things The dream of a burial or an interment can be the desire for sympathy or to imply for a part of the personality which is dead. Burial as a dream symbol can sometimes symbolize the unacknowledged desire to forget another person who was dead or at least gone for ever from his own life.
The most frequent meanings why you dream a burial:

• Fear of own death or loved ones, the wish to protect from death people you love, this meaning is derived from the real life circumstances.
• Dramatic changes in personality and / or the circumstances. This may announces many hopes, wishes, goals, attitudes, beliefs because the past was buried in the grave. The burial dream can be interpreted positively because only with this funeral will pave the way for new life possibilities.
• You were overwhelmed and shocked by a variety of duties and tasks which you are unable to solve so the one way for you really to bury everything in order to find the solution.
• The feeling of loneliness where you feel like being in a grave by the life and isolated from other people and you recognize that there is no way to escape from it.
• Unbearable feeling of guilt because of perceived or actual past mistakes for which ones you really ashamed. You prefer to bury them in the ground (grave). Such a feeling may be a sign of depression which indicates suicide risk and has to be taken seriously and psychotherapy is urgently needed in individual cases .

Psychological Meanings:

The new beginning A dream of the burial symbolizes a first step toward independence from parents or also forgetting painful events of the past. Often this dream means that it is better to bury something then to have a dispute with what is already “dead” ( a relation or a useless object).
Get rid of negative things To bury yourself in the dream usually gives you an ability to see what wrongly you do with yourself – inhibitions, inferiority complex or self-pity – this urges you to self-knowledge. What has died within us or wasn’t useful or restricted us these objects we should carry to the grave.

Spiritual Meanings:

On a spiritual level, the burial is a rite of passage.

Traditional Meanings:

European (Judeo-Christian)

• Long life if be buried – You are dreaming that you are buried, then this dream is very good sign, that you will have a wonderful health and long life;
• Healthy life if see your own funeral or participate in it – This is a generally good sign, which predicts you a long and a healthy life;
• Anger if see burial of good friends – When you see burial of your good friend in your dream, then you may expect annoyances and problems with these people, because they have done something what was not reasonable for you;
• Warning if see a strange funeral – The funeral are strange and unusual for you in the dream then this dream wants to pay your attention and to admonish you that every time you have to think about the end of life do not take really risky actions;
• Happiness if participate in a foreign funeral – This dream will bring you unexpected joy and happiness. For single people such a dream indicates about late but wonderful marriage.

Arabian (Islamic)

• Sadness if see a burial of a stranger – This dream signifies about a grief and discontent in near future which will be caused by a stranger;
• Joy if see burial of friend or relative – You are dreaming a burial of your friend or relative, then this dream will bring you good news, joy and happiness;
• Well-being if a foreign burial – The burial of a foreign person was magnificent, then this dream denotes that you will gain wealth;
• if a foreign burial – The burial of a foreign person was poor in your dream, then you will have life struggles and lots of worries;
• Happy life if see your own burial – The dream announces you long life, health, family happiness (symbolic contrast!)

* Please, see meaning of grave, funeral, coffin, death, mourning.

Journey above the depths of emotions.

Question:

What emotional depths can I navigate safely?

General Meanings:

Ship of life Generally boat brings to light, how you draw the “ship of life” due to the personality structure, the course you hold and how you deal with shoals, and storms. The individual meaning arises, first of all, from that what you experienced with the boat in the dream. The following accompanying circumstances can often help with the exact interpretation:

• A boat points to approaching changes in life whose way out seems a little bit insecure. It should bring us safety on the shore where a new life smiles to us.
• Crossing a stream in the boat, indicates that you open yourself for other shores, the consciousness extends and penetrates into new spiritual and mental regions.
• Boating in the clear, quiet water promises a straight and successful way of life.
• Boating in muddy, messy water this stands for rather unfavorable prospects for the future.
• If it floats in quiet water, means a quiet trip of our little life boat in the awake life.
• Who controls a boat on moving water, can expect stress and imbalance in the conscious life.
• Who float a boat in the dark, doesn’t know where the things run at the moment.
• Occasionally, a boat points as a sexual symbol, also the wish for a sexual adventure which often exists only unconsciously.

Psychological Meanings:

By the boat or ship we move on the water this symbolizes our feelings. With whom you are together on the boat, with whom you have a close relation or with whom you particularly hang together (” We all sit in the same boat “).

•  Motorboat – this an attempt to move quickly forward, with hope to do this with less of your own power.
• Pedal boat – the pedal boat shows that you familiar and trust your own force and move with it through your feelings. Besides, the pedal boat refers to vacation, relaxation and leisure.
• Rowing boat or canoe – like with the pedal boat you also make headway by own force with the rowing boat and canoe. Also it refers to the leisure.
• Kayak, canoe –  independent dealings and own way how the conscious manages with feelings and emotional needs.
• Sailboat – The sailboat is moving with the help of wind, and this wind brings you forward. The force of intellect and spirit is symbolized with the wind, which drives the dreamer and helps to move forward.

Spiritual Meanings:

A boat symbolizes our personality with which we move on the “sea of the life”!

Traditional Meanings:

European (Judeo-Christian)

• Changes if see boat in a dream – You see a boat indicates a trip and announces a changes in your present life situation;
• Good omen if lying in clear water – The boat in the clear water in your dream says that everything is now taking a happy process;
• Bad sign if lying in the muddy water – In the dream the water is muddy and there is a boat, accident is approaching or breakdowns in the journey or life course;
• Visit if drive with it – When you are driving a boat in your dream, means that you are going to visit your relatives or friends;
• Sadness if sinking – The dream denotes that you will experience disappointment;
• Bad luck if fall of – In the dream you fall off a boat into the water announces distress and danger and misfortune;
• Joy If sail – When you are dreaming that you are sailing in a boat on smooth water brings you happiness and success;
• Respect if sail with friends – In the dream you are sailing with good company means that you are granted with much favor;
• Delay plans if sail in storm – Sailing with a boat you get into storm, this is a warning that you should shift a planned journey or affairs;
• Warning if sail in dirty water or storm – This dream is a warning about upcoming disaster.

Hindu (Hinduism)

• Happiness if sail in clear water – In the dream you are in the boat sailing in clear water, means that you will have success in your life.

Arabian (Islamic)

• Changes if see a boat – In the dream you see a boat, denotes that you will have changes.

* Please, see meaning of vehicles, travel, water.

European (Judeo-Christian)

• Time to rest if be in the amusement park – In the dream you are in the amusement park then soon you will have vacation and relaxation after intensive period;
• No troubles if have a ride – You go for a ride in the amusement park in your dream then you can expect that you will have more friends and fewer worries.

European (Judeo-Christian)

• No journey if see steam car – The dream of steam car marks that all your plans about vacation will fail, you have to cancel for unknown period.

Hindu (Hinduism)

• Slow success if steam car – The dream of steam car marks that you will move forward your goals slowly but surely.

Arabian (Islamic)

• Meeting if see steam car – The steam car as a dream symbol announces a pleasant visit in view;
• Be attentive if go with steam car – The dream where you are moving with steam car then this denotes that you have to pay attention to matters of any kind.