What Does Dreaming of a Clock Mean?
What does dreaming of a clock mean in traditional interpretation?
According to traditional interpretation (Ibn Sirin and al-Nabulsi), seeing a clock in a dream can indicate one's lifespan, knowing the value of time, keeping one's word, and punctuality; a fine, working clock may be read as affairs going well and as abundance, while a broken or stopped clock can be interpreted as delay and hardship.
What does dreaming of a clock mean psychologically?
From a modern psychological perspective, a clock can symbolize awareness of time and mortality, and the desire to bring order and control to one's life; a stopped clock may point to an emotion or decision stuck in the unconscious, unable to move forward.
By Context
What does a wristwatch mean in a dream?
Can indicate that you lead a planned, disciplined life and that by using your time well you may achieve success in your career.
What does a wall clock mean in a dream?
Can indicate that family and private life are on track and that ongoing projects may come to a positive conclusion.
What does a stopped or broken clock mean in a dream?
Can point to a long wait, a process that requires patience, or certain troubles and delays that may arise.
A Gold Watch, According to Ibn Sirin: what does dreaming of a clock mean?
For a man, it may serve as a reminder to step back from worldly preoccupations and turn toward the spiritual; according to some interpretations, it signifies standing and a good state of affairs.
Where these readings come from
Every symbol in this dictionary carries two readings side by side, and neither replaces the other. The traditional interpretation comes from the classical literature of Ibn Sirin and al-Nabulsi, where a dream is taken as a sign of what is to come and a symbol's meaning is largely fixed. The psychological view follows Jung and Freud: there a dream speaks not about the future but about the dreamer, and a symbol stands for something the person has repressed or cannot yet name. That is why the same symbol can read differently, even oppositely, under the two headings. The context section follows from the same idea: one symbol reads differently depending on who saw it and what happened in the dream.