What Does Dreaming of a Mouth Mean?
What does dreaming of a mouth mean in traditional interpretation?
According to traditional interpretation (Ibn Sirin, Nabulsi, Jafar al-Sadiq), the mouth is considered the beginning and end of affairs, the source of provision, and the seat of one's words and influence. A large, sweet-smelling mouth may point to abundance and to effective, beneficial speech, while a closed, bound, or vanished mouth may be interpreted as illness, silence, or hardship.
What does dreaming of a mouth mean psychologically?
In modern psychology, the mouth can represent the power of expression, words spoken or suppressed, and, according to Freud, early (oral) needs, trust, and gratification. The mouth in a dream may be a sign of how freely one expresses oneself, or of the things one "cannot say."
By Context
What does a large mouth mean in a dream?
It may point to abundant provision, health, and the power to influence others with one's words.
What does a small mouth mean in a dream?
Conversely, it may point to scarcity of provision and anxiety over making a living.
What does a sweet-smelling mouth mean in a dream?
It can be interpreted as giving a respected, pleasant, and beneficial speech; a foul smell may be interpreted as hurtful, wounding words to be spoken.
What does the mouth closed/bound or vanished mean in a dream?
According to Ibn Sirin it may point to silence, severe illness, or bad news; for a pregnant woman, it can be interpreted as a safe delivery.
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.