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Seeing Smell in Your Dream: Your Subconscious Way of Telling You
As a dream interpreter, I believe that dreams are the secret languages of our subconscious, carrying messages from our inner world. Everything we see, hear, and smell in our dreams reflects our deepest thoughts, emotions, aspirations, fears, and hopes. Seeing smell in a dream is one such message.
The Power of Smell and Senses:
Smell is a powerful sense that can take us to the deepest emotions. It can evoke memories, trigger feelings, and leave deep imprints on our subconscious. Seeing smell in a dream is often a symbolic reflection of this powerful sensory experience.
Smell in the Language of Dreams:
A dream is a world without limits, unlike our daily life. Seeing smell in a dream, even if it is not related to smell in reality, can express the feelings, thoughts, and hidden messages in our subconscious.
Smell and Symbols:
Pleasant Smell:
- According to Ibn Sirin, pleasant smells indicate good news, happiness, love, and prosperity.
- Seyyid Suleyman says that this dream will bring joy, success, healing, and peace.
- According to Imam Ghazali, pleasant smells represent a person's spirituality, calmness, and inner peace.
- Freud associates pleasant smells with sexual attraction and desires.
- Jung believes that pleasant smells symbolize personal growth and inner enlightenment.
Bad Smell:
- Abdullah bin Abbas says that bad smells indicate bad news, distress, sadness, and illness.
- Nablusi believes that bad smells indicate negative events such as hostility, slander, and gossip.
- Talim al-Hakim says that this dream represents bad habits that should be avoided and negative influences in the environment.
- Freud associates bad smells with psychological discomfort, inner conflicts, and repressed emotions.
- Jung believes that bad smells represent a person's dark side, repressed emotions in the subconscious, and suppressed instincts.
Specific Smells:
- Smell of flowers: It can indicate happiness, love, romance, and beauty.
- Smell of coffee: It can indicate awakening, energy, enthusiasm, and the beginning of an inspiring period.
- Smell of soil: It can represent connection with nature, security, resilience, and rooting.
- Smell of cooked food: It can indicate family, home, love, happiness, and prosperity.
The type, intensity, and feeling of the smell you saw in your dream are important clues for interpretation.
Remember, dreams have personal interpretations. Although dream interpreters point to common symbols of dreams, you can make the most accurate interpretation by combining the content of the dream and your personal life experiences. Seeing smell in a dream is a sign that your subconscious is sending you an important message. You should carefully analyze your dream and ask yourself how it makes you feel to understand this message.