Dream dictionary: Suffocating dream meanings

The suffocating in dreams means that you are actually feeling very thirsty while sleeping, therefore you dream about it. The dream could also be a suggestion to check your own health. The dream could also mean that you feel smothered by others.

…Dreaming that you are suffocating, denotes that you will experience deep sorrow and mortification at the conduct of some one you love. You should be careful of your health after this dream. See Smoke….

To dream that you are suffocating, signifies that you are feeling smothered or oppressed by some situation/relationship. Something or someone is holding your back. You are experiencing stress and tension. To suffocate someone in your dream, indicates that you want to dominate or overpower this person in your waking life. This person may also represent an aspect of your own self that you are trying to control.

If the dreamer sees himself/herself being suffocated during the dream, it’s an omen for diverse contrarieties, impediments and tiredness for having had a difficult struggle without obtaining any valuable result. It’s a warning about being under too much pressure from our opponents. Seeing another person being suffocated means that you’ll beat the difficulties and that you’ll have authority and complete control over your enemies. Suffocating a fire during a dream implies that we’re already tired, disenchanted and we lack the necessary strength to keep fighting.

…was lost in a blinding, deafening, suffocating rush through the air, a rush which terminated not in any conscious temporary stage, but in my suddenly finding myself in a thickly wooded glade, sitting close beside a waterfall and watching my recent conductor, who was standing on the brink of a deep pool immediately beneath the cascade, bending slowly backwards and forwards, and assuming, every now and then, the most grotesque and extravagant attitude. I was wondering what he meant by these attitudes, when he came to an abrupt pause, and, stooping slightly forward, craned his neck in my direction, and began contorting his face in every conceivable shape, till at last he appeared all mouth. Rushing at me he was about to swallow me, when I awoke. I had this dream prior to a time when my affairs were singularly prosperous all round, which condition of things was undoubtedly presaged…

…(Strangulation) Suffocating in a dream means that one has taken upon himself a responsibility greater than what he can handle, or that he is intimidated into accepting a heavy responsibility, or that he abused a trust or a leadership position. If his suffocation is caused by an illness in the dream, then it represents a chastisement for a sin or an injustice he has committed. If his suffering increases to near strangulation and death in the dream, it means that he is required to repay all the benefits he drew from holding such trust. If he dies in his dream as a consequence of his suffocation, it means that he will lose his battle with the owner and become poor. If he comes back to life after dying in the dream, it means that in a while, God Almighty will reinstate him in his position after his trying experience….

…Dreaming of your heart paining and suffocating you, there will be trouble in your business. Some mistake of your own will bring loss if not corrected. Seeing your heart, foretells sickness and failure of energy. To see the heart of an animal, you will overcome enemies and merit the respect of all. To eat the heart of a chicken, denotes strange desires will cause you to carry out very difficult projects for your advancement….