Dream dictionary: Surgery dream meanings

…Surgery in a dream represents the real limb which is operated on in one’s dream. If a young man or a young woman see themselves having an operation where their chest is opened, or having an open heart surgery for example in a dream, it means that they are in love. As for elderly people, it means distress. Having a minor surgery on the thumb in a dream means signing a loan. (Also see Body 1 | Chest)…

If you dream of the surgery, then such dream foretells the need of changes or total new recovery. There are certain things in your life that must be removed. On the other hand, the dream indicates the affection other people have on you. Perhaps you are very dependant person who let other people make the decisions instead of you. Consider if you are not having the surgery in your waking life, as it would bring the fear or impatience you are experiencing.

…To dream about surgery operated on our heart is a clear warning to give a message about negative love even though it might mean a painful and sudden abandonment for us. If surgery is performed on our stomach it’s a sign that we must look back carefully on events because we have not processed one of them correctly, and that can cause problems….

Many authors believe that dreaming of being operated is a call to our subconscious, about a part in our life, or activity that could harm us. If in the dream we are having heart surgery, then this could mean emotional problems and if it’s the stomach, it indicates moral situations that can’t be accepted or analyzed.

Being operated, indicates prosper businesses, wealth. If another person is being operated, it indicates fatal happenings or profound resentments….

…in his legs in a dream, it means longevity. If one’s foot is wounded in the dream, it means that his authority and control will become firmer. If one receives a cut and no blood runs out of his wound in a dream, it means that the assailant will say something true about his victim, representing the answer the person in the dream needs to realize. A bleeding wound in a dream also means being subject to backbiting, though what will be said is true. If one sees an angel piercing his stomach with a sword, whereby he thinks that he is dead in the dream, it means that he may suffer from an ulcer which will ultimately heal. If the sword inflicts a wound in his neck in a dream, it means prosperity which will mostly benefit his progeny. (Also see Horizontal wound | Surgery | Vertical wound)…

…Losing an eye means that true love and happiness could not be discovered yet. Beautiful eyes indicate beautiful hopes that are found along your path. Jumping eyes presage news about a surgery, sickness or accident. Sick eyes represent loss or separation from a loved one. Closed eyes are a signal of silliness and false pride….

If you dream of being transsexual, then such dream symbolizes the confusion you are suffering at the moment. You are unable to divide the feminine and masculine aspects of your personality, therefore they got mixed up. If you are the transsexual in your waking life, then such dream reflects your waking life, especially if you are getting ready for the transsexual surgery, then it shows your worries about upcoming changes.

…of the day. For instance, when I was about fourteen years of age and at a public school, I was put under gas during the extraction of a couple of very firmly rooted grinders. Owing to some difficulty the dentist had in extracting them, I ”came to” before the operation was over, and suffered agonies. That night in my sleep I again went through the grim proceedings, detail for detail, from my entry into the surgery and the anxious gaze around for the dreaded instruments, to the final look at the gold-fish in the aquarium, before my jaws were propped open, and my nose and mouth enveloped in the soft and spongy cap, I had so uneasily remarked in the hands of the anaesthetist. Again I smelt the sweet and sickly odour of the gas; again I heard the voices of the doctor and dentist growing fainter and fainter till…

These dreams usually indicate unsuspected tests, such as illness or surgery. If during the dream the guts are devoured by wild animals, it symbolizes moral misery, danger, or a compromised financial situation. Usually, to dream about digestive organs (guts, among others), means that various problems will threaten you, health among them.