When you are gazing longingly at old portraits, then such dream reveals us that we are attached to the past. If we are portraying a person, then it indicates that this particular person has a certain interest on us. If we look at our own portrait, then such dream reveals who we are and who we wish to be.
Dream dictionary: being chased and attached by a hull dream meanings
The engagement ring symbolizes the will to be attached to someone you love. The engagement ring could also signify your will to be bonded with someone.
Dreaming of a dowry means that you are very attached to goods and material interests.
To dream of keys is favourable to a person in trade and, to a sailor, it shows that he will return in safety, but, if he dream that they are lost, he may be lost in his turn. To dream of finding a key, denotes an addition to your property, it may be a legacy. If married, it foretells the birth of a child, if a ribbon is attached to it, you may expect a girl.
You will maintain contact with different people to whom you are attached to, but will be superficial.
The dream in which you see the glue, indicates the apprehension to be stuck in some situation. Maybe you do not want to be too attached with someone in your waking life, such as your partner. If you dream about seeing yourself in the action of gluing something together, then such dream represents the parts of your personality which you try to put together.
…father died, and I dreamed one huge magpie flew in at the door and perched on one of the knobs at the foot of my bed, exactly a week before the death of my eldest son.”I, too, have dreamed of magpies, and, as in the case I have just quoted, the dreams have always occurred shortly before a death. The night a very near relative of mine died, I dreamed a large number of magpies flew in at my window; and the day before a dog to which I was very much attached was run over and killed, I dreamed two magpies settled on my shoulder, and that I could not make them go. Also, when I was living in a big, rambling house in Cornwall, I dreamed a raven flew down the chimney and pecked me vigorously three times on the hand. Indeed, the pecks hurt me so much…
…while bathing in the sea.”The other dream, which occurred only last year, was to this effect: I was riding outside an omnibus in London when a bat suddenly flew past me. All my fellow-passengers cried out in a chorus, ‘How remarkable! A bat!’ and I awoke actually repeating those words. I was so impressed that I jotted down the dream in my memorandum book. Exactly a week later, I received tidings of my fathers death: he had been thrown from a trap, whilst descending a steep hill near Dublin, and killed on the spot. “In reference to motionless bats, a lady informed me, that one night she dreamed her counterpane was covered with bats, and bats being her pet aversion, she was so terrified that she immediately awoke, to find her whole body bathed in perspiration. The following day, she learned that an aunt to whom she was greatly attached…
Dream of being married, or at a wedding, is interpreted as your desire to be attached to your lover. The wedding is also a sign of the actual marriage you are going to have soon.
…(Den | Lair | Hole | Burrow) In a dream, any hole or den of such mammals means pursuing innovations in one’s religious practices, or being attached to following leaders of such ideas and who will lead people astray. A den in a dream also represents the element of charcoal. If one sees an animal coming out of a hole or a den in a dream, it means that he will utter words that befit the character of such an animal….
If you dream of seeing yourself being attached with the umbilical cord, then such dream indicates your desire to be protected by others. Perhaps you do not feel good while being by yourself.
…(Bond | Bondage | Harness | Shackles | Yoke of matrimony) In a dream, a yoke means benefits for most people except for people in bondage. In their case, seeing a yoke in a dream means harsher subjugation to their masters. If someone is suffering from bondage, or if a prisonor of war, or a political prisoner sees a broken yoke in a dream, it means that he will be set free. The wooden frame which is attached to the plough-iron or the colter in a dream means marriage, bearing children, or work. A yoke in a dream also represents the turning of circumstances against one’s liking, or meeting with obliging conditions….
If you dream that you live in the convent, it shows that you are attached to your religion and believe a lot. The dream indicates the spiritual aspects of the dreamer, what he believes in and how he deals with the promises that were given and vows that were promised. If you didnt enjoy while living in this convent, it shows that you feel too much pressure from your surroundings and not believing in your own beliefs.
…actions, or that one will beget a son from adultery. If a God fearing person sees himself looking at a paper written in a language he cannot decipher in a dream, it means that he will face humiliation or suffer from distress. If one is offered a wrapping paper and he finds a newborn baby wrapped inside it in a dream, it means that he will hire a servant with some strings attached to his employment. If one is given a newspaper, or a document but does not care to read it in his dream, it means that he may receive an inheritance. If one reads the title page of a newspaper in a dream, it also means that he may receive an inheritance. If he quickly browses through it in his dream, then it means debts. To see one’s records of the Day of Judgment open before his own…
To dream that you are unable to move shows some kind of stagnation in your waking life. You do not trust yourself, therefore you dream of being attached to someone or something. The dream could also mean nothing if you sleep under heavy duvet.