Writing Dream Meanings

If you are writing in a dream or reading someone else’s writing, it may suggest an unconscious effort to become aware of forces or issues in life. Take note that writing is a secondary form of communication. Speaking is more direct and less cumbersome for most. Thus, the written message

In your dream may be disguised or may be less genuine than other forms of receiving information from the unconscious.

You may be trying to figure something out and this might be the first step in that process. Sometimes the instrument you are using when writing is important. For example, a pencil would suggest the information is less permanent than it would be if you were using a permanent marker; a typewriter or word processor would suggest business rather than personal communications.

If you dream of leaning over to write on a blank sheet of paper, this suggests an opportunity to make a fresh start and if you are holding a pen, you have found a means to express your thoughts. Were you writing to someone you know or starting to write a novel? Whatever you were writing and whoever it was for, the message implicit in dream writing is that you have an urge to communicate either to someone in particular or to a wider audience. An ink blot in a dream suggests that you have doubts about something or someone in waking life. The shape of the blot may be significant if you can recall it.

If tears smudge your writing, this may suggest feelings of guilt towards someone or emotional difficulties.

If you are writing down names and addresses in your dream, this may be a reminder to remember your friends and take note of your enemies. It also suggests a need to reflect on something, or sort out your ideas and decisions. Perhaps the instrument with which you are writing is significant. For example, to write with a pencil or chalk would suggest the information is less permanent than were you to write with a pen or fountain pen, and a typewriter or word processor would suggest that the information is connected to business, rather than personal, issues. Writing a novel or writing in general can also suggest a desire to leave your mark on the world in some way.

If the writing is by someone you know, this refers to their influence over your life and thought processes in waking life.

If you are writing to someone you know, he or she may represent the nature of the issues you are trying to express.

If you dream of someone else writing, this can show an aspect of yourself that is seeking to express itself.

Consider what the writing says, and to whom it’s addressed first. Very often the words are a message from your own subconscious or ego that need your attention.

The creative process. Many writers tell me that they dream of writing things before they actually put pen to pad.

Writing with footnotes is a subconscious message to be certain you’re carefully checking your sources of information with regard to a specific person or situation. Don’t believe everything you read and hear without some other confirmation.

If writing appears in a journal, this represents the need to record events carefully This information will prove useful later.

Writing with a quill pen symbolizes the power and responsibility- for your words. Great documents like the Declaration of Independence were scribed with this implement, with due diligence. What declarations are you writing into your life?

Writing a manuscript that never gets finished, or finishing one that gets rejected, portends similar disappointments on the horizon.

Examine this situation closely to be sure you’re seeing everything that’s important.

For instance, a pencil would suggest that the information is less permanent than with a pen, whereas a typewriter or word processor would tend to suggest business communication rather than personal.

2- Writing as a creative art is meaningful, and as a form of self- expression it perhaps allows us to communicate when spoken words are inadequate. In dreams we may learn how to communicate with ourselves in differing ways.

3- The dreamer may not be consciously aware of his spiritual progression.

Dreaming of writing suggests a subconscious record is being kept.

Expression.

Creativity.

Writing words can represent: Expressing something (thoughts, feelings, opinions, etc.), or fearing or desiring the expression of something.

Recording or noting something, or a desire to remember or preserve something.

Writing music can represent: communication; inspiration; expressing yourself (or a desire to do so); creating something where there was nothing; creating something new from existing things or within an existing framework; experiencing freedom through creativity.

Consider also what was being written and why.

See also: Story; Words; Text; Typing; Pen or Pencil; Ink; Language; Communication; Journal; Notebook; Music; Song; Poetry

If you are writing in a dream or reading someone else’s writing, it may be an unconscious effort to become aware of forces or issues in life. Writing is a secondary form of communication. Speaking is more direct and less cumbersome for most. Thus, the written message in your dream may be disguised or may be less genuine than other forms of receiving information from the unconscious. You may be trying to figure something out and this might be the first step in that process.

If the writer is someone else perhaps one aspect of your true self wants to get your attention. The contents of the letter can reveal valuable messages from your unconscious.

The mystical tradition, in this case, stresses the importance of the silence of words.

Dreaming of writing portends good news from relatives and friends.

If in the dream you write with difficulty or pain it portends unjust accusations.

The most significant aspects of this dream are the words you can discern as well as the pressure the words are written in.

The heavier the pressure, the more impassioned the message. Consider the content of what you are writing as well as the feeling tone.

If you do the writing: don’t take an oral agreement seriously—insist that it be done in writing.

Depth Psychology: Writing is often the best way to bring clarity to your thoughts, emotions, and ideas. Are you confused about something at present? Do you want to see something in “black and white”? What are you writing about? What are odiers writing? See Bill, Leaf, Paper, Receipt.

For instance, a pencil would suggest that the information is less permanent than with a pen. Our signature in a dream suggests that we have an appreciation of ourselves. We are prepared to recognize who we are and to make our mark in the world. Also consult the entries for ink, paper / parchment and pen / pencil for further information.

The term worm is used metaphorically in some common English expressions to represent weakness and sneakiness, as in “he wormed his way into the group” or “what a worm he turned out to be.” The worm also symbolizes bait and rich, fertile soil.

Dreams of writing novels, plays or stories indicate that there is a creative streak in you that needs an outlet. Many great authors have received inspiration from their dreams.

To dream of writing and not knowing what you’re writing is a warning that you may be inadvertently communicating messages to others that they are misinterpreting in an insulting way.

(2) If someone else is writing, he or she may represent either someone in real life; or some part of yourself that is demanding attention, pleading for admission into your conscious life. In either case it will pay you to attend to what the writer is trying to tell you.

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To see writing, denotes that you will be upbraided for your careless conduct and a lawsuit may cause you embarrassment.

To try to read strange writing, signifies that you will escape enemies only by making no new speculation after this dream.

See Letters.

A manuscript would suggest some aspect of ancient knowledge.

Dreaming of writing suggests a subconscious record is being kept. Spiritually our signature is a reflection of ourselves; it is a representation of who we perceive ourselves to be.

To account for something to yourself. But it may also mean an important message or tip. You need to turn to a particular person and discuss something important with him or her. Or, if you have an important question, this person may have an answer.

If you dream that you are writing, you are creating difficulties by your own actions.

addresses: remember friends and spy on your enemies.

agenda, an: infirmity from a blunder in scheduling.

another: renege on the contract; are not pleasing those who wil then make false accusations.

article for a magazine: successful works of literary import.

capital letters, in: be leery of those persuasive in their scheming.

inscriptions, dated: tragedy in your immediate circle.

undecipherable: continue to seek guidance, but not from envious people.

journal, in a: a dividend from a stock you thought worthless.

reading your: wil receive a telegram.

letter, a: someone has stolen from you and you are exacting revenge.

business, a: need to send a long overdue letter that reflects your satisfaction.

children, to: must put out money or be depressed.

love, to mate: happiness and unity.

relatives: wil make a mistake that wil prove your undoing.

manuscript, completing a: ambitions need to be expanded for your next effort.

having, returned: criticisms should be taken as the critic’s own qualms.

not: go to plan B; writer’s block has an expanded dimension—a new project.

memoirs: your dishonor foretel s a serious error, which wil threaten your peace.

opinions: consult friends before they interfere where you don’t want them to.

paper, on: wil be falsely accused of something.

reminder of payment due: no success in col ecting money.

report, a: wil be accused of slander by your own conscience.

you: a handshake wil not stand up in court.

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