Dreams / Plots / Fire
Dream Symbols · Plots

What does it mean to dream about fire?

A plot about something catching fire—a house, place, or object—with a feeling of destruction and danger.

Fire in a dream according to superstition is often associated with a quarrel or turbulent changes in the home. Fire is a dual symbol: simultaneously destruction and purification, an end and a transformation. A fire in a dream can reflect a strong, barely contained emotion—anger, passion, rage—that demands an outlet, or the process of destroying an old structure for the sake of a new one appearing.

What it might feel like

Panic, fear, sometimes a strange fascination with the fire

When this dream tends to come

Often arrives when a strong, unexpressed emotion has accumulated and demands release. Perhaps there is a feeling that has long been smoldering inside and is asking for acknowledgment before it burns hotter.

Questions worth sitting with

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Find a safe way to physically express an accumulated intense emotion—fast walking, screaming into a pillow, intense movement.

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