The Importance of Colour in Our Dreams

  • Colour plays an important role in all areas of our lives.

Colourful dreams!

  • In understanding colour better, we can bemore detailed in our dream interpretations and in becoming our own dream analysis expert. 
  • As we look around us, everything we perceive reflects colour. Colour is everywhere, and affects our daily lives and emotions constantly. Just as we are made up of a series of energy fields, so too is colour. Colour and light are energy, and we are constantly being shifting and changing in response to our environment and all the colours around it.
  • Throughout history colour has always played an important role and regarded as highly symbolic. Today psychologists and scientists are even acknowledging the profound use of colour for therapeutic purposes. Colour has power and every specific colour produces the same stimulus in every single person.
  • You will have varying shades and hues of the 7 major colours in our dreams, but there is a general rule; the more clear that colour is, the more accurate the description will be, and the muddier that colour, the more blocked that area will be for you.

Use Colours as Dream Symbols

The following are the various associations that different colours have around the world.

 

Black

Self-confidence

Independence

Power and strength

Mourning

Death/Grief

Evil and mystery

Elegance

‘Black listed'

‘Black humour'

‘Black tie event'

   

Blue

Calmness and tranquility

Self-cultivation

Water

Coolness

Sadness

Trust and faith

Sky/Heaven

Wisdom and intellect

Cleanliness

Masculine

Seriousness

   

Brown

Masculinity

Stability

Earth

‘Down to earth' or practical

   

Gold

Strength

Wealth

Opulence

Luxury

   

Green

Soothing, relaxing

Ecology/Environment

Envy and jealousy

Money

‘Go!' (as in a signal from a traffic light.)

Success

Nature

Harmony

Fertility

Freshness

Healing

Stability and endurance

Growth and success

‘He's very green' (as in someone new or inexperienced in something)

Safety

   

Orange

Enthusiasm

Energy

Social

Joy and happiness

Stimulating and Invigorating

Harvest

Health

Deceit and distrust

   

Pink

Youthful

Feminine

Creativity

Romance

Passiveness

   

Purple

Wealth and extravagance

Royalty and opulence

Higher wisdom

Mental clarity

Ambition

Mystery and magic

Dignity

Creativity

   

Red

Love

Respect

Heart

Anger and emotional intensity

Passion

Danger

Fire

Blood

Courage

‘Stop!' (As seen in a traffic light or stop sign)

   

Silver

Silver bullets

Poor man's gold

Self-reflection

Second best

Being served on a silver platter - spoiled, privileged

Silver cord - Can represent the spiritual connection – or the connection between your spiritual self and your physical body while astral travelling

   

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