Do you spare time to know what it signifies? According to dream interpreters, every dream has a meaning, and it conveys something about a person's past, present, or future.
So should you be worried if you dream about seeing yourself in trouble? But you can indeed take a cue from it and gear up for something that may not be conducive. Specific dreams often leave a person feeling suffocated and helpless. One such dream is about seeing yourself crawling or passing through a dark and narrow tunnel.
So what does it mean? If one were to take a look at the situation in real life, then it would mean that a person who has got stuck in a dark and a narrow tunnel is in trouble. Therefore, the passage of the person through the tunnel to its opening will be an exhausting one. The movement of the person in the tunnel would be limited owing to the narrowness. Moreover, the path upwards may look bleak owing to the darkness. For hundreds of years, caves like this were used by local Indigenous communities to quarantine people who became sick.
Tunnels inherit much of the symbolism attributed to caves but, on top of that, tunnels signify focus. Sometimes the dominant culture feels someone has too much focus. We call that tunnel vision. A monotropic mind is one that focuses its attention on a small number of interests at any time, tending to miss things outside of this attention tunnel. Tunnels, more than caves, are also thought to lead somewhere.
In stories they are often a kind of portal. Hayao Miyazaki features many caves in his anime. Tunnels feature large in Japanese superstition. Until quite recently women were not meant to enter tunnels. Naturally, this restricted women to their local areas, since Japan is a mountainous country.
The superstition is based on the misogynist notion that women are jealous by nature:. According to the superstition, the god of a mountain is a jealous woman who will cause accidents if a woman enters the construction site of a tunnel. This is an excellent example of speculative fiction with grounding in the real world. The supernatural powers are probably no such thing… but could be.
The tunnel is therefore a good choice of fantasy portal because tunnels exist in real life and a tunnel could be just a tunnel. Sea caves are especially scary because the tide sends water rushing in.
If you get disorientated due to utter darkness you might end up drowned. This puts a natural ticking clock storytelling device on narratives featuring caves by the sea. The snail under the leaf setting is an appealing horror setting, epitomised by comfortable suburbs. Sewers epitomise that feeling of dread. Rats are the animal most closely associated with sewers.
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