What do tunnels mean in dreams

Through small tunnels ancient visitors to the Asklepians of Greece would seek a dream healing by passing through a tunnel into the womb of the earth. Hippocrates established the first school for medical practices on the Island of Kos in Greece.

Dream Healing techniques were taught here as well. A hallway can reveal how various parts aspects of you your house connect. A hallway can represent a means for the outside world to enter your intimate life. Is this corridor leading toward some end, or ending? Wasn't this what Alice was doing?

The hole can also be a Pit and represent the Void, a place of emptiness, where feelings of being trapped prevail. In facing the void, when falling into it, we fall into the nothing, but with the potential for everything and the transformation of our imagined limits. Within lies the power for change and liberation. Wasn't this so for Alice? Going down the Rabbit-Hole is also a euphemism for becoming enlightened. To tumble down the rabbit hole is to fall into the reality of your self and to wake up from your waking dream.

Alice also passed through a mirror into another world previously hidden to her. Though Mirrors can symbolically represent your self-image, or identity, they can also symbolize looking into the unconscious to see who you are, or to see what you're hiding. What you see may be confusing, or even the opposite of what you thought. This too can provide information. Neuroscientists suggest that there are mirror neurons that fire when certain behaviors of others are observed and serve to aid humans in understanding one anothers actions and are important to both imitation and language development.

Might this system be critical to the process of projection i. What does your mirror reflect? Death also can be seen as a transition point from one state of being to another. Often people who have died are said to have passed through to the other side.

Perhaps in death one lets go of one way of being in order to be reborn into another. This is why death shows up in so many dreams, not only as a means of coming to terms with our ultimate demise, but as a metaphor for change, transition, or transcendence. All of this presupposes an entrance an opening, passage, or a door which is often seen as a symbol for new experiences, or opportunities, or the passing between one state of being or feeling into another and leading to a new realization.

Doors can also suggest how open, or accessible, you are to people and ideas. Is it shut and locked? Does someone else shut the door, thus limiting your access, or progress? Doors can also be entrances to new stages of life.

Early in my carreer I had a woman, a bruja, who in a dream invited me to enter into the mysteries of a garden hidden behind a door. I've been exploring that garden of the soul, the unchartered unconscious, ever since.

Alternatively, you might be someone who often has 'tunnel vision' so maybe you are closing your mind off to something or being narrow minded over a situation right now. Look not only ahead but all around you to get a greater perspective as you might be missing out on some vital pieces of information and opportunities as well as other people's feelings.

Another interpretation is that you feel constricted in your everyday life. Try to keep focused on the light at the end so these feelings don't overwhelm you to the point of stopping. There is an end- you can see it- so keep going.

There is a lot more freedom and flexibility once you reach it. Tunnels are artificial underground passages that can be built under hills, roads or rivers. If we dream of a tunnel we are dreaming of something that is not visible above ground.

Women can have dreams about tunnels in the last few months of their pregnancies. This can represent an unconscious form of preparation for child birth.