What does it mean to dream about a hospital? |

Dreaming of a hospital may represent, at a symbolic level, a phase the dreamer is going through and may be conducive to understanding certain habits and attitudes that have been draining their vitality and creating obstacles in their daily lives. Due to the fact that the hospital is a place where sick people go in search of cure or reduction of their suffering and pain, the dreamer has the chance to go through a process of perception about what he has been doing wrong, being able to change behaviors and addictions.

Check out more details below to help you better understand what you dreamed of.

Reflect on the context of dreaming about a hospital

Are you looking for help at the hospital? Is it an appointment or an emergency situation? Are you one of the healthcare professionals at this location? Are you helping a patient? Can you tell which illness you are helping a patient to recover from? Who is this person you help? Are you recovering or taking care of a health problem in the hospital?

Reflect on what the unconscious may be signaling when dreaming of a hospital

Are you feeling the need to further investigate a certain habit, behavior or addiction that has been bringing you dissatisfaction, limitation or even self-sabotage at this stage of your life? Do you find yourself in a moment of greater need to rest and recover from a problem? Do you see the importance of asking someone for help in order to deal with a certain issue or relationship? Have you been feeling an urge to donate to others, help people and have a more compassionate, helpful and healing attitude? Or have friends and colleagues been demanding more of your time, energy, listening and assistance? Are you noticing how much your emotions and moods are fluctuating, especially when you’re in contact with someone or frequenting a certain place?

Understand possible applications of dreaming about a hospital:

Dreaming of looking for help in the hospital

If you’re looking for help at the hospital, maybe it’s an indication that you need to take more care of yourself, your health, cleaning up those habits that are harmful to your vitality, your well-being and your process of maturation and existential satisfaction. AND if you seek this help through a normal consultation or an emergency situationthis need to notice a saboteur habit can be gradual or urgent.

Dreaming that you are a hospital professional

If you are one of the health professionals in this place and you are helping a patient, remember that every element, object, environment and person in the dream refers to the dreamer himself – symbolically, of course. Therefore, it will be fundamental, if shown in the dream scene, to know which illness you are helping or which person you are helping, in order to have clearer details about what needs to be cured (changed): the symbolic content of the disease. For example, if it’s the heart, you might be in a great time to change the way you express your feelings. If the brain is the sick part of the sick, pay attention to certain negative, obsessive, or critical thoughts you are having that can undermine your clarity and health.

Dream about the person you are helping in the dream

Likewise, the person who is being helped by you in the dream will tend to represent which facet of your personality deserves more affection, attention and changes. For example, if it is someone you know who is perceived by you as someone who is very insecure, vacillating and indecisive, you may need to further investigate this attitude that you are perhaps also demonstrating in your day-to-day life, in order to be more decisive and self-confident.

To dream that you are being treated in the hospital

And if you’re recovering or nursing a health issue in the hospital, that’s a great sign. Your unconscious is revealing that you are consciously involved with the process of knowing yourself better and making the necessary behavioral changes in certain attitudes that could be harming your daily activities and your life as a whole, in some way.

Pay attention to your needs

All recovery must take place in a period of rest, especially when you are hospitalized. In this way, psychologically speaking, a dream about a place like this can correspond to the need to slow down, rest and renew your batteries through a break and greater recollection.

Inside a hospital, there are patients, people asking for help and others – health professionals – offering medical assistance. Therefore, dreaming about a hospital can reveal that the dreamer is going through a phase in which he must ask for help or offer support to people who are in need.

Rethink your attitudes and relationships

At the same time, hospital activities demand high standards of cleanliness. Therefore, it will be important for the dreamer to assess whether he needs to dedicate himself more in his daily life to tasks that require a greater capacity for organization, planning and cleaning. In deeper terms, the metaphor present in the need to avoid contagion and the risk of infections concerns the dreamer paying close attention to an entire cleaning and disinfecting routine. That is, to be more selective with the environments and companies you are involved with at this stage of your life, because people, groups and places you frequent may have a strong influence on your health (emotional, psychic and physical). An example is the change in mood caused by contact with sadder, critical or pessimistic people.

Our experts

– Yubertson Miranda, graduated in Philosophy from PUC-MG, is a symbologist, numerologist, astrologer and tarot reader.

– Thaís Khoury holds a degree in Psychology from Universidade Paulista, with a postgraduate degree in Analytical Psychology. She uses dream interpretation, calatonia and creative expression in her sessions.