What does it mean to dream about church? |

Dreaming of a church can have opposite meanings. Understanding which one suits your moment depends on personal reflection. For those who consider a sacred place, the unconscious may be signaling the importance of meeting with people who share the same ideals. However, there are those who perform the religious ritual mechanically and, in this case, dreaming of a church may represent the dreamer’s lack of purpose at the current moment of his life.

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

REFLECT ON THE CONTEXT OF DREAMING ABOUT THE CHURCH

Is the church in ruins?
Is it a modern church?
Is the church empty or full?
Is there a cult?
Do you avoid going there or do you feel uncomfortable inside the church?
Are you the priest, pastor, celebrant?
Are you a staff member or altar boy? Or just one of the faithful?
Do you perceive yourself to be very different from most people there?

REFLECT ON WHAT THE UNCONSCIOUS MIND MAY BE SIGNALING WHEN DREAMING ABOUT CHURCH

Are you finding yourself wanting to be part of a group or get together with like-minded friends to do something you believe in?
Have you been acting in a very mechanical way when fulfilling certain obligations just for mere formality?
Are you feeling helpless and willing to ask for help, protection and care?
How have you lived your faith? Are you unbelieving, without confidence in the future? Do you seek to rebuild what you believe in to achieve your goals with more conviction?
How have you been dealing with your mother or authority figures? How have you been exercising your personal power: subjugating yourself or imposing yourself dictatorially?

Understand possible applications of dreaming about a church:

DREAM THAT THE CHURCH IS DESTROYED

When you dream of a church in ruins, your faith is probably shaken or the beliefs you believed in are no longer serving you. So it can be an important time to rebuild your faith. No accident, the dreams of a brand new church, painted, with a modern looktend to indicate that there is a renewal of the paradigms that the dreamer follows and professes.

DREAMING THAT A SERVICE HAPPENS IN THE CHURCH

A dream in which worship is taking place inside the church can reveal that you are involved in some social movement in which teamwork, in favor of shared ideals, is in full swing.

DREAM THAT YOU ARE PART OF THE CULT

If you are the one who performs the ritualyou may have the opportunity to exercise leadership and motivate people in this group. If you are just a worker or employee of that church, helping with the serviceit is very likely that you are being very helpful to the members of that team. Or, if it is a faithful gift in worshipyou may just want to be part of this collective movement.

DREAM THAT YOU ARE UNCOMFORTABLE DURING THE CELEBRATION

Still, if you don’t feel comfortable in this celebration inside the churchit is very likely that you are feeling out of place in relation to other people in some community – possibly because you do not accept the ideology, beliefs and responsibilities that they want to offer you to fulfill.

MATERNAL REPRESENTATION AND NEED FOR PROTECTION

Although there are churches of different types (Catholic, Presbyterian, Methodist, Pentecostal, etc.), they all convey a kind of promise, as if each one of them were saying to people “Come here, because you can feel protected, safe, welcomed”.

Not by chance, the church has, as mentioned in the Dictionary of Symbols (by Jean Chevalier and Alain Gheerbrant, Editora José Olympio, page 501), a close relationship with the symbolism of the mother. “The Church is regarded as the Spouse of Christ and the Mother of Christians.” In this sense, when dreaming of a church, the person is possibly going through a phase in which he feels more needy and insecure, wanting more support, wanting to be held. The recommendation here is to seek nourishment from situations, relationships and activities that provide you with this security.

Many people, in acute moments of existential crisis, find help in the church. They enter completely helpless and even give way to convulsive cries and a cathartic process in this welcoming environment. Psychically speaking, dreaming of a church can reveal that the person is feeling confused, fearful, lost, and needs to rebuild their faith, their tune with God/Life/Spirituality.

BELIEVE IN YOUR PERSONAL POWER

There are people who have real revolt against the Catholic Church. They consider her a “merciless mother” who manipulates her (faithful) children to have power over them. Consequently, those who have this type of reaction and vision, when dreaming of the church, tend to be in a phase of greater rebellion and even clash with some authority figure (such as the father, mother, boss, boss, etc. ). Finally, she needs to get in touch with her way of seeing and dealing with her personal power, without letting herself be a victim of tyrannical imposition by third parties or exaggerating in domineering authoritarianism.