Dream meaning of sky
To dream of the sky, signifies distinguished honors and interesting travel with cultured companions, if the sky is clear. Otherwise, it portends blasted expectations, and trouble with women.
To dream of floating in the sky among weird faces and animals, and wondering all the while if you are really awake, or only dreaming, foretells that all trouble, the most excruciating pain, that reach even the dullest sense will be distilled into one drop called jealousy, and will be inserted into your faithful love, and loyalty will suffer dethronement.
To see the sky turn red, indicates that public disquiet and rioting may be expected.
See also: Heaven, Illumination
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The sky usually signifies peace and freedom of expression when it is clear and blue. If cloudy and overcast, the sky may be forecasting sadness and trouble.
It symbolizes your aspirations, your deepest desires, the ultimate meaning of your actions. Not surprisingly, except in Egypt, the sky has always been associated with the masculine, to the active and to the spirit (the land, however, is linked to the feminine and passive).
If in dreams you look at the sky during daylight, it is a sign of openness and clarity in your aims. The night sky, in turn, indicates order, and balance when it is starry.
For Jung, at nightfall, the sky was the most appropriate place for the subject to project her unconscious. The symbolism of the constellations and zodiac signs, therefore, are archetypal expressions of the subject’s inner world.
Many oneiric superstitions agree that dreaming of a blue sky heralds good luck.
If it is cloudy, quite the opposite. On the other hand, some believe that a red sky in dreams portends a national disaster.
The omen here depends on the weather details. A clear sky, whether light or dark, signifies happy times ahead; a few clouds, dispersing, are a sign of minor difficulties easily overcome; a few clouds, gathering, indicate obstacles which will require more effort; and a stormy sky portends a period of stress that will require courage and determination. A gray sky is a sign of reliable friends who will stand by you in all kinds of weather.
The sky is the enormous part of our world that is everything that the earth is not. In this way, the sky is a symbol for the endless capacity of the human imagination. For some, this expansiveness is so enormous that it includes the concept of God.
Anything that involves the sky in the landscape of a dream represents this upward-soaring element of the human psyche. Consider what is happening in the sky in your dream, and add that quality, experience, or sensation to your aspirational sensibilities. What is happening in your highest thoughts will be happening in the sky of your dreams, whether positive or negative. Remember that things can “fall out of the sky,” which represents sudden, unexpected experiences; again, those can be either positive or negative.
The sky symbolizes your future course.
If you dream of a clear, bright, sunny sky, then full speed ahead. Things look favorable.
If you dream of a cloudy or stormy sky, prepare for problems and delays.
A sky that looks strange and unnatural symbolizes something unexpected.