Dreaming of Numbness

numbness, pins and needles, tingling · negative

Feeling numbness creep over you signals illness and unsettling conditions.

What happens in the dream

  • You feel numbness creeping over you: a sign of illness and disquieting circumstances

How you felt

  • Helplessness: the dream often reflects a sense of no longer being able to act
  • Emotional numbness: it may show you are protecting yourself by feeling nothing

Ask yourself

  • Where do I feel paralysed?
  • What am I avoiding feeling?

See also Paralysis · Palsy · Illness · Sickness · Fatigue

Source: G. H. Miller, Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted, or What's in a Dream (1901). Also searched as: pins and needles, tingling.

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