What It Means to Dream About Keys
Dreaming of a key is read as a dream that represents a clue to a solution, a new door, and a desire to protect something important.
The Basic Meaning
In dream interpretation, a key is a symbol of solutions and doors. The moment a key opens something is read as representing a clue to solving a matter you have been worrying about, and an entrance to a new world. A dream of holding a key with care represents an awareness of something you want to protect, or of a secret. In love, it is sometimes likened to "the key to the heart," and can also represent a season of opening your heart to someone.
What It Means in Different Situations
A Key Opening Something
This is a sign of a problem being solved, and of the path you should take opening up. Things that had stopped are likely to begin moving.
Finding a Key
This represents a season when an answer or a clue you have been searching for will be found. There is likely to be a clue in a place close at hand.
Losing a Key
This represents anxiety about something important, and a feeling of having lost sight of how to proceed. Going back to the basics and checking again will help.
Many Keys
This represents an abundance of choices. It is a season when deciding which door to open — deciding your priorities — becomes the key.
Giving a Key to Someone
This represents trust, and entrusting a role to someone. It may become an opportunity for a relationship with another person to deepen by one step.
Your State of Mind When You Have This Dream
This is a dream you are likely to have in a season when you are feeling stuck, or searching for a breakthrough. It can also be that a feeling that the answer is already close by is growing in you.
How It Differs from Similar Dreams
Whereas a letter dream represents "a message that arrives," a key dream represents "a solution and a choice that you open yourself." Its viewpoint also differs from that of a mirror dream, which deals with self-understanding.
The Flow of Your Luck, and Some Advice
Your luck is in a season when doors are beginning to open. New learning, a qualification, or a meeting with someone may become your "key." Putting your surroundings in order — small habits, like deciding where your actual keys belong — also helps to shift your feelings.
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