Tweet Using psychology we find that "cancer" in our dreams database links to the following real feelings

- "I have been trying to overcome my HEALTH PROBLEMS." (not cancer)

- "I believe this dream to be a premonition of my fathers death from cancer."

- "I am worried sick because my husband is in danger of being deported."

- "I am due to meet my father for the first time in years. Who knows WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO HIM in that time."

- " I am very DEPRESSED at the moment and fear getting ill."

Dream symbols are sometimes devices for expressing certain emotions. You may get a cancer dream if you are in love with someone. The cancer is merely a way of expressing those very heightened emotions and it leads into feelings like "If she had cancer I would support her through all the difficult times"
Cancer in dreams:Understanding dreams is not so difficult. In practice dream symbols translate into certain words within the english language. For instance a "Cancer" dream may translate into the word "Depression" as the dreamer recognises the depths of her own depression. Cancer then is seen as a symbol for any deep illness which is eating away at your very soul. That is just one meaning and others are explored below.

Keywords linked to cancer dreams
If you have a cancer dream then we can predict that certain words and phrases (Listed below) are appearing in your thoughts right now
- "Fundamental problems" (Cancer is fundamental and deep seated health problem but can symbolise any deep rooted problem. What deep rooted problems were on your mind yesterday?)
- "Depressed" (Cancer can symbolise any terrible illness especially depression. This is like a cancer inside you eating away at your very soul)
- "Deep economic/social problems" (We often use cancer as a metaphor for the wider ills of society be they social or economic. Is there a deep economic problem which cannot easily be solved? What social problem will never be sorted out?)
- "Any illness which blights your life" (Cancer can just be your minds way of referring to a terrible illness. If you have any bad illness which blights your life such as arthritis, depression or parkinson's disease then your dream could be about this cancer in your life.)
- "Genuine love" (This may seem like an unusual meaning for cancer. But yes if we think of cancer it links to love. Any deep illness focuses our feelings. This maybe your dreams way of saying how much someone means to you. You maybe asking the question "If I had cancer then what would he do?" so really the dream is about exploring deep feelings and so the dream invents a terrible illness as a way of asking how someone might respond in a crisis)
- "Reducing your chances of getting cancer" (Cancer dreams may have simple meaning's. If you were thinking about the chances of getting cancer the night before then it may link to that. Have you been thinking about your diet and been trying to live more healthily?)
- "Thoughts about an actual cancer" (If someone has cancer then obviously this could be a literal symbol. You are thinking about the illness and its as simple as that. Have you been thinking about someone who died from cancer? You dream may represent your mourning of this sad death and your the thoughts and reflections it has triggered inside you)
- "A sense of hopelessness" (Dreams may use symbols to describe comparable emotions to the ones you are feeling right now. A cancer dream may simply represent a deep sense of hopelessness. Did you see someone in deep despair yesterday? That maybe the trigger! Were you lost in your own hopelessness yesterday?)

Its a fallacy that dreams capture unconscious thoughts - dreams represent thoughts that we are all too aware of. A typical dream would translate into the types of thoughts that we might write down in a diary or tell a best friend. Dreams represent your key thoughts which pinpoint the problems right now. Try to write down some quotes which capture your feelings right now and try to include the words and phrases above.

For instance one dreamer was depressed and unemployed. Her dream about a doctor telling her "This means cancer" seems to link to several of the phrases and words listed above such as "Fundamental problems", "Depressed" and "A sense of hopelessness". By linking the dream to the dreamers state of mind we find it probably captures this exact thought - "I am feeling hopeless and depressed. I have got to realise my depression is really bad".

Dreams can often link to real life in rather off beat ways. A dream about demons trying to kill the dreamers brother with cancer linked to the dreamers persistent worries that the immigration authorities would deport her husband. The dreamer felt victimised by the authorities chasing after her husband. We always see things in an us versus them way and anyone who is out to get you is seen as evil so that's why the immigration people are seen as demons. Cancer was just symbolic of the immigration authorities going to any lengths to get him.


HERE ARE SOME MORE CANCER DREAMS (ALL WITH GOOD BACKGROUND INFORMATION)
•Suffering from cancer dream
•Father resting - dream analysis
•Man of my destiny - premonitions
•Friend has lung cancer dream
•Family being torn apart.
•Cancer pain - dream analysis
•At my Granddads allotment dream
•Doubting the doctor

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