Butterfly

Dream Symbol Meaning & Interpretation

What Does Butterfly Mean in Dreams?

Discover the dream symbol interpretation and spiritual meaning

Hindu

**Seeing a butterfly:** Will marry or meet a lover **Catching a butterfly:** Will have a new child

Chinese

Butterfly, beautiful and fragile, presents people's spiritual life and mind. In ancient Greek, the word 'mind' means 'butterfly' and 'soul'. Since a butterfly has to break out of the cocoon, it also has the meaning of rebirth in the interpretation of dreams. In addition, butterfly in dreams is also related to status and love.

Biblical

Beauty or a socially adept person

Islamic (Ibn Sirin)

In a dream, a butterfly signifies ignorance, lack of experience with people, or inexperience with the proper protocol. A butterfly in a dream also could signify love and sacrificing one’s life for others. A butterfly in a dream also represents fire worshipers, fear, or a weak enemy who speaks big words. If a farmer sees butterflies in his dream, it means hardships and lack of work, or consenting to evil by associating with evil companions, or befriending vile women. A silkworm in a dream represents the best of people who spend in charity from their best and who curtail their evil, or it could represent children who live a short life in this world, or people who leave a sizeable estate for their posterity. A silkworm, or a butterfly in a dream also could signify a short life, the near end of one’s life, a miller, or it could represent a painter.

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