Incense
Dream Symbol Meaning & Interpretation
What Does Incense Mean in Dreams?
Discover the dream symbol interpretation and spiritual meaning
Incense could be used for spiritual connectivity, removal of negativity and harmony in your life. If you dream of burning incense it indicates your strengthened spirituality. Depending on what incense is burning directs in a particular direction.
Symbolic of prayer, Ps. 141:2
Burning incense in a dream can symbolize spiritual longing. If you are covering up a bad smell with incense, you may feel that something is wrong in your environment and rather than solve it, you would rather cover it up. Incense can also be a cryptic way of exploring feeling 'incensed' or angry when you are not allowing anger to be expressed.
Perfuming oneself with sweet incense in a dream means having a good friendship. An incense burner or holder in a dream represents a certitude that is praiseworthy. Perfume in a dream basically means good, though to a bedridden person it means death. This category includes: amber, henna plant ( Lawsonia inermis, bot.), or fumigating oneself with sweet incense, though there is a danger that could arise from the smoke in the dream. Perfuming oneself with amber in a dream means increase in earnings that will come through the labor of a rich person who is associated with the one seeing the dream. The seeds of any dark colored perfume such as carnation, clove, or their powder, etcetera, means receiving praises. The elements encompassed herein include: richness after poverty, knowledge after ignorance, peace with one’s adversaries, bribery, divulging one’s secrets, ingratiating oneself to a superior for personal gains, or adulation. Incense in a dream also represents the heat of one’s love or passion. In a dream, perfuming oneself with incense also means using an amulet or a charm to repel jealousy, or to break through the stratagem of sorcery. Incense in a dream also means using charm to bring peace, tranquility and profits if one intends so in his dream.
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