Barrier dream meaning is explained below using 12 different sources. Each interpretation is shown with its source.

Interpretation 1 — Theresa Cheung

These are dreams which express the theme of something blocking your progress through life. Dreams of locked or forbidden rooms fall into this category, as do bridges that are impossible to cross.

If you often have dreams in which barriers prevent you from progressing or escaping, your dreaming mind is urging you to dissolve limiting factors In your life and in your mind. This doesn’t mean all of your problems are down to negative thinking; but if you can think of problems as challenges and rejection as setbacks, your chances of success are far greater.

Source: The Element Encyclopedia • Author: Theresa Cheung

Interpretation 2 — Martha Clarke

Like walls and fences, it is symbolizing the inaccessibility of something. The repetition of this image points to the inability to move forward on the path undertaken. The area you cannot reach because of the barrier is the higher reality you want to achieve. Something is interfering with your path, preventing you from getting what you really want in life.
Source: The Big Dictionary of Dreams • Author: Martha Clarke

Interpretation 3 — Klaus Vollmar

Restriction, limitation, or establishing boundaries.

A frequently occurring dream symbol when feeling confined and unable to move forward. Also see Amputation, Cage. Balking at something, holding back. Sign of social force. Taboo.

Difficulty in making social or business contacts.

To have hit a brick wall. Usually points to a challenge.

Source: Little Giant Encyclopedia • Author: Klaus Vollmar

Interpretation 4 — Versatile - Anonymous

Psychological / emotional perspective: As a barrier signifies an obstacle to be overcome, or a difficulty to be recognized, the nature of the barrier and our reactions will clarify any action that needs to be taken. In our most vulnerable emotional states we may need some sort of buffer between us and the rest of the world.
Source: Dream Meanings of Versatile • Author: Versatile - Anonymous

Interpretation 5 — Versatile - Anonymous

In spiritual terms, any barrier suggests a division between two states, e.G.

The spiritual and the mundane, or the physical and emotional.

The implication is that it has been placed there for a purpose, to alert us to a duality.

Source: Dream Meanings of Versatile • Author: Versatile - Anonymous

Interpretation 6 — Versatile - Anonymous

Material aspects: If the barrier is a safety barrier we perhaps need to stop and consider our actions.

To run into a buffer may indicate the need for caution. It suggests a parameter beyond which there is danger.

Source: Dream Meanings of Versatile • Author: Versatile - Anonymous

Interpretation 7 — Dream Explanations - Anonymous

Dreams of a barrier symbolize resistance to your circumstances or that there is a challenge to overcome. You are grappling with a growth opportunity that once overcome will make you stronger, clearer, wiser, and better.
Source: Strangest Dream Explanations • Author: Dream Explanations - Anonymous

Interpretation 8 — Joan Seaman - Tom Philbin

1. Severely limiting obstacles, often in life or circumstances.

2. Feelings of territory or a need or desire for boundaries, usually protective.

3. Possible emotional block, usually for protective reasons.

Source: New American Dream Dictionary • Author: Joan Seaman - Tom Philbin

Interpretation 9 — Stearn Robinson - Tom Corbett

Anything closed, such as a window, door, gate, fence, wall, etc., constitutes an obstacle dream, and its significance will follow on how you dealt with it.
Source: The Complete Guide to Interpreting Your Dreams • Author: Stearn Robinson - Tom Corbett

Interpretation 10 — Pagan - Anonymous

Dreaming of walls, closed doors, fences and any other type of barriers predicts the frustration of plans, as a general rule.
Source: Tryskelion Dream Interpretation • Author: Pagan - Anonymous

Interpretation 11 — James R. Lewis and Evelyn Dorothy Oliver

A barrier may signify that the dreamer is experiencing some obstacle in an arena of his or her life.
Source: Dream Symbols in The Dream Encyclopedia • Author: James R. Lewis and Evelyn Dorothy Oliver

Interpretation 12 — Eric Ackroyd

see Obstacle
Source: A Dictionary of Dream Symbols • Author: Eric Ackroyd