Guillotine dream meaning is explained below using 12 different sources. Each interpretation is shown with its source.
Interpretation 1 — Pamela Ball
1- A guillotine in a dream indicates something irrational in our personality. We may be afraid of losing self-control, or of having part of our personality amputated. We could be aware of an injury to our person or to our dignity.
2- There is the potential for us to lose contact with someone we love, or with the part of ourselves which is capable of love.
3- By way of its physical action, a guillotine represents a severance of some kind. We may have become severed from our spiritual yearnings.
Source: Ten Thousand Dream Dictionary • Author: Pamela Ball
Interpretation 2 — Versatile - Anonymous
Material aspects: A guillotine in a dream indicates an irrational aspect in our personality, which is trying to queer our pitch. We may be afraid of losing self-control in an everyday situation, or of having part of our personality amputated. We could be aware of an injury to our person or to our dignity.
Source: Dream Meanings of Versatile • Author: Versatile - Anonymous
Interpretation 3 — Versatile - Anonymous
Psychological / emotional perspective: From an emotional perspective, a guillotine indicates that there is the potential for us to lose contact with the part of ourselves that is capable of love, or, in reality, with someone we love.
A short, sharp shock in our lives may cause severe disruption.
Source: Dream Meanings of Versatile • Author: Versatile - Anonymous
Interpretation 4 — Martha Clarke
A guillotine highlights the many difficulties that the dreamer will find in real life because of their enemies. However, if you manage to escape, you will be able to solve all the problems and succeed in life. (See HEAD and DECAPITATION)
Source: The Big Dictionary of Dreams • Author: Martha Clarke
Interpretation 5 — James R. Lewis and Evelyn Dorothy Oliver
Dreaming about having one’s head cut off in a guillotine could indicate a loss of one’s rational perspective on something. Perhaps the dream is a literalizing of the expression “to lose one’s head.” (See also Beheading, Decapitation).
Source: Dream Symbols in The Dream Encyclopedia • Author: James R. Lewis and Evelyn Dorothy Oliver
Interpretation 6 — Dream Explanations - Anonymous
Dreams of a guillotine represent severe criticism and rejection of yourself or someone in your life. Perhaps you are disowning your mental process and are in an unhealthy imbalance between your thoughts and feelings.
Source: Strangest Dream Explanations • Author: Dream Explanations - Anonymous
Interpretation 7 — myjellybean
To see a guillotine in your dream, symbolizes anger, hostility and the eruption of strong emotions. It may suggest that you are not using good judgement and that you need to think things through before you act.
Source: My Dream Interpretation • Author: myjellybean
Interpretation 8 — Versatile - Anonymous
A guillotine represents a severance of some kind in dreams. Since it severs the head from the body, it suggests that we may have become severed from our spiritual sources.
Source: Dream Meanings of Versatile • Author: Versatile - Anonymous
Interpretation 9 — Betty Bethards
Get out of your head; intellectualizing, rationalizing, analyzing. Headless person means same. Intuition helps resolve problem.
Source: The Dream Books Symbols • Author: Betty Bethards
Interpretation 10 — Joan Seaman - Tom Philbin
1. One is planning to dispense with or cut off something.
2. Fear of punishment for something one has done in life.
Source: New American Dream Dictionary • Author: Joan Seaman - Tom Philbin
Interpretation 11 — Tony Crisp
Losing one’s head, or threat of it; killing one’s ability to think and reason, so perhaps becoming irrational.
Source: A Guide to Dreams and Sleep Experiences • Author: Tony Crisp
Interpretation 12 — Eric Ackroyd
see Beheading
Source: A Dictionary of Dream Symbols • Author: Eric Ackroyd