What does it mean to dream about a heart?

by Lucy Moore | 16 March 2021

To dream about a heart symbolises love, romance, courage and trust.

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It is related to how you are dealing with your feelings at present. It’s possible you are struggling to process your emotions and the heart is a signal to encourage you to find a way.

Think about the saying ‘the heart of the matter’ perhaps you are trying to get to the bottom of something that has been troubling you for some time.

If your heart was bleeding then you might be suffering from extreme sadness right now. Perhaps you are lacking the support and love of someone in your waking hours to help you through this despair. Your feelings have been hurt and you believe no one cares about you.

A heart transplant can mean that you will have a change in heart about someone you’re in a relationship with. Maybe you on longer love them or see them as you did and you want your relationship to come to an end. Or maybe they have betrayed your trust and now you can’t see them in the same light.

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If you were eating a human heart, you are struggling to understand your feelings and you don’t know how to express yourself.

If the heart belonged to someone you love, either you already have their love in return or you are trying your best to make them love you. If they don’t then it might be wise to let them go.

On the other hand, perhaps you are trying to fill an emotional void- you lack love or have lost love and you are attempting to regain that feeling of wholeness again.

A valentine heart refers to your romantic and sexual interest in someone- is it about time you asked them out on a date? Or told them how much you like them?

Being stabbed in the heart could be a result of feeling betrayed by someone- someone you care about is deliberately trying to hurt your feelings and it has taken you by surprise.

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