Back to the encyclopedia

Mythical

Giant

Overwhelming force, or your own hidden magnitude

What it often means

Giants in dreams are force out of proportion — either something external that seems too large to confront, or the dream's way of showing you a magnitude within yourself that you have not yet inhabited. David stood before Goliath for a reason.

When it tends to appear

  • When a challenge, authority, or problem feels larger than life
  • When your own potential is larger than you are currently living
  • When smallness and magnitude are in dialogue

Sit with these questions

  1. 1

    What in your life is the giant — too large to ignore, hard to face?

  2. 2

    Is this giant outside of you, or a part of yourself you have not claimed?

  3. 3

    What would it take to stand in front of it anyway?

Did this symbol visit your dream?

Decode the whole dream