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Tongue
Speech, taste, and what you hold back
What it often means
The tongue in a dream is the instrument of speech and taste — what you say, what you swallow, what you let yourself savour. Trouble with the tongue often mirrors something you cannot say, or words you regret having let loose.
When it tends to appear
- When something is hard to say, or was said and regretted
- When you have been holding your tongue
- When taste, pleasure, or expression is the theme
Sit with these questions
- 1
What words are stuck behind your tongue?
- 2
Is there something you said that you wish you could unsay?
- 3
Where are you swallowing what you mean?
Did this symbol visit your dream?
Decode the whole dream