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Trap dream meaning
Setting a trap points to using intrigue to carry out your designs; being caught points to being outwitted. Catching game suggests success in your vocation, while an empty, old, or broken trap points to misfortune or failure and possible family illness.
Dream scenarios
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Setting a trap
You may use intrigue to carry out your plans.
- 2
Being caught in a trap
An opponent may outwit you.
- 3
Catching game in a trap
You may flourish in the vocation you choose.
- 4
Seeing an empty trap
Misfortune may be near.
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Seeing an old or broken trap
Business may fail, and illness may follow in your family.
Personal symbolism
A trap can suggest strategy, vulnerability, or the consequences of trying to control an outcome. Your role matters: setting one points to intrigue in pursuit of a design, while being caught suggests an opponent outwitting you. Catching game brings a much more favorable meaning, with success in your vocation. An empty trap points to near-term misfortune; an old or broken one suggests business failure and possible illness in the family. Recall what the trap held, how it worked, and whether you felt in control.
Questions to reflect on
- Did you set the trap, get caught, or catch something?
- Was the trap empty, old, or broken?
- What goal or work situation does the scene bring to mind?