Did you dream about keys? To see a key in your dream symbolizes opportunities, control, access, knowledge, and responsibilities. In the dream, always consider the purpose of the key, the appearance of the key, the context of the key, such as what the key is for. Finally, note the actions you are taking that relate to the key. Below we will note the most common dream scenarios with keys.
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Dream About Key Related Actions
Getting Keys
Finding the Right Key
To dream that you find a key among others on a key chain indicates that you have found a solution to a problem.
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Making Your Own Key
When the dream features you making your own key or even trying to break open a lock without a key, it highlights your adaptability to a situation. You are making the best out of your seemingly stuck situations.
Key Maker or Locksmith
To see a key maker in your dream suggests that there is something that you need help to unlock or uncover. Perhaps it is time to ask for help from your friends and family. You cannot do everything by yourself, and you need some guidance.
Losing or Giving Away Keys
Depending on the type of lost key, it can reflect the areas of your life that you may want to pay extra attention to. For example, if you lose the key to your hotel room, it can suggest that you have lost control of some temporary conditions of your life. And that car keys can suggest the direction of adventures that you are heading.
Losing a Key
To dream that you lose your keys signifies fears of losing control of yourself or losing your position or status in life.
Mixing Up Keys
When the dream features many keys mixed up with your own, the mix-up indicates unexpected changes, frustrations, and unpleasant adventures. You feel confused and lost about your own goals. There are many distractions and potential paths that you can take.
Giving Away Your Key
If you give your keys away in the dream, then it suggests that you have given up control or responsibility. You are passing those responsibilities to the person to whom you are passing the keys. For example, if you are giving away your house key to someone, it can suggest that you are passing the jobs you may have within the household.
Using Keys
Locking a Lock with a Key
The dream suggests that you are locking away your inner feelings and emotions. There are parts of you that you wish to keep to yourself.
Unlocking a Lock with a Key
The dream suggests that you are unlocking the answer to some problem, or that you are beginning to open up parts of yourself to others.
Jamming a Key into a Lock
The dream that features you trying out different locks, and even jamming the incorrect key, reflects that you may be forcing a solution on others. Perhaps you are overworking yourself and the people at work or home with forced attitudes on life. If the key does not fit into the keyhole, it can reflect that perhaps the relationship in your life is not exactly compatible.
Dream About Other Key Related Objects
Key Chain
To see a key chain full of keys in your dream indicates your ability to adapt to almost any situation. You fit in with anybody and anywhere. If the keys on the key chain lead to important places like a vault, these keys represent status, authority, and power. However, a key chain without any keys suggests that you lack resources and the ability to solve your life’s problems.
Rattling Keys
To hear the sound of keys rattling in your dream indicates that you are heading in the right direction and asking all the right questions in the process. You are going through the problem-solving process to make the right decision.
New Key
Dreaming about receiving a new key from someone, suggests that others will give you new opportunities and more knowledge. You will have more control and power over the things that you take care of. It can also suggest a moment of recognition for your loyalty.
Key Tattoo or Image
To see or observe a key tattoo or picture image instead of an actual key. Reflects your desire to solve your life’s problems. However, you have not taken any actions to reach any potential solutions.
Dream About Appearances and Contexts of the Keys
Lost Keys Scattered
To see keys scattered on the floor in your dream represent a loss in status. People have denied you access to a place where you previously had the privilege. It would help if you were proactive in regaining your status, time to reach out and reclaiming your keys.
Spare Key
Spare keys in dreams refer to your backup plans.
Rusty Key
If the key is rusty, then it symbolizes a talent or skill that you have neglected. Perhaps you have not practiced certain skills for a long time, and they have rusted.
Broken Key or Bent
Sexual connotations associate with dreams featuring broken keys that are bent or snapped in half. It can represent impotence and lack of sexual drive.
Dream About Different Types of Keys
Skeleton Key or Treasure Box Key
A skeleton key or treasure key refers to old emotions or memories that you have stored or locked away.
Gold Key
If the key is golden, then it suggests that influence, power, and wealth will give you access to life’s luxurious things.
Silver Key
The silver key suggests a temporary boost with your spiritual knowledge and power.
I dreamt of someone giving me a key. I was told in that dream that the man I love has been locked out and was giving the key to the door on which he was locked out. I was told that it now depends on me to either let him in or not. Tho he is someone I really want to stop loving. Cos I feel like the love is one sided.
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Hi I dreamt about a few of us being sent on a key treasure hunt. So we had to find a key and then find the lock to fit it. There were only so many keys available. I found my 1st key and there was a girl sitting watching with a guy. As I reached for the key she got up to grab it and we both struggled for it via our hands. I won and she said she saw it before me and so it’s not fair. I said you were just sitting there and didn’t look like you were taking part in the game so I’m sorry you were not playing fair. I was busy looking for the key hole it fits near them and the guy spoke to me and I ended up feeling bad, so I gave her the key. I then went off to try find another key and I found one even bigger and more interesting and gold/copper. There was a girl there helping me. She was trying to show me to look at the end of the key and you’ll see a pattern then, you can see easier were the key fits. The lock was right were the key was and it fit. Dream ended.
I had a dreams where I parked my car and went into a meeting but after the meeting I went to the lobby to pick up my car keys but it was mix up with other cars and I can’t identified my own key.
Was given key 🔑 to a well to fesh water and as I opened it to fesh water, a young man dive into the well to swim and I grew angry and left, then a strange person threw me another bunch of keys when he saw my reaction from the well but I threw the keys to him that he shouldn’t worry that I will go home and get water. What does that mean?
I dreamt I was given a skeleton key with dark emerald stones in the top
My partner lost the key, and I picked many different kinds of keys in the ground, telling him we should try them on, and all those keys were old! and I picked them one by one
dreaming of a golden chain
I dream about my ex locking a key and leave with a key to some place and start to drink,and it looks like we were supposed to leave but he did not want to leave
My sister bought me a new car and was giving me the key but I refused to take the key in my dream. What does it mean.
I was given a key to a room with a number 217
What does this mean please…
An old dead very very wealthy lady gave me a key to her riches what does that mean
Dreaming taking different types of keys from ur ex husband
I had strange dream that I was looking through the keys on my key ring and there were three skeleton keys one ingraved EMES on my set. Any ideas what his can be interpreted as?
I Dreamt, i was asked to hand over some lady a single car key, and in her hand there is also a ring,the lady is said to be a girl friend for my sister’s husband
I have dreamed of a house full of treasure with golden keys. I did not take those treasures but took the golden keys and all of sudden I woke up, , , , ,, what does that mean?
First i have seen very big beautiful curtain on the air then the curtain go to a big building and hanging on the curtain wall glass on each floors of the building. And then i go to the post office , have got different size of silver keys from the box. What is the meaning of my dream
I dream my husband ask me to borrow his room key, the keys to his house, it was one silver keys but my bunch remain in my hand all were gold, i took it off my bunch and hand it to him, and he left ,and my girlfriend told me he his living with the grl that she saw him with
First i have seen very big beautiful curtain on the air then the curtain go to a big building and hanging on the curtain wall glass on each floors of the building. And then i go to the post office , have got different size of silver keys from the box.
I dream my ex boyfriend and hers girlfriend is together and she thru hers house key to me
Dream of throwing keys at my ex boyfriend
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I dreamt that I gave my extra car key to someone that I’m dating and I got a new car key fob for myself it was a pretty turquoise It had more features then the one I gave away and it was a cool looking shape. What does this mean?
Dreamt a man came to pick up his son and dog from my house in an old popcorn style wagon attached to a pick up truck ; anyway…. before leaving he first nonchalantly put a key in the front lock of my screen door and took it out. Which I thought was strange but ignored. Then when I told them good bye and it was nice meeting them, I walked in the house and then he tried to put a different key in the inside lock, still my screen door, but this time it got jammed and he spent a while trying to get the key out.
I dreamt of a car and i was holing the key waiting for people to get inside so i can drive them. I knew there could be a roadblock along the way without my licence i just preceeded
Dreamt of putting my house key in the wrong keyhole.. and the key was thrown down… Later I picked it up to explain that the door wouldn’t open as thesevare my house keys..
What’s the meaning of someone elderly showing you a particular key in a bunch of key for opening toilet in your dream
I dream some one through my keys at me and I could not find them I find other keys but not the right one
I had a dream that my ex was trying to collect a house key from my husband in a friendly manner
Dreamed that i parkd my car at my kids school and after i realised that the car key was broken.what does it mean.horace
The keys that were given to me in my dream were handed over from my Ex of 12 years. He handed them to me and we exchanged words but I can not remember what it was we sad. I remember feeling kinda on guard/upset when they were handed to me and also specifically remember seeing the Deathly Hallows symbol on a keychain. Thoughts?
Dreamt of a golden key in a golden key hold
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I had a dream about an old crush whom I had slept with the night before handing me a key and saying we’d meet again. What could it mean??
dreamt of my deceased father from 34 years ago. He was young and in his pilot uniform (he was a WW2 pilot) We hugged and cried and I said my goodbyes and put a key in my hand. I looked down and it was a gold key. He didn’t want anyone to see that he had given me a key. I looked at him puzzled and them my dream ended.
Dreaming of my deceased grandmother giving me the bunch of house keys .what does it means
dream of a man i do not know handing me a large bunch of old style keys like the keys to a castle door what does this mean
dream of following a man I did not know to a large huge ditch of sand that was made as a trail to go down. the man went down the trail of sands. I looked at it and knew that if I went down that trail of sand , I will be too tired to return back completely. so, I walked along the edge of the sand ditch trail and as my hand was touching a ledge of sand, I started to find keys that people had left behind. one after another. My thoughts was, wow these people never came back to get their keys, maybe they didn’t because they felt they could not find them or just forgot. Then I woke from the dream.
Losing keys means so much – it’s like being called to stop, slow down and assess whether you are headed in the right direction, or opening the right doors. Often times we get lost in busy and mindlessly head off on our path not aware of the other options or deeper intuitive callings that may lead us elsewhere.