Phones are often incorporated in our dreams as symbols of internal and external communication between two parties.
Cell phones are metaphoric symbols that contain a deeper meaning reflecting some sort of personal connection. Depending the context of your dream the cell phones may appear to be broken, lost, unable to dial, stolen or even exploding. These clues determine if this internal connection is damaged or healthy.
In order to properly analyze your dreams you will need to take into account what your cell phone means to you. It can be as simple as communicating with others, or possibly related to your image, identity or persona – the aspect of someone’s character that is presented to or perceived by others.
Cell Phone Dream Meaning
Phones may also be seen as a metaphoric symbol as a part of your image (persona) who you are and what you share with others. The phone in your dream becomes more symbolic if you use your phone to seek validation, approval and admiration from others.
Cell Phone Symbolism:
- Keeping in touch with people
- Safety and emergency
- Security
- Contains personal experiences
- Information
- Image and self confidence
Broken Phone Dream Meaning
Dreaming of a broken phone is becoming more and more common these days. However, they do contain a valuable clue relating to what you value important in life is now being inconvenienced. The feeling experienced when you crack your phone would be frustration, a need to fixed and distortion. This feelings would apply to a specific situation in your life, or possibly an event that will take place in the near future.
A cracked or broken phone can also reflect internal or external issues related to communication. The people who are around you or who you might be trying to call might give you a hint. It’s not uncommon that these dreams are metaphoric to phyical issues. If you where to experience a cracked, broken, or tear in your body its possible your dream might put the image of the phone.
If you phone explodes it represents anger and miscommunication in your walking life.
Missed or Lost Phone Dream
Who was the missed call from? Often times these symbols reflect missed or lost opportunities relating communication or connection with the person who tried calling. A symbol to become more aware of your surroundings as you might have missed something important.
Losing your phone is a fairly common dream symbol that brings your attention to personal awareness; or lack their of. The location and people around you are clues provided to help narrow down the meaning of the dream. The feelings of vulnerability as you are unable to find something (communication) within to connect to others. It might also be a symbol of a lack of security in your life.
Receiving or 911 Call
These are often positive dream symbols that suggest a connection you have with this person. Talking on the phone implies a unconscious expression voiced though the call. If you are talking to a someone who is dead connects you with unconscious feelings or actual contact.
Often times calling for 911 can be impossible task in our dreams. Trying to call an ambulance, firetruck or police to your rescue is metaphoric need for assistance in your life. An inability to fix this inner conflict you will have trouble calling.
I have this reoccurring dream what I get kidnapped and moved to a different state. But instead of having kidnappers there’s these children with me, I think there my friends but in reality they r the kidnappers driving further away, in this dream I broke my phone in half but it was still on, that’s when I text my dad but he didn’t answer, when I text my step mom she was asking questions before I even sent the text saying I got kidnapped, that’s when I woke up. It’s currently 4 am and I am truly terrified of that… Read more »
Fairly often I dream of struggle. Most of the time I need my cell phone to call for help or to locate someone. The phone never works. The numbers won’t hit, or the screen is bad, or my fingers don’t work properly to make the call. The call won’t go through. It happens often.
I had a weird dream where I was in this labyrinth maze sort of thing there where elves and they were all directing me to this one elf sitting behind a machine who told me sit on the machine on the drive home with my partner I notice that my case is backwards and my phone is now black (I have that same phone case irl and a white iPhone?)
I had a dream that my cell phone turned into paper. I was trying to use it to contact my girlfriend (in the dream). We had a relationship and been together for a while but I was unaware of this until last night. I was trying to find her name but kept forgetting it, then once I got some help to try and find it – or her name – my phone turned into pieces of paper. Funny thing is, I could still call her on the paper phone. I also had two dogs with me, big dogs as well,… Read more »
In my dream, I was attending graduation that I later came to realize it passed the day before. People were there, but only for some special occasion. I met people I know. I greeted one of them. Just after breaking the hug from this person, I realized I just bought a note 20 Ultra and I wanted to take photos at this place. I took the phone at the same time I was sitting on a stool. I started taking the pictures, but at the same time I was facing my phone, I noticed another phone that I wish I… Read more »
Just had a seemingly very long, very disturbing dream in which I was at a big event and got separated from my parents. Kept trying to call them on cell, but couldn’t access the “contacts” to get the number. The phone kept morphing into different screens and multiple screen formations and displaying videos, games, movies, etc . . . but couldn’t access the phone part. Kept trying and trying and trying while walking all over the place trying to find my friend and parents. Asked some people to help me but they had no success either. At one point I… Read more »
I dreamt about my phone screen which kept disconnecting with the body of the phone.I kept fixing it back,but still it kept coming out.Any idea what that meant?
Something is being disconnected, you are trying to fixt it but it doesn’t stay. Seems to be related to something but I am not sure what exactly.
I was on a plane with my boyfriend. I don’t know where we were headed but on our return flight, we fell asleep and awoke to the captain telling us we had to disembark. So we gathered our things and got off with the captain. As we got to our housing destination, he realized he didn’t have it. The captain was with us and said we could track it. So, we did and it showed it was traveling on the plane. The captain said they could retrieve it but it would take 3 days to get it back. So, asked… Read more »
The dream seems to be related to a block in your progress; the connection to your relationship and communication. Planes are very symbolic when they appear in our dreams and it seems something is coming up that will delay your progression. See airplane in search bar.
I’m sorry – I shouldn’t have posted. I forgot this forum is for broken cell phone dreams. Forgive me.
I am sorry to post again, but I had another dream that was so vivid I must ask: I dreamt that it was Thanksgiving; my deceased mother was using my ex-husband’s bathroom and borrowing his underwear, thus hanging them on the doorknob. She left the door open, just like my ex always does when he’s doing his ‘business’. My dining room was packed with friends who seemingly ignored my mother using the bathroom with the door open. A man was there, helping me, fussing over me and loving me; he was maybe about the same age – but he made… Read more »
In my dream, I just went to the comfort room and my phone slipped in my hand when i picked up my phone it’s severely broken and its short circuiting.
Seems to be targeting your comfort level or relaxation; a distortion or imbalance in this area.
In the dream I was walking with my friends and we thought of stopping at a place. We were 5 in number. After we stopped 2 of my friends were know where to be found. And all of a sudden people came around taking our phones forcefully.But after he took mine he gave it back to me again but it was cracked this time.it wasn’t cracked before but when he gave it back to me of which I don’t know why ,this time it was cracked.
You have a cracked phone and your friends appearing. This seems to be related to them or your relationship/communication issues.
I just dreamed that after giving myself a bad haircut on accident, I was on my cellphone and my hair got caught in my phone, my hair smoking and cell phone melted then caught on fire. What, if anything, could this possibly mean? Thank you. (Thank God when I woke up, my hair was still the same and my phone still works! Whew!)
The bad haircut seems to be something you may have done within that will show on the outside. Bad haircuts can be fixed but this is letting you know you might have to grow out of this mistake you may have done. Your hair (mind connection with growth) gets caught — fires are destructive and the phone not working tells you about not being conscious of it.
I have had two separate dreams that are very similar. In the first one I was a teenager again, I had a teacher come to my home to teach. My parents let him take me to the grocery store and on the way home I had this feeling like he liked me, and I liked it? When we got home I went up stairs and I heard my mom yell at him to get out and never come back. I went downstairs and he said to me “Look me up sometime” and I said back “I don’t even know your… Read more »
Ok so in the first part of the dream you have a clue that tells you how you feel about this particular situation in your life. The call for help is in the wrong place and nobody is able to find (help you). Who is this guy? He seems to be related to your fears, he is of masculine energy and the knife tells you that you want to remove this from you. You can look at the house as a part of your mind – he teaches you but comes back to be bad. Who or what could this… Read more »
Shattered.. I was with my old childhood friend that I haven’t spoken to in many years. We were at a bar and met a guy. We left and went to another party with lots of people I didn’t know and felt a little uncomfortable. I took my brand new cellphone out, which I love dearly and watched it basically crumble in my hands, completely shattered. All I could do was watch as the pieces fell to the floor. The guy helped me pick up the pieces but I caught him trying to steal the memory card. I confronted him but… Read more »
The dream seems to have repressed feelings that are now coming out in your dream for you to heal. You see the memory card is a part of your past “memory” and your phone is a communication between this old friend and you.
In my dream, I was a device. The feeling tone was such that in my mind I could activate certain apps. The app that I specifically saw was the calculator app, and I recall wondering (given in real life I’m not very good at maths) that if I was now the device, could I now be better at calculations and complex equations? Also I received a messenger notification, I felt the specific messenger ‘ding’ in my being. Given recent events happening in our world, this dream was unnerving. However when I prayerfully analysed my dream, I thought it possible that… Read more »
Hello Michelle, “thought it possible that I literally AM as a communication device, between God – the spirit world, and mankind.” Its quite possible and also to mention the unconsciousness. So this so called “receiver” can activate certain things within you (psyche) that can figure out complex aspects of you and the world around you. I find that part highly compelling and could be analyzed in many ways. Perhaps the connection with your friends you may have tapped into your higher self that may have given you the answer in what to do. But this might not be something you… Read more »
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In my dream I put my phone in a toaster intending to cook the germs off. I hit three minutes and went outside. Then came back and the house smelled terrible. I ran to the kitchen and found it destroyed and on fire. The toaster was actually set to 30 minutes. For some reason it being broken concerned me more than the fire. The phone was a gift and I ended up apologizing to the giver for “making them waste their money” Afterwards they said not to apologize. I asked if it would be better just to get a laptop… Read more »
What I find interesting is the fact that you are more concerned with it being broken than the fire. Fires like the kitchen are known to be images that transform the dreamer (house/psyche), and in your case it can be very destructive as whatever this is remains unconscous to you. You are trying to cook off the germs – I am thinking you can explore toxic communication (opposite end or aspects of you) that needs cleaning. The toaster might in fact be related to the womb (warm/changes) and the phone would be phallic. The fact you are searching for a… Read more »
In my dream, I found an old cell phone while I was out on a walk. I brought it home intending to find out who it belonged to and I got a strange text message asking me if I wanted to help out a movie character who was sick. I went to delete the message and a woman’s voice came through saying, “Alright; may the Lord be with you, ok?” After that, I heard a church organ playing in the background and she started creepily singing, “Don’t come to me, or I will kill you.” She then shouted “Don’t come… Read more »
Would you be able to tell me the characteristics of this movie character who was sick?
I dreamed about my sister breaking my phone in half (horizontaly) on accident while messing around with me.I think she was trying to hide it from me and had something to do with SLIME?? Then I started crying and getting mad about my phone and mad at my sister. Then I turned it on luckily it wasn’t fully broken like some of it was connected by like a string… so I turned it on and it still worked but then I realized all my apps and stuff I used were gone and all of their data were gone so I… Read more »
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How do you feel when your phone is broken? Is this an minor or major inconvenience? What you want to do is mix this emotion with communication (phone). But you are lucky that this communication is not fully broken. Everything important that you may have saved is now gone. What does this mean to you? The fighting seems to be correlated with issues in the family. Alternatively, you might have had this dream to represent something within the family communication is broken.
Wow thank you so much!