Bells
To hear a bell in your dream, represents a warning or a call to order.
It may also be a signal from your unconscious to prepare you for whatever is happening next.
If the bell rings and never stops, then it suggests that you are experiencing extreme anxiety.
Dictionary definition
- n. 1: a hollow device made of metal that makes a ringing sound when struck
- 2: a push button at an outer door that gives a ringing or buzzing signal when pushed [syn: doorbell, bell, buzzer]
- 3: the sound of a bell being struck; "saved by the bell"; "she heard the distant toll of church bells" [syn: bell, toll]
- 4: (nautical) each of the eight half-hour units of nautical time signaled by strokes of a ship's bell; eight bells signals
- 4:00, 8:00, or 12:00 o'clock, either a.m. or p.m. [syn: bell, ship's bell]
- 5: the shape of a bell [syn: bell, bell shape, campana]
- 6: a phonetician and father of Alexander Graham Bell (1819-1905) [syn: Bell, Melville Bell, Alexander Melville Bell]
- 7: English painter; sister of Virginia Woolf; prominent member of the Bloomsbury Group (1879-1961) [syn: Bell, Vanessa Bell, Vanessa Stephen]
- 8: United States inventor (born in Scotland) of the telephone (1847-1922) [syn: Bell, Alexander Bell, Alexander Graham Bell]
- 9: a percussion instrument consisting of a set of tuned bells that are struck with a hammer; used as an orchestral instrument [syn: chime, bell, gong]
- 10: the flared opening of a tubular device
- v. 1: attach a bell to; "bell cows"