Dream Dictionary

Heartbeat

To hear a heartbeat in your dream, suggests that you are not confronting or recognizing your feelings. You need to approach things head-on.
Alternatively, a heartbeat may symbolize life or fear. You are feeling threatened in some way.

Dictionary definition

  • n. 1: the rhythmic contraction and expansion of the arteries with each beat of the heart; "he could feel the beat of her heart" [syn: pulse, pulsation, heartbeat, beat]
  • 2: a very short time (as the time it takes the eye to blink or the heart to beat); "if I had the chance I'd do it in a flash" [syn: blink of an eye, flash, heartbeat, instant, jiffy, split second, trice, twinkling, wink, New York minute]
  • 3: an animating or vital unifying force; "New York is the commercial heartbeat of America"