Puzzle
To see a jigsaw puzzle in your dream, represents a mental challenge or a problem in your waking life that you need to solve.
If there are pieces missing in the puzzle, then it suggests that you do not have all the facts in order to make a good and sound decision.
To see or do a crossword puzzle, suggests that you are being faced with a mental challenge.
The dream may be a pun on "cross words" directed at your or aimed toward someone.
Dictionary definition
- n. 1: a particularly baffling problem that is said to have a correct solution; "he loved to solve chessmate puzzles"; "that's a real puzzler" [syn: puzzle, puzzler, mystifier, teaser]
- 2: a game that tests your ingenuity
- v. 1: be a mystery or bewildering to; "This beats me!"; "Got me-- I don't know the answer!"; "a vexing problem"; "This question really stuck me" [syn: perplex, vex, stick, get, puzzle, mystify, baffle, beat, pose, bewilder, flummox, stupefy, nonplus, gravel, amaze, dumbfound]
- 2: be uncertain about; think about without fully understanding or being able to decide; "We puzzled over her sudden departure"