Through our nose we sense things that are completely invisible, but nevertheless tell us a lot about what we are sensing. It therefore often appears on dreams to depict our intuition, our sense of whether a situation or a relationship is wholesome or rotten – as with ‘smell a rat’. Such sensing of situations might very well give us a direction to go in, so sometimes the nose is about making a decision or going in a direction.
The nose can also indicate curiosity, or even ‘nosiness’ – poking our nose into other people’s business.
Example: I dreamt my mother was strangling me with her nose. Her nose was pressed right into my neck stopping me breathing. Celine.
Celine’s dream shows nose being used to represent being nosy. Celine was fifteen at the time of the dream. She agreed that her mother was being over curious about what she was doing.
Also the nose is very sensitive and if hit can be painful, so in some dreams it shows us feeling that someone has ‘put our nose out of joint’. In other words we have come into some sort of verbal or emotional conflict with someone.
It is known that our nose is the best test for food that is bad or going off.
In some dreams the nose might depict feelings about the penis.
Idioms: As plain as the nose on your face; cut off your nose to spite your face; following my nose; have a nose for; hold your nose; keep your nose clean; nose out of joint; look down your nose; no skin off my nose; nose job; nose to the grindstone; pay through the nose; powder my nose; rub nose in it; turn up your nose; up one’s nose.
Am I sensing something that helps me make a decision or choose a direction?
Has my nose been ‘put out’ by someone or something?
Am I seeing my nose as something to be ashamed of?
Is there something rotten I am sensing – if so what does that refer to in life.