MORTAR

Dream Meaning

The mortar in dreams — that vessel in which things are ground and blended — occasionally surfaces as a symbol of emotional chemistry gone awry, particularly the intoxicating, grinding kind of attachment where logic has been thoroughly pulverized. When mortar appears in connection with feelings of confusion or obsession, the dream may be gently but clearly indicating that you are entangled with someone who is not right for you, and that the grinding process of this attachment is wearing you down rather than producing anything nourishing.

The mortar does its work by force and repetition; it is worth asking yourself whether a particular relationship or fixation operates on the same exhausting cycle.