What Does It Mean to Dream About Tar?

To dream of tar represents feelings about situations in your life being stuck, difficult to move on from, or laden with negativity that is hard to overcome. Situations that are difficult to change because they have intentionally been made to be left stuck the way they are. Feeling trapped in a situation for why you've already made up your mind. Sticking to decisions or "sealing yourself off" to not changing your mind. Feelings trapped in a situation that's difficult to change. Challenges, obstacles, or negative influences that are sticky, deeply rooted, and challenging to cleanse or remove from your life. Feelings of heaviness, burden, or entrapment in a difficult or challenging circumstance. Tar can reflect the perception of a situation being contaminated, tainted, or corrupted in a manner that feels pervasive, pessimistic, and difficult to clear up.

Positively, dreaming about tar may represent feelings about a choice being useful for staying the way it is like it's supposed to not think of anything different. The importance of facing and addressing deep-seated emotional issues or unresolved conflicts in order to move forward in life.

Negatively, dreaming about tar could represent feelings of being hopelessly entangled in problems, negative emotions, or toxic situations. Resistance to change, feeling overwhelmed by pessimism, or the fear of being permanently stuck in an undesirable state. Feeling trapped in a state of inactivity or complacency. A situation where you feel bogged down by choices, past actions, guilt, or a sense of moral contamination that is difficult to escape. Regretting feeling that you needed to stick to decisions or "sealing yourself off" to not changing your mind. Feelings of being stuck in a rut or unable to progress in life due to self-imposed limitations or negative thinking patterns. A permanent choice that feels awful afterward about being difficult to change.

Example: A young woman dreamed of trying to get tar out of her mouth. In waking life, she was frustrated with her boyfriend for not doing what he said he would do. In this case, trying to remove the tar from her mouth may have reflected her frustration and regret with initially choosing to be stubborn, "sticking to it", or sealing herself off to never changing her mind about nagging her boyfriend about finishing doing what he said because his difficult attitude made her look bad.

Example 2: A man dreamed of seeing his deceased girlfriend in a park on a bench like it was a normal day. Suddenly, she began to feel sick and spew black tar out of her mouth that was all over the park, her clothes, and her hair. In waking life, his girlfriend had committed suicide years earlier. In this case, the black tar being vomited up may have reflected his feelings about embarrassing himself with grief and depression that's difficult to get over when bringing up the topic of his deceased girlfriend after believing he had completely gotten over her death. The tar also reveal feelings about the permanent and difficult-to-change nature of his grief and the negative impact it had on his perceptions of his life moving forward when he discussed or thought about his deceased girlfriend too much.

Seeing tar in your dream brings your attention to the sticky or negative situation you may be in. The shadow aspects about yourself that stores stuck memories, urges or ideas that are surfacing.