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Straightening Hair / Straight Iron
A dream of straightening your hair means you are trying to change in some way, or surpress a part of your nature that you are uncomfortable with. It can also mean you have strong feelings for someone of the opposite sex.
Stranded
To dream that you are stranded, represents your feelings of isolation and loneliness. You are seeking for someone to help and rescue you from your situation.
Stranger
Dreams in which a stranger brings you an important message represent your unconscious mind telling you what you need to hear. This dream can also represent your feelings about someone you love who has died. If you dream of being in love with a stranger in your dream, especially if the dream is recurring, your heart is longing for a true love to call your own.
Strangle / Strangling
To dream about strangling someone, or being strangled yourself, means you have been hiding an important part of your personality - one that you need to express to be happy - just to please someone in real life.
Straw
If your dream features heaps of straw, it predicts an increase in material wealth. Burning straw is a warning against loss of money due to carelessness.
Straws (Drinking Straws)
To see or use a drinking straw in your dream suggests that you have been taking some things for granted. Pay more attention to the people around you. You will find that you will build stronger and more meaningful bonds with them. To dream that you are buying drinking straws indicates that you are trying to buy your way into a situation or relationship.
Strawberries
See "Berries"
Street
To see a street in your dream, symbolizes your life's path. The condition of the street reflects how much control you have over the direction of your life. (If it's rocky and uphill, you're feeling a lack of control in your life; if the street is well-paved and easy to progress on, you are in control of your own destiny). Try to remember if there was a name on the street - analyzing the street name can offer some important significance or hints to the meaning of the dream. To dream of alleys or side streets, suggests that you need to be less rebellious or adventurous for now, and return to more traditional ways. It may also suggest that you have been exploring (or want to explore) an alternative way of life. Curving or crooked streets foretell surprises and travel. To dream of a very long street suggests that you will need much patience before you get what you want. Also see "Street Corner", below.
Street Corner
If your dream strongly featured a street corner, this predicts new opportunities which will change your lifestyle. If the main feature of your dream involved turning a street corner, you can expect a very pleasant surprise.
Strength
To dream you have great strength suggests that your ambition outstrips your ability. You would be well advised to readjust your goals. To dream of a show of strength by another person - whether a friend, enemy or stranger - predicts a sudden passionate but unfriendly love affair. You should probably give it up, because it is destructive to you.
Stress
To dream that you are under stress is a reflection of the stress that you are experiencing in your waking life. Your real life stress that has been carried over into your dream state. Even in your sleep, you may be unable to relax. The dream may call attention to setbacks, obstacles, self-doubts, criticism that you are facing in some waking situation or relationship. You need to take some time away from whatever is stressing you out, and spend time relaxing and taking care of yourself.
Stretcher
To dream that you are lying on a stretcher, indicates your need to be rescued in some situation or relationship. Perhaps you need to take time out and confront your emotional demons.
Stretching
If you dream of stretching, you may let other people get their own way too often. Try to stand up for what you believe in and not just go along with the crowd or what certain people tell you.
Stretch Marks
To see or dream that you have stretch marks, suggests that you are overextending yourself to others and are not paying enough attention to your own needs. You need to learn that you cannot be everything to everybody. Alternatively, it represents a needless anxiety that others see you as unattractive.
Strike
If you dreamed of being in - or just observing - a strike or protest demonstration, this means that you are making progress toward your goals.
String
If you see strings in your dream, you may have concerns about holding some relationship together. This dream can also represent your need to use your position and power to get what you want. If you dream of tying a string, it means you have forgotten to do something.
Strip / Stripper
To dream that you are stripping, indicates repression of your personal and physical desires. You are yearning for greater self-expression. If you dream of seeing a stripper and feeling disgusted, you are nervous about discovering the real truth about a certain person or situation. If you enjoyed the strip show, then your dream means that you see through people and accept them for who and what they are. Also see "Strip Club", below.
Strip Club
If you dream of being in a strip club, you have been repressing thoughts and emotions that need to come out into the open.
Stripes
To see stripes in your dream, suggests that you are making a bold and daring statement. Horizontal stripes (stripes going across) represent your directness and straightforwardness, while vertical stripes (going up and down) indicate that you are a free thinker who doesn't conform to the norm. However, to dream of black and white vertical stripes signifies your limited way of thinking and closed-mindedness.
