Mangled engagement ring

**amber738** · 07-12-2013 07:28 AM

Please help with interpretation of the dream:

I was helping someone fix a pipe from under the sink. The pipe came free and we shook it and heard a distinct noise, very light and tingy. It was a diamond. I looked down at my hand and my engagement ring was mangled (bent and twisted but not broken) and missing the diamond. I remember feeling sad and disappointed; wondering how could it have happened without my knowing. And that was the end of my dream.

Background info,

I got engaged at Christmas but we have been together for 8 years and have 2 children together. We have both been married once before (1 child each) and used to say "marriage, been there done that". We both feel this was our second chance at having a family and we are fully committed. We have not set a date and feel it will happen when the time is right. This was the first dream I had about my ring, wondering what it could possibly mean. Thanks for any insight!

**JoannaB** · 07-13-2013 12:06 PM

Well, unfortunately I think an engagement ring may be interpreted as representing the engagement or your perception of the engagement. Thus, I suspect that your dreaming of the ring being mangled and the diamond missing may be a sign that you have some concerns about the state of this engagement. For example: Are you sure that you are truly comfortable with no fixed date? The missing date may be the missing diamond. While your conscious thought may be comfortable with it, but maybe some deep subconscious part of you is not? On the other hand your finding the diamond in the pipe may be hopeful, even though you did not notice it was missing, but it is found again, and thus can be reattached and fixed. So whatever is off in your engagement or relationship, I think you think it is fixable, just temporarily broken, through lack of attention, but can be fixed. The ring being bent and twisted but not broken also points in the direction of fixable though not right at this time.

As always, there are of course other possible interpretations, and if this one does not sound right, feel free to discard it.

Edit: Thought about it some more and the date representing the diamond I think would be too simplistic after all. The diamond is a central part of the ring, so something central to your relationship has been missing and not paid enough attention to, like maybe you have been taking each other for granted and not paying enough attention to each other?

**Scionox** · 07-13-2013 12:10 PM

*Moved to Dream Interpretation*

**Wakinyan** · 07-14-2013 11:06 AM

I agree with JoannaB, but would like to emphasize the fact that you are helping someone fixing a pipe under the sink, because that is when the ring is broken (according to the dream logic, as I see it). So your symbol of engagement is broken when or even because you're helping someone with his/her plumbing; perhaps one could say that if helping another is the motif for engagement, it probably doesn't work -- either find other motifs for engagement would be better, or rather fixing one's own plumbing...? (This dream may be a reaction on something that happened during the day, and next week you have a dream with opposite meaning as another reaction, so one shouldn't give too much importance to one separate dream.)

**amber738** · 07-19-2013 04:38 AM

Thank you all for your input! I can totally see the different ways to view this one. I mentioned this dream to my fiance and that night he had a dream about the ring!!! He said that I asked him to keep an eye on it for me (for whatever reason) so he put the ring on his pinky finger and couldn't keep his mind/thoughts off the ring. He remembers being extremely cautious protecting the ring. haha Yay, so glad it wasn't just me freaking out about it