A clock is read as awareness of time passing — deadlines, ageing, the right moment. A stopped clock traditionally stands for something frozen in the past, a moment you keep returning to. A clock running too fast points to pressure and the sense that time is slipping away, while one you cannot read is taken as uncertainty about timing. Loud ticking suggests a deadline weighing on you. Folk tradition does not read a stopped clock as a sign of death but as a pause. The dream may ask what you are waiting for.
Does the traditional reading fit your dream, or did it mean something else to you?
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