If the brown is drab, this may reflect your own sense of melancholy and feeling of oppression, perhaps due to obligations and responsibilities. Brown is also the color of commitment or self-sufficiency, so your dream may be urging you to work hard and take control today, if you want to achieve anything tomorrow. Although brown generally draws its symbolism from the earth as a source of fertility and rejuvenation, it can on occasion symbolize the melancholy of rotting leaves. For Freudians, brown is the color of excrement, indicating not only the anal fixation of an orderly and obsessive character, but also a repressed desire for artistic creativity. Keywords: Worldliness, practicality, domestic and physical comfort, conservatism, and a materialistic character. [1]
The tone is warm, calm, and motherly, feminine. Dressing in a brown dress in a dream means the dreamer has chosen a natural lifestyle or would like to live that way.
Depth Psychology: Brown is a mixture of orange and black.
It is the color that symbolizes a connection to the earth, humility, indestructibility, nature, earth, excrement, and emotional stamina.
It is passive but persistent. [3]
It is a very serious color which is associated with the earth, dirt, or soil. Autumn is generally brown and it represents a season of dormancy and conservatism.
The brown in your dream may be symbolic of physical reality and earthiness. It may represent things in their barest form, and its interpretation may encourage you to add some light and depth into your daily life.
Depression and foreboding, especially if hovering around you in the dream.
An earthy color that can indicate good foundations, practicality, and the potential for growth (e.g., “being down to earth”). Much depends on where or how the color appears in the dream. [5]
(2) Brown is also an autumnal colour and as such may signify a (feeling of) decline; low spirits or depression. [6]
Plain or basic.
Autumn, or the winding down of a phase or cycle.
Chocolate or other food.
Soil or dirt.
2. + PASTORAL,
3. + HUMILITY
4. – HUMANISM
5. – BROWN CAN ALSO MEAN THE OPPOSITE OF GREEN
6. – DEATH [11]
2. Practical matters.
3. Waste and decay. [14]
The lighter, the easier [16]