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Dreams And Relationships Dream Meaning

Some common questions about sexual dreams


Q: If I make love to someone I know in my dream, does that mean he or she is interested in me?

Most of the time, such dreams are a reflection of your own feelings rather than hidden desires of others. Your dreaming mind often uses romantic imagery to provide insights into love and passion.

Q: Why do I dream of being intimate with people to whom I’m not attracted?

There can be various reasons for this.

If you don't find someone attractive in your waking life, they may symbolize a quality or characteristic closely related to something you're exploring within yourself.

If the person is particularly unsavory, your dreams might be encouraging you to say no to things that aren't right for you.

Q: Are dreams of my partner’s infidelity a warning sign?

In some cases, yes, but in most instances, these dreams are metaphors for emotional abandonment or neglect. Perhaps your loved one is paying more attention to their job, hobbies, or the children than to you.

Q: Do repeated dreams of my first love mean I have not gotten over them?

Your first love often symbolizes romantic love in dreams, but when they appear in your dreams, it's more likely that your subconscious is using them as a symbol of love to help you navigate your current relationship challenges. Your dreams are primarily focused on the present.

Q: What do dreams of being back with my ex mean?

Dreaming about your ex doesn't necessarily mean you want to be with them again. Unless you're convinced that your latest ex is "the one," your dreams are likely using them as a symbol to represent your current love interest. Typically, such dreams indicate that you're revisiting old issues or relationship patterns, and your subconscious is using these images to aid your healing process and pave the way for a more positive future. When any relationship ends, your subconscious mind delves into memories, fears, and hopes to help you unravel mysteries and gain a better understanding of what makes real love work. It's a way for your inner mind to evaluate what works and what doesn't in a relationship, drawing comparisons from past experiences.

Q: If I have a perfect dream romance, does this mean the perfect partner will appear in my life?

If you're single and you have a dream of a perfect romantic and sexual encounter, it may reflect your desires. It's also your subconscious's way of reminding you that love and passion are still attainable, encouraging you to remain open to the possibility of romance.

Q: If I have a bizarre or distressing dream about sex, does this mean I'm strange?

Don't interpret your dreams based on your judgment while awake, and avoid feeling guilty. Instead, try to understand the dream and remember that your dreaming mind often employs sexual images, even if they are vivid or unsettling, as metaphors or opportunities for self-discovery.

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Sources and Authors

  1. Common Dreams by Theresa Cheung [Back to dream]

It is common to dream about our relationships. You can interpret this dream by remembering the details and comparing them to the realities of your daily life. In your dream...

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1. Social relationships.2. Difficult decisions.3. Seeking as­sistance or answering needs from outside the usual relationships.

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1. A sign of approaching change—often for the better, usually relating to social relationships.2. Honor and distinction, especially in relationships or socially.

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1. Relationships and love affairs.2. Emotional roller coaster ride regarding one or more relationships.3. Disillusion­ment and disappointment over negative talk.

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1. Excitement, joy in relationships.2. A need or desire to “rekindle” a relationship with self, work on issues of self-esteem.3. Too much focus on relationships causes neglect of other important...

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To see furniture in your dream, represents how you feel about yourself and your family. It refers to your relationships with others and how they fit into your life.To dream...

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1. Endurance, usually in relationships, including friend­ships.2. Personal ambition and determination, tenacity and drive—often in regards to prosperity and business affairs, fre­quently in relationships.

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1. Another, darker aspect or side of self.2. Repressed feelings of guilt over a past misdeed.3. Happiness in and longevity of in­timate relationships, marriage.4. A need to reassess morals and...

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1. A superficial change, cosmetic enhancement—often to behavior, often regarding relationships.2. A need or desire to alter behavior, often regarding relationships.

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Our relationship with mother is pivotal in our development and will often give rise to her appearance in dreams. Largely it is the first relationship we develop, probably should be...

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In dreams, a bed can represent both a resting place and intimate relationships. To be lying in bed means that you have an excess of activity in real life and,...

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Dreams of kelp signify a tangled relationships that you are feeling stuck and unable to leave. Sea kelp is also a protein that can be nutritious for your hair and...

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1. How situations or relationships are viewed, often negative.2. Use caution and patience in relationships (to clean a pane of glass).3. Trouble is ahead (to break a pane of glass).4....

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All people in a dream represent aspects of your own personality. This is also true of family members, although such dreams may also be reflecting your waking-life relationships as well....

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1- A village appearing in a dream suggests a fairly tightly knit community. It mav illustrate our ability to form supportive relationships and a community spirit.2- A village can present...

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Material aspects: Dreaming of a pool deals with our need for the understanding of our own emotions and inner feelings.A pool in a wood, for instance, would suggest the ability...

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Material aspects: Dreaming of a prostitute often suggests a hidden sexual need. Often, dreaming of a prostitute forces us to look at our own sense of guilt or uncertainty about...

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Vision: Looking at a string with many knots: your situation is all “tangled up.” Undoing the knots in a string: it will take a lot of effort to straighten out...

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(see Bride, Engagement, Groom, Marriage, Parents)These dreams frequently relate to real-life scenarios in which the relationships in the dream mirror those from waking hours. If, however, the relationship takes on...

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A place of relationships, their problems, and their beautiful moments.

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(See Contract, Knot, Friendship, Kinship, Relationships)

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(see Bride, Engagement, Groom, Relationships, Wedding)

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1. Business and security.2. Community relationships and prosperity.

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1. One wants to “go it alone,” in romantic, business or other relationships.2. One has the confidence to run one’s life alone.

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1. One’s life is dotted with problems that need to be dealt with.2. Relationships that have gone bad.

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Most often the way we direct or control our emotions —therefore relates to relationships and goals.

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1. Boredom with one’s life, career or relationships.2. Innocence.

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1. Connections, relationships between one thing and another.2. Feeling connected, belonging.

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Dreams of neighbors are about your relationships with other people and your issues with boundaries.

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1. Feeling that relationships are coming apart.2. One feels he/she is about to leave or be discharged from a job.

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1. Insecurities, often regarding relationships.2. Fem­inine power, often hostile in nature.

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Coffins in dreams represent renewal the need to get rid of unhealthy habits or relationships.

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Low energy. Inability to see cause and effect relationships, how you are setting yourself up. Meditate and get clarity.

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1. Profit from endeavors.2. Rewards, payoffs, usually emotional, sometimes in relationships.3. A reminder that “what goes around comes around.”

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1. Release—likely from emotional difficulties, often from a bad situation.2. Happiness is at hand, likely in relationships.

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Something adhering or final in one’s business dealings and relationships.

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1. Something missing in one’s life.2. Seeking a solution to problems.3. Need for new knowledge or relationships.

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Caskets (or coffins) in dreams represent renewal the need to get rid of unhealthy habits or relationships.

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Growth in love relationships; taking a risk. Good and self-explanatory symbol.

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1. Worry over time, promptness.2. Feelings of loss, often regarding relationships.3. Secrets revealed.

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1. Social relationships take on a primary, “sacred” im­portance.2. A journey, embarking on a crusade.

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1. Indicates a wealth of energy, vitality.2. A sudden inspiration, awareness, often in relationships.

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See Music. Sensuality, desire for harmony and accord (particularly in relationships).See Concert.

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Emotions are clouded and polluted. Clean up your act. Smooth out your emotional relationships.

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1. Business affairs and financial success.2. Relationships, friends are sensitive and caring.

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Sensing that you are either holding yourself back in relationships or endeavours, or you are too formal; anxiety or tension.

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1. A need or desire to avoid confrontation.2. Satisfaction and happiness with relationships.3. A focus on details.

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Animals, reptiles, birds and insects often represent aspects of relationships in dreams. Birds in particular can take on a specific meaning. For example a bird or prey, or a thieving...

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1. The self, the body.2. Symbol of achievement, success.3. A need to assess attitudes—possibly toward relationships, likely toward situations.

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Exercise; physical/mental integration. Also, escape from looking at self and relationships, responsibilities, as in just jogging along and not taking serious action for changes.

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1. A good omen regarding social relationships.2. Judg­ment is sound and careful, usually concerning marriage.

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1. A preference for romantic, poetic pleasures over all else.2. Too much focus on searching for love relationships, and low self-esteem.

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Burning logs are an indication of loving relationships between friends and a lover.If the grate is empty, loss is indicated. 

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1. A symbol or measure of prosperity and domestic hap­piness.2. Competition, achievement—often in life, usually in sexual relationships.

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To be aware of prejudice in your dream suggests you could use some competent advice concerning your personal relationships.See also Cloth and Sewing.

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1. Isolation and seclusion.2. Feeling withdrawn from peo­ple or activities, possible neglect in relationships.3. Good for­tune is in the offing.

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Contradictory thoughts and feelings, as in Duel, but more harmonious. Harmony, particularly in relationships.Folklore: Domestic bliss.

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1. Need to break down old ways of thinking to make room for new.2. Particularly difficult situations or relationships need greater effort and perhaps help.

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1. A good omen for professional life or business matters.2. Difficulties in love relationships, settling for less.

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1. Self-image.2. A measure of success regarding love life, intimate relationships.3. Use caution, flattery may be deceiving.

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1. A happy and secure home life (note how full the tub is).2. Dif­ficulties in personal relationships (to see a broken or rusty tub).

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1. Faith, gentleness, peace and serenity.2. Communi­cation and happiness in intimate relationships.

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1. Community relationships.2. Start of a path.3. Passage, spir­itual or emotional.4. Vagina.5. Two-faced individual.

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1. Completion and renewal, beginnings and endings— often in relationships, sometimes in situations.2. Having a good reputation, a high social position.

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1. Repressed anger, fear, coming to the surface.2. A sense of vulnerability, possible danger.3. Excitement is in the offing, likely regarding relationships.

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Contact and communication, erotic kissing and relationships.According to Freud and Jung, it represents the female sexual organ.

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1. A need or desire for control in life, sometimes over specific situations or relationships.2. Difficulties in the offing.3. A good omen regarding social activities.

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(see Orgasm, Sexual Encounters)Concerns or thoughts centering around “safe sex.”Metaphorical protection, probably concerning vulnerability’ in relationships.

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1. Arguments in the offing—possibly with friends, likely domestic.2. Use caution in risky emotional matters, usually in intimate relationships.

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Dreams about relationships are extremely common. This is because the health and survival of your relationships is a primary goal for your unconscious; in your dreams it constantly reviews your...

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Your home may contain the concerns about family affairs. Since “home is where the heart is,” being in your home in a dream reflects a sense of secunty and comfort....

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To dream that you are apologizing to someone represents the different relationships that have influenced you throughout your life. It also symbolizes honesty and absolution. You should dissolve feelings of...

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Embarrassing personal entanglements are indicated by a dream of binding things up, or being bound up yourself. Reexamine your current relationships with an eye to being more selective in future.

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1. A sense or feeling of treachery, if being defrauded.2. Use caution in business matters or relationships; moral or principled reassessment of activities.

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Funnels can highlight the feeling that someone tries to take advantage of you. This dream usually occurs when your personal relationships are going through a period of difficulties, particularly when...

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1. Happiness, usually in domestic relationships.2. A bad omen regarding reputation, possible issues over re­venge.3. Female sexuality.4. The limitations of time (as in “cinderella”).

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1. A need to revisit, better understand past events, possibly relationships.2. To reacquaint oneself with various aspects of personality.3. Goals will be realized with a little outside help.

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1. Protection and trust, loyalty (to receive one from a partner).2. Immaturity, childishness, often in relationships.3. Sense of security, reassurance.

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1. A pleasant seduction, delightful allure, often involving potential relationships.2. A phallic symbol.3. Vagina.4. The commonplace, boring.

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1. An inability to communicate.2. A need to find alter­nate means of communication, especially regarding intimate relationships.3. Feelings of loss and sorrow, usually regarding aspects of self.

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This stone in your dream suggests that you have misplaced your confidence and/or affections.Reexamine your close relationships and keep your private affairs to yourself for the time being.

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Blocking a new birth or life direction within the self. May be positive or negative ideas, projects, opportunities or relationships; so examine carefully what is being cut off from your...

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It is a symbol of brutality and aggression that alerts the dreamer of her personal relationships. It may be time to revise them and to try solving problems or changing...

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Exciting changes for the better, if they were being cut; otherwise, for a woman, they signify a new romantic interest, but for a man, they indicate possible damage to his...

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1. Mounting conflict, usually of an inner nature, between parts of self.2. Conflicts in waking life getting out of control; explore more creative resolutions.3. Bad luck in relationships.

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1. A good omen regarding health and ambition.2. A sign of maturity, refinement and thoughtfulness in aspects of life, often relationships.3. The feminine side of self.

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1. Abundance and good fortune.2. A lot of small annoyances become a large problem.3. Possible cleanliness or hygiene is­sues.4. Unhappiness or displeasure, especially in relationships.

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1. Change in abode or status of relationship (as if alternate sleeping arrangements will be necessary).2. One has “made one’s bed and must now lie in it.” 3. Jealousy may...

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1. An important, highly emotional message is being conveyed, often regarding love and relationships (note the content of the song).2. Feelings of anger and disassociation may need to be communicated.

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This celestial hanger-on in your dream is telling you that you can achieve better relationships by asserting more independence of thought.You can listen to others, but don’t be completely influenced...

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1. Difficulties in relationships.2. A feeling that someone or some certain situation is draining, “parasitic.” 3. Possible health issues, possibly heart related.4. Anger (as in “ticked off”).

Learn more about the meaning of Tick

1. A need or desire to communicate or improve commu­nications within specific relationships (note who is typing and to whom it is addressed).2. Forward movement in business.

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