Most dreams depict human relationships in one way or another, but some can highlight intimate relationships with a lover or partner.Dreams with romantic themes are attempts to answer your questions...

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...

The past in a dream could be: A memory of something from your past, or your current thoughts and feelings about it.An attempt by the subconscious mind to review, remember,...

The past, what you have chosen to or want to forget —left behind; what one is unaware of, as talk behind one’s back, what has been learnt or dealt with....

Psychological / emotional perspective: Obviously photographs represent memories, past occasions, perhaps past difficulties.To be looking at photographs of someone from the past is to be looking at that person’s qualities...

To dream that you are in college represents transformations occurring within your circle of relationships and the outside world. Perhaps you are seeking higher education and intellect. You may be...

Vision: Dreaming of returning home: happy hours to come. Leaving home: you are worried about the future of your family. Being homesick: in spite of your present love relationship, you...

Someone returning (to you, to a place, etc.) can represent a real or imagined: Reunion.Returning to the past, or situation similar to a past one.Restoring, recreating, or revisiting something from...

Psychological / emotional perspective: In dreams, if we see footprints going in opposite directions, we need to consider carefully what has happened in the past and what is going to...

Cassette tapes are the voices from the past, which may have influenced you and contributed to your psychological makeup.A cassette player may reflect those old beliefs or “tapes” that you...

To see people you know in your dream, signifies qualities and feelings of those people that you desire for yourself.To see people you don’t know in your dream, denotes hidden...

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.

Psychological / emotional perspective: Old people in dreams tend to suggest traditional thought or wisdom arising from experience. We may also need to consider our attitude to death. Old buildings...

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...

Dreams of something that has become rotten signifies a pattern, habit, or relationship that has gone sour that needs to be thrown out. Your dream is giving you the message...

Psychological / emotional perspective: If we are being wasteful in dreams we need to reassess how we are running our lives. We may be giving too much in relationships, or...

Psychological / emotional perspective: We are stuck in patterns of behaviour which give us no way out. We are being threatened by past mistakes.

Psychological / emotional perspective: When emotion becomes too rigid and reflective of the past, we may dream of fossils.

To dream of sewing signifies that you are mending the past, forgiving someone, making amends for transgressions, as well as stitching together relationships that have become frayed. Also, dreams of...

Psychological / emotional perspective: A village can present certain problems.For instance, everybody knows everybody else’s business – which can become trying. In this case we may be highlighting the oppression...

To look back into the past can sometimes be detrimental, and at other times helpful. In dreams, to be looking or moving backwards may suggest that answers to our present...

To dream about your ex-boyfriend/girlfriend or that you and your ex got back together indicates that people currently in your life are reminding you of those same feelings. This dream...

The past.Things from your past that are preserved or still lingering (memories, emotions, judgments, etc.).The importance of whatever is represented by the museum’s contents.The idea of being unused, untouched, untouchable,...

Images of people from your past not your present can link you with that period in your life, as well as with specific memories and experiences. A first boyfriend in...

(see Men, Relationships, Women)A reflection of your relationship with your parents now, or a memory from past experiences with them.Archetypally, the God or Goddess parent to all humankind who guides...

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

Psychological / emotional perspective: Memories can remain buried for years and often when people who have died appear in dreams, we are being reminded of different times, places or relationships...

Psychological / emotional perspective: A satellite can appear in a dream to indicate the dependency that one person can have upon another. Often in relationships one partner is considered to...

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

To dream about an immaculate conception (virgin birth) signifies spiritual harmony and potential. Alternatively, this dream can also represent a repressed fear of sexuality, remorse over past actions, or difficulties...

To dream about an immaculate conception (virgin birth) signifies spiritual harmony and potential. Alternatively, this dream can also represent a repressed fear of sexuality, remorse over past actions, or difficulties...

Psychological / emotional perspective: On a creative level we may have realizations that are hard to access and must be dug out. Excavating objects can also imply that there is...

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

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...

As a symbol of protection, condoms in dreams symbolize both physical and psychological protection from vulnerability in intimate relationships.If a condom features in your dream, it might help to see...

This dream could the effect of nostalgia. Maybe you are observing the past, when you experiment for the first time the pain and complexity of human relationships. In the same...

Psychological / emotional perspective: Festivals are very specific for a number of cultures. While in many cases they have become somewhat secularized, in dreams they mark the need for family...

Psychological / emotional perspective: Carrying out a restoration in dreams suggests that we are still connected with the past and are trying to recreate it in some way.

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...

To dream about a scab means you are thinking of something that has hurt you in the past.If the scab was healing or dry, you are moving on from your...

Psychological / emotional perspective: Sometimes the furniture that appears in a dream can highlight our need for security or stability, particularly if it is recognizable from the past.

(Affront; Attract attention; Criticize, Excavate, Probe, Sideswipe, Stir up) Digging up the past in a dream means an argument or exposing one’s dirty laundry, blocking the road, earning unlawful money,...

Psychological / emotional perspective: Dreaming of receiving a private income – such as a trust fund – suggests we perhaps need to look at our relationships with other people. We...

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.

Psychological / emotional perspective: When something is decaying it is running out of energy.For it to appear in dreams indicates we must be prepared to allow things to run their...

To meet a realtor in a dream represents a focus on yourself and your relationships.To consider many houses in a dream may symbolize many potential mates, or potential paths in...

Psychological / emotional perspective: The theatre is a scenario that has meaning for many. Because it is a social venue, it has relevance in people’s relationships with one another.To be...

Psychological / emotional perspective: When luggage appears as a symbol in our dreams we should perhaps look at whether it is ours or someone else’s.If ours, it signifies those views,...

Psychological / emotional perspective: Any object seen as quaint in dreams bears further scrutiny in order to understand its relevance. We may be dealing with behaviour patterns from the past...

Feeling ‘put in the shade’; feelings still overshadowing one from past experiences or relationships; feeling inferior, protection; occasionally a sense of the dead or fear of the unknown. Idioms: afraid...

Psychological / emotional perspective: Trying to escape from someone signifies that we are feeling threatened.It is possible that anxiety or past trauma means we are unable to do anything other...

In some dreams we find ourselves in the past, with the feeling of those times. This nearly always depicts, not a past life, but our own feelings. So a cowboy...

Carving pumpkins at Halloween began as a Celtic tradition on All Souls’ Day to ward off evil spirits.The appearance of a jack-o’-lantern in a dream may suggest a need to...

Psychological / emotional perspective: As a parasite, mistletoe has the ability to draw strength from its host, but also to be useful in its own right. It can, therefore, symbolize...

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

Psychological / emotional perspective: Steps in dreams almost invariably suggest an effort made to succeed. Going up steps suggests trying to make things better and improve them, whereas going down...

A large or overwhelming presence.Basic or primitive, or the idea of “back to basics.” Something or someone from the past (perhaps gone now).Something that’s outdated.Finding value in the past or...

Psychological / emotional perspective: Being chased by shadows shows the need to escape from something previously repressed, such as past childhood trauma or difficulty.To be chased by an animal generally...

Psychological / emotional perspective: Very often, to dream of a homosexual affair is an attempt to learn to love a part of our personality that is not much used in...

Psychological / emotional perspective: Emotionally, our inheritance consists of the influences from the past from members of our family as to how we think and feel. Unless we understand those...

Psychological / emotional perspective: We may be trying to understand archetypal patterns that have not been recognizable in the past. There is information available to us which we can only...

Psychological / emotional perspective: We may have striven for something and our greatest victory has been against our own inertia.The crown can represent dedication, particularly to duty. It suggests the...

Symbol: Dreaming about fruit is usually a sign that new plans are in the making.Vision: Eating fruit: your hopes of finding love are going to be fulfilled. Eating sweet fruit:...

Psychological / emotional perspective: If we dream of turning our backs we are rejecting the particular feeling being experienced in the dream. There is a possibility that we are repressing...

As with women dreaming about their husbands, to dream of your wife may simply be a dream about your relationship and your unconscious feelings about it. This dream may be...

Green leaves reveal the opportunity for new life and growth whether it is in work, family relationships, or play. Fallen leaves can represent lost opportunities, missed chances, a loss in...

To dream that you lose something may mean that you really have misplaced something that you had not realized yet. It may also be a signal for you to clean...

To dream of your husband may simply be a dream about your relationship and your unconscious feelings about it. On the other hand, he may also represent the male side...

Psychological / emotional perspective: Searching in a dream for something we have lost can suggest either that we need information from the past, or that we feel we have lost...

The past; the different lives we have lived—baby, youth, lover, parent, provider, what is es­tablished and well worn; tradition and wisdom of folklore.Example: I am standing in a bookshop.It is...

How you are seeing things at this time; a picture to awaken a past memory because the lesson you are going through now is one you did not learn in...

Psychological / emotional perspective: Weeping suggests uncontrollable emotion or grief, so to experience either ourselves or someone else weeping in dreams is to show that there needs to be a...

Psychological / emotional perspective: The triangle in dreams can represent the family – mother, father and child – with all its attendant relationships. It then represents emotional stability. It can...

Psychological / emotional perspective: We all have the need to be grounded and practical but need support to be so.If we find ourselves under or trapped by earth in dreams...

1. Past fears, often from a traumatic event, require atten­tion.2. Regrets from the past need to be resolved or “laid to rest.”

Psychological / emotional perspective: A robe can suggest our attitude to sex and relationships.If it is clean we have a good self-image, if dirty, the opposite.A dirty robe could also...

Psychological / emotional perspective: When we dream of being followed we need to identify if what is following us is negative or positive.If it is negative, we need to deal...

Psychological / emotional perspective: To be looking in a mirror can signify trying to look behind us without letting others know what we are doing. We may have a concern...

Psychological / emotional perspective: A tunnel in a dream usually represents the need to explore our own unconscious and those things we have left untouched.If there is a light at...

1. A need or desire to draw on the past.2. Repressed feel­ings or memories are trying to surface.3. An attempt to connect a current situation to one in the past.

Throughout his life, Jung admitted his strong fascination with the theory of reincarnation but never declared himself for or against the idea. We simply don’t know whether he believed in...

An actual coworker, past or present.Your work or workplace.Teamwork, or your typical dynamics with that person (such as cooperation, competition, or animosity).A coworker from a past job could represent that...

also see Book and Reading1- Strictly; a novel represents a different way of looking at things.If we are aware in dreams of reading such a book, we need to ascertain...

To dream of a vulture typically represents your past. Everything you have experienced, learned, and seen can assist with the issues that are facing you in your waking life. Take...

Psychological / emotional perspective: Dreaming of our parents’ funeral indicates a move towards independence, or of letting go of the past, which may be painful. We may need to let...

If you find yourself going back in time to a previous job in your dream, this suggests you need to look back into the past in order to move forwards....

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...

If the guest or visitor in your dream is known to you, then perhaps you are expecting some important news to reach you or perhaps there is something you need...