If you wrote invitations, gave presents, hosted or invited people you don’t like, this suggests that you have been neglecting your social life and need to revitalize it.
If you invited people you like, this suggests that you need to have more fun in your life. Being showered with gifts or attention at a party may be a wish-fulfillment dream. Dream parties and social events may also reflect a desire to widen your social circle or forge new work contacts.
If you were the life and soul of the party or event, this indicates a longing to be popular, self-assured and socially confident. Pay attention to how you behave at the party and how you interact with others as it will be commenting on your social skills.
If you confidently mixed with everyone at a New Year’s party, this is a positive message but if you were a shy wallflower, your dreaming mind may have been suggesting that you should try to interact more.
Conversations at parties with someone you know suggest a desire to get to know that person more; if you do not know the person, your dreaming mind is encouraging you to discover hidden aspects of yourself.
If someone gatecrashes your party, this could reflect your feelings towards someone who is pestering you in waking life or hindering your progress.
Festive gathering at restaurants will also have relevance to your waking relationships. Pay attention to who is attending and if the atmosphere is pleasant; this could indicate the people that you feel sustain you emotionally or who you wish would perform this role.
If you are the family cook in waking life, your dream may also have been urging you to treat yourself.
If wine was served at the meal, this suggests relaxation but if champagne was served, celebration.
If you are puzzling over menu choices in your dream, this may be reflecting uncertainty in your waking life or the number of tempting choices available to you. [1]
If you are the one organizing the party it could mean that you are in a position to find necessary tools in order to accomplish your projects. On the other hand, a party can represent pleasures of life and, especially, social interaction. Maybe enjoying the others’ company will benefit you. The nature of the party is also likely to hide your desires and hidden fears. A nice party indicates confidence.
If it is disagreeable it express your lack of confidence at social events. A too formal party represents your work environment. Finally, if it is an orgy it denotes sexual frustrations.
Unless the character of the celebration is exceptional, the traditional interpretation says that this dream indicates future disputes. [2]
The dream shows this is a feeling which started in his childhood—his youngest son. Generally, our feelings about groups; social skill or lack of it; social pleasure. Dreamer as host of party: our relationship with the different aspects of self. Dreamer as main guest, say at a birthday party: wanting family or social acclaim and love, or feeling loved. [3]
2- The human being often has need of celebration in his or her life.
To be attending a party in a dream can indicate our need for celebration, for joining with other people to create a potentially happy atmosphere.
3- When a group celebrates a belief, which can be spiritual, it is an occasion for a party or festival. [4]
The people in your social circle.
A dinner party might represent your close circle of friends, other people with whom you interact regularly, or an imagined group interaction.
Enjoying a holiday party can represent: being in a social or festive mood, your interactions with people around you during the holiday season (past, imagined, or expected).
Someone throwing you a surprise party could represent: a real-life surprise or gathering you’ve experienced, a desire for more positive attention from others.
See also: Special Occasion, Festival or Carnival, Holiday, Guest [5]
Pertaining to social matters, it is considered more fortunate to dream of going to a party than to dream of giving one, and the less pretentious the function the better the augury.
In either event, the dream takes its meaning from the general atmosphere of the function and the degree of pleasure (or displeasure) experienced by the dreamer. [7]
If we are the primary guest (e.g., at a birthday party), then it could be reflecting either our experience of receiving recognition or our desire for recognition.
The dream might also be drawing on any number of different idiomatic connotations, such as the “life of the party,” a “party pooper,” or “the party if over.” [8]
See also: Celebration, Integration Dreams. [9]
If you escape uninjured, you will overcome any opposition, either in business or love.
To dream of attending a party of any kind for pleasure, you will find that life has much good, unless the party is an inharmonious one. [10]
If the party is bad, then it indicates you are unsure of your social skills.
If you dream of being the host/hostess of a party, this symbolizes your generosity and kindness toward others. You are capable of doing things for people without expecting anything in return. [11]
Folklore: Bad omen. [12]
To be attending a party such as a dinner party or other specific purpose in a dream can indicate our need for celebration, for joining with other people to create a potentially happy atmosphere. [13]
To dream that you are attending a boring and lousy party may be linked to your qualms about your assumed lack of social graces. [14]
The joining up of several people enhances the atmosphere and creates additional power. [15]
2. A need or desire to socialize, have fun.
3. Difficulties, arguments and dissension (to throw a party). [17]
A mad, wild party augurs trouble and unwise selection of friends. [18]
2. Celebration; Prov. 21:1; Romans 14:21. [21]
attending a: good times with harmony and pleasant associations.
dinner: accord among friends; indiscriminate dealings with your mate.
others: beware of rivals banding together.
wild: life’s favors wil pass you by without recognition.
without a partner: a peaceful intermission from embroiling family issues.
gala, being at a: wil secure profit of pleasure and an accumulation of distress.
with friends: loss of social friends who weren’t your friends in the first place.
sweetheart: healthful and lively engagement.
your mate: wil believe you to be quarrelsome with other guests.
giving a: uncertain and fluctuating affairs.
others, for you: unexpected reverses in love.
shy at at, being: wil be fortunate in expectations because you have none.
someone getting hurt at a: the use and abuse of pleasure.
taking children to a: hopes are vanishing for you; give your children the baton. [25]