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Tenderness Dream Meaning

Dreams can be used to explore your feelings about yourself. For example, if you see other people touching or loving each other and feel excluded or dream that you are surrounded by loved ones, this often expresses a need for the comfort, support and unconditional affection that you enjoy when someone is completely in love with you. Such dreams could be a strong indication that your levels of selfesteem need a boost; one way to do that is to seek out the love and support of those closest to you. Alternatively, the characters in your dream may represent aspects of yourself. Are they warm and loving or were you unable to reach or feel them because they were so self-centered?

Dreams in which you see yourself reaching out in some way suggest a desire for something or someone you do not have; this may either be an emotional or a physical absence. Your dream may also be telling you that you are trying to manipulate circumstances or control others with your emotional neediness. This is particularly relevant if your efforts to reach out and touch others are rejected or received with distaste. Witnessing a dream betrothal, wedding or engagement is another variation of the wish-fulfillment compensatory dream. Lastly, dreams in which you are in love with someone—it could be anyone you know or do not know in waking life—but your feelings are not reciprocated are less positive, as they reveal a fear of being rejected by your loved ones in waking life or uncertainty about the affection of someone about whom you care deeply in waking life.

See also: RELATIONSHIPS; SEX. [1]

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Sources and Authors

  1. The Element Encyclopedia by Theresa Cheung [Back to dream]

What does TENDERNESS mean in a dream?


Vision: Seeing a lilac bush: you need affection and tenderness.The fragrance of lilac indicates budding love and romantic feelings.A wilted lilac bush: a wonderful love affair is ending in disappointment....

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Symbol: A kiss repA:sents love, respect, friendship, unity, and forgiveness.Vision: Dreaming about kisses indicates unfulfilled love with a hint of eroticism. Dreaming you are kissing a stranger (man or woman):...

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Represents tranquility, serenity, friendship, and tenderness.

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Symbolizes the moon and its magical qualities, tenderness and the romantic lovers.

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Noticeable tenderness means easy to understand and pleasant to mentally digest; see “food”

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See Water.An image of emotional excitement—tenderness, caressing, and sexuality.See Surfing, Ship.

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Vision: A man dreaming about a woman’s lap: strong sexual cravings that need to be brought under control. Sitting in someone’s lap: you have a great need for tenderness.

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They express the feeling of affection or tenderness that someone awakens in the dreamer. They also allude to close family relationships, motherhood, and an excessive sense of protection.

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Bridge between conscious and unconscious; need for resting, relaxing the intellect and tapping deeper sources within self. Slow down your pace in order to see clearly, get insight. Tenderness, softness.See...

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Cuddling is a very pleasant dream symbol. It suggests love, tenderness, comfort and protection.

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The number sixteen represents innocence and tenderness. It also suggests spiritual cleansing, destruction of the old and birth of the new.

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Depth Psychology: The elf in a dream often represents your need for love and tenderness.A goblin or a dwarf is a sign of inferiority feelings. Do you suffer from inhibitions?...

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Symbolizes toughness—tough as leather— aggressive tendencies, fetishes, but also soft, “smooth as silk,” indicating tenderness.

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Dreams of a watermelon signify pregnancy, feminine strength and tenderness. You are feeling ripe, juicy and sensually delicious.See Fruit.

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Vision: Women who see a doll want a child of their own. When men see a doll, it means they want to have an affair, which will happen, even if...

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To see otters diving and sporting in limpid streams is certain to bring the dreamer waking happiness and good fortune. You will find ideal enjoyment in an early marriage, if...

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A dream featuring a baby stroller symbolzies protection, tenderness and new beginnings. Also see “Baby”

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One of the oldest musical instruments, its sound is said to cast spells over people and gods (The Magic Flute). Harmony, accord, beauty, and tenderness. Let more joy come into...

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Longing for connectedness, tenderness, rest. Those you take to your bosom become related. According to ancient Germanic law, families gave their members names of body parts in order to indicate...

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As is well known, the dove is a symbol of peace, as well as tenderness, love, fidelity, and hope. It symbolizes spirituality, platonic love, and the free soul.Its presence in...

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It symbolizes simplicity, peaceful happiness without ambition. Moreover, the presence of wool in dreams may also indicate a need for love or protection.If you are the one to spin it,...

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A hug is a very pleasant dream symbol. It suggests love and tenderness.It is also symbolic of comfort and protection.The only time that this dream symbol has negative connotations is...

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Actual, desired, or imagined closeness (mental, emotional, or physical) with another person.Your feelings of sentimentality, meaning, intimacy, or tenderness regarding another person.A desire to feel valued, approved of, or liked...

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Dreams of TLC or of tender loving care signifies your desire for -love, validation and approval to temper your -criticism. Keep in mind that your longing for assurance, intimacy, connection,...

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Dew is the result of water in the atmosphere that has yet to be evaporated away by the rising sun; it is considered beautiful and a touch magical.The water that...

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Gives gender-specific: In a woman’s dream a piston may reveal her fear of being hurt sexually. She may also be aware that she is simply being used, and that there...

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Vision: Fresh and delicious butter: everything is uin balance, ”Old, rancid butter: slander, intrigue, and hypocrisy. Eating butter means good health. Making your own butter: you want and need more...

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Symbol: The lamb is the symbol of humility; innocence, and sacrifice.Vision: Seeing a lamb: you are much too good-natured—be more assertive. Shearing lambs: beware, you are taking advantage of people!...

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To dream that you are breast-feeding symbolizes tenderness, love, nurturing and motherly love. It indicates your unconscious connection with the nurturing principle. To see someone nursing or dream that you...

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Dreaming of becoming a prince or princesses reveals a desire for primacy, triumph, and conquest of personal values. For this reason, it is a common dream among young people because...

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To add a lot of sugar to a meal reflects great anxiety, probably motivated by lack of affection or tenderness. This dream indicates a clear need for affection and may...

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If you have a great capacity to give to others, probably in one of your dreams you have seen a plate. Not surprisingly, this element says that you are willing...

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Dreaming about breasts can have obvious sexual meaning. However, consider all of the details in your dream in order to obtain the most appropriate meaning. Breasts also represent tenderness, love,...

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Like wings, feathers symbolize, since immemorial times, spirituality, imagination, and thought. They also express our desire to show warmth and tenderness to someone. In oneiric terms, feathers predict success, achieving...

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The landscapes of dreams are symbolic scenarios in which each and every one of the elements that comprise it should be considered. For example, for a person overwhelmed by financial...

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(Bunch of grapes) In a dream, a sweet tasting bunch of grapes means receiving benefits through a relative or a close friend.If the grapes taste sour in the dream, then...

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(Color; Expose, Hair, Henna, Hide, Gray hair) Applying henna or a dye to one’s hair or hands in a dream represents a pharmacist, celebrations, glad tidings, tenderness, or it could...

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(Interpreter, Pen, Speech writer, Stinger, Translator) In a dream, one’s tongue represents his translator or his business manager. One’s tongue in a dream also represents the chief cause of sin....

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