– Decomposition & insignificance. Degradation & irrelevance. Disintegration & unimportance.

Question:

– Where in my life I am prepared to assert myself?

In general:

In its basic meaning, the worm can stand for the penis. Depending on the gender of the dreamer and his attitude toward sexuality, the worm may be perceived as threatening. Worm stands for sexual and other impulses, which can even reject them as low and suppressed. In a broader sense it may symbolize the past, the new comes, often related to manure.

Psychologically:

The invertebrate reptile, which we see in the dream, may indicate our helplessness in a particular case in waking life, because we’re a helpless worm. Or, if the worm eats something, then this dream could point to the conscientious worm that gnaws at us. The worm in dream also can express feelings of ineffectiveness and unimportance (in relation to the dreamer or someone else). If the worm is larger than a man, then this can be close to feelings of inferiority. If the dreamer sees the piles that arises when an earthworm eats soil and excreted, so he has to do with an image of transformation. It shows him that he can change his life and do something more fruitful. It may be that the dream consciousness with this image of sexual desires, which the dreamer is considered immoral and indicating his guilt.

Spiritually:

To transfer (hand over) the worms is a metaphor for death. The dreamer should therefore be prepared, that something will occur on the spiritual level and it may soon change.

Traditionally:

Arabian
– Dreaming that you are eating worms: you will get transitional sojourners and collect pension money from them.
– Separate worms from someone through the anus: he will be saved from worry and annoying people.
– Dreaming that you remove worms from wounds: you will be richer.
– To see: you will be experiencing horrible things, you will be exposing yourself by carelessness of an inconvenience;
– Also to see worm in dream: threat of an unpleasant opponent, and one must beware of dishonest people and confidence in own decisions rather on his own intuition, and you must get rid of an onerous problem;
– To see worms in food: you have an enemy;
– To kill worm: you will be freed from an evil.

European
– General: meaning is not always clear. Sometimes can also be understood as erotic-sexual symbol.
– But the meaning, when worm eaten fruit in dream, is clear: intrigues, evil enemies to harm, risk of infectious diseases;
– To see worm or worms in dream: someone is hurt intentionally or unintentionally; Also: friend or acquaintance is becomimg more unpleasant, possibly that someone undermining your position; Also: strange premonition of a plague, but it still in dark burrows;
– Dreaming that you search worms for fishing: promises profit and success;
– To use worm as fish bait: ability to use even hostile forces for your own good;
– To see tapeworm, or even have tapeworms in stomach (or any other part of body): there are poor prospects for your own health and vitality;
– If young woman is dreaming, that worms crawl over her, she will tend to pay for a marriage. If she shake off worms of the animals, she will free herself from the material lethargy and lead to a good and meaningful life.

Hindu
– Dreaming, that your stomach is filled with worms, which fatten themselves in it, a lot of foreigners will come to your house and endure for so long can until they drop to you a nuisance;
– General for woman: woman will go whoring and may become pregnant.
– To look at someone and his whole body is full of hungry worms, he is unwilling to grant to other people living;
– If poor man is dreaming worms, then he will come according to the amount of worms to this amount of money.
– To see: you can hope for good counsel;
– To have worms: pay attention to your health;
– Dreaming of worm-eaten wood (furniture): by secret hostility you will suffer damage.

Russian dreambook:

Worms interpretation by The Russian Dream Book

To dream about worms symbolizes an inheritance or a new acquaintance with a rich man.

The New Family dreambook:

• If the dreamer have dreamed about worms, then the reality says that dishonest people will try to intrigue him.
• Aspirations and hopes of a young woman who dreamed that worms crawling on her, will always be attached with something physical. Usually if she managed to kill or discard those worms, then in reality she will tend to the spiritual and moral values.
• If the dreamer have used worms as bait for fish, portends that his ingenuity will help him to outwit enemies.
• The dreamer should consider that sometimes dream about worms could be seen as a call: look after of your health!

Shuvalov dreambook:

Worms dream meaning by Shuvalov

The author says that dreaming of worms is the first sign which warns about accumulation of negative experiences, lack of balance between what is desirable and necessary. Worms in dream also can be evidence of negative effects or conflict in family and work.

Antique French dreambook:

Dream Interpretation about Worms by Old French Dream Book

Worms (mulberry silkworms):
Silkworms, that were dreamed of, mean that friends will give you a hand in difficult circumstances when you will be aming for help.

Chinese dreambook:

Meanings of worms in dreams from The Chinese Dream Book by Zhou Gong

Earthworms represents  happiness that is related to life in a village.

East women’s dreambook:

Worms dream meanings by Oriental women’s dream book

This dream foretells that the dreamer should be aware of selfish friends. If the dreamer is a young woman and the worms crawling on her, it means that she is looking to attain a material well-being. If the dreamer wipes the worms away or even kills them, then there is a possibility that she will disappoint the material side of life, and will pay attention with all of her strengths on trying to obtain particular spiritual values.

Velez dreambook:

Worm dream interpretation by Velez

Dreaming of worms – possible success in love, relationships and also the mercy which you will give to someone, especially, if being in relationships.

Miller dreambook:

Worm dream meanings by Gustavus Hindman Miller

• To dream about worms means that you will be suffering from consequences, which will be made by dishonest people.
• If a young woman sees in a dream that worms crawl through her – the dream suggests that her hopes and aspirations will always be associated with something physical. If she kills or throws the worms away, therefore she will be able to get rid of material significance and will be capable of concentrating into more valuable purposes such as harmony and peace on her mind.
• If the dreamer use worms as a bait for fishing, it foretells that his or her quick thinking while dealing with past mistakes will bring him or her joy and happiness.
• The dreamer must consider, that sometimes dreaming about worms warns about health, which might be at risk.

Tsvetkov dreambook:

Worm dream interpretation by Tsvetkov

Worm can be interpreted as:

• Sudden death – (rare case scenario) if a lot of worms in dream were very disgustful ;
• Beware of levity;
• Angry friends – if worms was crawling through the grass.

Modern dreambook:

Meanings of worms in dreams by Contemporary Dream Book

• To dream of worms means that you are awaiting for intrigues from your surroundings. Your gut tells you, that there is something about to happen very soon.
• For a young lady to dream of worms that are crawling on her, means that the dreamer seeks to achieve a material well-being. If she swipes those worms away or destroys them, she will be disappointed at the material aspects of her life, and all of the effort will be focused on the achievement of moral and spiritual values.
• Fish that is covered by worms means that you will have to concentrate on every detail and prepare yourself to be smart, because ingenuity of your enemies will try to make your life as a disaster.

Meneghetti dreambook:

Meanings of worms in dreams from Italian dreambook by Meneghetti

Dream about worms indicates:
Most common explanation indicates a subtle, deeply hidden negativity. Worms might symbolize negativity towards obedient, dependent, loving and kind man, which might be you. In some cases, the image of worms reveals the state of your mind that ”has been eaten” by someone or something. This feeling would be felt mostly by women, as they are the ones who suffer a lot from feelings and different emotions.

Azara dreambook:

Interpretation of dream about Worm by Azar

• Worms (most common) – frivolity will bring you troubles;
• Intestinal worms in dream – the joy;
• Worms were eating the tree – damages and losses;
• Killing the worms – escape from trouble.

Assyrian dreambook:

The Assyrian Dream Book interpretation about worms

If a person eats worms in his dream – he will achieve great success and the triumph of great honor will be waiting for him.

* Please, see also interpretation of Earth and phallus in dreams.

Sleep, withdrawal from all activities; foundation.

Question:

What I want to retire? Of what I want peace?

In general:

The dream takes the bed especially important: “make your bed and now lie in it.” To ensure that our unconscious is symbolized situation. In the bed you sleep, you feel secure, to the sleeping man, no demands are made. In the dream, the sleeper is disturbed frequently. There is a restlessness that has not reached his consciousness and we should pursue it. The dream bed is best for the left hand, unconscious on the side. At the moment when a woman moved her bed to the right dream, a ghost appeared to her nature. Ghosts appear, however, if a natural order is disturbed. If untoward happens, it is “tremendously”.

Psychologically:

Traditionally, the bed is seen as a symbol of the circle of life: here are conceived and born children, the sick and healthy, it is the place of the dying. Bed can symbolize sexual needs that are not acting out enough. It is the stronghold of security in which we sometimes detected deep trouble, you should pursue this feeling in the waking state, because it may indicate some hidden emotional range of pathogens. Depending on the circumstances behind it but also have the following meanings, which are partly based on ancient Indian sources:
– important is the size of the bed. It fills the whole space, for example, this means that the dreamer of sexuality in his life too much importance attaches.
– Is the bed too narrow or too small, the opposite is the case.
– Your own empty bed says something about the emotional loneliness of the dreamer.
– A strange empty bed to indicate an impending death or other misfortune in the family or another calamity in the family or close relatives.
– Imposed for the bed is ready for a sexual adventure show, especially when suppressed sexual needs often.
– Is the dream of a freshly made bed, then this points to the need for those thoughts and ideas which the dreamer is really important to address a new observatory. We believe that a clean made bed should remind the dreamer may be more to it, even in the waking life on “cleanliness” pay attention to the intimate life, dirty bedding would therefore be a signal to put its relations to the pure. After a medieval book of dreams to this promise happiness in love, if it is dirty, bad luck.
– If you dream of going to bed alone, this may symbolize the desire then to return to the safety and security of the womb.
– If the dreamer in his dream is with another person in bed, this can be either express sexual desire for that person or show that the dreamer is not in front of his sexual impulses need to fear.
– Lying in bed is defined as the need for more rest, or as an escape from reality, but partly understood as a sign of satisfaction and inner harmony, sometimes you’re looking to even the temporary oblivion of problems and conflicts and is prepared for an imminent serious illness.
– Make bed promises a future usually happier family life.
– Poorly made or dirty bed dissatisfaction with themselves and can their own life circumstances display or refer to family problems.
– Can not sleep in bed announces unrest and conflict with others.
– Shows up out of bed that you made a decision and it will carry out with courage and perseverance.
– Does the bed dreaming of married couples or domestic partners many years ago, the state can give information about the relationship of the bed.

Spiritually:

A bed can be a sort of spiritual sanctuary and a sense of purity. It is the site of regeneration, love, death and birth.

Traditionally:

European (Judeo-Christian)
– to see nice bed: does happiness;
– See clean white: are worries disappear;
– See the bed in his own mess: the hidden secrets will come out soon, and this can be embarrassing;
– Sit in it when it is clean: does early marriage; satisfaction;
– Alone in bed: risk;
– See yourself lying in bed: you should take better care of his health, because you need rest and recovery from stress;
– Being in a strange room in bed getting an unexpected visit;
– lie in a strange bed: unexpected good turn in business affairs;
– in a foreign: it should be something suspicious in the near future;
– Customize: indicates a change of residence;
– Unclean: you’ll discover a secret or know of someone, discontent; you should be wary of the negative human society;
– Can not sleep in the same: disagreement;
– Lie with a child in one: fulfillment of a hope;
– See empty: some sad news comes into the house, possibly a death;
– Make: domestic bliss;
– A young woman in bed: this means making the bed a new lover and pleasant occupation.
– For a patient, this means that there are any complications that may lead to death;
– Sleep in the bed under the open sky, pleasant experiences and destiny turn for the better;
– Be a friend pale in his bed: friends are in trouble;
– Dreaming a mother that her child wets the bed: an unusual sign of fear;
– Wet the bed when sick: you will not recover as quickly as hoped;
– Even the wet bed of illness or tragic events of everyday life intersect.

Hindu
– Empty: it is around you grief;
– Be in it: pay attention to your health;
– Dirty: thou shalt devote more of your family;
– Messy: you express yourself clearly not from fear, and create in your family;
– Carry away, you put unreasonable requests;
– Get out: you only success is sure, if you’re in the matter;
– See a friend in it: despair shall come upon thee, for thou hast set into a thing, you now regret bitterly;
– Imposed for: you’re in luck with the opposite sex.

Arabian (Islamic)
– The familiar under blanket means the wife.
– Dreaming that bed had been stolen, it means the death of his wife, it is burned, they will perish by a serious illness.
– Do you lie in it, he would get another sub-bed, he will take in accordance with another woman whose beauty.
– Does he wear the same thing from one place to another, his wife will move from one hand to another.
– Is the place where the bed was worn, better or worse, the situation of women will improve or deteriorate accordingly.
– Does anyone have any other mattress, it will take another wife.
– Sleeping in a house of an alien in a strange bed and he knows the Lord’s house, his wife, he is tempted to commit adultery, he knows he does not commit fornication.
– Laced a his bedding together and carry it elsewhere, he will go away from his wife and they will find on his return chaste and blameless; is his bedding has become fuller and fuller, it will be when he comes home again to find his wife pregnant with his child.
– To have an unfamiliar bed, he will take in the stranger woman, whose nature and essence of beauty, size and equipment of the bed is like.
– Length of a familiar or strange pads on his bed and himself to lie, he will gain great joy and responsibility, because the pad is on a wooden bed, wooden but has powerful men, the longer it lies on the bed to the more he will be raised about these men.
– Sleeping on a soft cushion without worry, you will afflict your wife and not worry about it, it rests on a colorful cushion, will assume the dream interpreted in accordance with the above colors.
– See pure white coated: happy married life;
– Very nice: happy marriage;
– Out of order: one of your secrets will be revealed;
– Well done: security and peace;
– Dirty: illness in the family;
– Poor: experience misfortune in the family;
– See carry away: loss in his possession, you will lose a loan;
– Bask see: domestic welfare.
– Sun beat and prosperity in the house;
– Empty and face-up: death;
– Those who place themselves: to be sick;
– To lie: you will become ill;
– Rise out of it,: recovering from an illness.
– See a stranger in your bed: discord in marriage;
– View by a curtain: marriage;

* Please, see meaning of bedding, mattresses, furniture, home, sexuality.

Embarrassment The bedbug symbol usually stands for negative and unpleasant situation or phase in persons’ life. Also this announces irritation or confusion in minds.

Illness Also this symbol announces about disease or even death. Your body is too polluted by bad habits or even painful thoughts. Your mind is too tired to fight with all these feelings.

Psychological Meanings:

Inner dirt From this side the bedbugs are associated with the dirt. You may feel dirty inside you. These bugs appears only in the places where are lots of dirt. So this symbol shows that you conscience is dirty with unpleasant and bad feelings.

Traditional Meanings:

European (Judeo-Christian)

• Illness if seeing bed bug in a dream – This dream prophesies disease and discontent;
• Death if seeing a lot bed bugs – Very bad sign, which may indicate a death;
• Bad luck if see dead bugs in the dream – This dream announces you bad luck and a disease;
• The end of worries if kill the bugs in the dream – You will escape from serious illness or accident;
• Illness if seeing white walls and crawling up bedbugs – When the bedbugs are crawling up the wall in the dream, this announces disease. You have to be more attentive with your health and thoughts;

Hindu (Hinduism)

• Worries if seeing a lot of bedbug in the dream – Dreaming bedbugs, signifies that you have lots of worries and troubles and do not know how to deal with them. You must stop and start everything from the beginning step by step;
• Bad news if crawling bedbug – In the dream you see a crawling bedbug, this marks that unpleasant message or event is coming to you.

Arabian (Islamic)

• Change your life if seeing a colony of bedbugs – Such dream shows that you have to change your attitude to your life and dealing with problems. You must get rid of all bad thoughts and disappointment, so the life will change only to better.

Contexts’ Meanings:

Dreaming and seeing bedbugs – This dream symbol is associated with bad thoughts, unpleasant events or even disease. This dream warns you, that you have to change your attitude to your life and try to see the bright side. Only then you can deal with all your worries and problems.

Crawling or moving bedbugs or bugs in the dream – This dream announces upcoming bad events unpleasant situation, worries or disease. Your body and mind is full of dirt. This will bring you illness. You feel embarrassment and confused, this will not help you to deal with worries. You have to take care of your health. Healthy soul – healthy body.

Kill or destroy bedbugs/bugs in the dream – The dream shows that you will get rid of all bad thoughts and wrong influence. You will release yourself from bad habits or wrong attitude. This will help you to avoid serious illness and keep living more healthier life. Your thoughts will be cleaned from the dirt, which polluted all your body and soul.

Being bitten by bedbugs or seeing on the body bedbugs in the dream – In the dream you were bitten by bedbug or bedbugs were moving on your body, is a warning that you are doing or acting wrongly. This dream warns you that you are near danger or serious illness. You little by little pollute yourself with negative thoughts, anger, anxiety and jealous. This will not help you to move forward and to reach your aims.

Clear vision of life Bed linen can often call you to clarify an issue, only then you will find more peace and contentment, it is especially true when the linen is soiled or washed in a dream. This will help you to find all the solutions. Old dream books interpret the dream of dirty bed linen as an indication of inferiority feelings.

Traditional Meanings:

European (Judeo-Christian)

• Make order if wash bed linen – In the dream you wash bed linen then this dream signifies that you should quickly put your affairs in order if you want to reach your goals;
• Better life if sleeping in dazzling white or richly decorated bed linen – The dream announces that you will improve your material situation;
• More trust if sleep in dirty bed linen – This dream marks that you are suffering from feelings of inferiority, you have to trust yourself.

* Please, see meaning of bed, bedding.

Fear In dreams we often return to the past, a dream of bed-wetting symbolizes fear about lack of control and self-confidence. Your fear not to be able to control the events of your life. In some cases, the dream may also refer to sexual problems.

Psychological Meanings:

Uncertainty Perhaps the dreamer is worried about how he behave. Does he behave properly and correctly in society, or he is condemned for wrongdoing.

Spiritual Meanings:

On the spiritual level the bed-wetting indicates a need to express yourself as a personality freely and without any boundaries.

Traditional Meanings:

European (Judeo-Christian)

• Fear if baby or children bed-wetting – The dream of mother that her child wets the bed, this is  an unusual sign of fear because of her children;
• Late recovery if wet the bed when sick – In the dream you wet a bed because you sick, this dream indicates that you will not recover as quickly as hoped.

* Please, see meaning of bed.

Being Afraid means Temporary Misfortune  – When the dreamer is being afraid, filled with fear for something in his dream, it foretells about worries and dilemmas he is suffering from. There is a possibility of misfortune in professional and/or personal life. However, the bad luck will go away after a while, because all of the troubles will be a temporarily thing.

Others Being Afraid means Aid for Relatives – If the dreamer sees others being afraid, frightened, scared or filled with fear or apprehension, then there is a possibility that your friends, family or colleagues will have some failures and you will have to help them. It seems that those people need you to give them a hand and you should be delighted of it. Sometimes we ought to help as you never know when you will be the one who needs it either. Try to pay more attention to people that you care of and look for after them.

Context Meanings:

Afraid of Heights

Acrophobia If being afraid of heights – The dream about fear of heights can be induced by acrophobia from waking life. Very often our brain recreates such scenarios, in which we can relive true feelings without real danger to us. So dreaming about being afraid of heights can mean that you have such fear and your subconscious is trying to warn you about it. In other hand such dream can have opposite purpose – it is an aid for you to overcome your fear of heights.

Lack of confidence If fear of heights – Second interpretation of the dream about acrophobia is related to some kind of phobia in the dreamer’s life. Maybe you have fear to do something new in you life. It can be new relationship, new job or new activity. Sometimes we have dreams about being scared just because of very important events are coming in our waking life. Also, dreaming about having fear of heights can show the dreamer’s inability to make decisions and to act firmly in important situations.

Victory If being scared of heights – Old dreambooks suggest that the dreamer is going to overcome his enemies and obstacles. Fear of heights is just like indicator that your goal in the life is coming closer.  The bigger the fear is, the greater your success will be.

Afraid of Falling

Acrophobia If being afraid of falling - Firstly, the dream about the fear of falling is interpreted like the fear of heights. Both dreams can be induced by acrophobia from waking life.

Falling from bed If dreaming about falling – Real risk of falling from bed while person is sleeping is very common external stimuli. And because of this stimuli we are dreaming about the fear of falling.

Fulfillment of wish If falling or flying - It is very common to dream what we fear most or what we want to experience. In this case dream about fear of falling or flying is created because of our subconscious is trying to give us feelings about such activities.

Trauma if having fear of falling – According to scientifically proven studies of dreams, fear of falling while we are sleeping occurs because of traumatic events from our waking life. Explanations are very realistic and indicate that the dreamer had trauma from childhood like falling from parents’ arms or he had trauma during childbirth.

Dissatisfaction if afraid of falling – Ancient Egyptians explained dreams about fear in comparison to lack of confidence within the dreamer. Because of being unable to make firm decisions and not having self-confidence, the dreamer is in dissatisfaction with himself. And this conditions gives him the dream about the fear of falling.

Mistakes if crying because of falling – Modern psychology sees this dream as anxiety of mistake and the wish for fixing it. But if the dreamer was crying in the dream because of big fear, then it is indication of very big mistake, which need to be compensated in some way.

Achievements if falling without fear – If in a dream one has the fear of falling and then suddenly this fear vanished while he is in process of falling, then such dream shows big fortune for the dreamer. He will overcome obstacles and  accomplish something victorious.

Afraid of Animals

Friends or Relatives If Dogs – To be afraid of dog, shows the dreamer’s fear of the wrongdoing from or for his friend. But if the dog in the dream is afraid of you, then such dream indicates that you need to help to your friend.

Enemies or Problems If Cats – To be afraid of cat, shows dangerous enemies. If cat is afraid because of you, then it a sign that you will overcome your enemies or problems in waking life.

Worries about Productivity If Rabbit – If you have fear of bunny or you being afraid of rabbit in a dream, then it indicates your conscious fear to be to slow and be unable to act properly fast in important parts of your life. Maybe you should do less thinking and do more working.

Disintegration or phobias If Worms – In a dream to be afraid of worms, shows feeling of being unimportant or feeling of disintegration. Maybe the dreamer has bad habits or bad thoughts and that cause such feelings. Irrelevance and degradation within the dreamer also represent fear of worms in dreams. According Freud, when worm stands for penis in the dream, then being afraid of worm, shows the fear of sexual intercourse. Genophobia is name of the fear of sexual intercourse. Third meaning about the fear of worms in a dream is related to real phobia of worms – Helminthophobia, scoleciphobia or vermiphobia is the fear of worms. Especially dreaming of parasitic worms can show the dreamer fear of being infested with worms.

Troubled friends or phobia If Snakes – In a dream to be afraid of snake, or to have fear that snake is going to attack you or bite you, shows that you have fear of being betrayed by your friends. Or it can show very strong enemy that is very dangerous right now. Second interpretation of the dream about fear of snakes, is clearly an indication of real phobia in the dreamer – ophiophobia is fear of snakes.

Feminine power or phobia If Spiders – Dreaming about spiders has links to feminine power and sexuality or mother’s complex. In a dream to have fear of spider or to be afraid of being bitten by one, shows that the dreamer is afraid of some powerful woman. For a man it can be his mother or wife or his ex-partner. Maybe he has conflict with one of them. For woman it can represent her mother or conflict with other dominant female in her life. But it can be opposite and she might be that strong female in conflict with her partner. For those who have arachnophobia, dream about spiders can be just regular nightmare and representation of their fear of spiders.

Meaningless stress or phobias If Monsters – If in a dream you are afraid of indescribable monster, then it shows your inner worries about something. Other interpretation of monster in dream clearly tells that the dreamer can have some kind of phobia or energy eating fear in himself or meaningless stress in his environment.

Afraid of Events

Shocking life events If tornado, storm, lightning, blizzard, earthquake – Dreaming about being afraid of earthly disasters indicates socking life events in the dreamer ‘s waking life. But in other hand such dreams can be induced by external stimulus and show that, while you was asleep, real storm, rain or lightning was outside.

Thanatophobia, intoxication, traumas If scared of own death – Dreaming of being afraid of death or dying, shows the dreamer’s phobia of death in waking life or it indicates traumatic events from waking life. The fear of death is ancient and primal. This fear is common for most of us. Fear in the nightmare is self defense mechanism. Sometimes the dream about death is just a scenario, which must be relived in the dream, to give us insight about feelings in case of death or warn us about something. Intoxication can be external stimuli for nightmare about death. Thanatophobia, intoxication, traumatic life event or opportunity to feel fear of death – these are reasons of why such bad experience is created in our subconscious while we are asleep.

Defense if afraid of others death – If the dreamer is afraid because of some very close person is going to die in a dream, then such dream shows him how important this person is in his life and how to cope with his feelings. Very often it is nightmare and it has purpose to make the dreamer stronger person, which will overcome all obstacles in his life.

Miller’s Dreambook:

Afraid dream meanings by Gustavus Hindman Miller from dream dictionary “10,000 Dreams Interpreted” or “What’s In A Dream” or “Dreams, Their Scientific and Practical Interpretations”

To be Afraid means Misfortune – In a dream to be frightened or to feel that you are afraid to proceed with some affair, or continue a journey, symbolizes bad luck and means that you will find trouble in your household, and enterprises will be unsuccessful.

To see others Afraid means Determent – In a dream to see other people are scared, filled with fear, shows that some friend will be deterred from performing some favor for you because of his own difficulties.

Woman is Afraid of Dog means Doubt – If a young woman is dreaming that she is afraid of a dog, then such dream’s symbolic significance denotes that there might be a possibility of her doubting a true friend.

– Protection; Attractiveness; Sensuality.

Question:

– What do I want to hide? What do I want to show?

General Meanings:

Usually in the dream hair plays a very big role and symbolizes our physical and mental states. It also shows the vitality of the person, according to the condition of the hair: the healthier the hair is – the bigger vitality.

Hair meaning in dreams by color:

• Deceit if dyeing – Hair coloring or dyeing in the dream warns of deception and false expectations;
• Fame temper if red color – In the dream to see hair color in red, rose, pink or any of red shades, it symbolizes popularity and high temperament;
• Wellness if black color – In the dream to see dark tones of hair color, like black or dark brown hair, means healthiness;
• Grief if gray (grey) color – If you dreamed of gray, dark silver or ash hair, shows pain and sorrow;
• Fortune and knowledge if white color – Dreaming of white or bright silver colored hair signifies wisdom, goodness and happiness.

Hair meaning in dreams by length:

• If you dreamed of short hair, then it might indicate repressed sexual desires;
• If you dreamed of long hair, then such a dream can symbolize sensuality, purity and divinity.

Haircut meanings in dreams:

• Sometimes haircut could show the fear and mostly of the times it represents grief, loss and sorrow;
• According to Indian dream journal “Jagaddeva”, haircut signifies poverty and miserable life, which the dreamer will have.

Hair loss or hair falling out in clumps meaning in dreams

Powerlessness if losing hair – The loss of hair mostly shows the lack of strength in the dreamer’s life. It could also show the fear of becoming older and unattractive. The hair is one of the most important part of the beauty, especially to women, where it looks playful, innocent and feminine.

Lack of confidence or wisdom if bald or hairless – If the dreamer became bald by shaving or losing hair and stayed without any hair, it means that there is a lack of self-esteem. There is no confidence in the dreamer’s personality. Otherwise, the dream about being bald could show the wisdom and purity, because baldness symbolizes openness, where there is no fear to be the way human beings truly are, just like when they were born.

Other contexts

If the woman dreams that she has a hair of a man, such dream represents the masculine side of her. It means that there is less femininity in her, then in any ordinary women.

If the man dreams that he has hair of the women, then such dream shows the feminine side of the dreamer. Such man has the features which is more common to women: romanticism, gentleness and purity.

To dream of hair on the chest and abdomen, shows sexuality and general happiness.

To see hair in the bowl of the soup, shows the avarice and greed you will suffer from somebody else.

Psychological Meanings:

The one, who has a dream about the hair, should know, that such dreams represents the mental attitude of the dreamer towards the inner-self. If there is a need to find out more about the dream in which the main symbol in it is hair, then the dreamer should pay attention to the condition of the hair: what color it was, how thick or shinny you saw it in your dream.

It is known that not only women, but men dream about hair either. It is not because of the fear to become bold, but because it has much deeper and more important meaning in our life.

Most common meanings of conditions in the dreams that are related to hair are these:

• Long hair for women symbolizes femininity;
• Long hair for men symbolizes power, freedom, and independence;
• If the dreamer saw lots of hair, then it foretells about a very powerful and strong personality. To be clear – the more hair the dreamer dreamed of, the more power it represents;
• White hair usually signifies wisdom, intelligence and prudence;
• To dream of blond hair shows instability;
• If you dreamed of black hair color, then such a dream shows hidden part of the dreamer’s personality and also signifies a passion;

Love or risk if red hair – To dream of red hair color can be interpreted either as a good omen or as a bad omen. As a good omen red hair color signifies love, passion and sexuality. As a bad omen red hair color signifies dangers. To make a good interpretation of your dream, you’ve got to rethink of the state you were in your dream – were you feeling good or bad seeing the red hair? The being of yours will let you know to which omen you should relate yourself: good or bad;

Fear or wisdom if gray hair – If you dreamed of gray/grey hair, then such a dream could have the meaning of the fear to get old, or wisdom that lies within you. Gray/grey hair for a women could also show the fear of losing the beauty and femininity, because grey/gray symbolizes old age and wrinkles. The dream could also tell you that you became “old” as a person, you’re not experiencing new activities, maybe there is no motivation for improvement. The other explanation of the meaning of grey/gray hair signifies the wisdom. Usually the person who has the grey/gray hair is old and have lots of experience, which can be used to teach the others;

Fortune if brushing – To dream of brushing your own hair, which seems shiny and healthy in a dream signifies successful life and good looks. The shininess of your hair gives the bling to your future and brushing it yourself means that you will get it all because of the effort you’re putting in;

Stress if transplantation – If the dreamer had a hair transplantation, such dream shows the fears you are having. There is a possibility that you are afraid of losing someone, or some of the qualities you have;

Overpower if cutting – If the dreamer was cutting his hair, it shows the fear of being in subjugation;

Twofold character or new part of the life if wigs – If you dreamed that you tried the wig on, it means that you have a double personality or you’re trying to become a new man.

Domination if splitting hair – the person likes to be in control of things, has a very strong opinion and thinks that he/she is always right.

Fear if sees a hairy things – the dreamer is afraid of the problems he has, because doesn’t know how to cope with them or sort it out.

Regrets if the tong is hairy – the dreamer feels sorry what the things that been said and wish he/she kept his mouth shut instead of talking.

Spiritual Meaning:

The hair is the natural adornment of the man and the veil of the woman. The quality of the hair in the dream represents spiritual state of the dreamer.

Traditional Meanings:

Arabian (Islamic)

• Friendship if hair is well combed – if the dreamer sees in the dream very well combed hair, then such dream represents friendship;
• Good friend and/or luck if combing hair to others – To comb hair to others in the dream means that you will have a great friendship with the one that has been combed by you and/or will achieve a great success in a business deals or relationships;
• Triumph if combing hair for yourself – To comb hair for yourself in the dream means that it will be easy for you to overcome adversities;
• To see well combed hair – the dreamer can definitely trust his friends.
• To see messy hair one will have to reckon with controversy, he can have unpleasant consequences;
• To cut your own hair – you will be freed from the negative emotions;
• If somebody cut of your hair – death in the family, disaster or bereavement;
• To see the hair that’s falling out – will lose the assets;
• To lose all of the hair – bad times ahead of you;
• To dream of having a very long hair – you will be honoured;
• To dream of seeing a very long hair – you will be loved and adored;
• To dream of white hair – shows the peaceful state of our mind, wisdom that lies within you. The dream shows that you will receive lots of respect from the others;
• To dream of blond hair – gentleness, goodness vitality and youthfulness;
• To dream of gray hair – will suffer lots of sorrow and grief;
• To dream of seeing healthy and black hair – represents how much you are loved by someone in your life;
• To dream of having healthy and black hair – you will be healthy;
• To dream of having red hair – shows that treacherous people will follow you and also forthcoming annoyances;
• To dream of seeing red hair – you will be lied;
• To dream of having brown hair – our positive character will bring you many benefits;
• To braid the hair – soon will have big changes in your life;
• Fake hair or hair extensions for men symbolizes a good omen, which means honour and for women symbolizes a bad omen, which means grief and sorrow;
• To dye the hair – will make a fool of yourself or will lose a very close friend;
• To see growing hair – happiness in business;
• To sell the hair – possible accident;
• To dream of hair on the chest – healthy life;
• To dream of growing hair on our hands or palms – the dream suggest you to think more about your future;
• To dream of burning hair or the hair that is on fire – signifies that you will escape a disagreeable thing;
• To dream of washing your hair or seeing a very nice and clean hair – you will get the rest you need;
• If the hair growing out of the nose, cheeks or forehead – it will be hard to overcome the enemies;
• To pull out the hair – will put all the effort to avoid misery;
• Hairy armpits – for men it shows the masculinity and for women it represents shame and guilt; Sometimes hairy armpits symbolizes openness to those who are seeing your armpits;
• To dream of public hair – foretells the state of your mind, which consists sexual desires or fears;
• If the dreamer sees a whole body hair – such a dream signifies the protection, because the body hair is the bulwark from negative factors not only physically, but mentally as well;
• If the body hair is falling out – the dreamer will experience obstacles at work or any other;
• To a woman to dream of cutting her own hair – shows possible disaster to her husband or they might get split/divorce;
• If the husband cuts the wife’s hair in a dream it is a sign that he will leave her for good. The main reason of the split might be another woman, who’s been in husband’s life for a while;
• If the woman who is ill dream of cutting her own hair – she will die. The hair that was been cut off symbolizes the end of vitality, therefore comes the death;
• If the woman which husband is ill dreams of cutting her own hair – her husband will not get better and will die, as the cutting symbolizes separation;

Persian (Islamic)

• If the emperor has a gray hair – people will suffer and all of the wealth will disappear;
• If the dreamer sees completely gray (silver) hair of the emperor it shows that he will not get of of troubles and worries, therefore people will suffer because of that;
• Dreaming of emperors who have beautiful, shiny and healthy hair – people will live in joy, without any fear of war or any other disappointments;
• Dreaming of emperor whose hair was cut of – the enemies will try to get what do not belong to them. People and the emperor should be aware of the strangers or visitors in their area.

European (Judeo-Christian)

• Solidarity or sexuality in general symbolism – The hair in the dream in general is symbol of solidarity related to human life, erotic symbol which shows sexuality and attraction;
• Unpleasant period if losing the hair – means that you will have hard time in your life;
• Funeral if the hair is falling out – soon someone you know will die;
• The end if women losing her hair – the activities that’s been very pleasant will come to the end;
• Fair if a man losing the hair – shows that the dreamer is afraid to lose his potency;
• Fortune if combing hair – the good luck will follow whatever you are doing and there is also a possibility of unexpected journey;
• Changes if coloring or dyeing hair – there are aspects within your personality that you wish to change or already started changing;
• New and fresh start if washing the hair – the dreamer is aiming to be better and more productive in all areas of his/hers life. The new, better and purrier life has began;
• Troubles or wisdom if the hair is grey/gray – unpleasant illness, worries if the dreamer had a grey/gray. Otherwise, the dream could symbolize cleverness, because old people have grey/gray or silver hair and they have lots of experience at all factors of the life, which helps to know more about life than ordinary people know;
• Happiness if hair is white – everything will go according to plan, where there will be no need to put a lot of effort, as the life will bring satisfaction and pleasant life at anything you will do;
• Health if the hair is black – the dreamer is going to be in the best state of mental and physical wellness;
• Respect if the hair is brown – In the dream to have brown hair means that everyone is going to enjoy your company or actions you do. You’ve got respect from those around you. If the dreamer sees someone else with brown hair – this person with brown hair have now or will have big authority;
• Enemies or sexual desires if the hair is red – the dream suggest to be careful with people you are in contact. Otherwise, the dream could represent hidden sexual wishes, which are not fulfilled;
• Frivolity if hair is blond or yellowish – the dream shows childishness and purity;
• Richness if hair is golden – wealthy and stable life;
• Independence for men if hair is long – the men will seek for moral and sexual freedom;
• Vitality for women if hair is long – shows feminine and pure side of women;
• Disappointment if hair has been cut off by somebody else – the dream shows the sorrow and grief the dreamer might suffer;
• Renewal if hair has been braided – the old connections or relationships will be restored;
• New friendship if hair was combed – the dreamer will meet beautiful people who will have a good influence;
• Stagnancy if hair is dirty – the dream represents confusion and instability, which means that you started to think more in negative way than in positive;
• Consideration about future if the hair is growing out of hands or palms – the dreamer should know that everything is his hands, which means that everything is achievable;
• Happiness for men if hair is growing on the chest – hair is a symbol of manhood;
• Shame for women if hair is growing on the chest – women suppose to be feminine and only with hair at particular parts of her body;
• Health if hair is on the belly – wealthiness;
• Unpleasantness if hair in the mouth – the dream tells about harrowing experience you will suffer;
• Power if the man without hair – dream will bring a position of prestige and richness;
• Dishonor if the women without hair – the dream symbolizes contempt;
• Happy love if the hair is curled – the dreamer will have a huge success in love;
• Deception if the man has a hair of the women – the dream signifies lies in relationships related to love;
• Strife if the hair was founded in the soup – the dreamer will have disagreements and dissension with someone;
• Prudence if the hair is burning – should be aware and careful in all meanings of the life;
• Deference if see the hair of the dead person – shows the respect you have for people you are related to;
• Joy if dream of headband – the happiness and good mood will follow at work or any other activities you’re doing;
• Success if dreaming of hair pomade, wax or gel – shows the fortune that will lead you, because you will have the confidence at anything you will do;
• Problems if flowers in the hair – the dream signifies approaching troubles, which are not directed to you, so you will be able to sort them out from the distance;
• Worries if the hair turn into flowers – you should prepare yourself to be patient and strong, because not everything will go smoothly, things will get complicated which will make you anxious;
• Greediness if hair is thinned – the dream shows lack of generosity to those around you;
• Love if a man stroking woman’s hair – the dream shows that the man has a very deep feelings for the woman, which hair he was stroking;
• Doubts if hair is black and white – to see two shades in your hair: black and white, symbolizes uncertainty in making some decisions;
• Failure if can not comb or brush the hair – the dream shows that you are unsuccessful while dealing with your life or some corresponding tasks;
• Responsibility if the woman’s hair fell out and the bald spots were visible – shows that she will have to make the earnings for a living and take the responsibility for her own life without anyone’s help;
• Illness if hair became grey for a pregnant woman – the dream suggest to look after your health for the sake of your baby.

Hindu (Hinduism)

• Admiration if healthy, beautiful hair – which means, that you are respected and honored by others;
• Arguments if the hair is cut off – the dreamer will suffer disputes especially with the family;
• Insult if your hair brushed or combed against your will – be aware of the person who brushed or combed your hair against your will wants to hurt or abuse you;
• Suggestion to look at your future if hair is in your hands or palms – which means that you should think of what you are doing at the moment and what you would like to be in the future;
• Anger if hair is red – you might get raged about something;
• Caution if hair is black – beware of falsehood that surrounds you;
• Serenity if the woman brushing or combing the hair – shows the state of mind that is in complete tranquility;
• Difficulties for your master if hair turned white or grey/gray – symbolizes severities, which the master who leads you will have;
• Wealthiness and power if the emperors or masters have longer, healthier and thicker hair – the dream foretells of upcoming wealthiness and richness for the people of the emperors, or for a dreamer that dreamed about his master;
• Loss of dispute if the emperor or the master loses the hair – the dream symbolizes the defeat against those that were fought;
• Safety at home if dream of upper lip hair or mustache – the mustache symbolizes cozy and familiar places like home;
• Poverty if shaving or cutting the hair of upper lip or mustache – the dream suggests to defend and save what belongs to you and your family;
• Happiness for daughters if dream of armpit hair – you will find a great match for your daughters;
• Failure for daughters if lost the hair of armpit – shows that daughters will have a misfortune while finding the husbands;
• Punishment for the husband if public hair is growing – shows that the husband of the dreamer will have to deal with rough treatment;
• Happy marriage if public hair is falling out – represents honorable and respectable relationships in the marriage;
• Richness if whole body is covered with hair – signifies abundance and luxuriance;
• Poverty if all hair has fallen out or been cut off for the rich man – the dreamer will lose everything he ever had and will have to start making the prosperous life from the start.

Artemidorus:

First of all, long hair is associating with health and attraction. It is known that women wants to look beautiful and the long and healthy hair is one of the main factors, which helps women to stand out of the crowd. For that reason, women even dare to wear fake hair (hair-wigs).

The long hair is also a good omen because in the past people, who took a part in communities with particular functions and positions used to wear wigs (philosophers, theatre people). Long hair also brings happiness to other people, the one which is not easy to achieve, because long and healthy hair requires lots of care.

Long, but unhealthy hair according to Artemidorus foretells about suffer and sorrow.

If you were dreaming that you saw bristles of pig – you might take serious risks in the future.

To dream of having a horse hair, foretells about slavery, miserable life, because slaves used to be bounded together when walking, just like the tail of the horse – all hair is bounded together.

To dream of woolen hair – illness, because it is not natural to human beings to see anything that is not related to our body.

If the hair growing out of hands or hand palms – such dream shows restriction, which shows inactivity and work that hasn’t been done, unemployment and all because of tiredness and inability to work.

If someone braided your hair – it shows the benefits, but only to those whose hair was braided. If The the dreamer braided hair to somebody else, that is a bad omen, which symbolizes unpleasant financial obligations.

Context Meanings:

Most common conditions in dreams related to the hair symbol and their meanings

Hair falling out in clumps

To dream that the hair is falling out in clumps have several meanings. First of all, the dream represents the state of your thoughts. Beautiful hair represents – positive thoughts and damaged hair – signifies negative thoughts. The hair has not suppose to fall out in clumps, otherwise – consider, if there is something that you are trying to get rid off. As the result of the interpretations of the dream, it could have either positive meaning, either negative one. If in the reality you are living a stressful life, finding hard to deal with the troubles, then the dream shows the negative aspects of your life. You should pull yourself together, don’t take it so hard, because sooner or later you will find the solution to the problems you have. If in the reality your life is getting better day by day, take this dream as a sign of the brighter, healthier and richer future. The hair that is falling out in clumps, shows that finally you are able to get rid of negative factors in your life, because after the hair falls out, you become bald, which signifies wisdom and novelty.

Armpit hair

If you see hairy armpit in the dream, then such dream signifies your ability to have a contact with others. The hairy armpit is a very sensible and intimate part of the body, which means that if you were showing it to somebody, then such action signifies your openness to that person. Otherwise, the dream could also symbolize the shame for women and masculine aspects of personality for men. To smell the hairy armpit in your dream – shows your wish to be admitted. Maybe there are some characteristic features that you do not like and wish to change and/or remove them.

Hair with worms and insects

If you dream that worms, bugs or maggots are coming out of your hair the dream shows that there is something on your mind, which gives you negative thoughts. There is a possibility that you are worrying about things, which are not that much important, that is why you should stop worrying about little things and be more positive about yourself or situations you are dealing with. The worms, bugs or maggots that falling out of your hair could also signify your anxiety of the way you look externally to others.

Hair in mouth

If you dream of vomiting or throwing up with hair, or the hair is growing on your tongue, or you you are eating the hair, or any other dream which is related to the hair that is in your mouth, such dream symbolizes your communication skills with others. The dream shows, that maybe you speak too much, or said things which you were not supposed to say. Keep in mind that sometimes it is better to stay quiet, instead of talking nonsense. The subconsciousness is telling you, that you feel sorry about your actions.

European (Judeo-Christian)

• Difficulties if see your bedfellow – In your dream you do not like your bedfellow then this signifies that a person who has certain rights to you will make life difficult and unpleasant;
• Irritation if have a strange bedfellow – You bedfellow looks strange to you in the dream, then this is a sign that your discontent will irritate others;
• No success if your bedfellow is an animal – You dream that you have an animal in bed with you then this is a sign that you will be haunted by bad luck for awhile.

From positive side the bedding gives warmth and comfort in your life. From negative side this dream is a warning that should be careful with whom you are “in cahoots” – this may be a warning against unjustified confidence, or stands against a partnership that does not keep its promises.

Traditional Meanings:

European (Judeo-Christian)

• Comfort if see bedding or bed cover clean – This dream announces a joyous family event and points out to a comfortable and pleasant employment;
• Worries if see dirty bedding – The dream of dirty bedding is a sign of worries and illness.

Arabian (Islamic)

• Watch your health if see bed warmer – In the dream you see a bed warmer, then this may be a warning that you will have a disease so you have to take care of your health;
• Warning if buy bed warmer – In the dream you buy a bed warmer then this dream warns that you have to beware before procuring anything.