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16 Dream Symbols

People & Figures Dream Meanings

Every person in your dream is an aspect of yourself - the cast of your internal drama.

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Dead Relative

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Dreams of the dead are among the most emotionally charged. Psychologists view them as processing grief and integrating t...

Grief and comfort
Unfinished business
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Ex-Partner

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Dreaming of an ex rarely means you should reunite. It usually symbolizes a "return" to the habits or feelings of that ti...

Unresolved feelings
Pattern repetition
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Stranger / Shadow Figure

The dark stranger is the classic Shadow archetype—everything the dreamer refuses to acknowledge about themselves. If an ...

The Unknown Self
Fear
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Zombies

Zombies represent the "walking dead" aspects of life—relationships, jobs, or parts of yourself that are lifeless yet per...

Mindlessness
Fear of conformity
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Baby

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Babies represent new beginnings, vulnerability, and something precious that needs nurturing. Forgetting a baby is one of...

New beginnings
Vulnerability
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Child / Inner Child

Children in dreams often represent your inner child—the innocent, playful, wounded, or undeveloped aspects of self. A lo...

Innocence
Play
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Boss / Authority Figure

Bosses represent authority, judgment, and your relationship with power. They can symbolize the internalized "inner criti...

Authority
Judgment

Celebrity

Celebrities represent projected ideals, aspirations, or Shadow qualities. Meeting a celebrity suggests accessing qualiti...

Aspirations
Idealization
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Mother

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Mother represents the Great Mother archetype—nurturing, origin, emotional foundation, and the unconscious itself. Mother...

Nurturing
Origin
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Father

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Father represents authority, protection, order, and the conscious masculine principle. Father dreams often relate to iss...

Authority
Protection
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Crowd

Crowds represent the collective, public opinion, or conformity pressure. Lost in a crowd suggests loss of individuality;...

Social anxiety
Conformity
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Friend

Friends in dreams often represent aspects of yourself that you associate with that friend. An old friend may symbolize a...

Self-reflection
Support
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Teacher

Teachers represent wisdom, authority, and lessons to be learned. They may be inner wisdom manifesting, or indicate a lea...

Learning
Wisdom
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Brother / Sister

Siblings represent aspects of self or actual sibling relationships. Same-sex siblings often represent shadow aspects; op...

Rivalry
Connection
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Partner / Spouse

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Partner dreams process the relationship or represent the contrasexual self (anima/animus). Cheating dreams are rarely pr...

Relationship processing
Inner union
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Grandparent

Grandparents represent ancestral wisdom, unconditional love, and connection to lineage. Deceased grandparents visiting o...

Wisdom
Ancestral connection
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