Every symbol in a dream has personal, cultural and archetypal meanings. Read some cultural and archetypal meanings below, and write your dream into the box for a personalised AI interpretation.
Clothing, particularly in auspicious colours, may represent positive aspects of the dreamer’s psychological or spiritual growth, but when over-elaborate may suggest pretension, or a weakness for worldly display. Because clothes can make the wearer seem taller or thinner, richer or
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Clothing, particularly in auspicious colours, may represent positive aspects of the dreamer’s psychological or spiritual growth, but when over-elaborate may suggest pretension, or a weakness for worldly display. Because clothes can make the wearer seem taller or thinner, richer or poorer than he or she really is, they can stand for self accusations or hypocrisy, a particularly flashy waistcoat or tie may represent our knowledge that we are deceiving others in some way, establishing a persona at odds with reality. In Jungian interpretation, cross-dressing in dreams can indicate a need for, or warn of an exaggerated emphasis upon, the Anima or Animus (that is, the female side of a man, or the male side of a woman). Early dream dictionaries gave some curious interpretations, from which psychology is noticeably absent. A text of 1750 maintained that for a girl to dream of putting on new clothes presaged marriage, while in the The Golden Dreamer (1840) it is said that to dream of seeing a naked woman “is lucky; it foretells that some unexpected honours await you”.
Although a cover for nakedness, clothes may in their cut, line or function draw attention to what they pupport to hide. Dreams about brassieres or trousers may therefore represent thoughts about breasts or genitals, or about maleness, femaleness or sexuality.
David Fontana
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