Dreaming of a Kiss

kiss, kissing, peck, smooch · mostly positive, with caveats

A kiss speaks of harmony and affection, but also of risky passions depending on the setting.

What happens in the dream

  • Children kissing: happy family reunions and satisfying work
  • Kissing your mother: success, honour and the love of your friends
  • Kissing a brother or sister: much pleasure in your relationships
  • Kissing your sweetheart in the light: honourable intentions and true love, soon leading to marriage
  • Kissing a stranger: slipping principles
  • A married couple kissing: harmony is valued at home
  • Kissing someone on the neck: a passionate nature and weak self-control
  • Kissing an enemy: reconciliation with an angry friend
  • A rival kissing your sweetheart, or your sweetheart kissing someone else: you risk losing their esteem, and your hopes of marriage will be dashed
  • Kissing them in the dark, or kissing illicitly: danger and risky affairs that could wreck a home
  • Someone sees you kissing your lover: a false friend envies you

How you felt

  • Tenderness: the dream often reflects a need for closeness
  • Desire or fear: attraction, and fear of what it involves

Ask yourself

  • Whom do I want to be closer to?
  • Is there a relationship I need to mend?

See also Being Kissed · Embrace · Sweetheart · Lover · Hug

Source: G. H. Miller, Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted, or What's in a Dream (1901); Anonymous, The Interpretation of Dreams and Moles (1805). Also searched as: kissing, peck, smooch.

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