Dreaming of Love
love, affection, romance · mixed, leaning happy
Loving and being loved in a dream mostly foretells contentment and a happy home, though some readings turn it around into folly or loneliness.
What happens in the dream
- Your partner is loving: great happiness at home and bright children
- Love for animals: you have more contentment than you realize
- Loving something or someone: satisfaction with your present life
- Others' love fills you with joy: success and freedom from anxious cares
- Your love is not returned: you will waver between changing your life and settling down
- Your parents' love: upright character and steady progress
- Falling in love: in another tradition, you will do something foolish and be laughed at
- Someone loves you: in that same tradition, you will go through life alone
How you felt
- Tenderness or joy: the dream often reflects a need for affection, met or hoped for
- Worry: it may express a fear of not being loved back
Ask yourself
- Whom or what do I truly love right now?
- Do I feel loved the way I need?
See also Lover · Sweetheart · Kiss · Courtship · Marriage
Source: G. H. Miller, Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted, or What's in a Dream (1901); F. Fontaine, The Golden Wheel Dream-Book and Fortune-Teller (1862); A. H. Noe, The Witches' Dream Book (1885). Also searched as: affection, romance.