Dreaming of Obedience

obedience, compliance, obeying, submission · mixed

Obeying someone means a pleasant but uneventful life; being obeyed, fortune and esteem.

What happens in the dream

  • You obey someone: a pleasant but uneventful stretch of life
  • Others obey you: you will command fortune and high esteem

How you felt

  • Questions of power: the dream often reflects your place in a hierarchy
  • A need for structure: it may show the comfort, or the burden, of following rules

Ask yourself

  • Whom do I obey without questioning it?
  • Where would I like more authority?

See also Servant · Master · Command · Employee · Supreme Command

Source: G. H. Miller, Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted, or What's in a Dream (1901). Also searched as: compliance, obeying, submission.

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