Dreams of ancestors are more related to animals, much more related to fantastic beings, and more related to strangers than dreams in general. They are less related to romantic partners.

Ancestor dreams are more related to happiness, more related to grief and sorrow, and more related to hatred than dreams in general. They are less related to sadness, less related to fear, and less related to pain.

Dreams of ancestors are more related to work and more related to natural places than dreams in general. They are less related to human-made places, less related to transportation, and less related to schools.

Ancestor dreams are much more related to friendly acts, more related to disasters, and more related to death than dreams in general. They are less related to aggressive acts and less related to sex.

Dreams of ancestors are more related to lucid dreams, more related to sleep paralysis, and much more related to vivid dreams than dreams in general. They are less related to nightmares, less related to bad dreams, and much less related to weird dreams.

Dreams of ancestors are much more related to smelling and more related to taste than dreams in general.

You can gain insight from thinking about any dream, no matter how strange. Only you, as the dreamer, have final say on what your dream may or may not mean. Each dream is unique.

The DreamWell dictionary provides information on how each dream symbol appears in dreams in general. Finding how experience ancestors in dreams can be a key to understanding its meaning.

Our emotions in dreams can help us understand its meaning. Pay attention to how you felt in the dream. Pay attention to how you feel about ancestors in dreams. See how you feel about ancestors now, in your waking life.

This interpretation is from ""The Dream Interpretation Dictionary: Symbols, Signs, and Meanings" and is provided by J.M. DeBord aka "RadOwl". He is the author of several acclaimed books about dreaming, the host of The Dreams That Shape Us podcast, and is a moderator of r/Dreams, one of the largest dream sharing communities on the internet. An ancestor in a dream can symbolize inherited traits. Personal qualities, traits, and characteristics can be traced to ancestors, such as having a grandmother’s eyes or an uncle’s laugh or a parent’s brains. People naturally wonder about the soil from which they spring. “Ancestor” opens the door to many subjects for a dream to explore; there are many ways that ancestors can be used as symbolism. For example, a young woman dreams about receiving several calls in a row for her Aunt Diane, who lives in England and hasn’t been seen by the dreamer for two decades. Two days before the dream, she visited with some relatives who all remarked how much she looked like her aunt at her age. But when the woman looked at pictures of her aunt, she disagreed. The dream symbolizes the situation as receiving phone calls meant for her aunt. Phone calls connect people, and in this case, connection is meant in the sense of a connection between her and her aunt—a connection missed by the dreamer. An ancestor can symbolize tradition, holding onto the past and preserving it. Or you feel constrained by your heritage or tradition. For example, a young man born and raised on an Indian reservation dreams about wearing traditional Indian garb to a job interview in a modern office building. He feels conspicuous. It symbolizes his perception that his Indian ancestry makes him stand out negatively in certain environments. Ancestors can be symbolized as a tree. Sometimes these dreams will pair a tree with a location. For example, a man with French ancestry dreams about a beautiful oak tree standing tall and proud in the middle of a field in France, but he actually lives in America. It reflects his admiration for his French ancestry. See also: Family, Trees