Brother dreams are much more related to family and more related to romantic partners than dreams in general. They are less related to animals, less related to insects, and less related to unnamed people.

Dreams of brothers are more related to hatred than dreams in general. They are less related to fun.

Dreams of brothers are much more related to home than dreams in general. They are less related to work, less related to human-made places, and less related to natural places.

Brother dreams are more related to death than dreams in general. They are less related to disasters.

Dreams of brothers are more related to bad dreams and more related to sad dreams than dreams in general. They are less related to lucid dreams and less related to recurring dreams.

Brother dreams are less related to smelling and less related to taste.

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 brothers 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 brothers in dreams. See how you feel about brothers 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. To see your brother in a dream can connect with some aspect of your relationship with him. This is more likely to be the case if you have had recent contact, or he’s been on your mind. It’s possible that you’re observing something about him. Since most dream characters represent something about you, your brother can represent something you see in yourself that you also see in him. For example, if you are impatient and so is he, in your dream he might represent your impatience. If you two quarrel, he can represent your quarrelsome side, or act as a reminder of a recent quarrel with someone else. Or something about him is used as symbolism. For example, he has children and you have been talking about it with your spouse, so in your dream he’s used to symbolize the idea of starting a family. A surrogate can be used to represent your brother. Dreams use surrogates to create personal distance from the subject matter and avoid being obvious. For instance, after an argument with a brother a dream might use a surrogate to represent him. The surrogate could be any male character, but usually there’s some way of connecting the surrogate with the actual person. The surrogate could be a male relative, friend, co-worker, or someone from the same occupation or school. You can tell by the emotions and feelings the character sparks in you, similarity in behavior and appearance, and how you react. For example, your brother is deployed in the military, and you dream about seeing a seemingly random soldier and running up to hug him and welcome him home. You react that way because you subconsciously know who the soldier represents. If you don’t have a brother and dream you do, the character can represent something about yourself you’re not aware of or don’t recognize. Something that isn’t accepted about you, or that you don’t accept about yourself. For example, a young man dreams that he has a long-lost brother visiting from a psychiatric hospital, and he’s put in charge of showing him around. The brother acts a little slow and quirky but he’s actually pretty cool in the dreamer’s eyes, and he’s happy to take his bro to a party and introduce him to friends. The brother symbolizes the dreamer’s slowness and quirkiness, which cause him to be labeled as a head case, symbolized by the detail about the psychiatric hospital. It’s something the dreamer doesn’t like about himself, so it’s depicted at a distance, as a long-lost brother. If the dream said, “the brother is really you,” he might react differently and not so readily accept the brother character. But instead, by creating personal distance, the dreamer is given the opportunity to react from his true feelings. And it shows that he can accept and like himself the way he is. For another example, see: Kanye West. A younger brother in a dream can refer to an immature aspect of oneself, or something that comes second, such as time for sex coming second to caring for the kids, or a house rule that games can’t be played until after homework is done. Your dreams can pull in references from anywhere to create symbolism. They don’t care how far they have to reach. An older brother can symbolize a mature aspect of oneself, or the desire for a wise counselor. It might symbolize something that protects you, such as how sarcasm can protect you from getting close with people. An arm or branch of a tree can symbolize a brother. See: Arms, Trees A brother can be something related to you in the broader sense, such as how people perceive you in terms of your occupation. Your occupation is connected with you, but is not necessarily who you really are. A brother is a close male friend or buddy, someone who stands at your side, especially in times of need. In a dream, a brother can connect with the need or desire for a close companion, or someone to lend you an ear. A brother can be a spiritual brother. A “bro” is a jock/frat-guy type who comes on too strong but isn’t smart enough to know better. Most of what’s written in the entry for Sister also applies to a brother character in a dream. Go check it out. See also: Arms, Childhood homes, Family, Friends, Incest, Sisters, Trees