Dreams of fingerprints are much more related to unnamed people than dreams in general. They are much less related to animals, much less related to insects, and less related to fantastic beings.

Dreams of fingerprints are much more related to happiness, much more related to confusion, and much more related to fear than dreams in general. They are much less related to sadness, much less related to grief and sorrow, and less related to hatred.

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

Dreams of fingerprints are more related to aggressive acts and much more related to death than dreams in general. They are much less related to sex, less related to eating and drinking, and much less related to health events.

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

Fingerprint dreams are more related to hearing and much more related to touch than dreams in general. They 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 fingerprints 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 fingerprints in dreams. See how you feel about fingerprints 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. Fingerprints are used to identify culprits in crimes, so dreaming about leaving fingerprints can mean you fear leaving traces of your involvement in something. Wiping them away or wearing gloves can mean trying to conceal involvement. For example, a man dreams that he’s in a store with a partner in crime—someone the man never sees fully—and they know they can take some small, oddly shaped guns from inside a glass display case. He slips his hand into the case and grabs the closest gun, which is shaped more like a metal cannabis pipe. He then notices his fingerprints left on the glass and anxiously wipes them away. The man is hiding the fact that he smokes cannabis. A gun is used as symbolism for a pipe because a toke of cannabis is also called a hit, and a bullet from a gun hits whatever it’s fired at. Smoke comes out of the barrel. Wiping away fingerprints symbolizes that he smokes from his pipe in secret and hides the pipe afterward. The partner in crime is his addictive side. It’s a part of himself that only shows when cannabis is involved. The connection between fingerprints and involvement can go many directions, such as when you’re involved with a person disliked by family or friends, and wiping away fingerprints means you don’t want them to know. Or dreaming about your fingerprints on a group report, symbolizing your involvement in writing it. Concealment is connected with related feelings such as guilt, suspicion, and regret, and behaviors such as sneakiness. Dreams exaggerate, so the situation doesn’t have to rise to the level of crime for the symbolism to be used. It could be something as innocuous as hiding the fact that you ate the last cookie, or went out for a drink instead of working late. Think in general terms of concealing something—including something about yourself. It’s not necessarily a behavior or action you want to conceal, but something in your thoughts or feelings, or a personal flaw. On the other hand, fingerprints are unique to each person and can represent individuality, the unique imprint every person leaves on the world. Dreaming about someone’s fingerprints can mean you recognize that person’s involvement, uniqueness, or schemes. For example, you dream about finding your spouse’s fingerprints at a crime scene related to disorderly conduct, and it connects with his or her raising hell. See also: Burglary, Crime, Guilty, Hands, Hiding, Thieves