Dreams of fires are more related to fantastic beings than dreams in general. They are less related to peers.

Fire dreams are more related to pain than dreams in general. They are less related to happiness, less related to sadness, and less related to embarrassment.

Dreams of fires are more related to transportation, more related to natural places, and more related to magical places than dreams in general. They are less related to schools.

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

Dreams of fires are more related to vivid dreams than dreams in general. They are less related to good dreams.

Fire dreams are more related to hearing, more related to smelling, and more related to vision than dreams in general. They are 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 fires 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 fires in dreams. See how you feel about fires 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. A fire is dangerous, and in dreams a fire can be associated with a dangerous situation—a danger already present in your life, or something you sense coming. Fires tend to develop from small to large, and that association can be used to symbolize something destructive that starts small and spreads quickly. Fires are associated with anger, “burning up,” “boiling mad.” An uncontrolled fire in a dream can symbolize uncontrolled anger. A “head on fire” means a person is consumed with hatred, thoughts of revenge, or desire for justice. The imagery of top floors of a building on fire can have the same symbolism. It can mean you’re losing your mind or losing control of your thoughts. See: Anger, Hats, Rage Fire can symbolize a physical danger, for example, taking risks and putting yourself in harm’s way. You’re tempting the fire to hurt you. The danger can be material. For example, you might dream about your home burning down when you’re in danger of losing it to foreclosure, or you have been thinking about the possibility. A house burning down can symbolize your spouse leaving, your health plummeting, or your life going up in flames. See: Buildings, Home It can symbolize a big loss. A fire is a crisis, so dreams can use it to compare with any sort of crisis. The fire can be in your body as illness sets in, often accompanied by fever. See: Fevers It can be used to symbolize overheating while asleep, or smelling smoke. A man dreams there is a fire next to his bed. After waking up, he cleans his bedroom and moves his bed. The electrical outlet behind it is red hot. A cord is melted. The situation could have been much worse if he hadn’t happened to move his bed and notice the outlet. He probably smelled smoke as he was sleeping and his dreaming mind translated the input into imagery related to fire. Fire consumes and destroys, so it can be used in dreams to symbolize destruction of the personal sort. For example, your life is destroyed when you do something that causes a serious divide from your family or friends, and you dream about your house burning down. Your plans for the future “go up in flames” when you flunk out of school, and you dream about a school burning down. A city on fire can symbolize your public life going up in flames, because cities can symbolize your life in society. Your neighborhood on fire can symbolize big changes in yourself. It means that the psychological structures on which you are built are changing. See: Cities, Neighbors A bed burning can symbolize passion, burning up with desire. See: Beds Love can burn. It is “hot.” If you “keep the flame burning” you keep passion and love alive. A fire dying down can symbolize passion that cools. See: Love Fire’s association with passion extends to passion meaning strong attraction to a subject, to an idea, to life, to your family, to your job, to a cause or belief. Dreams use wordplays, and fire might be a play on “you’re fired,” the loss of a job, responsibility, or duty. Or you no longer play an important role you used to play. See: Dismissals “Fire” can mean fire a gun. See: Bullets, Guns Carl Jung had a dream in which he was trudging along in darkness, into a brutal wind. In one hand he held a lit candle and with the other hand he shielded the flame from being extinguished. He interpreted the dream as meaning he must continue forward with his sacred work despite the forces (wind) arrayed against him. He was having much personal and professional difficulty at the time of the dream. Soon after, though, he brought forth many of the groundbreaking theories and insights that made him famous. Jung saw himself as a vessel for channeling messages from the collective unconscious to humanity, a “keeper of the flame.” Consciousness and spirit are compared to fire. Mystic traditions speak of fire inside a person that moves throughout your being as progress is made to higher levels of consciousness. In the vedic and Hindu traditions, the god Agni is the god of fire, representing a function of “digesting” everything that a person takes into himself. This includes food, but also emotions, ideas, knowledge, and experiences. When representing spirit, the flame is sometimes blue. In Christianity, the Holy Spirit first appeared to the Apostles as “tongues of fire” on the Day of Pentacost. God appeared to Moses as a burning bush and as a column of fire to lead the Israelites through the desert at night. You don’t have to be exposed to the scriptures and teachings of mystic or religious traditions to make the association between fire and spirituality. The imagery is imprinted in the collective unconscious. For thousands of years fire has been used in ceremony and as part of spiritual practice. See: Spirits Fire is associated with light: Fire is associated with purification. More possibilities for symbolism are brought into play by the nature of fire itself. What is fire? The simplest answer is that fire is energy produced by chemical reaction, and many figures of speech that use the word fire mean energy—raw energy, personal energy, sexual energy. Romantic passion is a sort of interpersonal chemical reaction comparable to fire. Motivation and drive are compared to fire. To create fire, substances are transformed, and in alchemy the transformation process is driven by fire. Alchemy is popularly understood as the quest to turn lead into gold, and people make the mistake of thinking of it literally when it is meant figuratively. Lead is ordinary human consciousness, and gold is what is produced as consciousness goes through the process of transmutation in which the old person is “burned away”—like removing the cocoon to allow the butterfly to emerge. Which brings us to the question of how to tell the difference among the many possibilities for the symbolism of fire. The simple answer is that it depends on the context in which fire is presented by a dream and how you react to it, how you feel about it. For example, if a fire is raging through your house and you react with panic, the fire probably symbolizes something destructive. On the other hand, if you dance around a fire with a shaman, it might symbolize a creative process—especially within yourself. See also: Anger, Beds, Buildings, Bullets, Candles, Cities, Collective unconscious, Disasters, Dismissals, Fevers, Gas, Hats, Heat, Home, Love, Neighbors, Rage, Revenge, Sex, Spirits