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

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

Girlfriend dreams are less related to home, less related to human-made places, and less related to transportation.

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

Dreams of girlfriends are more related to sad dreams than dreams in general. They are less related to lucid dreams, less related to nightmares, and less related to recurring dreams.

Dreams of girlfriends are less related to hearing, less related to smelling, and less related to vision.

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 girlfriends 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 girlfriends in dreams. See how you feel about girlfriends 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. Girlfriends and ex-girlfriends are common characters in the dreams of their mates and ex-mates. Anything that affects a person deeply will be the subject of dreams, and love and mating are among the most affecting. As with other dream characters, the place to begin the interpretation process is with discerning whether the character symbolizes something about you, about a person you know, or about an event, situation or circumstance. Most dream characters are projections of your inner life, so it’s likely that your girlfriend in a dream to show you what’s happening in your thoughts and feelings. Most dreams can be classified in two general categories: external or internal. If they are about your external life, your girlfriend in your dream represents herself—though remember that the character’s behaviors and characteristics are symbolic. So for example, if you dream about your girlfriend chopping your head off as you sleep, you don’t need to hide the knives. It’s symbolism, perhaps for criticism she directed at you, or an argument. Internal and external tend to intermix, but it can help you understand a dream to focus more on your thoughts, feelings, and perceptions (inner life), or on recent events or ongoing situations or circumstances (outer life). Carl Jung refers to this differentiation as subjective and objective dreams. Most dreams are subjective at least to some extent, but some are objective looks at your life and the people in it. This example comes from the dream life of a young man who lives with his girlfriend. They’re both college graduates beginning their careers and working at the bottom of the ladder. He dreams that his girlfriend is at work in a coffee shop, when in reality she works as a freelance writer. Working in a coffee shop is obviously symbolism. In his dream, he visits her at work and discovers that she’s having an affair with a co-corker. The dream raises his suspicions that his girlfriend really is having an affair, but it’s symbolism for his dedication to his career and concern that while he’s so busy away at work, his relationship with her is suffering. His career is a rival for time and attention he could give to his girlfriend if he had it. The symbolism of the coffee shop is based on the perception that it’s an entry-level job. The girlfriend-character is a projection of the dreamer’s inner life. It only looks like her. A common source of confusion and difficulty for people new to dream interpretation is seeing yourself in your dream characters, especially when characters depict someone you know. You dream about your girlfriend and automatically assume the dream is about her when really it’s about you, as most dreams are. Everything the girlfriend-character says and does is a projection of your thoughts and feelings. You can dream about your girlfriend when assessing the prospects of the relationship. Are you compatible? Do you have a future together? Is she “the one”? In general, if your dreams with your girlfriend are pleasant and you get along well, then you can take that as a good sign. Arguing and fighting, on the other hand, is a strong indicator something isn’t right. This is especially true of recurring dreams. Inability to reach your girlfriend on the phone in a dream can symbolize communication issues. You aren’t explaining yourself well enough, or you want her to understand or know something and she doesn’t “get it.” See: Phones In dreams about her having your baby, you might be assessing whether she could be a mother for your children or at least the right person to take things to the next level. It can mean you are expectant or excited about something unrelated to having a baby, since pregnant women are said to be “expecting.” Perhaps you’re seeing something new about the relationship coming to life—or something coming to life about yourself inspired by the relationship. For example, maybe her influence is making you more mature or caring. Dreaming about her wearing your clothes can be a way of saying that she wraps herself in an identity based on being your girlfriend. Dreams can really play with the idea of “girlfriend” when a character is presented to you as a girlfriend but you don’t have one. It can be a way of saying that something or someone in your life is like a girlfriend. This theme tends to pop up in dreams of people who have a very close female friend and the relationship has the potential to be romantic, or you desire to take that next step with someone you’ve been dating. It is also possible that a girlfriend-character represents something in your life related to companionship, stability, inspiration, devotion, commitment, romance, or other girlfriend associations. For example, people who are highly devoted to their work are said to be “married to the job.” Marriage is a commitment, and the idea of commitment extends to other committed or close relationships, such as girlfriends and boyfriends. A job, hobby, or social cause can be portrayed in dreams as a girlfriend or boyfriend. See also: Infidelity, Boyfriends, Infidelity, Former partners, Love, Weddings, Phones, Pregnancy, Wives