Love dreams are more related to peers, much more related to family, and much 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 love are much more related to happiness, much more related to sadness, and much more related to grief and sorrow than dreams in general. They are less related to fear.

Dreams of love are less related to home, less related to human-made places, and less related to transportation.

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

Love dreams are more related to vivid dreams, much more related to good dreams, and much more related to sad dreams than dreams in general. They are less related to nightmares, less related to sleep paralysis, and less related to weird dreams.

Love dreams are much more related to taste than dreams in general. They 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 love 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 love in dreams. See how you feel about love 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. Love is a powerful emotion, and when dreamed about, it can compel a person to pick up a dream book like this one to figure out the meaning. Falling in love is the most common variation of the theme, though dreams will address every sense of the word. Dreams about falling in love are common when a person is actually falling in love. It’s simply an expression of the emotion. But even if the person you fall in love with in a dream is someone you know and love, the dream could still use the image of the person to symbolize something else, such as falling in love with a subject, idea, or creative project, among other things. Falling in love with someone in a dream doesn’t necessarily mean that love is in the stars for the two of you. It’s more likely to be symbolism for something entirely personal. For example, a young woman dreams about falling in love with a classmate who’s in her favorite class. The classmate symbolizes the class, not the person. Sure, he’s physically attractive, which is all she really knows about him. But the dream uses him as a character in the story only because he’s someone she finds attractive, and what she’s really attracted to is the class. The symbolism is especially obvious if you search your feelings and don’t register feelings of love for the person in the dream. In rare cases dreams are known to bring together people who are destined for each other, truly the man or woman of your dreams, and those dreams are known to show you the potential for deep love with someone you barely know, or haven’t met yet—a person you will meet in the future, strange as that might sound to people who don’t know it’s possible. The feeling of love for someone in a dream may symbolize something you love to do or somewhere you love to be. For example, you have a favorite hangout place, such as a pub, then dream about being in that setting and falling in love with someone. What you really love is going to the pub! For people who are in a relationship that involves, or could involve, feelings of love, dreaming about love can be a way of revealing how they feel or what they want from the relationship. A common variation of the theme is the “loves me, loves me not” dream that explores your feelings for someone and whether or not the person is a good long-term prospect. On the other end of the spectrum, dreams can tell you when you no longer love someone. If it’s hard to admit, your dreams are likely to amplify the loss of love and get your attention that way. Obsessive love can be symbolized in dreams as something about love that’s out of proportion, such as if you dream about the person you love as fifty feet tall; it means the person has too big a place in your life or mind, or you’re taking things too far. You can develop feelings of love for yourself and have it show up in your dreams as loving a character—often love at first sight—and it’s a great sign because it shows you can love yourself, something about yourself, or something about your life. It shows a soul-level connection inside you. See: Souls Throughout your life you go through a process of uniting the conscious side of your mind with the unconscious side, referred to as “marriage of the soul.” And what better way of promoting that goal than by portraying the unconscious as a dream character, and you fall in love with it because you recognize yourself in it. The unconscious mind can present itself to you in dreams as a perfect mate. The purpose is to motivate you to pursue the process of personal development that makes you more conscious and personally integrated. Carl Jung called it the “individuation process.” The figure that takes form in dreams as a man’s perfect mate is called anima, and for women it’s animus. See: Animas, Animuses Being loved by someone in a dream can motivate you. It can make you believe in yourself. It can reflect the fact that someone holds you in high esteem and otherwise makes you feel loved and appreciated. For people who don’t have anyone to love or love them, dreams can provide a valuable connection to the love that comes from within, and that anyone can have. You don’t have to deserve it, but you might have to earn it in your dreams with your anima or animus by dedicating yourself to living the best life you can. See: Compensation See also: Animas, Animuses, Boyfriends, Brides, Compensation, Emotions, Fires, Girlfriends, Grooms, Hearts, Weddings, Red, Wives