Dreams of old friends are much more related to peers 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.

Dreams of old friends are more related to happiness, more related to sadness, and more related to grief and sorrow than dreams in general. They are much less related to fear and less related to pain.

Old friend dreams are more related to work, more related to human-made places, and much more related to schools than dreams in general. They are less related to natural places and less related to magical places.

Dreams of old friends are more related to sex than dreams in general. They are less related to aggressive acts, less related to disasters, and less related to death.

Dreams of old friends are 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 bad dreams.

Old friend dreams 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 old friends 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 old friends in dreams. See how you feel about old friends 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. Dreaming about an old friend in a dream can mean you miss the person, or the person recently crossed your mind. Sometimes a seemingly random thought or dream about a friend you have not spoken to in a while can indicate it’s a good time to get in touch. However, the majority of dream characters represent something about you, and in the case of an old friend, dreams have many references to draw on to create symbolism. Dreams can be packed full of references to people you used to know, and figuring out the symbolism is tricky because a dream can use anything you associate with that person to create symbolism, such as personal qualities and traits, what the person means to you, and the time of life you shared together. So as with any symbol in a dream, begin by making associations, then ask yourself whether any of them fit the dream-story. For example, in a dream about an old college friend holding a map in the passenger seat of a car driven by the dreamer, the old friend represents the help the dreamer needs with organizing a big project. The friend taught the dreamer a trick long ago for how to organize big projects, and the dreamer had forgotten it. See: Maps An old friend appears in a dream as a guy who is working hard and being disciplined in order to be more successful. The old friend is someone the dreamer associates with success through hard work and discipline, and is used in the dream to refer to those qualities in himself. An old friend shows up in a female’s dream when she is dealing with conflicted feelings about being too assertive and opinionated. She fears she will be perceived as acting too masculine. The old friend—an assertive, opinionated female—is someone she remembers as not caring what people think. Her presence is a way of reassuring the dreamer she is all right as long as she doesn’t care what people think of her. An old friend shows up in a dream when the dreamer is trying to be more compassionate and engaged with people in his life, two qualities of that old friend. An old friend appears when the dreamer is having financial difficulties. The friend is someone she knew when they were both poor and scraping to get by. Dreaming about old friends can reference the time of life when you were close. It can be a way of saying that something started then that continues now: a thought pattern, a tendency, a circumstance. It can refer to something you did together, such as attend school or work together, or to a feeling you shared. It’s common to dream about old friends when you miss the feeling of closeness and camaraderie—you don’t have that sort of friend in your life anymore. When you dream about an old friend, begin the decoding process by asking yourself what the person reminds you of—it’s often portrayed in the dream or found in your feelings. Of course, an old friend in a dream can be used symbolically, the same as other friend-characters. The person is used to tell a story about you and your life. See: Friends See also: Childhood homes, Friends