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What are shirt dreams about?

This symbol is identified by words like shirt.

Shirts in dreams is a relatively common dream symbol, occuring in about 2.0% of dreams. That's about 1 out of every 50 dreams.

What are the major highlights of shirt dreams?

Shirts is a normal dream symbol. Having shirts in a dream changes the dream in the same way as most other dream symbols.

Shirt dreams are friendly

Dreams of shirts have greater increase of friendly interactions within the dream than most other dream symbols. While not all dreams of shirts will be friendly and they can also contain aggressive interactions, dreams of shirts are more likely to have friendly interactions than most other dream symbols. Other symbols that are like this include heads, games, seals, cubes, cocoons, Venezuela, eyes, evil, gold, and talismans.

What are the symbols that help define shirts?

The symbol of shirts in dreams is highly related to clothing.

How does the dream symbol of shirts affect the different aspects of a dream?

Explore different elements related to dreams of shirts

Who is in shirts dreams?

Overall, dreams with shirts are aren't really related to characters in dreams. Specifically, dreams of shirts are much more related to distant people, more related to close people, and more related to family than dreams in general. They are less related to animals and less related to fantastic beings.

Animals

less than usual

Insects

the same as usual

Different roles

the same as usual

Fantastic beings

less than usual

Distant people

much more than usual

Close people

more than usual

Family

more than usual

Romantic partners

more than usual
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What are the emotions in shirts dreams?

Overall, dreams with shirts are aren't really related to emotions in dreams. Specifically, dreams of shirts are more related to happiness, much more related to embarrassment, and more related to confusion than dreams in general.

Happiness

more than usual

Sadness

the same as usual

Grief and sorrow

the same as usual

Embarrassment

much more than usual

Confusion

more than usual

Fear

the same as usual

Pain

more than usual

Hatred

the same as usual

Fun

more than usual

Love

the same as usual
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Who is in shirts dreams?

Overall, dreams with shirts are aren't really related to places in dreams. Specifically, dreams of shirts are more related to work, more related to human places, and more related to transportation than dreams in general.

Home

the same as usual

Work

more than usual

Human places

more than usual

Transportation

more than usual

Natural places

the same as usual

Magical places

the same as usual
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What happens in shirts dreams?

Overall, dreams with shirts are aren't really related to events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of shirts are more related to friendly interactions and more related to sex than dreams in general. They are less related to disasters.

Aggressive interactions

the same as usual

Friendly interactions

more than usual

Sex

more than usual

Disasters

less than usual
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How do shirts in dreams related to other dream phenomenon?

Overall, dreams with shirts are more related to dream events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of shirts are more related to waking life than dreams in general. They are less related to recurring dreams.

Lucid dreams

the same as usual

Nightmares

the same as usual

Recurring dreams

less than usual

Recurring nightmares

the same as usual

Sleep paralysis

the same as usual

Sleeping

the same as usual

Waking life

more than usual
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How do shirts in dreams related the senses?

Overall, dreams with shirts are more related to senses in dreams. Specifically, dreams of shirts are more related to hearing, much more related to smelling, and more related to taste than dreams in general.

Hearing

more than usual

Smelling

much more than usual

Taste

more than usual

Vision

more than usual

Touch

much more than usual
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How can you make sense of shirts in dreams?

Shirt dreams are relatively common. Among other things shirt dreams are normally interconnect and friendly.

Do you think this is true for your dream of shirts? How might your dream of shirts be different?

All dreams have meaning

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.

Look for the differences

The DreamWell dictionary provides information on how each dream symbol appears in dreams in general. Finding how experience shirts in dreams can be a key to understanding its meaning.

Return to the feelings

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 shirts in dreams. See how you feel about shirts now, in your waking life.

What are possible meanings for dreams of shirts?

First, read: Clothing.

As a covering for the upper part of the body, a shirt can symbolize a way that you protect your feelings and emotions. The color of a shirt, in particular, is connected with emotions that arise in conjunction with memories as your mind sorts and collates your memories from the previous day. For example, wearing a red shirt can connect with emotions related to anger, love, vitality, or shame. Wearing a yellow shirt can connect with emotions related to optimism and hope. See: Colors

Being shirtless in a dream can symbolize being broke.

Stealing a shirt can symbolize scrounging for the basic necessities of life. If you feel guilty about it, it can simply connect with something you feel guilty about. Stretch the idea and it can connect with ideas such as feeling like a fake or imposter, or taking credit for something you don’t deserve. Stealing a shirt that belongs to someone you know can symbolize wanting to assume something about that person’s identity or life. See: Imposters

A stain on your shirt can symbolize a stain on your emotions or reputation. A shirt is particularly visible to people who view you, so it can connect closely with the impressions you make. Keep in mind that dream characters can be projections of you, so you can see a stain on someone’s shirt in a dream and it still connects back to you. Or, characters can represent people you know. For example, you dream about a neighbor with blood on his shirt after you hear that neighbor getting into a heated argument.

A torn-up shirt can symbolize tattered emotions, or just generally that things have been rough. You feel beat up, tattered. Or you need time to compose yourself. Think of some way that you have to present yourself or make an impression and how a torn-up shirt can say that you aren’t ready. The same idea applies to the other variations of shirt symbolism listed here.

Washing a shirt can symbolize cleaning up your emotions or self-image.

Ironing a shirt can symbolize organizing yourself, or preparing to present yourself. It can mean you’re straightening out a situation, straightening out yourself, or getting ready to make a good impression. In this sense, it’s similar to talking to yourself in a mirror. It can symbolize preparing yourself mentally. For women, ironing a shirt can symbolize her body preparing for menstruation. See: Menstruation

A wrinkled shirt can symbolize an emotional life in disarray, or something related to putting in the time and effort to make the best presentation. The wrinkled shirt is a physical representation of a personal situation.

See: Blood, Clothing, Closets, Colors, Imposters, Menstruation, Mirror

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.

Examples of dreams of shirts

Read some real dream reports of shirt dreams.. These real life dream reports come from the moderated dream sharing communities of Reddit including r/Dreams, r/Nightmares, r/DreamInterpretation, or r/thisdreamihad. Please note that some of these may contain graphic, sexual, or violent images and text. Use the source link for each dream to view and join the discussion of each one.

I couldn't remove my shirt and have sex

I had a dream yesterday night, about me and 6 others in the same room chatting and hanging out having some fun. I knew the 3 people involved in the dream, but there were another 3 people that I didn't know. the people I knew were from different phases of my life, high school, university, and post-graduate degree, which was weird.

At some point 1 of the girls turned naked lying on the bed, and the guy started having sex with the other girl just like that.. !

Someone said, "well, we all know where this is going to end up, so let's get it done!" (get naked and have sex). I pulled down my pants and was left with underwear but then when I tried to take out my t-shirt, there was another t-shirt below! and then.. another and another and another, and I was confused as to why there are so many shirt on me but I can only see and feel 1! The people in the room asked "are you okay?" and I replied "I think I'm hallucinating" and I started getting deliriant taking out sshirtafter sshirtfaster and faster and everything started trembling and ... i woke up.

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Note: I went to bed at 5 am because I was working on my dissertation and was pretty sleep-depreciated.

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Crazy dream.

I had a dream yesterday night, about me and 6 others in the same room chatting and hanging out having some fun. I knew the 3 people involved in the dream, but...

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Dreamed about my sister that passed away.

My sister passed away last year after a long battle with alcoholism and drug addiction. This morning I had a dream about her. I want to know what it means.

It was us sitting in this kitchen but it was a kitchen I've never seen before. She was wearing a red t-shirt and jean shorts something she wore often. We were talking about her alcoholism and I was begging her to stop drinking. I kept telling her over and over again I needed her and that my nephews needed her. She then told me that one night when we were drinking together she blacked out but for a second she came to and that we were just dancing and goofing around in her kitchen. She smiled to herself and said "but wasn't that fun?" I told her yeah and then told her if she didn't stop drinking she was going to die soon. She then told me she was sorry but it's so late to change that. I remember we hugged and I woke up.

What do you think this means? Please answer me I've read that sometimes the dead can visit you in your dream was this it?

My sister passed away last year after a long battle with alcoholism and drug addiction. This morning I had a dream about her. I want to know what it means.

It...

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Seeing 1:11 brought me back from a bad lucid dream, what does that mean?

I had a very intense dream where I was kidnapped by someone I think was doing witchcraft. I was running around asking for help when a lady with a pink shirt pretended to help me only to lock me in a room. I noticed everything, there was someone tied to a table in a white gown, the room was dark with green LED's, it was very clammy and musty, the bed I was put in was really hard and the covers I was given were very rough. I remember the lady coming in asking for my spit so she could use it in a spell. I wouldn't do it so she kept screaming at me while this little girl next to her was laughing like a lunatic. Soon after I realized I was dreaming because I saw the clock next to me said 1:11. I also remember thinking that if I told them it wasn't real they would be able to keep me there forever. I felt like I was there for a long time. I would close my eyes and rub my eyes so I could wake up but I just couldn't come back. I was so terrified that I would never see any of my family again and I was thinking how much I took my life for granted. Suddenly I realized I could hear the meditation music I play to sleep and when the song switched a certain tempo I woke up in a sweat.

I had a very intense dream where I was kidnapped by someone I think was doing witchcraft. I was running around asking for help when a lady with a pink shirt...

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Airport Dream

So I and some old classmates were in an airport going somewhere in Europe this was are second airport we were at. Me and I few other classmates walked to a Starbucks and that’s when I saw this girl I have never seen before. After I got my drink she told me she liked my T-shirt and winked at me before I looked at the drink and saw a number on the cup I forgot what the numbers were and there was a message that said to give me a text when you land. So I got on to the plane and once I sat down and I cant really remember the girls face

So I and some old classmates were in an airport going somewhere in Europe this was are second airport we were at. Me and I few other classmates walked to a...

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Dream where I ate my pillow

It’s my first time here. Please help with this.
In this dream, I was lying in bed, wearing something nice, akin to a button down top. All of a sudden, I eat my pillow. I eat it like it was a marshmallow. Some of it was left on stuck to my shirt. After eating the pillow, in dream, I go online to see if pillows are poisonous to consume. Apparently, about 94 people die a year from consuming poisonous pillows, according to my dream. My dream ended with me waking up before I would dial 911, realizing I had poisoned myself.

It’s my first time here. Please help with this.
In this dream, I was lying in bed, wearing something nice, akin to a button down top. All of a sudden, I eat my...

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