Underwear dreams are more related to unnamed people, more related to strangers, and more related to peers than dreams in general. They are less related to animals, less related to insects, and much less related to fantastic beings.

Underwear dreams are more related to happiness, much more related to embarrassment, and more related to confusion than dreams in general. They are less related to fear and less related to hatred.

Dreams of underwear are more related to home, more related to work, and much more related to schools than dreams in general. They are less related to natural places.

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

Underwear dreams are more related to lucid dreams and more related to good dreams than dreams in general. They are less related to nightmares, much less related to recurring dreams, and less related to sleep paralysis.

Dreams of underwear are more related to smelling, more related to taste, and much more related to touch than dreams in general. They are less related to hearing.

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 underwear 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 underwear in dreams. See how you feel about underwear 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. Since underwear covers the genitals and is associated with sexual desire, seeing someone in underwear can connect with sexual desire, either for a specific person or just in general. You might be well aware of your feelings of sexual desire, or the dream might boost your awareness of them. For example, a middle-aged man dreams about seeing his attractive neighbor strip down to her underwear to sunbathe in her yard. He hides behind the curtains to watch her. Then he hears his wife call for him and he tries to pretend that he was just watching the neighborhood for trouble. In reality, he has only seen his neighbor fully clothed, which is a big clue that seeing her in her underwear is symbolism. In waking life he undresses her with his eyes, doing so furtively because he doesn’t want his wife to get wind of what he’s thinking. He’s the neighborhood watch in the sense of being the guy who watches out for sightings of any attractive woman in the neighborhood! Underwear is commonly misunderstood as automatically connected with sexuality, when more often it’s actually about seeing the person beneath the clothing, seeing beneath the surface, or feeling vulnerable or exposed. See: Clothing, Being naked When people are dressed only in underwear, they generally want privacy. If you dream about barging in on someone wearing only underwear, or vice versa, it might connect with invasion of privacy or finding out something that’s hidden. See: Bathrooms Wearing only underwear can symbolize revealing too much, or embarrassment. On the other hand, being dressed only in underwear can be a way of saying, “See the real me.” Clothes are associated with the persona, a person’s public image. This can differ from the inner person. Dreaming about yourself wearing only underwear in front of people can be a way of saying that you feel comfortable showing the person you are inside. On the other hand, if you are uncomfortable in the scene it can mean you don’t want people to see the person you really are. A young man dreams about seeing his mom in her underwear at the library. There is nothing sexual about the scene—she simply reads a book—but he wonders whether he might have some sort of Oedipal desire for her. However, the dream is simply saying that he’s starting to see his mother for the person she really is, rather than seeing her only as a mother—his mother. Her clothes in the dream symbolize her role as a mother, so lack of clothes is a way of saying he sees the person behind the role. The library setting is used as a way of saying he is learning something new about her. Panties or other types of underwear can symbolize a barrier to getting what you want. They can be used to tell a story about obsession or fetish. See also: Bathrooms, Clothing, Genitals, Being naked, Showers, Undressing