What are vagina dreams about?

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

Sigmund Freud had interesting things to say about dreams that refer to female genitalia, most of which turned out to be overblown or just not true. For instance, most of time when a male dreams about a vagina it doesn’t mean he has a mother-complex or infantile desire to return to the womb, but it can indicate some sort of obsession—especially considering the plethora of pornographic imagery that’s in your face these days. In which case, the dreams will be accompanied by absurdity and obsessiveness.

Otherwise, think in broader terms of what a vagina is used for—not just for sex, but for receiving the penis as symbolism for taking in masculinity and the masculine principle, the yang.

The masculine gives, it asserts, it moves the outer world. And the vagina—the yin—receives, it shapes, it moves the inner world. More than just feminine personality traits such as empathy, sensitivity, sensuality, intuition, affection, and patience can be symbolized as the vagina. It’s the entire idea of taking into oneself, molding and outputting something new. That analogy for procreation also applies to creating life at its most essential, and women are the experts.

Psychological life is basically about taking in and absorbing everything on a personal level and responding in some way. For the feminine, the change is internal. She’s the child-bearer, the vessel of creation, the one who builds from within, then brings her creation into the world. She receives the sperm, the assertive energy of the masculine, absorbs it, and uses it to create life.

For the masculine, the change is external. He’s the nest builder, the protector of the vessel and the nest, the one whose energy is directed outward to build the outer world for mother and child. He generates. He gives the life force symbolized as the sperm. And remember, by “he” we mean the masculine principle, and by “she” we mean the feminine principle. Individual men and women can choose to play their respective gender roles, or not. Masculine and feminine roles exist throughout nature, and indeed throughout all of creation.

This concept strikes at the very heart of the forces that create not only people, but also the world and everything in it. The analogy of the masculine penetrating the feminine and the feminine receiving it and using it for creation applies across the sciences, philosophies, and religions of the world. It’s summarized in the yin-yang duality. It’s seen in Father Sun giving his energy, his light, to Mother Earth, who turns it into abundance of life. Everything, it seems, works in pairs. Masculine and feminine can exist without each other, but are only complete with each other.

Sound familiar?

This libidinal, creative energy begins its movement into the psyche at the foundational level, the archetypes, and works its way upward. The archetypes begin the work of forging shape from the raw material of life, and the ego finishes it. And what starts as something as basic as the instincts for sex and reproduction ends with owning a home and having a spouse, kids, and a life shaped around them. That’s pretty much how things have been since the beginning—with exceptions, of course, which are part of the design, too.

For men and women, the vagina sums up these ideas in one image. You don’t have to be consciously aware of them, either. They’re part of your hard-wiring.

Dreams can express these ideas and show how the energy works in you through imagery and references to the vagina, or through images of females and female animals, or even references to traditionally feminine activities such as nursing babies and raising children. Sex involving the vagina, especially, ties in with the dance of feminine and masculine energy and its magic power to create the universe and all life in it.

When dreams refer to sex, the symbolism is more likely to refer to some sort of giving and receiving, entering or leaving, than just to the mechanical motions of penis and vagina.

When a male dreams that he has a vagina, it can mean that he’s adopting a traditionally feminine role, personality traits, or the feminine principle’s role in creation. He plays the role of mother to his children or siblings. He’s intuitive, tender, receptive, sensual, surrendering. He takes into himself and creates new life.

This imagery is commonly misunderstood to mean he’s a girly man—just imagine being a guy telling your rugby buddies about your vagina dream. While it’s possible that a man with a vagina in a dream reflects a perception of lacking cojones, it’s much more likely to mean he identifies in some deep and fundamental way with the feminine principle. It shows that he can be both masculine and feminine while fully living up to the role of a man in his society. In fact, only the strongest and most secure men are likely to dream about a vagina in this sense. Most men are too insecure and caught up in traditional gender roles to venture outside whatever narrow definition they have of what it means to be a man.

A vagina can connect with sex and sexual desire, but dreams are very creative with stretching associations to make symbolism. For example, a vagina can symbolize a goal, because for some people the goal of dating is to “get to the good part.”

It can symbolize something that grabs your attention.

It can symbolize something that you don’t have to see to know it is there.

It can symbolize a wish fulfilled or a dream come true.

It can symbolize openness and receptivity. The vagina opens to receive the penis, and if you get past the sexual connotations, you can see all sorts of ways that imagery can be used as symbolism, such as for being open to new ideas or interpersonal connections.

A bald vagina that’s been waxed or shaved can symbolize the extent to which a woman can go to be attractive. It can symbolize early puberty or childhood. It can symbolize frank talk about sex or reproduction, or exposure of something private.

For a man, it can symbolize something he doesn’t have, or something he wants. That association applies to gay females and transgender males, too.

For a woman, it can symbolize the most special thing she has to give about herself in a romantic relationship. The vagina is not just a sex organ, it’s intimately connected with her heart and her very being. It might explain why giving her virginity is—or at least used to be—such a special event for a female—and for males, meh, not so much. It’s tied in with the idea that males being able to produce billions of sperm per month, but a female gets only one egg, so she’d better treat it with delicacy and reverence.

With dreams, always think outside the box. Make connections between ideas. Any association with the vagina can be used to creative symbolism.

Dreams like to connect the past with the present. They not only speak to what’s happening now, but they also trace the roots and sources, and those roots extend into early childhood. All of a woman’s notions and ideas about all of the subjects connected with the symbolism of the vagina can be addressed in her dreams.

Dreams can refer to the vagina through symbols such as a cave, a tunnel, a lotus, an orchid, a vase, a soccer goal, a valley, or any sort of recessed space. A woman dreamed about her vagina as a tunnel leading underground and her womb as an underground parking garage. These are known as yoni symbols. For a complete description of this dream, see: Car.

See also: Baldness, Body parts, Eggs, Genitals, Masturbation, Menstruation, Ovaries, Pregnancy, Sex, Underwear, Uteruses

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.