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What are wife dreams about?

This symbol is identified by words like wife.

Wives in dreams is a relatively common dream symbol, occuring in about 2.3% of dreams. That's about 1 out of every 45 dreams.

What are the major highlights of wife dreams?

Wives is an interconnected dream symbol. Having wives in a dream changes the dream more than most other dream symbols.

Wife dreams are very social

Dreams of wives contain more characters than most other dream symbols. While dreams are often about other people and social relationships, dreams of wives are especially related to having lots of characters. Other symbols that are like this include distant people, children, dragons, grandmothers, pets, uncles, actors, cults, parents, and animals.

Wife dreams are about family

Dreams of wives are more related to family than 90% of all other symbols. In other words, dreaming of wives will increase your chances of dreaming of a family member. Other symbols that are like this include bankruptcy, aunts, communicating, embracing, going, babies, break ups, speaking, pregnancy tests, and alimony.

What are the symbols that help define wives?

The symbol of wives in dreams is highly related to spouses.

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

Explore different elements related to dreams of wives

Who is in wives dreams?

Overall, dreams with wives are much more related to characters in dreams. Specifically, dreams of wives are 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 fantastic beings.

Animals

less than usual

Insects

less than usual

Different roles

the same as usual

Fantastic beings

less than usual

Distant people

the same as usual

Close people

less than usual

Family

much more than usual

Romantic partners

much more than usual
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What are the emotions in wives dreams?

Overall, dreams with wives are aren't really related to emotions in dreams. Specifically, dreams of wives are more related to happiness, more related to grief and sorrow, and more related to love than dreams in general. They are less related to confusion, less related to fear, and less related to fun.

Happiness

more than usual

Sadness

the same as usual

Grief and sorrow

more than usual

Embarrassment

the same as usual

Confusion

less than usual

Fear

less than usual

Pain

the same as usual

Hatred

the same as usual

Fun

less than usual

Love

more than usual
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Who is in wives dreams?

Overall, dreams with wives are less related to places in dreams. Specifically, dreams of wives are more related to home and more related to work than dreams in general. They are less related to human places, less related to natural places, and less related to magical places.

Home

more than usual

Work

more than usual

Human places

less than usual

Transportation

the same as usual

Natural places

less than usual

Magical places

less than usual
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What happens in wives dreams?

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

Aggressive interactions

less than usual

Friendly interactions

the same as usual

Sex

more than usual

Disasters

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

Overall, dreams with wives are aren't really related to dream events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of wives are more related to recurring nightmares than dreams in general. They are less related to lucid dreams and less related to nightmares.

Lucid dreams

less than usual

Nightmares

less than usual

Recurring dreams

the same as usual

Recurring nightmares

more than usual

Sleep paralysis

the same as usual

Sleeping

the same as usual

Waking life

the same as usual
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How do wives in dreams related the senses?

Overall, dreams with wives are less related to senses in dreams. Specifically, dreams of wives are less related to hearing, less related to vision, and less related to touch.

Hearing

less than usual

Smelling

the same as usual

Taste

the same as usual

Vision

less than usual

Touch

less than usual
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How can you make sense of wives in dreams?

Wife dreams are relatively common. Among other things wife dreams are positively interconnected, very social, and family oriented.

Do you think this is true for your dream of wives? How might your dream of wives 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 wives 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 wives in dreams. See how you feel about wives now, in your waking life.

What are possible meanings for dreams of wives?

For people who are married, dreaming about their spouse is likely to connect with something about the spouse or the relationship. However, be careful of assuming that your wife in a dream must represent the person. Instead, she can symbolize something about yourself or a situation or circumstance. A big clue is given when your wife in a dream acts out of character. Discrepancies with reality are a sign of symbolism. They indicate that either she really is acting of character, or you are projecting something onto her.

For example, you dream that your wife is cheating on you. It’s completely out of character for her. If you look only at the surface story of the dream, then you might suspect she is really cheating. However, cheating actually symbolizes your feelings about her lack of attention lately. She hasn’t had as much time or energy for your relationship. This situation is portrayed in the dream as cheating because it feels unfair. See: Infidelity

If you do not have a wife, or the person in the dream is not your wife, the possibilities for symbolism expand like a big balloon. Consider what a wife means in general, and to you specifically. For example, a wife is someone you might perceive as being supportive and encouraging. Someone such as a co-worker, mother or classmate can play that role in your life.

Turn the tables and consider those same ideas if you are not married and find yourself playing the role of wife in a dream. Perhaps you are a source of support and encouragement for someone else, or you “play house.” For example, if you always seem to be cleaning up after a roommate or sibling, you might feel like a housewife whose work is never done. See: Servants

Dreaming about your girlfriend as a wife can be a dress rehearsal. You wonder about the potential for the relationship. The same idea applies to dreaming about a close female friend as a wife. Perhaps you wonder whether the two of you should be together as a couple. Or maybe the friend is already like a wife. See: Girlfriends

If you are friends with a woman who is married, you can dream about the dynamics of the relationship between you, her, and her spouse. All sorts of issues can arise, especially if her spouse doesn’t like you or is suspicious.

Dynamics can arise between you, your wife, and her friends—especially friends who are potentially romantic rivals. Jealousy is a powerful emotion and is almost certain to be a subject of dreams. These dreams tend to be loaded with conflict and even violence, symbolizing your inner conflict and the violence you do to yourself. See: Jealousy

A wife can symbolize feminine aspects of yourself. For a woman, it can show the more mature female emerging in her, or a man “wedding” his feminine traits with his masculine personality.

For a man, a “dream wife” can symbolize his anima. See: Animas, Brides

A wife-character in a dream opens the door for symbolism based on the feminine principle, or yin. A detailed discussion is included in the entry for: Vagina.

See also: Animas, Brides, Infidelity, Girlfriends, Husbands, Weddings, Parents, Servants, Vaginas, Weddings

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 wives

Read some real dream reports of wife 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.

Gay dream

Well I had a dream last night. Really short but felt so real.
I was laying on a bed naked and there was another guy standing on the other side of the room and he was pulling his cock, it looked huge. I asked him, actually told him to ‘Come here’. He did and climbed on the bed and kneeled straddling my right thigh. Our cocks were close. He was smooth all over and his cock was so hard, as was mine. I reached out and cupped his balls and gently squeezed them and then felt his cock and stroked it.

Then I woke up. I laid there, my cock hard, my wife asleep beside me. I could literally remember how it felt in my hand and I loved it.

Now that is on replay in my head.

Well I had a dream last night. Really short but felt so real.
I was laying on a bed naked and there was another guy standing on the other side of the room and...

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A dream I think Symbolised the (spiritual) Death of my Wife.

Long story short my wife and I decided to explore polyamory. Collectively dated the same woman for a short time before the dynamic shifted (the gf and I had a much stronger bond) the night the gf revealed this to us she mentioned a dream she had:

She was in an underwater city where both androgynous men and women lived.
Her and another woman left the city and ended up on the land but the land dwelling people ended up capturing and killing the woman in front of her.

Originally I assumed it had to do with the gf and her lack of connection with my wife but fast forward a fee months on my return to the area I had a gut awful feeling this weekend my marriage was going to be destroyed (one thing lead to another) and by an ironic turn of events ended up in my wife saying she was done.

Long story short my wife and I decided to explore polyamory. Collectively dated the same woman for a short time before the dynamic shifted (the gf and I had a...

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I have to get this off my chest

I had a dream last night about a soldier’s funeral. It was very sad and I remember looking for a name on anything so I knew who it was that I was mourning. Unfortunately I couldn’t find a name, but it was a young man in the casket. He was Hispanic and was surrounded by blue flowers, wearing a dark green suit. There was also a woman in a blue dress kneeling and sobbing. I’m not sure if she was his mother, sister, wife, girlfriend??? But she was clearly distraught.
I woke up in tears and I just had to write it all down and put it out there.

I had a dream last night about a soldier’s funeral. It was very sad and I remember looking for a name on anything so I knew who it was that I was mourning....

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I had a dream about someone that I hooked up with back in September and never heard or saw them again since October except twice in public. What could the dream mean?

Back in September I was hooking up with a guy for a month before he just randomly blocked my number. During this month we were hooking up while he was in the middle of a divorce and he told me he really liked me and had feelings for me and i told him the same thing because we weren’t just hooking up we were also seeing where it goes. Things ended after he blocked my number and went back to his wife so he could be present in his child’s life because his wife was using his kid against him. He was also miserable in his marriage but anyway recently I had dream about him. It went like this

I was at work sitting on my stool i always sit on and I was talking to a coworker but I had my eyes closed and I hear a customer come in. I open my eyes to greet them and then I see the dude I was hooking up with on the other side of the counter and he looked so depressed. I stood up fast because I was shocked and confused and I stared at him for a minute or two then the dream went black and ended.

I’m so confused but the dream because I haven’t spoken to the guy since October 14th and I haven’t seen him since except one day at Walmart while he was out with his kid and wife a few days before Christmas and he looked miserable but I went the other way before he could see me because well that would be awkward then then last week I saw his truck at his moms daycare on my way to work or morning because I practically live next door to his moms daycare and that was it. What could this dream mean?

Back in September I was hooking up with a guy for a month before he just randomly blocked my number. During this month we were hooking up while he was in the...

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My wife had a stroke IRL

Back story:

She (32F) been in the hospital over two weeks now and in not the best shape. A brain bleed caused a Hemorrhagic Stroke and she cannot talk, nor has feeling on the left side of her body. This has been a terribly hard situation to deal with as we have two young children and no idea where this will end up with her condition.

On to the dream. We were home, and she had some bandaging on her head but was completely normal. It felt so real, but I found myself questioning the situation in my head, while dreaming. I asked her questions about the hospital and she spoke to me like everything was fine. I realized I had to be dreaming because just yesterday I was sitting in the hospital at her bedside. I hugged her and started cry, about the same time I woke up about to break out in tears.

The dream made me so happy but also caused a lot of fear for the future. I usually do not read into these things and I rarely have a lucid dream.

Anyone that might have some feedback, good or bad, I'd love to hear it.

Back story:

She (32F) been in the hospital over two weeks now and in not the best shape. A brain bleed caused a Hemorrhagic Stroke and she cannot talk, nor has...

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