Meaning of Dreams: Words beginning with A
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Acrylic Nails – Dream Interpretation of Acrylic Nails
If you are wearing acrylic/fake fingernails in a dream, then this can show that you are trying to be dishonest with people or that you are accidentally dishonest. Either way, you are likely to be acting in a way that makes you seem suspicious or distrustful.
Actor/Actress
Seeing an actor or actress in your dreams can symbolize the feeling that you are simply “acting” in your everyday life. It is as though you are not yourself but playing a role and hiding behind a script. You may be in distress because of this, but if you “act” as yourself in your waking life, then you are likely to find more joy in your waking life and your dreams.
Acupuncture
If you are getting acupuncture in a dream, then this can show that your body or mind may need to relax or heal in your waking life. The place on your body where you are getting acupuncture can also bring more symbolism to your dream. This can show that you are either physically in pain or mentally exhausted. You need more energy if you wish to feel better, and getting more rest is the way to do it.
This can also show that you may have one small problem that you need to “pinpoint” the cause of if you want to find a solution to it.
Adam
If you see the “first” man in your dreams, it can symbolize your awareness of who you really are on the inside. This also can show your connection to past generations and living family members. However, if Adam is doing something horrible in your dreams, it could predict or symbolize ill feelings or mishaps between you and your family members.
Adamant
If you are dreaming about talking with someone and being completely adamant, trying to persuade them constantly about something, then this could symbolize that you are disappointed with something that has recently gone on in your life, or it could be predicting that you will be disappointed with something that you will try to do in the future.
Adder
An adder is a type of venomous snake with a near-deadly bite. The adder depicts fear in the most primal way, whether it is biting you or someone else. However, it can represent a “poisoned” relationship with your friend if it is biting a friend. Something bad may happen to them or has already happened to them, which will/bothers/bother you.
Addition
Doing Addition Easily
If you are having an easy time working with addition in your dreams, then it could mean that you are struggling with some sort of problem in your waking life. This often has to do with problems in finances. You are likely to be able to overcome these difficulties by doing addition in your dreams is simple.
Having Problems with Addition
If you simply cannot do the addition, then this predicts some misunderstanding in your future or a past misunderstanding that you may not even realize yet. On the other hand, if you simply find a problem with the addition, then this means that you will be clever in your endeavors, which could help you in business or finances.
Address
Seeing your address represents the way that you see yourself. If you see an address that you used to live at, this represents your past self’s feelings. How you feel about your past self dictates the meaning of your dream. If you are at someone else’s address, then this symbolizes your relationship with that person. Your relationship with this person will determine the true meaning of this dream.
Adieu
A Happy Adieu
If you say “adieu” to someone in a happy way in your dreams, this can symbolize the good relationships you have with your friends and family. As a result, you are not likely to have many communication problems shortly.
An Unhappy Adieu
If you have an unpleasant “adieu,” then this can symbolize some internal social strain that you may be feeling. Sometimes being around people is just tiring and hard, which could be the source of dreams.
Adjacent
If something is adjacent to something else in your dream, this symbolizes a relationship between these two things. Figuring out the connection between these two things can do a great deal to future decode the meaning of your dream.
Admiral
If you are the Admiral
To dream that you are an admiral shows that you are in control of your life at the moment. You feel confident about where you are and are likely to keep up the good work.
On the other hand, being an Admiral in your dreams may show you are stressed out because of how organized you are. If you are not at ease in this dream, then this can show that you need to relax more in your waking life.
If you See an Admiral
Seeing an admiral in your dreams can show that you need more direction in your life. You need someone to tell you what to do if you are to get started making changes in your life. You need some sort of push to get moving and someone to show you what to do.
If you see an admiral in a dream, then this can show your relationships with authority figures. How you interact with this admiral can show a lot about how you feel about authority figures.
Admire
If you dream that you are the object of admiration by friends, family, or even just strangers, this shows that you are at the peak of your social life. Every part of your communication skills is on par at the moment, and you are not likely to be troubled with it shortly.
Adobe
If you see an adobe in your dream, then this can show that you are feeling protected in your waking life. You may be too sheltered and need to act out or do something that you usually wouldn’t do to be content in life. But, on the other hand, you may be content by just being protected, which means you do not need to change anything in your waking life.
Adolescent
Seeing an adolescent who you do not know in your waking life can represent what you were like when you were that age or how you thought of yourself when you were that age. This can also depict the evolution and development of your own sexual feelings.
Adopt
If you are Adopting a Child
If you are adopting a child in your dreams, then this can show that you are missing something in your waking life. Think, is there anything that you would be happier with if it were in your life? If so, try to add this to your life, and you will be more likely to feel complete. This can show that you want to add something new to your life.
If you are adopting a child, then this can show that you have a caring nature that you wish to express more in your waking life. While you don’t need to adopt a child to do this, you can give others more affection to feel fulfilled.
If you are Adopting an Animal
If you are adopting an animal in your dreams, then this can show that you are looking for more positive and loyal relationships with your friends and family. Improving your communication skills and making time to spend with these people can leave you feeling more complete.
If you are being Adopted
If you are the one who is being adopted in your dream, then this can show that you miss your childhood and wish that you could act more immaturely without being scolded or feeling out of place.
This could also show that you need more love in your life or more direction from some sort of parental figure.
Adult
If you are an adult, then this has no significance in symbolism. However, if a child or teenager dreams that they are an adult can show that they feel like they need to become more mature about a situation, or just in general. They may feel like they need to take on more responsibility or be forced to take it on too early in life.
Adultery
If you Commit Adultery
(See Affair*)
If Someone Else Commits Adultery
If someone cheats on you in your dream, then this can show that you have inner anxieties about being left or broken up with. You may not feel like you are appreciated enough in your current relationship or do not do enough in your relationship. This can also show that you cannot trust your current partner.
This may also show your sense of wanting to become more independent, not to need to deal with these feelings in your current or future relationships.
Advancement
If you see yourself advancing in any way in your dreams shows your inner desire to advance in your waking life. This is likely to show an urge to “get ahead” and accomplish your goals. If you see your friends advancing in your dreams, this symbolizes your desire to see your friends become happier and more successful.
Adventure
The details of your adventure will also impact the overall meaning of the dream, but an adventure as its own term can also impact what your dream may mean. If your adventure is a pleasant one, then this will represent your goals and struggles and that you are ready, willing, and able to try to accomplish these goals. If you have a bad time on your adventure, then the adventure simply symbolizes your goals, the ways you are avoiding them, or your anxiety about taking them on.
Adversary
If you come across an adversary in your dreams represents that you are willing to fight for what you believe in. If you win a battle with your adversary, then it means that you are strong enough or clever enough to avoid the harm that was likely to have come to you before you went to sleep.
Adversity
If you come into some state of adversity in your dreams, then this means that your mind is struggling with some failure that you have recently had in your waking life. If your dream is about someone else falling into adversity, this represents how you can be affected by other people’s failures.
Advertisement
If you see advertisements in your dream, it is likely to reflect the ads that you see while you are awake. This can also represent what you are interested in and what you would like to buy in your waking life. Advertisements can also symbolize your need to do something interesting or advance yourself.
Advice
If you are Given Advice
If you are advised in a dream, it can symbolize your need to know more. This can simply be to know more about yourself, your business, or knowing something more about a situation that is going on in your waking life. This can also symbolize your own inner sense of intuition.
If you are Giving Advice
If you are giving someone else advice in your dream, this can symbolize what you want to say to people in your waking life. You think people should do these things, even if you don’t always take your own advice. This can also predict new opportunities.
Advocate
If you are advocating something in your dreams, it can symbolize that you are loyal to what you believe in while you are awake. This can show that you are loyal to your friends and family members as well.
Aerobics
Doing aerobics in your dreams simply means that your body needs to move more in your waking life. Get active to end these dreams and to make your body healthier!
Aerosol
If you dream of an aerosol can, then this can symbolize that you feel like too much pressure is on you, you may have too many responsibilities. You need to relax.
If you are spraying the aerosol can, then this can show that you have some “toxic” feelings inside of your body that you need to let out. You may be stressed, sad, or angry and need to find a healthy way to express these feelings.
Affair
Like many other dream symbols, the feeling that you have about the affair in your dream can greatly change the meaning of your dream.
If you Enjoy the Affair
If you enjoy your affair in your dream, then this can symbolize a need for excitement or love in your waking life. This can also vary simply to symbolize sexual pleasure. This can give a person a sense of feeling more “alive” and free.
If you Dislike the Affair
If you don’t like the affair, you are having in your dream, this can symbolize loneliness, infidelity, and general betrayal. Many of these dreams are seen as nightmares rather than dreams.
Affection
Giving Affection
If you are giving affection to others can show that you are happy with your current relationships. However, this could mean that you also need more affection in your relationships, but you may not know how to show it.
This can show that you are a generally pleasant person who is kind to others in your waking life.
Receiving Affection
If you are dreaming of receiving affection, then this means that you likely lack affection in your waking life. You need someone to be close with to feel more complete.
Affliction
If you are Afflicted
If you are being afflicted in your dreams, this can symbolize that you feel a similar emotion in your waking life. This could also be predicting a future upsetting moment.
If Someone Else is Afflicted
If someone else in your dream is being afflicted, whether you know them in your waking life or not, it can symbolize that you have been surrounded by misfortune lately. If you do not do something to get out of trouble in your waking life, then you will likely continue to have these dreams.
Affront
If you are affronted by someone or something in your sleep, it is likely to be seen more as a nightmare than a dream. These dreams usually represent that someone has done something terrible to your recently or that a friend will betray you shortly.
Affluence
If you highly wealthy in a dream can show that you have felt pleasant recently. This can represent happy relationships with friends and family. Dreams in which you are affluent generally show that things are going well, or will go well soon, in your life.
Afraid
Being afraid of something in your dreams can symbolize the inner anxieties in your waking life. While the thing that you are afraid of in your dream may not be exactly what you are anxious about in your waking life, it can symbolize this fear nonetheless. If you are afraid of a situation, then it could mean that you are afraid to proceed with some plans that you have made in your waking life.
Africa
Human life first developed in Africa. Being in Africa can symbolize our origins. Even if this does not change our human origins, it can still symbolize where we came from in our youth. It can show the values that we used to have, how we felt about them then, and how we feel about them now. Some beliefs that people hold may involve racism, which can also be symbolized in our dreams. If you are not African, this can symbolize your desire to travel and see new things. What happens in your dream set in Africa can provide future symbolic meaning.
Afro
To dream that you have an afro shows that you have created inside you and that you need to express it if you want to be happier.
Afternoon
Times of the day can symbolize different cycles of life. The afternoon can symbolize the middle of life, middle-age. While this is closer to the end of life than some other time of day symbols may represent, it is more relaxing than some other times. These dreams often leave the dreamer feeling calm. Happy afternoons can also symbolize loyal friendships.
Agate
Agate is a type of smooth and colorful stone. Seeing an agate in your dreams can symbolize that you are doing well financially or doing well in your budgeting shortly.
Age
The meaning of age depends on the age of the person or thing that is in your dreams.
Youth Age
Seeing a youthful person can symbolize how you were at that age. It symbolizes the lessons that you have learned and the maturity that you have gained because of it.
Middle or Old Age
Seeing someone or something of reasonable age can symbolize your inner maturity or how mature you would like yourself. Experience, wisdom, and weakness can also be symbolized by seeing someone who is middle-aged or elderly. This can also represent your fears of becoming old.
Aggression
If you are Aggressive
If you are aggressive in your dreams, then this shows that you are angry in your waking life, and you need to find healthy ways to express these feelings. Bottling up your anger will only raise your chances of having these dreams while expressing your anger will decrease the chance.
This can also show your repressed sexual desires.
If Someone Else is Aggressive Towards You
If someone is aggressive towards you in your dream, then this can show that you have an enemy in your waking life. Someone may be trying to upset you purposely.
Agony
Obviously, any dream in which you are in agony isn’t going to be a pleasant one. This can symbolize the fears that you have in your waking life. This can also represent the things that you worry about in your waking life that has the possibility of bringing you joy if you did not worry about it as much.
Agoraphobia
If you dream of being agoraphobic (afraid to leave your home), then this can show that you may be anxious and worried that people are constantly judging you. You do not want to be the center of attention. If your confidence grows, then these dreams will likely stop. This is a sign of social anxiety.
Agreement
Agreeing with someone in your dream can symbolize that you agree with your mind about something that you have been struggling with in your waking life. If you are trying to decide the waking life that you have successfully agreed with someone on in your dreams, then this could be your mind trying to show you how you really feel about the situation and trying to tell you what you will be happier deciding on in your waking life.
Agriculture
Agriculture, farming, and gardening symbolize fertility and growth. This can also symbolize “growing” new and creative ideas. The plant that is growing in your dream can also add more symbolic meaning to your dream.
Ague
Ague is a sort of illness or symptom that comes with an illness that causes shakiness. Having this symptom in your dream can be a sign from your body that you are about to fall ill in real life. This could also be a symbol for inner sickness, like anxiety or depression.
AIDS
If you have AIDS
If you have AIDS in your dream, then this can show that you are feeling weak, emotionally, or physically.
You may feel as though others are attacking you without cause. You are looking for a way to protect yourself from these people/this person.
If your Partner has AIDS
If your partner has AIDS, then this can show that you have an unhealthy relationship or that you and your partner have been fighting recently.
This could also mean that you need to work on your communication skills when talking to your partner about serious issues.
If Someone Else has AIDS
If someone else has AIDS, then this can show that you need to work on your communications with others and that you generally need to spend more time with your friends.
This can also show that you want to help your friends with a problem that they might be having.
This can also show that you may need assistance from your friends with some issues you may be having in your waking life on.
Aim
If you aim for something in your dreams, then this can show that you are “aiming” for your goals in your waking life. If you miss the thing that you are aiming for, then this means that you need to work harder at your goals in your waking life. Focus on these goals, and it will be easier for you to accomplish them.
If you are aiming at a gun, then this can show that you are having trouble expressing your sexual or romantic feelings towards someone.
Air
While we may assume that air is in all of our dreams, sometimes air can take on different qualities that can affect the meaning of our dreams. The air, in general, can symbolize all that is obvious, logical, and objective. This can also symbolize your need to “clear the air” with people about your true feelings.
Cold Air
Cold air in a dream can symbolize that something doesn’t feel right in your waking life. Things in your waking life are probably inconsistent if you are having these dreams.
Warm Air
If the air is hot around you in your dream, this can symbolize evil and oppression. Things may have felt strange recently if you are having these kinds of dreams.
Airbag
If an airbag goes off in your dream, then this may be a prediction of something fearful to come.
This could also show that you need to pace yourself in your waking life and act more carefully if you want to avoid trouble or an accident.
Air Conditioner
To simply see an air conditioner in your dream can symbolize the way that you deal with stress and anxiety. A way of “cooling down.” If you are actually feeling cold air coming from the air conditioner, this can represent the “coldness” you get from or give off to certain people.
Air Gun
To see an air gun in your dream shows that you are in a minor amount of danger. It is important to pay more attention to your waking life to not to come into trouble.
Air Freshener
To use or smell an air freshener in your dream can show that your life is pretty pleasant at the moment. You are taking time to enjoy the little things in like.
If the air freshener smells bad, then this can show that you are confused about something going on in your waking life. You need to clear your mind and get a better judgment if you wish to be happier.
Air Hockey
If you are playing air hockey in your dreams, or if someone else is playing air hockey in your dreams, then this can show that you need to act or think quickly about quickly if you are to accomplish the task at hand in time.
Airplane
Airplanes represent quick thinking, quick-moving, and the general flow of ideas. This can symbolize your inner desire to travel. However, if you fear flying, this better symbolizes your inner fears about things moving by quickly, the passage of time, and general change. The meaning of an airplane in a dream can also change if something goes wrong with the plane.
If Something goes Wrong with the Airplane
If your airplane cannot land well, this can symbolize your fear of failing a goal or trouble completing your goals. If the airplane is falling, then this can symbolize your inner anxieties and fears about failing. If the airplane crashes, then this can symbolize your fears of failing in general.
Airport
Being at an airport can symbolize your desire to change or travel. This also can represent new opportunities that may be right in front of you in your waking life. All you have to do is “get on the right plane” and take on these new opportunities to make a helpful change in your life.
Air Raid
If you are in your dream under an air raid, this can symbolize your fear of large disasters that you cannot control. This usually correlates with an inner fear of war, disease, or natural disasters.
Air-Sea Rescue
To dream that you are rescued at sea can show your inner feeling of mercy and forgiveness. This can represent your feeling of a higher power that can take care of you even when you cannot take care of yourself.