What Does Dreaming of Crying Mean?
What does dreaming of crying mean in traditional interpretation?
According to traditional interpretation and Ibn Sirin, crying in a dream is mostly interpreted as a good sign; it may point to the relief that follows sorrow, to troubles dispersing, and to glad tidings. Weeping quietly out of the fear of God or out of remorse, in particular, is taken as a sign of accepted repentance, mercy, and blessing.
What does dreaming of crying mean psychologically?
In modern psychology, crying can be read as the unconscious discharging repressed emotions and accumulated tension (catharsis); crying in a dream may point to a grief, a loss, or a need for release that one suppresses in waking life.
By Context
What does crying quietly mean in a dream?
Shedding tears in silence may point to blessing, mercy, and peace.
What does crying loudly / sobbing mean in a dream?
Crying aloud, as if in lament, may point to a passing hardship or to news that will bring sorrow.
What does warm and cold tears mean in a dream?
Hot tears that burn the cheeks can be interpreted as grief, while cool, soothing tears can be interpreted as joy and deliverance from trouble.
For Singles: what does dreaming of crying mean?
For a single person, crying may point to favorable developments on the road to marriage and to meeting a suitable match.
Where these readings come from
Every symbol in this dictionary carries two readings side by side, and neither replaces the other. The traditional interpretation comes from the classical literature of Ibn Sirin and al-Nabulsi, where a dream is taken as a sign of what is to come and a symbol's meaning is largely fixed. The psychological view follows Jung and Freud: there a dream speaks not about the future but about the dreamer, and a symbol stands for something the person has repressed or cannot yet name. That is why the same symbol can read differently, even oppositely, under the two headings. The context section follows from the same idea: one symbol reads differently depending on who saw it and what happened in the dream.