What Does Dreaming of a Wife Mean?
What does dreaming of a wife mean in traditional interpretation?
In traditional interpretation, seeing a wife in a dream may point to the abundance of the home, to its peace, and to the family's order. Seeing her cheerful and well-dressed may be read as good coming and ease of heart, while seeing her sorrowful may point to a closeness that has been neglected.
What does dreaming of a wife mean psychologically?
In modern psychology, the spouse in a dream represents the need for tenderness, closeness and sharing; more often than the real person, it points to a feeling about the present state of that bond. The distance or nearness felt in the dream can show what goes unsaid while awake.
By Context
What does seeing her cheerful mean in a dream?
It may be read as growing peace at home and the bond between you being refreshed.
What does arguing with her mean in a dream?
It may point to a reproach that has built up but never been voiced.
What does seeing her far away mean in a dream?
It may point to less time spent together and to distance coming between you.
For Someone Not Married: what does dreaming of a wife mean?
It may point to a need for closeness and sharing, and to an order you wish to build.
What does seeing her weep mean in a dream?
It may point to a sorrow waiting to be noticed and to a need for attention.
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.