What does a dream about a father mean?
A dream about a father symbolises authority, protection and your need for guidance. This dream can also indicate your relationship with your father or the qualities you attribute to him.
What does a dream about your father (or a father figure) mean?
A dream about your father, or a dream about a father figure, symbolises control, authority or protection. You may need to reflect on your own life and how you relate to others. This dream may also mean that you need to be more self-reliant. Think about your relationship with your father and how you need aspects of his character in your current life.
Dreaming about your father if you have a specific bond with him
What does a dream about your father mean if you have a good relationship with him?
If your relationship with your father is or was good, he may appear in your dream to help you, listen to you or give you advice.
What does a dream about your father mean if you have a difficult relationship with him?
If your relationship with your father is or was difficult, he may appear in your dream to discipline you. It is better not to follow the advice of your dream father.
What does a dream about your father mean if you see your father often?
A dream about your father seeing you a lot symbolises that you need to become more independent from your parents and more self-reliant, especially in terms of decision-making, and in your judgements. This dream may mean that these skills are lacking and therefore you need to work extra hard.
What does a dream about your father mean if you see your father little?
A dream about your father when you see your father little symbolises that it is time to reassess your relationship with your father and perhaps see him again. You may want to pay him a visit.
Dreams about a dead father
What does a dream about a deceased father mean?
A dream about a deceased father symbolises wisdom, protection and the desire for guidance. This dream indicates your search for advice or approval that you would have sought from your father in life. See also the dream meaning of deceased father
What does a dream in which you kill your father mean?
A dream in which you kill your father symbolises that you are concerned about a situation in your life. This may have to do with a problem with authority.
Dreams about aggression towards your father
What does a dream in which you hit or beat up your father mean?
A dream in which you hit your father symbolises a desperate need for greater emotional connection with your father. You feel that he does not connect with you, does not listen to you or hear what you say.
What does a dream in which you hit your father with a rubber object mean?
A dream in which you hit your father with a rubber object symbolises that what you do or tell him has no significant effect on him. Things literally bounce off him.
What does a dream about hurting your father mean?
A dream in which you hurt your father symbolises that you have difficulty with how you relate to others or that you feel neglected by someone who needs to provide control, authority or protection. See also the dream meaning of wound
Dreams about an aggressive father
What does a dream in which your father fights with you mean?
A dream in which you fight with your father symbolises that you are struggling with a certain problem and that you have to make some important decisions in the area of control or authority.
What does a dream in which your father hits you or beats you up mean?
A dream in which your father slaps you symbolises that you lack an emotional connection with your father. You would like to get closer to him, no matter what it costs you.
What does a dream in which your father is angry with you mean?
A dream in which your father is angry with you symbolises that you yourself are angry with your father. It can also mean that your father disapproves of something you are about to do, or that you are about to decide.
Dreaming about your father’s love life
What does a dream about your father and a girlfriend or mistress mean?
A dream in which your father has a girlfriend or mistress, even though he is actually married to your mother, symbolises that you do not feel connected to either of your parents.
What does a dream in which your father marries someone other than your mother mean?
A dream in which you see your father marrying someone (not your mother) symbolises a positive turn in your career.
What does a dream about a homosexual father mean?
A dream in which your father is homosexual symbolises a difficult situation in your life, especially one concerning authority. It is time to make a difficult choice.
What does a dream in which you have sex with your father or marry your father mean?
A dream in which you have sex with your father or marry your father indicates that a difficult decision has to be made, related to your love life. Or perhaps you are looking for a partner who is as good for you as your father. This dream may be disturbing, but it is in no way literal. See also the dream meaning of sex or marry or wedding
Other dreams about your father
What does a dream in which your father is drunk, under the influence or irrational mean?
A dream in which your father is drunk, under the influence or irrational means that you are being freed from emotional oppression.
What does a dream in which your father is bandaged mean?
A dream in which your father is wrapped in bandages from head to toe symbolises that you feel restricted in your authority. Perhaps you are in charge of something but cannot exercise your power.
What does a dream about a father-in-law mean?
A dream about your father-in-law refers to your conscience and rational side. You need to be more accommodating in your point of view and decisions. Or this dream means that you need advice.
What does a dream about an angry father-in-law mean?
A dream about an angry father-in-law represents problems in the family.
What does a dream about an ex-father-in-law mean?
A dream about an ex-father-in-law means that there is something in your past that you still need to pay attention to.
See also the dream meaning of father
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