Dream Meanings

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Family
Seeing your own family in high spirits in your dream, symbolizes harmony and happiness. Seeing them gloomy, foretells of disappointment and sadness.

Fan
Seeing a fan in your dream, indicates pleasant news and surprised awaiting you in the future. It may also signify your need to calm down after a highly charged emotional situation or state. Dreaming that you are fanning yourself or that someone is fanning you, foretells of a new acquaintance.

Fangs
Seeing fangs in your dream, demonstrates that you have said some words that have been hurtful to others.

Farm
Dreaming that you are living in a farm, foretells that you will be fortunate in all your undertakings. It represents growth and enrichment. Dreaming that you are buying a farm, indicates success and profit.

Fat
Dreaming that you are fat, indicates a fortunate change in your life or you may be overindulgent. A more literal interpretation of this dream is your fears of gaining weight. You have an skewed perception of your own image which may stem from low self-esteem. Dreaming that others are fat, indicates prosperity. *Please see also Obese.

Father
Seeing your father in your dream, symbolizes authority and protection. It suggests that you need to be more self-reliant. Consider also your waking relationship with your father. Dreaming that your father is dead, forewarns that you need to proceed with caution in conducting your business.

Favour
Dreaming that you ask favours of anyone, indicates that you will enjoy abundance. Dreaming that you grant favours, indicates a loss.

Fear
Dreaming that you feel fear, indicates that you achievements will not be as successful as you had anticipated. You are having anxieties in certain circumstances of your life. Please see also Scared.

Feast
Seeing a feast in your dream, means your emotional needs or sexual appetite. Pleasant surprises may also be in your near future. Seeing disorder at a feast, foretells of quarrels or unhappiness through the negligence or sickness of some person. To arrive late to a feast, indicates of a bothersome event that will occupy your mind.

Feather
Dreaming of feathers floating in the air, indicates a life of ease, comfort, warmth and of financial gains. It may describe your light heartedness and enjoyment for life. Alternatively, they may represent confusion, hastiness, and lost of dignity. In particular, Seeing chicken feathers in your dream, indicates of minor annoyances. Eagle feathers represent the realization of your goals and aspirations. And Seeing peacock, ostrich, or any other ornamental feathers, means advancement up the social ladder. You will be met with much success in your future. Dreaming that you are selling or buying feathers, symbolizes frugality and thriftiness.

Feeble
Dreaming that you are feeble, means unhealthy occupations and mental anxiety.

Feet
Seeing your own feet in your dream, symbolizes your foundation, stability and sense of understanding. It indicates your need to be more practical and sensible. Keep both feet on the ground. Alternatively, it represents mobility, independence and freedom. Perhaps you have taken a step in the right direction and are contemplating your goals or your next step. The sole of the foot may be a pun of being or feeling like the only support of some person/situation. Consider also the pun of "putting your foot in your mouth". Dreaming that you are washing your feet, indicates that you will let others take advantage of you. In particular for the people of India, Dreaming of the feet may symbolize divine qualities since the feet are considered the holiest part of the body.

Fence
Seeing a fence in your dream, indicates an obstacle or barrier that may be standing on your path. You may feel confined and restricted in expressing yourself. Are you feeling fenced in? Alternatively, it may symbolize a need for privacy. You may want to shut off the rest of the world. Dreaming that you are climbing to the top of a fence, means success. If you climb over the fence, then it demonstrates that you will accomplish your desires via not so legitimate means. Dreaming that you are building a fence, indicates a solid foundation for future wealth through your economical and industrious character. Dreaming that you fall from a fence, means that you are in way over your head in regards to some project which you are incapable of dealing with. Seeing animals jumping over a fence into an enclosure, foretells that you will receive assistance from an unexpected source. Seeing them jumping out, indicates loss in trade.

Ferry
Dreaming that you are waiting for a ferry, indicates unforeseen circumstances might hinder your desires and wishes. It may also mean that you are going through some transitional phases in your life.

Festival
Dreaming that you are at festival, indicates indifference to the cold realities of life and you are acting to old before you time. You will never want, but will be largely dependent on others.

Foetus
Seeing a fetes in your dream, symbolizes a newly developing relationship or idea in your waking life. Something creative is happening. Alternatively, you may be expressing difficulties in some situation or relationship.

Fever
Dreaming that you are stricken with fever, indicates that you worry over trivial matters while life is passing you by. Seeing others stricken with fever in your dream, indicates temporary illness for them.

Fiddle
Seeing a fiddle in your dream, indicates harmony in the home.

Field
Seeing green fields in your dream, symbolizes great abundance, freedom, and happiness. You may also be going through a period of personal growth. Alternatively, this dream may simply be an expression for your love of nature.` Seeing freshly ploughed fields in your dream, indicates growth, early rise to wealth and fortunate advancements to places of honour. Seeing dead or barren fields, indicates lack, pessimism and your jaded prospects for the future.

Fighting
Dreaming that you participate in a fight, demonstrates inner turmoil. Some aspect of your self is in conflict with another aspect of yourself. Perhaps an unresolved or unacknowledged part is fighting for its right to be heard. It may also parallel a fight or struggle that you are going through in your waking life. Seeing others fighting in your dream, suggests that you are unwilling to acknowledge your own problems and turmoil. You are not taking any responsibility or initiative in trying to resolve issues in your waking life. Dreaming that you are fighting to the death, demonstrates that you are unwilling to acknowledge a waking conflict or your own inner turmoil. You are unwilling and refusing to change your old attitudes and habits.

Figs
Seeing figs in your dream, indicates a turn for the positive. Dreaming that you are eating figs, indicates a favourable turn in health. Seeing them growing, symbolizes profit and wealth. Figs are also often associated with sex and eroticism.

Figure
Seeing mysterious figures in your dream, indicates great mental distress.

File Cabinet
Seeing a file cabinet in your dream, suggests that you need to keep your facts and information straight. The file cabinet may also represent the memories or unnecessary details you keep stored in your mind and need to retrieve from time to time. Dreaming that the drawers of the file cabinet are wide open, means your openness toward other viewpoints, opinions, suggestions, and criticism. Dreaming that the file cabinet is locked, demonstrates that there is something that you do not want revealed to others. Alternatively, it may indicate that you are being close-minded.
Film
Dreaming that you are watching a film, indicates that you are analyzing yourself and your own thoughts without being emotionally attached.

Find
Dreaming that you find something, suggests that you are coming into contact with some aspect of your psyche or unconscious. You are recognizing a part of yourself that was previously repressed or undeveloped. Alternatively, it represents change. Dreaming that you find someone, demonstrates that you are identifying new facets of a relationship. You may be taking the relationship to a new level and/or direction.

Fingers
Seeing your fingers in you dream, symbolizes physical and mental dexterity. They indicate manipulation, action and non-verbal communication. Dreaming that your fingers are injured or have been chopped off, means your anxieties about your ability to accomplish some demanding task or perform in some waking situation. Dreaming of a finger pointing at you, indicates self-blame. Dreaming about your little finger, represents mental power, intellect, memory, and the power of communication. Dreaming of your forefinger, indicates authority, direction, judgment. Your dream may be trying to make a point. Dreaming of your middle finger, means prudence, practicality, caution, responsibility, and hard work. Alternatively, the middle finger may symbolize the phallus. Dreaming of your ring finger, represents success, popularity and creativity, it also has association with marriage, union, and commitments.

Fire
Depending on the context of your dream, Seeing fire in your dream can symbolizes destruction, passion, desire, illumination, transformation, enlightenment, or anger. It may suggest that something old is passing and something new is entering your life. Your thoughts and views are changing. In particular, if the fire is under control or contained in one area, it is a metaphor of your own internal fire and inner transformation. It also represents your drive and motivation. Dreaming of that you are being burned by fire, demonstrates that your temper is getting out of control. Some issue or situation is burning you up inside. Dreaming that a house is on fire, indicates passion and loving companions. Dreaming that you put out a fire, indicates that you will overcome your obstacles in your life through much work and effort.

Fire Engine

Seeing a fire engine in your dream, indicates worries under tense and extraordinary situations. Dreaming that you are riding in a fire engine, indicates improper and obnoxious behaviour. Seeing a broken down fire engine in your dream, foretells of a serious loss.

Fireplace
Seeing a lit fireplace in your dream, symbolizes contentment, warmth, and comfort. Dreaming of lighting or stirring a fireplace, suggests a burning a desire or your need to get to the heart of a matter/situation. Seeing an unlit fireplace, is indicative of low energy, disinterest, or disheartenment.

Fireworks
Seeing fireworks in your dream, symbolizes enthusiasm, creativity, and talent. It may also indicate that you are showing off and making a spectacle of yourself.

Fish
Seeing fish swimming in your dream, indicates insights from your unconscious mind. Thus to catch a fish, represents insights which have been brought to the surface. The fish is also an ancient symbol of Christianity and Christian beliefs. Consider also the common phrases "like a cold fish", "fish out of water" or something that is "fishy" about a situation. It may also imply a slippery or elusive situation. Dreaming that you are eating fish, symbolizes your beliefs, spirituality, luck, energy and nourishment. It is food for the soul. Seeing a dead fish, indicates disappointment and loss of power/wealth. Dreaming of cooking fish, demonstrates that you are incorporating your new realizations with your spiritual feelings and knowledge. Dreaming that you are cleaning fish, suggests that you are altering your emotional expression in a way that will be presentable to others. You are censoring yourself and not expressing how you completely feel.

Fishpond
Seeing a clear, well-stocked fishpond, foretells of profitable enterprises and great pleasures. Seeing a muddy fishpond in your dream, means illness. Seeing an empty fishpond, indicates that nearby enemies are lurking and on the prowl. Dreaming that you fall into a clear pond, indicates good fortune and reciprocal love.

Fist
Seeing a fist in your dream, symbolizes anger, power and aggression. It is also indicative of your readiness to fight and defend yourself.

Fits
Dreaming that you are having fits, indicates failing health and loss of employment. Seeing others throwing fits, means unpleasantness and coldness amongst your social and/or business circle.

Flag
Seeing your national flag in your dream, indicates peace and/or prosperity. Seeing a flag of a foreign nation, means a breach of trust between friends.

Flame
Dreaming that you are fighting flames, indicates that you will need to invest your best efforts and energy in your road to success and wealth. *Please also see Fire.

Flamingo
Seeing a flamingo in your dream, represents you sense of community and cooperation. It also demonstrates new experiences or situations. Alternatively, you may be overly concerned with your physical appearance.

Fleas
Seeing fleas in your dream, indicates that you will be provoked into anger and manipulated into retaliation by someone close to you. Dreaming that fleas bite you, indicates that vicious rumours by false friends will slander your character.

Flies
Seeing flies in your dream, symbolizes feelings of guilt or a breakdown of a plan. Flies may also forewarn of a contagious sickness or a surrounding of enemies. Dreaming that you kill or exterminate the flies, indicates that you will regain your honour after you fell from grace and will be recapture the heart of your intended.

Flight
Dreaming of flight, indicates disgrace and downfall in your reputation.

Flirting
Dreaming that you are flirting, represents your need for intimacy and affection. You may be about to enter into a serious commitment or relationship in the near future.

Floating
Dreaming that you are floating, implies acceptance, letting go of your problems or worries and just going with the flow. You are experiencing new-found freedom. It also indicates that you will prove victorious in your obstacles that may presently seem overwhelming.

Flock
Seeing a flock of birds in your dream, represents a lack of objectivity in your decision-making and thinking process.

Flood
Seeing a raging flood with its muddy debris, indicates that you will have much unsettling occurrences and tribulations in life. Your repressed emotions may be overwhelming you. Dreaming that you are swept away by a flood, forewarns that someone is trying to use you. Seeing a gentle flood, demonstrates that your worries over a certain matter will be soon being swept away.

Floodlights
Seeing floodlights in your dreams, symbolizes your desire to open up so that everything is in the open and understood. Seeing a floodlight burn out, symbolizes that you are being kept out in the dark about certain issues..

Floor
Seeing the floor in your dream, represents your support. It may also represent the division between the unconscious and conscious. Seeing a polished, wooden floor in your dream, demonstrates that you are fully aware of your unconscious and keeping it suppressed. Seeing a slanted floor in your dream, foretells that you are deviating too far from your original plans and goals.

Flour
Seeing flour in your dream, symbolizes a frugal but happy way of life. It also demonstrates hard work. This dream symbol may also be a pun on "flower".

Flower
Seeing colourful flowers in your dream, indicates kindness, compassion, gentleness, pleasure, beauty, and gain. It is also symbol of perfection and spirituality. It may be an expression of love, joy or happiness. Alternatively, flowers my denote a particular time or season. If the flowers are white, then it symbolizes sadness. Seeing withered or dead flowers in your dream, means disappointments and gloomy situations. You may not be utilizing your full potential and talents. Dreaming that you receive a bouquet of flowers, represents respect, approval, admiration, and rewards. Seeing flowers blooming in barren soil, indicates that energy and cheerful nature will enable you to overcome your grievances.

Flute
To hear the sound of a flute in your dream, indicates pleasant reunion with distant friends. Dreaming that you are playing the flute, foretells that you will soon fall in love with a well-mannered and classy mate.

Flying
Dreaming that you are flying, indicates a sense of freedom where you had initially felt restricted and limited. Dreaming that you are flying with black wings, indicates bitter disappointments.

Foal
Seeing a foal in your dream, indicates new undertakings and emergence of fresh energy.

Fog
Dreaming that you are going through a thick fog, indicates much confusion, troubles, scandal, and worries. You may not be seeing things the way they really are or you may have lost your sense of direction in life.

Folder
Seeing a folder in your dream, suggests that you need to sort out your feelings and re-organize issues in your waking life, especially if you've experienced some trauma or turmoil recently. Consider the contents of the folder for additional clues.

Food
Seeing food in your dream, represents physical and emotional nourishment and energies. The different types of food can symbolize a wide range of things. Generally, fruit is symbolic of sensuality. Frozen foods may imply your cold emotions and frigid ways. Dreaming that you are hording or storing food, demonstrates a fear of deprivation. You do not trust what you already have. Seeing or eat stale food in your dream, suggests that you are feeling sluggish and emotionally drained. You need to be invigorated and revitalized. *Please also see Eating.

Football
Dreaming that you are watching or playing football, indicates that you will have great satisfaction in your work and your goals will be achieved as you progress through your life. Dreaming that you are on a football field, represents competition and showing off. There is a lack of cooperation in some area of your life.

Footprints
Seeing footprints in your dream, symbolize pride. And heritage. It may also suggest that you are following someone else's footsteps and hint toward your lack of originality and initiative. Alternatively, footprints indicate something or someone you have missed. Perhaps someone is never quite there for you.

Footstool
Seeing a footstool in your dream, suggests that in order to move up and advance in life, you need to learn to ask for help.

Forehead
Seeing a fine and smooth forehead in your dream, indicates your good judgment and fairness. It is also indicative of your intellectual capacities. Seeing a wrinkled forehead, symbolizes worries and burdens. You may be deep in thought. Dreaming that you feel the forehead of your child, means sincere praises.

Foreigner
Seeing a foreigner in your dream, represents an aspect of yourself that is unfamiliar or strange to you. You may be neglecting or ignoring some important feelings or talents.

Forest
Dreaming that you are strolling through a forest, demonstrates that your hardships will pay off and lead to success and prosperity. Dreaming that you are lost in a dense forest, indicates that you are searching through your unconscious for a better understanding of yourself. *Please see also Woods.

Forgetting
Dreaming that you keep forgetting, is your subconscious manifesting itself in your dream that you may have forgotten an appointment or date.

Fork in the Road
Seeing a fork in the road in your dream, represents an important decision that you need to make. It may indicate your choices or ambivalence about some situation. Alternatively, a fork symbolizes the union of opposites. Opposing views/aspects are coming together. Seeing an oak tree at the fork in the road, indicates a decision that may be life-changing.

Fork
Seeing a fork in your dream, indicates an extension of your reach. You are setting forth in pursuing your goals. Alternatively, it may be a pun on "fork it over". Do you feel that you are being coerced or forced? Dreaming of being stabbed with a fork, demonstrates that you are too picky with the ideas/suggestions presented to you. Seeing someone eating with a fork, means that all his present worries will be cleared up through the help of a friend.

Forklift
Seeing or use a forklift in your dream, suggests that you need to rearrange some of your ideals in order to find a solution to a problem. It may also mean that you need t clear out your old emotions and/or memories.

Fort
Dreaming that you are defending a fort, demonstrates that you are always having to be on guard and constantly defending yourself. Dreaming that you attack and take a fort, indicates victory over your other.

Fortress
Dreaming that you are confined in a fortress, indicates that enemies will succeed in putting you in an undesirable situation. Dreaming that you put others in a fortress, indicates your ability to rule over business and over the opposite sex.

Fortune Telling
Dreaming that you are having your fortune told, indicates fears and anxieties about the future. You have issues of control and the desire to know the unknown.

Fossils
Seeing fossils in your dream, symbolizes death. It is represents longevity and that which has last.

Found
Dreaming that you found something, suggests that you are coming into contact with some aspect of your psyche or unconscious. You are recognizing a part of yourself that was previously repressed or undeveloped. Alternatively, it represents change. Dreaming that you found someone, demonstrates that you are identifying new facets of a relationship. You may be taking the relationship to a new level and/or direction. The dream may also be a metaphor for finding yourself.

Foundation
Seeing the foundation of a building, represents your belief system. You are well-prepared for any situation before you. Dreaming that the foundation is shifting, suggests that you are changing your beliefs about something.

Fountain
Seeing a fountain in your dream, represents great joy, renewed pleasure and/or increased sensitivity. You may be entering into a new relationship. Seeing a dry fountain in your dream, demonstrates that you are coming down from the "high" of a passionate relationship.

Fowl
Seeing a fowl in your dream, means temporary worry, illness, or disagreement with friends.

Fox
Seeing a fox lurking about in your dream, represents cleverness and resourcefulness. You need to use your insight and intellect to solve some problem. Perhaps you need to conceal your thoughts and/or remain silent. Alternatively, it demonstrates a period of isolation or loneliness. It is a good way for you to use this time to reflect.

Fraud
Dreaming that you are defrauding a person, indicates that you are of lowly character who indulges in degrading pleasures and will deceive and take advantage of others for your own gain. Dreaming that a fraud has been committed against you, indicates that you feel cheated from what you rightly deserve.

Freckles
Dreaming that you have freckles on your face, indicates that displeasing incidents will be disguised as happiness and you are at risk of losing your lover.

Freezer
Seeing a freezer in your dream, refers to you cold feelings. You are being too frigid. Alternatively, it suggests that you are preserving your ideas and energy so that you can access them later.

Friend
Seeing your friends in your dream, indicates aspects of your personality that you have rejected, but are ready to integrate these rejected part of yourself. The relationships you have with those around you are important in learning about yourself. Additionally, this symbol foretells of happy tidings from them and the arrival of good news. Seeing your friends, saddened and troubled, in your dream, indicates sickness and distress upon them. Seeing your childhood friend in your dream, indicates regression into your past where you had no responsibilities and things were much simpler and carefree. You may want to escape the pressures and stresses of adulthood. Consider the relationship you had with this friend and the lessons that were learned. Alternatively, the childhood friend may be suggesting that you have been acting in a childish manner and you need to start acting like an adult.

Frightened
Dreaming that you are frightened at anything, indicates temporary and fleeting worries.

Frisbee
Seeing or play Frisbee in your dream, represents an easy-going attitude and/or lack of competition. It also serves to remind your that situations and relationships in life or give and take.

Frog
Seeing a frog in your dream, represents a potential to change or to do the unexpected. The frog may be a prince in disguise. Alternatively, the frog may suggest uncleanness. Seeing frogs leaping in your dream, may indicate your lack of commitment. You have the tendency to jump from one thing to another. Alternatively, it may suggest that you are taking major steps toward some goal. Dreaming that you are catching a frog, indicates your carelessness concerning your health. To hear the sounds of a frog in your dream, indicates that you visit with friends will not accomplish anything that you wanted it to.

Frozen
Dreaming that something is frozen, represents something that has been suppressed, rejected, or denied.

Fruit
Seeing fruit in your dream, indicates a period of growth, abundance and financial gain. Fruits generally represent lust and sexuality. In particular green fruit in your dream, means your hastiness and disappointed efforts. You need to work harder and longer in order to achieve your goals. Seeing or eat rotting/bitter fruit, suggests your missed opportunities for growth and pleasure. Dreaming that you buy or sell fruit, indicates much business but little profit in them. See entries on specific fruits for more information.

Frustration
Dreaming that you feel frustrated, represents your difficulty in coping with a situation in your daily life. It may reflect your concerns that your life is not going in the direction you want.

Funeral
Dreaming of your own funeral, symbolizes an ending to a situation or aspect of yourself. You may be repressing some of your feelings or parts of yourself and the dream may be a signal for you to recognize and acknowledge those feelings. Instead of confronting a situation, you are dealing with it by burying it and trying to forget about it. If you are nearing death, a funeral dream may relate to your feelings/anxieties about your own death. Dreaming that you are at somebody else's funeral, indicates that you are burying an old relationship and closing the lid on the past. You may be letting go some of the feelings (resentment, anger, hostility toward someone) that you've been clinging onto. Dreaming that you are attending a funeral for a still-living parent, suggests that you need to separate yourself from your parent's restrictions and confines. The symbolic death may give you the courage you need to take the next step toward your independence and autonomy. Dreaming that you are at the funeral of an unknown person, suggests that something in your life is supposed to put to rest or put aside so that you can make room for something new. You need to investigate further what aspect or component of your life you need to let go. *Please also see Burial.

Fungus
Seeing fungus in your dream, represents negative emotions that are expanding and growing in your unconscious. You need to find a productive way to express them before it grows out of control.

Furniture
Seeing furniture in your dream, represents how you feel about yourself and your family. It refers to your relationships with others and how they fit into your life. Dreaming that you are moving furniture, demonstrates that you are going out of your way to please others. Also, you may be changing your ways and trying to re-evaluate your relationships/attitudes. Seeing old or worn furniture in your dream, symbolizes outdated attitudes, former relationships, and/or old ways of thinking. *Please also refer to specific pieces of furniture.

Furs
Dreaming that you are dressed in furs, indicates prosperity and that you are shielded from poverty.

Future
Dreaming that you are in the future, indicates your hopes or your fears of how things will turn out depending on the scenario.