The Symbolism of Garments in Dreams: Reflection of Inner Thoughts and Life's Circumstances
Garments in a dream are a powerful representation of one's innermost thoughts and feelings, which ultimately manifest in life through attitude and actions.
Interpretation of Garments
If one’s thoughts are good, they will show through positive attitudes and behaviors, while evil thoughts will also manifest in a similar way. Dreaming of wearing new garments is typically better than wearing old ones, symbolizing fresh perspectives and renewed intentions.
Wearing Unusual or Inappropriate Garments
If a man wears a woman’s apparel in a dream, it signifies that he is a bachelor. Similarly, if a woman wears a man’s garment, it indicates that she is unmarried. Wearing a garment that is not fitting for the occasion, such as a slipper on the head, suggests carrying trouble or confusion.
Symbolism of Specific Garments
- Stately apparel: Signifies honor and dignity.
- Soldier's uniform: Represents war or conflict.
- Scholar's robe: Denotes studying or becoming learned.
- Salesman's suit: Suggests hard work or job-seeking, especially if the suit looks expensive.
- White garment: Signifies pride, honor, and dignity.
- Silken garment: Represents strength, high rank, or in the case of a deceased person, dwelling in heavenly paradise.
- Garment adorned with gold: Symbolizes victory over one’s enemies.
Colors and Fabrics
Black garment: Symbolizes honor, reign, and mastery over others.
Green garment: Represents martyrdom or religious devotion.
Cotton garment: Signifies following the Prophet's tradition.
Woolen garment: Denotes clarity, though if coarse or unfitting, it represents poverty and humiliation.
Linen garment: Suggests enjoying a blessing or favor.
Special Garments and Occasions
Wearing a brocaded garment in a dream indicates receiving an important message, rising in status, or enjoying wealth. It may also symbolize the blessing of having a child. Robes that trail behind one’s feet suggest rebellion and disobedience, while moderately short coats signify purity and chastity.
Other Symbolic Garments
- Kufi or headdress: Indicates atonement for sins.
- Jubbah or long cloak: Suggests longevity.
- Open sports jacket: Denotes ease in life or financial success.
- Military uniform: Reflects distress, trouble, or scientific disputes.
- Festival or celebration costume: Represents prosperity and wealth saved for one’s children, or buying new merchandise for a business.
- Traditional costumes: Celebrating with another community or befriending them.
See Also: Filth, Linen, Used clothing
[1]Clothing reflects the importance of appearance. It could show your true personality or hide your imperfections. It also reveals desire for elegance, notoriety, and success in love. The color and type of garment will supply more information about the meaning of this dream. So, clothing with bright colors evidences the need to call the attention of others, and generally, a lack in security. Warm colors denote happiness and optimism. Dark and cold colors indicate secrets and depression.
If your clothing is worn, you should rethink some of your habits and attitudes. In this sense, you may need to improve yourself. When you dream that you are changing clothes, it means that you will soon experience developments in your life. And, if it is tight on you, maybe you are restricting some issue too much: it could be an emotional relationship or a position at work. (See Also: SHIRT, TORN, NUDITY, RAGS, MAKEUP, PANTS)
The earliest oneiric interpretations found say that dreaming of a nude woman predicts good luck, as you will be provided with unexpected satisfactions. In contrast, dreaming that you are wearing too much clothing means that your vital needs are not covered.
Dreaming of new clothing, lastly, foretells a domestic argument.
[2]Dreaming of wearing clothes that are totally inappropriate - such as wearing a bathing suit on the ski slopes - indicates circumstances in your life that require a reality check before you can move ahead.
If in the dream you change your clothes, you’ll be successful.
A dream of being naked in public is a very common type of dream, and usually means that the dreamer feels exposed, vulnerable and at the mercy of others.
Dressing yourself, especially if in fashionable clothes, indicates advancement socially and professionally. Undressing, however, indicates temporary setbacks.
Dirty, soiled, or worn clothing is a warning not to take anyone’s word for anything. Get the facts yourself.
Tight or otherwise uncomfortable clothing hints at being involved in a prickly situation or that some situation in your life is making you uncomfortable, and you need to make some adjustments.
[3]Clothing generally represent our worldly appearance or status. At times, it may represent our attitudes toward ourselves and others. Mostly, it represent the way that we appear to the world. Clothes are not symbolic of our private self, but rather of our public self.
A poor man wears different clothes than a rich man.
A doctor’s attire is different from that of a carpenter.
The type of clothing that we wear varies from situation to situation.
The type of clothes that you are wearing in the dream will give you clues to the meaning of the dream and to your unconscious ideas about yourself and others.
[4]To dream of an item of clothing, whether you are wearing or buying it is significant, depending on what it is. Footwear relates to how grounded you feel, and if you’re secure in yourself. Glamorous heels suggest a need to be elevated and admired. Practical styles reveal a solid, dependable nature. Trousers mean business with a capital ‘B’, while a gorgeous dress is about self-confidence and sexuality. Headwear is often linked to spirituality. If it is delicate, then there’s a joyful lightness to your presence. A warm, woolly hat suggests a comforting person who looks out for others.
[5]Clothing in a dream often depicts the self ’s persona. Old ragged clothing can mean old ways and ideas need to be, or are about to be, changed. Much changing of clothes or costumes can also suggest the need for change, and trying to fit into a new way of being in the world. Likewise, the wearing of new and beautiful garments often suggests new things in the life of the dreamer, such as social or economic improvement. (See Also: Costume.)
[6]Clothing in general reveals the image that you want to project to the world. Each article of clothing reveals different concerns, qualities, beliefs, attitudes, and expressions Even the color and conditions of the clothing may reveal significant information.
For example, clothing that is tattered or torn may signify that you feel emotionally shredded by an experience. You may also be expressing a “poor me” attitude.
[7]1. Covering for sin
2. Burning clothes speak of Fornication
3. Condition of clothing depicts the state of our relationship with God; James 2:2; Matt. 7:15; Prov. 6:26-27.
Look up entries under individual colors.
[8]interpreted upon 7 sides: faith, wealth, glory, high standing & a usefulness, righteous work, justice, fairness, this is [so] if there was not something in them [clothing] that he denies.
[9]Spiritual covering; the outward reflection of one’s inner spirit; research color, fabric, size, condition, type, i.E. Shirt, pants, etc.
[10]See Also: Dress/ Clothing.
[11]Dreaming of Clothes: Symbolism, Meanings, and Interpretations
Dreams about clothes often represent how we present ourselves to the world, our self-image, and the roles we adopt. The type, color, and condition of the clothing can provide insights into our emotional state, desires, and challenges we may be facing.
Arranging and Altering Clothes
Arranging clothes: Expect an unexpected visitor.
Making alterations: You may need to adjust your outward appearance to reflect inner changes.
Children's clothes: Happiness and harmony in the family.
Others making alterations for you: Suggests acquiring an immortal or enduring legacy.
Colors and Their Meanings
Blue: A vigorous and active mind.
Brown: Joy without material gain.
Crimson: Dignity and distinction.
Gray: An important and beneficial event is on the horizon.
Green: Financial gains.
Pink: Recovery of lost money.
Red: You will receive a sad letter.
Mauve: Represents being sexually inviolate.
Conditions of Clothing
Badly dressed: You may feel dissatisfied with your attractiveness to others.
Soiled clothing: You possess raw creative power that needs to be harnessed.
Wearing tattered clothes: Emphasizing work at the expense of personal needs.
Wearing new clothes: Domestic troubles that concerned you are now resolved.
Buying and Selling Clothes
Buying clothes: Represents the persona or face you are willing to reveal to others.
Selling clothes: Losses cannot be recouped by selling possessions.
Dreaming of Specific Clothing Types
Nightcap: Abundance in business.
Overalls: Undertaking a dirty or challenging task.
Kimono: You will attend a fete where you meet your destiny.
Baby clothes: Feeling childish or out of place in an adult occasion.
Wearing or Not Wearing Clothes
Overdressed: You are being overly protective of yourself.
Partly dressed: You may be acting irrationally or irritably.
Wearing no clothes: Feeling pure and exposed, representing your true self.
Unable to get clothes off: Struggling to conform to social norms.
Unwilling to take off clothes: Refusal to reveal your real character.
Clothes in Relation to Social Identity
Wearing the wrong clothes for an occasion: You feel torn between your desires and what others expect from you.
Clothes too big: You may feel overwhelmed by a role or responsibility.
Clothes too small: Your current role feels too limited or restrictive.
Wearing another’s clothes: You may wish to adopt aspects of another person’s life or personality.
Other Dream Interpretations Related to Clothes
Camouflage: You are hiding something.
Accessories: Feeling out of place or unnecessary for the occasion.
Missing specific clothing: The exposed body part may signify vulnerability in that area of life.
See Also: Accessories, Colors, Garments
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