Detective Dream Interpretation: Insights from 17 Unique Sources

[DREAM IMAGES: DOUBLE AGENT; PRIVATE INVESTIGATOR; SHERLOCK HOLMES; SLEUTH; SNOOP; SPY ETC.]

Positive characteristics of the detective include the ability to seek out knowledge and information that supports solving crimes and protecting the public. The shadow side of these archetypes can manifest as voyeurism, falsifying information, or selling out to the highest bidder.

If the detective archetype appears in your dreams, it could be encouraging you to become more inquisitive. On the other hand, it could be questioning your motives for seeking out information.

To dream about a detective suggests that excitement is present within your waking life.

To dream that you are a detective suggests that you are seeking out innate talents that you have yet to discover. You may also be attempting to take care of a situation and find verity about an issue that is bothering you.

To dream that you are being followed by a detective suggests a sense of culpability. Your reputation will be placed under a microscope and doubted.

As a person in your dream, a detective is a character aspect of your own personality. This is the part of you that is responsible for figuring things out as your life unfolds.

If a detective appears in your dream, the implication is that whatever you are attempting to figure out still has mysteries associated with it that may yet be solved. Surrender to the process.

In real life, detectives seek hidden truths. While you sleep, you act in the same way: trying to solve a problem and to approach it sincerely. Perhaps, you perceive that something is wrong or that someone has not been completely honest with you.

If you are falsely accused by a detective, the dream portends that fortune and honor will soon be on your side.

To dream of a detective keeping in your wake when you are innocent of charges preferred, denotes that fortune and honor are drawing nearer to you each day; but if you feel yourself guilty, you are likely to find your reputation at stake, and friends will turn from you.

For a young woman, this is not a fortunate dream.

If you dream you are a detective, you are trying to solve a problem that is worrying you.

If you are followed by a detective in your dream, you will have fortune and honor. But if you feel you’ve done something bad, then your reputation will be in jeopardy and your friends will turn away from you.

1. Difficulties or problems need thoughtful attention (as in “detective work”).

2. Guilt over words or deeds regarding re­lationships or possibly business matters.

3. Issues of loyalty arise.

You will be placed in an embarrassing situation that may turn out to be serious if you dream of being a detective.

If you dream of being arrested by a detective, you are in danger from your enemies.

The thrills and dangers of everyday life. This dream symbol often points to your search for your personal, as yet unknown, abilities and possibilities, but also to danger.

If you dream of a detective, then this dream reflects your vigilance, objectivity and that you are looking for clues to resolve a mysterious happening in your life.

This fellow in your dream signifies what he does.

You can expect to learn the solution to a perplexing problem which has been plaguing you.

To dream of being a detective symbolizes that you are searching out the meaning of a matter in your life, Deut. 19:18

You will hear a confession that will rectify an important mistake in your opinion of someone.

One who is trying to detect the truth

Searching for answers and insight.

See Police.

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being a: irritating troubles can be overcome in your search for insight and answers.

being blamed by a: feel you deserve punishment for misdeed.

interrogated: the wrong people are inquiring into your credit.

questioned by a: wish to unburden your guilt, but not for the crime in question.

inquisitive about your affairs, being: cannot know the future but plan for it anyway.

interrogating a suspect: relationships are stunted by your invasive questioning.

others being with a: wil lose reputation and friends wil turn against you.

taken away by a: your friend is not guilty, do not abandon.