Hat Dream Interpretation: Insights from 30 Unique Sources

Dreaming Lens: Were you wearing the hat or was someone else? Was it a man’s hat or a woman’s hat? Was the hat related to keeping warm in the cold weather? Was the hat more for the purpose of adornment or fashion? Were you aware of to whom the hat belonged? Why did you have the hat and how did you feel about it?

Personal Focus: The head is the symbolic wellspring of our thoughts and ideas. Hats both adorn and protect the head. As such, a hat can represent specific ideas or thoughts themselves, but also the need or desire to contain them. In terms of adornment, a hat can be the outward expression of an inner idea. In the realm of protection, a hat can connect with keeping such ideas firmly in place.

Wearing someone else’s hat could indicate expressing the notion of trying on someone else’s ideas. If you can easily make an association between the hat in your dream and a person in your life, use the Character Aspect technique to inform your interpretation. The same would apply if someone in your dream was wearing the hat.

Style should be considered as well. A man wearing a woman’s hat may be considering a more flamboyant or expressive thought pattern. An old-fashioned hat might connect to an outdated modality of thought. Something very flashy could represent the creativity of your current way of thinking. How you feel about such a hat would indicate the level of risk associated with the choice to be expressive in such a way. Keep in mind the various ways in which hats have been in and out of fashion. The days of ubiquitous hat-wearing are considerably out of fashion. Ski caps used to be exclusively worn in winter, but are now part of the “gangsta” culture.

The motivation for wearing a hat may play a large part in a dream’s interpretation. A hat may be used to hide a loss of hair in which case the meaning takes on a new slant connecting with the authenticity (or lack thereof) of what you are presenting to the world. There are cultural considerations to examine as well: in some cultures, wearing a hat indoors would be considered rude while in others there are religious demands to keep the head covered at all times.

It is possible that you are turning towards the assumption of more responsibilities at work, or be searching for a new work position. According to Freud, hats (and gloves) represent the female genitals due to its ability to surround the body. In contrast, Jung thought that the hat, relative to the crown, gives people a determined expression. So, the type of hat changes the meaning of the dream. A tophat manifests that you want health or that you are too pretentious; a baseball hat that you want to be younger or more athletic; a straw hat, that you hope to adopt a more natural and unworried attitude; a military cap indicates an excess in authoritarianism; lastly, if you wear a ridiculous hat, it is a warning of the grotesque posture that you maintain in the situation represented in the dream. In general, imagining that you are wearing a hat shows a lack of security in what you do and a fear of being judged by others.

The predecessors of Freud believed that if a woman wears a man’s hat, she wants to maintain relations with the owner of the hat. And, if you dream that you lose the hat, you will soon be married.

If you are wearing a very extravagant hat: your actions or your behavior make you look like a fool. Making a hat: you will soon be offered an interesting job—or someone is going to make an interesting request.

The wind blowing the hat off your head means a loss of profit. Watching a hat floating on water may indicate a friend’s suicide. Wearing a straw hat: your lover will be unfaithful. Wearing a hat with feathers: you are too vain and too desperate for admiration.

See Top Hat.

Depth Psychology: The hat represents opinions and attitudes you would rather hide from others; be brave—speak your mind. Who are you suspicious ofr Take off your hat and show the world who you are!

Antiquated methods or approaches (e.g., something is “old hat”). Involvement or interest (e.g., “tossing your hat into the ring”).

The mind: Keeping ideas “under one’s hat.” Top hat: A refined, classy approach to a situation.

Jester’s hat: Clowning around. Possibly using humor as a communication tool, or to cover up insecurity.

Changing hats: Transitions or additional responsibilities especially in a work-related situation (e.g., “wearing many hats”).

If the hat has a logo or a picture this could be about your affiliation or job (as in a fireman’s hat, a fez or baseball cap).

A hat can also be a disguise, a distraction, or an extension of your beliefs.

A hat can also symbolize that you feel the need to protect yourself from the influence of those around you.

See Chakra-Crown, Crown and Yamaka.

(See Cap.)

For a man to dream that he wears a new hat, predicts change of place and business, which will be very much to his advantage.

For a woman to dream that she wears a fine new hat, denotes the attainment of wealth, and she will be the object of much admiration.

For the wind to blow your hat off, denotes sudden changes in affairs, and somewhat for the worse.

A flowered bonnet may comment on old-fashioned feminine values.

A Nike sports hat may point to someone who thinks he can do anything with the right attitude.

A Nike cap worn over the third eye may suggest that you use your psychic abilities.

A sports cap representing your favorite team may indicate a sense of rooting for yourself and those you love.

If the hat is old and shabby, the dreamer’s current job will eventually “get old.”

If the hat is too small for the dreamer, something in his life for which he had high hopes could turn out to be a disappointment. But if the hat is too large, he has bitten off more than he could chew.

A top hat or fashionable ladies’ hat indicates a rise in social status.

(2) According to what sort of hat it is, it may represent a particular quality, role or lifestyle. Changing hats may therefore denote a (needed) change of attitude or direction or values; throwing your hat away may mean a decision to concentrate less on “worldly5 performance and more on self-knowledge’ and personal wholeness.

The type of hat points to the personality of the dreamer.

See Cap

According to psychoanalysis, a hat is a phallic symbol. Today it is more likely a symbol of the condom.

A tipped hat suggests a greeting, and different types of hats symbolize different situations (e.g., a beret suggests the military and a top hat represents magic, a formal occasion, a dance routine).

If you lose your hat it forecasts a very unsatisfactory outlook.

The hat is also used as a symbol of the male sex organ and its function.

If you are wearing the hat, you need more creativity in your life.

To lose a hat predicts a shameful experience.

If you lose your Hat, beware of false friends.

See Cap.

2. Concealment.

3. Social status.

4. Healing, recovery (woman’s hat).

2. Attitude;

3. Protection;

4. Thoughts; Eph. 6:17; Is. 59:17;1 Thes 5:8; Is. 59:17.

A son who takes his dad’s place, wears his hat

black: false friends of the opposite sex.

bonnet, wearing a: much slander from envious friends.

floating on water, your: be wary of the philosophy behind a friend’s mental health.

hatbox, closing a: wil be cal ed on your indiscretions.

empty: worry wil be smoothed away with reasoning and logic.

full: disappointment concerning a party.

opening a: a gay occasion to come where your presence wil be marveled at.

hood, hiding under a: secrecy and concealment behind cover of perfection.

losing a new: freedom from old-fashioned authority.

your: have lost your position of power at work.

making a: your thoughts on a creative job wil be requested.

man’s: useless work wil lead to emotional sorrow.

milliner, of a: your vanity brings easy money.

buying a, from a: wil encounter debts, despite business being to your great advantage.

selling a, to: wil have money coming in the near future.

off to someone, taking your: humility towards a success is not humiliation.

taking off a: a conscious show of respect resulting in advancement.

wearing a big: are trying to conceal your lack of self-confidence under extravagance.

new: wish attention were centered on you, and it wil be.

not, when appropriate: your thoughts are uncontrol able in the winds of truth.

old torn, an: physical damage and dishonor to your soul.

Panama, a: wil crash parties you could not afford to give.

pith helmet: wil visit a tropical country.

someone else: cowering from a situation.

straw: are prone to a conceit that irritates your associates.

top: expect to hobnob with the magic of royalty.

turban: a long-awaited arrival bringing most wanted supplies.

woman, an unusual: big admiration for final y exposing your true self.

wind blowing your, off: perplexing puzzle wil require skil ful handling.

young woman: prone to flirting and wil be cal ed to account for it.

woman’s: sign of status and pride.