What Your Dreams Really Mean!
We discovered your most common dreams through a Cosmo poll, and consulted the experts to find out what’s behind them!
Your Top Dream:
Being Chased
According to Richard Nicoletti, a dream analyst at the Jung Institute in Boston, such dreams usually mean that you’re avoiding a painful or frightening issue or person. What’s important is to figure out who or what is chasing you. Lauri Loewenberg, author of So What Did You Dream Last Night?, says you need to confront the threatening situation in real life to stop having such dreams.
Your Top Dream:
Falling Endlessly
Have you been feeling a little stressed lately (work issues? Personal problems?) This dream indicates a lack of control and possible insecurities in your waking life, according to dreammoods.com, publishers of What’s In Your Dream: An A-Z Dream Dictionary.
Your Top Dream:
Being a Celebrity
Ever dreamed you’re a Beyoncé look-alike performing for screaming fans? Your fantasy may simply imply that you want to be rich and famous. Your dream is saying, ‘Work hard to realise your potential’ (but could also
be a warning to be more realistic about your ambitions). However, if you’re dreaming of an A-lister, you may admire something about him or her. For instance, you may be working out to lose weight, and dream of meeting the fit-bodied JLo.
Your Top Dream:
Being Naked
Have you been feeling vulnerable or exposed while awake? According to Keith Stevens, author of The Dreamer And The Beast: How Dreams Exercise Our Primal Instincts, being naked puts you at a disadvantage. For example, without clothes, you would have nowhere to hide a weapon and protect yourself. It could also represent exposing yourself emotionally, or revealing a potentially damaging personal secret.
Your Top Dream:
Losing Teeth
Teeth are extremely important from an evolutionary standpoint—for survival (to eat) and procreation (to attract a potential mate), hence losing them exercises your instinct to protect yourself and your appearance, says Stevens. Dream interpreter Ian Wallace ( ianwallacedreams.com) says, “Teeth represent how powerful and confident you feel”, so your dream could represent a situation that is damaging your confidence.
Your Top Dream:
Being Late
Oprah’s resident dream expert Cynthia Richmond says being late for an appointment or missing an event indicates regret about a lost opportunity or a need to get your life in order. She suggests asking yourself what you are missing in life or whom you might have disappointed. According to the experts at dreammoods.com, your dream could also signify that you feel unready, unworthy or unsupported in your current circumstances.
Your Top Dream:
Flying
Woke up feeling like you have Wonder Woman’s super powers? Dreaming about flying is linked to sexual ambitions, say Russell Grant and Vicky Emptage, authors of The Illustrated Dream Dictionary. If you see yourself flying high, it means you’re happy with your sex life, while trying to fly and failing usually indicates you’re feeling sexually inadequate. Alternatively, Wallace says dreaming about flying shows your desire to conquer difficult circumstances or responsibilities.
Your Top Dream:
Sex-Mares
As much as we’d love it, not all sex dreams are pleasant. But just because you’re dreaming about having sex with, say, a relative, doesn’t mean you’re hot for him. Stevens says sex dreams about someone you’re not attracted to are meant to disgust you so that you don’t pursue such unwise couplings in real life. Ami Angelowicz on thefrisky.com has another theory: “Sex dreams are about merging or connecting with someone,” she says. “It can be a longing for love from that person, a symbol of the current state of your relationship with them, or even a desire to adopt some of that person’s thoughts or attitudes as your own.”