Dreaming of father

Artemidorus · Oneirocritica

Drawn up, it speaks of To see your father hale and approving foretells support in a difficult matter and the favor of men in authority.

Drawn down, it warns of A father angry or silent warns of a dispute with power, a magistrate, a landlord, an elder, and counsels patience before petition.

Jungian · the collective unconscious

Drawn up, it speaks of The father figure is order, law, the voice that says how things are done, and inside you he is the structure you stand on. A kind father in a dream is authority made peace with, your own or another's.

Drawn down, it warns of A wrathful, absent, or unreachable father is the rule-giver in you gone cold, approval chased down decades. Ask whose standards you are still measuring your mornings by.