figures encountered
Dreaming of Father
Two traditional perspectives
These are symbolic interpretations from different traditions, not facts about your life or forecasts. Your associations may be different.
Artemidorus · Oneirocritica
To see your father hale and approving foretells support in a difficult matter and the favor of men in authority.
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
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.
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.
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