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💡Possible meaning

This symbol is a masculine archetype and therefore represents logic and structure. This also indicates that you seek authority, control, or protection in life. The shadow side of the symbol father is rigid control and archaic principles that choke out life and the more feminine sides of our nature.

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This dream shows your connection to the more logical and structured part of your life. Think about how you handle situations in life. Do you plan things or jump in without preparation? By noticing the details of this dream, you will discover whether you need more control, authority, and discipline or if you have too much and need to embrace freedom and more feminine aspects of your nature. Alternatively, such dreams can also indicate that you are thinking about your father and need to consider your relationship with him.

❤️ Feelings

The dream about a father can evoke a range of emotions. It may bring feelings of security, guidance, and protection. It can also trigger sentiments of love, respect, and admiration. Additionally, this dream might elicit emotions of nostalgia, longing, or even unresolved issues. The presence of a father figure in a dream often symbolizes authority, support, and a sense of belonging. However, the specific emotions associated with this dream can vary depending on the individual's relationship with their own father and the context of the dream itself.

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11 Nov 2024

dream-about-floating-bridge-and-family-reunion
Birthday
Father
House
Woods

Dream

We were in the woods, me, my husband, my stepdaughter, my son, and his cousin, my nephew, Joshua. And we were there all for Kai's birthday, which is December 14th of this year. And while we were there, I saw this bridge, but the bridge wasn't attached to anything. It was kind of floating. There were a lot of people on it, and I realized that the way to get onto the bridge is actually quite simple. So I started moving ahead, but Kai and Joshua were kind of lagging behind. Me and Camilla and my husband were moving forward. But then we got into this. We got into this room, it's hard to explain because it's a dream, and there were all of these people there and I saw my father, and in the dream I didn't remember that he was dead, physically, and I got so excited and I said, oh my goodness, this is the best surprise, and so Sebastian and Camila had gone off to where Sebastian had rented a place, and I told my father that Sebastian was turning 76. It felt right in the dream, but my husband's going to be 49 in January, and my father followed me to the place. I was so excited, and when Sebastian and my father saw each other, I urged Sebastian to greet him really kindly and to be excited. Then, the place was really big and Kai texted me some words that I couldn't understand but said that that's where he and his cousin were, but they were on their way. When I saw them outside, they were so excited to see my father. They were screaming, GP, GP! And the house was beautiful. Joshua was like, wow, this is like a mansion that you have. And it was at the foot of the bridge. To remember that. Around the bridge, there was a corner and that's where the home was and then we were about to cross the bridge and I woke up.

10 Nov 2024

dream-of-hiding-in-a-hotel-room
Breaking up
Moving
Crying
Father
Apartment
Child

Dream

my daughter, her father and i all went to work with him. he works as a housekeeper. this is our first time going to work with him. when we got there, he took us in one of the rooms. He had to clean and let us sit on the couch and watch movies while he worked. we watched a whole movie and he stayed in the back rooms cleaning. he came out and said somebody was about to come in. I asked him if we needed to get up and leave so he could do his job and he said no it’s OK. Stay here. They’re just gonna be moving their things in. as we watched TV I could hear people at the door coming to move their things into the hotel room. it was a woman and two baby girls who were around three and four years old. the woman went to the back room to load her things into the closet. for some reason, I understood it was a hotel room, but she was taking my things out of my closet. her father, my fiancé spent some time in one of the rooms back there while she was loading the closet. then her father came in and told me that there was bad news and we had to move. for some reason, I was devastated as if we had to leave our actual home, almost like I forgot it was a hotel room at his job that he was cleaning. I started to get up and pack things out of the kitchen. then he said never mind. It’s OK we can stay. when I saw the lady I smiled and said hi. I also saw her kids and told them they were so cute. my fiancé said our daughter and I are OK to sit down on the couch again, and watch movies. the other kids gravitated to the couch as well. then, eventually, my fiancé, a.k.a. my daughter’s dad came and sat sit on the couch too. I noticed he pulled out his gaming system and started playing games on the TV from his PlayStation and got super confused. I asked him how are you allowed to play your games right now when you are working. he said no, it’s fine. I’m done with this room just waiting for my next and then we will move. I walked towards the kitchen, and the lady came into the kitchen to start cooking something for her kids and I looked over and told her her hair was pretty. she gave me a dirty look and I said do you do hair, I need my hair done. she said no very rudely and walked off. I looked at my fiancé, confused and walked back over to the couch with him, my daughter, and her kids just waiting to leave the hotel room at this point . I could see in a mirror where the lady was in one of the rooms, and saw her plop on the bed. her kids ran back there with her and jumped on their bed to be with their mommy. as I sat on this couch of a hotel room at my husband’s work with my child, waiting for his next room to come available for him to clean, her kids ran back in the living room and started hugging my fiancé. my fiancé gave them hugs kiss them on their forehead like they were his kids. at that point I was like what the actual fuck is going on. he looked at me and said I thought it would work. I said what the fuck do you mean you thought it would work. at that point, it dawned on me that he had a second life and tried to bring us together. I was pissed. I immediately started balling my eyes out and getting me and my daughters things together to leave. he stayed on the couch, playing his game with a small smirk, and an attitude like oh well. me and my daughter started leaving and walking down the stairs at the hotel as I’m crying and everybody in the hotel was leaving at that point. my fiancé, the woman, and her kids were walking far behind us to go to a car I imagine. I just bawled my eyes out, crying, walking towards my car with my daughter. and then I woke up.

5 Nov 2024

dream-about-cockroaches-and-creepy-landlord
Fear
High School
Father
House
Infestation
Water

Dream

I was renting a house from this man named Andy. Andy is a real person from my life. He was a janitor at a job I worked and had a crush on me. He was always a little creepy and way older. I was supposed to be renting it with my sister but somehow she wasn’t there and hadn’t been paying rent. It was very messy with my stuff and hers in corners of the house. The house was two floors but didn’t really have any rooms, just each floor like one big room. When I went to the laundry room I saw beetles and cockroaches. It was a total infestation and they were crawling all over the dirty laundry on the ground. Over my favorite tomato sweater and everything. It was snowing and I also began to realize water was coming through the second floor into the corners of the first floor of the house. I tried to get the cockroaches first with humane traps. The traps came with live cockroaches that were supposed to lure other ones into the humane trap. The trap was made to stuck to the ground and cockroaches would go into it and not be able to come out. I put two on the ground and immediately the cockroaches escaped. Now I had introduced even more cockroaches. I told myself I’d have to buy the poison to kill them all. I realized now that water was pouring from a corner so I rushed up to the second floor to see snow was melting through the cracks in the wooden roof. The house was now like a log cabin. Or maybe it was just how it was the whole time and I hadn’t noticed. I realized I’d have to call Andy. But Andy was creepy and could be unpredictable and sometimes over reactive. I started cleaning and sorting the corners of the room with the most mess. The items were wet now but I just tried to make it cleaner so Andy wouldn’t be made or comment on it. I started cleaning under the bed. Anxious that Andy would ask why I didn’t notice or call him sooner. I started thinking in my head how he might proposition me to give him a blowjob in exchange for fixing things in the house I was renting from him or in exchange for not paying different parts of the rent. Then I worried what if I said no. Would he force me anyway? I started to clean faster even more nervous. The house was looking a lot cleaner and I turned my attention to the laundry room again. Now with the clothes off the floor and in a corner I didn’t see any coackroaches although I knew they were there. I was still nervous about one running across the floor while Andy was at the house. before the dream ended, I saw either Andy or my dad parking the car in the snow outside the house. I can’t remember, but I do think it was my dad and I think in the dream I was relieved that it wasn’t Andy, but I was also nervous because I knew my dad was going to comment on how messy the house was too Back-and-forth in my head if giving Andy a blow job if he proposition to me would be fun or not consensual/assault. Somehow there is also a part in my dream about musical theater and a high school Director, not having enough money for a musical production despite the students being really really talented. However, most of my dream was about the house, the cockroaches the water coming in from the second floors roof to the first floor in all the corners of the house and feeling anxious about having to call the landlord Andy for help because was creepy and I was afraid that he might Hurt me sexually.

5 Nov 2024

dream-about-getting-lost-and-fear
Apartment
Celebration
Fear
Sexual
Darkness
Father

Dream

I was home getting to head to work, it looked like it could’ve winter outside as I was dressed warm and so was the client I’m assigned to. She came over to my address, which in my mind I was confused to how she knew my exact address and wondered if the agency gave her my address as in the past they’ve provided my old phone number to a patient but I wasn’t sure if they’d do the same thing with addresses. So, I left my home with the patient and my area looked different, the patient had this big bag and asked me to carry it in my bag she put it in my bag but surprisingly it wasn’t that heavy and she was assuring that it wasn’t and that it’s better I hold it in my bag instead. I was in this a apartment, I walked into the bedroom and it felt like it Jacob’s (the guy I was seeing recently) room as it seemed familiar. There was an apartment unit next to the room I was in and I thought it’d be a nice idea if I could be roommates with them one day, so I took out a piece of paper and while writing I’ve encountered something. It’s like I was watching something unfold without actually being, and it was an unserious situation going on as if they were playing a game plus a newly celebrity was involved and the game seemed a bit lustful. I was then at the park playing on the playground with the other girls, we were celebrating someone’s birthday. I decided to a store and used Google Maps to walk me there, I found myself in this building that I was supposed to walk through but I winded up getting lost inside the building but before I got lost I seen this little girl and her father together. But when I became lost, I seen the same girl close by calling out for him she looked scared and confused but when I realized she was by herself that’s when I wanted make sure she was okay. She said she seen her dad and pointed in the corner where I only seen a glimpse of him, and I found it eerie that he just stood there and looked like a completely black figure so I told the girl that it’s not him and tried to evade. We were running every door that could be closed shut but it wasn’t closing as the dad still managed to catch it before closing, until we got into another secluded room and I grew the courage to close it tightly with her help. He began banging on the door, and he started talking to the girl in a calm way but obviously angry but he started saying sexual stuff—stuff I wish he could’ve been saying to me in that moment as it was turning me on but unfortunately that was for his daughter who looked no older than 6.

4 Nov 2024

dream-about-wedding-and-family-reunion-3
Castle
Father
Gift
Sister
Wedding

Dream

i went to attend a wedding of a friend i never met in my waking life. we follow each other on instagram for over 4 years now. im my dream it was a very fairytale wedding the venue looks like a castle. i had a chance to congratulate her and i gave her a big hug and mentioned thats its crazy that it’s our first time meeting in person. the person who congratulated her before me gave her a hand made bead bracelet. so she gifted that to me. later on in my dream i remember that the end of the strand broke off but i was fine with it. because its just a fragile piece of plastic. in my dream too my sister was there but she’s WAAAY younger than me. in reality she’s only 4 years younger. we had dry martini with a lot of olives in it. i didn’t know that my sister loves olives. so i walked to the back to get us another round. i asked the bartender to give us extra olives. instead of 7 maybe 8 or 9. on my way back to meet with my sister i saw my dad was there too. he was at a different table with some friends. i sat with him for a bit then proceed to go back to my sister to bring out martini.

3 Nov 2024

dream-about-roller-coaster-and-dog
Dog
Father
Roller coaster

Dream

I was at an amusement park and there was a roller coaster that had two different coasters and it was two dragon coasters. As I was riding the roller coaster, we were going around the loop-de-loop and when we went around the next turn I saw that the other coaster had stopped and that there was a person that was knocked unconscious and the ride had to stop and emergency vehicle people were helping get those people off the roller coaster. As we were coming off of the ride, you had to wait for the train tracks to rotate so the walkway can come through and I saw what looked like my dog in a pipe that was pushing its head through a pipe to try and get through and as we were waiting for the walkway to come back up, there was this pool where my dog was sitting there soaking wet, shivering cold and had blood on her side and I saw her and I picked her up and I was holding her. and carried her off the walkway as I was walking down the walkway I saw my father who I haven't spoke to in a long time watching my little cousin who I love very much and I would never normally see that in real life and he told her to wait not run towards me because she was very excited to see me and I was just carrying the dog to the end of the the line where she was standing there waiting for me and then I woke up

26 Oct 2024

dream-about-hotel-family-conflict
Father
Hotel
Mother
Relationship
Sex

Dream

I was at this hotel and it was pretty cool and had a child-like style to it. I was wandering around the place, going in and out my room a few times. An issue occurred when my mother and this man was there and they’ve found out about a guy I was hanging with the man was the father of the song. My mother said she heard that I’ve said some naughty stuff on Amazon, which I found odd that she heard it there of all places and the father didn’t seem upset about the issue and was trying to diffuse the situation so I felt a bit bad when I went off on them stating this isn’t any of their business what I’m doing with my sex life. Eventually, I spoke to my mother again and I think she wanted to know what happened and I asked why would I give her that sort of information. I reminded her that our relationship isn’t at a great place, I know you feel like we do but the feeling isn’t mutual. She was hurt by my words.

20 Oct 2024

dream-about-astral-body-and-vampires
Being chased with a knife
Zombie
Vampire
Crying
Family
Father

Dream

I was going to sleep last night, I woke up in my astral body and I was getting grabbed from everywhere. So I got myself out of it, went back to the physical body and then I went back to sleep, went back into the astral body and I got grabbed from everywhere again and it was just holding me in place so I couldn't really move and I slept right back out into the physical body and then I went back to the astral body and for the third time the same thing happened and then the fourth time I finally went to sleep and then I had a dream that I left my car at a spot where there was a party going on so I couldn't move it until the party was ended. So we had to wait for the party to end and while we were waiting for the party to end my friends decided to do their gifts but then they stole a second pair of gifts and tried to run away but the security guards got them but because I didn't do anything I was sweet but they weren't and then there were zombie like vampires around which was weird too and the zombies were, alright we're all hanging out and we're all talking and then one zombie perked up, sorry one vampire perked up and went and killed my father, put him on the neck and he died and I started shooting at that vampire and then I was loading silver bullets and shooting the silver bullets at him and the vampire was coming at me but the vampire was just trying to tell me dad was going to commit suicide anyway and he was just writing a message saying that's why the vampire killed him so I started crying and there was a bit of support around me from the family but then the family were a little bit standoffish and I started to realise well dad wanted to commit suicide anyway so I stopped getting upset as much.

18 Oct 2024

dream-about-being-in-a-strange-taxi
Demon possession
Fear
Violence and death
Car
Father
Train

Dream

I had ordered a taxi, and when the taxi came, it was the same car as my dad's, but it had no logos on it or anything. That should of been my first indicater that something was wrong. But I got inside, and there was two people inside. I said hello, and it was like, hello, and then I can't remember anything after that, but we had been driving for like a while. I never told them where I was going, so they're just driving. But it should have been my second red flag, right? And then the dude, I'm sitting behind the passenger seat, and the man, both of them are men. So the man that's sitting in the passenger seat of the car, he puts his hand behind, because I had taken up something from the seat next to me, and put it below where my feet were. So as soon as I did that, he started to like touch behind the seat, like as if he was looking for it. So I just simply put my hand there, like brushing his, so he automatically put his hand back. When he did that, he turned around to look at me, like as if I was like, if I did something to make him angry. And then, another dude just pulled over and turned his head and was like, was like, oh, do you have a problem, and then he had a, he was like, no. He was like, and then he was like, oh, I'm trying to get this girl's bag, and she wouldn't let me. I was like, what? Your trying to steal from this poor girl, and you're upset that she wouldn't let you? So we were at the train station, he's like, so he's like, get out of my car. He's like, you can take the train home, get out of my car. So he gets out of the car, right? And then, he's driving, and because he's driving, and then he's like, oh, what's your address? I was like, um, what? I was on the same flight as him, but I was like, no. Something isn't right about this. So I was like, hold on, hold on, because I don't know what to do. Of course, that's not true. I just want to go home. And then, he's like, okay. So I'm thinking, I'm going to look over and see if I can figure out where I want to go. So he keeps driving, and he kind of turns all of a sudden. I was like, what the hell? So then, and then he stops for like two seconds. And then, the same dude that got out of the car earlier, he's walking behind my side window and gets back in the car. And then, he gets out of the car, to the side of the car, to harass me. Like, oh, get out of the car, get out of the car. And then, I get out of the car, stay in the car, stay in the car, stay in the car. And then, I'm like, usually come off. And then, I'm like yelling back at him. I'm like, why? Why? Alright, well, thank you for hearing me. But like, before that, I had, um, I was like calling people to get like, um, some phone numbers. I called my dad. But then, as soon as he picked up the phone, I hanged up on him. And I called, um, 911. But then, when they answered, it was a random voice message. Like, automated message or something. I don't know. And then, that's when the dude came outside to harass me. And then, while we were going back and forth, the man sitting in the driver's seat, because I was sitting behind the driver's seat now. The man in the driver's seat, he's like, oh, I'm going to eat you. I went both times and looked at him like, what? And then, he takes out, because he had a bag with him, a white bag. He takes out a single jug of the bag he's sitting in. And I'm like, this man is a cannibal. What the fuck? Right? So then, me, to the other man, didn't know about this. So now, he's weirded out too. Like, what? That's like, I mean, that's disgusting. So, I take off my seatbelt. I don't know why I still have my seatbelt on. I take it off, I get off my seatbelt, and I get out the car. And then, he gets out the car. The other dude. He gets out the car. He's like, get back in the car. I'm like, no, I want you to get back in the car. Then, he gets back in the car. It says, like, turn until it's a Demon or something. And then, that's when I wake up.

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