Advice
Dreams about receiving or giving advice often highlight guidance that’s relevant to your current situation and decisions. This advice can come from external sources in the dream or be a manifestation of your own inner wisdom speaking to you.
- Seeking Solutions and Clarity: Advice in dreams typically signifies a search for answers, direction, or a different perspective on a troublesome situation in your waking life.
- Inner Wisdom: The advice giver can often represent a part of yourself, your intuition, or a storehouse of knowledge and experience your subconscious is drawing upon.
- External Influences and Support: When the advice comes from a recognizable figure in the dream, it may point to specific individuals in your life who offer support, or alternatively, to those whose judgment you might not fully trust.
Specific considerations
- The Source of Advice: Was it yourself, a wise old figure, a friend, or someone unexpected? The source offers clues about whether the dream highlights inner wisdom or external guidance.
- Advice Content: Was the advice helpful, confusing, or downright wrong? This reflects the quality of guidance you’re currently seeking or subconsciously processing.
- Emotions: How did the advice make you feel? Relieved, empowered, doubtful, or annoyed? Your feelings indicate your openness to different perspectives and readiness to receive help.
Waking life
- Are you facing a tough decision or problem? The advice received in the dream might offer symbolic clues on how to proceed or a fresh perspective on your situation.
- Are you listening to your intuition? Consider whether you trust your inner voice or tend to rely excessively on external guidance.
- Who do you turn to for advice? Is there reliable support in your life or, conversely, does the dream warn you about whose advice you might need to question?