Affair
Dreams about an affair often symbolize unmet needs, betrayals, and anxieties surrounding your current relationship inside yourself or with others. These dreams rarely signify a literal desire for infidelity, but rather, highlight deeper insecurities and dissatisfaction within your life.
- Unmet Needs and Dissatisfaction: An affair in a dream can indicate neglected needs within a relationship, a feeling of unfulfillment and a longing for attention, excitement, or emotional connection.
- Betrayal and Loss of Trust: Even in a dream, affairs violate basic trust. They might highlight fears of betrayal, anxieties over a partner’s loyalty, or represent a broken trust within a different kind of relationship (friendship, business, etc.).
- Inner Conflict: An affair can symbolize a struggle between suppressed desires or impulses and your own personal values. It may represent a part of yourself longing for expression that feels incompatible with your conscious beliefs.
Specific considerations
- Whose Affair?: Was it yours, your partner’s, or someone else’s? This clarifies whether the betrayal anxieties are about yourself, your partner, or others in your life.
- Identity of the Other Person: Someone familiar, a mysterious stranger, or a symbolic figure? Known persons can suggest specific traits you crave, whereas a stranger may point to a missing quality within your relationships.
- Emotions: Did you feel guilt, excitement, fear, or indifference within the dream? Your emotions reveal your underlying anxieties and attitudes towards the unmet needs or conflicts the dream brings into focus.
Waking life
- Are there unmet needs in any of your relationships? This includes romantic partnerships, friendships, and even your relationship with yourself. Are there aspects of your life where you feel unfulfilled?
- Do you hold fears of betrayal? Consider whether there are any relationships where trust has been eroded, causing you anxiety or suspicion.
- Are you grappling with suppressed desires? The affair can highlight impulses or parts of your personality that you’ve disowned and that may be seeking expression.
