Boss
To dream of a boss represents feelings about authority, leadership, or power dynamics in your life. It could symbolize the control, influence, or expectations that others have over you or that you exert over others. This dream could reflect your thoughts about your role in a professional environment, your understanding of hierarchy, or your ability to manage and make decisions. Decisions or obligations that can't be ignored. Feeling that a situation, problem, or relationship is "running your life" or "bossing you around."
Positively, dreaming about a boss might symbolize your capacity to take charge, assert control, and make decisive choices. It could reflect a conscious choice to embrace leadership roles, influence others, or handle responsibilities. It might also be indicative of your ability to set goals, manage tasks, and motivate yourself and others.
Negatively, dreaming about a boss could represent feelings of being controlled, limited, or pressured by an authority figure. It might symbolize struggles with power dynamics, overbearing expectations, or work-related stress. Perhaps you feel overworked, undervalued, or mismanaged. The dream might also indicate feelings of intimidation, inadequacy, or fear of failure in the face of high expectations. A sense of obligation with potential consequences or disciplinary action if you don't perform well in some way. A "super-ego or "top dog" mindset, ego out of control. A sign that you are allowing a person or problem to have too much authority over you. You or someone else that is too bossy or controlling.
Alternatively, having a boss may reflect work issues. An obsession with work or being a workaholic.
To dream of fearing a boss represents feelings of anxiety, apprehension, or a sense of inadequacy related to your capabilities or performance in a certain area of your life. This could be due to an authority figure's influence, expectations, or criticism. A fear of making mistakes, failing to meet goals, or disappointing those who rely on you. Fearing consequences if you don't perform well or follow orders properly. A fear of authority or problems standing up to authoritative figures. Alternatively, it might reflect an internal conflict between your desires and the responsibilities or expectations imposed upon you.
To dream of being a boss represents your authoritative or assertive personality. Awareness of a situation in waking life being totally under your control. Your ability to influence others, make decisions, or take charge of situations in your life. Your confidence in your skills, your comfort with leadership roles, or your desire for control or dominance. Your ability to set and achieve your goals, manage tasks, or balance responsibilities. Enjoy being in control.
Example: A man dreamed of his boss giving him a candy bar. In waking life, he wanted a raise, but his boss would only give him compliments about his good work. In this case, his boss may have reflected his feelings of frustration and under-appreciation at work he got from his boss. The candy bar in the dream could symbolize the compliments he was receiving, which, while pleasant, were not the substantial reward or recognition (the raise) he was hoping for.
Example 2: A man dreamed of his former boss whom he didn't like. In waking life, he got promoted and hated it. In this case, the former boss whom he didn't like may have reflected his feelings of frustration and dissatisfaction associated with his new responsibilities and pressures that came along with his promotion, much like the feelings he had when he was working under his disliked former boss.
Example 3: A man dreamed of having a boss. In waking life, he felt obligated to help his sister move homes. In this case, dreaming of having a boss may have reflected the authoritative role his sister had taken on, dictating his actions and decisions during the moving process while he felt obligated to her situation.
Example 4: A man dreamed of being a hotel manager that has to boss other people. In waking life, he had a number of sick relatives that he had to take care of all at once. In this case, being a hotel manager that had to boss other people may have reflected his feelings about the necessity of taking charge and making decisions for his ailing relatives. The boss role in his dream could represent the authority and responsibility he had to assume in real life to manage the care and well-being of his family members.
Example 5: A man dreamed of talking to his boss. In waking life, he felt it was important to take care of his wife's failing health because he feared she could die. In this case, the dreamer talking to his boss may have reflected his feelings of accountability and the pressure he was experiencing, given the critical nature of his wife's health. He may have that his wife's ailing health was "running his life" or bossing him around demanding that nothing be more important than taking care of her.
