Fat

To dream that you or someone else is fat represents overindulgence, laziness, or a lack of discipline in some manner. You or some aspect of your personality is too focused on pleasure, taking it easy, or on unproductive thinking patterns.

Being fat in a dream may be a sign that you need to learn moderation in some area.

Alternatively, being fat in a dream may reflect feelings of being an undeserving loser. Feeling that you aren't enjoying your life as much as you want. Feeling that a problem that are holding you down and making you less fun to be around.

Example: A woman dreamed of an annoying fat woman that was near her and feeling pleased when the fat woman finally passed her by. In waking life she was experiencing menopause and was annoyed by having to be extra careful around the time of her expected period during Christmas time. The fat person in the dream may have reflected her feelings about not being able to enjoy herself during the holidays due the potential for a period to occur.

Example 2: A man dreamed of seeing a fat woman. In waking life he didn't qualify for a promotion at work and felt like an undeserving loser who couldn't get ahead.

Example 3: A man dreamed of seeing a disgusting fat person with a giant smile on his face. In waking life he felt powerless to stop someone who cheated him out of a lot of money and flaunted it to his face.

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Father

To dream of your father represents your conscience, your ability to make positive choices, or choose between right and wrong. Dreaming of your father may also reflect your feelings about a decision you've already made or are considering. Feelings about someone with authority making decisions for you. Fathers in dreams can also symbolize your current feelings about him if you have issues with him that need to be dealt with.

Positively, dreaming of your father may reflect the decision to make a moral or positive decision. Deciding to stand up for yourself or feeling that a problem has gotten out of control and deciding to do something about it. Choosing to be realistic or practical.

Negatively, dreaming of your father may reflect decisions you dislike having to make. Feeling that you need to make a choice that doesn't feel good at all or one that will not benefit you or cause long-term problems. A decision to keep doing something that isn't a good idea. Letting someone with authority make decisions for you or that aren't in your best interest. Feeling that you've made a terrible decision or horrible mistake.

If your father is angry or sad in a dream it may represent your feelings or disappointment or frustration about how a situation turned out based on a choice you made. Being angry at yourself for having made a wrong or stupid decision. Alternatively, it may reflect anger with your father or anger towards yourself due to past issues with your father.

To argue or fight with your father represents an inner struggle in your waking life with choice. Internal conflict or debate with yourself over what choice to make. Struggling to stand up for yourself.

To dream of getting married to your father may represent feelings about permanent decisions being made. Negatively, it be a sign that you feel you will be permanently stuck with an undesirable situation if you make a certain choice.

If your father dies in a dream it represents moral decay. You have lost your ability to make positive choices, to stand up to problems, or are cold and uncaring in your decisions. No longer caring about your conscience or having to do the right thing. Feeling that other people with authority don't get to make decisions for you anymore. Alternatively, it may reflect failed decisions or choices that didn't work out.

If you father is dead in real life and appears in your dream he is most likely just a symbol for your conscience unless you have issues with your father from your past that you haven't dealt with.

Alternatively, your father in a dream may reflect a father figure, role model, or person that has authority over you such as a boss. Negatively, it may reflect feelings about someone totally controlling you or making important decisions for you that makes you feel less important.

Example: A man dreamed of seeing his father talking to his friend. In waking life, he was debating whether or not to call that friend on the telephone. In this case, the man's father may have reflected the man using his conscience to consider the choice about whether to call the friend or not.

Example 2: A woman dreamed of being unable to find her father. In waking life, she was felt unable to make the choice to confront people who were treating her poorly. In this case, the woman's missing father may have reflected her awareness of how difficult it was to make the choice to stand up to people.

Example 3: A man dreamed of biting his nails and anxiously trying to avoid his father's criticism for it. In waking life, he was very nervous about not upsetting his new boss. In this case, the father may have reflected his concerns about his boss being an decision making authority figure and the need for approval.

Example 4: A man dreamed of his father slowly sticking his penis into his anus. In waking life, he felt that he was close to make a decision that would totally screw him over in business. In this case, the father may have reflected own internal conflict and feelings of vulnerability regarding the decision, as well as the potential negative consequences he feared would arise from making the wrong choice.

Example 5: A man dreamed of his father telling him about alligators. In waking life, he made a decision that certain financial choices he had on his mind were too dangerous and needed to be avoided.

Example 6: A woman dreamed of seeing her father fall through thin ice into freezing water. In waking life, she decided to move knowing it was expensive and then began to experience financial problems. In this case, seeing her father fall through ice may have reflected her feelings of vulnerability and the potential danger of her decision to move, as well as her need for guidance and support in navigating the challenges that arose from her choice.

Example 7: A woman dreamed of seeing her father worried and anxious. In waking life, she was worried about not being assisted spiritually by her deceased father. In this case, the father may have reflected her desire for guidance and support from her late father, especially in times of difficulty or uncertainty to the point of being irrational.

Father's Day

To dream of Father's day represents an event or special time in your life where you are very focused on doing the right thing, or making time to confront a problem.

The reason for this is because fathers in dream represent the conscience and fathers day is a time when you care about your father more than any other.

Father-In-Law

To see your father-in-law represents your conscience and choices that require compromises. You may be making choices that are in the best interest of others or a more positive outcome. You may also have to go up your own interests or principles to get something done.

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Fatigue

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Army Clothing

To dream of army clothing or army fatigues represents the personality being very serious about defending itself. The personality is highly aggressive about a rigid stance on an issue. Feelings about life situations where you are focused on surviving or conflict. The personality is heavily focused on standing up for itself.

Army clothing may sometimes be confused with camouflage clothing.

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Dead

To dream of being dead represents feelings of loss or total failure. If your death takes on a more positive theme it may reflect positive changes or transformation. The end of friendships, relationships, or some important part of your life. A fear of change. Difficulty with a transition. The end of an era.

To dream of seeing dead people represents aspects if your personality that have completely changed or lost all power. It can also reflect your projection of other people that have changed or lost power. You or someone else may have experienced a noticeable change.

To dream of seeing dead loved ones who actually died in real life most likely reflect an aspect of your personality based on your most honest feelings about them. The fact that they are dead is most likely irrelevant unless it's the most powerful quality about them. For example, seeing your deceased father most likely symbolizes your conscience just as it would if he were alive.

If loved ones have recently passed away or you've been spending a lot of time remembering them then they may represent your grief or desire to be with them again.

Example: A woman dreamed of holding a dead baby in her arms. In waking life she had just received news from her doctor that she would be unable to ever bear children. The dead baby may have reflected her dead hopes to have a baby.

Example 2: A young boy dreamed of his mother being dead. In waking life his mother began to date again after divorcing his father and he feared losing his mother because as she began dating her personality started to change.

Example 3: A young man dreamed of seeing dead people he was trying to hide. In waking life he contracted a disease that was causing his hair to fall out and was desperate to hide it from everyone he knew by wearing hats.

Example 4: A young man dreamed of seeing his ex-girlfriend dead. In waking life he was very concerned about losing his friendship with his ex-girlfriend after he broke up with her.

Example 5: A man dreamed of seeing a dead bird. In waking life he accidentally met up with an ex-girlfriend whom he had strong feelings for and learned that she had moved on leaving him with no choice to get back with her. He realized all hope was gone to ever have a relationship with her ever again. The dead bird may have reflected his feelings about accepting the potential for reconciling be impossible.

Example 6: A man dreamed of seeing a dead bird. In waking life his brother died of cancer and all hope for recovering from the cancer was lost.

Example 7: A woman dreamed of seeing dead people. In waking life she was spending a lot of time thinking about and old friendship that she lost.

Example 8: A woman dreamed of seeing a dead dog. In waking life she realized that her relationship with her boyfriend was over.

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Grandfather

To dream of your grandfather may represent your conscience in situations that you have previous experience in. Your ability to make a decision or choose between right and wrong when you already have previous experience.

Alternatively, a grandfather may symbolize wiser choices or experience that overrides your own decisions. Grandfathers may also represents decisions made for you by someone smarter or more experienced than you. A decision to stop what you are currently doing because you feel it's in your best interest. Being objective about your own bad work or poor decisions.

Example: A woman dreamed of seeing her Grandfather showing her some beautifully crafted bookcases that were empty. In waking life she was beginning to think about making the decision to stop putting off her ambition to write. The Grandfather reflected the overriding decision to change her life towards writing from her current life.

Example 2: A man dreamed of walking with his grandfather and having a conversation. In waking life he was trying to decide what educational path he should take for his future. He was considering what was really best for him and what strengths would be best to develop.

Example 3: A man dreamed of his Grandfather screaming at him to wake up. This caused him to actually wake up from the dream. In waking life he had a serious medical condition that could kill him if he fell asleep for too long. The dream may have actually been a metaphor for experiencing God making the decision to wake him up from sleep to save his life. In this case the Grandfather would metaphorically represent God making the decision to wake him up, overriding his stupid decision to allow himself to fall asleep.

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In-Laws

To dream of an in-law represents compromise, abiding behavior, or decisions with a stronger interest in avoiding negative situations.

Like all people in dreams they may also symbolize personality traits in you based on your feelings, opinions, or memories of them that stand out the most.

To dream of having sex with an In-Law represents an enjoyable waking life experience you are having with a compromised decision. Liking something that isn't your first choice a lot.

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Obese

To dream of obesity represents overindulgence. You have been thinking or doing something a whole lot. It may also reflect a bad habit hat you've had difficulty cutting out. Alternatively, being obese may reflect poor self-image, low self-esteem, or insecurities about your weight. An embarrassing amount of useless excess. Feelings about yourself having wasted a lot of time enjoying yourself.

Negatively, obesity in a dream may reflect your feelings about people who are extremely ignorant with their laziness. Feeling that someone is so consumed with being the boss that they look stupid with absolute power that is too strong for you.

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Stepfather

To dream of a stepfather represents a substitute conscience or decision-making ability that you have no control over needing to accept, adjust to, integrate with, or adapt to. Fathers in dreams typically reflect the conscience or our ability to make a decision. A stepfather is then symbolically a substitute form of conscience or choice that we feel forced to accept with current conditions. You may feel a choice has been made for you or that you've been pressured into a decision. The respect or challenges associated with adapting to new rules, guidance, or support from someone who doesn't make decisions in a way you are accustomed to. Adaptability to unconventional decision-making.

Negatively, a stepfather may reflect a decision that you can't stand putting up with. Struggling to come to terms with a change that you don't like. Feeling that you have to accept someone else's decisions controlling you with no say in the matter when it isn't what you wanted. Not liking putting up with someone else's substitute choices that were made for you.

Alternatively, a stepfather may reflect tension or disappointment with your real father.

Example: A woman dreamed of seeing her deceased stepfather standing up from a coffin with bullet holes in him. She told him to rest and he didn't listen. In waking life, she got into a big fight with her sister over an issue which she had no control over. She had accepted losing the argument so that she could move on with her life and stopped talking to her sister. She started talking to her sister at a later time which brought up the old arguments. In this case, the stepfather may have reflected her feelings about needing to accept her sister's decision-making with no say in the matter.

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Stepmother

To dream of a stepmother represents a substitute intuitive choice that you have no control over needing to accept, adjust to, integrate with, or adapt to. Mothers in dreams typically reflect the intuition about safety for the future, internal guidance based on your feelings about past experiences, or how lucky you feel about coincidences or good foresight. A stepmother is then symbolically a substitute form of intuition that we feel forced to accept with current conditions. Adaptability to unconventional decisions for safety for the future.

Negatively, a stepmother may reflect an intuitive choice about safety for the future that you can't stand putting up with. Intuitive choices that don't let you feel good in the manner that you are used to. Putting up with someone else's sense of safety that you don't respect. You may feel smothered, neglected, or held back. Feeling pressured into having to be careful in a way that you are not used to.

Alternatively, a stepmother may reflect tension or disappointment with your real mother.

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Tired

To dream of being tired represents some area of your life that has gone on for too long. It may also reflect emotional exhaustion in a relationship that is beginning to take it's toll on you.

Alternatively, being tired in a dream may reflect your boredom or complete loss of interest in something. You've had enough or don't care about something you used to care about a lot.

Weight

To dream of an object having a heavy weight represents difficulty changing a situation. An obstacle in waking life that is very demanding of you or requires your full attention.

To dream of an object having a light weight represents the ease felt in changing a situation. Unusually light objects that should be heavy may reflect challenging situations that are unusually easy to confront. You or someone else that is may be "manhandling" a difficulty.

To dream of being overweight represents feelings about yourself or someone else being undeserving. Feeling that someone else is too lazy or has had too much of something. Excessive indulgence in a type of experience. It may also reflect your own feelings of low self-worth or lack of confidence. Difficulties with discipline or putting pleasure first.

To dream of losing weight represents self-improvement or increasing discipline. Increasing skill, power, or self-confidence. Negatively, excessive weight loss may reflect awareness of yourself losing power or becoming weaker.

To dream of being underweight represents feelings about yourself or others being too weak in some area. A lack of will power or effectiveness. You may feel out of your league or out-powered.

Example: A man dreamed of seeing a very muscular built man lose weight to become a normal weight person. In waking life he had witnessed the same man lose a lot of power to become someone more regular.

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