Trust
To dream of trusting represents feelings about believing in a person or situation being reliable or trustworthy. A belief or confidence in someone or something. A feeling of security or reliance on someone, a situation, or a belief system. Confidence in avoiding failure if you make a certain choice. Confidence that certain choices will help you solve problems. Faith in others or faith in an outcome. Feeling that something will not embarrass you if you try something.
Negatively, trust in a dream may reflect placing too much trust in someone or something, leading to naivety or gullibility. Naive beliefs in something being special or exclusive. Being taken advantage of or being misled. A reflection of waking life situations where you are putting too much faith in a person or situation that doesn't deserve it. Repeat embarrassments of lost faith that you don't correct yourself with. Wasting your time hoping. Overlooking being unprepared for potential negative outcomes.
To dream of not trusting someone represents a lack of confidence in a person or situation. Disillusionment and skepticism. A lack of trust, suspicion, or doubt in someone or something. Feelings about people or a situation being unreliable or untrustworthy. Suspecting that something will embarrass you if you don't choose to do something about it. Lacking confidence about a choice being able to avoid failure. Believing that certain choices will causes problems or make them worse. Negatively, it may be a sign that you are too paranoid about something. Excessive concerns for a situation to feel perfect in order to accept it. Conspiracy theories that are unproven. Too much focus on believing that you need to do everything on your own because people have disappointed you too much. Alienation from other people.
Alternatively, trust issues in a dream may mirror waking life situations you are becoming disillusioned with.
Example: A man dreamed of trusting a man to be alone in his house to paint it. In waking life he had written an article for a magazine and was putting a lot of faith in the editor to fix any spelling or grammar without changing his article too much. The trust in this case may have reflected the dreamer's faith in the editor not embarrassing him by changing his article too much.
Example 2: A man dreamed of his himself thinking about how Presidents couldn't be fully trusted by voters to do the things they say they will do when they get elected. In waking life the dreamer was heavily involved in a charity that he began to believe was not living up to it's promises. In this case believing that Presidents couldn't be trusted may have reflected a feeling of disillusionment and skepticism towards authority figures or those in power at the charity organization.
Example 3: A man dreamed that he was in the military and that he couldn't trust any one. In waking life he felt completely isolated from his coworkers at work and felt that he had to do all the serious work himself. In this case, feeling that he couldn't trust anyone may have reflected his real-life belief that he had to rely only on himself to get the job done, as he felt his coworkers were unreliable or untrustworthy.
