What does it mean when you dream about your crush?
Dreaming about a crush most often means they're on your mind: what you think about by day turns up at night. It can also reflect attraction now or in the past, mixed feelings you haven't sorted out, or someone else standing in their place. These dreams say more about your feelings than theirs.
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Dreaming about a crush can leave you smiling or mortified all day. These dreams say more about your feelings than about theirs. What happened between you, and whether it was even the person you're thinking about, shape the meaning.
What dreaming about your crush may mean
AThey're on your mind
The simplest reading: this person matters to you, and what's on your mind by day turns up at night. The dream may be your mind playing out the possibilities.
You really do have feelings for them
BAttraction, now or once
Hugging or kissing in the dream may reflect attraction you feel now, or attraction you used to feel and thought had faded.
You hugged or kissed in the dream
CFeelings you haven't sorted out
Not every crush dream is sweet. A tense or mixed dream may point to feelings about them that aren't settled yet: good, bad, or both at once.
The dream had a fight, a tense moment or mixed feelings in it
DSomeone else, in their place
If the person isn't the one you think about awake, they may be a stand-in. The longing in the dream may really be for someone else.
The person in the dream isn't the one you think about when you're awake
EAn old feeling stirring again
An old crush may turn up when something now stirs the same feeling, such as meeting someone new who reminds you of them.
It was an old crush from years ago
FYour own doubts, or your own hopes
Being turned down in a dream is more likely to reflect your own insecurities than anything about them. Them liking you back may reflect confidence and optimism that it could work out.
Your crush turned you down · Your crush liked you back
GFeelings that are changing
A crush dying in a dream is rarely about them. It may mean your feelings are shifting, or that part of you senses they aren't right for you.
Your crush died in the dream
HA quality you admire
Falling for someone you dislike in real life is a confusing dream. It may mean you admire at least one quality of theirs, even if you'd rather not admit it.
In the dream you had a crush on someone you dislike in real life
These are possibilities, not verdicts. The reading that fits is the one that matches the details and the feeling of your dream, and what's going on in your life.
Questions that tell the readings apart
- Q1Who was it, and how do you feel about them now?A current crush, an old one and someone you dislike lead to different readings.
- Q2What happened between you in the dream?A hug, a rejection and a fight point to different feelings.
- Q3Is this the person you think about when you're awake?Sometimes the face in the dream belongs to a stand-in.
Read your own dream about your crush
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- Working out how the pieces fit together
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