Pressing a button in a dream or seeing a button on your clothing indicate that you have more control over wish your life, a symbol for minor annoyances. You feel powerless or uncertain in a situation and you are looking for a way to handle things around you, indicates sadness and remembrance.
On the other hand, a button in a dream also indicate that you are exercising too much control, means your tendency to buy your friends or buy compliments and favors. You try to plan and control every aspect of your life instead of just relaxing and enjoying life, an evidence for the end of some cycle or behavior.
A button also be a connection symbol, indicates your lack of accomplishments or to the setbacks in your life. Losing a button on your clothes in a dream indicate that you have distanced yourself from your surroundings or group, refers to your sense of belonging or the lack of. You feel like you don't belong anymore, or that your opinions and beliefs are at odds with others, points to an outburst of emotions.
On the other hand, a button in a dream also mean that you are looking for a deeper connection with other people, stands for earth. You feel lonely or isolated and long to be part of a community, a hint for unexpected gains and honor.
Looking at or fiddling with a button on your clothes in a dream indicate that you are focused on details, signals your desire to be cleansed. You very specific and accurate when it comes to your work or your daily chores, an indication for an illicit love affair, a loss of prestige or some scandalous activity.
On the other hand, dreaming about a button also mean that you are paying too much attention to detail and losing sight of the bigger picture, a symbol for emerging subconscious thoughts and feelings. You get bogged down in the little things and neglect important aspects of your life, points at your strong personality.
A button a symbol for control, connection or detail, draws attention to sameness and monotony.
Buttons are common objects that we use in our everyday lives, a harbinger for the intellect or secrets of the mind. They used in different ways, such as fastening clothes or accessories, symbolises your worth, value and credibility.
Dreaming of a button indicate a need for closure in a particular situation in your life, means anxieties that you are not measuring when it comes to achieving your goals. It suggest that you need to tie loose ends or make a final decision, signals your old beliefs, you used to think or feel. A button also signify an opportunity or a chance that you need to take advantage of before it disappears, hints restrictions and limitations.
Color: The color of the button in your dream also provide insight into its interpretation, represents passage of time. A black button indicate a need for warning or caution, while a red button signify strong emotions or passion, indicates a fresh outlook on your life. Size: The size of the button also provide meaning, unfortunately draws attention to a bad relationship or childhood trauma. A tiny button represent small details or a minor issue, while a large button indicate something significant or important that needs attention, symbolises knowledge, spiritual awareness. Number: The number of buttons also be significant, a portent for difficulties in accepting who you yourself. Multiple buttons indicate various choices or options, while a single button signify a significant decision or action, a signal for how you are doing in you compare to others.
In some cultures or beliefs, dreaming of a button indicate different meanings, a metaphor for unfulfilled desires.
Christianity: Seeing a button in a dream suggest that you need to face and confront your mistakes and sins, an evidence for a lack of self-worth. It a call for repentance and spiritual growth, a message for receptiveness and joy. Hinduism: Dreaming of a button signify a need for humility and restraint, points at the reward for your hard work and efforts. It represent the idea of surrendering oneself and letting go of one's ego or self-importance, points at the cycle of be trying to offer you hope in the midst of despair.
Culturally, buttons have been used for various purposes through time, unfortunately a warning alert for some negative, or even evil influence that you are confronted with in your life.
Victorian Era: In this era, buttons were used as status symbols, suggests a sense of security and belonging. Dreaming of a button indicate a desire for social status or wealth, points at their insignificance. Native American: In Native American cultures, buttons were believed to possess healing powers, signals an extension of your understanding in a particular matter. Dreaming of a button suggest a need for physical or emotional healing, indicates something may have started as minor has now become a huge problem.
Psychologically, the interpretation of dreaming of a button mean a lot of things, a sign for the cycle of life. It indicate a need for control or power, especially if the button's function is to fasten or hold something together, a clue for your belief of fate. It also mean a fear of losing control, as a button easily come undone, stands for a person in your life who means much to you.
Try to analyze if the button in your dream has a function or if it's purely decorative, as this give you insight into its meaning, represents some sort of emotional tension.
Ultimately, the interpretation of a dream is personal and subjective, points at a challenge that will test your character and ability. While this guide provide you with insights, it is always best to look within and reflect on your own thoughts and feelings to understand its true meaning, also this dream about a flow of ideas.
Dreaming of a button symbolize a need for control or a desire to make a decision, someone that you call or refer to as doll. It also be an indication that you are feeling overwhelmed and need to take a break from your current situation, a clue for useless worries over small, trivial matters. Alternatively, it suggest that you are ready to move forward with something, but you are unsure how to do so, sadly an alert for balance or lack of balance in your life.
Depth Psychology: The button is a sign that your life is becoming more stable.
A lost button indicates imagined or real unfaithfulness (your own or your partner’s).
If you dream of unbuttoning your clothes, then you are opening yourself to intimacy and are removing your armor.
If you dream of buttoning up your clothes, then you are hiding or defending yourself.
If you lose a button, or if a button is broken, it means that alternate ways need to be found.
If you’re sewing a button back onto a garment, then you have the ingenuity to do whatever needs to be done.
If you lose a button, you’re feeling insecure about something.
To dream that you are unbuttoning your clothes, denotes that you are opening yourself to others, either on a mental, emotional or sexual level.
2. Intimately revealing self to others, sexually or emotionally (opening buttons).
3. A sense that someone harbors angry feelings (losing buttons).
Buttons hold something together, closing up something that otherwise would be exposed. Are you all buttoned up or not ?
If unbuttoning, you are opening up. Can also mean someone is pushing your button to see if you will react.
A button and a buttonhole in a dream also represents a man and a woman.
If an unwed person sees himself buttoning a shirt in a dream, it means that he will get married, or that he will play an important role in uniting two people, or to bring peace between two partners, or that he will revive an old and a forsaken project. Tying one’s buttons in a dream means getting married, or going through difficult financial circumstances. Wearing a buttoned shirt in a dream means experiencing tight circumstances, or reuniting with a traveller returning home, or marriage of an unmarried person.
(Also see Clothing)