Dream About Dance

They trigger fear, joy, confusion and more, hints your frivolous pursuits. A common dream is the dream of dancing, suggests your free and fun-loving side. Dancing symbolizes movement, freedom and self-expression, indicates your negative attitudes about a particular situation/person.

If you dream about dancing, it mean that you want to balance your body and soul, a hint for a simpler way of life. You feel the need to express yourself but lack the right words, indicates someone who is excessively gullible or sentimental. Dance serve as a medium to express yourself and open yourself from within, states a healthy mental drive.

Dancing dreams also indicate that you need more freedom in your life, a situation where you are caught off guard. You restricted in a relationship, at work, or in your personal development, a sign for emotional innocence. The dance symbolize that you want to break free from your bondages and that you need to look for new opportunities, signals cycles and movement.

However, sometimes dreaming about dancing also mean that you are trying to escape from a reality, you are feeling inhibited, but desire to be more outgoing and energetic. The dance symbolize escaping from problems and conflicts, denotes a feminine outlook or feminine perspective on a situation. If this is the case, instead of running away, it is important to face your fears and challenges to overcome them, your hard driving demeanor and attitude.

In any case, the dream of dancing is a call for movement and expression, a warning signal for your ability to withstand or endure a difficult period in your life. Life is a journey and dance help you to fully express and enjoy yourself on this journey, stands for an organization or a common acronym or it may spell out some hidden message or advice.

They reveal our deepest fears, desires, hopes and emotions, a hint for the burdens you carry in life.

Dancing is often associated with joy, hence dreaming of dance an indication of happiness and celebration in the your daily life, a portent for your search for intimacy and closeness. Dreaming of dancing also represent confidence, freedom and expression, points at playful childish ways. The dream also signify a new change or beginning in the your life, such as a new job, relationship or a fresh start in a situation, an evidence for inner turmoil. Dreaming of watching others dance symbolize feeling left out or isolated from a group or social circle, points at the things that you must overcome in order to reach your goals. Hence, the dreamer need to work on their social skills and make new connections, represents a simplified lifestyle.

The type of dance in the dream such as ballet or salsa, have different meanings, a symbol for something else that is really bothering you. Ballet is often associated with elegance, gracefulness and formality, while salsa represents passion, sensuality and spontaneity, hints minor embarrassments. The your partner in the dance represent the your current relationship or a partnership in their waking life, the subconscious. The dream indicate how the dreamer feels about that relationship or the potential of a new one, unfortunately a warning alert for regret over your hasty decisions. Dancing alone symbolize independence or the need for self-expression, suggests your siblings, children or other family members that you feel the need to keep from harm’s way. It also signify feeling alone or disconnected from others, indicates fertility and romance.

In Christianity, dancing symbolize celebration, freedom, and worship, symbolises something that is new in your life. King David danced in the Bible to express his joy and gratitude towards God, points to how you like to whine about things. In Hinduism, dance is seen as a form of worship and devotion, indicates your negative outlook, deteriorating ideals. The Hindu god, Shiva, is considered the "Lord of Dance" and his cosmic dance symbolizes the destruction and creation of the universe, means romantic notions.

In African cultures, dance is used to connect with ancestors and spirits, and is often associated with healing and spiritual power, stands for family togetherness, celebration and hope. In Native American cultures, dance is a form of prayer and communication with nature, denotes minor embarrassments. In Western cultures, dance is associated with entertainment, social events and celebration, a premonition for fears of not being able to keep up.

From a psychological perspective, dreaming of dance represent a need for self-expression and creativity in the your daily life, sadly a warning for the targets you are reaching goals you are setting for yourself. It also signify a desire for emotional release or a need to process certain feelings or experiences, an omen for your convictions about your beliefs. The dream also reveal the your feelings about their body and self-image, as dance is often associated with physical movement and expression, a symbol for your difficulties and hardships.

If the dreamer dreams of dancing alone, it a sign that they need to focus on their own needs, desires and self-expression, states a positive turn of events in the coming year. If the dreamer is dancing with a partner or a group, it signify a need for social connection, teamwork or partnership in their waking life, you are part of a team. The dreamer use dancing as a form of therapy or self-expression in their waking life if it resonates with them, indicates your desires for peace and serenity.

Generally speaking, dancing in a dream symbolize joy, freedom, and creativity, an evidence for readiness to argue. It also represent a desire to express yourself and your emotions, a metaphor for imperfections. If you are dancing with someone else in your dream, it indicate a strong connection between you and that person, a symbol for your need to be protected.

What does it mean Dance in a dream?

  • If you dreamed of dancing in a dream, You can remove problematic friendships from your life, you can participate in educational or creative activities, you can get inspiring ideas. To dance in a dream indicates that you will not get into trouble, and that you will have an argument with your family. According to the new interpreters, this dream signifies good luck and feeling good, permanent happiness and adding meaning to life. According to another interpretation, this dream indicates that, contrary to receiving the news of the death of the older sister, the person will lead a healthy and peaceful life, attempt many things together, and succeed in overcoming difficult days.

Martha Clarke Interpretation

Dancing in dreams reflects how you move in your inner circle. Through dance you can harmonize internal opposing sides, so this kind of dream often has a strong emotional sense. Depending on how it develops it is possible to draw conclusions applicable to sexual, emotional, familial, social, or professional relations. So, if you see a group of people dancing, it means that you should be more generous and live each moment intensely, without staying on the sidelines of the world. On the contrary, dancing merrily indicates that you are happy with how things are going and you feel free from any influence. It also denotes the possibility that your current situation improves. Dancing with your beloved indicates that your love is requited. However if it is a costume dance, the dream is a warning that you must avoid being hypocritical to your partner.

If you see a man and a woman dancing it can show the harmonious union of the masculine and feminine sides of your personality.

In a dream, dancing can be a spiritual symbol that expresses, for example, the dance of Shiva, the Hindu god of eternal flow of time, the power of creation and destruction. To see old people dancing ensures success in business; dancing at a wedding, disease; with family, luck. It also augurs well for the prisoner, who will be released shortly.

Theresa Cheung Interpretation

In dreams, dancing and skating (see ACCIDENTS, ACTION AND ADVENTURES) usually express a sense of happiness and celebration, or a freedom of movement and emotion. Perhaps you are feeling pleased about a particular project or relationship. You may also be feeling a sense of freedom from restraint. Other things may also be expressed by dance. For example, if you danced with another person, the intimacy could suggest sexual intercourse.

If a man and a woman dance together, it could suggest a union of the masculine and feminine aspects of your personality. If, however, the dance was awkward, this suggests a lack of harmony. Animals dancing can suggest a feeling of harmony with your unconscious drives and sexuality. Skeletons and dark things dancing suggest meeting what you fear in your waking life.

Dream Explanations - Anonymous Interpretation

Dreams of dancing represent your -expression, and a desire to be unabashed, uninhibited, sexual, passionate and primal. This is a fortuitous dream, telling you that if you give yourself permission to be more of yourself, you will magnetize partnerships that will support you in your creative expression.

If you are dancing with someone, you are harmonizing with the energy they represent.

See Bliss.

Dr. Mıchael Lennox Interpretation

A dance is a gathering of people, and in the dream world those people should be considered as thoughts within your consciousness gathered around a common idea.

The idea in this case is the expression of passion and sexuality through the symbolism of dancing.

If there is a dance in your dreams, there is a compelling desire brewing in your consciousness to have more passion in your life.

Gustavus Hindman Miller Interpretation

To dream of seeing a crowd of merry children dancing, signifies to the married, loving, obedient and intelligent children and a cheerful and comfortable home.

To young people, it denotes easy tasks and many pleasures.

To see older people dancing, denotes a brighter outlook for business.

To dream of dancing yourself, some unexpected good fortune will come to you.

See Ball.

James R. Lewis and Evelyn Dorothy Oliver Interpretation

Dancing is a rich symbol, capable of many different interpretations. Depending on the type of movement in which we engage, dancing may be associated with romance and sex, with the experience of freedom from constraints, with participating in life or in social activities (the dance of life), with frivolity, with gracefulness, or with group cooperation.

Stearn Robinson - Tom Corbett Interpretation

This dream is mainly favorable.

If it featured ballet dancers or dancing it predicts new friends and gay social times ahead; if you saw young people dancing together, you’ll have great success in your love affairs; children dancing, you’ll have some unexpected joy; and if you were dancing yourself, all your enterprises will flourish.

Michael and Elizabeth Thiessen Interpretation

The dance is always a good omen and it foretells many things, such as: children dancing signifies that your marriage will produce lively, happy children who are well behaved, older people shows a better business income and if you are enjoying the dance you will receive an unexpected windfall.

Joan Seaman - Tom Philbin Interpretation

1. Social ritual, routine (as in “keeping in step” with the world).

2. A feeling of joy about life coming to the surface.

3. Spiritual transcendence.

4. Good fortune in love.

myjellybean Interpretation

Dancing - or attending a dance - in dreams represents feelings of freedom, sexuality and a positive attitude to life.

Betty Bethards Interpretation

Lightheartedness, happiness, joy. The dance of life. Also, dancing around a problem instead of resolving it.

Margaret Hamilton Interpretation

To follow the steps of another’s plan instead of our own, by choice or to appease

Towers, Jacqueline Interpretation

If you see yourself dancing in your dream, everything you are currently involved in will thrive. To see young people dancing together means that you should be happy, as it is an indication that you will be very successful in affairs of the heart. If you see children dancing, look forward to receiving unexpected happiness.

Marsha Trimble Dunstan Interpretation

taking the same view/moving together (see Matthew 11:17); joy (see Jeremiah 31:4); worship (see 2 Samuel 6:14; Psalm 149:3; 150:4); idolatry (see Matthew 14:6-7).

Marsha Trimble Dunstan Interpretation

taking the same view (rel); moving together (see Matthew 11:17).

Ian Wallace Interpretation

Ability to embody my natural rhythms and take steps that can express my unique behavioral patterns so I can bring them to life

Mary Summer Interpretation

refers to a personal manner of expressing emotions

Julia and Derek Parker Interpretation

The dance has always represented energy, both physical and emotional. The Lord of the Dance is not only a Christian reference - dancing has been at the centre of most world religious ceremonies. There is less ponderous symbolism too, however: were you keeping both feet on the ground, or really ‘taking off? Consider very carefully who or what you were dancing with and what that dream partner represents to you. Are you leading someone a dance, or they you? Was this wish-fulfilment? — perhaps you long to be a ballerina?