If you have dreamed of being short in a dream: instead of waiting for help from others, you may need to take action on many issues and handle things yourself. Relationships may come to the fore. Being short in a dream indicates that there will be negative developments in the life of the person who sees the dream, that he will face great problems in his job, that his position will fall, his reputation will be shaken, that he will have difficult and bad days and that he will be bored. It indicates that the dreamer will make some mistakes, be humiliated among people, hear bad words about him and be very upset, and his morale will deteriorate.
A diminutive adult in your dream might also represent connection with your inner child, and that you are feeling vulnerable.
If you dream of being short and of someone else being tall, then you are processing feelings of inferiority, powerlessness, and intimidation. If, however, you dream that you are tall and someone else is short, then this dream expresses your feelings of superiority, power and domination. Consider the feeling tone.
See Size and Dwarf.
To dream that you are shorter than normal, suggests that you are suffering from low self-esteem or a sense of helplessness. Perhaps you are being overlooked.
To see others as short is symbolic of feeling superior to others
cut down to size; in reference to reincarnation, may mean you almost reached perfection in another life, but in some respect fell short; shorts— immature consciousness (they are usually associated with children). "Cut it short"; "come up short"; "shortcut"; "short end of the stick"; "in short."
Realization that I can reach out and quickly convey how I feel without being too abrupt or going on about it at length
connotes a concise element; may also indicate a need to expand some aspect in one’s life
(physique) If the dreamer or one of his friends appears as a short person, it means that the dreamer will make progress in most areas of his life.