Understanding Dreams: Your Daughter’s Decisions

Dreams have long fascinated people, serving as a bridge between our waking lives and the deeper realms of consciousness. When you dream of your daughter making a decision, it can evoke a plethora of emotions and thoughts. Such dreams often symbolize not just the independence and maturity of your child, but also your hopes, fears, and reflections as a parent.

In these dreams, the choices faced by your daughter may mirror decisions you encounter in your own life, presenting a rich tapestry of familial connections and individual growth. The act of making a decision in a dream can signify transitions or significant changes within the family dynamic, hinting at the blessings and challenges that accompany such moments. It encourages introspection about how best to support your daughter as she navigates her own path while reminding you to consider your own desires for her future.

Understanding these nuances can help you gain clarity on your relationships and the generational wisdom passed down through family ties.

• Dreaming of your daughter making a decision might symbolize your hopes and concerns for her future.
• Such dreams can reflect your own feelings about growth, independence, and guidance.
• These dreams may also highlight family dynamics and the support offered within relationships.

Symbols

• offspring
  • Gems of the eyes:

    (Children)

  • Little boy:

    (Little boy) In a dream, a child carried in one’s arms means responsibility, distress and difficulties. A teenage child represents glad tidings or dispelling one’s worries. If one sees a beautiful looking teenage child entering a town or descending from the skies or appearing from beneath the ground in a dream, it means that the glad tidings will take effect shortly.

    Seeing a mature child in a dream means power and superiority. If one sees himself as a child learning in school in a dream, it means that he will repent of a common sin he is used to commit. If one sees one of the renowned people of knowledge sitting in a kindergarten and learning along with other children in a dream, it means that he will shift to ignorance, lose his rank, or that financial changes will affect his living conditions.

    If one sees himself receiving instructions like a child in a dream, it means that he will receive an inheritance from his mother. If one sees himself as a newborn child in a dream, it means that he will become wealthy and prosper. If a young boy sees himself in a dream as a child, it has a negative meaning.

    If a sick person sees himself as a child in a dream, it means his death. If one sees himself as a child being reprimanded in a dream, it means that he will be conquered. In a dream, if one looks in a mirror and sees his face to be that of a child, and if his wife is pregnant, it means that she will beget a son who will look like his father.

    Carrying a baby child in a dream means distress and burdens. A child in a dream represents a weak enemy who sometime shows friendliness and at other times demonstrates his enmity. If one sees that his wife has just delivered children who are playing around him in a dream, it means distress or misfortune and the consequences could be either good or bad.

    Carrying a child in a dream means managing an inheritance or a financial investment. If an elderly person sees himself roaming as a little child in a dream, it means that he will commit an act of ignorance or lose his dignity, ideals or sense of honor. On the other hand, if such an elderly person who sees himself in a dream as a little child is suffering from depression or financial difficulties or health problems, then it means relief from distress and good health and that he will become free from his sins, like the day his mother gave birth to him.

    If one sees that he has a little child who disdains from coming near his father in the dream, it means financial promotion and enjoyment of one’s life. If one sees a little child screaming in his lap in a dream, it means that he plays a string instrument. Children in a dream also could mean either sorrow and pain or happiness and joy.

    If they are one’s own children in the dream, then they mean temptation with money. Children in a dream also could mean contentment with little or loss of one’s means to earn his livelihood or they could mean money or marriage or a flourishing business. Bereavement of a child in a dream means the opposite in real life.

    It also means rejoicing, reunions, pleasures and earning respect. Bereavement of a child in a dream is sometimes interpreted to portray an intention of one’s children or wife to separate from the family. A little male child in a dream represents worries, responsibilities, hard work, catering to ignorant people or dealing with trivial and time wasting people.

    If a prisoner sees himself carrying a little girl in his dream, it means that he will be released from his prison. If one who is going through hard times sees himself holding a little girl in a dream, it means that his adversities will be lifted. If he is poor, it means that he will thrive for success and the little girl then represents his glad tidings.

  • Abandoned infant:

    (Foundling; Waif) Picking-up an abandoned infant in a dream means picking-up one’s enemy, in conjunction to the story of Moses and Pharaoh. Picking up an abandoned child in a dream also could mean returning things to the way they should be, or dispelling distress and sorrow. If one sees himself planting an apple tree in a dream, it means adopting an orphan, or caring for one.

    To find oneself as an orphan in a dream means depression which is caused by injustice. To be an orphan in a dream also means feeling depressed because of one’s love for a woman, loss of property or money.

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  • Inequitable:

    (Man; Person) Seeing a judge or a governor in a dream means involvement in the judicial business. If one is appointed to be a judge in a dream, it means that he will be just and righteous. If one sees himself sitting on the bench, but finds himself unable to handle people’s cases with justice, it means that he is an unjust person.

    If one presides over people in a dream, it means that he may be dismissed from his job. If a traveller becomes a judge in a dream, it means that he will be held up by robbers, or it could mean that God’s blessings upon him will turn into a curse. If one sees a known judge being unjust in a dream, it means that the people of that locality are inequitable and that they cheat in their weights and measures.

    If one sees himself standing before a judge, and if the judge treats him fairly in the dream, it means that he will find justice concerning a personal case involving himself and an adversary, or it could mean relief from depression and stress. If the judge is inequitable in the dream, it means that one will lose to his adversary. If someone sees a judge holding the scale of justice and that the scale tilts to one’s favor in the dream, it represents DICTIONARY OF DREAMS 235 glad tidings of a great reward from God Almighty for one’s deeds.

    However, if the scale of justice tilts to the opposite direction, then it represents a warning from God Almighty for one to repent of his sins, or abandon his involvement in a sinful ventures. If one sees the judge weighing pennies or bad monies in the scale of justice, it means that one will give a false testimony which will be accepted. If one sees himself as a judge, a wise man, a scholar, or a righteous man in a dream, it means that he will attain fame, good reputation, ascetic detachment and spiritual knowledge if he qualifies for that.

    If one is not suitable for such blessings, then it means that he will be falsely accused of a crime, or that he maybe robbed during a trip. If a judge looks cheerful in a dream, it means glad tidings. Seeing the bench of a judge in a dream means a scare or a fight.

    Seeing the seat of rulers, judges, speakers, scholars, or teachers in a dream means disturbance, sorrow, money, business losses, sickness, depression, or the surfacing of hidden secrets. If a sick person sees himself standing before a judge in a dream, it means his death. However, if the case is decided to his favor in the dream, it means that he will recover from his illness.

    If one who is facing adversities sees himself sitting in the judges bench in a dream, it means that he will triumph. An unknown judge in a dream represents God Almighty. A known judge in a dream represents a physician.

  • Justice scale:
  • Talbiyyah:

    ( arb . Talbiyah ) Responding to a call, or uttering and repeating a formula “Labbaika Allahumma Labbaik,” during the pilgrimage season in a dream means that one will capture his enemy and bring him to justice. Loud answering to a call in a dream means complaining before a judge, and winning the case thereafter.

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  • Philander:

    (Flirting; Love poems; Philander) Courting a woman or singing love songs to her or displaying amorous behavior for her in public in a dream represents someone who divulges people’s secrets.

  • Vow:

    (Immolation; Sacrifice; Vow) In a dream, an offering represents the wife who is the delight of her husband, or the child who is the delight of his father. An offering in a dream also represents one’s good deeds, although it also could mean trouble, adversities, enmity, dispute, fight, argument with one’s family, an invasion, or profits from hunting.

  • Solemn promise:

    (Immolation; Sacrifice; Vow) In a dream, an offering represents the wife who is the delight of her husband, or the child who is the delight of his father. An offering in a dream also represents one’s good deeds, although it also could mean trouble, adversities, enmity, dispute, fight, argument with one’s family, an invasion, or profits from hunting.

• girl
  • Girl:
  • Teenage girl:

    (Teenage girl) A young girl in a dream represents an enemy however she may look. Seeing a well dressed and pleasingly adorned young woman in a dream means hearing pleasing news coming from an unexpected person. Seeing a young and a beautiful looking female servant in a dream means blessings, a favor, joy and festivities.

    In a dream, seeing an unknown young girl is more advantageous than seeing a known one. The strongest in meaning are those teenage girls who are presentable, well mannered and beautifully dressed. If she is seen dressed with modesty in the dream, then she represents goodness, chastity, discreteness, and following the correct religious conduct.

    If she adorns herself and plays up her charms in the dream, then such goodness will be public. If a young girl sees herself as an old woman in a dream, it means that she will live with modesty and preserve her chastity. If an old woman sees herself turned young again in the dream, it means regaining her strength, sexual desire and fertility.

    If she engages in lawful sexual intercourse in marriage, it denotes strong religious adherence. If she engages in sexual intercourse with someone without marriage in the dream, then her dream represents her love for the world and attachment to its glitters. If one sees an old woman turned young in a dream, then the above explanation becomes stronger.

    However, if one is poor, it means that her basic needs will be secured. If one has lost her chances in this world, it means that she will have a new opportunity, or if she is sick, it means that she will recover from her illness. Seeing a young girl frowning in a dream means that one may hear disturbing news.

    If she looks emaciated, then one’s dream denotes poverty. If she is naked in the dream, it means business losses and defamation. Marrying a virgin teenage girl in a dream means wealth.

  • Young boy:

    (Young boy) Seeing a young boy in a dream means receiving glad tidings. Begetting a boy in a dream means worries, burdens or sickness, while giving birth to a girl in a dream means relief from distress or easing of one’s difficulties. Carrying a young boy in a dream means carrying burdens.

    Giving birth to a boy in a dream also could mean having a helper. A beautiful looking young boy in a dream also signifies good luck and victory over one’s enemy. Seeing a beautiful looking boy in a dream means that beautiful and pleasant things will take place in one’s life, or it could mean satisfying one’s needs.

    If one is called a teenager in a dream, it signifies the necessity to take a ritual ablution, or that something good or bad may take place in wakefulness.

• making a decision
  • Justice scale:
  • Plead:

    (Appeal; Begging; Bequeath; Plead) To solicit the advice of a religious scholar, a learned person, a lawyer, or a judge in a dream means to need them in a conflict. If a rich person asks a poor person for somethingor for a favor in a dream, it means that he could suffer in hell-fire unless he repents from his sins and bigotry. Solomon’s ring: (A gift from God Almighty; Authority) If a ruler or a rich person sees himself wearing Solomon’s ring in a dream, it means that his authority, wealth, lands, travels and all his goals will be successful and grow further.

    If someone invokes spirits for a living, then wearing Solomon’s ring in a dream will make him rich. Seeing or finding Solomon’s ringin a dream also means renewing one’s term of leadership, or a manifestation of a great confounding wonder that will bewilder everyone.

  • Appeal:

    (Appeal; Begging; Bequeath; Plead) To solicit the advice of a religious scholar, a learned person, a lawyer, or a judge in a dream means to need them in a conflict. If a rich person asks a poor person for somethingor for a favor in a dream, it means that he could suffer in hell-fire unless he repents from his sins and bigotry. Solomon’s ring: (A gift from God Almighty; Authority) If a ruler or a rich person sees himself wearing Solomon’s ring in a dream, it means that his authority, wealth, lands, travels and all his goals will be successful and grow further.

    If someone invokes spirits for a living, then wearing Solomon’s ring in a dream will make him rich. Seeing or finding Solomon’s ringin a dream also means renewing one’s term of leadership, or a manifestation of a great confounding wonder that will bewilder everyone.

• daughter
  • Kidneys:

    (Daughter; Son; Servant. See Body 1 )

  • Gems of the eyes:

    (Children)

  • Son:

    In a dream, a son may mean a daughter or a servant.

Practical Guidance for Navigating Your Dreams

• Reflect on the Dream’s Emotions

  When you wake from a dream in which your daughter is making a decision, take a moment to note the emotions it provokes in you. Were you anxious, proud, or uncertain? Such reflections can provide insight into how you perceive her independence and your role in her life.

  Acknowledging these emotions is the first step toward understanding the underlying message of the dream and how it relates to your dynamics with her. Consider journaling these feelings as they can lead to deeper self-awareness and clarity in your waking relationships.

• Engage in Open Conversations

  After having this dream, create an opportunity for meaningful conversations with your daughter about her dreams, aspirations, and the decisions she is contemplating in real life. This dialogue not only strengthens your bond but also allows you to share your wisdom and guidance as she navigates through choices. It's important to approach these discussions with an open heart, welcoming whatever thoughts or feelings she wishes to share.

  In this way, you develop a supportive environment that can nurture her confidence in decision-making, reflecting the dream's message in your reality.

• Consider Your Own Decisions

  The themes presented in a dream about your daughter's decisions may also reflect your own internal struggles with choices in life. Take this opportunity to evaluate what decisions you currently face and how they align with your values and priorities. Use the dream as a gentle reminder to embrace your path of growth and personal development.

  Engaging in self-care practices, such as meditation or prayer, can help pave the way for clarity and confidence in both your and your daughter's life choices.

FAQs

• What does it mean to dream of my daughter making a big life decision?

  Dreaming of your daughter making a significant life decision can represent your hopes for her growth and independence. It may also indicate your concerns about her choices or reflect your own evolving understanding of family dynamics. Pay attention to the feelings in the dream as they can provide profound insight into your relationship with her and what guidance you may wish to offer.

• Can dreaming about my daughter's choices reflect my own decision-making process?

  Yes, dreams about your daughter's decisions can mirror your own experiences and feelings. They often signify how you perceive choices in your own life and highlight your parental sentiments. This reflection can open dialogue for self-awareness and growth, both for you and your daughter.

• How can I interpret the emotions I felt in the dream?

  Emotions felt during the dream can play a significant role in interpretation. They can signal your worries, pride, or aspirations related to your daughter's journey. Journaling these emotions after waking can provide clarity on your feelings and help you draw connections to your waking life.

• What role does spirituality play in dreams about my children's decisions?

  Spirituality serves as a guiding force in understanding dreams. In many cultures, dreams are seen as messages from a higher power. Contemplating such dreams spiritually can deepen your insight, prompting reflection on your relationship with God and your role as a supportive parent.

• How can I encourage my daughter if I dream about her being indecisive?

  If your dream indicates that your daughter is struggling with indecision, it can be a sign to engage her in open discussions about her choices. Providing a supportive and understanding environment will empower her to make decisions confidently. Encourage her to express her thoughts and feelings, and remind her that it’s okay to seek guidance when needed.

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