Dream Interpretation: Infidelity and Avoidance of Core Issues
Dreaming of infidelity symbolizes a circuitous route to meeting needs and an avoidance of addressing crucial matters. Seeking intimacy or affection outside of a primary relationship is often an indirect way of fulfilling primal needs, while simultaneously avoiding an underlying problem. This dream image represents both a detour to connection and the evasion of confrontation.
Discovering Infidelity in a Dream
If you discover infidelity in your dream, consider areas of your life where you might be neglecting self-care or avoiding important responsibilities. It could be an indication that there are unmet needs that you are not addressing directly.
Engaging in an Affair
If you are engaged in an affair in the dream, it may reflect manipulative or indirect behaviors in your waking life. The act of being caught in the dream often symbolizes an unconscious desire for change, suggesting that there may be areas in your life where you are avoiding responsibility or accountability.
Constructing an Affair
If the dream involves planning or constructing an affair, it may be time to examine your authenticity in expressing and fulfilling your desires in life, both relationally and otherwise. Where in your life are you not being genuine? How might you be betraying your own needs or desires?
Implications of Intimacy Issues
This dream image typically points to intimacy issues in waking life, regardless of the marital status of the dreamer. Whether you are involved in an affair or suspect your partner of being unfaithful, the dream reflects themes of connection, responsibility, and authenticity.
See Also: intimacy, responsibility, avoidance, authenticity.
[1]Dreaming about being unfaithful suggests that you take a better look at your current relationship. What was the person in your dream giving you (emotionally or otherwise) that your real life partner does not? Communicate effectively and begin to develop those areas of your relationship that need most improvement. Understanding this dream may assist you in understanding your relationship and the level of attachment to your partner. Many people write about “dreams of cheating.” Either they are cheating, or they believe that their boyfriends/girlfriends are cheating on them. In either case, they are upset and outraged by such dreams. It seems logical that these types of dreams are connected to feelings of inadequacy or dissatisfaction.
If the partner in your dream was a total stranger then the dream may be much more personal and profound. It could be telling you something about the relationship that you have with yourself by giving you clues about the nature of your unconscious.
[2]Being unfaithful to a partner in dreams does not necessarily mean that the situation will happen or is happening, but rather that you are being unfaithful to yourself, betraying your own principles. You are not fulfilling your promises, or the goals you set. Your partner is nothing more than the reflection of your interior, the darkest part of your person. In general, an act of infidelity demonstrates the disconformity you feel with some kind of rule.
If it refers to your sentimental relationship, the dream denotes deception and unsatisfied needs.
If your partner is the one who is unfaithful, it may mean that you are denying their emotional desires.
Oneiric superstition says that this dream expresses the opposite. It promises a happy relationship, full of fidelity.
[3]If the dreamer is the one being unfaithful, then he is dealing with feelings of guilt over an apparent betrayal.
If an actual lover is the one being unfaithful, then this indicates the dreamer’s insecurities over the relationship.
The partner may or may not actually be unfaithful, but either way the dreamer needs to deal with her feelings.
If an unknown figure is the one being unfaithful, then the dreamer needs to be more discriminating with regard to who she calls friend. Astrological parallel: Mars/Pluto combinations Tarot parallel: The Devil
[4]If you dream of cheating in any manner, either by you, or by your loved one, then this is a direct warning for you to be more circumspect about your actions to and with the opposite sex.
It is warning you that if you do not, you will suffer the consequences.
If you are the cheater in your dream, you may have a guilty conscious about cheating that has nothing to do with love.
[5]Dreaming about being unfaithful suggests that you take a look at your current relationship. What was the person in your dream giving you (emotionally or otherwise) that your real life partner does not. Communicate effectively and begin to develop those areas of your relationship that need most improvement.
[6]If you dream of being unfaithful to someone, you may be feeling guilty about lying to a friend, or you may be misrepresenting yourself to others.
[7]A dream of being unfaithful in any way is warning you to be more discriminating in regard to your choice of playmates.
[8]1. Guilt about being unfaithful or being tempted.
2. Dissatisfaction with current relations.
3. Adventure.
[9]Dreams of infidelity often indicate that one needs to confront feelings of guilt about sexual relationships.
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