You may find yourself laughing as you wake up from a dream; in some cases, when you recall the dream images you may realize that what you were laughing at was not very funny at all.
If this happens, study all the other symbols in your dream and particularly the symbol that most made you laugh, as this will hold the key to your interpretation. The purpose of jokes is to surprise and amuse you in unexpected ways, so if you dream of hearing or telling a joke, your dreaming mind may be trying to draw your attention to a serious issue to which you need to pay attention in your waking life; serious things are often said in jest, even in dreams. Alternatively, dreams of laughter can also have a sinister side, as laughter can reveal emotions of embarrassment, fear or even a sense of paranoia, especially if others are laughing at you. Associated with folklore and wicked witches, if you hear cackling in your dream, it may be your inner voice ridiculing your grandiose pretensions.
[1]Joy is one of the most fundamental principles of life at its highest expression. Laughter is the expression of joy itself, so it is the principle of joy in action.
A dream that features laughter is expressing a desire for more joy.
If someone is laughing in your dream, interpret that character aspect of self as a quality that is needed to connect more deeply to joy.
The shadow side of this symbol is the embarrassment that can be associated with feeling that others are laughing at you.
If you are suffering from feelings of shame in any area of your life, such a dream may be helping you process this.
[2]Vision: Hearing laughter: you are afraid that others will mock you. Watching a former friend laugh: a past, somewhat embarrassing experience is surfacing because you are not yet over it.
If you are the one laughing: you are trying to cover up a burden or worry from others or yourself.
Depth Psychology: Liberating, uproarious laughter is releasing all your tensions, suggesting that it’s better to laugh about yourself than to take everything so seriously.
[3]There is some difference among authoritative sources, but the consensus seems to be that this should, in the main, be interpreted as a dream of contrary, unless the dreamed laughter was that of children, in which case it predicts a stroke of money luck.
Otherwise, if you were laughing in your dream, it signifies approaching unhappiness or disappointment in love, and if you heard others laughing, it portends a broken friendship.
[4]To dream that you are laughing, is a lucky omen which predicts you will be surrounded by nice friends and have success in important areas of your life.
To hear the cheerful laughter of children means you will enjoy excellent health.
If others laughed at you in your dream, you will soon have good news related to a money issue.
To hear evil, demonic laughing in your dream, represents feelings of humiliation or helplessness.
[5](See Also: Clown, Jester, Jokes)
What type of laughter is it? Joyous laughter reflects happy occasions in your
life. .Mocking laughter, on the other hand, may be that which you perceive as coming
from others, or from within yourself.
Figuratively, the best medicine to lift melancholy and aid motivation.
If one can remember to laugh with life, almost everything becomes easier.
[6](Menstruating) Uncontrollable mirth in a dream means a misdeed that one desires to eliminate but to no avail.
If one does control his hilarity, or even ifhe repents, he will fall again into the same misdeed.
(Also seeMenstrual period)
[7]Dreams of laughter represent genius, happiness, joy, frivolity, and the ability to have a good time and taking one’s self lightly. You are tickled by life.
See Also: Humor.
[8]whoever sees himself laughing while smiling, then it is good news of a boy on account of the AllMighty’s saying: { she laughed, so we gave her the good news of Isaac}.
[9]1. A catharsis; release and relief.
2. Reverse: unhappiness, loss.
3. A period of financial good luck (to hear children laughing).
[10]Highly contradictory; whether fake, scornful or joyful, emotions are more easily discerned in a dream
[11]Healing, uplifting energy. Do not take yourself seriously; relax and enjoy self and others.
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