Psychological / emotional perspective: Psychologically we all seek within ourselves complete harmony in partnership. This is a security that allows us to express parts of our personality which are not normally accessible otherwise.
Dreaming of being a widow or widower when we are not suggests that we have lost part of ourselves.
A husband represents the masculine principle, the drives and ambition, and a wife the intuitive sensitive principle, so to have lost either is to have lost an essential part of the mystical union that everyone requires in order to become spiritually complete.
[1]Material aspects: Dreaming of being a widow or widower can suggest loss and sadness, but can also suggest the independence of old age. Sometimes such a dream can mark the change in a woman’s awareness as she moves towards the ‘crone’ or wise woman.
A woman to dream of a widow highlights her ability to be free and use her own innate wisdom.
[2]Gives gender-specific: In a man’s dream a widow may signify a deeper understanding of a woman’s needs. He may recognize that all women do not necessarily need to become dependent on him. In a woman’s dream a widower may signify her awareness that she has a right to companionship without losing her ties to her husband.
[3]A widow can signify the crone or wise woman and the widower the archetypal wise old man. They have the wisdom of experience. Consult the entries for marriage and wedding / wedding dress / wedding ring as well as the information on family in the people entry.
[4]Vision + Depth Psychology: Would you like to withdraw from human contact for a while? Are you still attached to past experiences? Are you a “merry widow” or “widower” in the dream? Are you sad and grieving? See Man, Woman.
[5]It has been said that a woman dreaming about being a widow can represent either fear of losing a husband or a desire to be free of one’s marriage.
The same meaning can be extended to a man dreaming about being a widower.
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