Boy

– i.e. male under the age of thirteen.

Boyfriend Your emotional feelings, attachment to, or fears about the boyfriend. This includes the difficulties, struggles with feelings and sexuality felt in connection with boyfriend or other males. It might also be your insights into his behaviour.

Boyfriend dreams often have an element either of fear or dreaming of possibilities. In other words the dream explores what you fear might happen in the relationship, or what you hope will happen.

Example:  I was sitting in my boyfriend’s house and the phone rang. My boyfriend answered it. In real life he always goes upstairs away from me to speak on the phone, and I am frightened he is talking to an old girlfriend. I heard him say that he wasn’t seeing any one. When I heard him say this I flipped and ran out to get a taxi home. Karen.

This dream is typical of how Karen’s fear of not being wanted or loved pushes her to run away from the relationship.

Example: An old man, rather Merlin magician type, lived in an open area near the flats. His house was disguised, rather like camouflage on the outside. I was like Tarzan, somewhat undressed, and was trying to induce a young boy to go into Merlin’s house, which I managed with difficulty. Then I had to get a large spider into the dwelling. At one point it was like trying to get the spider into a narrow necked bottle, and the spider was as unwilling as the boy, and bit my finger.

If known: What you feel about that boy. Whatever it is this is probably referring to yourself. i.e. One might think the child cautious and anxious; so it depicts one’s own childhood feelings of caution and anxiety. See: Characters and People in Dreams

Male dream: Yourself at that age; the difficulties faced, habits acquired, attitudes imprinted on you by experiences at that age – circumstances may not have permitted parts of you to mature, so your relationship with a woman and the world might still be conditioned by that age mode. So this could be a part of yourself you need to ‘father’, or help grow toward maturity.

The boy might depict the eternal potential for growth, openness to the new and enthusiasm about tomorrow.

If older than yourself: Your potential or how you feel about maturing.

Female dream: Your own developing ability to express in outer action. Feelings about a son or brother. See: son under family.

Useful questions and hints:

What is my relationship with this boy, and does it suggest love, personal qualities or parental feelings?

If I imagine myself as the boy what impressions and feelings do I meet? Characters and People in Dreams

If this is my younger self, what is it expressing?

If I know the boy how would I describe him -what characteristics or qualities?

If teenage female: Feelings you have about a boy, boys in general or a brother. In many teenage dreams there is a lot happening in connection with emerging feelings of attraction. See: adolescent.

Useful Questions and Hints:

What is my relationship with this boy, and does it suggest love, personal qualities or parental feelings?

If I imagine myself as the boy what impressions and feelings do I meet? See: Stand in role.

If this is my younger self, what is it expressing?

Try Talking As and Processing Dreams