Shoes
Shoes in general suggest the situation you are in or a position in life. They can also indicate your character or chosen way of life through what type of shoe – a plain shoe, a fancy expensive shoe, an impractical and painful shoe.
With the right shoes we can walk in places we could only manage with great difficulty barefoot, so they can show you the character traits, life skills and strategies you have developed to deal with rough life situations.
Example: I put on boots to go outside on the raft. There’s something out there. It’s a pet, but scary too. I realize (again), that I must wear foot coverings because of possible poison things I could step on, but they’ve been stolen along with my can opener and other survival, important items. I go out pretending my bare feet are covered. I look out over the water. It’s cold, deep, and dangerous. B.S.
In some dreams shoes point out what direction you are taking in your attitudes – i.e. formal dancing shoes in a discotheque would suggest outmoded approach, so the shoes can show a way of life.
Some shoes are worn by particular social groups, for instance D.M’s are a cult shoe, and so – for instance – can stand for young women who do not want to conform with previous female stereotypes.
Barefooted: Going through a rough patch in life if walking is difficult, or feeling unprepared to meet your present life situation. Letting go of the everyday duties and responsibilities, or feeling in contact with nature and your life situation if enjoying it. Feeling embarrassed about not being ‘properly’ dressed, or that you are not conforming.
You might also have taken shoes off to walk quietly so as not to be noticed. If this is so it suggests you are trying to fade into the background in some way.
Boots: If male boots, usually about ability to meet difficult life situations, but practical and maybe not fashionable. Also strength and being down to earth practical.
If female boots they often connect with feelings about looking good, attractive or sexy.
Sport boots as with football boots, indicate the skill to be part of a team or handle ‘the ball’ – the challenges of life – well. One can also be ‘given the boot’.
Boots can also be used as a weapon to kick with, so at times can be used in a dream to show fear of violence or desire to hurt.
Clogs: Something slowing you down or making you clumsy. Perhaps is a wordplay on being clogged physically or mentally.
High heels: Feeling less secure in your footing in life. Feeling in an uncomfortable life situation. Feeling, or wanting to feel sexually attractive.
Gym shoes/boots: Ability to be sure footed in what you are undertaking. Feeling comfortable in yourself. If they are being worn in a formal situation it suggests you might be taking a too nonconformist approach to something.
In female dream: In many women’s dreams shoes are shown as a fashion accessory – matching other clothes. So this links with an awareness or sensitivity about how you appear.
Jogging shoes: See: Gym shoes.
Large shoes: Taking an attitude or role you are not quite big enough a person to fill – or having an attitude you can grow into – depending on feelings in dream.
Losing shoes: Not being clear about the right attitude or approach to your situation, or situation shown in dream. It can also suggest losing, or losing sight of the skills or strength to manage what you face. For instance you might to feel at ease or confident meeting someone if you didn’t have any shoes on, and this type of dream points to exactly that type of feeling.
Example: I am not wearing anything on my feet. This really troubles me, as I see myself searching endlessly for my shoes. For example I am at school, although nobody is looking at me, I feel inwardly embarrassed without my shoes. Debra
Low heels: Comfortable way of life or attitudes. Practical approach to a situation
New shoes: A new start, new direction or a new attitude or way of dealing with what you are meeting in life.
Odd shoes: Two different not compatible ways of dealing with a situation. Being ill equipped to do what you are confronting, or feeling clumsy or in conflict about something. Perhaps making use of old ways of dealing with life that do not ‘fit’ the present needs or the person you are now.
Old shoes: This is either about an outworn way of life, or one that is known, comfortable and really fits you – depending on the dream.
Reversed shoes – the right shoe in my left foot and the left shoe in my right foot: Feeling confused, almost a reveresal to childhood, so still learninng the bestway to present yourself. An uncomfortalbe situation.
Sandals: Lack of formality or a relaxed way of dealing with life. It could suggest inappropriate attitudes in some dreams where they are not suitable for what you are walking over.
Shoes from different roles i.e. nurses shoes: May indicate our need for the qualities of that role.
Shoes not fitting: Trying to live with the wrong attitude or approach. An ill fitting situation in life or in a relationship. Something not right.
Shoes without anyone wearing them: This can suggest the presence of an unseen, lost or dead person. It can also indicate a way of life you have left behind – the person you were.
Slippers: Depends on how they appear – in a hospital scene, a home scene, as an expression of being helpless – Consider the feelings in the surrounding dream scenes to understand their meaning. Sometimes points to attitudes that are not functional or appropriate in the given life situation.
Sole of shoe: one’s inner feelings, or the way you meet the rough parts of life experience.
Someone else’s shoes: Trying out a different way of life, copying someone else’s style, or perhaps you feel impoverished in your own life style or direction.
Taking off or discarding shoes: Leaving the past or an old way of life behind; dropping a long established role; being open to change; relaxing as you emerge from a situation or attitude, as when you might kick off your shoes at a party or in a relationship. See: nude.
Tight shoes: An uncomfortable or painful life situation, or one that you do not have a large enough understanding of or attitudes to deal with.
Work shoes: Denotes something you are working at or giving effort to. This is usually to do with changes you are making, either in yourself or outer life. This only seldom relates to the actual work you do. The work shoes, the meaning depends on what work the shoes are for.
Idioms: Be in someone else’s shoes; don’t criticise your brother until you walk a mile in his moccasins; if the shoe fits, wear it; fill his shoes; the shoe is on the other foot; shoes like boats;.
Useful questions:
What type of shoes are they – babies shoes, working shoes, dancing shoes – define them and this leads to what they are suggesting?
What is the quality of the shoes, and what does this suggest about the way I am dealing with life?
Do the shoes depict a particular role, such as business or soldier?
If these are old shoes, what phase of your life might they link with, or what do they show they have been through?
See Techniques for Exploring your Dreams – Secrets of Power Dreaming
Comments
Hi,
I dreamt I was hanging out at my ex’s house or family’s house which his brother and another family member were sitting at a table. He offered me something to eat. We laughed as I joked about his name. I then went to leave but could only find ONE shoe. They were my “flip-flops”. Only one shoe on my foot the other was not there with the pile of shoes.
Hi – I am stopping from answering your posts fully – but will try to give hints; sometimes long ones because I quote from masses I have already put online. Also, I need to take time to update the site – dreamhawk.
It would help you to understand your dreams, if you would read – http://dreamhawk.com/approaches-to-being/questions-2/#Summing and also http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/features-found-on-site/ which has so much information in.
Nothing can replace your own ability to understand your dream. With a little effort you can do this by practising what is described in – http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/acting-on-your-dream/#BeingPerson or http://dreamhawk.com/dream-dictionary/getting-at-your-dreams-meaning/
Tony
Liv – Awkward or promotion? All the stars are being photographed with just one shoe on. See http://with1shoe.com/celebrities
But you didn’t say what you felt on realising you only had one shoe on to go home with. It is your feelings reactions that are the heart of your dream. Maybe find out by using http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/acting-on-your-dream/#BeingPerson
I just dreamt last night,I walked in the heavy rain wearing rubber shoes,I have a umbrella also.please help me what it means!thank you
In my dream three are lots of show I’m trying on ….they all fit but I can’t seem to find one that has an actual pair . they are all or let or right but never a pair .
Hi – I am stopping from answering your posts fully – but will try to give hints; sometimes long ones because I quote from masses I have already put online. Also, I need to take time to update the site – dreamhawk.
It would help you to understand your dreams, if you would read – http://dreamhawk.com/approaches-to-being/questions-2/#Summing and also http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/features-found-on-site/ which has so much information in.
Nothing can replace your own ability to understand your dream. With a little effort you can do this by practising what is described in – http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/acting-on-your-dream/#BeingPerson or http://dreamhawk.com/dream-dictionary/getting-at-your-dreams-meaning/
Tony
Your description was so short it is difficult to get a good impression of it. Write down anything that you think might have triggered the dream or links with it in some way.
Write down the whole dream; do not leave out parts because you consider them not important.
Put in any insights you have about people or animals in your dream – it has to be the character of them as they appear in the dream. See Characters and People in Dreams and Being the Person or Thing
Please let us know your age and gender.
Describe any emotions expressed or indicated in the dream.
But I think the dream is either saying that you are not allowing yourself to be a whole person.
The way of the razors edge can depict any behaviour or attitudes that are one-sidedness and would lead to imbalance within the individual. But at the same time it is not about being perfect or a saint, but a balanced and whole human being with very wide choices. Walking it we balance between the opposites facing us. See http://dreamhawk.com/approaches-to-being/opening-to-life/
Seeing my boyfriend wearing a small slippers and his big foot pushing through
Hi – I am stopping from answering your posts fully – but will try to give hints; sometimes long ones because I quote from masses I have already put online. Also, I need to take time to update the site – dreamhawk.
It would help you to understand your dreams, if you would read – http://dreamhawk.com/approaches-to-being/questions-2/#Summing and also http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/features-found-on-site/ which has so much information in.
Nothing can replace your own ability to understand your dream. With a little effort you can do this by practising what is described in – http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/acting-on-your-dream/#BeingPerson or http://dreamhawk.com/dream-dictionary/getting-at-your-dreams-meaning/
Tony
Try using http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/acting-on-your-dream/#BeingPerson
I saw the Dalai Lama In my dream , It was a beautiful sunset , the sky was pink and yellow , there were trees blooming and hundreds of tiny birds in the branches , I was with an old friend from my childhood (I haven’t seen her since 15 then) we were supposed to go to a ceremony, the Dalai Lama gave me a shoe , a white old shoe , just one, she had different pairs to chose but I had to help her because she was having problem with the right size . I was ok with my only shoe.
Hi – I am stopping from answering your posts fully – but will try to give hints; sometimes long ones because I quote from masses I have already put online. Also, I need to take time to update the site – dreamhawk.
It would help you to understand your dreams, if you would read – http://dreamhawk.com/approaches-to-being/questions-2/#Summing and also http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/features-found-on-site/ which has so much information in.
Nothing can replace your own ability to understand your dream. With a little effort you can do this by practising what is described in – http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/acting-on-your-dream/#BeingPerson or http://dreamhawk.com/dream-dictionary/getting-at-your-dreams-meaning/
Tony
The Dalai Lama represents your contact with your connection with the whole of life, with collective wisdom, or the collective unconscious, as it relates to your life. The Dalai Lama is not so concerned with physical welfare, as to the realisation of your eternal nature and life as it connects with the whole. Thus the Dalai Lama in dreams will usually guide you towards greater self understanding, deeper relationships with him/her/self, and instruct you in any necessary disciplines of mind and body.
Your old friend you will need to look back at what impression she left on you. When you think about a friend or a person you meet, you are only taking in your thoughts, impressions and feelings about them. So many people do not realise that they have an inner person equally as powerful as the external person you know. You have taken in millions of bits of memory, lessons learnt, life experiences along with all the feelings or problems met by meeting or living with them, and they are what makes you the person you are. The memories and experience we gather unconsciously change us and are not lost. It is part of you and is symbolised in dreams as a person or event. Such an inner person can appear in dreams because you still carry the memories or impressions of them, and so they influenced what you hold within you. So find out by using http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/acting-on-your-dream/#BeingPerson
I just woke up from this dream. I was wearing an old man’s shoe but I don’t know to whom it belongs to. It was a black shoe, it’s like loafers but it’s not. It’s really old that it’s starting to get flaky and can’t be worn anymore. Then the person who’s in my dream who is also my college friend told me that I came to the place wearing that shoe. Then I remembered I packed my school shoes with me but it was red. So I took of the old shoe and put on the red shoe. In my dream, we were supposed to go to school but we are only allowed to wear black shoes. So I asked my friend to come with me to the mall and buy a new black shoe before going to school.
Hi – I am stopping from answering your posts fully – but will try to give hints; sometimes long ones because I quote from masses I have already put online. Also I need to take time to update the site – dreamhawk.
It would help you to understand your dreams, if you would read – http://dreamhawk.com/approaches-to-being/questions-2/#Summing and also http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/features-found-on-site/
Nothing can replace your own ability to understand your dream. With a little effort you can do this by practicing what is described in – http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/acting-on-your-dream/#BeingPersonOrThing or http://dreamhawk.com/dream-dictionary/getting-at-your-dreams-meaning/
Tony
It seems to me to be the problem many young people have with authority and schools. As a young person you are new in the world are are a way of creating a new world, but authority, shown by the black shoe, stands in the way. See if you can let the social norm and the inner natural life in you find a balance. See wonderful video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kH-BO1rJXbQ
I dreamt of a baby wearing my shoes & she kept on falling,but never gave up.
Hi – I am stopping from answering your posts fully – but will try to give hints; sometimes long ones because I quote from masses I have already put online. Also I need to take time to update the site – dreamhawk.
It would help you to understand your dreams, if you would read – http://dreamhawk.com/approaches-to-being/questions-2/#Summing also http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/features-found-on-site/
Nothing can replace your own ability to understand your dream. With a little effort you can do it by practicing what is described in – http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/acting-on-your-dream/#BeingPersonOrThing
Tony
This is a way of reminding you of things you learnt during your childhood – you kept on falling/failing but never gave up. A good quality to have except it you do not learn from the lesson.
I only remember a scene where I was giving shoes but then also trying on different shoes for myself. These were kind of new and used shoes. I tried almost all of them on but I didn’t like it. So I found one pair of sandals I was okay with since they were comfortable and I could walk in them. When I left and looked at my feet they were the wrong pair of shoes. They were ballerina shoes then turned into another pair of sandals as I kept walking. Then I went to a liquor store and got into a fight of one of my siaters.
FYI I fell asleep being upset with my significant other.
Hi – I am going to halt from answering your posts – the reason is that in so many of your post I give the same information to. This is because most people do not understand the difference between dreaming and waking life. Also I need to take time to update the site – dreamhawk.
So, most of what I put in answers is my attempt at explain what dreams are really about. It would help you to understand your dreams, if you would read – http://dreamhawk.com/approaches-to-being/questions-2/#Summing also http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/features-found-on-site/
Nothing can replace your own ability to understand your dream. With a little effort you can do it by practising what is described in – http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/acting-on-your-dream/#BeingPersonOrThing
Tony
It looks like you have been searching for a way of life that suits you, and you found in the sandals a lack of formality or a relaxed way of dealing with life.
I dreamt at was at a house party & upon leaving,I realized I left my slippers. I already had shoes on but I would only find one foot at a time. I’ll find the right,put it on,find the left,put it on but the right would be gone. I was a bit anxious to find the slippers yet comfortable in the house.
Hi – I am going to halt from answering your posts – the reason is that in so many of your post I give the same information to many people. That is because most posts do not realise the difference between dreaming and waking life. /it makes a great difference.
So, most of what I put in answers is my attempt at explain what dreams are really about. It would help you to understand your dreams, if you would read – http://dreamhawk.com/approaches-to-being/questions-2/#Summing it would help me, and hopefully you too.
Tony
It might b e saying that you need to walk without any shoes – Letting go of the everyday duties and responsibilities, or feeling in contact with nature and your life situation if enjoying it. Feeling embarrassed about not being ‘properly’ dressed, or that you are not conforming.
Please help understand this dream, I dreamt that i waa getting ready to go somewhere and the first pair of shoes i put on were the same red tennis shoe, except the left shoe was smaller than the right one so I changed the shoes. Then i saw myself come out wearing a turquoise tennis shoe on my left foot and a turquoise low heeled shoe on the right. What does this mean?
Hi – I am going to halt from answering your posts – the reason is that in so many of your post I give the same information to. This is because most people do not understand the difference between dreaming and waking life.
So, most of what I put in answers is my attempt at explain what dreams are really about. It would help you to understand your dreams, if you would read – http://dreamhawk.com/approaches-to-being/questions-2/#Summing
Tony
I had a dream that I was in a very large store a couple floors were in this store, I took off my shoe I don’t remember why but I did eventually I left the store but left my shoe and didn’t realize until I was half way down the many steps that lead to and from the large store I turned around to go get it but once in the the store I could not remember where I left it I walked around with one shoe my right shoe to be exact on…. woke up before finding the shoe what could this dream mean.
Hi – I am sorry to suddenly stop replying to dreams like this, but I must upgrade the dream dictionary – I started the revising in 2006, and haven’t got near the end yet.
So for a while I urge you to read http://dreamhawk.com/approaches-to-being/i-am-no-longer-interpreting-dreams/
Also here are so ways you can find your dreams meaning – http://dreamhawk.com/approaches-to-being/questions-2/#Summing – http://dreamhawk.com/dream-dictionary/getting-at-your-dreams-meaning/ or http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/acting-on-your-dream/#BeingPerson and http://dreamhawk.com/approaches-to-being/opening-to-life/
Hundreds of questions about your dreams have already been answered if you scroll down to the very bottom of the page were people’s questions/comments were replied to. Also see http://dreamhawk.com/approaches-to-being/questions-2/
Tony
Hi, I had a dream that I lost my favorite pair of leopard print shoes (High Heels) in a big pond of water and asked my bf to help me find them.
What could this mean?
Hi – I am sorry to suddenly stop replying to dreams like this, but I must upgrade the dream dictionary – I started the revising in 2006, and haven’t got near the end yet.
So for a while I urge you to read http://dreamhawk.com/approaches-to-being/i-am-no-longer-interpreting-dreams/
Also here are so ways you can find your dreams meaning – http://dreamhawk.com/approaches-to-being/questions-2/#Summing – http://dreamhawk.com/dream-dictionary/getting-at-your-dreams-meaning/ or http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/acting-on-your-dream/#BeingPerson and http://dreamhawk.com/approaches-to-being/opening-to-life/
Hundreds of questions about your dreams have already been answered if you scroll down to the very bottom of the page were people’s questions/comments were replied to. Also see http://dreamhawk.com/approaches-to-being/questions-2/
Tony
It seems you are asking help to search your inner world – the pond – for a way of life you have lost. See http://dreamhawk.com/inner-life/inner-world/#MakesInner
Please help me understand. I dreamt that my brother took me to meet my older cousin. The cousin buys me a pair of shoes, then dances with me. The shoes in the dream were a red/black leather medium heel Dakota’s. My older cousin is (in real life) very well off and doesn’t really stay in contact with me. And although the shoes were new in the dream, I really owned the exact pair when I first earned a salary – and I bought them for myself (was a small achievement for me at the time, to afford that shoe, that was trending at the time). That was 20 years ago. In the dream I wondered if it now suited the suit I was wearing – it did. My cousin was so excited and excited to see me.
I woke up with both my big toes very sore. The memory of owning those shoes is also a period when i was starting to gain momentum into my own independence. I consequently lost everything I ever owned (car, house, savings) in the last 3 years, because I wasn’t able to find a new job.
I had two dreams back to back where I was getting out of my bed and as I’m getting out there are a lot of different sneakers in different sizes some being shoes I actually own and some being shoes of someone I know. They were all relatively new shoes not dingy but definitely worn already. Also in one dream I picked up some of the shoes to move thinking why would they put them in my room. What does this mean?
Diamond – I feel your dream is particularly about the life skills and strategies you have developed to deal with various life situations. It shows how you have developed, by wearing/learning, several life skills, some of which you learned from another person.
When you think about a friend or a person you meet, you are only taking in your thoughts, impressions and feelings about them, your feelings and thoughts are not them. So many people do not realise that they have an inner person equally as powerful as the external person you know. You have taken in millions of bits of memory, lessons learnt, life experiences along with all the feelings or problems met by meeting or living with them, and they are what makes you the person you are. The memories and experience we gather unconsciously change us and are not lost. It is part of you and is symbolised in dreams as a person or event. Such an inner person can appear in dreams because you still carry the memories or impressions of them, and so they influenced what you hold within you.
These are the many shoes you have.
Tony
I just dreamt I was going for an appointment and my shoe and bag cut at the same time then I woke up.pls what does this mean?
You have not given enough information for me to understand your dream. Things to remember when writing to us with your dream:
You have not given enough information for me to understand your dream. Things to remember when writing to us with your dream:
· Write down anything that you think might have triggered the dream or links with it in some way.
· What you associate/feel about any person, animal of object in the dream is immensely important. See Working with associations
· Put in any insights you have about people or animals in your dream – it has to be the character of them as they appear in the dream.
· Please let us know your age and gender.
· Describe any emotions expressed or indicated in the dream.