The Big Dictionary of Dreams

by Martha Clarke
Poet William Blake stated that “progress is the punishment of God.” The life’s path is a personal experience that often involves gradual loss of childhood’s values. Age-related dreams can have several different meanings. Dreaming that you are younger indicates the need to review the past. Some aspect of childhood or adolescence that has not been settled is emerging now. However, if you dream of being older than you currently are, you may be anticipating events. In this case, the unconscious is reminding you to live day by day, intensely, without thinking too much about the future.

Dreaming of senior citizens reports good luck.

If you grow older, a failure is announced.

If it’s a friend who gets older the dream tells that she will let you down.

Dreaming of young people, however, is a sign of family reconciliation and favorable time for launching new companies. Dreaming that you become young again predicts you will make great efforts to regain lost opportunities.

If a mother dreams that her adult child is a baby again the dream announces healing of old wounds and revival of youthful hopes.

The Bedside Dream Dictionary

by Silvana Amar
To dream you are older than you are indicates an energy leak in you life. Someone or something is draining you.

To worry about your age in a dream, or to dream you are or have aged beyond your actual years, indicates you should see a doctor; however, to see aged people in a dream is an omen of great good luck.

If they are poor or ragged, you may have some difficulties ahead, but you can easily overcome these by positive bold action. **Aging: Dreaming about old people or your own aging may have several different meanings.

An old man may symbolize wisdom and forgiveness while an old woman may represent life and death. In general, aging may represent the wisdom that a person acquires through experience.

The dream may also be giving you a message in regard to life’s lessons. This may be a good time for you to apply some of your experience and knowledge to a current situation. This dream may also be a reflection of your concerns about aging.

If you are thinking about your mortality and do not welcome maturing and age, the dream may be bringing out some of your worries and/or vanities. 

The Curious Dreamer’s Dream Dictionary

by Nancy Wagaman
Your age in a dream, if different than your current age, can represent a specific time frame depicted (or imagined) in the dream.

Lying about your age might represent: a wish to be older or younger (or to at least appear that way), a judgment against yourself or your age, a concern about others’ opinions.

The age of another person may provide clues to whom or what they represent in your real life.

For example, if you dream about someone who’s 95, consider who you know who’s that age (or whom you think of as elderly).

If the person is someone you know and their age in the dream is different than their real age, this might indicate that you think of them as younger (“young at heart” or immature) or older (more mature) than their actual age implies.

See Aging, Time Frame, Baby, Child, Old Person