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.

You may have a dream in which you or someone close to you appears to age rapidly, sometimes becoming an elderly person or even a skeleton. Such dreams can be frightening, reflecting your anxieties and fears about aging; but some people find such dreams comforting, as they can indicate that the aging process is not necessarily a negative experience. Whilst on the subject of time and aging, did you know that by the time you reach seventy, you will have spent nearly six years of your life dreaming and will have slept for twenty years? See also STAGES OF LIFE.

Aging or maturing during a dream can represent: Moving forward through time or within a process.

The passage of time in your life, whether or not it’s related to aging.

Learning, growing, or maturing personally.

Actual aging, or issues or concerns about it.

See Age, Time Passing, Bigger, Getting, Old Person