A Guide to Dreams and Sleep Experiences

by Tony Crisp
Can represent a world of experience human beings have lost and feel sorrow at its absence. In developing self con­sciousness, with its labyrinth of ideas and decisions, humans lost a sense of oneness with life around them. Animals have enormous remembered wisdom; remembered through instincts and complex social codes. This wisdom is still accessible to humans who can listen to the unconscious, and discover the enormous wealth of information they have about such things as social behaviour and body language.

The ape can depict this wisdom, especially if it is white haired. Or it might show the personal folly of trying to let instincts dominate us now we have self awareness. Idioms: he is just aping.

The Big Dictionary of Dreams

by Martha Clarke
The character of the ape tends to be gentle, so this dream could symbolize that part of your interior that wants to have a more simple and natural behavior.

If the ape gives you fear, it represents the dark and repressed side of your personality.

This dream denotes that there will be people who deceive you, so you will soon suffer trickery. In business, you should be very cautious with the promises that people make, as they could be false.

If the ape is in a tree, one of your relatives will lie to you which will create large problems in the future.

Little Giant Encyclopedia

by Klaus Vollmar
Developmental difficulties. Points at the same time to increased rigidity. You need to allow yourself to be more playful and happy. Leave room for the animal side of you (the ape is considered one of the most sexual animals).

The ape is the shadow of the ego, the soul of instinct, the most ancient and most human creature.

It is a symbol of imitation, which points to self- ridicule as well as a lack of autonomy. Pay special attention to the type of ape that appears in the dream.