Boss

To see your boss in your dream may symbolize the controlling part of your character. Your boss may reflect your own aggressiveness and dominance. This dream is suggesting that you may have problems handling the influences that a person in a superior position holds over you. It may also imply that you are too immersed in your career and you need to focus more on your home life. Dreaming about your boss can also represent your feelings of constraint and inability to express your individuality.

To dream that you are afraid of your boss represents your apprehension and anxiety regarding those in power. You are not in control of your own destiny and you feel unable to change the course of your life. Perhaps this dream is mirroring the association that you have with your boss. This may suggest certain conflicts or matters that must be addressed in your place of employment.

(1) If your boss appears in vour dreams, the meaning could have something to do w’ith your real-life relationship with him or her.

(2) On the other hand - particularly if the boss is a man - he could be an authority figure symbolizing vour own super-ego (for super-ego).

(3) If vou are the boss in the dream, the one w ho is behaving in a masterful, bossy way, taking charge of things and giving orders, either the dream mav be show ing you what you are like in real life, and urging vou to relate differently to people, to be more gentle and receptive, more ready to cooperate (rather than command) or even to submit to another’s teaching or guidance, or it mav be asking you to be more

assertive than you are in real life. Provided you are honest with yourself, it should not be difficult to decide which of these alternatives applies to you.

The figure of the boss has various connotations. On one side, it represents a lack of confidence in yourself and the fear of taking initiative.

It is a symbol of a feeling of oppression and inferiority. The presence of the boss can be interpreted as an internal guide that neutralizes your instinctive impulses and makes you act more prudently.

The first books on dream interpretation were written by upper-class people. So, they said that this dream as a sign of incompetence. But if the dreamer was the boss himself, it augured a rapid rise of social prestige.