The Big Dictionary of Dreams

by Martha Clarke
Seeing a boy in a dream means that you are happy and alive, with many possibilities and the desire to create.

It is a way of preparing the ground for future changes in your personality. However, it may also indicate a desire to return to the basics and discover your true personality. Moreover, dreaming that you return to childhood reflects a need for love and protection. It can reveal, therefore, certain immaturity to life. In this sense, according to Carl Jung, dreaming of children is a metaphor for the things of childhood that we have forgotten. Maybe the dream image is warning you that you should learn to play again or have a more innocent attitude. (See GAME, YOUTH, and BIRTH)

In history and mythology, divine children often appear, who eventually become heroes or wise men. This is the case of Hercules, who strangles two serpents when he is very small; or Jesus, who then becomes Christ who saves humanity. These children symbolize the true Self of man: vulnerable, but with a great capacity for transformation. In the dream, perhaps this relates to our spiritual potential.

Bracelet See RING

Braid Equal to knots, braids symbolize intimate relations and mutual dependency. For this reason, dreaming that you have long braids could announce that you will soon be implicated in a confusing situation.

It is probable that it will be due to your behavior, which foments discord between the people in your environment.

A Guide to Dreams and Sleep Experiences

by Tony Crisp
If known: what you feel about that boy, but referring to oneself, i.e. one might think the child cautious and anxious, so it depicts one’s own childhood feelings of caution and anxiety. Male dream: oneself at that age; the difficulties faced, habits acquired, attitudes imprinted on one by experiences at that age. Circumstances may not have permitted parts of us to mature, as when a child loses its mother, so does not develop a relationship with a woman. So could be pan we need to ‘father’ towards maturity. Also the eternal potential for growth, openness to the new and enthusiasm about tomor­row.

If older than yourself: your potential, or how you feel about maturing. Female dream: your own developing ability to express in outer action. Feelings about a son.

See son under family.

Islamic Dream Interpretation

by Ibn Seerin
(Young boy) Seeing a young boy in a dream means receiving glad tidings. Begetting a boy in a dream means worries, burdens or sickness, while giving birth to a girl in a dream means relieffrom distress or easing of one’s difficulties. Carrying a young boy in a dream means carrying burdens. Giving birth to a boy in a dream also could mean having a helper.

A beautiful looking young boy in a dream also signifies good luck and victory over one’s enemy. Seeing a beautiful looking boy in a dream means that beautiful and pleasant things will take place in one’s life, or it could mean satisfying one’s needs.

If one is called a teenager in a dream, it signifies the necessity to take a ritual ablution, or that something good or bad may take place in wakefulness.