Ten Thousand Dream Interpretation

by Gustavus Hindman Miller
To dream of embracing your husband or wife, as the case may be, in a sorrowing or indifferent way, denotes that you will have dissensions and accusations in your family, also that sickness is threatened.

To embrace relatives, signifies their sickness and unhappiness.

For lovers to dream of embracing, foretells quarrels and disagreements arising from infidelity.

If these dreams take place under auspicious conditions, the reverse may be expected.

If you embrace a stranger, it signifies that you will have an unwelcome guest.

The Complete Guide to Interpreting Your Dreams

by Stearn Robinson - Tom Corbett
A sort of dream of contrary.

To dream of being embraced predicts that impulsive behavior, if not controlled, will subject you to unfair criticism.

To dream of embracing others, or observing others embrace each other indicates basic family unity in spite of quarrels or differences of opinion.

Islamic Dream Interpretation

by Ibn Seerin
(Accolade, Hug) Embracing someone in a dream means longevity. Embracing a deceased person also means longevity.

If a deceased person embraces the person seeing the dream and does not let go of him in a dream, it means his death. Embracing a known person in a dream means associating with him. Embracing one’s enemy in a dream means making peace with him.

It is also said that an embrace in a dream signifies exchanging praises.

An embrace in a dream also signifies kindness, liking for one another, travels, arriving from a journey and dispelling distress or anxiety.

An embrace in a dream is also interpreted to mean having sexual intercourse. Embracing a woman in a dream means love for the world, and despair from receiving any reward in the hereafter. Embracing a man in a dream signifies lending him support and helping him. Embracing the trunk of a tree in a dream means indulging in hypocrisy. Embracing someone and laying one’s head in his lap in a dream means entrusting him with one’s capital, or working for him.

(Also see Envelope, Hug)