Complete Dictionary of Dreams

by Dr. Mıchael Lennox
The purpose of a fan is to cool the temperature around you by moving the surrounding air faster in order to create a breeze. In this way, a fan of any type has a primary symbolic meaning connected to the desire to reduce heat. That heat can be thought of as literal temperature or the heat of passion or anger. In a contradictory fashion, using a fan to move air can actually increase heat by speeding up the flow of oxygen toward a flame, as in “fanning the flames.” A hand fan can also symbolize eroticism in this same way, symbolically heating and cooling ardor by using it to extend gestures as a language of seduction.

The Language of Dreams

by Patrica Telesco
(see Ah; Wind)

A type of air or wind dream that offers more personal control because you know-where the “off switch lies.

Handheld fans may symbolize secret communications. In the Victorian era, when propriety would not allow lovers to outwardly speak of their feelings, fans were used to convey those desires. Also, handheld fans placed before the face obscure the words or expressions behind them.

Causing trouble (e.g., “fanning the flames”).

Attempting to keep yourself cool despite heated emotional, physical, or spiritual matters.

Strangest Dream Explanations

by Dream Explanations - Anonymous
If you dream of being someone’s number one fan, then you are putting someone above you, living vicariously through another.

If this helps you to grow to aspire to what they have then this is positive and supportive. However, if you are placing someone on a pedestal and put yourself beneath them then your dream is giving you the message to get on with the business of maximizing your potential.

If this dream is about a fan that circulates air, this is about a change in the air, a change in perspective that happens when you take a breather.

See Air.