GLOVE

If your dream highlights gloves is there a particular person or situation in waking life you need to handle with extra special care? Or do you need to protect yourself in some way. Are you keeping your hands clean and avoiding dirty business? Freud associated gloves (into which hands are inserted) with sexuality and with birth control. Traditionally, a glove was a symbol of purity in women, and picking up a glove would have the same meaning as picking up a handkerchief dropped by a woman—an invitation to intimacy.

If you take your gloves off in your dream, this may suggest a desire for more honesty in waking life.

If you took your right-hand glove off in order to shake hands with someone, your dream reveals your real feelings for that person.

If you put on a pair of gloves in your dream, could it be that you are worried about revealing your hand? Or is someone in waking life behaving so unpredictably that you feel you have to treat them with kid gloves?

Self-protection, as in protecting yourself from harshness or threats (since gloves protect a person from cold temperatures, germs, etc.).

The masking of a person’s identity or motivations (as gloves mask a person’s fingerprints).

A person’s denial of their own humanness or unique self (such as trying to feel no compassion or trying to act anonymously).

Hidden or undiscovered abilities or strengths (represented by hands).

Disguised or hindered potential to achieve (as gloves can decrease dexterity).

See Hand, Finger, Fingernail, Protected, Being, Cover, Interfering, Bothered, Being, Clothes

Dreams of a glove represents physical, mental or emotional protection. Your hands symbolize your ability to reach for what you want in life, to have and to hold, and gloves are a way of keeping a distance or softening your approach; like Margaret Thatcher was known for having a steel fist in a velvet glove. You may be keeping yourself at arms length from what you really want or need, either because of formality or a fear of intimacy.

See Condom.