The Big Dictionary of Dreams

by Martha Clarke
Grandparents represent experience, the past, wisdom learned with time. Therefore, they symbolize social norms that are learned. When they are in dreams that cause pleasant feelings, it suggests you have to seek serenity and calm before getting carried away, paying attention to past events.

If these images, on the contrary, are not very comforting, the interpretation is the opposite. You are too anchored in the past and that limits your possibilities for personal development.

All traditions agree that elders are a symbol of certainty and wisdom.

Dream Meanings of Versatile

by Versatile - Anonymous
If grandparents appear in dreams it can highlight our attitude to them, but also to the traditions and beliefs handed down by them.

It is often said that grandparents do not know whether they have done a good job of raising their children until their sons and daughters have children of their own. In dreams grandparents can offer security, but this will often depend on the relationship our parents have had with them.

New American Dream Dictionary

by Joan Seaman - Tom Philbin
1. Need for love and guidance or other qualities that one’s grandparents embody.

2. Need to return to childhood.

3. Need to be safe.

4. Need for nurturing and security.

5. A search for grandparents means the dreamer is searching for love and protection.

6. A dreamer who dreams of him/herself as a grand­parent sees self as a nurturer.