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Dreaming Lens: Were you wearing the hat or was someone else? Was it a man’s hat or a woman’s hat? Was the hat related to keeping warm in the cold weather? Was the hat more for the purpose of adornment or fashion? Were you aware of to whom the hat belonged? Why did you have the hat and how did you feel about it?

Personal Focus: The head is the symbolic wellspring of our thoughts and ideas. Hats both adorn and protect the head. As such, a hat can represent specific ideas or thoughts themselves, but also the need or desire to contain them. In terms of adornment, a hat can be the outward expression of an inner idea. In the realm of protection, a hat can connect with keeping such ideas firmly in place.

Wearing someone else’s hat could indicate expressing the notion of trying on someone else’s ideas. If you can easily make an association between the hat in your dream and a person in your life, use the Character Aspect technique to inform your interpretation. The same would apply if someone in your dream was wearing the hat.

Style should be considered as well. A man wearing a woman’s hat may be considering a more flamboyant or expressive thought pattern. An old-fashioned hat might connect to an outdated modality of thought. Something very flashy could represent the creativity of your current way of thinking. How you feel about such a hat would indicate the level of risk associated with the choice to be expressive in such a way. Keep in mind the various ways in which hats have been in and out of fashion. The days of ubiquitous hat-wearing are considerably out of fashion. Ski caps used to be exclusively worn in winter, but are now part of the “gangsta” culture.

The motivation for wearing a hat may play a large part in a dream’s interpretation. A hat may be used to hide a loss of hair in which case the meaning takes on a new slant connecting with the authenticity (or lack thereof) of what you are presenting to the world. There are cultural considerations to examine as well: in some cultures, wearing a hat indoors would be considered rude while in others there are religious demands to keep the head covered at all times.

It is possible that you are turning towards the assumption of more responsibilities at work, or be searching for a new work position. According to Freud, hats (and gloves) represent the female genitals due to its ability to surround the body. In contrast, Jung thought that the hat, relative to the crown, gives people a determined expression. So, the type of hat changes the meaning of the dream. A tophat manifests that you want health or that you are too pretentious; a baseball hat that you want to be younger or more athletic; a straw hat, that you hope to adopt a more natural and unworried attitude; a military cap indicates an excess in authoritarianism; lastly, if you wear a ridiculous hat, it is a warning of the grotesque posture that you maintain in the situation represented in the dream. In general, imagining that you are wearing a hat shows a lack of security in what you do and a fear of being judged by others.

The predecessors of Freud believed that if a woman wears a man’s hat, she wants to maintain relations with the owner of the hat. And, if you dream that you lose the hat, you will soon be married.

If you are wearing a very extravagant hat: your actions or your behavior make you look like a fool. Making a hat: you will soon be offered an interesting job—or someone is going to make an interesting request.

The wind blowing the hat off your head means a loss of profit. Watching a hat floating on water may indicate a friend’s suicide. Wearing a straw hat: your lover will be unfaithful. Wearing a hat with feathers: you are too vain and too desperate for admiration.

See Top Hat.

Depth Psychology: The hat represents opinions and attitudes you would rather hide from others; be brave—speak your mind. Who are you suspicious ofr Take off your hat and show the world who you are!