Complete Dictionary of Dreams
by Dr. Mıchael LennoxIt is a sign of intimacy and connection to sit on someone’s lap or allow someone to sit on your lap. In this way, anything that involves a lap in your dreams is asking you to consider your relationship to intimacy and affection. Holding someone or something in your lap indicates your perception of that individual or thing as dear to you. You sitting in someone’s lap expresses a desire to be comforted in some way. Consider the meaning of the other people involved as aspects of your own personality that either are in need of nurturing and care or that can offer those things to you.
Dream Symbols and Analysis
by DreamForthTo look at your hands resting in your lap is also implying a restful moment.
To dream of sitting on someone’s lap suggests the need for support at this time and reminds you that it is okay to ask for help.
To have another person sit on your lap implies extra energy and a reminder that to give comfort is often a comfort in itself.
Ten Thousand Dream Interpretation
by Gustavus Hindman MillerIf a young woman dreams that she is holding a person on her lap, she will be exposed to unfavorable criticism.
To see a serpent in her lap, foretells she is threatened with humiliation at the hands of enemies.
If she sees a cat in her lap, she will be endangered by a seductive enemy.