The Big Dictionary of Dreams

by Martha Clarke
Psychoanalysis tend to relate the swing with auto-eroticism, and interprets the fear of rolling or of seasickness, produced by the swing, as inhibitions from childhood.

Dreaming that you swing with your partner predicts a happy marriage and a large family; if you swing alone it denotes selfishness and infidelity; and if the chain is broken a birth of a child will be coming soon. A stationary swing is indicative of intense but brief joy.

SWING - analysis of the dream

Joana dreamed: “I was ten and I swung on a swing in the park. My father pushed me and I drove myself forward strongly, stretching my legs. With my toes I could almost touch the clouds. I was happy. I felt light and powerful. Suddenly, I turned around and I no longer saw my father. I felt fear and dizziness. I called him with all my might, but he did not appear.”

Joana had this dream two days after receiving a marriage proposal. She was still undecided. She knew her boyfriend very well and was truly in love, but the idea of marriage made her feel too grown up, despite her youth—she was only 20 years old. This also made her long for her childhood. Swinging on the swing and the pleasant feeling from getting high up are related to her desire for freedom. But the fact that it was her father who pushed her and watched her closely, so that she would not fall, revealed her insecurity and her desire for protection.

In dreams, swinging yourself in the swing is also interpreted as a symbol of indecision; your issues are on the tightrope and sway from side to side without ever landing on site. Joana’s unconscious was encouraging her to be in charge of her life and to decide for herself, breaking family ties—her father disappears in the dream—and accepting her maturity.

Strangest Dream Explanations

by Dream Explanations - Anonymous
Dreams of a swing signify that you are going back and forth, unable to make up your mind. This dream can also signify that you are joyously experiencing your own sacred rhythm, and perhaps getting into the swing of things. Consider the feeling tone.

See Pendulum.

Little Giant Encyclopedia

by Klaus Vollmar
Mood swings; the ups and downs of life—we either give in to them too much or we repress them too much.

The symbol of the rhythm of life. Are you being “taken for a ride”?

It may also be connected to memories from your childhood. Playfulness.

A sexual symbol.