Underwear

All clothing represents our self-expression on some level. Additionally, clothing can be thought of as protection against the elements. Both of these concepts are reflected in the symbolic meaning of clothing. Underwear takes these concepts to a level of privacy and intimacy because they are worn under your outer clothes, make direct contact with your body, and act primarily as covering for the sexual areas. In this way, underwear represents your desire to keep a lid on your sexuality. Also to be considered is the layered desire to protect yourself from being completely vulnerable; if you are in your underwear in your dream, you are certainly exposed, but are not as vulnerable as you might otherwise be. Your mother always warned you to wear clean underwear in case you got into an accident and had to be taken to the hospital.

This element of being prepared for exposure also relates to the shame associated with our most private experiences of being human.

If you dream of being in your underwear, especially in a public place, it means you are nervous about being vulnerable to others. You might be “caught out” in an embarrassing situation.

To see someone else wearing nothing but their underwear means that you will catch a friend or family member in an embarrassing position, that will be hard to explain away.

To dream that you are wearing a boy’s underwear, represents your anxieties about whether you are “well-suited” to a particular boy in real life.

(Panties, Underpants) One’s underwear in a dream represents his chastity.

If one discovers wetness in his underpants in a dream, it means that his wife is pregnant. Seeingone’s underpants soiled with feces in a dream means divorce. Wearing one’s underpants inside-out in the dream means indulging in a loathsome and a forbidden act of anal intercourse with one’s wife. Wearing one’s underpants without the underwear shirt in a dream means poverty. Wearing fancy underpants in a dream means travels or financial growth. Wearing a new set of underpants in a dream means modesty and protection of one’s chastity. Giving away one’s old underpants in a dream means relief from pressure.