What Do Dreams About Your Ex Mean?
Dreams About Missing Your Ex
Yes, dreaming about how you want to get back together with an ex sometimes does mean that you’re still carrying a torch for them. But it can also just mean that you miss having a partner and feel wanted.
Dreams Where Your Ex Is Missing You
Dreaming that an ex is still hung up on you can imply that “you ‘miss’ some aspect of that past relationship”… but alternatively, it could just mean that “you have moved on with your life.”
Dreams Where An Ex Gives You Advice
Why on earth is the dude who dumped you while you were shopping for Christmas decorations at Target showing up in your dreams and giving you advice about your current partner? That’s just your “subconscious … telling you not to repeat the same mistakes that you had made with this ex.”
Dreams About Seeing An Ancient Ex
Dreaming of the person who frenched you at your middle school’s Winter Wonderland dance, then broke up with you during pre-algebra the next day? Dreaming of an ex from childhood can mean that you want to “recapture the excitement, freedom, and vitality of youth,” either in your current relationship or just in your overall life, DreamMoods says.
Dreams About Seeing Your Partner’s Ex
A dream about your current partner’s ex may mean that “you are comparing yourself to the ex.” Since dreams often draw from issues that preoccupy us while we’re awake, this one can probably be handled by attempting to come to terms with your feelings about your love’s old flame.
Dreams About Seeing Your Ex’s Family
An ex’s mother making a cameo in a dream can mean that you may still have some “unresolved issues” with your former love.
Dreams Where Your Ex Is Sick
If you dream that you nursed an ex back to health, or even if you simply dream that they’re in a hospital, you may be “still dealing with the breakup.”
Dreams Where Your Ex Dies
This one is a real doozy. Dreaming of the death of anyone you know can be terrifying — and dreaming about the death of someone you were once close to, even if you’d like to never talk to them again, can be even worse. Throw in some of the rougher stuff we sometimes say in the heat of the moment right after a breakup, and a dream about an ex’s death can be a recipe for a guilt hangover the entire next day.
But don’t worry — a dream like this is generally just “a metaphor for how you have let go of the past and are ready to move on and fully devote yourself to new relationships.” So it (probably) does NOT mean you’d like your ex to actually die, no matter what you may have said to your friends the last time you were three margaritas deep into a happy hour. Phew.
