Dreaming of Clothes
The self you put on in the morning.
The traditional read
Clothes meant station and the presentation of the self to others.
What it usually means now
Clothing is identity as worn object. Wrong clothes for the occasion is the classic impostor image; clothes that belong to someone else is a role borrowed; being unable to dress is exposure anxiety in its plainest form.
But symbols don't dream alone
A dictionary entry can't see the room, the person standing in it, or how it ended. Describe the whole dream and get a reading that uses clothes as context, not as the answer.
What does wearing the wrong clothes in a dream mean?
Clothing is identity as worn object. Wrong clothes for the occasion is the classic impostor image; clothes that belong to someone else is a role borrowed; being unable to dress is exposure anxiety in its plainest form.
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