In most cases, dreaming of your aunt represents protection, feminine energy, support, and nourishment.
Understanding a dream about your aunt all depends on your relationship you have with her, and whether she is still alive.
Was your aunt like a second mom that showed you unconditional love, or did she remind you of Cruella from the 101 Dalmatians? The reason why this is important would be to decipher if the dream contains a repressed painful memory or she has come into your dream as a guide to help you.
Symbolic Meaning of Aunt Dreams
Seeing your aunt in a dream is a powerful symbol with deep meaning. Aunts like to come into our dreams when we need guidance. They often help us find reason in a particular situation in our lives.
According to parenting experts, aunts are just as important as moms when it comes to raising children (especially girls). Spiritual speaking, the meaning of your aunt in your dream emerges in hopes you are a strong and independent person. This might be why more women dream of their aunts than men.
Even though you might have a good relationship with your mom, aunts like to step in when you don’t see eye to eye with someone close to you in your life.
How Aunts Appear in Dreams
- Dreaming of a crying aunt
- Dead aunt appearing with warnings or gifts
- Aunt pregnant or holding a baby
- An aunt’s funeral or visitation
- Aunts also show up in dreams about uncles
Dreaming of Crying Aunt
Dreaming of a crying aunt contains more than just one meaning. Crying in dreams is a very powerful image indicating a release of pent-up emotions or trauma.
Seeing your aunt cry could be related to a particular memory, event, or connection that you shared with your aunt. This dream is a symbol that you are experiencing that connection again on an inner level.
Alternatively, you might be getting a message that your aunt has some sort sadness in her life. Is she keeping it secret or hoping you’ll check on her?
Another possibility if you never had a relationship with your aunt and craved one growing up, the crying might be an unconscious reflection about your inner feelings. If you longed for a relationship or never repaired one after a falling out, you may still harbor sad feelings about that.
If you notice that your aunt is sick in your dream it might represent something lacking within your relationship or something that needs nourishing within her or yourself.
Dreaming of a Pregnant Aunt
Pregnancy in dreams is a very positive omen that usually donates new growth, success, and development in your life. Your aunt could be pregnant in your dreams for many reasons, but most of the time it indicates your own desire for “rebirth.”
These dreams contain more or a reflection of your own development that has similar attributes as your aunt that is growing within. Think about the dream and the location of where you saw her pregnant, if it was a boy or girl or inside your house.
Alternatively, Dreams are known to contain precognitive themes, and perhaps she might in fact be pregnant!
Dream of Aunt’s Funeral
Funerals and death are commonly misunderstood dream symbols that are often positive omens, rather than negative ones. Indeed, dying in a dream is often done symbolically before rebirth in waking life.
Dreaming about a funeral for your aunt tells you that you have unconsciously noticed a change in her personality. Funerals tell the dreamer that this transition is in the beginning phases and will take time to unfold in their lives.
Another possibility of your aunt dying in your dream would be about forgiveness, letting go, or changing your relationship. This service shows you are metaphorically “burying” something old so something new can manifest.
Dead Aunt Appearing in Dreams?
If your dead aunt shows up in your dream, you’ll have to determine whether this dream was an actual visitation, or tied into a repressed memory or emotion.
Usually when the dead contact us they come with love, smiles, and for a particular reason. Once you have deciphered if this was direct contact with the dead, then your aunt has come to bring you a message of love and protection.
If your aunt is dead but still appears to be sick in your dream it tells you that you are unable to let go and accept her death.