General Meanings:

Parents in a dream can be a sign for the need of advice, help, security, safety and sincere feelings. It depends on what is (was) the relationship between own’s parents. But there are also other possible individual interpretations. Old dream books give the following meanings:

• To argue with parents – In the dream to argue with the parents warns about the fact that you will run into trouble by your own blame.
• To see parents – To see parents in the dream then this may promise you happiness and success in the near future.
• To dream of dying parents – To see dying parents in the dream then this announces about your own long life, also this dream denotes that you have to get rid of their strong influence.
• Dead parents – The dream of dead parents are understood as a luck symbol, sometimes for the purposes of prosperity.

Psychological Meanings:

Need of advise and support Mother and father, which cared for a happy youth often appear in the dream, when a dreamer longs to come back or for that sense of security that he felt at home: live in happy and fortunate circumstances. The unconscious takes them as an example, when disagreements arise in the dreamer’s own family. Probably, the dreamer is in a situation in which he hopes for help. If you meet the deceased parents in the dream, this is considered as a looking for advice, you need assistance in a precarious and an awkward position.

Desire to escape In puberty the dreams about parents appear as enemies, a proof of the fact that you would like to solve them. The parents in your youth had no role model, then such an encounter can be interpreted as a contrary, that they want to defend themselves against people, which considers bad advice.

Traditional Meanings:

European (Judeo-Christian)

• Need of love if see parents – To see parent in a dream (if they still alive), then this means that you are longing and yearning for their care and love;
• Happiness if speak with parents– In the dream you see or speak with your parents, then this dream has a positive meaning which announces joy, happiness and success in near future;
• Harmony if meet cheerfully parents – When you meet your parents cheerfully then this is a sign of harmony and pleasant assistants or friend;
• Warning if arguing with parents – Arguing with your parents in the dream then this is a bad omen and warns you to be attentive;
• Changes if happy parents at home – To see happy parents at their home then you may expect pleasant changes that will come to you;
• Wonderful life if see parents in a good health and happy – The dream has only positive meaning that you will live in happy circumstances, your business and your love relationship will develop really well;
• No joy if see sad parents – To dream of sad parents then this denotes that happiness will leave you;
• Fears if dream that dead – In the dream you see your parents dead but they are still living then this dream expresses your own fears, but the positive meaning of the dream marks a long life for the mother and the father;
• Weddings if see parents (young woman) – For a young woman, this dream means marriage and wealth;
• Support if see deceased parents – This dream foretells good news about your family. Also you will get unexpected help with problems that come up to you.

Hindu (Hinduism)

• Good future if see deceased parents – To see deceased parent in the dream then this means that you will have good and prosperous future;
• Worries if arguing with parents – In the dream you are arguing with your parents then this means that you will regret of your disobedience because this will bring damage to you;
• Long life if see dying parents – The dream announces that your parents will have a long and wondeflul life;

Arabian (Islamic)

• Fortune if speak with parents – To speak with parents in a dream then this dream is a sign that you will have confidently in the future which will bring luck in your business;
• Protection if see parent – When you see your parents in the dream then you will be well protected in your future;
• News if arguing with parents – You are arguing with your parents in the dream then this announces that you will get bad news;
• Mischief if ill parents – To dream of ill parent then this marks that you will have mischief or misunderstood;
• Support if speak with or see deceased parent – The dream has only positive meaning which announces cheerfulness and luck. You will get a positive news which will help you to solve your troubles.

* Please, see meaning of family, grandparents, mother, father.