Dreaming about people that we barely know can be very confusing and startling.
It is not uncommon to dream about people from our past whom we have forgotten about, or whom we never had a strong relationship with.
When you dream about someone you hardly know, it is a sign of a connection that you feel with them, even if you might not know why.
It could mean that you like the person, and that this person has a place in your life in some way.
It could also indicate that this person represents something to you that you are not fully aware of.
If there are people in your life who constantly show up in your dreams, then it could be because they play an important role in your life that you haven’t (yet) fully acknowledged.
Make time for yourself to think about these people, and what they might represent to you — why do you think they’re showing up in your dreams all of a sudden?
There are many cases of people even dreaming about someone they have never met.
For example, if you liked someone in your childhood and never got to meet them during that time, the dreams might represent the frustration from not being able to make contact with the person, or even your emotional attachment to them.
Unconscious Recognition
1. Familiar Faces in New Places
Dreaming about someone you just met could be a manifestation of unconscious recognition. Our brains are remarkable in their ability to absorb and process vast amounts of information, even when we are not actively aware of it. In this case, your dream might be your mind’s way of processing and cataloging the new face you encountered. It could be a sign that there was something about this person that made an impression on you, even if you were not consciously aware of it.
2. Enigmatic Connections
Sometimes, dreams go beyond surface impressions and point towards a deeper connection. Your dream about someone you just met could signify a certain connection or energy that you shared with that person, even if it was only for a fleeting moment. It could be an indication that there is a mystery waiting to be unraveled in this newfound relationship. While these connections are not always romantic in nature, they often suggest an underlying sense of curiosity, intrigue, or potential for the future.
3. Significance of Traits
Dreams often serve as a mirror to our thoughts, emotions, and desires. If you find yourself dreaming about someone you just met, it could be your mind’s way of exploring the attributes or qualities embodied by that person. Perhaps there was something about their personality, appearance, or behavior that captivated you. Your dream may be urging you to pay attention to these traits and reflect upon them, as it could provide valuable insights into your own desires, ambitions, or even fears.
Mindful Interpretation
1. Keep a Dream Journal
To truly understand the meaning behind your dreams, it can be helpful to keep a dream journal. By recording your dreams regularly, you may start to notice patterns, symbols, or recurring themes. Your dreams about someone you just met may become a recurring motif, shedding light on the connections your subconscious mind is trying to make.
2. Reflect on Your Feelings
Dreams are not just random images but reflections of our emotions and experiences. When trying to decipher the meaning of dreaming about someone you just met, pay attention to how you felt during the dream. Did you feel joy, fear, curiosity, or a sense of familiarity? These emotions can provide clues about the deeper significance and meaning of your dream experience.
3. Trust Your Intuition
While dream interpretation can offer valuable insights, ultimately, it is your intuition that knows you best. If a dream about someone you just met feels significant to you, trust your instincts. Reflect on the dream and explore the emotions it evokes within you. Sometimes, the true meaning of a dream may only reveal itself over time, so don’t be afraid to trust your intuition and let it guide your exploration.
Dreams have a language of their own, and dreaming about someone you just met can hold various interpretations. It could signify unconscious recognition, hinting at a connection that goes beyond the surface level. Additionally, it might reflect the significance of certain traits found in that person, providing insights into your own desires. To truly understand the meaning of these dreams, it is important to keep a dream journal, reflect on your emotions, and trust your intuition. So, as you drift off into dreamland tonight, pay attention to the stories your dreams tell, for they may hold hidden treasures waiting to be discovered.
What Does It Mean When You Dream About Someone You Just Met
Dreams are a product of our subconscious mind, and so dreams generally don’t really have any actual relevance to what is going on in other people’s waking lives.
Dreaming about someone they know is a common experience for many people.
A study found that 60% of people dream about someone they know, and 95% of those people dream about their current romantic partner at least once a month.
Dreams can also be deeply personal and may represent anxiety or insecurity that you are not consciously aware of.
However, sometimes there can be symbolic meaning that we can infer from the dream.
1. God Could Be Allowing You to Dream About Someone Because He Is Sending You a Level 2 Sign and Probably Not a Level 1 Sign and Definitely Not a Level 3 Sign
If you’ve been following me for a while, you know I believe there are basically three main types of signs. To understand what I’m about to say in regards to dreams, we need to quickly review this information about signs. Otherwise it will be really easy to misunderstand what I am saying here. So stick with me. This information can be heady but it’s really important.
The first type of sign is what I refer to as “signs and wonders.” These types of signs are supernatural events that God causes to occur for a specific purpose. These are biblical. For example, when Daniel had a prophetic dream in Daniel 7 or Pharoh had a dream that Joseph interpreted in Genesis 41 or Nebuchadnezzar had a dream in Daniel 2, these would be example of “signs and wonders.” Do I believe God can still communicate to us in these ways? I do, but I also believe he rarely does communicate like this now because he has now given us his Spirit and his written word to guide us. When it comes to level 1 signs (i.e., signs and wonders), we are told not to seek after these things (Matthew 12:38-42). If God wants to do them, he will do them.
The second type of sign is what I’m always talking about in my articles and videos when I say something like, “3 Signs God wants you to do this,” or “5 Signs God wants you to do that.” I define these types of signs as “evidence for what God wants you to do.” I believe God is always communicating to us and guiding us. For example, when God communicates through his word by pointing out a specific command relevant to your question, this is a sign, meaning it is evidence for what God wants you to do. For example, when Jesus told his disciples in Matthew 10:11-14 to observe how a town receives them to help guide their decision on if they should stay or go, this was him telling them to look for evidence (i.e., a sign). If the town received their message, this was evidence God wanted them to stay. If the town rejected their message, this was evidence God wanted them to go. A level 2 sign is what we should always be looking for when we are trying to figure out what God wants us to do.
The third type of sign is what most people are looking for in the world. This is an unbiblical type of sign that I label as “horoscopes and superstitions.” This is when someone adds their own interpretation or meaning to a random event. So if you think God is telling you to date someone named Sarah because you saw a street sign named “Sarah Lane,” this would be you adding your own interpretation to something random. You also passed other street signs of people’s names you know, but those are not signs you should date those people. They are just street signs.
I bring all this up because we can apply these principles to dreams as well. Could God send you a level 1 sign through a dream? Yes, but that rarely happens because God has given us his word and his Spirit lives in us. So we should not need such grand signs anymore if we are following the Spirit and trusting God’s word in faith.
Most of the time people are using a level 3 type of sign when it comes to their dreams which is unbiblical and unwise. The fact is, most of our dreams don’t mean anything. Our brains are just working while we sleep and causing us to have odd stories and images run through our minds. If you need to add your own interpretation to a weird dream, it probably means you are doing too much and reading too much into this.
For the rest of this article, I’ll give you a few examples of some level 2 types of signs that God could be sending you through a dream about someone so you can gain some evidence about what he wants you to do or not do.
2. God Could Be Allowing You to Dream About Someone to Help You Realize You Really Do Like This Person
While I don’t believe it is wise to break a dream down and apply specific meanings to each little detail in the dream, I do think it is wise to realize your mind is connected to your heart.
Let’s say you have a dream about someone you work with. In real life you two are just casual friends. Through talking recently, however, you come to find out this person is a Christian too and attends a church you’ve heard good things about. Now your interest has peaked a bit and you wonder if you two could be something more one day. That night, you then have a dream where you two are standing at the altar getting married. What does this mean?
It probably doesn’t mean God is telling you that you two will be married one day. You could be married one day, I just don’t think you should interpret that dream in that way. In my opinion, this dream probably just means that you like this person. Remember, your heart and mind are connected. Perhaps while you are sleeping your mind is just manifesting a feeling in your heart.
But this is actually really valuable information that God can use. One of the most confusing parts about the beginning of a relationship is trying to figure out if you actually like someone or not. This dream shouldn’t be used as evidence that this person likes you. Rather, it can be used as evidence that you actually do like this person, which is helpful to know about yourself so you can accept this fact and pray about what you should do next.
As a sidenote, though, if you already know in your heart you don’t like this person and know you would never want to date this person, then you don’t need to read into this dream. It would then just be a random story your mind was making up. Maybe it was just your mind playing on your heart’s desire to be married and your mind just inserted this person because you interacted with them that day. This could be evidence you want to be married and this person in the dream was inconsequential.
The truth is, a dream like that could tell you something or it could mean absolutely nothing. This is why we should not spend too much time thinking about dreams but we should spend more time thinking about God’s word; in the Bible, we know there is meaning and truth that God will guide us with.
As Psalm 119:169 says, “Let my cry come before you, O Lord; give me understanding according to your word!”
3. God Could Be Allowing You to Dream About Someone to Help You See You Are Thinking About This Person Too Much Throughout the Day
Another piece of helpful evidence God could give you through a dream can be that you are thinking too much about someone and it has become unhealthy for you. There’s nothing wrong with thinking about someone, liking someone, or hoping you two date one day. But whatever is at the forefront of our minds is what we are currently worshiping.
Colossians 3:2 states, “Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth.” This doesn’t mean you can’t ever think about things on this earth. It just means you should not “set your mind” on something other than God. Who is consuming your thoughts? God or a person?
Sometimes we just dream about whatever we thought about the most that day. For example, I’ve noticed that when I have a deadline or something I’m waiting to do that I really don’t want to forget to do, I have a reoccurring dream where I’m back at my high school but I can’t remember what class I’m supposed to be at that day. My anxiety about something I’m waiting to do in my real life gets expressed through this reoccurring dream of forgetting my schedule when I was a teenager. My wife has a similar reoccurring dream where she is stressing out about taking the test to become a RN again. She’s already passed that test but stress can cause her brain to have that dream.
This same thing can be happening with you and this relationship dream you keep having. Relationships are made by God. It’s not wrong to think about someone. But if you are thinking so much about someone you have all kinds of anxious feelings inside of you and then this is causing you to dream about this person, this could be evidence that God wants you to not think about this person so much.
4. God Could Be Allowing You to Dream About Someone to Cause You to Pray More About the Possibility of a Relationship with Him or Her
Dreams are really confusing. Trying to find meaning in every dream is even more confusing. But one thing I’ve learned in life and through studying the Bible is that God is not the author of confusion (1 Corinthians 14:33) but he does sometimes use the confusion in our lives to draw us closer to him. Again, I’m not saying God will cause you to be confused. But being confused is a sign you should seek God’s wisdom and clarity more passionately in prayer.
So the confusion you have from this dream about someone could just be a sign that God wants you to pray more with him about this relationship. Through prayer you will gain peace about whether or not you should pursue something more with this person or if you should just move on (Philippians 4:6-7, James 1:5-8).
Why did I dream about someone I barely know or speak to?
I just had a dream about a guy i know him from ig we don’t actually talk but from time to time he answers my story if it was funny or smth like that , we never met i don’t know him personally, the dream was like we were on vacation with some of his friends and I’ve meet someone i know in that hotel and i started talking ti the guy a bit when i came back he was sitting and was like where were u and he hugged me by the waist and iiii literally was touching his face with both hands and was like just someone i know and he was like u could’ve told me to go and say hi too i said it’s okay just someone used to study with me after that we were in the hotel room hugging and talking before getting intimate i woke like whaaat tf , if someone understands please tell me it was soo real
What Does It Mean When You Dream About Someone You Just Met
Dreaming about someone you haven’t talked to in a long time can mean a couple of different things. The first thing you should think about is whether or not there’s something going on in your life that reminds you of this person. Maybe they have qualities that remind you of them, or maybe it’s just the way they look or sound when they talk that reminds you of them.
If there isn’t anything going on in your life that reminds you of this person, then it could be that one of your friends has been talking about them recently and it’s subconsciously coming through in your dreams. It could also mean that there is some unfinished business between the two of you, and this is showing up in your subconscious as well.
In general, dreaming about someone from your past means that there is something unresolved between the two of you, or between yourself and who they represent (your past self). If this happens often enough and it becomes disruptive to your daily life, try talking with a therapist about what might be causing these feelings and how to resolve them once and for all!