Dreaming about coat
Coats are reported through pockets and through ownership. Finding something in a pocket is one of the more common small dream events, and it follows the container principle exactly: what is in there is made when the hand goes in.
Also searched as: a coat, a jacket, someone elses coat, looking for my coat, pockets
The pocket is the reported feature. Dreamers describe reaching in and finding something, frequently something impossible, and rarely finding what they were looking for.
That is the container principle the bag, drawer and egg entries describe, in the smallest available form.
Wearing somebody else's coat is the second theme, and the ownership is known without evidence.
Looking for a coat, at the end of an evening, is a third and is an unresolving search with a departure attached, which puts it with the shoes material.
Common associations
- Pockets, and contents generated on reaching.
- Somebody else's, known without evidence.
- A search before leaving.
- Weather, which is rarely the reason.
Positive readings
Finding something good in a pocket is reported with real pleasure and is one of the smaller pleasant dream events people describe.
The pocket is a good reality check for the same reason: reach in twice.
Difficult readings
The end-of-evening search is mildly frustrating and belongs with the departure obstacles.
Nothing serious is reported.
Psychological perspectives
A pocket is the purest container in the database: small, unseen, and reached into rather than opened. Contents are generated at the moment of the hand going in, which is why they can be impossible and why the dreamer does not object.
That makes it a good demonstration of a principle that the bag and drawer entries describe at more length.
The rest is the usual ownership and departure material.
Cultural and historical
A coat as a covering given or taken is a recurrent image in scripture and folklore, sometimes as protection and sometimes as identity, and the coat of many colours is among the better known.
Otherwise little, and the entry says so.
What the sleep science says
Reasonably supported: container contents are generated on inspection rather than predetermined.
Reasonably supported: dreams supply ownership without evidence.
Not established: any meaning for a coat.
Your own context
- What was in the pocket?
- Was the coat yours?
- How did you know?
- Were you leaving?
If this recurs
Log with the bag and drawer reports. It is the same container behaviour in a smaller space.
Emotions often reported
- curiosity
- surprise
- frustration
- confusion
- comfort
- urgency
Specific coat dreams
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What happened
What state it was in
Questions for reflection
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- What did I find in the pocket?
- Was the coat mine?
- Was I trying to leave?
Dream interpretation is subjective. Nothing here is a diagnosis, a prediction, or medical advice.
Sources and reviewed references
4 references. What these labels mean
- 1.Dreaming: A Conceptual Framework for Philosophy of Mind and Empirical ResearchAcademic book
Jennifer M. Windt (2015) · MIT Press
Cited for: A modern philosophical treatment of what dreams are, including the immersive-spatiotemporal-hallucination account and the status of dream reports as evidence.
- 2.The Scientific Study of Dreams: Neural Networks, Cognitive Development and Content AnalysisAcademic book
G. William Domhoff (2003) · American Psychological Association
Cited for: The continuity hypothesis (that dream content largely reflects waking concerns) and a sustained critique of symbolic dream interpretation as an evidential method.
- 3.The dream narratives of the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament (Genesis 20, 28, 37 and 40 to 41; Daniel 2, 4 and 7; Matthew 1 to 2 and 27; Acts 10 and 16)Religious or philosophical text
Various, compiled
Cited for: What the biblical texts themselves record about dreams: that they are treated as a channel of divine communication, that interpretation is presented as a gift rather than a technique, and which specific dreams and readings appear. Cited for what the text says, never as evidence about dreaming.
- 4.The Content Analysis of DreamsAcademic book
Calvin Hall and Robert Van de Castle (1966) · Appleton-Century-Crofts
Cited for: The standard coding system for dream content, and the normative frequencies that later studies are compared against. The reason claims like "aggression is more common in dreams than friendliness" can be stated numerically at all.
Dreamers’ accounts
How dreams of coat have gone for other people, in their own words. Nothing here is an interpretation of anyone else's dream. It is a record of what happened and what it was like.
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Related records
- SymbolDrawerDrawers are searched, and the search does not end. What makes them distinct from the bag reports is that a drawer produces contents rather than hiding them: dreamers report finding more each time they look.
- SymbolShoesShoes are reported almost entirely by their absence or unsuitability. The commonest report is being unable to find them when they are needed, and it usually arrives inside a dream about being late.
- SymbolClothesClothes in dreams are reported through inappropriateness rather than through the garments. The recurring situation is being dressed wrongly for where you are, and discovering it in front of people.
- SymbolBagBags are reported through what is not in them. The characteristic dream is searching a bag that should contain something and finding it does not, repeatedly, in a way that never resolves.
- SymbolHatHats are reported through loss and through wrongness: one blown off and chased, or one the dreamer is wearing that is not theirs and cannot be removed.
- SymbolA crackCracks are one of the few things dreams reliably show growing, which is unusual: dreams produce states far more readily than transitions, and a spreading crack is a transition being watched.