Dream meaning of gloves
To dream of wearing new gloves, denotes that you will be cautious and economical in your dealings with others, but not mercenary.
You will have law suits, or business troubles, but will settle them satisfactorily to yourself. If you wear old or ragged gloves, you will be betrayed and suffer loss.
If you dream that you lose your gloves, you will be deserted and earn your own means of livelihood.
To find a pair of gloves, denotes a marriage or new love affair. For a man to fasten a lady’s glove, he has, or will have, a woman on his hands who threatens him with exposure.
If you pull your glove off, you will meet with poor success in business or love.
The Hidden Meanings of Your Dreams
PhysicalYou or someone you know needs to be handled with care. You need to get a better grip on something. Your creativity or ability to touch others is veiled in some way. Gardening or work gloves indicate you’re ready to begin a new phase of productivity. Driving gloves mean you’re taking control of your life direction. Gloves that are too large mean you took on more than you can handle.
Emotional
SpiritualPutting on gloves means you are preparing mentally for something that requires concentration and effort. Taking gloves off is a sign of completion and friendliness. Dropping a glove means flirtation.
SYMBOLISMGloves, since they are worn on the hands, derive their symbolism from them. Of special interest is the right-hand glove, on account of the ceremonial custom of removing it when one approaches a person of higher rank, or an altar, or the Lord. This custom has twin symbolic roots: in so far as it implies a glove of mail, it signifies disarming oneself before one’s superior; at the same time, since the right hand pertains to the voice and to the rational side of Man, it is a custom which suggests candour and the frank disclosure of one’s mind.
Trying to avoid getting one’s hands “dirty” or being in a situation so delicate that “kid gloves” are required for handling it suggests a situation where the utmost diplomacy is required.
Alternatively, putting gloves on to “duke it out” indicates aggressive behavior is required.
Gloves may be considered the outfit of the hands. Therefore, its meaning depends on the condition of those hands.
If you use gloves in the dream to decorate and highlight your hands it will be a sign of satisfaction with the completed works; if, instead, you use them to hide your hands, then it is a sign of timidity, the result of past mistakes;
Finally, if you are performing a delicate activity with rough and uncomfortable gloves it means that you have an evident inferiority complex.
The meaning of this dream varies according to the details, but as a general rule gloves worn in a dream signify emotional security, and brand-new gloves portend financial security. Losing gloves indicates that some expected help will not materialize, whereas finding gloves predicts help from an unexpected source. Shabby, soiled, or torn gloves are an omen of disappointments , but they will be temporary. Long or gauntlet-type gloves pertain to love matters, and if they were in good condition, so will be your love affairs.
Gloves both protect and hide your hands, so they connect with your talents, abilities, skills, and expressiveness. This can be deliberate or imposed, helpful or limiting. The type of gloves and how they appear in the dream will give you clues for an accurate interpretation. Because we gesture with our hands, a dream about gloves may connect to the part of communication that is beyond our words and part of our body language.
Gloves represent the various masks we wear in our communication to present that which we want to while hiding our true skins underneath.
Sexy, tight-fitting gloves connect to subtle elements of seduction.
Work gloves might help you find areas in your life where you feel you have to work hard to conceal your true meaning.
Lace gloves evoke delicate communication that is only thinly veiled or is hiding the authentic meaning.
Boxing gloves point to a fight brewing from a challenge in your life. They might also be inhibiting your communication because of guardedness – hands inside of boxing gloves may be ready to fight, but they can’t be very gentle or expressive. Mittens may connect to a need or desire to be more comfortable, but at the loss of the same expressiveness or effectiveness.
Long gloves up the arms connect to the extensiveness of the hidden issues or the seduction at hand.
Rubber gloves may be about projecting underlying messages of more serious vulnerability to communication that is toxic.
To dream of wearing a glove or a pair of gloves symbolizes something you don’t want to touch, or something you want to protect yourself against that involves details and complicated communication.
To dream of taking off your gloves means you are prepared to deal with a complicated or inflammatory situation right now.
To dream of losing your gloves symbolizes your fear that you are unprepared for something that you expect will happen any minute. You feel like you don’t have the resources to deal with this.