Yellow Dream Dictionary: Interpret Now!

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Yellow Dream Meaning

If you dream of anything that it is yellow in color it indicates that happiness and satisfaction will dominate your affairs in the future. Yellow is an important spiritual color, afterall it is the color of the sun. Some may view this as a symbol of peace and harmony. Symbolically, yellow indicates kingship as it was a Chinese imperial color, but also the color of Saint Peter's robes. As yellow is also the color of the sun, it suggests that God is on your side.

Yellow is about mind/mental clarity - your brain may be processing something new you just learned or making you think more carefully about something.
Warning - yellow in dreams might mean slow down / watch before you walk into something you'll regret like yellow at traffic lights and hazard signs.
Courage or fear - If the yellow made you sickly or wrong it might be pointing to fears you have not faced or ways you have been pulling back from what you need to do.
Jealousy/betrayal - That ugly murky yellow feeling might be envy eating at you or something telling you about someone whose intentions are not so golden after all.
Bright yellow usually indicates life force, creativity and motivation coming your way or already inside you.
Daffodils in dreams is like spring flowers breaking through soil - yellow might represent something new starting in your life.
Personal power - Yellow represents the solar plexus chakra of confidence / self-worth / assertiveness in the world.
Wanting attention - Your dream might be asking whether you need to be more visible or if you've been doing happiness instead of feeling it.
Decay and illness - Yellow, sickly tones mean something's gone off, or something unhealthy you've been living with too long.
Spiritual - In some Scotish folklore traditions yellow represents divine light, higher knowledge, messages from above the earthly senses.

What does yellow mean in your dream?

If you dream of the color yellow this portends intelligence, light, and generosity ahead. Yellow is the color of movement and communication. Since yellow is the color of the sun and sunlight, it symbolizes energy and the fullness of life. Yellow also provides a rich harvest. To see yellow foretells annoyance and envy on other people, or other people’s envy of you, mainly because of your special skills and properties. Yellow is also the color of femininity.

What does it mean to dream of yellow clothes?

Clothes are always about identification with the world and yellow means something very specific in dreams. Yellow clothes are really SUPER noticeable - I can't remember the last time I wore yellow. Then I saw it... on my About me page here I actually wear a yellow dress. You know sometimes you can not wear a yellow dress or a yellow shirt and hope no one sees you. Yellow announces itself. Yellow tells you "here I am" before you open your mouth. My guess is that if you were in yellow clothes in your dream your subconscious was thinking about visibility and whether you are ready for it. Are you stepping into something that wants to be seen? Are you hiding too long and something inside of you wants to come out into the light? It could be that in your dream the yellow clothes are you trying on a bigger face - does it feel to stop shrinking and go full on?

In yellow I have imagined myself taking a risk that scared me. Public speaking & project launching - conversations I avoided for months. I think having dreams of yellow clothes was like telling my subconscious to be bright, take up space & stop apologising for being here.

Yellow clothes in a dream may also have that warning energy. Sometimes we dress brightly so people think we look okay when inside we are breaking apart. It turns out the yellow is a costume rather than an expression - and in pantos yellow is unlucky.

Yellow is one of those colours your brain just can not ignore. In your dream - yellow is demanding, can not be missed - it is all about intellect, energy, warning and transformation. Yellow (to me) shows up and demands that you pay attention to whatever it's lighting up. I've had yellow dreams before. I had dreams in which everything was lit up golden and I woke up feeling like something changed inside me overnight. And I've had dreams where yellow was like a warning in an otherwise ordinary scene - slow down - before I walked into something I would regret.

There is so much folklore and superstition is associated with yellow in other cultures that it almost contradicts itself. According to Welsh traditions yellow means happiness, sunshine, optimism, beginnings. It is the colour of spring flowers pushing through frozen ground. It is the colour of warm weather returning after a cold winter. In China yellow was the colour of the emperor - something sacred to royalty only - because it was at the centre of everything.

But yellow carries other, darker superstitions that go back centuries. Theater actors find yellow costumes bad luck - and some will not wear them on stage no matter what the director says. Some European folklore had yellow denoting jealousy, cowardice and betrayal - see yellow-bellied for lack of courage. Some cultures thought yellow flowers brought illness into a home and never were set on a table where people ate.

What do you have to know about the dream of yellow?

So when yellow appears in a dream you have to feel into which yellow your subconscious is using. Or is it the golden yellow of abundance and intellectual awakening? Or is it that sickly yellow of warning and decay? Your gut knows the difference even if your mind tries to overcomplicate it.

You may have dreamed of a yellow school bus because your brain is processing something about learning, childhood or journeys you choose to take or not take. School buses take us places of education and growth that we do not control. We go on and trust the route. So maybe you live in an age where you get pulled toward lessons you have to learn and your job is just to sit on the bus and listen.

In your dream you wore yellow - that's how you show yourself to the world and what energy you project. Wearing yellow means you want to be seen. You are not hiding or shrinking back. Yellow clothing in a dream might say you're ready to show up bigger, to stop playing small. Or it might be asking if you're being real with how you present yourself or just shining with brightness you don't feel. Sometimes we wear yellow to make people think we're fine when we're tearing apart inside. Please double-check responses.

What is the biblical meaning of yellow in a dream?

In the Bible yellow means gold (the very nature of God) the very presence of God. Its temple was gold. Gold covered the ark of the covenant. Wise men offered gold to honour the new king. So in my view in the bible, yellow has that warm golden quality in your dream it might be pointing to something sacred in your life where you are not quite seeing the whole picture yet - but in biblical terms yellow is also fire and refinement, I do think this means SOMETHING good is about to happen to you. If your dream was filled with yellow light, maybe God is illuminating something you need to see. A truth you kept avoiding. A path you are meant to take. A deception that we have to expose before it does more harm. Time I was called towards something and didn't know it.

Wheat fields turn yellow before harvest and scripture and bible verses from what I have read are full of passages that talk about harvest (of seeds of faith bearing fruit) seasons of gathering what you've sown and waiting for things to get right. You know what that work you've done (the prayers you've been praying) the faith you've been holding onto when nothing seemed to be happening - it's going to produce something tangible.

The yellow in your dream in my view, is saying get ready to receive, but I would leave something out if I did not mention the harder biblical associations of yellow. In some prophetic verses pale yellow represents illness, plague and death. The pale horse of Revelation has these associations too.

So if yellow in your dream felt nasty, decaying, frightening - it might be a sign of spiritual sickness or something toxic in your life that needs fixing before it spreads. God speaks to us emotionally in dreams just like he does in images themselves. I do think a nice bright warm yellow usually means you are seeing something holy.