MONKEY

Dream Meaning

The monkey swings through dreamscapes with the unruly energy of the trickster — irreverent, quick, impossible to pin down, and absolutely disinterested in decorum. If a monkey is imitating you in the dream, pay careful attention to social dynamics in your waking life; someone may be mimicking your behavior in a mocking or diminishing way, and your psyche has registered it even if your conscious mind dismissed it.

Being the monkey yourself often signals that you are not taking something seriously enough — that playfulness or evasiveness is functioning as avoidance of a maturity the situation actually requires. The monkey can also represent the aspects of our nature we consider base or embarrassing — the impulsive, pleasure-seeking self we try to keep caged.