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What does it mean to dream that your partner is cheating?
Dreams of a partner being unfaithful can be painful to wake up from. Miller has no entry called "cheating", but his entries on jealousy and faithlessness speak to it; here they are, quoted exactly.
What Miller wrote (1901)
If a woman dreams that she is jealous of her husband, she will find many shocking incidents to vex and make her happiness a travesty. If a young woman is jealous of her lover, she will find that he is more favorably impressed with the charms of some other woman than herself.
Read the full entry for “Jealousy” →
To dream that your friends are faithless, denotes that they will hold you in worthy esteem. For a lover to dream that his sweetheart is faithless, signifies a happy marriage.
Read the full entry for “Faithless” →
Your dream is not a dictionary entry
A dream about your partner cheating comes with a place, other people and a feeling, and the old books read the same image very differently depending on those details. Dreamlore takes your whole dream, spoken or typed, finds the passages that fit it in Miller and Freud, quotes them word for word, and leaves you one question to reflect on. The journal stays on your phone.
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What does it mean to dream that your partner is cheating?
Miller's 1901 dictionary has no entry for cheating as such. In his entry on jealousy, a woman jealous of her husband is read as vexation ahead, and in his entry on faithlessness, dreaming that a sweetheart is faithless is read, perhaps surprisingly, as a happy marriage. A dream is not evidence about a real relationship; these are old readings to reflect on.
Where do these quotes come from?
They are quoted verbatim from public-domain books: Gustavus Hindman Miller's Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted (1901). Each quote on this page is checked word for word against the source text before the page is served, the same check the Dreamlore app runs on every quote it shows.
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Dreamlore and these pages are for reflection and curiosity. The books quoted here are old — Miller wrote in 1901 and his entries read as omens, and many of Freud's ideas are disputed today. Take them as a starting point for thinking about your own dream, not as prediction or advice.