Shame

Dreaming about being dressed wrong

What does it mean to dream you are wearing the wrong thing?

The subtler and, oddly, more excruciating variant. Not naked but wrong: pyjamas at work, one shoe, a wedding outfit at a funeral.

Dreamers frequently report this as harder to bear than nakedness, possibly because it is more plausible. A naked dream is obviously a dream; a wrong-clothes dream feels like something that could actually happen.

Where this reads well

As above: an indifferent audience resolves it.

Where it is harder

The plausibility, and the specific social calculation of whether to acknowledge it.

Worth asking yourself

What exactly was wrong? Was it something that could really happen?

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