What Does Dreaming About Armchair Mean?

In religious interpretation the place where one sits is read as a person's rank and station. Ibn Sirin tells of the dreamer who sits in a sound place that their position will grow stronger, and counts sitting in a broken place as a shaken rank.

Al-Nabulsi reads sitting in another's place as wanting a station one has no right to, and asks for caution in that reading. A chair that comes out too small points to a role that no longer suffices.

Seeing an empty armchair tells in the classical books of someone who has left a place behind and of a rank waiting to be filled. Offering a chair to a guest points to hospitality and to winning a heart; Al-Nabulsi ties showing a guest to a seat directly to hospitality.

Being raised out of the chair is counted a gentle warning about being moved away from a duty or a position. A new and comfortable chair points to a rest that has been earned.

In modern psychology the armchair symbolizes belonging and the position one occupies in life. In the Jungian approach the throne and the seat are bound to the authority archetype, and the household chair is its domestic face; an empty chair shows the absence of a figure and a role waiting.

From the Freudian perspective it is tied to security and to a brief wish to regress. Being raised out of it is the counterpart of the fear of exclusion.

A chair that comes out too small for the dreamer points to a role that no longer suffices and to a space that needs to grow. A chair with a broken leg is counted a shaken position and a rank whose support has weakened. By Ja'far al-Sadiq's method sitting comfortably in a new and sound chair is counted the most auspicious of these readings, since to sit well is to have found one's place.