What Does Dreaming About Socks Mean?

Ibn Sirin reads coverings worn on the foot as a person's hidden condition. Of the dreamer who puts on a new and clean sock it is told that their state will improve. A sock with a hole he counts as a lack being hidden and as an opening that will show in time.

Al-Nabulsi ties the sock to preparation for travel and to the quiet order of one's keep. Putting them on he reads as setting out on a road, taking them off as setting down a burden. Giving socks to someone he counts as a hidden kindness and as help nobody sees.

By Ja'far al-Sadiq's method socks are read in four directions: a hidden state, the order of one's keep, preparation for a road, and a kindness done unseen. A new and clean sock is the most auspicious of these readings. A holed or dirty sock shows a side that needs looking at.

In the Jungian approach clothing is bound to the persona; the sock is the layer beneath it that nobody sees. A holed sock symbolizes the fear that a vulnerability the self tries to hide will come out. A clean and sound sock shows a balance established between inside and outside.

From the Freudian perspective garments covering the foot are tied to shame and exposure anxiety. The sock tearing is the unconscious worry that a fault will be seen. Taking the socks off corresponds to defenses relaxing and to privacy being shared.

Those trying to conceal their financial state, those afraid a lack of theirs will be noticed, and those preparing to enter a new setting see this dream often. The question the symbol carries is this: is what you hide truly a fault, or only a state you have told no one? The dream calls the dreamer to tell covering apart from mending.