What Does It Mean to Dream About Accent?

To dream of an accent represents a unique way of expressing oneself that you are aware of being consistently different. This may signify your awareness of the distinct cultural or personality traits in yourself or others, which stand out in various situations. Awareness of you or someone else having the ability to adapt thinking styles to a new situation, possibly with other people.

Negatively, dreaming about an accent may represents feelings about people becoming completely different and distant from you. Feeling the need to exaggerate or embellish to gain attention or approval from others. Feelings of exclusion or not fitting in with a certain person or group. It may also suggest a fear of being misunderstood or judged based on your accent or manner of speaking.

Consider the race or country that the accent originates from for additional meaning.

Example: A woman dreamed of talking to a man on the phone with an African accent. In waking life, she was recently separated from her husband, with neither person attempting reconciliation anymore. In this case, the African accent may have reflected the woman's feelings about being aware of her husband expressing himself in a way that felt completely different because he was focused on moving out and establishing his new life without her. Her husband's communications felt consistently and permanently different after the separation, highlighting the distinct change in their relationship.

Example 2: A woman dreamed of guy she met in college and lost her virginity to having a thick arabic accent. In waking life, she had had her friend request from this guy on facebook rejected. In this case, the Arabic accent could have reflected her feelings about the rejection making her perceive the guy she once intimately knew as a completely different and distant person now. The nationality of the accent being Arabic may have reflected her feelings about the man not being desperate to know her and socially effective enough to move on with his life.

Refer to the themes section for race and culture for a more in depth look at hair symbolism.

Hearing different accents reflects trouble communicating or understand others. A sign something feels foreign to you, a symbol of your confidence level and how you interact in your waking life.