What Does It Mean to Dream About Fake?

To dream of something being fake represents feelings about inauthenticity, deception, or dishonesty in your waking life. A situation or a person who isn't genuine or trustworthy. Feelings about intentional deception, lying to trick people, or awareness of a lack of honesty. Feelings about conspiracies or planned lies with other people. Pretending to be the real thing. Dishonest advantages. Faked resumes, faked papers, or creating false appearances to boost confidence. Faking orgasms. Feeling that earning things or being genuine are not being important. Acceptance of a situation being dishonest. Issues with proving yourself honestly.

Negatively, fake things in a dream may represent self-doubt, insecurity, or a fear of being exposed as a fraud or not living up to expectations. Awareness of your own dishonesty. Awareness of yourself living a lie. Shock to discover that people have been lying to you. Pretending to be something you are not. Jealousy of other people getting away with dishonesty when you don't. Distrust, paranoia about people hiding things from you, or a general lack of confidence in being yourself.

Positively, dreaming of something fake may represent feelings of being protected or looked out for by something tricking evil. Shock or surprise that someone would lie for you or cover up something embarrassing for you. Catching dishonesty used to trick you.

To dream of faking death represents feelings about failure or losing being faked.

Example: A woman dreamed of seeing fake money. In waking life, she was having problems getting a job and was growing frustrated that her friends could easily get a job by lying or using connections with less job qualification than her. In this case, the fake money may have reflected her feelings about her friends using their connections to get jobs instead of having to be perfectly honest like she had to. Feeling that earned power through experience wasn't important.

Example 2: A woman dreamed of conspiring with another person to fake something. In waking life, she had hired someone to help her with her resume and noticed that some facts about her past experience had been exaggerated. In this case, the fake situation in the dream may have reflected her feelings of accepting dishonesty on her resume because it was generally accepted that everyone lies a little on their resume.

Example 3: A man dreamed of seeing newspaper headlines that he believed were faked. In waking life, he worked in the same building as his ex-girlfriend and was expecting to hear rumors, but he ever did. He believed people were keeping the rumors quiet. In this case, the faked newspaper headlines may have reflected his feelings about the potential rumors being intentionally kept quiet or suppressed by people around him, as if they were creating a false appearance of harmony or normalcy in the workplace. In this situation, the fake headlines symbolize the deceptive nature of the silence and the hidden tensions or gossip that he suspected existed behind the scenes

Example 4: A man dreamed of faked magical stories about himself dying. In waking, life he was dying and wanted to feel better about himself in his last moments of life. In this case, the fake magical stories about himself dying may have reflected his desire for a more positive and extraordinary narrative about his life and impending death, as a way to cope with the difficult reality he was facing. In this situation, the fake stories symbolize his need for an uplifting or inspiring story to help him come to terms with his mortality and create a sense of meaning or legacy in his final moments.

Example 5: A young man dreamed of faked tornadoes. In waking life, he discovered that a girl he liked hadn't actually broken up with her boyfriend and that it may have been a rumor to break him up with his girlfriend. In this case the faked tornadoes may have reflected the destructive power of lies and the whirlwind of emotions that can result from dishonesty and manipulation in romantic situations.