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Hair growing long: rising vitality and charm. If it tangles or will not stop, beware lingering attachment or worry.
Category: Body & health (how to read this category)
Psychology
Hair grows regardless of will, so it stands for vitality, natural growth and charm. Growing hair may show strength returning, or a felt sense of time passing. If it would not stop and you felt uneasy, uncontrollable feelings or thoughts may be swelling.
Folklore and history
Japan has long said hair is a woman's life, and believed that hair holds its owner's feelings and spirit. Tales of dolls whose hair keeps growing are told in many places, showing a deep sense that longing lingers through hair. Dream readers usually call glossy growing hair a sign of health and romance.
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This site's view
In this site's view, ask whose hands held the grown hair. Combing it yourself means you can shape your growth. Someone pulling it may be their feelings tangling around you. As in tales of dolls with growing hair, hair that will not stop is the length of feelings that cannot be let go.
Going deeper: our reading
Each hair has its own life cycle of growing, resting and falling out, and across the scalp hairs are always being replaced a little at a time. So hair that seems to keep growing is in fact constantly being reborn. In this site's reading, people who dream of their hair growing often feel two things at once: that something inside them is growing, and an unease about how far it will go. If someone praised your longer hair, there is probably a person nearby who has noticed your growth. If you hesitated over whether to cut it, you may be choosing between keeping what has grown and trimming it into shape. This is our speculation, but hair growing over your eyes may mean the very thing you have nurtured is now blocking your view ahead.
What to do on waking
Comb your hair carefully today while thinking of one thing on your mind. Booking a haircut can also be a small reset.
In this scene
- ◎Good Getting well: recovery and a turn for the better (good)
- ▲Warn Pain, injury or loss: a warning of fatigue — check your real health too
- Bleeding: surprisingly, often read as rising energy or money luck
- It felt good: the lucky reading gets stronger
- ▲Warn It felt frightening or painful: the warning reading gets stronger — rest first
- The same dream again and again: something your mind has not settled yet
Turning a bad dream
In Japan, people once tried to turn a worrying dream for the better: a baku charm under the pillow, telling the dream to a nandina bush, or reciting an old dream-turning poem. Read the column on dream trading and dream-turning
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FAQ
Q. Is dreaming of hair Growing a good or bad sign?
A. Lucky or not depending on the scene — see "In this scene" below. Hair growing long: rising vitality and charm. If it tangles or will not stop, beware lingering attachment or worry.
Q. Why do I keep dreaming of hair Growing?
A. A recurring dream usually points to something your mind has not settled yet. Research suggests such dreams tend to stop once the underlying worry is resolved. Keeping a dream diary helps you notice what triggers it.
Q. What should I do after dreaming of hair Growing?
A. Comb your hair carefully today while thinking of one thing on your mind. Booking a haircut can also be a small reset.
Q. What does it mean to dream about hair growing?
A. Hair grows regardless of will, so it stands for vitality, natural growth and charm. Growing hair may show strength returning, or a felt sense of time passing. If it would not stop and you felt uneasy, uncontrollable feelings or thoughts may be swelling.
Q. What is the spiritual meaning of dreaming about hair growing?
A. Japan has long said hair is a woman's life, and believed that hair holds its owner's feelings and spirit. Tales of dolls whose hair keeps growing are told in many places, showing a deep sense that longing lingers through hair. Dream readers usually call glossy growing hair a sign of health and romance.
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- True Dreams and Reverse Dreams: Why We Read Dreams Backwards
- Buying Dreams, Turning Dreams: A Japanese History of Dream Trading and Dream Charms
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More dreams in "Body & health"
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- A Prosthetic Leg
- A Dentist
- An Eye Clinic
- Leaving Hospital
- Teeth Melting
- Your Face Changing
- Cold Hands
- Legs That Won't Move
- Feeling Light
- Your Body Melting
- A Hole in Your Body
※ Dream interpretation here is entertainment drawing on psychology and folklore — it is not scientifically proven. "This site's view" is our own interpretation.
