Dreams with Closets

A closet is a private place to store things. These things can be good, bad, or neutral. In your dream, a closet usually stands for a place inside yourself where you store or hide memories, feelings, actions, or even character traits.

Hiding in a Closet

If you’re hiding in a closet in your dream, you may feel the need to hide from something in your awake life. Or, you could be seeking safety from a threatening situation.

The Positive Side of Closets

If you see a wonderfully neat closet in your dream and you are feeling happy as you look inside of it, you could be dreaming about your wonderful organizational skills.

Going inside your closet could also be about keeping things to yourself. There is no need to do everything openly to garner praise from others, and doing good things secretly, “in our closets”, is ok. This is about being good inside, as opposed to shouting loudly, “look at me and see how good I am on the outside!”

A Dream Example

What you’re doing in the closet – what you’re putting in or pulling out of it – and how you’re feeling as you’re doing it will help you to realize what your dream closet is telling you about your life.

Below is a very short closet dream that had quite a nice message.

I had a priceless platter (serving dish) in a closet in my dream. I didn’t really interact with the platter, but I knew that it was valuable.

The message: Stored or hidden inside myself is the ability to serve others. Serving others is of great value. I was reminding myself that my services had value.

As always, I hope my understanding of closets will help you in the interpretation of your own dreams. Thanks for reading, Michelle