Dreaming Lens: Whose breasts were featured in the dream? Were they yours? Were they anatomically appropriate to the person who had them in the dream? What size and shape were they? Were they real or augmented? How did you feel about them? Was there a sexual connotation in the dream? Was nursing a baby involved?
Personal Focus: Breasts are perhaps the most confounding parts of the human body. In essence, they are practical and functional, providing sustenance and nutrition for the young of all mammals. In this way, they connect symbolically to the feminine principle of nurturance. However, they are also a powerful erogenous zone and are, therefore, part of sexual expression and physical pleasure. This dichotomy has allowed our society to imbue them with complicated levels of projection that run the gamut from objectification, shame, judgment, covetousness, and more.
Dreams can reflect this abundance of Personal Focus, depending on the gender, sexual orientation, curiosity, and proclivity of the dreamer. For an accurate interpretation, it is important to begin with the Universal Landscape of nurturance and filter any other meaning through that perspective. Augmenting breasts to make them larger represents a need to increase one’s capacity for care giving, even if the form it takes is sexual generosity. A dream in which the breasts are reduced or removed may be reflecting a loss of feminine power, or a drain of over-giving in a relationship or life circumstance.
Dreaming of breasts often connects to the level of self-care of the dreamer, whether they are male or female. Even erotic dreams involving this symbol should be viewed through this concept. Breasts that are not real might indicate that the nurturing you give yourself as an adult is somehow false and not truly nutritious. Older or sagging breasts would indicate a resource that is no longer full. Breasts on a man could indicate a need to cultivate more sensitive and nurturing qualities.