Hugging
Wrapping arms around another person — held closeness, a full-body acknowledgement.
Hugging in a dream is the dream's image of held, full-body acknowledgement of another person's presence. The hug commits the chest and the arms; it is not a polite gesture. The dream brings the action when a moment in your life calls for the kind of recognition that small acknowledgements cannot cover — a return, a loss, a forgiveness. A hug fully given and received is the dream marking the moment as honest. A hug that one party stiffens out of is the dream noting that the acknowledgement was offered and not entirely received, and the gap that remains is now visible.