Sleeping A teenager in dreams
The part of you that pushed back — adolescence as identity in formation.
How sleeping changes the reading
The base reading of A teenager
A teenager in a dream is the dictionary's image of the part of you that pushed back — the version that was forming an identity by refusing to be everything you had been told to be. The dream often appears at points in adult life when this old strategy of pushing back is being asked to return for a specific purpose.
Where you often see it. A teenager arguing in a kitchen. A teenager dressed in your old clothes. The teenage version of you appearing in a current scene. The dream uses the teenager for the part of you that pushed back — adolescence as identity in formation.
What it is not. The dream's teenager is rarely a literal child or grandchild. It is the rebellious-formative function inside you.
Related in the dictionary. Read teenager with school, fight (when the teenager is in conflict), and clothes (when the teenager is choosing a self).