Does your appearance in dreams (like your reflection in mirrors and such) have any significance?
More often than not, yes. It can reflect how you are feeling, and how you want things to become or…well, here, let me give you an example:
I often look younger in my dreams, because that was when I was happier.
It would be clearer, and better to answer if you gave us a: For instance… 
I would have to say it depends on the dream. My appearance changes dramatically from dream to dream, usually because I am not “myself” at the time, but being somebody else to varying degrees. On those occasions, no, I don’t believe it has any significance other than to reflect the other person I’ve become (because it wouldn’t make any sense if I was someone else but still looked like myself).
Sometimes, however, I am struck by my appearance a lot more. For example, there have been a couple of dreams in which I’ve seen myself in a window or mirror, and although I look like myself, I have been strikingly beautiful. Personally, I see it as a kind of wish-fulfilment, because I would love to look like that in real life. Perhaps it’s not a very “deep” significance, but it means a lot to me because I can actually be pretty superficial. 
Come to think of it, I have never seen what I look like in a dream. When I’m dreaming in 3rd person veiw, My face is blurred out. I never see a mirror in 1st person veiw, so I never really know what I look like in my dreams.
I’m going to have to look in to this now…
I have curly hair, which “muffins out” most of the time when I comb it, making me look like Donald Trump, which I absolutely hate. I realized one morning that I had a dream in which I looked in a mirror, & my hair was actually arranged all cool-like! I didn’t look cupcake-headed or like a total slob at all. I actually looked cool! Plus my face was completely clear of acne too.
I’ve read several NDE’s in which people were transformed into strikingly beautiful versions of themselves. It was explained that their inner beauty was translated into outward visual beauty. So maybe looking more attractive in a dream is our subconscious trying to tell us we have a good heart. Can’t get more deep than that. But that’s just what I believe.
I think it depends largely on how you think. I don’t really buy into the whole dream symbolism thing. I think that there may be symbols in dreams, but that would be because we think that they have symbols. So I think that your appearance in a dream can tell volumes about you, if you think that it does. Because dreams show what you expect to be there. If you think in a symbolc way, then your own image is very important. Are you large or small? Good or evil looking?
So if you think that the mirror image shows what you think of yourself, then it should show that. Then again, did you already know what you would see in the mirror?
I don’t often get to see myself in dreams. I guess I don’t seek to do that very much. But I might now, it can be fun. I feel like, in my dreams, I really don’t care what I look like. I don’t care much IWL, so I don’t in NDs. In LDs I REALLY don’t care. I routinely walk outside in my underwear. As a rule, if I am lucid and inside, I tend to go outside, and I don’t waste time on my appearance, because noone will see me.
When I see myself in the mirror, i anything is out of the ordinary, it is my hair. When I had long hair I was bald in the mirror. When I had shaved my head, I had long hair in the mirror. Not consistantly ofcourse. I really don’t think it means anything. Like, sometimes in the summer I dream that it is winter, or vise versa.
I can’t say I’ve ever seen my real face in my dreams, even when dreaming in 3rd person.
When I see myself, I see someone else. And only once has that person been someone I know.
I think this is due, in part, to the fact that I have a strong belief in past life and how it relates to us in the present.
For instance, I remember one specific recurring dream from my childhood in which my whole family and I were to be executed. My surroundings reminded me of post-Napoleonic France and I had long raven hair and was a little more “curvy.” I looked nothing like the young woman in my dreams but I do have French blood running in my veins. Therefore, there are two theories I am interested in: the theory of past lives and the theory that relatives pass down memories through dna.
Any thoughts?
Comments?