Behind
To dream that you are behind someone, suggests that you are offering your support and encouragement for someone.
Alternatively, it refers to emerging unconscious thoughts and feelings.
To dream that you are left behind, represents feelings of rejection or not fitting into a group.
It may also highlight fears of not being able to keep up. You are questioning your abilities and/or may not be utilizing your full potential.
If you left something or someone behind, it indicates that you are ready to let go of the past and move forward.
Dictionary definition
- adv. 1: in or to or toward the rear; "he followed behind"; "seen from behind, the house is more imposing than it is from the front"; "the final runners were far behind"
- 2: remaining in a place or condition that has been left or departed from; "when he died he left much unfinished work behind"; "left a large family behind"; "the children left their books behind"; "he took off with a squeal of tires and left the other cars far behind"
- 3: of timepieces; "the clock is almost an hour slow"; "my watch is running behind" [syn: behind, slow]
- 4: in or into an inferior position; "fell behind in his studies"; "their business was lagging behind in the competition for customers"
- 5: in debt; "he fell behind with his mortgage payments"; "a month behind in the rent"; "a company that has been run behindhand for years"; "in arrears with their utility bills" [syn: behind, behindhand, in arrears]
- adj. 1: having the lower score or lagging position in a contest; "behind by two points"; "the 8th inning found the home team trailing"
- n. 1: the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on; "he deserves a good kick in the butt"; "are you going to sit on your fanny and do nothing?" [syn: buttocks, nates, arse, butt, backside, bum, buns, can, fundament, hindquarters, hind end, keister, posterior, prat, rear, rear end, rump, stern, seat, tail, tail end, tooshie, tush, bottom, behind, derriere, fanny, ass]