Crying
Crying in a dream is, unexpectedly, a good omen of release. The harder you weep, the more blocked feeling and worry are washed away, and the knot in waking life loosens — feeling clear afterward reads especially well. Weeping silently, holding it in, signals something you have not yet spoken. Watching someone else cry means a person is on your mind, and tears that will not come mean you have held feeling down for a long time.
Weeping in a dream is, unexpectedly, a favourable sign. Traditional lore treated tears as a washing away: the harder you weep, the more the blocked feeling and the worry leave with it. It is one of the clearest examples of a symbol read against its appearance. What decides the reading is how you felt once the weeping stopped.
Readings by Situation
Weeping aloud and feeling clear afterwards
The most favourable form. It was read as a knot in waking life coming loose and something stuck finally opening. If you have held something in for a long time, it means the time has come for it to be settled.
Weeping silently, holding it in
A sign that there is something you have not been able to say. It comes often when you are carrying alone a situation that is hard to explain to those around you. What the dream urges is not endurance but saying it, even to one person.
Watching someone else weep
It means there is someone on your mind. It may be that they are genuinely struggling, or that something you owe them is still unresolved. If you have been putting off getting in touch, let this dream be the occasion.
Trying to cry but no sound coming
It means you have been holding feeling down for a long stretch. It sometimes arrives together with sleep paralysis, and when it does, sleep and fatigue are worth looking at before the symbol is.
A crying dream is not an ill omen. Even if you wake heavy, that is closer to feeling you had set aside surfacing for a moment. If your nights stay disturbed, though, or the heaviness does not lift during the day, rest and someone to talk to come before interpretation.