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What are abandoned place dreams about?

Abandoned places usually have a strange or eerie element to them. These are buildings or locations that were intended for us. They were meant to be used. But over time these places are left to degrade or decay. They are no longer being used. They are no longer being maintained. This symbol is identified by words like abandoned warehouse, looked abandoned, abandoned city, etc.

Abandoned places in dreams is a very uncommon dream symbol, occuring in about 0.3% of dreams. That's about 1 out of every 300 dreams.

What are the major highlights of abandoned place dreams?

Abandoned places is a normal dream symbol. Having abandoned places in a dream changes the dream in the same way as most other dream symbols.

Dreams of abandoned places are aggressive

Abandoned place dreams have more aggressive interactions than a lot of other dream symbols. This doesn't mean that all abandoned places have aggressive interactions or only aggressive interactions. It simply means that having abandoned places in a dream increases the probability this dream contains aggression. Other symbols that are like this include hostages, bartenders, things, legs, anger, weakness, enemies, unique themes, parking lots, and talismans.

Dreams with abandoned places might be a nightmare

Dreams of abandoned places are frequently associated with nightmares. Of course dreams that contain abandoned places might not be a nightmare. Plenty of dreams with abandoned places are not nightmares. But, dreams of abandoned places are more related to nightmares than 80% of all other dream symbols. Other symbols that are like this include shaking, turning, amputation, abandonment, couldn't open eyes, suffering, fantastic beings, yellow eyes, paralysis, and innocence.

How does the dream symbol of abandoned places affect the different aspects of a dream?

Explore different elements related to dreams of abandoned places

Who is in abandoned places dreams?

Overall, dreams with abandoned places are aren't really related to characters in dreams. Specifically, dreams of abandoned places are much more related to fantastic beings, more related to distant people, and more related to close people than dreams in general. They are less related to family and less related to romantic partners.

Animals

the same as usual

Insects

the same as usual

Different roles

the same as usual

Fantastic beings

much more than usual

Distant people

more than usual

Close people

more than usual

Family

less than usual

Romantic partners

less than usual
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What are the emotions in abandoned places dreams?

Overall, dreams with abandoned places are aren't really related to emotions in dreams. Specifically, dreams of abandoned places are more related to fear than dreams in general. They are less related to happiness, less related to sadness, and less related to grief and sorrow.

Happiness

less than usual

Sadness

less than usual

Grief and sorrow

less than usual

Embarrassment

less than usual

Confusion

the same as usual

Fear

more than usual

Pain

the same as usual

Hatred

the same as usual

Fun

the same as usual

Love

less than usual
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Who is in abandoned places dreams?

Overall, dreams with abandoned places are more related to places in dreams. Specifically, dreams of abandoned places are more related to work, much more related to human places, and more related to natural places than dreams in general.

Home

the same as usual

Work

more than usual

Human places

much more than usual

Transportation

the same as usual

Natural places

more than usual

Magical places

the same as usual
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What happens in abandoned places dreams?

Overall, dreams with abandoned places are aren't really related to events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of abandoned places are much more related to aggressive interactions and more related to disasters than dreams in general. They are less related to friendly interactions and less related to sex.

Aggressive interactions

much more than usual

Friendly interactions

less than usual

Sex

less than usual

Disasters

more than usual
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How do abandoned places in dreams related to other dream phenomenon?

Overall, dreams with abandoned places are more related to dream events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of abandoned places are much more related to nightmares, much more related to recurring dreams, and much more related to recurring nightmares than dreams in general. They are less related to lucid dreams.

Lucid dreams

less than usual

Nightmares

much more than usual

Recurring dreams

much more than usual

Recurring nightmares

much more than usual

Sleep paralysis

the same as usual

Sleeping

more than usual

Waking life

the same as usual
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How do abandoned places in dreams related the senses?

Overall, dreams with abandoned places are more related to senses in dreams. Specifically, dreams of abandoned places are more related to smelling, more related to vision, and more related to touch than dreams in general. They are less related to taste.

Hearing

the same as usual

Smelling

more than usual

Taste

less than usual

Vision

more than usual

Touch

more than usual
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How can you make sense of abandoned places in dreams?

Abandoned place dreams are very uncommon. Among other things abandoned place dreams are normally interconnect, aggressive, and nightmare.

Do you think this is true for your dream of abandoned places? How might your dream of abandoned places be different?

All dreams have meaning

You can gain insight from thinking about any dream, no matter how strange. Only you, as the dreamer, have final say on what your dream may or may not mean. Each dream is unique.

Look for the differences

The DreamWell dictionary provides information on how each dream symbol appears in dreams in general. Finding how experience abandoned places in dreams can be a key to understanding its meaning.

Return to the feelings

Our emotions in dreams can help us understand its meaning. Pay attention to how you felt in the dream. Pay attention to how you feel about abandoned places in dreams. See how you feel about abandoned places now, in your waking life.

Examples of dreams of abandoned places

Read some real dream reports of abandoned place dreams.. These real life dream reports come from the moderated dream sharing communities of Reddit including r/Dreams, r/Nightmares, r/DreamInterpretation, or r/thisdreamihad. Please note that some of these may contain graphic, sexual, or violent images and text. Use the source link for each dream to view and join the discussion of each one.

Met a man in my dream and I'm just curious if anyone else has seen him.

So I had a dream the other night and something about it just really stuck out to me.
So I was in the woods exploring some sort of abandoned building with some of my friends. All of a sudden they disppear and I'm completely alone. Then a man appears and immediately my mind registered that this man represents the devil. He told me his name was The Boiler.
He kidnapped me and brought me to this orphanage type place that's filled with a lot of other kids who seem to have also been kidnapped by him. Something about him didn't seem evil though, he seemed kind, but lonely.
He then gave me this beautiful dress and brought me to an ornate masquerade type ball. I honeslty felt like I had a lot of fun there. We went back to the orphanage and he told me once again that his name was The Boiler and that I should remember him.
Then I woke up.
I guess I'm just curious about people's interpretations of this. It felt eerily real, not so much the other characters, mainly The Boiler felt like an actual person talking to me.
So I guess just me know if you've met this guy or know if he's somehow significant.

So I had a dream the other night and something about it just really stuck out to me.
So I was in the woods exploring some sort of abandoned building with some...

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Non-scary kind of random post-apocalyptic dream

So I woke up today from a strange kind of post-apocalyptic dream, and I was thinking about it all day. I was hoping anybody had any ideas of potential meanings, just for fun.

I was living in a this street with half-abandoned houses. It was kind of up a hill, old Europe-y vibe. the houses were kind of colorful though, even though some were fully crumbled, and even our house was kind of falling apart. We did live in the "poor" part of town though. I found this out in the dream when I had to go to the rich part for my job and it was full of all-intact white houses, a bit too pristine. they were all fully lived in too. We also moved houses in the dream, to a slightly bigger house someone from our group discovered to be empty - but just across the street from the old house, still in the poor part of town. I vaguely remember being afraid of leaving someone behind, but that person chose to go somewhere else.There were about 4 or 5 pairs living in this new bigger house (just across the street, looked like an abandoned shopping mall).

Anyway, the main thing about this post-apocalyptic world is that a lot of people became infected with this thing. Anytime people were infected, they would get paired with someone else who was also also infected. From this pair however, only one person could transform into something (a hybrid between an animal and a monster, kind of like pokemon I guess), the other person looked normal - they just now had this connection. Think of the movie "the golden compass". Uninfected people were neither paired nor could transformed. This street, and actually entire city was mostly made up of infected people though. I was also infected, and sometimes I was the normal person in the pair, others I was the one turning.

We would all go out to do normal things during the day, the only thing is that we had to be careful not to be seen (this also happened when we were moving). This was part of the routine though, and it was like nothing was wrong.

For some reason, at some point I had to go to a different city. Everybody was worried about me but I was totally relaxed at first. I started walking, but when I got to stand below a highway bridge I started to worry because I remembered that in other cities people were scared of the infected people, and I were prejudiced as well. I noticed the area below the bridge abandoned houses, had a bunch of debris, and was also partially flooded. When I noticed the flooding was not that shallow, I started panicked a bit about drowning or getting lost. My pair though turned into what I can only describe as giant fluffy water dragon and I was like "oh yeah, this is super lucky, I forgot for a sec they could do that".
We rode in the water until we got into this half-abandoned, half-ruined subway/train, and went looking for a seat. As soon as I sat down, I looked to the side and saw a bunch of half-dead people. I froze. They were the normal, non-infected people and I was afraid of what they would think when they saw my pair.
The train had started moving though so I couldn't just leave, and I decided to pretend everything was fine and hope they wouldn't notice.
I noticed a few of them were starting to look ovei in my direction, and they seemed intrigued, but not angry or anything else, so I was relieved again.
Then i woke up.

Thoughts?

So I woke up today from a strange kind of post-apocalyptic dream, and I was thinking about it all day. I was hoping anybody had any ideas of potential meanings,...

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Weird Dream About Rescuing a Maimed Stranger Who Bit Me- What Does This Mean?

A while back I had a really strange dream. I was out walking on the railroad tracks in the middle of the summer and it was horribly hot. There were a lot of abandoned houses off to the side of the railroad track. A lot of abandoned buildings. And I walked past this weird white building that is kind of small and looks a little bit Like one of those rest stops, welcome centers you see at state lines but it was really run down looking. The ceiling was caving in and the windows were smashed in as well. I heard these strange noises from the building like someone crying but also making these weird pained noises. And shrieking as well.

Out of concern I followed them. I just walked in. Much like the exterior the interior of the building was all white but it looked like the majority of the walls had been removed. There was an area that was all white tile and there was some guy with very long hair almost down to his waist chained to it by his wrists. He wasn't wearing anything and there was blood smeared all over his lower stomach and abdomen and I realized that someone had castrated the poor guy. He also looked emaciated - I could have counted every rib. So I managed to somehow unchain him from the wall but his wrists were still in manacles. I remember having a feeling really bad for the poor fucker. He seemed like he had been driven completely insane and had no idea what was going on around him. I remember trying to wipe him off and stop the bleeding after I pulled him down but he made a weird snarling noise and bit a chunk out of my shoulder. It was then I noticed that he had two fangs that were thin and needle-like in place of canines and he said, "Don't you *dare* pity me, little boy!" Then I woke up.

A while back I had a really strange dream. I was out walking on the railroad tracks in the middle of the summer and it was horribly hot. There were a lot of...

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Please help me interpret my dream

Hi! Please help me interpret the dream I had last night.

My dream was in present day and I was my current age 41. I was feeling very agitated and panicked and I was on a hike to find something peaceful. I came to an overgrown field that looked familiar and there was an abandoned house that was my great grandparents house (I have not seen my great grandparents since I was about five years old so I do not have very many memories of them). I walked into the house and the inside was clean and looked like a retro house that nobody lived in. I was very exhausted so I went to the bedroom and I laid down and fell asleep. I had a very peaceful sleep. When I woke up I felt a little scared because I heard the TV on in the living room. In my dream I knew that my great grandparents had been dead for many years. I walked out very cautiously and I could see the back my great grandmother’s head as she was sitting in a chair knitting. The TV was on and there was a little Christmas tree near her but it wasn’t Christmas season. There were figurines and action figures under the Christmas tree. I walked really cautiously around the back of my great grandmother because I thought she was going to be a zombie (since she’s been dead for 35 years) turned out it was my great grandma very nice and sweet and just knitting away like nothing was wrong. and I felt a warm calm feeling come over me but still felt very cautious because she’s been dead for years.

Under the Christmas tree I noticed that she had teenage mutant ninja turtle action figures. I was admiring them and she had waived her hand for me to pick one out to keep. I was super scared to pick out an action figure to keep....then I woke up.

Side note-I am a 41 year old woman who still loves teenage mutant ninja turtles. They are my favorite!

Hi! Please help me interpret the dream I had last night.

My dream was in present day and I was my current age 41. I was feeling very agitated and panicked and...

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What does this dream mean?

I was standing by a lake next to a rusty swing set. My coworkers were there. Black snakes started sprouting from the ground, slithering past us. My coworkers freaked out, but I told them it was okay. I used to handle snakes all the time as a kid. I tried to grab them but they were too fast, all headed to an abandoned building on a hill by that lake. I followed them up there and was lead down to the basement. It had many levels going down, with confusing staircases. Most levels were just empty and unfinished, with many door ways. Reaalllyyy creepy looking Down a couple levels there was a carousel with white horses, and in the next room down there were live horses tied to the wall. They all looked underfed and it smelled horrible. I remember feeling horrified, and suddenly knowing that a rich man owned this house. He really liked hoarding things. I left and came back with the police. They stayed in the room with the horses and i went down further. There were people there too. I tried to help them escape but then couldnt find my way out anymore! Thats when it ended. I dont dream often but this freaked me out.

I was standing by a lake next to a rusty swing set. My coworkers were there. Black snakes started sprouting from the ground, slithering past us. My coworkers...

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