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What are abandonment dreams about?

This symbol is identified by words like abandon.

Abandonment in dreams is a relatively uncommon dream symbol, occuring in about 1.5% of dreams. That's about 1 out of every 65 dreams.

What are the major highlights of abandonment dreams?

Abandonment is a normal dream symbol. Having abandonment in a dream changes the dream in the same way as most other dream symbols.

Dreams of abandonment are aggressive

Abandonment dreams have more aggressive interactions than a lot of other dream symbols. This doesn't mean that all abandonment have aggressive interactions or only aggressive interactions. It simply means that having abandonment in a dream increases the probability this dream contains aggression. Other symbols that are like this include places of transit, ribs, tackling, saving, silence, antelopes, doors, apocalypses, cameras, and bathroom stalls.

Dreams with abandonment might be a nightmare

Dreams of abandonment are frequently associated with nightmares. Of course dreams that contain abandonment might not be a nightmare. Plenty of dreams with abandonment are not nightmares. But, dreams of abandonment are more related to nightmares than 80% of all other dream symbols. Other symbols that are like this include false awakening, scars, beds, bedrooms, trying, kidnapping, turning, creeping and crawling, blood, and sleeping.

How does the dream symbol of abandonment affect the different aspects of a dream?

Explore different elements related to dreams of abandonment

Who is in abandonment dreams?

Overall, dreams with abandonment are aren't really related to characters in dreams. Specifically, dreams of abandonment are more related to animals, more related to fantastic beings, and more related to distant people than dreams in general.

Animals

more than usual

Insects

the same as usual

Different roles

the same as usual

Fantastic beings

more than usual

Distant people

more than usual

Close people

the same as usual

Family

the same as usual

Romantic partners

the same as usual
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What are the emotions in abandonment dreams?

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

Happiness

less than usual

Sadness

more than usual

Grief and sorrow

more than usual

Embarrassment

the same as usual

Confusion

the same as usual

Fear

more than usual

Pain

the same as usual

Hatred

more than usual

Fun

the same as usual

Love

the same as usual
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Who is in abandonment dreams?

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

Home

the same as usual

Work

the same as usual

Human places

much more than usual

Transportation

more than usual

Natural places

more than usual

Magical places

the same as usual
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What happens in abandonment dreams?

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

Aggressive interactions

much more than usual

Friendly interactions

the same as usual

Sex

less than usual

Disasters

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

Overall, dreams with abandonment are aren't really related to dream events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of abandonment are more related to nightmares, more related to recurring dreams, and much more related to recurring nightmares than dreams in general. They are less related to lucid dreams and less related to waking life.

Lucid dreams

less than usual

Nightmares

more than usual

Recurring dreams

more than usual

Recurring nightmares

much more than usual

Sleep paralysis

the same as usual

Sleeping

the same as usual

Waking life

less than usual
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How do abandonment in dreams related the senses?

Overall, dreams with abandonment are more related to senses in dreams. Specifically, dreams of abandonment are more related to smelling, more related to vision, and more related to touch than dreams in general.

Hearing

the same as usual

Smelling

more than usual

Taste

the same as usual

Vision

more than usual

Touch

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

Abandonment dreams are relatively uncommon. Among other things abandonment dreams are normally interconnect, aggressive, and nightmare.

Do you think this is true for your dream of abandonment? How might your dream of abandonment 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 abandonment 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 abandonment in dreams. See how you feel about abandonment now, in your waking life.

Examples of dreams of abandonment

Read some real dream reports of abandonment 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.

Dream about city being bombed

So the first thing I can remember in this dream is being on a highway and missiles raining down on what I assume to be my home city, and at first I was a little anxious in a fight or flight kind of way, and then I saw a bus sitting on the highway abandoned with the key still in the ignition. I went into the bus and peered out the window watching the city go up in balls of flame and explosions. I was in awe and elated to see such magnificent destruction and raw power, but I kind of snapped out of it and went to the driver's seat and drove for a while until I was in an empty street with a dark green dilapidated house on the corner. I looked into the sky and saw three suns, a big one in front of me, and two on either side of me. I was amazed but a little concerned because I started to rationalize what I was seeing and thinking of what these suns could possibly be and for some reason I thought that maybe they were the aftereffects of nukes on our atmosphere. I ran into the house and on the TV a newswoman was talking about how the internet was down and their station was trying to get to the bottom of what was happening so: "people can get back to chatting on the internet" pretty wild dream, but I'm guessing the significance of the bombings was that I'm pretty interested in geopolitics and North Korea in particular. I can't place what the significance of the three suns could be though.

So the first thing I can remember in this dream is being on a highway and missiles raining down on what I assume to be my home city, and at first I was a little...

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Satanic Rest Stop Dream

I was alone traveling on the interstate and I pulled over at a rest area to go pee. Realized the rest area was abandoned and decided to go in and explore. Front door was standing open so I walked inside. All the sudden I walked through basically a portal into an all tile room with blue flames for light. The walls were tile mosaics of Benjamin Franklin $100 bills with a censored little strip of "&$#%!" over his mouth on each one. There was a pentagram with deer antlers surrounding it and something else, maybe an altar, in the center of the room. I got the feeling that the Ben Franklin things on the wall were a symbol of how the devil manipulates money to draw people into evil ways. I got the urge to pull out my phone and take a picture, but my gut feeling said not to. I did it anyways and as soon as I did I heard a maniacal laugh and the door slammed behind me and I woke up.

What do you make of that? Scared the sh*t outa me.

I was alone traveling on the interstate and I pulled over at a rest area to go pee. Realized the rest area was abandoned and decided to go in and explore. ...

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Pinned down by a large magical cat but it doesn’t kill me. Meaning?

Hi there this is my first post on this sub so apologies if I’ve misunderstood post/flair etiquette!

*TL;DR: I am taking photos at a lake on my phone when a magical seeming Big Cat approaches me with its mate and cubs then pins me to the ground but doesn’t injure or kill me just licks me. I am stuck in its embrace but allows me to wriggle an arm loose to use my phone. I wake up before I know whether I really was in danger or not.*

Dream night of 22/03/19:

I am alone at the shore of a large lake with pale blue mountains in the distance on ther opposite side. I am taking photos on my iphone of a beautiful lake with the pale blue/pink early morning sky in the back ground. The cold breeze creates thousands of tiny ripples on the flat water. The shore is full of smooth loose pebbled stones.
By being there I feel like I might have walked off the beaten path into a restricted area of a nature reserve perhaps.

I am taking pictures when suddenly two large creatures come out of the shoreline shrubbery and approach me, like they knew I was already there and aren't surprised to see me. They are two beautiful, mystical-seeming big cats (as in predator Panthera class cats) but they're not like any sort of Big Cat known of in waking life. Two small cubs are at thier feet milling around and following them as they slowly walk casually towards me.
They are around the same size as a lion or large dog. They both have bright white fur with grey and black streaks, a bit like an albino tiger but with thicker/longer, softer fur and a less defined pattern or 'stripes'. Thier most distinguishing feature however is long tapered pointed ears with thin black tips. In the dream, I think to myself they must be like a Lynx but about 4 or 5 times the size.

They seem to have a grander intelligence about the, like a curiosity or cunning. I am impressed by them and feel privileged and in mild awe to be seeing them up close. They appraoch me at a leisurely pace without stopping. The cubs aren't looking at me.

I am watching all this through the screen on my phone. I am holding it up portrait style and taking dozens of pictures of the approaching animals because I am excitied to see them and feel safe, I do not feel like they pose a threat to me.

However as soon as the lead adult is upon me it stops briefly for a second then pulls me to the ground and pins me in an embrace while it is on its side. I feel as if I am in a tight bear-hug of sorts. The animal begins to lick my feet and finger tips. I am unsure whether it is doing it out of affection or if it is 'tasting' its prey and just playing with its food. I do not make any sudden movements or attepmt to escape. Perhaps out of I feel like I am definitely in peril and my inital thought is to just let myself get killed and eaten because now is as good a time to get killed as any, and that being eaten my a mystical seeming big cat is pretty unique.

My right hand still grasps the iphone and I wriggle my right arm down along the inside of my body. The feline allows me to make this movement without hugging me tighter. I take this as maybe a sign that it doesn't actually mean me harm but I am still very unsure. All I can see in my vision is being pressed up against the white belly fur of the animal.
The other adult feline is nearby but I cannot see them and I also cannot see or hear the cubs. I sense that they are still present though.

My thoughts are to tap the power button on the iphone 5 times to activate the GPS alarm. I remember thinking that I am concerned that I would get dragged off into the shrubs and that only my abandoned phone would be found on the smooth pebbles on the shore or my emergency contacts wouldn’t get here in time or ignore the call for help.

I wake up before I do anything about it, and confused about whether I was about to be big cat food or if I was being used by the parent cat to train the cubs to kill/hunt.

Can anyone help with potential meaning here? I can give details about my waking life if needed!

Hi there this is my first post on this sub so apologies if I’ve misunderstood post/flair etiquette!

*TL;DR: I am taking photos at a lake on my phone when a...

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What the fuck

Ok I just woke up and the memory of my dream is fading but,
I was in Canada and then a shit ton of people started getting pale and half-turned into pigeons. When I say half turned I mean they got that same colour, they lost intelligence, and they grew just a few feathers.
The others, who did not catch this bird disease immediately turned on the sick and started throwing rocks and rioting. Saying things like they didn't want freaks, or people of "that kind" in their town. I mean, a *massive* 180 from a busy, but polite crowd to a hoard of angry pigeon-people haters.
The pigeon people were confused and scared, understandably. I was somewhere in the front of the crowd. It was pretty damn vivid. The streets infront of those PPs (Pigeon People) was covered in garbage, glass, soda, beer, juice, rocks, and sticks.
They were forced to huddle together. They were still humans. They were unable to talk but they could still understand. I kept being pushed forward, towards the PPs by the mob. Then I started yelling and telling everyone to stop.
Just before they got to the PPs with their accumulated weapons I managed to get their attention. I don't remember the exact details but I gave an impassioned speach about how we need to help them and not become monsters. One thing I specifically remember saying is "Are we to abandon our fellow man?"
The mob calmed down and backed off a bit but everyone was still tense. I led the PPs to a small, semi-sheltered place a few feet away and boiled some carrots, celery, and bread in a large metal tub. I tried to comfort the PPs and keep the onlookers far enough away.
One PP, who looked like she was maybe just 7 or 8, was particularly dirty. Covered in scratches and dirt and soda. I offered some of the hot water that I just boiled vegetables and bread in. I meant that I was just going to splash her a bit with it but she just jumped in. She looked slightly more happy and content then before. Then I woke up.

Guys ik this dream was about people with a pigeon disease and everything but be kind to your fellow humans ;-;

Ok I just woke up and the memory of my dream is fading but,
I was in Canada and then a shit ton of people started getting pale and half-turned into...

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A Dream that I’m still Confused about

A while back (around 2-4 months) I had a dream where I was in a house in New York, and then for some reason I was transported to what looked like abandoned Germany. It was hard to tell but I think I was in the middle of a town that was destroyed because of WWII. Yes I know that I chose the Short Dream flair, but I was wondering if there’s a reason behind this dream and if so what’s the reasoning?

A while back (around 2-4 months) I had a dream where I was in a house in New York, and then for some reason I was transported to what looked like abandoned...

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