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What are ancestor dreams about?

The DreamWell Dream Dictionary is based upon insights from 1,200 dream symbols in over 200,000 dreams. Let’s see what the data has to say about ancestor dreams.

The word cloud above shows the words that are specifically associated with ancestor dreams. These are the words that make ancestor dreams unique compared to all other dream symbols. Just examining the graph and reading the words of ancestor dreams can be illuminating about show ancestors affect our dreams. Be sure to check out the example ancestor dreams at the bottom of the page.

The circular bar chart above shows how ancestors in a dream will affect dream content as compared to other dream symbols. Higher bars indicate that ancestor is more related to the specific symbol in the graph. Lower bars indicate that ancestor is less related to the specific symbol in the graph. Specifically, ancestor dreams have more family than 97.7% of dream symbols, more vivid dreams than 95.8% of dream symbols, and more fantastic beings than 93.4% of dream symbols. On the other hand, ancestor dreams have less weird dreams than 93.8% of dream symbols, less good dreams than 90.0% of dream symbols, and less sad dreams than 86.0% of dream symbols. Notably, dreams of ancestors are friendly! These dreams have more friendly interactions than 80% of all of the other dream symbols. Friendly dreams can be great. They involve people helping other people, expressing love, and just being good to one another. Also, dreams of ancestors are family oriented. They are more related to family than 90% of all other symbols. In other words, dreaming of ancestors will increase your chances of dreaming of a family member. Dreams help us to process our emotions and social relationships. In a certain lens, you can think of dreams as simulations of the world. This can be especially helpful for our relationships with family. Additionally, dreams of ancestors are smelly! These dreams have more words related to smells than 90% of all other dream symbols. This is surprising because smelling in dreams is relatively uncommon. Finally, ancestor dreams can be very vivid. Dreams of ancestors are more associated with the dream being describe as vivd than 90% of all other dream symbols. Every dream is unique. These are general patterns observed in an analysis of over 200,000 dreams. This analysis is a tool to help you make sense of your dreams. It is best to look at the differences. See how your dream of ancestors is different than dreams of ancestors in general.

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of dreams have ancestors

How common are ancestor dreams?

0.1% of dreams have the ancestors symbol within the dream. That's about 1 out of every 950 dreams. Considering all the dream symbols, it is very rare.

Identification

How are ancestor dreams identified?

This symbol is identified by words like forefathers, foremothers, forefather, etc. This symbol is part of summary dream symbols characters and family.

Most related

What is most related to dreams of ancestors?

Ancestors dreams are notable because they have substantially more Haiti, Venezuela, Congo, Indonesia, stags, burglary, nightmare loops, shamans, spirit guides, light rain, jury members than 95% of other dream symbols.

Least related

What symbols least related to dreams of ancestors?

Ancestors do not especially suppress any other dream symbols.

Deep dive into ancestor dreams

Get an overview of characters, emotions, places, events, dream events, and senses in ancestor dreams.

Who is in dreams of ancestors?

Who is in dreams of ancestors?

Dreams of ancestors are more related to animals, much more related to fantastic beings, and more related to strangers than dreams in general. They are less related to romantic partners.

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What are the emotions in dreams of ancestors?

What are the emotions in dreams of ancestors?

Ancestor dreams are more related to happiness, more related to grief and sorrow, and more related to hatred than dreams in general. They are less related to sadness, less related to fear, and less related to pain.

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Where do dreams of ancestors take place?

Where do dreams of ancestors take place?

Dreams of ancestors are more related to work and more related to natural places than dreams in general. They are less related to human-made places, less related to transportation, and less related to schools.

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What happens in dreams of ancestors?

What happens in dreams of ancestors?

Ancestor dreams are much more related to friendly acts, more related to disasters, and more related to death than dreams in general. They are less related to aggressive acts and less related to sex.

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How do dreams of ancestors related to the type of dream it is?

How do dreams of ancestors related to the type of dream it is?

Dreams of ancestors are more related to lucid dreams, more related to sleep paralysis, and much more related to vivid dreams than dreams in general. They are less related to nightmares, less related to bad dreams, and much less related to weird dreams.

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How do dreams of ancestors related the senses?

How do dreams of ancestors related the senses?

Dreams of ancestors are much more related to smelling and more related to taste than dreams in general.

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How can you make sense of ancestors in dreams?

Ancestor dreams are very rare. Among other things ancestor dreams are friendly, family oriented, focused on smells, and very vivid. Do you think this is true for your dream of ancestors? How might your dream of ancestors be different?

All dreams have meaning

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

Look for the differences

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

Return to the feelings

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 ancestors in dreams. See how you feel about ancestors now, in your waking life.

An interpretation of ancestor dreams

An interpretation of ancestor dreams

This interpretation is from ""The Dream Interpretation Dictionary: Symbols, Signs, and Meanings" and is provided by J.M. DeBord aka "RadOwl". He is the author of several acclaimed books about dreaming, the host of The Dreams That Shape Us podcast, and is a moderator of r/Dreams, one of the largest dream sharing communities on the internet. An ancestor in a dream can symbolize inherited traits. Personal qualities, traits, and characteristics can be traced to ancestors, such as having a grandmother’s eyes or an uncle’s laugh or a parent’s brains. People naturally wonder about the soil from which they spring. “Ancestor” opens the door to many subjects for a dream to explore; there are many ways that ancestors can be used as symbolism. For example, a young woman dreams about receiving several calls in a row for her Aunt Diane, who lives in England and hasn’t been seen by the dreamer for two decades. Two days before the dream, she visited with some relatives who all remarked how much she looked like her aunt at her age. But when the woman looked at pictures of her aunt, she disagreed. The dream symbolizes the situation as receiving phone calls meant for her aunt. Phone calls connect people, and in this case, connection is meant in the sense of a connection between her and her aunt—a connection missed by the dreamer. An ancestor can symbolize tradition, holding onto the past and preserving it. Or you feel constrained by your heritage or tradition. For example, a young man born and raised on an Indian reservation dreams about wearing traditional Indian garb to a job interview in a modern office building. He feels conspicuous. It symbolizes his perception that his Indian ancestry makes him stand out negatively in certain environments. Ancestors can be symbolized as a tree. Sometimes these dreams will pair a tree with a location. For example, a man with French ancestry dreams about a beautiful oak tree standing tall and proud in the middle of a field in France, but he actually lives in America. It reflects his admiration for his French ancestry. See also: Family, Trees

Examples of dreams of ancestors

Reading dreams is one of the best ways to understand dream symbols. Even though the DreamWell Dream Dictionary is based upon data, it is grounded in the experience of reading thousands upon thousands of dreams. We invite you to read examples of ancestor dreams for yourself. These dreams are actual dreams people have had. As result, they may contain racist, sexist, violent, or otherwise offense language and imagery. This can be true even for ancestor dreams. Read at your own risk.

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