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What are ancestor dreams about?

This symbol is identified by words like lineage, progenitor, forefathers, etc.

Ancestors in dreams is a very rare dream symbol, occuring in about 0.1% of dreams. That's about 1 out of every 1,500 dreams.

What are the major highlights of ancestor dreams?

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

Ancestor dreams are friendly

Dreams of ancestors have greater increase of friendly interactions within the dream than most other dream symbols. While not all dreams of ancestors will be friendly and they can also contain aggressive interactions, dreams of ancestors are more likely to have friendly interactions than most other dream symbols. Other symbols that are like this include mansions, spotlights, smallness, abusing, erupting, paramedic, phones, borders, helping, and running.

Ancestor dreams are about family

Dreams of ancestors 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. Other symbols that are like this include grandfathers, childhood homes, talismans, incest, nephews, facebook, giving birth, Fiji, El Salvador, and comfort.

What symbols less present in dreams of ancestors?

Ancestor dreams are notable because they have substantially less waking life, boyfriends, best friends, planes, doctors, break ups, nightmares, chasing, thanking, hospitals, anxiety, living rooms, sleeping, knives, brothers, noises, dream events, and mirror than 95% of other dream symbols.

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

Explore different elements related to dreams of ancestors

Who is in ancestors dreams?

Overall, dreams with ancestors are more related to characters in dreams. Specifically, dreams of ancestors are more related to different roles, much more related to fantastic beings, and much more related to family than dreams in general. They are less related to insects and less related to close people.

Animals

the same as usual

Insects

less than usual

Different roles

more than usual

Fantastic beings

much more than usual

Distant people

the same as usual

Close people

less than usual

Family

much more than usual

Romantic partners

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

Overall, dreams with ancestors are less related to emotions in dreams. Specifically, dreams of ancestors are more related to grief and sorrow, more related to embarrassment, and more related to confusion than dreams in general. They are less related to sadness, less related to fear, and less related to love.

Happiness

the same as usual

Sadness

less than usual

Grief and sorrow

more than usual

Embarrassment

more than usual

Confusion

more than usual

Fear

less than usual

Pain

the same as usual

Hatred

much more than usual

Fun

much more than usual

Love

less than usual
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Who is in ancestors dreams?

Overall, dreams with ancestors are less related to places in dreams. Specifically, dreams of ancestors are more related to work than dreams in general.

Home

the same as usual

Work

more than usual

Human places

the same as usual

Transportation

the same as usual

Natural places

the same as usual

Magical places

the same as usual
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What happens in ancestors dreams?

Overall, dreams with ancestors are less related to events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of ancestors are more related to friendly interactions than dreams in general. They are less related to aggressive interactions and less related to sex.

Aggressive interactions

less than usual

Friendly interactions

more than usual

Sex

less than usual

Disasters

the same as usual
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How do ancestors in dreams related to other dream phenomenon?

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

Lucid dreams

less than usual

Nightmares

much less than usual

Recurring dreams

less than usual

Recurring nightmares

much more than usual

Sleep paralysis

more than usual

Sleeping

much less than usual

Waking life

much less than usual
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How do ancestors in dreams related the senses?

Overall, dreams with ancestors are aren't really related to senses in dreams. Specifically, dreams of ancestors are more related to hearing, much more related to smelling, and more related to touch than dreams in general. They are less related to taste.

Hearing

more than usual

Smelling

much more than usual

Taste

less than usual

Vision

the same as usual

Touch

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

Ancestor dreams are very rare. Among other things ancestor dreams are normally interconnect, friendly, and family oriented.

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

What are possible meanings for dreams of ancestors?

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

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.

Examples of dreams of ancestors

Read some real dream reports of ancestor 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.

Dreamt of a lake, full of dead bodies...

(Warning, its a little graphic)

The whole dream took place in a mountainous region with one giant lake, think like canadian wilderness...

It started by first visualizing the beginning of a short story page, called "dead skin of the throat" weird

It started as a game me and others were playing in the water, it wasnt modern times,
It was a game we played by lifting and diving a dead (but beautifully preserved) eagle in flying position in and out of the water and trying not to be tagged by it, we sang a song to keep timing of dives. I held the eagle the whole time but at one point instead of dipping it into the water when the others did i simply admired the birds face and feathers, though its head more looked like a kestrel. Saying it was the most majestic creature...

The game eventually ended and i was walking away when someone came running up to me panicked, saying a young woman mightve found a dead body in the lake. He proved it by handing me dried skin... witch we knew was from the throat, because it was common knowledge that the dead were marked by skinning their throat and leaving it uncovered/unhidden from the body.

We met her and she was pointing from the edge into a shallow area where we saw the first body, pale and bloated at the bottom of the water. We were shocked and i followed the thin trail past and saw more.. one or two more.

Then we were at the top of the cliffside down into another end of the lake. My family appeared out of nowhere to join us, and I made my way down the cliffside, balancing on the gravel ledge that turned downwards, once hanging from my hands to cross over a section. Asking the spirits permission to make it accross

At the bottom we saw the bodies of babies from the edge, lines and lines of them, stretching as far as we could see, underneath the water, it was definitely disturbing, some of us swam out only to see more, older in age, slowly rising to the surface, we swam back,

Later as the sun was setting we cane back with canoes and I followed in a kayak and further out near a mountain waterfall into the lake, bodies of adults floated on the surface packed together as we paddled. I remember asking the spirits permission to continue to paddle over these ancestors final resting place and then i woke up, before a hand grabbed my kayak from below.

(Warning, its a little graphic)

The whole dream took place in a mountainous region with one giant lake, think like canadian wilderness...

It started by first...

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“The Loki Dream”

“The Loki dream”

i was exploring an ancient catacomb with my scandinavian ancestor who somehow managed to keep himself alive through “intense meditation.” we were summoning all these obscure nordic minor gods who would play out their stories and i was having a good time so i said “hey, wouldn’t it be fun if we summoned Loki?” to which my ancestor was like “I’m not so sure that’s a good idea...”

so i ignored him and went to go summon Loki anyway. what appeared before me was a normal looking guy. he laughed the creepiest laugh I’ve ever heard and then proceeded to split himself into 4 forms (remember Loki is a shapeshifter):

-the Marvel “Tom Hiddleston” Loki
-a typical Nordic looking dude in a jester outfit
-a blue-haired dwarf giant with an engine strapped to his back
-and finally a miniature green dragon with skittles for eyes and neon-rainbow breath.

The 4 Loki’s proceeded to do the following:

-one of them poked my ancestor on the forehead and made him vomit jewelry

-they stole all of my tramadol (a pain pill I used to take) and split it amongst themselves (which admittedly was impressive as i had 100 of them in my dream, my daily limit is 2 and they took 25 each)

-when i got mad, they said they replaced it with “better” tramadol which was just a bag of candy. i foolishly ate one and it turned my armpits into portals to the sieve dimension.

-the Marvel Loki tackled me for no reason and i pushed him off of me (this detail will be important later)

so after several more tricks i don’t remember, my scandinavian ancestor finally stopped vomiting jewelry and he drew a really cool looking rune in the air, which Loki kept trying to erase but i told the Loki’s i was going to draw a fifth Loki. they all watched and i drew the exact same rune, which sealed Loki back into the realm of the Gods.

then as i was driving back home, suddenly all the cars ahead of me began driving in reverse at full speed towards my car. i then realized the drivers all looked like marvel Loki and woke up a split second before they all crashed into me.

i woke to find my weighted blanket on the floor and remembered that i had pushed Loki off of me in my dream, and for that reason my weighted blanket has earned the name “Loki”

“The Loki dream”

i was exploring an ancient catacomb with my scandinavian ancestor who somehow managed to keep himself alive through “intense meditation.” we...

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Female Virus, Lunarians, and a bad second season

The dream mostly focused on some TV show that had released. It was in that weird state where I was watching the show but I was also like inside the show as a character. The Series was some post apocalyptic story about some crazy virus that showed up and infected every vertebrate species. The virus was able to kill most people, but it seemed to be extremely Lethal to females. While most people died anyways, specifically women were killed to the point that women were completely killed off. Most men died too but there were still a decent amount of them left.

After the virus stopped killing people, the world was in a weird state where governments were basically gone but there was no anarchy. People just kept to themselves wherever they wanted to live and occasionally traveled to meet each other. The virus also drastically affected animal populations, so basically every vertebrate species was waiting to die off since they couldn't reproduce anymore. At some point in the story the main character (who was kind of just me) ends up meeting one girl who managed to survive and it was a big deal since as far as everybody knew she was the last one left. At some point in the story it's revealed there was a little girl who was alive like only a year prior (years after the virus was in full force) and locked in her room to keep her safe but she ended up dying from the virus anyways.

Near the end of the show's first season its revealed that in the ancient past there was a race of people who lived on the moon called Lunarians (which my brain took from Final Fantasy 4). Apparently the people who survived the virus were descendents of the Lunarians and that's why they were able to survive (except that doesn't make any sense because male animals also survived so excellent writing).

At this point the dream kind of leaves the show for a minute and goes back to me, where the dream reveals that "Lunarism" is a real religion that goes back to an ancient civilization that lived around the time of Mesopotamia. The civilization believed that they were descendents of people from the Moon, and the religion lasted even until the modern day. Apparently my ancestors were part of this civilization so part of me began to believe I could potentially be a descendent of Lunarians.

The dream now goes back to the show for its second season. Unlike the first season which heavily focused on the somber tone of how everybody knows that the human race will die out without females, the second season just introduced a bunch of female characters with zero consideration for the actual storyline. While in the first season even learning that one girl was still alive was a massive deal, the second Season would introduce like 3 or 4 of them at a time and the characters wouldn't really react like it's crazy at all. Everybody hated the show after that and that's really all I remember.

The dream mostly focused on some TV show that had released. It was in that weird state where I was watching the show but I was also like inside the show as a...

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Dick Suck Dream (KINDA NSFW WARNING)

So I remember WAYY back middle school, I had a crush on my teacher. (just a little before info)

So it all started when I went to class, and my teacher was there and idek how it happened I just got under the desk and started going in. I was moaning and all. When the kids found out we just went to the break room, and here's the weird part; The break room had a lot of steps and there were monsters and like mystical beings in there. We went to the bathroom and restarted. I could feel my vagina getting wet, and i guess the dream restarted. So I was sucking him off again and I think I can hear his moans. The kids found out, and again, we went to the break room. But it was different this time. The break room seemed larger. (I believe this is the more psychological part of the dream) The room was filled with goddesses I believe, or people that can mindread and contact their ancestors. They obviously knew about the teacher situation. normally it would be okay, but I was a child in the dream) So we went up to the highest bedroom (there were other rooms in the break room apparently) and we just stared out the window this time. Also my throat hurt after waking up lol (this is just one section of the dream. If yall want others let me know

So I remember WAYY back middle school, I had a crush on my teacher. (just a little before info)

So it all started when I went to class, and my teacher was...

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A scifi dream

I had a dream that human life is something cultivated by our alien ancestors. This life is something that's been developed over extremely long periods of time, and not just on planet earth. If we access our earliest memories we can access that knowledge, but that knowledge is buried deep within our consciousness - in our physical code of consciousness before we develop abstract thought and capabilities for words, so it's a different kind of knowledge. The moon was extremely close in this dream, close enough to really feel it's gravity. It was an incredibly active moon, all kinds of volcanic activity had been going on for millennia despite there not being any scientific explanation for why it was so active deep under the surface while also being something we considered a "dead satellite". There was an idea that the magma thrown into space from the eruptions on the moon helped seed life.

I had a dream that human life is something cultivated by our alien ancestors. This life is something that's been developed over extremely long periods of time,...

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