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What are anima dreams about?

This symbol is identified by words like anima.

Animas in dreams is a exceedingly rare dream symbol, occuring in about 0.04% of dreams. That's about 1 out of every 2,500 dreams.

What are the major highlights of anima dreams?

Animas is a negatively interconnected dream symbol. Having animas in a dream reduces the presence of other dream symbols.

Dreams of animas are emotional

Animas have substantially more emotions than other dream symbols. It is particularly surprising. Other symbols that are like this include anger, grey eyes, deluges, betrayal, emaciation, accomplices, depression, verbs, feelings, and exhaustion.

Anima dreams are friendly

Dreams of animas have greater increase of friendly interactions within the dream than most other dream symbols. While not all dreams of animas will be friendly and they can also contain aggressive interactions, dreams of animas are more likely to have friendly interactions than most other dream symbols. Other symbols that are like this include princes, cults, trespassing, edges, dirty, constructing, animas, surprise, the evening, and explaining.

Anima dreams might be sexual

Dreams of animas are more related to sex than 90% of all of the other dream symbols. If animas is in a dream, this dream is far more likely to contain sexual symbols. Other symbols that are like this include Morocco, vaginas, embarrassment, pants, innocence, falling in love, menstruation, psychologists, athletes, and unnamed individuals.

Anima dreams are associated with lucid dreaming

Dreams of animas are much more related to lucid dreaming than all other dream symbols. Lucid dreams are dreams in which you are aware that you are dreaming. Of course, not all dreams of animas are lucid dreams. But dreams of animas are more related to lucid dreams than 90% of all other dream symbols. Other symbols that are like this include animas, boredom, closed my eyes, numb, ascending, imagining, burglary, mirror, general senses, and paralysis.

Anima dreams are about love

Dreams containing animas are more related to love than 90% of all other dream symbols. Of course each dream is unique and this does not mean that all dreams of animas are about love. It simply means that if you dream of animas, this dream has a greater chance of being about love than most other dream symbols. Other symbols that are like this include seeing a dead grandmother, emaciation, Kuwait, Serbia, animas, embracing, jackals, athletes, feelings, and my children.

Anima dreams focus on smells

Dreams of animas have more words related to smells than 90% of all other dream symbols. In other words, anima dreams involve the world of scents. Other symbols that are like this include bird cages, incest, foreseeing, tiktok, Venezuela, deluges, animuses, Hungary, animas, and Croatia.

What symbols less present in dreams of animas?

Anima dreams are notable because they have substantially less boyfriends, nightmares, brothers, transportation, driving, cars, mothers, stores, and yelling than 95% of other dream symbols.

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

Explore different elements related to dreams of animas

Who is in animas dreams?

Overall, dreams with animas are more related to characters in dreams. Specifically, dreams of animas are much more related to different roles, much more related to distant people, and more related to romantic partners than dreams in general. They are less related to animals, much less related to insects, and much less related to close people.

Animals

less than usual

Insects

much less than usual

Different roles

much more than usual

Fantastic beings

the same as usual

Distant people

much more than usual

Close people

much less than usual

Family

the same as usual

Romantic partners

more than usual
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What are the emotions in animas dreams?

Overall, dreams with animas are much more related to emotions in dreams. Specifically, dreams of animas are much more related to happiness, more related to sadness, and more related to grief and sorrow than dreams in general. They are less related to hatred and less related to fun.

Happiness

much more than usual

Sadness

more than usual

Grief and sorrow

more than usual

Embarrassment

much more than usual

Confusion

more than usual

Fear

the same as usual

Pain

the same as usual

Hatred

less than usual

Fun

less than usual

Love

much more than usual
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Who is in animas dreams?

Overall, dreams with animas are less related to places in dreams. Specifically, dreams of animas are more related to human places than dreams in general. They are less related to home, less related to work, and much less related to transportation.

Home

less than usual

Work

less than usual

Human places

more than usual

Transportation

much less than usual

Natural places

much less than usual

Magical places

less than usual
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What happens in animas dreams?

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

Aggressive interactions

much less than usual

Friendly interactions

much more than usual

Sex

much more than usual

Disasters

less than usual
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How do animas in dreams related to other dream phenomenon?

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

Lucid dreams

much more than usual

Nightmares

much less than usual

Recurring dreams

much more than usual

Recurring nightmares

less than usual

Sleep paralysis

the same as usual

Sleeping

the same as usual

Waking life

much more than usual
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How do animas in dreams related the senses?

Overall, dreams with animas are more related to senses in dreams. Specifically, dreams of animas are more related to vision than dreams in general. They are less related to hearing, much less related to smelling, and less related to taste.

Hearing

less than usual

Smelling

much less than usual

Taste

less than usual

Vision

more than usual

Touch

less than usual
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How can you make sense of animas in dreams?

Anima dreams are exceedingly rare. Among other things anima dreams are negatively interconnected, very emotional, friendly, sexual, are associated with lucid dreaming, about love, and focus on smells.

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

What are possible meanings for dreams of animas?

In simplest terms, anima represents the feminine aspects of a male’s psyche. Everything in his psyche that’s traditionally feminine and unconscious summed up in one image, such as hunches, intuitions, moods, receptivity, and capacity to love himself.

Anima is a man’s guide to assimilating feminine traits and the feminine principle, yin. She’s also the gateway to accessing the deepest layers of his psyche. Ideally, a man is fully masculine while also embodying traditionally feminine traits. Yin is discussed at length in the entry for Vagina.

Anima can be the single most important dream character in a male’s life. Ultimately, it’s tied to a primary function of dreaming: to help harmonize and unite the conscious mind with the unconscious mind. See: Unconscious minds

Anima’s main enticement is the promise of the best, most meaningful relationship of a man’s life if he goes the distance. He gets to marry his dream girl. She can be mom, lover, wife, muse, goddess, and best friend all in one—but usually not all at the same time. See: Brides

Instead, as a male matures through his lifetime relationship with anima, she evolves. She first appears as a mother figure. When he reaches his teen years she morphs into an ideal lover. When he matures into manhood, anima matures along with him, becoming a mature and independent female. Finally, she evolves into a goddess figure such as the Virgin Mary or the Hindu’s Devi, the Divine Mother. Unfortunately, it’s easy to get fixated at an early stage of development and never evolve passed it.

These roles played by anima are the best way of identifying them in dreams. Additionally, they can be identified by a feeling of close familiarity. They’re recurring dream figures, appearing time and again as the same figure or as a type of figure, so keeping a journal of your dreams will help you identify them. They can appear as females you know or know of, such as celebrities who embody the role, or as completely imaginary characters.

The form and image of anima depends on what an individual male responds to: princess, professor, mother, queen, sister, biker chick, corporate gal, librarian, runway model, temptress, Playboy Bunny, African queen, Asian beauty. She’s alluring and can be powerfully attractive, but her appearance depends largely on a man’s relationship with this part of himself. If his relationship with anima is bad, she can appear as a witch, bitch, Siren, Mermaid, nag or hag.

Anima can be thought of as short for “animated,” because that’s what she does for a man who lives up to her expectations—which are really his own expectations. He pleases anima when he does everything he can to mature and live fully, and in return she animates him with purpose and love.

When the relationship between a man and his anima is bad, it leads to self-destructive behaviors and even violence. He’s an “addictive personality.” He tends to be listless and bored—or he goes to the other extreme and lives a life of constant adventure and challenge. He never stops to ponder what’s missing from his life. What’s missing is the deep and meaningful relationship he can have with himself. He’s moody, unbalanced, depressed, sometimes sexually uninterested—or at the opposite extreme, he’s a playboy or sex addict. His tortured relationship with his inner self can bring out the worst in him. In many cultures, a man in such a predicament is said to have lost his soul. See: Castration

Anima is often described in terms of soul. And indeed, a man with a good relationship with his anima is usually quite soulful.

It’s a recipe for disaster when a male projects his anima onto women in his life and expects them to live up to that image. It’s a tendency that begins in early childhood and can continue throughout his life. That man will never be happy for long with the women he tries to make into mates, lovers, or mother figures. No mortal woman can possibly live up to the anima ideal, nor should she try.

Anima dreams can be a source of confusion and relationship troubles when misunderstood as desiring someone other than your mate. Married men dream about falling in love with anima, their ideal woman, and think it means they must subconsciously want someone else. Actually, they are called to have a special relationship within themselves. Anima isn’t just a dream character, it’s a relationship. Guys, respect it the same as you’d respect a soul mate or love of your life.

Characters like anima arise from the deepest reaches of the psyche and are independent of the ego. They’re archetypes. Archetypes are shaped through a lifetime of experience, beginning from birth as a sort of blueprint that’s the same in everyone. A male’s mother or primary female caregiver is the first image given to his anima. She becomes the blueprint. Then the image is filled in throughout his lifetime by experiences with females of all types, but especially the ones closest to him. See: Egos

His Shadow side won’t let him just have his anima all for himself. He has to fight for her like a knight fighting for his beloved, and the stakes are all or nothing. Shadow is a guardian at the gate to deeper access to a man’s unconscious mind, the ultimate test that must be faced. See: Shadows

The female’s version of anima is called animus. See: Animuses

See also: Animuses, Beauty, Brides, Castration, Collective unconscious, Egos, Love, Weddings, Psyches, Shadows, Unconscious minds, Wives

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 animas

Read some real dream reports of anima 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.

I was being held hostage by a Mexican gang that evolved into a Korean cult

An analysis of the dream would be appreciated.

There was more to the dream but this is what I remember. Apologies my description is long.

I was in a police car I had stolen. I was driving along scared that another police car might notice.me but no one did. Finally I pulled over to ditch the car. I opened the trunk and took something..I left my backpack with my wallet in the opened trunk knowing that someone would find it. I kept thinking, " someone will see this car and and bag, call police and they will go out on manhunt looking for me. I wasn't sure why I was doing this.

Suddenly as I am walking away from the police car I look around and notice all kinds of cholos (Mexican street gangsters) checking me out from a distance. One gang comes up to me and my cousin with guns and they say we aren't going anywhere. They say we are going with them. The leader was violent but also generally personable. I decide to play it cool and listen to him simply try to befriend him. Suddenly we are in the gangs house and the gang turns into a Korean cult. It was a.large family with many hostages led by a Korean man and his Korean grandparents. Everyone was super rigid and followed the some of the absurd rules. The cult members became upset when you challenge their control by not .following their rules. again, I tried to befriend the leader by being friendly with him and not rocking the boat. I kept thinking about the backpack in the police car.

Suddenly my perspective shifts and I am looking at world like a movie with the main charecter being a teenage asian girl who is .also being held hostage by the Korean cult. The girl befriends the cults teenage daughter and again tries to be generally friendly so as to gain their trust and eventually escape. I remember the cult taking us to an arcade where the Asian girl hostage played against the cults daughter in a game of Street fighter.

The Asian girl is lot like me but she is getting sick and tired of the cult and starting to talk back to cult leaders here and there. At one point an adult in the cult gets upset with her for not eating the way they want her to eat and tell her she can't have dessert.
The Asian girl recounts how the cult makes her sleep in the grandparents room where she sees the old Korean couple having sex underneath the covers.

I then switch back to my perspective and everyone else is also rewarded points for performing certain actions like praising the new baby. I tell the impatient Asian girl to remain patient and continue to befriend the leader.I tell her I am thinking of plan where I wait till everyone sleeps and slowly kill them in order to escape.

That's all of the dream. I am a little stuck with interpretation. When I woke up the first thing I remember thinking as I reached over to write the dream was the contrast between the Mexican gang and .korean cult. The gang represents to me lawlessness while the Korean cult represents extreme adherence to order and desire for control. Asian women to me represent peak femininity and anima.
The point system for rewards reminds me of behaviorism. I associate behaviorism as a manipulative parenting system.

Any help would be appreciated.

An analysis of the dream would be appreciated.

There was more to the dream but this is what I remember. Apologies my description is long.

I was in a police...

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I've dreamed that my ex died, but...

I'm going through a break-up after a 2 years relationship and today I've dreamed that I was with my ex on some bridge, dark outside and she felt through that bridge because somewhere it had some hole in it and she wasn't paying attention, but...
90% of the dream was about me suffering like hell. Crying hard, not accepting. All that stuff.
I'm doing quite fine now but at the beginning I was a mess and I felt how a lot of things are changing from inside. Do you think it has some meaning? Deep inside a still feel a lot of pain but I'm trying everyday to do things and heal as healthy as possible.
I've read about the 4 stages of anima from Jung and that offered me some feedback, but I was wondering if it has some other meaning. Thank you!

I'm going through a break-up after a 2 years relationship and today I've dreamed that I was with my ex on some bridge, dark outside and she felt through that...

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[INTERPRETATION HELP] Strange "Jungian" Lightning Dream

Hey everyone,

I'm writing this hoping to gain some increased perspective on a strange yet powerful dream I had last week.

In summary, I was inside my home when a severe thunderstorm began brewing. My mother was outside, and for her own well-being I promptly escorted her inside.

As the storm progressed, a flash of lightning struck an adjacent area outside in the backyard of my home. A few seconds later, another flash of lightning struck the exact same area. I remember thinking it was weird that lightning struck in the same area twice. It didn't stop there though - lightning continued to strike the same area a third, then a fourth, and finally a fifth, which seemed to trigger some weird reaction (like it was reaching some sort of threshold). The fifth strike seemed to spark some loud "explosion" of some sort, after which electricity traveled in a curvilinear fashion inside and finally struck my mother.

After having been struck by lightning, my mother was totally fine.

I have been digging to do some interpretation and dissect the dream, and allegedly in Jungian psychology the mother typically represents the "anima," while lightning is a symbol of the individuation process or "illumination" to some degree.

Can anyone offer perspectives or help out with this one?

Hey everyone,

I'm writing this hoping to gain some increased perspective on a strange yet powerful dream I had last week.

In summary, I was inside my home...

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Old lady and little black girl try to sleep with me

Hi all,
Would love a jungian dream analysis if anyone is willing.

The dream starts with me and my wife in our apartment. I come to realize my wife is throwing a dinner party which kinda annoys me because our house was a mess. I furiously pick up what I can and eventually the house looks clean enough so I accept it and start getting ready for guests. I say accept because in real life this would annoy me as well but I have learner to accept that my home will never be as clean as other homes.

When my male friend arrives, I invite him to sit in living room but ignore him subsequently. Eventually I start to get really sleepy and decide to take nap. I knew this would upset my wife because I would leave all hosting responsibilities to her but go to bed anyway. In the middle of the nap I sense someone get into bed with me. I turn around and it's an old wrinkly lady with a big smile. I sense she wants to get sexually intimate. Her face was creepy but I didn't feel scared. I take a closer look and she turns into a 12 year old black girl with a sassy attitude. I get weirded out that this young girl wants to sleep with me so I ask her to leave but she says no. I then threaten to tell everyone if she doesn't leave but she says that she will just tell them I forced her to sleep with me. I am feeling really annoyed so I make a loud noise and someone walks into the bedroom. I wake up.

So yeah, pretty weird dream. Some details if it helps: I am a male in my mid thirties.
My male friend to me represents masculinity. I am a guy but i have been working on cultivated the anima within me. I have ignored her much of my life.

Thanks for your thoughts, time and effort.

Hi all,
Would love a jungian dream analysis if anyone is willing.

The dream starts with me and my wife in our apartment. I come to realize my wife is throwing...

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am I doing this right?

So, Last night I had a dream. In it the following happend:

*I was at my university with some random people and this girl from class. She asked me to start a relationship with her, I told her I was considering such a thing for about a week now and agreed.*

*Then she leaped at me for a kiss, I ducked at first but when she fell past me I grabbed her arm, swung her around and kissed her when she was on the other side of me. The rest of the night/dream continued us just acting like a standard couple of lovebirds.*

When I woke up it was early so I decided to sleep again, this time we sat on a bird and were flying upwards.

So, I've got a possible interpretation but I am wondering if I could be missing some (symbolic) elements.

I've had a long fear of starting relationships/women/reliability in them because of how my first one ended (and perhaps some upbringing). Recently, however, the idea of atleast dating is starting to appeal to me again and I've actually started thinking about how to actually ask someone out, I have a couple of girls on my mind I'd like to ask. (my first relationship started in an unorthodox manner so I've never had to do that).

The point is that the girl in my dream is almost like a "common disnominator" of them and close to an anima figure for me. Did she appear because of reconcilliation with the idea or could there be more to it?

Edit: grammar

So, Last night I had a dream. In it the following happend:

*I was at my university with some random people and this girl from class. She asked me to start a...

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