What are animus dreams about?
This symbol is identified by words like animus.
Animuses in dreams is a exceedingly rare dream symbol, occuring in about 0.02% of dreams. That's about 1 out of every 6,000 dreams.
What are the major highlights of animus dreams?
Animuses is a very negatively interconnected dream symbol. Dreams of animuses greatly reduce the presence of other dream symbols.
Animus dreams might be sexual
Dreams of animuses are more related to sex than 90% of all of the other dream symbols. If animuses is in a dream, this dream is far more likely to contain sexual symbols. Other symbols that are like this include weasels, betrayal, distant people, brides, ovations, prostitutes, guest rooms, unnamed individuals, Italy, and Singapore.
Dreams of animuses are aggressive
Animus dreams have more aggressive interactions than a lot of other dream symbols. This doesn't mean that all animuses have aggressive interactions or only aggressive interactions. It simply means that having animuses in a dream increases the probability this dream contains aggression. Other symbols that are like this include conflicts, hunting, opponents, Darth Vader, helicopters, floors, descending, aliens, intruders, and trying.
Animus dreams seem to lack places or locations
Dreams of animuses frequently do not mention places or locations. The dream may or may not take place in varying locations. But dreams of animuses simply do not mention the location, places, or settings occuring within the dream. Other symbols that are like this include seeing a dead grandmother, roosters, snakes, fetuses, seeing a dead partner, winning the lottery, acne, crushes, possessing, and ants.
Animus dreams are about love
Dreams containing animuses 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 animuses are about love. It simply means that if you dream of animuses, this dream has a greater chance of being about love than most other dream symbols. Other symbols that are like this include hatred, best friends, relationship events, El Salvador, Guatemala, jackals, Voldemort, general senses, Laos, and smiling.
Animus dreams focus on smells
Dreams of animuses have more words related to smells than 90% of all other dream symbols. In other words, animus dreams involve the world of scents. Other symbols that are like this include Peru, flamethrowers, jealousy, Bolivia, Ukraine, Portugal, winning the lottery, Colombia, Guatemala, and collective unconscious.
Animus dreams focus on touch
Dreams of animuses have more words related to touch than 90% of all other dream symbols. In other words, animus dreams involve directly interacting and feeling another person or object. Other symbols that are like this include Spain, chakras, Ireland, aquariums, unemployment, buffaloes, senses, presidents, Madagascar, and Italy.
What symbols more present in dreams of animuses?
Animus dreams are notable because they have substantially more animas, psyches, books, healing, conflicts, communicating, lifeguards, intruders, uncategorized, abusing, grooms, kissing, seeing a dead grandmother, general thinking, violet, princesses, ears, storms, barns, animuses, relationship events, guilty, dating, waking life, intrigued, necks, raping, events, red eyes, unconscious minds, suffering, reading, rollercoasters, pools, stages, helping, mystery, break ups, noses, butterflies, brightness, paths, journeys, shortness, heroes, wives, and epidemics than 95% of other dream symbols.
What symbols less present in dreams of animuses?
Animuses as a dream symbol do not especially suppress any other dream symbols.
How does the dream symbol of animuses affect the different aspects of a dream?
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Who is in animuses dreams?
Overall, dreams with animuses are more related to characters in dreams. Specifically, dreams of animuses are much more related to different roles, much more related to close people, and much more related to romantic partners than dreams in general. They are much less related to animals and less related to fantastic beings.
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What are the emotions in animuses dreams?
Overall, dreams with animuses are less related to emotions in dreams. Specifically, dreams of animuses are much more related to happiness, more related to embarrassment, and more related to pain than dreams in general. They are much less related to sadness, much less related to grief and sorrow, and much less related to confusion.
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Who is in animuses dreams?
Overall, dreams with animuses are much less related to places in dreams. Specifically, dreams of animuses are much more related to work than dreams in general. They are much less related to home, much less related to human places, and much less related to transportation.
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What happens in animuses dreams?
Overall, dreams with animuses are more related to events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of animuses are more related to aggressive interactions and much more related to sex than dreams in general. They are much less related to disasters.
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How do animuses in dreams related to other dream phenomenon?
Overall, dreams with animuses are much more related to dream events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of animuses are more related to lucid dreams, much more related to sleep paralysis, and much more related to sleeping than dreams in general. They are less related to nightmares, much less related to recurring dreams, and less related to recurring nightmares.
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How do animuses in dreams related the senses?
Overall, dreams with animuses are aren't really related to senses in dreams. Specifically, dreams of animuses are more related to taste than dreams in general. They are less related to hearing, much less related to smelling, and much less related to touch.
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How can you make sense of animuses in dreams?
Animus dreams are exceedingly rare. Among other things animus dreams are very negatively interconnected, sexual, aggressive, lack places or locations, about love, focus on smells, and focus on touch.
Do you think this is true for your dream of animuses? How might your dream of animuses 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 animuses 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 animuses in dreams. See how you feel about animuses now, in your waking life.
What are possible meanings for dreams of animuses?
In simplest terms, animus represents the male aspects of a female’s psyche. It’s everything traditionally masculine and unconscious about a female summed up in one image. Animus is a woman’s guide to assimilating masculine traits and the masculine principle, yang, and gaining access to deep layers of the psyche. She can be fully feminine while also incorporating traditionally masculine traits. For an in-depth look at masculine traits and the yang, see: Penis.
Animus can be the single most important dream character in a female’s life because it’s tied to a primary function of dreaming: to help harmonize and unite the conscious mind with the unconscious mind.
Animus is an archetype, a blueprint for thinking processes and behaviors, and archetypes arise from the deepest layer of the psyche, way outside conscious awareness for most people. The blueprint is an outline, and personal experience with men—beginning with a woman’s father or her first important male parental figure—fills in the details.
Animus can be a friend, guide, husband, or lover, depending on what a woman needs and the nature of their relationship. And it’s a relationship that lasts a lifetime. Some dream characters come and go, but animus is there from childhood to the end. The form he takes tends to be one that a female responds to at whatever stage of life she’s in, and he can keep the same face for years at a time. A woman knows her inner man on sight and feels him even when he’s not visibly present. He can be at her side whenever she wants or needs him.
Animus tends to pop into a woman’s dream life for a while, help her with some things, go on adventures together, give her the boost she needs, then go away for a while. And in typical animus fashion, he’ll be off doing some manly, important thing, then show back up in her dreams at just the right time. The implication is that her animus has a life of his own even when he’s not in her dreams.
Animus dream characters tend to change form and develop over time, often reflecting a female’s conception of an ideal man at that time of her life. During her childhood, he is a father-figure. During her teenage years, animus is portrayed as a man of action, of muscle. He’s the quarterback of the football team, the Tarzan to her Jane. He continues to evolve through stages—the house-husband type, the professor type, the man of words and ideas—and if all goes well he becomes a sort of spiritual guide, her own personal Buddha or wise man—except a lot hotter! Animus is keenly attractive but won’t necessarily be the most physically attractive male. It tends to show more as a personal magnetism, especially as a woman matures.
These roles played by animus figures are the best way of identifying them in dreams. Additionally, they are identified by a feeling of close familiarity. Keeping a dream journal helps with identifying them because they recur, either as the same character or as a type of character. Anima figures tend to appear in men’s dreams with a rotating array of faces and forms, whereas animus figures tend to keep the same appearance for long stretches. They can appear as males a female knows, as celebrities, athletes, and other famous males who embody the role, and as completely imaginary characters.
Animus animates a woman, no matter what stage of life she’s in. When the relationship is good, she can be both fully feminine and comfortable acting masculine, and her life will be filled with purpose and gusto. When the relationship is bad, it’s really bad and shows, especially in her sarcasm and criticism. She’ll know exactly where to hit a man where it hurts, and she can make a sport of it. The fireworks get intense when she confuses her inner man with the man or men in her life. Then it’s a fight to the death—usually emotional and psychological death, but sometimes physical, too.
Fireworks can be caused, too, when a woman dreams about animus, her ideal inner man, loving him, and thinking it means she subconsciously wants to leave her mate. Her relationship with animus is internal. She can have both a mate and animus in her life, and she can love both equally and differently. But she errs when she expects the men in her life to live up to the ideal shown to her in her dreams. It’s called animus projection, and it’s bad news.
A woman’s Shadow stands in the way of accessing her animus in a good way. Shadow is a guardian at the gate to deeper access to her unconscious mind. Once Shadow is dealt with, animus becomes a consistent ally and friend. See: Shadows
See also: Animas, Beauty, Collective unconscious, Egos, Husbands, Love, Psyches, Shadows, Unconscious minds
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 animuses
Read some real dream reports of animus 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 had the weirdest dream, but it’s really cool
The dream was like this:
I woke up in a familiar room, inside that room was someone almost looking like me but older and more darker skin. As I was approached “myself” I notice a TV that is curved in the sides, and I saw a some kind of a PlayStation with a Roman numeral X. And “myself” was playing an assassins creed, but it in the modern day assassins. It looked like she was about to Finnish the game.
As she finished the game a cut scene was played.
There is see an assassins playing ezio’s family on the guitar, while playing the guitar he said this. “After all these years the assassins won, after numerous assassins that were played in the animus, after every thing that we’ve been through, we won. Now we can be… in peace.” As ezio’s family is starting to end, a title card saying “Assassin’s creed: The last fight.”
And that’s it a black screen showed up and said “thank you for playing”
And I heard my older self calling the teen that was in the room
Then I woke up with tears in my eyes
The dream was like this:
I woke up in a familiar room, inside that room was someone almost looking like me but older and more darker skin. As I was approached...
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Last dream was intense and heavy in symbols. Can you help me with the symbols?
I've had a powerful dream 3 days ago which triggered all kinds of emotions in me and I've done some severe changes in my everyday life since.
I've written down my dream and since I tend to think too simple and conscious about the dream, I was hoping someone experienced with dream symbols could help me understand a bit more.
**Warning: there is some domestic violence in the dream.** Maybe it is important to notice that domestic violence never happened in reality. The violence is entirely in the dream. I suspect the Ex is my animus.
I will mark the parts that I consider symbols/metaphors and would like some help with in cursive!
Dream:
My ex (who cheated on me) was still living with me. I am on my PC. I ask him for help. He takes over the PC. Instead of helping me he starts sex talks and nude exchanges on a social platform. I say stop it. He refuses, said it's his new partner. I see he interacts with several women though - so he is lying; it is not about a partner. I can see pictures \[on the pictures, there's a woman I know and (in real life) consider very feminine, soft and beautiful; something I'd like to look like.\]
It is about being horny. I get angry. I get so angry I want to grab him and do something to him; but even before I can do, he forcefully knocks me down, he almost chokes me. ***I am afraid he breaks my neck. By simple violence he wants to "make me believe it is really a girlfriend (not just affairs)". I give in, I "believe" him so he releases me. \[What does it mean that he can make me believe/give in by violence?\]***
Next scene, my stepfather wants to help me to "bring my ex to his new partner" so he will finally leave me in peace. (Basically, he will just send him away in peace.) I trust my stepfather in this. ***There is a white mouse and a little weasle. Age-wise they are not babies but clearly "child" age. I can easily touch them, they are domesticated, tame, and clean.***
They seem to be my pets, or at least living with me. Later that day, my stepfather offers me I can sleep in the same bedroom with him. While normally this would sound uncomfortable or "too close", in the dream I had the feeling it was just meant to be for my safety because my ex became a threat and I was afraid of dying. He also made sure we had separate beds apart from each other; so there was no intention of harm or anything, it made me feel safe. ***In the bedroom before sleeping, I didn't see my weasle and mouse anymore. I asked "where are my two?" and they just showed themselves quickly to ensure that they are still here; then they went back to their cabinets where they seem to sleep.***
Last scene, I don't know if this was a dream in a dream or the morning after the "sleep" in the bedroom in the dream. It feels more like dream-in-dream. I was taking a shower. ***Washing my hair. One (half) part of my hair was extremely long and beautifully groomed. The other part was my original hair length (shoulder length). Some voice told me it is beautifully groomed. Everything "felt right" and I knew my hair is very silky and healthy and it will show when it's washed and dried.***
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I have a really hard time interpreting. I do think the white little mouse and the little weasle are some childhood parts of me though.
(I started inner child healing the day after dreaming; I ended a sexual based fwb situation; I detached from a secret CRUSH which I shamefully admit I had next to my sexual fwb; I started seriously spending time with nobody but myself; started preparing real meals; forgiving myself for everything I feel guilty about; ... all of this came instantly)
I've had a powerful dream 3 days ago which triggered all kinds of emotions in me and I've done some severe changes in my everyday life since.
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Intimate with a friend I ghosted
Hi there, I’m curious to what the dream I had last night, that continued to my afternoon nap, means.
A few years ago I had a good friend/coworker. I will call her G in this post. I had asked her out at one point in our friendship but she shot me down because we worked together and we’re too good of friends. Her opinion was super valid, and we stayed very close friends.
Since the pandemic I started to work from home and ended up getting a job in the corporate sector of the company I work for, and have not talked to this person in a little over a year.
I ended up basically ghosting this friend due to the increased workload and other no stuff going on in my life. I was tempted to reconnect, but I cannot trust my intentions at this time because my judgement is clouded after this semi-lucid dream. I’m newly single for 2ish months after ending a relationship I was not happy being in.
I ended up having a dream about G that Emma’s excessively vivid. We were in a typical social situation during and after work, but it wasn’t the job we had together. Things started to get a little spicy and we ended up becoming intimate with each other.
Through the build up, we kissed and I felt an overwhelming sensation that I was “home.”
I ended up asking her to become my GF and she laughed and said “of course” and you can fill in the blanks of what happened after that.
G, in that moment. Fulfilled a list of what I want in a partner. In person she is not is not necessarily the same as her dream version, but close enough.
I have felt weird all day, thinking of a way to reach out to rekindle our friendship, but do not think my intentions are in the right place to do so.
Do y’all have any advice as to the meaning? I have read about the animus theory and think I may have been projecting it onto an old crush, but would like you insight!
Hi there, I’m curious to what the dream I had last night, that continued to my afternoon nap, means.
A few years ago I had a good friend/coworker. I will call...
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Dreamed that my grandfather raped me?
Prefacing this by saying I am a female. I have never been sexually assaulted by a family member and have grown up with parents who parented amazingly. Like, with all the inner work I’ve done, I’ve integrated my animus. I am and can be in my masculine energy (as I am at work)… but deep down i yearn to be in my feminine energy (I really desire to be in a strong committed relationship and be a wife and mother).
Also noting that I slept on my side for the first time in a while and I woke up with serious neck pain. I wonder if spinal alignment had anything to do with it.
Interestingly, my relationship with my grandparents is unique. My maternal grandparents kinda disowned my mom for no real reason for marrying my dad, who is an amazing man. My maternal grandparents deep down dont love me nor my siblings. The grandparent I dreamed about was the only grandparent who loves us and are close to me… my paternal grandfather (my paternal grandma died 10 years ago).
So there’s any relevant information. What’s wrong with me? I’ve never had a dream of being raped in my life. Let alone by a FAMILY member…
Prefacing this by saying I am a female. I have never been sexually assaulted by a family member and have grown up with parents who parented amazingly. Like,...
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Recurring red eyes paralysis
I was waiting in line at what seemed like a high security institution to visit one of the "residents". It was a tall blonde woman, round face, kind of pale and sickly looking. She sat at the desk and faced me. We exchanged some words. She is mostly expressionless.
Her eyes glow red and I make eye contact with her. She's no longer human to me, as I am overcome with the feeling of the eyes. The eyes are all there is and ever will be. It's as if she grips my soul with her eyes for a few seconds. I am paralyzed. Hot flash. It's the interface of some evil and good exchanging within me.
But it ends and I am nonplussed, only because I've felt this trick before. I say "nice try" and shrug it off. The dream dissolves and I wake up to go to the bathroom.
In the past I had this dream involving a completely different woman in another setting, but she was actually trying to help me at that point, as I was dealing with substance abuse in my waking life.
After that initial dream I had a friend tell me about dream animus and anima, and I thought maybe the woman helping me was part of that.
Has anybody experienced a red eyes dream like this?
I was waiting in line at what seemed like a high security institution to visit one of the "residents". It was a tall blonde woman, round face, kind of pale and...
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