What are ape dreams about?
Apes are large primates. They share a similar body structure to humans. This symbol is identified by words like ape.
Apes 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 ape dreams?
Apes is a negatively interconnected dream symbol. Having apes in a dream reduces the presence of other dream symbols.
Dreams of apes are aggressive
Ape dreams have more aggressive interactions than a lot of other dream symbols. This doesn't mean that all apes have aggressive interactions or only aggressive interactions. It simply means that having apes in a dream increases the probability this dream contains aggression. Other symbols that are like this include guns, deformation, Madagascar, missiles, helplessness, heads, unnamed individuals, jumping, scientists, and tools.
Dreams with apes might be a nightmare
Dreams of apes are frequently associated with nightmares. Of course dreams that contain apes might not be a nightmare. Plenty of dreams with apes are not nightmares. But, dreams of apes are more related to nightmares than 80% of all other dream symbols. Other symbols that are like this include things, televisions, general movement, ribs, turning, tunnels, praying, raccoons, panic, and emptiness.
What symbols more present in dreams of apes?
Ape dreams are notable because they have substantially more cages, Bahamas, fantastic beings, monkeys, creatures, gorillas, qualities, jackals, hosts, kings, backwards, other fantastic beings, Japan, avalanches, feet, ignoring, ancestors, rage, zebras, arms, jungles, conferences, machines, fences, butterflies, Thailand, hitting and kicking, opponents, circles, cliffs, natural things, makeup, oracles, circuses, journeys, forwards, rabbits, eels, running, mazes, climbing, obeying, spring, aggressive interactions, Voldemort, general animals, glowing eyes, actors, fevers, blizzards, movement, caves, rocks, white eyes, emeralds, acid, turning, donkeys, monster, and insanity than 95% of other dream symbols.
What symbols less present in dreams of apes?
Ape dreams are notable because they have substantially less boyfriends, relationship events, crying, beds, sadness, threatening, accepting, sleep paralysis, recurring dreams, my children, money, lucid dreams, swimming, seeing a dead relative, driving, waking life, schools, and phones than 95% of other dream symbols.
How does the dream symbol of apes affect the different aspects of a dream?
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Who is in apes dreams?
Overall, dreams with apes are more related to characters in dreams. Specifically, dreams of apes are much more related to animals, much more related to insects, and much more related to fantastic beings than dreams in general. They are less related to distant people, less related to close people, and less related to romantic partners.
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What are the emotions in apes dreams?
Overall, dreams with apes are aren't really related to emotions in dreams. Specifically, dreams of apes are more related to fear and more related to pain than dreams in general. They are less related to happiness, much less related to sadness, and much less related to grief and sorrow.
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Who is in apes dreams?
Overall, dreams with apes are aren't really related to places in dreams. Specifically, dreams of apes are more related to home, more related to transportation, and more related to natural places than dreams in general. They are less related to work and less related to human places.
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What happens in apes dreams?
Overall, dreams with apes are aren't really related to events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of apes are more related to aggressive interactions than dreams in general. They are less related to friendly interactions.
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How do apes in dreams related to other dream phenomenon?
Overall, dreams with apes are aren't really related to dream events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of apes are much more related to nightmares than dreams in general. They are much less related to lucid dreams, much less related to recurring dreams, and less related to recurring nightmares.
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How can you make sense of apes in dreams?
Ape dreams are very rare. Among other things ape dreams are negatively interconnected, aggressive, and nightmare.
Do you think this is true for your dream of apes? How might your dream of apes 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 apes 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 apes in dreams. See how you feel about apes now, in your waking life.
Examples of dreams of apes
Read some real dream reports of ape 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.
A strange yet scary nightmare I had
Before I start I just wanna say this is the first nightmare I've had in years.
Creatures that look like the bugs from starship troopers mixed with people (similar to Dead Space or The Thing) attack while im at a resort. They have an ape like intelligence and the entire time the human side of them is alive and yelling about how much pain they're in and saying sorry for killing people. I don't know what happens to me but my dream followed a girl that ran into an elevator with a mother and her child. The mother had a big scratch on her arm and slowly turned into one of the mosters and began to eat her baby. The girl runs out of the elevator and gets attacked by 3-5 of the monsters and then that's when I woke up.
Before I start I just wanna say this is the first nightmare I've had in years.
Creatures that look like the bugs from starship troopers mixed with people...
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Not the Monkey!!
I was being chased by two people for some reason and ended chased into a weird subway/sewer. Something happened and I was held captive. I was given some sort of chemical, but it had no affect on me. But there was a monkey (a regular monkey, but insanely smart and could speak) and it demanded that I share the substance with them 'or esle.' Seeing has I was already locked in handcuffs and chains and sat in a chair, I really saw no choice, but to obey. The monkey consumed the substance and disappeared as a being walked in. They were an ape person (think OG Planet of the ape.) I tried to resist and to escape, but my attempts didn't succeed and eventually I became suddenly and extraordinarily tired. I passed out and when I came to the aapeperson was giving me a manicure (?) The whole time I was thinking of ways to escape and noticed a file... BINGO. If I can get that file while they are distracted, I can grind my way out of the cuffs. I started to get hungry and as if on queue, the aapeperson said something along the lines of I'm getting something for me to eat, so I can get back to you.. Then, from behind a short wall I saw a massive, hairy hand with sharp claws appear. From behind the wall I saw a massive tail. I tried to say something, but the aapeperson had already turned around and was walking away. Scared put of my mind for qhat might be lurking around the corner I quickly get ahold of the file and start working my way out. The hand and tail let out a loud roar... the aapeperson said something about an "Ozaru" (Nice Dragon Ball reference in the middle of my dream, but that was literally what that thing was like.) After that the aapeperson started running away, I scurried into the nearest corner to continue my escape (in the back of my mind I knew it was somewhat futile due to there being no percievable exit near me.) The Ozaru turned to give chase to the aapeperson, but stopped when it turned around. It just stood there, while I tried to limit the noise I made the best that I could. I struggled to stay calm and keep breathing all without the beast noticing me and coming after me instead. Finally, the monster began to leave and... my dream ended. Waking up around 2:49 in the morning.... Feels like I definitely escaped somehow. Also the connection between the Ozaru and the monkey that ate my chemicals is a sure thing established, somehow, during my manicure.
I was being chased by two people for some reason and ended chased into a weird subway/sewer. Something happened and I was held captive. I was given some sort of...
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I had a nightmare about an orangutan trying to murder me, what does this mean?
I had a horrible nightmare where I was sitting up in my bed, and there was an orangutan crouched right behind the back board thing of my bed. It was dark with red eyes, almost like a demon but its posture and shape was definitely an orangutan or some sort of ape.
The animal was holding a knife, not a super large one, definitely smaller than a kitchen knife, coudve been a razor blade or something smaller like that.
Out of instinct, I ran upstairs, I felt like I needed to find a weapon to fight it or protect myself. I ran to my kitchen which looked so realistic to my real kitchen. I grabbed a rolling pin but then realized how light it was and wouldn’t make out to be a good weapon. So then I found a huge chopping knife for meat, charged at the orangutan that was already following me, and braced myself.
When I woke up I was sweating and my heart was racing. It felt so real, I felt like if I looked again I would see the demonic creature. I was too afraid to go back to sleep and it was 4 am, which meant the dream occured around 3 am which also scared me. I ended up staying up and not getting barely any sleep. (I went to bed at 1)
I am pretty sure I dreamt that because ive had so much stress at school, and very recently one of my favorite teachers did something passively racist, all the other students were making fun of a culture which happened to be mine, and she didn’t do anything to stop them basically.
Ive read so much on the news about asians getting slashed by people, and I think thats where the knife in my dream came from, I just wanna know why the hell it was an orangutan
I had a horrible nightmare where I was sitting up in my bed, and there was an orangutan crouched right behind the back board thing of my bed. It was dark...
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I had a weird dream that involved going to camp
so in the dream, I was going to a camp w/ my boy scout troop. what was weird was that the camp was kind of divided up into themed sections like an amusement park (the only sections I remember was a generic "space" theme and a giant-fruits-and-vegetables theme). There was also some rumors around camp that there was a bigfoot-like ape in the forests around the camp.
on the first night at the camp, I was goofing around after dark, and accidentally found out that I could run on all fours like how a gorilla does. I snuck out of the campsite to try out my new abilities, and one thing led to another, and I ended up chasing a box van down the highway like that (and was able to keep up with it, too)
the box van was shipping supplies to the camp, and I guess my gorilla-running made the driver think that I was the bigfoot-ape, so the next morning, everyone at camp was a little on edge. I decided to try meeting some new people, and ended up volunteering to help out one staff member, who happened to be a transgendered woman. She had been tasked with running some various DNA tests to see if the bigfoot-ape-monster was actually in the forests there, so I was helping her with that. She had a great sense of humor and me and her just really hit it off. We were having a great time talking to each other. then the dream ended somewhere around that point.
I find this dream kinda weird because (1.) I can't even run 100 feet without getting winded irl and (2.) I am pretty sure I'm a cisgendered male
so in the dream, I was going to a camp w/ my boy scout troop. what was weird was that the camp was kind of divided up into themed sections like an amusement...
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DUMBASS DREAM I HAD
I WAS LIKE IN THE JUNGLE WITH A LOT OF APES/MONKEYS AND WE WAS TRYNA SEE WHO WAS THE TALLEST WE WERE MEASURING OUR HEIGHTS AND STUFF BUT THERE WAS ALSO BLUE AND GREEN GORILLAS THAT CAME FROM SPACE AND THEY BEAT ME IN HEIGHT I WAS PISSED AND I GREW LIKE 5 INCHES IN A SECOND AND I MEASURED MYSELF AND I BEAT THEM GORILLA FUCKERS
I WAS LIKE IN THE JUNGLE WITH A LOT OF APES/MONKEYS AND WE WAS TRYNA SEE WHO WAS THE TALLEST WE WERE MEASURING OUR HEIGHTS AND STUFF BUT THERE WAS ALSO BLUE AND...
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