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What are arrow dreams about?

This symbol is identified by words like arrow.

Arrows in dreams is a very uncommon dream symbol, occuring in about 0.3% of dreams. That's about 1 out of every 350 dreams.

What are the major highlights of arrow dreams?

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

Dreams of arrows are aggressive

Arrow dreams have more aggressive interactions than a lot of other dream symbols. This doesn't mean that all arrows have aggressive interactions or only aggressive interactions. It simply means that having arrows in a dream increases the probability this dream contains aggression. Other symbols that are like this include lodging, masks, nazis, unemployment, betrayal, thieves, escaping, Bangladesh, bathroom stalls, and killing.

Arrow dreams might be about death

Dreams that contain arrows are highly related to death. They are more related to death than 90% of all other dream symbols. Other symbols that are like this include burying, tackling, hostages, talismans, crime, ammunition, grim reapers, fingerprints, grenades, and arrows.

What symbols less present in dreams of arrows?

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

Explore different elements related to dreams of arrows

Who is in arrows dreams?

Overall, dreams with arrows are aren't really related to characters in dreams. Specifically, dreams of arrows are more related to animals and more related to fantastic beings than dreams in general. They are less related to close people, less related to family, and less related to romantic partners.

Animals

more than usual

Insects

the same as usual

Different roles

the same as usual

Fantastic beings

more than usual

Distant people

the same as usual

Close people

less than usual

Family

less than usual

Romantic partners

less than usual
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What are the emotions in arrows dreams?

Overall, dreams with arrows are less related to emotions in dreams. Specifically, dreams of arrows are more related to grief and sorrow, more related to confusion, and more related to pain than dreams in general. They are less related to happiness, less related to sadness, and less related to fear.

Happiness

less than usual

Sadness

less than usual

Grief and sorrow

more than usual

Embarrassment

the same as usual

Confusion

more than usual

Fear

less than usual

Pain

more than usual

Hatred

the same as usual

Fun

much more than usual

Love

less than usual
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Who is in arrows dreams?

Overall, dreams with arrows are aren't really related to places in dreams. Specifically, dreams of arrows are more related to natural places and more related to magical places than dreams in general. They are much less related to home, less related to work, and less related to transportation.

Home

much less than usual

Work

less than usual

Human places

the same as usual

Transportation

less than usual

Natural places

more than usual

Magical places

more than usual
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What happens in arrows dreams?

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

Aggressive interactions

much more than usual

Friendly interactions

less than usual

Sex

less than usual

Disasters

much more than usual
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How do arrows in dreams related to other dream phenomenon?

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

Lucid dreams

the same as usual

Nightmares

less than usual

Recurring dreams

more than usual

Recurring nightmares

less than usual

Sleep paralysis

less than usual

Sleeping

much less than usual

Waking life

less than usual
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How do arrows in dreams related the senses?

Overall, dreams with arrows are aren't really related to senses in dreams. Specifically, dreams of arrows are more related to touch than dreams in general. They are less related to smelling.

Hearing

the same as usual

Smelling

less than usual

Taste

the same as usual

Vision

the same as usual

Touch

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

Arrow dreams are very uncommon. Among other things arrow dreams are normally interconnect, aggressive, and about death.

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

What are possible meanings for dreams of arrows?

To be shot by an arrow in a dream can symbolize being targeted by someone’s ambitions (especially romantic ones), sarcasm, criticism, or ire.

The symbolism can be used to depict comments directed at you that sting or penetrate. It shows in the action of an arrow striking and causing pain and injury.

“Straight arrow” means upright and righteous. Straight arrow is also a way of saying “very direct.” The symbolism will show in the action of an arrow flying straight.

Shooting an arrow can mean aiming for a goal or target, hitting a target or missing. Who or what are you aiming for, and why?

A broken arrow can symbolize a goal or ambition that isn’t reached, succumbing to temptation, or the fall of a righteous person.

An arrow can be a phallic symbol because of its shape and ability to penetrate.

See also: Armor, Bullets

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 arrows

Read some real dream reports of arrow 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.

The feeling of death

It wasn’t a lucid dream but last night I had a really vivid dream where I had an arrow go through my chest. I didn’t exactly “hurt” but I do remember feeling panicked and stumbling as my body started to go numb. I kept getting weaker and weaker until I finally collapsed and kept gasping fit air. Slowly everything started to fade out and then I woke up. This has happened before when I had a nightmare of a wolf jumping onto my bed and tearing at my throat. Similar to my dream last night, it didn’t hurt but I felt a cold ooze as my body got weaker and weaker. Very curious as to whether or not anyone’s ever had a similar experience?
(P.S.- I’m new to the sub, happy to be here!!)

It wasn’t a lucid dream but last night I had a really vivid dream where I had an arrow go through my chest. I didn’t exactly “hurt” but I do remember feeling...

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I had a dream I killed my cat brutally

i had a dream i killed my pet cat who 6 years is 6 years old. i believe she was being aggressive in the dream and that’s why i killed her but as soon as i woke up i rushed out to make sure my cat was okay and when i saw her i just froze and it was so confusing. the dream felt so real. it was so brutal and me and my dad shot her with a bow and arrow like a hundred times but she was still alive. i remember my mom taunting me afterwards in the dream about how she was going to die soon and what i did etc. I also remember pacing around with my head in my hands crying in the dream. i keep tearing up at the thought of this maybe symbolizing something about to happen to her i don’t know i don’t want her to die can someone tell me if this means something .

i had a dream i killed my pet cat who 6 years is 6 years old. i believe she was being aggressive in the dream and that’s why i killed her but as soon as i woke...

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Shooting arrows at crowd

I was flying or floating (in a controlled manner) above a crowd, and i was shooting individual people with a bow and arrow. Sometimes hitting my target and sometimes missing. The crowd of people were all looking at me and they all had disgruntled looks on their faces.

To shoot arrow from above, i take as maybe directing spirituality on to some kind of target. I’m quite asocial and i like to keep for myself so a being in the presence of a crowd makes me think that this is a compensatory dream. Still don’t understand what it means. Thoughts?

I was flying or floating (in a controlled manner) above a crowd, and i was shooting individual people with a bow and arrow. Sometimes hitting my target and...

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Nightmare with arrows and hospital

19 M I am a freshmen at college, and I just had this dream/nightmare and its been bothering me all day because it physically hurts kind of.

My dream started out at either a middle school or elementary school, and I was young in my dream. We were out in the field and we were playing some game, it was like red over except everyone had bows and arrows, like real arrows. My dad was the coach and when we started the game everyone aimed at me even the people on my team and shot me with arrows. but all of the arrows only hit my left leg and it didn't hurt but I couldn't walk right. My dad got me in a car to rush to a hospital except he dumped me out of the car and I had to walk to a hospital. This town or city wasn't one I knew but I could distinctively remember three hospitals and so I walked to the closest one but as I got closer it just disappeared. Then some random guy picked me up in his car and we went to the next hospital but when we got there it was gone as well replaced with a huge parking lot. The guy kicked me out of his car again and I walked to the third hospital and as I was walking there all the kids who shot me with the arrows were mocking me about how disgusting my leg looked. When I looked down to see my leg it was rotting and flesh falling off my bones like a zombie it was gross, so I started rushing to the third hospital only for it to not being there either. That's when I woke up and all day I've been having trouble walking my leg feels stiff and it makes my heart pump like crazy whenever I remember the dream of all the arrows in my leg.

I honestly cant think of what this means I feel traumatized from my own dream.

19 M I am a freshmen at college, and I just had this dream/nightmare and its been bothering me all day because it physically hurts kind of.

My dream...

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a strange dream of being a man and got shot in the eye... and i'm a woman with a mole near the right eye...

i still remember this dream of mine from several months ago. it was, for me, a strange dream because i was in a different body. i was a... man, i think, & as far as i could remember, i was being chased down by a few men, fuming mad men, with guns in their hands and one with arrows and a bow, as if i had done a terrible business to them. i was running through the woods as i heard their multiple shots. i found myself trying to dodge their bullets, always turning my head to them to know if they were already near me, but got shot with an arrows straight in my right eye (or was it near my right eye) instead. until i reached (i suppose) the dead-end, clutching my bloodied face. i found out i was, or rather we were, standing on a cliff above the ocean, and felt like there was no way to escape that moment... alive. and so, i turned to those men again, only to find that they were raising their guns on me, and that was the end of it.

funny thing is that, i am a woman and i have this certain mole near my right eye (where i also felt a little sensation of pain after i woke up) + i'm (very) afraid of the ocean. what do you think my dream could mean? was it entirely a metaphor, or just random, or could be my past life?

i still remember this dream of mine from several months ago. it was, for me, a strange dream because i was in a different body. i was a... man, i think, &...

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