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What are attic dreams about?

Attics are spaces at the very top of houses. They are often unused spaces that are used simply to store old items. In this sense they are much like basements. This symbol is identified by words like attic.

Attics in dreams is a very uncommon dream symbol, occuring in about 0.3% of dreams. That's about 1 out of every 300 dreams.

What are the major highlights of attic dreams?

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

Dreams with attics might be a nightmare

Dreams of attics are frequently associated with nightmares. Of course dreams that contain attics might not be a nightmare. Plenty of dreams with attics are not nightmares. But, dreams of attics are more related to nightmares than 80% of all other dream symbols. Other symbols that are like this include running, opening, hostages, castration, eyes, Philippines, living rooms, escaping, orange eyes, and chests.

What symbols less present in dreams of attics?

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

Explore different elements related to dreams of attics

Who is in attics dreams?

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

Animals

more than usual

Insects

the same as usual

Different roles

less than usual

Fantastic beings

more than usual

Distant people

less than usual

Close people

less than usual

Family

more than usual

Romantic partners

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

Overall, dreams with attics are aren't really related to emotions in dreams. Specifically, dreams of attics are more related to fear than dreams in general. They are less related to happiness, less related to sadness, and less related to grief and sorrow.

Happiness

less than usual

Sadness

less than usual

Grief and sorrow

less than usual

Embarrassment

less than usual

Confusion

the same as usual

Fear

more than usual

Pain

less than usual

Hatred

the same as usual

Fun

less than usual

Love

the same as usual
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Who is in attics dreams?

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

Home

more than usual

Work

much less than usual

Human places

less than usual

Transportation

much less than usual

Natural places

less than usual

Magical places

less than usual
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What happens in attics dreams?

Overall, dreams with attics are aren't really related to events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of attics

Aggressive interactions

the same as usual

Friendly interactions

the same as usual

Sex

the same as usual

Disasters

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

Overall, dreams with attics are more related to dream events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of attics are more related to lucid dreams, much more related to nightmares, and much more related to recurring dreams than dreams in general.

Lucid dreams

more than usual

Nightmares

much more than usual

Recurring dreams

much more than usual

Recurring nightmares

much more than usual

Sleep paralysis

the same as usual

Sleeping

much more than usual

Waking life

more than usual
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How do attics in dreams related the senses?

Overall, dreams with attics are aren't really related to senses in dreams. Specifically, dreams of attics are more related to hearing than dreams in general. They are less related to taste.

Hearing

more than usual

Smelling

the same as usual

Taste

less than usual

Vision

the same as usual

Touch

the same as usual
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How can you make sense of attics in dreams?

Attic dreams are very uncommon. Among other things attic dreams are normally interconnect and nightmare.

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

What are possible meanings for dreams of attics?

An attic in dreams is associated with thoughts or thinking processes. It can symbolize your mental, intellectual, or spiritual life. The symbolism derives from a physical orientation representing areas of the body. The attic is the head or mind. For example, see: Dark.

Attics are where things are stored or hidden, so an attic can symbolize a place in your mind where you store bad memories or hide your bad thoughts.

Hiding in an attic can symbolize hiding from the world, or keeping something about yourself hidden. You wish to be “out of sight, out of mind” or just alone.

A prisoner in an attic can symbolize that you won’t accept certain things you find in your mind or thoughts. You aren’t living up to your intellectual potential. Or you’re captivated by certain thoughts or thought processes.

A cluttered attic can symbolize disorganized thinking or having too much on your mind.

An angry person in your attic can symbolize ignoring personal needs and disregarding the thoughts associated with them. A part of yourself is unhappy about the situation.

The emotional state or demeanor of people in your attic can reflect what’s going on in your mind.

See also: Body parts, Buildings, Darkness, Fear, Heads, Home, Stairs and ladders

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 attics

Read some real dream reports of attic 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 a dream that’s all in black and white. Really frickin creeped me out but kinda cool

The dream was really vivid. In the dream, we were moving houses. The first thing i remember was im in the middle of this narrow road, and in front of me a couple feet away is my grandmother pushing an old stroller. It’s playing out like a movie and she doesnt see me. In the dream i remember thinking that we should hide because theyre going to burn us. I dont know who ‘they’ is. And then the next thing i remember is like a barage of clips, like scenes stitched together. Scenes of me and my grandmother in the attic and us running. The last thing i remember my grandma saying “shh keep quiet” then i woke up.

Second time i had a black and white dream. I thought it was kinda cool.

The dream was really vivid. In the dream, we were moving houses. The first thing i remember was im in the middle of this narrow road, and in front of me a...

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i love you too, sun

i had a dream i was dating an astronomer. his entire job was to watch and record the sun's temperature. one day, i left for work and left him to do his (a whole extremely large telescope in my mom's attic). he noticed the sun's temperature spiked as soon as i left. he collected some more data and, as it turns out, the sun seemed to burn brighter when it saw me. it was in love.

obviously i was sent up to space to see the star and i felt a love that is indescribable. i was in a skin tight space suit (bc i gotta look good for my star) and could see myself from behind moving closer, only my silhouette because of the brightness. i'm tethered to the rocket and it's so impossibly quiet. all i hear is the roar of the sun and the sound of my breathing. then it cuts to my face and i can see the sun's reflection dancing on the mask over my face. my eyes welled up. it took my breath away in the best way and i really loved the sun back. meanwhile, back on earth, nasa realizes that either the sun was burning way too bright and would kill everyone or the sun was much too cool and about to die because it wanted me to be able to get closer, probably both as it was a dream. i go to get closer and i hear someone in my ear telling me that i have to come back immediately.

i jolted awake and burst into tears. i've told this story three times and i cry every time like a true nutjob. it haunts me and i only had it wednesday night. i love you too, sun.

i had a dream i was dating an astronomer. his entire job was to watch and record the sun's temperature. one day, i left for work and left him to do his (a...

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Dream where a fish was whispering in my ear

Weird dream. Tarot fish.
In my dream my mother had bought a house or maybe she had it but this was the first time I was in this particular house. next we were going upstairs for something and she said something about “Ariel” and she said that “Ariel” was living in her attic. I can remember thinking about a Disney princess when I was in the dream. She kept going in the attic and I was going in as well and she stopped me at some weird pillar in her attic and told me to hold on and not look but I looked and could only see my mother but she told me to hold on while she went and grabbed something and I was so exited to see “Ariel”. I was laying so that my knees were near my chest on the stairs for some reason and all of a sudden this thing like came over me who I’m guessing was “Ariel” but anyways I went its hand across my bottom and it felt like it grabbed me there and it came up to my ear and was whispering in it while like sucking on it but the thing was a fish so it had those gross fish lips. while this weird fish thing was like groping me I was trying to scream and I couldn’t and I couldn’t move. the fish was whispering in my ear but it sounded foreign. i don’t know but it was scary and it’s 5:41 am right now and i still can’t go back to bed lol

Weird dream. Tarot fish.
In my dream my mother had bought a house or maybe she had it but this was the first time I was in this particular house. next we were...

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Dream of bodies in my attic

I bought a house in July, I now live here with my boyfriend. The master bedroom is a converted attic. I had a dream 2 nights ago that my boyfriend decided to clean out the attic and they found 18 bodies and were listing off the ages of each one.

I was so disturbed by this! I’d previously thought the house was haunted due to all the noises. Also the noises seemed to increase the day after I had the dream. (Things going bump, pretty sure it’s just the wind but it’s creepy that it started happening more right when I had this dream)

I bought a house in July, I now live here with my boyfriend. The master bedroom is a converted attic. I had a dream 2 nights ago that my boyfriend decided to...

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Unknown Attic, random little girl and Gunshots... Someone help ease my mind please...

If anyone here can help, i would greatly appreciate your help tonight I just cant go back to sleep with all this on my mind right now.

The dream:
So I was with my boyfriend in this attic looking area that had a few windows- mind you this location is not in our home nor do i recall ever being in this area, but we both seem comfortable and as though we possibly live there. We were going through boxes and in the middle of this, i found a pink silky nightgown in one and started changing. This little girl comes into the room(we have NO children, but hes lost a kid years ago- who is not my child) and he picked her up because she wanted something off one of the rafters. We resumed opening these boxes and whenI pull the shoulder strap over my shoulder I heard the sound of glass breaking and instantly hes on the floor with the kid. Towering over her.. Covering her. He yells at me that it was a gunshot and it went right by me so I had to get on the floor. Im confused and in shock almost until there is a second shot and when it happened, I ducked onto the floor. As soon as I did and realized we all were was unharmed, i woke up...

Upon waking
I noticed nothing abnormal about the room or myself upon waking, but this dream has a lot of unanswered questions and lingering feelings of confusion as all of this in dream felt very real and calm aside from the shooting. The child felt familiar as if it was possibly ours and my boyfriend looked almost identical as he does today. Its all odd. The child was younger than the one he lost in age though. So I'm left with a lot of questions. Very open to any possibilities.

The internet has not been much use for interpreting this... I hope someone here can provide me with any clue as to what to make of this dream (Thank you so so much in advance for your help as this gal cant sleep with all the doors locked and the blinds closed currently)

If anyone here can help, i would greatly appreciate your help tonight I just cant go back to sleep with all this on my mind right now.

The dream:
So I was...

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