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What are beach dreams about?

Beaches are often thought of as relaxing places. But beaches are points of transitions. This is where the land meets the sea. This symbol is identified by words like beach and shore.

Beaches in dreams is a relatively common dream symbol, occuring in about 2.1% of dreams. That's about 1 out of every 45 dreams.

What are the major highlights of beach dreams?

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

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

Explore different elements related to dreams of beaches

Who is in beaches dreams?

Overall, dreams with beaches are less related to characters in dreams. Specifically, dreams of beaches are less related to insects, less related to different roles, and less related to fantastic beings.

Animals

the same as usual

Insects

less than usual

Different roles

less than usual

Fantastic beings

less than usual

Distant people

less than usual

Close people

the same as usual

Family

the same as usual

Romantic partners

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

Overall, dreams with beaches are less related to emotions in dreams. Specifically, dreams of beaches are more related to fun than dreams in general. They are less related to grief and sorrow, less related to embarrassment, and less related to confusion.

Happiness

the same as usual

Sadness

the same as usual

Grief and sorrow

less than usual

Embarrassment

less than usual

Confusion

less than usual

Fear

less than usual

Pain

less than usual

Hatred

less than usual

Fun

more than usual

Love

the same as usual
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Who is in beaches dreams?

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

Home

less than usual

Work

less than usual

Human places

less than usual

Transportation

more than usual

Natural places

more than usual

Magical places

less than usual
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What happens in beaches dreams?

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

Aggressive interactions

less than usual

Friendly interactions

less than usual

Sex

less than usual

Disasters

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

Overall, dreams with beaches are less related to dream events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of beaches are less related to nightmares, less related to sleep paralysis, and less related to sleeping.

Lucid dreams

the same as usual

Nightmares

less than usual

Recurring dreams

the same as usual

Recurring nightmares

the same as usual

Sleep paralysis

less than usual

Sleeping

less than usual

Waking life

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

Overall, dreams with beaches are less related to senses in dreams. Specifically, dreams of beaches are less related to hearing, less related to smelling, and less related to taste.

Hearing

less than usual

Smelling

less than 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 beaches in dreams?

Beach dreams are relatively common. Among other things beach dreams are normally interconnect.

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

What are possible meanings for dreams of beaches?

The beach in a dream can symbolize where two parts of you or your life meet. Most commonly it’s where the unconscious mind and conscious mind meet, but there are other possibilities. For example, the beach can symbolize your rational mind, and the water of the ocean can symbolize emotions. A shoreline can be an analogy for the emotions and feelings that arise out of you.

It can symbolize where the masculine (land, yang) and feminine (ocean, yin) meet. No matter what your gender, you have elements of both genders in you, and they are rooted in the foundation of your psyche. See: Vaginas

Another analogy is that the ocean represents possibilities, and the shoreline represents reality.

The conscious mind emerges from the unconscious the way land rises out of the sea, so a beach or shoreline is a ready-made symbol for newly conscious aspects of yourself. These aspects are often perceived at first as strange, and can take forms in dreams as strange sea creatures or clumps of unrecognizable stuff washed up on the shore. In time, you will get to know these new aspects of yourself and they will become more recognizable.

The beach can symbolize a new phase of life. You’ve reach new land, in a sense.

The beach is associated with vacations and idle time, so dreaming about a beach can indicate desire for, or thoughts related to, travel and rest. It might indicate a longing for the easy life or, conversely, for adventure, especially if water sports are involved.

The shoreline is commonly used in media and advertising to portray times when a person is reminiscing or reflecting on life.

Looking into the distance from a beach can symbolize trying to discern what is approaching in the future, or keeping attention on some distant goal, pursuit, or event.

If you reach a coast or beach after a voyage, it can symbolize being on firm ground, meaning a more secure place in your life, or feeling ready for whatever comes next.

Taking off from a shoreline can symbolize embarking on a new journey in life. See: Embarking, Journeys

See also: Boats, Borders, Embarking, Floods, Journeys, Oceans, Tsunamis, Undressing, Vacations, Vaginas, Water

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 beaches

Read some real dream reports of beach 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.

it was a awsome dream, could it mean something?

i was on the beach driving my jetski, my phone rang and i answerd it was my dad, he told me to go to the blocks nearby becouse there was a sucidal woman, i went, the block was derteriorated half of the top  wasnt there, i climb as fast as possible to her apartament to find her standing against the guardrail of her balcony, luckly i talked her out of it, she got away from the guardrail and came closer to me, she hugged me tight, i remeber the red dress she was wearing, after that some men came and took her to a prison/phsyc ward, i went to broke her out, i got there and we met in the yard we talked our plan and made it happen the first time it didnt work but the seconth it did we were out our pants got ripped when jumping the wall, she looked down at her feet and saw a mark on her leg, it was like a pentagram not just a bruise or something, we got scared ao we went to a witch as i had one aswell, (i wake up after this and fall back asleep) i now find myself in a apartamnet crying, it was my mom aparrtament she asked me why i was crying and i told her, that i cant find my love the woman that i saved, she then took a beer can and used the sun to reflect light in her window, she came outside on the balcony and waved her hand, as fast as i seen that i was running down the stairs to get to her block my brother was also there and he did the same, i do not get to arive at  her block though, couse she did the same we met on the bridge, my real life real life crush was there, even tho she was there i run at the woman dressed in red hugging her thightly while shes doing the same, my brother hugs my real life crush,  this hurt me in a way but not so much becouse the woman dressed in red holds me thight as i do the same (everything goes black)  we find ourselves on a ship i think, me and the woman dressed in a red dress, we were fighting the men from the same organization that took her in the pshyc ward, we were in a room with 2 doors one in front of us and one lined with my sholder, i open the door at my side, it was dark inside it seemd like sonething was in the corner, scared, i close the door very fast, then she opens the foor in front of us, inside were  5 men armed with ak-47's (i think) four of the men ran and jumed off the ship in the water, the last man dashed to the room i opend previously i go after him pinning him to the ground and start hitting him with a "this way" arrow signs (i dont remember very good couldve aslo been a car license plate) i hit his neck multiple times wich decapitated him, i remember very well the blood staining the white fuzzy carpet that was in the room, as i mentioned earlier there seemd like there was something in the room, it was, there was a small dog that looked very much like my reallife dog named tina.

i wake up after this very mad about not being able to fall back asleep and continue my adventure with the woman in the red dress

i was on the beach driving my jetski, my phone rang and i answerd it was my dad, he told me to go to the blocks nearby becouse there was a sucidal woman, i...

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My legs were gone and it was freakin awesome.

It was a sunny but mild day on the beach, and I had no legs.

I was running around on my hands. I'm lightweight and I'd do that often if my useless leg and useless-by-proxy leg weren't in the way. But they were magically gone (good thing it wasn't a dream about using a kitchen countertop or carrying a box of stuff upstairs).

So I ran over to a stromatolite and "stood" on it and felt the heat leach into my hands while my cousin or whatever ran ahead--I stood almost as tall as this kid--then had no trouble keeping pace with him as he ran down the beach. No one batted an eye and he never looked back to see if he'd left me behind. I felt like an AT-ST from Star Wars. I was a mile tall and unstoppable.

And then I had a dream someone was keeping me hostage so she could inject me with bugs. Whatever. PSA: cartilage damage is forever.

It was a sunny but mild day on the beach, and I had no legs.

I was running around on my hands. I'm lightweight and I'd do that often if my useless leg and...

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Meaning of NOT being killed by the killer in my dream?

So last night I had what seemed like a nightmare. A group of friends and I went to the beach and on our drive back, every time we’d stop somewhere one of my friends would go missing and be found dead. We discovered that it was a murderer who was following us but when it came to the point where he took me and I thought he was going to kill me, we just ended up hanging out, walking through the woods, and talking, until he let me go. It sounds so stupid and it doesn’t make any sense. Is there any meaning behind this or is it just a nonsense dream?

So last night I had what seemed like a nightmare. A group of friends and I went to the beach and on our drive back, every time we’d stop somewhere one of my...

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I fall asleep asking myself what should I do with my relationship. This is the dream I had:

My dream:

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I was in an unknown place, there was a gas station, I believe I was on the highway. I knew I had to go to a beach that I go every year for holidays, my parents have a house there and my boyfriend's parents too. I was in between the city where I used to live and the beach (they are two hours apart).

I was waiting that someone could pick me up until I saw an old lover I had (we didn't end up well, he really messed up with myself) and we started chatting, and I'm like 'hmm maybe he THINKS about me after all' as an ego trip, not expecting to fall in love again or anything. Everything was going good until he meets her girlfriend. She was blonde (he once told me that a tarotist told him that he was going to marry a blonde girl - I'm not)

Then, in this place I see a couple, that are friends of my actual boyfriend, we talked about their baby, about coronavirus, and she didn't want me to hug her because of the virus. I was happy because I could prove this guy that I didn't need him and that I knew people. I ask them if they can give me a ride, and I don't remember what happens next. But, I think that I'm stuck in this place.

Any insights?

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I was in an unknown place, there was a gas station, I believe I was on the highway. I knew I had to go to a beach that I go...

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I think I was sent a message through a dream. Is this possible?

A little background: my ex (I’ll call him X) and I broke up about 6 years ago, and ceased all communication a little over 5 years ago. I met and started dating my current boyfriend (I’ll call him Y) a few months later. X started dating someone and married her a few years ago.

The dream: I remember walking into a pretty nice, but random beach house. Upon walking in, X was standing in the living room and he asked, “so, how’d it go?” to which I replied “it was tough, but I finally got the last of it.” - apparently, I was talking about getting a few remaining items from my Y, thus totally ending our relationship. X was divorced and I had recently broken up with Y. There was no cheating that lead to this, we just got in contact after the end of both of our relationships. Anyway, the remainder of the dream, we kissed, we talked about different things (mostly catching each other up on things we had missed in each other’s lives from the past 5 years), and held each other.

The dream had me shook when I woke up. It was eerily real. I haven’t heard X’s voice or touched him in 5 years, but without a doubt, I can tell you the voice in the dream was 100% his voice. When he hugged, held hands, kissed, anything, it felt exactly like him. It was all instantly recognizable.

Now here’s the weird part:

I honestly hadn’t even thought of X since I started dating Y. When X and I cut communication, we cut everything, no social media, nothing. Occasionally my friends texted me updates about him, but after he got engaged, I told them not to send me updates about him anymore because I didn’t care to know. I can say before this dream, I honestly hadn’t had even a passing thought about X.

But, after this dream, I weirdly could not shake the idea of him being divorced and I had no idea why, I mean seriously, the thought had not even occurred to me prior to the dream. So the night following the dream I did some digging and sure enough, his divorce was finalized 6 weeks prior to the dream.

I feel so weirded out because I hadn’t talked, thought or dreamed about X in years. I don’t think the divorce concept of the dream was prophetic because I didn’t “dream it into existence,” it already existed.
So I feel like somehow I was sent a message about his divorce, that lead me to find out that he was divorced. Is that a thing? Or is my dream just random coincidence?

A little background: my ex (I’ll call him X) and I broke up about 6 years ago, and ceased all communication a little over 5 years ago. I met and started dating...

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