Dreams of beds are more related to family and more related to romantic partners than dreams in general. They are less related to animals, less related to unnamed people, and less related to strangers.

Dreams of beds are more related to confusion and more related to fear than dreams in general. They are less related to sadness, less related to embarrassment, and less related to hatred.

Dreams of beds are more related to home than dreams in general. They are less related to work, much less related to human-made places, and much less related to transportation.

Bed dreams are more related to sex and more related to health events than dreams in general. They are less related to aggressive acts, less related to friendly acts, and less related to disasters.

Dreams of beds are much more related to lucid dreams, much more related to nightmares, and much more related to sleep paralysis than dreams in general.

Bed dreams are more related to hearing and more related to touch than dreams in general.

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.

The DreamWell dictionary provides information on how each dream symbol appears in dreams in general. Finding how experience beds in dreams can be a key to understanding its meaning.

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 beds in dreams. See how you feel about beds now, in your waking life.

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. Your bed is a personal and intimate place. Therefore, dreams featuring your bed can be about subjects close to you. For example, a teenager dreams that he finds a dead rat in his bed. He then yells at his parents, who are not actually pictured in the scene. That fact is a big clue. The dead rat symbolizes feeling betrayed by his parents, and it’s shown in his bed because his parents are very close to him. His reaction of blaming his parents points right to the meaning. A bed can symbolize secrets. It’s where you think about things you don’t want others to know about, or don’t have time to think about during a busy day. A made bed can indicate that those secrets are safe, whereas a messy bed can indicate that your secrets have been, or will soon be, revealed—especially if the blankets or sheets are pulled down or off. The idea extends beyond secrets to include anything intimate or personal that you want to keep private. Your bed is where you dream, and dream in another sense means hope, aspire, and imagine. Your hopes and aspirations are personal to you, perhaps something you think about when in bed. A bed is where you rest and sleep, and it can be associated with those needs. It’s a place retreated to for privacy, to be alone with your thoughts. A bed is associated with the cycles of life, opening many possibilities for use as dream symbolism. Life begins with conception in a bed. Birth often happens in a bed. A large portion of your life is spent in bed. And life often ends in bed. The symbolism of making a bed can relate to the phrase, “You made your bed, now lie in it.” It means deal with the mess you made. You create your own situations and circumstances in life. It can mean you are straightening up your life. Restlessness in bed can mean something is troubling you, or you feel dissatisfied. What keeps you up at night or disturbs your sleep? Disrespecting your bed can be a sign of feeling disrespected. For example, someone peeing on your bed can be a way of saying he or she disrespects you. Peeing on your own bed can indicate you disrespect yourself. Peeing on someone else’s bed is a graphic portrayal of how you feel about that person or what he or she represents. Pushing someone out of your bed can symbolize that you want that person out of your life, away from you. In romantic relationships, this is a sign that your feelings about your partner are changing for the worse. Or it can be a way of saying you need your space. Because beds are where people have sex, in dreams they can be used to create symbolism related to your sex life and related subjects. For example, a dream featuring a bed with sheets so tight the dreamer can’t get into the bed is about the dreamer’s being too tight when it comes to sex. Nervousness and discomfort are hindering her sex life. See the entry for Emotions for another example of a dream featuring a bed. An oversized bed can symbolize overemphasis on sex, an expansive sex life, or generous attitude toward sex, whereas an undersized bed has the opposite connotations. Then again, an oversized bed can symbolize a big secret, so as with all symbolism, look at the symbolism of the bed within the context of the dream-story and together with other details. Dirty bedding can symbolize perceptions of sex as dirty, discontent with yourself, or living in squalor. It can mean your life or mind is in squalor. It can indicate a variety of “dirty” feelings, such as guilt, jealousy and envy, or a filthy mind. A burning bed can symbolize burning up with desire or anger. To dream about a marriage bed when you’re single can indicate desire to discover your sexuality, or to have a committed relationship. The condition of the bed you share with your partner can symbolize the state of the relationship and characterize the intimacy level. It can symbolize the state of other commitments you have made—to your job, your friends, your children, a cause, an ideal, a principle. An empty bed can symbolize the absence of someone important from your life, or a general feeling of loneliness. It can symbolize lack of aspirations or ambitions. You need something to look forward to. That makes you want to get out of bed in the morning. Dreaming about being in bed with a stranger can express the feeling that you don’t really know someone close to you, or that someone is acting out of character. Or the stranger can symbolize an aspect of yourself that is unfamiliar or estranged yet still so close to you that it’s in your bed, figuratively. The idea extends further to include situations that feel strange or unfamiliar. For example, you find yourself in a circle of people you don’t feel comfortable with, or a business situation goes into uncharted territory. You’re not sure about the people you are “in bed” with. See: Strangers The rectangular shape of a bed can be symbolism. See: Rectangles Sleeping in a bed that’s not yours is known to spark vivid dreams. See also: Bedrooms, Emotions, Rectangles, Sex, Strangers