What are below dreams about?
This symbol is identified by words like below and lower.
Below in dreams is a relatively common dream symbol, occuring in about 3.8% of dreams. That's about 1 out of every 25 dreams.
What are the major highlights of below dreams?
Below is a normal dream symbol. Having below in a dream changes the dream in the same way as most other dream symbols.
Below dreams are friendly
Dreams of below have greater increase of friendly interactions within the dream than most other dream symbols. While not all dreams of below will be friendly and they can also contain aggressive interactions, dreams of below are more likely to have friendly interactions than most other dream symbols. Other symbols that are like this include green eyes, trespassing, heads, therapists, jury members, yelling, teenagers, senses, messes, and aggressive interactions.
What symbols more present in dreams of below?
Below dreams are notable because they have substantially more cannons, edges, descending, cliffs, verbs, Algeria, emaciation, ribs, movement, metal, abyss, ascending, skyscrapers, general movement, safety, rectangles, climbing, talismans, Cambodia, things, captains, erupting, oceans, keys, above, east, peninsula, wind, entrances, calves, places, accountants, jets, roofs, countrysides, obeying, jackals, disguises, senses, clouds, shoulder, hunger, qualities, west, opponents, fences, bridges, Nepal, tyrants, feet, destruction, caves, plane crashes, mountains, vision, pressing buttons, Madagascar, silence, pyramids, and tunnels than 95% of other dream symbols.
What symbols less present in dreams of below?
Below dreams are notable because they have substantially less boyfriends, seeing a dead grandmother, seeing a dead partner, seeing a dead relative, falling in love, directions, seeing a dead mother, former partners, roaches, infidelity, romantic partners, social media, below, crushes, cocaine, relationship events, seeing a dead father, pythons, specific people, recurring dreams, giving birth, the night, seeing a dead pet, pregnancy, birthdays, love, Donald Trump, cancer, girlfriends, teeth falling out, foxes, family, sex, hamsters, grief and sorrow, fathers, bees, break ups, gorillas, weddings, friends, presidents, insights, seeing a dead grandfather, and grandmothers than 95% of other dream symbols.
How does the dream symbol of below affect the different aspects of a dream?
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Who is in below dreams?
Overall, dreams with below are less related to characters in dreams. Specifically, dreams of below are less related to family.
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Who is in below dreams?
Overall, dreams with below are aren't really related to places in dreams. Specifically, dreams of below are more related to work, more related to human places, and more related to transportation than dreams in general.
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What happens in below dreams?
Overall, dreams with below are aren't really related to events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of below are more related to friendly interactions and more related to disasters than dreams in general.
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How do below in dreams related to other dream phenomenon?
Overall, dreams with below are aren't really related to dream events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of below are more related to lucid dreams, more related to nightmares, and more related to recurring dreams than dreams in general.
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How can you make sense of below in dreams?
Below dreams are relatively common. Among other things below dreams are normally interconnect and friendly.
Do you think this is true for your dream of below? How might your dream of below 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 below 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 below in dreams. See how you feel about below now, in your waking life.
What are possible meanings for dreams of below?
Physical placement and location in a dream is deliberately used as symbolism. If a detail about placement or location stands out to you as meaningful, it almost certainly is.
Think about when something is said to be below something else. It can mean it’s lower priority, importance, or value. Rankings generally go from top to bottom, so “below” can mean not as highly ranked. It can symbolize being low in the “pecking order” or on the “totem pole.”
Below can describe low feelings or mood. It can signify dim prospects.
Below can refer to something below the threshold of your awareness—subconscious or unconscious. Or it can refer to something that’s instinctual—from the gut—or emotional—from the heart. This use of the symbolism is more likely if the dream refers to those areas of the body, or the setting is a lower floor of a house or other building. See: Basements
Figures of speech such as “below the belt” and “low blow” can be enacted in dreams to symbolize a dirty trick or underhanded tactic. The symbolism will be acted out. It can mean you have a low opinion or low respect for something. Anything low to the ground can have that symbolism.
Then again, low to the ground can mean “grounded,” so never jump to conclusions. Look for supporting details. For example, snakes live on the ground, usually, creating an association between them and natural wisdom or instincts.
Low or below can be used in the sense of “beneath you” or “below you.” You’re too good for something, such as working at an entry-level job. “Lowness” can show your low perception or opinion, such as when you think the person who wants to marry your child isn’t good enough and you dream about it as that person driving a car that’s low to the ground. The symbolism of the low height of the car is based on perceptions related to value and importance.
See also: Above, Basements, Shortness, Subconscious
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 below
Read some real dream reports of below 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.
Have you ever looked at yourself in a mirror within a dream?
Please describe your experience below if you have, I’m just very interested because I was told by a friend that it was terrifying.
When I did a bit of research, I found that it is likely because your brain sees yourself psychologically rather than physically in a dream. (I’m no expert that’s just what I’ve read!)
Please describe your experience below if you have, I’m just very interested because I was told by a friend that it was terrifying.
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Dreaming of the Devil and Hell
Hello, atheist here so the heavy religious themes in this dream were very unusual to me but disturbing nonetheless. I'm posting for dream interpretation, not religious conversion.
My dream started in a strange post-apocalyptic world where the last humans lived in a tall building. Each level was for a specific rank of society, from one (worst) to seven (best). Social mobility was possible but hard and rare. Oh, and the lower ranks were harvested into some sort of sci-fi or magic brownies for the ranks above them. I was quite lower on this pecking order but took part in a ceremony to decide who moved up and down for that year, being tortured after.
Then I woke up and went back to sleep. My dream returned to the seven-levelled weirdo world. I dropped my parents off to their work and witnessed someone threaten to shoot another. The Devil asked me to frame the victim so the shooter would be free to exact more evil.
He claimed my soul and tortured me in hell to get me to agree. My soul had been reincarnated many lifetimes and was a man (I'm a woman). The Devil threatened to torture me to the point of spiritual death each day, but he would go easier on me if I complied.
I needed to infect the victim with lycanthrophy for the devil to claim his soul, because he had been into the abyss of space and was driven mad by the forbidden secrets.
Oh, and the devil was pure darkness. A man with no festures, absent of light or colour.
Context: Atheist woman living in the UK, age 29.
Hello, atheist here so the heavy religious themes in this dream were very unusual to me but disturbing nonetheless. I'm posting for dream interpretation, not...
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Flowers growing from vagina and lower abdomen
Hi had a dream that I had vine like plants growing from my lower abdomen. At first, it seems like it was normal and then I started to realize how long they were and then I saw flowers. I was confused but though my seeds must have gotten onto me when I was gardening. My husband saw them and didn’t make a big deal of it. Then I started to pull them off. There were so many and I just wanted to get all of them off of me.
I saw an extremely similar dream in here but it was archived. Since it’s obviously more common, anyone have any insights?
In real life, I have 3 kids, including a 7 month old. My husband keeps bringing up having another baby at some point. For context.
Hi had a dream that I had vine like plants growing from my lower abdomen. At first, it seems like it was normal and then I started to realize how long they were...
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What exactly does this dream mean?
It was a room. Empty. Black, bit with white lines. As if you colored the lineart of the walls white. There were no lights but there was a faint glow, just enough for me to clearly see. There was...something in the corner of the room. Crying, muttering to itself, drawing on the walls with what I thought was a red marker. But as I inched closer, I realized its fingertips were cut off. And it was drawing with its blood. The blood was bright, not like normal blood. It was like, neon red. Very strange.
I don't exactly remember what it was drawing but it was drawing the same symbol over and over again. It was whimpering to itself. My brain automatically went "Help it, it's hurt" So I put a hand on its shoulder. It didn't even jump or get startled. It just stopped everything. It lowered its hand from the wall and slowly turned its head to face me. It had strange features. It was tall, skinny. But it still had like, basic human anatomy. It had a nose, lips, a chest, muscle definition (of whatever muscle it had) It was just a completely black skinny human, but with crazy eyes that were completely white. And they were...scribbly. Like if you took a white pen and angrily scribbled a circle on black paper.
It stared at me for a second, before saying in a raspy, pained voice. " You're like my art in a lot of ways." It moved closer to me. I smiled slightly, " How so?" Its hand curled around my neck, but not choking me, as it leaned into my ear and whispered, " You were created. You have blood. And..." It leaned in with its hands still around my neck, its lips almost brushing against mine, " I can rip you up whenever I wish."
With that last word, it dug its fingers into my neck. Literally. Its fingers went through my neck, piercing the flesh. I choked a little bit. Then like a movie, it cut to a different scene. Back to it drawing on the walls. Then it cut again to it curled into a ball, sobbing, whimpering, muttering. Then I woke up with the horniness of a thousand 13-year-old boys. Which was hella confusing. So like, what the fuck?
It was a room. Empty. Black, bit with white lines. As if you colored the lineart of the walls white. There were no lights but there was a faint glow, just...
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What does it mean to have a dream within a dream?
I had a dream within a dream, a dream where there was a rainbow, and some kids had entered into the rainbow, while other kids stayed. When I had awakened –while still yet dreaming– my mom was telling me about her dream of seeing a rainbow, which suddenly made me remember my own dream that I had. I told her the dream, I told her that above the rainbow, there seem to be a dark overcast of clouds in the sky, but just below the clouds (yet still floating in the sky) was a Kaaba, and below the Kaaba was the rainbow. Me and my mom had an argument of sorts about the dream I had, I told her the rainbow consisted of many colors, like yellow, green, and orange; and the kids–who were muslim–would enter each color. Some kids went forward into the rainbow, while other kids stayed standing there. Me and her were discussing the Kaaba in the sky and why it was there (I think the Kaaba was abducting the kids who entered the rainbow) I think it was part of the end times, as though the kids who entered the rainbow were getting raptured. Yet (since me and her are both Christian) why wasn't it all Christian imagery, why was the dream showing muslim content? I think that's what we were puzzled about. Yet there, the dream had about ended.
I had a dream within a dream, a dream where there was a rainbow, and some kids had entered into the rainbow, while other kids stayed. When I had awakened –while...
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