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What are best friend dreams about?

A best friend is someone that you are closest to in an emotional sense. You do not necessarily have to be in physical proximity with your best friend. There is often love and openness in this relationship. The DreamWell Dream Dictionary is based upon insights from 1,200 dream symbols in over 200,000 dreams. Let’s see what the data has to say about best friend dreams.

The word cloud above shows the words that are specifically associated with best friend dreams. These are the words that make best friend dreams unique compared to all other dream symbols. Just examining the graph and reading the words of best friend dreams can be illuminating about show best friends affect our dreams. Be sure to check out the example best friend dreams at the bottom of the page.

The circular bar chart above shows how best friends in a dream will affect dream content as compared to other dream symbols. Higher bars indicate that best friend is more related to the specific symbol in the graph. Lower bars indicate that best friend is less related to the specific symbol in the graph. Specifically, best friend dreams have more peers than 99.8% of dream symbols, more romantic partners than 96.3% of dream symbols, and more schools than 95.2% of dream symbols. On the other hand, best friend dreams have less fantastic beings than 90.0% of dream symbols, less animals than 89.9% of dream symbols, and less natural places than 87.4% of dream symbols. Notably, best friend dreams are sexy! Dreams of best friends are more related to sex than 90% of all of the other dream symbols. Sex in a dream can be great, confusing, digusting, or be just sex. It all depends on the context. Don't assume anything about dreams of best friends. Explore what is there. Additionally, best friend dreams contain a lot of love. Love is a wonderful human emotion! Even if love occurs within a dream, it is still love and it can feel wonderful. Since love is such a powerful emotion, it is best to be curious about it. Also, dreams of best friends are full of grief and sorrow. Of course not every best friend dream is sorrowful, these type of dreams have more grief and sorrow than 90% of other dream symbols. It can be heart breaking to experience grief and sorrow during a dream. This can remind us of painful events in waking life. Alternatively, the grief and sorrow within a dream can feel so real. Additionally, dreams of best friends are very social! Best friend dreams contain more characters tan 90% of all other dream symbols. Dreams, in general, are very social. There are people or characters in almost every dream, so it is notable that best friend dreams have are so social. Finally, dreams of best friends are family oriented. They are more related to family than 90% of all other symbols. In other words, dreaming of best friends will increase your chances of dreaming of a family member. Dreams help us to process our emotions and social relationships. In a certain lens, you can think of dreams as simulations of the world. This can be especially helpful for our relationships with family. Every dream is unique. These are general patterns observed in an analysis of over 200,000 dreams. This analysis is a tool to help you make sense of your dreams. It is best to look at the differences. See how your dream of best friends is different than dreams of best friends in general.

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of dreams have best friends

How common are best friend dreams?

2.2% of dreams have the best friends symbol within the dream. That's about 1 out of every 45 dreams. Considering all the dream symbols, it is relatively common.

Identification

How are best friend dreams identified?

This symbol is identified by words like best friend and bff. This symbol is part of summary dream symbols characters and peers.

Most related

What is most related to dreams of best friends?

Best friends dreams are notable because they have substantially more friends, seeing a dead friend, Ron Weasley, El Salvador, Laos, Ecuador, Hungary, Nepal, zebras, R2-D2, Cambodia than 95% of other dream symbols.

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What symbols least related to dreams of best friends?

Best friends dreams are notable because they have substantially less Algeria, Malaysia, magnifying glasses, luminous bodies, losing a body part, lizard people, lifeguards, Legolas, mudslides, Kuwait, Jamaica than 95% of other dream symbols.

Deep dive into best friend dreams

Get an overview of characters, emotions, places, events, dream events, and senses in best friend dreams.

Who is in dreams of best friends?

Who is in dreams of best friends?

Best friend dreams are much more related to peers, much more related to family, and much more related to romantic partners than dreams in general. They are less related to animals, less related to insects, and less related to unnamed people.

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What are the emotions in dreams of best friends?

What are the emotions in dreams of best friends?

Best friend dreams are more related to happiness, much more related to sadness, and much more related to grief and sorrow than dreams in general. They are less related to fear.

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Where do dreams of best friends take place?

Where do dreams of best friends take place?

Dreams of best friends are much more related to schools than dreams in general. They are less related to transportation, less related to natural places, and less related to magical places.

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What happens in dreams of best friends?

What happens in dreams of best friends?

Dreams of best friends are much more related to sex than dreams in general. They are less related to aggressive acts, less related to disasters, and less related to eating and drinking.

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How do dreams of best friends related to the type of dream it is?

How do dreams of best friends related to the type of dream it is?

Dreams of best friends are more related to vivid dreams and much more related to sad dreams than dreams in general. They are less related to lucid dreams, less related to nightmares, and less related to sleep paralysis.

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How do dreams of best friends related the senses?

How do dreams of best friends related the senses?

Best friend dreams are less related to hearing, less related to smelling, and less related to vision.

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How can you make sense of best friends in dreams?

Best friend dreams are relatively common. Among other things best friend dreams are sexual, about love, sorrowful, very social, family oriented, and full of hate. Do you think this is true for your dream of best friends? How might your dream of best friends be different?

All dreams have meaning

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

Look for the differences

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

Return to the feelings

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

Examples of dreams of best friends

Reading dreams is one of the best ways to understand dream symbols. Even though the DreamWell Dream Dictionary is based upon data, it is grounded in the experience of reading thousands upon thousands of dreams. We invite you to read examples of best friend dreams for yourself. These dreams are actual dreams people have had. As result, they may contain racist, sexist, violent, or otherwise offense language and imagery. This can be true even for best friend dreams. Read at your own risk.

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