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What are body change dreams about?

This symbol is identified by words like leukemia, shaved hair, got a hair cut, etc.

Body changes in dreams is a relatively uncommon dream symbol, occuring in about 1.3% of dreams. That's about 1 out of every 75 dreams.

What are the major highlights of body change dreams?

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

Body change dreams seem to lack places or locations

Dreams of body changes frequently do not mention places or locations. The dream may or may not take place in varying locations. But dreams of body changes simply do not mention the location, places, or settings occuring within the dream. Other symbols that are like this include maggots, genitals, abscesses, wasps, seeing a dead pet, menstruation, carrots, abortions, three eyes, and babies.

What are the symbols that help define body changes?

The symbol of body changes in dreams is highly related to cancer, cutting hair, losing a body part, losing an eye, parasites in body, and three eyes.

How does the dream symbol of body changes affect the different aspects of a dream?

Explore different elements related to dreams of body changes

Who is in body changes dreams?

Overall, dreams with body changes are aren't really related to characters in dreams. Specifically, dreams of body changes are much more related to insects and more related to family than dreams in general. They are less related to animals, less related to different roles, and less related to fantastic beings.

Animals

less than usual

Insects

much more than usual

Different roles

less than usual

Fantastic beings

less 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 body changes dreams?

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

Happiness

the same as usual

Sadness

the same as usual

Grief and sorrow

more than usual

Embarrassment

the same as usual

Confusion

less than usual

Fear

less than usual

Pain

the same as usual

Hatred

the same as usual

Fun

less than usual

Love

the same as usual
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Who is in body changes dreams?

Overall, dreams with body changes are much less related to places in dreams. Specifically, dreams of body changes are less related to home, less related to human places, and less related to transportation.

Home

less than usual

Work

the same as usual

Human places

less than usual

Transportation

less than usual

Natural places

less than usual

Magical places

less than usual
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What happens in body changes dreams?

Overall, dreams with body changes are much more related to events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of body changes 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

less than usual
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How do body changes in dreams related to other dream phenomenon?

Overall, dreams with body changes are aren't really related to dream events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of body changes are less related to lucid dreams, less related to recurring dreams, and less related to sleep paralysis.

Lucid dreams

less than usual

Nightmares

the same as usual

Recurring dreams

less than usual

Recurring nightmares

the same as usual

Sleep paralysis

less than usual

Sleeping

the same as usual

Waking life

the same as usual
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How do body changes in dreams related the senses?

Overall, dreams with body changes are aren't really related to senses in dreams. Specifically, dreams of body changes 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

less than usual
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How can you make sense of body changes in dreams?

Body change dreams are relatively uncommon. Among other things body change dreams are normally interconnect and lack places or locations.

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

Examples of dreams of body changes

Read some real dream reports of body change 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.

Had a harrowing dream. I will add it felt lucid, but also a waking nightmare. If theres any sort of interpertation anyone can guess feel free to leave a comment.

I just had a harrowing dream. It felt all too real, i felt my body slip into nothingness for a second, and all i can remember is nothing had happened. Turns out i had died, but my soul came back. I felt cold and numb, confused and angry. Wanting to know why my own family had refused to talk to me other then telling me they werent supposed to talk to me. This wasnt uncommon though, my body was dead, everyone who had experienced this their bodies did the same thing, so i guess someone had setup a really bizzare haven for people like us. They would recreate any body you wanted, give you another vessal to posses. Though these bodies were fake, they had feeling, they were warm. Before i could get a new body or a membership (?) (Which was free) something came i giant purple mass that i could only think was a parasite came. It would rip peoples souls out of people then use their now empty body to find new victims. I remember having my soul ripped from my body, having it feel like it was being devoured, and by some miracle i was able to bring myself back (i think it was out of defiance of wanting to die). My mom had noticed and told me we needed to get away, get me a new body. The way these fake bodies worked was you would fill in a form basically telling them what body you want. They werent flesh and blood either. I remember seeing someone on the road as we were driving away. I could sense his terror, and then feel something change which i guess was him losing his soul. When we got to this place, i had three choices, i could take my time having my body made, which killed my mom, i could hurry the person who made the bodies, or i could ask him if he could balance quality and speed. Then i remember they had to give you some sort of numbing agent which was applied directly to your gums via needle. Stuff was powerfull. I dont remember why they had to, but i think it was to eject your soul from your body and to put it into a more stable vessal. Thats all i remember sadly.

I just had a harrowing dream. It felt all too real, i felt my body slip into nothingness for a second, and all i can remember is nothing had happened. Turns out...

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Pulling maggots out of my skin

I just had this strange, scary, creepy dream that made me feel so grossed out and desperate. I’m female, 26, white, moved out of my parents recently, have a new partner that makes me very happy, but have been worrying about my finances.

In this dream, I suddenly realize that I have maggots/white worms inside my body, as they start to come out, one by one, slowly. I feel a little pain/burn, and when I look, their head is coming out and I have to pull them out, slowly, because they are sucking my blood and if I pull them out too quickly it can hurt me. Sometimes blood comes out when I do this.

A random stranger guy who I can’t even remember very calmly said “oh you just have to cover the holes with some glue” and glued the little holes they left of my skin. At this point I start worrying that he glued holes that still had maggots that needed to come out and that he trapped them inside my body. The holes were like a round red scar, and I had them all over my body.

I felt so desperate and upset. I live alone and woke up feeling like I wanted to call my dad or something, so that a familiar voice could calm me down a little and make me snap out of it. It was awful.

I don’t remember places, colors, contexts… All I can think of is maggots, feeling scared, blood and me desperately wanting it to stop and be fixed asap.

If anyone has any thoughts on this and/or advice, I would love to know them. Thank you so much for your time and for reading. Have a wonderful day :)

I just had this strange, scary, creepy dream that made me feel so grossed out and desperate. I’m female, 26, white, moved out of my parents recently, have a new...

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Brain tumor?

im 24 year old male, i had an mri 11 months back that came back clear.. i feel as if my memory isnt as good. the other night i sat here in my room googling every symptom of a brain tumor. ive discussed with my neurologist in fact talked to 3 now about my concern and all say after a recent mri i dont need one. i ended up getting stressed out that night and after looking on google for hours i went to bed and had a dream i had a brain tumor a doctor told me.. it lasted for only a coupe seconds it was very brief.. should i put much thought into this?

im 24 year old male, i had an mri 11 months back that came back clear.. i feel as if my memory isnt as good. the other night i sat here in my room googling...

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I had a dream that I was a dog and I spent 5 years in my dream as that dog

Normally I don’t see in first person, but in this dream I actually was first person. Everything was vivid and I, the dog, lived in a nice suburban home with a family consisting of a father who was often away at his job and who came home late each night, a mother who stayed home, two kids a year apart who were nice but in the dream I was wary of them when they got too hyper, and an old grandmother who stayed at the house (on the mother’s side of the family) and was always really cranky and disliked dogs. There was the kitchen which had black and white tiled flooring and a counter through the middle of it. There was a living room with a large TV in it and a saturated green rug on the wooden floor. The kids shared a beige colored room, and the parents shared a smaller and cozier room that had a brown wood and red theme to it. The grandmother had a room that was basically green, yellow and white, and she collected tea sets and fancy dishes, which were all placed in these giant cabinets/bookshelves/on the wall. I spent roughly 5 years as their pet, and in those 5 years I learned all about them all and how they were like and every minuscule detail about the house and the immediate area surrounding it where I had been allowed to roam. In the dream I was fairly sure I was a large dog and even though I had this dream a couple years ago, I still remember it just as vividly as I had the dream today. Also in the dream towards the end, the grandmother died of cancer.

Normally I don’t see in first person, but in this dream I actually was first person. Everything was vivid and I, the dog, lived in a nice suburban home with a...

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Disturbing dream - please help interpret

[TW: disturbing imagery of animals in distress]
I Posted on a different subreddit but no one has given me any answers, so I’m posting here.
Hello, I’m a 20 year old female and last night I had a very very disturbing dream. Let me start off by saying this dream happened the day I tried to reconnect with my mother after cutting her off for over a year (thanks Forgiveness Therapy) , and I haven’t really spoken to my family in months, (not for lack of trying they just don’t contact me back). I used to live in the country where it was commonplace to see cows, livestock, and deer everywhere.

In this dream I was about 10. My mother, step father, sister(16 in dream), my brother (13 in dream) , and I were in my step dad’s old truck going to a carnival/ petting zoo sort of thing. Everything seemed to be okay, we were laughing and talking together like we were a family, until we got to our destination. We all got out of the truck and walked up to this barn, when we went inside I noticed a long-horned bull behind steel bars with its head sticking out from the bottom, it looked like it was dying and in search of water. I was concerned but everyone just kept walking and joking/laughing, it was like I was the only one who cared.

All of the sudden the scenery changed and we were walking down a paved road to get to our old house, I looked to the grass side of the road and a tractor had crashed into a barbed wire fence with cows surrounding the wreck, some of them dead. I remember being worried about the driver because he was nowhere to be seen. We kept walking, I looked to another pasture and saw dozens of horses, one was laying on the ground with metal chains wrapped around its feet and mouth, again I was freaking out a little but kept moving on. Finally when we came to a stop I saw one of the pasture owners working on the fence a couple yards away from the horses. I quickly ran up to her while my family stayed behind, heading off the paved road onto a dirt road near our old house. I ran up to this lady and said “hey, that horse over there is in distress and I think we should help it, also there was a crash and I can’t see the driver-“ she cut me off saying “Don’t worry about that, That horse has a bum leg and always does that, go away” I was thinking to myself “what a bitch” and walked away towards my family.

We started walking back the way we came, down the paved road again and I saw the deeply disturbing scenes again, finally I spoke up to my family , “ hey, we should really help these animals and I saw a a tractor wreck I think we should check out” but no one listened to me.

Suddenly we were back in the barn and I was face to face with the long-horned bull, only this time it was dead. Disturbed I pushed my way out of the barn and ran to a near by open area, my family close behind. They looked at me like I was crazy, scoffed, and turned to talk amongst themselves. The last thing I remember was trying to get my mother to talk to me, crying and pleading for her to just listen so we could help those animals and the driver of the tractor but again, no one was listening. A flash of the dead bull’s eyes popped up and I snapped awake.

Please help me try to figure this dream out, it scares the shit out of me and I don’t know what to make of it. I’m also open to questions.

[TW: disturbing imagery of animals in distress]
I Posted on a different subreddit but no one has given me any answers, so I’m posting here.
Hello, I’m a 20...

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