What are body part dreams about?
Body parts are a general category of things that make up the body. Arms and legs are body parts. So are hands, feets, necks, and eyes. It is interesting to think about. Who we are is made up of body parts, but we are not our specific body part. My hand is part of who I am, but I am not my hand. This symbol is identified by words like pus, skin, (?:eye|eyes) (?:were|are|is|was) hazel, etc.
Body parts in dreams is a frequent dream symbol, occuring in about 54% of dreams. That's about 1 out of every 2 dreams.
What are the major highlights of body part dreams?
Body parts is a very interconnected dream symbol. Having body parts in a dream substantially changes the nature of the dream.
Dreams of body parts are emotional
Body part dreams are friendly
Dreams of body parts have greater increase of friendly interactions within the dream than most other dream symbols. While not all dreams of body parts will be friendly and they can also contain aggressive interactions, dreams of body parts are more likely to have friendly interactions than most other dream symbols. Other symbols that are like this include beggars, dolls, princesses, princes, explaining, ditching, finding, vision, breaking, and teleporting and vanishing.
Dreams of body parts are aggressive
Body part dreams have more aggressive interactions than a lot of other dream symbols. This doesn't mean that all body parts have aggressive interactions or only aggressive interactions. It simply means that having body parts in a dream increases the probability this dream contains aggression. Other symbols that are like this include rental cars, opening, orphans, cutting, grief and sorrow, fists, dinosaurs, bombs, wildfires, and weakness.
Dreams with body parts might be a nightmare
Dreams of body parts are frequently associated with nightmares. Of course dreams that contain body parts might not be a nightmare. Plenty of dreams with body parts are not nightmares. But, dreams of body parts are more related to nightmares than 80% of all other dream symbols. Other symbols that are like this include strangling, abandoned places, dead ends, Frodo, infecting, evil, stomachs, dead bodies, hiding, and youtube.
Body part dreams are scary
Dreams containing body parts are more related to fear than 90% of all other dream symbols. Of course each dream is unique and this does not mean that all dreams of body parts are about fear. It simply means that if you dream of body parts, this dream has a great chance of being scarier than most other dream symbols. Other symbols that are like this include eyes, grim reapers, dead bodies, black eyes, faces, things, noises, abscesses, cursing, and helplessness.
What symbols more present in dreams of body parts?
Body part dreams are notable because they have substantially more opened my eyes, eye contact, verbs, senses, teeth falling out, movement, closed my eyes, couldn't open eyes, penises, vaginas, nose bleeds, general movement, dead bodies, three eyes, Frodo, losing an eye, and amputation than 95% of other dream symbols.
What symbols less present in dreams of body parts?
Body part dreams are notable because they have substantially less Estonia, social media, infidelity, recurring dreams, getting fired, body parts, pheasants, taking a test, former partners, crushes, emails, Bangladesh, boyfriends, tsunamis, pregnancy tests, seeing a dead relative, weddings, time travel, romantic partners, Indonesia, precognitive dreams, falling in love, countries, Donald Trump, relationship events, winning the lottery, airports, pastors, dating, shopping, Malaysia, finding money, universities, Australia, break ups, schools, alimony, United States of America, birthdays, social media, Spain, seeing a dead grandmother, the night, Ethiopia, pregnancy, seeing a dead grandfather, vacations, seeing a dead mother, stores, Argentina, epidemics, old friends, and Korea than 95% of other dream symbols.
What are the symbols that help define body parts?
The symbol of body parts in dreams is highly related to ankles, anuses, arms, backs, black eyes, blood, blue eyes, bones, brains, breasts, brown eyes, calluses, calves, chests, ears, elbows, eyes, faces, feet, fingernails, fingerprints, fingers, fists, general body parts, genitals, glowing eyes, green eyes, grey eyes, hair, hands, hazel eyes, heads, hearts, knees, legs, lips, mouths, necks, noses, orange eyes, ovaries, pus, red eyes, ribs, shoulder, skeletons, skin, stomachs, teeth, testicles, toenails, uteruses, white eyes, wrist, yellow eyes, and things.
How does the dream symbol of body parts affect the different aspects of a dream?
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Who is in body parts dreams?
Overall, dreams with body parts are aren't really related to characters in dreams. Specifically, dreams of body parts are more related to animals, more related to insects, and more related to fantastic beings than dreams in general.
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What are the emotions in body parts dreams?
Overall, dreams with body parts are much more related to emotions in dreams. Specifically, dreams of body parts are more related to grief and sorrow, more related to confusion, and much more related to fear than dreams in general.
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Who is in body parts dreams?
Overall, dreams with body parts are aren't really related to places in dreams. Specifically, dreams of body parts are more related to magical places than dreams in general. They are less related to human places.
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What happens in body parts dreams?
Overall, dreams with body parts are more related to events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of body parts are much more related to aggressive interactions and much more related to friendly interactions than dreams in general.
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How do body parts in dreams related to other dream phenomenon?
Overall, dreams with body parts are much more related to dream events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of body parts are more related to lucid dreams, much more related to nightmares, and more related to recurring nightmares than dreams in general. They are less related to recurring dreams.
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How do body parts in dreams related the senses?
Overall, dreams with body parts are much more related to senses in dreams. Specifically, dreams of body parts are much more related to hearing, more related to smelling, and much more related to vision than dreams in general.
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How can you make sense of body parts in dreams?
Body part dreams are frequent. Among other things body part dreams are very postively interconnected, very emotional, friendly, aggressive, nightmare, and scary.
Do you think this is true for your dream of body parts? How might your dream of body parts 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 parts 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 parts in dreams. See how you feel about body parts now, in your waking life.
What are possible meanings for dreams of body parts?
Parts of the body such as the head and feet have specific symbolism. Look them up individually—a list is provided at the bottom. This entry will give possibilities for overall symbolism.
Since you live in your body and get nightly updates about its health and status via dreams, you dream frequently about it, usually shown through symbolism such as a home, other structure, or vehicle. See: Buildings, Buses, Cars, Home, Trees
For example, a man dreams that he’s in the home of a famous baseball pitcher, who has been fixing up the place and is patching up the ceiling. The dreamer offers to do it. It’s a way of saying he knows his body isn’t what it used to be—like during his baseball days—and he’s willing to take the steps to “patch it up.” The ceiling that needs patched represents his head. That’s where the game is really won.
Sometimes the connection between the body and health is rather obvious, such as in dream imagery featuring a hospital bed, an autopsy, getting examined by a doctor, or getting an X-ray. People sometimes have vivid dreams with this imagery when an illness is developing or their health is on their mind, and after spending time in medical facilities. See: Dissecting, Doctors, Hospitals, Illness, X-rays
Parts of the body can be symbolized, such as a fishbowl representing a bladder or kidney, windows representing the eyes, or branches representing the arms. See: Skyscrapers, Trees
A dead body can symbolize detachment—especially detachment from the physical condition and needs of the body. It can express a fear of what will happen if you allow your health to deteriorate.
It can express the idea of being dead inside, or exhausted. This use of the symbolism is particularly likely if you see yourself dead in a dream. See: Zombies
A dead body can mean that something about yourself is receding back into your mind, or a time of life is over. You are changing—out with the old and in with the new. This use of the symbolism is quite common in the dreams of people who resist change or hold onto something for too long. See: Death
In many dreams about seeing the dead body of someone close to you, the meaning is found in the fact that the relationship is changing. The person portrayed as dead is “dead to you” in the sense of no longer as important in your life, or no longer as emotionally connected to you. It’s very important to see beyond the imagery of death and recognize it as symbolism.
A dead body can mean something is figuratively killing you inside. Any sort of tense situation that’s close to the breaking point can spark dreams featuring corpses.
A dead body or bodies can signify that old parts of yourself are passing away, or it’s time to change. People who make big changes in themselves are known to dream about dead bodies, representing parts of themselves no longer needed or wanted.
For example, a woman dreams about being forced at gunpoint to fly a plane. She manages to do it, lands on an alien planet, and sees dead bodies stacked around her, killed by aliens, but is not bothered by the sight. The dream shows the big changes in her life. She forces these changes on herself by thinking about the consequences of inaction, symbolized as being forced to fly at gunpoint. The aliens and alien planet symbolize being in a foreign place in her life. The dead bodies symbolize her old ways as a self-described “couch potato.” That part of herself is gone, and her nonchalant reaction to seeing the bodies indicates it’s a welcome change.
The symbolism of a dormant body can be like that of coma, shut down inside, or unable to express yourself. See: Comas
A sleeping body can reflect the fact that as you dream, you are asleep, so the imagery reflects your physical state. Or it can be a way of saying you are “sleeping through life.” See: Sleeping
Wounds to the body are a physical representation of a personal situation, often tied to how you feel: damaged, battered, sore. It’s particularly common to dream about wounding to the body after going through a rough patch. Just how rough it was and how you feel about it are shown in the severity of the wounds. See: Wounds
A shriveled body can indicate declining health or shrinking prosperity.
A decomposing body can symbolize a dead situation, or something dwelled on too long. Time to move on. This use of the symbolism is common after close relationships end. Or it can mean putting something off for too long, perhaps allowing an opportunity to pass by.
Disposing of a body can mean you want to forget something, you’re done with it. Or you’re hiding your feelings and emotions. It can reflect feeling disrespected, unrecognized, or discarded. See: Hiding
Burying or hiding a body can symbolize trying to hide or cover up something, such as a secret. Or you feel guilty or ashamed. You want to hide something about yourself or cover up your actions or behaviors. Think of the phrase “where the bodies are buried” and how it’s used as symbolism. The bodies are things you want to hide. See: Burying
Stretch the idea of hiding or covering up. Hiding a body can mean you hide your body because of embarrassment. Or you have a weakness you want to conceal. Or you don’t want to acknowledge something about yourself because your ego wants to keep its illusions.
Covering a body can symbolize choosing to ignore someone or something. For example, covering the body of your father can symbolize choosing to ignore his rules. For an example dream, see: Casino.
If you dream about a pain in your body it can be caused by pain experienced while asleep. Oftentimes it’s translated into symbolism, such as when a stabbing pain in your back is dreamed about as being stabbed or shot in the back. You can even continue to feel it the next day as a sort of nerve memory. Tells you how believable your dreams are.
See also: Amputation, Ankles, Anuses, Arms, Attics, Basements, Beauty, Birds, Biting, Blood, Breasts, Breaking, Buildings, Burying, Buses, Cages, Calluses, Calves, Cancer, Cars, Casinos, Clean, Comas, Crying, Death, Deformation, Disease, Dissecting, Doctors, Ears, Eggs, Elbows, Elderly people, Excrement, Eyes, Faces, Feet, Cemeteries, Hair, Hands, Heads, Hearts, Hiding, Home, Hospitals, Illness, Invading, Jails, Knees, Legs, Lips, Mouths, Necks, Noses, Ovaries, Pain, Paralysis, Parasites, Pregnancy, Skin, Skyscrapers, Sleeping, Stomachs, Teeth, Testicles, Toilets, Trees, Ugliness, Uteruses, Vaginas, Weakness, Wounds, X-rays
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 body parts
Read some real dream reports of body part 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.
I just had a dream that felt years long, and now I don't know whats real.
Sorry for the confusing title but I just woke up and felt like I needed to post this somewhere to see if anyone has ever had a similar experience to this.
Okay, so my dream started out with me meeting a girl. She was amazing, and we had an instant connection. we started dating and went through the normal highs and lows of a relationship, as all couples do. Overall, our relationship was amazing so when we found out she was pregnant, even though we were young we were both so excited to be parents. Her parents lived nearby and offered to let us move in so they could help with the pregnancy and we could both stay in college. The next nine months seemed to fly by, and the pregnancy seemed easier than it should have been. I chalked it up to the fact that my girlfriend was an amazing strong woman and that her parents were there to help us out.
Now this is when things begin to get weird. I don't know why, but i was not with my girlfriend when she was at the hospital giving birth. I had something else to do even though being with her should have been my first priority. After she returned home she called me to let me know we had a son and to come over immediately. It was odd that I wasn't there in the first place, and even odder that even in the dream, I couldn't remember what I had just been doing. It was almost as if I blacked out, and when I came to, I was in the car driving home to see my new son. I shook it off and told myself I was just nervous to be a dad. As I was driving, I suddenly didn't know where I was. I had lived here for 9 months, but for the life of me I couldn't remember how to get home. It felt like I was driving around lost for hours and then, as if I blacked out again, I was outside my house being greeted by my girlfriends' parents as I walked up to the house. The strange thing was that the house didn't seem familiar, and neither did my girlfriend's parents.
Throughout all of this, I never questioned it and kept telling myself that I was just nervous and I was freaking myself out. Maybe I just needed to sit down for a minute and breath. I never even made it to the house, I just sat down on the steps leading up to the door and tried to calm myself down. I pulled out my phone and had a text message from an unknown number. I assumed it was a text from someone congratulating me and my girlfriend, but when I opened it, it was just an image of three 20 something year old boys who I had never seen. I was confused, but something about the picture seemed oddly familiar, so I just sat there and stared at it. As I sat on the porch staring at the photo the world went silent. I never heard a baby crying and never once did anyone try to retrieve me from outside to bring me in. It was almost as if everything in the world disappeared besides me and that photo.
I must have spent days staring at that picture, and finally I decided to text the number back and ask who they were and why they sent me that photo. I wrote out the text and hit send and suddenly the picture went blurry. I looked around and nothing in the world seemed real anymore. Nothing seemed familiar. I felt like I was in a place I had never seen before. I looked back down at my phone and the blurriness of the photo began to clear up and I was left looking at a photo of me, my real-life brother, and my real-life best friend, standing in my real-life backyard. I stopped for a second, coming to the realization that everything was over. I immediately tried to run into the house to see my son but the second I opened the door to the house, I woke up.
My first instinct when I woke up was the check my phone for the photo but of course it wasn't there. The only thing on my phone was a text from my real girlfriend. he weird thing is, I can no longer picture my dream girlfriend's face, so for all I know, it could have been my real girlfriend. As I finish writing this, the dream is beginning to fade, and I can realize all the things that didn't make sense, but while I was in it, I would have bet anything it was real. I feel as if I just got a few years of my life back, as I woke up the same 22-year-old who went to bed the night bore.
My only regret? I never got to see my son.
Sorry for the confusing title but I just woke up and felt like I needed to post this somewhere to see if anyone has ever had a similar experience to...
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Have you ever had a recurring dream that ended up being reality?
I once had a recurring dream with a glare where I was looking up at a ceiling and watching full house on the TV. It recurred for like 6-7 months. Then, when I went to the dentist, that full house scene played and I was looking up. They were extracting 3 of my baby teeth.
I had others where I was walking around a prison gate at night. Then, a few months later I was hired as a CO. Two months after that, I was walking a fence-line at night because we had it go off on a certain sector...
I once had a recurring dream with a glare where I was looking up at a ceiling and watching full house on the TV. It recurred for like 6-7 months. Then, when I...
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Have you ever felt pain in your dream or after you woke up?
Once I was stabbed in my leg and than the guy who did it turned the knife and it was ridiculous pain. When i woke up i still felt the pain really bad (i was even crying).
In another dream, they shot me and it was the same effect. So I was wondering if it happened to you too.
Once I was stabbed in my leg and than the guy who did it turned the knife and it was ridiculous pain. When i woke up i still felt the pain really bad (i was...
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Very dramatic dream about covid
I was standing in a very crowded room with hundreds of other people. We were all wearing masks and everyone was silent. Then suddenly I coughed, and everyone gasped while turning to look at me. I realised that they all thought I had covid, and so I fell to my knees while yelling “NOOO I JUST CHOKED ON MY SPIT!!!” (but I hadn’t choked on my spit). But then everyone started yelling “GO AWAY!!! BE GONE!!! GET OUT OF HERE!!!” and I was like “NOOO PLEASE NOOO!!! I JUST CHOKED!!! PLEASE NO!!!”. It was incredibly dramatic, like I was being shunned. It was pretty scary in the dream, because I was so desperate, but when I woke up I kinda laughed at how overly dramatic it was. I don’t know what to make of this dream though...
I was standing in a very crowded room with hundreds of other people. We were all wearing masks and everyone was silent. Then suddenly I coughed, and everyone...
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Dreamt that I showed my dick in a zoom meeting
I was in my room just vibing and decided to get comfortable. However when I whipped it out to readjust it someone said woah woah and blocked my stream. I didn't even notice a meeting was on let alone it had people I knew. I said it was an accident and someone said "don't worry, you're a nice guy" but it left me with horror.
I was in my room just vibing and decided to get comfortable. However when I whipped it out to readjust it someone said woah woah and blocked my stream. I didn't...
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