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What are border dreams about?

This symbol is identified by words like border.

Borders in dreams is a very uncommon dream symbol, occuring in about 0.3% of dreams. That's about 1 out of every 350 dreams.

What are the major highlights of border dreams?

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

Border dreams are friendly

Dreams of borders have greater increase of friendly interactions within the dream than most other dream symbols. While not all dreams of borders will be friendly and they can also contain aggressive interactions, dreams of borders are more likely to have friendly interactions than most other dream symbols. Other symbols that are like this include finding money, princes, India, Chad, surprise, cults, heroes, teleporting and vanishing, needing help, and mafia.

What symbols less present in dreams of borders?

How does the dream symbol of borders affect the different aspects of a dream?

Explore different elements related to dreams of borders

Who is in borders dreams?

Overall, dreams with borders are less related to characters in dreams. Specifically, dreams of borders are more related to animals than dreams in general. They are less related to insects, less related to close people, and less related to romantic partners.

Animals

more than usual

Insects

less than usual

Different roles

the same as usual

Fantastic beings

the same as usual

Distant people

the same as usual

Close people

less than usual

Family

the same as usual

Romantic partners

less than usual
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What are the emotions in borders dreams?

Overall, dreams with borders are aren't really related to emotions in dreams. Specifically, dreams of borders are more related to embarrassment and more related to hatred than dreams in general. They are less related to grief and sorrow.

Happiness

the same as usual

Sadness

the same as usual

Grief and sorrow

less than usual

Embarrassment

more than usual

Confusion

the same as usual

Fear

the same as usual

Pain

the same as usual

Hatred

more than usual

Fun

the same as usual

Love

the same as usual
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Who is in borders dreams?

Overall, dreams with borders are more related to places in dreams. Specifically, dreams of borders are more related to home, more related to work, and more related to human places than dreams in general.

Home

more than usual

Work

more than usual

Human places

more than usual

Transportation

much more than usual

Natural places

more than usual

Magical places

the same as usual
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What happens in borders dreams?

Overall, dreams with borders are aren't really related to events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of borders are more related to friendly interactions and more related to disasters than dreams in general.

Aggressive interactions

the same as usual

Friendly interactions

more than usual

Sex

the same as usual

Disasters

more than usual
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How do borders in dreams related to other dream phenomenon?

Overall, dreams with borders are less related to dream events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of borders are more related to recurring dreams and more related to waking life than dreams in general. They are less related to lucid dreams, less related to nightmares, and less related to recurring nightmares.

Lucid dreams

less than usual

Nightmares

less than usual

Recurring dreams

more than usual

Recurring nightmares

less than usual

Sleep paralysis

less than usual

Sleeping

less than usual

Waking life

more than usual
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How do borders in dreams related the senses?

Overall, dreams with borders are aren't really related to senses in dreams. Specifically, dreams of borders are much more related to smelling than dreams in general. They are less related to touch.

Hearing

the same as usual

Smelling

much more than usual

Taste

the same as usual

Vision

the same as usual

Touch

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

Border dreams are very uncommon. Among other things border dreams are normally interconnect and friendly.

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

What are possible meanings for dreams of borders?

A border is a barrier and can symbolize something hindering you or in your way. A line you should not cross.

Or a line you do cross, such as when you enter a new phase of life. Age eighteen, for example, is considered the age of adulthood in some countries, and when approaching that age a person is said to be “on the border” of adulthood. A line is crossed the day you turn eighteen, or graduate from college, get married, start your first job, become a parent or retire.

When a border symbolizes something hindering you, the dream will have supporting details such as a closed border crossing, a fence, or guards blocking the way.

Paying to cross a border can symbolize investing personal resources such as time and energy, or making a personal sacrifice. For example, to get married you give up single life. Of course, paying to cross a border can symbolize investment of money, too, such as paying the cost of tuition to get the education you need to cross into the next phase of life.

“On the border” can mean you are torn or divided about a decision, or on the verge of deciding, similar to the phrase “on the fence.” It can mean “close,” especially to a personal destination.

Borders divide and separate and can symbolize things that divide people from each other: race, ethnicity, education level, income, religion. With that use of the symbolism, a border in a dream is likely to show the division or separation. You are on one side, and whatever you are divided from is on the other side. See: Fences

A border can indicate a wish to go in a new direction, or the need to make big changes. The changes might be geographical—you want or need to move to a new location, perhaps even to a new country—but big changes can be made in yourself too, such as starting a new career, reshaping your body, or creating a new persona. It can mean you need challenge or adventure.

Borders are associated with foreign countries, and in dream language that can translate to being in a foreign place in your life. You feel different, things are a bit off. You feel movement inside yourself but aren’t sure where you’re headed.

See also: Bridges, Fences, Journeys, Fences, Foreignness, Trespassing, Wallets

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 borders

Read some real dream reports of border 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.

Dreaming of a map with names of cities

Hello everyone!

Yesterday night I had an interesting dream. Before giving my own interpretation, let me narrate it.

As the title suggests, I dreamt of a map of a continent resembling North America. The boundaries between sea and land were clear and so were the borders between regions and countries.

There were many exotic names of all the various cities (I also remember reading "Oregon" and "Seattle, although I never visited these places and have never been in the US or Canada).

And now my comment on this dream.
I interpret the map with all of its details as a representation of who I am. A distinction here is to be made between land and sea/ocean. Land would represent the surface, i.e. the conscious life with all of its different aspects, in this case the cities. The sea, on the other had, is the subsconscious.

The dream indicates that I have explored myself on the surface and that there is now order. I now have a clear idea of my conscious life.

What do you think about it?

Hello everyone!

Yesterday night I had an interesting dream. Before giving my own interpretation, let me narrate it.

As the title suggests, I dreamt of a map...

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Dream where I wasn’t even myself. TW: trafficking?

I’m not quite sure how this happened or why but, in the dream I just had, I wasn’t myself. I was of Chinese, Japanese or Korean descent (forgive me for being so uncultured and not 100% knowing 😭💔). The dream wasn’t even in English, yet I understood what was going on? You may think, “oh, it’s like you were watching a movie then.” Not exactly, because I was the person in the dream. It started out being separated at a border, all kinds of different races. Saw kids taken from their parents. Some drowned trying to escape...I/whoever I was made it across with 2 others I apparently knew. After that, myself, or whoever I was, and others were being led into this building. Around each corner there was a stop where we/they were checked and given a drink and/or pills. Whoever I was caught on that the drink shouldn’t be swallowed and only pretend to take the pills. Made it to a third stop with 2 pills, one black and one white, and had to fake taking them (they were huge) and whoever had gone ahead first managed to disarm some guards I guess. So they told us/them to run. Then I woke up. Just so strange to me that I wasn’t myself and the dream wasn’t even in English. The only other language I can kind of speak is Spanish and this was not Spanish.

I’m not quite sure how this happened or why but, in the dream I just had, I wasn’t myself. I was of Chinese, Japanese or Korean descent (forgive me for being so...

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Dreamt of something I am not capable off


So a little bit of background, I graduated college and acquired my Bachelor’s in Nursing around August of 2020, so right now maybe I have been practicing Nursing for about 7-8 months now. Work has been fine, stressful but I would say worth it, this is because I started when the Covid Pandemic is hot and each place I work at has been really really stressful due to high workloads and short staff. So along the way, my girlfriend got pregnant with our first child (she’s in her 26th week now.), I was a little scared at first because we were planning to have our first one at 30 years old (we’re both 23 btw); mind you we were scared not because of the financial burden, but because this is something new to us.

I usually work, kind of like leaving all the work bullshit at work and try my hardest to not bring that at home. Life is good pretty much, never had to struggle financially now, especially due to me not having minimum wage anymore, so pretty much no worries, just waiting for our kid at this point :)

So this is where the dream part comes in.

I like to have a beer once in a while to help me sleep; especially when work is stressful, trust me, being a Charge Nurse on graveyard shift, lots of issues do come such as: patients having issues, coding and all, then add on top of that the staff that are always bickering about some random bullshit and you are expected to deal with it, acting like they are not adults and most of them are as old as your parents.

So after my shift one day, I slept around 8am and dreamt of me being at work, then something like this happened, I guess two patients pissed me off and I went off the rails and grabbed a metal pain and suddenly jabbed one patient in the neck, in which he bled profusely. I guess this patient was not even 100lbs because i managed to carry him and hide him in the bathroom, and then I went to the other patient and did the same thing, and sure enough this time I was caught by one of the CNAs I talk to all the time since we’re both from the same country in Asia. What happened after that is I dashed to my desk, grab my keys, and ran to my car, I even had this sequence where one of my coworkers tried to grabbed me and I juked her, then waiting by my car were a bunch of staff barring me to prevent me to go hop in my car, I somehow managed to overpower 4 people and got inside my car. But in the car i think 3-4 people were waiting inside, but they did not do anything, they just stared, one of them was the CNA i just mentioned. My first thought was driving to Mexico (guess which state is this) and kind of go from there, my mind was scattered at this point, I was crying, and then I arrived at the border and military was involved, I wasn’t busted or anything, and like I said the people i was with did not say anything. It fast forwarded a lil bit, and the CNA i mentioned, talked to me,on why I fucked up, why I ruined my future, in which I responded “Because of those two fucks I am ruined, and I will never see my wife and child ever again”. I then started crying and contemplating suicide, it fast forwarded again and this time I am on a cliff, thinking of jumping, then everything flashed in my mind, every experience I had..... I then closed my eyes, I think I died in that dream.

I woke up then around 1230 p.m. sweating and crying. What consoled me is that my pregnant wife is with me, first thing I wanted to touch was her belly. I told her what happened and she just told me to pray.

That dream was yesterday, I am still bothered by it.

Feel free to ask and to answer what the does this mean

Edit: tired as hell, wrote this at work, phone is acting really slow too, disregard any errors, for you grammar nazis here; I will edit it and make it look prettier. And please feel free to ask me more details as not everything is here, and if you have any ideas what the hell this means, any interpretations are welcome!


So a little bit of background, I graduated college and acquired my Bachelor’s in Nursing around August of 2020, so right now maybe I have been practicing...

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Have you ever seen a portrait of yourself in a dream ?

In my dream I wanted to go to sleep. I entered my bedroom, everything was gloomy and the furniture was misplaced. I take pride in having a beautiful home so this distressed me. It gave me creepy vibes and I didn’t feel comfortable sleeping in my bed room.

There was self portrait of myself that stood out. It was bright and vivid unlike the other furniture in my room. The border in the picture was bright white. My portrait was black and white. I looked very put together, makeup, etc. I had a cute little smile on.

I didn’t think much of my portrait, just that it was much brighter than everything else. I did end up sleeping in my bed.

Apparently could mean something tragic will happen to me in real life? I’m not sure tho because the portrait was a happy one.

Any thoughts ?

In my dream I wanted to go to sleep. I entered my bedroom, everything was gloomy and the furniture was misplaced. I take pride in having a beautiful home so...

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Someone please help me interpret this dream.

So I had this really bizarre dream least night, bordering on a nightmare. I don't remember the exact start, but I was walking along a riverbank in a desert or mesa sort of area. The water was clear and calm and I could see fish in the river. They were all metallic silver with specks of other colors, mostly red and orange. Then I noticed a dead one, buried in the sand underwater. When I saw the dead one, everything got dark as night. I think it actually became night in the dream. so I followed the river upstream and uphill to a sort of precipice which seemed to be the origin of the of the river. At the top were some bushes, all dry but still having leaves. Then a black, 4-legged figure steps out of the water. At first I thought it was a panther. It ignored me. It walked down the other side of the bank, away from me. Then it took off running. As it ran, everything shifted: the river was gone, the desert bushes turned into the lilacs I have in my back yard. The creature stopped running. I could see now it was a huge dog, think something the size of a Great Dane with the build of a Doberman. It also had no tail. Realizing I was at home and potentially in danger, I stood up, and the dog turned to look at me. I was only maybe 10 feet from my door and the dog was easily 30 feet away from me, and downhill. So I ran towards my door but the dog shot like lightning, teeth-bared towards me. I reached the door, opened it and shouted to let my parents (whom I live with) know that there was a big black hound outside. But I couldn't finish the sentence. I think I managed to close the door before the dog got me, but everything that had happened seemed to fade into nothing and i couldn't finish yelling my sentence because i had nothing to say. then the dream just dissolved away. i have no idea what this dream means. if someone could tell me, I'd really appreciate it.

So I had this really bizarre dream least night, bordering on a nightmare. I don't remember the exact start, but I was walking along a riverbank in a desert or...

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