What are break up dreams about?
Breaking up is when a romantic relationship ends. Sometimes it is mutual. Sometimes it is not not mutual. Even if it is felt that the break up is for the best, breaking up is still difficult. It is an ending, but it is also the beginning of something new. This symbol is identified by words like divorce, broke up, split up, etc.
Break ups in dreams is a relatively uncommon dream symbol, occuring in about 1.8% of dreams. That's about 1 out of every 55 dreams.
What are the major highlights of break up dreams?
Break ups is a normal dream symbol. Having break ups in a dream changes the dream in the same way as most other dream symbols.
Break up dreams might be sexual
Dreams of break ups are more related to sex than 90% of all of the other dream symbols. If break ups is in a dream, this dream is far more likely to contain sexual symbols. Other symbols that are like this include masturbation, weasels, break ups, microphones, animuses, hair falling out, dirty, kissing, Croatia, and addicts.
Dreams of break ups are aggressive
Break up dreams have more aggressive interactions than a lot of other dream symbols. This doesn't mean that all break ups have aggressive interactions or only aggressive interactions. It simply means that having break ups in a dream increases the probability this dream contains aggression. Other symbols that are like this include rage, crime, Russia, pain, werewolves, things, police, vision, cursing, and killing.
Break up dreams seem to lack places or locations
Dreams of break ups frequently do not mention places or locations. The dream may or may not take place in varying locations. But dreams of break ups simply do not mention the location, places, or settings occuring within the dream. Other symbols that are like this include menstruation, surgery, toenails, pus, cocaine, hummingbirds, maggots, body changes, vaginas, and parasites.
Break up dreams are about family
Dreams of break ups are more related to family than 90% of all other symbols. In other words, dreaming of break ups will increase your chances of dreaming of a family member. Other symbols that are like this include Bahamas, cancer, former partners, zebras, pregnancy, uncles, fathers, infidelity, bird cages, and dissecting.
Break up dreams are about love
Dreams containing break ups are more related to love than 90% of all other dream symbols. Of course each dream is unique and this does not mean that all dreams of break ups are about love. It simply means that if you dream of break ups, this dream has a greater chance of being about love than most other dream symbols. Other symbols that are like this include flowers, Iceland, the future, friendly interactions, therapists, former partners, lips, Chile, feelings, and verbs.
What symbols more present in dreams of break ups?
Break up dreams are notable because they have substantially more former partners, Morocco, facebook, infidelity, prom, breaking, instagram, alimony, verbs, lawyers, grief and sorrow, dating, dismissals, characters, social media, jealousy, girlfriends, flirting, aggressive interactions, lovers, rental cars, overdoses, guilty, kissing, Serbia, courts, family, arguing, seeing a dead partner, sex, romantic partners, detours, seeing a dead grandmother, grooms, wives, weddings, boyfriends, seeing a dead father, husbands, brides, abusing, animuses, Cuba, love, addicts, summer, anticipating, best friends, conflicts, long times, bobcats, sexuals acts, abortions, falling in love, speaking, magnifying glasses, makeup, childhood homes, hatred, and cowboys than 95% of other dream symbols.
What symbols less present in dreams of break ups?
Break up dreams are notable because they have substantially less animals, rockets, sleep paralysis, kittens, blood, goats, horrors, lions, colors, cubes, creatures, deserts, fevers, black, wolves, lucid dreams, natural places, earthquakes, spaceships, cats, weapons, infecting, fish, other fantastic beings, red, roots, birds, islands, pressing buttons, white, donkeys, snakes, eclipses, Egypt, seeing a dead pet, precognitive dreams, parasites, paralysis, gorillas, hamsters, mafia, microphones, outer space, soil, raccoons, family homes, ancestors, presidents, fantastic beings, floating, and closed my eyes than 95% of other dream symbols.
How does the dream symbol of break ups affect the different aspects of a dream?
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Who is in break ups dreams?
Overall, dreams with break ups are more related to characters in dreams. Specifically, dreams of break ups are more related to close people, much more related to family, and much more related to romantic partners than dreams in general. They are much less related to animals, less related to insects, and less related to different roles.
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What are the emotions in break ups dreams?
Overall, dreams with break ups are more related to emotions in dreams. Specifically, dreams of break ups are much more related to happiness, much more related to sadness, and much more related to grief and sorrow than dreams in general. They are much less related to fear.
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Who is in break ups dreams?
Overall, dreams with break ups are much less related to places in dreams. Specifically, dreams of break ups are more related to work than dreams in general. They are less related to human places, less related to transportation, and much less related to natural places.
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What happens in break ups dreams?
Overall, dreams with break ups are much more related to events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of break ups are much more related to aggressive interactions and much more related to sex than dreams in general. They are less related to friendly interactions and less related to disasters.
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How do break ups in dreams related to other dream phenomenon?
Overall, dreams with break ups are aren't really related to dream events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of break ups are much more related to waking life 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 can you make sense of break ups in dreams?
Break up dreams are relatively uncommon. Among other things break up dreams are normally interconnect, sexual, aggressive, lack places or locations, family oriented, and about love.
Do you think this is true for your dream of break ups? How might your dream of break ups 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 break ups 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 break ups in dreams. See how you feel about break ups now, in your waking life.
What are possible meanings for dreams of break ups?
The symbolism of divorce revolves primarily around the ideas of something coming to end or being divisive. Dreams have other ways of saying the same things, so focus on how divorce captures specifics of the situation, such as feelings of acrimony, symbolism of marriage and family, division among close people, and something that ends and is not chosen lightly. Divorce can connect with other associated feelings and emotions, such as bitterness, disappointment, and anger.
Personal experience with divorce, or close observation of what it does to people and families, opens the possibility for a wide array of symbolism based on personal association.
A divorce is a final end to a relationship, so dreaming about getting a divorce can mean the end of something else, or your feelings for someone or something are finally settled. It can symbolize finally getting over a breakup, or realizing you’ll never get back together with your ex. See: Former partners
The symbolism can extend to any sort of relationship that ends, such as a friendship or business relationship, or even the relationship to something intangible, such as a television show. The show disappoints you one last time and that’s it, goodbye show.
Divorce is a negotiated settlement, such as when employment ends with a severance package.
Divorce gives you distance from something. You want to walk away. Finito.
Dreams can get creative with how far they reach to make a comparison. Divorce is comparable to a mistake that costs you a bundle, or to the high personal price for failure. It can symbolize a mistake that you pay for over time. See: Alimony
Psychologically, divorce can symbolize disharmony inside you, being at odds with yourself. Or other parts of the psyche want to divorce from the ego. It can be a shock from within to make you realize things are at the breaking point. Something can’t continue the way it is, and it might be the way you treat yourself.
Then again, divorce can be good when it means “freedom,” especially freedom from something that’s sapping you. It’s a clean break.
See also: Alimony, Courts, Egos, Former partners, Executing, Husbands, Judges, Lawyers, Weddings, Parents, Weddings, Wives, Wounds
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 break ups
Read some real dream reports of break up 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.
Missing my own wedding, like Cinderella without the happy ending.
IRL I'm divorced with no intention of getting remarried but in my dream I was late for my wedding (to a new guy I don't know, not my ex).
On the wedding day I woke up 15 min before I was due to be at the ceremony, my "friends" were supposed to be helping me get ready but kept stalling dragging me all over town to make me as late and look as ugly as possible. My sister was there (who I no longer speak to because IRL she went out of her way to destroy my marriage). My dress was made of cheap cotton, crushed with holes in it and I had no shoes, they cut and dyed my beautiful hair ruining it and tried to put drag make up on me. I was an hour late and still not ready. I knew I'd missed the wedding thanks to being sabotaged.
IRL I'm divorced with no intention of getting remarried but in my dream I was late for my wedding (to a new guy I don't know, not my ex).
On the wedding day I...
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Can’t say it was a dream but maybe.. hearing a massive explosion
The night my ex and I broke up. I woke up to a massive explosion. Massive, in my mind, we got nuked. I got up out of bed to see anything out side but nothing. I waited for my parents to wake up, but nothing. I went on a community Facebook page to see if anyone reported it but nothing. I then feared I had that syndrome where people hear massive explosion but it’s on their mind. But that wasn’t the case. What could that be of mean?
The night my ex and I broke up. I woke up to a massive explosion. Massive, in my mind, we got nuked. I got up out of bed to see anything out side but nothing. I...
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A short confusing dream. What’s the hidden meaning?
I(F20) was in the central bus station in my city.
It was completely empty, just me, my parents and siblings.
My parents are divorced. I have a 16yo brother and 8yo half sister on my father side.
I stand there and my dad is behind me braiding my hair. My hair is black if it matters.
My mom and siblings stand together in a 10 feet distance from us, not too far and not too close.
Just quietly standing and looking.
I tell my dad that my mom can do my hair and I try to walk to her but he keeps doing my hair anyways.
I ask him why doesn’t he braid my young sister hair and he’s quiet and keeps braiding mine.
That’s pretty much it. Seems like we’re waiting outside of the hair extensions store too but I couldn’t say for sure since that’s all I remember.
The point was my dad was braiding my hair in thick braids standing up in the empty central bus station.
I feel like it has a very deep meaning since it’s a really strange dream
I(F20) was in the central bus station in my city.
It was completely empty, just me, my parents and siblings.
My parents are divorced. I have a 16yo brother and...
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Dated an ugly red haired man and cheated on him with my current boyfriend
There is a TL;DR at the end so if you don’t want to read, and
I was sitting in a school courtyard, hugging and kissing my current boyfriend, Sandy. From my side, there is a guy whining that I never hug him. The guy has red hair and freckles and honestly he looks ugly but I assume me and my current boyfriend broke up in dream but we still were attracted to each other even though I was dating someone new. In the dream I wanted to broke up with the red head man, who I have never met before in my life, but I felt guilty about potentially using him so I didn’t want to break it off yet. I did not like him more than pity him though. I will call the red head, Steve.
The bell rings and the boys leave, while two of my girl friends walk me to my class. I care deeply for both, there is none of the red head “I only pity you” stuff going on with my friends. However, I rarely talk to one because she might be depressed and doesn’t answer the phone, we will call her, Sofia, while the other is my best friend, Usagi (She loves Sailor Moon). As we walk to class, the sky goes dark with clouds and as the rain falls, lightning nearly strikes us. We run to the furthest building possible, me carrying Sofia at one point while she says she’s going to vomit. The lightning nearly strikes four times before we make it to a building with cover. I keep carrying Sofia and she throws up on my back. I’m annoyed but I understand. Usagi promises to care for her on their way to class and both leave.
When I go to class, I ask for a spare sweater or jacket since my shirt is nasty. It smells awful for obvious reasons. My friend, Aaron, offers up his sweatshirt and I take it going to the bathroom. It’s a girls bathroom but it appears both men and women are inside studying French. I studied French in high school and I am afraid I can’t speak well so naturally they speak it better than me. I then lose my phone somehow while changing out of my shirt. I try to find it when an old man begins cleaning the faucet and when I smile commending him for his work, he smiles back.
I then just end up in a car in a parking lot with Sandy, my real boyfriend. I don’t remember what happened except I ended up being chased by a bull and had to find my way back inside even though I don’t remember why I got out in the first place. I can’t remember anything else so I think it ended there.
TL;DR
• Two boyfriends, one I am dating in real life, one that is ugly and doesn’t exist but apparently I’m cheating on him with my real boyfriend
• Two friends, one needs to be carried and throws up when I carry her
• Lightning storm
• I get chased by a bull
• Lose my phone while changing shirts
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I was sitting in a school courtyard, hugging and kissing my current boyfriend, Sandy. From my...
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Any dream interpreters?
Last night I had a dream, it was a long dream but im gonna cut it short. Anyways, in the dream I had a girlfriend, but the girlfriend was my ex. She was still my girlfriend in the dream, but skip through all the mess to cut it short, we broke up AGAIN in my dream because I found out she has a male genital? (this isnt the case of why we broke up in real life.) But then something weird happened my dream skipped time to where I was talking to her friend and I asked her "So she was a man this whole time?" So then her friend answered, "No shes a god" And what I took from that part is, shes a god and she can take a human form but when shes in just her god form she has the male genital? But thats the reason I broke up with her in the dream, because she had the male genital, and I was so mad about it that I travelled to some kind of demom realm where I stayed, Skip forward time, I made some kind of demon friend, but I decided to return to the heaven realm but when I tried "satan" im guessing, said "I never said you can go" but then he said ha, im joking, So then as I was walking through the portal I told him "say bye to boeboe", which was my dream demom friend thing, So I went through the portal and then I woke up with a bad headache.
Last night I had a dream, it was a long dream but im gonna cut it short. Anyways, in the dream I had a girlfriend, but the girlfriend was my ex. She was still...
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