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What are bridge dreams about?

A bridge is a structure that allows people to cross obstacles such as rivers, valleys, between buildings, roads, and so on. Bridges can be small or large. They can be beautiful or they can be ugly.
This symbol is identified by words like bridge and overpass.

Bridges in dreams is a relatively uncommon dream symbol, occuring in about 1.2% of dreams. That's about 1 out of every 85 dreams.

What are the major highlights of bridge dreams?

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

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

Explore different elements related to dreams of bridges

Who is in bridges dreams?

Overall, dreams with bridges are less related to characters in dreams. Specifically, dreams of bridges are less related to different roles, less related to close people, and less related to family.

Animals

the same as usual

Insects

the same as usual

Different roles

less than usual

Fantastic beings

the same as usual

Distant people

the same as usual

Close people

less than usual

Family

less than usual

Romantic partners

less than usual
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What are the emotions in bridges dreams?

Overall, dreams with bridges are aren't really related to emotions in dreams. Specifically, dreams of bridges are less related to happiness, less related to sadness, and less related to grief and sorrow.

Happiness

less than usual

Sadness

less than usual

Grief and sorrow

less than usual

Embarrassment

less than usual

Confusion

the same as usual

Fear

the same as usual

Pain

less than usual

Hatred

the same as usual

Fun

the same as usual

Love

less than usual
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Who is in bridges dreams?

Overall, dreams with bridges are much more related to places in dreams. Specifically, dreams of bridges are much more related to human places, much more related to transportation, and more related to natural places than dreams in general. They are less related to home and less related to work.

Home

less than usual

Work

less than usual

Human places

much more than usual

Transportation

much more than usual

Natural places

more than usual

Magical places

more than usual
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What happens in bridges dreams?

Overall, dreams with bridges are less related to events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of bridges are more related to disasters than dreams in general. They are less related to friendly interactions and less related to sex.

Aggressive interactions

the same as usual

Friendly interactions

less than usual

Sex

less than usual

Disasters

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

Overall, dreams with bridges are less related to dream events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of bridges are more related to recurring dreams and more related to recurring nightmares than dreams in general. They are less related to nightmares, less related to sleep paralysis, and less related to sleeping.

Lucid dreams

the same as usual

Nightmares

less than usual

Recurring dreams

more than usual

Recurring nightmares

more than usual

Sleep paralysis

less than usual

Sleeping

less than usual

Waking life

less than usual
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How do bridges in dreams related the senses?

Overall, dreams with bridges are less related to senses in dreams. Specifically, dreams of bridges 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 bridges in dreams?

Bridge dreams are relatively uncommon. Among other things bridge dreams are normally interconnect.

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

What are possible meanings for dreams of bridges?

At its simplest, a bridge is a route over an obstacle. So in dreams a bridge can symbolize overcoming an obstacle.

A bridge connects two points together, and in dreams that idea can be used to symbolize bringing people together—or bringing yourself together, such as when you connect your values with your actions, or your intellect with your will.

A bridge can symbolize transitioning from one phase or place in life to another. Such as when transitioning from living with family to living on your own, or from single life to married life, or from professional to retired. In this sense, a bridge symbolizes an important juncture in your life, between two points.

For example, a student finishing law school dreams he walks through a city and comes to a raging river. It has a bridge over it that’s tricky to cross. He manages it and continues on his journey. The dream uses the bridge to symbolize his transition to professional life as an attorney, and the raging river symbolizes the bar exam. By passing it, he makes the transition. The city symbolizes his public life, tied closely with his choice of career.

Anything that “bridges the gap” can be symbolized as a bridge.

Being across a bridge from someone you know can symbolize a divide between you. A divide might be caused by hurt feelings, difference of opinion, or different backgrounds. Or it might be a matter of opportunity or personal connection.

For example, a man dreams that he sees the woman he’s been flirting with, on the other side of a bridge. As he tries to reach her, the bridge crumbles. It’s a way of depicting that no matter how he tries, he can’t get her interest. He’s more attracted to her than she is to him.

See also: Borders, Rivers, Roads, Water

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 bridges

Read some real dream reports of bridge 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 fucked up dream about multiverse selves.

There was this guy who was my boyfriend and we both were driving to my parents house in a heavy forested area across a very deep bridge.
And then idk what happens but in the next scene I kicked him out of the car and he gets out and I drive off.
Then he somehow falls to the side of the road on the grass and is bleeding from his head and me from some multiverse comes to him and tries to save him by combing his hair with this healing comb. He heals but his eyes start bleeding and he’s crying so I get really scared but at that exact moment I see myself driving with the guy in the car and me kicking him out of the car replaying again.
I go to the boyfriend who got kicked out and tell him let’s go while the hurt boyfriend is lying on the roadside crying.
Then we both go to the bridge we came from and see my other self standing on the edge of the bridge about to fall. But then I take a step back and go inside the forest. Then somehow I think I jump again and see myself living in this small cottage by that bridge in a town and I play violin for a living. I had taken the hurt blind boyfriend from the side of the road and was living with him. My other self is watching him through the window when he comes to the window stares in my direction and closes the curtains.
At this point I woke up. Then I slept back after few minutes. The dream just continues !?

There’s snow everywhere and the blind boyfriend and other me teach kids in an orphanage on a mountain for a living. But then me and boyfriend from another parellel universe come to kill the boyfriend and me from the orphanage world. I’m on the way to the bathroom I notice these weird strange ominous red patterns on the floor that are leading me to it. The guard comes to my rescue and asks me to go away from there. I start to look around for my boyfriend but I can’t find him so I keep running through thick snow outside the gate and just keep running.
At this point I woke up but WTH this is such a weird dream I’ve never dreamt anything like this. Right now also I woke up worried about if the boyfriend was fine since I didn’t see him anywhere when I was running away..

There was this guy who was my boyfriend and we both were driving to my parents house in a heavy forested area across a very deep bridge.
And then idk what...

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Horrible dream (Trigger warnings, abortion, bus plunges into waterway

This dream was very disturbing to me. I dreamed that I was going on a trip with a travel group and we are going over a bridge which has a body of water. The bus driver deliberately crashes the railing and the bus plunges into the water. Then the dream shifts to something unrelated.

The next part of the dream I am trying to get out of a wood panel which is on a construction site. I'm trapped inside. I am talking to the construction worker, asking him to get me out. He bangs the panel with a hammer and then I'm transformed to another place.

In the dream I'm in my mid 20's and had a recent abortion. A woman comes up to me and gives me a box which contains the remains of the fetus (after the abortion, there was a cremation). She opens the box and said, "You did this." Then she hands it to me and walks away. Then I woke up.

I was very upset when I woke up from this nightmare. I have never been pregnant nor have I had an abortion which makes this dream, very very weird.

During the last couple of months, some unexpected things happened to me that really upset me but have nothing to do with what I dreamed.

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This dream was very disturbing to me. I dreamed that I was going on a trip with a travel group and we are going over a bridge which has a body of water. The...

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Sorta lucid dream but mostly nightmare. Was sent into some Hell realm by a man.

This is copy and pasted from what I originally wrote

So I’m out on the street right? This guy hired me to do something, cleaning I think, he wasn’t human. He literally killed someone in front of me who was walking on a bar and he kicked the bar off the edge of stable ground. Then he turned to me and told me to walk on the bars. When I refused, I was suddenly in a house, a hallway. If you have ever watched or played PT, you know what is going to happen. Each time I went through the last door, the hallway repeated, but scarier. Demons started chasing me, the walls started turning black and white, they had millions of eyes on them. I found myself in a room, the parents bedroom. My parents bedroom. Not this life’s parents, but I’m guessing my dream self’s parents. The mom was panicking because there was blood in the bathroom that connected to their room, accompanied by a bloody statue. I came in and let her know I was still alive, but I looked in a mirror and saw I was covered in blood. I turned to leave the room and saw a large statue by their bed, the head moved to look at me and stayed still. I knew from horror games that if I took my eyes off, it’d move. So I didn’t take my eyes off until after I left the room and returned to the hallway, which became even more terrifying. The walls started closing in, demons were crawling on me. Then I saw a pocket watch. For some reason, a man’s words echoed in my head. “Hit them with the watch and they will be banished back to where they came from.” So I did. It didn’t work. It only made them angrier. I panicked, I didn’t know what to do. Then I realized “I should break the watches glass”
When I did, the demon went poof. I started finding more pocket watches and smashing them to get rid of demons. I came to the final door, it was covered in spiderweb. In a deep voice it said something. I think it said “Those who find me know the way in, those who know me know the way out”
Then these long tentacles burst out of it and grabbed me, and dragged me in.
I found myself on a bridge, there was a crowd. They were panicking. Four demons were rounding them up and putting them on some platform to the right of the bridge. They looked dead when they entered the platform.
I ran at them, managed to stop them from taking around five people. Then the demons made a line at the entrance of the platform, their eyes glowed red, and said “Will you save them and die or run like a coward?”
I ran, I knew those people were already dead so I saved the ones who were still alive.
The man from the beginning of the dream appeared in front of me, he laughed and mocked me. I attacked him and managed to throw him off the side of the bridge and ran to a portal.
I let the people I had saved go first, then I went through.

We appeared in what looked like a misty super mall. There were fae(?) everywhere.

A bunch saw us come through and started comforting the people, and one came up to me, she had this pink glow to her. She started comforting me, she said she would take me back to the mortal realm. I looked up and saw our realms merging a bit, then I burst out with a question that made her surprised.
“Can I still see this realm? Whenever I want?”
She replied with “are you sure?” And I nodded. I wanted to be able to see this realm, of fae(?). All the time. Be able to switch my vision from seeing the mortal realm and theirs.
She agreed, and said goodbye. That’s when I woke up

This is copy and pasted from what I originally wrote

So I’m out on the street right? This guy hired me to do something, cleaning I think, he wasn’t human. He...

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The most vivid dream I've had in years

I was driving a big rig truck (I'm not a truck driver and never have been) down a dark highway through some slush. i was having fun driving recklessly, swerving between lanes through the ice and getting back over just in time to not hit a car. At a point I stop driving so carelessly just in time to go over a very thin one lane "video game esque" bridge and proceed.

As I'm driving I see a cat ahead trying to cross the road but the opposite lane is full of traffic and scaring it. I stop the truck in a way that blocks all traffic and the cat (a siamese) runs to me and jumps in my arms. I take it with me.

I'm missing a small part of the dream here

As it picks up I'm still driving the truck but have now picked up my ex as a hitchiker. I drive around running errands (dream shows me from out of body going in a building and out). At each stop I notice the moon keeps eclipsing making it seem like daylight briefly but whenever I notice it, it seems to go back to normal night time.

We drive to my grandpa's house and I go inside for a bit, then come out to get my ex. I warn him theres an eclipse and not to look at the sun in a rude voice and bring him inside. In the corner of the living room there's a bed frame and a large enough suitcase for him to sleep in and I tell him he can rest there and go to find him a blanket.

I can only find one blanket besides my own but it smells bad. I bring it to him but he found one already and has made himself comfortable. I walk him to a closet to tell him he can help himself to anything in it.

The closet I "know" is full of like desk toys and little tourist trap crap we got on wholesale, and theres two circlular racks in front of it full of snacks. He can help himself but 'these have to last for us" there's also a bunch of I <3 NY stuff on it.

At a point the cat I picked up in the truck has turned into Princess, a cat I left with my ex because she liked him best.

My interpretation: The stuff with my ex, my grandpa's house, the I <3 NY stuff and the cat make sense. I feel a lot of guilt for how things ended with my ex because while both our financial situations crumbled (Mine due to my grandpa's death, hence the presence of his house) I ended up able to move out of state and am mostly fine and supported while his situation is more precarious (and i have lost contact with him for the last month because he finally stopped pretending he was able to be friends with me after). I miss my cat and worry if she's okay, and I do miss some stuff about NY since I'd lived away from the state for five years and only got to be home for one before I had to leave again.

I can't pinpoint what the eclipse, driving the truck recklessly, and driving the truck normally mean though. Maybe the truck could be how I kinda dove headfirst into my new relationship only a month after my breakup and now I'm taking things a little more seriously but still doing well? but I don't get it fully and the eclipse and running errands with a trailer eludes me entirely.

On the bright side I told my boyfriend the dream and he picked up on the latter part of it well, said once covids over we can look at visiting NY and doing the stuff I missed out on doing again because of covid (Like apple picking, it's all little homesick stuff).

I was driving a big rig truck (I'm not a truck driver and never have been) down a dark highway through some slush. i was having fun driving recklessly, swerving...

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i had a dream while being awake?

so i was sitting on my kitchen floor, often where i sit when im overwhelmed or feeling something very strong, as i was. suddenly i closed my eyes and began to take slow breaths and I started to see lights, in my eyes, while they were closed, i think i must’ve hit some state of meditation because the lights began to turn into pictures and i started to see things as if they were real, and i was in an incredibly calm state. i saw a picture of my dear sister i had recently taken of her and she began running in a grass field, smiling and dancing and i heard music in my ears, as if i wasn’t even in the room that i was in any longer. it was so vivid. after a while of seeing these joyful things, i opened my eyes and something told me to close them again. with a smile, i closed my eyes. again, effortlessly, i saw 3 neon pink lines across my vision. they turned into arrows and i saw myself in a large room, standing high in the air, on a bridge running on the arrows as if they were a treadmill. i was running towards an open door, but obviously wasn’t able to get there. i wasn’t upset by this. i accepted that i wasn’t going anywhere and i jumped down off of the bridge. i saw skeleton heads but it didn’t worry me at all. as i fell, water rose above the skeletons to break my fall, and as soon as i hit the water i grew a beautiful pink tail and transformed into a mermaid, i swam and swam with the skulls below me. it was shallow water but i was unbothered. i remember asking myself “is there a way out of here?”. the room was very tall, and circular but there wasn’t much room. i replied to myself “yes” and a door appeared. i happily swam towards the door and opened it. as i went in, there were more neon arrows and water, i swam across a long tunnel and saw yet another door at the end. i opened the second door to find myself in the same room again. with the skulls and shallow water. i didn’t know how to get out. i grabbed a skull and kept digging through them but they were unmoving, they kept popping back into place. i looked around me and began to panic, i asked myself who the skeletons were and that’s when i realized that would be me soon.

when i opened my eyes i was concerned but not anxious. im not sure if this counts as a dream but it really felt like one. anyone know what this might mean?

so i was sitting on my kitchen floor, often where i sit when im overwhelmed or feeling something very strong, as i was. suddenly i closed my eyes and began to...

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