What are burglary dreams about?
This symbol is identified by words like burglary.
Burglary in dreams is a exceedingly rare dream symbol, occuring in about 0.01% of dreams. That's about 1 out of every 9,000 dreams. Please note that the data on this page may not represent all dreams with burglary. This symbol is so rare that less than 20 dreams form the basis of the data on this page.
What are the major highlights of burglary dreams?
Burglary is a very negatively interconnected dream symbol. Dreams of burglary greatly reduce the presence of other dream symbols.
Dreams of burglary have a striking lack of emotion
Dreams of burglary are aggressive
Burglary dreams have more aggressive interactions than a lot of other dream symbols. This doesn't mean that all burglary have aggressive interactions or only aggressive interactions. It simply means that having burglary in a dream increases the probability this dream contains aggression. Other symbols that are like this include toenails, masks, peninsula, death, possessing, trucks, forwards, executing, helicopters, and raping.
Burglary dreams have a surprising lack of characters
Dreams of burglary usually contain less characters than 90% of all other dream symbols. This does not mean they do not contain characters at all. Rather, they simply contain less characters than most other dream symbols. Other symbols that are like this include embarking, peeing, Chile, foreshadowing, hit the ground, acne, triangles, cubes, nuclear bombs, and Congo.
Burglary dreams are associated with lucid dreaming
Dreams of burglary are much more related to lucid dreaming than all other dream symbols. Lucid dreams are dreams in which you are aware that you are dreaming. Of course, not all dreams of burglary are lucid dreams. But dreams of burglary are more related to lucid dreams than 90% of all other dream symbols. Other symbols that are like this include Gandalf, calendars, opened my eyes, heroes, Joe Biden, guiding, zebras, sparrows, authors, and time travel.
Burglary dreams might be about death
Dreams that contain burglary are highly related to death. They are more related to death than 90% of all other dream symbols. Other symbols that are like this include verbs, grenades, suicide, The Holocaust, flamethrowers, Guatemala, war, grief and sorrow, torturing, and paramedic.
Burglary dreams focus on sounds
Dreams of burglary have more words related to sounds than 90% of all other dream symbols. In other words, burglary dreams involve the auditory world. They focus on sounds and hearing. Other symbols that are like this include Jamaica, Voldemort, Kenya, alimony, jupiter, menstruation, seeing a dead partner, buffaloes, kissing, and miscarriages.
Burglary dreams focus on smells
Dreams of burglary have more words related to smells than 90% of all other dream symbols. In other words, burglary dreams involve the world of scents. Other symbols that are like this include Voldemort, calluses, deluges, landslides, Laos, lifeguards, hippos, Afghanistan, Croatia, and Lebanon.
Burglary dreams focus on taste
Dreams of burglary have more words related to taste than 90% of all other dream symbols. In other words, burglary dreams involve the perceptions of taste. Taste is a chemical sense. We taste things through interacting and touching the object we are tasting. Other symbols that are like this include Lebanon, collective unconscious, talismans, raccoons, dismissals, hyenas, scorpions, harpoons, Venezuela, and Congo.
Burglary dreams focus on vision
Dreams of burglary have more words related to vision than 90% of all other dream symbols. In other words, burglary dreams involve sight and seeing objects. Other symbols that are like this include infidelity, bankers, roosters, weasels, hamsters, getting fired, lotus flowers, menstruation, adoptions, and taking a test.
What symbols more present in dreams of burglary?
Burglary dreams are notable because they have substantially more burglary, houses, police, false awakening, intruders, bombs, rainbows, lodging, robbing, cartoons, thieves, home, exits, black and white, pizzas, different roles, locks, capturing, lovers, yelling, weakness, arresting, weapons, tools, lunch, rivers, candy, windows, stabbing, service workers, shooting, employees, hats, bags, back doors, stores, messes, vacations, doors, jails, paths, and lips than 95% of other dream symbols.
What symbols less present in dreams of burglary?
Burglary as a dream symbol do not especially suppress any other dream symbols.
How does the dream symbol of burglary affect the different aspects of a dream?
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Who is in burglary dreams?
Overall, dreams with burglary are much less related to characters in dreams. Specifically, dreams of burglary are much more related to different roles than dreams in general. They are much less related to animals, much less related to insects, and much less related to fantastic beings.
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What are the emotions in burglary dreams?
Overall, dreams with burglary are much less related to emotions in dreams. Specifically, dreams of burglary are much less related to happiness, much less related to sadness, and much less related to grief and sorrow.
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Who is in burglary dreams?
Overall, dreams with burglary are more related to places in dreams. Specifically, dreams of burglary are much more related to home than dreams in general. They are much less related to work, less related to human places, and less related to transportation.
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What happens in burglary dreams?
Overall, dreams with burglary are aren't really related to events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of burglary are much more related to aggressive interactions than dreams in general. They are much less related to friendly interactions, much less related to sex, and less related to disasters.
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How do burglary in dreams related to other dream phenomenon?
Overall, dreams with burglary are more related to dream events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of burglary are much more related to lucid dreams and much more related to sleeping than dreams in general. They are much less related to nightmares, much less related to recurring dreams, and less related to recurring nightmares.
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How do burglary in dreams related the senses?
Overall, dreams with burglary are much less related to senses in dreams. Specifically, dreams of burglary are much more related to touch than dreams in general. They are much less related to hearing, much less related to smelling, and much less related to taste.
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How can you make sense of burglary in dreams?
Burglary dreams are exceedingly rare Please note that the data on this page may not represent all dreams with burglary. This symbol is so rare that less than 20 dreams form the basis of the data on this page.. Among other things burglary dreams are very negatively interconnected, lack emotions, aggressive, lack characters, are associated with lucid dreaming, about death, focus on sounds, focus on smells, focus on taste, and focus on vision.
Do you think this is true for your dream of burglary? How might your dream of burglary be different?
All dreams have meaning
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Look for the differences
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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 burglary in dreams. See how you feel about burglary now, in your waking life.
What are possible meanings for dreams of burglary?
A burglary in a dream suggests that something of value is, or could be taken from you. It might be something material, but it’s more likely to be a physical representation of losing something else: energy, time, respect, motivation. It feels like a crime to lose them.
The first question to ask is, what are you taking from yourself? You rob yourself by failing to live up to your own expectations, or by breaking commitments or promises—including commitments and promises to yourself.
When you are helpless to prevent some sort of personal loss, a burglary or burglar is a great way to represent it. For example, the romantic rival who swoops in and starts dating the person you are interested in is a sort of burglar. The real loss though is in your self-respect or confidence.
Burglars are stealthy and often target homes, key reasons why a dream might use a burglar over some other sort of criminal. The dream deliberately chooses a burglar for that role in the dream-story. The next question is, why? Working backward can lead to the meaning.
A burglary is a violation of your personal space, so in a dream a burglary can symbolize violation of your space or your person. Something’s out of place or missing. Privacy is compromised.
A burglary can symbolize something done behind your back, a betrayal.
A man dreams about being on the second floor of his house, watching burglars come in through his back door and go out with valuable items. It’s a recurring dream theme that always ends with his feeling powerless to stop the burglars. The burglars represent the stealthy demands on his time and energy, the things that always seem to pop up when and where he least expects it. And coming in and out through the back door symbolizes the back-door ways the man leaves himself open to more demands. He feels powerless to stop it.
The dream uses burglars instead of a single burglar because he has multiple demands, not just one.
See also: Accomplices, Bandits, Crime, Escaping, Hiding, Home, Intruders, Invading, Masks, Thieves
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 burglary
Read some real dream reports of burglary 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.
Pls help me out here
OK I will try to summarize...
After a while without doing this "sleeping ritual" something bizarre happened in my dream.
My mother was teaching me how to drive a car, since I gave a picture of the driving school.
Out of nowhere a policeman appeared and arrested my mother and her body was thrown into a river (cartoon style), but her body was also arrested... it was as if they had 2 bodies in one body.
Anyway... trying to get my mother out of this random chain, I hear a shot in the middle of the woods towards where my mother's body (water) was.
My mother from that jail sent me audios and written messages telling me what was happening.
Meanwhile, at home I was trying to sort everything out and a man dressed as a ninja appeared.
I "captured" this man and showed it to my father, he said he didn't know the man.
I called the police And this man was taken into custody. It turns out that he was the Lover of the psychopathic man who fired a shot in the middle of the woods, and has already been arrested for child ab*se and house burglary.
I woke up with a fright from a gunshot in that dream.
You think that can mean something? My mind is really crazy now.
OK I will try to summarize...
After a while without doing this "sleeping ritual" something bizarre happened in my dream.
My mother was teaching me how to...
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Intense and weird burglary dream
Ok this is a weird layered one.
My dream first starts with me finding random people living in my home. Apparently my landlord gave them the ok but I get angry and kick everyone out.
I try to go back to sleep but hear someone down stairs. I see a delivery man putting boxes on my stairs and i asked how he got in here. Some extra people show up and they all try to start stealing my stuff. Im fighting them and eventually kill 2 of them but it almost seemed too easy. Then these kids show up out of know where put the bodies im the trash, clean up outside and gave me their numbers warning me other people will most likely come again. I ended up loosing the numbers just as they leave because I tried to call them back to ask them a question.
I go back inside to try and clean the mess and call the police but then I hear more noise outside. There is a bunch of people having a market sort of thing selling stuff in my yard. I ask them wtf they're doing, they have no idea what just happened and they need to leave. They're tell me no and they're allowed to be here so I start spraying them with a hose and the leave.
Again I go back inside to try and call the police when suddenly there are more burglar's at my door. Im trying to keep the door locked with one hand and trying to call the police with my other hand but even when I dial the correct number it doesn't go through. Eventually they get in and I realise I know one of the intruders and im pleading with him to not take my stuff. I convince them to only take some things I knew weren't worth much value. As they're looking around my home I go outside to try and call the cops again and again nothing works. Then suddenly this women is out front my house yelling at me as someone has left bunch of stuff on the foot path and she think it's belongs to me. I then wake up.
Wtf was that all about? Im woke up feeling like this is deeper then what I think it means.
Ok this is a weird layered one.
My dream first starts with me finding random people living in my home. Apparently my landlord gave them the ok but I get angry...
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messed up dream of murder and burglary
Had a crazy dream that I woke too. Dreamed I was in my local grocery store and someone was yelling. Had the clerk come at me telling me I needed to stop and I pulled out a gun and shot him under the chin. Someone was with me and they pulled out their gun and shot another employee too. Both were dead and we left. I almost seem to have forgotten it in my dream when the news is playing it out on the tv. Guilt begins to set in as I wake up.
I dont know the clerk, hes not a real person, I think, but they said his name on the news. I swear I've never done anything so evil, wth?? Any thoughts??
Had a crazy dream that I woke too. Dreamed I was in my local grocery store and someone was yelling. Had the clerk come at me telling me I needed to stop and I...
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Student burglary
One time I had this dream about this student in my class named David, I don't know why I thought this was real because he was in a different class. Somehow, he convinced me to rob a house. When we got to the house, don't ask how I still thought this was real, David brought legitimate breaching bombs like this was rainbow 6. The police came and I was bawling my eyes out asking the police officer to not tell my mom. He sent me home, and when I walked into my house, I awoke and realised I had 10 minutes to get to school.
One time I had this dream about this student in my class named David, I don't know why I thought this was real because he was in a different class. Somehow, he...
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breaking in and robbery
i had a dream earlier about this group of thieves breaking into my house and robbing it while we’re all inside scared for our lives, they had guns and shit and basically took over 3 buildings next to us. everyone was scared and kept quiet it was very unsettling.
somehow i realized im dreaming and kind of stopped the dream to dream of something else, and still asleep, i went back to the same point in my dream and it felt like it went on for hours.
this is like the 3rd time im dreaming of a burglary idk what this means but scary as hell
i had a dream earlier about this group of thieves breaking into my house and robbing it while we’re all inside scared for our lives, they had guns and shit and...
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