What are butterfly dreams about?
This symbol is identified by words like butterflies.
Butterflies in dreams is a very uncommon dream symbol, occuring in about 0.3% of dreams. That's about 1 out of every 300 dreams.
What are the major highlights of butterfly dreams?
Butterflies is a normal dream symbol. Having butterflies in a dream changes the dream in the same way as most other dream symbols.
Butterfly dreams seem to lack places or locations
Dreams of butterflies frequently do not mention places or locations. The dream may or may not take place in varying locations. But dreams of butterflies simply do not mention the location, places, or settings occuring within the dream. Other symbols that are like this include leopards, pregnancy tests, pregnancy, venom, worms, jealousy, infidelity, fiances, rodents, and summoning_demons.
Butterfly dreams are about love
Dreams containing butterflies 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 butterflies are about love. It simply means that if you dream of butterflies, this dream has a greater chance of being about love than most other dream symbols. Other symbols that are like this include foreshadowing, crying, break ups, prom, miscarriages, dismissals, best friends, uncategorized, Chile, and Serbia.
What symbols more present in dreams of butterflies?
Butterfly dreams are notable because they have substantially more flying, cocoons, stomachs, beetles, general insects, rainbows, blue, ladybugs, rollercoasters, roaches, birds, flowers, natural things, jackals, crows, seasons of the year, falling in love, devouring, bees, animuses, colors, purple, flies, orange, body parts, bobcats, joy, gorillas, amazed, summer, beauty, parasites in body, venus, general colors, ravens, gardens, mouths, bird cages, intrigued, pink, forwards, glowing eyes, things, elephants, peninsula, magic, Spain, tininess, orange eyes, cubes, brightness, fields, overdoses, knees, apes, love, concerts, waves, elves, and squares than 95% of other dream symbols.
What symbols less present in dreams of butterflies?
Butterfly dreams are notable because they have substantially less nightmares, stabbing, shooting, exhaustion, armies, cheering, childhood homes, villages, driving, snakes, dogs, trucks, stairs and ladders, arguing, guns, sleeping, hotels, passengers, screaming, police, underground, spouses, specific people, sex, attacking, washing, and lobbies than 95% of other dream symbols.
How does the dream symbol of butterflies affect the different aspects of a dream?
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Who is in butterflies dreams?
Overall, dreams with butterflies are more related to characters in dreams. Specifically, dreams of butterflies are much more related to insects than dreams in general. They are less related to animals, much less related to different roles, and less related to fantastic beings.
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What are the emotions in butterflies dreams?
Overall, dreams with butterflies are less related to emotions in dreams. Specifically, dreams of butterflies are more related to happiness, more related to hatred, and much more related to love than dreams in general. They are less related to confusion and less related to fear.
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Who is in butterflies dreams?
Overall, dreams with butterflies are much less related to places in dreams. Specifically, dreams of butterflies are less related to home, less related to work, and much less related to human places.
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What happens in butterflies dreams?
Overall, dreams with butterflies are less related to events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of butterflies are much less related to aggressive interactions, less related to friendly interactions, and less related to sex.
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How do butterflies in dreams related to other dream phenomenon?
Overall, dreams with butterflies are less related to dream events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of butterflies are more related to recurring dreams than dreams in general. They are much less related to nightmares and much less related to sleeping.
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How do butterflies in dreams related the senses?
Overall, dreams with butterflies are less related to senses in dreams. Specifically, dreams of butterflies are more related to taste than dreams in general. They are less related to hearing and less related to vision.
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How can you make sense of butterflies in dreams?
Butterfly dreams are very uncommon. Among other things butterfly dreams are normally interconnect, lack places or locations, and about love.
Do you think this is true for your dream of butterflies? How might your dream of butterflies 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 butterflies 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 butterflies in dreams. See how you feel about butterflies now, in your waking life.
What are possible meanings for dreams of butterflies?
A butterfly in your dream can symbolize lightness of being, or leaving a small but important imprint on your environment.
It can symbolize transformation, inspiration, and tranquility. Or metamorphosis. See: Cocoons
Because butterflies fly and are easily moved by wind and air, they can symbolize whimsical thoughts and daydreams. See: Elements of air, Flying
A butterfly landing on you can be a sign that your unconscious mind approves of something, probably related to personal development or service to others, same as a butterfly is a servant of nature. It can symbolize that you can be trusted with delicate things.
For example, a young woman dreams that a butterfly lands on her and remains for several minutes. It then flies away, leaving her with a feeling that it’s a message. With that in mind she thinks of associations with butterflies and the first word that comes to mind is “delicate.” The next thought that comes to mind is the memory of an incident where she dropped and severely injured her sister’s baby. It left the dreamer with the feeling that she couldn’t be trusted with anything delicate, like a baby, but the dream is saying she learned her lesson.
A butterfly can symbolize being “flighty,” venturing here and there, never landing anywhere for long, especially among social groups. A “social butterfly.”
See also: Elements of air, Cocoons, Flying, Insects, Smallness
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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 butterflies
Read some real dream reports of butterfly 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.
An oddly sensual, vivid dream I had this morning
I want to share an unusually vivid dream from last night.
I was on a college campus that I'd never been to before, with lots of people. I was at a bar/refreshment stand in the middle of a multi-story union/classroom building with an atrium and second story balcony leading to classrooms and a basement off to my left. Someone kept handing me sticks of gum, so I kept chewing them. Eventually my mouth was full of gum, and some was running down my throat to the point that I had to pull long, thick strings of gum out of my throat, which gagged me and made me drool. I went to get a drink, but there was no bartender to be found. I wanted Jaeger for some reason, which I never drink, so I looked behind the bar and saw a tap for Jaeger but then noticed an ex girlfriend from highschool walking in a group of people in the upstairs balcony/hall. I tried to wave but she didn't see me.
Next I'm walking into to a classroom, long and thin with multiple tables, and a large whiteboard on wheels in the middle of the room. It was supposedly for a science or math class. There was a few other students filing in behind me. The class was on the second or third floor, which matters later. I sat down at the back behind the whiteboard, near a set of glass swing-out windows. I found a pair of socks (supposedly mine?) laying on the ground under my feet and thought something about "guess they're still here."
Suddenly I'm in the same classroom, but it's mostly empty and dark, like the Upside Down. There are some weird egg sac pustule looking things attached to the wall. They pulsed and sprayed a thin, airy jet of "eggs" or "seeds" and even though I was freaked out, somehow I knew that the larvae were going to become butterflies.
Then I was back in the room as normal. A group of young men stood up and carried a microwave to a window, which they swung open with force. I stood up and turned towards them. They yelled "ONE, TWO, THREE, LOOK OUT BELOW!" and proceeded to throw the microwave out the window and I watched as the last of the cord disappeared whipping wildly as it fell. It crashed on the cement below, where multiple students were walking into the building from a parking lot.
Next thing I know I'm back at the bar island with a pint in front of me. I was sat down at the far side of the bar from where the dream started and there was a short, cute, blonde girl with large breasts sitting next to me. We talked for a second, then she was in my arms, being sweet and affectionate. I could feel her bra under her shirt where her extravagant breasts pressed into me. I walked her to the basement where a large glass double door was leading to a classroom and as soon as we got to the bottom she said something about not being mine. I got on my knees and jokingly begged for her back, it wasn't obvious if she was being serious, because we were both still laughing and smiling. She said something I can't remember and so I walked back up the stairs. When I reached the top, she threw her arms wide and yelled "Come and get me boys, I'm right here!" I gave her the finger and walked away through a large throng of students yelling something about "1% of 1%, you don't know what you're missing." Which means nothing to me awake.
Then I woke up.
I want to share an unusually vivid dream from last night.
I was on a college campus that I'd never been to before, with lots of people. I was at a...
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I hate falling in love
I've been single for a while now. Working on myself and such. I'm nowhere near where i want to be in life and i know getting into a relationship would make it even harder (Unless my partner would be extremely understanding that i need to work on my personal projects day, in day out)
I just had a dream where i met this girl. I don't remember what she looked like but she had such a beautiful soul. We became friends right away and eventually fell in love with each other. I could feel the energy, the butterflies, the warm stomach feeling.
It felt so good being able to let go of all my insecurities and be completely vulnerable around her.
There was chaos all around us but we didn't care. The scenery always changed, too. At first we would be seperated in the new location but we always ended up finding each other.
First it was a cinema, then a house with a bunch of people we apparently knew and then like a giant park
I was looking for her in the park but as soon as i saw her, i woke up.
Fuck
I've been single for a while now. Working on myself and such. I'm nowhere near where i want to be in life and i know getting into a relationship would make it...
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White butterflies #help
My friend told me that he had a dream and I was in it, where I was surrounded by white butterflies that were following me in a park similar To the park on GTA (idk Why it had to be grand theft auto where literally anything is possible). What does this mean I searched and it says it could mean death and disease and/or could mean a powerful transition like life changing news? Idk. #help
My friend told me that he had a dream and I was in it, where I was surrounded by white butterflies that were following me in a park similar To the park on GTA...
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Does anyone else fly in their dream by flapping their arms?
I used to be a swimmer, and I was pretty good with my butterfly stroke(and butterfly kick).
Sometimes when Im dreaming, I replicate the same movement of the buttetfly stroke and butterfly kick, and the harder I do it, the higher up I fly. And its really fun. Ive flown above my neighborhood.
Now that Im thinking of it, was it a dream? I dont know if I lucid dreamed it or if I just remember explicitly what my rooftop and surrounding areas look like.
Ive also done it a few times so I remember it clearly.
I’ve been trying to sleep with the intention of flying but I haven’t experienced it as of lately.
I used to be a swimmer, and I was pretty good with my butterfly stroke(and butterfly kick).
Sometimes when Im dreaming, I replicate the same movement of the...
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I have no idea about what I just dreamt.
In my dream I am at a hotel a very big one. I am running away from someone. I never actually see them but I can hear them call my name in a deep masculine voice. When the voice would called for me it was like if he was growling. In order to escape him I climbed the stairs of the hotel. Remember the stairs were very fancy made of gold. At one point I jump from one set of stairs to another. I am climbing and I come to a halt, there is a beige tarp covering a metal fence on that floor almost like a quarantine. That is when I hear the voice call out to me from behind the fence. Telling me to go in there but from underneath their hand goes through the fence, grabbing my ankle. I grab the rails to keep me from falling backwards. I finally ask the voice why should I and what is going on? Before they could answer somebody begins pulling them back from the other side. They grip the fence telling me to run.
I fled from there and running back down. Now I could hear someone running after me. Quickly run down to the main floor of the hotel (which is full of people) I book it for the elevator and I get in and try to close the doors. Some old man put his cane through the closing doors opening them. I push the button to close the doors and again the elderly man puts his cane through the closing door. Now this elderly man had no plan on getting on the elevator he was just doing it out sheer entertainment. So I decided to get out of the elevator and I notice that people are acting quite strange.
I can’t explain how they were acting but I crossed to the other side of the room to see a very attractive couple a long haired brunette man and longed haired blond women making out, naked laying in a red chaise lounge chair with gold painted wood. A small crowd surrounded them entrance, I tried to go around them as I did the male called out to me and the crowd split in the middle and told me to come close. Without thinking my body moved closed to them. They both get up and approach me. The man asks me where was I going while the woman gets behind me gently caressing my face. I tell him that I was just walking trying not to disturb them or the crowd. The woman giggles in my ear as the man now embraces me whispering in my ear telling me how they were waiting for me. I am now hella confused because how did they even know me because I had no clue who they were. I ask them who they were if I knew them and the woman speaks and says I prayed to her once and the man says that I sang to him once. I still have no idea who they are. They ask me to join them and I politely declined. They told me that they would be here waiting for me if I ever changed my mind.
I turn around and walked away from there. And I notice there are some people are running around around and for some odd reason others in orgys. I walked avoiding bumping into anyone until I was up against a wall. Then a person grabbed my hand dragging me into a beautiful garden. With many rose bushes filled with blooming red and pink roses. We hide behind a big tree. The person has short Carmel colored hair with a caramel-like skin tone. They stared at me for a while as if figuring out something before warmly smiling at me. They asked me if I was okay and told them I was fine. I asked them what was going on and why everyone was acting so odd. They told me that it could be something in the air that is causing people to act strange but they knew for sure that the plants in the garden made return back to normal. They told me that they were glad they weren’t the only normal one here and patted my head. I have no idea why but when they patted my head I felt like there was butterflies in my stomach and felt warm. I asked them where they were from and they said Kansas. Then all of a sudden they embrace me, it felt as if an explosion of warmth spread thru my body. They tell me not to forget them and then I woke up.
I have never had a dream like this. And it was very chaotic to say the very least. I have no idea what any of this means.
In my dream I am at a hotel a very big one. I am running away from someone. I never actually see them but I can hear them call my name in a deep masculine...
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