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What are candle dreams about?

This symbol is identified by words like candles.

Candles in dreams is a very uncommon dream symbol, occuring in about 0.4% of dreams. That's about 1 out of every 250 dreams.

What are the major highlights of candle dreams?

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

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

Explore different elements related to dreams of candles

Who is in candles dreams?

Overall, dreams with candles are less related to characters in dreams. Specifically, dreams of candles are more related to fantastic beings than dreams in general. They are less related to different roles.

Animals

the same as usual

Insects

the same as usual

Different roles

less than usual

Fantastic beings

more than usual

Distant people

the same as usual

Close people

the same as usual

Family

the same as usual

Romantic partners

the same as usual
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What are the emotions in candles dreams?

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

Happiness

more than usual

Sadness

the same as usual

Grief and sorrow

less than usual

Embarrassment

less than usual

Confusion

the same as usual

Fear

more than usual

Pain

less than usual

Hatred

the same as usual

Fun

the same as usual

Love

the same as usual
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Who is in candles dreams?

Overall, dreams with candles are less related to places in dreams. Specifically, dreams of candles are much less related to work, less related to transportation, and less related to natural places.

Home

the same as usual

Work

much less than usual

Human places

the same as usual

Transportation

less than usual

Natural places

less than usual

Magical places

less than usual
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What happens in candles dreams?

Overall, dreams with candles are aren't really related to events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of candles are more related to disasters than dreams in general. They are less related to aggressive interactions.

Aggressive interactions

less than usual

Friendly interactions

the same as usual

Sex

the same as usual

Disasters

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

Overall, dreams with candles are aren't really related to dream events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of candles are more related to sleep paralysis and more related to sleeping than dreams in general. They are less related to lucid dreams and less related to recurring dreams.

Lucid dreams

less than usual

Nightmares

the same as usual

Recurring dreams

less than usual

Recurring nightmares

the same as usual

Sleep paralysis

more than usual

Sleeping

more than usual

Waking life

the same as usual
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How do candles in dreams related the senses?

Overall, dreams with candles are aren't really related to senses in dreams. Specifically, dreams of candles are more related to smelling, more related to taste, and more related to touch than dreams in general.

Hearing

the same as usual

Smelling

more than usual

Taste

more than usual

Vision

the same as usual

Touch

more than usual
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How can you make sense of candles in dreams?

Candle dreams are very uncommon. Among other things candle dreams are normally interconnect.

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

What are possible meanings for dreams of candles?

A candle can symbolize your consciousness or anything that illuminates the dark of your mind, or your life, and helps you see the way: your logic, feelings, intuition, beliefs, values and so on.

Carl Jung had a dream about using a candle to see his way in the dark. Wind whipped at the flame and threatened to blow it out, but he protected it with his hands, knowing the importance of keeping it lit. The dream is about the “light inside,” the flame of consciousness, that helped Dr. Jung explore the depths of the mind.

Psychologically, a candle can symbolize self-examination—light is used to see, and “see” in a dream can mean “aware.” That idea extends to enlightenment and knowledge and even recognizing your own power. A candle, once lit, powers itself. In many myths, legends, stories, and songs, candles have a special power to bring out the best in people.

Spiritually, a candle sets a tone of reverence and creates a mood of peace, particularly in dream settings such as holy places. See: Altars

A candle can represent death and resurrection, because it can be snuffed and relighted many times. See: Death

Lighting a candle can symbolize the strength or courage to push forward into the unknown.

An unlit candle can symbolize unused potential, or disappointment.

A burnt-out candle, or one close to burnt out, can mean time is running out, or running out of energy or motivation, or declining health, or waning hope. It can mean that you miss someone important to you, especially after they pass away.

A candle burning brightly can symbolize high sex drive or sexual satisfaction. A dim candle can symbolize low sex drive or unmet sexual needs. See: Sex

A bright candle can symbolize a “bright idea” or potent intellect.

Candles on a birthday cake can symbolize transition into a new phase of life. It can refer to childhood and childlike feelings. A multitude of candles can be a recognition of advancing age.

Candles in a circle can symbolize your psyche or the wholeness within you. See: Circles

Candle burn. See: Fires

See also: Altars, Churches, Circles, Death, Fires, Psyches, Temples
Canoe – See: Kayaks
Candy – Candy in a dream can symbolize a forbidden pleasure. Drugs are sometimes called “candy,” and candy is associated with something indulged in secret, or forbidden. The idea extends to sex, vices, and temptations, not just drugs.

Like a cake, candy is used as a reward for children and sometimes for adults, and it has possibilities for symbolism related to reward or recognition.

A dream can use candy’s associations—weight gain, tooth decay, mood alteration, temptation, personal weakness—as symbolism.

For example, hiding candy can symbolize concealing a habit.

A man dreams about finding a dead man with his pockets stuffed full of candy. It’s a graphic expression of fear that his indulgences are going to ruin his health.

Another man dreams about dropping by a convenience mart and seeing doughnuts for sale, and one in particular attracts his eye, covered in powdered sugar, the picture of temptation. He walks past it several times, resisting the temptation, then finally gives in and eats it. He had the dream the night after being offered cocaine at a social gathering. He declined, but the longer the temptation persisted, the weaker his resistance became. Finally, he gave in. White powder on a doughnut, symbolizing the temptation of cocaine. What a dream!

In a different dream, the symbols are reversed. Doing cocaine symbolizes the temptation of a doughnut seen in a store. See: Cocaine

See also: Cocaine, Drugs, Eating, Food
Cannibal – See: Devouring, Eating

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 candles

Read some real dream reports of candle 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.

Recurring Dream About Problematic Skeletal Justice in the Other World

I was a clerk or trainee lawyer at a law firm. There was candle wax dripping on the floor. Very scholarly place. Maybe there was a globe. I was taken through a secret passage under a mat beneath the table and my legs were really achy and tired and I was told my three women that there was a problem no one was admitting to in the world. It involved the fact that people could not die anymore. A cure all medicine had been discovered and people were taking it and just not getting ill or killing each other perfect. No hate in the world. Perfect. But not so perfect was the fact that a side effect of the medicine was that each night you fell into a deep sleep and your skeleton came away from your body almost completely bloodlessly and was really brought to life. With a life of their own skeletons wreaked havoc some were good and some were bad some stole and set suburban houses on fire some were involved in government corruption and violent crimes. People woke up maybe feeling slightly achy but ok though they woke to disaster. The skeletons were drawn back each night to the warmth of humans and something that got repeated a lot was that they felt the cold. But of course the problem was if you arrest a skeleton then you have to arrest the human too. I mean too long apart could disable or kill a person and make their life difficult like obviously no walking or standing up without prompts. So what do you do when a criminal occupies the same space and body as an innocent? The three elders said they were off to make lunch in a grandfather clock and were quite mocking about how tasty lettuce and tomato and mayonnaise was (no bacon though, pork was banned) and how I could have none of it. It was prohibited and reaching some kind of alternative dispute resolution with the skeletons was now on my watch. Then they waved a fob watch like a hypnotist in my face and waved their hands and said “ooh!” They left me with a broom and a soggy paper brown bag for lunch which had two bones of a rib cage in. I found that really insulting and I said shut up what you have done here is degrading so I will leave after all. I tripped up on the door and it was quite embracing.

I felt guilty about my own prejudice because I probably said I hate darn skeletons they’re all tricks and liars...

I was a clerk or trainee lawyer at a law firm. There was candle wax dripping on the floor. Very scholarly place. Maybe there was a globe. I was taken through a...

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Emotional dream of my father

I had a dream that I was serving in the UK army with my father, I was the 249 saw man. After this last patrol we went on we ended up back at my grandmothers house, where I took a seat in the chair and my father took his uniform off and returned to his normal attire. He then gave me a hug, and another person a hug who was behind him standing, he gave me one last hug and you could tell the emotion behind it. He then used a bullwhip too put out a candle that was underneath the coffee table. Then rolled it up and looked at me with a tear in his eye. Then I woke up

* The song Space Cadet by the band Kyuss was playing the entire time.
Which I wasn’t listening to anything at the time I had fell asleep

It’s be nice to know some interpretations of this.

I had a dream that I was serving in the UK army with my father, I was the 249 saw man. After this last patrol we went on we ended up back at my grandmothers...

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I was raped in my dream

I am a bit disturbed about this dream I had a few nights ago. Tell me if you have any interpretation.

So I was in the parking lot of a train station, it was a little parking lot. It was at night and the only light there was, was coming from the streetlight and from the train station area. There were two long wooden tables on this parking lot and they were taking up most of the space. There was candles that weren’t light and a lot of pink and white flowers on the tables, I don’t remember if there was place settings. I arrived at the parking lot and I sat down immediately. I don't know what kind of event it was, probably just a diner with people from my school. Everyone was dressed formally, I was wearing a very formal black dress with flowers on it. There was two places left at the end of one of the tables where my friends were, the seats were facing the road. I sat down at the one on the left to talk to my friends more easily. So there was an empty seat to my right. A guy from my English class sat next to me without asking. We are not friends but he is friends with one of my close friend (she was facing us) and I kind of had/have a crush on him. His close friends were seating at the other table and there was still a couple of seats available there. He talked with me and not at all with our mutual friend. I don’t remember what we were talking about but we were whispering half of the time. Then out of the blue, I was on his lap and we were havig sex. He smiled during and after, even when I told him it wasn’t the right place. I kept on asking him to let me go but he wouldn't. People around didn’t seem to notice anything but once it was done they all knew about it. I didn’t feel assaulted but just embarrassed because there was people around. Then, the direction of the tables changed but the two of us were still facing the road. The two tables were a lot closer to each other. The guy started to talk to his friends that were at the other table about what had had happen, so he has yelling a bit. I remember him telling something about me sucking him. Then, our mutual friend started to lecture him so he would stop talking about it. I was silent all along. After the dinner, everyone got up and waited for their train. To get into the train there was a huge staircase with a burgundy carpet. I was at the bottom of the staircase with another friend because we both live not far from the train station. I said goodbye to my friends who were taking the train except the guy. Then my friend took me home. We were walking on the road, there was no car and no noise except our voices. This is when I woke up.

I am a bit disturbed about this dream I had a few nights ago. Tell me if you have any interpretation.

So I was in the parking lot of a train station, it was a...

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Crazy Dark Dream

I had this dream not too long ago. I think about it all the time, and I remember every detail about it.

I was sitting on the floor in a dark room lit only with a candle. I could see everything in the room. The furthest objects were just silhouettes and hard to make out. I was wearing an all black, fancy suit with a white shirt underneath and a red tie.

In front of me was a beautiful woman in an all red, fancy dress with frills. We stared at each other, just smiling. We were both doing something while sitting on the floor, and i looked down to see what it was. I was cutting off an unconscious man’s hand while she cut off his leg. We were both unfazed, smiling while blood pooled around him and splattered on our clothes.

Eventually, the man woke up and began to yell at us to stop. He screamed for help and began to cry while the woman reached forward with her large knife and stabbed his eye. I did the same to his other eye.

Another girl walked in later and turned on the lights, screaming in horror at the sight. I got up and chased her before repeatedly stabbing her in the back. I then began to cut her up as we were with the other man. Soon enough, my partner joined me and we resumed what we were doing.

That’s that. That’s all that happened. I was so surprised when i woke up. It was so strange, random, and real.

I had this dream not too long ago. I think about it all the time, and I remember every detail about it.

I was sitting on the floor in a dark room lit only with...

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Can anyone interpret my dream. LEGIT dream I had and I wanna know what it means

I dreamt that one day some friends and I were at an abandoned house and everything was dark and messy. As we were leaving i look on the ground and find a statue of a female Saint on the floor. I told all my friends to go on ahead without me and I lifted the statue off the floor. I look around and I placed the Saint statue on an altar that was surrounded by unlit candles. As I stood there in the dark I tried to turn on the candles. I had some matches but they wouldn't catch on fire. As I failed more and more I began to worship and pray saying things like "thank you for everything you've done for me" and etc. when eventually the match caught fire. With the match now on fire i lit up the first candles and then the match died. As I prayed more I was able to turn on morecandless but as I was about to turn on the last 10thcandlese I was woken up.

Note : I have not seen any matches in a long time, I am not a smoker of any sort, and don't know why they made it into my dream.

Note: My mother said she had a nightmare days before my dream. Idk

BTW I also posted this text on the Dream subreddit group chat to see more responses.

I dreamt that one day some friends and I were at an abandoned house and everything was dark and messy. As we were leaving i look on the ground and find a statue...

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