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What are cannibal dreams about?

This symbol is identified by words like cannibal.

Cannibals in dreams is a very rare dream symbol, occuring in about 0.1% of dreams. That's about 1 out of every 1,000 dreams.

What are the major highlights of cannibal dreams?

Cannibals is a negatively interconnected dream symbol. Having cannibals in a dream reduces the presence of other dream symbols.

Dreams of cannibals are aggressive

Cannibal dreams have more aggressive interactions than a lot of other dream symbols. This doesn't mean that all cannibals have aggressive interactions or only aggressive interactions. It simply means that having cannibals in a dream increases the probability this dream contains aggression. Other symbols that are like this include abandonment, climbing, The Holocaust, slow motion, nuclear bombs, jails, possessing, Guatemala, lost things, and missiles.

Dreams with cannibals might be a nightmare

Dreams of cannibals are frequently associated with nightmares. Of course dreams that contain cannibals might not be a nightmare. Plenty of dreams with cannibals are not nightmares. But, dreams of cannibals are more related to nightmares than 80% of all other dream symbols. Other symbols that are like this include fingerprints, falling, killing, hell, unpleasantness, fantastic beings, windows, rooms, monster, and kitchens.

Cannibal dreams are scary

Dreams containing cannibals are more related to fear than 90% of all other dream symbols. Of course each dream is unique and this does not mean that all dreams of cannibals are about fear. It simply means that if you dream of cannibals, this dream has a great chance of being scarier than most other dream symbols. Other symbols that are like this include bird cages, dead bodies, recurring nightmares, opened my eyes, locks, summoning_demons, body parts, trapping, losing a body part, and opening.

What symbols less present in dreams of cannibals?

Cannibal dreams are notable because they have substantially less sleeping, confusion, boyfriends, happiness, tranquility, sleep paralysis, pregnancy, amazed, hospitals, drunkenness, drinking, creeping and crawling, couches, old friends, seeing a dead relative, shooting, hugeness, blue, and bedrooms than 95% of other dream symbols.

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

Explore different elements related to dreams of cannibals

Who is in cannibals dreams?

Overall, dreams with cannibals are more related to characters in dreams. Specifically, dreams of cannibals are much more related to different roles, more related to fantastic beings, and more related to family than dreams in general. They are less related to insects, less related to close people, and less related to romantic partners.

Animals

the same as usual

Insects

less than usual

Different roles

much more than usual

Fantastic beings

more than usual

Distant people

the same as usual

Close people

less than usual

Family

more than usual

Romantic partners

less than usual
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What are the emotions in cannibals dreams?

Overall, dreams with cannibals are less related to emotions in dreams. Specifically, dreams of cannibals are much more related to fear and more related to hatred than dreams in general. They are much less related to happiness, less related to sadness, and less related to grief and sorrow.

Happiness

much less than usual

Sadness

less than usual

Grief and sorrow

less than usual

Embarrassment

the same as usual

Confusion

much less than usual

Fear

much more than usual

Pain

less than usual

Hatred

more than usual

Fun

less than usual

Love

less than usual
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Who is in cannibals dreams?

Overall, dreams with cannibals are less related to places in dreams. Specifically, dreams of cannibals are more related to magical places than dreams in general. They are less related to home, less related to work, and less related to human places.

Home

less than usual

Work

less than usual

Human places

less than usual

Transportation

less than usual

Natural places

the same as usual

Magical places

more than usual
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What happens in cannibals dreams?

Overall, dreams with cannibals are less related to events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of cannibals are more related to aggressive interactions than dreams in general. They are less related to sex.

Aggressive interactions

more than usual

Friendly interactions

the same as usual

Sex

less than usual

Disasters

the same as usual
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How do cannibals in dreams related to other dream phenomenon?

Overall, dreams with cannibals are less related to dream events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of cannibals are much more related to nightmares than dreams in general. They are less related to lucid dreams, less related to recurring dreams, and less related to recurring nightmares.

Lucid dreams

less than usual

Nightmares

much more than usual

Recurring dreams

less than usual

Recurring nightmares

less than usual

Sleep paralysis

much less than usual

Sleeping

much less than usual

Waking life

much less than usual
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How do cannibals in dreams related the senses?

Overall, dreams with cannibals are less related to senses in dreams. Specifically, dreams of cannibals are more related to smelling and more related to taste than dreams in general. They are less related to hearing, less related to vision, and less related to touch.

Hearing

less than usual

Smelling

more than usual

Taste

more than usual

Vision

less than usual

Touch

less than usual
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How can you make sense of cannibals in dreams?

Cannibal dreams are very rare. Among other things cannibal dreams are negatively interconnected, aggressive, nightmare, and scary.

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

Examples of dreams of cannibals

Read some real dream reports of cannibal 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.

I need to share this dream I just had a few minutes ago

So I have never posted in this sub but I knew Reddit would have a place for this, I hope I’m in the correct spot. It was a very clear dream and I remember parts in great detail which doesn’t happen for me often. I decided to take some quick notes right away after waking up because it was so strange. Here is a complete version.

I was at this new apartment complex that I’ve been working at as a laborer in real life. Im up on the top floor and I overheard someone talking about eating human flesh and there’s a small group of people, sort of shadowy and I don’t think I could see their faces at all. The door of their apartment was wide open and I went inside to see a pot of human meat chunks.

I decided to go to the meeting room where the higher ups had apparently ordered pizza so I could tell my foreman. This old guy named Rob was there as well as a younger guy who is the foreman. I also noticed my old manager from 10 years ago at a pizza place I worked. She looked directly at me and ignored me. I said “Nicole I need to talk to you” and I pulled her aside to tell her about the cannibals upstairs. She said it probably wasn’t human flesh and this other girl who I also couldn’t remember a face, said it was the new people who moved in from Serbia or Lithuania or something and also agreed with Nicole that it wasn’t human meat. I knew that wasn’t the case and that it was, in fact, human meat.

I got up and left to go clean another apartment and I had somehow gotten pudding stains all over the new carpeting that I was freaking out about. I was vacuuming around them and I left the room. I go outside and the carpet installer had a huge (normal sized) tiger. He grabbed my arm and I freaked out. He wouldn’t let go for a while and when he did, I had this small purple bruise type mark on my arm.

At some point after that, I decided to leave work because my shift was over. It was dark outside for some reason and I got in my car and left. As I’m turning a corner two men walked up and tried to open my passenger door. I was holding a box cutter in my hand for some reason. They didn’t get the door open and I continued driving but I heard them laughing about me having a “knife”. I remember thinking they thought I was going to use it to protect myself and that I actually was just holding it, blade out and everything for no reason before they had tried opening the door.

At this point I decided I’d better go back to work to clean up the pudding stains and there was a cleaning crew from some other new company already working in the room and I hoped they didn’t see the stains. I helped a big boss guy move metal shelves off the wall and he carried me around for a minute or something. We finished cleaning the room without anyone seeing the stains and I left work. I looked at the time and I remarked to old guy Rob that I had worked three hours over today. We were walking back to our cars and I said to him “ ya know man, some people are weird” and he said something along the lines of “ I just don’t even know”. He seemed annoyed that I said that just like he would in real life.

As I’m walking to my car I see a cement egg about the size of laundry basket and instinctively new the tiger was inside of it. As I got closer the egg sort of unfolded and he came rushing out at me like an excited dog and playfully pushed against me like excited dogs do.

At that point I was woken up by my uncle calling to tell me he had fixed my car that he was working on for me and I could come pick it up anytime. What do you guys think of this? I’m not really into dream interpretations but if people do that here, be my guest. Most of this dream was very detailed and felt very different for me.

So I have never posted in this sub but I knew Reddit would have a place for this, I hope I’m in the correct spot. It was a very clear dream and I remember parts...

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Cannibal rats

In my dream, which was pretty uneventful, my pat rat (which I do t have in real life) escaped on top of the small tree, when I was shaking a tree to get him down, other dead and half eaten rats were falling down. There were dozens of half eaten dead rats on the ground, I climbed that three and saw big box full of weird flash and rats, the rats were eating flash and then each other and throwing them out of box. I didn't feel afraid or anything just interested and relieved that my pat rat wasn't there. What do you think this might mean ?

In my dream, which was pretty uneventful, my pat rat (which I do t have in real life) escaped on top of the small tree, when I was shaking a tree to get him...

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Jesus ate people too NSFW

Dreamed that I had a cannibal cousin, but it was a secret until she decided to tell the rest of the family, and everyone was shocked and appalled, then someone said “but Jesus are people too” and they magically decided that it was okay since Jesus did it too and they’re all Catholics

Dreamed that I had a cannibal cousin, but it was a secret until she decided to tell the rest of the family, and everyone was shocked and appalled, then someone...

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Canibalism nightmare

I had a bizarre dream about cannibalism. There were 2 people, 1 man and 1 woman who entered a school at night. Strangely, I was no character. It was like I was there, but they didn't see me. There was 1 woman with children. This woman hid the children in a room and was caught by the male cannibal who ate a piece of her leg. The other cannibal woman took the girl's mother and ripped pieces off her back. I woke up just as the 2 victims found themselves trapped in a bathroom completely pale and drained knowing there was no way to escape or defend themselves. Can anyone help me understand this?

I had a bizarre dream about cannibalism. There were 2 people, 1 man and 1 woman who entered a school at night. Strangely, I was no character. It was like I was...

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Cannibalism?

I had a dream last night - it's the first time I've dreamt of anything quite like this

I'm really close with my cousin sister, she's a year younger than me and we haven't seen each other in quite some time (ever since the pandemic started) but we've maintained contact! And I love her so much, and I know she loves me too :)

So last night, I dreamt that she was a cannibal and was trying to take a bite out of my face (specifically my face) and I was sitting in a corner of a room, desperately trying to hold her back. I had my arms outstretched and on her cheeks, trying to shut her mouth and push her away. My mother (I think? but there was definitely another older family member there) was right there and she probably had a way to stop her if I could push my sister towards her, hence my efforts

But I couldn't and I felt scared. But she wasn't trying to eat the rest of me else she would've moved to my legs or outstretched arms - just my face. She didn't succeed, so I was never eaten.

I have NO idea what this means, and need help with possible interpretations.

TL;DR: I dreamt that my cousin sister who I love very much, turned into a cannibal and tried to eat my face. I struggled with her trying to hold her back and I felt scared. She never managed to take a bite ot of me tho.

I can give more context if you'd like to ask more questions! Thank you :)

I had a dream last night - it's the first time I've dreamt of anything quite like this

I'm really close with my cousin sister, she's a year younger than me...

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