Dreams of caves are more related to animals, more related to insects, and more related to fantastic beings than dreams in general. They are less related to peers, less related to family, and less related to romantic partners.

Cave dreams are less related to sadness, less related to grief and sorrow, and less related to embarrassment.

Cave dreams are much more related to natural places and more related to magical places than dreams in general. They are less related to home, less related to work, and less related to schools.

Dreams of caves are more related to friendly acts and more related to disasters than dreams in general. They are less related to sex.

Cave dreams are more related to recurring dreams and more related to good dreams than dreams in general. They are less related to vivid dreams and less related to sad dreams.

Dreams of caves are more related to smelling than dreams in general. They are less related to taste.

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.

The DreamWell dictionary provides information on how each dream symbol appears in dreams in general. Finding how experience caves in dreams can be a key to understanding its meaning.

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 caves in dreams. See how you feel about caves now, in your waking life.

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. A cave can symbolize a passage into your inner depths, especially if the dream involves exploring a cave or going into one for an initiation or ritual. The cave is your route to finding out who and what you are deep inside yourself. Oftentimes the dream starts off scary, dark, and mysterious, and eventually leads to contact with powerful inner figures—human or animal—once doubt and fear are overcome. These dreams are journeys into the unconscious mind, which is much vaster and deeper than the conscious mind and can only be understood in terms of comparisons such as an island compared to the ocean. When you venture down into a cave, deep into your unconscious, you encounter fantastic and mythical beings representing your archetypes: See: Unconscious minds They can tell you secrets about yourself and life itself. When dreams use caves to symbolize a path into the unconscious, the atmosphere feels charged. If the light source is a candle or torch, it’s almost certain to represent your consciousness. See: Candles On the other hand, a cave can symbolize isolation, withdrawal, or hibernation. When associated with the body, a cave can symbolize a mouth, throat, womb, or vagina. In Freudian tradition, caves are often associated with the birth canal and a desire to join with a mother figure. They’re interpreted as expressing infantile wishes and desires. While this interpretation fits in some cases, the idea has been oversold. Throughout human history caves have been places of protection and safety, and in dreams they can symbolize the place in your mind, or a physical place such as a bedroom, to which you retreat. They’re also places of initiation into the mysteries of life, the soul, and adulthood, making them ready-made symbols for learning and mastering the mysteries of life. For example, a young man or woman dreams about meeting a wise elder in a cave as a way of visualizing finding that capacity within him- or herself. Sometimes, the elder figures will first appear as mature animals. A dream about living in a cave can depict depression or hopelessness. It’s a picture of how you feel. Stepping out of a cave into sunlight can symbolize emerging from a period of depression or isolation. See also: Animals, Bears, Candles, Caves, Depression, Mouths, Necks, Uteruses, Unconscious minds, Vaginas