What are cave dreams about?
This symbol is identified by words like cave.
Caves in dreams is a uncommon dream symbol, occuring in about 0.8% of dreams. That's about 1 out of every 100 dreams.
What are the major highlights of cave dreams?
Caves is an interconnected dream symbol. Having caves in a dream changes the dream more than most other dream symbols.
What symbols more present in dreams of caves?
Cave dreams are notable because they have substantially more talismans, jungles, elements of earth, gems, underground, mountains, natural things, tyrants, descending, rocks, tunnels, donkeys, temples, Costa Rica, natural elements, wizards, monster, cliffs, armor, movement, Kenya, entrances, constructing, creatures, verbs, spirals, chakras, trapping, pyramids, islands, cemeteries, walls, elves, mazes, other fantastic beings, baboons, Chile, elements of water, diamonds, journeys, mermaids, hole, violet, skeletons, general movement, ascending, forests, maps, cocoons, water, dinosaurs, beaches, dragons, volcanos, rainforests, things, ambushing, exits, deserts, and opponents than 95% of other dream symbols.
What symbols less present in dreams of caves?
Cave dreams are notable because they have substantially less boyfriends, former partners, funerals, seeing a dead grandmother, Donald Trump, relationship events, epidemics, seeing a dead relative, romantic partners, surgery, childhood homes, best friends, instagram, bathrooms, dating, toilets, waking life, walmart, flirting, kissing, injecting, recurring dreams, weddings, places, natural places, seeing a dead father, hospitals, crushes, social media, mothers, apartments, depression, the morning, cold sweats, lunch, and girlfriends than 95% of other dream symbols.
How does the dream symbol of caves affect the different aspects of a dream?
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Who is in caves dreams?
Overall, dreams with caves are less related to characters in dreams. Specifically, dreams of caves are more related to animals, more related to insects, and much more related to fantastic beings than dreams in general. They are less related to different roles, less related to family, and less related to romantic partners.
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Who is in caves dreams?
Overall, dreams with caves are much more related to places in dreams. Specifically, dreams of caves are much more related to natural places and more related to magical places than dreams in general. They are less related to home and less related to human places.
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How do caves in dreams related to other dream phenomenon?
Overall, dreams with caves are aren't really related to dream events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of caves are less related to waking life.
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How can you make sense of caves in dreams?
Cave dreams are uncommon. Among other things cave dreams are positively interconnected.
Do you think this is true for your dream of caves? How might your dream of caves 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 caves 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 caves in dreams. See how you feel about caves now, in your waking life.
What are possible meanings for dreams of caves?
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
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 caves
Read some real dream reports of cave 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.
Maybe a pact with the devil?
So it starts normal with me getting comfy in my bet. It was a normal summer day, sleepin in my room. In the dream, there was a creature that was sitting on a chair in my room. At some point I asked it what was he doing here. It stood up and everything startrd burning. My room transformed itself in hell (the generic image with a burning cave). Now with the fire all around, the creature had horns, goat legs and a muscular human torso. His voice was deep and raspy. He began speaking to me something that I can't remember but was very important. It was a question of yes or no. Also when he was speaking, there was a very eary noise of people screaming in agony, rusted metal being scratched and many other strange noises. Despite this, I wasn't scared at all, and was very happy seeing him, that made him visibly glad. Now the curious part. I answeared with a confident "yes", everyting stoped, the fire the noise and him.
The thing transformed into a suited man with a goaty holding a contract in his hand, that I signed.
He put it into the suitcase. Told me "Thank you for your cooperation and we will meet when it is time to meet. And then he left through the door.
Normally, I would belive it's a bad dream, but I woke up covered in sweat in a cold room in the middle of summer with a feeling that something important really happened.
This is not fiction and it scares me, if someone has some ideas or stories, please share them. I will gladely read them. Thanks.
So it starts normal with me getting comfy in my bet. It was a normal summer day, sleepin in my room. In the dream, there was a creature that was sitting on a...
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Archon beneath the ice in Antarctica
Last night I had a dream that I immediately remembered when I woke up around 530 this morning and it kept me up for a bit considering it before I went back to sleep...
I was looking over a world map and each continent was designated with the number of individuals living there and a sort of probability percentage of time that it would take for a full "awakening" of that continent. Antarctica had the lowest amount of people and the highest percentage for a short time period of awakening. I remember feeling that I wasn't interested in being that cold but wanting to visit nonetheless.
I was immediately there taking some kind of tour and we were walking through a gaping cavern with a huge hole that went deeper than could be seen. We were walking on a path with rails, something like you would see in a typical commercial cave tour. When we came out from here we were walking in the snow next to a very long line (couldn't see the end) of another hole. It was straight forward in front of us and we were walking along the side. There were efforts going on to widen the hole as we walked. People were digging at the sides to do this.
Very suddenly I giant black hand with red lines (almost as though it was a burning coal) reached out from the hole and began killing those working at widening it by sweeping up and down, smashing, causing destruction all along one side. I was standing near and ready for my end when I looked in the hole and saw an eye in a very gigantic face looking at me. Then I was picked up by the hand and set back down to find a smaller (bigger than me but superhuman sized) bluish hued man standing beside and slightly behind me. He looked just like the being in the hole except much smaller and bluish. No hair. He was standing as though very proud and aware of his own power. I said something to him out loud, I could see my lips moving, but then I heard myself still speaking when my lips had closed. I immediately thought we were communicating telepathically. He asked me what I said, and I repeated the first part, but then he said no, what did I say after that. I had a feeling he was playing with me, that he'd "heard" exactly what I'd thought but was forcing me to own that I'd thought it. It had something to do with me being attracted to his power but feeling bad about it because he was trapped and it seemed odd to me to feel that way.
He said he has chosen me to marry and that I basically had no choice and he'd punish me for anything he decided was an offense to him that I did. I almost pushed him on this but thought it wasn't wise since I didn't know what that "punishment" would entail. We found ourselves in another cavern during this time and there was a priest there who I realized had been the one giving the "tour".
As we were climbing out of the cavern, the "archon" mysteriously missing at this point, it came to me that the priest had known all along what would happen and had basically made a deal with this entity to give me to him, but not just me, everyone. I accused him and he said he had to.
Then we were in a town and there was mass panic with people running around in various states of undress. Various articles of clothing had just disappeared from their bodies and for some reason they were extremely and abnormally distressed about this.
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I have ideas about what it means but any thoughts are welcome!
Last night I had a dream that I immediately remembered when I woke up around 530 this morning and it kept me up for a bit considering it before I went back to...
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Egpytian Man with Green cat eyes
So I had this dream about 2 or 3 weeks ago and I can't stop thinking about it because it was so strange and so realistic, I mean it was just such a vivid dream. Well here it is -
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It starts off with me walking out of this cave like structure that just had the most beautiful view of the desert sunset it was amazing. I walked out with some people, I don't know who exactly because I didn't see their faces but I knew they were my friends. Anyways we walk out and a random thought comes into my head "Snake" now it was weird because it was like a Star Wars movie where Obi talks to luke, like I could hear a voice say it. As soon as I walk out I see an Egyptian looking man with like a small turban thing I don't know to explain it. The weirdest thing of all is we made eye contact and he had the brightest green CAT eyes, I mean these things were bright! I felt no sense of fear though it was just calmness we made eye contact as I walked by and he said the word: Snake.
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None of the people I was with noticed him in the dream only me. I asked my friend "Did you see that man too?" and my dream kind of faded into a different dream. The same desert view but this time I was sitting on a couch looking out of a giant glass sliding door from a living room out into the sunset in a beautiful modern home in the desert, with a girl friend of mine and it was like we were together and I remember us both dying of laughter? It was odd, but then I woke up.
So I had this dream about 2 or 3 weeks ago and I can't stop thinking about it because it was so strange and so realistic, I mean it was just such a vivid dream....
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Dream Message that has stayed with me for 10 years.
Someone once told me
"A dream you never forget is actually a message."
About 10 years ago I had a dream where I was shown the New World.
It started in an unground cave filled with a dark green substance. The top of the liquid was similar to car oil on water and I knew it wasn’t natural.
Then I saw bodies, all different races, all naked, disintegrating in the pool.
Along the wall was a stair case made from the cave wall that climbed up towards a light, but the stairs were also cover by living people.
People who simply did not have the will to stand. They laid there and only moved downward towards the liquid.
I heard a woman start to panic. She started begging for her life! But the people who surrounded her became annoyed and started yelling at her to shut up.
Soon, the screams stopped. All was silent except for the occasional sound of another person going into the liquid.
At the top of the stair case, at the entrance to the outside was a single soldier. I knew he was of Asian decent. His uniform was also dark green from head to toe and he held an AK47.
My view point was like a moving crane. I was outside now.
Desert. Brown sand. Everything was dead.
Not far off from the cave was a small village. The homes were shacks. The men were are all tanned skinned. They sat out front of these homes on old chairs talking.
Inside the home I could hear a woman screaming. It sounded as if she was being raped.
A young boy came to the door way and saw me. His eyes grew wide, but then a large man's hand covered the boy's mouth and pulled him inside, slamming the door shut.
After this I was full of fear and I wanted to run.
My dream skips to bring me to a place of refuge! A hill with an armed European guard at the top watching the controlled crowed come and go. Everyone was dressed poorly but seemed to be happy. All races!
I went to walk past and something about my appearance tipped off the guard. He called me an "Undesirable" and asked to see my papers.
When I had none to show him I played it off calmly. Just then 2 teenage girls ran past me and a hand landed on my shoulder.
"She is with me." an older white man with a beard said with a thick Austrian accent.
This was acceptable to the guard who allowed me to pass through down the other side of the hill.
I thanked the gentleman who knew I wasn't from there but he said to me, "Come, I must show you."
I thought going down the hill I would find paradise, considering how happy everyone was.
To my dismay what I found was a modern city completely destroyed.
It felt lawless. And yet there was a sense of peace. The gentleman with the beard told me "This was better from where I came. So the people here are happy, because they are alive." He explained they were free, but poor. He then took me to a metal barrel with a fire burning inside. His family was there. They had no home and lived on the sidewalk. But they had each other.
I remember asking where the wealthy lived.
I was not allowed to see it.
Even in my dream.
Because I was an "Undesirable" like them. But he said where they lived was good. They had food. They had clothing. They had each other.
I remember his last words when he told me to go.
"Go, tell the world what is to come."
But I didn't.
Who would believe me.
After all, it was just a dream. . . right?
Someone once told me
"A dream you never forget is actually a message."
About 10 years ago I had a dream where I was shown the New World.
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Can anyone interpret this dream?
Doing work on house. Mom warns about dangerous hole. While working I fall into a moderately deep hole and when I try climbing out the earth breaks apart and I fall deeper and deeper into the ground. I panic. I eventually fall into a place just beneath the house, i shout Heeey up to where I fell from. It was so deep I didn't know if they heard me. I contemplate waiting there because my sister and father saw me fall. I'm in a dim cave .Theres a path that I think leads to the house and I follow it and encounter small creatures human shaped, maybe a foot tall that are viruses that are supposed to be lethal to anyone who eats them but are harmless if you pet them they go to sleep and leave you alone. I dont know how I know this. I put five of them to sleep and continue on this path. I enter a room or basement full of piles of books. They're dust covered but in good shape. I am curious but continue on. I come into the house and find everyone including my father who watched me fall, in bed. They were asleep and no one had gone for help even though I was sure they did. I confront my father and ask him why and he gives no explanation. I for a second am angry but then just accept it. Can anyone interpret this?
I have no issues with my family or personal life. The dream was incredibly vivid and I'm curious, any ideas are welcome
Doing work on house. Mom warns about dangerous hole. While working I fall into a moderately deep hole and when I try climbing out the earth breaks apart and I...
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