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What are character dreams about?

Characters are the actors within the dream. A dream character can be a person, animal, or being. The DreamWell Dream Dictionary is based upon insights from 1,200 dream symbols in over 200,000 dreams. Let’s see what the data has to say about character dreams.

The word cloud above shows the words that are specifically associated with character dreams. These are the words that make character dreams unique compared to all other dream symbols. Just examining the graph and reading the words of character dreams can be illuminating about show characters affect our dreams. Be sure to check out the example character dreams at the bottom of the page.

The circular bar chart above shows how characters in a dream will affect dream content as compared to other dream symbols. Higher bars indicate that character is more related to the specific symbol in the graph. Lower bars indicate that character is less related to the specific symbol in the graph. Specifically, character dreams have more aggressive acts than 99.7% of dream symbols, more vision than 99.7% of dream symbols, and more friendly acts than 99.6% of dream symbols. On the other hand, character dreams have less unnamed people than 97.1% of dream symbols, less family than 95.2% of dream symbols, and less strangers than 95.1% of dream symbols. Notably, dreams of characters tend to contain much more emotion than other dreams. Also, character dreams are sexy! Dreams of characters are more related to sex than 90% of all of the other dream symbols. Sex in a dream can be great, confusing, digusting, or be just sex. It all depends on the context. Don't assume anything about dreams of characters. Explore what is there. Furthermore, dreams of characters are friendly! These dreams have more friendly interactions than 80% of all of the other dream symbols. Friendly dreams can be great. They involve people helping other people, expressing love, and just being good to one another. Also, dreams of characters are aggressive! Character dreams have more aggressive interactions than 80% of all of the other dream symbols. Aggressive interactions involve attacks, arguments, yelling, pushing, killing, and so on. These dreams can be scary, stressful, or confusing. But, as with all dreams, it is best to explore what is there. Why was there aggression? Was it really aggression? Finally, character dreams contain a lot of love. Love is a wonderful human emotion! Even if love occurs within a dream, it is still love and it can feel wonderful. Since love is such a powerful emotion, it is best to be curious about it. Every dream is unique. These are general patterns observed in an analysis of over 200,000 dreams. This analysis is a tool to help you make sense of your dreams. It is best to look at the differences. See how your dream of characters is different than dreams of characters in general.

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of dreams have characters

How common are character dreams?

86% of dreams have the characters symbol within the dream. That's about 1 out of every 1 dreams. Considering all the dream symbols, it is frequent.

Identification

How are character dreams identified?

This symbol is identified by the presence of other dream symbols such as nephews, babies, imposters, faires, pirates, grim reapers, pythons, dolls, frogs, princesses, sharks, R2-D2, cowboys, vampires, ghosts, puppies, classmates, turtles, spouses, and hippos.

Most related

What is most related to dreams of characters?

Characters dreams are notable because they have substantially more verbs, strangers, movement, family, places, general movement, communicating, speaking, peers, unnamed people, senses than 95% of other dream symbols.

Least related

What symbols least related to dreams of characters?

Characters dreams are notable because they have substantially less teeth falling out, mudslides, Uranus, abscesses, Ethiopia, calluses, Somalia, recurring dreams, fever dreams, compensation, heat waves than 95% of other dream symbols.

Deep dive into character dreams

Get an overview of characters, emotions, places, events, dream events, and senses in character dreams.

Who is in dreams of characters?

Who is in dreams of characters?

Dreams of characters are much less related to animals, less related to insects, and much less related to unnamed people.

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What are the emotions in dreams of characters?

What are the emotions in dreams of characters?

Dreams of characters are much more related to happiness, much more related to sadness, and much more related to grief and sorrow than dreams in general.

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Where do dreams of characters take place?

Where do dreams of characters take place?

Character dreams are much more related to home, much more related to work, and much more related to human-made places than dreams in general.

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What happens in dreams of characters?

What happens in dreams of characters?

Character dreams are much more related to aggressive acts, much more related to friendly acts, and much more related to sex than dreams in general.

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How do dreams of characters related to the type of dream it is?

How do dreams of characters related to the type of dream it is?

Dreams of characters are more related to nightmares, more related to bad dreams, and much more related to weird dreams than dreams in general. They are less related to lucid dreams and less related to recurring dreams.

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How do dreams of characters related the senses?

How do dreams of characters related the senses?

Character dreams are much more related to hearing, more related to smelling, and much more related to vision than dreams in general.

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How can you make sense of characters in dreams?

Character dreams are frequent. Among other things character dreams are very emotional, sexual, friendly, aggressive, about love, sorrowful, very social, about death, focused on sounds, focused on touch, focused on vision, containing lots of movement, containing lots of thinking of thoughts, very vivid, usually thought of as weird dreams, work dreams, and full of hate. Do you think this is true for your dream of characters? How might your dream of characters be different?

All dreams have meaning

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

Look for the differences

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

Return to the feelings

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

Examples of dreams of characters

Reading dreams is one of the best ways to understand dream symbols. Even though the DreamWell Dream Dictionary is based upon data, it is grounded in the experience of reading thousands upon thousands of dreams. We invite you to read examples of character dreams for yourself. These dreams are actual dreams people have had. As result, they may contain racist, sexist, violent, or otherwise offense language and imagery. This can be true even for character dreams. Read at your own risk.

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