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What are chest dreams about?

The chest is the part of the body that is between the neck and the abdomen. It is surrounded by the ribs and skin. It contains the heart and lungs. This symbol is identified by words like chest and torso.

Chests in dreams is a relatively common dream symbol, occuring in about 2.7% of dreams. That's about 1 out of every 35 dreams.

What are the major highlights of chest dreams?

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

Dreams of chests are aggressive

Chest dreams have more aggressive interactions than a lot of other dream symbols. This doesn't mean that all chests have aggressive interactions or only aggressive interactions. It simply means that having chests in a dream increases the probability this dream contains aggression. Other symbols that are like this include jury members, hunger, friendly interactions, barns, dead ends, masks, climbing, general body parts, nuclear bombs, and Bangladesh.

Dreams with chests might be a nightmare

Dreams of chests are frequently associated with nightmares. Of course dreams that contain chests might not be a nightmare. Plenty of dreams with chests are not nightmares. But, dreams of chests are more related to nightmares than 80% of all other dream symbols. Other symbols that are like this include stabbing, eyes, opened my eyes, black eyes, death, paramedic, brains, kitchens, creatures, and fantastic beings.

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

Explore different elements related to dreams of chests

Who is in chests dreams?

Overall, dreams with chests are aren't really related to characters in dreams. Specifically, dreams of chests are more related to insects and more related to romantic partners than dreams in general. They are less related to different roles and less related to close people.

Animals

the same as usual

Insects

more than usual

Different roles

less than usual

Fantastic beings

the same as usual

Distant people

the same as usual

Close people

less than usual

Family

the same as usual

Romantic partners

more than usual
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What are the emotions in chests dreams?

Overall, dreams with chests are more related to emotions in dreams. Specifically, dreams of chests are more related to grief and sorrow, more related to embarrassment, and more related to confusion than dreams in general.

Happiness

the same as usual

Sadness

the same as usual

Grief and sorrow

more than usual

Embarrassment

more than usual

Confusion

more than usual

Fear

more than usual

Pain

much more than usual

Hatred

the same as usual

Fun

the same as usual

Love

more than usual
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Who is in chests dreams?

Overall, dreams with chests are less related to places in dreams. Specifically, dreams of chests are less related to human places, less related to transportation, and less related to natural places.

Home

the same as usual

Work

the same as usual

Human places

less than usual

Transportation

less than usual

Natural places

less than usual

Magical places

the same as usual
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What happens in chests dreams?

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

Aggressive interactions

more than usual

Friendly interactions

the same as usual

Sex

the same as usual

Disasters

less than usual
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How do chests in dreams related to other dream phenomenon?

Overall, dreams with chests are much more related to dream events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of chests are much more related to nightmares, more related to recurring nightmares, and much more related to sleep paralysis than dreams in general.

Lucid dreams

the same as usual

Nightmares

much more than usual

Recurring dreams

the same as usual

Recurring nightmares

more than usual

Sleep paralysis

much more than usual

Sleeping

more than usual

Waking life

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

Overall, dreams with chests are more related to senses in dreams. Specifically, dreams of chests are more related to hearing, more related to smelling, and more related to vision than dreams in general.

Hearing

more than usual

Smelling

more than usual

Taste

the same as usual

Vision

more than usual

Touch

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

Chest dreams are relatively common. Among other things chest dreams are normally interconnect, aggressive, and nightmare.

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

Examples of dreams of chests

Read some real dream reports of chest 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.

Eagle eating blue jay?

Dreamed that everything around me looked like stained glass, and there was bright light shining through everywhere and I saw an eagle eating a blue jay. The picture froze with the blue Jay’s tail sticking out of the eagle’s mouth and then a Native American man appeared with the same image on his chest and said that this symbol was important. I was only asleep for 15 minutes as I fell asleep during a zoom lecture. I feel like this is super heavy with symbolism but I’m not familiar with any of it. Can anyone help me?

Dreamed that everything around me looked like stained glass, and there was bright light shining through everywhere and I saw an eagle eating a blue jay. The...

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I Had a Nightmare That Has Messed Me Up for Days Now. I Think I Went to a Multiversal Death Hub.

Hello all!
About 2 weeks ago I had a very existential lucid nightmare that I can’t get out of my head. It’s to the point where it has been effecting my waking life. I need some outside help making sense of what it could mean.

For context, I have existential issues involving what my purpose in life is or even if I am supposed to exist at all.

So it began in a sort of black void with a warm colored aurora in the sky. Directly in front of me there is a hooded man with his left eye missing that looks like an older grizzled version of me. Same look, voice, eye color, scar on our upper lip, everything. He is looking into a circular stone fountain looking thing with a bonfire positioned on a raised platform in the middle.

Around him in every direction as far as I could see were hundreds of thousands of gravestones. All of them had a vague “endings” written on them. (For example, “The Swiss Ending”, “The Atomic Ending”, “The Fantastical Ending”, etc.) Some were filled in while most had empty holes in front of them.

I approached the man in the middle and politely asked who he is and where I was. He simply responded with this,
“You know where we are, this is where we all go to die. Now find your grave, I’ll help you out when you get there.”
I responded with,
“My apologies, pal, I’m not dead yet. Who did you say you were again?”
“Does it matter? We’re all the same here anyway.”
That is when it occurred to me. All these graves were for different versions of me. From different realities or universes I don’t know. I was fairly certain I wasn’t dead and this was all just a bad dream so I decided to explore and possibly see which gravestone in this labyrinthine graveyard was mine.

As I walked, I started to feel a tug from my chest, like my heart was being pulled in a certain direction. I followed the pull for what seemed like ages. Eventually the graves just stopped except for this one gravestone sitting alone just outside of where the rest of them lay. As I approached my soul felt like it was it was sitting next to a cozy fireplace, so I had the feeling that this grave was mine.

I eventually got close enough to read it had it not been for the dust and debris that covered it. It looked old and dilapidated yet it still had an open plot in front of it. I brushed off the dirt covering the gravestone and what I read chilled me to my soul.
“The Bad Ending”

The old man came from beside me.
“What an unfortunate soul this one. Feel real bad for him, you know?”
“I think that’s me.”
“What? No, it couldn’t, he’s not-“
He looked at me, his face grew grim.
“Oh shit, you’re not supposed to be here yet!”
He then grabbed my face and I felt my brain shock like it had just been struck by Thor himself.

Then I woke up. Sweating, crying, and white-knuckled. It’s absolutely fucked with my mind ever since.

Hello all!
About 2 weeks ago I had a very existential lucid nightmare that I can’t get out of my head. It’s to the point where it has been effecting my waking...

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Dream about sex with little sister (16m)

My sister is 9. I don’t remember a lot of it but I do remember that it seemed pretty realistic and vivid. I feel really terrible about it and guilty. I know it didn’t happen on purpose but I still can’t help but wonder if subconsciously im some nasty incestual pedo. Just had to get this off my chest I guess. Could it mean anything and how do I prevent this from happening in the future?

My sister is 9. I don’t remember a lot of it but I do remember that it seemed pretty realistic and vivid. I feel really terrible about it and guilty. I know it...

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I think I went to real afterlife place in my dream

When I was a child about 25 years ago I had this dream. That time I had no knowledge of afterlife, death etc.

So in this dream I was standing in this vast flat ground which had I think brown sand bordered by a rocky hill and on the other side was a huge calm river. There was a looong line of people starting beyond the rocky hill and till the river. For a brief moment I walked by the line and saw people's faces. They did not see me, they did not have any expression in their faces and stood in a droopy stance but I could sense some sadness. I don't think the line was moving very quickly. On the river, a single boat was taking one person each time across.

Near the line I saw a gazebo. Some beings took me there. I was not afraid of them because they looked like masked people (from the mask dance at monasteries, you can google mask dance of Sikkim to know what the beings looked like). They all were doing silly things and I was laughing my heart out which made them very happy. Until one tall being with a "Heman" like hair cut was shaking his head in a funny way while I was laughing and I noticed is stick like torso. At that moment I realised that these were not mask men but real creatures and that scared me to wake.

When I was a child about 25 years ago I had this dream. That time I had no knowledge of afterlife, death etc.

So in this dream I was standing in this vast...

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I dreamed I was in love, and woke up with a part of me missing.

I have a co-worker who I get along with extremely well. He is handsome, funny, kind and smart. During our shifts together, we text non-stop when we’re not able to talk, we text outside of work and have great conversations. I’ve never told him how I felt, but I like him.. a lot. Anyways, I had this dream a couple weeks ago. It was him and I, feeding each other food and drinking wine. We were cuddled up on the couch and he gave me a kiss on the forehead, we looked at each other and our eyes met. It felt like the kind of love you see in movies. Nothing else mattered but us at that point in time. The dream jumped to us laying in bed, looking out the window at the sunset with him rubbing my arm and my head burrowed in his chest. But this time when I went to look up at him, I woke up. I immediately realized it was a dream and my heart broke. I haven’t been able to look at him the same because I don’t think he likes me back. My heart aches because I realized if he told me he liked me and wanted to be in a relationship with me, I don’t think I could ever be unhappy again. He makes my stomach flutter and my hands shake. I wish I had the courage to tell him how I feel.

I have a co-worker who I get along with extremely well. He is handsome, funny, kind and smart. During our shifts together, we text non-stop when we’re not able...

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