What are choosing dreams about?
The act of choosing something is to observe, think, and then to decide. One can choose between objects. One can choose between plans. This symbol is identified by words like choose, judge, prefer, etc.
Choosing in dreams is a very common dream symbol, occuring in about 11% of dreams. That's about 1 out of every 9 dreams.
What are the major highlights of choosing dreams?
Choosing is a very interconnected dream symbol. Having choosing in a dream substantially changes the nature of the dream.
Choosing dreams are friendly
Dreams of choosing have greater increase of friendly interactions within the dream than most other dream symbols. While not all dreams of choosing will be friendly and they can also contain aggressive interactions, dreams of choosing are more likely to have friendly interactions than most other dream symbols. Other symbols that are like this include accepting, Congo, cannons, magnifying glasses, princes, ammunition, embracing, signs, teenagers, and camels.
Dreams of choosing are aggressive
Choosing dreams have more aggressive interactions than a lot of other dream symbols. This doesn't mean that all choosing have aggressive interactions or only aggressive interactions. It simply means that having choosing in a dream increases the probability this dream contains aggression. Other symbols that are like this include strangling, mafia, warriors, beginnings, breaking, choosing, panic, armor, gas, and robbing.
Choosing dreams are associated with lucid dreaming
Dreams of choosing are much more related to lucid dreaming than all other dream symbols. Lucid dreams are dreams in which you are aware that you are dreaming. Of course, not all dreams of choosing are lucid dreams. But dreams of choosing are more related to lucid dreams than 90% of all other dream symbols. Other symbols that are like this include loss of speech, winning the lottery, chimneys, wizards, time, exhaustion, dismissals, magnifying glasses, paralysis, and time travel.
What symbols more present in dreams of choosing?
Choosing dreams are notable because they have substantially more boredom, exits, movement, judges, desserts, Cameroon, emaciation, general movement, snack, menus, accepting, greeting, places, El Salvador, abandoned places, wilderness, journeys, arriving, pressing buttons, accountants, going, egos, discovering, entrances, disguises, jury members, characters, revenge, ignoring, libraries, Kuwait, east, things, tunnels, authors, paths, qualities, ditching, Bolivia, escaping, abandonment, bartenders, senses, employees, rental cars, microphones, exhaustion, lobbies, courts, communicating, climbing, hunger, safety, magnifying glasses, harpoons, borders, friendly interactions, food in general, grooms, and maps than 95% of other dream symbols.
What symbols less present in dreams of choosing?
Choosing dreams are notable because they have substantially less recurring nightmares, recurring dreams, precognitive dreams, cancer, verbs, general thinking, seeing a dead grandmother, choosing, seeing a dead relative, teeth falling out, insights, crows, funerals, eclipses, snakes, nightmares, seeing a dead mother, former partners, scorpions, kittens, seeing a dead father, the night, lions, miscarriages, kissing, boyfriends, fevers, loss of speech, birds, childhood homes, Algeria, romantic partners, Donald Trump, Bangladesh, calluses, collective unconscious, Estonia, Haiti, Kenya, Madagascar, ovaries, pheasants, Malaysia, Somalia, uranus, sleep paralysis, paralysis, calves, owls, mouths, body changes, teeth, ravens, thanking, giving birth, panthers, crushes, and cats than 95% of other dream symbols.
How does the dream symbol of choosing affect the different aspects of a dream?
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Who is in choosing dreams?
Overall, dreams with choosing are aren't really related to characters in dreams. Specifically, dreams of choosing are more related to different roles, more related to distant people, and more related to close people than dreams in general.
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What are the emotions in choosing dreams?
Overall, dreams with choosing are more related to emotions in dreams. Specifically, dreams of choosing are more related to sadness, more related to embarrassment, and more related to confusion than dreams in general.
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Who is in choosing dreams?
Overall, dreams with choosing are aren't really related to places in dreams. Specifically, dreams of choosing are more related to home, more related to work, and more related to human places than dreams in general.
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What happens in choosing dreams?
Overall, dreams with choosing are more related to events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of choosing are more related to aggressive interactions, more related to friendly interactions, and more related to sex than dreams in general.
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How do choosing in dreams related to other dream phenomenon?
Overall, dreams with choosing are more related to dream events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of choosing are much more related to lucid dreams, more related to sleep paralysis, and more related to sleeping than dreams in general. They are less related to recurring dreams.
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How can you make sense of choosing in dreams?
Choosing dreams are very common. Among other things choosing dreams are very postively interconnected, friendly, aggressive, and are associated with lucid dreaming.
Do you think this is true for your dream of choosing? How might your dream of choosing 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 choosing 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 choosing in dreams. See how you feel about choosing now, in your waking life.
Examples of dreams of choosing
Read some real dream reports of choosing 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 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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So uh, I just peed the bed.
I'm a 30 year old man. I was having a dream where my brother and I were waiting in line at a supermarket. We had to make the flight and it looked like we'd be running late. I decided to go to the bathroom and started peeing. I immediately woke up and realized I had actually fucking peed. Not alot, but enough where it got onto the sheet through my pants.
What the fuck lol.
I'm a 30 year old man. I was having a dream where my brother and I were waiting in line at a supermarket. We had to make the flight and it looked like we'd be...
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I prefer sleeping over real life
Is it just me who prefers dreaming to real life? I have chronic migraines and chronic fatigue syndrome so maybe that's why. Sleep is my happy place where I can have whatever I want and do what I like, then I wake up and realise real life can never match the feeling I get in my sleep. If there was a pill that put me in a coma and let me dream until the day I die I would take it.
Is it just me who prefers dreaming to real life? I have chronic migraines and chronic fatigue syndrome so maybe that's why. Sleep is my happy place where I can...
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What's everybody's earliest dream that you can remember?
Scary or thrilling is preferred, but anything is fine as long as it's significant to you.... Mine was about a knock off Ronald McDonald that wore brown yellow and white instead of the usual red yellow and white. He had nasty teeth and made a weird noise that I can't spell. Kind of like a laughing gurgling sound. I would be chased around the outside of a skyscraper on a ledge only about 2 feet wide. When I would get to a corner I would have to slow down to round the corner and that's where he would always almost get me.
Scary or thrilling is preferred, but anything is fine as long as it's significant to you.... Mine was about a knock off Ronald McDonald that wore brown yellow...
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Why is typing anything in a dream so hard?
So I had an unusually long dream today and
towards the end, I received a message on my phone, but it immediately went away. I tried using the phone to respond to it, but it was glitching etc. Later I decided to text a friend to ask about it and the letters on the keyboard were all messed up and it felt like texting while really drunk. Every word looked like gibberish and autocorrect would mess up the words even more. It was really frustrating, has that happened to anyone else?
So I had an unusually long dream today and
towards the end, I received a message on my phone, but it immediately went away. I tried using the phone to respond...
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