What are compensation dreams about?
Compensation has a couple of different senses. First, compensation often refers to the total amount of money or benefits one receives for employment or payment in exchange for work. Second, people can compensate for perceived shortcomings. For example, someone could overwork if they feel they are less intelligent than their coworkers. Someone could pay extra attention to clothing if they feel they are less than attractive. In both cases, the person would be compensating for a perceived shortcoming. 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 compensation dreams.
The word cloud above shows the words that are specifically associated with compensation dreams. These are the words that make compensation dreams unique compared to all other dream symbols. Just examining the graph and reading the words of compensation dreams can be illuminating about show compensation affect our dreams. Be sure to check out the example compensation dreams at the bottom of the page.
The circular bar chart above shows how compensation in a dream will affect dream content as compared to other dream symbols. Higher bars indicate that compensation is more related to the specific symbol in the graph. Lower bars indicate that compensation is less related to the specific symbol in the graph. Specifically, compensation dreams have more hatred than 99.0% of dream symbols, more smelling than 98.3% of dream symbols, and more confusion than 98.0% of dream symbols. On the other hand, compensation dreams have less health events than 99.5% of dream symbols, less love than 98.8% of dream symbols, and less family than 98.7% of dream symbols. Notably, dreams of compensation 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. Additionally, dreams of compensation are full of grief and sorrow. Of course not every compensation dream is sorrowful, these type of dreams have more grief and sorrow than 90% of other dream symbols. It can be heart breaking to experience grief and sorrow during a dream. This can remind us of painful events in waking life. Alternatively, the grief and sorrow within a dream can feel so real. Furthermore, dreams of compensation lack characters. Compensation dreams contain less characters than 90% of all other dream symbols. This is notable because dreams help us make sense of our social relationships. Dreams almost always contain characters. The lack of characters in compensation might mean something. Additionally, dreams of compensation are smelly! These dreams have more words related to smells than 90% of all other dream symbols. This is surprising because smelling in dreams is relatively uncommon. Finally, dreams of compensation have more words related to taste than 90% of all other dream symbols. In other words, compensation dreams involve the perceptions of taste. Taste is a chemical sense. We taste things through interacting and touching the object we are tasting. 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 compensation is different than dreams of compensation in general.
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How common are compensation dreams?
0.01% of dreams have the compensation symbol within the dream. That's about 1 out of every 8,000 dreams. Considering all the dream symbols, it is exceedingly rare.
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of dreams have compensation
How common are compensation dreams?
0.01% of dreams have the compensation symbol within the dream. That's about 1 out of every 8,000 dreams. Considering all the dream symbols, it is exceedingly rare.
How are compensation dreams identified?
This symbol is identified by words like compensation. This symbol is part of the summary dream symbols of things.
How are compensation dreams identified?
This symbol is identified by words like compensation. This symbol is part of the summary dream symbols of things.
What is most related to dreams of compensation?
What symbols least related to dreams of compensation?
Compensation do not especially suppress any other dream symbols.
What symbols least related to dreams of compensation?
Compensation do not especially suppress any other dream symbols.
Deep dive into compensation dreams
Get an overview of characters, emotions, places, events, dream events, and senses in compensation dreams.
Who is in dreams of compensation?
Dreams of compensation are more related to unnamed people than dreams in general. They are less related to animals, much less related to insects, and much less related to fantastic beings.
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Who is in dreams of compensation?
Dreams of compensation are more related to unnamed people than dreams in general. They are less related to animals, much less related to insects, and much less related to fantastic beings.
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What are the emotions in dreams of compensation?
Dreams of compensation are much more related to happiness, much more related to grief and sorrow, and much more related to confusion than dreams in general. They are less related to fear, much less related to pain, and much less related to fun.
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What are the emotions in dreams of compensation?
Dreams of compensation are much more related to happiness, much more related to grief and sorrow, and much more related to confusion than dreams in general. They are less related to fear, much less related to pain, and much less related to fun.
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Where do dreams of compensation take place?
Compensation dreams are much more related to home, much more related to work, and more related to magical places than dreams in general. They are less related to transportation and less related to schools.
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Where do dreams of compensation take place?
Compensation dreams are much more related to home, much more related to work, and more related to magical places than dreams in general. They are less related to transportation and less related to schools.
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What happens in dreams of compensation?
Compensation dreams are much more related to friendly acts and more related to sex than dreams in general. They are much less related to aggressive acts, less related to disasters, and much less related to eating and drinking.
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What happens in dreams of compensation?
Compensation dreams are much more related to friendly acts and more related to sex than dreams in general. They are much less related to aggressive acts, less related to disasters, and much less related to eating and drinking.
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How do dreams of compensation related to the type of dream it is?
Compensation dreams are less related to nightmares, much less related to recurring dreams, and much less related to sleep paralysis.
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How do dreams of compensation related to the type of dream it is?
Compensation dreams are less related to nightmares, much less related to recurring dreams, and much less related to sleep paralysis.
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How can you make sense of compensation in dreams?
Compensation dreams are exceedingly rare. Among other things compensation dreams are friendly, sorrowful, lacking characters, focused on smells, focused on taste, lacking movement, work dreams, frustrating, and full of hate. Do you think this is true for your dream of compensation? How might your dream of compensation 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.
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 compensation in dreams can be a key to understanding its meaning.
Look for the differences
The DreamWell dictionary provides information on how each dream symbol appears in dreams in general. Finding how experience compensation 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 compensation in dreams. See how you feel about compensation now, in your waking life.
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 compensation in dreams. See how you feel about compensation now, in your waking life.
An interpretation of compensation dreams
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. Paying compensation in a dream can connect with a situation where you owe something or feel like something is owed to you. It could relate to actual compensation, such as paying off a loan or other monetary obligation, but think beyond material compensation. You might feel that you’re owed for something you have done, such as a favor. For example, you watch the kids for your spouse and feel that you’re owed time to do something personal. You then dream about it as contributing to the Save The Children Fund. Compensation is linked to guilt, grievances, and shortcomings. For example, a person might compensate for losing her temper by acting extra nice, or compensate for a shortcoming by excelling in another area. You then dream about it as financial compensation. Compensation has another sense of the word used in psychology, meaning “go equally far in the opposite direction.” It’s the psyche’s way of creating balance and reflecting the ego back to itself. If you think you’re the smartest person ever, your dreams will show you as the biggest idiot. If you think you’re stupid, you might dream about a genius, and in it see your own capacity for it. Beauty is compensated by ugliness, and vice-versa. Arrogance is compensated by dreams about being humiliated. Compensation plays out in dreams through absurd imagery and situations. Characters are grossly disfigured and out of whack. Situations are outrageous. Settings can be like scenes out of Dante’s Inferno, completely unreal. Reactions are out of proportion. These are signs of compensation. For example, a grown man dreams about being surrounded by women with massive breasts and exposed genitals. At first, it’s like heaven for him, but as the dream continues the woman change form into ones he knows, such as his sisters. He sees a nun acting like a whore and flashing her goods. The woman leer at him and act like harpies. It makes him extremely uncomfortable as he’s forced to view scenes that sicken him, like the character Alex in A Clockwork Orange, strapped down and his eyes pried open. The dream shows him the ridiculousness of his attitudes toward women and his sexualization of them. He’s a grown man who’s like a teenage boy who can’t stop sneaking peeks into the girls’ locker room. Psychological compensation is a function of the self-regulating psyche, a hard push on the other end of the scale, showing that strong measures are needed to rein in the ego. If the ego doesn’t get the message, well, things only get worse. Another meaning of compensation comes into play when your dreams compensate for something missing in your life. Are you feeling lonely? Your dreams might give you a friend. Feeling sexually unfulfilled? Here’s a dream lover for you. Need inspiration? Your dreams will conjure a muse. Missing a loved one who died? You can dream about the person in the most vivid and realistic ways and wake up feeling like the hole in your heart has been plugged. See also: Beggars, Bullies, Egos, Heroes, Mirrors, Money, Psyches
An interpretation of compensation dreams
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. Paying compensation in a dream can connect with a situation where you owe something or feel like something is owed to you. It could relate to actual compensation, such as paying off a loan or other monetary obligation, but think beyond material compensation. You might feel that you’re owed for something you have done, such as a favor. For example, you watch the kids for your spouse and feel that you’re owed time to do something personal. You then dream about it as contributing to the Save The Children Fund. Compensation is linked to guilt, grievances, and shortcomings. For example, a person might compensate for losing her temper by acting extra nice, or compensate for a shortcoming by excelling in another area. You then dream about it as financial compensation. Compensation has another sense of the word used in psychology, meaning “go equally far in the opposite direction.” It’s the psyche’s way of creating balance and reflecting the ego back to itself. If you think you’re the smartest person ever, your dreams will show you as the biggest idiot. If you think you’re stupid, you might dream about a genius, and in it see your own capacity for it. Beauty is compensated by ugliness, and vice-versa. Arrogance is compensated by dreams about being humiliated. Compensation plays out in dreams through absurd imagery and situations. Characters are grossly disfigured and out of whack. Situations are outrageous. Settings can be like scenes out of Dante’s Inferno, completely unreal. Reactions are out of proportion. These are signs of compensation. For example, a grown man dreams about being surrounded by women with massive breasts and exposed genitals. At first, it’s like heaven for him, but as the dream continues the woman change form into ones he knows, such as his sisters. He sees a nun acting like a whore and flashing her goods. The woman leer at him and act like harpies. It makes him extremely uncomfortable as he’s forced to view scenes that sicken him, like the character Alex in A Clockwork Orange, strapped down and his eyes pried open. The dream shows him the ridiculousness of his attitudes toward women and his sexualization of them. He’s a grown man who’s like a teenage boy who can’t stop sneaking peeks into the girls’ locker room. Psychological compensation is a function of the self-regulating psyche, a hard push on the other end of the scale, showing that strong measures are needed to rein in the ego. If the ego doesn’t get the message, well, things only get worse. Another meaning of compensation comes into play when your dreams compensate for something missing in your life. Are you feeling lonely? Your dreams might give you a friend. Feeling sexually unfulfilled? Here’s a dream lover for you. Need inspiration? Your dreams will conjure a muse. Missing a loved one who died? You can dream about the person in the most vivid and realistic ways and wake up feeling like the hole in your heart has been plugged. See also: Beggars, Bullies, Egos, Heroes, Mirrors, Money, Psyches
Examples of dreams of compensation
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 compensation 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 compensation dreams. Read at your own risk.
