What are computer dreams about?
Computers are now nearly indispensable pieces of technology. Computers allow us to work, to connect with our friends and family, and to entertain ourselves. This symbol is identified by words like computer.
Computers in dreams is a relatively uncommon dream symbol, occuring in about 1.4% of dreams. That's about 1 out of every 75 dreams.
What are the major highlights of computer dreams?
Computers is a normal dream symbol. Having computers in a dream changes the dream in the same way as most other dream symbols.
What symbols more present in dreams of computers?
Computer dreams are notable because they have substantially more photography, El Salvador, desks, emails, games, mice, scientists, movement, calendars, messages, machines, Kuwait, Bangladesh, mathematics, general movement, televisions, microphones, libraries, Ecuador, playing, spying, messes, cameras, menus, destruction, rooms, Congo, constructing, boxes, youtube, cubes, bankruptcy, verbs, maps, social media, terrorists, reading, Austria, borders, exits, letters, Korea, Iraq, descending, places, keys, the future, opponents, communicating, objects in space, tests, music, machine guns, baboons, pinecones, United States of America, things, widows, students, and cartoons than 95% of other dream symbols.
What symbols less present in dreams of computers?
Computer dreams are notable because they have substantially less boyfriends, seeing a dead mother, seeing a dead relative, kittens, technology, recurring nightmares, recurring dreams, cages, black eyes, romantic partners, snakes, falling in love, love, strangling, flirting, best friends, chasing, parasites in body, former partners, cancer, acid, the night, wolves, pregnancy, rabbits, bodies of water, body changes, sex, pigs, pain, beaches, insights, calves, backwards, dead ends, hamsters, antlers, hairdressers, decapitation, fetuses, yellow eyes, roaches, raccoons, pregnancy tests, precognitive dreams, pastors, panthers, seeing a dead pet, seeing a dead friend, relationship events, swimming, and funerals than 95% of other dream symbols.
How does the dream symbol of computers affect the different aspects of a dream?
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Who is in computers dreams?
Overall, dreams with computers are less related to characters in dreams. Specifically, dreams of computers are less related to animals and less related to romantic partners.
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What are the emotions in computers dreams?
Overall, dreams with computers are less related to emotions in dreams. Specifically, dreams of computers are less related to grief and sorrow, less related to embarrassment, and less related to pain.
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Who is in computers dreams?
Overall, dreams with computers are aren't really related to places in dreams. Specifically, dreams of computers are much more related to work than dreams in general. They are less related to transportation and less related to natural places.
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What happens in computers dreams?
Overall, dreams with computers are less related to events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of computers are less related to aggressive interactions.
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How do computers in dreams related to other dream phenomenon?
Overall, dreams with computers are more related to dream events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of computers are 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 nightmares.
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How can you make sense of computers in dreams?
Computer dreams are relatively uncommon. Among other things computer dreams are normally interconnect.
Do you think this is true for your dream of computers? How might your dream of computers 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 computers 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 computers in dreams. See how you feel about computers now, in your waking life.
What are possible meanings for dreams of computers?
Computers have many uses, equating to many possibilities for symbolism. They’re used for work, school, entertainment, communication, productivity, social life, and in potentially troublesome activities such as viewing porn, setting up affairs, and making or receiving threats.
The possibilities for symbolism expand when you consider the analogies that use computers and related technologies to describe people and situations. For example, a “computer geek” is someone with high computer-related skill and an obsessive focus on technology, a type of person often viewed as socially and sexually lacking. Those associations are ripe for use as symbolism.
On the other hand, hackers have a glamorous image as renegades sticking it to The Man.
Social connections are a sort of internet and are facilitated through computer networks. Dreams can use computers and smart phones (mobile computers) to illustrate the connections between people.
The movie The Matrix is an analogy for artificial reality created by advanced technology, where people play second fiddle. The modern world is like a virtual reality because of its intense focus on technology, and technology is integral in the lives of so many people. In some cases, the virtual world is their world, and the real world is more like an illusion or bad joke. Dreams can use computers and electronic gadgets to tell stories about living in a world that revolves around technology and can seem unreal.
For example, a teenage girl who spends most of each day on her computer dreams that it starts talking to her on its own. At first, she likes what it says and thinks of it as a friend. Then things get weird when it drops dark hints and won’t shut up. She threatens to throw the computer away, and in response it shows her pictures of her changing clothes, taken by the built-in camera, and plays audio recordings of her intimate conversations. It threatens to publicly release the videos and audio recordings and ruin all her relationships.
The metaphor here is clear. The computer has taken over her life and she doesn’t know how to disconnect from it. Most of her personal relationships are conducted through computers and gadgets, and she fears that less time on it means the loss of those relationships, some of which are conducted entirely online. She feels blackmailed to continue allowing her life to be dominated by the computer.
A similar dream features the dreamer finding naked videos of herself on her smartphone that she didn’t take. The dream is amplifying subconscious fears that her phone could be hacked—or is already hacked, and some creep is secretly watching and recording her. The same scenario could be used to connect with a feeling of being personally compromised or blackmailed.
A computer can be used as an analogy for the brain. Like a computer, the brain has short-term and long-term memory, processing cores, network paths, circuitry, and video and audio processors. Dreams can visualize internal bodily processes that occur while sleeping, including activity in the brain, and a computer is a great analogy. See: Letters
Erasing files on a computer can symbolize forgetting memories, or changing your internal programming. For example, a young adult man dreams that he time-travels back to when he was a child and sees his father delete the game programs he spent so much time playing and replace them with learning programs. He equates the games with why he’s a young adult going nowhere in his life. Replacing the games is not just a wish that his father had helped more when he needed it most, it’s a way of showing the young man that it’s not too late to provide his own guidance like a father, and change his programming. Games are OK, but his primary focus should be on learning.
The special skills that go into programming and engineering computers is like astrophysics to some people. In which case, computers can be used as symbolism for something they don’t understand, something they rely on other people to take care of, or something they don’t want to know.
See also: Emails, Facebook, Letters, Robots, Subconscious, Time travel, Youtube
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 computers
Read some real dream reports of computer 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.
Oh no, my anima is "extremely exhausted"?
I dreamed I was at my computer with my mom, I think the context could have been that I just got a new setup and all the components worked other than the mouse? Either way, I had two mouses, probably the old one and the new one, and we were trying to make the new one work, plugging it in and out, looking at the case, etc. At one point I was ok with the old as well but my mom kept trying, but I didn't stop her as I didn't have a problem with it. At one point she gave up and told me how now she's exhausted and how "I should know that right now she has a lot on her head" or something like that, or how she's extremely stressed lately, and in the dream I felt genuine pity when she said that.
So it's the mature anima telling me my anima is fucked? oh oh
And the mouse, it's the main way to control the computer, they keyboard too, but the mouse first. So it's the ego, computer could be the whole psyche ("operating" system), and idk what changing between two mouses meant
I dreamed I was at my computer with my mom, I think the context could have been that I just got a new setup and all the components worked other than the mouse?...
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I outsmarted my dream.
I had a dream last night where I was at school and the computer I was on had gotten a virus and all sorts of lude things kept popping up and everytime I tried and rollback it didn't work.
In my dream I seemed to teleport to my computer at home only to find it also had a virus. I remember thinking almost lucidly "that's impossible they have two separate hard drives" in which I suddenly snapped out of it and woke up
I had a dream last night where I was at school and the computer I was on had gotten a virus and all sorts of lude things kept popping up and everytime I tried...
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Strange sensations, broken teeth, and shattered turquoise.
I am a male, 29, Hispanic/Caribbean/Polish hybrid, currently recovering from chronic depression. I am a carpenter and aspiring writer. Strongly considering reentering the dating scene, currently single of course.
Basic context: in my dream I am some kind of mercenary or special agent who works with a small group of others. My ability is that I can become incorporal like a ghost and possess the bodies of others. Just as often I find myself rewiring and doing work in my own body.
The environment is all metal, like some kind of high tech research station or even a space station, though I cannot recall a specific detail concerning that. I work with my real life brother, a friend, and an older, statuesque woman who wears glasses. Together we are doing something important.
The meat of the issue: at some point as we are working, we are tasked with recovering a person of interest who is at risk. Our enemy is undefined, and the dream consistently implies that our adversaries in general are not constant, depending largely on what we are doing.
We recover this person, a girl wearing a purple wig and wierd contact lenses who is some kind of online streamer. She has no idea what's going on but is relatively compliant when we go to get her, which is a good thing because our escape from her location is one of the very few moments in the dream where I can remember our team being shot at, and us having to just run for our lives.
We get away, have to keep her nearby until the job is done and the job continues. She can't really help us, but she's funny, a little weird, but charming. Eventually (long story short), we secure what we need to secure to end the job, and her safety is no longer at risk so we plan to take her back to where we found her soon.
We hit it off well in casual conversation and mutual interest, and so when we conclude that its safe to take her back, it occurs to me that I could ask her out. I decide to do so the next time I'm alone with her (my friends are great but theyr also assholes). I ask if she'd like to go out and see a movie or some such (I say it more awkwardly than I thought I would, even though I'm not really feeling anxiety) and she agrees.
I'm feeling alright, definitely up beat. I end up going to another room to work on a computer and tell.my friend who is there that I have a date after the job is done. He's happy, I'm happy, and then...
One of my fucking teeth becomes loose in my mouth. It feels really really real, and I reach in and touch it, finding it very loose in my gums. I push a little and it pops right out. Well fuck me, I have a gap tooth grin now. Definitely not something I'm trying to have with my first date in nearly a decade.
I try to put it back for a moment but stop a second later when I realise that isn't going to work, I need a dentist. My friend is basically in shock. Just as I'm going to leave to start doing something about this, I feel a pressure in my mouth and then a crack. SO REAL!!!!
I open my mouth and fund another, larger tooth has SHATTERED in my mouth, what the fuck?! I begin spitting tooth fragments out into my palms, but after a second I realize that the fragments are;
1. Too numerous.
2. Too thick
3. All blue and marbled like Turquise stone.
I open my mouth again and go to a mirror to look at the tooth and see that it, or at least what's left of it, is turquise, a cracked flattened bass of turquise stone. I keep spitting it out and even pull the rest of the base out of my mouth gingerly. My hands are almost FULL of broken shards of blue stone.
This makes me panic, and that panic wakes me up.
I would have dismissed this dream normally, but so much about it stuck with me and so much of it was SO vivid. I feel silly for asking honestly, but, does this mean something?
I am a male, 29, Hispanic/Caribbean/Polish hybrid, currently recovering from chronic depression. I am a carpenter and aspiring writer. Strongly considering...
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false awakening / "don't worry, you're just in a trance"
This happened in January, but I wrote it down as soon as I woke up and I feel that I remember it quite well.
It started as a regular dream, which was quite vague and undefined. I was with friends at a Halloween themed party, and there was something to do with canal boats (I live near a canal). Totally usual dream stuff.
Then I was suddenly on a familiar street, and I saw a man in a suit, a trench coat, and a fedora. He said "you should come with me now." and I think he held out his hand.
As soon as he said that, I "woke up". He was kneeling or sitting on the floor next to my bed and he was talking to me. I can't remember exactly what he said cause at this point everything felt so vague. It was something along the lines of "don't worry, you're just in a trance", and he said something about computers. He said some more things, but I can't remember what. His voice was very calm. The feeling was so strange, I don't know what to compare it to. I imagine it was like being very drunk, except I don't drink so I can't be certain on the accuracy of that comparison.
Anyone experienced anything similar?
This happened in January, but I wrote it down as soon as I woke up and I feel that I remember it quite well.
It started as a regular dream, which was quite...
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I had a nightmare about AI bees pumping serotonin into your brain.
To begin, my boyfriend and I were sitting in a computer café where this advert appears, talking about these brand new AI bees released by the government. They were sent out in order to pump your brain silly with serotonin, meaning you'll be happy until you die of natural causes. However, in the dream it was common knowledge that these bees were also used in order for the government to control your mind and create an army (because dream logic - you gotta assume the worst, or at least in my case).
My boyfriend leaves the advert open, allowing one of the bees to crawl out of the screen, which lands on the temple of his head. Immediately, his eyes become vacant like he's staring off into space. A load of other bees pour out of the computer screen and land on all the other people in the café, myself included. As I'm screaming "get off of him!!!!!" to this little robot bee on my boyfriend's head, I start to feel myself succumb to the power of this bee on my head (which is strange because it's a dream, but I guess I really wanted to play along with the story).
We all march out of the café and end up down this long strip of road, which I believe was a walk-way at my old middle school. We all line up and one of the government officials informs us "do not attempt to remove the bees, this can cause a seizure, and you will die." So for the rest of our lives we only ever felt happiness, no other emotion, which was driving some people crazy. There were others who forcefully ripped the bees away from their heads, which of course killed them. The only way we could communicate our real feelings was by saying "the old me would have hated that" or "old me isn't too happy about this", as we could hear ourselves in our heads trying to escape.
To begin, my boyfriend and I were sitting in a computer café where this advert appears, talking about these brand new AI bees released by the government. They...
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