Dreams of computers are less related to animals and less related to romantic partners.

Computer dreams are more related to fun than dreams in general. They are less related to happiness, less related to grief and sorrow, and less related to embarrassment.

Computer dreams are much more related to work and much more related to schools than dreams in general. They are less related to natural places.

Dreams of computers are more related to friendly acts than dreams in general. They are less related to aggressive acts, less related to eating and drinking, and less related to death.

Dreams of computers are more related to lucid dreams, more related to sleep paralysis, and more related to weird dreams than dreams in general. They are less related to recurring dreams and less related to vivid dreams.

Dreams of computers are more related to hearing than dreams in general. They are less related to smelling.

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.

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.

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.

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. 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