What are cowboy dreams about?
This symbol is identified by words like cowboy.
Cowboys in dreams is a very rare dream symbol, occuring in about 0.1% of dreams. That's about 1 out of every 850 dreams.
What are the major highlights of cowboy dreams?
Cowboys is a normal dream symbol. Having cowboys in a dream changes the dream in the same way as most other dream symbols.
What symbols more present in dreams of cowboys?
Cowboy dreams are notable because they have substantially more clothing, authors, west, guns, hats, collective unconscious, wrestling, places, dressing, horses, calves, kayaks, chemical weapons, shooting, pilots, being tied up, family homes, castles, cults, fighter jets, things, climbing, specific people, paris, Donald Trump, canoes, weapons, white eyes, threatening, toys, general movement, Barack Obama, criminals and outlaws, machine guns, churches, clergy, camels, distant people, lockers, princesses, eggs, photography, socks, movement, Joe Biden, neighbors, warriors, deserts, voice, scientists, vultures, cannons, actors, fields, unnamed individuals, toenails, cubes, ponies, shirts, and cameras than 95% of other dream symbols.
What symbols less present in dreams of cowboys?
Cowboy dreams are notable because they have substantially less crying, lucid dreams, regret, crashes, general body parts, general crashes, realizing, former partners, hiding, best friends, boyfriends, cats, nightmares, old friends, horrors, verbs, characters, different roles, and losing control than 95% of other dream symbols.
How does the dream symbol of cowboys affect the different aspects of a dream?
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Who is in cowboys dreams?
Overall, dreams with cowboys are more related to characters in dreams. Specifically, dreams of cowboys are more related to animals, much more related to different roles, and much more related to distant people than dreams in general. They are less related to insects, less related to family, and less related to romantic partners.
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What are the emotions in cowboys dreams?
Overall, dreams with cowboys are less related to emotions in dreams. Specifically, dreams of cowboys are more related to grief and sorrow, much more related to embarrassment, and more related to love than dreams in general. They are less related to sadness, less related to confusion, and less related to fear.
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Who is in cowboys dreams?
Overall, dreams with cowboys are aren't really related to places in dreams. Specifically, dreams of cowboys are more related to work than dreams in general. They are less related to magical places.
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What happens in cowboys dreams?
Overall, dreams with cowboys are less related to events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of cowboys are more related to sex than dreams in general. They are less related to friendly interactions and less related to disasters.
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How do cowboys in dreams related to other dream phenomenon?
Overall, dreams with cowboys are more related to dream events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of cowboys are much more related to recurring dreams, more related to sleep paralysis, and more related to sleeping than dreams in general. They are much less related to lucid dreams, less related to nightmares, and less related to recurring nightmares.
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How can you make sense of cowboys in dreams?
Cowboy dreams are very rare. Among other things cowboy dreams are normally interconnect.
Do you think this is true for your dream of cowboys? How might your dream of cowboys 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 cowboys 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 cowboys in dreams. See how you feel about cowboys now, in your waking life.
What are possible meanings for dreams of cowboys?
A cowboy in a dream can indicate a manly and rugged self-image, or a wish for freedom and adventure.
It can connect with doing physical labor, or a primitive living situation.
A cowboy isn’t bound by the responsibility and commitment of maintaining a home and can symbolize immature masculinity. The cowboy is the man who walks away rather than settles down, who is restless and isolated.
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 cowboys
Read some real dream reports of cowboy 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.
The dream of life and dance
So I had a dream last night that I was in a church. The whole place seemed to be in a ran down state, but when you was inside the place looked immaculate. There was a whole group of people, some was just regular people in the pews and others was dressed in old Victorian style clothes, even a few who wore cowboy style clothing. When I reached the front row I noticed that each pew had one of each deadly sin. ( Pestilence was the plague doctor, greed wore gold silk suit, and so on.) Then there was two people dancing when I walked up. A man and a woman. The man was the grim reaper, and the woman was life. She wore a dress made of vegetation and fruits. When I approached them one sentence was said, "you wasn't here, so we started without you." Then I woke up. If anyone has an explanation to what this may mean please comment.
So I had a dream last night that I was in a church. The whole place seemed to be in a ran down state, but when you was inside the place looked immaculate. There...
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Vivid recurring Dream, but it changes slightly every time? Anyone who what it could mean?
Hi. This is my first post on Reddit. I also posted this on r/dreaminterpretations. Sorry that should be *know in the title.
So I've had this very vivid reoccurring dream about 7 times now over the past year, but it changes ever so slightly every single time.
I'm at my mother's house which is like a farm with a long drive and a gate. At the top of the drive I see a man coming. He is dressed like a cowboy from a Western film. In the dream, I immediately know that this man once r*ped me. I have never been r*aped in real life but in the dream I remember it happened once? It's hard to explain. So anyway I rush inside and I say to my family "do not let this man in. Do not open the gate for this man, no matter what."
That's the part of the dream that is the same every time, but what happens afterwards changes.
In this version of the dream, my grandma goes out to open the gate for this man despite me telling her not to. I rush out to stop her and when I do so I see the man physically up close and realise he has about 10 children aged about 10-12 with him. They ask me "why won't you let us in?" To which I reply "Because that man r*ped me." One of the children pulls a gun on me, and starts saying that the man would never do something like that and that I'm a liar. The man doesn't say anything. So I say "if you all leave this place now and never come back, I promise not to go to the police." I turn round and go back inside and the dream ends.
In previous iterations of the dream, perhaps nobody will go out to answer him and he will shout and call for attention at the gate. Or perhaps he climbs over the gate and knocks directly on the door. It's different every time.
Clearly the man is trying all different ways to get us to let him in. Shouting, climbing over, using children to try and guilt trip us. Does anyone have the first clue what this means?
Hi. This is my first post on Reddit. I also posted this on r/dreaminterpretations. Sorry that should be *know in the title.
So I've had this very vivid...
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I was a fucking Prince for some reason
So to begin, I'm an unnamed Prince in like Sweden or someplace, and there's this guy who's canonically my dad, let's call him Onani Pillesnopp as a tribute to the Swedish language.
Onani says some gay shit before turning me into some weird combo of Moses and Harry Potter by putting me in a basket in the sea and letting me float away as his castle is fucking invaded. I wash up somewhere in like Queens or Brooklyn and I get found by this old, super kind African guy who just fucking takes me home. Keep in mind, this is if moses was 10 years old after floating away and travelled the whole ass Atlantic.
So I'm raised by this nice old man for a few years and he has a strange love for making burger patties with noodles for some reason but it actually tasted really nice. He already had two kids like 15 or 16 so they all just sort of become my adopted family.
So one day while my adoptive dad is making noodle burgers, this outlaw with a dark grey hat, a proper fucking cowboy, just storms through the front door to my small apartment and shoots my two siblings near a window. My dad runs from the kitchen to see what the noise was and gets shot as well, his body dropping to the floor in a pile by the window whare his kids laid. The cowboy dude smirks and leaves with two mercenaries by his side.
I start seriously fucking weeping for a few minutes before going over to the kitchen to 'Finish what my father started' by eating one of the noodle burgers. Then, plot twist, its a dream within a dream. I'm interrupted by my IRL dad coming up from the pile of bodies and saying that he also wants one of whatever the fuck I'm eating. I'm asking whatever he's doing in my dream as I'm somehow aware I'm dreaming but not really. He says he heard me talk in my sleep all night and had been listening for SEVEN HOURS and still didn't understand the plot and thought I'd been adopted by him, my IRL dad, along with his mother and grandmother, dressed in white blue dresses. I go 'what the fuck', IRL dad leaves, and the dream continues.
I look out the window after the cowboy dude has left, but I can't see him. Bear in mind, I'm probably standing on my adoptive dad's corpse at this point as he's supposed to be right under me. I drag the curtains in front of the bloodstained windows and look around for a gun I knew my adoptive dad had. It's in his sock drawer, apparently, a tribute my brain probably made to an Easter egg hunt from when I was 6 years old btw.
I start following the news, but it's a combination of the 1880s and the 1990s so culture is a little wack. I grow a stubble as I run from newspaper stand to newspaper stand before realising they're all selling the same one and I've wasted too much money. I start buying one of each new edition of the news because I came to my senses. The police never came to check the gunshots, and that was good for me. I didn't want to have an on paper reason to go kill the cowboy dude.
I buried my family and finally saw something in the news. The cowboy dude has been sighted near New Haven, and I steal a horse from my racist neighbor who'd harassed my dad and I ride away from wherever in New York I was.
I arrive in New Haven and discreetly start asking around, and I find out that some western looking motherfucker had rushed into Yale University to 'contact professor Indiana Jones' and I knew exactly who he was but that didn't matter to me, I snuck into Yale too.
I found the cowboy dude delivering a package to Indiana Jones who was dressed like a typical desk worker woman in an 80s movie. The cowboy dude shakes his hand before walking away, into a hallway. Those two mercenaries are still by his side, and I have a gun in hand, so I yell some dumb shit, he turns around and I make a shit eating grin and just shoot him in the balls like 4 times before being gunned down myself, almost dying. But it seems the cowboy dude went outside, dick more limp than a biscuit, and a drink guy slammed him into a wall and kidnapped him to collect a bounty from some sherif who hung him a week later. Happy ending, except I'm all alone with American hospital bills and the cops didn't need to think very hard to know I shot the dude but it didn't matter as it turned out he had a price on his head set by the law anyway so that probably didn't lead to anything. Most cinematic ass dream I've had
So to begin, I'm an unnamed Prince in like Sweden or someplace, and there's this guy who's canonically my dad, let's call him Onani Pillesnopp as a tribute to...
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I can't believe my brain conjured this up.
Okay, so this dream was incredibly symbolic in a sense, and I've never dreamt something like that before. It went like this:
We are in a universe where humans have their own, distinctive musical verse. To put things into perspective, someone could have a melodic tune as their main anthem and another person could identify by, maybe, something more rough-sounding.
But each tune is unique to each individual - think of it like how two snowflakes can't be alike.
Now, these tune are assembled not by random - but by different events that happen in that person's life, their hobbies, their loved ones, etc. These elements, in a sense, create that unique tune for the human in subject. It could be anything that's happened in your life so far, whatever memories that's created who you are.
Let's say my hobbies are reading and video gaming, and I have a small circle of friends. My unique tune will be something more quieter, peaceful. Whereas, someone who has had more adventurous events in their life would have a "theme song" like that in a cowboy movie. We could get a sense of what these person's experiences, likes and dislikes are just by listening to that musical verse.
Here's the sad part. When we're going through life, our happiness definitely gets jeopardised at some points. You broke up with your long-term partner, you sacrificed your hobbies for your children and family, you got humiliated at your workplace again and again.
Each heartbreak dulls the music within you. It becomes softer and less significant when these events accumulate without any resolve - and then completely disappear one day. So, if somebody's music sounded sadder or broken, you would know it immediately.
...and then I woke up.
I honestly don't know what this means at all and why I dreamt it, but I just thought of sharing it.
I hope I made sense in my explanation, though. I tried to explain it to my best ability without sounding muddled 🤣
Okay, so this dream was incredibly symbolic in a sense, and I've never dreamt something like that before. It went like this:
We are in a universe where humans...
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Crazy Death Dream
I apologize first off. I don’t know if I can explain some parts of the nightmare well enough. Also, I’m on mobile.
I’m sitting at a fairground type rodeo setup, but it’s indoors. By that I mean there’s the main arena area but I’m sitting in the bleachers on the side but kind of “behind” the scenes. Like only some people would be able to see what we see, and WE can’t see the whole arena.
We’re in some sort of break in the rodeo (type thing) action and in front of us, on the floor (that for some reason had no dirt on it, just the cement floor) some cowboy comes toward the gate to the arena while riding a bull. Now, the majority of the spectators can’t see this, as like I said were kind of behind the scenes. This was also a relatively tame bull, like it was an act, but he had long horns.
Suddenly this massive....beast? comes out of nowhere and knocks the bull off it’s feet (slippery cement) and tries to gore it. The cowboy on the bull fell and ended up under it as the bull was trying to get away and the large beast was basically trying to kill it. (Imagine the beast looking like a bull, only 4 times larger and more aggressive.)
Finally the bull is able to get up and stager away. This is when we notice the cowboy. He had been under the bull and had been essentially “crushed” in half. He doesn’t realize it and tries to scramble away by crawling. Only, his bottom half is severed so only his arms are able to drag him away while his legs and hips stay behind. Those of us in our bleachers start screaming and crying and hiding our eyes. I can hear the announcers saying “Oh My God, he’s been torn in half! He’s been torn in half, Ladies and Gentlemen! Paramedics, please!”
I see the paramedics with their gurney and a white sheet covering the guy who is screaming. Then I wake up.
I couldn’t fall back to sleep after that, and I still see that man. 😢
I apologize first off. I don’t know if I can explain some parts of the nightmare well enough. Also, I’m on mobile.
I’m sitting at a fairground type rodeo...
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