What are coworker dreams about?
Coworkers often play a big part in our lives. We tend to spend more time throughout our adult lives with them than with our friends or family, despite that we cannot choose them like we do with friends, and we are not growing up among them like we do with our relatives. This symbol is identified by words like coworker, work associate, collaborator, etc.
Coworkers in dreams is a relatively uncommon dream symbol, occuring in about 1.2% of dreams. That's about 1 out of every 85 dreams.
What are the major highlights of coworker dreams?
Coworkers is an interconnected dream symbol. Having coworkers in a dream changes the dream more than most other dream symbols.
Coworker dreams are very social
Dreams of coworkers contain more characters than most other dream symbols. While dreams are often about other people and social relationships, dreams of coworkers are especially related to having lots of characters. Other symbols that are like this include brothers, best friends, tigers, students, general movement, demons, kings, creatures, spouses, and family.
What symbols more present in dreams of coworkers?
Coworker dreams are notable because they have substantially more work, employees, Bolivia, different roles, service workers, getting fired, wallets, Laos, human places, bosses, getting a job, jobs, grocery stores, places, Ecuador, restaurants and bars, conferences, lobbies, stores, Lebanon, walmart, arriving, bartenders, coffee, communicating, socks, bankers, flirting, waiters, money, banks, general movement, ovations, chefs, praising, embarrassment, balloons, rental cars, speaking, food in general, desks, raccoons, compensation, eye contact, movement, hotels, calendars, greeting, verbs, bullies, clean, emails, computers, Serbia, ovaries, cakes, shopping, casinos, shirts, and keys than 95% of other dream symbols.
What symbols less present in dreams of coworkers?
Coworker dreams are notable because they have substantially less flying, sleep paralysis, heaven, seeing a dead grandmother, Japan, nightmares, paralysis, recurring dreams, worms, animals, forests, falling in love, recurring nightmares, bedrooms, closed my eyes, other fantastic beings, trying to scream, fantastic beings, floating, wolves, roots, uncles, snakes, characters, close people, frogs, libraries, pets, dogs, invading, grandfathers, cats, parasites in body, natural things, biting, and gold than 95% of other dream symbols.
How does the dream symbol of coworkers affect the different aspects of a dream?
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Who is in coworkers dreams?
Overall, dreams with coworkers are much more related to characters in dreams. Specifically, dreams of coworkers are much more related to different roles, much more related to close people, and more related to romantic partners than dreams in general. They are less related to animals, less related to insects, and less related to fantastic beings.
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What are the emotions in coworkers dreams?
Overall, dreams with coworkers are aren't really related to emotions in dreams. Specifically, dreams of coworkers are more related to embarrassment and more related to fun than dreams in general. They are less related to fear and less related to pain.
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Who is in coworkers dreams?
Overall, dreams with coworkers are aren't really related to places in dreams. Specifically, dreams of coworkers are much more related to work and much more related to human places than dreams in general. They are less related to natural places and less related to magical places.
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What happens in coworkers dreams?
Overall, dreams with coworkers are less related to events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of coworkers are more related to sex than dreams in general. They are less related to aggressive interactions and less related to disasters.
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How do coworkers in dreams related to other dream phenomenon?
Overall, dreams with coworkers are less related to dream events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of coworkers are more related to waking life than dreams in general. They are less related to lucid dreams, less related to nightmares, and less related to recurring dreams.
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How can you make sense of coworkers in dreams?
Coworker dreams are relatively uncommon. Among other things coworker dreams are positively interconnected and very social.
Do you think this is true for your dream of coworkers? How might your dream of coworkers 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 coworkers 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 coworkers in dreams. See how you feel about coworkers now, in your waking life.
What are possible meanings for dreams of coworkers?
An actual co-worker in a dream probably connects somehow to work. The dream might relate to an event at work, or to an ongoing issue there that the co-worker is tied to, directly or indirectly.
For example, a woman dreams about being at work, working, and her co-worker starts touching her sexually. Eventually, she gives up her focus on work and starts going along with what the co-worker is doing.
While a dream like this one can raise questions about whether the dreamer finds the co-worker sexually attractive or has unmet sexual needs, the dream isn’t about sex. It’s about distraction. At work the day before the dream, the dreamer kept getting distracted. The co-worker, on the other hand, is very focused at work. The sexually suggestive actions have nothing to do with reality. The person is chosen by the dream to use as an example of someone who doesn’t get distracted at work.
The dream sets up a contrast between the dreamer and the co-worker, and uses flirting and touching to symbolize distraction. The dreamer is a newlywed and just returned from her honeymoon. She’s sitting there at her desk wishing she were back in bed with her lover. No wonder she’s distracted!
A co-worker you know, or someone you used to work with, can symbolize something you see about yourself in the person. The person could symbolize your hard work, social skills, or job situation, or that person’s. For example, telling a co-worker in a dream that he’s about to get fired can symbolize your own job insecurity. Or it can be an observation about that person—they’re about to get fired or be reprimanded, or you wish it would happen.
An ambitious co-worker, real or fictional, can symbolize your own ambition.
Anything related to work can be symbolized by a co-worker. See: Jobs
Following a co-worker around can mean you want to be more like him or her, to emulate that person in some way, at least at work.
Recurring dreams involving co-workers are pretty certain to connect with ongoing situations at work or in work life.
A fictional co-worker can symbolize something that aids you in your work, such as a personal quality or personality trait; an ability to organize and manage time, for instance. The co-worker might symbolize part of yourself that works alongside your main personality. For example, a positive or negative attitude works alongside you, with you, or against you, as you go about your business.
A co-worker can symbolize use of related skills and traits. For example, you use the same analytical skills you use at work to aid in analyzing your finances, and dream about it as doing that sort of work with a co-worker, or as a co-worker who deals with money or finance. Or you use the same alertness and diligence to make sure your house is secure as you do to make sure your job or income is secure.
A co-worker can be a characterization of a relationship. For example, you and your spouse could be thought of as co-workers keeping house and raising the kids.
Dreams can use surrogates to represent people you know, so it’s possible to dream about a co-worker but see him or her depicted in another form: human, animal, or otherwise. For example, a co-worker who acts unruly can be depicted as a monkey. A co-worker who acts haughty could be depicted as a prince or movie star.
See also: Bosses, Dismissals, Employees, Famousness, Groups, Jobs, Old friends, Unemployment
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 coworkers
Read some real dream reports of coworker 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.
Really weird “sex” dream
This isn’t the first time I’ve had a sex dream that was weird and didn’t make any sense. I just woke up from this dream half an hour ago, and it’s leaving me feeling weird so I’d love some insight into what it could mean.
I think the dream started with me talking to a male coworker of mine, he’s actually my coworker. At some point he was “switched out” (like when a dream character changes and the new character takes on the role of whoever they changed from) with this beefy long haired guy? We were on some kind of mission, walking through a long series of rooms with gym mats on the floors.
I started having feelings for the beefy long haired guy and I told him and laughed and asked why I would suddenly have feelings for him (in my dream it was like we didn’t get along before) and he said it was because we just shared a long car ride together. (This is so uncomfortable for me to type here goes) So then I got down on my hands and knees and like put my butt in the air, and he did an almost disgusted “Ugh” and said “this better be the best blowjob ever”. I didn’t even care that he seemed not into me, I just smiled and got excited.
Then I think we took my shorts off, (here comes the weird part) and he left but there was like this weird bundle of Q-tips and whatever I did to them he would feel on his ~parts~ so I uh, started performing oral on the Q-tips? Then he came in and he was touching me and stuff and at this point I became very aware and self conscious about my body. I was worried he might not find me attractive.
That’s all I remember! What does this mean?? Thank you!
This isn’t the first time I’ve had a sex dream that was weird and didn’t make any sense. I just woke up from this dream half an hour ago, and it’s leaving me...
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Is there any significance in dreaming about being in the back seat of your own car.
I had a dream that a coworker I’m in conflict with and my supervisor were both in my car with me. They were in the front seat and I was in the back. I’m wondering if something like this symbolizes powerlessness?
I had a dream that a coworker I’m in conflict with and my supervisor were both in my car with me. They were in the front seat and I was in the back. I’m...
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I had a dream I think it was a simbolic thought about climate change
In this dream, me and my siblings were younger, I was about 12 yo (27 now). My dad and his colleagues worked in an industry located in the middle of a forest, and it released an incredible amount of toxic gases and caused very severe water pollution. They were aware of this and they felt terrible, but there was nothing they colleagues would have done because they needed their jobs to keep their families. So they decided to work until they were stable and then dismantle the whole building until it was unable to generate those toxic gases ever again.
So the moment of dismantling came, and my family, my 97yo grandpa and I went to the forest and stayed in a nice wooden cabin near the building. As I said, I was around 12yo. Everyday and several times per day I would go to the building in my bike and see the process. Went with my dad to supervise the dismantling or directly helped. My grandpa also would go with my in our bikes. We had delicious meals at the afternoon.
The dream had this constant peaceful feeling. My 12yo was enjoying the moment very much and I when I woke up it was from a very nice dream.
In this dream, me and my siblings were younger, I was about 12 yo (27 now). My dad and his colleagues worked in an industry located in the middle of a forest,...
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I subconsciously saved myself from a horrible Lucid dream experience
I became lucid in a dream shortly after I realized that it didn't make sense for Ben Stiller and my coworker to be at my house for dinner, a random haunted castle-esqe house. The dream was very disturbing up until the lucid point (I'll spare the details) but once I recognized I was dreaming, it was more of a strangeness. I am not experienced in LD and so I tried simple things like jumping up to float and hover for awhile. Though that was fun for a moment, I began to lose control of the dream... Suddenly my coworker was grabbing at my legs and pulling me down from my floating hover.
I couldn't stop thinking (in the dream) about the duality of me trying to float, but also being pulled down by a dream character who is, in a way, also me.
Anyways, I was fully aware I was dreaming but for some reason ,these two dream men had control of the situation. They were ripping my clothes off and verbally humiliating me. I felt completely helpless, utterly disappointed that I was letting this happen to me, considering my awareness. I was desperate to get out of this dream
Finally I felt an otherworldly shaking, like from the waking world. I just knew my partner was trying to wake me up, maybe he could tell I was having a bad dream. I felt him shake and hug me and heard soft distant shouts that felt like "wake up".
I finally wake to realize he is sleeping soundly right next to me. It was me, I was shaking myself awake. I was lucid in the dream I was witnessing, but out of control. Yet on another level, I had actively tried to wake myself up and get me out of that horrible situation. It was amazing.
I wish I could explain this better.
I became lucid in a dream shortly after I realized that it didn't make sense for Ben Stiller and my coworker to be at my house for dinner, a random haunted...
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Has anyone been asked to sign their name in a dream?
I have this weird dream sometimes. The last time I had it, it went like this: I was a salesman at a home furniture store and I was getting this old lady to buy some furniture. She would buy anything I suggested and I figured this out so I suggested the most expensive bed frame, refrigerator, cabinets. I remember being excited about how big of a commission I was gonna get, I totally thought I was taking advantage of her. Then, when I rang her up, her card kept declining. She said that there was not enough money in her account. Then all of a sudden her mood changed and she became very alert and sharp with her speech. She said that there was something I could do to help her. I said "what?" and she pulled out this list of names. It looked like some bank document but basically had a row for signatures and there were other names signed on it. She said if I forged her bank managers signature on one of the lines, she would have enough money to buy the furniture. I said no sorry mam I can't do that its illegal. This is where it got creepy, she looked at me with these stone cold eyes and said "why not? you want that commission don't you?" I kept telling her no and eventually she got frustrated and left.
The dream is just weird and I just don't like the tone of it. I don't know how to explain it but something about it just doesn't sit right with me.
I have this weird dream sometimes. The last time I had it, it went like this: I was a salesman at a home furniture store and I was getting this old lady to buy...
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