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What are cow dreams about?

Cows are large domesticated mammals. They seem slow and peaceful. This symbol is identified by words like cow and bull.

Cows in dreams is a very uncommon dream symbol, occuring in about 0.4% of dreams. That's about 1 out of every 200 dreams.

What are the major highlights of cow dreams?

Cows is a normal dream symbol. Having cows in a dream changes the dream in the same way as most other dream symbols.

Cow dreams are very social

Dreams of cows contain more characters than most other dream symbols. While dreams are often about other people and social relationships, dreams of cows are especially related to having lots of characters. Other symbols that are like this include bullies, police, fathers, aliens, senses, teenagers, actors, things, cows, and rabbits.

What are the symbols that help define cows?

The symbol of cows in dreams is highly related to bulls.

How does the dream symbol of cows affect the different aspects of a dream?

Explore different elements related to dreams of cows

Who is in cows dreams?

Overall, dreams with cows are much more related to characters in dreams. Specifically, dreams of cows are much more related to animals than dreams in general. They are less related to different roles, less related to distant people, and less related to close people.

Animals

much more than usual

Insects

the same as usual

Different roles

less than usual

Fantastic beings

the same as usual

Distant people

less than usual

Close people

less than usual

Family

less than usual

Romantic partners

the same as usual
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What are the emotions in cows dreams?

Overall, dreams with cows are less related to emotions in dreams. Specifically, dreams of cows are less related to sadness, less related to grief and sorrow, and less related to embarrassment.

Happiness

the same as usual

Sadness

less than usual

Grief and sorrow

less than usual

Embarrassment

less than usual

Confusion

much less than usual

Fear

the same as usual

Pain

the same as usual

Hatred

less than usual

Fun

less than usual

Love

less than usual
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Who is in cows dreams?

Overall, dreams with cows are aren't really related to places in dreams. Specifically, dreams of cows are much more related to natural places than dreams in general. They are less related to home, less related to work, and less related to human places.

Home

less than usual

Work

less than usual

Human places

less than usual

Transportation

the same as usual

Natural places

much more than usual

Magical places

less than usual
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What happens in cows dreams?

Overall, dreams with cows are less related to events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of cows are less related to aggressive interactions, less related to friendly interactions, and less related to sex.

Aggressive interactions

less than usual

Friendly interactions

less than usual

Sex

less than usual

Disasters

the same as usual
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How do cows in dreams related to other dream phenomenon?

Overall, dreams with cows are less related to dream events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of cows are more related to recurring nightmares than dreams in general. They are less related to recurring dreams, less related to sleeping, and less related to waking life.

Lucid dreams

the same as usual

Nightmares

the same as usual

Recurring dreams

less than usual

Recurring nightmares

more than usual

Sleep paralysis

the same as usual

Sleeping

less than usual

Waking life

less than usual
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How do cows in dreams related the senses?

Overall, dreams with cows are less related to senses in dreams. Specifically, dreams of cows are more related to taste than dreams in general. They are less related to hearing and less related to vision.

Hearing

less than usual

Smelling

the same as usual

Taste

more than usual

Vision

less than usual

Touch

the same as usual
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How can you make sense of cows in dreams?

Cow dreams are very uncommon. Among other things cow dreams are normally interconnect and very social.

Do you think this is true for your dream of cows? How might your dream of cows 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 cows 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 cows in dreams. See how you feel about cows now, in your waking life.

What are possible meanings for dreams of cows?

Cows are slow-moving and can symbolize obstacles, lethargy or laziness. Something is slowing you down or blocking your way. A cow dream can show slowness in thinking or comprehension.

Then again, cows are also docile and mostly harmless, so a cow in your dream can symbolize a passive or docile nature.

A herd of cows can symbolize a need to belong to a group, or a group of people who are slow, easily led, or an obstacle.

Because cows provide milk for human consumption, they can be associated with maternal qualities. Milking a cow can symbolize work and effort. Or it can be a play on the phrase “milking it,” meaning getting all of the value, worth, or mileage from something.

See also: Animals

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 cows

Read some real dream reports of cow 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.

Suicide and murder? Please help!

I had a dream about my family not accepting me because I am gay so I started to cut my throat with a knife but then decided to stop and kill my mom instead. I cut her with the same knife.

And then I was a baby cow eating pudding in a supermarket while hiding from an evil wizard.

What the fuck is even going on here? Where did this violent part come from? Why did it shift to nonsense so quickly?

I had a dream about my family not accepting me because I am gay so I started to cut my throat with a knife but then decided to stop and kill my mom instead. I...

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Disturbing dream - please help interpret

[TW: disturbing imagery of animals in distress]
I Posted on a different subreddit but no one has given me any answers, so I’m posting here.
Hello, I’m a 20 year old female and last night I had a very very disturbing dream. Let me start off by saying this dream happened the day I tried to reconnect with my mother after cutting her off for over a year (thanks Forgiveness Therapy) , and I haven’t really spoken to my family in months, (not for lack of trying they just don’t contact me back). I used to live in the country where it was commonplace to see cows, livestock, and deer everywhere.

In this dream I was about 10. My mother, step father, sister(16 in dream), my brother (13 in dream) , and I were in my step dad’s old truck going to a carnival/ petting zoo sort of thing. Everything seemed to be okay, we were laughing and talking together like we were a family, until we got to our destination. We all got out of the truck and walked up to this barn, when we went inside I noticed a long-horned cows behind steel bars with its head sticking out from the bottom, it looked like it was dying and in search of water. I was concerned but everyone just kept walking and joking/laughing, it was like I was the only one who cared.

All of the sudden the scenery changed and we were walking down a paved road to get to our old house, I looked to the grass side of the road and a tractor had crashed into a barbed wire fence with cows surrounding the wreck, some of them dead. I remember being worried about the driver because he was nowhere to be seen. We kept walking, I looked to another pasture and saw dozens of horses, one was laying on the ground with metal chains wrapped around its feet and mouth, again I was freaking out a little but kept moving on. Finally when we came to a stop I saw one of the pasture owners working on the fence a couple yards away from the horses. I quickly ran up to her while my family stayed behind, heading off the paved road onto a dirt road near our old house. I ran up to this lady and said “hey, that horse over there is in distress and I think we should help it, also there was a crash and I can’t see the driver-“ she cut me off saying “Don’t worry about that, That horse has a bum leg and always does that, go away” I was thinking to myself “what a bitch” and walked away towards my family.

We started walking back the way we came, down the paved road again and I saw the deeply disturbing scenes again, finally I spoke up to my family , “ hey, we should really help these animals and I saw a a tractor wreck I think we should check out” but no one listened to me.

Suddenly we were back in the barn and I was face to face with the long-horned cows, only this time it was dead. Disturbed I pushed my way out of the barn and ran to a near by open area, my family close behind. They looked at me like I was crazy, scoffed, and turned to talk amongst themselves. The last thing I remember was trying to get my mother to talk to me, crying and pleading for her to just listen so we could help those animals and the driver of the tractor but again, no one was listening. A flash of the dead cows’s eyes popped up and I snapped awake.

Please help me try to figure this dream out, it scares the shit out of me and I don’t know what to make of it. I’m also open to questions.

[TW: disturbing imagery of animals in distress]
I Posted on a different subreddit but no one has given me any answers, so I’m posting here.
Hello, I’m a 20...

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Dream about devils mark

Hello, last night I had the weirdest dream. Last months have been very tough because of Covid and my business is pretty bad.

I dream I was like walking on a park in the middle of the night or at least everything was dark and thinking about what could I do next year to financially recover. When I heard a voice who told me: hey I can give you a hand with that, you know like make you a very successful person. I was like very hypnotized about that. We were now in a place that looks like a warehouse still all dark. And the voice told me: all you have to do for me and I will let you be a millionaire is that you have to let me put this mark in your forehead. Can’t see exactly what that was but immediately I could se someone being mark like when you mark a cow or a horse. The person that talked to me was like a normal guy with dark jeans and black shirt. Nothing else. After he told me that I say no and wake up.

Hello, last night I had the weirdest dream. Last months have been very tough because of Covid and my business is pretty bad.

I dream I was like walking on a...

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Embracing the soul of a horse

Hello dreamers! I've got a very special dream that I wanted to share with you. This happened a few nights ago so it's still fresh. In advance, sorry for my formating, I'm on my cellphone and also emglish is not my first language.

So onto the dream. I remember being on a ranch, with a group of friends, where I live is common to have ranches just at the outside of the city, so it reminded me of one of those. With horses, sheeps, cows, all those normal ranch animals. With a big main house and at the back, big corrals for all the cows and cows, divided with long fences. There were large pastures and small hills, all inside the property; where horses/ccowswhere running, eating etc.

I remember going to the stable with my group of friends and seeing the horses in there, all beautiful, some with long manes other short ones. We enter the stable from the main entrance of it, then, in the back it had a small fenced alley that lead to a big enclosure(the pasture i was talking about), it formed sort of an L shape, with the small part coming directly from the stable.

We where walking inside this L shape corridor when we spot some ranch hands having trouble with a horse. They where trying to control it but it was meaningless, he was super crazy, like desperate or scared. I remember paying close atention to him. They could not, by any means, calm him down. All of a sudden it pull hard from its leash and the guy holding it fell, so he began to ran like crazy inside this corridor. Everyone got out but I could not, all I wanted to do was to calm him down.

I saw it ran back and forward in the long strip of the corridor, until I put jumped in front of him and began speaking to him, in the calmest voice possible. I remember having the sensation that he was about to ran me over but I don't know why he stopped dead in his tracks, stand in 2 legs and then just fell. Then, while being in the floor I put my hands first, in his body, then I kinda drop in the floor and hug him. This is where it became a little weird. After hugging him, I felt someone hugging me, it was the warmest embrace I have ever felt. It felt so pure, so peacefull, with so much love. When I noticed it... it was a little child, hugging me. With drying tears, and a peaceful stare, like he was waiting for that hug. It felt so pure. We hugged a little longer and then I woke up. Still feeling his embrace.

I woke up in tears but happy tears, like he and/or me needed that hug. It felt so real and so beautiful. I remember just closing my eyes and thanking for that encounter. I don't know what it meant but is was beautiful.

Thanks for reading!

Hello dreamers! I've got a very special dream that I wanted to share with you. This happened a few nights ago so it's still fresh. In advance, sorry for my...

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So I think I'm haunted by demons

So this one night while staying in Mexico I had this dream where I saw I believe a bull demon...

My dream started like I was at a party and I was leaving and offered a ride but declined, I started walking and I hear a moo/roar and I for some odd reason say "An evil has manifested" and immediately look at the top of a building and see a bull demon and turn around to head back in, to which the demon crashes in front of me then I wake up with scratches on my forearms and calves.

So this one night while staying in Mexico I had this dream where I saw I believe a bull demon...

My dream started like I was at a party and I was leaving and...

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