What are crowd dreams about?
A large group of people is often called a crowd. It can frequently feel oppressive and confining. We can easily say, 'all these people are crowding me'. This symbol is identified by words like crowd and mob.
Crowds in dreams is a relatively uncommon dream symbol, occuring in about 2.0% of dreams. That's about 1 out of every 50 dreams.
What are the major highlights of crowd dreams?
Crowds is a normal dream symbol. Having crowds in a dream changes the dream in the same way as most other dream symbols.
Crowd dreams are friendly
Dreams of crowds have greater increase of friendly interactions within the dream than most other dream symbols. While not all dreams of crowds will be friendly and they can also contain aggressive interactions, dreams of crowds are more likely to have friendly interactions than most other dream symbols. Other symbols that are like this include psyches, scars, snack, gold, actors, events, Joe Biden, Darth Vader, waiting, and shoulder.
What symbols more present in dreams of crowds?
Crowd dreams are notable because they have substantially more cheering, microphones, verbs, Cameroon, exits, concerts, stadiums and arenas, Morocco, characters, erupting, arriving, stages, train stations, movement, entrances, constructing, paths, distant people, presidents, baboons, Serbia, tyrants, hallways, lobbies, fireworks, campuses, unnamed groups of people, circuses, shoulder, greeting, general movement, weasels, new york, spotlights, paying attention, real locations, socks, groups, Joe Biden, machine guns, praising, dressing, qualities, artists, silence, jackets, terrorists, Hungary, ovations, eye contact, human places, parties, casinos, elevators, acquaintances, vultures, senses, photography, safety, and hunger than 95% of other dream symbols.
What symbols less present in dreams of crowds?
Crowd dreams are notable because they have substantially less bedrooms, seeing a dead grandmother, sleep paralysis, paralysis, strangling, sleeping, antlers, miscarriages, pregnancy tests, snakes, crushes, giving birth, pregnancy, spiders, places, foxes, cats, childhood homes, acne, surgery, nightmares, pets, triangles, infidelity, adoptions, beds, insights, seeing a dead relative, teeth falling out, boyfriends, trying to scream, kittens, ravens, crowds, the night, recurring nightmares, kitchens, wasps, toilets, the morning, rats, insects, youtube, infesting, and flies than 95% of other dream symbols.
What are the symbols that help define crowds?
The symbol of crowds in dreams is highly related to large_gatherings.
How does the dream symbol of crowds affect the different aspects of a dream?
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Who is in crowds dreams?
Overall, dreams with crowds are more related to characters in dreams. Specifically, dreams of crowds are more related to different roles, much more related to distant people, and more related to close people than dreams in general. They are less related to insects.
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What are the emotions in crowds dreams?
Overall, dreams with crowds are more related to emotions in dreams. Specifically, dreams of crowds are more related to sadness, more related to embarrassment, and more related to confusion than dreams in general.
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Who is in crowds dreams?
Overall, dreams with crowds are much more related to places in dreams. Specifically, dreams of crowds are more related to human places, more related to transportation, and more related to magical places than dreams in general.
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What happens in crowds dreams?
Overall, dreams with crowds are aren't really related to events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of crowds are much more related to friendly interactions than dreams in general.
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How do crowds in dreams related to other dream phenomenon?
Overall, dreams with crowds are aren't really related to dream events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of crowds are more related to recurring dreams than dreams in general. They are less related to sleep paralysis and less related to sleeping.
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How can you make sense of crowds in dreams?
Crowd dreams are relatively uncommon. Among other things crowd dreams are normally interconnect and friendly.
Do you think this is true for your dream of crowds? How might your dream of crowds 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 crowds 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 crowds in dreams. See how you feel about crowds now, in your waking life.
What are possible meanings for dreams of crowds?
Crows have long been associated with bad omens and death, and in dreams they’re still associated that way.
But this reputation really sells crows short, because they are among the smartest and cleverest types of birds. In dreamland, death is part of the cycle of life and rebirth, part of the process of initiation into the deep mysteries of life and your existence. Coming to terms with it can lead to tremendous creativity and personal freedom. In this sense, crows serve a very valuable purpose. By accepting death, a person can find the capacity to live more fully.
Crows can symbolize fear of death and the unknown, especially when you react to them with fear in a dream. See: Death, Fear
They’re associated with dark thoughts, doom, and gloominess about the future.
They’re associated with mirth and the feeling that people are laughing at you.
They can symbolize a sense of foreboding or feeling of unease. Something’s not right, but you haven’t put your finger on it.
They can symbolize the dark side of someone you know, especially a father or father figure.
They can symbolize humiliation from admitting you’re wrong after taking a strong position, as in the term “eat crow.”
They can symbolize clever thinking or craftiness, especially in regard to getting something you want or working around obstacles.
They can symbolize the ability to let people go their own way and make their own decisions.
A flock of crows can symbolize many troubles and difficulties, gossip, or chaotic thoughts. The flock is the picture of loose organization—or disorganization! Now compare that disorganization with your thoughts. Do you see a connection?
The sound of crowing can be unnerving, and that association can be stretched to symbolize the feeling of being unnerved or out of sync. It can be a warning from within that you’re out of your element or venturing into dangerous territory.
Crowing can be the sound of triumph or gloating.
Crows have long memories for people who do them wrong. In this sense, they’re associated with plotting revenge. See: Revenge
Crows are used in dreams to symbolize messengers from the unconscious mind. The black color of crows connects with the mystery of the unconscious mind, especially when it’s moved to action. And the fact that crows fly and talk makes them appropriate to use as messengers. In dreams that use this symbolism, you’ll sense that the crow wants to tell you something. If it beckons you to follow it, go ahead. You will be led to important self-knowledge.
A white crow is a particularly good sign of protection from danger and harmony with nature and spirit. The messages coming to you from your unconscious mind are positive and propitious.
Crows help make you aware of your hidden, unconscious potential, and for that we should all be thankful when they appear in our dreams!
See also: Animals, Birds, Flying, Owls, Unconscious minds, Vultures
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 crowds
Read some real dream reports of crowd 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.
(NSFW) I dont know who else to talk to about this...
Last night I (20y.M) had a dream about my ex, someone who i just cant let go of no matter how much time passes by.
It started with me hanging out with my brother and some friends in a large apartment complex when i find a party going on in one of them. I alone enter and as i turn around i notice that all of my buds had vanished. Turning back around to the door, a girl greets me, looks about my age, although i have never seen her before. She welcomes me inside and tells me its an orgy party celebrating a certain someones 21st birthday. This had me in shock and i didnt know how to respond before this girl took my hand and began leading further into the apartment, which had now expanded into the size of your average middle class house. Going into the living room it was revealed the person whom was throwing the party was my ex, who claimed "the guest of honor had arrived." All around the room were countless girls, who were all of similar age, wearing skimpy dresses or hardly nothing at all; all of them doing something erotic or teasing.
I was confused, then she told me i could have my way with any of the girls in the room except for her, but then something in me clicked... i refused. I told her the one person i would do anything with *was* her, so... she offered a deal: "if you can satisfy every girl in this room and still have enough energy, then i will participate." I accepted then prepared myself for the mob approaching me, each one with a hungry expression on their faces.
Almost embarrassingly frightened, i began, one after one after one. Orgasm after orgasm after orgasm. After a while i thought to myself i had to have gone through over a dozen girls but the mob just wont thin and my ex just appears further each time; and with each time, my stamina depletes, but my resolve does not.
I continue to try until i black out and i awake irl with a very empty feeling in my chest.
Last night I (20y.M) had a dream about my ex, someone who i just cant let go of no matter how much time passes by.
It started with me hanging out with my...
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I really need help with a dream interpretation
I’m having a reoccurring dream that happens over a series of phases (with no connections among the phases) the first one is I’m shopping in a large crowded supermarket (walmart or target etc) with my Aunt ( on my mother’s side) and my father, I decide to use the bathroom, upon entering the bathroom i notice that the bathroom is way nicer than that of a supermarket almost like a swanky club. I do my business and begin to wash my hands, in the mirror I see a scraggly disheveled scarred man, I am instantly petrified, he reaches for me aggressively and I lunge backwards onto the door and begin trying to unlock it, he peruses me and before he reaches me I get the door open and fall backwards through the door back into the store. I call for help but no one is there.
The next phase is me, two friends/classmates, and my aunt (same aunt). We’re in a library doing some sort of paper work, and that’s it nothing interesting.
The next phase takes place in the fall and is me, and one of my friends/classmates from the last phase, we’re walking to class from the coffee shop (like most mornings) and he says we should detour through the recently built park (no such park exists or has ever existed) we walk through the park and then go to class.
The last phase is me laying on a blanket in the same park this time in the summer, laying next to me is a man but I can’t see his faces he offers me a red flower with a string tied to it. I take it and then I wake up.
have absolutely no idea what this mean but I would like to know. ( I’ve had the dream about 10 times now)
I’m having a reoccurring dream that happens over a series of phases (with no connections among the phases) the first one is I’m shopping in a large crowded...
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I was David Bowie and I had absolutely massive tits
In real life Im a A cup, tops, and barely that. In my dream I was on stage, absolutely belting it out and the crowd was fucking loving what I was giving them. I dont even know what I was singing, genuinely didn’t know who I was until I started looking around and was running my fingers through my hair and it kind of just hit me like “my god, I’m *Bowie*”. It was all a little more crystal clear than im used to when I’m dreaming, usually everything appears kind of velvety soft but this was crisp, and loud, and I *was* Bowie and I had *the* biggest set of naturals I have ever seen in my life and I woke up feeling weirdly cleansed and emotional, and if I’m being honest, crying a little. Dont know what to make of it but I’ve been riding the high regardless.
In real life Im a A cup, tops, and barely that. In my dream I was on stage, absolutely belting it out and the crowd was fucking loving what I was giving them. I...
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Dream that I Couldn't Escape
Last night, I had a dream that I was in a very small room with cement walls and no windows. My husband I were in there together. We were running out of oxygen. Someone entered and sat down. We were afraid that this person would reduce the amount of oxygen in the room even faster. We wanted to escape through the door, but a crowd of people was trying to enter and we couldn't get out.
Then, I dreamed that I was trapped under a canoe. My husband knew I was under there and could drown, but he didn't call for help or try to save me.
Last night, I had a dream that I was in a very small room with cement walls and no windows. My husband I were in there together. We were running out of...
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Intense eye-contact in dream with a girl I used to know
There's a girl I used to speak to who I liked very much and she felt similar. Though for a reason I'll explain soon we knew we could never be together. I still think of her often, but she seems to be on my mind now a lot more now that I'm home from university and I know she's close by in my home town. I think of her a lot lately, everyday if you want the truth. Though I don't think she thinks of me as much as I her.
I had a dream in which we sat on a park bench table, her on one side, me on the other. There were lots of people around, the bench/table was full. Her ex-boyfriend and who is also my old friend sat next to me. I tried to avoid looking at her throughout the whole dream and she seemed to also be avoiding looking at me, though I caught her glance a few times. Then I saw her outright staring at me. It was crazy. I gave up attempting not to look at her and looked back up and I see she's staring at me like no-one's ever stared at me before. The most intense stare I've ever seen. I couldn't decipher her expression. I don't know if it was sympathy for the hard times she knew I went through, whether it was a look of longing for me, whether it was the look when you get when someone wants to fuck you. It was just an expression of pure intense emotion like I'd never seen before. I dreamt this about a week ago and can't stop thinking about it. I can't describe it properly with words. It was crazy. and it's been on my mind a hell of a lot.
After that, a huge crowd of people who she knows and people I don't like took me away. One guy grabbed me by the arm real hard and took me away across the field to somewhere. That's all I remember.
There's no point me talking to her because whatever we had is gone, it's a lost cause and I know she won't feel the same now. Maybe it's just a dream and means nothing. But I just can't stop thinking about that stare. It felt too real.
What do you think?
There's a girl I used to speak to who I liked very much and she felt similar. Though for a reason I'll explain soon we knew we could never be together. I still...
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