Darkness dreams are more related to fantastic beings than dreams in general. They are less related to unnamed people, less related to peers, and less related to romantic partners.

Dreams of darkness are much more related to fear than dreams in general. They are less related to embarrassment, less related to fun, and less related to love.

Dreams of darkness are more related to home, more related to natural places, and more related to magical places than dreams in general. They are less related to work.

Dreams of darkness are less related to sex and less related to eating and drinking.

Darkness dreams are more related to lucid dreams, much more related to nightmares, and more related to recurring dreams than dreams in general.

Darkness dreams are much more related to hearing, more related to smelling, and much more related to vision than dreams in general.

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 darkness 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 darkness in dreams. See how you feel about darkness 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. Dark has two common senses of the word that can be used in dreams, the literal and figurative. In the literal sense, the environment is dark. The figurative sense means “dark personality” or “dark mood.” Both senses of the word “dark” have symbolic uses and connections to everyday life. A dark or dim environment can symbolize difficulty seeing in the sense of seeing ahead in life, or seeing the dynamics of a situation, including internal situations in your feelings or psyche. Think: “in the dark.” It’s a physical representation, such as not knowing better or being misunderstood. For example, you make a comment to someone and he takes it the wrong way, and you dream about it as bumping into someone in a dark room. In this sense, dark means “misunderstood.” A young man dreams he’s in an attic with his old crush. They talk, then she gets up and walks out of the room. He follows her into a hallway that’s almost pitch black, then down some stairs into a dark basement, where she walks through a door and disappears. It breaks his heart because he can’t follow her. The girl in the dream represents someone he had a big crush on. She befriended him, and he drove her away by trying to make the relationship romantic. The emotional blow of losing her lingered, and he lost his way personally, as symbolized by the dark hallway in the dream. The attic symbolizes dwelling on thoughts related to ruining any chance of getting his heart’s desire, and the basement symbolizes his emotions, which are dark and gloomy. When his crush disappears in the dream, it’s a way of saying that the relationship ended, and there is nothing he can do to get her back. That dream provides a great illustration of the symbolism of a dark environment. To symbolize a dark personality, dreams often use dark clothes, dark skin, or a dark cloud or haze. A dark portrayal of a person in a dream reflects your perceptions. It’s subjective, not objective, usually, and can mean dark in the sense of “mysterious” or “unknown.” However, your dreaming mind is great at picking up subtle clues and reading signs. A dream can show someone as dark because it’s the truth and you need to be fully aware of it. A dark person can hide behind a genial personality, but you can sense what lurks behind the façade. Bear in mind, a surrogate character can be used in a dream to represent a person you know. You will know intuitively who the surrogate represents. It might even represent you! Most dream characters are projections of your inner world, so a dark person is likely to symbolize a Shadow aspect of your psyche. See: Shadows Dark can symbolize feeling out of place, or being “in the dark,” meaning uninformed or unaware. Keeping someone in the dark means concealing or hiding. See: Hiding Be sure to read the entries for Black and Night. See also: Black, Blindness, Clothing, Eyes, Home, The night, Shadows, Strangers, Water