What are darknes dreams about?
This symbol is identified by words like dark and dim.
Darkness in dreams is a common dream symbol, occuring in about 9.4% of dreams. That's about 1 out of every 10 dreams.
What are the major highlights of darknes dreams?
Darkness is a very interconnected dream symbol. Having darkness in a dream substantially changes the nature of the dream.
Dreams with darkness might be a nightmare
Dreams of darkness are frequently associated with nightmares. Of course dreams that contain darkness might not be a nightmare. Plenty of dreams with darkness are not nightmares. But, dreams of darkness are more related to nightmares than 80% of all other dream symbols. Other symbols that are like this include black eyes, tackling, attacking, tiktok, going to die, voice, brains, evil, serial killers, and loss of speech.
Darknes dreams are scary
Dreams containing darkness are more related to fear than 90% of all other dream symbols. Of course each dream is unique and this does not mean that all dreams of darkness are about fear. It simply means that if you dream of darkness, this dream has a great chance of being scarier than most other dream symbols. Other symbols that are like this include senses, cold, armageddon, raccoons, qualities, general body parts, deluges, couldn't open eyes, qualities, and kayaks.
What symbols more present in dreams of darkness?
Darknes dreams are notable because they have substantially more antelopes, verbs, hallways, shadows, alleys, spotlights, places, jackals, candles, glowing eyes, silence, gray, movement, red eyes, Serbia, clouds, brown eyes, blindness, senses, Ecuador, fog, the sky, white eyes, tunnels, things, Jamaica, descending, sunny, entrances, eclipses, chimneys, lightning, general movement, green, abyss, yellow eyes, orange eyes, vision, black eyes, dead ends, skin, purple, colors, armor, indigo, creatures, abandonment, dungeons, blue eyes, magnifying glasses, parts of buildings, green eyes, rain and thunder, squares, brightness, accents, spheres, mazes, other fantastic beings, El Salvador, and Laos than 95% of other dream symbols.
What symbols less present in dreams of darkness?
Darknes dreams are notable because they have substantially less giving birth, seeing a dead partner, infidelity, former partners, darkness, qualities, social media, abortions, pregnancy, crushes, Donald Trump, boyfriends, sex, precognitive dreams, penises, facebook, relationship events, weddings, sexuals acts, teeth falling out, romantic partners, adoptions, falling in love, seeing a dead pet, seeing a dead relative, love, bees, pregnancy tests, guilty, break ups, friends, seeing a dead mother, cancer, pastors, dating, seeing a dead father, spouses, epidemics, genitals, donkeys, presidents, schools, uncles, Canada, and social media than 95% of other dream symbols.
How does the dream symbol of darkness affect the different aspects of a dream?
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Who is in darkness dreams?
Overall, dreams with darkness are less related to characters in dreams. Specifically, dreams of darkness are more related to fantastic beings than dreams in general. They are less related to different roles and less related to close people.
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Who is in darkness dreams?
Overall, dreams with darkness are more related to places in dreams. Specifically, dreams of darkness are more related to natural places and more related to magical places than dreams in general. They are less related to work.
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How do darkness in dreams related to other dream phenomenon?
Overall, dreams with darkness are more related to dream events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of darkness are more related to lucid dreams, much more related to nightmares, and more related to recurring dreams than dreams in general.
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How can you make sense of darkness in dreams?
Darknes dreams are common. Among other things darknes dreams are very postively interconnected, nightmare, and scary.
Do you think this is true for your dream of darkness? How might your dream of darkness 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 darkness 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 darkness in dreams. See how you feel about darkness now, in your waking life.
What are possible meanings for dreams of darkness?
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
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 darkness
Read some real dream reports of darknes 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.
A dream about Lucifer
I'd like to start off by saying I'm not a religious person. I would never deny anyone their own beliefs but I myself find I don't need religion to help get through day to day life. I believe in the golden rule and the possibility of a higher power both good or evil but I don't have a specific religion I'd stake my faith in. That being said I had a dream last night that has me a bit curious.
In my dream was at my grandmother's house and lots of my family were there. Although I can't remember exactly who. They are all Christian though which is part of why this dream seemed so odd to me. Anyway, I was sitting on a couch talking to someone next to me, and somehow we end up talking about the Value of Death. I said something along the lines of "This thing (with which I don't recall) is worth the death of many people." And just after having said that I felt an intense static in my legs and then was totally paralyzed. I panicked a bit and told the people around me amd everyone got silent and just stared at me. Then I felt a very suddenly intense pain radiating from my neck throughout the rest of my body which just kept pulsating and never dulled. It caused me to scream but still everyone was silent. Then I felt something, as I'd there were someone leaning into my ear to whisper, but no one was there. And what I heard was quite frightening but I lack the proper words to describe it. Something far worse than impish nonsense but that's the best description I could give. And then nothing. I was telling everyone what was happening and one of my aunts, I'm not certain which one, said we should give Him a call. Then proceeded to take a phone to another room. When she came back a very handsome man, in dark clothing was behind her. He glanced down at me very briefly and then began to survey the room around him as I'd it were a bloody crime scene. For a moment I even saw it from his perspective and it was quite a mess. Then he told me his name was Lucifer and gave me a kind smile. Next he said "A devil of greed had bitten me." Staring at the wall by the TV as if he were looking through it he began to explain that my mention of the Value of Death, the devil was nearby and listening. However when it realized there was nothing a "value" around me it threw a tantrum much like a child, which is why it had bitten me. But apparently it took off in a hurry. Lucifer then leaned down and placed a kiss on top of my head and the pain and paralysis disappeared instantaneously. He smiled kindly at me once more and told me that I would be alright and needn't worry. Then he was gone. As if he had never been there at all, everyone around me began moving and talking again. But all I could think about was how my aunt was able to get ahold of Lucifer himself via phone. Why she would have contact with him as she's very Christian and would never associate with The Devil so casually as if she needed his help? Then I began to wonder if something like this happened again how would I get ahold of him myself to help me. And when I woke up I was in a state of shock. Anyone have an ideas why I would dream of such a thing so randomly?
I'd like to start off by saying I'm not a religious person. I would never deny anyone their own beliefs but I myself find I don't need religion to help get...
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"You don't have to do it alone"
I've had a dream of a cute girl I've rarely spoken to approach me in a dark room, where nothing was illuminated except for her. I think I was in the kneeling position or on the floor, and she looks at me and smiles warmly.
"You don't have to do it alone", she says. End.
I've had a dream of a cute girl I've rarely spoken to approach me in a dark room, where nothing was illuminated except for her. I think I was in the kneeling...
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Died in dream but didn’t immediately wake up; experience
Was curious if anyone else has experienced this before and if so, what was it like for you?
Several times I have had this same dream, everything is normal (as normal as a dream can be) and all of a sudden I see a nuke slowly falling towards me. Each time I’ve seen the nuke, I didn’t feel scared, I just said “well, guess it’s time to see what it’s like to die”
The nuke goes off. And all sounds and thoughts dissipate. It goes so quiet, but I don’t wake up.
I can’t see anything, but it’s not dark or light. I can’t move, but it’s not scary, rather contrary. It felt actually blissful. Like a sensation when you take your first sip of wine and ur body gets warm but multiply that sensation by x1000. I could feel like as if I was floating, and smiling, but again no thoughts, no sound. It’s been awhile since I’ve had this dream and I’ve only met one other person who has experienced the same exact thing
How about you guys? Sorry if my wording is bad, but would love to see if you can relate or have a completely different experience
Was curious if anyone else has experienced this before and if so, what was it like for you?
Several times I have had this same dream, everything is normal (as...
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My brain wrote and performed an entire musical play in my head last night.
So, I had a very strange and unsettling dream last night, unsettling because I can’t write music if my life depended on it, but I guess maybe I can if I’m asleep?? I dreamed that I wrote and performed an entire musical play. I’ve woke up with songs in my head before, but they were nonsense, never anything clear and that made sense, and certainly never an entire play. Aaaand… I think there were muppets too. I don’t remember the lyrics except one, but I remember what it was about and it was dark af. Idk, I’m just a bit weirded out. Wtf, brain?
So, I had a very strange and unsettling dream last night, unsettling because I can’t write music if my life depended on it, but I guess maybe I can if I’m...
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Aliens discovered under moons surface.
I had been on Earth, standing in the streets as I watched about seven spaceships flying towards the moon.
I asked someone standing beside me," what are they doing?"
"Aliens have been found underneath the moons surface. They're making contact," they replied.
Time skips to about a week later.
The governments are asking for volunteers to go fight the aliens as it was found they were hostile. I volunteered at the station set up. After training I'm set to go.
I'm on the ship, flying through space and we land (there's a group of about six of us). We begin being attacked.
Next thing I know, I'm waking up as if I had been knocked out by the attack. All of my crew are gone except for one, who is standing in front of me, inspecting himself in the mirror, his shirt is off, his veins are a dark grey. I realize I'm injured and am leaning against the wall for support as I stand but still fall due to my injuries.
He begins monologueing about how humans won't see them coming because they take our form and how they've been watching earth right under our noses, blah, blah, blah. This entire time I know Earth is doomed. This crew member in front of me was the alien. They could blend in.
While he's finishing his speech, he approaches me and I wake up. I know I died. He had killed me. This dream had felt so realistic and sometimes I wonder if this has happened in some other version of this reality.
I had been on Earth, standing in the streets as I watched about seven spaceships flying towards the moon.
I asked someone standing beside me," what are they...
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