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What are depression dreams about?

This symbol is identified by words like depress.

Depression in dreams is a uncommon dream symbol, occuring in about 1.0% of dreams. That's about 1 out of every 100 dreams.

What are the major highlights of depression dreams?

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

Dreams of depression are emotional

Depression have substantially more emotions than other dream symbols. It is particularly surprising. Other symbols that are like this include going to die, fists, general thinking, comfort, places, El Salvador, animas, injuries, guilty, and happiness.

Depression dreams seem to lack places or locations

Dreams of depression frequently do not mention places or locations. The dream may or may not take place in varying locations. But dreams of depression simply do not mention the location, places, or settings occuring within the dream. Other symbols that are like this include teeth falling out, giving birth, ladybugs, uteruses, crushes, winning the lottery, dating, babies, testicles, and lovers.

Depression dreams are about love

Dreams containing depression are more related to love than 90% of all other dream symbols. Of course each dream is unique and this does not mean that all dreams of depression are about love. It simply means that if you dream of depression, this dream has a greater chance of being about love than most other dream symbols. Other symbols that are like this include crying, girlfriends, lips, crushes, butterflies, animuses, prom, depression, unicons, and characters.

What symbols less present in dreams of depression?

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

Explore different elements related to dreams of depression

Who is in depression dreams?

Overall, dreams with depression are less related to characters in dreams. Specifically, dreams of depression are more related to close people, more related to family, and much more related to romantic partners than dreams in general. They are much less related to animals, much less related to insects, and less related to different roles.

Animals

much less than usual

Insects

much less than usual

Different roles

less than usual

Fantastic beings

less than usual

Distant people

less than usual

Close people

more than usual

Family

more than usual

Romantic partners

much more than usual
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What are the emotions in depression dreams?

Overall, dreams with depression are much more related to emotions in dreams. Specifically, dreams of depression are much more related to happiness, much more related to sadness, and much more related to grief and sorrow than dreams in general.

Happiness

much more than usual

Sadness

much more than usual

Grief and sorrow

much more than usual

Embarrassment

more than usual

Confusion

the same as usual

Fear

the same as usual

Pain

the same as usual

Hatred

much more than usual

Fun

more than usual

Love

much more than usual
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Who is in depression dreams?

Overall, dreams with depression are much less related to places in dreams. Specifically, dreams of depression are more related to work and more related to magical places than dreams in general. They are less related to home, less related to transportation, and less related to natural places.

Home

less than usual

Work

more than usual

Human places

the same as usual

Transportation

less than usual

Natural places

less than usual

Magical places

more than usual
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What happens in depression dreams?

Overall, dreams with depression are more related to events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of depression are less related to aggressive interactions and less related to disasters.

Aggressive interactions

less than usual

Friendly interactions

the same as usual

Sex

the same as usual

Disasters

less than usual
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How do depression in dreams related to other dream phenomenon?

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

Lucid dreams

the same as usual

Nightmares

less than usual

Recurring dreams

less than usual

Recurring nightmares

the same as usual

Sleep paralysis

less than usual

Sleeping

more than usual

Waking life

much more than usual
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How do depression in dreams related the senses?

Overall, dreams with depression are aren't really related to senses in dreams. Specifically, dreams of depression are less related to hearing, less related to smelling, and less related to vision.

Hearing

less than usual

Smelling

less than usual

Taste

the same as usual

Vision

less than usual

Touch

less than usual
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How can you make sense of depression in dreams?

Depression dreams are uncommon. Among other things depression dreams are normally interconnect, very emotional, lack places or locations, and about love.

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

What are possible meanings for dreams of depression?

Dreaming about feeling depressed can indicate you really are depressed. A dream can explore the roots and reasons for depression, or simply reflect that you feel that way.

Depression can be used as a comparison to feeling sad, listless, moody, or bored. You aren’t necessarily depressed, but feel close to it. Depression can be symbolized in dreams by the color blue, a deflated balloon, downward movement, zombies, comas, a blizzard, or a depression in the ground, among other things. See: Abyss, Blizzards, Comas

Depression is the opposite of inflation, and the two go hand in hand. Periods of depression tend to follow periods of ego inflation and ego frustration. Do you feel depressed soon after being denied something you want, or when you are unable to move toward a goal or vision for your life? Those possibilities are the first to consider after dreaming about depression.

Feeling depressed is treated like an illness, to be cured with prescription medicine, when it’s actually a natural function of the psyche to force attention inward and solve problems and answer existential questions. Clinical depression truly is an illness. What I refer to here is the feeling of depression.

Many side issues related to depression can come up as subjects in dreams, sometimes as a way of exploring why you feel depressed and what, if anything, can be done about it.

The entry for Cry can give you more ideas, even if your dream doesn’t involve crying.

For an example dream from someone dealing with depression, see: Horse.

See also: Abyss, Black, Blizzards, Blue, Crying, Darkness, Descending, Emotions, Horses

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 depression

Read some real dream reports of depression 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.

Dated an ugly red haired man and cheated on him with my current boyfriend

There is a TL;DR at the end so if you don’t want to read, and

I was sitting in a school courtyard, hugging and kissing my current boyfriend, Sandy. From my side, there is a guy whining that I never hug him. The guy has red hair and freckles and honestly he looks ugly but I assume me and my current boyfriend broke up in dream but we still were attracted to each other even though I was dating someone new. In the dream I wanted to break up with the red head man, who I have never met before in my life, but I felt guilty about potentially using him so I didn’t want to break it off yet. I did not like him more than pity him though. I will call the red head, Steve.
The bell rings and the boys leave, while two of my girl friends walk me to my class. I care deeply for both, there is none of the red head “I only pity you” stuff going on with my friends. However, I rarely talk to one because she might be depressed and doesn’t answer the phone, we will call her, Sofia, while the other is my best friend, Usagi (She loves Sailor Moon). As we walk to class, the sky goes dark with clouds and as the rain falls, lightning nearly strikes us. We run to the furthest building possible, me carrying Sofia at one point while she says she’s going to vomit. The lightning nearly strikes four times before we make it to a building with cover. I keep carrying Sofia and she throws up on my back. I’m annoyed but I understand. Usagi promises to care for her on their way to class and both leave.
When I go to class, I ask for a spare sweater or jacket since my shirt is nasty. It smells awful for obvious reasons. My friend, Aaron, offers up his sweatshirt and I take it going to the bathroom. It’s a girls bathroom but it appears both men and women are inside studying French. I studied French in high school and I am afraid I can’t speak well so naturally they speak it better than me. I then lose my phone somehow while changing out of my shirt. I try to find it when an old man begins cleaning the faucet and when I smile commending him for his work, he smiles back.
I then just end up in a car in a parking lot with Sandy, my real boyfriend. I don’t remember what happened except I ended up being chased by a bull and had to find my way back inside even though I don’t remember why I got out in the first place. I can’t remember anything else so I think it ended there.

TL;DR
• Two boyfriends, one I am dating in real life, one that is ugly and doesn’t exist but apparently I’m cheating on him with my real boyfriend
• Two friends, one needs to be carried and throws up when I carry her
• Lightning storm
• I get chased by a bull
• Lose my phone while changing shirts

There is a TL;DR at the end so if you don’t want to read, and

I was sitting in a school courtyard, hugging and kissing my current boyfriend, Sandy. From my...

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Have you ever woken up from a dream completely depressed, like you lost something precious to you?

Last night, I’m pretty sure I had the saddest dream ever.
It was about a badger I had found digging holes in the ground. I went over to get a closer look, but I was spotted. Much to my surprise, he ran over to me, maybe knowing I intended no harm. He let me rub his belly and pet him, and he was so cute. We played around for hours, until the sun got dark, and he started leading me towards a small hut that was lit up. There was an old man outside the hut cutting wood, he paid us no mind. The badger then ran over to man, and nuzzling up against his leg. He appeared to be sad. The man did nothing, he just stood there, and continued his steady rhythm of chopping wood. After a few seconds he stopped. I could see him
Slowly turn towards me. He stared at me, smiled, and slowly faded away, along with most of the hut. The badger came back, and stood on its hind legs next to me, looking at the remainder of the hut. It was dark now, but I could make out what appeared to be at least part of what was previously a hut. The hut was black, and there were signs of a fire everywhere. The badger ran out to the middle of the rubble and began digging, revealing a rotten corpse of what I assume was the old man. It was not fresh, but had not rotted so bad to be more than a few weeks old. The badger found the mans hand, and licked it, a gesture of sorrow and longing. The badger then also looked at me. And vanished.
As I saw the poor badger vanish, it felt like I was physically hurt. Somewhere deep in my heart, a hole had sprouted open. I knew that I could never see that funny playful badger again. He had brought me to the hut to show me a true tragedy, he and his owner had been caught in a house fire and died.
Suddenly, I realized that I was also fading, and could myself become more and more transparent. When I next opened my eyes, all I saw was my bedroom. But my poor friend the badger, was not forgotten.

Last night, I’m pretty sure I had the saddest dream ever.
It was about a badger I had found digging holes in the ground. I went over to get a closer look,...

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Need Answers

So, I just had this dream. I have no clue what the hell it means. If I need to give backstory I will.

This is the dream. My girlfriend and I are mercenaries for the US government. We are world renowned and all of US loves us. They call us Bonnie and Clyde. It’s great. One day she tragically dies on a job. No one knows but my boss and me. So we are famous and a TV show calls him to join. He asks me to send a picture of me smiling so he knows I’m getting paid well (as a joke of course). So instead I send a picture of my girl and I. Then the crowd of the audience goes silent. My boss (on the show) finally tells the world about her. Everyone is depressed. Then I send another picture. It’s a picture of the scars on my wrist that I made because of her passing. The caption of the pic says “What is valor, if there’s no one to share it with”. Time goes by and my boss calls me for one last job. I take it. I’m to impersonate a bad guy to get info at a bad guy headquarters. I go and the bad guys pat me down. As I’m walking to his door I see these pyramids next to me. Two to be exact. Really big. I look up at them and the sun shines from behind them. I get a headache and fall to the floor. My vision changes from red to grey, then red to grey again and again. I can hear my heartbeat and feel it shaking the earth. Then my heartbeat and vision stop being weird lol. A shadow rises from behind the pyramids and it’s a Pegasus. It swoops down in front of my vision and shortly disappears out of my sight completely. A skeletal creature was riding it. Then I wake up in my room but everything is grey. I realize it’s a dream so I start telling myself to wake up. Over and over again. It doesn’t work. So I hold my breath for 30 seconds. Then I actually wake up, gasping for air. That’s my dream.

So, I just had this dream. I have no clue what the hell it means. If I need to give backstory I will.

This is the dream. My girlfriend and I are mercenaries...

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I met the most beautiful girl in my dream.

There was a girl about my age and nothing sexual happened, but I felt like we were connected. There was this feeling inside me that she was my true love. I woke up and was depressed all day now thinking about her... I can't stand the fact that I won't find this feeling in the real world and now she is just a figment of my imagination. I want to meet her again, but know it will never happen. I just needed to express my emotions and thoughts. I think it's just a sign that I really want a girlfriend.

There was a girl about my age and nothing sexual happened, but I felt like we were connected. There was this feeling inside me that she was my true love. I woke...

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Dreamt I had a daughter - I'm 27, male and single.

I don't remember the first part of the dream only what it led up to, where I'm being introduced to a daughter I never knew I had for the first time, if I had to guess she's something in between 6 to 10 years old, not sure.

in the dream, I kneel in front her, tell her I'm her Dad and she doesn't say anything but gives me a big hug, I then burst into tears.

I woke up pretty much then, feeling an immense sense of loss, it feels like I was given something wonderful and then had it taken away.

Anyone else have anything like this? I feel like I'd rather have had a nightmare than something that leaves me feeling depressed.

I don't remember the first part of the dream only what it led up to, where I'm being introduced to a daughter I never knew I had for the first time, if I had to...

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