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What are destroying dreams about?

Destroying is to completely ruin something. Destruction is almost always violent. Physical things like buildings or trees can be destroyed. Intangible things like the mind, emotions, or relationships can also be destroyed. This symbol is identified by words like destroy and demolish.

Destroying in dreams is a relatively uncommon dream symbol, occuring in about 1.7% of dreams. That's about 1 out of every 60 dreams.

What are the major highlights of destroying dreams?

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

Dreams of destroying are aggressive

Destroying dreams have more aggressive interactions than a lot of other dream symbols. This doesn't mean that all destroying have aggressive interactions or only aggressive interactions. It simply means that having destroying in a dream increases the probability this dream contains aggression. Other symbols that are like this include monster, arms, mosquitoes, Congo, fighting, Russia, lasers, magic, doors, and back doors.

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

Explore different elements related to dreams of destroying

Who is in destroying dreams?

Overall, dreams with destroying are aren't really related to characters in dreams. Specifically, dreams of destroying are more related to insects and much more related to fantastic beings than dreams in general. They are less related to romantic partners.

Animals

the same as usual

Insects

more than usual

Different roles

the same as usual

Fantastic beings

much more than usual

Distant people

the same as usual

Close people

the same as usual

Family

the same as usual

Romantic partners

less than usual
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What are the emotions in destroying dreams?

Overall, dreams with destroying are aren't really related to emotions in dreams. Specifically, dreams of destroying are more related to grief and sorrow, more related to hatred, and more related to fun than dreams in general. They are less related to happiness and less related to embarrassment.

Happiness

less than usual

Sadness

the same as usual

Grief and sorrow

more than usual

Embarrassment

less than usual

Confusion

the same as usual

Fear

the same as usual

Pain

the same as usual

Hatred

more than usual

Fun

more than usual

Love

the same as usual
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Who is in destroying dreams?

Overall, dreams with destroying are aren't really related to places in dreams. Specifically, dreams of destroying are more related to home, more related to human places, and more related to transportation than dreams in general.

Home

more than usual

Work

the same as usual

Human places

more than usual

Transportation

more than usual

Natural places

more than usual

Magical places

the same as usual
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What happens in destroying dreams?

Overall, dreams with destroying are more related to events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of destroying are much more related to aggressive interactions and much more related to disasters than dreams in general. They are less related to sex.

Aggressive interactions

much more than usual

Friendly interactions

the same as usual

Sex

less than usual

Disasters

much more than usual
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How do destroying in dreams related to other dream phenomenon?

Overall, dreams with destroying are aren't really related to dream events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of destroying are more related to lucid dreams and more related to recurring nightmares than dreams in general.

Lucid dreams

more than usual

Nightmares

the same as usual

Recurring dreams

the same as usual

Recurring nightmares

more than usual

Sleep paralysis

the same as usual

Sleeping

the same as usual

Waking life

the same as usual
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How do destroying in dreams related the senses?

Overall, dreams with destroying are aren't really related to senses in dreams. Specifically, dreams of destroying are less related to smelling and less related to taste.

Hearing

the same as usual

Smelling

less than usual

Taste

less than usual

Vision

the same as usual

Touch

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

Destroying dreams are relatively uncommon. Among other things destroying dreams are normally interconnect and aggressive.

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

Examples of dreams of destroying

Read some real dream reports of destroying 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.

I watched the world end


I just wanna start by saying this will probably read real scatter brain like because i had trouble remembering all the details but this was without a doubt the most realistic dream I’ve ever experienced. Enjoy

8/20/19
I saw the world end last night. My dream started out normal it was me and my friend Tyler walking around some tourist site in a different country. There was a huge rainstorm coming so all the people in this village were ordered to move to higher ground, which is not uncommon as their village is close to sea level, so we all stayed in this compound that was up a small mountain. Then the rain came and it kept coming and coming it was like a constant down pour the ocean levels rose and there was panic across the world as the water overtook some places that were not high up enough. The rain continued for through the night and ended that next day around noon I think. After that the water levels went down quickly and everything was back to normal, it was super weird. Later that day out of no where the waters waves started growing and growing just rising and lowering and it soon grew high enough we had to be evacuated. Then this osprey flightship swoops down into the village picking us up, i have no idea why us, and takes us to some mountain top and a man on the plane explains to us that people think this is the end of the world. We’re all like yah right but then he takes out some iPad/ tablet that shows weather satellite images of the world and you can see that a meteor storm was working its way around the equator coming in groups of 10/20’s falling in a line slamming into the earth. It was later reported that between the rainstorm, once an waves and meteors 1/3 of total life on earth was gone. I just remember this giant hole in my stomach as I heard this news I was worried about my family and friends about my own sake as well, then everything just stopped, the meteors quit falling the ocean levels dropped and the rain quit. Then I was moved to some compound on top of this mountain where there was around 20–30 of us (don’t remember much about this next event so it gets hard to read) and we go to sleep for the night and I sleep on the floor, that night there was something that woke us all up and everything started up again first the rainstorm, then the waves, then the meteors, and also a huge lighting storm. I remember a moment where I was looking out this window to the outside watching it all and in the distance I could see a helicopter coming towards our compound then out of no where a meteor smacks into followed by a lighting strike, it was consumed by the ocean quickly. All of a sudden this womanly creature walks down the stairs to the basement area where we all were and she looks at each person walking by them and either kills them ( she killed them by like slowly setting them on fire but it was like a black fire and Instead of the fire growing to consume them they would just melt into the fire, super weird and horrifying) when she got to me idk why but she froze and said “yes he will do nicely” and continues walking by me. I was the only one she didn’t kill out of that entire group. I followed them through the rest of the compound and eventually to the top where the helicopter pad was. Up here she explains to me that she wants to destroy the earth and build a better one and that I would be the one to help her. I asked her why and she did not reply only her guard smacking the back of my head with his staff thing. After that they get into some sort of ship and I was told to remain on the platform and wait to see. After a short while this energy kinda like a tornado swoops me up and I’m standing straight up in it but it’s twirling really fast and as I go round and round I see the world eventually engulfed in water. Then it’s pure silence for a while. I mean pure silence like there wasn’t just nothing besides this giant blue ball in front of me, like I was in space now. Then inside this energy tornado thing I shot back down to earth and it began erasing everything while also remaking the world. It was beautiful, like a new earth untouched by the hands of man then everything stopped I fell out of the energy tornado fell probably 100+ feet and woke up. The craziest thing was after I woke up I used the restroom and laid back down to sleep and the dream had restarted identically.


I just wanna start by saying this will probably read real scatter brain like because i had trouble remembering all the details but this was without a doubt the...

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Sexual moment with my girlfriend became an incestuous moment.

I'll try not to be super graphic.

In the dream, I entered a room I don't recognize and my girlfriend was sitting on a couch. It was 100% her, I remember it distinctly.

I stood behind her, pressing against the back of the couch with my legs. I was rubbing her head and running my hands through her hair. I leaned down, she leaned back, and we began kissing. Eventually she put her hands up and behind her and started to undo my belt.

Yadda yadda yadda, to sum up, the experience ended with her hanging her head over the back of the couch, we had oral sex in that position, and I finished all over her face.

At that moment, people I don't know in real life entered the room and saw what had happened. They immediately freaked out, called us disgusting, made comments, etc.

This eventually swelled into being accused of incest, because in reality, the person on the couch was my sister.

In real life, I have no sister. She passed away over 10 years ago. But being labeled as an incestuous person carried throughout the entirety of the dream. People at my work found out and I was shunned. My colleagues and students made my life hell. The dream kind of mixed together the next few days, and I remember nothing but misery.

Weirdly enough, the girlfriend (who exists in real life, I live with her and see her every day) or sister (who doesn't exist on real life anymore) was nowhere to be seen or heard from throughout the rest of the dream.

The experience destroyed my life. I even woke up feeling some weird sense of shame before I shook it off.

I'll try not to be super graphic.

In the dream, I entered a room I don't recognize and my girlfriend was sitting on a couch. It was 100% her, I remember it...

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First semi wet dream??

so I was in this hotel room and there were like 4 beds pressed up against each other and there was this short brown haired guy cuddling and he was wearing a blue and pink tie dye hoodie and I told him to come here and I hugged him and he sighed. He seemed kind of sad and lonely and I then started grinding against him and he moaned really loud then I picked him up and brought him over to the empty bed then there was this girl who had on this cute black leather skirt and garnets and I started grinding against her too. This dream was weird I also remember there were about 5 guys on the beds in total and they were all of different races and the girl had really destroyed high heels like they looked so worn out.

so I was in this hotel room and there were like 4 beds pressed up against each other and there was this short brown haired guy cuddling and he was wearing a...

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Missing my own wedding, like Cinderella without the happy ending.

IRL I'm divorced with no intention of getting remarried but in my dream I was late for my wedding (to a new guy I don't know, not my ex).

On the wedding day I woke up 15 min before I was due to be at the ceremony, my "friends" were supposed to be helping me get ready but kept stalling dragging me all over town to make me as late and look as ugly as possible. My sister was there (who I no longer speak to because IRL she went out of her way to destroy my marriage). My dress was made of cheap cotton, crushed with holes in it and I had no shoes, they cut and dyed my beautiful hair ruining it and tried to put drag make up on me. I was an hour late and still not ready. I knew I'd missed the wedding thanks to being sabotaged.

IRL I'm divorced with no intention of getting remarried but in my dream I was late for my wedding (to a new guy I don't know, not my ex).

On the wedding day I...

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A dream I think Symbolised the (spiritual) Death of my Wife.

Long story short my wife and I decided to explore polyamory. Collectively dated the same woman for a short time before the dynamic shifted (the gf and I had a much stronger bond) the night the gf revealed this to us she mentioned a dream she had:

She was in an underwater city where both androgynous men and women lived.
Her and another woman left the city and ended up on the land but the land dwelling people ended up capturing and killing the woman in front of her.

Originally I assumed it had to do with the gf and her lack of connection with my wife but fast forward a fee months on my return to the area I had a gut awful feeling this weekend my marriage was going to be destroyed (one thing lead to another) and by an ironic turn of events ended up in my wife saying she was done.

Long story short my wife and I decided to explore polyamory. Collectively dated the same woman for a short time before the dynamic shifted (the gf and I had a...

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