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What are detour dreams about?

This symbol is identified by words like detour.

Detours in dreams is a exceedingly rare dream symbol, occuring in about 0.04% of dreams. That's about 1 out of every 2,500 dreams.

What are the major highlights of detour dreams?

Detours is a negatively interconnected dream symbol. Having detours in a dream reduces the presence of other dream symbols.

Detour dreams are friendly

Dreams of detours have greater increase of friendly interactions within the dream than most other dream symbols. While not all dreams of detours will be friendly and they can also contain aggressive interactions, dreams of detours are more likely to have friendly interactions than most other dream symbols. Other symbols that are like this include Chad, shirts, clarity, pushing, ancestors, spying, thinking, evil, following, and lost.

Dreams of detours are aggressive

Detour dreams have more aggressive interactions than a lot of other dream symbols. This doesn't mean that all detours have aggressive interactions or only aggressive interactions. It simply means that having detours in a dream increases the probability this dream contains aggression. Other symbols that are like this include alleys, saving, helplessness, bears, pulling, machine guns, hostages, breaking, Iraq, and kidnapping.

What symbols less present in dreams of detours?

Detour dreams are notable because they have substantially less boyfriends, regret, spouses, romantic partners, arms, bedrooms, social media, stabbing, being naked, shoulder, rocks, locks, husbands, general animals, elderly people, sleep paralysis, teeth, white, beauty, and beds than 95% of other dream symbols.

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

Explore different elements related to dreams of detours

Who is in detours dreams?

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

Animals

more than usual

Insects

more than usual

Different roles

more than usual

Fantastic beings

more than usual

Distant people

much more than usual

Close people

much more than usual

Family

the same as usual

Romantic partners

much less than usual
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What are the emotions in detours dreams?

Overall, dreams with detours are less related to emotions in dreams. Specifically, dreams of detours are more related to happiness, more related to grief and sorrow, and much more related to confusion than dreams in general. They are less related to sadness, less related to embarrassment, and less related to fun.

Happiness

more than usual

Sadness

less than usual

Grief and sorrow

more than usual

Embarrassment

less than usual

Confusion

much more than usual

Fear

the same as usual

Pain

more than usual

Hatred

much more than usual

Fun

less than usual

Love

the same as usual
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Who is in detours dreams?

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

Home

much more than usual

Work

the same as usual

Human places

much more than usual

Transportation

much more than usual

Natural places

the same as usual

Magical places

more than usual
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What happens in detours dreams?

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

Aggressive interactions

more than usual

Friendly interactions

more than usual

Sex

less than usual

Disasters

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

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

Lucid dreams

less than usual

Nightmares

more than usual

Recurring dreams

much more than usual

Recurring nightmares

less than usual

Sleep paralysis

much less than usual

Sleeping

less than usual

Waking life

more than usual
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How do detours in dreams related the senses?

Overall, dreams with detours are aren't really related to senses in dreams. Specifically, dreams of detours are much more related to hearing, much more related to taste, and more related to touch than dreams in general. They are less related to smelling.

Hearing

much more than usual

Smelling

less than usual

Taste

much more than usual

Vision

the same as usual

Touch

more than usual
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How can you make sense of detours in dreams?

Detour dreams are exceedingly rare. Among other things detour dreams are negatively interconnected, friendly, and aggressive.

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

What are possible meanings for dreams of detours?

A detour in a dream can mean a change of direction in your life, or getting off track from a goal. For example, you study to be a marine biologist but end up working in retail. It’s a detour in your career path that could be symbolized in a dream as driving to a marina but detouring to a shopping mall.

A detour can symbolize deviations from the main road, not just career path but personal development, spirituality, relationships and so on.

A detour can mean someone is detouring you from what you know it right. It means bad advice or influence.

On the other hand, it can mean getting around an obstacle or path that’s blocked.

Think in general terms of a detour as a deviation, a break in the routine, or an alternate route.

See also: Cars, Dead ends, Highways, Roads

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 detours

Read some real dream reports of detour 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 dreamt I went to a concert later this year

[EDIT: on mobile, apologies for formatting]

It’s December 6, 2020.
I’m going to a Boostation concert.
I’ve never heard of this band in the waking world before but it sounded like a combination of folk punk + Mr. Kitty + sweeping orchestral choruses, pining lyrics, and false-chord screaming.

The roads are blocked because of Covid still, but I find a detour and I blast the music in my car on the way to the concert.

There’s no price - it’s a charity merch fundraiser.
Cashier: “What is this concert for?”
Me, turning to the crowd: “Because it’s December and everything fucking SUCKS.” (Trying to cater to the crowd a little)
There are a lot of “Hell yeah”s and fist pumps in response.
A lot of people have dyed hair, mohawks, piercings. Some are dressed goth, some punk, some scene.

I go down to concert venue, and it looks like a combination of Hell at The Masquerade and Ponce City Market in Atlanta.
(Dark, concrete floor, clear doors you push to open, stairs)
I go down some stairs, see some people blasting the music and singing along.
I don’t know the band super well, but I recently discovered them and really like them! Just happy to be there.

I look at the merch table but don’t see any Boostation merch yet, only stuff for the other band playing.
I wore black jeans, black hoodie, black converse over a band tee (looked like some metal band).
Black guy comes up to me, tall, dreads in a ponytail, skinny, glasses (I know him irl appearance wise but he wasn’t that guy) and hands me some stuff I dropped, compliments my outfit.

We start chatting and then I wake up.

[EDIT: on mobile, apologies for formatting]

It’s December 6, 2020.
I’m going to a Boostation concert.
I’ve never heard of this band in the waking world before...

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A personal and vivid dream involving an ex and weird side moments

I had a very personal and vivid dream that I have to get off my chest.

Background on myself that applies to this dream: It involves a past relationship that is possibly going to rekindle. I used to date someone and consider that person a soulmate. We met in the US but they live abroad and are expected to move to Canada soon. We are planning to meet up multiple times and we have discussed moving in together. We are both on good terms and had to end the relationship because of distance but it's obvious we still care about one another. I am also currently living at home at that will apply at the very end...

THE DREAM:

I’m at my old high school (everyone there was currently my age now) and my entire class was outside and joined by other schools so it was packed with people. My friends kept telling me that citizens from my ex's country were gonna be in the area for this soccer game on the football field, which looked bigger than usual along with the outside of the school in general. When they told me that, a friend of my ex ran up to me and hugged me. We talked and she said that my ex was gonna be here so I should call her. I did and we were trying to figure out how to meet up but apparently everyone was at my school for Holocaust Remembrance Day, which meant everyone had to go inside and go to these meetings about it. Everyone outside ended up inside (Don't really recall how I got in) and the meetings just involved us sitting down and looking out the window.

We would have short breaks and I would end up calling my ex in this old hallway filled with underpaid workers who gave me dirty looks but I could care less about it. During the calls, we ended up talking about her future journalism career, which had a focus in criminal justice in the calls, and I kept asking if she wanted to meet my family and I could show her my hometown. She said yes but said time was limited since she had to go back home the very next morning. We also mentioned dressing up fancy and meeting at a junk yard for some reason...

But anyway, I notice everyone going to the football field and I joined my friends trying to get there. I’m telling people I’m gonna meet her but they all just shake their heads no. As I get to the field, some people push me into this weight room near concessions with other jocks from my school and instruct us not to leave because we were being punished. As I’m trying to get out, I end up leaning back on this wall and I have this big bag of chips with me in my hand. This jock next to me takes it and tells me “Listen fam, this is the price you pay for holding it and not eating it!” Everyone laughs as he takes it out of my hand and I’m trying to take some chips out cause I was hungry but he and his friends just laugh and gobble the food down. He then tells me to leave this hell hole, since he wants to go to Bakersfield, California, so I just get out of this weight room that had the doors shut on us... Yeah, it takes this weird detour for some reason...

I’m trying to get to the football field but I’m walking sideways in the dream effect where you can’t really walk. People are stopping me as I’m trying to get to the soccer match. I finally get up these stairs and end up getting told that I can’t take a seat because the 100,000th ticket was purchased before me. This blonde family near me turns to me and says “THAT’S WHAT YOU GET WITH BIDEN IN OFFICE!” The last few seconds involved me throwing money at the ticket person, demanding to go in, while this family kept making political comments which resulted in me screaming at them to shut up and the ticket person to fuck off and let me in.

I hear my ex's voice the whole time calling my name and I go to turn towards it when it becomes the loudest BUT... My dad was plowing the driveway (Real life... Yes, this early...) and it woke me up...

I had a very personal and vivid dream that I have to get off my chest.

Background on myself that applies to this dream: It involves a past relationship that is...

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Reoccurring dream where I cant control vehicle. This time its upgraded to a truck

25 yo male, last semester of engineering. Kind of hate how I'm taking so long to finish my degree as I have been studying for 6 years. When I was 19, I created my own commercial cleaning business that my Dad now runs and I live off the profits while I study. There are two things on my mind that has been troubling me. I am currently writing my thesis and I haven't done much work on it and I have 3 weeks left to finish it. I have been dodging work for a while. And secondly, this girl I have been talking to for a solid 2 month recently ghosted me. This is still bugging me cause I don't know went wrong. My only assumption is she is busy, but I overthink.

Around 6 weeks ago I had a dream where I decided to take a detour and ended up at a set of lights on a slope. When the light went green I couldn't control the car, and the dream revolved around me controlling the car in reverse and trying to do the least damage I could do until I drove into a muddy plain and the car got stuck in the mud. I tried to call the police, but I kept getting transferred to like ads. My feelings throughout this dream was frustration.

Today. I had a dream where I asked the girl if she wanted to catch up. She said yes and we went out for lunch in the city. For some reason, I was not driving my own car, but my Dads Truck. I dont think the dream went into the lunch, but I remember I was driving her home. She was being very flirty and it ended up escalating to her rubbing her face into my face. Kind of like a cat. I did enjoy this alot. But it started to anger me cause she was getting so close to me I couldn't use the brakes in the truck and the driving started to become reckless. I ended up losing control and told her to stop sticking on to me. I ended up turning into a random turn a long the main road in an attempt to minimise possible destruction I could cause. The place I turned into happen to be a truck repair yard.

I parked in this main garage and the staff started to interrogate me. They checked my truck and recognised it was my Dads truck. Soon after, my Dad shows up to pay the maintenance fee on the Truck and we swap cars. My dad then tells the staff that I am the type of person to wear a Naga Scaled Armor. This is a reference to an old game I used to play where the Armor provides max hp% but you take extra damage. The purpose of this was that there was a class called the Paladin, and his skill called Devotion allowed you to link with another player and take damage on their behalf. And the maths around it is that you would just build max hp%.

But from within the dream, I interpreted as "I am a nice/pure guy, and that evidently allows me to be prone to be hurt from others."

The dream ends here.

25 yo male, last semester of engineering. Kind of hate how I'm taking so long to finish my degree as I have been studying for 6 years. When I was 19, I created...

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Alien Invasion (?)

Starts off with a raining hellfire. Panic everywhere. Everyone's trying to just get some cover.

I've somehow end up in a ground floor of a school and I'm in a classroom. I have someone with me, not sure who. He goes under a table and starts crying. I tell him 'okay you can have this place, I'll go look for another place to get some cover'. I'm not sure if that's a person I know or if that's just a stranger. Can't remember faces at all.

I keep running for a while and there's a residential area where there isn't much of this hellfire happening. I look at a couple of houses to get safe, end up at some or the other house. I think it was the staircase of a house where I decided I'll lay low for a while. It was a place from where I could see quite a bit of what's happening outside.

Surprisingly people in this area are a little oblivious to what was happening wherever I was earlier and it kinda looked like they had no idea what was actually going on. Someone starts coming to the staircase where I'm at, and I slowly move away. After a little bit of tiptoeing that person eventually sees me and he/she didn't care.

I then move to a terrace of a house and I'm not sure if I'm at the same house I was earlier, but I can see a lot better from this point. Not sure what happened then, but I remember there were a few people hiding out with me this time.

Still nothing on the outside, it's pretty quite and 2 or 3 people are walking on the road minding their business.

Real life: There was this cab driver, around 6 months ago who had dropped me off to the airport and he had my number. He had asked me to give him a call when I'm back, so that he can pick me up (get some business going his way). After a couple of months of travelling he'd started calling, I never picked. And when I did come back home, I just booked an Uber and reached home. He was still calling/dropping messages every now and then and I ended up blocking him.

Back to the dream now-

I receive a call from this same driver and again I don't pick. And like I said there are quite a few people hiding out with me this time. And some guy (probably the cabbie) walks into the terrace and he's out of his mind, probably looked like someone who was tripping balls on psychedelics. But the people around me notice there's something off with his eyes.

I take a closer look and right next to his iris on one of his eye, there's another grey circle with some writings in it. I try to read that and it says, "namaste" in hindi and a couple other languages. It was then all of us realised that this was their way of greeting us.

Not really sure what happened next, but the firing had stopped. We thought, probably that's it, whoever did this will take over and rule over our us and we gotta get used to the new regime. Hey, at least the violence and the killing has stopped.

Realised the next second I was wrong, and by this point of time I'm not at the same terrace and I'm sort of at a higher altitude and there's a place where if you fall, you die (not exactly a hill, but a city where the earth had collapsed). These aliens, are dropping people from that point for fun. I see that it's not over yet and start to run with the people that are with me.

While running, I see that there are a few aliens ahead of us who are drilling (?) on the ground so that everything on our side falls into the abyss. I try to take a detour and somehow safely evades that.

*Then I wake up. Also, I think this was the second time I had this same dream in the same night.*

Starts off with a raining hellfire. Panic everywhere. Everyone's trying to just get some cover.

I've somehow end up in a ground floor of a school and I'm in a...

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Baby Snake Dream/ cheating fiancee dream

I woke up about an hour ago from a dream that I was bit on the 2nd toe by a black and brown tiny snake. I told my mom in the dream that I needed to get to the hospital fast. However the dream took a detour and i was telling my fiancee mom that he cheated on me and i caught him and that I wouldn't take our daughter away from him but I didn't want anything to do with him anymore... What does this dream mean ?

I woke up about an hour ago from a dream that I was bit on the 2nd toe by a black and brown tiny snake. I told my mom in the dream that I needed to get to the...

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