What are devouring dreams about?
Devouring is more than simply consuming. It is to consume with speed and vigor. It is to consume completely. This symbol is identified by words like devour.
Devouring in dreams is a very rare dream symbol, occuring in about 0.2% of dreams. That's about 1 out of every 650 dreams.
What are the major highlights of devouring dreams?
Devouring is a negatively interconnected dream symbol. Having devouring in a dream reduces the presence of other dream symbols.
Dreams of devouring are aggressive
Devouring dreams have more aggressive interactions than a lot of other dream symbols. This doesn't mean that all devouring have aggressive interactions or only aggressive interactions. It simply means that having devouring in a dream increases the probability this dream contains aggression. Other symbols that are like this include being tied up, heads, cannons, raccoons, machine guns, tackling, Haiti, Syria, jumping, and tools.
Dreams with devouring might be a nightmare
Dreams of devouring are frequently associated with nightmares. Of course dreams that contain devouring might not be a nightmare. Plenty of dreams with devouring are not nightmares. But, dreams of devouring are more related to nightmares than 80% of all other dream symbols. Other symbols that are like this include wrist, necks, abandonment, helplessness, emotions, trying, childhood homes, emptiness, general thinking, and fists.
What symbols more present in dreams of devouring?
Devouring dreams are notable because they have substantially more hunger, eating, lions, parasites in body, emaciation, creatures, artists, baboons, characters, general insects, snakes, circuses, animals, worms, other fantastic beings, Spain, capturing, dismissals, talismans, general movement, jungles, constructing, souls, taste, compensation, diamonds, movement, laundry rooms, monster, spiders, senses, disguises, jury members, backwards, trapping, journeys, food, weasels, vampires, eggs, escaping, ravens, deluges, pigs, fantastic beings, insects, bones, werewolves, hugeness, rodents, cults, the planets, fetuses, smelling, places, neptune, tea, the earth, cannibals, and airports than 95% of other dream symbols.
What symbols less present in dreams of devouring?
Devouring dreams are notable because they have substantially less romantic partners, dating, boyfriends, break ups, bedrooms, doctors, relationship events, former partners, actors, being shot, praising, funerals, suicide, devils, boredom, thanking, fun, beauty, girlfriends, phones, best friends, buses, infidelity, consuming, verbs, showers, and arresting than 95% of other dream symbols.
How does the dream symbol of devouring affect the different aspects of a dream?
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Who is in devouring dreams?
Overall, dreams with devouring are aren't really related to characters in dreams. Specifically, dreams of devouring are much more related to animals, much more related to insects, and much more related to fantastic beings than dreams in general. They are less related to close people, less related to family, and much less related to romantic partners.
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What are the emotions in devouring dreams?
Overall, dreams with devouring are aren't really related to emotions in dreams. Specifically, dreams of devouring are more related to happiness, more related to grief and sorrow, and more related to fear than dreams in general. They are less related to sadness, less related to embarrassment, and less related to confusion.
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Who is in devouring dreams?
Overall, dreams with devouring are aren't really related to places in dreams. Specifically, dreams of devouring are more related to human places and more related to natural places than dreams in general. They are less related to home, less related to work, and less related to transportation.
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What happens in devouring dreams?
Overall, dreams with devouring are aren't really related to events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of devouring are more related to aggressive interactions and more related to disasters than dreams in general.
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How do devouring in dreams related to other dream phenomenon?
Overall, dreams with devouring are aren't really related to dream events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of devouring are more related to nightmares, more related to recurring nightmares, and more related to sleep paralysis than dreams in general. They are less related to lucid dreams and less related to waking life.
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How can you make sense of devouring in dreams?
Devouring dreams are very rare. Among other things devouring dreams are negatively interconnected, aggressive, and nightmare.
Do you think this is true for your dream of devouring? How might your dream of devouring 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 devouring 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 devouring in dreams. See how you feel about devouring now, in your waking life.
What are possible meanings for dreams of devouring?
When a dream uses “devour” to tell the story, it’s next-level symbolism above eating. It’s not just hunger, it’s voraciousness. It not just taking something into oneself, but doing it in a way that’s extreme. Otherwise, a dream can just show the symbolism as eating. It uses devouring for a reason. See: Eating
To devour implies a huge need or appetite, not just for food but for intangible things such as attention or success.
It can indicate powerful passion or desire.
Being devoured can mean you fear loss of your identity, particularly in cases when someone dominates or smothers you, such as a dominant parental figure or an authority figure such as a boss or commanding officer.
You can be devoured by stress or the daily grind. It’s not just eating at you, it’s eating you up. See: Cancer
It can symbolize a desire to lose yourself, to disappear and never be seen again. See: Eating
See also: Animals, Bears, Bosses, Dragons, Eating, Eating, Fathers, Food, Monster, Mothers, Sharks
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 devouring
Read some real dream reports of devouring 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.
Going into the light vs being pulled by the dark
I was in my room and it was morning, but my room is kinda dark because of the curtains. There was a brief gust of wind that moved the curtains and all of a sudden there was light in my room. This light was attractive to me, so I looked at it and felt an ominous presence that was good in nature. This light was devouring me and I didn’t mind it I was levitating in my room gravitating towards it up until there was another presence in my room that shut the blinds and pulled the curtain to make my room dark again.
I felt an awful presence of being back in the dark and then suddenly I woke up in my real room where everything was dark just like in my dream.
I felt awful after I woke up as that light felt godlike? I was in complete darkness when I woke up since my curtain blocks out sunlight really good
I was in my room and it was morning, but my room is kinda dark because of the curtains. There was a brief gust of wind that moved the curtains and all of a...
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Dream about God? Interpretation please?
So last night I had this dream, I was at my previous school with some of my old schoolmates.
But there was something preying on us; an invisible creature who would suck out our entire hearts and insides, and only leave our skin behind to rot.
It was chaotic and everyone was running around and if the creature caught anyone alone, it would suck the life right out of them.
We were hiding in the school’s basement which also included a selection of books. One was called “The Big Orange Man” which caught my eye. I was just looking through the limited selection of books they had as the invisible monster captured one of my friends and sucked them dry. Everyone was screaming and running around as the creature would consume them one by one.
We also had a “spiritual leader” come to our school to help us rid the school of the evil monster.
He kept telling us that we needed to start believing in God and putting our trust in him to survive the crisis.
He recommended a few books for us to read, one of which was the “Big Orange Man” that I had found at the library! And all the other books he mentioned were also stacked up together in the school basement which had caught my eyes before.
Again we went to hide from the monster but it was devouring everyone... Except for me, it never even came close to me and I felt strange. But relieved in a way.
The spiritual leader also had a great connection with me and was always smiling at me and not being too hard on me as he was on the others.
So I grabbed the Orange Man book and started reading it. Interestingly, the book was about God and how in a fictional story people rid themselves of the same invisible evil we were trying to battle.
And then it all clicked. The answer to our problems was God. AKA the big orange man (No not Trump lmao).
So I was trying to tell people and spread the message of the spiritual leader. Telling everyone they had to stay together to not be vulnerable to the evil creature.
But my friends were running around and not listening to me. I was exhausted and scared.
Then I saw an enormous orange halo, it was God and He was speaking to me without using any words. Assuring me that all our problems would go away if we just trusted in him. He was warm and loving. He told me to never worry again, that everything would be alright if we just had faith and I felt incredibly peaceful.
So last night I had this dream, I was at my previous school with some of my old schoolmates.
But there was something preying on us; an invisible creature who...
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I’m really sorry but this dream has been freaking me out since I woke up
It was extremely vivid; it was about a family (a dad and his sister whose husband died for unknown reasons, the dad’s little girl and a boy from his in laws that got into a car crash and both parents passed on and he now has special needs) in woods filled with pine trees, the smell was so strong it was almost nauseating. They owned a pig farm and this becomes important later.
They were living peacefully until one morning the boy was missing so the family went outside and all the pigs were slaughtered and I mean absolutely butchered. The boy was on the ground and when he got up, it was obvious someone had chopped off the lower half of his body and sewed on the lower half of a pig with its genitals mutilated. The dad ended up having to take him out of his misery and had to bury the boy and all the pig bodies. The girl had hid herself in the aunt’s arms and didn’t see all this but she heard it as the boy was calling for her. The aunt then proceeded to tell her her mom and the boy’s family got involved with some kind of cult trying to created human pig hybrids in order to unleash something called the Umbral Hand to control and govern the world as its god. Then a little girl with blond hair and red clothes with an eye on it appeared to the little girl and said the cult had implanted a gateway to the Door leading to this dark dimension where the Umbral Hand was inside of her body and she needed to find a way to close it. Then I guess one of the hand’s underlings started to scream and taunt and hurl nasty obscenities at this girl through the door, telling her the nasty things he’d do to her body if he ever got possession of it. This was all in her mind so she kept getting headaches and her ears kept ringing but she had decided to go on this journey by herself to figure this out. Then somehow the world she was in became enshrouded by never ending night and nothing that involves electricity was working including the car. So this little girl got a horse from her stable and as soon as she got on the road her horse was devoured by demon wolves and she ran away. Her dad had caught up on his own horse but the horse had skid into a railing and exploded underneath him so they were forced to journey on foot.
Also the spirits and demons in this world seemed to recognize me as another entity as they kept telling me I crossed into somewhere I shouldn’t have and that I don’t belong here and that I shouldn’t interfere with that world but there was another entity(?) with me that said it was keeping me there “in order to bear witness”.
I don’t know what any of this means, and I didn’t listen to anything violent or scary and I don’t have anything I’m worried about and I didn’t take any drugs or anything either but it felt so real and vivid and I’m terrified. Please help me.
It was extremely vivid; it was about a family (a dad and his sister whose husband died for unknown reasons, the dad’s little girl and a boy from his in laws...
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Attacked by a clown
I had an amazing dream last night, but details are fleeting….. Now all I remember is when the dream turned south and I was attacked by a clown (kinda like IT). I was trapped in a circus tent and was fighting back, next thing I know the circus tent collapsed and the clown was on top of me, I felt helpless like it was about to devour my soul…. I couldn’t move and felt paralyzed, I could literally fell the tent wrapping me up and constricting me…. I finally was able to break free as I awoke, and realized that the “tent” was my blankets…. I’m open to interpretation if you’d like to give insight….
I had an amazing dream last night, but details are fleeting….. Now all I remember is when the dream turned south and I was attacked by a clown (kinda like IT)....
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Weirdest dream I’ve had in a minute
So I was walking down the street at night and I saw a lynx. Mind you, I live in the city and I was walking to my old house for some reason.. I guess I lived there in the dream. Anyways I was walking and when I saw the lynx(I think it was a baby)sitting down and minding it’s own business but I didn’t think anything of it. So we both looked at each other nonchalantly and I started walking.. as I start walking, everything starts moving in slow motion and then I just see a huge sloth(Probably 7-9 feet tall)jumping over me to get to the lynx and it just devours the lynx. The sloth wasn’t like a normal calm and cute sloth. It looked pretty monstrous and it was very aggressive. At first I thought it was coming for me but fortunately I was wrong..Wtf! Is there some kind of meaning behind this dream?
So I was walking down the street at night and I saw a lynx. Mind you, I live in the city and I was walking to my old house for some reason.. I guess I lived...
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