What are dissecting dreams about?
This symbol is identified by words like dissect.
Dissecting in dreams is a very rare dream symbol, occuring in about 0.1% of dreams. That's about 1 out of every 2,000 dreams.
What are the major highlights of dissecting dreams?
Dissecting is a negatively interconnected dream symbol. Having dissecting in a dream reduces the presence of other dream symbols.
Dissecting dreams are friendly
Dreams of dissecting have greater increase of friendly interactions within the dream than most other dream symbols. While not all dreams of dissecting will be friendly and they can also contain aggressive interactions, dreams of dissecting are more likely to have friendly interactions than most other dream symbols. Other symbols that are like this include intensifiers, places, sports, puppies, relief, uranus, deluges, fast, faires, and people's ages.
Dreams with dissecting might be a nightmare
Dreams of dissecting are frequently associated with nightmares. Of course dreams that contain dissecting might not be a nightmare. Plenty of dreams with dissecting are not nightmares. But, dreams of dissecting are more related to nightmares than 80% of all other dream symbols. Other symbols that are like this include molesting, other verbs, broken glass, general senses, Serbia, car crashes, hyenas, hearts, vomiting, and ovaries.
Dissecting dreams are about family
Dreams of dissecting are more related to family than 90% of all other symbols. In other words, dreaming of dissecting will increase your chances of dreaming of a family member. Other symbols that are like this include laundry rooms, seeing a dead father, communicating, ovens, pregnancy, incest, going, Ecuador, orphans, and Poland.
Dissecting dreams focus on smells
Dreams of dissecting have more words related to smells than 90% of all other dream symbols. In other words, dissecting dreams involve the world of scents. Other symbols that are like this include Darth Vader, Ethiopia, uranus, Morocco, pinecones, Thailand, Madagascar, neptune, incest, and jealousy.
Dissecting dreams focus on taste
Dreams of dissecting have more words related to taste than 90% of all other dream symbols. In other words, dissecting dreams involve the perceptions of taste. Taste is a chemical sense. We taste things through interacting and touching the object we are tasting. Other symbols that are like this include precognitive dreams, laundry rooms, Bangladesh, coffins, whales, owls, baboons, turtles, Nepal, and Poland.
What symbols more present in dreams of dissecting?
Dissecting dreams are notable because they have substantially more blood, skin, journeys, Argentina, frogs, ponies, animas, fevers, things, authors, horrors, dead bodies, cutting, x-rays, owls, hearts, cancer, harvests, red eyes, general body parts, Vietnam, creeping and crawling, backwards, cages, smiling, emeralds, ankles, jobs, getting a job, mansions, characters, violet, lovers, rage, stomachs, hawks, friendly interactions, dissecting, cold sweats, hamsters, letters, general animals, above, puppies, doctors, wilderness, unconscious minds, brightness, fog, elves, war, caves, back doors, helping, octopus, nurses, and hospitals than 95% of other dream symbols.
How does the dream symbol of dissecting affect the different aspects of a dream?
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Who is in dissecting dreams?
Overall, dreams with dissecting are aren't really related to characters in dreams. Specifically, dreams of dissecting are more related to animals, much more related to insects, and much more related to family than dreams in general. They are less related to different roles, less related to distant people, and less related to close people.
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What are the emotions in dissecting dreams?
Overall, dreams with dissecting are aren't really related to emotions in dreams. Specifically, dreams of dissecting are more related to happiness, more related to pain, and more related to love than dreams in general. They are much less related to sadness, much less related to grief and sorrow, and much less related to embarrassment.
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Who is in dissecting dreams?
Overall, dreams with dissecting are aren't really related to places in dreams. Specifically, dreams of dissecting are much more related to work and more related to human places than dreams in general. They are less related to transportation, less related to natural places, and less related to magical places.
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What happens in dissecting dreams?
Overall, dreams with dissecting are less related to events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of dissecting are much more related to friendly interactions than dreams in general. They are less related to sex and much less related to disasters.
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How do dissecting in dreams related to other dream phenomenon?
Overall, dreams with dissecting are less related to dream events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of dissecting are much more related to nightmares, much more related to recurring nightmares, and more related to waking life than dreams in general. They are much less related to lucid dreams, less related to sleep paralysis, and less related to sleeping.
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How do dissecting in dreams related the senses?
Overall, dreams with dissecting are aren't really related to senses in dreams. Specifically, dreams of dissecting are more related to touch than dreams in general. They are less related to hearing, much less related to smelling, and much less related to taste.
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How can you make sense of dissecting in dreams?
Dissecting dreams are very rare. Among other things dissecting dreams are negatively interconnected, friendly, nightmare, family oriented, focus on smells, and focus on taste.
Do you think this is true for your dream of dissecting? How might your dream of dissecting 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 dissecting 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 dissecting in dreams. See how you feel about dissecting now, in your waking life.
What are possible meanings for dreams of dissecting?
Dissection in a dream can indicate a sharp, incisive mind, an analogy between razor-sharp tools and a razor-sharp mind.
When a situation is dissected, it’s inspected closely. To symbolize such a situation, a dream can use the imagery of dissection or an autopsy.
An autopsy has further possibilities as symbolism for analyzing what went wrong. For example, Monday morning after losing the game, the football coaches perform an autopsy of the team’s play to figure out what went wrong. In this sense, an autopsy has duel symbolism representing careful deconstruction and analysis, and loss (dead body).
Being dissected can mean you feel like someone analyzes you in ways that reveal information or knowledge that you’d rather remain hidden, such as motives, personal flaws, and personality traits.
See also: Body parts, Diamonds, Doctors, Knives, Surgery
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 dissecting
Read some real dream reports of dissecting 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.
An unsettling moth dream
So I have this dream last night where my friends and I are on vacation in the woods like a KOA campground.
While there, this white moth with a grey body, pink antennae and bright white wings starts fluttering near us. Somehow I get the feeling its quite distressed, it starts making weird squeaking noises and flies over to me. It lands on the hoodie I'm wearing. It keeps squeaking. At this point we have some kind of weird bond where I can feel what its feeling emotionally.
Its scared. This moth is quite different it has higher intelligence than other moths. it acts like a puppy or kitten. It shows affection by landing on ones hand and licks it with its little strawlike tongue. Only weird thing is it stings like your hand is falling asleep.
This moth is apparently quite rare and poachers are trying to catch it so they dissect its brain. A group of animal activists comes out and stands in front of us blocking the poachers from getting to us, we run with the moth it hides in my hoodie as I open my hoodie I gently place the moth in my hands, I bend down to release it, as soon as I open my hands it crawls out, it tries to continue walking in the grass its leg gets stuck somehow and as it got free, its head severed from its body, the lower torso still moving trying to walk.
I fall to my knees and start crying, then the activists come back and blame me.
I am inconsolable and I feel like I'm going to vomit. I wake up in a cold sweat.
So I have this dream last night where my friends and I are on vacation in the woods like a KOA campground.
While there, this white moth with a grey body, pink...
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Bad dream about high school
I was in high school and I had an assignment to write two (2) paragraphs analyzing a theme in a certain movie. Well for about what felt like an hour, I would write a few words and think, “This shit is stupid,” then crumple the paper up and start a new page. Then I’d reach into my backpack and pull out another sheet of paper (which was always colored paper, never the white college ruled kind I always used). The strangest thing is, I graduated from high school eleven years ago.
This felt like a loop. If you’ve ever seen that one episode of American Horror Story: Coven where the witches are competing to become the new Supreme and that one witch from the swamp got stock in her Biology class dissecting a frog over and over, this felt like it.
Does anyone know what’s happening here?
I was in high school and I had an assignment to write two (2) paragraphs analyzing a theme in a certain movie. Well for about what felt like an hour, I would...
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Insanely vivid dream about near death felt every bit of it.
I had a dream last night that I randomly went to somewhere in Africa for a job and got bit by a very venomous snake twice first snake was a different one forgot where it bit me second snake was a smaller black snake bit me in the back. I start feeling the devastating effects of the venom right away managed to get to a very run down, undeveloped looking hospital and they gave me a styrofoam cup of anti venom lol.
The craziest part of this dream was how real the venomous effects felt through out my body it literally felt like death and I wasn’t sure if I was gona make it alive as the nurses were trying to comfort me. I managed to call my wife to tell her that I love her and my son and to let her know I wasn’t sure if I was going to survive. They put me on a stretcher and brought me to not a medical room but a weird outside place and sat me in these steps then I started feeling slightly better shortly after from the anti venom.
Then I make it back home somehow and I go and hug everybody that I love realizing how much they mean to me and the fact that I survived near death and thoughts about not taking things for granted. Can someone dissect this dream for me maybe ty.
I had a dream last night that I randomly went to somewhere in Africa for a job and got bit by a very venomous snake twice first snake was a different one forgot...
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I helped dissect a French Bulldog puppy
It night time in a parking lot and the lights were a warm color. I'm in a car with a guy who tells me I need to open my puppy in the dream to figure out what's wrong with it. He opens him up like a frog you dissect in science class and Im kinda shocked I can see all it's organs. He pulls out a big price of fat from the puppy and tells me that's what's been causing the problem.
It night time in a parking lot and the lights were a warm color. I'm in a car with a guy who tells me I need to open my puppy in the dream to figure out what's...
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Dreaming of being on another planet
I dreamt that I was on a brown planet and all of the building and homes etc were made of stone I didn’t recognize and the beings all floated to get to where they needed to go. In the dream I traveled many places but the most intense place was this holding space where everything was caged in and several beings were being sent up through what looked like a laundry chute into space. I remember feeling afraid and turning to the being orchestrating (they were similar to humans but wore this caftan looking outfit and their heads were shaped like hearts) this journey and I grabbed their face and very firmly said to them “I need to save my mom back home do not let her die” the being was visibly frightened and placed their head to mine without saying a word I was back home and I woke up. I don’t even know where to begin dissecting this please help me
I dreamt that I was on a brown planet and all of the building and homes etc were made of stone I didn’t recognize and the beings all floated to get to where...
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