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What are documentary dreams about?

This symbol is identified by words like documentary.

Documentaries in dreams is a very uncommon dream symbol, occuring in about 0.2% of dreams. That's about 1 out of every 500 dreams.

What are the major highlights of documentary dreams?

Documentaries is a negatively interconnected dream symbol. Having documentaries in a dream reduces the presence of other dream symbols.

What symbols less present in dreams of documentaries?

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

Explore different elements related to dreams of documentaries

Who is in documentaries dreams?

Overall, dreams with documentaries are less related to characters in dreams. Specifically, dreams of documentaries 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 close people, less related to family, and less related to romantic partners.

Animals

more than usual

Insects

more than usual

Different roles

more than usual

Fantastic beings

the same as usual

Distant people

the same as usual

Close people

much less than usual

Family

less than usual

Romantic partners

less than usual
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What are the emotions in documentaries dreams?

Overall, dreams with documentaries are less related to emotions in dreams. Specifically, dreams of documentaries are much less related to grief and sorrow, less related to confusion, and less related to pain.

Happiness

the same as usual

Sadness

the same as usual

Grief and sorrow

much less than usual

Embarrassment

the same as usual

Confusion

less than usual

Fear

the same as usual

Pain

less than usual

Hatred

the same as usual

Fun

less than usual

Love

less than usual
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Who is in documentaries dreams?

Overall, dreams with documentaries are less related to places in dreams. Specifically, dreams of documentaries are less related to home, less related to work, and less related to human places.

Home

less than usual

Work

less than usual

Human places

less than usual

Transportation

the same as usual

Natural places

the same as usual

Magical places

less than usual
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What happens in documentaries dreams?

Overall, dreams with documentaries are less related to events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of documentaries are less related to sex.

Aggressive interactions

the same as usual

Friendly interactions

the same as usual

Sex

less than usual

Disasters

the same as usual
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How do documentaries in dreams related to other dream phenomenon?

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

Lucid dreams

less than usual

Nightmares

more than usual

Recurring dreams

much less than usual

Recurring nightmares

less than usual

Sleep paralysis

more than usual

Sleeping

less than usual

Waking life

less than usual
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How do documentaries in dreams related the senses?

Overall, dreams with documentaries are more related to senses in dreams. Specifically, dreams of documentaries are more related to taste and much more related to vision than dreams in general. They are less related to smelling and less related to touch.

Hearing

the same as usual

Smelling

less than usual

Taste

more than usual

Vision

much more than usual

Touch

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

Documentary dreams are very uncommon. Among other things documentary dreams are negatively interconnected.

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

What are possible meanings for dreams of documentaries?

Dreaming about viewing a documentary can be a way of conveying information about yourself, your life, or a situation or circumstance in it. Documentaries are generally about people’s lives and issues of interest. They go into depth and generally offer different perspectives. They are the official record. Dreams document your life and interests, and show your life from different perspectives.

A documentary can help you explore a subject or find an answer to a question. For example, you want to know what your stoic grandfather really thinks of you and dream of him being interviewed about you for a documentary. What he says shows you a different perspective. It might help you understand him better, or see yourself in him.

Dreams can play with the word “document” by using a documentary in connection with particular documents that are part of your life—wills, bank statements, reports—and in connection with how you feel about handling documents.

For example, you dream you’re forced to view a really boring eight-hour documentary, which connects with the eight hours a day that you deal with documents at work, and how boring it is. Or you dream about a document going up in flames in your hands, and it symbolizes something too hot to handle.

See: Actors, Cameras, Directors, Hollywood, Movies, Televisions

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 documentaries

Read some real dream reports of documentary 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 was tortured and I felt everything

Two days ago I had one of the most horrifying experiences of my entire life, it still hasn’t left me. I had a dream that quickly became a nightmare within a few seconds and I will never forget it.

I don’t know if there’s a medical explanation for what happened and I don’t know if I’m going crazy or not.

From what I remember, the transition started from when I could see the shape of moth-person thing in a dark shadow, this didn’t scare me at all, I actually found it curious, I remember going to a building to explain what I seen to a woman. This woman took me by the wrist to what seemed like a police station (I thought this was to give a statement or whatever of what I had seen). I was led into a lit up basement with bars that opened then closed behind me, this was where I felt uncomfortable, so I tried to run.

It was at this point what I thought was a dream became one of the most confusing and horrifying things I’ve ever experienced in my life.

A man grabbed my arm then shoved a device onto my skin, it burned and it felt like I was being electrocuted, I was dreaming and stayed dreaming but I felt everything that was done to me. I remember screaming whilst he kept taking it off, then putting it back on. I remember this going on for a while, till I ran through something and got out. Then I just remember seeing visions of news reports and documentaries of children being abducted and tortured. This gave me the biggest feeling of dread and is eventually what woke me up.

Two days ago I had one of the most horrifying experiences of my entire life, it still hasn’t left me. I had a dream that quickly became a nightmare within a few...

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Half a cup of spaghetti on a metal plate

I had a dream last night that was like a sitcom skit that went on for several hours, figured I'd post it here.


I went to this weird school dinner thing at 8PM at a school I've never been to, I get inside, and I go to get some food. I ask for spaghetti, and the dude behind the counter asks me "Glass or metal plate?" I'm so fucking confused but I ask for a glass plate. Dude says "You sure? Metal plates are better for the environment" I start arguing with the guy about how there wouldn't be much of a difference between a glass and metal plate in terms of environmental impact, but this dude INSISTS that I get the metal plate. Eventually, the dude behind the counter walks to a projector thing in the room where this is all happening, and puts on some kind of documentary about environmental stuff, most of it just being jibberish to try and get me to get the metal plate. After the movie is done, I still ask for the glass plate, me and the guy argue some more. After a bit more arguing, he leaves the counter, goes to the stage in the room (the room is some kind of cafetorium btw if you didn't pick up on that) and out comes a FUCKING PLAY about how glass plates are bad and metal plates are good. After the play is all said and done, we're back at the counter. It's midnight by this point and I'm so fed up and hungry that I give in and get a metal plate. He pulls out this metal tray with Facebook mom memes printed on it, puts half a cup worth of spaghetti on it, and hands it to me. I'm so tired and fed up that I don't even question it, I sit down, I eat the pathetic amount of spaghetti, I get back up, return the metal plate to the counter, dude thanks me, and I walk through the exit. I wake up.


TL:DR: dude tries for 4 hours to get me to eat spaghetti from his boomer meme plate

I had a dream last night that was like a sitcom skit that went on for several hours, figured I'd post it here.


I went to this weird school dinner thing at...

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I dreamt that I became a hated figure on the internet

It either stemmed from a misunderstood Reddit post or YouTube comment. Anyway it spiraled into a big thread of me vs the internet. And with my inability to explain to them, I became an internet sensation and everyone hated me. Hateful memes were made about me. A full 30-minute YT documentary against me. The more I try to explain, the more I was hated. Who knows whether someone is trying to find my location. It was the scariest dream ever probably

Thankfully I never made a controversial thread in real life, right?

…right?

It either stemmed from a misunderstood Reddit post or YouTube comment. Anyway it spiraled into a big thread of me vs the internet. And with my inability to...

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Does anyone else dream in documentary style?

Last night I had a dream that I was on a cruise ship, completely unaware of the missile was being sent at it. The missile was fired only a mile away so no military personnel would detect/shoot it down in time. I saw this dream in documentary form; as if watching a documentary about the cruise ship being attacked. I was on the ship but never in the documentary. I was hearing the narration of the people explaining their experience on the ship. For example, some parts i was seeing this man talking to the "camera" about hiis experience, and other parts i saw what was going on with narration. Does this ever happen to anyone else?

Last night I had a dream that I was on a cruise ship, completely unaware of the missile was being sent at it. The missile was fired only a mile away so no...

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Terrifying dream ended with sleep paralysis

Hey there,

Last night, I had a dream I made a film in a villa with friends. Half real life, half art experiment. We went to a villa in Malta and every night strange people would flock in their hundreds to party with us. We somehow turned it in a critically acclaimed film/documentary. Years later, we go back to the villa for an anniversary of the film release. There are hundreds of people partying again. Orgies, women hassling us for sex. Very surreal, overwhelming and strange. My friends are all there and we gather for a picture of us on this occasion. All of a sudden, I know I'm in my room and in bed next to my girlfriend. I can't move and there's a voice behind me and a tall shadow figure at the end of the bed. The voice sounded old and medieval. It said "why do we let people walk all over us?" over and over. I was trying to shout, poke my girlfriend, do anything to make it end, but I was paralysed. It was terrifying. I awoke to the sound of my cat meowing outside the door. I'm now laid in my bed, writing this; terrified to go back to sleep.

Any thoughts on the meaning?

Hey there,

Last night, I had a dream I made a film in a villa with friends. Half real life, half art experiment. We went to a villa in Malta and every night...

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