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What are emaciation dreams about?

This symbol is identified by words like emaciation.

Emaciation in dreams is a exceedingly rare dream symbol, occuring in about 0.0008% of dreams. That's about 1 out of every 123,000 dreams. Please note that the data on this page may not represent all dreams with emaciation. This symbol is so rare that less than 20 dreams form the basis of the data on this page.

What are the major highlights of emaciation dreams?

Emaciation is a very negatively interconnected dream symbol. Dreams of emaciation greatly reduce the presence of other dream symbols.

Dreams of emaciation are emotional

Emaciation have substantially more emotions than other dream symbols. It is particularly surprising. Other symbols that are like this include wanting and wishing, Morocco, hazel eyes, amazed, orange eyes, obeying, grey eyes, movement, Croatia, and closed my eyes.

Emaciation dreams are friendly

Dreams of emaciation have greater increase of friendly interactions within the dream than most other dream symbols. While not all dreams of emaciation will be friendly and they can also contain aggressive interactions, dreams of emaciation are more likely to have friendly interactions than most other dream symbols. Other symbols that are like this include bullies, wounds, trying, keys, vision, actors, doors, protecting, money, and eyes.

Dreams of emaciation are aggressive

Emaciation dreams have more aggressive interactions than a lot of other dream symbols. This doesn't mean that all emaciation have aggressive interactions or only aggressive interactions. It simply means that having emaciation in a dream increases the probability this dream contains aggression. Other symbols that are like this include armies, skeletons, wildfires, following, ditching, tasers, employees, feet, entrances, and thieves.

Emaciation dreams are about love

Dreams containing emaciation are more related to love than 90% of all other dream symbols. Of course each dream is unique and this does not mean that all dreams of emaciation are about love. It simply means that if you dream of emaciation, this dream has a greater chance of being about love than most other dream symbols. Other symbols that are like this include uncategorized, communicating, dismissals, purgatory, taste, flowers, qualities, hearts, Laos, and joy.

Emaciation dreams are scary

Dreams containing emaciation are more related to fear than 90% of all other dream symbols. Of course each dream is unique and this does not mean that all dreams of emaciation are about fear. It simply means that if you dream of emaciation, this dream has a great chance of being scarier than most other dream symbols. Other symbols that are like this include general thinking, going to die, horrors, going, locks, opening, demons, beginnings, Cuba, and things.

Emaciation dreams focus on taste

Dreams of emaciation have more words related to taste than 90% of all other dream symbols. In other words, emaciation 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 bird cages, Laos, Fiji, Ireland, hyenas, Guatemala, toenails, lotus flowers, Costa Rica, and Poland.

What symbols more present in dreams of emaciation?

Emaciation dreams are notable because they have substantially more emaciation, devouring, fetuses, thrones, anticipating, hosts, scars, pressing buttons, heat, foreignness, breasts, lakes, suffocation, spiders, souls, smelling, noses, lips, deserts, knees, greeting, eggs, drowning, bones, abyss, and welcoming than 95% of other dream symbols.

What symbols less present in dreams of emaciation?

Emaciation as a dream symbol do not especially suppress any other dream symbols.

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

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Who is in emaciation dreams?

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

Animals

much more than usual

Insects

much more than usual

Different roles

much more than usual

Fantastic beings

much more than usual

Distant people

much more than usual

Close people

much less than usual

Family

much less than usual

Romantic partners

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

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

Happiness

much less than usual

Sadness

much less than usual

Grief and sorrow

much less than usual

Embarrassment

much more than usual

Confusion

much less than usual

Fear

much more than usual

Pain

much more than usual

Hatred

much less than usual

Fun

much less than usual

Love

much more than usual
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Who is in emaciation dreams?

Overall, dreams with emaciation are more related to places in dreams. Specifically, dreams of emaciation are much more related to human places and much more related to natural places than dreams in general. They are much less related to home, much less related to work, and much less related to transportation.

Home

much less than usual

Work

much less than usual

Human places

much more than usual

Transportation

much less than usual

Natural places

much more than usual

Magical places

much less than usual
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What happens in emaciation dreams?

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

Aggressive interactions

much more than usual

Friendly interactions

much more than usual

Sex

much less than usual

Disasters

much less than usual
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How do emaciation in dreams related to other dream phenomenon?

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

Lucid dreams

much less than usual

Nightmares

much less than usual

Recurring dreams

much more than usual

Recurring nightmares

less than usual

Sleep paralysis

much less than usual

Sleeping

much less than usual

Waking life

much less than usual
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How do emaciation in dreams related the senses?

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

Hearing

much more than usual

Smelling

much more than usual

Taste

much less than usual

Vision

much more than usual

Touch

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

Emaciation dreams are exceedingly rare Please note that the data on this page may not represent all dreams with emaciation. This symbol is so rare that less than 20 dreams form the basis of the data on this page.. Among other things emaciation dreams are very negatively interconnected, very emotional, friendly, aggressive, about love, scary, and focus on taste.

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

What are possible meanings for dreams of emaciation?

Emaciation in a dream can symbolize wasting away. In dreams, physically wasting away connects with a wasted life, wasted opportunity, or the gradual wearing away of spirit brought about by depression, abuse, grief, worry, listlessness, boredom, confinement, and a variety of other conditions and circumstances. It can show that more vitality and substance are needed.

Consider the obvious. You might need to eat more or eat better. You don’t get enough nutrition. Or you have body-image issues.

It can symbolize that you need to be fed something non-material: ideas, enthusiasm, energy, spirit, emotion, knowledge.

For example, an artist who uses nature walks to feed her inspiration dreams about her body wasting away like someone starving. The dream follows after a period of being cooped up in an apartment. Her artistic side is starving for inspiration.

It can mean thin on substance or character, or starving for attention.

In simplest terms, emaciated means “not much there.” It can symbolize a thin argument, thin on ideas, or thin in the wallet or bank account.

Dreaming that you are anorexic can show that you lack self-esteem, because a common association is that people with anorexia lack self-esteem.

It can symbolize frugality. In a general sense, anorexia means “too restrictive.” The symbolism can be spun out to connect with situations such as not studying enough to get a good grade on a test, or practicing enough at something to improve.

A young mother dreams that her children are anorexic, reflecting her feelings that she doesn’t give them enough attention.

In the Old Testament, Genesis 41, Joseph is called to interpret Pharaoh’s dream about seeing seven fat cows rise up out of the Nile. Then seven emaciated cows rise out of the Nile and eat the fat ones. In a dream that follows, Pharaoh sees seven plump heads of grain on a single stalk. Then seven thin heads of grain sprout and consume the fat heads. Joseph interprets the imagery as meaning that seven years of good harvest will be followed by seven years of bad harvest, and advises Pharaoh to save his resources from the good harvests in preparation for the seven lean years to follow. And indeed, according to the story, that’s what transpired.

See also: Cages, Eating, Food

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 emaciation

Read some real dream reports of emaciation 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.

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