Background

What are email dreams about?

Emails are an electronic form of communication. They are often associated with work or business because daily communication with friends and family tends to take place using texts, other messaging services, or phone calls. As a result, emails can feel like a burden or a task to do. Still, the technology that enables emails is a magical and allows for near instant communication over vast distances. The DreamWell Dream Dictionary is based upon insights from 1,200 dream symbols in over 200,000 dreams. Let’s see what the data has to say about email dreams.

The word cloud above shows the words that are specifically associated with email dreams. These are the words that make email dreams unique compared to all other dream symbols. Just examining the graph and reading the words of email dreams can be illuminating about show emails affect our dreams. Be sure to check out the example email dreams at the bottom of the page.

The circular bar chart above shows how emails in a dream will affect dream content as compared to other dream symbols. Higher bars indicate that email is more related to the specific symbol in the graph. Lower bars indicate that email is less related to the specific symbol in the graph. Specifically, email dreams have more work than 96.4% of dream symbols, more schools than 89.3% of dream symbols, and more happiness than 88.0% of dream symbols. On the other hand, email dreams have less animals than 97.3% of dream symbols, less aggressive acts than 96.2% of dream symbols, and less fantastic beings than 96.0% of dream symbols. Notably, dreams of emails tend not to mention places or locations. The dream may or may not take place in varying locations. But dreams of emails simply do not mention the location, places, or settings occuring within the dream. This may be for any number of reasons. Perhaps the actions of the dreams are intense. Perhaps the characters take the focus in the dreams. Also, dreams of emails lack characters. Email dreams contain less characters than 90% of all other dream symbols. This is notable because dreams help us make sense of our social relationships. Dreams almost always contain characters. The lack of characters in email might mean something. Additionally, dreams of emails has less movement than 90% of all dream symbols. Movement in dreams is interesting. It reflects action. Things change when things move. There might be reasons why dreams of emails have little movement. Furthermore, email dreams are about work! Working is a part of life, so it makes sense that we dream about it. Work dreams can be stressful. They can be good. Finally, dreams of emails can be frustrating! These dreams have more frustration than 90% of all other dream symbols. Frustration in a dream can, well, be frustrating. But there can be many reasons for frustration. One of the key aspects to understanding your dreams is just to pay attention to feelings. Be curious about frustration in dreams of emails. Every dream is unique. These are general patterns observed in an analysis of over 200,000 dreams. This analysis is a tool to help you make sense of your dreams. It is best to look at the differences. See how your dream of emails is different than dreams of emails in general.

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of dreams have emails

How common are email dreams?

0.3% of dreams have the emails symbol within the dream. That's about 1 out of every 400 dreams. Considering all the dream symbols, it is very uncommon.

Identification

How are email dreams identified?

This symbol is identified by words like email. This symbol is part of the summary dream symbols of things.

Most related

What is most related to dreams of emails?

Emails dreams are notable because they have substantially more compensation, Cambodia, Jamaica, Gollum, collective unconscious, Croatia, chakras, deluges, Afghanistan, accountants, Iceland than 95% of other dream symbols.

Least related

What symbols least related to dreams of emails?

Emails do not especially suppress any other dream symbols.

Deep dive into email dreams

Get an overview of characters, emotions, places, events, dream events, and senses in email dreams.

Who is in dreams of emails?

Who is in dreams of emails?

Email dreams are more related to peers and more related to romantic partners than dreams in general. They are much less related to animals, less related to insects, and much less related to fantastic beings.

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What are the emotions in dreams of emails?

What are the emotions in dreams of emails?

Dreams of emails are more related to happiness, more related to sadness, and more related to embarrassment than dreams in general. They are less related to confusion, much less related to fear, and much less related to pain.

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Where do dreams of emails take place?

Where do dreams of emails take place?

Email dreams are much more related to work and more related to schools than dreams in general. They are less related to home, less related to transportation, and much less related to natural places.

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What happens in dreams of emails?

What happens in dreams of emails?

Dreams of emails are more related to sex than dreams in general. They are much less related to aggressive acts, less related to friendly acts, and less related to disasters.

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How do dreams of emails related to the type of dream it is?

How do dreams of emails related to the type of dream it is?

Dreams of emails are less related to nightmares, less related to sleep paralysis, and less related to weird dreams.

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How do dreams of emails related the senses?

How do dreams of emails related the senses?

Email dreams are less related to hearing, less related to smelling, and much less related to vision.

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How can you make sense of emails in dreams?

Email dreams are very uncommon. Among other things email dreams are lack places or locations, lacking characters, lacking movement, work dreams, and frustrating. Do you think this is true for your dream of emails? How might your dream of emails be different?

All dreams have meaning

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

Look for the differences

The DreamWell dictionary provides information on how each dream symbol appears in dreams in general. Finding how experience emails in dreams can be a key to understanding its meaning.

Return to the feelings

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 emails in dreams. See how you feel about emails now, in your waking life.

An interpretation of email dreams

An interpretation of email dreams

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. To receive email in a dream can mean that you are getting a message from the unconscious or subconscious mind. Information is being communicated to you. The content of the email is often related to a current issue in your life or thought on your mind. See: Letters It’s also possible to dream about email because you are expecting communication from someone. People are known to dream about receiving an email from someone, then waking up to find a message from that person. Dreaming about receiving an email from someone you haven’t heard from in a while can be a way of saying that you miss the person. It’s a good time to get in touch. Sending email can symbolize a need to communicate, or simply be a way of saying that the person you email is on your mind. Composing an email in your dream, for example, can be a way of thinking through what you want to say to a person. Stretch the idea and it can apply to situations such as what you want to say in a poem or in a report. Email can symbolize communication that lacks substance. Email is sometimes a way of communicating with someone indirectly. These days, texting and instant messaging have usurped email as the go-to way of communicating indirectly, but the perception of email as impersonal persists. Email in a dream can symbolize being misunderstood or taken the wrong way, because it’s all too common for the message in an email to be taken the wrong way. As with all dream symbolism, look for details that support an idea before making conclusions. See also: Computers, Facebook, Friends, Jobs, Letters, Phones, Subconscious, Speaking, Unconscious minds

Examples of dreams of emails

Reading dreams is one of the best ways to understand dream symbols. Even though the DreamWell Dream Dictionary is based upon data, it is grounded in the experience of reading thousands upon thousands of dreams. We invite you to read examples of email dreams for yourself. These dreams are actual dreams people have had. As result, they may contain racist, sexist, violent, or otherwise offense language and imagery. This can be true even for email dreams. Read at your own risk.

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