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What are embarking dreams about?

This symbol is identified by words like embark.

Embarking in dreams is a exceedingly rare dream symbol, occuring in about 0.03% of dreams. That's about 1 out of every 4,000 dreams.

What are the major highlights of embarking dreams?

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

Embarking dreams are friendly

Dreams of embarking have greater increase of friendly interactions within the dream than most other dream symbols. While not all dreams of embarking will be friendly and they can also contain aggressive interactions, dreams of embarking are more likely to have friendly interactions than most other dream symbols. Other symbols that are like this include fast, stairs and ladders, climbing, movement, drinks, gold, hunger, reading, human places, and gambling.

Embarking dreams have a surprising lack of characters

Dreams of embarking usually contain less characters than 90% of all other dream symbols. This does not mean they do not contain characters at all. Rather, they simply contain less characters than most other dream symbols. Other symbols that are like this include burglary, Indonesia, Portugal, acne, acid, Singapore, Ukraine, venus, abscesses, and earthquakes.

Embarking dreams are scary

Dreams containing embarking 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 embarking are about fear. It simply means that if you dream of embarking, this dream has a great chance of being scarier than most other dream symbols. Other symbols that are like this include darkness, running, red eyes, going, trying to scream, hyenas, Saudi Arabia, bird cages, qualities, and ghosts.

Embarking dreams focus on smells

Dreams of embarking have more words related to smells than 90% of all other dream symbols. In other words, embarking dreams involve the world of scents. Other symbols that are like this include pythons, neptune, Costa Rica, Ecuador, alimony, El Salvador, Gandalf, Chile, Bahamas, and Nepal.

Embarking dreams focus on taste

Dreams of embarking have more words related to taste than 90% of all other dream symbols. In other words, embarking 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 Laos, getting fired, Morocco, mars, collective unconscious, bobcats, Guatemala, owls, Korea, and calluses.

Embarking dreams focus on vision

Dreams of embarking have more words related to vision than 90% of all other dream symbols. In other words, embarking dreams involve sight and seeing objects. Other symbols that are like this include New Zealand, ovaries, guilty, Cuba, indigo, abortions, Hungary, pregnancy tests, Indonesia, and lotus flowers.

What symbols less present in dreams of embarking?

Embarking dreams are notable because they have substantially less bedrooms, blood, boyfriends, legs, shortness, schools, crying, pain, and injuries than 95% of other dream symbols.

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

Explore different elements related to dreams of embarking

Who is in embarking dreams?

Overall, dreams with embarking are much less related to characters in dreams. Specifically, dreams of embarking are 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, much less related to family, and less related to romantic partners.

Animals

more than usual

Insects

much more than usual

Different roles

the same as usual

Fantastic beings

much more than usual

Distant people

the same as usual

Close people

less than usual

Family

much less than usual

Romantic partners

less than usual
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What are the emotions in embarking dreams?

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

Happiness

less than usual

Sadness

much more than usual

Grief and sorrow

much more than usual

Embarrassment

much more than usual

Confusion

more than usual

Fear

much more than usual

Pain

much less than usual

Hatred

much less than usual

Fun

much less than usual

Love

much less than usual
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Who is in embarking dreams?

Overall, dreams with embarking are aren't really related to places in dreams. Specifically, dreams of embarking are much more related to work, more related to transportation, and much more related to natural places than dreams in general. They are less related to human places.

Home

the same as usual

Work

much more than usual

Human places

less than usual

Transportation

more than usual

Natural places

much more than usual

Magical places

more than usual
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What happens in embarking dreams?

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

Aggressive interactions

less than usual

Friendly interactions

more than usual

Sex

the same as usual

Disasters

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

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

Lucid dreams

less than usual

Nightmares

less than usual

Recurring dreams

much less than usual

Recurring nightmares

less than usual

Sleep paralysis

much less than usual

Sleeping

less than usual

Waking life

much more than usual
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How do embarking in dreams related the senses?

Overall, dreams with embarking are much less related to senses in dreams. Specifically, dreams of embarking 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.

Hearing

less than usual

Smelling

much less than usual

Taste

much less than usual

Vision

much less than usual

Touch

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

Embarking dreams are exceedingly rare. Among other things embarking dreams are very negatively interconnected, friendly, lack characters, scary, focus on smells, focus on taste, and focus on vision.

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

What are possible meanings for dreams of embarking?

Embarking in a dream can symbolize entering a new phase of life. The ship of your life is sailing. You have a fresh start. You are changing.

Another way of looking at it is that the journey relates to a particular project or area of life. For example, setting sail is a way of describing getting married. A project is said to “get off the ground” or “launch.” See: Journeys

Or perhaps you’re growing as a person or reaching for new personal destinations. You leave your old ways behind—leave behind the person you were—to become someone new. You’ll never be the same again.

Symbolism can be created through the feelings involved with embarking on a journey and how they connect with your recent life. Embarking can be associated with feelings of freedom, relaxation, and escape.

To embark is an analogy that captures the idea of a journey of imagination. For professionals such as fiction authors and songwriters who use their imagination regularly, a dream about embarking can symbolize setting off to a new place to which their imagination takes them—writing a new book or song. See: Artists

Of course, imagination is integral to many endeavors and professions, and imagination isn’t limited to work. It’s used for fantasies and daydreams, too. For example, you dream about embarking on a cruise and falling in love, which reflects the tone and even the content of your recent daydreams. Or, as a fantasy, it expresses your deepest desires.

See also: Planes, Airports, Artists, Balloons, Boats, Buses, Cars, Journeys, Love, Trains, Vacations

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 embarking

Read some real dream reports of embarking 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.

Space Aliens, Again! Nasty Ones This Time (It's Long! Sorry!)

Last night I saw some space aliens, I blame you guys! (Lolz not really!)
Lately it seems the last dream of the night has been weird and well remembered. Highly detailed and usually pretty long too. I get 'broken sleep' most nights, that probably doesn't help.

So I had an apartment that was in a walkway directly over a major road in the downtown of my city. (The road really exists, not that walkway, or apartments in them! There is a walkway network downtown though) The walkway had two floors of apartments, our front doors opened to the walkway which had floor-to-ceiling glass facing south.

I heard some strange noises, and went to look out my door. There were two twisting 'clouds' of dark colour, nearly black, snake-like and descending like a funnel cloud. I thought I should call my workplace (which was in the south) but figured they'd notice it by themselves.
When the 'clouds' hit the ground? Several 'walking tanks' appeared, looking like small ["At-At" from Star Wars](https://www.elitereaders.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/star-wars-tank-fail-1.jpg), only dark like the clouds were. They were shooting at traffic and walking towards where me and my neighbors were watching. Human forces were shooting back, but those things were tough!
I ran back into my apartment to get a small gym bag of essentials and run for the hills! I looked out my back window and saw humans and aliens fighting in the streets. The aliens wore enormous helmets like those [big Chinese hats](https://i.pinimg.com/736x/56/e9/e1/56e9e115bbdcc33f1d40813cef6572c0.jpg) Only smoother and made of metal. They seemed to be wearing space suits.
I looked up and saw a huge flying... box! I knew it was a troop carrier and command ship of some kind. A Bradley tank was shooting at it, but the ship spat out some red fluid and utterly destroyed the tank (without harming the sidewalk).

Then things got really strange!

I made it to the street, but had a strange compulsion to not run away, but head over to a large building's back door. Loudspeakers were calling for 3 people to 'come to the military office' or something, not me though.
As I got to the door it opened, a man in uniform came out and called out the 3 names. I held the door open for him since his hands were full (I'm Canadian eh? We're all polite like that!).
The 3 people said they were there, several others had gathered as well. Those 3 went inside, so I just followed them. The 4 went to a room deep inside the building and were outfitted with special gear. It was a woman, an Asian-looking man and some other man, and me (I was much younger than I am now, but my workplace is the one I currently have).
For some reason no one noticed I wasn't one of the 3 people called, but I listened to all the instructions and got gear too.
We had to go through this "transport tube" to a waiting spacecraft deep underground & far away. We'd then embark on a mission to destroy the alien command ship (maybe 20x the size of the flying box I'd seen) and thus save the human race.
The other three got into the tube, their gear went in a separate tube. It was pretty scary, I suspected teleportation was involved, yikes! When my turn came the uniformed man was like "oh, you're here too'? And wished my good luck as I squished myself into the tube...

I sure hope we won!

Last night I saw some space aliens, I blame you guys! (Lolz not really!)
Lately it seems the last dream of the night has been weird and well remembered....

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My mom said to me that she will die in 5 years.

On spring break of my senior year of high school my mother and I were visiting Arizona for some college visits and just to relax. Every morning we would wake up and embark on a 2+ hour drive out of Scottsdale. My nihilistic ass would go off on tangents while she halfheartedly listened. On a particular drive back to the hotel late at night, she confessed to me that someone came to her in a dream. I was adopted so my parents were/are older. My parents adopted me in their 40s/50s. So for her to tell me 2 years ago that she thinks she is going to die when she’s 70. What does this mean? I remember one day my junior year of high school sobbing on my way to school because I thought that my mother was going to die in 15 years due to her horrible smoking habits and because she does not eat. She developed a disorder where she purposely makes herself ill to go to the hospital to garner sympathy. But one day I fear she is going to take it too far. So to think at 16 years old that my mother wouldn’t make it to my 30s and then now to my mid 20s. I would be parentless. My father passed when I was 16. I know in the world many people don’t have parents so I shouldn’t be complaining but I’m afraid. The topic came up because we are adopting a new dog and I said we had to or else our current dog would be lonely for the remaining 10 years or so of her life. To which my mother cut me off and said “I’ll be dead by then”. It just hit me. She said the person who told her was someone she never met before. What does this mean... I know this one is extremely tricky so if there aren’t really any interpretations I understand.

On spring break of my senior year of high school my mother and I were visiting Arizona for some college visits and just to relax. Every morning we would wake up...

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“Crow Bar” Pillow

This is a recent dream my husband had. It seemed meaningful but I don’t know how to interpret it so I’m asking Reddit for input!

Here goes:

My husband and his two brothers are adults but they are still kids in this dream. The three of them are about to embark on a road trip with their parents. They all get in the car and their mom tells them she has a special surprise for them. She says it was something her father taught her to make.

She then pulls out a long pole that is about the width of the car’s back seat. There are three dead crows attached along the pole, evenly spaced. The whole thing is meant to go behind they boys’ heads so they can use the crows as pillows for the car ride.

In the dream they are perplexed and weirded out but go along with it because they are children and it seems precious/meaningful to their mom.

(End dream)

Some background: husband has a great healthy relationship with his mom and brothers. He is the youngest of the three. If I didn’t know this I would immediately think it was a metaphor for some kind of inherited trauma.

Only later did I realize that the gift was a literal “crowbar”... maybe his subconscious was just making a dumb joke? 🤷🏻‍♀️

This is a recent dream my husband had. It seemed meaningful but I don’t know how to interpret it so I’m asking Reddit for input!

Here goes:

My husband and his...

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The Forward Lift

I woke up shaking a bit, i was only asleep for two hours...But I had a terrible time, my memory of it is quite hazy, but I will try my best.

Context: At my workplace, which is a passenger ferry carrying vehicles, I had several incidents in the one nightmare involving what the crew on board called "The Forward Lift". On the 1350 passenger vessel, we have two lifts, the forward lift and aft lift, they are located next to each other and are predominently used to carry passengers up and down to the two car decks the Playzone/Cinemas as well as the Sun Deck on the roof.

First thinv I remember is that we had an announcement, "All Crew to Stations" this means you have to get to your embarking/disembarking duties, whether its opening the car deck doors, guiding the passengers in the reception area and so on. That day, my duty was to make sure that everyone is going where they were supposed to in the reception area, so I was standing by the lifts, it was a busy day, it might have been about Christmas time, the reception area was packed and it was filled with families all looking forwards to see their families or dreading the 4 hours of driving on the mountainous roads to the main city on the island. The lifts were meant for people with small kids, or people with mobility issues, but I was quite leniant that day, I was allowing anyone close to the two lifts to jump on. I was chatting to a family, what I assumed to be a wife and husband and her brother, all in thier early 40s, they were standing close to the forward lift, and was waiting for the door to open, i then got distracted by assisting another group to go down the aft lift, I got back to the family and started chatting again, finally the door opened and they bid me farewell, waving at me, the woman stepped on first...Then fell, it turns out the door had opened, but the lift was still one deck above them, she fell silently, she must have been so shocked and surprised she didn't let out a sound. Horrified into stunned disbelief, the two men and I and multiple passengers peered over...She had fallen seven decks onto the steel below, i fell back in shock, and the door closed. The crowd stepped well back and started panicking, while I was lying on the tile floor in tears, I got my managers eye, he ran over asked what was going on, but before he could do so the two men picked me up, slammed me against the wall and proceeded to beat the everloving piss out of me. My manager who still wasn't aware of what had happened, broke us up and pulled me apart from them he told me to run down the stairs to the vehicle deck doors as a line as formed, so it was assumed it was inadvertedly left closed, wanting to get out of the situation as fast as i could, i obliged.

After rushing passed multiple irate passengers who were queuing on 7 flights of I found that the lower vehicle deck was closed, I quickly unlocked the door and opened them to let them through. Without thinking i jumped onto the forward lift again which is now operating normallt, and made my way up. I heard a bang, and the lift came to a halt. I then remembered about the woman, and then slid down the wall crying, about 30 seconds later the lift jolted again, and started moving very, very slowly, but then i realised that it was being crushed, the lift was going up, but something was crushing it, I was watching the roof come down, and the lights went out, before long i was in a space no higher than a coffin, holding the roof with all my strength and with oil dripping on my face...I then let out a scream...And i woke up with a start.

I'm sorry for any grammar issues, but its 2am and im pretty exhausted. Im going to try and get more sleep and fix my errors tomorrow.

I woke up shaking a bit, i was only asleep for two hours...But I had a terrible time, my memory of it is quite hazy, but I will try my best.

Context: At my...

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I was a knight on a dangerous quest, leaving my lady behind on the dock.

Last night I dreamed I was a medieval knight on a quest to retrieve a black cauldron with magical properties from the Underworld. 6,000 knights answered the King’s call, and before we embarked on our voyage, my childhood sweetheart, the daughter of a local lord who had been promised to me, gave me a locket containing her hair and tied her monogrammed handkerchief around my right arm as a remembrance and kissed me goodbye at the dock.
We faced storms, getting lost, despair and depression, and zombie knights. We left 6,000 strong and with 75 ships, each with 80 men onboard (the King’s ship, which I was on, had 81). We came back with one ship, the King, and seven knights, including myself, and no cauldron.
The voyage took us months, but upon arrival at port, we discovered that 16 years had passed, a usurper was on the throne, and my ladylove was married off to a rich merchant.

Last night I dreamed I was a medieval knight on a quest to retrieve a black cauldron with magical properties from the Underworld. 6,000 knights answered the...

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