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What are embracing dreams about?

To embrace someone is to show affection to them. It is an intimate gesture that involves the physical closeness of bodies. But ideas and philosophies can also be embraced, which is to simply accept with enthusiasm. This symbol is identified by words like hug and embrace.

Embracing in dreams is a relatively common dream symbol, occuring in about 3.6% of dreams. That's about 1 out of every 30 dreams.

What are the major highlights of embracing dreams?

Embracing is a normal dream symbol. Having embracing in a dream changes the dream in the same way as most other dream symbols.

Dreams of embracing are emotional

Embracing have substantially more emotions than other dream symbols. It is particularly surprising. Other symbols that are like this include emaciation, helplessness, jury members, tranquility, events, puzzles, depression, panic, vision, and orange eyes.

Embracing dreams are friendly

Dreams of embracing have greater increase of friendly interactions within the dream than most other dream symbols. While not all dreams of embracing will be friendly and they can also contain aggressive interactions, dreams of embracing are more likely to have friendly interactions than most other dream symbols. Other symbols that are like this include squares, rightness, fists, robots, opening, captains, locks, getting a job, Madagascar, and faces.

Embracing dreams are about family

Dreams of embracing are more related to family than 90% of all other symbols. In other words, dreaming of embracing will increase your chances of dreaming of a family member. Other symbols that are like this include funerals, my children, talismans, children, cancer, Switzerland, Austria, girlfriends, guilty, and home.

Embracing dreams are about love

Dreams containing embracing 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 embracing are about love. It simply means that if you dream of embracing, this dream has a greater chance of being about love than most other dream symbols. Other symbols that are like this include general thinking, princes, talismans, facebook, prom, animas, guest rooms, sexuals acts, cheating on tests, and miscarriages.

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

Explore different elements related to dreams of embracing

Who is in embracing dreams?

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

Animals

less than usual

Insects

less than usual

Different roles

less than usual

Fantastic beings

less than usual

Distant people

the same as usual

Close people

much more than usual

Family

much more than usual

Romantic partners

much more than usual
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What are the emotions in embracing dreams?

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

Happiness

much more than usual

Sadness

much more than usual

Grief and sorrow

much more than usual

Embarrassment

more than usual

Confusion

more than usual

Fear

less than usual

Pain

more than usual

Hatred

the same as usual

Fun

more than usual

Love

much more than usual
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Who is in embracing dreams?

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

Home

more than usual

Work

the same as usual

Human places

less than usual

Transportation

less than usual

Natural places

less than usual

Magical places

less than usual
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What happens in embracing dreams?

Overall, dreams with embracing are aren't really related to events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of embracing are much more related to friendly interactions and more related to sex than dreams in general. They are less related to aggressive interactions and less related to disasters.

Aggressive interactions

less than usual

Friendly interactions

much more than usual

Sex

more than usual

Disasters

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

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

Lucid dreams

the same as usual

Nightmares

less than usual

Recurring dreams

less than usual

Recurring nightmares

less than usual

Sleep paralysis

the same as usual

Sleeping

the same as usual

Waking life

more than usual
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How do embracing in dreams related the senses?

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

Hearing

less than usual

Smelling

more than usual

Taste

more than usual

Vision

the same as usual

Touch

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

Embracing dreams are relatively common. Among other things embracing dreams are normally interconnect, very emotional, friendly, family oriented, and about love.

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

What are possible meanings for dreams of embracing?

Getting or receiving a hug in a dream can symbolize closeness and connection with a person. It can be a sign of harmony between people.

For example, a woman dreams about deeply embracing her elderly and beloved grandmother, who is dressed and packed to go away on a long trip. They express their love for each other before grandma departs. In the morning, the woman gets news that her grandmother passed away peacefully during the night.

Hugging someone represented as a dream character can mean you miss the person, especially if you haven’t had contact in a while.

Hugging someone you have had difficulty or problems with can be a sign of putting aside your differences. The feelings you experience during the dream and afterward should be easy to connect with the meaning of the hug.

Hugging can express strong concern for a person. For example, a mom hasn’t heard from her young adult son in a few days as he’s traveling overseas. She knows he’s probably just having a great time, but she’s a mom and she worries. Just before bed she gets an email from him—he’s fine, having a great time—and that night she dreams about deeply embracing her son and feeling relieved.

A dream character can represent something about you, so hugging a character can symbolize getting closer to, or embracing, yourself. However, the character is not likely to look like you. Instead, it’s a projection that depicts something about you. For example, you struggle with yourself over being eccentric, but come to realize you like that side of yourself. It is then symbolized in a dream as hugging Marilyn Manson, an eccentric musician who doesn’t care what anyone thinks of him.

Along similar lines, a hug in a dream can symbolize being close to a subject or situation. It can mean you embrace it. For example, you have the impression you’re no good at math, but a math teacher persuades you to give it your best shot, and you dream about it as embracing the teacher. You’re really embracing the subject.

As you can see by now, hugging in a dream is likely to be a physical representation of a personal situation. It’s an action that can be an expression of feeling or symbolize other definitions of the words hug and embrace. You can embrace a new idea or culture. You can embrace death. In these senses, embrace means the opposite of reject or deny. It means “accept.”

For example, you are distressed that a dear friend is moving out of town, but you know it’s for the best. Embracing the friend in a dream could symbolize accepting the move. People often embrace before parting ways.

Embracing in a dream can be a sign of close emotional connection with a person, or a wish for it, especially if the dream character embraced depicts someone you know.

Hugging can express romantic feelings and intentions.

It can be a way of “feeling out” the situation.

In a dream, embracing a person you know can mean you embrace something about the person, such as embracing their beliefs or ideas. For example, a woman who is agnostic has a friend who is a true believer. Through the friend’s influence, the woman is realizing her problem is actually with religion, and God is something separate. She dreams about embracing her friend outside a church, symbolizing how she’s not quite ready to embrace the friend’s spiritual life—she’s outside the church, not in it—but is rethinking her beliefs and appreciates her friend’s influence.

In Freudian tradition, embracing is viewed as expressing desire for sexual union, but it’s only true in a small minority of dreams. Even when sexual feelings and situations accompany embracing in a dream, the likelihood is you are embracing and integrating something about yourself. The character you embrace is a projection from your inner world.

Because arms are used to embrace, they can symbolize ideas related to embracing without actually physically acting it out. For example, you dream that an ex-spouse is in the hospital and has no arms. It symbolizes that the affectionate feelings you once had for the person are gone. Arms are needed to embrace. No arms, no embrace. See: Arms

More possibilities to consider are that dreaming about an embrace, especially one that makes you feel good, is compensation for a lack of intimacy, contact, and affection in your life. Dreams can give you what you are missing in your waking life. If you feel isolated or unloved, your dreams might fill the void.

Embracing can symbolize forming an alliance or bond. If you see people embrace and you feel left out, you might feel left out of some other situation in your life. For example, you dream about a classmate embracing your teacher, and the dream connects with your feeling that the teacher gives preference to the classmate.

A hug that’s too tight can symbolize something that you can’t let go of, or that won’t let go of you.

Cuddling is associated with how people fit together, and in dreams, fitting together can mean how personality, character, and other aspects of people fit together.

A man going through a divorce dreams about being in bed with his wife and cuddling. Suddenly, he feels movement down by his feet and looks down. He sees snakes in his bed. The dream sums up the situation with his (soon to be) ex-wife. The two of them are divorcing. They’ve been amicable and even close, as symbolized by cuddling. But her family is telling her to get mean and make the divorce hell to get every penny out of him that she can. Their “poisonous influence” and “venomous behavior” is symbolized by the snakes.

See also: Arms, Emotions, Escaping, Lips, Love

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 embracing

Read some real dream reports of embracing 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 about a sister that i didn’t know about

Today I dreamt about a sister that I didn’t know about (she told me her name was Nora and that she was 13 years old I’m 14). I remember that I was just hanging out with her I was asking her questions. I made her soup then we went to a bird convention where there where many birds on display. We walked around and had a great day. She was the best person that I have ever met she was like my best friend. Then I saw my mom I asked why can’t Nora come home she told me we can’t afford another person in our home (this isn’t true irl because we are expanding our house) then my mom told me that we had to go home and I hugged Nora and went home. I woke up crying

This is some context about my life: I have two siblings a 6 year old brother and a 11 year old sister me and my sister fight and argue a lot and she doesn’t like hugged me or when I try to kiss her cheek. My brother is annoying and cries when I do something he doesn’t like. But I still love them.

Please tell me what my dream means

Today I dreamt about a sister that I didn’t know about (she told me her name was Nora and that she was 13 years old I’m 14). I remember that I was just hanging...

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I killed my own dog in my dream and felt immense sadness after

It started with a lot of supernatural things, then i hacked into someones account in minecraft and i killed him, and i then hunted my dog and killed it by throwing it to the ground where it was a small dog, after it died it turned it to a puppy. And the moment i saw it i was hit with a shockwave of sadness and i woke up crying…. And i have the dog in real life, he’s 3 years old… Why did i dream of such a terrible nightmare? And After i woke up. I ran out my bed and to my dog and hugged him while crying in pain and sadness, is something wrong with me??? For dreaming this?

It started with a lot of supernatural things, then i hacked into someones account in minecraft and i killed him, and i then hunted my dog and killed it by...

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Weird dream could it be a warning please help interpret it ? Thanks!

So i was in france in some strange place looking similar to a city i lived before remiremont

and a highway toll and i passed the toll so afterwards i go down the city near some sign saying neufchateau i never knew the city not even today

and then a beast man very hairy looking a bit like a werewolf only with the head of a man and very hairy and looks for someone and he didnt see me then my mom comes opens the door of the car and tells me to get in and then i quickly get in and ran and the beast couldnt see me

a bit later on i meet with a wonderful woman and we get into her charriot and her father accompanied her , and as soon as we arrive somewhere some sorceress or demon did something and made it so 3 weeks pass and the woman thought i left her and then i say to the demon indominus mortis and curse the demon sorceress… and then 3 images appear before me saying no hugging with this one or sex or love , they were stickman images laying in bed with some words written under, and then i am laying in a bed with other man i didnt knew and i did something to a pole like with my hands i made it a hole and put my controller in it and then i made it complete again and the pole was looking like all poles normal and then i see the charriot i was in and behind it is a castle and village or city on fire and then i say to the demon something like never and the dream ends

So i was in france in some strange place looking similar to a city i lived before remiremont

and a highway toll and i passed the toll so afterwards i go down...

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I Had a dream where people with me felt real

Let me Explain, Like recently i had a dream where I was with a female friend who i havent talk or meet with for quite a while (around 2 years) I used too have a crush on her and asked her out she rejected me, ok fair enough, but still stayed friends for sometime. Now back to the dream so I was with her near my house and i hugged her and she was happy it was like we are couple but something felt weird her presence felt too real, like she was really there with me in my dream.

Another thing that felt like she was there was at the end she was behind me and we're searching for something and she disappeared it was like she woke up and i was still sleeping soon after that i wake up too.

What you guys tthink of this and do guys had any dream like that where people felt real?

Let me Explain, Like recently i had a dream where I was with a female friend who i havent talk or meet with for quite a while (around 2 years) I used too have a...

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Dreamt I had a daughter - I'm 27, male and single.

I don't remember the first part of the dream only what it led up to, where I'm being introduced to a daughter I never knew I had for the first time, if I had to guess she's something in between 6 to 10 years old, not sure.

in the dream, I kneel in front her, tell her I'm her Dad and she doesn't say anything but gives me a big hug, I then burst into tears.

I woke up pretty much then, feeling an immense sense of loss, it feels like I was given something wonderful and then had it taken away.

Anyone else have anything like this? I feel like I'd rather have had a nightmare than something that leaves me feeling depressed.

I don't remember the first part of the dream only what it led up to, where I'm being introduced to a daughter I never knew I had for the first time, if I had to...

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