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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. 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 embracing dreams.

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

The circular bar chart above shows how embracing in a dream will affect dream content as compared to other dream symbols. Higher bars indicate that embracing is more related to the specific symbol in the graph. Lower bars indicate that embracing is less related to the specific symbol in the graph. Specifically, embracing dreams have more friendly acts than 98.8% of dream symbols, more love than 98.7% of dream symbols, and more happiness than 98.3% of dream symbols. On the other hand, embracing dreams have less weird dreams than 87.3% of dream symbols, less insects than 86.7% of dream symbols, and less fantastic beings than 83.8% of dream symbols. Notably, dreams of embracing tend to contain much more emotion than other dreams. Furthermore, dreams of embracing are friendly! These dreams have more friendly interactions than 80% of all of the other dream symbols. Friendly dreams can be great. They involve people helping other people, expressing love, and just being good to one another. Also, embracing dreams contain a lot of love. Love is a wonderful human emotion! Even if love occurs within a dream, it is still love and it can feel wonderful. Since love is such a powerful emotion, it is best to be curious about it. Additionally, dreams of embracing are full of grief and sorrow. Of course not every embracing dream is sorrowful, these type of dreams have more grief and sorrow than 90% of other dream symbols. It can be heart breaking to experience grief and sorrow during a dream. This can remind us of painful events in waking life. Alternatively, the grief and sorrow within a dream can feel so real. Finally, dreams of embracing are family oriented. They 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. Dreams help us to process our emotions and social relationships. In a certain lens, you can think of dreams as simulations of the world. This can be especially helpful for our relationships with family. 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 embracing is different than dreams of embracing in general.

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of dreams have embracing

How common are embracing dreams?

3.7% of dreams have the embracing symbol within the dream. That's about 1 out of every 25 dreams. Considering all the dream symbols, it is relatively common.

Identification

How are embracing dreams identified?

This symbol is identified by words like hug and embrace. This symbol is part of summary dream symbols verbs and friendly acts.

Most related

What is most related to dreams of embracing?

Embracing dreams are notable because they have substantially more emaciation, Algeria, characters, Guatemala, Kuwait, kissing, crying, comfort, joy, Kenya, Bangladesh than 95% of other dream symbols.

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What symbols least related to dreams of embracing?

Embracing dreams are notable because they have substantially less dismissals, Estonia, Ethiopia, Fiji, Haiti, Hungary, homicides, Lebanon, Morocco, Serbia, El Salvador than 95% of other dream symbols.

Deep dive into embracing dreams

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

Who is in dreams of embracing?

Who is in dreams of embracing?

Dreams of embracing are much more related to peers, 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 unnamed people.

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What are the emotions in dreams of embracing?

What are the emotions in dreams of embracing?

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.

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Where do dreams of embracing take place?

Where do dreams of embracing take place?

Dreams of embracing are more related to home and more related to schools than dreams in general. They are less related to human-made places, less related to transportation, and less related to natural places.

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What happens in dreams of embracing?

What happens in dreams of embracing?

Embracing dreams are much more related to friendly acts and more related to sex than dreams in general. They are less related to aggressive acts, less related to disasters, and less related to eating and drinking.

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

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

Dreams of embracing are more related to vivid dreams, more related to good dreams, and much more related to sad dreams than dreams in general. They are less related to lucid dreams, less related to nightmares, and less related to recurring dreams.

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How do dreams of embracing related the senses?

How do dreams of embracing related the senses?

Embracing dreams are more related to smelling, more related to taste, and more related to touch than dreams in general. They are less related to hearing.

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How can you make sense of embracing in dreams?

Embracing dreams are relatively common. Among other things embracing dreams are very emotional, friendly, about love, sorrowful, and family oriented. Do you think this is true for your dream of embracing? How might your dream of embracing 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 embracing 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 embracing in dreams. See how you feel about embracing now, in your waking life.

An interpretation of embracing dreams

An interpretation of embracing 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. 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

Examples of dreams of embracing

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 embracing 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 embracing dreams. Read at your own risk.

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