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What are emotion dreams about?

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 emotion dreams.

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

The circular bar chart above shows how emotions in a dream will affect dream content as compared to other dream symbols. Higher bars indicate that emotion is more related to the specific symbol in the graph. Lower bars indicate that emotion is less related to the specific symbol in the graph. Specifically, emotion dreams have more sad dreams than 99.1% of dream symbols, more nightmares than 98.0% of dream symbols, and more friendly acts than 96.6% of dream symbols. On the other hand, emotion dreams have less happiness than 92.4% of dream symbols, less fear than 91.3% of dream symbols, and less confusion than 91.0% of dream symbols. Notably, dreams of emotions tend to contain much more emotion than other dreams. Also, emotion dreams might be nightmares! Though even if these dreams are nightmares, it doesn't necessarily mean that they are bad dreams or that emotions is a bad thing to dream about. It just means that dreams of emotions are more likely to be nightmares than dreams of other things. Additionally, dreams of emotions 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, dreams of emotions are aggressive! Emotion dreams have more aggressive interactions than 80% of all of the other dream symbols. Aggressive interactions involve attacks, arguments, yelling, pushing, killing, and so on. These dreams can be scary, stressful, or confusing. But, as with all dreams, it is best to explore what is there. Why was there aggression? Was it really aggression? Finally, dreams of emotions are very social! Emotion dreams contain more characters tan 90% of all other dream symbols. Dreams, in general, are very social. There are people or characters in almost every dream, so it is notable that emotion dreams have are so social. 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 emotions is different than dreams of emotions in general.

62%

of dreams have emotions

How common are emotion dreams?

62% of dreams have the emotions symbol within the dream. That's about 1 out of every 2 dreams. Considering all the dream symbols, it is frequent.

Identification

How are emotion dreams identified?

This symbol is identified by the presence of other dream symbols such as tranquility, confusion, hatred, regret, sadness, anxiety, happiness, grief and sorrow, fear, amazed, exhaustion, boredom, pain, rage, comfort, pleasantness, relief, numbness, frustration, and intrigued.

Most related

What is most related to dreams of emotions?

Emotions dreams are notable because they have substantially more verbs, movement, general thinking, events, senses, general movement, qualities, characters, depression, torturing, falling in love than 95% of other dream symbols.

Least related

What symbols least related to dreams of emotions?

Emotions dreams are notable because they have substantially less pheasants, Cyprus, Fiji, Estonia, burglary, C-3PO, Bangladesh, Princess Leia, ladybugs, limousines, Han Solo than 95% of other dream symbols.

Deep dive into emotion dreams

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

Who is in dreams of emotions?

Who is in dreams of emotions?

Dreams of emotions are much more related to strangers, more related to peers, and much more related to family than dreams in general.

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What are the emotions in dreams of emotions?

What are the emotions in dreams of emotions?

Emotion dreams are much less related to happiness, less related to sadness, and less related to grief and sorrow.

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Where do dreams of emotions take place?

Where do dreams of emotions take place?

Dreams of emotions are more related to home, more related to work, and more related to magical places than dreams in general. They are less related to natural places.

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What happens in dreams of emotions?

What happens in dreams of emotions?

Emotion dreams are more related to aggressive acts, much more related to friendly acts, and more related to sex than dreams in general.

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

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

Dreams of emotions are more related to lucid dreams, much more related to nightmares, and much more related to sleep paralysis than dreams in general. They are less related to weird dreams.

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How do dreams of emotions related the senses?

How do dreams of emotions related the senses?

Emotion dreams are much more related to hearing, more related to smelling, and more related to taste than dreams in general.

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How can you make sense of emotions in dreams?

Emotion dreams are frequent. Among other things emotion dreams are very emotional, nightmares, friendly, aggressive, very social, family oriented, focused on sounds, focused on vision, containing lots of movement, containing lots of thinking of thoughts, and bad dreams. Do you think this is true for your dream of emotions? How might your dream of emotions 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 emotions 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 emotions in dreams. See how you feel about emotions now, in your waking life.

An interpretation of emotion dreams

An interpretation of emotion 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. Emotions are at the heart of most dreams. Dreaming is a two-part process of creating symbolic imagery and tying it to emotions, like two sides of a coin. However, some dreams appear to connect only with thoughts and thought processes. Dreams trigger emotions that would otherwise stay bottled up or unexpressed. So in that sense, dreams provide venting, as a volcano vents to release pressure. By releasing emotions during a dream, you might avoid a blowup while awake. Dreams can trigger strong emotions like rage, terror, love, and ecstasy. Experiencing these emotions while dreaming doesn’t necessarily mean you feel them in your waking life, but it’s a good indication you feel something similar or could feel that way under certain circumstances. In dreams the gloves come off, your inhibitions come down, and the emotional centers of your brain light up. So you might not feel rage in your waking life, for example, but if you dream about it, something could be pushing you in that direction, and if the situation is left unaddressed you could find yourself in a rage. You might not feel ecstatic, but maybe you feel really happy—or could feel that way under the right circumstances. The potential is there. For example, a young man dreams he’s back in high school and is told he won’t graduate. He asks the teacher for help but the answers confuse him. He reacts with rage and tosses desks around the classroom, then stalks off to track down the school counselor, knowing that the counselor is somehow responsible for his predicament. The dream summarizes a situation he’s in. He graduated a few years back and has been directionless since then. He doesn’t know what to do with his life, and no adults are providing answers, as symbolized in the dream by confusing answers from the teacher and looking for the school counselor, meaning someone to guide him. The rage felt in the dream is a raw, honest expression of his emotions, and it’s shown in how he reacts so strongly. His life is wasting away, and he knows it. After analyzing and understanding the dream, he resolves it by joining the Navy. One of the golden rules of dream interpretation is that dreams exaggerate. They do so to get your attention as they express the underlying dynamics of a situation. For example, you are buried with work and dream that you are buried alive. Being buried alive is a much worse situation than being buried at work, of course, but in an exaggerated way it expresses your emotions. Many dreams can be interpreted simply by relating the emotions they trigger with your waking life and gauging the strength of your reaction. For example, when being buried alive elicits a mild reaction, you can bet the symbolism connects with something that’s just the way things are. Perhaps being buried in work is just par for the course. Hell, maybe you enjoy it! When you react strongly to a situation in a dream, it’s a good indicator that it symbolizes something you feel strongly about, something that arouses powerful emotions in you. For example, a female dreams about a drink spilling on her mattress during sex while a condom is being put on. She flies off in a rage and kicks her partner out. Her reaction shows that she feels very strongly about what the spilled drink symbolizes: the possibility of accidentally getting pregnant. It only takes a little bit of spilled semen to get her pregnant. Her reaction reveals that she subconsciously knows the meaning of the symbolism of the spilled drink. Otherwise, why react so strongly to something that on the surface appears innocuous? Her emotional reaction reveals the meaning of the symbolism, and in turn reveals the meaning of the dream. Colors in dreams have strong correlation with emotions. A rule of thumb is that colors signify related emotions. Bob Hoss’s work in this area is terrific; you can find it by searching online for “Bob Hoss dreams color.” And see: Colors. Feelings are not synonymous with emotions. How you feel about something is a value judgment, not an emotion, but emotion is felt in the body, so in that sense “feel” is appropriate. The list of entries below includes some entries better classified as feelings. See also: Anger, Anxiety, Ascending, Boats, Body parts, Bombs, Colors, Crying, Depression, Descending, Dolphins, Drowning, Elevators, Emptiness, Erupting, Fear, Fighting, Guilty, Hats, Jealousy, Joy, Insanity, Love, Numbness, Octopus, Pain, Panic, Psychologists, Rage, Revenge, Screaming, Wounds

Examples of dreams of emotions

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 emotion 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 emotion dreams. Read at your own risk.

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