What are emotion dreams about?
This symbol is identified by words like heart broken, furious, disappointed, etc.
Emotions in dreams is a frequent dream symbol, occuring in about 58% of dreams. That's about 1 out of every 2 dreams.
What are the major highlights of emotion dreams?
Emotions is a very interconnected dream symbol. Having emotions in a dream substantially changes the nature of the dream.
Dreams of emotions have a striking lack of emotion
Emotions have substantially less emotion than other dream symbols. It is particularly surprising. Other symbols that are like this include Sweden, Donald Trump, Korea, Joe Biden, submarines, collective unconscious, pastors, China, Cyprus, and flamethrowers.
Emotion dreams are friendly
Dreams of emotions have greater increase of friendly interactions within the dream than most other dream symbols. While not all dreams of emotions will be friendly and they can also contain aggressive interactions, dreams of emotions are more likely to have friendly interactions than most other dream symbols. Other symbols that are like this include distant people, hair, bartenders, ammunition, rescuing, guiding, paramedic, psychologists, waiters, and youth.
Dreams of emotions are aggressive
Emotion dreams have more aggressive interactions than a lot of other dream symbols. This doesn't mean that all emotions have aggressive interactions or only aggressive interactions. It simply means that having emotions in a dream increases the probability this dream contains aggression. Other symbols that are like this include hairdressers, dead bodies, Haiti, apes, orphans, mosquitoes, robbing, suffering, communicating, and pulling.
Dreams with emotions might be a nightmare
Dreams of emotions are frequently associated with nightmares. Of course dreams that contain emotions might not be a nightmare. Plenty of dreams with emotions are not nightmares. But, dreams of emotions are more related to nightmares than 80% of all other dream symbols. Other symbols that are like this include fevers, acid, decapitation, masks, wilderness, horrors, cold sweats, bedrooms, skin, and shadows.
Emotion dreams are about family
Dreams of emotions are more related to family than 90% of all other symbols. In other words, dreaming of emotions will increase your chances of dreaming of a family member. Other symbols that are like this include communicating, back doors, embracing, ovaries, funerals, zebras, vacations, crushes, abortions, and general movement.
What symbols more present in dreams of emotions?
Emotion dreams are notable because they have substantially more verbs, Ecuador, puzzles, Morocco, obeying, El Salvador, scars, revenge, lovers, movement, depression, jealousy, Algeria, Cameroon, emaciation, ascending, hollywood, hazel eyes, helplessness, overdoses, Colombia, joy, hearts, torturing, therapists, baboons, fists, embracing, falling in love, loss of speech, orange eyes, betrayal, general thinking, panic, erupting, and going to die than 95% of other dream symbols.
What symbols less present in dreams of emotions?
Emotion dreams are notable because they have substantially less emotions, Donald Trump, pheasants, eggs, scorpions, recurring dreams, flying, ants, donkeys, specific people, insects, Estonia, Bangladesh, stores, frogs, planes, precognitive dreams, fish, games, Cyprus, worms, countries, chicken, teeth falling out, disasters, cheese, excrement, submarines, snakes, Fiji, Somalia, animals, Japan, spiders, Korea, lucid dreams, the night, United States of America, Indonesia, roaches, the moon, genitals, presidents, shopping, burglary, eagles, spaceships, birds, Austria, owls, eating, the galaxy, penises, and pastors than 95% of other dream symbols.
What are the symbols that help define emotions?
The symbol of emotions in dreams is highly related to amazed, anger, anxiety, boredom, comfort, confusion, embarrassment, exhaustion, fear, fun, grief and sorrow, guilty, happiness, hatred, intrigued, love, numb, pain, pleasantness, rage, regret, relief, sadness, suffering, surprise, tranquility, and unpleasantness.
How does the dream symbol of emotions affect the different aspects of a dream?
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Who is in emotions dreams?
Overall, dreams with emotions are more related to characters in dreams. Specifically, dreams of emotions are more related to distant people, more related to close people, and much more related to family than dreams in general. They are less related to insects.
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What are the emotions in emotions dreams?
Overall, dreams with emotions are much less related to emotions in dreams. Specifically, dreams of emotions are less related to happiness, less related to sadness, and less related to grief and sorrow.
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Who is in emotions dreams?
Overall, dreams with emotions are aren't really related to places in dreams. Specifically, 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 emotions dreams?
Overall, dreams with emotions are much more related to events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of emotions are more related to aggressive interactions, much more related to friendly interactions, and more related to sex than dreams in general. They are less related to disasters.
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How do emotions in dreams related to other dream phenomenon?
Overall, dreams with emotions are much more related to dream events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of emotions are much more related to nightmares, more related to recurring nightmares, and much more related to sleep paralysis 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 postively interconnected, lack emotions, friendly, aggressive, nightmare, and family oriented.
Do you think this is true for your dream of emotions? How might your dream of emotions 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 emotions 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 emotions in dreams. See how you feel about emotions now, in your waking life.
What are possible meanings for dreams of emotions?
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, Numb, Octopus, Pain, Panic, Psychologists, Rage, Revenge, Screaming, Wounds
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 emotions
Read some real dream reports of emotion 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.
Very dramatic dream about covid
I was standing in a very crowded room with hundreds of other people. We were all wearing masks and everyone was silent. Then suddenly I coughed, and everyone gasped while turning to look at me. I realised that they all thought I had covid, and so I fell to my knees while yelling “NOOO I JUST CHOKED ON MY SPIT!!!” (but I hadn’t choked on my spit). But then everyone started yelling “GO AWAY!!! BE GONE!!! GET OUT OF HERE!!!” and I was like “NOOO PLEASE NOOO!!! I JUST CHOKED!!! PLEASE NO!!!”. It was incredibly dramatic, like I was being shunned. It was pretty scary in the dream, because I was so desperate, but when I woke up I kinda laughed at how overly dramatic it was. I don’t know what to make of this dream though...
I was standing in a very crowded room with hundreds of other people. We were all wearing masks and everyone was silent. Then suddenly I coughed, and everyone...
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Dreamt that I showed my dick in a zoom meeting
I was in my room just vibing and decided to get comfortable. However when I whipped it out to readjust it someone said woah woah and blocked my stream. I didn't even notice a meeting was on let alone it had people I knew. I said it was an accident and someone said "don't worry, you're a nice guy" but it left me with horror.
I was in my room just vibing and decided to get comfortable. However when I whipped it out to readjust it someone said woah woah and blocked my stream. I didn't...
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I had a dream months ago about a dead person I never knew, then googled his name only to find out he was a real person. Here I am months later, and his name randomly came to my head. I googled him...
Several months ago, I woke up one morning remembering a strange dream I had the previous night. In the dream, I visualized a phone with “new text messages” that said, “_FirstName_Last Name is dead!!” (Keeping name undisclosed per the loved ones’ privacy). Today, it is about 2.5-3 months later since I had this strange dream, and his name randomly came to my head when I was going about my daily business. I told my girlfriend about how his name showed up in my head again, and she was shocked to find an obituary that said that he had died TODAY, 2 years ago. I remembered this complete stranger I dreamt of in a dream, ON THE ANNIVERSARY OF HIS DEATH. Does anyone know what this means?? Please help me understand, I feel I have a very strange connection/meaning with this person!! Also, SERIOUS ANSWERS ONLY loved. Thank you.
Several months ago, I woke up one morning remembering a strange dream I had the previous night. In the dream, I visualized a phone with “new text messages” that...
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I think I saw my past life 10 years ago, and it still messes with me to this day
Hey guys, this is my first time posting on Reddit.
So as the title suggests, when I was a 10-year-old girl I had a dream of being someone. It started from when they were born to their death, during the dream I never thought it was a dream it just felt like he was me. The dream continued to show this guy's life story, I could see everything from his eyes and feel what he felt, everything except for pain.
He got married, to a girl named Sherry or Mary (I can't fully recall the name) when he was about 20-25 yrs old, later he had a son (Mark) after a few years. But what really disturbs me to this day was this man's death, he got into a car accident and he died slowly getting crushed. Although I couldn't feel the pain, I did feel the pressure slowly crushing my chest as I struggled to breathe, my mind filled with thoughts about his family.
Once he closed his eyes, I woke up and at that moment I forgot who I was, I also was crying, I began to check my chest upon not noticing any injuries I ran to the home phone in my house and dialed his wife's phone only to get no answer. I snapped out of it when I caught my reflection on the shiny toaster that was in the kitchen and suddenly I remembered who I was.
To this day I struggle with pain relationships (As I feel like I am cheating, idk why it's weird) and driving gives me major anxiety when I am behind the wheel. This dream happened over the course of 10 hours.
Also if you are curious about what they look like I will provide descriptions.
**Sherry/Mary-** Brown eyes, wavy long hair, and fair pale skin
**Mark-** Black short spikey hair, brown eyes, and fair pale skin
**Man (I was in the dream)-** Black short spikey hair, dark eyes, facial hair (Wiskers), and fair pale skin
Hey guys, this is my first time posting on Reddit.
So as the title suggests, when I was a 10-year-old girl I had a dream of being someone. It started from when...
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How the flying f*** can I dream of songs that have never existed?
I literally just woke up from a dream where I was listening to a DMX song and everything from the beat to the lyrics (it was his exact flow btw) were sick to the point where I searched it up on YouTube as soon as I got up…THE SONG DOESNT EXIST!! How????? I need someone to make sense of this for me please.
Also in the dream I searched it up on YouTube and all the vids were from 2011 when they used to put cinematic hip hop songs over fight montages.
I literally just woke up from a dream where I was listening to a DMX song and everything from the beat to the lyrics (it was his exact flow btw) were sick to...
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