What are escaping dreams about?
This symbol is identified by words like escape.
Escaping in dreams is a relatively common dream symbol, occuring in about 3.1% of dreams. That's about 1 out of every 30 dreams.
What are the major highlights of escaping dreams?
Escaping is a normal dream symbol. Having escaping in a dream changes the dream in the same way as most other dream symbols.
Escaping dreams are friendly
Dreams of escaping have greater increase of friendly interactions within the dream than most other dream symbols. While not all dreams of escaping will be friendly and they can also contain aggressive interactions, dreams of escaping are more likely to have friendly interactions than most other dream symbols. Other symbols that are like this include video games, cheering, silence, the evening, arms, qualities, buildings, Congo, deformation, and hair.
Dreams of escaping are aggressive
Escaping dreams have more aggressive interactions than a lot of other dream symbols. This doesn't mean that all escaping have aggressive interactions or only aggressive interactions. It simply means that having escaping in a dream increases the probability this dream contains aggression. Other symbols that are like this include broken glass, floors, evil, places of transit, scars, pain, holding, unemployment, alleys, and slowness.
Dreams with escaping might be a nightmare
Dreams of escaping are frequently associated with nightmares. Of course dreams that contain escaping might not be a nightmare. Plenty of dreams with escaping are not nightmares. But, dreams of escaping are more related to nightmares than 80% of all other dream symbols. Other symbols that are like this include dismissals, weasels, robots, imagining, brains, scars, paralysis, televisions, things, and abandonment.
Escaping dreams might be about death
Dreams that contain escaping are highly related to death. They are more related to death than 90% of all other dream symbols. Other symbols that are like this include zombies, verbs, blood, quicksand, going to die, Afghanistan, seeing a dead pet, mafia, chemical weapons, and seeing a dead relative.
Escaping dreams are scary
Dreams containing escaping 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 escaping are about fear. It simply means that if you dream of escaping, this dream has a great chance of being scarier than most other dream symbols. Other symbols that are like this include black eyes, places, Saudi Arabia, red eyes, cold sweats, mosquitoes, characters, things, monster, and scars.
What symbols more present in dreams of escaping?
Escaping dreams are notable because they have substantially more devouring, aggressive interactions, El Salvador, trapping, prisoners, capturing, hostages, places, pinecones, exits, erupting, kidnapping, ammunition, ambushing, general movement, torturing, cannibals, running away, cults, other verbs, arresting, safety, obeying, tyrants, Nepal, criminals and outlaws, trying, locks, mafia, mazes, wildfires, characters, disguises, suffering, underground, dungeons, running, rescuing, monster, dead ends, cages, antelopes, Cambodia, hiding, helicopters, armies, climbing, hunger, Thailand, chasing, infecting, police, enemies, executing, borders, killing, deluges, evil, hunting, and terrorists than 95% of other dream symbols.
What symbols less present in dreams of escaping?
Escaping dreams are notable because they have substantially less boyfriends, seeing a dead father, crushes, seeing a dead relative, seeing a dead grandmother, infidelity, former partners, teeth falling out, precognitive dreams, calves, verbs, movement, Donald Trump, kissing, weddings, romantic partners, social media, girlfriends, antlers, grandfathers, relationship events, giving birth, dating, funerals, miscarriages, seeing a dead pet, pleasantness, love, toilets, escaping, the night, surgery, Ireland, cancer, recurring dreams, sleeping, crows, raccoons, genitals, going to the bathroom, beds, vaginas, sex, seeing a dead grandfather, and excrement than 95% of other dream symbols.
How does the dream symbol of escaping affect the different aspects of a dream?
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Who is in escaping dreams?
Overall, dreams with escaping are aren't really related to characters in dreams. Specifically, dreams of escaping are more related to animals, more related to insects, and more related to different roles than dreams in general. They are less related to romantic partners.
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What are the emotions in escaping dreams?
Overall, dreams with escaping are aren't really related to emotions in dreams. Specifically, dreams of escaping are much more related to fear and more related to pain than dreams in general. They are less related to embarrassment and less related to love.
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Who is in escaping dreams?
Overall, dreams with escaping are aren't really related to places in dreams. Specifically, dreams of escaping are more related to human places, more related to transportation, and more related to natural places than dreams in general.
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What happens in escaping dreams?
Overall, dreams with escaping are more related to events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of escaping are much more related to aggressive interactions, more related to friendly interactions, and more related to disasters than dreams in general.
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How do escaping in dreams related to other dream phenomenon?
Overall, dreams with escaping are more related to dream events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of escaping are more related to lucid dreams, much more related to nightmares, and more related to recurring dreams than dreams in general.
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How can you make sense of escaping in dreams?
Escaping dreams are relatively common. Among other things escaping dreams are normally interconnect, friendly, aggressive, nightmare, about death, and scary.
Do you think this is true for your dream of escaping? How might your dream of escaping 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 escaping 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 escaping in dreams. See how you feel about escaping now, in your waking life.
What are possible meanings for dreams of escaping?
A question at the heart of a dream about escape is, what are you getting away from or is getting away from you? The meaning might not be obvious till you step back and ask what personal situation is represented as escape.
Another question to ask yourself is, do you want to escape from something about yourself or your life? For example, a dream about escaping from a liquor store can symbolize wishing to overcome a drinking problem. The most dramatic dreams of this type show you running to escape from someone pursuing you. Finally you’re cornered, and your pursuer shows its face. And it’s you.
Someone or something escaping from you can symbolize a situation such as an interest or opportunity getting away. See: Chasing
Dreaming about escaping a prison can connect with escaping from a situation that’s keeping you confined or restricted. See: Prisoners
Escaping a monster can mean giving up an addiction or getting away from an abuser. See: Monster
Escaping a fire can mean escaping danger or someone’s anger. See: Fires
Each of the last three examples have other possible meanings. They’re meant to show you how the action of escaping combines with other details to create symbolism.
Escape can mean that something’s after you, or that you might be next to face the firing squad. For example, your supervisor or spouse was on the warpath yesterday, and you decided to lie low. Then you dream about the situation as fleeing from a gun battle.
Escape can connect with ideas related to being a fugitive. See: Fugitives
The theme of escaping implies sneakiness and furtiveness. You can’t just walk out the door. It can mean that a person is trapped physically or emotionally. That an abuser has a psychological death grip on the person. Or that an obligation or duty won’t allow the person to just walk out door.
Escaping and avoiding go hand in hand, and avoiding can connect with avoiding rules, restrictions, authority, or social situations. Avoidance translates into a dream as escaping, perhaps over a fence or under a wall. The entry for Hell has a great example of this use of the symbolism in a dream about escaping from hell.
Procrastination is, in a sense, escaping the fact that something needs to be done. You can escape from your responsibilities, from stress or problems, from a relationship and its expectations, or from strong emotions and feelings. You can escape from your conscience. You can try to shake a certain feeling.
Sometimes, the thing from which you flee is exactly what you need or want. That’s why it pursues you.
See also: Abyss, Accomplices, Arresting, Burglary, Cages, Chasing, Fences, Flying, Fugitives, Hiding, Jails, Police, Prisoners, Running, Torturing, Wallets
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 escaping
Read some real dream reports of escaping 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 dreamed I saw a dead friend, who told me I would die on the anniversary of her death.
I had a good friend who died last year on October 17th. She dated one of my good friends and as such we grew close. Important Characters are Me, my friend Kyle, my friend Roy, my deceased friend Rose, and another friend Alisha.The nightmare is as follows.
It started with me, my siblings, and my mom packing up her car. We were seemingly leaving and trying to do so in a hurry. But I got the impression we took to long, and when we began to pull out of the driveway we hit my friend Kyle's car as he was trying to pull into the carport. We canceled our plans to leave and me and Kyle decided to drive to what I think was a high-school reunion.
We arrived at the event, and it was almost like a chapel/gym hybrid with large windows towards the front of the room. I saw most of the people that I went to high school with conversing and interacting with each other. I saw my friend Roy who was our senior class president cutting up pineapple and putting it into a drink. He said he didn't have enough pineapple and me and my friends laughed at him for it. Now the nightmare/dream starts.
I walked outside for some fresh air, and when I came back I saw my friend Rose, who is dead, and my friend Alisha who is alive. They both looked like spirits however. I asked Rose how I could see her, and asked if I was going to die soon. She said yes I was going to die, she started becoming more solid. I asked her if she could as God of I could live longer. She said that she would ask but its going to happen anyway. She started getting more solid, so I left the room to try and escape my death.
As I walked into the foyer to escape, a blonde skinny teenager came in. He pulled out a gun, and I was shot with either lightning, or the gun. I don't know which but I felt myself dying. I was then teleported to a city block where I saw a newspaper on the road. I picked it up and it had a picture of me, saying I died on October 17th. The day was Friday. I woke up and wrote the dream my journal quickly. I then went back to sleep, and had a dream where me and rose went to Wendy's just like we used too when she was alive. I ordered her food and we hung out.
That was the end of it, and it's not as scary as some experience. But I woke up sweating and scared. Thanks for listening.
I had a good friend who died last year on October 17th. She dated one of my good friends and as such we grew close. Important Characters are Me, my friend Kyle,...
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I had a nightmare about AI bees pumping serotonin into your brain.
To begin, my boyfriend and I were sitting in a computer café where this advert appears, talking about these brand new AI bees released by the government. They were sent out in order to pump your brain silly with serotonin, meaning you'll be happy until you die of natural causes. However, in the dream it was common knowledge that these bees were also used in order for the government to control your mind and create an army (because dream logic - you gotta assume the worst, or at least in my case).
My boyfriend leaves the advert open, allowing one of the bees to crawl out of the screen, which lands on the temple of his head. Immediately, his eyes become vacant like he's staring off into space. A load of other bees pour out of the computer screen and land on all the other people in the café, myself included. As I'm screaming "get off of him!!!!!" to this little robot bee on my boyfriend's head, I start to feel myself succumb to the power of this bee on my head (which is strange because it's a dream, but I guess I really wanted to play along with the story).
We all march out of the café and end up down this long strip of road, which I believe was a walk-way at my old middle school. We all line up and one of the government officials informs us "do not attempt to remove the bees, this can cause a seizure, and you will die." So for the rest of our lives we only ever felt happiness, no other emotion, which was driving some people crazy. There were others who forcefully ripped the bees away from their heads, which of course killed them. The only way we could communicate our real feelings was by saying "the old me would have hated that" or "old me isn't too happy about this", as we could hear ourselves in our heads trying to escape.
To begin, my boyfriend and I were sitting in a computer café where this advert appears, talking about these brand new AI bees released by the government. They...
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Has anyone else gotten this type of dream?
Recently over the past couple months, I've had a dream when I guess the sun(maybe moon) kind of explodes? I've had this dream atleast 3 times, it's always the same type of story? It's starts out either me knowing what's going to happen and trying to tell others or i know what's about to happen and I watch.
Dream 3:
I find out a volcano is about to erupt, I panic trying to convince everyone to leave but everyone says "there's no time" some girl after that had a brain injury and some helicopter came down and only took her. It obviously angered me but then I got distracted by a large boom sound (the volcano has erupted as I'm assuming). We all hid in a hospital,then I wake up in a home, it's night and I can see the volcano has started to erupt. I see the sun(maybe moon but the sky was gray full of ash) and it moves near my home and it was preparing to explode, it make like a black hole with white things circling it. After that the black hole thing moved away from the white lines, and then lowers itself and explodes like a nuke or a bomb,but it didn't affect me. It just scared me to the point I was trying to escape from something, someone,maybe nothing even. After that a giant futuristic robot was taking people who survived and after that kinda of a blur. A part of me feels like the girl is imposter in some way.
(Sorry for that bad english)
Recently over the past couple months, I've had a dream when I guess the sun(maybe moon) kind of explodes? I've had this dream atleast 3 times, it's always the...
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My sister called me in her dream...I heard it!
Two days ago, at around 5am, I was dreaming some sort of dream until I was slightly awaken by a voice calling my name--it was my sister's!
I almost jump out of my bed after hearing her voice calling from outside the house like she wanted to come in. But I made some logical thinking while my eyes were close that it is impossible that it was my sister as she was miles away from where I live. So, I made the conclusion that it was only some sort of a dream.
Then I heard her calling me again, this time longer.
I remember that some spirits call out for help if they are in the midst of danger so I tried to wake myself up and rang my sister's phone.
She answered on the other end, croaky, sounding like she was awaken by my call. I asked her how she was as I heard her voice calling my name.
She then told me that she was dreaming that she went to the mountains with me, we were joined by some people. As we go along, she got stuck to a bunch of trees and was paralyzed. She was looking around but couldn't find me or anyone we were with.
Suddenly, she felt some commotion behind her and was frightened by the sensation. So, she started calling my name.
She was able to escape from that dream by the sound of the phone ringing---it was when I called her.
Two days ago, at around 5am, I was dreaming some sort of dream until I was slightly awaken by a voice calling my name--it was my sister's!
I almost jump out of...
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Have you dreamt you're a different person?
Very rarely I do and usually I'm not too different. But this time round I dreamt that I was a huge, tall and tanned male (I looked Turkish and I'm EA) and in that dream I witnessed a car driving on ice and the ice broke so when the driver tried to escape he got frozen and died a painful death
Very rarely I do and usually I'm not too different. But this time round I dreamt that I was a huge, tall and tanned male (I looked Turkish and I'm EA) and in...
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