Background

What are event dreams about?

Events are a broad category of things that can happen in a particular place and time. Events can be small like eating, drinking, or standing. Events can be large like landslides or fires. The interesting thing about events is that this implies change. An event occurs and it cannot be undone. As soon as an event happens, it is in the past. 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 event dreams.

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

The circular bar chart above shows how events in a dream will affect dream content as compared to other dream symbols. Higher bars indicate that event is more related to the specific symbol in the graph. Lower bars indicate that event is less related to the specific symbol in the graph. Specifically, event dreams have more pain than 99.7% of dream symbols, more death than 99.6% of dream symbols, and more fear than 99.6% of dream symbols. On the other hand, event dreams have less health events than 93.7% of dream symbols, less disasters than 91.4% of dream symbols, and less animals than 74.2% of dream symbols. Notably, dreams of events tend to contain much more emotion than other dreams. Also, dreams of events 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. Furthermore, dreams of events are aggressive! Event 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? Also, event 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. Finally, dreams of events are full of grief and sorrow. Of course not every event 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. 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 events is different than dreams of events in general.

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How common are event dreams?

80% of dreams have the events symbol within the dream. That's about 1 out of every 1 dreams. Considering all the dream symbols, it is frequent.

Identification

How are event dreams identified?

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What is most related to dreams of events?

Events dreams are notable because they have substantially more verbs, movement, general movement, general thinking, senses, things, qualities, health events, emotions, relationship events, lost than 95% of other dream symbols.

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What symbols least related to dreams of events?

Events dreams are notable because they have substantially less Laos, Bangladesh, Princess Leia, Estonia, calluses, Ron Weasley, chakras, Ethiopia, Legolas, Donald Trump, Famous People than 95% of other dream symbols.

Deep dive into event dreams

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

Who is in dreams of events?

Who is in dreams of events?

Event dreams are more related to fantastic beings, much more related to strangers, and more related to peers than dreams in general. They are less related to animals.

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What are the emotions in dreams of events?

What are the emotions in dreams of events?

Dreams of events are more related to happiness, much more related to sadness, and much more related to grief and sorrow than dreams in general.

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Where do dreams of events take place?

Where do dreams of events take place?

Dreams of events are much more related to home, more related to work, and much more related to magical places than dreams in general.

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What happens in dreams of events?

What happens in dreams of events?

Dreams of events are much more related to aggressive acts, much more related to friendly acts, and much more related to death than dreams in general. They are less related to sex, much less related to disasters, and much less related to health events.

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

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

Event dreams are more related to recurring dreams, much more related to bad dreams, and more related to weird dreams than dreams in general. They are less related to lucid dreams and less related to nightmares.

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How do dreams of events related the senses?

How do dreams of events related the senses?

Event dreams are much more related to hearing, more related to smelling, and much more related to vision than dreams in general.

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How can you make sense of events in dreams?

Event dreams are frequent. Among other things event dreams are very emotional, friendly, aggressive, about love, sorrowful, very social, family oriented, about death, focused on sounds, focused on touch, focused on vision, containing lots of movement, containing lots of thinking of thoughts, bad dreams, and very vivid. Do you think this is true for your dream of events? How might your dream of events 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 events 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 events in dreams. See how you feel about events now, in your waking life.

Examples of dreams of events

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 event 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 event dreams. Read at your own risk.

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