What are foot dreams about?
This symbol is identified by words like toenail, toe, ankle, etc.
Feet in dreams is a common dream symbol, occuring in about 5.4% of dreams. That's about 1 out of every 20 dreams.
What are the major highlights of foot dreams?
Feet is a very interconnected dream symbol. Having feet in a dream substantially changes the nature of the dream.
Dreams of feet are aggressive
Foot dreams have more aggressive interactions than a lot of other dream symbols. This doesn't mean that all feet have aggressive interactions or only aggressive interactions. It simply means that having feet in a dream increases the probability this dream contains aggression. Other symbols that are like this include burglary, burying, avalanches, alleys, emaciation, Bahamas, Haiti, bobcats, antlers, and rescuing.
What symbols more present in dreams of feet?
Foot dreams are notable because they have substantially more edges, toenails, ankles, backwards, shoes, verbs, movement, emaciation, socks, fences, knees, calves, calluses, descending, legs, entrances, climbing, broken glass, spotlights, talismans, general movement, fog, below, bones, places, ditching, Fiji, wrist, metal, devouring, numb, weasels, qualities, fingernails, cliffs, shoulder, senses, roots, Cambodia, squares, creeping and crawling, pus, floors, armor, erupting, paths, gray, Morocco, Kuwait, elements of air, heat, fingers, weakness, gorillas, fists, directions, beggars, skin, opponents, and noses than 95% of other dream symbols.
What symbols less present in dreams of feet?
Foot dreams are notable because they have substantially less boyfriends, social media, crushes, teeth falling out, former partners, giving birth, menstruation, falling in love, sex, body parts, things, feet, time travel, abortions, infidelity, pregnancy, ice cream, best friends, suicide, calendars, seeing a dead mother, relationship events, seeing a dead relative, pregnancy tests, classmates, romantic partners, seeing a dead friend, birthdays, dating, getting a job, mathematics, love, cancer, social media, seeing a dead grandfather, instagram, sadness, kissing, subconscious, Korea, tigers, waking life, sexuals acts, Spain, and depression than 95% of other dream symbols.
How does the dream symbol of feet affect the different aspects of a dream?
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Who is in feet dreams?
Overall, dreams with feet are less related to characters in dreams. Specifically, dreams of feet are more related to animals, more related to insects, and more related to fantastic beings than dreams in general. They are less related to different roles, less related to close people, and less related to family.
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What are the emotions in feet dreams?
Overall, dreams with feet are more related to emotions in dreams. Specifically, dreams of feet are more related to fear and more related to pain than dreams in general. They are less related to sadness, less related to hatred, and less related to love.
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Who is in feet dreams?
Overall, dreams with feet are aren't really related to places in dreams. Specifically, dreams of feet are more related to natural places than dreams in general.
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What happens in feet dreams?
Overall, dreams with feet are aren't really related to events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of feet are more related to aggressive interactions and more related to disasters than dreams in general. They are less related to sex.
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How do feet in dreams related to other dream phenomenon?
Overall, dreams with feet are more related to dream events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of feet are more related to lucid dreams, more related to nightmares, and more related to recurring dreams than dreams in general. They are less related to waking life.
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How can you make sense of feet in dreams?
Foot dreams are common. Among other things foot dreams are very postively interconnected and aggressive.
Do you think this is true for your dream of feet? How might your dream of feet 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 feet 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 feet in dreams. See how you feel about feet now, in your waking life.
What are possible meanings for dreams of feet?
Feet in a dream can refer to where you “stand,” meaning convictions, values, issues, beliefs, opinions, and principles. We say that a person “stands” for one thing or another, such as, “I stand for family values.” Someone may “make a stand.”
The symbolism can be similar to the foundation of a house. Your feet are what you stand on, and in the larger sense what you stand on is your character and personality, your personal foundation.
Your feet are closest to the ground. If you’re “grounded” it means you are “down to earth” and steady. See: Basements
The symbolism is expressed in the saying “feet of clay,” meaning built atop a weak foundation. Dreams can take that idea and run with it to describe a relationship, plans, thought processes, willpower, empires, and so on.
Feet are associated with movement. Movement in the symbolic sense means movement in your life, “going places.” “Step up” means rise in authority, status, or prestige. “Step on” means to dominate or disrespect. “Out of step” means out of sync. Dreams will show these uses of symbolism through the actions and other details. See: Cars, Climbing
Movement in a dream shows the progressions of your life, the incremental movements and the leaps and bounds, and action with the feet can help tell the story. Movement up, down, forward, backward, and everything in between is symbolism, and if your feet take you there, the symbolism can combine to really tell the story. See: Backwards, Rightness
Feet are associated with social position. People of high social position have others “fall at their feet.” The same action of falling at someone’s feet can symbolize admiration, groveling, gratitude, or supplication. The symbolism can show in washing or massaging feet.
Mangled or bruised feet can symbolize low status or position. It can symbolize a hard road in life, or taking a beating. See: Servants, Wounds
Dreaming about injury to the feet can mean your ability to move your life forward is hindered. It can mean illness or anything that “knocks you off your feet.”
Plucking hair from your feet can symbolize preparing for something. For example, a young man getting ready to go back to college after summer break dreams about plucking long hairs from his feet. The long hair symbolizes a long summer he just spent being idle, and plucking it symbolizes his mental preparation to get busy again. Plucking hair, in his mind, is associated with preparation.
Feet can symbolize willingness to take action. The symbolism compounds when your willingness is based on your convictions, beliefs, and values, such as willingness to tell people about your religion or spread the Gospel. The symbolism is based both on feet meaning willingness to take action, and meaning personal foundation.
Toes can symbolize something overlooked. They are furthest on your body from your eyes and hidden inside socks and shoes most of the time. Toes are easy to overlook.
Toes are used for balance and can connect with your personal balance, especially the big toe.
They can symbolize something small that’s essential for everything it connects to, such as when a secretary makes the office run.
Toes can symbolize something you count. For example, you dream about having three toes on your right foot and two on left. It symbolizes that you think three of your children turned out right, and two have more to prove.
Toes can be used as an analogy for roots of a tree. See: Roots
See also: Amputation, Backwards, Ballet, Basements, Body parts, Cars, Climbing, Floors, Rightness, Roots, Running, Shoes
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 feet
Read some real dream reports of foot 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 might be cursed or some shit. I'm posting this dream/hallucination everywhere until I get answers
I was in my kitchen. It was like, midnight. The wood door was open, leaving the screen door. There was a creature outside. Mangled, skinny, at least 14 feet tall, it’s left arm was bitten off, and so were three fingers on its right hand. It had open wounds all over its body. And there were tally marks scratched into its skin. As it focused on me, it took one of its claws and carved another tally mark into its skin. It was a rotting, torn apart... thing. It smelled of Death. It smelled like a decaying body, like blood. It was a Wendigo. Why was there a Wendigo in my backyard? It made a sound. A hiss mixed with a raspy growl. Like if you mixed an alligator with a cat with a lion. My chest felt tight, my vision got blurry, and my breathing became labored. Yet, I opened the door and stepped out. The Wendigo seemed excited at the mere sight of me. It just stared at me with those empty sockets, before reaching out with whatever was left of its hand, and stroked my cheek. It was surprisingly gentle. Why was it so gentle? It kept on circling me. Examining me, occasionally reaching out to touch me. For fuck’s sake that sound, and smell. It smelled like Death. So much. After a few minutes of it just examining me, and making that sound, it looked me in my eyes. And smiled, or bared its teeth. I couldn’t tell which. Then it picked me up, slinging me over its shoulder. For such an aggressive action, it was still gentle. As if it was scared I was glass, and that I would break at the slightest touch. It sprinted, faster than I thought possible. It jumped over fences and cars. Until it reached its destination. The woods behind the school. It smelled even worse than the wendigo. Like..bodies. And I quickly found out why. There **were** decaying bodies. **Everywhere**. I recognized one. Alyssa. It **had** to be Alyssa. It’s hard to mistake hair of that color when I have no ginger friends. For fuck’s sake, her body. It was so *damaged*. Covered in blood, some wounds still dripping blood. I think she was still alive, just waiting for Death to come. I walked towards her, but the Wendigo put itself between me and her body. It made that same sound. That hissing/growling rasp of anger. So, me, not wanting to die, backed up. It just kept on examing me, touching me. Its favorite part of me seemed to be my face. Specifically my cheek, and my jaw. It’s been muttering the same words this whole time. But only at this point had I realized what it said, *“ You are like me. I am like you. You are me. I am you.”* Its voice. Its voice was strange. Calming, yet terrifying. Smooth, yet raspy. It sent shivers up my spine. It repeated those words over and over and over again. Then it hugged me. I already had blood on me from all its touches. But now I was drenched. It fucking hugged me. Why? When it pulled away, it looked sad, yet happy. It looked at me like I was a mirror. Or its child. All of a sudden, my chest got tight again. My vision getting blurry again. My breathing getting heavier again. Then I woke up, panting. And with a pinched nerve in my arm. Not only did my arm feel numb, my body felt weird. I felt...**dirty**, used. But I don’t know why. I know one thing though, I never want to sleep again, or whatever the fuck that was. Of course, though, I passed out the next day and had another disturbing dream which I might post on here too
I was in my kitchen. It was like, midnight. The wood door was open, leaving the screen door. There was a creature outside. Mangled, skinny, at least 14 feet...
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My nightmare from a while ago, isn’t like it normally is. Please read
For some context, I’m a teenage female, and this nightmare or night terror has happened since I was 4 up until two years ago when I saw the man in the nightmare, after I had the nightmare that night in my bffs house in Illinois. I haven’t had the nightmare since then, but I had it last night. I felt like throwing up after I had woke up, showered and got dressed.
I had my usual nightmare from a long time ago, and it was all normal. I was in a old lime green Cadillac with a oakwood dashboard, in the back left seat, with people who aren’t my family but are in my dream. A little boy sat next to me, he had pale skin, dark hair but the lightest blue in his eyes, and a sweater to match the hue of his eyes. The driver in front of me, was a man with broad shoulders, and a white sweater covering them. I couldn’t see anymore of his features from my seat but the woman in the top right was gorgeous. She sat with good Posture, her pink dress hugging her curves, as long with her sweater on top. As the car drove up the dirt road on a hill, I see the man in black (his face is covered but I saw his face the last time I had this nightmare at my bffs house in Illinois but then saw him at the cafe the day after, but with a little girl with him.) then it crashes.
But here’s where things get off.
I get out of the car crash like normal, the people that were in the car are no where to be seen, like normal. Then I turn to my right, to see the man in all black. But when I see the man, instead of starting to turning to my left and running downhill, I stand still. I stand still but firm in the ground. I, still staring at where his face would be, see him walk towards me. He walks with a slow, steady pace. Each foot touching the dirt, making a print. Soon, he is standing in front of me, with two foot of space between us. I can now see his face from underneath his hood he wore, and the wind blew. The wind had never blown in the nightmare before, but the wind hit his face, and he had no reaction.
He then focuses on my eyes, and starts to speak. His face emotionless but the words being said as a warning, I can’t remember what he said yet, but I’ll try and remember it.
If anyone could have the slightest idea to what some of this means, please say anything. Even if you think it may not help, I’ll take what I can get.
For some context, I’m a teenage female, and this nightmare or night terror has happened since I was 4 up until two years ago when I saw the man in the...
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Couldn't die.
So I have depression rn, and I had a dream that i was on the edge of a building about to end it all. Right when I was about to jump, the Catholic church across the street exploded. The Shockwave threw me back, but I was still on my feet. A helicopter than came, and started loading bullets into me. I felt every bullet hit me in the chest. My guts were clenching like fists. I felt every bit of pain. I was pushed to my knees, and coughing blood. I was bleeding all over the place, but wasn't dying. I got up, and went to my brother and sister for help. They both completely left me to die. I realised that no one cared. I limped around, and tried to find another ledge to try to kill myself on, but nothing was high enough. Nothing. I was still bleeding
So I have depression rn, and I had a dream that i was on the edge of a building about to end it all. Right when I was about to jump, the Catholic church across...
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Most terrifying dream I've ever had please help
I was tied up in a room with multiple other girls, they were shooting holes into our feet over and over. I woke up half an hour ago and I can't stop thinking about this dream, why would my brain traumatize me like this? I was in so much pain and fear.
I was tied up in a room with multiple other girls, they were shooting holes into our feet over and over. I woke up half an hour ago and I can't stop thinking...
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Visited what I believe was the “other side” when I was seriously considering suicide. Saw recent suicides getting processed, argued about not wanting to continue living, then got kicked out for still...
This was a lucid dream from 2 years ago when I came VERY close to suicide. I’m archiving it here for memories sake. TL/DR at the bottom.
I was having a typical non-lucid dream, and out of nowhere my vision went completely white. A few seconds later I was (now in a lucid dream state) standing in a street in front of a grey brick building. There was a group of people walking in the door, so I followed them in. Inside was a classroom like environment with a large blank screen at the front of the room. It wasn’t spoken, but I just knew these were all people who had taken their own lives.
Everyone sat down at the individual desks filling the room. Everyone looked very sad, most looking down at their feet. Some talked quietly to each other, but I couldn’t understand them. I sat down next to a 20-something girl and looked around the room. After a moment she asked me “So why did you do it?” I responded with “Oh I’m still alive, I’m just able to come here”.
Every person in the room went silent and looked at me with shocked expressions. After getting stared at for a few seconds, I was instantly teleported outside of room and back out into the street where I arrived. This time a giant 7ft tall bald guy was standing in front of the door. He refused to let me back inside, but let everyone else in who approached him.
About this time, a guy walked by me in the street and I asked him “What is this place?” He said something along the lines of “It’s where they (suicides) come to see where their life went wrong, and how their life played out if they stayed”. We chatted for a bit, don’t remember what about. Eventually I asked him why it mattered how we die because eventually we’ll all die anyway. Why does it matter if someone takes their own life?
The man took me back to the open classroom door where I had previously been, and we looked in from the outside. Inside, a young man (20’s) was standing at the front of the room. The screen at the front of the room was showing images of the young guy as a middle aged man. I remember on the screen there were images of him playing with a little girl (presumably his would-have-been daughter), him hugging an older couple (presumably his parents), him smiling and laughing with friends around a table. All the other people in the room sat and watched the screen play in silence. The atmosphere was unbearably depressing.
Eventually me and the guy from the street stepped back and he said something about “So many experiences and lessons wasted because of a temporary problem in one’s life.” He then looked me at me and said something along the lines of “This is where you’re headed. We all have to face our own set of challenges at some point. If not now, then later. Get as much as you can out of your time and avoid the regret.” And with that, I woke up with a different perspective.
TL/DR - Walked into a classroom full of people who had killed themselves, and was kicked out when they found out I was still alive. Talked to a guy in the street about how we all die anyway so what’s it matter. Saw a recent suicide watching a tv screen of his life playing out if he hadn’t killed himself. Was told we all have to go through hardships, it’s part of our growth, and suicide only leads to deep regret.
This was a lucid dream from 2 years ago when I came VERY close to suicide. I’m archiving it here for memories sake. TL/DR at the bottom.
I was having a typical...
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