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What are fingernail dreams about?

This symbol is identified by words like fingernail, finger nail, finger nails, etc.

Fingernails in dreams is a very rare dream symbol, occuring in about 0.1% of dreams. That's about 1 out of every 900 dreams.

What are the major highlights of fingernail dreams?

Fingernails is a normal dream symbol. Having fingernails in a dream changes the dream in the same way as most other dream symbols.

Dreams of fingernails are aggressive

Fingernail dreams have more aggressive interactions than a lot of other dream symbols. This doesn't mean that all fingernails have aggressive interactions or only aggressive interactions. It simply means that having fingernails in a dream increases the probability this dream contains aggression. Other symbols that are like this include barns, animuses, invading, raccoons, threatening, hunger, knees, servants, underground, and knives.

Fingernail dreams seem to lack places or locations

Dreams of fingernails frequently do not mention places or locations. The dream may or may not take place in varying locations. But dreams of fingernails simply do not mention the location, places, or settings occuring within the dream. Other symbols that are like this include collective unconscious, menstruation, therapists, youtube, frogs, tiktok, seeing a dead partner, ants, breasts, and genitals.

What symbols less present in dreams of fingernails?

Fingernail dreams are notable because they have substantially less boyfriends, ignoring, seeing a dead relative, anger, relationship events, social media, death, swimming, chasing, the sky, killing, cities, romantic partners, hills, love, messages, dying, and churches than 95% of other dream symbols.

How does the dream symbol of fingernails affect the different aspects of a dream?

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Who is in fingernails dreams?

Overall, dreams with fingernails are less related to characters in dreams. Specifically, dreams of fingernails are much more related to insects and more related to fantastic beings than dreams in general. They are less related to distant people, much less related to close people, and less related to family.

Animals

the same as usual

Insects

much more than usual

Different roles

the same as usual

Fantastic beings

more than usual

Distant people

less than usual

Close people

much less than usual

Family

less than usual

Romantic partners

less than usual
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What are the emotions in fingernails dreams?

Overall, dreams with fingernails are aren't really related to emotions in dreams. Specifically, dreams of fingernails are more related to embarrassment, more related to fear, and much more related to pain than dreams in general. They are less related to sadness, much less related to grief and sorrow, and less related to confusion.

Happiness

the same as usual

Sadness

less than usual

Grief and sorrow

much less than usual

Embarrassment

more than usual

Confusion

less than usual

Fear

more than usual

Pain

much more than usual

Hatred

the same as usual

Fun

less than usual

Love

less than usual
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Who is in fingernails dreams?

Overall, dreams with fingernails are much less related to places in dreams. Specifically, dreams of fingernails are more related to work than dreams in general. They are much less related to home, less related to human places, and less related to transportation.

Home

much less than usual

Work

more than usual

Human places

less than usual

Transportation

less than usual

Natural places

less than usual

Magical places

less than usual
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What happens in fingernails dreams?

Overall, dreams with fingernails are less related to events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of fingernails are more related to aggressive interactions than dreams in general. They are less related to friendly interactions, less related to sex, and less related to disasters.

Aggressive interactions

more than usual

Friendly interactions

less than usual

Sex

less than usual

Disasters

less than usual
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How do fingernails in dreams related to other dream phenomenon?

Overall, dreams with fingernails are aren't really related to dream events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of fingernails 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 recurring nightmares, less related to sleeping, and less related to waking life.

Lucid dreams

more than usual

Nightmares

more than usual

Recurring dreams

more than usual

Recurring nightmares

less than usual

Sleep paralysis

more than usual

Sleeping

less than usual

Waking life

less than usual
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How do fingernails in dreams related the senses?

Overall, dreams with fingernails are less related to senses in dreams. Specifically, dreams of fingernails are much more related to smelling, much more related to taste, and much more related to touch than dreams in general.

Hearing

the same as usual

Smelling

much more than usual

Taste

much more than usual

Vision

the same as usual

Touch

much more than usual
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How can you make sense of fingernails in dreams?

Fingernail dreams are very rare. Among other things fingernail dreams are normally interconnect, aggressive, and lack places or locations.

Do you think this is true for your dream of fingernails? How might your dream of fingernails 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 fingernails 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 fingernails in dreams. See how you feel about fingernails now, in your waking life.

Examples of dreams of fingernails

Read some real dream reports of fingernail 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.

My most disturbing childhood dream

I was inside of a cave and there laid a man on a stone pedestal. Then suddenly fingernails, toenails and claws started falling from a light from above, into the man's mouth and he had to swallow them. Then nails started growing inside of him.

The weird thing was that I was two people at the same time the man and an onlooker. I could see him from the onlookers view, but feel his pain.

I was inside of a cave and there laid a man on a stone pedestal. Then suddenly fingernails, toenails and claws started falling from a light from above, into the...

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What does shark teeth growing under skin mean?

I'm pretty sure I've dreamed about this a couple times. The shark teeth are small (fingernail-sized) and are under my skin near my thumb joints. I scratched at the skin above them to gain access to them and dug them out of my hand. The wounds don't bleed and it doesn't seem to hurt. I wake up immediately after this dream feeling anxious and breathing heavy. In real life, I don't mind sharks, and I haven't been able to find an interpretation of this online

I'm pretty sure I've dreamed about this a couple times. The shark teeth are small (fingernail-sized) and are under my skin near my thumb joints. I scratched at...

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Picnic Blanket Demon Woman?

Last night I dreamt that I lived in an old servant quarters area beside this farmhouse and I was super into this new Hispanic girl that lived in the quarters with us, but she was a little off.

Throughout the dream she became more and more off-putting doing and saying weird stuff that I don’t quite remember, and others kept warning me about her and some that I guess didn’t know what her gig was we’re getting suspicious about her? I dunno.

The climax though was that she, apparently possessed or evil in whatever way, busted into the kitchen of the farmhouse wearing a red and white picnic blanket that was formed to her skin, covering her entire figure from head to toe but going deep inside her mouth to make a weird mouth hole. She started to rake the eyes of a girl in the farmhouse with her fingernails screaming “I can KILL YOU” to me specifically, while everyone in the house (including myself) tried to pull her off of the poor girl. Nobody could. Like she had immeasurable strength and wouldn’t budge an inch no matter how hard we all collectively tried to pull her off. She wouldn’t budge and she kept raking and raking until the girl’s eyes were just deep bloody holes.

Eventually the victim lost her balance or consciousness or whatever, and hit the floor where the woman-shaped picnic blanket just kept raking and screaming and then I woke up.

Soooo anyway the moral of the story is: ya know those times when you wake up and swear to god there’s a gorgeous Mexican picnic blanket demon woman sitting in the chair in the corner of your room just watching you try to go back to sleep? No? Just me? Weird ass night.

Last night I dreamt that I lived in an old servant quarters area beside this farmhouse and I was super into this new Hispanic girl that lived in the quarters...

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A Woman In The Woods

Warning: The story here depicts slightly graphic detail about blood

When I was around 4-5, I remember a terrifying dream I had before I knew what ghosts were, or any of the details here. Here’s the dream: I was a guy, running through a cold and dark forest. It seemed to be around 9PM. I couldn’t see where I was running or what i was running from, I just felt this overwhelming feeling of panic and sheer dread. I kept hearing whispering, and rustling nearby but just kept running. I knew that if I didn’t find a place to hide or a way to escape, I would die. Soon, I saw a wooden shed with lights on inside. I pushed myself to run faster and slammed into it. I shut the door as fast as I could and pressed up against it. I noticed gardening tools inside, and vines growing through a broken window. Soon I heard something, a woman’s voice. I just heard singing- and I began seeing flashes of a pale women in a white wedding dress, covered in leaves, vines, and tree roots. I remember the long cuts, scratches, and bruises all over her arms, legs, and neck along with the blood and flesh underneath her fingernails. I remember the dried blood all over her gown. I remember seeing maggots in her wounds. I remember seeing bloody bone under her exposed veins and flesh, no matter how hard I may try to forget. I never saw her face, but I already knew what it looked like. I just knew her eyes would be glazed over, her mouth would be filled with blood, and the precise cuts all around. But just as I saw a long, deep, bloody gash across her stomach, I felt a heavy thump, knocking me down as the door flew off it’s hinges. As I was on the floor, I looked up and... I was awake

I remember the smell of the cold air and pine trees in that forest.

It remember the feeling of breath on my neck and cold air pushing against me.

I remember the taste of blood in my mouth before waking up.

I saw her in my doorway that night.

I’ve never told anyone about this, so I hope some of you may bring some logic to why I dreamt about such a thing so young.

Warning: The story here depicts slightly graphic detail about blood

When I was around 4-5, I remember a terrifying dream I had before I knew what ghosts...

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Chess, Hot tub, and a train

I had a dream where I was playing chess with my sister. Except all my pieces were getting messed up and it wasnt right. My peices were colored black and red and hers were black and white. Her queen piece totally got me in check and it seemed I lost control of where my pieces went. So I sat down and and recooped all my pieces and made sure they were where they were supposed to be and got back into the game and my sister dissapeared.

Next I found myself at a party with lots of people. I felt like they all were cool people but I kinda did my own thing. We got into a hottub and the water was really hot.

I found myself on a passenger train. So after the train stopped, I came across guy named Jack and he put me in restraints I had broken out of. He told me enough was enough. The wind started blowing and I felt kinda aroused and he told me "see? thats not the way it should be, use the hole to wiggle it down" and he brought me to a babies cradle. The wind then rocked the cradle instead. He pretty vividly spoke to me about how I constantly make up for mistakes almost as if that I make them just to make up for it. So instead he blindfolded me and gave me a bag full of junk. Inside was an umbrella, a box of matches, a wooden box, some chapstick, dog food and bird seed, a screw driver, a towel, and a small picket sign and told me to walk in a direction. He said only a fool could take this path. So I kept walking and walking, as I kept going until it got more windy. So I sat down and gave it some thought. "Its bright and sunny, whats the umbrella for? I guess Ill open it up and get some shade. The picket sign doesnt make any sense." I yelled out, "hey Jack! Ive been thinkin while I wait; What do you think of people who play poker?" He replied, "Its really a personal choice, mine is that I would bring much into the building unless I was willing to lose the cash, some people get too deep into it though". I thought; why do people get so deep into gambling? Maybe they dont have much else to do with themselves. So focused on the idea of winning it becomes their reality. I got pretty bored so I grabbed the wooden box and tried to open it. It wouldnt open, didnt seem like there was any way to open it. I shook it and heard a couple things in there jumble around, it was kinda heavy. I felt around it blindly and discovered some screws on one side; must be what the screw driver was for. I felt around carefully for each screw which was difficult and slow going but once I found the screw head I could get the screw out; one by one. Finally I got the lid off. It seemed there were a couple large candles inside. "Of course the matches!" I grabbed the matches and lit the candle. Suddenly I heard a 'pppsshshh' sound which confused me. BLAM! The candle blew up in my face! Fuck it hurt. So I grabbed the towel to clean up my face that got burnt. What a dickhead. "Hey Jack; whats with these candles?!?" -"Ya had it coming ya dip, theyre not candles". I felt around in the box and used my fingernail to try and scrape the wax but it felt solid. What are these giant firecrackers? I felt the wick but it turned out to be a fuse. "Dammit.." I sat there for a little longer not really knowing what to do next, the wind was making my lips really dry but at least the sun was out of my face, so I used some of the chapstick. I was getting pretty hungry but all I had was dog food and bird seed. Im not eating dog food.. I cracked the lid of the can anyways to see if there was anything else inside that could be useful. Nope just some dog food.. I turned around and I heard a coyote barking. "Hey Jack; what the hell is the point of all this?? He didnt answer. All I had left was the picket sign. Pretty fed up I peeked out the blindfold and the sign said 'Egad'. Id had enough! I tore off the blind fold and looked down. There was nothing but air and Jack was standing on the side of a cliff next to a blue roadrunner.

I had a dream where I was playing chess with my sister. Except all my pieces were getting messed up and it wasnt right. My peices were colored black and red and...

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