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What are fingerprint dreams about?

This symbol is identified by words like finger print, finger prints, and fingerprint.

Fingerprints in dreams is a exceedingly rare dream symbol, occuring in about 0.04% of dreams. That's about 1 out of every 2,500 dreams.

What are the major highlights of fingerprint dreams?

Fingerprints is a very negatively interconnected dream symbol. Dreams of fingerprints greatly reduce the presence of other dream symbols.

Fingerprint dreams are friendly

Dreams of fingerprints have greater increase of friendly interactions within the dream than most other dream symbols. While not all dreams of fingerprints will be friendly and they can also contain aggressive interactions, dreams of fingerprints are more likely to have friendly interactions than most other dream symbols. Other symbols that are like this include giving, summoning_demons, actors, Jamaica, parts of buildings, horrors, blue eyes, butlers, movement, and touch.

Dreams of fingerprints are aggressive

Fingerprint dreams have more aggressive interactions than a lot of other dream symbols. This doesn't mean that all fingerprints have aggressive interactions or only aggressive interactions. It simply means that having fingerprints in a dream increases the probability this dream contains aggression. Other symbols that are like this include tools, helplessness, unemployment, alleys, bows and arrows, possessing, shooting, cars, warriors, and metal.

Dreams with fingerprints might be a nightmare

Dreams of fingerprints are frequently associated with nightmares. Of course dreams that contain fingerprints might not be a nightmare. Plenty of dreams with fingerprints are not nightmares. But, dreams of fingerprints are more related to nightmares than 80% of all other dream symbols. Other symbols that are like this include pushing, exhaustion, parts of buildings, childhood homes, demons, praying, body parts, blood, couldn't open eyes, and midnight.

Fingerprint dreams might be about death

Dreams that contain fingerprints 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 jury members, destruction, limousines, talismans, revenge, plane crashes, suffering, unique themes, disease, and car crashes.

Fingerprint dreams focus on vision

Dreams of fingerprints have more words related to vision than 90% of all other dream symbols. In other words, fingerprint dreams involve sight and seeing objects. Other symbols that are like this include calluses, winning the lottery, excrement, Laos, weddings, dream within a dream, finding money, Finland, Madagascar, and roosters.

What symbols less present in dreams of fingerprints?

Fingerprint dreams are notable because they have substantially less boyfriends, elements of air, flying, sadness, red, brightness, legs, weather, and stairs and ladders than 95% of other dream symbols.

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

Explore different elements related to dreams of fingerprints

Who is in fingerprints dreams?

Overall, dreams with fingerprints are less related to characters in dreams. Specifically, dreams of fingerprints are much more related to different roles than dreams in general. They are much less related to animals, much less related to insects, and much less related to fantastic beings.

Animals

much less than usual

Insects

much less than usual

Different roles

much more than usual

Fantastic beings

much less than usual

Distant people

the same as usual

Close people

the same as usual

Family

less than usual

Romantic partners

less than usual
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What are the emotions in fingerprints dreams?

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

Happiness

much more than usual

Sadness

much less than usual

Grief and sorrow

much less than usual

Embarrassment

much less than usual

Confusion

less than usual

Fear

more than usual

Pain

more than usual

Hatred

much less than usual

Fun

less than usual

Love

much less than usual
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Who is in fingerprints dreams?

Overall, dreams with fingerprints are aren't really related to places in dreams. Specifically, dreams of fingerprints are more related to human places than dreams in general. They are much less related to home, less related to work, and less related to transportation.

Home

much less than usual

Work

less than usual

Human places

more than usual

Transportation

less than usual

Natural places

much less than usual

Magical places

much less than usual
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What happens in fingerprints dreams?

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

Aggressive interactions

more than usual

Friendly interactions

more than usual

Sex

much less than usual

Disasters

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

Overall, dreams with fingerprints are more related to dream events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of fingerprints are more related to nightmares than dreams in general. They are much less related to lucid dreams, much less related to recurring dreams, and less related to recurring nightmares.

Lucid dreams

much less than usual

Nightmares

more than usual

Recurring dreams

much less than usual

Recurring nightmares

less than usual

Sleep paralysis

much less than usual

Sleeping

the same as usual

Waking life

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

Overall, dreams with fingerprints are much less related to senses in dreams. Specifically, dreams of fingerprints are more related to hearing and more related to smelling than dreams in general. They are less related to taste and much less related to vision.

Hearing

more than usual

Smelling

more than usual

Taste

less than usual

Vision

much less than usual

Touch

the same as usual
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How can you make sense of fingerprints in dreams?

Fingerprint dreams are exceedingly rare. Among other things fingerprint dreams are very negatively interconnected, friendly, aggressive, nightmare, about death, and focus on vision.

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

What are possible meanings for dreams of fingerprints?

Fingerprints are used to identify culprits in crimes, so dreaming about leaving fingerprints can mean you fear leaving traces of your involvement in something. Wiping them away or wearing gloves can mean trying to conceal involvement.

For example, a man dreams that he’s in a store with a partner in crime—someone the man never sees fully—and they know they can take some small, oddly shaped guns from inside a glass display case. He slips his hand into the case and grabs the closest gun, which is shaped more like a metal cannabis pipe. He then notices his fingerprints left on the glass and anxiously wipes them away.

The man is hiding the fact that he smokes cannabis. A gun is used as symbolism for a pipe because a toke of cannabis is also called a hit, and a bullet from a gun hits whatever it’s fired at. Smoke comes out of the barrel. Wiping away fingerprints symbolizes that he smokes from his pipe in secret and hides the pipe afterward. The partner in crime is his addictive side. It’s a part of himself that only shows when cannabis is involved.

The connection between fingerprints and involvement can go many directions, such as when you’re involved with a person disliked by family or friends, and wiping away fingerprints means you don’t want them to know. Or dreaming about your fingerprints on a group report, symbolizing your involvement in writing it.

Concealment is connected with related feelings such as guilt, suspicion, and regret, and behaviors such as sneakiness. Dreams exaggerate, so the situation doesn’t have to rise to the level of crime for the symbolism to be used. It could be something as innocuous as hiding the fact that you ate the last cookie, or went out for a drink instead of working late. Think in general terms of concealing something—including something about yourself. It’s not necessarily a behavior or action you want to conceal, but something in your thoughts or feelings, or a personal flaw.

On the other hand, fingerprints are unique to each person and can represent individuality, the unique imprint every person leaves on the world.

Dreaming about someone’s fingerprints can mean you recognize that person’s involvement, uniqueness, or schemes. For example, you dream about finding your spouse’s fingerprints at a crime scene related to disorderly conduct, and it connects with his or her raising hell.

See also: Burglary, Crime, Guilty, Hands, Hiding, Thieves

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 fingerprints

Read some real dream reports of fingerprint 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.

Mix of nightmare and a good dream

Part 1: The meeting
I was sent to the therapeutic hospital for some weird reason.

When I was near it, I started to feel like I’ll faint. I decided to sit on the bench, and that’s when I saw a small car that sells turkish goods: simits, etc.

I asked the man next to me buying stuff if those folk selling were turkish( My dad is turk so that’s why i know turkish)He said yes, so I came up to them and then I talked to them. I said that I feel bad and about to faint. The old man who was selling them said:

-C’mon, enter my small shop, now you’ll go home.

Part 2: The home

He left me next to the car shop. I decided to call my mom so she’ll come to me. She said that she’ll come in 10 minutes. I decided to enter the shop. It was filled with amazing bikes and cars. Then my mom came and we went home.

Part 3: Me and she

I started to work in an office. I don’t remember what kind of office it was, but I was working there. I met her there. Let’s call her Hayley. She said:

-Hey there! Look, the paper! It’s important for my job.

I angrily responded:

-Lemme take a look at it.

I decided to see this paper, then….

I ripped it into small pieces, then I gave it to her. She said:

-You know what? Since this was VERY important piece of paper, I am going to…



Sue you.

Part 4: Testimony and Redemption

Me and Hayley would argue about anything. I was looking into her purse to check if she has something against me. Once she was obviously going to hall of justice near, since she took EVERYTHING she had. I asked her:

-Where are you going.

She responded:

-I am going to walk

-Lemme come with you.

-Ugh fine!

We both went to the Hall of Justice. She ALREADY had a pass to enter there and told everyone that I ripped that paper. I shouted:

-NO! You did it to frame me! I have a motive and everything to prove this!

Then I ran from her back to office. I was thinking what kind of motive and testimony would be valid, the court is tomorrow!

“Maybe I’ll say that she ripped it at first, because she didn’t like me at first when I went working here? And say, that she ripped it and then gave it to me, so that’s the reason her and my fingerprints are on that paper? There weren’t any witnesses at all.”

And that’s it.

Part 1: The meeting
I was sent to the therapeutic hospital for some weird reason.

When I was near it, I started to feel like I’ll faint. I decided to sit on...

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Had the scariest dream of my life. I want to understand it.

I have had a dream where I was stabbed in the stomach and bled to death but that doesn’t even come close to the dream that I had today in my 2 hour long nap.

I was waiting in a line for a party which was in my bedroom, the bedroom in question was the size of a living room of a mansion. I then entered into my own room which was empty and then a few people came in. I started talking to a girl and then we were going to the bathroom to do some stuff then CUT

I wake up with a cast on my left hand and a heavy headache and feeling of loss, seemed to black out and willingly wrestled an amateur wrester. Also upon checking my phone my bank account was empty. COMPLETELY EMPTY with charges from last night but every one of my devices, my phone, my ipad, my laptop was glitching. Seemingly infected by something. Since everything happened in my room, whoever did this had access to these devices. Then CUT

Im sitting in the front with a friend who is driving he asks me to hold the wheel and gets my fingerprints on them. Then he proceeds to hit another car and make it crash probably killing whoever was inside and then he starts drifting and we fall from the highway but land safely. I got the feeling that they were teying to set me up from the way they were talking. Then the cops come. I had already lost all my money had a broken hand and then this ‘friend’ had the power to accuse me of driving. He didn’t yet I was scared he would. I think this cant be happening for real

I wake up IRL. Probably my most memorable dream yet. I think I got honey trapped, beaten, and betrayed. So to be careful of who I am surrounding myself with at the current moment. I felt so much anxiety throughout the dream

My questions:
Why was I waiting for a party in a line in my own bedroom? How did I blackout when I didnt even drink or smoke anything? Why were all of my devices glitching? Why was I surrounded by random people who I knew were friends? I dont even know what to say about the driving thing…

Tldr: Got robbed, beaten, and betrayed in dream which caused max anxiety

I have had a dream where I was stabbed in the stomach and bled to death but that doesn’t even come close to the dream that I had today in my 2 hour long nap....

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Dream about knife being banned but someone is after me

Okay so I was at a New Years pool party and we were all talking about how “daggers” were being banned in our town at the start of the year. It was like 11 so technically they were still not illegal and this girl at the party I didn’t know started swimming to me trying to stab me but I was swimming in slow motion and she sliced my calf. I got out of the pool and for a long time I was running away trying to not get stabbed. Her and another guy were playing monkey in the middle basically but with me in the middle with knives and I was trying to dodge them. It sounds silly but in my dream I was terrified. At the end of the dream she walked up apologized to me then she stabbed my mom last minute and handed me the knife so my finger print was on it. What does this dream mean?? I woke up knowing it had a meaning but I just don’t know what.

Okay so I was at a New Years pool party and we were all talking about how “daggers” were being banned in our town at the start of the year. It was like 11 so...

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In my dream, I'm a member of Italian mafia and my mafioso buddies are Robert Duvall and James Gandolfini

Duvall wants to quit mafia business but Gandolfini and I find it absurd and dangerous. Duvall says he's got it all figured out. He'll make a fake ID, change everything about his life and just go away. I'm telling him that he's betraying our family and his past, friends and memories. You'll be killed, they won't just let you retire, I say. Gandolfini starts playing a piano with that famous Tony Soprano rage and starts breaking stuff. I'm trying to confront Duvall, he punches me in the face. He's determined. He's disposing all of his guns, cleaning his fingerprints and going out of the motel. I'm following him, waiting something to happen to stop him, nothing happens. Then I stop following him and can't believe he's actually retiring from mafia and still breathing. He's walking away and I'm losing him from my sight.

Duvall wants to quit mafia business but Gandolfini and I find it absurd and dangerous. Duvall says he's got it all figured out. He'll make a fake ID, change...

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June 2020 Dream

In the future I turn stereo sound into magnetic stones with my hands

This is what I give to others as gifts. It’s what they come to me for.

When I touch closets they turn into shades and when I touch them again they disappear and everything in them lays itself out for me

I have a pet gorilla and a second one who replaced him which has a chest made of mirrored silver armor

And he is curious like a child

The stone magnets become molded like small skipping stones with finger prints on them looking also like polished eye lids

I lived on a mountain and my gorilla would parrot machines like a child

Someone who became a close friend came by for more of the speakers I had for him. When I began talking to him a closet was in front of me. I tried to open it to see him if he was inside and the door and walls turned into blinds and when I examined it, it disappeared and everything inside was on display for means he was waiting on a slide where my gorilla plays. He was helping me look for the speakers inside my guard tower and inside my bedroom which was inside it. I grabbed the speakers but when I went to hand the speakers to him, I looked at them to make sure it was the right ones, I knew it was when I saw the inputs and the cords which weren’t while cords but more like something wireless like futuristic Bluetooth, the inputs were tacks made of golden glass. When I reached out my hands to hand it to him they were all in one hand and that is when they became the magnetic stones, all together were the size of a palm, they didn’t start out that way but I condensed them for him.

(This is exactly how I wrote it as I was just waking up)

In the future I turn stereo sound into magnetic stones with my hands

This is what I give to others as gifts. It’s what they come to me for.

When I touch...

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