Background

What are fire dreams about?

Fire is something that can be helpful or harmful. Fires can be warm and cozy. They can also be dangerous and destructive. 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 fire dreams.

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

The circular bar chart above shows how fires in a dream will affect dream content as compared to other dream symbols. Higher bars indicate that fire is more related to the specific symbol in the graph. Lower bars indicate that fire is less related to the specific symbol in the graph. Specifically, fire dreams have more disasters than 100.0% of dream symbols, more smelling than 89.1% of dream symbols, and more magical places than 86.5% of dream symbols. On the other hand, fire dreams have less sex than 79.6% of dream symbols, less happiness than 72.2% of dream symbols, and less sadness than 71.6% of dream symbols. Notably, dreams of fires are aggressive! Fire 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? 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 fires is different than dreams of fires in general.

3.3%

of dreams have fires

How common are fire dreams?

3.3% of dreams have the fires symbol within the dream. That's about 1 out of every 30 dreams. Considering all the dream symbols, it is relatively common.

Identification

How are fire dreams identified?

This symbol is identified by words like fire. This symbol is part of summary dream symbols events and disasters.

Most related

What is most related to dreams of fires?

Fires dreams are notable because they have substantially more wildfires, emaciation, flamethrowers, cannons, machine guns, ammunition, armageddons, Guatemala, pheasants, verbs, R2-D2 than 95% of other dream symbols.

Least related

What symbols least related to dreams of fires?

Fires dreams are notable because they have substantially less reality shows, tabby cats, Fiji, Haiti, Kuwait, Morocco, dismissals, Serbia, Somalia, Uranus, Dobby than 95% of other dream symbols.

Deep dive into fire dreams

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

Who is in dreams of fires?

Who is in dreams of fires?

Fire dreams are more related to fantastic beings than dreams in general. They are less related to peers.

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What are the emotions in dreams of fires?

What are the emotions in dreams of fires?

Dreams of fires are more related to pain than dreams in general. They are less related to happiness, less related to sadness, and less related to embarrassment.

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Where do dreams of fires take place?

Where do dreams of fires take place?

Dreams of fires are more related to transportation, more related to natural places, and more related to magical places than dreams in general. They are less related to schools.

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What happens in dreams of fires?

What happens in dreams of fires?

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

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

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

Dreams of fires are more related to vivid dreams than dreams in general. They are less related to good dreams.

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How do dreams of fires related the senses?

How do dreams of fires related the senses?

Fire dreams are more related to hearing, more related to smelling, and more related to vision than dreams in general. They are less related to taste.

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How can you make sense of fires in dreams?

Fire dreams are relatively common. Among other things fire dreams are aggressive. Do you think this is true for your dream of fires? How might your dream of fires 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 fires 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 fires in dreams. See how you feel about fires now, in your waking life.

An interpretation of fire dreams

An interpretation of fire dreams

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. A fire is dangerous, and in dreams a fire can be associated with a dangerous situation—a danger already present in your life, or something you sense coming. Fires tend to develop from small to large, and that association can be used to symbolize something destructive that starts small and spreads quickly. Fires are associated with anger, “burning up,” “boiling mad.” An uncontrolled fire in a dream can symbolize uncontrolled anger. A “head on fire” means a person is consumed with hatred, thoughts of revenge, or desire for justice. The imagery of top floors of a building on fire can have the same symbolism. It can mean you’re losing your mind or losing control of your thoughts. See: Anger, Hats, Rage Fire can symbolize a physical danger, for example, taking risks and putting yourself in harm’s way. You’re tempting the fire to hurt you. The danger can be material. For example, you might dream about your home burning down when you’re in danger of losing it to foreclosure, or you have been thinking about the possibility. A house burning down can symbolize your spouse leaving, your health plummeting, or your life going up in flames. See: Buildings, Home It can symbolize a big loss. A fire is a crisis, so dreams can use it to compare with any sort of crisis. The fire can be in your body as illness sets in, often accompanied by fever. See: Fevers It can be used to symbolize overheating while asleep, or smelling smoke. A man dreams there is a fire next to his bed. After waking up, he cleans his bedroom and moves his bed. The electrical outlet behind it is red hot. A cord is melted. The situation could have been much worse if he hadn’t happened to move his bed and notice the outlet. He probably smelled smoke as he was sleeping and his dreaming mind translated the input into imagery related to fire. Fire consumes and destroys, so it can be used in dreams to symbolize destruction of the personal sort. For example, your life is destroyed when you do something that causes a serious divide from your family or friends, and you dream about your house burning down. Your plans for the future “go up in flames” when you flunk out of school, and you dream about a school burning down. A city on fire can symbolize your public life going up in flames, because cities can symbolize your life in society. Your neighborhood on fire can symbolize big changes in yourself. It means that the psychological structures on which you are built are changing. See: Cities, Neighbors A bed burning can symbolize passion, burning up with desire. See: Beds Love can burn. It is “hot.” If you “keep the flame burning” you keep passion and love alive. A fire dying down can symbolize passion that cools. See: Love Fire’s association with passion extends to passion meaning strong attraction to a subject, to an idea, to life, to your family, to your job, to a cause or belief. Dreams use wordplays, and fire might be a play on “you’re fired,” the loss of a job, responsibility, or duty. Or you no longer play an important role you used to play. See: Dismissals “Fire” can mean fire a gun. See: Bullets, Guns Carl Jung had a dream in which he was trudging along in darkness, into a brutal wind. In one hand he held a lit candle and with the other hand he shielded the flame from being extinguished. He interpreted the dream as meaning he must continue forward with his sacred work despite the forces (wind) arrayed against him. He was having much personal and professional difficulty at the time of the dream. Soon after, though, he brought forth many of the groundbreaking theories and insights that made him famous. Jung saw himself as a vessel for channeling messages from the collective unconscious to humanity, a “keeper of the flame.” Consciousness and spirit are compared to fire. Mystic traditions speak of fire inside a person that moves throughout your being as progress is made to higher levels of consciousness. In the vedic and Hindu traditions, the god Agni is the god of fire, representing a function of “digesting” everything that a person takes into himself. This includes food, but also emotions, ideas, knowledge, and experiences. When representing spirit, the flame is sometimes blue. In Christianity, the Holy Spirit first appeared to the Apostles as “tongues of fire” on the Day of Pentacost. God appeared to Moses as a burning bush and as a column of fire to lead the Israelites through the desert at night. You don’t have to be exposed to the scriptures and teachings of mystic or religious traditions to make the association between fire and spirituality. The imagery is imprinted in the collective unconscious. For thousands of years fire has been used in ceremony and as part of spiritual practice. See: Spirits Fire is associated with light: Fire is associated with purification. More possibilities for symbolism are brought into play by the nature of fire itself. What is fire? The simplest answer is that fire is energy produced by chemical reaction, and many figures of speech that use the word fire mean energy—raw energy, personal energy, sexual energy. Romantic passion is a sort of interpersonal chemical reaction comparable to fire. Motivation and drive are compared to fire. To create fire, substances are transformed, and in alchemy the transformation process is driven by fire. Alchemy is popularly understood as the quest to turn lead into gold, and people make the mistake of thinking of it literally when it is meant figuratively. Lead is ordinary human consciousness, and gold is what is produced as consciousness goes through the process of transmutation in which the old person is “burned away”—like removing the cocoon to allow the butterfly to emerge. Which brings us to the question of how to tell the difference among the many possibilities for the symbolism of fire. The simple answer is that it depends on the context in which fire is presented by a dream and how you react to it, how you feel about it. For example, if a fire is raging through your house and you react with panic, the fire probably symbolizes something destructive. On the other hand, if you dance around a fire with a shaman, it might symbolize a creative process—especially within yourself. See also: Anger, Beds, Buildings, Bullets, Candles, Cities, Collective unconscious, Disasters, Dismissals, Fevers, Gas, Hats, Heat, Home, Love, Neighbors, Rage, Revenge, Sex, Spirits

Examples of dreams of fires

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 fire 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 fire dreams. Read at your own risk.

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