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What are following dreams about?

This symbol is identified by words like follow.

Following in dreams is a common dream symbol, occuring in about 6.4% of dreams. That's about 1 out of every 15 dreams.

What are the major highlights of following dreams?

Following is a very interconnected dream symbol. Having following in a dream substantially changes the nature of the dream.

Following dreams are friendly

Dreams of following have greater increase of friendly interactions within the dream than most other dream symbols. While not all dreams of following will be friendly and they can also contain aggressive interactions, dreams of following are more likely to have friendly interactions than most other dream symbols. Other symbols that are like this include comfort, welcoming, slowness, metal, coaches, rescuing, actors, fences, breaking, and weakness.

Dreams of following are aggressive

Following dreams have more aggressive interactions than a lot of other dream symbols. This doesn't mean that all following have aggressive interactions or only aggressive interactions. It simply means that having following in a dream increases the probability this dream contains aggression. Other symbols that are like this include mosquitoes, dolls, fingerprints, tanks, trucks, Bahamas, Vietnam, elbows, shaking, and abandoned places.

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

Explore different elements related to dreams of following

Who is in following dreams?

Overall, dreams with following are aren't really related to characters in dreams. Specifically, dreams of following are more related to animals, more related to fantastic beings, and more related to distant people than dreams in general.

Animals

more than usual

Insects

the same as usual

Different roles

the same as usual

Fantastic beings

more than usual

Distant people

more than usual

Close people

more than usual

Family

the same as usual

Romantic partners

the same as usual
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What are the emotions in following dreams?

Overall, dreams with following are more related to emotions in dreams. Specifically, dreams of following are more related to happiness, more related to grief and sorrow, and more related to confusion than dreams in general.

Happiness

more than usual

Sadness

the same as usual

Grief and sorrow

more than usual

Embarrassment

the same as usual

Confusion

more than usual

Fear

more than usual

Pain

the same as usual

Hatred

the same as usual

Fun

the same as usual

Love

the same as usual
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Who is in following dreams?

Overall, dreams with following are more related to places in dreams. Specifically, dreams of following are more related to home, more related to work, and more related to human places than dreams in general.

Home

more than usual

Work

more than usual

Human places

more than usual

Transportation

more than usual

Natural places

more than usual

Magical places

more than usual
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What happens in following dreams?

Overall, dreams with following are more related to events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of following are more related to aggressive interactions and more related to friendly interactions than dreams in general.

Aggressive interactions

more than usual

Friendly interactions

more than usual

Sex

the same as usual

Disasters

the same as usual
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How do following in dreams related to other dream phenomenon?

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

Lucid dreams

more than usual

Nightmares

more than usual

Recurring dreams

more than usual

Recurring nightmares

more than usual

Sleep paralysis

more than usual

Sleeping

the same as usual

Waking life

the same as usual
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How do following in dreams related the senses?

Overall, dreams with following are more related to senses in dreams. Specifically, dreams of following are more related to hearing, more related to smelling, and more related to vision than dreams in general.

Hearing

more than usual

Smelling

more than usual

Taste

the same as usual

Vision

more than usual

Touch

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

Following dreams are common. Among other things following dreams are very postively interconnected, friendly, and aggressive.

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

Examples of dreams of following

Read some real dream reports of following 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.

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My name is Michael Hoefer, I’m with a group of researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder conducting a survey on dreaming and dream tracking...

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I lived inside a dream so long I killed myself

I went through such a long period in a dream it was so hard. In the dream I was a stay at home dad and my wife was a journalist. She had been investigating gangs in a prison. At one point point a riot had broken out and the leader of a gang was willing to do an interview during a transport. During this one of the gangs had a prison break plan, and my wife was in the middle, during which she was shot in the stomach. My consciousness was teleported there while gun fire rained down around us. She died in my arms. The following weeks after the funeral her parents wanted custody of our daughter because I refused that it was real. I would say things like “ill wake up soon” and “you cant take my anchor to this world” when it was all said and done I lost. So I hung myself from the balcony of the stairwell. As soon as I began to slip in and out of death I saw myself sleeping in a bed and I screamed “WAKE UP, PLEASE WAKE UP. THIS ISN’T REAL” when I woke up I scrambled into my kids room to make sure she was there. I called my wife to ask if she was ok and begged her to come home. To this day that still haunts me and causes me to not want to sleep.

I went through such a long period in a dream it was so hard. In the dream I was a stay at home dad and my wife was a journalist. She had been investigating...

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Just had probably the most oddly disturbing nightmare ever

So it was a pretty normal dream, taking place in my hometown in present time. I was walking home like any other school day, but something was off. There were weird things around, like certain roads that weren't supposed to be where they were, and most notably, a Sakura (cherry blossom) tree outside of a house I always walk by that doesn't have a tree in front of it. I didn't notice it though, cause it was a dream. Anyway, I must've taken some kind of detour, because I ended up in a field, that's usually on the other side of my neighborhood. This is where the weird shit goes down. So throughout the dream I was occasionally seeing this (yes it's hilarious thinking about it) really off-putting man in a banana costume, hiding in weird places (now that I think about it, only the ones that were out of place). He had a new expression each time, and he looked more and more deranged as time went on. So when I reached the field, the sky had already turned dark, so It was night time. The field is surrounded by houses (it's in the middle of the suburbs), and the playground that's usually there is no longer present. All that was there was the washrooms, in a building in the center of the field. I don't know why, maybe to hide from the banana guy (I was starting to get the idea that he was following me). I walked in, and went to wash my hands, when to my left, out of the corner of my eye, I saw him. He was laying limp on the toilet in the stall across the floor, with his head hanging in front of him. He had the most deranged and twisted face I'd ever seen, and he slowly turned his head to look at me. In classic SCP-173 fashion, I tried not to break eye contact, but I couldn't look at it for much longer because I felt like I was going insane. Making sure not to make any sudden movements, I slowly began walking towards the door. The banana man (stop laughing) was starting to half cry half laugh, slowly getting louder and louder. He was no longer in my line of sight, and I felt like any second he could've just gotten up and started chasing me. I felt SO threatened. Terrified, I started to crack the door open, and I was sure that he was going to run up behind me at any moment, but he didn't. He just sat there. Once the door was halfway open, I flung it the rest of the way open, and made a break for it. It was pitch black out, and I was alone. I was too scared even to scream for help, so I just kept running. The laugh/crying transitioned into angry screaming, still laughing all the same. I didn't look back to see if he was giving chase, because that would've slowed me down. The houses around the field were gone. All that was left was an endless open field. I stopped running and turned around, to find that the screaming was gone. Still, I felt no less afraid. All of a sudden, I heard footsteps behind me, and I turned around again, but nothing was there. The screams were coming back. I fell to my knees, panicked to the point where I couldn't keep running. The screaming faded in quickly to the point where it was deafeningly loud, and I started screaming too. That was when I woke up.

Bananas freak me out now. Thanks, brain.

So it was a pretty normal dream, taking place in my hometown in present time. I was walking home like any other school day, but something was off. There were...

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Was chased by creepy people

Forgive me if this doesn't make sense i don't remember all the details of the dream

I was lost in the middle of nowhere when tgese creepy kids began to follow me i tried to run away but they started to chase me i kept running but they eventually caught up to me and then i woke up and when i woke up i saw a person standing next to my bed for a second it scared me

Forgive me if this doesn't make sense i don't remember all the details of the dream

I was lost in the middle of nowhere when tgese creepy kids began to follow...

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Im so worried about this

I just had a dream where I was watching some horror movie about satan or something. then something in my room started acting up, moving on its own. it started following me. i called my dad and showed it to him. it didnt stop. It sort of kept following me. it wouldn't even break. so after giving up i decide that it will end only after i die.
but then theres this voice that says that even after i die i will be owned by him in after life or something like that. Like the Devil.

This creeped me out so much i wokeup with so much anxiety. im a hindu and I dont really believe in this. what could this mean?

I just had a dream where I was watching some horror movie about satan or something. then something in my room started acting up, moving on its own. it started...

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