Loading...

What are forest dreams about?

Forests are dense collections of trees. Amazingly, these trees are often not isolated. Instead they form networks through a combination of their roots and fungus. The trees can share resources. Being in a forest feels like being in another world. It can be beautiful. It can also be scary. This symbol is identified by words like forest, orchard, pine, etc.

Forests in dreams is a relatively common dream symbol, occuring in about 2.1% of dreams. That's about 1 out of every 50 dreams.

What are the major highlights of forest dreams?

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

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

Explore different elements related to dreams of forests

Who is in forests dreams?

Overall, dreams with forests are aren't really related to characters in dreams. Specifically, dreams of forests 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.

Animals

more than usual

Insects

more than usual

Different roles

less than usual

Fantastic beings

more than usual

Distant people

the same as usual

Close people

less than usual

Family

less than usual

Romantic partners

less than usual
Show Detail

What are the emotions in forests dreams?

Overall, dreams with forests are less related to emotions in dreams. Specifically, dreams of forests are less related to happiness, less related to embarrassment, and less related to pain.

Happiness

less than usual

Sadness

the same as usual

Grief and sorrow

the same as usual

Embarrassment

less than usual

Confusion

the same as usual

Fear

the same as usual

Pain

less than usual

Hatred

less than usual

Fun

the same as usual

Love

the same as usual
Show Detail

Who is in forests dreams?

Overall, dreams with forests are much more related to places in dreams. Specifically, dreams of forests are much more related to natural places than dreams in general. They are less related to home, less related to work, and less related to magical places.

Home

less than usual

Work

less than usual

Human places

the same as usual

Transportation

the same as usual

Natural places

much more than usual

Magical places

less than usual
Show Detail

What happens in forests dreams?

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

Aggressive interactions

the same as usual

Friendly interactions

less than usual

Sex

less than usual

Disasters

more than usual
Show Detail

How do forests in dreams related to other dream phenomenon?

Overall, dreams with forests are aren't really related to dream events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of forests are much more related to recurring dreams and more related to recurring nightmares than dreams in general. They are less related to sleeping and less related to waking life.

Lucid dreams

the same as usual

Nightmares

the same as usual

Recurring dreams

much more than usual

Recurring nightmares

more than usual

Sleep paralysis

the same as usual

Sleeping

less than usual

Waking life

less than usual
Show Detail

How do forests in dreams related the senses?

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

Hearing

more than usual

Smelling

more than usual

Taste

less than usual

Vision

more than usual

Touch

the same as usual
Show Detail

How can you make sense of forests in dreams?

Forest dreams are relatively common. Among other things forest dreams are normally interconnect.

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

What are possible meanings for dreams of forests?

When you feel lost in the personal sense and are trying to find your way, a forest is a natural choice as a setting to tell the story. Why? Because people get lost in forests, and the imagery is appropriate because tall trees and foliage block your line of sight. Moreover, a forest path can symbolize the path you’re on in life, an analogy that can be stretched many ways.

For example, wandering off a forest path and getting lost can mean trying to do something your own way and getting lost. A path disappearing can symbolize wrong directions or bad advice to get somewhere you were trying to go in your life. A path splitting can symbolize the proverbial fork in the road.

Usually in dreams that use a forest to symbolize being lost in the personal sense, being physically lost will be a theme. Or think in more general terms of feeling your way through something where the way forward isn’t clear. It could be an external situation, such as figuring out the best path in your career, or an internal situation, such as figuring out the sort of person you want to be.

Another possibility for the symbolism of a forest is related to the symbolism of trees. See: Trees

A city full of skyscrapers is comparable to a forest of towering trees. An urban area is often referred to as a “jungle,” so a lot of trees together can symbolize a city. See: Cities

In the dreams of children, being in a forest full of tall trees can represent how they feel in comparison with adults, who look like giants from a child’s perspective. Also, families are referred to as trees, so being in a forest can symbolize being a member of a big family.

This discussion continues in the entry for Wilderness.

See also: Cities, Hugeness, Lost, Rightness, Skyscrapers, Trees, Wilderness

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 forests

Read some real dream reports of forest 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.

Anyone up for a dream analysis?

Anyone up for a dream analysis? Alrighty so my dream begun when I lived in a house that was on like a really high mountain, and I was able to see a beautiful forest. Anyways there was this woman who was in charge of everything and was manipulating everyone, which caused me to dream (in my dream) that I died. Like I walked to the side of the house, which was of glass, and jumped. I then saw like if I was watching a movie when a tree went through me and I died after a few seconds of panicking. Then I woke up, and I tried to ask for help from the two closest people in my life, and although one tried, they were unable to help. One of them even took my fear like a grain of salt. And I was terrified because I knew that the death U had dreamt was going to happen. Like I was so certain the woman was going to push me off when I least expected it. It overall made me feel really helpless. When I woke up I still felt helpess.

Anyone up for a dream analysis? Alrighty so my dream begun when I lived in a house that was on like a really high mountain, and I was able to see a beautiful...

Source | Show dream

Dream universe

I’m going to try to write my best explanation, I hope in some way you can relate to this kind of, Feeling like you’ve experienced a dream before, perhaps as far as 2 months ago, in the same “dream location” as the dream you only just had last night. Perhaps this dream location is a familiar town, completely abstract from any town in your waking life, yet so familiar to this “Dream You” Or that forest seemingly dreamt in every other week in some different way.
the first location the forest, this forest is large, it is the exact same forest it was in the dream 2 weeks prior, the same paths, the same rivers and streams, I’m just walking a different direction in last nights dream as compared with when I was here in a dream weeks or days past.

Also if, and I hope some of you experience this too, please feel welcome to express yourselves over at r/DreamCartography

I’m going to try to write my best explanation, I hope in some way you can relate to this kind of, Feeling like you’ve experienced a dream before, perhaps as...

Source | Show dream

Pet white tiger

I (22f) had the most vivid dream last night that I havent been able to shake all day. I feel like it probably has some sort of bigger than me meaning ( not that I know what it is)
In my dream, there was an enormous beautiful white tiger living with me. I was afraid of it even though throughout the entire dream it never seemed to be a threat to me.
Two things the tiger did that really stayed with me after the dream were
1: licked the entirety of my arm, and it felt just like a cat tongue but huge, causing my arm to hurt (think sandpaper)
2: leapt off of my second story porch and into the forest almost appearing to fly before running to the front of the house and back through the front door.
Also in the dream at one point I remember trying to lock myself into a cage to keep it away from me (while my partner and brother laughed and asked why I was afraid of my pet)
.
.
I've never had a dream as intense as this and just needed to tell somebody.
.
Also if you have an idea of what it may represent, im all ears.

I (22f) had the most vivid dream last night that I havent been able to shake all day. I feel like it probably has some sort of bigger than me meaning ( not that...

Source | Show dream

Had a fucked up dream about multiverse selves.

There was this guy who was my boyfriend and we both were driving to my parents house in a heavy forested area across a very deep bridge.
And then idk what happens but in the next scene I kicked him out of the car and he gets out and I drive off.
Then he somehow falls to the side of the road on the grass and is bleeding from his head and me from some multiverse comes to him and tries to save him by combing his hair with this healing comb. He heals but his eyes start bleeding and he’s crying so I get really scared but at that exact moment I see myself driving with the guy in the car and me kicking him out of the car replaying again.
I go to the boyfriend who got kicked out and tell him let’s go while the hurt boyfriend is lying on the roadside crying.
Then we both go to the bridge we came from and see my other self standing on the edge of the bridge about to fall. But then I take a step back and go inside the forested. Then somehow I think I jump again and see myself living in this small cottage by that bridge in a town and I play violin for a living. I had taken the hurt blind boyfriend from the side of the road and was living with him. My other self is watching him through the window when he comes to the window stares in my direction and closes the curtains.
At this point I woke up. Then I slept back after few minutes. The dream just continues !?

There’s snow everywhere and the blind boyfriend and other me teach kids in an orphanage on a mountain for a living. But then me and boyfriend from another parellel universe come to kill the boyfriend and me from the orphanage world. I’m on the way to the bathroom I notice these weird strange ominous red patterns on the floor that are leading me to it. The guard comes to my rescue and asks me to go away from there. I start to look around for my boyfriend but I can’t find him so I keep running through thick snow outside the gate and just keep running.
At this point I woke up but WTH this is such a weird dream I’ve never dreamt anything like this. Right now also I woke up worried about if the boyfriend was fine since I didn’t see him anywhere when I was running away..

There was this guy who was my boyfriend and we both were driving to my parents house in a heavy forested area across a very deep bridge.
And then idk what...

Source | Show dream

Skeleton at a Crossroads

Ever since I was around the age of five I’ve had this reoccurring nightmare where I wake up on a dirt road more specifically always coming to realization I’m at a crossroads surrounded by foggy fields and a tree line I can barely see. I don’t ever understand how or when the skeleton appears but I know when he’s there. I feel an overcoming sense of dread and fear. He never speaks he just stares at me, and eventually I’m running away and he’s chasing me. On other occasions I’ve been able to run into a forest and hide and wake up then in others my late grandfather had been in one before and in another after he passed.

I have no idea how or why I get this dream or what it means but I need advice on how to fix it? It’s been plaguing my mind a lot recently and I’m very curious and kind of scared to get anyone’s interpretations.

I’ve read before that skeletons can represent death and I’ve heard that crossroads mean I’m about to have to make a decision but I honestly believe it’s something bigger or more sinister....

If anyone has any thoughts or advice I’m open ears

(Edit- Grammar)

Ever since I was around the age of five I’ve had this reoccurring nightmare where I wake up on a dirt road more specifically always coming to realization I’m at...

Source | Show dream
DreamWell logo

Explore your own dreams

Download the free DreamWell app to start journalling your dreams.

Download now