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What are former partner dreams about?

Former family refers to previous romantic partners. These are people who once were very close to you, but now have a different type of relationship. This symbol is identified by words like ex- and ex.

Former partners in dreams is a relatively common dream symbol, occuring in about 4.3% of dreams. That's about 1 out of every 25 dreams.

What are the major highlights of former partner dreams?

Former partners is a normal dream symbol. Having former partners in a dream changes the dream in the same way as most other dream symbols.

Former partner dreams might be sexual

Dreams of former partners are more related to sex than 90% of all of the other dream symbols. If former partners is in a dream, this dream is far more likely to contain sexual symbols. Other symbols that are like this include giving birth, Morocco, jobs, compensation, casinos, cheating on tests, best friends, flirting, psychologists, and Nepal.

Former partner dreams seem to lack places or locations

Dreams of former partners frequently do not mention places or locations. The dream may or may not take place in varying locations. But dreams of former partners simply do not mention the location, places, or settings occuring within the dream. Other symbols that are like this include girlfriends, strangling, psyches, venom, grief and sorrow, tiktok, infidelity, pregnancy tests, testicles, and depression.

Former partner dreams are very social

Dreams of former partners contain more characters than most other dream symbols. While dreams are often about other people and social relationships, dreams of former partners are especially related to having lots of characters. Other symbols that are like this include insects, communicating, close people, tigers, teacher, mice, fathers, kings, teenagers, and deer.

Former partner dreams are about family

Dreams of former partners are more related to family than 90% of all other symbols. In other words, dreaming of former partners will increase your chances of dreaming of a family member. Other symbols that are like this include houses, Bahamas, ancestors, communicating, speaking, my children, aunts, emotions, home towns, and Jamaica.

Former partner dreams are about love

Dreams containing former partners are more related to love than 90% of all other dream symbols. Of course each dream is unique and this does not mean that all dreams of former partners are about love. It simply means that if you dream of former partners, this dream has a greater chance of being about love than most other dream symbols. Other symbols that are like this include crushes, weddings, events, uncategorized, deluges, ovations, communicating, accepting, Kuwait, and fiances.

Former partner dreams focus on sounds

Dreams of former partners have more words related to sounds than 90% of all other dream symbols. In other words, former partner dreams involve the auditory world. They focus on sounds and hearing. Other symbols that are like this include pheasants, Gandalf, alimony, recurring dreams, crushes, teeth falling out, castration, donkeys, flirting, and former partners.

Former partner dreams focus on vision

Dreams of former partners have more words related to vision than 90% of all other dream symbols. In other words, former partner dreams involve sight and seeing objects. Other symbols that are like this include bankers, getting fired, taking a test, calluses, embarking, roosters, landslides, alimony, infidelity, and vision.

How does the dream symbol of former partners affect the different aspects of a dream?

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Who is in former partners dreams?

Overall, dreams with former partners are much more related to characters in dreams. Specifically, dreams of former partners are much more related to close people, much more related to family, and much more related to romantic partners than dreams in general. They are much less related to animals, much less related to insects, and much less related to different roles.

Animals

much less than usual

Insects

much less than usual

Different roles

much less than usual

Fantastic beings

much less than usual

Distant people

less than usual

Close people

much more than usual

Family

much more than usual

Romantic partners

much more than usual
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What are the emotions in former partners dreams?

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

Happiness

much more than usual

Sadness

more than usual

Grief and sorrow

much more than usual

Embarrassment

more than usual

Confusion

the same as usual

Fear

much less than usual

Pain

the same as usual

Hatred

much more than usual

Fun

the same as usual

Love

much more than usual
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Who is in former partners dreams?

Overall, dreams with former partners are much less related to places in dreams. Specifically, dreams of former partners are less related to home, less related to human places, and less related to transportation.

Home

less than usual

Work

the same as usual

Human places

less than usual

Transportation

less than usual

Natural places

much less than usual

Magical places

less than usual
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What happens in former partners dreams?

Overall, dreams with former partners are aren't really related to events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of former partners are much more related to sex than dreams in general. They are less related to aggressive interactions, less related to friendly interactions, and much less related to disasters.

Aggressive interactions

less than usual

Friendly interactions

less than usual

Sex

much more than usual

Disasters

much less than usual
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How do former partners in dreams related to other dream phenomenon?

Overall, dreams with former partners are less related to dream events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of former partners are more related to waking life than dreams in general. They are less related to lucid dreams, less related to nightmares, and less related to recurring dreams.

Lucid dreams

less than usual

Nightmares

less than usual

Recurring dreams

less than usual

Recurring nightmares

the same as usual

Sleep paralysis

less than usual

Sleeping

less than usual

Waking life

more than usual
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How do former partners in dreams related the senses?

Overall, dreams with former partners are less related to senses in dreams. Specifically, dreams of former partners are much less related to hearing, less related to smelling, and much less related to vision.

Hearing

much less than usual

Smelling

less than usual

Taste

the same as usual

Vision

much less than usual

Touch

less than usual
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How can you make sense of former partners in dreams?

Former partner dreams are relatively common. Among other things former partner dreams are normally interconnect, sexual, lack places or locations, very social, family oriented, about love, focus on sounds, and focus on vision.

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

Examples of dreams of former partners

Read some real dream reports of former partner 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 son's dream

A quick back story.

I am currently quitting alcoholic and have been getting support through AA due to alot of bad decisións and finally hitting rock bottom. I think my son is picking up on this as out time together lately has been amazing without my addiction been present.

My ex partner just messaged me saying that my son has a dream where we had gone to the beach and a big wave hit me.

He said that he was happy in the dream so I don't think it scared him, I just wanted to know the interpretation of this if anyone can help.

Thank you in advance.

A quick back story.

I am currently quitting alcoholic and have been getting support through AA due to alot of bad decisións and finally hitting rock bottom. I...

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I dreamed I died and became a ghost. It’s supposed to be impossible to die in a dream

I’ll tell the whole dream here. If anyone is interested in interpreting it, I‘ll really appreciate that!!

It was the end of the world. The weather was going to kill us all, scientist had been tracking it for years. The end of the world was at 2 pm. I was in a street full of shops. The weather was going crazy, and so were the people. There were people driving around shooting people. People who always wanted to kill but could never get away with it. One drove by me and I asked him to shoot me because I didn’t want to die by the weather. He did, and instead of waling up I just became a ghost.

So I found a close friend of mine and followed her. The police were directing everyone to a stage, so that’s where she ended up. On the stage was an ex-toxic friend of mine. For some reason this friend could see me, she tried to hug me but I just walked through her and ignored her.

2 pm came and nothing happened. Nothing happened for a really long time. Then at 3 pm the weather instantly cleared up and it was the most beautiful sunny day you had ever seen. Everyone just went home. I was really pissed, because I was now a ghost for no reason.

I’ll tell the whole dream here. If anyone is interested in interpreting it, I‘ll really appreciate that!!

It was the end of the world. The weather was going to...

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What does it mean to dream of getting back with my first love while in the process of marrying the man I am with now?

I was with my first love for 7 years, we were basically kids. We stopped dating 3 years ago and I met the man I am with now 2 years ago. The man I am with now just purposed to me and wants to marry me.. I still talk to my ex from time to time just to see how hes doing and we cut off the conversation but he always keeps in touch. Last night I had a dream that me and my fiance moved into a big huge penthouse and my ex showed up to my window with a letter and I took the letter and my fiance kicked him out. I began to read the letter and I couldnt fully read it because I was hiding in my closet so nobody can see me, but most of it was a letter he wrote to me asking for forgiveness and how he regrets what happend to us and truly is in love with me. The dream then jumps forward to me and my fiance in this new house still and its such a luxury home and thats not the life we live right now. In this dream the new penthouse still made me unhappy. I was overall unhappy with the house and everything my fiance was buying for me. I had the biggest closet in this dream with all the expensive name brands and I was still unhappy. The dream jumps forward again and my ex comes back and I let him in the house while my fiance is sleeping because I wanted to know what the heck he wanted.. then I woke up

I was with my first love for 7 years, we were basically kids. We stopped dating 3 years ago and I met the man I am with now 2 years ago. The man I am with now...

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I dreamt I left my ex at the altar before I ever met him.

A couple of years ago, I had a dreamt about a guy a bit taller than me, roughly 400lbs, super nerdy, with curly blond hair and glasses. We were at our wedding ceremony, and when it was my moment to say I do, I left him at the altar.

Flash forward a year after having the dream, I met a man with the exact same description and the same name as the man in the dream. We dated for a few months, but he was a total POS, so I left him.

A couple of years ago, I had a dreamt about a guy a bit taller than me, roughly 400lbs, super nerdy, with curly blond hair and glasses. We were at our wedding...

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I want to know what this dream means, can you give someone a hand.

Context: this dream revolves around me a baby and a ex female friend. Me and her aren't friends after an argument. But keep her in mind.

Dream: I am napping in my bed and I hear some crying, but I ignore it. The crying increases and I look beside me and it's a baby girl (blonde hair, and brown eyes) and I grab the baby and carry her until she goes to sleep (surprisingly in the dream I didn't react until in the morning). The next morning I show the baby to my mom and I don't remember her response, later on I found out where my friend lived (let's name her J) and I knock on her door, she answers. And I remember I got super emotional and hugged her really tight, I hugged her and told her "thank you" the baby had her hair and both of our eyes (brown colored)

What does this dream mean? I can't find anything that is close to the situation I had in this dream. Me and a ex best Friend had a baby and had our eyes and her hair.

Context: this dream revolves around me a baby and a ex female friend. Me and her aren't friends after an argument. But keep her in mind.

Dream: I am napping in...

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