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What are forward dreams about?

This symbol is identified by words like forward.

Forwards in dreams is a relatively common dream symbol, occuring in about 2.5% of dreams. That's about 1 out of every 40 dreams.

What are the major highlights of forward dreams?

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

Forward dreams are friendly

Dreams of forwards have greater increase of friendly interactions within the dream than most other dream symbols. While not all dreams of forwards will be friendly and they can also contain aggressive interactions, dreams of forwards are more likely to have friendly interactions than most other dream symbols. Other symbols that are like this include revenge, feelings, summoning_demons, movement, touch, wrestling, emaciation, trying, spirits, and helping.

Dreams of forwards are aggressive

Forward dreams have more aggressive interactions than a lot of other dream symbols. This doesn't mean that all forwards have aggressive interactions or only aggressive interactions. It simply means that having forwards in a dream increases the probability this dream contains aggression. Other symbols that are like this include safety, mosquitoes, broken glass, screaming, peninsula, garages, guns, Harry Potter, jungles, and dungeons.

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

Explore different elements related to dreams of forwards

Who is in forwards dreams?

Overall, dreams with forwards are aren't really related to characters in dreams. Specifically, dreams of forwards are more related to distant people, more related to close people, and more related to family than dreams in general.

Animals

the same as usual

Insects

the same as usual

Different roles

the same as usual

Fantastic beings

the same as usual

Distant people

more than usual

Close people

more than usual

Family

more than usual

Romantic partners

more than usual
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What are the emotions in forwards dreams?

Overall, dreams with forwards are more related to emotions in dreams. Specifically, dreams of forwards are more related to happiness, more related to sadness, and more related to grief and sorrow than dreams in general. They are less related to hatred.

Happiness

more than usual

Sadness

more than usual

Grief and sorrow

more than usual

Embarrassment

more than usual

Confusion

more than usual

Fear

more than usual

Pain

more than usual

Hatred

less than usual

Fun

more than usual

Love

more than usual
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Who is in forwards dreams?

Overall, dreams with forwards are aren't really related to places in dreams. Specifically, dreams of forwards are more related to work, more related to transportation, and more related to magical places than dreams in general.

Home

the same as usual

Work

more than usual

Human places

the same as usual

Transportation

more than usual

Natural places

the same as usual

Magical places

more than usual
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What happens in forwards dreams?

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

Aggressive interactions

more than usual

Friendly interactions

more than usual

Sex

more than usual

Disasters

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

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

Lucid dreams

more than usual

Nightmares

more than usual

Recurring dreams

more than usual

Recurring nightmares

less than usual

Sleep paralysis

more than usual

Sleeping

more than usual

Waking life

more than usual
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How do forwards in dreams related the senses?

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

Hearing

more than usual

Smelling

more than usual

Taste

the same as usual

Vision

much more than usual

Touch

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

Forward dreams are relatively common. Among other things forward dreams are normally interconnect, friendly, and aggressive.

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

Examples of dreams of forwards

Read some real dream reports of forward 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.

Yo I had the weirdest dream in my ENTIRE LIFE

The first thing I remember is driving a motorcycle, it was a KTM Duke 125 for some reason and I had a passenger. The passenger was a friend which I have recently befriended in real life. We drove past my grandpa’s old workshop when the passenger started leaning forward so far that he pushed me forward as well, and somehow I got flung off the bike and flew forward maybe a hundred meters through the air before hitting a tree.

I then fell on the ground, and I was sure I was dying. Some girls came along and I asked for help, but one kneeled on my chest so I couldn’t breath. I asked her to stop then she became annoyed and left me to die. Then some boys came along, and they sat with me, not saying anything or having any emotion at all while I struggled to call the police.

When they arrived, my mother and grandpa was suddenly there as well. But then I heard someone shout in panic. I looked up, and you won’t believe what I saw.

It was a small VTOL type jet plane which came burning down from the sky. As it was about to crash, it used its VTOL engines to try and fly upwards, but it started flying backwards and up, uncontrollably. It flew into a hangar which doesn’t exist in real life and flew through the roof. Creating a massive explosion and ripping the outer shell of the cockpit off, revealing The Stig from Top Gear as the pilot. The plane then started going down again and headed towards me. The ailerons on the tail fin nearly decapitated me, however the plane was able to start flying upwards again.

And that’s about when I woke up.

The first thing I remember is driving a motorcycle, it was a KTM Duke 125 for some reason and I had a passenger. The passenger was a friend which I have...

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A dream I think Symbolised the (spiritual) Death of my Wife.

Long story short my wife and I decided to explore polyamory. Collectively dated the same woman for a short time before the dynamic shifted (the gf and I had a much stronger bond) the night the gf revealed this to us she mentioned a dream she had:

She was in an underwater city where both androgynous men and women lived.
Her and another woman left the city and ended up on the land but the land dwelling people ended up capturing and killing the woman in front of her.

Originally I assumed it had to do with the gf and her lack of connection with my wife but fast forward a fee months on my return to the area I had a gut awful feeling this weekend my marriage was going to be destroyed (one thing lead to another) and by an ironic turn of events ended up in my wife saying she was done.

Long story short my wife and I decided to explore polyamory. Collectively dated the same woman for a short time before the dynamic shifted (the gf and I had a...

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Strange dream last night - chased by a giant hostile Dark Souls boss kind of worm thing. What does it mean?

This dream was in what I like to call “video game perspective” - where I am watching something happen but also controlling a specific “character” in the dream. Sometimes it can feel like this even in first person perspective, where I am somehow disconnected from being the person, even if I am the person, not watching a screen or using a controller.

So in the dream there was this giant worm creature. It wasn’t really a worm, more wormlike, as in it was oblong and had no limbs and wasn’t reptilian enough to be a snake. First it chased me through a corridor (this was in the perspective of a 2d sidescroller video game) trying to I think eat me or at least somehow kill me and I ran from it and it would smash stuff behind me. Sometimes I was really close to being caught by it but I managed to get ahead. Then I got into a chamber place (it was more in first person now) and it was at the bottom of some stairs. When I would go down the stairs there were smaller worm things that would attack me. I felt like I was struggling with fighting the worms and I thought I was not strong or skilled enough to fight the big worm.

When I am awake and I think about the worm it reminds me most of a Dark Souls boss since it was very strong and big and it was sort of eldritch horror-like. Through the whole dream I was scared of the worm and I felt like I was not strong enough to fight it but I was progressing forward anyways. I also was fighting it in some sort of ruin, like ruined stonework everywhere and stuff. The closest I can describe the ruin as is maybe the Arbiter’s Grounds dungeon from The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, but not as dark.

This dream was in what I like to call “video game perspective” - where I am watching something happen but also controlling a specific “character” in the dream....

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Stuck at the airport

I also had this dream last week. F/40s

Dream I am going to America for a holiday. I have only packed my duffle bag and only a handful of items.
I'm at the airport. I arrive very early. A lot of the dream is set in a big airport lounge. I really enjoy wandering around feeling like I am alone and enjoying it and looking forward to the trip.

As I go down the escalator, a volunteer old man wants to look at my ticket for ages and explain stuff to me I am impatient and barely hold back from rolling my eyes.

Now I have my two sons with me.
They have also each packed a bag. But I haven't checked them so I think they will have forgotten things.

I'm really early, but it's not until I am about to depart that I realise I don't really have enough stuff.
Luckily I have my US dollars packed- a stack of it. I think maybe I'll be able to buy what I need when I get there.
I see an empty hidden compartment in my handbag and think that would be to hold a passport. [It didn't occur to me in my dream that there is no passport in there, but when I woke up I thought this was an interesting detail.]
I realise this will be more of a family trip, no chance of a getaway alone.

An older woman and young boy asks me if they can leave the airport to visit the Great Sandy Hills.
I say, 'No there is a 6 ft fence, you can't leave the airport area.' They are disappointed, they had hoped to see some sights while they were here. But really they are just in transit, they shouldn't expect to be able to get out. I think, 'how stupid they are to think they'll be let out, how ridiculous!'

I watch a tv news clip of covid lockdown about new rules about extreme punishment if someone accidentally infects someone because they go out. The footage shows someone locked into their completely sealed off apartment basically and workers are pumping air through tiny pipes in the window; definitely not enough air. I say, 's*** just got real' and am saddened at their loss of freedoms.

Overall feeling of sadness.

I also had this dream last week. F/40s

Dream I am going to America for a holiday. I have only packed my duffle bag and only a handful of items.
I'm at the...

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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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