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What are friend dreams about?

Friends who you like. This symbol is identified by words like best bud, friend, mate, etc.

Friends in dreams is a frequent dream symbol, occuring in about 22% of dreams. That's about 1 out of every 5 dreams.

What are the major highlights of friend dreams?

Friends is a very interconnected dream symbol. Having friends in a dream substantially changes the nature of the dream.

Friend dreams are very social

Dreams of friends contain more characters than most other dream symbols. While dreams are often about other people and social relationships, dreams of friends are especially related to having lots of characters. Other symbols that are like this include robots, family, ghosts, brothers, fish, scientists, employees, rabbits, husbands, and fantastic beings.

What are the symbols that help define friends?

The symbol of friends in dreams is highly related to close_people.

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

Explore different elements related to dreams of friends

Who is in friends dreams?

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

Animals

less than usual

Insects

less than usual

Different roles

the same as usual

Fantastic beings

less than usual

Distant people

the same as usual

Close people

much more than usual

Family

more than usual

Romantic partners

much more than usual
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What are the emotions in friends dreams?

Overall, dreams with friends are aren't really related to emotions in dreams. Specifically, dreams of friends are more related to happiness, more related to sadness, and more related to embarrassment than dreams in general. They are less related to fear.

Happiness

more than usual

Sadness

more than usual

Grief and sorrow

the same as usual

Embarrassment

more than usual

Confusion

the same as usual

Fear

less than usual

Pain

the same as usual

Hatred

more than usual

Fun

much more than usual

Love

more than usual
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Who is in friends dreams?

Overall, dreams with friends are aren't really related to places in dreams. Specifically, dreams of friends are more related to home and more related to human places than dreams in general. They are less related to natural places and less related to magical places.

Home

more than usual

Work

the same as usual

Human places

more than usual

Transportation

the same as usual

Natural places

less than usual

Magical places

less than usual
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What happens in friends dreams?

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

Aggressive interactions

less than usual

Friendly interactions

the same as usual

Sex

more than usual

Disasters

less than usual
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How do friends in dreams related to other dream phenomenon?

Overall, dreams with friends are aren't really related to dream events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of friends are much 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

the same as usual

Waking life

much more than usual
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How do friends in dreams related the senses?

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

Hearing

less than usual

Smelling

less than usual

Taste

the same as usual

Vision

less than usual

Touch

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

Friend dreams are frequent. Among other things friend dreams are very postively interconnected and very social.

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

What are possible meanings for dreams of friends?

Friends are among the most common dream characters, and have widely varied possibilities for symbolism. The characters can be friends you know, or they can be inventions of a dream that are portrayed as friends. This difference is the place to begin the interpretation process.

When you dream about friends who are people you know, the dream might connect with a recent interaction with a person, a situation or circumstance, or something you heard. Many dreams connect with events of the previous day or two, or in anticipation of the day ahead, so if you were with a friend, plan to be together, or the person was on your mind, it’s a good bet that it’s related to his or her appearance in your dream.

For example, a friend borrows money from you and you wonder when you’re going to get paid back. It’s no big deal, but there’s a little voice in your head raising questions. Then you dream that you receive a letter from the friend with a check inside, reflecting your thoughts about being paid back and a hunch that it’ll happen soon. Now you can rest easier.

Friends in dreams can connect with ongoing situations and circumstances, too. For example, an ongoing situation is depicted in a dream about a friend throwing firebombs into a crowd. It symbolizes that friend’s habit of throwing verbal bombs and getting people riled up.

Dream characters that are presented as friends but do not resemble someone you know can be surrogates for friends. A surrogate is used as a storytelling device to create psychological distance and avoid arousing strong emotions or reactions that would disturb your sleep or make the story veer off course. Surrogates can be used to represent people you know yet look nothing like them. Oftentimes they’re identified by occupation, actions, or some other distinguishing feature or characteristic, including physical characteristics such as hair color or style.

For example, a young man dreams that he goes to school on the bus, gets off, and while walking into school he’s stabbed in the back by someone who’s supposed to be a friend. The day before the dream, a friend betrayed him, figuratively stabbing him in the back. And while the surrogate character in the dream does not look like that friend who betrayed him, they are one and the same.

Invented friends in dreams can symbolize the subject of friendship, desire for it, or friendship skills.

Potentially, a multitude of everyday situations with friends can be dreamed about, if you consider the dynamics of friendship and the widely varied areas of life it involves. The dreams you’re most likely to remember, however, are the ones that involve strong emotions or feelings. Those are usually pretty easy to connect with what was on our mind or in your heart the day or two before the dream.

When a strong reaction is provoked in a dream, it’s connected with something you feel strongly about, and it could be about a friend portrayed in the dream. But keep in mind that most dreams are about your inner life, and most dream characters represent something about you and your life.

Consider also that the friend in your dream can symbolize something you feel strongly about other than that person, such as the place where you live or work together. This sort of dream can be identified at times by an overreaction. For example, you dream that a friend from work is a couple of minutes late coming over to your house, and you’re furious. You’d never actually get furious about such a thing if it really happened. On the other hand, you are really mad about a writeup you got at work for being two minutes late. In which case, the friend symbolizes the place where you work together and has nothing to do with being angry with that friend. You react angrily because you know while dreaming what the friend represents.

Jealousy and envy are two strong emotions that can come out in relation to friends. A common theme in cheating dreams involves your close friend sleeping with your significant other. Often, it reflects jealousy or wariness about how they interact. Perhaps they’re a little too friendly for your comfort, or you see—or think you see—some sort of romantic spark between them. Or you’re insecure and project your thoughts and feelings onto the dream characters.

That’s an important fact for understanding dream characters, because most of the time they are reflections of something about you, not about the person—friend or otherwise—portrayed as a character.

Friends in dreams can symbolize something you know about the person—distinct characteristics, traits, or qualities, among other things. Often you can decode the symbolism simply by pulling thoughts about the person off the top of your head. See the example about a guy giving birth to a friend’s baby in the entry for Childbirth.

Or you have a friend who is good at meeting new people, and you are reserved. The friend is then used in a dream as a symbol for gregariousness. If you want to be more gregarious, you can learn from the friend’s example. The same idea applies to dating skills.

A young man dreams that his best friend hits on all the girls he likes, then has sex with them. The dream is an answer to the young man’s question, How do I get the girls I like to like me? And the answer is, learn from your friend, the one who is good with the ladies.

The key to decoding the symbolism is found in the dreamer’s feelings while watching his friend pick up the girls. He admires his skills while lamenting is his own lack of them. If he’d reacted angrily, it might indicate stronger feelings behind the symbolism. As in, maybe his friend is the sort of jerk who deliberately spites the dreamer by targeting girls he likes.

Friendly dream characters can represent aspects of yourself. The character is presented as a friend because it portrays a part of yourself that is in some way like a friend—helpful, close, interesting, comforting. Your psyche is a collective, and some parts are independent of you and outside the control of the ego. Those parts make their own decisions and have their own viewpoints. They can be portrayed as friends or enemies depending on your relationship with them. And the real key point here is they’re all you.

Parts of yourself can play the role of friends. This meaning of the symbolism is especially likely if you have been feeling lonely or isolated. Dreams can act as compensation for something missing in your life, and if you need a friend your dreams can provide it. See: Compensation

Another detail to notice is whether a friend-character is in your dream individually or as part of a group. Individually, friends in dreams tend to symbolize what you see about the friend in yourself, your recent interaction, or related thoughts and feelings. As a group, friends tend to symbolize something related to the subject of friendship. It’s only a rule of thumb, a place to begin asking the questions. See: Groups

You can dream about a waking-life situation or circumstance with a friend, but the friend is not pictured in the dream. For example, say you have an argument with a friend, then dream about yelling at a brick wall. The friend is not in the dream but is instead symbolized by the brick wall because arguing with the person is like yelling at a brick wall!

If the friend in the dream is someone from the past, see: Old Friend.

See also: Giving birth, Compensation, Facebook, Groups, Guiding, Old friends

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 friends

Read some real dream reports of friend 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.

Old friend contacted me after 3 years after god came in their dream and asked them to check with me to see if everything is okay

Ok so this was really weird for me. So I didn't sleep the last night, I spent the entire night just thinking about ending it all. Life seemed too difficult at that moment and I was feeling extremely low. I hated growing up even though I had an abusive childhood. Because currently, my inner child is completely dead and I don't find happiness anywhere.

Anyway, that's basically what I was thinking last night and circling my room for hours.

Today morning, an old friend texted me and asked me how I was doing. I was surprised tbh because they weren't even a close friend to me, we were just like acquaintances. I said thanks for asking, but how come? Like what happened that made you remember me suddenly?

Then they told me that they saw a weird dream which made them think of me. Something(which was apparently god) told them to talk to me and make sure everything was okay.

Here's the thing. I was never really much a believer(in god). But the timing of this incident is so weird that it baffles me. I wasn't in contact with that friend for 3+ years, they contacted me on the night I was thinking about ending my life.

I don’t know what's reality and myth anymore. This universe is so weird. It works in mysterious ways.

I would still love to know your interpretations of this dream.

Ok so this was really weird for me. So I didn't sleep the last night, I spent the entire night just thinking about ending it all. Life seemed too difficult at...

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Should I act on this dream? Please help.

So this morning I had this dream that;

I was contacted by a girl I went to high school with.
However, we weren't friends didn't have the same friends and have never seen her since school. Apart from friending on Facebook but everyone does that.

She contacts me to help with a young girl that had a mild disability in my dream but was playing basketball but was struggling with something. it was not clear in dream what about. But thought I could help.

What was clear is that when I turned to the girl from high school, who is now a grown women as in my age 32. Give or take. She looked crazy clear like real life clear, I look her up when awake and all her features were exactly as she is now as an adult not the teenager.

So firstly, I'm impressed and freaked how accurate my dream was.
I've honestly never looked her up over the years I didn't know anything about her until just glancing at Facebook today.

Secondly, it felt like she was asking for help with something was the crux off the dream.
The little girl and the basketball thing I think is me. As I've worked with young people of all ages over the years and am currently looking to start coaching basketball or ice hockey for juniors.

So my question. Do I contact this girl, who is married and who I have no reason except my dream said she wanted my help.....?

Ps.Yeah I also know how weird it would look from her point of view.

So this morning I had this dream that;

I was contacted by a girl I went to high school with.
However, we weren't friends didn't have the same friends and have...

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Have you ever had a dream where you fell in love with a stranger?

As the title suggests, I just woke up after experiencing this and feel very weird.

In my dream I was in a mall type of thing at night and this stunning japanese woman bumped into me asking if I had the time. I said yes and continued walking around this mall. A little later I found a huge set of stairs and slid all the way to the bottom on the railings.

At the bottom of the stairs, the girl from earlier was there and timidly asked me if I wanted to grab some food with her. I said yes immediately.

I then remember spending some time talking to her about random stuff, but finding her more and more interesting and attractive. Her friends were cool and played in a weird funk-metal kind of band and asked if I wanted to be involved.

After talking she asked if I wouldn’t mind walking her up to apartment as it was super late. I of course obliged and went with her. After arriving she invited me in and I remember her place being absolutely huge and overlooking whatever city this dream was supposed to be in.

We talked some more about what her future plans were and how similar our goals were. It got to the point where we were close and kissing and eventually slept together. I just remember there being this weird warmth in my chest whilst this happening, and it felt like nothing I had experienced before.

After waking up from this, I feel almost hollow and honestly kind of depressed. I can still remember how she smelt and how I felt when she looked me in the eyes.

The fucked up part of this is that I’ve been dating someone for the past 6 months or so, and after this dream, dare I say that I feel less close to her?

Has anyone else experienced something like this? What does it mean? Is it my mind telling the girl I’m with isn’t the right one for me? I’m so confused.

As the title suggests, I just woke up after experiencing this and feel very weird.

In my dream I was in a mall type of thing at night and this stunning...

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Today I had a dream where i was fingering a polar bear. And im kinda confused.

So i dont remember the whole dream. I just remember the part where a life-size polar bear enters my grandmas bedroom(for some reason me and a friend where there) and its kinda pissed off, about to eat me. I start panicking and upsetting the bear even more. Then my friend calmly tells me to ,, just finger it". The the bear lied down assuming the position of the missionarie bottom. So i just started fingering the bear, and it god damn tight, like i can hardly put my finger in. after a few minutes i start backing away and and the bear starts getting aggressive. The fear makes me start the action again. Then i just woke up.

So i dont remember the whole dream. I just remember the part where a life-size polar bear enters my grandmas bedroom(for some reason me and a friend where...

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I had a weird sex dream

In this sex dream, an alien entered my room (IDK how) it had these weird fingers or something on its face, it latched onto my face then it transferred some sort of liquid that transformed me to be fit for mating. It felt like I was transforming, my dick grew(balls too!) but I was sort conscious during the whole thing and I made the move and started the devil's tango

it was the second-best sex dream I had

In this sex dream, an alien entered my room (IDK how) it had these weird fingers or something on its face, it latched onto my face then it transferred some sort...

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