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What are game dreams about?

This symbol is identified by words like games.

Games in dreams is a relatively common dream symbol, occuring in about 4.9% of dreams. That's about 1 out of every 20 dreams.

What are the major highlights of game dreams?

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

Game dreams are friendly

Dreams of games have greater increase of friendly interactions within the dream than most other dream symbols. While not all dreams of games will be friendly and they can also contain aggressive interactions, dreams of games are more likely to have friendly interactions than most other dream symbols. Other symbols that are like this include harpoons, pluto, thanking, bartenders, emotions, crying, comfort, following, anger, and smelling.

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

Explore different elements related to dreams of games

Who is in games dreams?

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

Animals

the same as usual

Insects

the same as usual

Different roles

the same as usual

Fantastic beings

more than usual

Distant people

the same as usual

Close people

more than usual

Family

less than usual

Romantic partners

less than usual
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What are the emotions in games dreams?

Overall, dreams with games are less related to emotions in dreams. Specifically, dreams of games are much more related to fun than dreams in general. They are less related to happiness, less related to fear, and less related to pain.

Happiness

less than usual

Sadness

the same as usual

Grief and sorrow

the same as usual

Embarrassment

the same as usual

Confusion

the same as usual

Fear

less than usual

Pain

less than usual

Hatred

the same as usual

Fun

much more than usual

Love

less than usual
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Who is in games dreams?

Overall, dreams with games are less related to places in dreams. Specifically, dreams of games are more related to magical places than dreams in general. They are less related to work.

Home

the same as usual

Work

less than usual

Human places

the same as usual

Transportation

the same as usual

Natural places

the same as usual

Magical places

more than usual
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What happens in games dreams?

Overall, dreams with games are less related to events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of games are much more related to friendly interactions than dreams in general.

Aggressive interactions

the same as usual

Friendly interactions

much more than usual

Sex

the same as usual

Disasters

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

Overall, dreams with games are aren't really related to dream events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of games are more related to lucid dreams than dreams in general. They are less related to recurring dreams.

Lucid dreams

more than usual

Nightmares

the same as usual

Recurring dreams

less than usual

Recurring nightmares

the same as usual

Sleep paralysis

the same as usual

Sleeping

the same as usual

Waking life

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

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

Hearing

less than usual

Smelling

less than usual

Taste

less than usual

Vision

less than usual

Touch

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

Game dreams are relatively common. Among other things game dreams are normally interconnect and friendly.

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

What are possible meanings for dreams of games?

When considering what a game in a dream means, begin with how it can be used to make comparisons. Playing a game can compare to “the game of life.” It shows your progress or lack of it in advancing your life and personal development. Games are comparable to the rivalry you may have with a friend or sibling. To maneuvering at work to get ahead. To the games you play to attract romantic and sexual partners. To “head games.”

Games are associated with outwitting someone and “gaming the system.”

They’re associated with rules.

They’re associated with taking something seriously—life is not a game! But for some people it is.

Games can compare to something you’re trying to accomplish, an objective, goal, or ambition. Games have objectives, and life can be full of them.

Games can be competitive. Consider ways you compete with people and with yourself—or against yourself. The same skill and ability used in games can be used in life. Can you connect the game in your dream with your life or personality?

See also: Stadiums and arenas, Chasing, Coaches, Gambling, Opponents, Sports

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 games

Read some real dream reports of game 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 STRANGE FANTASY/HORROR/LOVE DREAM (IM 14 YEARS OLD PLEASE DON'T INSULT ME FOR MY AGE)

it begins like that: i was playing games at midnight until someone called me at the phone, it was a girl who asked for help and wanted to meet me at my garden, without thinking, i jumped off the window and landed on the grass, she was there, kinda looked like an astronaut, she had my same age... but she had no body, there wasnt a face behind the helmet, She was just the suit itself... i feel like she looked cute trough... she talked me about a big journey she had to make the next day to another world, she told me that the route was dark and she was afraid of "creatures", she wanted to bring me with her, "to have someone to hug when im scared" she said, i accepted, she gave me her number, and we talked all the night at the phone, she was very shy and didnt want to sleep with me because she was afraid of my drunk parents, i told her i could give her everything i have to make her happy, i could hug her whenever she wanted, i could sacrifice myself for her, and other sweet things i dont remember, and then she said, " [my name] , im in love with you", then i said i wanted to meet and talk at my garden, she told me that she was running thoward my house, i sit on a bench outside and waited for hours, then i saw her, she was running on the street, i screamed to come there and then something horrible happended, she had been run over by a car, and then, i woke up. I felt lonely and guilty for the rest of the day... life sucks.

it begins like that: i was playing games at midnight until someone called me at the phone, it was a girl who asked for help and wanted to meet me at my garden,...

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The end of the world was to be announced and my family sat with me enthusiastic to go to Heaven, I was petrified that I'd be tortured in Heaven after we died.

The sky had a blanket of clouds but the daytime light caused it still to be bright outside. Magma spewed randomly out of buildings and burned people alive. I got burned alive a few times but continued to re-appear in the dream.

Eventually my parents stopped by and nonchalantly pulled me out of the scene.

My parents (and not my siblings) as well as some extended family got together to first watch a football game and then wait for the end of the world announcement. Once the end of the world came we knew we would all have our lives ended. I was terrified, my family was excited.

In the dream, I believed that if I were to go to Heaven after death I'd be severely tortured for a long time period for everything bad I've done in life. I was in a constant cold sweat throughout the dream. Hell was in Heaven in my mind, and the existence of Hell never even crossed my thoughts in the dream.

All said, I'm happy it was only a dream. Now I'm just curious as to what it means.

The sky had a blanket of clouds but the daytime light caused it still to be bright outside. Magma spewed randomly out of buildings and burned people alive. I...

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What does my dream mean?

I had a very vivid dream last night about a friend I haven’t spoken to in months. In the dream we were hanging out, walking around and holding hands. I thought it was weird as I’m not particularly close to this person and wanted to know if it meant anything. In the past few months I’ve had one other dream about this person where we played video games together.

I had a very vivid dream last night about a friend I haven’t spoken to in months. In the dream we were hanging out, walking around and holding hands. I thought...

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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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Dream about visiting to another planet, relating my own height and insecurities

I'm 22 years old male, one thing that those last days bother me off is my own height. I am only like 1.65 in meters height, and I feel very insecure about it. My insecurity steems from the fact that it affects my self-image. Somehow, I just realised how I was compensating too hard for my own insecurities about myself and generaly how it made others view me.

Despite people told me that I am fine and look masculine with my appearance, height still bothers the hell out of me. My insecurity started from watching videos of generaly how shorter people are treated, especialy in the dating side of life.

I myself as a person had a pretty regular life, I have been mostly a Video game and Anime lover most of the time.

This dream happened during middle of the time when my stress and insecurity about my height started to take a serious turn, to the point where it left me a feeling of hopelessness.

The dream started off with me arriving with 3 other people to a planet in a different star system (not our sun) in a ship, the planet was similar to earth, it had blue skies, oceans and cities just like on earth.

We started off in some big mall trading centre, I dont remember much of the dream, but 2 of our crew guys (Which seemed to be guys), went on outside by going up the mall to look at the star, instantly this moment when those guys looked at the star shinning, they started to experience something pretty terrible, It in this point I realised in fear, that the Star that shines on this planet is an evil entity of sort that either corrupts you or does something terrible for you if you glance into it.

I got mental images of the star, the star seemed to be a blue giant, unlike our sun, and when I pictured the 2 crew members looking at it, the star would turn entirely black (Like black sphere in the sky) and basicaly corrupts their mind and it does something to them that I cant explain, eitherway, they die somehow.

I started to experience uneasiness with the presence of this star, I feared looking into it even though I felt wanting to look at it, but tried my best not to.

What only remains is me and a woman, we both decided to return back to our spaceship and avoid looking at the star. Still, when I was outside going for the ship I felt fear and uneasiness by feeling the heat coming out of the star, but I moved in and tried not to look at it, and went into the ship with the woman. The dream ended here.

TL;DR: Landing on a planet on a trading centre, the star is a sentient evil diety god, do not glance into it, 2 crew members died, me and a woman escaping back into the ship, the dream ends here.

I'm 22 years old male, one thing that those last days bother me off is my own height. I am only like 1.65 in meters height, and I feel very insecure about it....

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