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What are general sense dreams about?

We generally perceive our world through five senses which are vision, hearing, touch, smell, and taste. There are also other senses as well. We can just get a sense of a room, situation, or people. This symbol is identified by words like feel, sense, and felt.

General senses in dreams is a frequent dream symbol, occuring in about 39% of dreams. That's about 1 out of every 3 dreams.

What are the major highlights of general sense dreams?

General senses is an interconnected dream symbol. Having general senses in a dream changes the dream more than most other dream symbols.

Dreams of general senses are emotional

General senses have substantially more emotions than other dream symbols. It is particularly surprising. Other symbols that are like this include things, grief and sorrow, couldn't open eyes, Croatia, panic, abusing, intrigued, joy, yelling, and senses.

General sense dreams are friendly

Dreams of general senses have greater increase of friendly interactions within the dream than most other dream symbols. While not all dreams of general senses will be friendly and they can also contain aggressive interactions, dreams of general senses are more likely to have friendly interactions than most other dream symbols. Other symbols that are like this include Argentina, parts of buildings, weakness, emeralds, time, ignoring, El Salvador, Venezuela, insanity, and eyes.

Dreams with general senses might be a nightmare

Dreams of general senses are frequently associated with nightmares. Of course dreams that contain general senses might not be a nightmare. Plenty of dreams with general senses are not nightmares. But, dreams of general senses are more related to nightmares than 80% of all other dream symbols. Other symbols that are like this include red eyes, Philippines, infesting, movement, blindness, hostages, fevers, praying, kidnapping, and eyes.

General sense dreams are associated with lucid dreaming

Dreams of general senses are much more related to lucid dreaming than all other dream symbols. Lucid dreams are dreams in which you are aware that you are dreaming. Of course, not all dreams of general senses are lucid dreams. But dreams of general senses are more related to lucid dreams than 90% of all other dream symbols. Other symbols that are like this include lotus flowers, dismissals, opened my eyes, psyches, Gandalf, harvests, blizzards, guiding, paralysis, and Norway.

General sense dreams are about love

Dreams containing general senses 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 general senses are about love. It simply means that if you dream of general senses, this dream has a greater chance of being about love than most other dream symbols. Other symbols that are like this include general senses, animuses, best friends, animas, friendly interactions, Portugal, foreshadowing, qualities, depression, and weddings.

General sense dreams are scary

Dreams containing general senses are more related to fear than 90% of all other dream symbols. Of course each dream is unique and this does not mean that all dreams of general senses are about fear. It simply means that if you dream of general senses, this dream has a great chance of being scarier than most other dream symbols. Other symbols that are like this include aggressive interactions, cannibals, screaming, Kuwait, parts of buildings, going to die, silence, hearing, faces, and eyes.

What are the symbols that help define general senses?

The symbol of general senses in dreams is highly related to feelings.

How does the dream symbol of general senses affect the different aspects of a dream?

Explore different elements related to dreams of general senses

Who is in general senses dreams?

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

Animals

less than usual

Insects

less than usual

Different roles

less than usual

Fantastic beings

the same as usual

Distant people

the same as usual

Close people

the same as usual

Family

the same as usual

Romantic partners

more than usual
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What are the emotions in general senses dreams?

Overall, dreams with general senses are much more related to emotions in dreams. Specifically, dreams of general senses are much more related to happiness, much more related to sadness, and much more related to grief and sorrow than dreams in general.

Happiness

much more than usual

Sadness

much more than usual

Grief and sorrow

much more than usual

Embarrassment

more than usual

Confusion

much more than usual

Fear

much more than usual

Pain

much more than usual

Hatred

the same as usual

Fun

the same as usual

Love

much more than usual
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Who is in general senses dreams?

Overall, dreams with general senses are less related to places in dreams. Specifically, dreams of general senses are less related to human places, less related to transportation, and less related to natural places.

Home

the same as usual

Work

the same as usual

Human places

less than usual

Transportation

less than usual

Natural places

less than usual

Magical places

the same as usual
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What happens in general senses dreams?

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

Aggressive interactions

the same as usual

Friendly interactions

more than usual

Sex

more than usual

Disasters

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

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

Lucid dreams

much more than usual

Nightmares

more than usual

Recurring dreams

more than usual

Recurring nightmares

more than usual

Sleep paralysis

much more than usual

Sleeping

much more than usual

Waking life

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

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

Hearing

more than usual

Smelling

more than usual

Taste

the same as usual

Vision

more than usual

Touch

the same as usual
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How can you make sense of general senses in dreams?

General sense dreams are frequent. Among other things general sense dreams are positively interconnected, very emotional, friendly, nightmare, are associated with lucid dreaming, about love, and scary.

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

Examples of dreams of general senses

Read some real dream reports of general sense 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.

I just had a dream that felt years long, and now I don't know whats real.

Sorry for the confusing title but I just woke up and felt like I needed to post this somewhere to see if anyone has ever had a similar experience to this.

Okay, so my dream started out with me meeting a girl. She was amazing, and we had an instant connection. we started dating and went through the normal highs and lows of a relationship, as all couples do. Overall, our relationship was amazing so when we found out she was pregnant, even though we were young we were both so excited to be parents. Her parents lived nearby and offered to let us move in so they could help with the pregnancy and we could both stay in college. The next nine months seemed to fly by, and the pregnancy seemed easier than it should have been. I chalked it up to the fact that my girlfriend was an amazing strong woman and that her parents were there to help us out.

Now this is when things begin to get weird. I don't know why, but i was not with my girlfriend when she was at the hospital giving birth. I had something else to do even though being with her should have been my first priority. After she returned home she called me to let me know we had a son and to come over immediately. It was odd that I wasn't there in the first place, and even odder that even in the dream, I couldn't remember what I had just been doing. It was almost as if I blacked out, and when I came to, I was in the car driving home to see my new son. I shook it off and told myself I was just nervous to be a dad. As I was driving, I suddenly didn't know where I was. I had lived here for 9 months, but for the life of me I couldn't remember how to get home. It felt like I was driving around lost for hours and then, as if I blacked out again, I was outside my house being greeted by my girlfriends' parents as I walked up to the house. The strange thing was that the house didn't seem familiar, and neither did my girlfriend's parents.

Throughout all of this, I never questioned it and kept telling myself that I was just nervous and I was freaking myself out. Maybe I just needed to sit down for a minute and breath. I never even made it to the house, I just sat down on the steps leading up to the door and tried to calm myself down. I pulled out my phone and had a text message from an unknown number. I assumed it was a text from someone congratulating me and my girlfriend, but when I opened it, it was just an image of three 20 something year old boys who I had never seen. I was confused, but something about the picture seemed oddly familiar, so I just sat there and stared at it. As I sat on the porch staring at the photo the world went silent. I never heard a baby crying and never once did anyone try to retrieve me from outside to bring me in. It was almost as if everything in the world disappeared besides me and that photo.

I must have spent days staring at that picture, and finally I decided to text the number back and ask who they were and why they sent me that photo. I wrote out the text and hit send and suddenly the picture went blurry. I looked around and nothing in the world seemed real anymore. Nothing seemed familiar. I felt like I was in a place I had never seen before. I looked back down at my phone and the blurriness of the photo began to clear up and I was left looking at a photo of me, my real-life brother, and my real-life best friend, standing in my real-life backyard. I stopped for a second, coming to the realization that everything was over. I immediately tried to run into the house to see my son but the second I opened the door to the house, I woke up.

My first instinct when I woke up was the check my phone for the photo but of course it wasn't there. The only thing on my phone was a text from my real girlfriend. he weird thing is, I can no longer picture my dream girlfriend's face, so for all I know, it could have been my real girlfriend. As I finish writing this, the dream is beginning to fade, and I can realize all the things that didn't make felt, but while I was in it, I would have bet anything it was real. I ffeltas if I just got a few years of my life back, as I woke up the same 22-year-old who went to bed the night bore.

My only regret? I never got to see my son.

Sorry for the confusing title but I just woke up and felt like I needed to post this somewhere to see if anyone has ever had a similar experience to...

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Met a girl in a dream and now have a weird urge to find her irl?

had a dream last night where I met a girl who said she was on shrooms and we just hung out all day. I didn't feel as if I knew her from anywhere or anythin like just but I feel like we resonated really well and now I just have this sudden urge to see them irl. if I meet a girl soon that mirrors that person imma flip

had a dream last night where I met a girl who said she was on shrooms and we just hung out all day. I didn't feel as if I knew her from anywhere or anythin like...

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I think I saw my past life 10 years ago, and it still messes with me to this day

Hey guys, this is my first time posting on Reddit.

So as the title suggests, when I was a 10-year-old girl I had a dream of being someone. It started from when they were born to their death, during the dream I never thought it was a dream it just felt like he was me. The dream continued to show this guy's life story, I could see everything from his eyes and felt what he felt, everything except for pain.

He got married, to a girl named Sherry or Mary (I can't fully recall the name) when he was about 20-25 yrs old, later he had a son (Mark) after a few years. But what really disturbs me to this day was this man's death, he got into a car accident and he died slowly getting crushed. Although I couldn't felt the pain, I did felt the pressure slowly crushing my chest as I struggled to breathe, my mind filled with thoughts about his family.

Once he closed his eyes, I woke up and at that moment I forgot who I was, I also was crying, I began to check my chest upon not noticing any injuries I ran to the home phone in my house and dialed his wife's phone only to get no answer. I snapped out of it when I caught my reflection on the shiny toaster that was in the kitchen and suddenly I remembered who I was.

To this day I struggle with romantic relationships (As I felt like I am cheating, idk why it's weird) and driving gives me major anxiety when I am behind the wheel. This dream happened over the course of 10 hours.

Also if you are curious about what they look like I will provide descriptions.
**Sherry/Mary-** Brown eyes, wavy long hair, and fair pale skin
**Mark-** Black short spikey hair, brown eyes, and fair pale skin
**Man (I was in the dream)-** Black short spikey hair, dark eyes, facial hair (Wiskers), and fair pale skin

Hey guys, this is my first time posting on Reddit.

So as the title suggests, when I was a 10-year-old girl I had a dream of being someone. It started from when...

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I had a dream months ago about a dead person I never knew, then googled his name only to find out he was a real person. Here I am months later, and his name randomly came to my head. I googled him...

Several months ago, I woke up one morning remembering a strange dream I had the previous night. In the dream, I visualized a phone with “new text messages” that said, “_FirstName_Last Name is dead!!” (Keeping name undisclosed per the loved ones’ privacy). Today, it is about 2.5-3 months later since I had this strange dream, and his name randomly came to my head when I was going about my daily business. I told my girlfriend about how his name showed up in my head again, and she was shocked to find an obituary that said that he had died TODAY, 2 years ago. I remembered this complete stranger I dreamt of in a dream, ON THE ANNIVERSARY OF HIS DEATH. Does anyone know what this means?? Please help me understand, I feel I have a very strange connection/meaning with this person!! Also, SERIOUS ANSWERS ONLY please. Thank you.

Several months ago, I woke up one morning remembering a strange dream I had the previous night. In the dream, I visualized a phone with “new text messages” that...

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My dream lasted for years, I’ve waken up confused and disorientated from the real world!

Last night I had a dream that has left me confused, grieving and distant from real life.
Has anyone ever had a dream that’s lasted weeks, months or even a lifetime?
My dream started with some kind of apocalypse happening, I watched the world get turned upside down. A lot of people survived but the dynamics of any kind of social system had fallen.
I lived life travelling with a group of people, trying to find food water and essentials. We tried to settle down and make home at some random empty houses but each time something ended up making us move.
In this dream I made friends, faced challenges with them, saw them die, I ran for my own life but in the end lost mine too.
It felt like I lived this life for months if not years. Too many details to explain on here but I can add if anyone’s interested. But in the end my dream ended with civilisation slowly getting back to a structured system. We went on a plane that we had found however once it was up in the air not long after some kind off technical issue made the plane start to fall. It went quickly I could only see from my perspective flashing in and out of consciousness until I suddenly saw the plane go down from A Birdseye view. And then I was taken to A place that was nowhere.. nothing existed except a voice talking to me.
I then saw little clips of my friends I made in this life, From years after the plane crash when civilisation was coming together. I saw a clip of my friend walking into a room in a house smiling. I saw a little girl pick up ring that had fallen from the plane crash. I saw other friends living their life years later finally at peace. I remember I was crying and I was happy for them that they were okay and things had gotten better for them.

Then I woke up, I felt so confuse it had felt like I just lived a whole life in one night of sleeping. the real world doesn’t felt real anymore. I felt disorientated and not sure what this means.
I hope this goes away I felt completely disconnected to real life.

Last night I had a dream that has left me confused, grieving and distant from real life.
Has anyone ever had a dream that’s lasted weeks, months or even a...

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