What are grandfather dreams about?
We often think of grandfathers as old men. This is because they are the fathers of your parents. But grandfathers were once children as well. This symbol is identified by words like grandpa, grandfather, and grampa.
Grandfathers in dreams is a relatively uncommon dream symbol, occuring in about 1.1% of dreams. That's about 1 out of every 85 dreams.
What are the major highlights of grandfather dreams?
Grandfathers is an interconnected dream symbol. Having grandfathers in a dream changes the dream more than most other dream symbols.
Grandfather dreams are very social
Dreams of grandfathers contain more characters than most other dream symbols. While dreams are often about other people and social relationships, dreams of grandfathers are especially related to having lots of characters. Other symbols that are like this include qualities, uncles, distant people, vision, communicating, monster, friendly interactions, dragons, cousins, and police.
Grandfather dreams are about family
Dreams of grandfathers are more related to family than 90% of all other symbols. In other words, dreaming of grandfathers will increase your chances of dreaming of a family member. Other symbols that are like this include ovaries, vacations, lovers, cancer, seeing a dead father, husbands, ovens, seeing a dead mother, sisters, and weddings.
Grandfather dreams might be about death
Dreams that contain grandfathers are highly related to death. They are more related to death than 90% of all other dream symbols. Other symbols that are like this include venom, The Holocaust, bombs, purgatory, crying, seeing a dead pet, arrows, nazis, hunting, and suicide.
What symbols more present in dreams of grandfathers?
Grandfather dreams are notable because they have substantially more baboons, seeing a dead grandfather, dying, seeing a dead relative, funerals, seeing a dead grandmother, seeing a dead father, death, peninsula, grandmothers, uncles, nieces, pressing buttons, Netherlands, fathers, ancestors, cousins, cancer, barns, parents, Croatia, embracing, coffins, aunts, cemeteries, ovaries, general family, body changes, living rooms, carrots, skeletons, talismans, verbs, kitchens, heaven, chefs, snack, mothers, pluto, submarines, old houses, elderly people, speaking, rainforests, general disasters, garages, illness, wheelchairs, museums, zebras, houses, being late, birthdays, desserts, communicating, time travel, couches, parasites, farms, Frodo, and Jamaica than 95% of other dream symbols.
What symbols less present in dreams of grandfathers?
Grandfather dreams are notable because they have substantially less chasing, strangers, underground, universities, trapping, characters, whales, family, elephants, fiances, pooping, snakes, crushes, buildings, infidelity, the earth, close people, abandoned places, escaping, flirting, weapons, monkeys, sexuals acts, coworkers, frogs, nightmares, sex, bullets, flying, Donald Trump, lucid dreams, bosses, arms, injecting, spaceships, and the planets than 95% of other dream symbols.
How does the dream symbol of grandfathers affect the different aspects of a dream?
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Who is in grandfathers dreams?
Overall, dreams with grandfathers are much more related to characters in dreams. Specifically, dreams of grandfathers are much more related to family than dreams in general. They are less related to animals, less related to insects, and less related to different roles.
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What are the emotions in grandfathers dreams?
Overall, dreams with grandfathers are aren't really related to emotions in dreams. Specifically, dreams of grandfathers are more related to happiness, more related to grief and sorrow, and more related to love than dreams in general. They are less related to embarrassment, less related to fear, and less related to pain.
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Who is in grandfathers dreams?
Overall, dreams with grandfathers are less related to places in dreams. Specifically, dreams of grandfathers are more related to home than dreams in general. They are less related to work, less related to human places, and less related to natural places.
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What happens in grandfathers dreams?
Overall, dreams with grandfathers are more related to events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of grandfathers are less related to aggressive interactions, less related to friendly interactions, and less related to sex.
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How do grandfathers in dreams related to other dream phenomenon?
Overall, dreams with grandfathers are aren't really related to dream events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of grandfathers are more related to recurring dreams and more related to waking life than dreams in general. They are less related to lucid dreams.
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How do grandfathers in dreams related the senses?
Overall, dreams with grandfathers are less related to senses in dreams. Specifically, dreams of grandfathers are less related to hearing and less related to touch.
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How can you make sense of grandfathers in dreams?
Grandfather dreams are relatively uncommon. Among other things grandfather dreams are positively interconnected, very social, family oriented, and about death.
Do you think this is true for your dream of grandfathers? How might your dream of grandfathers 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 grandfathers 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 grandfathers in dreams. See how you feel about grandfathers now, in your waking life.
What are possible meanings for dreams of grandfathers?
The symbolism of a grandfather in a dream can connect with family lineage, or something that runs in the family such as habits, patterns, or traits. It’s a way of tracing them to the source and recognizing them in you.
Dreams create symbolism by making comparisons, so a dream involving your grandfather might not have anything directly to do with him. Instead, he’s a symbol for something entirely to do with you.
Your grandfather can symbolize what you see about yourself in him. Think about the example he provides and what you learned from him. In many dreams featuring grandparents, they serve as reminders of what they teach you, the example they provide, the love they give, their expectations of you, and the feelings and thoughts they spark in you.
Grandfathers can symbolize wisdom, tradition, protection, and other characteristics of mature masculinity. As dream characters, grandfathers can embody the image of the “wise old man” or archetypal elder. Keep in mind, these are general associations and their use in your dreams is independent of what you associate with your grandfathers, who can symbolize the archetypal grandfather regardless of whether they live up to the expectation.
Grandfathers are known for giving advice, and that association can be used in dreams. Think of it as the casting department in your dreaming mind deciding who is the best actor to deliver news, information, knowledge, or advice. Often it’s a reminder of what you already know, not necessarily advice that your grandfather gave you. In which case, a dream uses the image of someone you trust—your grandfather—as a vehicle to convey the message.
This sort of dream, in which a character like a trusted grandpa appears to deliver advice, can occur when you are uncertain, at a crossroads, or on the verge of making a bad decision.
So far, this entry has dealt with the positive image of a grandfather, but some grandfathers are rotten and ornery. Some are bad examples. Some are bored, confused, bitter, or regretful. Some cause strife and conflict in the family, and in dreams they can symbolize any of these negative associations.
Elderly or sick grandfathers can act as reminders of your mortality, or symbolize fear of death, infirmity, or illness. You only have so much time to do what you want to with your life. Someday, if you live that long, you will be elderly, and the productive years of your life will be mostly behind you. The clock is ticking. See: Elderly people
A sick grandfather portrayed in a dream can be a way of describing the status of the relationship. It has been neglected, or you have been out of touch. Perhaps you worry about how much time you have left with your grandfather.
A grandfather in a dream can symbolize a grandfatherly figure in your life.
The symbolism of a grandfather-character can be the same as father symbolism. Or the character can be used as a surrogate for your father. Your grandfather is an obvious choice for a dream to refer indirectly to your father (or great-grandfather). See: Fathers
If your grandfather has passed away and you dream about him, see: Deceased Loved One.
See also: Ancestors, Seeing a dead relative, Elderly people, Family, Fathers, Grandmothers, Guiding
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 grandfathers
Read some real dream reports of grandfather 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 fell for a boy that I dreamed of. He isn’t real, I don’t know him, but last night we have been being fuck-buddies for over a decade
So in my dream I’ve been being the fuck-buddy of this guy for years.
We barely knew each other, but we were such a good... friends? and the sex was even better.
It was a pretty cool relationship until he invited me to a family trip for the very first time in all those years of this kinda messed up friendship.
I was supposed to go just as a friend and then fuck when nobody was watching us.
On the trip his grandpa told me he was an orphan (their parents died when he was 4). I also found out that he was the only heir of his grandpa fortune (a big one) and that he just studied at college with me because he was looking for a friend.
The old man also thanked me for being that friend since his grandson had NEVER invited any friend to his house or a family reunion...
He had never told me any of this and I was obviously in shock...
I talked with him alone. I was kinda angry due the fact that I don’t only didn’t know him at all (kinda obvious since we were only fuck buddies... for years, but only that) and suddenly I was -apparently- THAT important.
He assured me he didn’t mean bad, and that he doesn’t wanted our relation to change. We were still just fuck buddies, and that he was not in love with me. Just that he wanted to share all this with and he knew the way to tell me.
I was relief, but I didn’t want him to think I was a gold digger from now on, so I walk to the living room to have my thoughts alone and find out a way to “break up” with him (lol).
He stopped me taking me for the wrist and told me (just like he could had read my mind) that he didn’t think of me that way. That’s why he had brought me there in the first place.
I could not resist that line and we started kissing wildly and... you can imagine the rest.
The after-sex was us lying in bed laughing about nonsense as the “friends” we always were...
I woke up feeling I have kinda fell for this guy that doesn’t even exist.
The thing is that I miss him, as a friend. As my long lifetime fuck-bud.
The things is that... at the end... it just felt so damn real.
I miss you bro.
Hope you are doing great.
I am sorry that I probably just suddenly disappeared from your non-existing life when I woke up.
Fuck your money
So in my dream I’ve been being the fuck-buddy of this guy for years.
We barely knew each other, but we were such a good... friends? and the sex was even...
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I dreamt about someone dying and they died.
I’m sorry if this is not allowed here but I can’t stop thinking about this and need some insight.
Wednesday morning I had a dream my cousin died. Friday morning, I got the news he had died at 5:30am.
Ik this can be a coincidence but many years ago, someone was talking to me about my friend X’s grandfather but they had my friend confused with Y. So I corrected them saying X’s grandad is alive , not Y. and a few days later, X lost her grandad. And last year, i had a dream my neighbours (don’t even know them) had covid and couple days later found out they had actually tested positive. I also had a dream I hurt my leg at my sisters wedding and on the day of her actual wedding I fell down a couple stairs and hurt my ankle.
I have recently been reading about manifestation and the power of your own thoughts and like what if I put these bad thoughts out into the universe and it delivered?
Idk I can’t get this out of my head and I have no one talk to about this and im already so upset about my cousins death and idk I’m spiralling. I haven’t slept since Friday coz I’m so afraid to sleep and dream and idk. I could really use some insight. Thanks
I’m sorry if this is not allowed here but I can’t stop thinking about this and need some insight.
Wednesday morning I had a dream my cousin died. Friday...
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TW// RAPE DREAM
Im 16 years old. In my dream i got raped by my grandfather... i woke up crying, and later that morning i couldn't help but look at him differently. When he rested his head on my lap i got uneasy and uncomfortable cause that dream and the image of him assaulting me was burned in my mind.
What does this mean? And how can i get over this. My grandfather is such an amazing person whom i love to pieces but this one dream changed my perspective. Idk what to do...
Im 16 years old. In my dream i got raped by my grandfather... i woke up crying, and later that morning i couldn't help but look at him differently. When he...
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I had the most fucked up dream...
Apparently some people were doing an autopsy on my grandfather (he died months ago) and left me to cut out the heart... I thought he was already dead... But no... I could see one of his lungs breathing... The other was cut out... I started worrying, but tried to ignore it... But then... He looked at me... Smiled... And spoke... "Oh, (my name)! It's so good to see you. It's been awhile huh? Look, I just want you to know I love you... " He spoke those words clearly... As if we wasn't cut open and had organs removed... I stood there... With the scissors... About to close on his artery... And I couldn't... He was still breathing... Heart still pumping... Talking to me as if I wasn't, now, ordered to kill my own grandfather... So I didn't... I ran back and told the operaters that I couldn't... They said something along the lines of "we all have to do this. It's a simple snip snip, then it's done"... I told them he was still awake and alive... They ordered me to complete it... I want back and resumed position, over his still open body, scissors about to cut... Till he spoke again... " What are you doing? Helping me dress up? Heh, just like the old days"... Yes, I helped dress my grandfather... He was weak and could barely move... With some breaths of readiness, knowing I'm about to kill my grandfather
... I wake up.. I'm still in shock...
Apparently some people were doing an autopsy on my grandfather (he died months ago) and left me to cut out the heart... I thought he was already dead... But...
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I saw a gay couple in my dream and then I saw the same couple on my Reddit feed, I have never ever seen them in my life before
WHAT DOES THIS MEAN?? I AM SO CONFUSED? I also had a dream where I was in the past when my grandpa was alive, but I wasn't younger. Like time travel?
WHAT DOES THIS MEAN?? I AM SO CONFUSED? I also had a dream where I was in the past when my grandpa was alive, but I wasn't younger. Like time travel?
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