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What are growing older dreams about?

This symbol is identified by words like (?:grow|grew) (?:old|older) and aging.

Growing older in dreams is a relatively common dream symbol, occuring in about 3.7% of dreams. That's about 1 out of every 25 dreams.

What are the major highlights of growing older dreams?

Growing older is a normal dream symbol. Having growing older in a dream changes the dream in the same way as most other dream symbols.

Growing older dreams are friendly

Dreams of growing older have greater increase of friendly interactions within the dream than most other dream symbols. While not all dreams of growing older will be friendly and they can also contain aggressive interactions, dreams of growing older are more likely to have friendly interactions than most other dream symbols. Other symbols that are like this include threatening, ovations, armies, reading, phones, intensifiers, Venezuela, courts, games, and stages.

How does the dream symbol of growing older affect the different aspects of a dream?

Explore different elements related to dreams of growing older

Who is in growing older dreams?

Overall, dreams with growing older are aren't really related to characters in dreams. Specifically, dreams of growing older are much more related to distant people and more related to family 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

much more than usual

Close people

the same as usual

Family

more than usual

Romantic partners

the same as usual
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What are the emotions in growing older dreams?

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

Happiness

more than usual

Sadness

more than usual

Grief and sorrow

more than usual

Embarrassment

more than usual

Confusion

more than usual

Fear

the same as usual

Pain

the same as usual

Hatred

the same as usual

Fun

more than usual

Love

more than usual
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Who is in growing older dreams?

Overall, dreams with growing older are aren't really related to places in dreams. Specifically, dreams of growing older are more related to home and more related to human places than dreams in general.

Home

more than usual

Work

the same as usual

Human places

more than usual

Transportation

the same as usual

Natural places

the same as usual

Magical places

the same as usual
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What happens in growing older dreams?

Overall, dreams with growing older are aren't really related to events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of growing older are more related to friendly interactions and 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

more than usual

Sex

more than usual

Disasters

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

Overall, dreams with growing older are aren't really related to dream events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of growing older are much more related to recurring dreams, much more related to recurring nightmares, and more related to waking life than dreams in general.

Lucid dreams

the same as usual

Nightmares

the same as usual

Recurring dreams

much more than usual

Recurring nightmares

much more than usual

Sleep paralysis

the same as usual

Sleeping

the same as usual

Waking life

more than usual
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How do growing older in dreams related the senses?

Overall, dreams with growing older are more related to senses in dreams. Specifically, dreams of growing older are more related to vision than dreams in general.

Hearing

the same as usual

Smelling

the same as 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 growing older in dreams?

Growing older dreams are relatively common. Among other things growing older dreams are normally interconnect and friendly.

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

Examples of dreams of growing older

Read some real dream reports of growing older 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.

Wet dream about my best friend.

Hello. I’m a bisexual Female age 22 and my best friend is a heterosexual female age 20. The other day I had a very vivid dream about my best friend and I having lesbian sex. It was very detailed almost like I was watching porn of us in my dream. I told her that I had a dream about us , and she admitted that she’s had a very similar dream lately. I don’t think her and I actually see each other like that consciously. What do you guys think this means ?

Hello. I’m a bisexual Female age 22 and my best friend is a heterosexual female age 20. The other day I had a very vivid dream about my best friend and I having...

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I just had the most terrifying dream of my life. Someone please help.

Okay I literally just woke up and i’m panicking. I can give more details later if i remember but right now i’m a little unnerved. Someone please tell me if this has meaning.

There was a body in the front seat of my car and my partner and i got out to call the cops. Instead of cops showing up, a sports car with 4 men showed up and when i told them what happened they ran into the house only to die. Another police drove by and i flagged them down but they parked in my neighbors across the streets driveway and the old cop and the car turned into my neighbor and i was helpless. My partner and i walked back across the street to my house and i suggested maybe i could only see the things happening because i was schizophrenic when a middle aged lady with a cigarette said “but i can see you guys” and ran into my house. I chased her demanding answers and she said “they’re most prevalent in may” and disappeared and i kept screaming “you’re not welcome here” until my voice become not my own. i went back out to my car and there were more dead bodies in my car and a little girl on top of my car with bruises. i noticed my partner in the front passenger seat and they had puncture wounds everywhere. the little girl had a hammer and said she had to kill my partner and kept hitting my partners skull with it. i had to kill the little girl by using a pickaxe and swinging into her brain. Then i got the feeling the cops were going to frame me for every murder and woke up.

Okay I literally just woke up and i’m panicking. I can give more details later if i remember but right now i’m a little unnerved. Someone please tell me if...

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Skeleton at a Crossroads

Ever since I was around the age of five I’ve had this reoccurring nightmare where I wake up on a dirt road more specifically always coming to realization I’m at a crossroads surrounded by foggy fields and a tree line I can barely see. I don’t ever understand how or when the skeleton appears but I know when he’s there. I feel an overcoming sense of dread and fear. He never speaks he just stares at me, and eventually I’m running away and he’s chasing me. On other occasions I’ve been able to run into a forest and hide and wake up then in others my late grandfather had been in one before and in another after he passed.

I have no idea how or why I get this dream or what it means but I need advice on how to fix it? It’s been plaguing my mind a lot recently and I’m very curious and kind of scared to get anyone’s interpretations.

I’ve read before that skeletons can represent death and I’ve heard that crossroads mean I’m about to have to make a decision but I honestly believe it’s something bigger or more sinister....

If anyone has any thoughts or advice I’m open ears

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Ever since I was around the age of five I’ve had this reoccurring nightmare where I wake up on a dirt road more specifically always coming to realization I’m at...

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I met the most beautiful girl in my dream.

There was a girl about my age and nothing sexual happened, but I felt like we were connected. There was this feeling inside me that she was my true love. I woke up and was depressed all day now thinking about her... I can't stand the fact that I won't find this feeling in the real world and now she is just a figment of my imagination. I want to meet her again, but know it will never happen. I just needed to express my emotions and thoughts. I think it's just a sign that I really want a girlfriend.

There was a girl about my age and nothing sexual happened, but I felt like we were connected. There was this feeling inside me that she was my true love. I woke...

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