What are guiding dreams about?
This symbol is identified by words like guide.
Guiding in dreams is a uncommon dream symbol, occuring in about 0.8% of dreams. That's about 1 out of every 150 dreams.
What are the major highlights of guiding dreams?
Guiding is an interconnected dream symbol. Having guiding in a dream changes the dream more than most other dream symbols.
Guiding dreams are friendly
Dreams of guiding have greater increase of friendly interactions within the dream than most other dream symbols. While not all dreams of guiding will be friendly and they can also contain aggressive interactions, dreams of guiding are more likely to have friendly interactions than most other dream symbols. Other symbols that are like this include shoulder, voice, cheering, green eyes, body parts, talismans, Darth Vader, Finland, embarrassment, and edges.
Guiding dreams are associated with lucid dreaming
Dreams of guiding 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 guiding are lucid dreams. But dreams of guiding are more related to lucid dreams than 90% of all other dream symbols. Other symbols that are like this include large celestial bodies, loss of speech, rainbows, paralysis, zebras, maps, burglary, chakras, ears, and ammunition.
What symbols more present in dreams of guiding?
Guiding dreams are notable because they have substantially more movement, ancestors, El Salvador, paths, spirits, museums, characters, Estonia, intrigued, the future, autumn, angels, general movement, puzzles, Congo, lucid dreams, journeys, yellow eyes, telepathy, elements of earth, Cyprus, outer space, floating, tunnels, following, jungles, grey eyes, lobbies, messages, three eyes, communicating, Chile, afterlife, fences, rectangles, souls, places, embarking, arrows, egos, heaven, the earth, fantastic beings, disguises, servants, villages, the planets, Cambodia, Lebanon, speaking, monkeys, exits, greeting, spotlights, Greece, general thinking, borders, signs, safety, and amusement parks than 95% of other dream symbols.
What symbols less present in dreams of guiding?
Guiding dreams are notable because they have substantially less boyfriends, hospitals, raping, cheese, serial killers, romantic partners, kissing, weddings, car crashes, nightmares, abusing, sleep paralysis, recurring nightmares, best friends, going to die, verbs, friendly interactions, seeing a dead mother, crushes, robbing, walmart, brothers, gas, knives, red eyes, crying, recurring dreams, robots, strangling, relationship events, girlfriends, infidelity, sisters, dinosaurs, former partners, and guilty than 95% of other dream symbols.
How does the dream symbol of guiding affect the different aspects of a dream?
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Who is in guiding dreams?
Overall, dreams with guiding are aren't really related to characters in dreams. Specifically, dreams of guiding are more related to animals and much more related to fantastic beings than dreams in general. They are less related to different roles, less related to family, and less related to romantic partners.
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What are the emotions in guiding dreams?
Overall, dreams with guiding are aren't really related to emotions in dreams. Specifically, dreams of guiding are more related to happiness, much more related to confusion, and more related to fun than dreams in general. They are less related to grief and sorrow, less related to pain, and less related to hatred.
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Who is in guiding dreams?
Overall, dreams with guiding are aren't really related to places in dreams. Specifically, dreams of guiding are more related to natural places and much more related to magical places than dreams in general. They are less related to home.
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What happens in guiding dreams?
Overall, dreams with guiding are less related to events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of guiding are much more related to friendly interactions and more related to sex than dreams in general. They are less related to aggressive interactions.
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How do guiding in dreams related to other dream phenomenon?
Overall, dreams with guiding are aren't really related to dream events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of guiding are much more related to lucid dreams than dreams in general. They are less related to nightmares, less related to recurring nightmares, and less related to waking life.
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How can you make sense of guiding in dreams?
Guiding dreams are uncommon. Among other things guiding dreams are positively interconnected, friendly, and are associated with lucid dreaming.
Do you think this is true for your dream of guiding? How might your dream of guiding 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 guiding 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 guiding in dreams. See how you feel about guiding now, in your waking life.
What are possible meanings for dreams of guiding?
A guide in a dream can symbolize someone in your life who guides you. It can symbolize looking for guidance, in your external life or internal life. Dream characters such as school counselors, parents, grandparents, animals (bears, dogs, wolves, and crows in particular), and tour guides can symbolize someone or something that guides you, or the general subject of guidance. For an example dream, see: Teacher.
Guides lead you somewhere. In dreams, “somewhere” can mean a place in your life. In these dreams, you feel that you should follow the guide, and generally you will not feel threatened. Nervous, perhaps, but not threatened—unless something is guiding you toward changes that threaten the supremacy or power of someone in your life, or threaten to topple something that has control of you, such as an addiction or ego inflation.
Guides are often dreamed about during times of need. For example, you need to get out of a rut, escape depression, or improve your health. You already know deep inside what you need, and a guide in your dream leads you to that knowledge. As you dream, the help is accessed subconsciously and shown to you symbolically, for example, as a room on the other side of a door, or a chamber deep within a cave.
Some dream guides lead you in your spiritual development. They are figures from the unconscious mind and commonly take form as saints, spiritual leaders, and demi-gods. You will feel connected with them and innately trust them. See: Unconscious minds
See also: Angels, Animals, Bears, Coaches, Crowds, Depression, Dogs, Egos, Forests, Jungles, Parents, Pastors, Teacher, Unconscious minds, Wolves
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 guiding
Read some real dream reports of guiding 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 visited a futuristic Coronavirus "museum" in Wuhan, China.
At some undetermined future point I visited a Coronavirus museum and memorial in Wuhan, China.
It was brand new. A large, spacious building with smooth, tan, granite walls and stainless steel floors. Big like you'd expect a museum to be.
It had the usual tourist attraction feel. There was a whole wall with all the names of people, from all around the world, who died from infection. There were video clips playing on various topics such as the virus history, interviews with doctors, and so on. Display items like medical masks and pictures of empty supermarkets were shown.
Later, there were graphs depicting massive unemployment, the economic fallout, and pictures of turmoil. Videos of riots, and pictures of impoverished people like from the Great Depression.
They had a coffee bar/restaurant where before you eat, there was a selection of different scented hand sanitizers to try out. There was a display explaining the importance of cleaning your hands.
I was with 2 other people. It was a guided tour, and admission cost 22.00. For some reason you didn't have to pay until the tour was over.
We left to do other things and walked outside to a rainy day which is where the dream cut off.
Shit must be taking up real estate in my head. What was also curious was how my brain handled an experience set in a foreign country. The workers and other visitors were obviously Chinese and/or of some Asian variety, which I'm familiar with.
But I don't know one lick of Chinese, so language and money was filled in with English and American dollars. There was Chinese text all around but I couldn't read it. Also, any videos I watched in the museum were in English with Chinese subtitles.
Where in my mind am I storing all this Chinese text, and for what purpose?! Amazing!
Still, I gotta stop reading the Corona subs before sleeping.
At some undetermined future point I visited a Coronavirus museum and memorial in Wuhan, China.
It was brand new. A large, spacious building with smooth, tan,...
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intrusive thoughts in dream
So I actually slept to a guided sleep meditation in the dream I was on a river one in my village and on a very large kayak sort of thing idk how it in the dream we were on the river to meditate in some weird way I was trying to but Some kind of panic attack happened to me while trying which that same type of attack has happened to me before anyways I jump out the kayak and start swimming while they are all still meditating it also seemed at this point like everyone had there own kayak . In the end the meditation teacher was giving me shit in a indirect way calling me out somehow . The whole time it seemed like I was getting these bad thoughts about having some sort of weird mental illness . As I’m very scared of that irl . After leaving I was with my mom and my friend called her for some reason I guess I didn’t have a phone or somethin so he was telling her people were drifting dying not really sure I took the phone from her and pushed her away as in why are you talking to my friend than it seemed like he was trying to send me a message . He says what has been done in the past can’t be changed seemed like he was telling me or how I thought of it as my bad shroom trip has caused me some sort of mental illness. Than he says stuff that the meditation guy I had put on before sleep it said you have already let go of setbacks like stress and I was very negligent of that I was like no I haven’t I haven’t then before I wake up I thought maybe it’s coming .
Very sorry for the bad description I just woke up and really wanna know anything about this dream please if you guys can explain if the intrusive thoughts in a dream mean anything . Appreciate it ..
So I actually slept to a guided sleep meditation in the dream I was on a river one in my village and on a very large kayak sort of thing idk how it in the dream...
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COVID shot
So last night before I fell asleep I asked the Lord for guidance to show me I was on the right path in life, which was meant towards a career change. What I dreamt that night was guidance for sure but not in the type I had asked for being as I wasn’t specific. This guidance seems much more important.
Here is my 1st dream:
I walked into a lab where they were creating this “vaccine”, I went there with the intent to get it, guided by my parents whom had already had the shot. I looked over at them and said, “No! I don’t want to take it anymore, something is not right here.” The people In the lab started chasing after me and my mom and dad were running with me. We ran down what seemed like tons of flights of stairs to finally exit the building and make it outside. It’s starting to get dark and to make sure we are safe I run further out into the streets, I look up to see the building we had been in which is a huge tower like building. Lights start to turn on in certain parts of the building that spells out the word “FREE”
I wake up. It’s 3:33 AM. I use the restroom. I lay back down and fall back asleep only to have a similar dream.
This time we are at what seems to be the same building. This time there’s more of my family. And a friend of mine whom also doesn’t want the shot. Everyone wants to go to a big party. But not everyone can go because they all don’t have the shot. So all of a sudden a helicopter flies up to one of the windows and yells at us to get in that they will fly us to get the vaccine and then everything will be good and we can all go to this party. My friend and I know that’s not truth. I watch my brother in law jump into the plane. And then my friend and I drives away…then I awoke.
So last night before I fell asleep I asked the Lord for guidance to show me I was on the right path in life, which was meant towards a career change. What I...
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Where to acquire knowledge of Symbolism Source Suggestions please
Hello people, I'm quite new to dream interpretation and as far as I understand one needs to interpret his or her dream with his knowledge of symbolism yet I don't have solid fundamental knowledge of symbolism to do this quite accurate. Can you guys guide me towards solid knowledge fountains of symbolisms; a book, youtube channel, a website or anything that is accurate and have nothing but knowledge about symbolism. Thanks in advance.
Hello people, I'm quite new to dream interpretation and as far as I understand one needs to interpret his or her dream with his knowledge of symbolism yet I...
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Talking With Spirit Guide
In this dream I was talking with my spirit guide. We were discussing how my progress was going in this life. She then handed over a closed envelope. I opened it, and read the words, "People of the stars" and that was it. The dream ended. Any thoughts? :)
In this dream I was talking with my spirit guide. We were discussing how my progress was going in this life. She then handed over a closed envelope. I opened...
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